Throughout the ages, there are things that happen in history that significantly change
the trajectory and the path that mankind is on. Every now and then, we have things like fire that
was invented. We finally were able to cook food, light up things at the night, stay warm in the
winter. Maybe the wheel, stuff that can help us transport things from place to place. But
since then, many things have come and gone. These are just some examples of really big things.
And I'm happy to say, I want to talk about this, right? There's another change that, so far nothing's
been confirmed, but at least as far as I'm researching, there is this item, LK99. If you
people know what that is, by all means, you're probably going to love this episode, but I'm
going to tell you as much as I know, because it piqued my interest quite a bit. All right.
I guess the best way to really talk about what this thing is, right, is a superconductor. Now,
a lot of people are going to hear that and think, well, what is that? Let me put it this way. It's
really hard to explain what a superconductor is, unless you don't know what a conductor is. If you
know what a conductor is, then you're already meeting me halfway there. Conductor would be
something like copper, gold, hell, even salt water. Basically, a conductor is anything that can pass
electricity through it. You feel me yet? Okay. Very simple. Conductor, it conducts electricity.
Very simple. A superconductor does the same thing. The key difference is this. A conductor,
when it conducts electricity, eventually the electricity will meet some resistance in the
conductor, causing heat. That's why computers need fans. That's why sometimes you'll have
electricity, something like, think of it like this, like a copper coil in an old heating system,
right? I used to have one here in the studio where I'd plug it in and electricity would go
through these copper coils. There's a fan behind it that would blow hot air. The reason it was
doing that is because it was conducting electricity, but in the copper, there was some resistance to
the electricity. That resistance causes heat. Also, this is some of the reasons that phones
will get hot when you're using them, charging them. If you're charging your phone, you felt how warm
it gets, right? Okay. You're meeting with, you're understanding what a conductor is now. I'm giving
you a very fast breakdown because it's very simple. A superconductor does not have resistance, or at
the very least it has such a minute amount that you won't really be able to tell. This LK99 claims
to be able to conduct things like that. It's a superconductor is what it says. Do you understand
the implications behind it? Imagine a computer that is incredibly powerful and yet does not need a
fan. That's basically what's going on here. I guess another good example would be, think of it like
this. Think of how long it takes to charge a Tesla, right? It doesn't take too long, maybe 10, 15
minutes. Why would it know it don't have a Tesla? We're using it as an example though. It'll
significantly reduce charge time. That's one example. Another one would be, you no longer need
coolant for your PC because it will be made of this new experimental material, which by the way,
is only four ingredients very easily put together. Well, I guess easily isn't the right word.
It's put together in a kiln, heated for four days, and then you get this black rock, which becomes
the superconductor. The reason being that the superconductor is such a big deal isn't the fact
that it conducts well. It's the fact that it's room temperature. There have been other superconductors
in the past, but they have to be super chilled. They have to be incredibly cold, and then they
work. This one on the other hand, functions at room temperature. In fact, it functions in heat.
It could get up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit and it'll still work. So if it's true, okay, I'm not
saying anything. I'm not going to put all my eggs in one basket, but part of me hopes that this is
real, you know? We all just kind of want something bigger than ourselves. We all want to look at this
and go, maybe there's something here. But at the same time, a lot of tests got to be done, and
hopefully in the future something will come of it. I'm optimistic when it comes to technology
like this, because I know that we advance quickly. And still, that's fucking cool, you know?
I'm just looking at this thinking, I hope something comes of it. It's going to be nice
if something comes of it. If it doesn't, it's going to be sad, but unfortunately, hoaxes are
abundant in the scientific community. And this is one thing that people are thinking it's a hoax.
However, again, the implications are massive if it is true. And if it's not, then oh well.
Oh yeah, there's this thing I was doing last week and the week prior. I think I did it for about
three weeks. I'm going to stop doing the fasting thing. It did work. It did lose a bit of weight,
but honestly, the side effects are awful. They're just awful. Look, there's a thing,
right? You got to drink water when you're doing it. And I purposely did drink quite a bit, but
you still need nutrients, you know? You still need vitamins. I definitely felt more lightheaded. I
felt more light period. But what got me right is at some point I was at the gym and I just could
not recover. Like for a whole week, my muscles were hurting and I feel like it's a lack of protein.
