1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,800 I think I have a good one and I don't think it's necessarily a spiritually depressing thing or 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,720 what would be a good way to phrase how I do things Chelsea. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,960 Sad. I don't think it's sad in the same way they're usually sad. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,760 No, they're more soul crushing. 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,760 Yeah. 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:26,000 I wish I could find a better source for this, but just because I couldn't find a source that we would 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,920 normally go with, just like take into account how serious this thing is because I had the options 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:37,360 of Daily Mail, New York Post or The Times of India and I'm going with The Times of India. 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,080 I was like not another iPhone again and another C8. 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,680 Even they're not covering it Chelsea. 11 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,040 I'm surprised you went with it then to be honest. 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:57,600 This is on January 5th. It came from the TOI Times of India trending desk, 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,800 which I don't think that somebody who can write. So I don't know who wrote this article. 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,520 Still a better source than the New York Post though. 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:06,320 Okay. 16 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:07,040 Article title. 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,160 I'm not sure this is going. 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:14,400 Mysterious toxic fog sparks health concerns and conspiracy theories across the U.S. 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,680 A mysterious thick fog. 20 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:17,440 Go ahead. 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,200 I haven't heard of this anywhere at all. 22 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,160 Yeah. 23 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:23,840 Except The Times of India, of course. 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,880 Written by an anonymous source. 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,560 A mysterious thick fog with burning chemical like smell has enveloped 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,600 parts of the U.S. 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,840 sparking conspiracy theories in social media and health concerns among local residents who have 28 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:45,040 reportedly developed symptoms like sneezing, stomach cramps and feverishness. 29 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,240 Also coincidentally this is also flu season. 30 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,120 So just. 31 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,200 Social media is a buzz with posts wondering if it is part of a terrorist plot or a government 32 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:00,160 experiment. 33 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,320 Other conspiracy theories worry about it being a chemical weapon and some suspect 34 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,760 it connects with the mysterious drone sightings that occurred in December. 35 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,240 By the way, I do think we have to like clear up this elephant in the room here. 36 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:13,600 The drone sightings. 37 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:14,720 They've been happening. 38 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:21,040 We have a moral obligation only to cover fringe topics, which means if normal people 39 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,840 are talking about it, it's past a fringe topic. 40 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,680 We can't cover the drones. 41 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,120 That's just that's our sacred oath that we took as podcast hosts here. 42 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,400 It says it right in the name. 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,000 We can continue podcasting if we were to cover it. 44 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,480 Yeah, like we get our license taken away. 45 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,840 So yeah. 46 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,240 And that's not made up at all. 47 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:40,800 That is not. 48 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,000 We do have kind of a gut check on it and specifically people who talk to us if they 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,480 bring up these topics and we cannot talk about it. 50 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,480 So that's where that's basically. 51 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,080 I don't understand why. 52 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:52,880 Yeah. 53 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,120 Because they don't even listen to the black. 54 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:55,360 Yeah. 55 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,680 You have to. 56 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:58,240 Okay. 57 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:58,800 Okay. 58 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,880 That's why you're not going to hear about the drones until way down the line from here. 59 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:03,200 Yeah. 60 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,200 The sightings caught the attention of netizens when a flurry of posts appeared around spotting 61 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,200 of the mysterious fog on December 29. 62 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,600 Soon, many people claimed to have detected a chemical like odor and that it led to flu 63 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:14,560 like symptoms. 64 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,080 Many dubbed it fogs. 65 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,840 Reporting unexplained loss of energy, a Florida resident told the Daily Mail that they started 66 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,160 experiencing a series of symptoms after being outside in the fog for just 10 minutes. 67 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:31,200 Well, within about an hour, I kept sneezing over and over for about three hours and my eyes 68 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,400 were really puffy. 69 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,680 I got very warm. 70 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,400 I felt like I had a fever and my stomach was cramping. 71 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,040 End quote. 72 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,160 Claimed an unnamed Floridian, a family in Colorado. 73 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,240 A family in Florida people. 74 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,680 Oh yeah, they're true to their word. 75 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:44,400 You are. 76 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,840 There's one thing you can't eclipse a Floridian of. 77 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,280 It's embellishing anything. 78 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,600 A family in Colorado shared their experience, 79 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,520 expecting that the sore throat, lethargy and stomach upset they were experiencing isn't 80 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,280 due to food poisoning as they had earlier believed, but the effects of the fog. 81 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:01,760 A resident said. 82 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,080 Fun, how widespread is the fog? 83 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,360 I still don't know. 84 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,520 It's Colorado and Florida, apparently. 85 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:08,400 It's going to keep going. 86 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,920 They're pretty far apart. 87 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:10,160 Yeah. 88 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,280 I don't know if they know that in India. 89 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:18,160 A resident of St. Petersburg, Florida said the fog left a quote unquote toxic taste in his mouth. 90 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:18,640 Quote. 91 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,560 I am sick with a fever, body aches, vomiting and can't breathe. 92 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:28,480 In the Minneapolis area, I know this is related to the fog since when is their fog in Minneapolis 93 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:29,280 in December? 94 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:29,840 End quote. 95 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:30,880 Said a user. 96 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:31,120 Quote. 