Pure Octane - High Prices Fueling our Anger or It is What it Is?

🚨 NEW MOODSWINGS EPISODE 🚨
 This week, Jae and Kendra go FULL conspiracy mode as they dive into the internet’s most talked-about alternative fuel mysteries and unsolved energy conspiracies. 👀⛽ 

Did inventors really create cars powered by water?
 Why do stories about “free energy” inventors always end in mystery, rumors, or controversy?
 And what REALLY happened to viral inventor Julian Brown and the Plastoline project? 

In this hilarious but thought-provoking episode, the MoodSwings crew discusses: 

•  alternative fuel conspiracies 
•  water-powered cars 
•  Stanley Meyer’s mysterious death 
•  Julian Brown’s disappearance rumors 
•  gas prices in California 
•  Big Oil conspiracy theories 
•  viral internet mysteries 
•  outrageous gas prices 
•  and the emotional trauma of filling your gas tank in 2026 😂 

PLUS:
  Why horses are making a comeback
  Why driving with the AC on is now considered luxury living
 
If you love conspiracy theories, current events, funny podcasts, urban culture, internet mysteries, and unfiltered commentary, then this episode is for YOU.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hey everyone, it's your girl Jay. And I'm Kendra, and you're listening to Mood Swings the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Oh my gosh. Hey Kay. Hey girl, hey. Hey girl, hey. Oh my gosh, I miss you so much. I have not talked to you in like two weeks. What the hell? Really?

SPEAKER_03 0:23

Because I could have sworn I just talked to you 10 minutes ago. But yes, I should just be showing you.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

You know what I'm talking about. We haven't been mood swinging for two weeks. Now, you and I talk, but we haven't really got the mood swing. And you know, sometimes some of the moods be swinging. And you know, you gotta swing that mood around. You know what I mean? And 20%. I know exactly what you mean. You gotta swing the book out that much. I know. So I miss, you know, talking to the audience, the, you know, the four listeners that we do have. Hello, guys. Hi, all four of you.

SPEAKER_03 0:52

Y'all want something from the store? Getting some going for some ranch dressing.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Does anybody need anything? That's it. That's it. I am just excited to talk to you because again, it's been a little while. I've been going through maybe but between the times of we've actually had an an episode, I've had about 14 different mood swings. So I'm just want to catch up with you, right? Yeah. Um, just with current times right now that we're catching up with the news and everything that's being depressing and inflation and rising cost of everything.

SPEAKER_03 1:24

And and let's not forget racism.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Oh shit. Oh I wouldn't even go there. That's where we get all deep and upset, and it's just and then you add that on there with all the drama that we see online and the amount of racism that is being pushed out in our social media right now, and it's okay. There's no supporting of it. That's crazy, yes. But I was just gonna keep this one lighthearted today, Kay. Okay, let's keep it lighthearted. I love light hearts. You know, lighthearts. Light hearts be free tonight. You guys mean all that. I don't know. Right. I didn't know it either.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

I was just trying to match you.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Love me some Rod Stewart. You know what I'm saying? Rod Stewart and Tina Turner may have been one and the same.

SPEAKER_03 2:13

Look at the hair. Figure it out. Rod Stewart is the white Tina Turner. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Exactly. I mean, you're absolutely right. And I love me some Rod Stewart. His hair was banging. I love Rod Stewart gross.

unknown 2:27

What?

