Scaryish - Ep 315: Spooky Updates & The Mountain Dew Conspiracy

Robin and Adam proudly present Episode 315 of Scary(ish)! In this episode, Adam gives two updates to topics previously covered on Scaryish before jumping into the deep end of a conspiracy. Listen, Share, Subscribe, and Review!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, they're spooky friends, and welcome to another episode of
the Scarish Podcast. It's been a while a minute, we're back.
Adam's got a sacked episode today.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Fucking banger of an episode ready for you.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
So excited.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's Robin Grace, I Medam Diaz. I think she said
that already. But honestly, guys, my brain is so figgety
fucked right now. It's so hard for me to keep
track of stuff. I do have a good episode. I
think I'm gonna kind of do a multi topic episode.
It's really like updates and then a topic, so which
is cool.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm down.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I do think you guys will enjoy it. We did
get an extra week in our break. We're trying to
do bi weekly right now. It didn't work out as well.
I think it's actually semi weekly. I always have this
argument at work because people say bi weekly all the
time and they mean bi weekly a week, which is
what bi weekly means. Semi weekly means every two weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
But I thought, when you get your paycheck, you get
your paycheck bi weekly.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
People use it wrong. I'm not sure they could be
using it right, and my brain's just mixing it up.
But I've checked it before. Any who doesn't matter, Like
I said, my brain's it's gonna be a tangent filled episode, Hoks,
just the way it's gonna go. But yeah, we're back,
So hopefully this extra packed episode will be something that
you guys can enjoy. What we have been doing since

(01:30):
the last you've heard of us is a lot of
work work. We built a fucking shed with our bare hand.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
My hand is so messed up.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It came out looking really good though. I'm very excited
about it. It's my first shed that I've owned.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
We say we've built it with our own hands. We
didn't design it. We bought a shed, it came we assembled.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
The fucking instructions were seventy nine pages, so I basically
crafted this thing from hard plastic on my own because
a wizard so many fucking pages. Robin also did a
ton of work. I'd say it was a pretty even split.
And it was also really fucking hot on the day
where we did like ninety five.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Percent of it, So yeah, I almost passed out.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, she was standing there. I was like, go inside,
and she's just standing like like not even opening her eyes.
I'm like, just go inside, go inside. And sit down,
and she just stood there for like a minute. I
was like, can you please go inside before you pass out?
It was a scary moment. I was like, I don't
know what she's doing right now. It was like sleepwalking,
is what it was like. So I glad nothing nothing

(02:27):
went worse than that. But yeah, we tore up our
hands a little bit. But it feels good. Feels good
to be a fucking man. How do you feel being
a man?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was just like, how's contractor me?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Look, she looked the same. So we did that. We
went and saw Superman.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh, Superman great. Love it.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I talked with my friends about it, my D and
D group, and the way I tell them stuff because
they're a very opinionated group of people, is I tell
them whether or not I liked it. I don't tell
them whether or not it's good.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
It was a good, solid movie.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah. I think everyone has their own opinions, and that's
fine if wants a lot to have their own opinions,
even if some of your opinions are fucking stupid. But
what it really matters is if you're telling someone about
like something that is subjective, saying whether or not you
liked it, is more accurate than saying whether or.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Not like it was a good movie.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, it's perfect. If you want to say like it's
a good movie technically, then yeah, go for it. But
what I said was like, I really enjoyed it. I
think it's a better version of Superman than I've seen.
I still love Henry Cavill. He's still my fucking dude.
I wish Henry Cavill could have had this Superman so
he could be like just a better version of the
character that's a little bit more comic, accurate to the
boy scout, like super caring version that I grew up reading. Yeah,

(03:37):
so I really did enjoy it. I could try and
pick the movie apart piece by piece and find certain
things wrong with like the dialogue and the scenes and
the storylines, but overall, I think it did a really
good job and I really did enjoy it. I want
to go see it again, be honest.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
With you, I want to go see it again too.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
There's certain parts of it that are cheesy, no doubt
they are cheesy, and there's certain acting that's cheesy, and
it Nicholas Holt is way over the fucking top as
Lex Luthor. But it just sort of works.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
The thing about it is that it is a James
Gun movie.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
And when you watch it, you know it's a James
Gun movie.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, absolutely. And I think there's a difference between and
this is like where the personal preference thing comes in.
There's a difference between campy and cheesy, and I'm okay
with cheesy, and for folks that are not okay with cheesy,
you will not enjoy the movie. But you might. You
never know, so I say, like, you're curious about it,
go check it out. But yeah, outside of that, man,
we have not done a whole lot. We have a

(04:28):
lot coming up this weekend though, Like we're gonna be
doing maybe some comic constant Fantastic Fool. We're gonna see
Fantastic four tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
We gotta say it, like the theme Fantastic fo.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
We're also nice. We're also doing something on Saturday. I
believe that your nails are talking about.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh, we're gonna go see like ac Romance for.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Those of you who don't speak Squeak Robin, We're gonna
go see my Chemical Romance, which will be fun.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I have been wanting to see this band for as
long as I can them existing, and like there was
when I moved back to because I used to live
in Hawaii. When I moved back to Hawaii when I
was an adult, like eighteen, you know, I moved back
the day after they had just had a concert in Hawaii,

(05:17):
and I was so pissed that you missed it because
I missed it and this is what two thousand and seven,
two thousand and eight or something like that. Yeah, I
was just like so annoyed. And then I never went
to go see a my chomic co Romance show. And
then they broke up, you know, they broke up, and
it's been how many years since they broke up, and

(05:38):
now they're doing concerts again. And I was just like,
I'm not missing this. Adam and I have had a
stomach bug or something, and I told Adam like, I
will diaper up for this concert. I don't even care
if I like I you know what I I was, just.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Like I told her. My response was what I imagine
some of your reactions are, which is you is I
do I do want to see my chemical Romance. I'm
not as enthusiastic as a Robin. I do love my
Chemical Romance. I think they're great back in the day
of the band is like three of the bands that
were like kind of like this piece of time to
me where my Chemical Romance, fall Out Boy, and Panic