I don't know how to explain it, but the thing about it, right, is that I just started getting
sluggish and it's just slowing down. So I'm just going to start eating again. I need my proteins.
I need my carbohydrates. I need everything. I need my fibers, God knows everything, everything
in my body. Okay? I need it all. And I also slowed down on my running, but that's not a big thing.
It's because of the fast. Everything else slowed down. As soon as I started eating,
I started pumping at the gym fucking crazy. So I don't see a problem with it. You know what I mean?
Like it was okay. It's not that bad. But yeah, I'm excited about everything with my body. When it
comes to health, you got to take care of your health. And sometimes people don't, they just
don't do it. You know, sometimes people won't take care of their health. Sometimes people will
just put it aside, but your health is all you have. So by all means, you know,
don't, don't try to, don't try to substitute a healthy diet for anything else. Just you,
you got to eat right. You got to exercise. You got to do those two both seriously.
And one thing that I mess up on is I don't get enough sleep, but I feel like I do at the same
time. I don't get eight hours of sleep, but I get like seven or six, and then I feel fine. But
I guess sleep is also a case by case basis. There used to be this universal thing where it's like,
you need nine hours of sleep. And then they reduced that to eight hours of sleep.
That's the thing, right? People were getting a lot more sleep back then.
And I don't know. It's just, you don't need a lot of sleep. I probably, I do actually.
Going back to our traditional news, which I don't know what that means. Okay. Basically,
you guys remember how a while ago I was making cheese wine, all kinds of shit, right? All right.
So I'm making my own soaps again. And this time I made a crucial mistake, which by the time I
thought they were ready to get out of their molds, one of them, I, I was able to not take out one of
them. How do I explain this? I'm really everywhere here. One of the molds, which had six of them,
six soaps that were not cured, had five of the soaps come out perfectly fine. And one of them
just kind of stuck to everything, which is no good. Okay. That's besides the point. The thing is it
stuck to the mold and it's not supposed to, but at the same time, it had a very gel-like texture.
So I had to take it out and I molded it by hand, by the way, never do this. I'm saying this right
now, never do that with raw soap. I molded it by hand and then I put it down somewhere where it
wouldn't stick. The problem was lye is very corrosive. So I had some lye on my hands and it
was very irritating. Like the skin on my hands were so like, they hurt. Okay. They hurt a lot.
And I don't know how to explain this, but I guess my palms don't sweat anymore, or maybe they never
did. And I'd never noticed. Um, they're very smooth. When I leave my hands under water for a bit
and I take them out, they're all, you know, when they're, your hands get all wrinkly, might now
have weird bumps instead of, um, instead of wrinkles. And it looks like, I don't know how
to explain it. It looks wrong. My hands aren't chemically burned. Don't get me wrong. It doesn't
hurt. It was irritating at the time, but that quickly went away. Thank God. Um, and the thing
is I did the same mistake twice. There, there were supposed to be six bars of soap. There are five
and one of them was molded by hand and put in an area. Another was molded by, by hand again,
along with another one and another one. And I made a really big circle of soap, which it looks
lumpy as hell. It looks like a biscuit. Like it looks like the size of, um, the Popeye's biscuit.
That's kind of what I was going for. It's completely white. It doesn't have any color.
Smells great, but burns, burns your skin because it's not cured. So I did the same thing. I
did that too early. And the point I'm trying to get across is wear gloves when you do this shit.
Cause like, if you're anything like me, you're, you're not ready. I wasn't ready. I really burnt
my hands and it hurt like hell. Okay. Aside from the soap making, I completely forgot about
something that happened this week. This week? It's been happening for a while, apparently.
Allegedly. I need to, this is one of those things where I gotta keep saying allegedly in order to
cover my own ass. And it's something I'm not even surprised about at this point, because a lot of
celebrities do some weird shit behind closed doors. Now Lizzo is being accused of some heinous things
by some old dancers who she used to have in her music group. Now these accusations are huge. Okay.
Now I'm going to say allegedly for all of these things. The allegations would go, let's see here.
