The Dadliest Cast
Dave & Garrett, 2 best friends, get together to talk about being dads, life, hobbies, and some other things.
The Dadliest Cast
From Notable Conspiracies to Personal Anecdotes: A Mixed Bag of Discussions
What if the 1969 moon landing was indeed a well-crafted hoax? What if Walt Disney purposefully named a movie 'Frozen' just to throw off internet search results? Join us, Garrett and Dave, as we venture into the world of conspiracy theories. From the moon landing to the Frozen conspiracy, we're discussing some of the most intriguing theories out there. Plus, stick around as we answer the popular internet question by Barstool Sports: Would you rather be LeBron James or Tom Brady? We reveal the results of the poll and discuss our personal takes on this peculiar question.
As we embark on our virtual journey investigating internet conspiracies, we also take a personal detour. We're sharing our experiences - Garrett as a Steelers fan, and Dave's recent adventure of buying a Jeep for his daughter. In the second part of our exploration, we take a closer look at the technology of 1969 and Stanley Kubrick's alleged involvement in the moon landing hoax. We also peel back the layers of the Frozen conspiracy and share the Disney family's response to this wild theory. So, buckle up and get ready for a wild ride on the conspiracy theory express!
Episode 12? You know I really should keep up with this. I think it's 11. Well, let's look it up on the account. Welcome everybody to the dadliest cast podcast. We're your host, gared and Dave. We are going to be doing Episode.
Speaker 2:Dun dun, dun, dun, dun dun.
Speaker 1:I have no clue, I can't even. Well, whatever, I'll figure it out. But yeah, newest episode today Conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2:This is a you know me. I like my conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1:For some reason I've never got into conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2:I've done a little research. I will preface this by saying none of these are going to be anything that is politically divisive or polarizing in any way, so these are just going to be some fun theories that are floating around out on the interwebs.
Speaker 1:Episode 11. You were right, I was wrong and I'm okay with that. I got a new toy for the podcast, kind of like a little audio mixer, so hopefully the playback sounds better moving forward. I'm still toying with it, trying to figure out what everything sounds like. But yeah, let's get into it, conspiracy theories and answer the internet and just catch up real quick, because you and I haven't really talked too too much. Random texts here and random phone calls there. But yeah, hasn't been a ton of communication between us because I think we've both been super busy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's homecoming season. How was homecoming? Homecoming was cool. Did she have a good time? She had a blast. Friday they had an early dismissal and the classes went and worked on their floats for the parade. I saw that that's super cool and the theme was video games Nice. So the freshman class worked on their Pokemon themed float. I think the seniors won. I think theirs was Mario Brothers themed, if I remember correctly Nostalgia, but Saturday. Then Saturday morning was the parade. All the different organizations and sports teams and, of course, marching band had their parade. Then there was a community picnic at the football field and then the game in the afternoon that they won. They did not win. It was a tough loss actually. Who'd you guys play? We played Woodland Hills and got smashed. It was like 55 to 7 or something like that.
Speaker 1:Our homecoming was this past weekend as well. We played Shenango and we won 20 to 7? 20 to 13, I think actually it was. They got a garbage time Touchdown at the end. My daughter did not go to homecoming We'll talk privately off air. It was not a pretty sight, though, but we did buy her a new car Nice. She's turning 17 in three weeks Once again, her learner's permit. It would be good to have a car around the house from when I'm not home. I bought a 2018 Jeep Renegade and I'm going to Jeep it up.
Speaker 2:Nice, did you find a little Easter eggs Hidden?
Speaker 1:Easter eggs. They found the one on the windshield of the Jeep crawling up the mountain. There's a Yeti, there's a spider in the gas cap, but there's a bunch, there's a bunch. She's super excited about that. Jeep things, jeep things, jeep life. I think all girls like love Jeeps. It's not a Wrangler, nothing that can have doors and roofs removed or whatever Background noise. We're again recording outside because it's a nice day, it's warming up but it's still nice. Dodge Ram 2500 diesel rolling past us there. The more I sit out here, the more I realize how busy the slope back road is. Kind of sucks. My neighbors are moving out so they've been making a lot of ruckus in the evening. Pack in and done this shit away. Let's get into a answer the internet question. We'll start with an easy one Pull the internet. Would you rather be LeBron James or Tom Brady?
Speaker 2:That's an easy one for me. I'd go Tom.
Speaker 1:Brady. I'm actually shocked you went, tom Brady, really being a big Steeler fan and possibly talking about conspiracy theories in the NFL here.
Speaker 2:We can add one to the list then on that one, the AFC Championship game, where they mysteriously had all our signals. The flight gate, the spy gate. I'm not a basketball fan. That makes sense. I do love football. Obviously a Steeler fan, I do watch as many of the games on Sundays as I can.