(06:14):
at the Disco. Yeah, like those three bands in particular,
and I've seen one of them. I've only seen Panic,
So seeing MCR will be pretty cool. We're seeing it
at Dodger Stadium, which I hate, which for me is
like someone saying, hey, do you want to do something
you kind of always wanted to do, but with a
broken beer bottle shoved up your ears.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's not that bad. Getting there is bad, But Dodger
Stadium's fine.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, it's not. Dodger Stadium is a fucking shithold a
try and get into. It's a nightmare to navigate your
way to inside. It's fine. It's an older ballpark. I'm
not gonna knock it for that. A lot of people
say nostalgia. It's just whether or not you actually like
like that team. For me, I don't, so when I
go and I'm like, oh, it's an old, shitty ballpark. Cool.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
They've had a bad streak of games.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
They're still in first place. Sty'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
So show Hayes my bullet but yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It'll be interesting. It'll be really cool to see the
entire stadium filled out and like the infield, the entire
field in fact filled because I think they performance center field,
excuse me, So that'll be cool to see.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know what's funny is we're probably almost ten minutes
into the episode. Haven't even gotten to the topic or
not even that.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
We're like six minutes.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
But we are you just from this first conversation, right,
like us talking back and forth, sports, movies, music, like
we are.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
We talk about things that are going on in our lives. Robin,
we've talked about that.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, I know, but it's just like you kind of
get a glimpse into who we are as people, like
we're we are not just into one thing. We're into
like a whole bunch of different things. And it's kind
of funny how we can jump from topic to topic.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's just this is episode three hundred and fifteen.
I'm sure most of you are well aware.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, I mean, if this is your first episode, welcome,
this is us, not the show.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Never seen that show, You've never seen this two or
three episodes and then I watched an episode at the
wrong time and it fucking wrecked me. And I was like,
I will not watch the show again. Oh yeah, I'll
eventually go back to it. Yeah, it's the worst day
to watch that episode. Sterling K. Brown's in that show.
And I just watched Paradise, I think a month ago.
I think I recommended it on our last episode two
because it.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Was just like really good.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
It was very good. I really enjoyed it because like
a lot of the tropes that you're used to seeing,
they they turn it on its head or they just
like lean into it so hard. You're like, don't, don't
and then they do and you're like, motherfucker. So it's
almost like they're playing with you a little bit. But
the very beginning, like I did not know what the
twist was, Like, there's a big twist to this series
that gets revealed at the end of episode one, and

(08:40):
it's very much the crux. Yeah, i'd never went back
to this us. I don't know why you would have
to clarify that, but yeah, I didn't know what it was,
so seeing it and I was like, oh, holy fuck,
this is so much different than I thought it was
gonna be. And I eventually enjoyed it, and everyone from
that show that I Love got nominated for an Emmy.
So Sterley K. Brown got nominated, James Marsin got nominated,
It got nominated Best Common Drama. I don't know. I

(09:01):
don't remember which field it was in. Another aside, this
is totally not related to our show whatsoever. But we'll
get to our topic here at right after this. For
all things nominated for the Emmys for Best Comedy and
Best Drama, the two separate categories, only one of them
was on a network television.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Everything else is streaming.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Everything else is streaming. Yeah, blew my mind. I was like,
holy fuck, that's the that's the different universe we live
in now with the first time on Netflix show got
nomin and everyone's like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I don't remember. I really it's probably Orange of the
New Black. I wouldn't be shot if that was the
first show. But now it's fucking all like Apple TV,
Hulu Max obviously, or HBO Max have gone back to that.
Netflix probably two B has some shit now who the
fuck knows, but AnyWho, you guys aren't here for all
this nonsense. You are here for something scariest.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah right, We're like, that's a different podcast.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
About and TV. Anyhow, let's let's go ahead and jump
into this this week. I have several things I want
to cover in different sections. We've been going on for
an extra week, so I figured and an extra day
because our fucking internet was out for a day. Super anoying.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, yeah, that was really annoying.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
AnyWho, I figured i'd cover more than normal that way
everyone could be like cool and caught up. If everyone's
cool with that, that's what I'd like to do. I'm
looking out in the crowd right now and I'm seeing
nothing but nod.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
So yes, yes, yeah, sounds good for the crowd.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Cool. Shut up, Garrett, you're the only one saying no,
No one cares anywhoy. Here's what I'm gonna do two
sections for this episode. The first section is something I'm
gonna call Spooky Updates or whatever catching name Robin thinks
up for it. I thought she might have something off
the top of the dome to spin off, but too
late in the day for that.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's not even that. It's like I went to the
gym for the first time in five ever and got
thrown into this like, like, I don't know. For me,
it was hardcore I'm sure for a lot of other
people it was fine, but my body hurts so bad
that she.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Came home and acted like she she just bought her
body and didn't know how to use it yet, Like
her hands would just all stopped working. She's dropping shit
all over the kitchen, like grabbing hot plates. I'm like,
what the fuck are you doing?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, my brain's just not working. I'm just like, my
body's too busy, like got to repair itself, put all
the energy there. My brain's not working any herd Chef.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Thanks, So we'll keep it with spooky updates. That's gonna
be the first section, and then I'm just gonna go
over a few new developments in the world that we
have addressed in topics previously that you all probably want
to know about or maybe have heard about want clarification.
Second part of the episode, I'm going to cover the
topic known as the Mountain Dew conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm excited about this because I don't know anything about it.
Very curious, I will.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'm just gonna put this out there. You guys know me.
I'm a skeptic, all right, So if you're really bought
into any of these conspiracy theories or certain things that
we're going to cover. Like, just know like I'm coming
at this from a rational place, so don't be mad
at me for tearing down your I want to believe poster,
all right, all right, So without further edging, let's blast off,
all right, So spooky updates to start. I'm just gonna

(11:58):
jump right into the one. And we've been messaged about
the most. I know everyone has probably heard about it
at this point, but I figured out to make sure
we'd address it. Even the normies at work we're talking
about it. There's this doll called Annabel. There's a bunch
of movies about her, although they definitely take liberties with
those movies. Obviously the real Ed and Lorrain weren't so
fucking hot as Vera Farmagara or however you say her name.

(12:22):
I always fucking up. I apologize. I don't know Patrick Wilson.
They're both very, very pretty people.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Patrick Wilson, hit me up, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
The doll also didn't look like the doll from Annabel.
She's a raggedy a doll. She's not like some porcelain
doll that has like creepy fucking eyes that was made
by a dude in like Texas nineteen oh two or whatever.
It's a fucking no, it's the shit for Annabel Creation.
I've actually watched the movie and sometimes I remember details.
She's just a fucking raggedy An doll. For those of
you not familiar with Raggedy Ann or Raggedy Andy dolls,

(12:52):
they are much less threatening, albeit still horrified creepy looking. Yeah,
they're fabric dolls that I swear everyone had one as
a kid that I knew grown up, and I have
them when I was a kid, and like, it's I
grew up as a kid the back half of the eighties.
I was born in eighty five, so it's kind of
weird to me that all my friends had them because
they started being made in nineteen fifteen, Raggedy Ann specifically

(13:14):
what Yeah, and they were super popular back then, like
they were out for three years. They sold so many
that they started releasing what were known as Raggedy Ann Stories,
which were books about the things that Raggedy Ann would
go do. Wow, And those started being published in nineteen eighteen,
So they've been around for a long time. So it's
very possible, and it might explain why some of them
could be really old, which is why they're fucking haunted. Yeah, yeah,

(13:36):
so you never know what trauma they've witnessed. Her been
a party to the real Annabel is owned by a
man named Tony Spira. Tony Spira is the husband of
I can't remember her name. I think it's Jacqueline or Jackie.
I might be wrong about that, but she's the daughter
of Edn Lorraine Warrence. This is her husband, so I thought,
and I've seen a lot of people mention that annabel

(13:59):
is owned by Zach Baggins Bagel Bytes and that Annabel
is in the Haunted Museum. That is not true. Tony
Spira is like the owner operator of the Warren Museum,
the Warren Occult Museum. He does not lease it out,
so he like handles all the assets and they still
do tours and stuff like that. So Zach Baggles is

