Pt 2 of missing scientists

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hi besties. Welcome to Plot Twist and Punchlines, the podcast where we're bringing you laughs, comfort, and questionable takes.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

I'm Steph. And I'm Mel. Two best friends here to distract you from the world and talk about life books and everything in between.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

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SPEAKER_02 0:16

Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Um We have once again restarted the podcast because we messed up. Um, well we did. I mean we did kind of mess up. We my phone ran out of storage again because I forgot to delete last week's video out of my deleted.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

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unknown 0:49

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

So subscribe to our Patreon, please. But yeah, so normally this episode would be a book review. We're skipping that because uh well personal reasons.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Personal reasons for personal reasons. So finish the we we did finish the book. We sure did. So we're gonna skip this book review and we're gonna move on to a new book. Um next month we are going to be reviewing Then She Was Gone by Lucy by Lisa Jewell. And we are very excited about this one.

unknown 1:27

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

I was excited about Sometimes I Lie. Yes, we were excited about Sometimes I Lie. Um, and then we finished it.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

It is very confusing. I'm not gonna lie to you. I liked it until I showed up at her house this morning and she explained to me what happened, and I was like, that's not true, and then we had to Google it, and then it was true, and I was like, oh, now I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

It was if you like very plot, twisty, surprising, you don't know what's going on throughout the entire book, this is the book for you.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

And I mean like you don't know what's going on, even when you read the last page. I still don't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

I I knew what was happening, um, but I I like I like to understand what's happening through the entire book, not me sitting here and we have to Google what actually happened at the end.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

There has to be some sort of mu minimal understanding. So anyway, we're not gonna review it, but go read it if you want. Yeah, it was it was fun. So, anyways. So, part two of Scientists Aliens Conspiracies. Yes, I'm excited. I am too.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

People liked listening last time, so yeah, you said that there was some feedback.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yes, so uh it was mostly just people giving their theories. Okay. So uh one of my friends said, Are these people even real? Like, are they from Earth? Because I actually just watched a video this morning of an interview with um a scientist, and then like I don't know what her name is in in real life or really from the show, but she's the really smart one from Big Bang Theory. Um, so she was interviewing someone and they were talking about how we were gonna be introduced aliens, like extraterrestrials.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

I I saw a clip of that interview. I don't like that girl, so I don't she's a huge Zionist. Um oh yeah, I did not know that.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Okay, so I I didn't watch the interview, but I told you what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Yeah, and he was like, it's gonna be like, you know, in stages. You can't just drop it all at once because everyone will freak out. So he was talking about how the first stages are gonna be like, oh, we're gonna see sightings and it's gonna be reported every day, and then we're gonna be introduced to extraterrestrials that look like us so that we're not like so that we can just kind of what I was saying last week.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

That like I've always believed that they're like slowly introducing us to the fact, and the reason they're doing it like so like back to back now is because it's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Yeah, he said 2027, we're gonna be immersed in that. So I don't know, but that kind of goes along with the theory that were these scientists even of this earth, yeah. Yeah, cool. So, and then the other ones were just like, you know, there's actual proof that some of these people were struggling with mental health, and their family has come out and said, you know, they don't appreciate it being tied to things that aren't real. So who's tying it to like her?

SPEAKER_00 4:51

Like what not real things are they talking about?

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Like things that aren't happening. So basically, they don't like that these tragedies, the tragedy that happened to their family member is being tied to conspiracy theories and things that like may or may not be real, but the mental health was very real, you know what I mean? So yeah. So just theories, but overall, even yeah, the people who didn't necessarily agree with the conspiracy still enjoyed listening to it. So it's not like anyone was like, This is stupid.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

If uh even if he thought it was stupid, I never said it was smart. What's your famous line? I'm just I'm just a dumb bitch who says things. Yep. Take it or leave it. I leave it most of the time, anyways. Yep. All right, so um, for those who didn't listen to last week's episode, go listen to that and come back. And if you don't want to, you will be a little uh lost. But the main takeaways of last week is that there are 15 scientists who have gone missing or died. Two of those have um been ruled a suicide, although those same two have said before their suicides that they weren't suicidal and that someone was after them. Um the other scientists have all been either studying zero gravity, nuclear energy, or aerospace. Jet propulsion, right? Like jet fuel propulsion, yeah. Um, which is why they're all kind of connected to each other and why people are investigating it, including like the DOJ, the DOD, um, NASA is trying to find the connection to see if something is going on with them. Like it is, it's not just a conspiracy theory, it's something that is like actively being researched by the government and like something that even Trump has commented on. Um so last week we connected it to this part is not being investigated. This was this was the dumb bitch part. Yeah, uh last week I connected it to um alien. Just say that after. So last week I connected it to the alien interview from 1994.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

And I read little uh um esccerts?