Speaker 1:I would be LeBron. Lebron can dunk, I can't. Lebron 6'8", 6'9". He's almost 40 years old and still has a great physique. They're both crybabies when it comes to on-court or on-field play. So there's no real good answer here. But 79% of Barstool readers chose Tom Brady. I would have probably said Tom Brady if he were still with Giselle. Well, that might Answer the internet card game by Barstool Sports Love Dave Portnoy. So we'll have two more to read throughout the rest of this episode. I took one from each category. Let's get into it. What's your first conspiracy theory? This is going to be more you-led, because I'm not a big conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the first one that came across. You pretty much type into any search engine conspiracy theories. This one is the first one, or two. You see, I sort of got it Better not be.
Speaker 1:Flat.
Speaker 2:Earth. No, we're going to skip Flat Earth. That's a whole other discussion. Yeah, the moon landing was fake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is a popular conspiracy theory, because what is it? There's no shadows and the flag was still, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the flag was actually supposedly moving. Apparently there's no wind on the moon, but one of the theories is that Stanley Kubrick actually filmed the moon landing in a studio. The shadows don't tend to line up with where supposedly where the sun is. Then you just think about 1969 and the technology that was available at the time. What are your thoughts on it? I don't know. I would love to think that it's real. I'm into astronomy and stargazing and all that kind of thing, I don't know. You think about cars that were around in 1969 and electronics, and then you think that somehow we put that all together and flew how many thousands, tens of thousands of miles through outer space and somehow made it back in one piece.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess when you put it that way I tend to believe that it was real and I just think from the standpoint of it purely muscled it there. The cars back then weren't the greatest. Nasa and the government had access to all this additional fuel source and other resources and power and engines and stuff like that. They just mustered up the rocket to the moon. I think the hard part for me at that time is the satellite transmission of the video.
Speaker 2:And the audio. Well, 1968, the prior year, 2001, the Space Odyssey was released. That is also tied into Stanley Kubrick, and he worked with NASA and tried to figure out the big smoking gun that most everybody hangs their hand on. That thinks it's fake the film of Buzz Aldrin planting the American flag waving on the moon, which is one thing that people say. They can't possibly be on the moon if the flag was moving, because there's no wind, no atmosphere on the moon.
Speaker 2:There's gotta be wind though, you know, because the moon has relatively very little gravity, so that fabric would have naturally wanted to rise up, yeah, so according to a 1999 poll, a Gallup poll, 6% of the American public at that time thought that the lunar landing was fake and 5% were actually undecided. So, thinking the political era at the time to the Cold War, the space race, you know it was kind of important to show America winning something over the Soviets at the time. So chew on that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a popular one. I still think it's real.
Speaker 2:I want to believe it's real. So another one I came across here is Disney. The movie Frozen was created and named as such to distract from searching the internet for Walt Disney Frozen and coming up with I've heard this that Walt Disney himself was frozen. Right right, the conspiracy is that Walt Disney had himself frozen, only to be, I guess, thawed.
Speaker 1:Yeah there's a word for it. I can't think of it reanimated.
Speaker 2:Reanimated. Yeah maybe when the cure for whatever disease it was that he was dying from Was was Invented or frowned or what not. So the Disney family has vehemently denied that his body is frozen anywhere. Cry cryogenically frozen anywhere, yeah, but To throw off the search engines on the internet, disney created the movie and Named it frozen, so that when you Google Disney frozen, yeah you. All you come up with is Elsa and Anna and the whole movie.
Speaker 1:I've heard. I've heard this conspiracy where they're trying to scrub the internet. Yes, essentially of people searching for clues or evidence of Walt being frozen. Yeah, I Don't think he's frozen, but I do believe that Disney did concoct this this one.
Speaker 2:This one is is to me, is. I Think this. I can definitely see this being real. Whether or not he was frozen or not, right Remains to be seen but the conspiracy to you know, but to push off and scrub, yeah to what I want to say. I'll smart the the search engines, yeah, and flood the internet with Other images of something that's frozen by Disney. I Think, I think that that I think could possibly be true.
Speaker 1:I'm all for that one. I Don't think Walt's frozen, though. I think Walt is turning over in his grave with Disappointment on how the Disney movies have evolved since he last was involved in them. Not saying that his movies were good, because they weren't, because they were just all rewrites of previous movies. You know, have you seen that where they take the dancing singing scene out of like snow white or Cinderella and they match it up to Tarzan and the character movements are identical? Yeah, you know they.
