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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, this is Adam, host of this podcast. Don't
- 0:04Speaker 1: skip this. It's not an ad just dropping in to
- 0:07Speaker 1: let you know. This episode was initially recorded and released
- 0:12Speaker 1: back in February twenty nineteen as a subscriber only episode.
- 0:16Speaker 1: It is a wild episode about a wild conspiracy, specifically
- 0:22Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory that claims the astronauts who died on
- 0:26Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle Challenger didn't actually die. Like I said,
- 0:30Speaker 1: it's a wild one. Connor is my co host on
- 0:33Speaker 1: this one, and it also features special guests Andy Sell
- 0:37Speaker 1: and Connor's former and at the time Mean Boys podcast
- 0:42Speaker 1: co host, Keith Carey, so you won't be shocked to
- 0:45Speaker 1: learn that it's a wild episode in that way too.
- 0:48Speaker 1: We're releasing it now because the Space Shuttle Challenger is
- 0:52Speaker 1: back in the public consciousness on account of a new
- 0:55Speaker 1: Netflix documentary about the tragedy and its possible causes rest
- 0:59Speaker 1: a show, though the documentary does not touch on the
- 1:04Speaker 1: crazy shit we're about to talk about here. If you're
- 1:06Speaker 1: listening on Patreon or super cast, good news, you're also
- 1:10Speaker 1: going to get some bonus twenty twenty updates dropped in
- 1:14Speaker 1: here and there throughout the episode, but no matter where
- 1:17Speaker 1: you're listening. We thank you kindly for doing so. Thanks,
- 1:20Speaker 1: we love you. Let's get to the show.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Welcome to Conspiracy The Show with your hosts Adam Todd
- 1:38Speaker 2: Brown and Connor mispatn.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Conspiracy the Show. I'm Adam Todd Brown.
- 1:59Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, what's up. I'm Connor.
- 2:03Speaker 1: That's Connor mcspadden and we have a room full of
- 2:06Speaker 1: goddamn guests today, Keith Carry from what podcast?
- 2:11Speaker 2: That'd be mean boy? Oh that's right, right, right right, Yeah,
- 2:13Speaker 2: it's weird seeing Connor over here with his secret family.
- 2:17Speaker 2: I forget he does this show that is for sure
- 2:19Speaker 2: more popular than ours.
- 2:20Speaker 3: I brought my butter half today.
- 2:24Speaker 2: But you're gonna be catching out some d side fat
- 2:26Speaker 2: jokes you haven't done yet.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a whole new audience for Burns on
- 2:30Speaker 1: each Other. Oh oh great, just revisit the classics.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I was reading the iTunes reviews for the
- 2:37Speaker 3: show the other day and god damn, they're funny. Have
- 2:40Speaker 3: you have you seen them, madam?
- 2:42Speaker 1: I've seen some of them.
- 2:43Speaker 3: It's just like, uh, yeah, there's just one smart guy
- 2:46Speaker 3: and then there's the other guy who just kind of
- 2:47Speaker 3: interrupts him. To talk about pussy and I don't. I
- 2:50Speaker 3: kind of am just here for the conspiracies. There's a
- 2:54Speaker 3: lot of podcasts on this network.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Yeah, well I came for serious information. It was comedy
- 2:59Speaker 2: formatic thing.
- 3:00Speaker 1: It's like, it's like a football game. I do like
- 3:02Speaker 1: to play by play and then I need color commentary
- 3:05Speaker 1: people to Yeah. Well, then we'll occasionally say something racist.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Yeah, and the black out with cancer. That's my job,
- 3:11Speaker 3: you know whatever. Whatever he was, he seemed cool.
- 3:14Speaker 1: What's that?
- 3:15Speaker 3: What you know, the black sports commentator with cancer that
- 3:17Speaker 3: died rees He was like a beloved guy.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Oh yeah him, as was his name.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I'm black is what Connor's saying? Super black, I can
- 3:27Speaker 2: say it.
- 3:27Speaker 3: He was the only color commentator I could think of,
- 3:31Speaker 3: and it was not even a color in terms of
- 3:33Speaker 3: he is a color. Oh just like he hadds like
- 3:36Speaker 3: a colorful dialogue.
- 3:38Speaker 4: I can't wait to check the it iTunes reviews after this.
- 3:41Speaker 1: That's Andy sell Hill, by the way, that.
- 3:45Speaker 4: You went to black for Connor and not cancer?
- 3:47Speaker 2: What well? He said? The I don't know black was funny.
- 3:50Speaker 3: I just I had to narrow it. I figured, I
- 3:53Speaker 3: guess I figured discussing NFL commentators him being black would
- 3:57Speaker 3: narrow it down considerably. Sadly, I guess. So that's why
- 4:01Speaker 3: I don't know guys who fucking never mind?
- 4:04Speaker 1: How could anyone know?
- 4:06Speaker 3: I'm really, really tired. I'm doing my best.
- 4:10Speaker 1: It's probably because we're recording at ten o'clock in the morning.
- 4:12Speaker 3: Sure, whose idea was that that?
- 4:15Speaker 1: You know?
- 4:15Speaker 2: Me? Was it?
- 4:17Speaker 3: Yeah? I have to leave. I got to go to Sacramento.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Oh wow, which is what I always have to do
- 4:21Speaker 3: in life.
- 4:22Speaker 1: So Connor kind of set this up for everyone because
- 4:25Speaker 1: once we scheduled this at ten, I was like, I'll
- 4:27Speaker 1: just do the rest of them at ten this week.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Going to Sacramento. Isn't that just a euphemism you tell
- 4:31Speaker 4: a kid when their dog dies. Yeah, he went to Sacramento.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Yeah, he went to Sacramento. He couldn't make it to Oakland.
- 4:38Speaker 3: It's just a it's just a landfill of dead dreams,
- 4:41Speaker 3: is what it is, really, held together by rivers and
- 4:44Speaker 3: drug use.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Hey, dead dreams are a good segue into what we're
- 4:48Speaker 1: talking about today, Sure is, I would argue.
- 4:51Speaker 3: I would agree.
- 4:52Speaker 1: We're talking about the Space Shuttle Challenger, which.
- 4:55Speaker 4: Such good time Nation's dead dream Yeah, yeah.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Did you watch this shit live.
- 5:02Speaker 1: I did not, but only because I was in either
- 5:05Speaker 1: fourth or fifth grade when it happened.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Oh that's right on the edge. Do you turn on
- 5:09Speaker 3: the TV for the special news today kind of territory.
- 5:12Speaker 1: They were going to have us all. I don't know
- 5:15Speaker 1: how this worked out, but they were gonna show us
- 5:18Speaker 1: all the launch throughout the day. I think they were
- 5:20Speaker 1: going to like record it and then replay.
- 5:22Speaker 4: It, yeah, because it happened. That's the thing is that
- 5:24Speaker 4: like a lot of people have this false memory of
- 5:27Speaker 4: watching this live when they were in school, right and
- 5:29Speaker 4: it and like most people are full of shit when
- 5:31Speaker 4: it comes to that, like they think they saw it,
- 5:33Speaker 4: but it's like one of those false memory things because
- 5:35Speaker 4: it happened so early in the morning.
- 5:37Speaker 3: The Mandela effect kind of a thing.
- 5:40Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:41Speaker 4: I think remember when Sindbad blew up in that space shuttle, Yeah, exactly.
- 5:46Speaker 2: The space shuttle Kazam died on entry.
- 5:49Speaker 4: And I had one of those full I feel like
- 5:51Speaker 4: they wheeled in a TV in one of those you know,
- 5:54Speaker 4: rolling av rax and we watched it.
- 5:57Speaker 3: But I also think t mcuh, you know, do a
- 6:00Speaker 3: play by play of the death of a bunch of scientists.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Well, I remember for sure that I was in class
- 6:07Speaker 1: when it happened, and they the principal mister Haney's bitch ass,
- 6:12Speaker 1: mister Haney's mister, no.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Please, mister Hanney's bitch ass is my father got.
- 6:18Speaker 3: Mister Haney that greg His name doesn't command any respect
- 6:22Speaker 3: or strike fear.
- 6:23Speaker 1: No, mister Haney, you bitch. Wait.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Third string quarterback Caleb Haney was your teacher, Yes, exactly.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Yeah, he used to. He would do this thing constantly.
- 6:34Speaker 1: It was like a weird tick he had where he
- 6:36Speaker 1: would like bend at the knees to like a justice underwear.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Was he a cartoon character from the nineteen twenties.
- 6:42Speaker 3: I think, But he did it constantly, like he's on
- 6:45Speaker 3: one of those push him up and down the lever
- 6:47Speaker 3: rail cars kind of. That's what if you're a teacher.