SPEAKER_03 2:28

You don't like Rod Stewart? I'm really talking about it. No.

unknown 2:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Fuck now. That little mold he has. Well, anyways, I'll bite it in between my molars and just you know what I mean? So the juicy. Okay. Well, anyways. Well, I just well I just want to tell you what my mood of the day was. Because of all this inflation that's been happening and and gas prices, and it's just ridiculous. And so my mood today is is aggressive inflation.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Ooh, aggressive inflation. Like tires. Whoa, what's happening? Why aggressive flint? Here we go. Aggressive inflation. Right.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Right. Well, aggressive inflation like a celebrity BBL. Same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's because gas prices got us all having an attitude. I have not. The crazy thing is, I have not really obviously everyone has been affected by it, but I have not actually physically seen until recent posts on the internet actual friends in California posting their gas receipts, which is redunkulus in triple digits now for regular non-SUV cars.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

What? So let me tell you this. I made a conscious decision to not be or to not have an emotional response to gasoline because there's absolutely nothing that I can fucking do about it and I need it regardless. So I can go and get gas and be disgruntled and complain and be upset and I'll have to do that what every week or so when I have to fill up. Or I've just made a decision that, you know what, gas is what it is. There's nothing I can do about it. I have to get around and put fuel in my car. So I've made a conscious decision not to let it piss me off. So I go, I fill up, and I go on my way. I don't even get caught up in how much it costs me. And I have to put, you know, 91 in my shit, but I don't even get caught up on how much it costs or any of that. I just get it and I go. Okay, audience, I just want to tell you that that was a bold-faced fucking lie.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

No, no, because first off, this bitch don't even pump her own gas. So when she said that she goes and pumps her gas and not looks at it, of course she doesn't look at it because she don't pump the gas. So she don't even know how much that shit costs. So oh my gosh. Has she ever stepped a foot out? What is what does the ground of a gas station near a pump feel like, Kendra?

SPEAKER_03 4:52

Was it feeling like you were literally with me when I went to Costco and pumped gas? No, no, we didn't. No, we didn't. She's lying again, guys. She's lying again. I would implore you and implore our members, our our listeners, to also take that approach to gas because there's nothing you could do about it. You're gonna be pissed every time. As long as you have this doofus in office, you're always gonna get pissed off about it.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

This is absolutely true. It's it is what it is, guys. But sometimes for some people, they gotta rely on that because some people either they don't have jobs or they don't have the the financial ability to even fill a tank. So they gotta make a decision on am I gonna, am I gonna fill a tank? Am I gonna try and utilize public transportation or do I just stay home and and and not go anywhere? And that sucks for our American people, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

And I should probably follow up and say that as well that, you know, thank God that I'm in a position where I can be unemotional about it. I know that that's not the case for everyone. So I hope that didn't come off as like some insensitive rich asshole, because that is not me at all. It did. Oh my gosh. But I'm seriously like, you know, it's a blessing.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

Well, it's crazy because, well, no, because you do, I mean, we both are in the home. We don't travel outside the home, you know, during Monday through Friday outside of work. For you, you do be you do a lot of things for the family, running errands and things throughout the time. So me, I don't go anywhere. So my gas tank basically stays the same. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

Until I decide to go out and do something. And then if I do, I quickly run home when I see it's almost hitting E, I put the keys back in the uh RDFI little box we have, and then I have to sleep. And then I wake up and then my husband's like, you know, there wasn't any gas, and I had to go and get some gas. I'm like, oh really? Oh my god, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

Yeah. So yeah, same, same. I'm, you know, I'm very social, so I'm at events all weekend long all over the area. And then when I drive home and I say, Hey, babe, I need some gas. And he's like, You literally pass three gas stations when you go off the freeway to come home. You literally pass three. And I'm like, listen.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

You know what? Actually, too. And we make jokes like that too, but also another factor of the reason why we don't like to pump our gas is because it's dangerous nowadays. I just watched the video.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Yeah, yeah, because of that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

You know, where the girl was pumping her gas, it well, she thought she was just gonna pump her gas. She pulled next to a car and she's just putting her stuff up. And that car that she was next to already, and they went to snatch her ass up. She did some kind of spin technique and got out of their hands, and the dude jumped back in the back of the car and they drove off. And she just happened to save herself. But yeah, you can't even you can't even pump gas anymore, especially as finest. We are, we bumped. We we know we back to the corner of our own finance and shit. So, you know.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Girl, they're gonna take us for real.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Might as well just stay undercover all day. You know what I'm saying? She good thing we got somebody to pump our gas, girl. Cheers.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

