The Internet’s Wildest Conspiracy Theories: Rapid Fire Edition

**Discussion begins at 4:15**

In this chaotic rapid-fire episode, we put the deep dives aside and let the conspiracy theories fly.  This week we're discussing viral internet theories, and with only two minutes on the clock, listen to the 3SQ react, debate, and dissect them in real time.  We dive into a number of theories, including claims that Mountain Dew can predict the future, that Timothée Chalamet might secretly have an alter ego, the parallels between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and even asked whether the Rubik's Cube could somehow unlock the secret to time travel.  Some theories sounded almost believable.  Others completely unraveled within seconds.  All of them sparked instant chaos.  This episode is fast, funny, unhinged, and full of the kind of wild conversations that happen when three conspiracy-loving hosts are forced to rely purely on instinct.  Expect hot takes, accidental comedy, and a whirlwind tour through some of the internet’s strangest viral theories.

Transcript

Hi, guys.

Welcome back.

It was Nurses Week last week. Happy Nurses Week. This week is Hospital Week, so also happy Hospital Week to our friends out there.

Yep. Who work in a hospital.

This is our last week before the season. Memorial Day. So yes, before the season.

So happy summer to those who celebrate.

I don't celebrate summer.

No, who does celebrate summer?

I hate heat. I burn. I hate sweat.

Which aren't you excited for like the pool, the lake, the beach, boat?

But I'm like, I'm gonna have to wear sunblock.

Okay.

That's so hard.

So this is when you have to put it on your entire body.

It's true. Colleen has to reapply like every 30 minutes.

I have to put it in my hairline. Like you don't get it.

I'm gonna be honest, this border's on weather talk. So my bad for.

Why can't we be excited about summer? That's not weather talk.

You can be excited.

Yeah, we can be excited.

I'm looking forward to spooky season.

So is it time for our drink check? This was a Colleen pick. Colleen, what are we having?

We're having a Millerlite.

Speaking of summer.

Love a Millerlite.

We let Colleen have this one, you know?

I prefer it in a glass, but this does still slap.

The face that Kait is making right now.

You don't like to go to a bar and order a Millerlite in a shot?

No.

Millerlite is like a decent beer.

No.

It's a little watery and a little pissy.

But I'm going to be really honest. This is the first time I've ever had a Millerlite. I don't do beer.

When I drink beer and when I do beer, it's like a craft beer.

No, I don't even do that.

I don't do beer, period. When I was in college, I drank PBR, and I actually liked that beer a little bit, and that's about it.

I like a beer.

It makes me feel bad.

The Yeasty.

I don't know what it is, but it's just-

Gluten.

No, I don't have a gluten problem. Don't trigger Megan.

You have three drinks next to you right now anyway.

It's true. I always have three drinks.

Okay. I guess we can get into it. We're going to be playing different this week, right?

We are.

We're going to play a game, and it's going to be so fun. Everyone likes to play games here. Megan loves the game.

I think Megan borderlines on as competitive as me. If not more competitive, I don't know.

I think more actually.

Yeah. She might be a little bit more competitive than I am, which is saying something.

I don't think she necessarily wants to win. I think she wants to play by the rules.

I want to win.

She does play by the rules though.

I'm like, what if we change?

What if we make up the rules? I don't like to play with Colleen.

But I was going to say Colleen also is like, when you meet her, you're like, oh, she's going to be fun. And then she's like, low-key, just roasting everybody when she plays a game. Like, very dirty.

Smug like losers.

Yes, very masshole like when she plays.

I like the trash talk.

Yeah, it's like, you know.

Except when you play Never Have I Ever, and you stop every three minutes to re-explain the rules of the world's easiest game.

I swear you guys weren't playing it normally.

Okay, the rules of the game.

Each one of us has found a couple conspiracies that are viral. And we're gonna take like one minute to explain the conspiracy theory. None of us have any context.

We don't have facts to check. We just have exactly the information that's been given to us in this viral, like real or TikTok.

After somebody presents their theory, we get two minutes as a collective group to discuss if we believe it or don't believe it. And when the timer is up, we have to move on and we have to go to the next theory.

Okay, love that.

All right, okay. Those are the rules of the game.

I'm gonna be believing a lot of things.

We only get two minutes. This is a shout out to our friend Jillian, who gave us the idea to do a rapid fire like this.

Well, and full disclosure, all of mine that I've brought to the table, I got from looking back in the DMs from Jillian that she has sent the pod.

Okay, there you go.

She provided a third of our conspiracies.

Our content. I want you to edit in every time a timer goes off, I want you to go edit in like a soundbite that goes ah ah or something like that.

I like that. Like a hockey err.

Yeah, like ah ah.

You know what I mean? All right, let's get a soundbite.

Sounds like you're clearing your throat.

I don't think that sounds nearly as good as you think it did.

5:40

Rubikʼs Cube and Timmy Thicke

This one's for Kait.

So this is the conspiracy of the Rubik's Cube.

I believe it.

So every year, we get faster and faster at solving the Rubik's Cube. Eventually, it'll be solved in negative time, and when that happens, people will be able to travel back in time.

And Mattel is going to use this method to travel back to the year of the creation of the Rubik's Cube.

No.

Grab all the cubes, bring them back to present time, and sell them at 100 percent markup, 100 percent profit. Okay?

The physical weight of all those Rubik's Cubes that they bring back, though, is going to shatter the Earth's mantle, causing the Yellowstone Volcano to erupt, leading to a century-long volcanic winter.

So theorists have proposed that we create the Robox Cube, which is a much more lightweight cube that is easier to solve. So we can travel back in time to before the Rubik's Cubes were created and save the world from the Rubik's Cubes.

Did Mattel make the Rubik's Cube?

I mean, the video I watched of Joel Van said Mattel created them and they're using it to profit.

You had me in the beginning.

Okay.

Hold on.

Wait, Colleen.

Wait.