- 6:49Speaker 2: If you're a teacher, you can't get in there and
- 6:51Speaker 2: root around or you just you know, he might a
- 6:54Speaker 2: bunch of kids might as well have been though, you know.
- 6:56Speaker 3: And that that brings me to a good point. Today's
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- 7:21Speaker 1: But yeah, I was in class and mister Haney just
- 7:25Speaker 1: came on the loud speaker and was like, uh, hey,
- 7:28Speaker 1: motherfucker's the space Shuttle blew up and go like that?
- 7:33Speaker 1: And I feel like they were planning to show it
- 7:36Speaker 1: to us in some way, like maybe they were going
- 7:38Speaker 1: to record it. This was like Don of the DCR era.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Maybe our school had that kind of budget. Probably not. Yeah,
- 7:44Speaker 1: but yeah, I definitely didn't see it live.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Yeah, I for some reason feel like I did, but
- 7:50Speaker 4: I also don't think I did. I remember like it
- 7:51Speaker 4: being really inappropriate that like every kid in my class
- 7:54Speaker 4: when the news came out was like, fuck, yeah, teacher died.
- 7:58Speaker 3: No similar now, similar to nine to eleven? What was
- 8:02Speaker 3: the show that you were mad about? This preempting one.
- 8:05Speaker 3: This happened because when I got home from school and
- 8:08Speaker 3: I turned on fucking Channel five, I was already for
- 8:11Speaker 3: yu gi oh, and uh guess what it wasn't happening.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Uh fucking it was all people and I was like,
- 8:16Speaker 3: I don't know what's I can't contextualize this. Just let
- 8:19Speaker 3: me learn morals from card games, you know. And that
- 8:22Speaker 3: was like three days and then they didn't even go
- 8:25Speaker 3: back to the episode of Yu gi Oh in the
- 8:26Speaker 3: City I was supposed to follow the one I'd seen
- 8:28Speaker 3: on you know, Monday. After the Tuesday it was like two,
- 8:32Speaker 3: two whole ones I didn't get to see, so I know, idea,
- 8:34Speaker 3: what the fuck was going on?
- 8:35Speaker 2: Donor Mrick'spadden the one true victim of that.
- 8:38Speaker 3: And I would say, if I would say one of
- 8:40Speaker 3: the unsung victims, I didn't get any kind of settlement
- 8:42Speaker 3: for my.
- 8:43Speaker 4: If we rupt the continuity of Yu gi Oh than
- 8:46Speaker 4: the terrorists of truly one.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, there wasn't a show like that for me
- 8:51Speaker 1: because I was so young. If it was Thunderbirds, I
- 8:55Speaker 1: was just way into this shuttle launch happening, yeah, and
- 9:01Speaker 1: when it blew up, I was just like, well that
- 9:03Speaker 1: was a weird ending, but I'm still gonna watch.
- 9:04Speaker 4: I do remember, like like a lot of things that
- 9:06Speaker 4: were affected by Columbine A nine to eleven that were like,
- 9:09Speaker 4: you know, sort of coincidental cultural items. There was that
- 9:12Speaker 4: episode of Family Matters where no, this would have been
- 9:16Speaker 4: pre Family was sorry. That episode of Webster Better where
- 9:23Speaker 4: Webster crashes a space shuttle and feels bad about it.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Right into a building. Yeah they had They were like whoops,
- 9:29Speaker 1: and we're like, that would never happen. You'd avoid that building.
- 9:31Speaker 3: What about a black incest porn site called family Mattress,
- 9:34Speaker 3: you know where they all just share a bed.
- 9:38Speaker 2: To Did I do her?
- 9:40Speaker 3: Yeah? You got it.
- 9:44Speaker 2: The delayed airhorn that's the worst feeling in the world.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Always the best, always blow like that.
- 9:50Speaker 3: You like that iTunes that's scratching the itch there.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Let's listen to the Space Shuttle Challenger Jesus Christ footage.
- 9:59Speaker 1: I'm I mean, why wouldn't we have it muted?
- 10:02Speaker 3: Normally?
- 10:02Speaker 5: Three good fuel bills, three good abu.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Oh get it over with alright? What is this a movie?
- 10:15Speaker 1: There are several movies about the Space shuk challenging, but
- 10:19Speaker 1: the government buries him.
- 10:20Speaker 3: Is now on the way after more delays than NASA
- 10:24Speaker 3: cares to count. Tom Mintier, I like that he's bitching
- 10:28Speaker 3: about how many delays are were when you're about to
- 10:31Speaker 3: see why there should have been a few more gasket
- 10:34Speaker 3: related delays.
- 10:36Speaker 1: I like that he jinxed it, like like when in
- 10:38Speaker 1: an NFL announcer is like, this guy hasn't missed a
- 10:41Speaker 1: field goal in thirty tries.
- 10:43Speaker 2: It straight up looks like Wiley coyote just fucked up.
- 10:47Speaker 3: It does. Yeah.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Sorry, that initial explosion and then the path of the smokers,
- 10:54Speaker 4: it looks like a diagram of a uterism philopiums.
- 10:56Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, all right, so women, women, nice, nice little
- 11:01Speaker 3: observation there, mister woke sweater guy.
- 11:06Speaker 4: Maybe those astronauts should have just had some craft macer And.
- 11:09Speaker 1: That's a reference to heart Shape Podvana Ravana fan podcast
- 11:15Speaker 1: that I uh I do with Andy. Yeah, the the
- 11:18Speaker 1: Space Shuttle Challenger. What I think the saddest fact about
- 11:22Speaker 1: that is.
- 11:23Speaker 4: That it broke apart seventy three seconds and not sixty
- 11:25Speaker 4: nine seconds.
- 11:26Speaker 3: Well that's I mean, that's true.
- 11:28Speaker 1: So close, yeah, so close.
- 11:30Speaker 3: If it had just been a little bit colder for
- 11:32Speaker 3: those guys, if it was just three degrees Uh.
- 11:36Speaker 1: The fact that, I mean, if it happened at all,
- 11:38Speaker 1: which we'll get into, yeah, but the fact that the
- 11:41Speaker 1: crew was mostly alive for the explosion, yeah, and were
- 11:47Speaker 1: likely killed by the impact when they hit the water.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Which is insane watching that video. Could that le Hella exploded?
- 11:54Speaker 1: And if you watch there is video out there of
- 11:56Speaker 1: the crew cabin falling and it is excruciatingly long.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Is it like uh when the in the Avengers?
- 12:03Speaker 1: When like Cloverfield?
- 12:06Speaker 3: Do you guys think about what you do in such
- 12:08Speaker 3: a scenario often, because I I think about it almost
- 12:11Speaker 3: every night before I go to bed all the time.
- 12:13Speaker 3: My plan is usually I'm like, well, I guess I
- 12:14Speaker 3: take out the iPhone notes, I try to tap out
- 12:17Speaker 3: something to my mother, and then I sort of try
- 12:19Speaker 3: to put it in the safest place I can find
- 12:21Speaker 3: so she could get to it. I guess your ass
- 12:23Speaker 3: My ass is probably if I can get my phone
- 12:25Speaker 3: in my ass so probably satly wouldn't be the best
- 12:27Speaker 3: chance I have. That's a good addition to the plan.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna be going to bed, going okay, So
- 12:32Speaker 3: I should start practicing my phone ass that because it's.
- 12:34Speaker 2: Gonna be harder to get it up there. And then
- 12:36Speaker 2: you think, so you're gonna die.
- 12:37Speaker 5: I'm imagine half way up here, I'm imagining it'll be
- 12:40Speaker 5: pretty I wasn't picturing a walk getting a hard rectangle
- 12:43Speaker 5: in my ass. I wasn't like, oh boy, cake, you're
- 12:47Speaker 5: gonna die with it like halfway out?
- 12:49Speaker 2: Well you, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- 12:51Speaker 3: It's good tail when when they get it from the morgue,
- 12:54Speaker 3: someone's gonna jump on my stomach and just pop it out.
- 12:57Speaker 4: That's what you need to get an Apple Watch. Oh well,
- 13:00Speaker 4: you know, send it to your Apple Watch, roll it up,
- 13:02Speaker 4: shove it up.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Do a millennial Christopher walking. I can't fix you.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I want. I want to make sure my mom
- 13:07Speaker 2: knows I loved you before I die. I'll make her
- 13:09Speaker 2: root around my dead anus.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Well she's not gonna do it.
- 13:12Speaker 2: No, they're gonna make her put a glove in and
- 13:13Speaker 2: find It's what Connor would have wont Keith, your.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Son, Keith is always a salty about my mom privilege.
- 13:19Speaker 3: So you're always bitter this over there.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Like my mom's never rooted around in a buttle.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Gosh, you gotta find those truffles somewhere. Oh my god,
- 13:30Speaker 3: your mother's My mother's a treuffle sniffing hog.