Speaker 1:You can overlay these movies and they all line up perfectly animation-wise, not storyline. So you know Walt will probably be pissed about Moana and all these other new characters inside out. I don't, I don't know the difference between pics, pixar and Disney movies anymore, but they're, they all kind of blend together. To me, one that I actually like Conspiracy theory-wise and again, I don't, I don't buy into them, and this is more just comical to me is when the US government a year or two ago announced that area 51 was real Aliens are real and the American public was like okay, great, give us cheaper gas, give us better health care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had already come to terms with the fact that it probably was at that point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the government's like oh, Because I think there was something else going on. I think the the war Ukraine was just now like starting to ramp up and I think the US government came out and tried to deflect all that by announcing area 51 and aliens being real and the General population was like yeah, but we're still paying 450 a gallon for gas or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. It seems to. Every time conspiracy theories kick up around the internet is. It seems to always coincide with some other major World event yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It always seems like again, and I think most conspiracy theories are that way, where they try to Cover up something else, take away attention from something else At the end of the day, because they want to hide something further. Sometimes the truth is best if you want to hide something, just put it out in the open.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I definitely believe the Sometimes fact is is stranger than fiction. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. But of course you can't. You can't search conspiracy theories on the internet without Bigfoot popping up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think he's. He's made more of an appearance as of late too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, bigfoot, yet the yeah.
Speaker 1:And whatever other yeah, but have you seen the clips on like tiktok and social media where there's this guy I don't know where it is, he's like taking a picture or video and he sees this huge figure walking down a mountainside and he's like I shouldn't be able to see that figure walking down the mountain side from the distance that I'm at to where he's at or it's at. So that's, that's recirculating. Another one that's recirculating is a giant 50 foot snake in the Congo. Man, back during like before World War two I believe it was you had a well respected like military colonel Flying over the Congo with two passengers in a plane. And they fly over the Congo and they see this huge figure Slytherin more or less on the ground and they go past it a second time to confirm what they're seeing. And they go past it a third time and Each time they started flying lower and lower to get a better look at it and they determined it was a massive snake. They all said it to be about a hundred feet in length and they said, as the third pass went, they went pass over. At the third time the snake actually coiled up and struck out at the plane. That's how low they were and that's how big the snake was that all of a sudden is coming back into popularity with this conspiracy theory of is there really a hundred foot snake out there?
Speaker 1:Because you got, you know, anacondas in the Amazon, you got Burmese and reticulated pythons in Southeast Asia, you've got Indian and rock pythons in Indian Africa. But the biggest recorded snake ever Caught in the water, I think, was only about 20 or 22 feet, which is still a big snake. But they said you know, there's nowhere for these snakes to really eat Meals large enough to feed them anything larger than 25 foot, except for the Congo. You know there's a lot of conspiracies about the Congo as far as animals go. It's one of the last scouted regions of the world, one of the last trekked regions of the world, one of the least inhabited inhabited areas of the world to this day, with dense jungle vegetation, a hot, humid, wet climate which Coincides with anacondas and reticulated pythons. They live in tropical, steamy, hot, wet climates. But they say that there's prey large enough there that a snake 50 foot plus could survive on. And they also talk about the wild animals and they also talk about the potential of Dinosaurs still existing in the jungles of the Congo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean, if you think about it, the world is big enough and enough of it is, I Guess, unexplored enough. Yeah, you know the oceans deep enough. There's lakes and seas that are deep enough. The mag, do you? Do we have that? Do we have a the Loch Ness monster or something similar to it? You know bigfoot live in who knows where, you know, I think.
Speaker 1:I Think any of those are Definitely plausible plausible is a good word, you know, until there's actual scientific proof and evidence of Maybe, not so much bigfoot or the Yeti but these large mythical creatures, existing Plausibles, probably the best and only way to describe that theory. You know, it would be really cool, though, to you know, find the Meg. Somebody called Jason Statham the Meg 3. Mm-hmm, it's in the Ohio. Swims up the mon in the Allegheny.
Speaker 2:Speaking of which, there is a Pittsburgh conspiracy theory. Hmm, now that you bring it up and I'm gonna see if I can there's a couple of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1:I know one, and I don't know if it's a conspiracy theory, so hopefully it matches up with what you're about to talk about. While you're looking that up, though, debate the internet. If you could pick a fake name, what would it be? I?
Speaker 2:Could pick a fake name. A fake name.
Speaker 1:Like I think on that for a minute. All right, I'll tell you mine, because I've used it in the past for all my Teenage mutant Ninja Turtle fans out there. Again, working in the car business, garrett and I were customer-facing and sometimes we have situations where customers just don't like us and Want to speak to our manager and get us in trouble. So they say what's your name? Well, I had a situation many years ago Working at a Dodge Chrysler Jeep store in the city. Customer was very upset with me and said what's your name? So I told him my name was a roku sake, which Master Splendor? No, the shredder, the shredder. I told him I was a shredder, so that's like my go-to name now from it to avoid any conflict. Or Trump, what's your name? Or Roku sake? I'm the leader of the foot clan. Don't mess with me. Bebop and rock steady will pound you into the ground. So that would be my fake name.
Speaker 2:All right, so this is more of a I don't know. Maybe you'd call this an urban legend.
Speaker 1:Urban legends and conspiracy theories. I'm good with that.
Speaker 2:Opposed to a conspiracy theory, but Supposedly January 31st 1956 a B-52 bomber crash, landed in the Montmangahela River and Was never to be seen from again.
Speaker 1:I've heard this now. I didn't know it landed in the Maan. I thought it landed in the Ohio. Yeah, no, in the Maan River.