You're cheating.

All right. So Kait, set the timer.

Okay. Hold on.

All right.

Timer and go.

I'm surprised to hear Mattel made the Rubik's Cube. You had me in the beginning.

What?

Are we going to solve it at negative time? Okay. Rubox.

Love that.

Kait, what do you think? You are the time traveler expert.

I do. I do enjoy. Here's the thing.

I never enjoy a time travel story. And do I enjoy time travel?

No, because I think there's too much that can happen that can like, I believe in like the one timeline theory, and then there's like branches, and then every time that you, if there's like a disruption of the main timeline, then like you create a

branch, and then there's another like world that you're living. But I like the idea that things just kind of happen the way they're supposed to happen. However, in this, I don't believe that we're ever going to actually have negative time.

That doesn't seem possible because time is always moving forward. That is like the definition of time. Time is always moving forward.

You can never go back. There's not a negative time period. In this, you lost me in the beginning because I never believed in a negative time.

No, I don't believe that. Then actually, there's no been crazier when you start talking about volcanoes. Like where is the volcano?

It's caused by the disruption of the mantle.

Okay.

So where does the disruption of the mantle come in?

Yeah. Because it's so heavy.

The Rubik's Cubes are so heavy. It's 100 years of Rubik's Cubes. I actually don't know because I didn't look this up.

I can't fact-check what year the Rubik's Cube was created. But 100 years of Rubik's Cubes all at once in one place, coming through time is going to shatter the mantle.

Now, I think this is my favorite episode so far.

Megan, do you believe it? We have 12 seconds.

No, I do not believe it.

Okay. Tell me why.

It's absurd.

It's absurd.

They didn't do this in Loki? So it's not real?

No. Yeah.

It always goes back to Marvel. I have two conspiracies around a character named Timmy.

Okay.

Which is funny because I have a brother named Timmy.

Yeah.

The first one is about this guy named Timmy Thicke. Have you guys ever heard of Timmy Thicke?

No.

Okay. So Timmy Thicke was a high schooler who went viral for posting thirst traps online. He was a gay man and was posting thirst traps.

And this is a picture of Timmy Thicke.

Okay.

And Timmy Thicke was often frequently banned on Instagram and popping up again. So it was kind of a mystery because he would always get banned because people were like, kind of abusing him in his comment section, like creepy old men.

That is actually not the point of this conspiracy, but you just had to know that Timmy Thicke's account was a mystery. He'd pop up and then he'd disappear. And so part of the conspiracy is, was Timmy Thicke even real?

Okay. Was he just a computer? And then on Timmy Thicke's Twitter, it posted, Good evening.

Timmy Thicke was a 24-month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

And he disappeared from the internet. So like the conspiracy is, was Harvard University actually doing an experiment for the amount of time that Timmy Thicke was on Instagram, trying to see what pedophiles would do in comments?

And then a year after posting that tweet, Timmy Thicke popped up again, but this time he was of a different race, but looked exactly the same as the original Timmy Thicke, like same body, same shape. So everybody was even more confused.

They're like, is this Timmy Thicke re-imagined?

Do you have a photo of that to prove that happened?

Yes.

I don't think they look alike.

So that's the conspiracy. Do you guys think Harvard was actually making up Timmy Thicke for an experiment to see what pedophiles would do on their comments? I have the answer, but I want you guys to think first.

Start the clock.

Okay, and clock starts now.

No.

Come on.

I feel like even if that were the case, why would they post at the end like this was a study? I feel like more likely it's like this person didn't want to do these anymore.

Yeah.

And it's like a kind of a little last jab.

Yeah.

It caused a little bit of panic to people. Also a way to be like, I'm not that life anymore and move on.

Yeah. I kind of feel like number one, this is absurd that you think that there's- Okay, hold on.

But there's two different people, one person and then all of a sudden-

They're like AI.

That was really weird. That was a long time ago, right?

Hold on.

A part of it is that-

You're ruining the timer.

I'm so sorry. Is that his Twitter started tweeting coordinates for Area 51 randomly. And so then it was like-

It's not like you can't Google those things.

Yeah.

So again-

I didn't think about that.

It's just a deal. My experience on this show, covering some of these viral Internet mysteries, is that 98 percent of the time, if you just actually Google, it is so easily disproven. It's like somebody is just creating these memes.

That whole tweet, yes, that is 100 percent someone fucking with people. And also, if I had read that, the first thing I would have done is gotten off Instagram and typed in the coordinates and then like, are these real? Yeah.

I agree with Megan.

I think that the last comment was just a way for him to be like, I'm done with this, whatever this is, this is not my account anymore and I'm moving on with my life. And it was just a last dish effort.

Like, I don't think that, I just don't think that Harvard would do that. And also, like, what were they studying? What was the point?

Pedophiles. But of what? Children, he was underage.

But like, what was the study? It's not just pedophiles. What's the study about?

What is the hypothesis?

She has no Pico question.

Okay. Can I give you the resolution?

Thank you.

Can I give you the resolution? What? Timothée was real, got into a fight with his manager, who still had all the passwords to his accounts, and hijacked his accounts and started tweeting those tweets and stuff like that.

That guy has a manager?

Yeah, he was viral, millions.

Okay.

I don't really understand the conspiracy.

Well, I guess there was that conspiracy, and then your idea of that Harvard, that a larger academic institution was monitoring people online.

Okay.

All right. All right.

That was mine. I feel like you guys are judgmental. All right.

Do you have anything a little more high brow for us, Kait?

Okay.

I got a little bit. Hold on. I have five of them.

I told you after rewatch. I'll do the dumbest one first. Okay.

Yeah.

That's definitely what I did.

13:42

Product and Celebrity Theories

This one goes out to Bourbon Boy.

All right.

Let's hear it.

So the conspiracy is that we all know that there's a conspiracy that Lunchables is what created millennial culture and our obsession with like-

Didn't know that. Yeah.