- 13:35Speaker 1: He just threw paper.
- 13:37Speaker 3: I honestly think that a really funny, mature move for
- 13:39Speaker 3: an audio podcast in the eye.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Sorry, not Keith's mother fisting him. I'd say my asshole
- 13:46Speaker 4: every time, every time I want to talk about a challenger,
- 13:49Speaker 4: know there, I think about that every time. If it
- 13:54Speaker 4: starts going down, what if this's just false? I feel
- 13:56Speaker 4: like I would do I wouldn't do anything, because I
- 13:59Speaker 4: feel like that message is just going to be more
- 14:01Speaker 4: sad than anything, and they're just going to keep it
- 14:03Speaker 4: on their phone forever.
- 14:05Speaker 3: But wouldn't you want that if you know, like I
- 14:08Speaker 3: don't know, you're someone you like to diet or whatever,
- 14:10Speaker 3: like I love you, Adam or whatever, you know, some
- 14:12Speaker 3: lame shit like that.
- 14:14Speaker 1: I suppose I got to get my phone out and
- 14:18Speaker 1: it's probably in the overhead, and you put your phone
- 14:21Speaker 1: in the overhead sometimes, why what kind of en shit
- 14:24Speaker 1: is that for?
- 14:25Speaker 3: What are you trying to be in the moment on
- 14:26Speaker 3: the plane, you fucking freak? No, I bring like that
- 14:28Speaker 3: ship out, Wait until you go into a low altitude zone,
- 14:31Speaker 3: send a couple of texts like.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Me and then uh yeah, you know, no, I bring
- 14:35Speaker 1: a tablet and watch movies and ship.
- 14:37Speaker 3: That's probably better.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Yeah, but uh yeah, I don't know what I would do.
- 14:40Speaker 1: I mean, if I was on the Space Shuttle, I'd
- 14:42Speaker 1: just be like, this sucks because it was eighty six.
- 14:45Speaker 1: They couldn't do anything.
- 14:46Speaker 3: Do you think they fucked in there?
- 14:48Speaker 1: Probably? Yeah, I mean these were there were at least
- 14:51Speaker 1: some sexual assaults.
- 14:53Speaker 3: We got to go over the background information.
- 14:54Speaker 2: I'd like to.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Think that these are these astronauts, they're the best and
- 14:57Speaker 4: brightest that we have to offer.
- 14:59Speaker 2: And there's so smart. How come that thing would expect
- 15:02Speaker 2: they didn't build it? Yeah, well they didn't not blow
- 15:05Speaker 2: it up either, So I'm saying.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Well, they're the you know, they're they're ethical people, astronauts.
- 15:10Speaker 4: So I don't feel I feel like it was not assaults,
- 15:13Speaker 4: but a lot of just well mutual masters.
- 15:15Speaker 1: It was.
- 15:15Speaker 3: It was it was too it was too late to
- 15:18Speaker 3: moisten the most important gasket. But I mean, we've still
- 15:21Speaker 3: got time for number two talking about the ass gas.
- 15:26Speaker 2: That's the number two gaskets.
- 15:27Speaker 1: That's the that's the ass gasket. So this conspiracy theory
- 15:31Speaker 1: just started circulating in twenty fifteen.
- 15:34Speaker 3: Which a new one.
- 15:36Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's that's a long time for it.
- 15:38Speaker 3: That's usually there's at least one bed nineteen eighty nine
- 15:41Speaker 3: paperback book about it, you know, right, and there relatively.
- 15:45Speaker 1: There are books about Space Shuttle Challenger conspiracies, and we'll
- 15:49Speaker 1: talk about one at the end, but they're not as
- 15:51Speaker 1: crazy as this one.
- 15:52Speaker 3: No, they're far more plausible.
- 15:54Speaker 1: But the theory here is that at least six of
- 15:58Speaker 1: the seven people who are aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger
- 16:02Speaker 1: are still alive.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Bump.
- 16:05Speaker 1: And if you're listening to this, which you obviously are,
- 16:08Speaker 1: if you just heard me say that, we'll have to
- 16:12Speaker 1: we'll have to put these pictures up somewhere that people
- 16:16Speaker 1: listening can follow along. We'll put them up on the
- 16:18Speaker 1: website on pops dot com. Just check the homepage. They'll
- 16:22Speaker 1: be there. And there are people who look a lot
- 16:25Speaker 1: like the Space Shuttle Challenger crew out there in the world.
- 16:29Speaker 3: It's pretty goddamn close. It is fun.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just close enough that I can't think it's
- 16:35Speaker 2: completely stupid. But it's pretty stupid.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Yeah, Andy, I know, is skeptical because he inherently trusts
- 16:41Speaker 1: the government and everything they do, just like.
- 16:43Speaker 3: You love the government so much.
- 16:46Speaker 2: I'm the government.
- 16:47Speaker 4: I saw your doppel gang or the other day, like it.
- 16:50Speaker 4: It's people look the same.
- 16:52Speaker 3: Nobody thinks about you. This never happen. But the one
- 16:56Speaker 3: who's ever said.
- 16:57Speaker 2: People the amount of people who looked at me and like,
- 17:00Speaker 2: you remind me of insert fact you meet, Kevin James,
- 17:02Speaker 2: John Favreau. I had it back.
- 17:05Speaker 1: But this is doppelgangers all doing the exact same work
- 17:09Speaker 1: in life.
- 17:10Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:10Speaker 3: That's the strange part is that they're all have the
- 17:12Speaker 3: same kind of like hobbies and pursuit.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Yeah, which is sort of they've all sort of taken
- 17:16Speaker 1: the same career path.
- 17:18Speaker 4: And I's still I don't know. I had a guy
- 17:21Speaker 4: come up to me once and start talking to me
- 17:23Speaker 4: about a thing that I had no idea what he
- 17:24Speaker 4: was talking about. And we got a full five minutes
- 17:26Speaker 4: into a conversation before he was like, oh shit, you're
- 17:29Speaker 4: not who I thought you were. Like, I was like,
- 17:31Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about, man, I don't
- 17:33Speaker 4: know who you are. I've never seen you before. My
- 17:34Speaker 4: WoT you're on the space Challenge? Yeah, And he was
- 17:37Speaker 4: just like, why are you an astronaut?
- 17:39Speaker 2: Then?
- 17:40Speaker 1: Yeah, he was just the one.
- 17:41Speaker 3: You guys working with each other's science asks a quick question.
- 17:45Speaker 4: Quick fucking with me, man, float and space.
- 17:48Speaker 3: I don't know what it's people, I don't know. I
- 17:50Speaker 3: never got to go I exploded on the way, really
- 17:54Speaker 3: tired of asking that.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Man. That's the lamest part of the following is they
- 17:57Speaker 2: spend their whole life being like I'm gonna go to space.
- 18:00Speaker 2: They just have to fall.
- 18:02Speaker 3: Well in a roundabout way.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Heavens really are I mean, that's that's why figure skating
- 18:08Speaker 1: is my favorite Olympic sport, because people work their entire
- 18:13Speaker 1: lives for that moment and then your ankle just buckles
- 18:16Speaker 1: a little bit and you fucking wasted everything. I love
- 18:19Speaker 1: that so much.
- 18:20Speaker 2: I love watching people's lives be real.
- 18:23Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, that's why I like it.
- 18:25Speaker 3: Yeah, that is Uh, that is powerful.
- 18:28Speaker 2: And the idea of having to watch your whole life
- 18:29Speaker 2: end in front of your eyes while also wearing a
- 18:31Speaker 2: sparkly tutor.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Right, that's a real and you have to rid up
- 18:33Speaker 1: and still be happy.
- 18:35Speaker 3: It's a real booyon cube of sadness that you enjoy
- 18:38Speaker 3: there with it.
- 18:38Speaker 1: I love it. The agony of defeat. So Richard well, yeah,
- 18:47Speaker 1: Richard Scobie. He was the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Uh.
- 18:51Speaker 1: He was a pilot during Vietnam. Awarded the Flying Cross
- 18:55Speaker 1: for heroism during war.
- 18:57Speaker 4: They'll just give that to anybody that's what the.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Right the flying cross?
- 19:01Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And you can go out to his LinkedIn
- 19:06Speaker 1: page if you ow come on LinkedIn.
- 19:10Speaker 4: What if there was a wrestler named the Flying Shit
- 19:12Speaker 4: whose finishing move was the iron cross.
- 19:14Speaker 3: Oh, that'd be problematic, I think my He's like, all right,
- 19:18Speaker 3: so now my finishing move, I have to have the
- 19:20Speaker 3: Catholic Center Party authorize a enabling act and then I
- 19:26Speaker 3: can annex your balls, take the championship.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Belt and have the Swiss hide it in the vault somewhere.