Speaker 2:No wonder it's so dirty. Plane exhibited no mechanical difficulties and had refueled. However, the before the plane reached its destination, the crew Reported it was losing fuel. Near 4 pm, major Dotson requested permission to land at greater Pittsburgh International Airport.
Speaker 1:Dotson, we got.
Speaker 2:Dotson here, but once he realized they wouldn't make it To there, he requested to land at Allegheny County Airport. At 4 11 pm the plane ran out of fuel, engine malfunctioned. It gave major Dotson no option but the land in the Montmangahela River. I witnesses Saw the bomber glide over the homestead high-level bridge and splash down near the Glenwood Bridge. Okay, in Hayes. Yeah, not quite, as you're getting into the Southside Right.
Speaker 1:So for our non Pittsburgh residents. Pittsburgh meets at a peninsula not a peninsula, but comes to a point, confluence. A confluence there it is. The Allegheny River flows from the North, down from basically New York, down to Pittsburgh. The Monaga Halo River flows or it actually flows south, sorry. The Mon River flows north from West Virginia, maryland it's actually quite long up to Pittsburgh and that they meet at the point and create the Ohio River, which flows all the way down to the Mississippi. So the Mon is located on the southern side of the Pittsburgh city.
Speaker 2:So you're probably talking about maybe a mile or two, maybe three miles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at least three or four miles to act from that point?
Speaker 2:Yeah, easily. So everyone on the plane survived the crash landing. So they climbed up the upper area of the aircraft as it drifted downstream. It's reported the plane stayed afloat for 10 to 15 minutes and then obviously began to sink. Crew members swam the nearby floating logs on the shoreline. Two members sunk beneath the river frigid water, mostly succumbing to hypothermia. Okay, the bodies were never recovered. All of the US Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers dragged and dredged the river for 14 days after the crash. The plane was never found.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is a big Pittsburgh urban legend. So the way I heard it was it floated down and came to rest in the Ohio River. So I don't know, that's a weird one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, crash happened during the Cold War era, when espionage conspiracies and duck and cover drills were practiced in case of a nuclear attack. This caused rumors about the plane to run rampant. Some believe that the plane was carrying nuclear weapons or aliens and UFO parts. There it is. Yeah, local yinzer finds alien there was a gossip that the government had quickly removed the plane under the cover of night to cover its tracks. Others think that the polluted water in the Minoca Halo River eroded the plane in the decades since it sank. There it is.
Speaker 2:There it is there. It is Probably the most logical answer.
Speaker 1:The most logical answer and that would explain why our fish are so messed up in those waters.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So in 1995, almost 50 years later, I think the B-52 recovery group was formed, and for nearly three decades they have conducted scientific and physical investigations and despite their efforts, the plane or any part of it has never been recovered.
Speaker 1:You're telling me a group of yinzers that's what Pittsburghers are called, because we say yins instead of y'all and you all and use You're telling me a group of yinzers from Greenfield got together and started researching the disappearance of this plane. That's great. I love Pittsburghers. Yins guys want to go down to Maun and see if we can find a crash plane. Yins are Amelia Earhart that's another conspiracy theory for another episode, because I know you don't have any research pulled on that. But there are wild, wild conspiracy theories about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and if she's still alive, and this, that and the other. I mean even if she did disappear and went under hiding under a different name in a different region of the world, ain't no way she's still alive to this day. She'd be 100 years old at this point in time. We're pretty close to it. Yeah, she's definitely dead.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's one floating around out there that she was eaten by crabs. I heard that those big big, well, they cook coconut crabs which actually are very, very, very large, like in the crab family Huge. And yeah, they devoured what was left of her after the plane crash.
Speaker 1:Yeah, heard that one. Yeah, the Bermuda Triangle is another conspiracy theory Lots of you know. The most current one about plane disappearances is Malaysian air from about 10 years ago just up and looked off the radar. The planes and ships like those ships and stuff like that have been at the center of conspiracy theories for decades. They're very, very interesting conspiracy theories out there about that and for our listeners out there, you know, send us some that you may know about as well. We'd be, I'd be interested into digging into some. Maybe we'll do like a sports related conspiracy theory episode cover bases because of, like NFL and NBA scripts being released at the beginning of the season and we're already there. Question for our listeners out there, not in the Pittsburgh area Do you guys have spotted lantern flies and, if so, are they a menace to society where you're at? Because they are definitely a menace to society up here.
Speaker 2:They're everywhere.
Speaker 1:They're everywhere, but the further you get away from the city, the less, unless you see them. Yeah, so figure that one out. So what would your fake name be? You never answered my fake. I did not. I did not.
Speaker 2:I would have to. I would have to be like Darth something. Yeah, it's, I'm, you know Star Wars nerd. Darth solo, darth solo.
Speaker 1:Darth Baca, darth, darth, darth, darth, darth, darth man. I watched episode one of box, so this morning, yes.