Mimosa's are Sunny D and Charcuterie is Lunchable.

Our Lunchables, right. So there's this whole conspiracy that Lunchables created Charcuterie culture and millennials. Okay.

But here is the conspiracy. Babybel cheese. You guys know what babybel cheese is, right?

Yeah.

I like to play with the wax.

Okay. Exactly. The wax.

What else is really popular right now in millennial culture?

Squishies. Oh.

Well, Colleen, we're in different circles.

Red wax.

Bourbon. The conspiracy is this wax around the babybel cheese prepared us for the wax around Maker's Mark bourbon.

Wow.

Okay. Go. Two minutes.

Just Maker's Mark?

Well, that's the one that famously dumps the bottle.

But I'm not really sure what the conspiracy is.

Do we think babybel is into?

Is using the same recipe?

You can't play with Maker's Mark wax, though.

How do you know?

I've tried.

Well, it's probably just thicker, right?

Yeah, it's hard. It just crumbles.

Kait, I'd love to debate this, but I'm really not sure.

Makes you think. Do you guys believe it, yes or no?

No.

No.

I'm sorry.

Okay. All right. Move on.

I think I would have believed it if every bourbon had wax.

Here we go.

Does anybody have Mountain Dew?

I was just about to do Mountain Dew.

What is wrong with Mountain Dew?

Go on, Megan, because I go on.

The story is that every time there's a new marketing push for a new flavor of Mountain Dew, it's a hidden message foreshadowing a global catastrophe that will happen.

What was Baja Blast? No, that's not Mountain Dew.

So in 2001, we had a code red. That was the recent release of code red. Three months later, 9-11.

In 2023, Mountain Dew released Maui Burst. Three months later, the Maui wildfires. 2024, the Star-Spangled Splash.

Immediately after that, the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore collapsed. What is Francis Scott Key famous for?

Oh, say can you see.

Writing the Star-Spangled Banner.

Yes, same year, we had the Infinite Swirl. A few months later, one of the worst hurricane seasons in the Southeast, and we had Pitch Black Flavor, which is when we had the largest IT blackout in history with the CrowdStrike outage.

And then most recently, 2025, the Baja Midnight. Operation Midnight Hammer was the Iranian air strikes. And you know what else?

Do you know what Baja means in Spanish?

Low.

It means something else also. War casualty.

Oh, really? Baja means war casualty.

Baja means lower.

Okay.

Or this is what the reels are saying, okay?

Or war casualty.

Or combat casualties. Did I miss any there? Did I miss any there, Kait?

No, you didn't.

Are you done? Okay. And time starts now.

Is there a flavor unreleased or an upcoming flavor that we should prepare for?

I'm scared.

Okay.

I think yes, I believe it.

I think this goes into a new world order because everybody-

Yes.

That is the elite. If we believe there's a new world order, and there are elitists that are controlling what's going on to the world. I and Mountain Dew is that big of a company who is the top, the 1 percent, then do they know more than what we know?

So yes, I could believe it if we're getting into a new world order because I could easily be swayed into believing a world order.

Who is Mountain Dew?

I was just going to ask, does Pepsi own Mountain Dew? Because Pepsi owning a bunch of things is another conspiracy.

Well, because they also go into our Grocery Isles episode.

Hold on, I think we're on to something.

Here's the thing, though. I did cheat and I just Googled one question.

Okay.

How many flavors of Mountain Dew are there?

How many?

There are over 100.

No way.

So I feel like the fact that only those 5 percent of these, someone could somehow make a connection to, is probably just a coincidence.

Okay.

Well, that's boring. You're ruining it.

Because you ruined our podcast.

I think it's real.

I like the idea that they know more. And so I'm going to buy into this one.

Also, what happened between 2001 and 2023?

Who cares?

The world was in peace.

A recession?

There was no Mountain Dew flavor.

Megan went to war when the world was in peace.

But now, hold on.

She's on to something.

But there were no Mountain Dews released in that 22-year period? Certainly not. There was just nothing else they could link up.

That's annoying that you pointed out that whole.

Do we want another Timmy one?

I felt like Timmy was over.

I've got a Timmy Chalamet one.

Oh, a Timmy Chalamet.

No. Okay. I thought you meant a Timmy Thicke.

The fact that you asked us if we had a Timmy Thicke conspiracy, like you thought that would come across our page.

I was concerned you guys would have Timmy Thicke.

All right.

I'm going to do Timmy Chalamet, and then we'll do this space one on my next one.

Okay.

The conspiracy is, is Timmy Chalamet disguising himself anonymously as the rapper SD Kid?

Oh, I've heard this one.

Okay. Timmy Chalamet was seen at a fake mink concert, who is well-known for being featured on SD Kid's most viral song called LV Sandals. Now, if we were actually doing a full episode, I'd make you guys listen to that song.

You're going to have to do some self-research. It started the conspiracy that Timmy Chalamet could possibly be this rapper, SD Kid, because there are just way too many similarities. They both have been seen wearing the same bandana.

Now, before you ask me anything about the whole idea, but I just assume it's a fancy bandana.

Pause. I know it's not time to talk, but my money is on either it's like a Chanel bandana that all the people have, or it's a basic red bandana that every single person has in their home.

Yeah. I wasn't allowed to look it up. That's not the point.

They also had matching buzz cuts at the same time. They both have two E's in their names. Their eyes look similar.

Also, it's just a well-known fact that Timothée Chalamet wanted to be a rapper growing up in high school. He went to a musical theater high school and he did a very well-known skit in his Timmy Tim era.

But before we go into it, I just want you guys to look at the pictures.

It's a well-known fact, Kait.

Did you know? I did know that about Timothée Chalamet. Okay.

Yeah.

SD Kid on the bottom, Timothée Chalamet on the top.

Okay. We literally have eyes, but okay.