What happened in the good old days where they had the one where it was the self-service and then they had the full service? Oh my gosh, some of my coworkers in Oregon said at one point, you couldn't pump your own gas. It was illegal. You had to pull up and they came. It was full service. No one could pump their gas. And I was like, that is my dream. That is my dream.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

That's just that reminds me of those old school movies that we used to watch back, like from the 90s, maybe. From the 90s back, right? Like road trip or something with like Britney Spears or something, and they have the people come out there and it's a cute guy, and he has a little handkerchief in his pocket, and he has a full-on um overalls jacket. He's like, Hey, hey, ma'am, did you need something here? What you over here got in the 87 gas there, huh?

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Yeah, where you're like that almost sounds like, you know, I'm just gonna say something inappropriate. Sounds like the start of a I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

I didn't make it up. I was assuming that's how the guy the attendance sounds. But so but with that said, it having this conversation before you even started the conversation has me parched. So what I would like to do is also add to this conversation what my drink of the day is, and I like to call it the economic crisis. Oh, God. Yes, man. What else in that? It's it's vodka, grape soda, and regret. Just a little bit of iced. Just a little bit of iced.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Because ice, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Wait a minute. So it's just vodka and grape soda? Vodka and grape soda. And ice, just a little bit, like two. Because we don't need any more ice.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 9:14

That sounds like some 1975, down on your luck, nigga type shit. But okay. Like if I had just You should have poured a little bit of that in some malt liquor. Okay. Well, I am drinking what else, but whiskey. I for let me just say this. I'm drinking a beaky, and I have not had whiskey in so long. I was like, God, I missed, I missed my whiskey. So I poured myself a whiskey and I was going to pour a little bit of ginger ale in it because sometimes I like to do a whiskey ginger and just cut it. But then I took that first sip and I was like, hmm, this is good. I'm not cutting this shit. So I'm just drinking whiskey on the rocks right now. Hear my rocks? Getting my rocks off. Yeah. Do you know this Habiki was gifted to me for my birthday last year? And I'm down, I'm down to the last of it now. I probably got one more glass to go and it'll be done. But yeah, it took me a whole year. All me. No one else in my house drinks whiskey. Right. My birthday will be again next month. So it's a full year I'm going. Another gif of Habiki because I don't want to buy it because it's a hundred bucks and I'm cheap like that. Oh gosh, my mood is all over the place. I'm a little, I have some angst that I'm feeling because I'm waiting on something. It's making me anxious. And I'm supposed to go on a trip on Friday. I am supposed to be going up Highway One to a beautiful little coastal town called Wallala. It is, um, I know it's it's so much fun to say Wallala. Wallala. It is a beautiful oceanfront town. And I have a friend there who owns a home there and who happens to also be a therapist and invited us up to originally what happened when how we started going to Wallala was that my mother had or my father had just passed away, and another friend's mother had just passed away, and we were both kind of grieving. Our parents passed within like two weeks of each other. And my friend, who was so gracious, who owns this house in Wallala, said, please come up here. She also happens to be a therapist. She was like, please come up here. I want you guys to take advantage of being able to commune in nature and to see whatever you need to see. And I was begrudging, I was like, no, I'm not coming up there. I'm not in a good space. I don't want to talk about it. I'm not okay. I'm mourning. And she so graciously said, if you need to cry and shout, you can do it. If you need to sit there and be quiet, you can do it. There is no pressure, there is no expectations. Just come up here and just get away. So you could just free your mind. So hesitant, hesitantly, I went and it turned out to be such a beautiful, healing experience for myself and also our other friend who had just lost her mother. I think it it really ended up being a really good experience for the three of us. And so since then, now we've kind of made a tradition to do every year. Last year we weren't able to do it because of just scheduling conflicts, but it's back on again now. And I'm so excited to see them to spend this weekend in Wallala. But I'm having some issues with my car. My my AC compressor is bad, so I had to get a new compressor. So I'm waiting for that to be completed. It was supposed to be completed two days ago. Hopefully, it's completed in time so I can make it up to Wallala. And then the other part of that is that I don't know if y'all know about Highway One, but it is all the way up on these cliffs. You gotta be at least 200 feet in the air. Oh, hell no. Yes. Hell no!