Speaker 2:Well, this is the finalies tonight, so you got some catching up to do.
Speaker 1:Well, I really haven't watched much TV at all as of late, just been so busy with stuff. But yeah, I do have to watch it because I do like that storyline. You know, I want to see where it goes. George Lucas, dave Filoni, geniuses yeah, there's got to be some Star Wars theories out there too. Oh, yeah, I mean there's, but in like a real world application. Yeah, not not canon or legend theories. Big nerds I watched a venom to let there be carnage A couple days ago. I was ironing, so I like to put on a movie while I iron and see how many shirts I can get through. I only got through like eight, which I think is a fair amount, but I'm pretty sure others could have gotten through a lot more faster than me. But it's my OCD. I like to have crisp, sharp lines all over my shirts and stuff of that nature. But that was actually a decent movie. It's kind of funny Big superhero, marvel, star Wars guy. So yeah, that's what I've been into lately.
Speaker 2:All right, so I got another one here. This one may hit a little close to home. For who? For you, oh boy. So the conspiracy is that Pokemon Go, okay is a government spy program. I've heard this. So obviously the game was a hit as soon as it landed in the app stores.
Speaker 1:Yeah, released on my wife's birthday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know everyone walks around catching these little animated creatures. So but the theory goes that Japan and the United States are working, through Nintendo and Niantic the parent company for the game, which is Google backed company that developed the game and they're looking to identify the locations of Chinese military bases and secret facilities by tracking the areas that Chinese gamers can't visit to capture the Pokemon characters.
Speaker 1:Yes, I didn't hear that part. I've never heard that part. I thought it was more of a tracking your movement.
Speaker 2:But yes, it goes deeper than just tracking movements. It is tracking where you can't move and extrapolating from that data what could possibly be located in the places where you can't go.
Speaker 1:I wonder what Pokemon are at area 51 that we can't get to Fort Knox. Yeah, yes, so at that point in time they feel like.
Speaker 2:you know, if war were ever to break out, Japan and the US can easily target their guided missiles to these areas of secrecy. Yes, In the fall of China will be caused by none other than Pikachu.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, could you imagine trying to catch a Pikachu and a bomb comes and lands on you? Yes, that's messed up. Yeah, that's actually really funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as far as conspiracy theories go, I'm going to probably say that, while Google may collect untold amounts of data from the various apps does that you use on your phone, and God knows what they do with it, this one's probably not true.
Speaker 1:I hope it isn't, but it's hilarious. I hope when people listen to this oh dear God, that air conditioner was so loud I hope when people listen to this episode and they get to this part, they lose their minds over this and I hope it just kind of steamrolls and this conspiracy gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Yes, it's really no different than the. You know, like Niantic, Google, the US and Japanese governments are tracking your movements. No different than the conspiracy theory that you know. The US government owns Facebook, yes, and Instagram and all these other social media services where you're uploading pictures of yourself, your location and your loved ones to this massive facial recognition system freely and willingly. So, god, I hope this one about Pokemon goes, not true?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That would be great if it were, though. Oh man, that would be great if it were true.
Speaker 2:So here's one I came across too, and this is a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory. Okay, because the person that started it has raised their hand and said hey, listen, I did this for fun, just to see how far it would go. Okay, but the conspiracy theory was that in 2003, singer Avril Lavigne Blinderfly, singer Avril Lavigne passed away and was replaced by a lookalike that continued to record music for her record label. I've heard this. Yeah, so the person that started this you know the blog made it clear that the whole thing was just a theory to illustrate how conspiracy theories gain traction and spread. So it was a hoax you've been had. Yes, yes, avril Lavigne herself has come forward and said I am very much alive.
Speaker 1:Now did we do like a blood draw DNA to make sure that that was actually Avril Lavigne, not her body double? Not sure, okay, so she could still be dead, possibly. Okay, just because the guy admitted that he made up the lie or he made up the story, doesn't mean that the story isn't actually true. True, avril, if you're listening. I need confirmation. Yes, and I am not a skater boy.
Speaker 2:Speaking of celebrity conspiracy theories, this one, I thought, was wild. Britney Spears was employed by the Bush administration. What yes, what yes, as the conspiracy goes. What better way to distract the American people from government corruption and incompetence but with celebrity tabloid news? So this was the crazy Britney era. This was the crazy Britney era. Shaved her head, britney, all of that stuff. Okay, the conspiracy theory goes that she was on their payroll and anytime they needed a distraction they said hey, britney, do something crazy.
Speaker 1:No way, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, speaking of celebrity ones, which was furthered by apparent photographic evidence of her and Bush White House adviser Carl Rove in 2002. Interesting, that secret meeting of sorts.
Speaker 1:Bush just wasn't a Britney fan, he couldn't have had Britney over the White House for private concerts or anything like that. Hit me baby one more time. Yeah, man, my wife has a conspiracy theory about a celebrity. Yeah, do you know the show?
Speaker 2:Glee, I know of it. I'm not familiar with it.