Well, that's the whole point about SD Kid, is that he never shows his face. He shows his hair, he doesn't show his face. So you only ever see his eyes.

Oh, okay.

I think that looks like Timothée Chalamet.

I do too.

I also think it looks like the guy who shot the guy at the healthcare guy.

You guys can now discuss.

End time. Go, Megan. What do you think?

Do you believe it?

I don't know. It sounds very similar to the other story that's going around right now about Mr. Fantasy.

Are you guys following this?

So you know that's all it, right?

Exactly. This is what I'm getting at. This whole thing is that KJ Apa is disguised as this musician, and he went on Instagram and he was ruining my reputation, but then he's making videos with his cast mates.

So anyway, it feels very much the same thing. Is this a publicity thing? Is this a mystery to get people talking?

Well, here's my question.

Here's my question.

Why would he do this?

Because he always wanted to be a rapper.

Oh, I'm saying for the publicity, like KJ Apa. That was my point.

I said for the plot.

Because here we are talking about it.

I mean, I do think Timothée Chalamet is a funny guy, and I think he would do a prank like this. I do think that he loves to entertain a crowd.

I know he's an actor, so who doesn't like to entertain a crowd, but he even more so, and he's really funny, and he's super talented.

Yeah, he raps on SNL too.

Musically, that's what I mean. He's super talented. I could believe this.

I just think I need to know a little bit more. I do think that the eyes look the same, but it's also weird that that person doesn't show his face. That's a little creepy.

It's like Orville Peck.

There's a whole bunch of people who do that now. Famous musicians who don't show their faces. Sia?

I think that's weird.

I don't know what else to say.

Even his hands look like him.

Also, it's not like he's avoiding publicity because Timothée Chalamet is going to go out in the world and someone's going to know who he is.

Right. Yeah.

You think he would just want to make his music in secret?

Unless he's like Joe and he wants a professional career outside of his acting.

23:18

Historical and Film Conspiracies

Are you guys ready for this one?

This is a little, we've done a lot of funny ones, so this is a little deeper. There is a conspiracy and I know we would never talk about 9-11. We're not really going to do 9-11 on this podcast, but there is a conspiracy.

There was a press conference held the day before 9-11, so September 10th, 2001, where Rumsfeld, who's an important person in the government, I have no idea who that is.

Do you know who he is, Megan?

Yeah, the Secretary of Defense under Bush. The biggest guy in the Bush administration.

Thank you for that context. I had no idea. He held a press conference and he said that the government was literally trillions of dollars.

We had lost it. We didn't know where it was. We were bankrupt or not bankrupt, but we were missing it at some point.

The next day, there's a plane that hits the Pentagon. Guess where?

Where the money was?

The army side, right? In the accounting area where all the files for those billions of dollars were destroyed. This gets into a bigger conspiracy.

However, the conspiracy says, we knew about it, we were in on it, and that's where we wanted the plane to fly, and hold on, two minutes go.

They purposely crashed it to hide the paperwork for where the money went. If there's no trail, we don't know if we lose that much money.

Also, that was just in... Well, actually, I can believe the government could lose that much money. They are so inefficient.

So the whole 9-11, I mean, the majority of... We live by the Pentagon. I think a lot about the losses of the Pentagon, but it was really one of the smaller numbers.

You're saying that the Twin Towers were what? That was just part of the story?

No, I think there were records there also. I don't know. I'm not saying I believe this.

I just think it's really interesting. I think that the idea, if we believe this, would mean that our government would have been involved in a cover-up, that they knew that thousands, hundreds of thousands of people were going to die the next day.

Yeah.

Wait, so you know how we're like trillions in debt now?

Yeah.

Are you saying that we would have been like even more in debt?

I don't know the answer to that question. I just know that that's what I saw. That's what you watched in the real.

I didn't do any deep dive.

I think this 9-11 was too heavy. It's too big a story for this two-minute discussion.

You know what? I believe there's more to it.

There's more to 9-11 rather than just like a terrorist attack on America.

Like if you told me that it was ruining files, I'm not believing it.

I mean, we know the government has done crazy things to cover up things. We've talked about that so much in the podcast, is the different cover-ups our own government has done.

I'm intrigued to hear more about this with further research.

I think it would be more likely that someone knew something was going to happen and failed to prevent it. Not that the US did 9-11.

Time. Can I ask a clarifying question? What did people do in the World Trade Center?

It's like finance business, private business.

So just business stuff?

What do business?

Like no government stuff?

Colleen, let me ask you this.

What do business people do?

I have no idea. But no government stuff?

Well, hold on.

No private business?

Another question for you. What do government people do?

It depends on the branch.

This is stuff that we talk about as people who work in health care all the time. We're like, we don't know what people in the world do. If you're not like a lawyer, even a lawyer, I really don't know what lawyers do, unless they're in a courtroom.

But it wasn't a government building, is what I'm asking.

No.

Okay.

I don't think I ever understood that.

All right, Megan, it's yours.

Well, just so we can get past this depressing stuff, we'll just let me mention Charlie Kirk real quick. There's a lot out there, but the specific viral meme that I'm going to discuss was one sent by my fellow Nicolas Cage fan, Jillian.

Okay.

Oh, I like Nicolas Cage.

We used to have a bad movie club, and we watched a lot of Nicolas Cage films. But in 1998, Nicolas Cage starred in a film called Snake Eyes.

It was a political thriller about a man named Charles Kirkland who was shot in the neck by a sniper at a public event on September 10th.

Oh my God.

Which I assume was the same day that Charlie Kirk was shot. Wasn't it right, 4911?

It was September 10th.

Yeah.

It took place at a boxy match headlined by Tyler the Executioner, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk.

Tyler.

Tyler Robinson. The movie was filmed in Trump Tower in New Jersey.

Oh my God.

2025 is the year of the snake.

I thought it was forced.