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Very windy, windy roads. All right, guys, I'm just gonna let you know. I was quiet about it because I have, I too have now been included and invited to go to this Walala trip. We'll get the squeezing retreat. You'd have messed that up by telling me you got these type of high cliffs and shit to go there. Oh my god. I'm not trying to die to get there so that I can die when I get there.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

Nah, if I did. No, we didn't, we're not gonna do all that to go and grieve and mourn our loved ones just to die. Right. Let me tell you this. You already got to do this on solid ground right here, right in the desert. You know that I am a nervous passenger, so I wouldn't let anybody drive me up the cliffs, but I trust myself to drive myself up there. Let me tell you this. The first time that I went that first year, when I was mourning and, you know, grieving, I didn't realize what Highway One was. I'd never been up Highway One, so I didn't realize it was those cliffs. And halfway through, I called my friend and I said, You didn't tell me that the roads like this were like this. And in all of her therapist glory, she says, in in this very calming tone, you are a good driver. You have nothing to worry about. You are okay. Your mind is perceiving danger because it sees cliffs, but you're not in any danger. It's a very heavily traveled road, and you're safe.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

Okay, question. Let me just get clarification real quick. Uh this therapist friend who I know, can you can you verify the tone of skin? The tone of skin? Mm-hmm. What do you mean? Light, dark, you know. She's she's white. There you go. There you go. That's the reason why. Just fearless. Fearless, bitch. Oh my gosh. You ask a black therapist, you'd be like, bitch, you know what? Maybe we should go ahead and postpone that shit and then we'll go ahead and see each other on solid ground. That's what wow. A black therapist would have said.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

Yeah, well, it didn't even matter because at that point I was already in. And what you need to understand is that it's a three-hour drive, but the c you're only up on the cliffs for maybe an hour, if that. That's an hour, bitch. Maybe 45 minutes. Maybe 45 minutes. But if you're driving, if you're in the car with me, you just go to sleep. It'll be fine. So are you traveling in day or night? Oh my God. Do you think I would do that at night? Are you crazy? I know, I know, I know. I'm bright early sunlight. Around 10 o'clock in the morning, I'll leave. I'll get there probably about one in the afternoon. And then when you get there, it's like its own little microclimate. So it's like a really comfortable 78 degrees. You're at the ocean. You can literally hear the seals. It's absolutely beautiful. It's it's gorgeous. It's so worth the drive.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

Oh, I but I, you know, I and I make all the jokes aside, but I do, you know, because we're besties. We've I've heard of these trips. I've heard how healing and restorative to your soul it is. Yeah. Um, I just wasn't at that point yet. So yeah. You know, when I get there, uh maybe next year, but um, I do obviously I'm very excited for for all three of you to enjoy that time and peace together. And uh I hope you guys enjoy a tire that you will be rocking at the same time.

SPEAKER_03 15:45

Yes, and we definitely have to give a shout out to Panda Prince because I wanted to bring my friends a couple little goodies, some some keepsakes. Um I've dubbed our, or what I've say, I've coined our little retreat as the Walala Grief Retreat. And I've also I lovingly uh call you and I, our little thing, the Dead Dad's Club, because it's all, you know, that it's all relative. It's just trying to be Dead Dad's Dead Dad's Club, just trying to make it a little putting some some leverty in something that's kind of you know that's really sad. Yeah, BDC. Don't get that confused with BBC, you know, yes, it'd be awkward. Yes. Well, you, myself, Tamara, we're all in the Dead Dad's Club. But yeah, these folks that I'm going to Wallala with, um, it's the Wallala Grief Retreat. So I wanted to do something nice to commemorate all the great times. So I went to Panda Print and had some hats and sweatshirts made. They say Wallala Grief Retreat that I'm surprising them with. So it should be a really good time. I'm really excited about it.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