- 19:33Speaker 3: Yeah, this guy works for it.
- 19:35Speaker 1: He's the CEO of a company called something like Cows
- 19:39Speaker 1: in the Cloud.
- 19:40Speaker 3: It's called like for when when Cows Fly advertising. It's
- 19:42Speaker 3: one of these like lame ass nineteen ninety ass firm
- 19:45Speaker 3: sort of names.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't get out.
- 19:48Speaker 4: And space shuttles are are black and white and cows
- 19:51Speaker 4: are black and white. Well, and some of the people
- 19:54Speaker 4: and there in the cloud there you go.
- 19:56Speaker 3: Oh, that'd be funny to do a cover of one
- 19:58Speaker 3: dovescribe as when cow Flying about the challenge.
- 20:03Speaker 1: You know you can there is a is it in
- 20:06Speaker 1: this article? There is a really funny picture this guy's company.
- 20:11Speaker 1: One of their logos or one of the images on
- 20:14Speaker 1: their website. Now it's not here, where the fuck is it?
- 20:17Speaker 4: Is the Challenger exploding.
- 20:19Speaker 1: No, it's a picture of a cow flying through the
- 20:22Speaker 1: sky and there's a plume of smoke coming from behind
- 20:24Speaker 1: it that shaped like a six. And that happened with
- 20:27Speaker 1: the space Shuttle Challenge.
- 20:29Speaker 3: Oh fuck, man. That's the thing about you. There's always
- 20:32Speaker 3: some bet like with the pizza gate. Shit too, there's
- 20:34Speaker 3: always some sort of accident that's also a symbol for
- 20:37Speaker 3: like the devil in sixteenth century England. Yeah, you know that.
- 20:41Speaker 4: Somehow we had in a movie theater I worked out
- 20:44Speaker 4: we had one of those toy grabber claw game machines
- 20:47Speaker 4: called the Challenger, and the top sign panel for it
- 20:51Speaker 4: was a space shuttle with a big claw coming out
- 20:53Speaker 4: of it. Oh shit, and I when they came to
- 20:56Speaker 4: I really wish i'd I wanted to steal that sign
- 20:58Speaker 4: before they got rid of.
- 20:59Speaker 3: The machine, and I didn't. No, yeah, that's pretty fun.
- 21:02Speaker 4: But anyway.
- 21:03Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a uh yeah, we had an air
- 21:04Speaker 3: hockey table called the Amistad. I don't know why they
- 21:10Speaker 3: thought that was a good idea, but it was there
- 21:12Speaker 3: for like fifteen years in Ontario.
- 21:14Speaker 1: This is the image that is on this company's website,
- 21:18Speaker 1: Cows and Trees. It's called and this guy still works there.
- 21:21Speaker 1: You can pull up his LinkedIn page. His name's Richard Scobe.
- 21:23Speaker 4: What like, No, who designed that?
- 21:25Speaker 1: See? Yeah, you know what?
- 21:27Speaker 4: No, fucking I believe in it exactly whole thing.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is a weird. What is it about?
- 21:32Speaker 3: Like cheating everybody where? You just have to plant clues?
- 21:35Speaker 3: I know, like, what is this a football spike? And clue?
- 21:38Speaker 3: Like if I got if I was dB Cooper, I
- 21:40Speaker 3: wouldn't be doing a showing up in dB Cooper lookalike
- 21:43Speaker 3: contests and making my own hot sauce and all this
- 21:46Speaker 3: shit that these people do.
- 21:47Speaker 2: I think this guy definitely isn't from the Challenger, but
- 21:50Speaker 2: he started the conspiracy just to drive traffic to his dumb,
- 21:52Speaker 2: shitty LinkedIn page.
- 21:54Speaker 3: That could be Oh that'd be a good move.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Yeah, but they do look alike.
- 21:58Speaker 2: They do.
- 21:59Speaker 1: The Richard Scoby who was on the Challenger and this
- 22:02Speaker 1: Richard Scoby.
- 22:03Speaker 2: They both have weird like sleepy Steve Beemi.
- 22:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna love it with you listeners. They both
- 22:10Speaker 3: look exactly the same.
- 22:13Speaker 4: I don't the nose come on there's there's a lot
- 22:15Speaker 4: of you.
- 22:16Speaker 1: Your ears are the two parts of your body that
- 22:18Speaker 1: never stopped.
- 22:19Speaker 3: Growing, Yeah, the interests of growing, and they're also the
- 22:21Speaker 3: easiest to change with plastics.
- 22:22Speaker 4: Obviously you haven't heard about my dick. I don't know
- 22:27Speaker 4: why I have tell me about.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear about it about.
- 22:33Speaker 3: Yeah, that joke didn't really go with your sweater there, And.
- 22:38Speaker 4: Look, I'm trying a lot of new things.
- 22:42Speaker 2: New year, knew me, new dick.
- 22:44Speaker 4: It's not impressive. That's really no one thought it was.
- 22:47Speaker 3: But yeah, no one even was thinking about it.
- 22:49Speaker 2: I assume solid five.
- 22:51Speaker 1: There are pictures of this guy on the website where
- 22:54Speaker 1: he doesn't look the same, But you have to keep
- 22:56Speaker 1: in mind everyone throughout history has seen one or two
- 22:59Speaker 1: pictures of the astronaut Richard Scobi.
- 23:02Speaker 4: She looks like Anthony Hopkins.
- 23:04Speaker 1: He does look like Anthony Hopkins then a little bit.
- 23:06Speaker 1: But uh yeah, he can go out and look at
- 23:09Speaker 1: his LinkedIn page. We'll put links up on the website
- 23:12Speaker 1: so you can see all this shit. The next person
- 23:16Speaker 1: living with adoppel Ganger out there Michael J. Smith. He
- 23:20Speaker 1: was a pilot, also a pilot in Vietnam, logged four
- 23:23Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven thousand flight hours before joining NASA.
- 23:27Speaker 1: That's fucking Michael Smith.
- 23:29Speaker 3: Yeah, see this again, I.
- 23:31Speaker 2: Don't see it. The eyes look different.
- 23:33Speaker 3: Well, no, they don't.
- 23:35Speaker 2: They don't.
- 23:36Speaker 3: They look exactly the same.
- 23:37Speaker 1: They look like he's even got the same way.
- 23:39Speaker 3: He looks like he's got the victumb nose, he's got
- 23:42Speaker 3: the bad big teeth.
- 23:43Speaker 4: He looks like Pete Carroll, he does.
- 23:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Well, no, man, he looks like an older version of
- 23:49Speaker 1: this guy.
- 23:49Speaker 3: Well, he looks like he's about to chase his fat
- 23:51Speaker 3: husband around with a rolling pit, right, But he looks
- 23:54Speaker 3: exactly like the fucking quote unquote dead dude on the left.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Man, the guy, the version of him on the right
- 23:59Speaker 2: line like the pastor of every megachurch who's had to
- 24:02Speaker 2: have like a whoops, I'm gay.
- 24:03Speaker 1: So is this guy except in the seventies, Yeah, it
- 24:06Speaker 1: was whoops I touched kids.
- 24:08Speaker 3: Yeah, whoops, I you know, blew up, honey, I blew
- 24:12Speaker 3: up the me Honey, I shrunk the number of parents
- 24:16Speaker 3: the kids have.
- 24:20Speaker 1: Right. One of the other interesting things about these two,
- 24:24Speaker 1: the real Michael Smith is now a professor emeritus of
- 24:28Speaker 1: Engineering at UW Wisconsin. The Michael Smith who was on
- 24:32Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle Challenger, had a master's degree in engineering
- 24:37Speaker 1: and was involved in all of the same fields. And
- 24:41Speaker 1: both were born in nineteen forty five, and they both
- 24:45Speaker 1: have the exact same names, and they were both on
- 24:48Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 24:49Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're both the same guy.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Yeah, sheep, what is so what is the idea behind
- 24:54Speaker 2: this theory? Exactly? Like why did they.
- 24:56Speaker 1: That's one of the problems with this theory is no
- 24:59Speaker 1: one can explain that part was up to something.
- 25:03Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's like I just feel like, if your
- 25:05Speaker 2: thing exploded, why keep them alive? But secretly, Like why
- 25:09Speaker 2: not be like we saved the astron a secret.
- 25:12Speaker 4: If they don't change their goddamn names.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of them do.
- 25:16Speaker 4: Yeah, their first names.
- 25:17Speaker 2: The translation we googled everybody with the name and.
- 25:21Speaker 4: You're still the same. So, like, I just don't understand.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Like, why did Elvis Pick died on the toilet for
- 25:27Speaker 1: his fake death story? We'll never know, Andy, Yeah, some
- 25:30Speaker 1: questions just can't be answered.
- 25:31Speaker 3: Because the king had to humble himself to live forever.