97 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,880 This fog isn't natural. 98 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,480 There's something off about it. 99 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,480 Too dense, too controlled. 100 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,160 I've seen enough to recognize patterns and this feels engineered. 101 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:40,960 End quote. 102 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:41,600 Said another. 103 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,080 I love these sources. 104 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:44,640 Oh boy. 105 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,320 Conspiracy theories abound around the mysterious fog. 106 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,560 A video clipping posted on X shows a flurry of particles floating in the fog. 107 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,600 The user suspect it's no usual weather phenomenon, but a sort of bio weapon. 108 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,040 A Daily Mail report mentioned that the incidents bear an uncanny 109 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:06,400 resemblance to quote operation sea spray on quote a covert biological warfare experiment 110 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,200 carried out by the US Navy in 1950. 111 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:16,800 Serratia marcescens and bat batulis globigie bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco 112 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,640 Bay area at the time to ascertain how vulnerable a large American city may be to a bio weapon attack. 113 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,400 At least one American died and 10 others were seriously sickened due to this. 114 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,000 According to the Daily Mail, people on X are speculating that the government 115 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,160 quote dumped a bunch of microbes on the country this week in the form of fog. 116 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:34,720 End quote. 117 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:35,040 Quote. 118 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,160 In the form of fog. 119 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:42,400 Yes, it tastes and smells like after setting off a lot of fireworks that self-forspell. 120 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:42,960 End quote. 121 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,640 One TikTok user wrote adding that it is quote freaking me out. 122 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:47,520 End quote. 123 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,600 Coincidentally, this was over the new year. 124 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:50,240 What? 125 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,160 There were fireworks everywhere. 126 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,280 Fog, a cloud of tiny water droplets or ice crystals near the Earth's surface forms 127 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:00,240 when the air temperature. 128 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,600 We do not need to know this. 129 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,440 You guys freaking know how fog works. 130 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:10,400 Industrial emissions, the equal exhaust chemical releases or natural toxins like volcanic gases 131 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,560 introduce harmful substances into the atmosphere. 132 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,400 Moisture in the air combines with these pollutants. 133 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,320 Water droplets in the fog can absorb and react with toxic chemicals creating acetic 134 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,720 and hazardous particles. 135 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,000 There can be ill effects of toxic smog and they list them. 136 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,720 Respiratory issues, cardiovascular problems, 137 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,920 eye and throat irritation, weakened immune systems and neurological effects. 138 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,080 And with that, they end the article. 139 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,240 So yeah, like I said, nobody really a for cute is covering this. 140 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:42,640 And there's really not a lot other than speculation on X. 141 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,480 It's just Florida Man and TikTok. 142 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,840 Has anyone considered that this may possibly just been fog? 143 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:53,760 May have just been fog and maybe people are just getting sick because it's a particularly 144 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,120 bad flu season. 145 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,160 Who knows? 146 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:01,200 One speculation I heard because the word fog vid is being thrown around on X right now 147 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,040 is basically within the atmosphere and a lot of right wing groups. 148 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,440 There's been a lot of push on like weird health things. 149 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,480 Like obviously with RFK Junior coming in, there's the anti-vax stuff. 150 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,280 Also the the seed oils are apparently bad. 151 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:16,720 So people have been dropping them. 152 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,800 People are switching to the meat only diet and eating organ meats to stay healthy. 153 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,320 They're still getting sick. 154 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,800 So they're they're they're going down other conspiracy holes to explain how they're still 155 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:29,680 getting sick. 156 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,560 I'm looking at the fog vid to hashtag. 157 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,240 I don't know if the first one is Toronto and it's clearly snow. 158 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,560 I don't know that people know it. 159 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,520 No, so yeah headlights look like I in fact think it might just be the Monday and people 160 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,920 are getting sick and conspiracy theorists need a way to push it to not just be them 161 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,600 getting sick because the things they've been told won't get them sick. 162 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,480 Of course, it's also not that big of a thing. 163 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,400 So I guess I don't know if you if you oh, go ahead. 164 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,040 Even Bill Cock is like. 165 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,320 I'm gonna put my phone away so that I don't just open that up. 166 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,880 But yeah, I take it with what it is. 167 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,920 Like it's the Daily Mail, the New York Post and the Times of India that I was able to find this on. 168 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,160 They had no actual sources. 169 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:26,720 They talked to no people in the scientific community or the public service and no epoch 170 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,440 times or iPhone in Canada dot CA. 171 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,200 No, even they're not covering it. 172 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,840 That we should do any epoch times articles. 173 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:34,720 I don't think we ever have. 174 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,400 I've done one, you know, I have by accident. 175 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:39,040 Yeah, you did. 176 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,560 And that's how we got those episodes. 177 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,520 You're welcome. 178 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,480 But yeah, I think I don't know if you're going to go through fog holes, I guess, 179 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,440 and let this like if you're worried about this worry, worry about regulations on the 180 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,320 environmental impact of pollution there. 181 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,200 You're welcome. 182 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,240 Talk to your Congress people or whoever you can in the next 48 hours. 183 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:00,800 Get back here. 184 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:01,760 We'll regroup. 185 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:02,320 Okay, bye. 186 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:19,760 Bye bye.