Now, again, the Reels might be giving us false information, but it said 2025 was the year of the snake, which was the same year that Charlie Kirk was shot. I guess the theory would be, it gets very Simpson-esque, right?

Yeah.

Did the film producers predict this? Did they arrange it? Did they write the script?

That's crazy.

Time in.

That's literally crazy.

This is so weird, because there's like a book that was written before COVID by Dean Koontz.

I think it was Dean Koontz who was like, there's gonna be this virus in... Where, what was it?

Wuhan? Somewhere in, yeah.

What's, I don't want to sound dumb.

I don't want to say anything. Wuhan, it was where...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was like a theory that like, the book was like literally, there's a lab in Wuhan and this is where the virus was and it killed all these people.

And people were like talking about it like, oh my gosh, this is just proof that this was, we did it, we made this happen. I think a lot of people get shot in the neck by snipers. I think that's like a pretty easy way to take somebody out, right?

I don't know, I would assume, head, neck, chest. I think this is a really weird mystery.

I'd like to watch the movie.

I'm intrigued.

Do they look alike in the movie?

I mean, it's Nick. Oh no, Nicholas Cage, I think, is a detective.

He's like an investigator. But the guy shot. Did he freakishly look like Charlie Kirk?

Was he a conservative?

Was Charles Kirkland a conservative?

Did he know Costco?

When was this movie shot?

Kirkland's Signature.

1998.

1998. Well, you know what? Trump was like a big, he was like in Home Alone.

He did all these cameos in the late 90s and early 2000s. He wasn't the same guy that people hate these days. So I don't know.

That's weird.

I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued.

Yeah.

I don't know if I believe it. I think it's just like a weird coincidence.

30:59

Space and Presidential Parallels

You're up.

Okay.

So this one is about NASA and space.

Okay.

So NASA monitors comments in the sky and gives them names.

Okay.

Today, I'm going to talk about this one comment that they just recently were able to obtain new photos of, and the shape of this comment has never been seen before.

Whoa.

Okay.

For the listeners, the name is 31-Atlas.

Okay.

Okay. They just took new images of it. I will flip it around and show you the camera.

But this is in an elongated shape, and it's a structure that has never been seen before by NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope. So they have never seen any other thing in the sky look like this. Okay.

Like I said, it's elongated with a tail. Okay. Astronomers say this comet's core could measure between 320 millimeters and 5.6 kilometers.

So it's like big.

Astronomers say that?

Astronomers. Okay. You know what?

She reads phonetically.

I do read phonetically.

Okay. It was seen more than 277 million miles from Earth, yet its activity was so strong that it's still resembled a living engine in deep space.

So I don't know what that means.

Like a real engine, like a spaceship engine?

Yeah, but what's a living engine? What does that mean?

I don't know what that means that you just said.

Well, the conspiracy is it's never been seen before. It's an unusually symmetrical, and it makes the suggestion of could this be a real alien mothership, okay? That looks like a ship to me.

Let me see.

So the theory is that NASA has discovered an asteroid that is actually a mothership?

Could be.

Okay, go.

They've never seen one look like it before.

Why would they tell us it was an asteroid? Why wouldn't they just keep it secret with everything else they're keeping secret?

I thought it was a comet, not an asteroid.

I think it's a comet.

What's the difference?

I don't know. I wasn't allowed to look that up.

I think isn't a comet.

I love this episode.

Isn't a comet like a star, like a falling star?

An asteroid just rock?

Like it looks like it's actively shooting through the sky and not just floating.

Oh, isn't that what a comet it does? It shoots through the sky?

Yes. It looks like it's going with space and exhaust. Okay.

Yes or no?

Is it a space ship? I don't understand why they would release like, hey, we found this comet and then cover it up when you could just not acknowledge the comet, right?

Yeah. No one's ever seen it. So why are they?

It kind of looks like a peanut.

I think that how fast is it going?

Pretty fast.

Okay.

Well, if it's going pretty fast, then we're probably not going to get a good image of it. So if it's going fast, you probably are going to see that it's going to look like, the image that we have is going to look elongated because-

That's a good point. The way NASA is releasing it is that they're hoping that eventually at some point we can learn more from it and that it has chemicals in it that we can learn from. I don't know.

I think it's a spaceship. Anyways, next.

I think it's a comet.

I think it's a comet.

This is a conspiracy that history repeats itself. We all know about Abraham Lincoln. We all know about John F.

Kennedy.

What are the things that are familiar?

What do we know that's well-known about these presidents?

Murdered.

Murdered.

Assassinated.

Okay.

They were both very into civil rights.

Yeah.

Civil rights, if you will.

Okay. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. JFK?

Elected to Congress 1946. Abe was elected president in 1860. JFK was elected president 100 years later.

Megan already touched on this, but both presidents were pretty big into civil rights. Both presidents lost a child while in the White House. Both of them not only were shot on a Friday, they were both shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary's name? Kennedy. No, Kennedy's secretary's name?

Lincoln.

Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners. So both of them were actually like when they died from presidency, or they died, they were both seceded by a Johnson. So the first one was Andrew Johnson.

The second one was Lyndon B. Johnson. John Wilkes Booth, who is the person who allegedly shot Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Justice for Lee Harvey Oswald, who was allegedly the person who shot Kennedy. He was born in 1939. Both of their alleged assassins died the week before they went to trial.

Both assassins, they were known for their three names. How many letters in each of their names?

15.

15. Abraham Lincoln was shot in the theater named Ford and Kennedy.

Kennedy was shot in a Ford.

A Lincoln that's made by Ford.

Oh my God.

Okay.

No way.

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.

Okay.

And a week before JFK was shot, he was in Maryland, Monroe.

Get out of here.

So anyway, those are the funny, those are the like the weird coincidences. Everything happened 100 years later. So the conspiracy is that time, like history repeats itself.

If they are actually like the same person, it was just like history repeats.

Okay.

And timer, now.

There were a lot of weird things there.