SPEAKER_01 7:40

I heard the word until you kept talking. I knew what the word was, and then I kept listening to you trying to do it, and I lost it now.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

I read a transcript from Excerpts. I I promise I will get more serious in a second. So I read transcripts from the interview with the alien. Um, we said last week that it actually believe it was real. Yeah. Um but anyway, so I read experts that I read transcripts of it, and I will start this week off by reading a different set of transcripts from it. This is a little bit after what I read last week. Um yeah, so let's just dive in. Get into it. All right. So the agent asks the alien sitting at the table. So why do we destroy ourselves with nuclear war? The alien says, dogma. Agent, can you be more specific? The alien. Political and religious dogma. It is the root of all major conflict of your species. In your next century, access to weaponry and mass destruction by states that are ruled by dogma will destroy your species. So, what exactly is dogma? Yeah. I also might be pronouncing that wrong. My bad. The only time I've ever heard that word is from an alien, so forgive me. So dogma is a principle, belief, or set of beliefs laid down by authority such as churches, organization, or government as undeniably true or authoritative. It represents established core doctrine that are accepted without question, often in religious, political, or a scientific context. And I got that definition from webster.com. So that must be real.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

Yep. So it's literally just bred from I mean, essentially like a cult, just believing that this is the one true truth.

unknown 9:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

And nothing else could be.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

It could be from like cult, it could be from religion, like your religion is the only religion it is correct. Um so basically the alien is saying that we are going to destroy ourselves based off of our beliefs and our um loyalty to that belief.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

To just one belief, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Yes. Okay. And what states right now or countries right now are filled with dogma that have mass weapons of destruction? I mean the United States and Israel. Yes. And what dogma do they have? Zionism and MAGA. And I think right now those are kind of a little hand in hand. Unfortunately, yeah. So, have you ever heard of Chris Blade Blesdo? No. So in 2007, he claimed that he was abducted by aliens.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

I okay, I think that I have heard about this. You're gonna go into the the story of it.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

Yeah. Well, not the story of him being abducted. Um Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

Just like things from it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

So he claims that this being that he calls the lady gave him information about us in the future. Okay. He said that in the year of 2026, which news class, that's this year that we're in right now.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

There would be an Israeli-Iranian conflict. Stop.

unknown 11:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

No, I will not. And after the conflict starts, the star Regulus will align with the Sphinx. And he claims that he told the Pentagon about this, and they put the alignment that he was saying that the lady told him about. And it was shown that Regulus is actually set to be aligned with the Sphinx in April of 2026. I swear. And the star, which Regulus is a blue-white star, is going to glow red when it aligns, and that is going to bring orbs coming out of the water to bring changes to the human consciousness and mark a shift to new knowledge. No, I know what you're thinking.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

I know what you're thinking. Which I was trying not to laugh. And because some like I do bel believe in like planetary alignment and star alignment and how that affects our consciousness here on Earth. I do believe in that, but like hearing that sounds a little crazy.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

And you're also thinking, Mel, isn't it already May? Did April already happen? Yes. Did the star glow green? Did it allow?

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

Did it happen? No. It did not happen.

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

But Chris did put out on his socials that um his astronomer friend that gave him the April 2026 date was or miscalculated, so he was wrong, and that it's actually supposed to happen on October 7th of 2026.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Okay. From April to October, that's a big miscalculation in my mind.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

So, no, the star didn't align in April. Um, no orbs were seen in April, nothing like that. But you know what did happen at the end of April? 18 earthquakes near Area 51 came in less than 48 hours. 18? Is that that must not be normal? They are not prone to earthquakes. They haven't had earthquakes in years. Interesting. Okay. And not only are these earthquakes not normal to that area, but they were one to two kilometers deeper than natural earthquakes. What? Yes. And one of them was actually so deep that they couldn't figure out the actual depth of that earthquake. Wow. That's scary. I just find it interesting that all of these scientists who are researching nuclear energy and zero gravity in aerospace are now missing and dead, and then all of a sudden they're testing something with so much energy it causes 18 earthquakes. Deep earthquakes. So obviously they were started from underground. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

So or I mean it could just be coming from a different uh part of the earth that we haven't explored yet, which is even scarier because that would be like literally the core. So like is our planet.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

I don't think they were that deep.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

Yeah, they were just like one to two kilometers deeper than a normal earthquake. So it's like a layer below the the normal. Yeah.

unknown 15:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

Because if if it was that deep, then it would be a lot more than just that one tiny area. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Not that it's tight, you know, you guys know what I'm saying. Okay. Oh that is weird. That's interesting. That is interesting. So speaking of nuclear power, guess what I learned recently.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Oh my god. What?