Let's see. I got a list here. Sexual harassment, failure to prevent or remedy sexual harassment,
and failure to prevent or remedy religious harassment. This one I actually did hear about
and I was a little disturbed by. They go into detail talking about how Lizzo was basically
forcing her religious beliefs upon her, her dancers, which don't do that, please. Look,
regardless of what your religious beliefs are, don't force them upon people you work with or
people who are beneath you if you're in a, what's the term, a position of power of any kind. It
doesn't end well regardless of good intentions or not. And I'm saying this because I knew a lot of
people back then who were very, very hyper religious, super Christian, and they would be
forcing that belief upon other people. And their excuse was always, I'm just trying to prevent you
from going to hell, which they don't believe in hell. It's a thing, right? It's all about beliefs.
No one's actually physically seen it, none of this and none of that. I'm not trying to get into
religious beliefs, but at the same time, Lizzo did do that, right? She forced her beliefs upon
someone else. I'm not going to say what those beliefs are. That's entirely on them. I actually
don't, I actually don't know. Interesting. The articles that I've read, none of them specify
what religious beliefs she has, but you know, I guess with some careful searching, you can look
it up. Lizzo has recently released a statement. I would want to read it, but it's quite long.
So I'm just going to browse through some of the things, okay? My work ethic, morals, and
respectfulness have been questioned. My character has been criticized. Usually I choose not to
respond to false allegations, but these are also, these are as unbelievable as they sound and are
too outrageous to not be addressed. I'm skimming through these, okay? This is just one of them.
I am not here to be looked at as a victim, but I also know that I am not the villain that people
are in the media, people in the media have portrayed me to be these past few days. I am very open
with my sexuality and expressing myself, but I cannot accept or allow people to use that openness
to make me out to be something I am not. That's something right there that I remember. Another
accusation was she was incredibly open about her sexual preferences, stuff like that. Dirty things,
okay? We don't really, I don't know, I'm not comfortable talking about sex, but when it comes
to celebrities, some of them are very open about it. I'm not, okay? I'm just saying. I don't know
why I had to specify. Lizzo, what the fuck, okay? Look, I can look at all these things and I think,
yeah, it's a bit, it's a bit much. It's a bit heavy handed. Are there going to be things that
come out of it legally? I don't know. Are there going to be some big statements coming out?
Absolutely. Lizzo just released one today. By today, I mean Thursday, August 3rd. By the way,
happy birthday, Angelica. Love you, honey. I probably picked the worst time to say happy birthday.
Sorry, babe. Oh my God. But yeah, happy birthday. I got to talk about something to lighten the mood,
okay? When it comes to the Lizzo thing, it's such a downer, okay? I'm not going to go into detail
about it, but I am going to go into detail about something very wholesome and nice.
I went to Universal. It wasn't just me. It was my brother's birthday and my girlfriend's birthday.
And I love them both very much. So, you know, coincidentally, their birthdays were one day apart.
So we went to Universal and we just had a great time. We saw the Super Mario thing, the display,
the game and everything. Not the game. What is it? The ride. Well, it is technically a ride slash
game. I don't know how to explain it. It's like a VR experience thing. It was kind of cool, but
I don't know. My glasses. At some point when I was writing on the Super Mario thing, I think I
jolted my head too hard and my headset fell off. I've never had that happen. My glasses were still
intact. The helmet itself, it's kind of weird. It's like a hat and there's glasses you slide in place.
They fit above my glasses, which is very convenient, but they were not sturdy enough
to withstand me turning my head quickly because you're supposed to aim, physically aim at the,
whatever you're aiming at in the game. You're supposed to throw turtle shells at bad guys.
Not good guys. Otherwise you lose coins. And somehow some guy got like a really, really high
score. I don't know how he did it. Probably hacked. I don't know how you hack a ride at
Universal, but you know, good for you. Look, there was another thing we did too. This one,
I like more than anything. In fact, I would go as far as to say it was really fucking cool because
when we were kids, not even kids, I was like a teenager at the time. My brother was much younger.