Speaker 1:My wife was a big fan of that show. It was a high school in Ohio and they had a Glee club that would sing covers of songs acapella style and the one actress, like the main star of the show, leah Michelle. The conspiracy theory behind her is that she can't read. Okay, it builds on the fact that she's gone to book signings and stuff like that. It's just scribbled. But people are like she can't read. We've never actually seen her read a script. We've never actually seen her hold a script.
Speaker 1:And people say that it's because she got into Broadway and acting at such a young age like toddler age that she had tutors for schooling but she had someone who would just read the script to her to the point that she can memorize it. And all she ever did was have staff to read her scripts in her line so that she could just memorize them and then repeat them in front of a screen or on a screen, in front of a camera, on a stage. And she'd been challenged on social media to actually like read a book live and she's never taken that challenge up. I mean, if I'm her and she has made a lot of money in her career if I'm her, I just get on camera because you're right, guys, I can't read. But you know what? I can read my bank balance. It's a lot of zeros and commas in it, guys. So leave me be.
Speaker 1:It was fuel because she did release a book, or like a journal, and people were like, oh look, she released a book she can read.
Speaker 1:And one group said, well, there's such a thing as ghost writers, or you just talk and they turn it into a book.
Speaker 1:And the other group was like, it's really not a book, it's a journal that gives you writing prompts so that you write stuff in the book and you fill the book up, so you're not really reading anything. So my wife is tickled by that, that she can't read, which is a shame if she can't, because she's a very talented person, I would assume, and probably obviously pretty smart, if it's true that she can't read, that she can memorize lines. I mean, that's all you know. Actors have to memorize the lines, but to be able to memorize them by just hearing the words read to you, not physically reading the words yourself. And there's some people out there in the world who do learn better by reading, and there's some people in the world who learn better by hearing and seeing subject matter is in different ways of learning, but I would think that she should just come out and say I can't read, but I'm rich bitch, so what's a really matter? I like conspiracy theories revolving around actors and actresses and celebrities.
Speaker 2:Here's one right now Keanu Reeves is a mortal.
Speaker 1:I'll do you one better, but continue according to the website, keanu is immortalcom.
Speaker 2:Keanu Reeves is not really in his early fifties, but is at least 150 years old. The site claims that Keanu is actually Charlemagne, who supposedly died in the year 814. And Paul Morenais, a French actor, who supposedly died in 1922. Although it appears like he straight up doesn't age. Adding fuel to the fire, keanu didn't outright deny the idea when Jimmy Fallon asked him about it in 2017. So, which can only mean that he's obviously hiding something. Yes, it could only mean that. Yeah, there's plenty of photos floating around the internet black and white photos, the aged photos of Keanu and older period style get up Like you'd go on the boardwalk and get the turn back in time photos of you as a gangster or cowboy or whatever.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's all that bad of a conspiracy. It'd be cool, honestly. I mean, in John Wick they call him the Baba Yaga. He's the guy you sent to kill the boogie man. So if you can't kill John Wick, you can't kill Keanu. I'm good with that. But to tie into that conspiracy theory for our local listeners, you know who really is immortal Edgar Snyder.
Speaker 2:You know I was this actually came up not that long ago.
Speaker 1:We were watching TV and obviously an Edgar Snyder commercial came on and I actually said to Robb and I said, look, he doesn't look any different than he did when I was a kid watching these commercials, Right, Edgar Snyder is a local, big time high profile lawyer here in Pittsburgh, western Pennsylvania, and he's been doing these Edgar Snyder commercials for decades and the man looks like he's 76 years old in every single commercial, like he hasn't aged past 70, when he's probably truly 640, 650 years old. Give or take a decade or two. That dude, if he's not immortal, he's definitely a vampire, because how was it possible that this man has not aged a day in 30 years? I hope it's true. I want Edgar Snyder to live forever. He's a medical malpractice lawyer, so maybe he's got some inside connections, you never know, in an injury lawyer, I believe too. So yeah, immortality, that's a. That'd be a weird thing to go through.
Speaker 2:Probably a blessing in a curse Double witch.
Speaker 1:For sure, for sure. I have to ask you on the next time we come across one so what was it like during the Black Plague? But speaking of immortality and being an immortal person, answer the internet. This will be the last question that I read about this. Would you rather see everything that has occurred in the history of the world or everything that is going to happen in the future? We can go either direction with this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think there would be benefits to both. I mean, they say you know, if you don't learn from history, it's bound to repeat itself. So could you, knowing everything that's ever happened, sort of shape the future by obviously learning from it?
Speaker 1:That would require you to have power, though? Yeah, just assuming you are who you are today. See for you. I would say you would want to have seen everything that's already happened. Yeah, on the one hand, because it would give you closure to these conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2:Yes, right. Yes, it would answer a lot of questions, a lot of questions, right.