SPEAKER_00 15:43

That Epstein Zero Ranch in New Mexico was built in the exact geometrical midpoint between two nuclear weapons labs in New Mexico. Hmm. Intentionally? Uh I mean that would be pretty hard not to be intentional. Yeah. And do you know who built his ranch home? No. Bradbury Stem Construction, a commercial construction um company who's often associated with building classified high security facilities at Kirkland Air Force Base and the Los Almos National Laboratory.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Wow. So there's a lot going on there. First of all, why does this regular quote unquote guy get to have this like company build a place for him?

SPEAKER_00 16:46

And this company is a commercial company. They don't do residence. So why are they building this guy's ranch house or private residence?

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Right. And like super private. Like that's red flags.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Mm-hmm. And why is everything coming back to the Los Alamos National Laboratory where a majority of the scientists studied? And the Los Alamos National Laboratory also just happens to be one of the two nuclear bases that the ranch is in between.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

So do you think that Epstein built this for like the government to use? And he was like, Yeah, this is mine. And then he also like did a billion horrible things to women and children there.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Your guess is as good as mine. All of this is alleged. I mean, not this, that this is fact that they did actually build his ranch.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Everything that goes on in it is a legend.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Yeah. Mostly. Um, if you don't believe survivors, which I do, right. Um, also found at his ranch. It was shown that he used military so also at his ranch, it was found that he had been using military grade private microwave communication links that were strong enough to effectively pick up information from both of these laboratories. Why?

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Why? Why did we let him have that? Was it him? He was licensed to have it. For what reason? Okay. I didn't give him the license. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

I know, I'm just and it was shown that the microwave links were active and used after Epstein's reported death. But at least he doesn't own that Zorro Ranch anymore. Who owns it? The new owner of the Zorro Ranch is now in the trusty hands of the former Texas State Senate and Trump's MAGA bestie Don Who Fades. Oh my god. Who is now running for state computer, which I don't really know what that means because I didn't care about him enough. Yeah. To research it.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Wow. What the heck? I don't understand. They had to have been using Epstein as a pawn at minimum, right? At minimum. I I don't believe that he didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Epstein is a pawn. I mean, I think. Oh, this is gonna go so far down a rabbit hole. Sorry, y'all. I think Epstein is a pawn for Israel, I think. Netanyahu, who's all over the Epstein files, by the way, yeah, is using Epstein to be able to blackmail all of the government officials. And that is his way to have control over the UK and over America. Because did you know that Elaine or um Maxwell Ghlaine, who's like Epstein's helper, her father was friends with Epstein and he is the one or not friends with Epstein, he was friends with um Netanyahu. Netanyahu. And he is the one who owns Tim McGraw, which not Tim McGraw, Hill McGraw. Not the country singer. Not the country singer, the school books. Yeah. So worse. Yes. Way worse. Way worse. So he is the one who is pretty much in control of our education. Glenne Maxwell's dad. So Israel is pretty much in control of our textbooks. Our textbooks. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Okay, so all of that is crazy. I just don't understand where did Epstein even come from? Like his mom. Yeah. Right. Sorry, Epstein. How did he get important? Like I You know, I actually don't know the answer to that. Yeah. Like, why is he so important and he was able to just like get access to it has to be generational, right? Absolutely. Oh, you have my phone.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

So like uh BRB. We're back. We did some really quick research, so I'm sure there's so much more than what I'm about to say. Um, but from what I read, he was a college dropout, but he became rich, not generationally.

unknown 21:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

But because he managed um billionaires' accounts and he scammed money from them. So then he generated wealth through his schemes and through his salary. Cause he was obviously paid very generously to handle people's money. Yeah. Um. And he just accumulated wealth that way. And with wealth comes power. And then he met Glaine, who became his girlfriend, and then they started doing their things together, and it just like exploded from there. And then he was evil, and he would find evil billionaires and he would blackmail them with what they did together. So then he would be able to get like more wealth and more power through the blackmail of other powerful people until he just became who he was. That's crazy. I still think, and his from what I've seen, a lot of people don't really know his background. That's like very murky. So I feel like he had to come up with his ideas from somewhere. Yeah. Like he's not the first evil person. So where did he get the idea to do this? Because he was a college drop. Like he wasn't smart.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Yeah, but if he was managing accounts, I mean there has to be some No, I mean the torture stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

He is not smart enough to build an underground bunker on an island. Like, where did he get those ideas from? That is what I want to know. And that is not what I could find in my five seconds of research, but I mean, probably the billionaire. Yeah, that's true. Government. I mean, there's also But if there were billionaires doing that before, he wouldn't have needed to make his own island. Like there would have already been. I mean, I'm there is things like that, because like the Rothafort did things like that too. I just I don't know. I just feel like I'm not trying to take the blame off of him. Yeah. That's not what I'm trying to do at all.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

No, no, no, no. I just feel like it had to have come from somewhere. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like outside of him. But in how when was the ranch constructed in I wonder, in comparison to like I wonder if the ranch or Mar-a-Lago was first?