(14:21):
not attached to this topic really at all. So the
first update I was asked about by the Spooky friends
was that Annabelle had gone missing and whether or not
that's true. So I saw a little bit here and
there as far as headlines go, I didn't dig too
much into it. And then some folks started messaging us.
So I did some cursory research into it just to
see what was going on. And I could see people

(14:43):
saying the doll was being taken out on a tour
called the Devil's on the Run tour, and it was
associated with this guy named Dan Rivera. Okay, it didn't
seem like the show was having trouble selling out. When
I looked into this, it seemed like just about all
the locations and places they were going to go had
already sold out. There's only like a couple of places
like that hadn't. But when I saw that the doll
gone missing, I immediately thought like, oh, this is hype

(15:05):
for the tour to sell tickets, you know, because this
is a tour essentially that's I wouldn't say sponsored by it,
but it is affiliated with the Warren Museum because the
society or whatever I have it. Further on this, in this,
the New England Society for Psychic Research was founded by
Edda Lorraine Warren, and so the NESPR were the folks

(15:27):
doing this tour, so they took Annabel with them. So
the rumor was Annabel had just sort of up and
gone missing. So I assumed that this was like hype
for it because there is a new conjuring movie coming out.
Since it's attached to the Warren estate, they're clearly getting
royalties for it. So I thought, maybe that's what's going on.
That was my initial feeling, and from what I was
able to find at the time, the doll had been

(15:48):
like misplaced for a short amount of time but was
recovered quickly. Like, yeah, we got her because she's supposed
to be at a bunch of these events. Okay, So
Dan Rivera, I mentioned him because he's apparently one of
the people that was handling the doll at the live events.
So taking your in and out of like whatever, you know,
protective case they keep her in, didn't somebody die. So
I'm getting to it, Okay, okay, okay. So Robin just

(16:11):
figured out what was happening, and she did that face
from ace Ventur when he put the pieces together. He's
like he was moodied.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
You guys can't see his face.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay. So at first I thought this is not a
big deal, but then ten days ago, something much crazier
happened and the whole story that Robin has already spoiled,
which I'm sure a lot of you have heard the
coworkers of Dan Rivera entered his hotel room to discover
that he had passed away. And that's not hyperbole or
exaggeration or one of those like oh I'm possessed and
I've gone blind things to like amp up a narrative

(16:43):
like this is an actual human being who has died.
Police that were called to the scene said that he
was quote discovered in his hotel room by coworkers. The
police went on to say that quote nothing unusual or
suspicious was observed at the scene end quote. At that time,
there was no specific cause of death readily apparent, and
they stated they would be performing in autopsy to determine

(17:04):
the cause of death. Now, the friends and coworkers at
the NESPR, the New England Society for Psychic Research, released
a statement on this. It was pretty long. It stated
they were quote still coming to terms with this profound loss.
Dan was not only a vital part of our team
for over a decade, but also a deeply compassionate, loyal

(17:26):
and dedicated friend. His caring nature and sense of purpose
made a deep impact on everyone who had the privilege
of knowing him end quote. That's the excerpt I took
from it, so clearly they're very upset. They really cared
about this guy. Yeah, he seems to have been a
great guy for all accounts, you know, and people typically
don't speak ill of the dead, but like the things
that have been said about him have been like glowing.

(17:48):
You know that said if I die young, I want
everyone to be as honest as possible and be like
I did not fucking like this dude. You're free to
say all you want to say, because I still feel
like at the end of it, you'll be like, but
I'll miss him. That's enough for me, Okay, But for
this dude, everyone has said that they miss him, and
he was fucking cool as shit. So this is one

(18:09):
of those like I want to believe moments that I
think people need to address as fact and reality and
not lean into the narrative that comes with the fact
that he was Annabel's handler because the Internet's gonna Internet,
And essentially what happened is there were a lot of
folks online who started talking about whether or not Annabel

(18:32):
killed this guy, okay, or he was possessed and he
killed himself. Like any theory you could come up with
how Annabel from the movie could have affected this dude,
even though like that's not like kind of what happens
with the Annabel doll in real life was sort of
put out there, and there are so many fucking articles
about this man's death that talk about almost exclusively the doll,

(18:58):
Like where was the doll? When's the last and he
handled the doll? Was the doll in the bed with
him when he died? Was the doll near him when
he died? Was the doll in the same room. It's
like gratuitous borderline grotesque where it's people chiming in from
the paranormal community that are not like connected to this
man to toss in their own theories on how this

(19:22):
entity could have taken his life stuff like that. So
it really got to the point where people took this
as another chapter in the movie saga and not something
that happened in real life. Like I kept finding articles
that really leaned into the doll killed him angle. I
even found a breakdown of what happened that kind of

(19:44):
took this from the Times of India, Like there's articles
from like every publication wow, all over the globe on
this shit. This prompted a guy named Jason Hawes. I
think I'm saying his name right. You guys might know
I've heard of him. He's a host of ghost Hunters,
which is not the Zach Beglamon. Yeah. Yeah. He released
a statement regarding this, and I want to read it
to you in its entirety, so you guys can hear

(20:06):
in the words of a paranormal investigator who does take
paranormal stuff seriously and doesn't just view it from a
standpoint of entertainment value, what he had to say about
this man's passing and sort of how the reaction from
the internet and the public has been. He said, quote recently,
the world lost a good man. Dan Rivera was an

(20:28):
army veteran, a father for a husband, and someone who
truly cared about people. What's even harder to see right
now are the posts blaming his death on things like
the Annabel Doll and attacking places like ghostly images of Gettysburg,
tours and other locations for having events. That needs to stop.
What his family shouldn't have to read that kind of

(20:50):
nonsense while they're grieving. Some people are using his passing
to push an agenda for profit, and it's just disgusting.
Dan was a family man or a paranormal investigator, and
he left this world way too soon. Let's focus on
remembering Dan for who he was, not turning his death
into some made up, bullshit story to get clicks for attention.

(21:11):
Honor the man, and forget the garbage.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's well said.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, and I think that really is indicative of the
fact that we can kind of get caught up in
the fact that stories are really fun to tell, and
we are all very morbidly curious being fans of especially
true crime and paranormal stuff. But in this case, it's
like when you start using this to click bait people, Yeah,
it's just like it's fucking gross, dude, Like it really

(21:35):
is so mad. Fucking Props for Jason Hawes for releasing this.
I think it's really awesome for him to stand up
and make a statement like this. Not everything is like
a movie. Not everything needs needs to be exploited for profit.
The movies make shit up constantly, you know. So let's
take a minute to separate things that could be bullshit

(21:55):
from things that are all too real and send condolences
to Dan or Varia's friends and family because I think
they're hurting and they're in a rough place right now,
and they're continuing the tour, so wow. Yeah, and the
places that have hosted them and have been respectful have
received a lot of anger and hate from folks who
think the fucking movies are real apparently, and that there's
a murderous doll that's being taken around the country, when

(22:18):
it's just like, hey, this is the source of the
inspiration for the stuff you've seen, you know, Yeah, so
separate that you can keep here. I want to believe
posters on the wall, but don't be a fucking dick
about it. Basically. That said, the Corner's most recent statement
regarding his autopsy was that it's not yet completed. I
checked to see the police files, but he'll send the
press release when it is. When that drops, I'll toss

(22:41):
in another update. I wouldn't get your hopes up for
the quote murder by haunted doll, though hopefully his cause
of death is something like heart stopped upon ascension to
a higher realm filled with puppies and people he's loved
for his entire life, because I think that's what we
would all prefer to have via cause of death. But yeah,
it's still grow test to reach someone's cause of death
through an autopsy report. But I mean, I'm fucking morbidly

(23:03):
curious and I'm wondering what could have caused someone so
young to die sorely. So keep you updated on that.
Thank you guys for being respectful for it, and I
figured it was worth giving you guys an update since
so many of you messaged this on it. No one
was shitty about it whatsoever. They were just like, what
the fuck happened? And now you know? So that was
the first update. Second update not as intense, I guess.