My dad watched a movie with this called the three amigos. Really great movie. Okay. It takes place
in a spot in Mexico. They never specify where they call it Santo Poco, but it's clearly not like
really Mexico. I don't know how to explain it. It's a prop set, right? It's supposed to be a
place here and they recorded it here in the U S but it looks very, very similar to Mexico
down to a lot of very minute detail. We got to see where they filmed the fucking movie. It was so
cool. Like, I don't know how they did it, but they even got the smell correct. Like no one's
going to smell the film, you know, but in order to get into these actors' heads, they have to get
really, really detailed and they absolutely nailed it. I, I don't know. I felt the sense of
nostalgia because I was watching, we also watched where they recorded Jaws.
Thing is I never saw the original movie. That's right. You guys can chew me out all you want,
but I never saw the original Jaws. And yet I got to see the place where they recorded it
along with the animatronic shark. Unfortunately, while we were there,
some guy dropped his phone in the water. We had to stop the attraction.
Another thing about this universal trip is I did take some video. I'm thinking of making it into a
YouTube video again. Oh, also I do have a thing for my subscribers on YouTube. I have a big thing
to announce and that is that you will no longer be spanned with videos in case people didn't see it.
I uploaded 44 videos in one day, some like that 40 videos, 39, something like that. It was a big
number, basically way too much for one day's worth of work. And while I did it, so there it is.
The reason I went through it so quickly though is because I wanted to just get it over with.
You know what I mean? I wanted all these videos on YouTube because what they really are is just
upload to the podcast episodes, um, onto YouTube in a form that you can watch. You know what I mean?
Like it's just a still image of the photo that I use followed by some sound waves, which you know,
cool. I like that. But at the same time, it's, it's just that, you know, a lot of people who have
YouTube red are going to be able to listen to it, turn off their screens and then just, you know,
play it. I wanted that option there as well for people who have YouTube red, but not Spotify.
I do have some fans who have one, but not the other. So now if you want to listen to me on YouTube
red, there I am. I'm also just on regular YouTube, you know, if you have YouTube red, I mean, you
could turn off the screen and still listen to me. You now have that option and yeah, that's the best
part about it. All of the videos on the other hand, or like 30 minutes, an hour long, it took
forever to upload. Okay. But thankfully RSS.com made it way easier. So I just had to click a button,
edit some comments, um, respond to one really mean child who commented on a video. And that's about
it. Also, I got views on the Chris Chan is free video, which sadly I had to upload. I had to write
in the description, uploaded like several months ago. So it's not up to date. You know what I mean?
But a lot of people are vehemently looking for Chris Chan. And I noticed that because my viewership
went up in that one specific video, everything else, not as much. But if you're here as a Chris
story and looking for more information about Chris Chan, I'm sorry that is wildly out of date.
And I did not mean to trick you. It's just the title of the video or the podcast episode. So yeah,
that is not up to date. It is an older video. It's just on YouTube now. That's all. But yeah,
aside from, um, aside from the YouTube stuff, I just had to address it because I know I pissed
off some people. I noticed they lost subscribers because of it. The videos came out all in rapid
succession. All of them came out in one day, minute after minute, hour after hour, just constantly
videos of me. And I'm sorry I did that, but I had to get them onto my YouTube channel. They are now
there. So anyone who finds one of my episodes can now watch the rest. Sweet. I'm also going to put
them on a big playlist, but I'm also going to be updating weekly as the episodes come out.
I want to be totally honest. I keep pausing a burp because I drink, uh,
I drank some soda before I started recording. I had a long day at work, but I'm trying not to
get my personal beef into the episode. Anyway, um, personal beef, what? I guess I had cardinic
soda for lunch. I don't know. Um, anyway, aside from what I was saying, or what the fuck was that,
I went to Universal, my girlfriend and my little brother, who is now 15, by the way,
happy birthday to him. And my girlfriend who is now the same age as I am. Happy birthday, honey.
However, there is a thing that we did at Universal that was on my bucket list. It was one of those
things that was, I never mentioned it to anybody, but it was one of those things on my bucket list
that I had actually forgotten about. And that is going to the Springfield in, right there in,
in Universal. I keep calling it Universal, but like, that's all I remember people calling it.