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Because he has the spa in Margal in Mar-a-Lago that was also used for trafficking. Yeah. He used the island in the let's see which came first. Yeah, because we'll be back in a second.

unknown 24:34

Are you keep on?

SPEAKER_01 24:35

It seems like that would it just seems like that would be a little important because if the ranch was first, I mean we just talked about how he used that company that builds uh you know, uh professionally secret hideout homes, you know?

SPEAKER_00 24:56

So like Okay, so sorry, not to cut you off. Oh, it's okay. The um main mansion at Zoro Ranch was completed in 1999. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

So he purchased um the Saint or Little St. James Island in 1998. So he was building Zoro Ranch at the same time he was trying to buy this island. So he had this entire thing planned.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

Right. But it there's no way it was just him. I know. And I don't know much about Golane, but I don't know that one I don't even know that two people are smart enough to come up with this whole plot unless they're just taking over you know a a years and years and years long trafficking business. Which is possible.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Okay, so Ghlaine and Epstein met in 1991. So they met before the islands. I kind of thought I I didn't really do any research in his past, clearly. I kind of thought they met like after the islands and he just kind of like rubbed her into it. I didn't realize that she helped set it up. Yeah. Which I'm gonna assume she did because she's also a piece of shit. Right? Wow. And they their meeting was arranged by her dad.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

Really? Yeah. Who is friends with Netanyahu.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Who has friends with Netanyahu and has strong ties to Israel, just like Epstein does now.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Or at least yeah, yeah, yeah. That we know about.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Alright. Um, that is uh my segment. Plus a little rabbit hole I didn't mean to take during my segment. Um, I will try to cut some of that out. Sorry, you're gonna have my laptop in front of my face while I do that. I just had questions. Yeah, and I had answers. Well, at least I tried to find answers.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Yeah. I this so the alien thing 100% I believe is going to happen. I don't necessarily believe in every aspect of the conspiracy. Yeah. But 100% I believe that we're being set up to be prepared for interaction with extraterrestrials. I've always thought that.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

I just I think it's weird that these scientists go missing who are studying extraterrestrial stuff, and then all of a sudden there's air like earthquakes on Area 51 who's known to hold UFOs and stuff, and then at the same time, it's like happening at the same time that supposedly this alien said it was going to happen during an Israeli-Iran war, which he said in 2007 that this was gonna happen. So it's just all of it happening at once is so crazy.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

It's uh definitely a weird coincidence.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

Something is going on. Yes, something is going on. Is it aliens? I don't know. But something is happening that we don't know about. And I would like to know the answer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

I would like to know also more about what you guys think.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

Yes, please let us know. Let us know.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

I think it I think part of it really is just that our government is corrupt and very there has to be distraction upon distraction upon distraction to prevent us from talking about one thing for too long.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

I mean, like how crazy is it that Epstein's Island has communication like has the ability to communicate with the laboratory that the scientists are going missing from. Yeah, the the ranch, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:00

The ranch has the communications.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

That's oh yeah, not that island, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

But still, I just don't understand yeah. I I don't understand how this one man, even if he was, you know, associated with all of these billionaires, like there had to have been something happening before, and they were like, hey, that's one.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

This one man has his hands in literally everything. Everything. This one man. It's crazy. Crazy.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Well, I don't have anything about aliens to talk about. But um, I do I have been seeing some interesting things on TikTok about um so we're trying to figure out how to grow meat in laboratories. So that I don't know, we don't have to kill the animals, I guess. I don't I don't really fucking know, but um these uh meat products I've seen a couple videos now. Like this morning I just watched one of this girl who bought like steak fillets, and uh some of them look normal, so they're kind of just being introduced into normal products. Yeah. Like a phase out, like they always do. And this one fillet looked genuinely like Play-Doh. Like the color was off, the texture was wrong, you couldn't feel like the fat and the muscle in it. She was able to just stretch it out and flatten it with her hands.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

I feel like it's a good idea in theory to be able to grow her own food in the laboratory, but I dislike our government doing it. I don't trust what they put in our food. And I also think that if they do that, it's gonna be super expensive. Yep. And they we're just gonna be paying more to poison ourselves. I don't I think it's a good idea in theory for like Switzerland or Norway. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Somewhere that doesn't have a us. Yeah. Yes. And then um, along the food line, I saw another TikTok this morning about a woman who had bought a loaf of bread. It was like a healthy bread, and she was about to like make sandwiches for her kids, and she found wood chips, like actual wood chips in the bread. And she thought at first that it was just like a grain because it had like seeds and grains and stuff in it that were whole, but no, it was like actual wood chips in the entire thing. And then someone in the comments said, Uh-oh, do you know what they used as a filler and bread during the Great Depression? Sawdust.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

I was gonna say some companies still use like sawdust and wood chips as preservatives, kind of crazy, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

So I don't know. I think we should just all start a homestead and make our own food from scratch.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