Yeah.

Okay. That I agree are weird coincidences. But I think a lot of them that you listed, not facts.

We already talked about this. I don't think that Marilyn Monroe, JFK was in Marilyn Monroe a week before. Because really at that point-

That's so fast, you're contesting.

No, I've got multiple.

Because really we know she was all up with RFK at that point. Let's listen to that episode.

We don't believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, though as we discussed in our John Wilkes Booth episode, that's not a question whether or not he killed him. You said so crazy they were shot in the head.

You just told us in the last one, Charlie Kirk one, that it's normal to shoot someone in the neck. I feel like a sniper in the head is a pretty common way to shoot somebody. Okay.

My turn.

John Wilkes.

Okay.

If you had proof for all of those dates, this is insane.

Also, Kennedy was on a re-election campaign, so obviously he's going to be bouncing all over. He's probably in a million places a week before.

But there, then?

Lincoln was bopping around also trying to get support for the end of the war.

I think I'd find it trippier if they looked similar.

She says it's not the same people, it's just the history.

Yeah, the coincidence is not that they're the same person.

I also think that history would repeat itself so soon.

I mean, 100 years is not that soon, but it feels soon.

I mean, our country is only 250 years old, happy birthday.

Well, would somebody be alive that could possibly have been alive when a Lincoln was alive?

Probably like a baby.

No, that would be like 170-year-old person.

Well, or a baby.

It was the 1880s. That's trippy. That is trippy.

That's my final opinion.

It's exactly 100 years you said, right?

1860 to 1940?

Yes.

1965. No, 1960 was when he joined the Senate.

1965.

Okay.

Never mind. Wrong year. Okay.

38:56

Earhart and Quick Theories

Megan, it's your turn.

Take some by-vans.

I did. I took it later in the day for this recording.

Okay.

The last quote in-depth one I have here is a throwback to Amelia Earhart. Oh, so I hope that you can remember some facts from that episode.

Yeah, I just remember the crabs.

That's why I really remembers the crabs. A study conducted by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery claims that radio distress calls came in for several days after the July 2nd, 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

This indicates that the, quote, aircraft was on land and on its wheels for several days following the disappearance. So allegedly, we just had some Amelia Earhart declassified documents as well that we have not looked into.

They just came out early 2026. Okay. Then apparently, allegedly, if you believe the viral TikToks, confirm the existence of apparently reliable radio intercepts.

So the conspiracy theory here is that Amelia Earhart survived. She was sending out SOS signals.

The Navy ignored her calls, and the motive for them to ignore them and then to cover it up was just good old-fashioned sexism, that they wanted her to die so that they couldn't still fear in future women and prevent them from pursuing endeavors and

from making advancements, and perhaps exceeding the skills of men, if you will. So that's the theory.

And go. I believe it. Immediately, I believe it.

Then she got eaten by the crabs.

That is really sad.

Isn't the crabs the one that I believed?

I think I probably believe the crabs just because it sounded like the most fun.

Yeah. I agree. I think that something definitely the Navy would have done about probably just a bunch of dicks who couldn't fly an airplane.

Yeah.

But then I'm going to go back to all those times we've talked about again, how a conspiracy really has to be a small conspiracy in order to be kept a secret.

Like you think all these people were like manning the radios and they all, no one ever spoke about the fact that they ignored her calls.

Okay.

Maybe they didn't know it was her.

Well, then that means that the whole conspiracy just crumbles.

That negates it.

Okay, Megan. But how many people do you- Well, he just killed Archie and thought.

Well, how many people do you think? I'm just picturing like two guys. Like in Titanic where they send out like the SOS and it's just like-

How many people were on the radio?

One guy in that room.

Yeah.

I don't know if they were really searching as they claim they were. There should have been ships and she doesn't sound like the ship tracking her, right?

Allegedly, but didn't it get disrupted by the weather or something like that?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I believe something like that could happen. My thought is, were there military naval ships in the water that might not have been informed of her flight? I don't know.

Then they were getting these calls that could have been, I don't know.

It also seems like a lot of work-

That negates the conspiracy too, nevermind.

It also seems like a lot of work just to be like, we don't want women to succeed.

They made a big deal about it.

I mean, I feel like that-

Well, I know we live in an era where it's like, we don't feel suppressed, so we don't know. But yeah.

That was like a thing.

I don't know how I feel about this one. We're going to start the shorter segment of this, where we all have a little bit of a one-liner, right Megan? That's right.

I believe all of mine. Okay. I believe that they stopped teaching cursive reading, so younger generations would have a hard time understanding the United States founding documents.

Yes, I agree with that.

I think that's a side effect.

Is that the motive? No. Get off your iPads, get off your technology.

Maybe.

Why did they stop teaching?

Yeah. Why did they stop teaching it?

I just think they started spending more time. We had a whole class where we just did cursive, and I feel like they have a whole class where they're just on their computer.

It's probably just a time thing, and we're getting so much technology and emails that we aren't handwriting as much, so it just kind of fell off as less of a priority. Or I don't think anyone was like, let's make this plan.

Or they don't want us to read the documents.

Exactly. Or they don't want us to know that we the people have the power, not the government.

Like someone can't just go on and Google and read the transcript?

AI could do that.

Okay. They got rid of HOMAC and Woodshop, so we wouldn't know how to do basic things.

I think it was less of a priority, but I say bring them back.

Yeah. I agree.

Bring them back. We also have them. But also wasn't there an automotive class where you could learn how to change oils?

I didn't have that.

I feel like Greeks. Okay.

But yeah, I think that it's just budget cuts. I don't think it's meant for us to be better.

I don't think I didn't think of that.

I think it went away from like, let's get people interested in trades because everyone's going to college, right?

Yeah.

That was the expectation, which I don't necessarily support. Like I say, we do need trades workers and tradesmen and that kind of thing.