That's right. If you guys are interested in any custom apparel, any DTFs or sublimation items, please visit PandaPrint Design Shop LV on Etsy. And say that Mood Swing sent you to get a 10% discount. You got it. That's right, guys. Okay. So uh K Mac. So, well, down that vein, because you are taking a drive, how long is the drive from where you're at to Gualala? It's exactly two hours and 59 minutes. So three full hours. I am interested in seeing uh if you can report on the next show as your drive, your experience with when you have to to gas up the differences in cost per location. Because I've noticed while I did some research for the show that, you know, like I'm in Vegas, so ours is is a little bit lower than California's average. And I believe, I don't know, where's your you guys are around 615 or so?

SPEAKER_03 17:38

Couldn't tell you. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

I have no idea. I don't look at the pump. That's right. The now for Nevada, 523 is probably around 89. So 91 is probably like five, go up to about two or 553 or so. Um but Oklahoma, things like Oklahoma, Oklahoma's gonna be like at, you know, their highest is at four, you know. Um, but like if you went to like some remote mono county, like something like that, then they're like at$7 a gallon. So that's the reason why it's so interesting to see in California, just the differences based on where you live. I had a friend who went on a vacation and she came back and her first thing was welcome back to California, and it was 823, 833, 843. Now that's just ridiculous. And that was I I and I would believe that's probably in the LA County area. Yeah, I think it's a little more expensive in LA. Yeah, it's crazy. And I believe again, and in Oklahoma, I think the lowest is about 398. So it but it depends on the economy in that area. So it is gonna be basically um the same as it as the economy out here based on the the gas as well out in California, where the uh economy is a little higher out there. But so what I wanted to do was just kind of go play a little game with you and also give you just a little bit. And I know we're not on a Thursday yet, but but what's the mood swings without a little bit of conspiracy? You know what I'm saying? Goodness, conspiracy Thursday, a little bit of conspiracy, you know what I'm saying? Okay, so I just wanted to ask you a couple of things, and I would love to hear from the audience and say if you guys have any stories about uh the gas prices and um and if we had and talk about some fun ways to solution it because there really isn't one. Okay, right.

SPEAKER_03 19:26

So the best way is to be non-emotional about it, just get your gas and go.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Get your gas and go.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

Get your gas and go, poor people. Stop it.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

But so okay, so I was thinking and to help our our listeners, I was gonna give you a couple of alternatives to buying this expensive gas right now. Okay. So one would be horses. You want us to ride horses? California gas prices got people googling where like horse parking is near target. I'm seeing on the internet. They're just trying to find out. Are you serious? Let' hey, they feel they still run on gas because it's fuel and food, but it's when unlead it. I'm just saying. Are you serious?

SPEAKER_03 20:08

People are really googling about riding their horses. Yes. Okay. All right. Go go right ahead. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Hey, if you could ride a llama, I'd ride a llama too. Well, that'll what about now scooters. Scooters are obviously a big big right now in, especially in my town, but majority of the people who ride scooters are the the kids. And unfortunately, they're terrorizing neighborhoods right now. They have e-bikes, e-motors, scooters, all of it. And they're just terrorizing the neighborhood with the all the gas sound and the and just being, you know, little kid assholes, but you know, kids are kids. And then until I throw something in that spoke and let you fly across the street into the parking lot. Right. Yeah. Just kidding, Timmy. So, like, I was thinking maybe just staying home. Staying home, that that'll help with gas. Mm-hmm, boo. No. Boring. Well, you know, it's not even about gas. I guess it's just about being being lazy because I'm like, do I like to keep on going to see? Is it worth the gas? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Well, that's definitely a good question to ask. Is it worth the gas? If you're not liking the people that you're going to see, then I agree. Then stay at home. I mean, listen, don't get me wrong. In the winter time, I am a professional mortgage enjoyer. Like, I make sure I'm enjoying every last drop of that mortgage for the money. I love that. I'm not that a mortgage enjoyer. I am a mortgage enjoyer. But as soon as I get a little weather come through here, soon as I get a little 75 degrees. Shit.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Well, I'm gonna bring back carpooling. Carpoulin's never a bad idea. Right? I haven't carpooled since shit. 2000 and since we used to carpool to Pleasanton. Like 2009 or something. I think that was nine, yeah. But see, co-workers are suddenly becoming best friends. Against their will.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Against their will.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