(23:26):
Second update Pigley, the asteroid four yr four, which I
have officially petitioned NASA to rename Pigley pg LIE standing
for Please God Let It End, does have an update
Back in March when I cover this topic. I think
it was episode three ten. I told you about this
city killer asteroid, the size of which, if it hit

(23:47):
the planet, whatever city was nearby would be vaporized essentially,
and I went over the saga of how we initially
found it had a very real chance to hit Earth.
Then all the math wizards got together and check their
fucking highpot newses and shit and came back and said like, nah,
August not going to hit us. The chance is like
one in a million. It's actually not one in a million.
It's four and one hundred thousand, or like one in

(24:07):
twenty five thousand. If my highpot newses are correct. That
number has not changed. It's still not going to hit
the Earth. It's going to pass between us and the
Moon most likely, or is it? Because back in March
when I cover this topic, there was a one point
seven percent chance that this thing would hit the Moon.
All right, that's a pretty five fucking chance for an
asteroid hit the Moon, just.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Saying if it hit the Moon too, would it be
like devastating?

Speaker 2 (24:32):
I don't think it'll be catastrophic from what I've read.
It'll fuck up the Moon pretty good though, but it's
not going to knock it out out of its orbit
or really affect us.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's what That's what my concern was. Is anything that
changes the Moon changes the tides.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, for sure. I was worried that it would like
hit it at an angle and scattered debris into our atmosphere.
But I don't think that's going to happen either. But
that said, it was a one point seven percent chance
in March. Uh, NASA has officially changed the odds to
three point eight. Okay, that's more than fucking double folks.
Two months the estimate was changed in April. Actually, it

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took two months for it to more than double in
chances to give our moon a new giant fucking pothole.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Do you think possibly it could exponentially, Like.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
The closer it gets, the more likely it becomes that's
going to hit. Yes, we'll find out as time March
is on. I'm so disappointed because when I said one
in a million, I had parentheses that said wait for
Robin to sing the song from Miss Congenius.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
I was singing it in my head, but I didn't
want to be rude and like cut you off, you know,
and if you wants in a lot, that's you know,
Miss Congeniality. If you haven't seen that movie, it's so
freaking good. Height of Sandra Bullock, just like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
For anyone who has seen and enjoyed Miss Congeniality, you
should watch a really old movie called Love Potion Number nine.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh I hate that.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
How can it's just fairness? I haven't seen it in
like thirty five years, but I hate that. It's the
first movie I saw that had Sandra Bullock go from
like ugly duck lane to beautiful swan. They did that
whole like take off her glasses and let her hair
down thing. Oh look, she's fucking hot.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
But mis congeniality is like, it's funny, it's charming. The
characters are all great, like Michael Caine, Michael, Yeah, what
what is that? Benjamin Bratt, I think.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
That's a Walliam Shatner's really funny and as himself good.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
They're also good. The music's great, like everybody's it's a
it's a it's.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
A music great, aside from their one in a million
theme song that they made up for this fake.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Fucking pageant, and then the song that he's singing when
everything is this That is.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
A funny fucking scene when he sings that and everything's
happening behind him.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
She's beauty and she's graace.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's the funniest because he knows it's happening, but he
just keeps singing because he has to keep.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Going, and he sings it in the William Shatner way
of singing. It's just it's about a beauty patage.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
When you released an album, I don't remember the name
of it. It was produced by Ben Folds, and there's
a song that he like semi covers. It's like half
of it's the real song, half of it's his version
called common People.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I fucking love that song so much. Anyways, let's get
back to Pigley. Uh. Before we wrap up the update
on Pigley, three point eight percent chance is gonna hit,
which brings me to my next suggestion. We should all
just move to the Moon, like a fuck the Earth.
This place is ruined. If we went to Mars, Elon's
gonna get there at some point. He's gonna show up

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and claim to be fucking space Emperor or some shit.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's already hard enough. What like, we want to move
to a different country. It's really hard to move to.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
A different No fucking visa I have to apply to
to go to the moon. No one owns the moon.
You can't own the moon. Okay, cool? How fucking hard
can that? Be Elon blows them up, like three quarters
of the time, blown up one writing his ship. The
other billionaire Jeff Bezos. If I told him, like a man,

(28:04):
I'd really kind of want to move to the moon.
And I got a bunch of people that want to
go with me. We'll build a city. We'll call it
Bezosville or whatever. He might just do it. He has
the fucking money to do it, and that's insane to say. So,
let's move to the moon. Alternative plan. Let's convince Elon
to move to the moon and build a space station
wherever this thing is most likely to hit because he
sucks and death by asteroids seems like a way Elon

(28:24):
Musk would want to die.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
If you gave him an entire moon, though, he would
turn it into the Death Star straight up.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
He'd probably try to. But if that asteroid hit first.
I mean, he's got to be a fan of asteroids.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's why he supposed to hit.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
So I can't remember twenty thirty two. You missed my
joke because he had asked that question.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
No, I heard it. It was just really rude.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Fucking uh. That's it for updates. Please though, email NASA
and ask for twenty twenty four yr four to be
renamed Pigley pg l E. Please gott let it end
all right, spooky updates out of the way. I asked
chat GPT.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
To give me a minutes into this episode.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
I'll just oh, god, okay, but yeah. I asked chat
GPT to give me a pun for like spooky updates,
and the best one it came up with was deadlines
instead of headlines. Oh yeah. If we had like something
that people were like set, like there was a timer
that people had to apply for deadlines would be perfect

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for the other ones that gave me were just dog shit.
I was like, you're never turning.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, And I was sitting here while you were talking
about all the updates, and I'm like, gulletin you could.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Do gullatin bulletin's really good, or bulletin bulletin is also
really good. See, you're way better than chet. GPT needs
that human touch. So onto the main topic. This Mountain
Dew conspiracy theory, or Mountain Dew curse as I've heard
it called, was something that I first started seeing making
its way around the internet in March ish maybe April.