- 25:34Speaker 2: Elvis died on the challenge, but at least the toilet.
- 25:39Speaker 4: Elvis didn't then go to like a music open mic
- 25:43Speaker 4: and say, I'm Elvis Presley, not the Elvis Presley.
- 25:47Speaker 1: Story of r kind of doing that in Argentina at
- 25:50Speaker 1: one point.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Yeah mostly wait wait, Elvis.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Went to South America with like Mangola.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Karate trapped drug lords for the rest of his life.
- 25:59Speaker 4: And that's where they hight Nazi war criminals. It's safe
- 26:03Speaker 4: to go down there and use the same name.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Well, the government uses it as a place to send people.
- 26:07Speaker 3: That's like the that's like America's crawls.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Why because Argentina ever you knowuchos?
- 26:14Speaker 3: Yeah, but are you a gaucho. You're the kind of
- 26:18Speaker 3: bloggery type that would be all up in arms about
- 26:20Speaker 3: this sort of thing. And if you're not really considering
- 26:22Speaker 3: Argentina all day, it seems like a pretty good place
- 26:24Speaker 3: to put your Nazis to this podcast host, and can
- 26:28Speaker 3: we move on, Andy, I'm trying to prove that this
- 26:30Speaker 3: guy is also this guy.
- 26:34Speaker 4: Oh man, this one I don't see. This one is
- 26:36Speaker 4: just you don't see.
- 26:37Speaker 1: I feel like you're I feel like you're being a
- 26:39Speaker 1: little too.
- 26:41Speaker 4: This is the sinbad fucking.
- 26:43Speaker 3: This is an African American cheat and these are this
- 26:46Speaker 3: is the stickier one to discuss.
- 26:48Speaker 2: First of all, the guy on the right looks like
- 26:49Speaker 2: a thick necked Lando cow. Just accept that.
- 26:52Speaker 3: Yeah, he does a little bit.
- 26:53Speaker 1: But the guy on the left has a collar on,
- 26:54Speaker 1: so you can't.
- 26:55Speaker 4: See it's a little like Harrison Page from Sledgehammer.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Well, and and what's funny about you saying I don't
- 27:01Speaker 1: see the resemblance here? The explanation for this one that's
- 27:05Speaker 1: his twin brother, so they probably look a little like wit.
- 27:10Speaker 3: Is that actually his twin brother?
- 27:12Speaker 1: That's that's what when it comes to this guy who
- 27:15Speaker 1: which is Ronald McNair mission specialist and Ellison Onezuka also
- 27:20Speaker 1: a Michelin mission micheline chef. Yeah, he's got a Michelin star.
- 27:24Speaker 2: Uh.
- 27:25Speaker 1: They the argument here is that, well, this is Carl McNair,
- 27:29Speaker 1: which is Ronald McNair's twin brother, So they do look alike.
- 27:34Speaker 4: Andy, I don't I don't see that on these Wait,
- 27:37Speaker 4: but so the twin brother thing is is re No,
- 27:39Speaker 4: there's no, there's no proof of it.
- 27:41Speaker 2: So basically they just put two pictures of black guys
- 27:43Speaker 2: next to each other. Blow your mind. Well, well that's
- 27:46Speaker 2: I like the idea that this theory started with him
- 27:48Speaker 2: not being able to tell these two Asian guys apart.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Then he's like, well, I do everybody it's not racist.
- 27:54Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he just.
- 27:54Speaker 3: Got in trouble one time at a cocktail party. And
- 27:57Speaker 3: now he's like, no, I mean, I've got thousands of.
- 27:58Speaker 2: People believe it's like some side felt the in thing
- 28:01Speaker 2: where two prove he's not a racist. He has to
- 28:02Speaker 2: start believing the challenger was an inside job.
- 28:05Speaker 3: Yes, and he walked with a cane for six months
- 28:08Speaker 3: at his job because he lied.
- 28:10Speaker 1: So you, Andy, don't believe these two have twin brothers.
- 28:13Speaker 2: I don't.
- 28:13Speaker 4: I mean, okay, these these two guys, actually I can see.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Because this guy, well, okay, like the crows feeder, Yeah,
- 28:20Speaker 1: because that's still acceptable.
- 28:21Speaker 4: What Nope, go back to their goddamn picture. I'm not
- 28:24Speaker 4: just being performatively woke.
- 28:27Speaker 3: That's great, great hearing your voice crack through this entire explanation.
- 28:30Speaker 4: Look at his teeth and his mouth, very different.
- 28:33Speaker 3: Nobody's teeth changed. I always have ever looked any different
- 28:37Speaker 3: over time. Shane McGowan's teeth, it's still exactly the same
- 28:40Speaker 3: as you were in nineteen seventy.
- 28:41Speaker 2: You guys, we're literally studying the skull shape and bright. Dude,
- 28:44Speaker 2: right now we are half a step from full on
- 28:47Speaker 2: e jenks. You're gonna get the fuck out of here.
- 28:49Speaker 1: But yeah, the argument in both of these cases is
- 28:52Speaker 1: that these are these men's twin brothers. Carl McNair, who
- 28:56Speaker 1: you can also go to his concy. Well, that's the
- 29:00Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist side there is that. No, they're not, that's
- 29:04Speaker 1: just that's just actually them and they're lying about the
- 29:07Speaker 1: fact that they have twins.
- 29:08Speaker 2: Oh so it actually is the.
- 29:11Speaker 1: It's the theory and this person, Carl McNair exists.
- 29:18Speaker 2: This guy's brother.
- 29:20Speaker 1: Goes around the country giving lectures about his brother's experience space.
- 29:27Speaker 3: Okay, well yeah, so it's actually is a twin identical
- 29:30Speaker 3: twin brother, right all right.
- 29:32Speaker 4: I still don't see it. I think the conspiracy.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Stand out rules.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Lying about that guy being his twin brother to cover
- 29:41Speaker 4: up something else.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Hell, they're white children, you don't know.
- 29:46Speaker 3: There's an aquaman virtue signaling.
- 29:51Speaker 2: I honestly don't see that. Rules so hard.
- 29:54Speaker 3: That's pretty funny. And you kind of got owned here.
- 29:58Speaker 3: It's just haens everybody.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Ah man, the bird is spoken.
- 30:02Speaker 1: It's owned bird flying through the sky.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Yep.
- 30:05Speaker 1: Uh, there is a website. We'll link to it along
- 30:08Speaker 1: with all of these pictures.
- 30:09Speaker 2: The name of it is upsetting given that it's under
- 30:11Speaker 2: the Asian guy.
- 30:13Speaker 1: It's called big I dot com. And someone on in this.
- 30:18Speaker 3: Is actually just a Monsters Inc. Fan page. Weird.
- 30:21Speaker 1: They claim to have checked genealogy websites for proof of
- 30:26Speaker 1: either of these twin brothers and could not find any.
- 30:29Speaker 1: So see, well, then that just means they're still alive. Yeah,
- 30:34Speaker 1: that's all.
- 30:35Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know how did genealogy websites work.
- 30:38Speaker 3: They're probably all full of misinformation.
- 30:40Speaker 1: I want to skip around a little bit. We'll talk
- 30:42Speaker 1: about Judith Resnik last because she's the most interesting. The
- 30:46Speaker 1: two that people have the most trouble with when trying
- 30:49Speaker 1: to present this theory. One is Greg Jarvis. There's no
- 30:52Speaker 1: one out there looking like Greg Jarvis right now. No
- 30:55Speaker 1: one can find a doppelganger. Greg Jarvis just died, So
- 30:58Speaker 1: of course the conspiracy theory there is well, he was
- 31:01Speaker 1: actually on there and he was like disposable.
- 31:03Speaker 4: Yeah, there's always an answer.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Because he's got the weakest background among everyone, like all
- 31:08Speaker 1: these other people had really like went to really prestigious colleges,
- 31:12Speaker 1: and he went to like he went to like ICC,
- 31:15Speaker 1: which was Illinois Central College where I went for a semester.
- 31:18Speaker 2: The first Divride graduate to go into space exactly.
- 31:22Speaker 3: And yeah, where they need where that they needed a
- 31:26Speaker 3: licensed massage therapist on the challenge.
- 31:29Speaker 2: Hey, these Martians need someone to do their medical coding
- 31:31Speaker 2: and billing.
- 31:33Speaker 3: Yeah, this guy, he has a vape repair certificate. I
- 31:38Speaker 3: guess it is good for the exhaust I.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Mean, I need twelve more hours of my apprenticeship before
- 31:42Speaker 2: I can go pro.
- 31:43Speaker 3: But yeah, uh, but can you initial this form?