If I wasn't so damn lazy, I would. Like I keep telling you, I want to marry a farmer, I want somebody to do all of that for me. I don't want to take care, I want to be there and I'll feed the chickens and I'll get their eggs, but I don't want to clean the chickens, I don't want to clean the ducks. Ducks are messy. Um, I'm not slaughtering any animals. No, I want to be a farmer's wife, and that is it. Yeah, that's it. That's why I have to take care of the horses and I'll take care of the chickens, and they can do everything else. And I'll love the animals. I'll go and I'll pet with them, I'll pet them, I'll socialize them. Right. That's about all I'm doing. I'm not clean up crap, but I would love to be like a homestead wife without the work. Okay. And I know that's not possible. So I don't do it. Okay. Yeah, right. It's not like a dream. It's the dream. It's not like I'm out there like trying to do it or buying land, taking like land away from other people who could do it. I'm like, I I love that for you. If you want to bring me some chicken eggs, I would love you. But I don't I I do think if I buy a house, I will buy chickens. But that's about as far into my homestead dream as I'm gonna take it, unless I marry your farmer.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

So Jason raised chickens before my time. Um, he had 35 chickens at one point. Dang, that's too many chickens for me. Yeah, it was too many for him, too. He did not like it. He says now that after like raising chickens and seeing where eggs come from and how they come out, he really doesn't enjoy eggs anymore. Which is true. I can attest he never requests eggs. I mean, he'll eat them. Yeah, but that's not it's not like you know, something that he's like, you know what sounds really great, eggs.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Yeah, you know what I want? Nothing comes out of a chicken vagina.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I I couldn't do it. I don't know. I I know that about myself. I will like bake homemade bread and I'll I'll make meals from scratch, but I'm not I make meals from scratch.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Um I'm not making homemade bread though. I know it's easy, okay guys. I know it is easy, but it's not as easy as opening a bag and grabbing a loaf. This is true.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

And also your kitchen is low-key small.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

My kitchen is tiny. I can't be in there homesteading.

SPEAKER_01 34:33

Yeah, yeah. A homestead is not gonna work well in in the apartment kitchen. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 34:38

When I buy my own house, we'll see. Maybe I'll feel like less. Plus, when I'm in my kitchen, it's not just me in my kitchen. I also have a child who literally can't be more than an arm's length away from me. So maybe when I'm in a bigger kitchen, I'll feel more able to do things. Yeah. I can kick cook more than one thing I want. Like if I have to chop something, I have to chop and then clean it so I can use that kitchen area to prepare the food. Right. It's small. Yeah. I feel like maybe, maybe I'll be a butter churner, bread maker when I have a bigger kitchen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

Making your own butter is actually really easy. I've done it.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

Yeah, all you do is shake um half half and half. Heavy whipping cream, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

It's a lot of arm work. That's what another thing that I wanted to talk about because we have we talk about heavy things sometimes and it's fun. But I also like good news, and also when I read these last week, I cried, and that might have something to do with the time of the month that it is, but I also thought that it was really sweet. So this is good news from around the world that nobody talks about. So Australia could become the first nation in the world to eliminate cervical cancer.

unknown 35:53

Oh, that's amazing!

SPEAKER_01 35:54

I know. I don't know how I like I didn't do any research into how they're doing it, but just the fact that they're focusing on eliminating it because it is way more prominent than I think we talk about. Yeah. Especially in younger women.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

I am at a very elevated risk for it because of my issues.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Yeah. Um, pandas are no longer at risk of extinction.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Oh, yay, go pandas.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Yeah. Um, Portugal is preparing to unveil Europe's first large sanctuary dedicated to rescuing elephants from circuses and zoos. So that'll be good. Green sea turtle is no longer considered an endangered species. That's good. Um, the Netherlands is closing prisons due to falling crime rates, resulting in over 20 jails, jail closers since 2009.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

I love that so much. And I have been saying for years that we need to get rid of our prison system and start using European ones.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

Listen, there's so not many things in the United States that need reform.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

Yeah, how about ending our slavery in the United States so that we can actually fix the problems that we have over here? Yeah. Did you know that constitutionally um our prison system is considered modern-day slavery?

SPEAKER_01 37:13

Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

And it's constitutionally legal for it to be slavery.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

I did not know that. I'll have to look into that. That's crazy. I yeah, the prison system is something that I can't even begin to like I we could do a whole episode on the prison system because Oh, 100%.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

I have things to say about the way we treat our prisoners. Not saying that they should be like treated nice, like they're prisoners, they deserve punishment, but we can't treat them like shit and then release them to the public thinking they're gonna be better. Absolutely. There there has to be correction. That's why we have a huge rate of re-offenses in the United States because we treat them like shit, we don't give them any opportunity to change, we send them out, and then we treat felons like shit. We don't give them jobs, we don't give them opportunities, so they have to go back to crime and then they go back to jail, and it's just like a vicious cycle.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

It's a vicious cycle that people can't get out of. And who is um disproportionately affected by these cycles? People of color. Yep, mostly black men. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

So yeah, I am very against the US prison system.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

So Norway has done the unthinkable, becoming the first country in the world to achieve near zero deforestation rates.