They don't even call it Universal Studios. It's like Universal. That's it. But yeah,
Universal was amazing, especially Springfield. Let me tell you something, right? I did not anticipate
the amount of detail, like on Krusty's face when I was walking into his mouth to go to Krustyland
or the Quikky Mart being there, actually drinking a Duff beer. Well, it's not a beer in the,
in the, in the Springfield universe here, I guess it's a Duff orange drink, which it was still pretty
good. But the funny part is it stained my lips kind of orange. So I looked at it, I had like
very mild lipstick on. I thought it was funny. I also tried the donut that Homer's always eating
in the, in the, in the show, but you can ask my girlfriend. I was just kind of sneakily eating it
in the morning. I had it with me all day. I dropped it at some point, took a picture and sent it on
a Twitter. Those donuts are shockingly stable. Like it's a legit donut. I thought it was going
to be a cake or something, but no, it's just a really big donut. It's a good one too. Just so
that it lasts longer though. I got a donut that I can eat and I got a donut that I could sleep on.
I have a really big ring one here behind me. And I also won one for my girlfriend using the strong
man competition. I actually hit it and rang the bell and everything. It was really cool,
but holy shit, the ride. I love the ride. It's all, not 3D. It was augmented reality. You know,
one of those rides where you get in there and it's a screen and it's like hyper-realistic,
like you're in the screen kind of thing. And you were in an episode of the Simpsons and it was
awesome. I loved it. I absolutely love it. The thing is, right, I also got a Krusty doll, which
I'm still excited about. I'm really excited holding it. Everything. It's fun to me. I love it.
And at the same time, it's still, I mean, he's just there. He's a little guy, you know?
The fuck am I going off about? I'm just excited thinking about how I finally went to Springfield,
crossing it off my bucket list, eating at the Quickie Mart and eating at, what's it called?
Technically I went to Most Havarant. It's like a big restaurant with multiple entrances,
but they all serve the same thing, right? And Cletus's chicken shack was a thing,
but it's not in the show. I'm not going to be anal about it though. I was still excited about it
because fuck, that was awesome. I want to go back and do it again one day. I just don't know when.
We also, again, Super Mario thing, we did those two things, right? Those were primarily what we did.
Everything else afterwards, we enjoyed it as well. We had the fast pass, so we were able to go to
the front of the line really quickly. Relatively quickly anyway. But for the Super Mario one,
we had to wait in line. Having said that, I still got some pretty good footage when I was in there.
And I don't know. I think the thing about the Super Mario Brothers one is that
everybody wanted to go there. We went to the front asking if they still had passes for it,
so you can go to the front. And they said, no, we're sold out for the day.
The park opened three hours ago. They really sell out quickly. So if you're going to go
to the Super Mario Land thing, get a pass way before you think you need it. I'm talking days
in advance, maybe even months. But it's worth it. It's honestly really, really worth it.
Really worth it. If you're a big fan of the Super Mario Brothers franchise, you're going to love it.
If you've got kids, you're going to love it even more. Because it's basically a video game
that you're actually into. It's like a VR experience, but you're actually in the car.
I don't know how to explain it. It's a very unique experience. Try it for yourself.
Let me know what you think. I liked it. I thought it was cool. Would I do it again?
With the fast pass? Yeah. I'm not a fan of lines. I'm not a fan of big lines. I like going fast
right away. My overstimulated caffeinated brain always needs something. It needs something.
I forgot what else we did. Oh, wait. There's a whole bunch of stuff. The mummy ride. I remember
that too. There was a moment in the mummy ride where it's all slowly building up and then it just
randomly shoots you into the dark really fast. That actually caught me off guard. The funny part
is while it's shooting you forward, it's supposed to catch you off guard because as soon as it does
that, it takes a picture of your face. Yay. I still haven't gotten those photos. Shit. I forgot
about that. There's another thing. Jeff Goldblum and the Jurassic Park ride at the end. There's a
picture of Jeff Goldblum with this shirt unbuttoned. He actually autographed it. You could buy it at
the Universal Studios. It's like a few thousand dollars or something, but I didn't buy it. I'd
simply zoomed in on his nipples in the video. So just a heads up on that. I haven't edited the
video. I haven't even started editing, but as soon as I do, you already know my sense of humor.