Speaker 1:The flip side of the coin. Because you are a conspiracy theorist, you would not want to know these answers. Yeah, right, yeah, I'd actually like to know what would happen in the future. The problem with knowing what's going to happen in the future is, if you see something that occurs that you don't like, you're going to do everything in your power to avoid that outcome. Mm-hmm, but it's already happened, right? So there's nothing you can do? Mm-hmm. And it's weird to talk about the future and the past tense at the same time. Right, like, if, 25 years from now, I see that I'm in a car accident and I lose my right foot, I'm going to do everything I can to not be driving a car on that day. But because it's Bound to happen Bound to happen has already occurred in the future, there's nothing I can do in the past to change it.
Speaker 1:And therein lies the paradox, but I would make a lot of money betting on Super Bowls.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:Back to the future. Yes, no, marty, you can't change time. No, I can't. I'm not doing that. I'm just going to make some money while I'm at it, before it happens. Yes, making future bets. 10 years from now, caesar's Palace would shut down because I would bankrupt them. And that's where greed comes into play, with knowing the future.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's another problem. Yeah, there's no right answer yet there's no wrong answer Right With this. I think I'm sticking with the past, though I'm going to go future, definitely going to go future with that. Another conspiracy theory that always pops up for me is Antarctica is just a giant wall.
Speaker 2:Yes, Around the world that ties into the Flat Earth theories.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I've seen it tied into the Flat Earth theories, but I've also seen it tied into the If you can get over the wall of Antarctica, the Earth is still round, but there's other continents and other lands to be discovered, other species of animals the whole night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a deep rabbit hole. You start to dive down, you start researching that.
Speaker 1:Essentially, we're just in a prison surrounded by ice walls, yeah, and a lot of theories have spun off of that, but that one comes up a lot often these days, especially Right. Yeah, the conspiracy theories moving forward any new ones that pop up are going to be heavily, heavily based in video footage and photographic images of much better quality than they were 20, 30, 40 years ago, right, which is going to give these conspiracies a lot more traction to grow and expand.
Speaker 1:The whole wall thing is kind of weird to me. Why haven't they melted? If the world is heating up, why can't we see them? Why can't we see the wall when we're in Antarctica? You know different things.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So with conspiracy theories there's a lot of just you know it's yeah, it's one end of the spectrum or the other. You either believe it wholeheartedly or you don't at all. There's really no middle ground. So, like going into this podcast, when you said you wanted to talk conspiracies, I'm like I'll go into it with an open mind and I'll look, I'll see if some pop up along the way before we get to the actual recording and have a discussion with you. I just I've not come across a conspiracy theory where I went hmm, that makes a lot of sense and that now changes my thinking and my thought process. Moving forward, I've not come across one.
Speaker 1:I like the animal ones, though I do the snakes, the dinosaurs. It'd be so cool if they found a dinosaur in the middle of Africa. Em Malcolm pops up on the CNN and finds away Chaos theory. I started watching Jurassic World Dominion, the new, newest Jurassic World movie, and I'm going to give it another shot because I could not make it out of the first 20, 25 minutes of that movie. It was not good. But yeah, conspiracy theories are fun though If you go into it with an open mind and just want to have a good conversation and talk Any other profile ones you got though.
Speaker 2:No, no, not really, of course. You have your, your all government conspiracies and things like that. The Illuminati, yeah, I mean you start talking about like vaccines and COVID-19 and things like that, and elections, definitely not going into that. Yeah, so those things I'm not too worried about diving into, yeah, but the fun of the fun ones, that's. That's what I think. It's pretty much what I came across.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the Earth is round. Just going to put that out there for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do believe the Earth is round. It has to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shadows man, yeah, contortion of light, stuff like that. Halloween's coming up, mm-hmm. Tricker treating. This year, last day of the month is on a Tuesday, so we're out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm out, but I'm out. Yeah, I'm sure. At the very least, emily, I'm sure, will be going around. I'm not sure if.
Speaker 1:Caitlin has, Was she dressing up as a boxer? Mma fighter.
Speaker 2:Actually, I'm purchasing on Amazon today before they sell out. She wants to be a medieval princess, so like.
Speaker 1:John of Arc.
Speaker 2:Well, this costume. It looks kind of more like Merida from Brave. Oh, okay. So yeah, that's cool. Yeah, that's what she's picked up. That's so cool. I'm not sure if Caitlin's decided one way or another. If she's doing anything?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's probably going to hang out with friends. How's Braden? Was Braden at homecoming or whatever this boy's name is? Yeah, oh yeah, they were all there Hanging out as friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was just a big group of friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's another conspiracy theory. Yeah, he's not in any of the pictures.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's good, at least any of the ones that have been shown, true yeah?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the friend zone conspiracy theory? No, daddy, it's just a friend. I promise, as dads we have to worry about the guy that she tells us not to worry about, always, always, but he also has to worry about us. Yes, very much, yes. So what do you have on tap for the rest of October? So a couple more football games. Oh, alley Valley Band Festival this Saturday night at North Allegheny High School, a couple more football games, and then it's really just parade season at that point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, veterans Day, halloween, veterans Day parade downtown.