- 31:47Speaker 1: There's there's nothing really out there that would indicate that
- 31:51Speaker 1: Greg Jarvis is still alive. So NASA killed him. And
- 31:55Speaker 1: kind of the same thing with Christa mccauliffe, who is
- 31:58Speaker 1: the most famous member the teacher. Yeah, she was the
- 32:01Speaker 1: one who got everyone excited about this. Yeah, and she'll
- 32:04Speaker 1: come we'll talk a little bit about the Reagan theory
- 32:07Speaker 1: in a second. And she comes up in that. But uh,
- 32:10Speaker 1: the picture of her that doesn't look like her at all,
- 32:13Speaker 1: does go ahead and say it looks just.
- 32:15Speaker 3: Like it could I mean, it's not that close.
- 32:18Speaker 2: Those look like two different dudes. The one on the
- 32:24Speaker 2: left looks like somebody from Winger, Like it's a rough look.
- 32:27Speaker 1: Yeah, and those eyes are so different.
- 32:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if Shark could.
- 32:31Speaker 3: Get a perm why did they let a plot device
- 32:34Speaker 3: from TJ. Hooker on The Space Show.
- 32:37Speaker 2: Yeah. The one on the right is aggressively a different person. Yeah.
- 32:39Speaker 1: The one on the right is Sharon mccauliffe, who is a.
- 32:43Speaker 4: She looks like a Republican senator.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Oh fuck yeah, well she's a professor from Syracuse, which
- 32:47Speaker 1: is upstate New York, so almost certainly Republican. But uh,
- 32:52Speaker 1: she I don't think looks like Christa mccauliffe. The one
- 32:56Speaker 1: of the arguments here is that Christa mccauliff's actual birth
- 32:58Speaker 1: name was Sharon, So people okay, use that, And people
- 33:04Speaker 1: also argue, well, she was the second least valuable person
- 33:07Speaker 1: on that mission, so if anyone was gonna be in
- 33:10Speaker 1: the actually in there to blow up.
- 33:12Speaker 2: I'd be willing to entertain this theory, if there was
- 33:14Speaker 2: a theory.
- 33:15Speaker 4: But it's really there's no right, there's no.
- 33:17Speaker 1: I do like the idea of those two getting on
- 33:19Speaker 1: and then the door just shuts behind them and they're
- 33:21Speaker 1: like what the fuck, and.
- 33:23Speaker 2: Then just everybody else on the crew just beating a
- 33:25Speaker 2: pipe against it.
- 33:27Speaker 1: They're gonna kill the warriors.
- 33:28Speaker 4: Mile A monitor comes on at the control panel.
- 33:31Speaker 1: They're all on their phones. Bricycle, they're all on their phones,
- 33:34Speaker 1: which they had because they're in NASA.
- 33:37Speaker 3: I may have cracked this wide open. You know who
- 33:39Speaker 3: had a pretty big vested interest in the Challenger exploding.
- 33:42Speaker 3: The memorial coin industry.
- 33:46Speaker 1: That's a big coin again.
- 33:49Speaker 3: They're all they're making all these uh, you know, commemorative proofs.
- 33:54Speaker 3: So you gotta make it. You can't just commemorate a
- 33:56Speaker 3: proof of anything. You gotta have an explosion or some sort.
- 33:59Speaker 4: Of is just the tip of the iceberg. Those folks
- 34:02Speaker 4: have their tentacles and everything. There's the little pewter bells.
- 34:06Speaker 4: There's the ceramic plates exactly.
- 34:09Speaker 3: And since we there's everyone the world is too nuclearized
- 34:13Speaker 3: for for invasions and coups. Is like the good old days.
- 34:17Speaker 3: We got to blow up like science ship now right,
- 34:20Speaker 3: to keep the to keep the plates oven, to keep
- 34:23Speaker 3: the stamps flowing.
- 34:25Speaker 1: Those the little like house things like remember those?
- 34:27Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember I had the whole set of
- 34:30Speaker 3: dead Challenger crew member being babes, and I knew they
- 34:33Speaker 3: were gonna be worth something. But my fucking mom threw
- 34:35Speaker 3: them away.
- 34:36Speaker 2: You gotta buy each one because it comes with the
- 34:37Speaker 2: piece of the challenger. Then you put them all together like.
- 34:40Speaker 3: Like like an inspector gadget toy from McDonald's.
- 34:44Speaker 4: I like the lego set didn't fit together.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, uh.
- 34:49Speaker 2: Something on the right there looks like Alan.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Let's talk about Judith Resnik, though. I think she is
- 34:57Speaker 1: among at least among the the simil larities. I think
- 35:01Speaker 1: hers is the craziest.
- 35:02Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of little parallels.
- 35:04Speaker 1: She worked at RCA as a design engineer and contracted
- 35:08Speaker 1: with NASA on several projects before joining the Space Shuttle mission.
- 35:12Speaker 1: And you can find her today as a professor at
- 35:16Speaker 1: Yale University, the Arthur Lyman Professor of Law.
- 35:19Speaker 2: That looks like both white striper.
- 35:22Speaker 1: She looks like Stephen Tyler.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Johnny Depp in Transparent Too.
- 35:29Speaker 4: She looks like a ghost and a conjuring sequel.
- 35:31Speaker 2: Assistant Principal Sweeney Todds.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Yeah, let's say his hair is awesome.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Do you think she ever calls up the guy that's
- 35:39Speaker 4: a professor at Wisconsin and is just like they put
- 35:43Speaker 4: me at Yale. We did it, buddy, Probably Blizzard people
- 35:47Speaker 4: got me into Yale didn't even make a.
- 35:49Speaker 2: Change my name.
- 35:50Speaker 3: I wonder if they're ever going to.
- 35:51Speaker 4: Like a big ten doing.
- 35:53Speaker 3: Do they ever go to a conference together and like
- 35:55Speaker 3: you want a carpool and say, actually, maybe we should
- 35:57Speaker 3: in the carpool. Maybe of all the people to carpool
- 36:00Speaker 3: specifically could be bad.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Maybe the two of us should never get into a
- 36:03Speaker 4: vehicle together.
- 36:04Speaker 3: Last time we tried something like that, we had the
- 36:08Speaker 3: lay low for twenty years.
- 36:10Speaker 1: So the side by side pictures of her, I think
- 36:14Speaker 1: are really interesting, especially this one where her mouth curls
- 36:18Speaker 1: up the exact same way as.
- 36:20Speaker 4: Do you have the video where she blinks her second
- 36:22Speaker 4: set of eyelids.
- 36:24Speaker 1: I'm sorry, these two white people look alike and.
- 36:29Speaker 4: Okay in some of the pictures I see it.
- 36:30Speaker 3: In this one she's holding the pen in one picture,
- 36:33Speaker 3: the other picture no pen. How do you explain that?
- 36:36Speaker 2: The last one with the mouth curled, it's very and
- 36:38Speaker 2: the way her mouth is open in this picture.
- 36:40Speaker 1: This one is dramatically different lighting, so she's gonna look
- 36:44Speaker 1: not exactly the same because the light's gonna be hitting
- 36:47Speaker 1: her face. She's in a really bright courtroom.
- 36:49Speaker 4: Just she actually never allows anyone to take photos of
- 36:52Speaker 4: her from that same angle anymore. Like she has a
- 36:55Speaker 4: team of security that follows her.
- 36:56Speaker 1: That's smart.
- 36:57Speaker 3: She's like Strii's ant you know, she has a good side.
- 37:00Speaker 1: That's how you avoid up ending up on podcasts she is.
- 37:03Speaker 3: Did you guys know that? But streisand does that where
- 37:05Speaker 3: she's like when she does a late night show, she
- 37:06Speaker 3: makes him turn the whole set the other direction for
- 37:08Speaker 3: her good side to be.
- 37:10Speaker 1: No, I just wouldn't book her.
- 37:11Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel was like, she wanted to do that,
- 37:14Speaker 3: and I said, well, yeah, I fucking talk about it.
- 37:15Speaker 3: And she says, you can't talk about it. He's like, well,
- 37:17Speaker 3: I'm not booking you.
- 37:18Speaker 2: Yeah. It gives that much of a shit about barbar Streis.
- 37:20Speaker 1: That's the only thing Jimmy Kimmel's done that I respect
- 37:23Speaker 1: in years.
- 37:23Speaker 4: What about when he exposed this government cover?
- 37:26Speaker 1: What about when he died on the space shifle Challenger.
- 37:28Speaker 3: We brought the juggies with us to find out if
- 37:30Speaker 3: these people are lying about dying.
- 37:33Speaker 4: Who is behind this theory? Like you say that this
- 37:36Speaker 4: theory was offered in twenty fifteen the Internet, baby, Okay,
- 37:41Speaker 4: but is there like a central author.
- 37:43Speaker 1: I don't none that I've identified it just sort of
- 37:46Speaker 1: popped up.