SPEAKER_00 38:34

Oh my gosh, that's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 38:37

That is amazing. Because you know what forests give us? Oxygen. You know what the United States is doing? Cutting their funding. Canada passed a law that prohibits keeping large gray apes and elephants in captivity. Nice. Um, and then the last one is some Dutch engineers built a 600-meter-long vacuum cleaner to collect plastic from oceans and aid marine life restoration.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

See, I know. Notice what countries aren't there on this list of doing great things.

SPEAKER_01 39:10

It's just so disappointing. It's so disappointing, right? Like, I don't care how you feel politically, it is so disappointing to not be on the list of countries who are doing something to actively help the world. Yeah. Or not even just the world, like our own forests, our own people, people, our own Great Lakes. Like, why don't we care?

SPEAKER_00 39:34

Uh, because it doesn't make us money.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

I just don't I don't understand. Don't understand it.

SPEAKER_00 39:41

Yeah. Sorry guys, I'm just not too happy with our government after the Supreme Court ruling.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

Did you hear about that? Is it the voting rights? Yeah. I don't know a lot about it.

SPEAKER_00 39:54

So basically what they did so back um during the Civil War era, um we so the way that voting works is each district has one representative. A long time ago in the civil rights era, they used to draw the district lines so that in the South and the more um minority and black populated areas, they would draw the districts so that every district would have a majority of white people in it, so that the black voters didn't really suppress a voice. Yeah, exactly. So during the Jim Crow times or Jim Crow times, they were like, that's racist, you can't do that. You have to make the districts representative of the people who actually live there. Yeah, they just abolished that ruling. So now they can draw the districts any way they want. So it pretty much goes back to voter suppression, and they did that because just recently in Louisiana, and Louisiana is one-third black people, so every three people, one of them is gonna be black, so there's a lot of black people there. Um, they redrew the district lines, and I think I I don't have the numbers in front of me, so I'm so sorry if I have this wrong. But I think they had like four districts or five districts, and like two of them or three of them were fully white, like white prominent. So the black people sued, and they were like, you can't do that, like this is discriminatory, our voices aren't being heard. Yeah. And they won. So then they did the election, they voted in a black um senator or congressman, something like that. And then the white people sued and were like, you can't draw lines based off of race, which is what the white people did in the first place. Yeah. So then the Congress was like, okay, white people win, redrew the Congress lines, and then did this. Right. So for the people saying that this isn't racially, it's literally racially motivated. Like they are doing this because the black people won something in Louisiana.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

I've also heard, like, from the opposite side, like because they were able to draw these lines now, um, people are upset because there was, and this goes just from like Democrat to Republican, but Republicans were upset because they said they could redraw the lines, and so Democrats did, and then they won. And so people are pissed about that too. And it's like, okay, so this really isn't about fairness, it's about how can I make this so that I win.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

Yeah. And I've seen a lot of people out there saying that they don't think that they're gonna vote, like that this is like Garrymandarin, that they're not gonna vote, that they're gonna protest. No, and you grow up hearing that like not every vote counts, that like you don't really need to vote because it's not that important, that like my one vote doesn't really mean everything, anything. It's so but look how hard they try to get every single vote they can. Yeah, it's because it does matter. It does matter. So please go. Please vote. Please vote. Please vote the right way. Not telling you how to vote. But please do your research, understand what's actually happening.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

Make an informed opinion. And if that opinion is different than mine, that's fine. That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

Just make sure it's based on actually informed and not by Fox News. Because they are biased and they have come out and said that they are biased. They have come out saying that they're entertainment, not actual news.

SPEAKER_01 44:07

It's so funny. So just so have you uh listened to any of Fox News? Like they are turning on Donald Trump. I don't watch them, so I don't know. No, no, no. And I don't watch them either, but I've seen TikTok clips of like news reporters being like, this is fucking ridiculous. That's how you know it's funny. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, voting is important. It's important to exercise your right, especially if you're a woman. We fought so hard. Not we, women before us fought so hard to get voting rights.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Also, you know what pisses me off? What? Tell me. These anti-feminist women. I hate all of you guys. And I say that with my chest. I do. I hate you guys. I truly do. You're sitting here in your pants on the internet, speaking your opinion, not through your husband, but through your own fucking stupid mouth. Talking about how you hate feminism. If you really hate feminism, shut the fuck up. Let your pastor speak for you. Get in your dress. Stop working. Stop driving. Stop voting. Stop paying your bills. Stop having money. Stop having your own bank account. Stop having your own credit card. You're allowed to divorce your husband. Be thankful for that. Period. I wish I could divorce you guys.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