It's going to be that level. Before the podcast is over, I'm noticing that I'm reaching 30 minute
mark. I took another big L this week. I fucking caved in and I bought another Google ad and I
keep forgetting that they're just not good anymore. I had the clips of Barbenheimer
actually playing in front of people's YouTube video. The thing is my ad definitely got heavily
censored because I accidentally swore in the first second of the video. So it's literally just me
going, fuck. Anyway, like that's the first word that comes out of my mouth in the video. And of
course it doesn't look good on me. But I guess it'll attract the audience that I actually want
because at the same time I'll get subscribers who don't mind a bit of swearing. It's okay. You know,
it's okay to be TSA. I don't know. But yeah, that was not worth 25 bucks. Was it? Yeah.
30, 25 bucks. Something like that. Okay. I didn't spend too much on ads because I've learned my
lesson. Don't spend way too much. Like the Spotify ad that was $250. Not only was it not worth it,
I haven't made that money back. It's, I'm broke. Okay. I'm broke. I'm always fucking broke.
But yeah, that's, that's another L that I took this week along with several, but I don't know.
Sometimes your L has got to be private. Not all of them got to be public knowledge. You know what
I mean? Sometimes you just gotta relax and drink some tea and breathe. I don't know.
That's, that's enough of that. So Universal was incredibly fun. Like straight up fucking
greatest place I've ever been to knocks Disneyland out of the water, by the way,
cause I'm not a Disney kid, but Universal has like a same vibe. It's just, I would much rather go to
Universal. We even went to the Harry Potter thing, right? The whole attraction. We had butterbeer and
everything. Here's the thing. I'm not even a fan of Harry Potter. I don't watch it. Never watched
the movies. Never read the books. Regardless of that. I'm not a big fan of butterbeer. Why?
Because it's literally just butterscotch soda. That's it. It's so good. It had the foaminess
on top. It's nice and creamy. It was just good. A good day all the way around. The funny part for
me though, was when we were in the Harry Potter attraction, for some reason it was, it was like
covered in snow, which keep in mind we're in the California heat in the middle of summer. So it
kind of took us out of the whole vibe. But there was a cool looking train with a conductor in the
front of it. That was nice. I legit thought Polar Express when I saw it. Cause again, never watched
Harry Potter. So I thought, what are they doing here? It's the Polar Express, but no, it's just
some fucking, it's a Harry Potter reference. It was kind of funny to me, but you know, it was,
it was cool. It was great. Okay. Let's see. What else did we do? There was a Transformers ride.
We never went on it. None of us had the energy for it. There was a minion ride. That was funny.
There's a thing on the minion ride. I don't want to spoil it, but at the same time, I don't mind
doing it. But in case you go to Universal Studios and you go specifically on the minions ride,
be sure to shower beforehand. I don't know how to explain it, right? But it was just funny. We were
in a big group and then Gru is just like smelling the air. He's like, wait a minute, somebody did
it. Shower. It was these guys and they pick a random person from the audience. Like it was next
to us. I thought it was fucking me. I'm not going to lie. It was so funny, but I thought it was cool.
Like it was just a great time. Okay. But yeah, the minions ride is also really cool. It's one of those,
it's one of those rides that you sit in and it's like a big movie, but like the seats moving around
the whole time. Augmented reality, was it? It's one of those terms. You know, I forgot completely
that the first ride we went on was Kung Fu Panda. Like I love that movie. I love those movies.
And it was really sick. Like beforehand, I actually saw this wooden panel that I thought was legit
wood, right? Cause we didn't go up and touch it, but it was an LCD screen and it looked hyper
realistic. Like real wood that breaks and it really gets you into character, into the immersion.
Fuck, even Shrek makes it appearance just cause why not? I love my boy Shrek. He's awesome.
But yeah, the whole trip was fun. Let's see. We got a new, a new superconductor material.
Lizzo fucked up her career probably. She'll probably be fine. I'm not going to lie, but
it was an eventful week and now it's time for me to go back to my regular schedule. Anyway,
that's going to do it for this episode of the Meatweed podcast. Linktree is in the description.
Be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel, listen to us on Spotify, give us a five star
reading on Spotify. I really appreciate that. Things have been going up. Morbid universe.
I am working on that, but right now I've just got a lot going on, but still, you know, it's
it's been a hell of a week and I'll see you guys all next week. Goodbye.