- 37:48Speaker 3: Adam is saying all of this through a cartoon cloud
- 37:51Speaker 3: of pot smoke. The last eight words he said, each
- 37:54Speaker 3: one had a little bit more smoke come out, which
- 37:57Speaker 3: was great, and that.
- 37:59Speaker 2: The of like, I don't know, I didn't research it,
- 38:01Speaker 2: like you don't want to show called conspiracy gig.
- 38:05Speaker 1: I put the video that the conspiracy comes from in
- 38:08Speaker 1: the article. I don't like, I don't know the guy,
- 38:11Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that's where the conspiracy I just probably
- 38:16Speaker 1: I just looked.
- 38:16Speaker 3: A him up, CEO of Cointech Enterprise.
- 38:21Speaker 1: Okay, all right, uh so yeah, that there's that part
- 38:25Speaker 1: of the conspiracy, which I don't know. Some of those
- 38:28Speaker 1: people do look alike. Yeah, there's also a PolitiFact article
- 38:32Speaker 1: out there debunking this theory, but it mostly just bothers
- 38:35Speaker 1: me because it's one of those I bring this up
- 38:38Speaker 1: all the time. When there's a conspiracy theory that starts
- 38:41Speaker 1: circulating on the internet. We're always like, well, what's your source?
- 38:44Speaker 1: Who is that guy? What are his interests? But anyone
- 38:47Speaker 1: who debunks something will be like, see they debunked it,
- 38:50Speaker 1: Like it doesn't matter if it's like debunks at blogspot
- 38:53Speaker 1: dot com we're still like, no, this article proves it's
- 38:56Speaker 1: not true. And there's this PolitiFact article that's like, well, no,
- 39:00Speaker 1: this is all lies, and all it's really doing is saying, well,
- 39:03Speaker 1: all these people had different backgrounds and they couldn't have
- 39:05Speaker 1: been there at the same time. Well, that's all stuff
- 39:07Speaker 1: you can fake, Like that's all like if.
- 39:10Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sure there's like family photos and stuff of
- 39:13Speaker 2: them being not on the Challenger.
- 39:15Speaker 3: Right, but that's not what But the federal government has
- 39:18Speaker 3: no ability to fudge the numbers and make a you know,
- 39:22Speaker 3: it's the same shit. You pick up two cards and
- 39:24Speaker 3: you show one. It's a magic trick, you know, And.
- 39:27Speaker 1: It's not like they're doing that like I would. I
- 39:30Speaker 1: would be fine with citing this as evidence that this
- 39:33Speaker 1: theory has been debunked. If they went out and talked
- 39:36Speaker 1: to the families and we're like, hey, do you have
- 39:39Speaker 1: like some sort of proof that your daughter wasn't also
- 39:41Speaker 1: on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 39:43Speaker 4: That's not rude.
- 39:45Speaker 1: It's it's it's.
- 39:48Speaker 2: Likely your daughter widow. Your daughter looks like a dead astronaut.
- 39:53Speaker 1: You're aim but you're aim there if you're aiming to
- 39:56Speaker 1: debunk the theory, like you're helping.
- 39:59Speaker 3: I would say much less rude to ask the guy
- 40:02Speaker 3: that's teaching in Hawaii that's alive for his pictures than
- 40:06Speaker 3: the dead actual Yea, So if you're gonna bug somebody,
- 40:09Speaker 3: I would start, there.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Is your wife's still kaboomed? Okay, goodbye.
- 40:15Speaker 1: But I just wanted to bring that up because that
- 40:17Speaker 1: that comes up a lot on this podcast, where I'll
- 40:20Speaker 1: find articles where it's debunking it, and it's like.
- 40:23Speaker 3: Well, you can just you can look for whatever the
- 40:25Speaker 3: thing you're trying to believe is. You can find someone
- 40:28Speaker 3: that'll help you get there. Yeah, and you can just choose.
- 40:31Speaker 3: I just acknowledge that if you want. I mean, it's
- 40:34Speaker 3: all out there.
- 40:34Speaker 4: I just think in this particular case, it's telling that
- 40:38Speaker 4: like they didn't change their names, and like just the
- 40:41Speaker 4: simple fact of like, you know, the logic idea that
- 40:44Speaker 4: like no one know four people can keep a fucking secret,
- 40:48Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like, and there's no this
- 40:50Speaker 4: theory doesn't have any motive behind it, there's no reason,
- 40:53Speaker 4: there's no bigger picture, there's no scope to it. So
- 40:56Speaker 4: it's just like, what why you know? I all of
- 40:59Speaker 4: those things to other and make me go bullshit.
- 41:01Speaker 2: Like yeah, just if anything, you think, like you know,
- 41:04Speaker 2: the ship crashes, the astronauts come out. If I'm NASA,
- 41:07Speaker 2: I'm making sure they are dead so they can't go
- 41:09Speaker 2: on the news and co.
- 41:10Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, don't give them jobs in the same.
- 41:12Speaker 2: Thing like yeah, sure, it's like, oh we get we
- 41:14Speaker 2: give them good jobs and tell them to keep quiet.
- 41:16Speaker 2: But no, you just sent somebody out there, and you
- 41:17Speaker 2: put one on each other.
- 41:18Speaker 4: This was eighty six. We were killing Latin American societies left.
- 41:22Speaker 1: So why why wouldn't we let a space shuttle explode?
- 41:25Speaker 4: Why would we let the astronauts?
- 41:27Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I'm assuming the version of the
- 41:30Speaker 2: theories that the space Shuttle exploded because it was I mean,
- 41:33Speaker 2: we're about to get to this, but it was poorly
- 41:35Speaker 2: built or whatever.
- 41:36Speaker 1: Right my my, uh, I guess I don't know. Less
- 41:41Speaker 1: fantastic theory of this would be maybe the government launched
- 41:46Speaker 1: the space Shuttle with no one in it and knew
- 41:48Speaker 1: it was going to explode, but there's probably insurance money
- 41:51Speaker 1: or something to be.
- 41:54Speaker 2: Here.
- 41:55Speaker 3: So what I'm seeing is that twenty eighteen was surprisingly
- 41:58Speaker 3: the biggest year yet for commemorative coin collecting.
- 42:01Speaker 4: Wow, so not even nothing happened though in eighteen thirty
- 42:06Speaker 4: two years after this, So yeah, there is a theory.
- 42:10Speaker 1: And I find this one way more plausible that the
- 42:13Speaker 1: Reagan administration, as part of its overall space mission, which
- 42:18Speaker 1: was like the Star Wars Defense Initiative and things like that,
- 42:21Speaker 1: which actually wasn't a bad idea, but they basically.
- 42:25Speaker 3: We wish to launch the before I, before I can
- 42:28Speaker 3: have a phone call without giggling and proving my paints.
- 42:31Speaker 1: There was a Genesis video about it. Uh, there's an
- 42:34Speaker 1: entire book called Challenger Revealed, an insider's account of how
- 42:38Speaker 1: the Reagan administration caused the greatest tragedy of the space.
- 42:42Speaker 2: But that title needs more words.
- 42:44Speaker 4: This isn't This isn't a yeah it's an Emo album,
- 42:49Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
- 42:51Speaker 3: This isn't how I stopped learning not thinking about the bomb.
- 42:55Speaker 4: This is just the way things are, right.
- 42:58Speaker 1: But the government also lies about this, like they got
- 43:01Speaker 1: The government has not acknowledged that Reagan cost the fucking
- 43:04Speaker 1: Challenger disaster.
- 43:05Speaker 4: Yeah, but they don't need to. I mean, the thing
- 43:07Speaker 4: is is that it's just like, this is how.
- 43:09Speaker 1: The government works. So how do you decide when it's
- 43:12Speaker 1: just how the government works and when it's too insane
- 43:15Speaker 1: to believe.
- 43:16Speaker 4: Because one is just it's just it's like causality is
- 43:20Speaker 4: just like ordinary causality that leads to terrible shit because
- 43:25Speaker 4: that's just life. And the other is.
- 43:28Speaker 1: Because we also know what we also did mk ultra
- 43:31Speaker 1: and for what like if if we didn't find the
- 43:34Speaker 1: documents about that, forever we would be like, Okay, if
- 43:37Speaker 1: the if the CIA really did that, what were they
- 43:39Speaker 1: doing it for?
- 43:40Speaker 2: Well?
- 43:40Speaker 3: Yeah, and the only reason we found out is because
- 43:42Speaker 3: they misfiled a bunch of them. Yeah, and some like
- 43:44Speaker 3: fucking just dutiful paper pusher was like, Hey, I found
- 43:47Speaker 3: all this shit and that's right.
- 43:48Speaker 4: That's the other thing. That shit happens all the time
- 43:50Speaker 4: where it's just like a bureaucratic mistake or a clerical error,
- 43:54Speaker 4: and so stuff comes to light all the time.