So I think part of I I agree. Okay. I agree. You know how there are radicals through for every group, right? So there's radical Democrats, there's radical Republicans, there's radical LGBTQ, there's radical feminists. Yeah. Those groups of people are truly what ruins us like as a society. Those groups of people are the ones who are like giving everyone else a bad name, and unfortunately not many of us don't have the foresight and the ability to think beyond. You know, we only think by what we see. So it's half our fault and half their fault too. But like the the feminists who are so feminist that they can't even see the value of men anywhere. That's crazy to me. And I know we probably have differing opinions on that a little bit, but I mean I believe everyone is equal, whether you're a man, whether you're a woman.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

Everybody's important in their own way. We are biologically different for reasons. Reasons like men are biologically stronger, they're um biologically more powerful, and I know that. I'm not like I'm a I'm a feminist. Yeah, I don't, but I don't believe that men are useless.

SPEAKER_01 47:07

And that's that's my point, is that like people I 100% believe females should be able to do anything that men can do. That's feminism, right? Believing that everyone is equal. Feminism is not tearing men down, it is not saying, oh, you're useless, you're worthless. That's not feminism, that's extreme feminism to me. I I agree. Um, but I also understand why women do that. I was just gonna say I also understand the point of view because I think most of those radical feminism, quote unquote, I mean come from a place of trauma, right?

SPEAKER_00 47:50

And fear and fear and they see that they see how many men think the same way of us. And I think, and I think there are a lot more men who have this viewpoint, but when women have it, we're viewed as radical, we're viewed as feminist, we're viewed as crazy, but when men have these viewpoints, they're just like they're red pill, you know, they're they're incels, they'll grow out of it. They just need to find the right woman to change them. So I I dislike that we're categorized like radical feminists when people when they just have the same viewpoint as a majority of just normal men. That's a good point.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

That's a good point.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

That's yeah, that's how I feel. And then the woman who we're going against that by like praising the men for having those same viewpoints is just insane to me. Like, look at your hypocrisy.

SPEAKER_01 48:49

Yeah. I yeah. I just don't understand why we have to be so separate, you know? Just as it's designed. It's designed that way. Absolutely, it's designed to make us separate because most of the people, and I live in a very small bubble comparatively, right? To the world. Yeah. I live we all live in a very small bubble. But most of the people that I've come in contact with, and I have worked all of my life in public service. So I've met so many different people, so many different beliefs, so many different okay, I'm just gonna keep my mouth shut. And so many different, you know what, that's a really good point. Yeah. At the end of the day, there's not a whole lot of difference between us. Yeah. We all want the same collective goal, I believe, uh, for the majority.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

But I um I I will disagree with that. I think uh there are some I'm just gonna take me picture and Donald Trump. I want what's best uh from a majority. If something is going to benefit the majority and not benefit me, I would still pick what's going to benefit the majority. Yes. Um this whole uh government, I mean the Supreme Court ruling where they're changing the lines, like that does not affect me one bit. Yeah. Not one iota. I live, I am privileged, I live in an area where I have the right to vote. The Save Act does not affect me. I have had my last name, I've never changed it. Um, I have my citizenship, that doesn't affect me, one iota. I'm still angry about it because of the people it does affect.

SPEAKER_01 50:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:42

Whereas people like Donald Trump and people who support Donald Trump don't give a damn. If it doesn't affect them, they don't care. They are selfish and they only care about themselves rather than the people who care about the majority. So I wouldn't say me and someone like that are the same because we have different we have different um goals. My goal is to help people, their goal is to help themselves.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

Yes. So I understand, yes, and I am not naive enough to think that that's not true, right? I 100% believe that, but I just think that at the core there are very similar goals that are just we have very different ideas of how to fix it, and that's where the problems come in. Because then you have to talk about morals and you know what's right and wrong, and everything is right and wrong to different people, even though not really there's definitely right and there's definitely wrong.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

There's definitely right and wrong, but we don't agree on those right and wrongs. Right. And that is like the pretty much the basis of everything. Like, whereas just something as simple as abortion, I don't think it's wrong. People think it's murder, pedophilia, I think that is very wrong. Where unfortunately, some people don't.

SPEAKER_01 52:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:17

So I'm like things that seem so common sense, yeah, are not. Yeah. Sexual assault. I think that is horrible. I think that is wrong. There's people who think it's it happens. Yeah. So it's it's it's it's not as simple as things are right or wrong and we have to figure out how to get there because our ideas of right and wrong are very different than theirs. And like they for some reason can't see I mean, we can't see why their right and wrong is their right and wrong, and they can't see why ours is this way.

SPEAKER_01 52:58

Right. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:01

Which is why it's important to have all different points of views in office so that everyone's point of view is heard.