(29:50):
I think it's been around since March. It's probably been
around for longer than them, but someone picked it up
and ran with it. I cannot honestly tell you where
it started for the life of me. It has been
picked up in so many fucking times, so I'm really
late to this train, but I wanted to cover it
because I thought it was funny, as most conspiracy theories are.
Here's the thing. I don't think this conspiracy theory is
meant to really take itself too seriously. So I'm not

(30:12):
gonna take myself too seriously until I get to the
part where I break down why I don't think this
is a real thing. But before I get there, we'll
walk through it and give it a shot. Okay, does
that feel fair?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay? So I think what you should have done before
this episode is pick up all the flavors.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Fuck that shit, and okay, let me just read this
and then when I'm done with my first page of
this topic, I want you to remember you asked me that.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, but I like the Mountain Dew.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I'm so happy you said that. So I'm gonna keep
rolling through. We're gonna pause at one page into this topic,
and then we'll see how you feel.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
So, in my experience with this topic, here's how it's presented.
Mountain Dew releases a new flavor directly before some major
world event, and people keep saying major world event. So
something big happens in the land of Humans. The different
claims that are being made based off of this seem
to be that it's not directly tied to but somehow

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correlates with maybe not causes these these big things, because
how frequently a new flavor drops and then something fucking
goes nuts. Before we get into that, let's start at
the very beginning though. There might be people out there
who don't know what mountain Dew is. So for anyone
who doesn't know, mountain Dew is the name of a
soda that is produced by Pepsi, co guess what they

(31:30):
own Pepsi and Taco Bell. Just fyi, Taco Bells only
exist to sell you Pepsi.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Shut the front door one thousand.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
You're lying, not fucking lying at all.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Wait, Pepsi owns Taco Bell, Taco Bell.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yes, that's why Taco Bell will always be Pepsi products.
They bought that shit and they're like, we're gonna put
all of our fucking Pepsi through there, and like they
will run Taco Bell at a loss just to sell
you fucking pepsi to keep Pepsi in the public eye.
So there's a bunch of shit we get talk about.
But it wouldn't discarriage topic about how fucking crazy Pepsi is,
like committed to making sure Coke does not win.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
You have a costco goes back to Coke just saying.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
They just went back. Blew my fucking mind. That's got
to be such a blow to Pepsi. Some executive out
there just got fired for sure.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
All I know is Taco Bell has Mountain Do Baja Blast.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
It's an exclusive flavor to Taco Bell in case you
didn't know what. Yeah, but we're going to get there.
So it originally came out November twelfth, nineteen forty eight,
or that's when the trademark was officially granted one of
the two. But nineteen forty eight is the birth year
of Mountain Dew. Okay, if you don't know what mountain
Dew is, at least in the States, I don't know
if the bottling is different somewhere else. It has a green,

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translucent bottle, and the Mountain Dew liquid itself is this
sickly pale greenish yellow. It smells like a lighter version
of cat pee, and it tastes like it does. It
tastes like nuclear horse pistel battery acid mixed together.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I love Mountain dew.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
I should take this moment to go ahead. This is
exactly where for word my script says, by the way,
and I wrote this like hours ago. I should take
this moment to go ahead and let everyone know that
I hate mountain dew. And if we're being honest, I
hate anyone who likes mountain dew. Yeah, you're everything that's
wrong with the world. The only good thing you do
is you're kind enough to put out your cigarette butts

(33:17):
on your tongue before you throw them on the ground,
because it's the only way you could ever be able
to stand the rancid taste of mountain dew. I and
if you're wondering, Adam, aren't you worried about people that
drink mountain dew being upset that you're saying this? No, No,
dear listener, no, I'm not. I put this topic third
knowing that as soon as I said Annabel didn't kill
that guy, they'd turned the podcast off out of rage,

(33:38):
probably biting their phone until my voice stopped, or stomping
on it until it's done stop with the mean noises. Also,
assuming they have headphones, they would have seen the L
and R on each one of them, and then gotten
confused because they gave up because they can't read.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
You're mean.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Now that I've said that, you're so mean, modude's not
that bad. I just went all this and I was like,
I love this. I let it all pour out of me.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
He obviously wrote this because he had a bad day
at work.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Right after work to oh my.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
God, he had a really bad day at worked today, guys,
and then he was really pissed off. He was like,
I'm done with my fucking work day. I'm gonna start
my script for this fucking shit.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
I had already had the updates done, so when I
started the fucking Mountain deporsh just let the hatred.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Flow through me, let the hate flow through you.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
But I literally put a bullet point where it just
says dot dot dot so I could fucking take a
break now that I've said that, it's honesty not that bad, guys.
I'm just I'm just joshing you. I drank it a
bit when I was a kid. I didn't like it
that much, but every now and then it was like
something to switch it up because there was only the
Mountain dew when I was a kid, and after the
first time I drank it, in front of my brother.
He was with one of his friends. I'm pretty sure

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that was Lee's brother, and he told me, mountain dew
makes your ball shrink. It's yellow five. Look it up.
And I was just like, no way. And I asked
someone at school, like, have you ever heard of yellow five? Like, yeah,
that's the shit in mountain dew. Mountain dew makes your
ball shrink. I was like, no fucking way. So the
old mountain dew myth or conspiracy theory was that mountain

(35:13):
dew contained yellow five, and that was the beauty of
this myth. You tell someone, yeah, yellow five does this, this, this,
and this to you, And the most common things that
I heard said were it makes your ball shrink, or
once I got older to know enough what sterile meant,
people used to say yellow five will make you sterile.
And the beauty of that conspiracy is you immediately check

(35:34):
the ingredients on the bottle or can and it says
yellow five because yellow five was in mountain dew. And
then people are like, oh my god, I'm not drinking this,
you know. And that's what happened to me. And then
I realized later that it's all bullshit. There's no there's
no scientific evidence whatsoever. The only studies that have found anything, dude,
anything with data on a yellow five study was about

(35:57):
hyperactivity and children. This happened in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, there's a bunch of sugar in it.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Those studies stated that yellow five might have an effect
when combined with other additives, and didn't really list the
other additives, which I imagine we're fucking sugar or cocaine, which
have very similar side effects to children. Those studies were
also replicated, you know, the peer review process where you
take someone's like study and you do it yourself, see
if you can produce the same results. That's fucking sciences.
They try and they're like, yeah, we can't fucking repeat

(36:24):
any of these findings. So like they basically just tossed
out any fucking myths about yellow five in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
But yeah, I thought I'd make my ball shrinks. I
don't want to drink it.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I like mountain dew Baja blasts.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Baja blast is a very different flavor than regular mountain dew,
which I do think tastes like nuclear horse piss.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
And then you know, Taco Bell has all the frozen
flavors like all the different drinks that they come out with.
Bro PEPSI knows what's up.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I'm just saying, mountain de do don't ssume me it's
very safe to drink. I'm just not a fan. Apparently,
Yellow five has had studies done on whether or not
can make tissue train it's parent if it's soaked in
it for long enough, which is fucking crazy because there
might be practical applications for like medical breakthroughs. So stay
tuned to let you know if Yellow five is fucking
invisibility potion, because if it is, I'm gonna start drinking

(37:11):
fucking mountain dew. Maybe avoiding mountain dew, though, was the
right thing to do all along, because if it wouldn't
have been so popular, it wouldn't have gotten new flavors,
which means lives would have been saved according to this
conspiracy theory. I would like to put in the disclaimer
now that this could and almost certainly is all bullshit.