Okay. Clothing companies purposely make women's pockets way too small, so we have no choice but to buy a purse.

Agree.

Feeding into the purse companies.

No, but I would take this back to the fact that-

Sexist?

I'm going to say no to everything.

Women used to be denied pockets. Women weren't allowed to have pockets. That was like a thing.

They didn't make them in clothes, but then during the suffragette movement, they started to rely on pockets like pass notes and stuff, and it was like a step towards equality.

Right. To have a pocket.

Yes.

That's so sad. Bob Ross was a serial killer and his paintings showed where he hid the bodies. I believe that.

He's too happy.

He's too nice.

I can see him having a dark background, but something weird about him.

But painting his pictures.

Happy trees that are fertilized by bodies.

Happy accidents.

I feel like that's like a Garth Brooks one. I don't know if I believe that. I feel like people would know he's dead behind his eyes.

I do want to do a full episode on The Simpsons, but this one liner is, Simpson shows are made by someone who is undercover and knows all the secrets of the government.

I can believe that.

I don't know about that, but for sure, we're going to talk about all the coincidences.

Megan is the most skeptical person I've ever met in my life.

This is hard, Megan.

Come on.

Well, that was the whole point when we started this, isn't it? You guys are so gullible. Well, I feel like Colleen's gullible, Kait wants to believe all these weird, crazy things.

Yeah. I'm just too black and white.

Okay. This one is, the CIA created the idea of conspiracy theories to make people sound insane and crazy. When in reality, about 60% of them are true, but the stereotype behind them is what keeps it from being real.

Yes, to a degree.

I'm not sure that I say that they invented conspiracy theories, but I think they definitely do feed into conspiracy culture because then it's like, yeah, look over here, not over here.

If we make everyone look crazy, they're not going to believe when they're speaking true.

Yeah, I've got two more.

Same.

Okay, I believed it. Area 51 is not for aliens. People in the United States that go missing without a trace are taken by the government to Area 51 where they are then experimented on.

Like the scientists right now.

I mean, that's weird because the scientists, a lot of them are in that area.

But also, again, why would you take them to Area 51 that everyone knows about and talks about and I feel like there'd be a more secretive place you could take them.

But they think it's for aliens.

Yeah, but still, so people are probably always sniffing around Area 51 and spying and so it seems like it would just make it harder for them.

Here's my finale. You think I would avoid your name?

It's like really Kate speak.

I could see it, but I also don't buy into like Area 51 hiding on the aliens. I don't know what they're hiding.

They're all right about Riverdale.

Yeah. Roswell. Roswell.

Roswell.

Thank you very much.

I knew what you were talking about though.

But isn't Roswell just like the town that Area 51 is in? They're one and the same.

But there were a lot of conspiracies around that. I know that.

Well, there's a whole show.

I think when you say they're in Area 51 or they're in Roswell, it's like the same story.

Yeah.

They crashed in Roswell, they got taken to Area 51, which is in Roswell, the military base in Roswell, New Mexico.

I thought you were just talking about the show, Colleen. Roswell, the show.

Well, both.

No, I tried to get her to watch that because I loved it in my day and she couldn't get into it.

My last one is HGTV created open floor plans because it was cheaper and easier to film. What do you think?

I don't think they created it.

No, but aren't they like not HGTV, but aren't they like bringing back the-

Yeah, traditional.

Yeah, so people will keep spending money.

Yeah.

Because now they're trying to bring back my 1950s house here.

Megan is so good at coming up with real reasons.

Yeah, but I don't know if HGTV did that.

I just think it's probably- I think it's just a trend. That we were like, oh, what if we all could see each other?

Well, yes.

How about this? Let's teach these mothers that if they can't see their kids while they're making dinner, then they're bad mothers.

Okay. Who's going to do one-liners next?

Okay.

You go, Kait.

Okay.

Number one, dinosaurs aren't real, they were just dragons.

Believe, yes.

I believe it.

Don't believe, but I do. But I am curious sometimes if the depiction.

Why can't they be dragons?

I think this is the epitome of my point, that Colleen will believe anything you say. She hears one sentence, it's true. Kait, it's all about what she wants to believe.

She's reading her prequel to-

Yeah, but Megan, to- It's your imagination.

No, she's reading the prequel to Game of Thrones. She's deep into the fire, she loves fourth wing.

So I think for her the idea that there was this world that sounds really fun, so she's believing it, but there's no facts or proof proof to back that up.

Yeah, but why not?

Yeah, why can't they be dragons?

I'm more interested in how they think that like-

They have feathers.

Or whatever, yeah.

Dragons are reptilian.

So are-

You think they were breathing fire?

Yeah.

And flying?

You don't know.

Why not?

We don't even know what sounds they made.

I feel like if they could fly, they might have survived better.

No, then they need food.

But they could move to areas quicker than the brontosaurus that are just like, vote.

Megan is just name dropping dinosaur brands. Never heard of that one.

Long necks, but because your generation did not grow up.

Brontosaurus?

With Land Before Time.

I watched Land Before Time.

Okay.

Check yourself.

The long necks.

The long necks are kind of cute.

Okay. My next one is, you guys remember when Wayfair was selling tables named after girls' names, and they were like thousands of dollars, and they were actually selling kids, like human trafficking? I believe that.

This is another one we said we were going to cover at some point.

Well, I have an insider.

My cousin works for Wayfair, and she said debunked. Yeah. I forgot how she explained it.

What if one person-

You're telling me Epstein wasn't all up in with the Wayfair people?

But wait, what if you were like, I have money to spare, and I'm going to buy this $5,000 table?

How would they know?

From Wayfair?

How would they know?

Because people who spent $5,000 on a table are going to go shop at Pottery Barn.

I don't know, how would they prevent someone from showing up and someone just brought this child, but they had trafficked to you after you got it on?

Well, they probably had a code word to buy it.

Oh my God, that's crazy.

We'll have to investigate that one more.