SPEAKER_01 53:11

And not only heard, but we have to listen to it. Yeah. We have to listen when people say, hey, this is affecting my community. Yeah. You know.

SPEAKER_00 53:21

Exactly. So that is what I think. I did not mean to go down this whole political thing.

SPEAKER_01 53:27

Yeah, I didn't really mean to either. It just kind of happened with all of the stuff, all the good stuff that's going on in the rest of the world. And then feeling just disappointed that we aren't part of it. Unfortunately. Yeah. Because we have so we have so much good land. We are so like we have potential. Genuinely blessed with the land that we have. Just the land. I'm not talking people, I'm not talking politics, I'm not talking anything. Just like the oceans and the Great Lakes and the mountains that we have in the United States. And just all of the potential that we have with the the land that we have is so disappointing that we're not treating it properly. Yeah. Another good thing that I saw on um Instagram is that there are, I think it was either in China or Japan, but they have uh developed plastic that dissolves in seawater. Ooh, that's nice. Yeah. That's important. That is important. Because let's be real, we're not gonna stop plastic from entering the water. I mean, we could, but we're not going to hurt. Yeah. But we're it's just not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 54:43

So unfortunately not. Yeah, that's good. We have some good local news. Yeah. Kind of fish. Okay. Um, our petting zoo in South Lion. Yeah. They just had a baby sloth. Um it's five months old. That's so fun. For $10, we can go pet it.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

Let's go. Why are we still here? $10. Hi guys. That's like nothing. Yeah, see ya.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

We can actually go after we're done recording. Is it supposed to rain today? Because it's a petting sale.

SPEAKER_01 55:12

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

It's sunny out. You know, that doesn't mean shit in Michigan. That is true.

SPEAKER_01 55:18

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 55:20

So we're gonna go pet sloths.

SPEAKER_01 55:23

I hope you enjoyed this episode. It's a little deranged, a little, you know.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Yeah, basically what happened was last night Stephanie texted me and she was like, Hey, I don't have a segment this week. You got this, I know you're gonna talk. I cut down my segment because I I I cut down my segment because I uh thought I was only talking for half of it.

SPEAKER_01 55:49

So she got here and I was like, look, man, I'll do what I can, but I okay, in like hindsight is 2020, right? So, like in hindsight, I probably should have told you on like Wednesday that I was anticipating just you talking because I totally could have come up with more to talk about. But I genuinely like based off how last week ended, I genuinely thought I wasn't gonna get to anything that I had to say.

SPEAKER_00 56:18

Yeah, I I saw how much I talked last week, so it cut my down. So we we both yeah, the tangent, the tangent half of the episode is we basically just started talking about the first things that came to our mind, and this is what was on the news this week, so this is what we talked about. So our bad, that was literally not planned, but just so you know, nothing we said was actually researched or planned, yeah. So our stumb bitches with microphones. If anything we said was wrong, it's because we just sat here and talked about it, and my phone is right there, so I did no research, and my laptop is over there now because after my segment was done, I shut it and moved it. Yep. So this was just us talking out of our asses, yeah. Based on fact that I've seen in the news, but that's pretty much it. Right.

unknown 57:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 57:10

And that is all for today's episode. Oh, do we want to do um beef of the week?

SPEAKER_01 57:15

Or I feel like we just I feel like we did beef of the life. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:23

Um because my beef of the week was from last week. Yeah, and you know, that's just depressing my beef of the week. And I feel like we've already depressed you guys enough. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:32

So no beef of the week. Go find something good. Go find something that makes you smile.

SPEAKER_00 57:37

Go to your petting zoo and go pet. I was literally gonna say and go pet a sloth because that's what we're literally about to go do.

SPEAKER_01 57:44

I'm yeah, genuinely.

SPEAKER_00 57:46

$10 to pet a sloth, y'all. We can't beat that. Um I was gonna say go meet us there, but this episode comes out. We won't be there. We will not I honestly, five-month-old sloth, we might still be there. Maybe we'll see. It's only ten dollars a ticket, so we could just hide. That's true. We could hide in the sloth house. We could just joking. Um I literally have nothing. Okay. Yeah. That's all for today's episode of Plot Twists and Punchlines. Follow our TikTok at plot twist underscore punchlines pod and on Insta at plot twist underscore punchlines underscore podcast. Steph, tell them where they can find you.

SPEAKER_01 58:34

You can find me on Instagram at Steph Smiles XX or on TikTok at Vessel V-E-S-S-I-I-L.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

What about you? You can find me on my love, it's like hell of a time, but with Mel and only one else. I also tagged both of our usernames on our TikTok profile, so you could just go there and click us and follow us from there. Mm-hmm. I don't have any videos, prepare to be bored. I only have writing videos, so prepare to be bored. I have writing and orient videos, I think.

SPEAKER_01 59:07

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