(37:33):
But let's do it. Here's the conspiracy theory told for
me in a conspiratorial way. Okay, the year is two
thousand and one. Okay, Mountain dew executives which are pepsi
co executives decide they're gonna make their first move on
the world, but they need a new flavor. Enter Mountain Dew.
Code Red.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Oh, I remember tho when they released Code Red. You
would When they released Code Red, it was like gamers
just having stockpiles of Code Red in their room, just
sitting at the computer playing video games, drinking Code Red,
eating pizza. That was it.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Do you remember when it was released?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Okay, I want to say nineteen ninety seven the.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Official release date according to the Internet, and I did
actually do research so I can give you a true
release dates. I believe it was tested in circing certain
markets in ninety eight ninety nine. The official release date
is May two thousand and one.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Code Red drops. It's a new cherry flavored nuclear horse
piss red variant of Mountain Dew.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
It tastes completely different than Mountain Dew.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
The world adopts it happily. I've never had Code Red. Yeah,
the world adopts it happen.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
I can't see my face. I am shocked.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
And it sees huge levels of success. I think there
were certain measurements that said it's the most successful variant
with one exception. We'll get there. It's poplacked four months
go by September eleventh. Happened? Oh, Code Red sounds like
a warning to.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Me, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Coincidence probably it's yeah, the beginning of a pattern, though.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
It's coincidence, not correlation. Let's you know, the beginning.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Of a pattern, though probably not. No one catches on
to the fiendish plot to reshape the world, so they
let things cool down a bit. The Code Red did
so well, the execs up pepsicot aside. It's time for
a new flavor. Time to shake up the world again.
I guess pun intended, but I feel pretty shitty about
it now. July twenty nine, two thousand and four, Enter

(39:37):
Mountain Do Baja Blast Baha bl released as a Taco
Bell exclusive and it remains so to this day. They
have done variations where they will run Baja Blast in
stores in bottles or cans, but if you want to
find it on the day to day, the only place
you can fucking get is Taco Bell. And it changes everything.

(39:57):
How could it not? It's due with the blast of
natural and artificial tropical lime flavor.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Five months later though, December twenty six, two thousand and four,
Boxing Day, an earthquake occurs at the base of the
Indian Ocean, displacing metric fuckloads of water, causing the Boxing
Day tsunami that quite literally washed away thousands upon thousands
of people. It's an unprecedented disaster. I don't remember I
covered this in two thousand in episode two hundred and ten.

(40:27):
Side note no, I did not give an episode number
for nine to eleven because we haven't covered it. Side
side note no, we will never cover nine to eleven
as a topic, aside from maybe brief conversation about where
we were on that day and what we remember. I
have zero interest in taking into those conspiracy theories. Plenty
of other people have already done, so feel free to
look them up. Pushed it anyway. Boxing Day tsunami happens.

(40:51):
No one notices the evil executives from PepsiCo planned this somehow.
Don't know if you've ever seen the logo of Baja Blast,
but it's a giant fucking wave. Wake up, people, wake up.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
No freaking away, bruh.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I'm gonna post these canst and the result of the
Pepsi coo evil cabal. I'm not gonna post a bunch
of horrible pictures of nine eleven and shit, I'm just
gonna post the cans.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
The execs sit PepsiCo figure at that point we should
probably chill. People are gonna notice we got a little
too cute this time with the Baja Blast tropical wave.
So they wait twice as long. They don't take three years,
they take six years between new flavors. Time goes by,
no one suspects a thing. They know they got lucky,
so they decide not to be so obvious this time.
They let the people decide, or they pretend they do.

(41:48):
It's an election. Yeah, those work. They start a campaign
for folks to pick a new permanent flavor. They release
a bunch of new flavors. Voting starts April nine, nineteenth,
twenty ten, my father's birthday. He's not part of it,
but I just want to let you guess. No. Voting
concludes on June fourteenth, twenty ten, Lee's birthday. It's weird.

(42:14):
Enter the winner Mountain Dew Whiteout.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
I've never had that one.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
I had.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I've never had it during Blizcon though, a couple of
years ago when we went, I had like four or
five different flavors, There were so many fucks.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Mountain Dew Whiteout is the official winner of this contest
Winter Contest. Sure this was all planned. Whiteout hits the
shelves wasn't immediately adopted. Like the previous two entries on
our list. Baja Blasting Code Red went pretty fucking big.
This one those kind of a fucking snoozer, even though
the people picked it. The soda world is shocked. How
could Mountain Dew white Out not fly off the shelves

(42:51):
with its smooth citrus flavor and other natural flavors. This
is literally what it says on the fucking can, guys,
it just says other natural flavors below it for almost
all these Maybe it's because the PepsiCo executives got sloppy.
They didn't do it right this time. The last two
conspiracies they waited, they dropped their product, and then three

(43:12):
or four months went by and then something happened. April nineteenth,
the voting starts. Okay, April twentieth, the deep Water Horizon
oil rigs suffers an explosion, beginning the deep Water Horizon
oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. Oh wow, wound
up spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for eighty seven
straight days. It's one of the largest environmental disasters in history.

(43:36):
Fun story, My dad worked for BP. He retired that year.
My dad was in charge of wastewater treatment at the
refinery in East Chicago Whiting, Indiana, which is on Lake Michigan,
and so he used to be in charge of making
sure like this didn't happen in Lake Michigan. They offered him,
like twice his salary to come out of retirement and

(43:57):
move to I think Louisiana years to help clean this
shit up, And he thought he thought about it, but
he was like, I just had back surgery. I ain't
going anywhere. I'm not cleaning up your fucking mess anymore.
He stayed retired. That said, this white beverage was not adopted,
despite it clearly representing the opposite of the black tar
spilling out of the Gulf of Mexico that PepsiCo had planned. Oh,

(44:20):
they clearly had miscalculated somehow, PepsiCo. Don't assume me I'm
going somewhere with this. I swear two fun facts about
the deep water disaster, one that I might edit out.
The first is that to this day, just about everywhere
you can research. If you want to know how much
oil was spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, the most

(44:41):
often seen unit to measure the spill remains how many
barrels of oil were spilled, not gallons barrels. This is
because it makes it easier for BP to calculate how
much money.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
They lost, because they're calculated by the barrel.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
By the barrel. Ah interesting, no one fucking knows how
many allen dur in a barrel. It's forty two. I
looked it up. Some people say fifty five. It's forty two.
So if you want to do some math, they lost
around They estimate four million barrels, which is one hundred
and sixty eight. That's a million gallons of oil.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Spilled into the It's a lot of money lost.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
It fucked that ecosystem. Anyone on that coast that made
their money like doing anything in the Gulf of Mexico
pretty fucked up if you think about it. Speaking of
fucked up, Though the failure of white Out was devastating PepsiCo,
the cabal decided to pump the brakes even more. Twenty
ten was a rough time for them. They wait in
nine years before their next foray into changing the trajectory

(45:36):
of the human race twenty nineteen hits. This is not
long ago, folks. This is six years pre COVID though,
so it feels like a different universe. They decided to
release a new flavor, Mountain Dew Liberty Brew.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Is it Is it blue or purple?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
It's blue? Pretty sure? I think they still sell it.
They wouldn't fuck this one up though. Like I mentioned,
there's always different flavors that they probably thought they missed
out on which flavor it was supposed to be that
made people happy for this one. They decided they're going
to take a different approach, though. What flavor do you
think it is? Liberty Brew? What flavor do you think

(46:11):
it is?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Like rocket pop flavored?