That's fine. But it's helping their pocket, so it's fine. And so then number six I would say is walking. Okay. Now you can step it up like my girlfriend K-Mac did back in circa nine 2000, I would say 2006. Oh, I know where you're going. From the parking lot. Yep. Now, did you actually truly inline skate from home? Or did you just inline skate from the parking lot that's next door to our job?

SPEAKER_03 22:29

No, and it wasn't the inlines, it was the quad skates. But when we were working at this place that we were working, they made employee parking heckafar, like super far back. And I was like, uh, I'm not doing all that walk-in back then. So I would put my skates on and I would skate into the facility that we worked in. And it was so much fun. If you guys have not skated as adults, skating is a workout, let me tell you. And I would skate right on in. And then I started seeing other employees doing too.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

So it kind of caught on for a second. I mean, it makes sense. So walking andor skating. So that was just another option for people who want to walk around, uh work around from getting gas, right? Electric cars, right? People got electric cars. I mean, I know it's a it's that's debatable, right? People are just is it's something that they want to support, or is it not? I'm not sure. That's up to you guys. It's right now I'm I'm for whatever kind of solution helps you get to where you are and you feel financially stable.

unknown 23:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:25

I mean, you can get an electric car and don't have to and still don't mess with Elon. There's other electric cars, you know.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

Right. Oh my god, there's this one and like a Japanese one. It is shit on his car. It's ridiculous. But of course, uh, I don't know the cost of it, but it looked really, really cool. I mean, anything that you on Instagram, you see these concept things from Japan or China, they're the coolest things ever. They're living in the year 3000. They are. I'd like to be there too. I wanna go. Yeah, right? Anyway, so uh well, public transportation as well. That's the very last one because you know, I used to do I used to do public transportation back when I was in high school. I'm gonna say when? And I don't even remember that. When were you doing public transportation? Yeah, just in high school. Like my first, there's a year between the time that you have high school you have a permit and not. So I think what's around like maybe ninth grade, right? Yeah, maybe my ninth grade I had to travel. I took the 380 west on Balclutha. Really? I don't remember that. I had to get up so freaking early, and then you gotta walk your ass over there. Um yeah, because remember when I got into that fight and I had to whoop Tony, Tony's um, I gotta say his last name's ass. Well, not Tony's ass, I'm sorry, Captain's ass. And I tried to throw his head through the window. Okay, we probably take that shit out, but you know, and then I got kicked off, and that was right before um Thanksgiving, and then I was scared, so I had to call my sister because I got kicked off the bus, and then my sister picked me up, and then I was at the Bond Fair because all the stores were closed, and I was having to go there with my mom all the way in West Pittsburgh to go get something for Thanksgiving. And I ran into freaking Tony, and Tony was like, Oh shit, and I'm like, shut the fuck up, shut the fucking oh shit, Mr. Mike Tyson. You was bobbing and waving and fucking that motherfucker up. And my mom's like, uh uh nigga, what things going on here? I'm like, nothing, mom, nothing, shut the fuck up. I'm a fucking Mike Tyson, you're not a bit you're fucking here, my bitch. And then my mom goes, oh yeah, you fuck the guy who beat his ass, huh? You just dump me his little and my mom keeps calling Mike Tyson since then. You remember that?