No, I think that one needs a full episode.

Okay. Well, I believe it.

Next.

I only have two too.

Oh, two too.

The first one is, the first theory is that it's getting harder. Well, I guess we get old and we have fatter fingers. It's getting harder for us to text on our phones.

The theory is that that's all.

I don't have that problem.

Yeah, speak for yourself.

The theory is that the iPhones are intentionally making the keyboard more challenging.

Oh, I have heard this.

Let's get worse at texting, making us depend more on the voice to text.

I have heard this.

Their whole plan with this is to analyze our voices, get samples of our voices, and use AI. We'll use those for nefarious purposes.

Oh my God, should we not be sending audio messages? We send so much.

Well, it's a monologue.

Oh my God, I'm scared to send you guys an audio message.

Yeah, but also they already have our voices.

Where does it go? That's what I want to know. Where does the audio go?

It just disappears into the cloud?

Who takes the cloud? I hope my voice is being used for something cool.

And then the last one I have, Kait just wrapped up her Girl Scout cookie duties, right? There's a theory that Dollar Tree is selling those $6 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. They're selling them for a dollar, right?

And people think that it's sort of like when you go to Harris Teeter or Safeway, they do have, like Keebler has its knockoff. But the theory, conspiracy here is that this is not just a knockoff.

These are legitimately at the Dollar Store, the Girl Scout cookies. And when you look at the box, they are manufactured, both of them are manufactured, interstate foods in the same address in South Dakota, I think.

And when you match their ingredient list, they're 100% identical. So you can buy your $6 from your Girl Scout or you can go to Dollar Store for $1 and you're getting the exact same Girl Scout cookies.

Wait, Megan, do we need a deep dive? You know there's two different producers of Girl Scout cookies. Which one is it?

Why would I know that?

I've talked about this.

It's why they have different names in New England. It's a completely different factory.

Okay. Well, in the reel that I watched, the mom pulled out two boxes and zoomed in and they both said Interstate Foods. And then they both have the same address for Interstate Foods.

One of them is like Little Brownie or something, and the other one is a different brand.

Well, Little Brownie is like a real, you mean the name of the cookie?

The producers of the cookie.

Because isn't Little Brownie like a big company?

No, you're thinking Little Debbie.

They make the Girl Scout.

Yeah, oh, Debbie.

Look it up, there's two different producers of Girl Scout cookies.

I would like, I believe that, but I believe it's one type of Girl Scout brand. I don't think it's both.

I think we have to go investigate this.

This could be easily done.

Yes, I believe actually this one was sent to me by Jillian who suggested that we actually do like a side-by-side taste test, but they sell the Girl Scout cookies year-round. Well, Dollar Store does. Girl Scout cookies, no.

Megan, you can't say but.

You can't say it like that. When you say like, we're going to do this, but it sounds like we're not going to do it because we're lazy.

Oh no, I was going to say we're going to do it. But we're going to have to wait until next week.

I have Girl Scout cookies. I have extra.

I have Girl Scout cookies too.

All right, well, let's just go to the Dollar Store then and do this.

Is there a Dollar Store?

There's so many Dollar Stores.

There's so many. What do you mean?

I have never seen one down here.

Well, you know why? Because Dollar Stores prey on impoverished communities. This is a very rich area.

Wait, so why is it sad?

They can afford it. I don't think they prey. I think that's just they need it more.

I don't know. Have you guys been to a Dollar Store? You can get a lot of good stuff there.

I love a Dollar Store.

I like the whole store makeup videos.

I like Five Below. To wrap it up, there's a lot of crazy things out there on the internet. I don't think you should believe everything.

This is why we did this episode. When you scroll past something, the first thing should always be in your head, which as evidenced by Colleen saying, I believe it, is never in Colleen's head. I don't think I've ever thought like this.

Let's critically think through this and see if, is this a real, even if it's something that aligns with your political beliefs, you should always be fact-checking. We don't always know that things are real on the Internet.

So we should always go with the idea of like, hey, is this a real thing? Should I look in? Yeah, like a healthy, maybe not so much like Megan who's like, I don't believe anything until I look it up and I look into the research.

But maybe like Kait where you're like, I want to believe this, but I don't know if I can.

I think I live my life thinking, how could this be real? And Megan lives her life, how could this be faking it?

No, I think this is the opposite.

No, I'm like, there's no way it's a lie.

No, I'm like, this is definitely real, but how can I tell you that it's real? And Megan's like, this is fake, how can I tell you that it's fake? Okay.

Okay.

That's what I'm saying, it made more sense.

So this was a fun wrap up of our regular season, and cannot wait to come back for our six-week season. So if you guys are going to be heading back from a world day weekend or something, tune in next week and listen to our summer mysteries.

Yeah.

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Yeah. What I want you to do is I want you to take out your phone right now. I want you to open your messages app and send this link to three different people who enjoy popcorn, maybe just rapid fire moving through a topic.

Or anyone who loves to doom scroll, maybe or anyone who's ADHD. Because I think this episode really hits the dopamine hard.

This was a fun one.

Yeah.

I'm going to be honest. I would say our last three episodes have been a little bit chaotic. I appreciate that Kait had a timer here and was keeping us organized.

Relax.

This episode was designed to be chaotic.

Yeah.

Megan's a hater.

She doesn't like chaos.

Megan, this is the thing. Megan's like, okay, let's play this game. Then she promptly said, I actually looked up one thing about this.

She couldn't.

She's not breezy.

What she looked up was how many flavors of, yeah, so text us through people and then scroll on down. Leave us a five-star review. Share us with your friends and family.

Share us on your Instagram, on your social media websites. If you liked this episode, maybe we'll do another one where we do another part two round robin quick.

I had so many more.

Yeah, and start sending us any that you found.

Exactly. Send it to us. So yeah, Maggie.

All right.

Sounds good. And we'll see you next Tuesday.

See you next Tuesday.