Speaker 2 (46:14):
No, try one more Liberty Brew brew beer. No. I
was hoping you'd guess t that's also that's also wrong.
That's what I thought I was. It's literally represented to
be fifty different flavors they were gonna miss because they
put all the flavors into Liberty. How could you fucking

(46:36):
go wrong? Doctor Pepper's only supposed to be like twenty three.
I think they're like, well, double that shit. And add
on four, I think I'm not good at math. I'm
pretty sure the slogan was to drink this, you stupid bitch,
Like what fucking the stupidest idea I've ever heard fifty
fucking flavors and one.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Their slogan though, do the dow so goods, You.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Stupid bitch is like twenty three already slogan from Mountain Dewers.
They just finally give up and we're living in inderiocracy.
Liberty Bruce launch occurred on June second, twoy nineteen. Seven
days later, June ninth, twenty nineteen, Hong Kong saw a
protest begin kind of, There was a sit in three
months before that. June ninth was when the next one happened,

(47:22):
is like a follow up, when literally hundreds of thousands
of people flooded the streets in protest for what you
ask liberty. A bill had been introduced to amend the
quote Fugitive Offenders Ordinance end quote. You might be like,
what the fuck is that, Well, I'll tell you. It
was an amendment to Hong Kong's laws that would allow

(47:43):
China to extradite anyone they saw as a criminal to
China to be persecuted and imprisoned, and so they're like,
that's fucked up. We don't want that, and saw the
people flooded the streets and said like fuck this, we
don't want this. So they came out in full force
during that protest of one hundred thousands of people, Nineteen
were arrested, they claimed for apparently no reason. It seems

(48:03):
like the cops had escalated some shit and like gott
into some conflicts. Nineteen got arrested.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Are you surprised?

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Well, when it comes to this shit, it's gonna get wild.
Three days later, they have another protest to protest what's
going on and the fact that a bunch of people
got arrested that shouldn't have been arrested. Police are more
notably violent on June twelfth, this time tear gas, rubber bullets.
They beat the shit out of a bunch of them.
They shot a bunch of nurses who were just there
to treat people who weren't even part of the protest.
They're just like sent there to like help people. They

(48:30):
just shot them if they're treating like protesters. They then
labeled them as rioters. Rioting in Hong Kong carries a
penalty of ten years minimum. Wow, So they could just
arrest whoever they want and imprison them, hoping that the
fucking protests would cease. But the protesters recorded that shit.
It was twenty nineteen. They had cell phones. They posted
that shit everywhere of the police brutality. June sixteenth, they

(48:51):
came out again, even more people. This time. They had
five demands. They communicated to the media, don't just suspend
the bill, because the bill had been suspended that point
and it hadn't been withdrawn. They like, we want it withdrawn.
We do not want this. This is not the will
of people. This is someone who's been paid off to
put this in the place. We don't fucking want it. Yeah,
as demand one, retract the labeling of protests as riots.

(49:13):
It's unconstitutional. They're allowed to protest. They followed all the laws,
calling them rioters as just a way to detain them
for ten years to make them scared. Release of the protesters,
an establishment of an independent commission to evaluate the use
of excessive force and the violation of civil liberties as
seen in the videos that they took, and the removal
of several officials, most of whom were appointed not elected.

(49:34):
That they believed to be corrupt. There's a lot of
bullshit back and forth, but the moral of the story
is this October twenty third, the bill is withdrawn completely,
despite the person who who put it in being so
fucking backhanded and shitty trying to say like, well, we
suspended it and then trying to sneak it through during
like night sessions and shit. Yeah, they constantly kept doing
that until they finally withdrew the bill. She bitched a bunch.

(49:55):
She called the protesters, you know, rioters. Still they released
the protesters. Basically, these folks got every thing just taste
like fucking liberty we talked about.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
That's just saying, oh okay, what is the label.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
The label it just says like fifty flavors.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Oh okay, okay, okay, it just says.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
By it, you stupid bitch. So but yeah, like this
was fucking wild. It's like the biggest protest they had
seen in Hong Kong and forever. What is sad about
this is that there were no one, no one resigned
that was corrupt, and so they're like, well, we'll just
run against us. They ran people that were like part
of the protests that it organized shit. They had a

(50:32):
huge following, and then like the elections were canceled and
then delayed, and then the candidates when they were finally
ready to vote, like two days before they were taken
off the ballot. They were kicked off by the corupt politicians.
So those people are still in power. Super fucking But
that said, Mountain Dew Liberty Brew didn't really do that well,
not a lot, not a lot of folks really ran
to the stores for Liberty Brew. Again, I think they

(50:53):
released it too close to their their plot of whatever
they're trying to do here, although this one seems like
Liberty Brew really represent the good guys in the story,
unless you're a fucking corrupt Hong Kong official, in which
case eat shit and die, you suck. I don't have
extradition to your country, so you can go fuck yourself.
But yeah, obviously the Pepsi co exacts are frustrated, like
they're done waiting, like they waited nine years. It fucking

(51:13):
didn't work. Again, They're gonna toss out some new shits,
so they just start tossing shit out. See you know
it sticks. Twenty twenty one, Mountain Dew Major Melon hits
the shelves boasting to be dew charged with watermelon flavor
and other natural flavors. This is the first time other
natural flavors is basically camouflaged into the background so you
can barely read it. The logo is a watermelon that's

(51:36):
like a person. It's like a watermelon with a face
and like an army helmet on, like a fucking soldier.
So it's face like all gruff and mean, and it
has like two giant fucking cuts out of its mid section,
so it's really weird. And then like he's surrounded by
other watermelons that are cut in half. They just look
like normal watermelons, but when you have an anthropomorphic one
that's like his friend's cut in half next to him suddenly,

(51:57):
and then like the top left of the can has
a crescent of a watermelon, like if you took a
slice of it or whatever, and has razor teeth with
a green tongue coming out of it. Like the design is,
for lack of a better phrase, fucking weird man. And
you guys can back me up on this when I
post this. It's released January fourth, twenty twenty one. Okay,

(52:17):
two days later, the Capitol Riot yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Was the Capitol Riot and TIFA performing a false flag
to make conservatives look bad? No? Was it the Proud
Boys and oathkeepers attempting to stop the election certification after
being told to stand back and stand by. No Pepsi
Coo inspiring a mob to violence with its new flavor
of aggressive labeling. Fucking dub, bro, have you been paying

(52:40):
attention melon madness to Major Melon? That's why it's a
fucking okay Major Melon? Yeah, got it.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
It's the dude Major. You're drinking him. So no wonder
people fucking love the only way they could have made
this flavor amp people up more, as if that army
hat wearing watermelon guy was wearing like an N ninety
five mask and a Don't tread on Me t shirt
at the same time.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Did it taste like watermelon?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I've not fucking tasted it, but it's supposed to be
watermelon flavors.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
So maybe is it still available?