SPEAKER_03 25:27

I I Captain was that little light-skinned one, right? That you got into No, you're dark skinned.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Clarence. It was Clarence. The other guy that you fought in the mall that time. Oh man. What's that nigga's name? I forgot. The one who who invited who brought me to the turn from his ass bear and trying was talking me with his fat ass sister. Yes, you're a man beater. I just realized all your fights are with men. I'm a man beater. Work hard. Work hard. Something like that. I don't know. Yeah, it had to whip his ass too. Anyways, so yeah, um, nothing humbles you faster than the bus driver recognizing you by name. I'm just saying. Anyways. Yeah, yeah. So, okay, what I really wanted to talk to you about is again, not that our audience is really deeply into conspiracy, but I think deep down you guys all are. So I give you what you want. Now, so now that I want to know, I don't even know if you know about uh anything about this, and that's the reason why I brought it up. Okay, I was just kind of going down topics and was looking at the gas prices. Uh, and the reason why I even came up with this is because I've been seeing people just going off about the the gas prices all over the internet. Thanks a lot, Trump. This, this, and all taking pictures and fuck you and this. You know, I'm just seeing these astronomical prices. Again, I don't go anywhere, but I do see it all around being uploaded in my um in my TikToks and in my Instagram. So I said, oh, this might be something I really want to kind of look into and see what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

But I don't know, I did I? Well, I didn't even know I did. Prosecutor!

SPEAKER_02 27:05

So, um, but what I wanted to say is that down the vein of conspiracy, right? There were some inventors that kind of like see, and this is the part that really wanted, I wish I would have gone ahead and pushed yours out about the astronauts and the scientists, because this researching this kind of touched on that.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, this is my topic, bitch. This is my topic.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

You're right, actually, because that's what So I wanted to talk to you about two different uh inventors or I I wouldn't say they're actually scientists, but they are people who are trying to research alternate fuel options, which I think is awesome. But doing that, did they get them killed? Did they disappear? What's going on, right? So the first one, okay, this is one of those topics where the deeper you go, the weirder it gets. And the internet basically turns some of these inventors into conspiracy legends. And there's also a lot of misinformation mixed in. So here's the real breakdown, okay. The first one, Julian Brown. Does this sound familiar to you? Yes. He is the plastoline inventor. So who is Julian Brown? He's a young inventor and social media creator from Atlanta who went viral for creating the system called plastoline, which uses microwave pyrolyast to convert plastic waste into fuel like gasoline and diesel. Now, these are according to Times of India. I don't see them as a reference source anywhere else other than the Times of India. What are the Times of India? I don't know. I'm gonna find out once I get off of this call. But the Times of India, I guess it's a the Times of India. So um I guess I don't know if it's a newspaper or it's like a magazine or, you know, an online news source. I'm not sure, but I'm gonna find that out. Well, anyways, so he's built um, so what what did Julian Brown do? He built a huge following online because he was, first off, self-taught, very charismatic, showed working prototypes, and talked openly about replacing waste with usable fuel. And people called him the future, the next text, the next Tesla, the backyard genius, and why people thought he died.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Okay, so I thought he died. Did you think he died? Did you find out he did? Well, good, because I found out also that he didn't.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Because back in 2025, he posted several alarming videos saying he was one under attack. Helicopters were following him. Ooh, papa toonie. Um strange things were happening, and then he believed that he wouldn't live long. Then suddenly he disappeared from social media. And that's when you and I and the internet all lost it, right? Because I'm like, what the fuck happened to him? Young little black man, what's going on? Well, people immediately started saying oil companies got him, he was kidnapped, he was assassinated, they silenced him. And did he actually die? The answer is no. Yeah, there is currently no evidence that he had died. His mother had publicly said, Julian is safe. Then, but that's basically it. Atlanta police also confirmed that there's no missing persons investigation, no official report filed, and he later reportedly returned online briefly and gave some interviews. So to show that he is alive. Well, how you know that's my AI? Mm-mm. Conspiracy. So what actually happened? Well, nobody fooling really knows. Um, most likely the most likely possibilities are paranoia from sudden internet fame. That's that's true, stress and anxiety, real safety concerns from going viral, online rumors spiraling out of control, and intentionally disappearing temporarily.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

So he could have done hey. No, no, no, tell me, tell me, tell me more, tell me I looked up and I just happened to see you and your hand up went out.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Um, um, anyone? Anyone? No, no, no, does anyone have to answer? No, no, anyway, can't the people you're not? I can't see the people in the back. Anyone?