Speaker 1:But you guys will be there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So will we Nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 11th of November, I believe so. Yeah, and then I think that pretty much wraps up fall marching band season. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then does Shayler do like a Christmas parade.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Now, after that, we'll be on to just holiday concerts and then preparation for the trip will begin rehearsals and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Yep, yeah. So we've got Halloween parade, they do the Bloomfield one, they'll do Veterans Day parade and then they'll do Bellevue Avalon's Christmas Light Up Night parade Cool. And then I think they do the Memorial Day parade in Swickley.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Mid-Main, they do Memorial Day in.
Speaker 1:Etna. Okay yeah, mid-may is when they'll go to Cedar Point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that'll be after the trip.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, it's almost coming to a close for us as far as band goes and football season, jake Busy fall season. Yeah, jake's got to pass his concussion sway test today, man, and if he passes that he's clear for full contact and he's going to play Thursday. He's not going to take an extra couple of days off and play next week. He's like oh, he's chomping at the bit. It's hilarious. They won last week, middle school football team one last week, so I think they've got as many, if not one more win than they did all of last season. So football team is starting to build. Jake wants to go off for basketball Nice. I told him if he doesn't get that algebra grade up. It's not happening, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that seems to be our problem too. Yep, kaitlin's decided she wants to play lacrosse yeah, you were telling me. So we've got her all outfitted for that. Practices are starting now. Overlaps with band a little bit, but then once, once marching band wraps up, she'll have that Now lacrosse will play outdoors in the spring though, right, it is a spring sport.
Speaker 1:Okay, so they do like winter indoor practice. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:They're outdoor right now for when they can, yeah.
Speaker 1:So she she prepared for the physical factor of it.
Speaker 2:She believes she is.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, let me know I'll come to a lacrosse game, whatever. Yeah, we'll see what happens. I'll taunt the other team, heckle the coach, the refs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've tried some sports in the past that haven't quite worked out to her liking. So yeah, hopefully if this one she says she likes it. So far so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's definitely a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think anything else going on. I got nothing much else to add to this episode. Like I said, this was predominantly a you episode, but it was. It was fun Chalking about things. The Pokemon go one.
Speaker 2:I'm tickled by that Pikachu, why'd you do, yes, so does I'm used to China, yes seriously.
Speaker 1:So where can you go and catch Pokemon? A lot of places you can't go, yeah, a lot of places they tell you not to go. You know stuff like that. I play the game pretty pretty frequently and it's fun. It's nostalgic for me, but they've expanded that game so much over the last 20-some odd years. There's over a thousand different Pokemon now. When I grew up it was only 151. So you know it's grown a lot. I have a dad joke this week, nice.
Speaker 2:I do. Do you have one?
Speaker 1:I can, okay, I can so it is the damn season that's a Taylor Swift reference. Oh, speak, actually, before I do my dad joke. I'm sitting at a local coffee shop on a Sunday morning and these two girls come in and one girl's wearing a long sleeve Taylor Swift Ares tour t-shirt and the other girl and her are talking about this Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey relationship and she starts delving into conspiracy theories that it's just a PR stunt, that you know he happened to be playing in New York City Monday night and her album release I think of 1989, taylor's version comes out October 27th. Don't come at me, swifties, if I mention the wrong album. Okay, I like Taylor, I do. I just not so much to know when her album releases are. And she's releasing that and she'll be in New York City for that.
Speaker 1:Target had a pre-order for another one of her albums her vault version or Taylor's version of an album and Taylor's PR team scrubbed that from the internet. I mean all these wild conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift, which are probably abundant, but the chiefs are two and O since Taylor and Travis started dating, so we're not going to hopefully have another carry under what Tony Romo debacle. Travis, if you're listening, do not go to Cancun or Aco Poco or wherever before a playoff game with Taylor and you know, end up losing in the playoffs because of that Other than that. So my joke is this season Halloween's just around the corner. How do you fix a broken jack-o-lantern?
Speaker 2:I don't know how do you fix a broken jack-o-lantern.
Speaker 1:With a pumpkin patch. Yes, yeah, pumpkin patch Solid. Yes, you got one. Yeah, where'd it go Hold on?
Speaker 2:This is courtesy of dadjokeseveryday on the Instagram. What did the doctor say to the bucket? What? You're looking very pale today.
Speaker 1:Oh Nah, that's actually a good one. That's a classic right there. So we have to give it up. All right, guys, thanks for listening in to conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1:Episode 11 of the dally is cast podcast. We will see you in a couple of weeks for our next episode, which will put us right up against Halloween. We'll figure out the topic. I think I want to get back to our roots and kind of do like a motivational episode and just scream and yell at you guys, try to pump you up, make you run through a brick wall and then after that it'll be Thanksgiving and we can talk about food again. Nice, that's my favorite topic. I'm telling you, man, it's around the corner. Fat boy season is here.
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