Speaker 2 (53:14):
I don't think so, I can check, though it might be.
It's only twenty eleven so at this point, though twenty one,
what the fuck ever? At this point, we're all too
distracted to notice what PepsiCo is up to. Now they
made it so clear what they did. Two days later,
after they re released Rage Juice, there was a fucking
like ride at the Capitol. So they're like, let's just
keep going. They're not really buying them that much. So
twenty twenty three happens, and this is where the end

(53:36):
of my character happened, because I just couldn't go along
with it. Twenty twenty three. This is what really attracted
me to this theory in the first place, is that
the flavor that's released is Mountain Dew Maui Blast, So
I won't even do the pretend thing here. Mountain Dew
Maui Blast came out in twenty nineteen for a limited run,
then it was re released in twenty twenty two. The

(53:56):
Internet and a lot of people who push this theory
state that it was released in twenty twenty three to
get it closer to the event that they want to
tie it to. Yeah, which is, you know, the sensationalized
way of saying like, somehow Mountain Dew caused the Maui disaster,
the fires that happened out there. That one's way too
close to home for me to even like work this
into the conspiracy theory thing for those of you who
don't know, Tuesday, August eighth, twenty twenty three, there were

(54:18):
four wildfires that were burning on the island of Maui.
They spread rapidly by fierce winds. Lahina was burned to
the ground. Very few buildings were left standing. Friends and
family of ours were directly affected. I'm not going to
get too far into it, but it was hard. And
thank you to those of you who donated to relief
funds and go fundmes that we posted, we really really
appreciate it. If you still believe Jewish space lasers started

(54:39):
the fire or things that were colored blue didn't burn,
your fucking moron, you need to grow up. The coincidence
of Mountain Dew releasing in Maori flavored drink four years
prior in reviving it one year beforehand is just that
a coincidence, as were all of these you know, And
I make these jokes about it. I fucking joked around
about Boxing Day, tsunami and September eleventh, and obviously those

(54:59):
are also horrible tragedies, but this one is still fresh.
And that's why I want to kind of address this
conspiracy theory because it's bullshit. It really is guys, and
I can prove it. There's one flavor I left off
this list that I've seen on some of the lists
and not others. It's Mountain Dew Berry Monsoon.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
It came out one I've had.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
In May of twenty eighteen. Some folks list it because
there were two hurricanes in twenty eighteen after this flavor
came out, Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael. They were Category
five excuse me, category four and category five respectively, and
they were horrible. They both caused twenty five billion dollars
in damage. There was loss of life. And the reason
I think people don't list Barry Monsoon on their lists

(55:41):
all the time is because it doesn't fucking matter what
year it came out, because since nineteen ninety one, the
United States averages three category three or worse hurricanes per
year that result in loss of life and billions of
dollars of damages. So Mountain Dew could have released this
flavor literally any year from nineteen ninety one until now,
and it would have fit the theory, which is how

(56:02):
these fucking theories work. You just make some shit up
and then you tie it to whatever flavor came out recently,
because guess what, guys, when I did this list and
when everyone else does their conspiracy theory list, we're skipping flavors.
These aren't the only fucking flavors that came out, you guys,
fucking know that. How many flavors, Robin, do you think
we're released by Mountain Dew that didn't make this list.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
That didn't make this list, probably like five or six more.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
I'll give you one more guess, and I'll tell you.
I'll tell you one thing. It's more, oh twelve, one
hundred and forty. There have been one hundred and forty
other Mountain Dew flavors released, whether they are hard siders
international exclusives. There's still one hundred and forty Mountain Dew flavors,
including one called Mountain Dew Typhoon that came out in

(56:47):
twenty twenty two, the same year as Super Typhoon Hennemnor.
But I guess the people that came up this conspiracy
theory don't check on storms in the fucking Eastern hemisphere
because it's just not as fun to say typhoon to
the hurricane. I think typhoon sounds way fucking cooler. But
the point is like you just fit the tragedies you
want to talk about around the Mountain Dew flavor because

(57:08):
there's so fucking many of them. You can just pick
the one that came out right before this thing happened
and somehow connect the fucking dots.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Did you check the ones only released in America?

Speaker 2 (57:18):
I checked all of them. International is the separate categories.
If you take that out, it's probably like one hundred
and fifteen hundred and twenty easily. There have been so
many exclusive flavors, and that fucking poll the whole. Like
April nineteenth to June fourteenth, I think there was like
twenty fucking flavors.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
And they released them all.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
They released them all, and they picked one. They got
rid of the rest of them. Some of them made
a comeback. Some of them have like variations that come out,
like the Liberty one has had like six or seven
different variations that have come out. So like, this is
how conspiracy theories work. You find the result and you
work your way backwards, you find whatever factual details you
need to plug in to make the bullshit work. I mean,

(57:53):
that's just how it goes, man, Like those are conspiracy theories.
That's why they're fun, but when people take them seriously
and live their lives by them, it's like, what are
you fucking doing, guys, Like this is clearly not real.
This one is fun to me because I thought everyone
really thought it was fake, you know. So this is
like the perfect example for me of like, this is
why I don't cover conspiracy theories because if this one

(58:15):
had gone a couple more years and gained any more traction,
like covering this topic would have gotten me so much
fucking hate mail, I wouldn't have done it.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
So yeah, there's so when you were going through them,
like the different flavors, I was like, we tried flavors
that were not called any.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Of those like purple, red, green, and bla.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Yeah they were like yeah, So I was like confused
because I've tried other flavors, so it makes sense that
there would be so many.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
They're so fucking many, it's crazy. But that said, Mountain
Dew Mango Rush released in May of this year, so
who knows. I just hope this is heralding the arrival
of the millions, peaceful or not, I don't even give
a shit anymore. I'll take a lactus. At this point,
I don't care, which I'm excited to watch tomorrow. So

(59:08):
seeing Glactus on the big screen hopefully not suck and
look like a giant diarrhea cloud, would be nice. But
is there a mountain dew conspiracy? Na, dog, there's just
folks who checked some disaster dates attached it to the
most recent Mountain dew release. There's not even correlation. It's
definitely not causation. But it's a fun theory and they're
just supposed to be fun, like, don't take them too seriously,

(59:28):
and that, my spooky friends, is the mountain dew conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Thank you, that was a fun trip.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
You're welcome. I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry that the
episode was late. Life gets in the way, but sometimes
life finds a way, and we got to the episode.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
So it's funny because we told or Adam told Andrew
of you know, Sam and Andrew if you guys have
listened to the show for long enough or watching our
live streams or whatever. Adam was like, yeah, we'll have
an episode for you on when Internet died. Yeah, and
so sorry it's it's late, but.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Better late than never, as they say, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
I appreciate it. So that is episode three hundred and fifteen.
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Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
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a keep on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Creeping on and we'll talk to you guys later.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Oh bye,