SPEAKER_00 31:28

So, um, what is your thought? Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

He's probably making that taking that nine to five and wasting all that gas going, God dang it if I could just use my plastic to get myself doing some work. So, well, that's good. So, what's what I was very happy in my research to find out that this he's not he's not dead, right? Because he's a very smart individual. I mean, he could be used in so many facets of our government to help us. Um, but would we want that? I'm not sure. Maybe his mom was like, Calvin, you messing around with some shit, and I don't want you dead. Get your ass back. Here's the application, and I want you to go ahead and start making your job 95. There you go. So, well, number two, we have Stanley Mayer. Now, this is the water car guy. Now, I don't know if you ever heard of him, but he is the most famous alternative fuel conspiracy ever. Yes. So, what did he claim? Well, he had created a water fuel cell that could power a car using water instead of gasoline. So, what he did was he demonstrated it in dune buggies, prototype engines, public demonstrations, and the idea was to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and burn the hydrogen for fuel. So you're taking the molecule, you're separating out the oxygen, you're using only the hydrogen, right? That's that was his concept, or what he stated, or his claim. But why people were suspicious? Because if true, this invention could theoretically disrupt the oil industries, gas companies, and fuel markets, which instantly made conspiracy people go, mmm, let me tell you about this. The huge problem. Scientists said that his claim, now this is where our scientists are debunking science and facts. Scientists said that his claims violated basic physics. An Ohio court later ruled that his invention was fraudulent in 1996 after investors sued him. Experts found nothing revolutionary. It still required outside energy and it didn't perform like he claimed. However, here comes a conspiracy. I don't know. I keep reaching down into my microphone to do it too. Okay. His death. In 1998, Meyer suddenly collapsed during a restaurant meeting with Belgian investors. Witnesses say he ran out yelling, they've poisoned me. That quote became legend. The official cause of death. Now, this is what this is what they say. Now, now the coroner ruled that it was a cerebral aneurysm caused by high blood pressure. But I've never heard somebody who's going through an aneurysm going, they don't poison me, bitch. Right. But I mean, you could. You never know, because you don't know what you're feeling, right? So police said they found no evidence of poisoning or foul play, and the toxicology reports reported no poison found. So why does this conspiracy live on? Well, first off, his last words he fucking said. Sounded real suspicious. Oil conspiracy theories also already existed, and people want to believe free energy was suppressed. Even today, people online still argue genius or scammer, inventor or fraud, murdered or natural causes. So listen, but I'm just gonna say this, Kendra. I'm going to say this and I'm gonna have this documented right now. If my last words are ever they poisoned me, you better start investigating something. Because I will come back and honch the shit out of you. I will walk around your house and turn on all your lights.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

I'll leave your fridge door open all night. I'll plug all your toilets. I will turn all your bidets onto full power.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

That's what I'm saying. I will squeeze every tube of toothpaste out so that you had to cut the tube and scrape out just enough to brush half your mouth. I will I will sprinkle cayenne pepper in your bathroom wet wipes. I will slip laxatives into pieces of bread, feed it to the pigeons in your front yard, leave your sunroof open. Bitch, I do it all. I will do it all. All from my grave because I said, bitch, they poisoned me, and you're like, oh no, it's not thank you.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Well, I'll be I'll be looking for you anyways to see if you're gonna be doing it. So it doesn't really matter. You can promise all you want to, but when it happens, you better fuck a beat up. We'll catch you on the next one. Love you, K.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

Love you K.