- 43:56Speaker 1: But what happens way more is that they're just able
- 43:58Speaker 1: to shred everything and if it fucking comes to light.
- 44:01Speaker 1: Because they almost got away with that with mk ultra.
- 44:04Speaker 1: It was just one box of documents that got put
- 44:06Speaker 1: in the wrong place. But how many other boxes of
- 44:09Speaker 1: documents have just all been shredded without being put in
- 44:12Speaker 1: the wrong place?
- 44:13Speaker 3: You know, like king touch to him, isn't like he's
- 44:15Speaker 3: not the biggest fear of the most important guys. Just
- 44:17Speaker 3: the one they found that's the most well preserved. You know,
- 44:19Speaker 3: I think if it's kind of the same thing, I's like,
- 44:21Speaker 3: if that's the shit we found, yeah, you know, when
- 44:24Speaker 3: it's that insane, you got a figure. There's so. I
- 44:27Speaker 3: bet they've done some truly ridiculous shit, just didn't find
- 44:30Speaker 3: the worst one, completely unnecessary thing where I'm sure this
- 44:34Speaker 3: was part of some like hair brained, fucking square top
- 44:37Speaker 3: thought up plan or a bunch of fucking fifty year
- 44:40Speaker 3: old idiots got together and you know, ate pork and
- 44:43Speaker 3: decided that should kill some people so they could do
- 44:45Speaker 3: X and Y. Fucking communist countries. I don't know, maybe
- 44:49Speaker 3: fucking I'm not gonna spend a lot of time thinking
- 44:50Speaker 3: about it. They should do look similar though.
- 44:52Speaker 1: It was a Cold War.
- 44:53Speaker 4: Maybe most of them do.
- 44:54Speaker 2: I just it's most communists.
- 44:56Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, But yeah, that one is a little
- 44:59Speaker 1: more belief.
- 45:01Speaker 4: Several movies about wrong about the Twins, so I'm probably
- 45:04Speaker 4: wrong about the whole thing.
- 45:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's although if.
- 45:08Speaker 4: I'm wrong about the Twins, I'm also right about the
- 45:10Speaker 4: twins because they're just the same guy.
- 45:11Speaker 1: Wow, Sorry, you really brought this to a halt. Look
- 45:17Speaker 1: all twins look alike to you, now, Andy, what.
- 45:24Speaker 3: Look, let's put this behind us, so we'll throw on
- 45:26Speaker 3: something fun, maybe an Arnold Schwartzeneger movie, and think about
- 45:31Speaker 3: other things.
- 45:32Speaker 1: So that's pretty much the conspiracy. When it comes to
- 45:36Speaker 1: the Challenger, it's that they're all still alive, and we'll
- 45:39Speaker 1: put the pictures up. People can go look, we'll put
- 45:42Speaker 1: video of the disaster up if you want to relive that.
- 45:44Speaker 3: I didn't really see. Why was there a reason that
- 45:46Speaker 3: Reagan push it up to be? Was it to be
- 45:47Speaker 3: like politically advantageous? Dude?
- 45:49Speaker 1: He wanted to He wanted the Teachers in Space program
- 45:53Speaker 1: to be already happening by the time his State of
- 45:56Speaker 1: the Union address happened.
- 45:57Speaker 3: Oh gotcha, get of this, bitch.
- 46:00Speaker 2: I put in the space.
- 46:03Speaker 1: We put a woman in space. They put two actually
- 46:06Speaker 1: yeah there were two, yeah, Judith, and they fucking left
- 46:09Speaker 1: them there and the Space Shuttle exploded, one for cooking,
- 46:12Speaker 1: one for cleaning.
- 46:15Speaker 2: Listen, twich, it's me Ronald Regan, It's me the freaking
- 46:19Speaker 2: present to the boy. I got that for you.
- 46:25Speaker 3: We made the space suit with an apron on it.
- 46:28Speaker 3: It's got your name embroidered right there. Now, buckle up,
- 46:32Speaker 3: shut your mouth and die. We've already got a clone
- 46:37Speaker 3: ready to teach people about economics thirty years later.
- 46:41Speaker 2: No one can hear you clean.
- 46:43Speaker 3: It's a whole three dimensional plane. Nobody's gonna see it coming.
- 46:47Speaker 2: You got a vacuum in the vacuum.
- 46:49Speaker 4: You know was Now that I think about it, this
- 46:51Speaker 4: is Reagan, so there didn't have to be a reason, right, Yeah, it.
- 46:55Speaker 1: Could just be for fun.
- 46:56Speaker 3: God has told him this happened because I ate too
- 46:59Speaker 3: many JA beams this morning and go to sugar High.
- 47:04Speaker 1: Did you know Reagan legitimately believed we would survive a
- 47:07Speaker 1: nuclear war with Russia.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Yes, he thought.
- 47:11Speaker 1: He thought it was his mission from God to cause
- 47:15Speaker 1: a nuclear conflict with Russia, and that because God was
- 47:18Speaker 1: on our side, we as a country would survive.
- 47:22Speaker 2: That's the scariest thing I've ever heard.
- 47:23Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, And then well you don't believe that. And
- 47:26Speaker 1: then George Bush just kind of carried that same thing
- 47:29Speaker 1: on except with Isis. My favorite thing about Isis and
- 47:32Speaker 1: Us is that we both think Jesus is coming back
- 47:37Speaker 1: for our side, which makes me really want to see
- 47:39Speaker 1: that final battle because if Jesus doesn't come back for us,
- 47:43Speaker 1: that's gonna be fucking great.
- 47:44Speaker 3: Man.
- 47:45Speaker 2: I down the Eskimos and nobody else.
- 47:48Speaker 3: I'm really so to watch everybody get ghosted by Christ
- 47:52Speaker 3: as soon as the sea levels start to rise, and
- 47:54Speaker 3: it's like.
- 47:55Speaker 2: Oh, oh no, we were counting on this, were we okay?
- 47:58Speaker 1: Awesome? Because there is that thing where they always talk
- 48:00Speaker 1: about aliens making contact with the Nazis, and it's like,
- 48:04Speaker 1: why were they contacting the Nazis.
- 48:06Speaker 2: If you were if you were an alien they had,
- 48:10Speaker 2: it'd be like they seem like they know what they're doing,
- 48:12Speaker 2: like that if you didn't know the context being an
- 48:14Speaker 2: alien at all.
- 48:15Speaker 1: But you have to know the context. You're an alien,
- 48:17Speaker 1: you know everything.
- 48:18Speaker 3: Yeah, smart enough to fly through the you're smart enough
- 48:22Speaker 3: to you can create enough energy to warp space time,
- 48:24Speaker 3: which is to our understanding is that you know, the
- 48:27Speaker 3: limited primate life is it would take more energy than
- 48:31Speaker 3: there is in the universe to create an ol Kubia
- 48:33Speaker 3: drive system that could move you along faster than the
- 48:36Speaker 3: speed of light. So you're smart enough to do that.
- 48:39Speaker 3: I imagine you could you know, have systems available that would
- 48:43Speaker 3: analyze the the linguistic patterns and behaviors of people to
- 48:45Speaker 3: the point that you could determine the Nazis had some
- 48:47Speaker 3: bad ideas. Yeah, but what who says aliens?
- 48:51Speaker 2: Aliens don't necessarily love Jews. We don't know that.
- 48:54Speaker 4: There's a couple of different approaches. Yes, Aliens might be
- 48:57Speaker 4: anti Semitic. They might be like, well, we used to
- 48:59Speaker 4: have Jews on our planet.
- 49:01Speaker 2: And then we set them to you.
- 49:02Speaker 3: We're anti gravity Semitic.
- 49:05Speaker 4: Uh. But or like it could be another clerical error,
- 49:09Speaker 4: bureaucracy thing where it's like somebody mistranslated one word of
- 49:13Speaker 4: the of you know, German to the alien language.
- 49:17Speaker 3: We spilled a slurm can on this. They misfiled we
- 49:23Speaker 3: UFOs for the wrong guys.
- 49:25Speaker 2: It can also be that they know what's up, but
- 49:26Speaker 2: there's like, hey, this ship's between y'all, Like you know
- 49:28Speaker 2: what I mean.
- 49:29Speaker 1: Who knows? Damn you aliens.
- 49:32Speaker 3: I believe Aliens would buide by the prime directive, but
- 49:34Speaker 3: you know, it's.
- 49:35Speaker 1: Probably all right, let's get the funk out of here.
- 49:38Speaker 1: Andy say goodbye later, Keith say goodbye bye, Connor sagabye, goodbye, everybody.
- 49:45Speaker 1: We love you.
- 49:51Speaker 2: People.
- 49:52Speaker 4: They de