October 13, 2025 • 10 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks conspiracy theories!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a happy Monday friend to welcome to the thought Shower.
Internsown is my name. Hopefully you had a chance to
relax this weekend, chance to recover and know I try
to been busy a couple of weeks, Give me a
busy couple weeks going forward. By the way, I want
to make sure you know this, we are doing our
first ever clause im Pause Doggie Halloween Costume contest going
(00:22):
down this coming Sunday, October nineteenth, noon to two pm
Lone Oak Farm. Bring your dog, put your dog in
a costume. First place wins five hundred dollars cash money. Unfortunately,
I don't think it's the vibe for Skittles Chew.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We would been fine.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Skittles is just he's a border Collie and if you
know about border Collies, they're hurting dogs like they herd animals,
and they will revert to hurting, and so I think
that he would be too stimulated. And the problem with
Skittles is like he's so cute you want to put
your face in his face. However, he's not a fan
(01:01):
of that. He asked to be the one to do
it first, which honestly, it makes sense if I was
a human and somebody I didn't know put their face
into my face. I'm gonna assume it's not for fun reasons.
You know, he's had a costume once before. I got
a really nice, like really nice. It's like a tuxedo costume.
(01:23):
So him and Chewey both went as like waiters one year.
Chewy used to hate Halloween costumes. He acted as if
it was pure torture, although he looked adorable in them.
I have a great one of him as Darth Vader.
There was my favorite of all time. He was the horse.
He had a cowboy ride in his back, or a
jockey rather on his back. There was that one. Saw
(01:45):
us once got him a lizard one. He looked adorable,
but he hated it. But when it comes to pets,
isn't that like paying the rent? You know, you don't
got to do anything as a pet. Just pay the rent,
enjoy yourselves, or don't even pay the rent. Rather relax.
Your rent is being cute for the holidays. I was
thinking about maybe getting skittles to see Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I think that'd be kind of fun. Photos.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
We shall see. Let me get to this for your Monday.
The Conspiracy theories people actually believe. Now here's my thing
on conspiracy theories. Do I think there's truth to some
of them? Yes, However, the problem is not so much
the theory itself, it's the people involved in the theory, do.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Like, you know, like for a while it was like, uh,
everybody can agree. Justin Bieber makes bangers, even back in
the day One time baby. However, I think for a
while people didn't want to be associated with being a
believer like his fan base because the believers were very intense.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So I feel like with conspiracy theories, you want to
believe some however, or sometimes a conspiracy theorists it's like, okay.
I also think the problem with conspiracy theories is when
it's proven false, you gotta kind of let it go.
Like I do think there's some conspiracy theorists where there's
nothing you can do to prove their mind otherwise. So
(03:17):
in that case, it's not really a theory, it's a
fact to you, you know. Not. So I want to
get in all mine, no, because I want to be
doing the podcast on Wednesday, you know, starting with the
Earth is hollow, they say. Proponents of this theory suggest
a hidden civilization, advanced technology, and potentially new forms of
(03:38):
life exists beneath our feet. I'll say this much. I
think that like if there's aliens probably in the ocean,
like legitimately, I think the ocean is like, ocean is
scary for one thing. Ocean is massive for one thing.
We'll never explore. I don't even know ninety percent of
(04:00):
the ocean, So I would say that to me freaky,
especially like I ain't grew up on the ocean. I
grew up in Minnesota, So the ocean kind of freaks
me out. And not that I's afraid of the water,
but like, you know, there's some secrets in the ocean.
The moon landing faked.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
This is Eric. His big one is the moonlanding didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I've read the theories on that that we were trying
to win the space race and that you know, there's
we lost, the technology, lost, the footage.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That part of it isn't great.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Like that, the fact that we haven't gone back allegedly
and we don't have the technology to go back, apparently
that does seem odd considering nineteen sixty nine. Technology probably
better now than then. I've always thought that if that
was to be true, how would you get people to
(04:54):
be quiet for so long?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Like that to me, Like, I don't know if you
get people to not admit it or not leak that secret,
especially with how often we have government leaks, I don't
know if that one would hold up. Do I understand
the idea of why we would do it sure to
beat other countries. I also think that like other countries
(05:19):
would have been like, yeah, they ain't go to the moon.
They didn't. They didn't happen, you know what I mean.
So that's why I don't know. I'm a little bit
skeptical on that one. I suppose the Mandela effect. This
one's crazy. It's a phenomena where people or call events,
facts or details differently than they actually occurred. This talks about,
(05:39):
like I think the one of the big ones I've heard.
Remember they got milk campaigns back in the day, and
there's that meme like member advirl Vin's got milk campaign
and the answer is no, you don't because she never
did it, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So that one, I think is real. I've heard two memories.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's like everybody has their own version of a memory,
and every time you pull that book off the show shelf,
it is altering the memory. So that's kind of interesting.
Elvis Presley faked his death. The theory Elvis faked his
death has persisted for decades. Feel by sightings, alleged sightings,
you know, I don't know. They say that Elvis became
(06:16):
disillusioned with fame stage as death to live a life
being anonymous. I think that to me would be cool
if that was real, like if there because there's a
for a while, Andy Kaufman, who was one of my
favorite comedians because Andy would was on snel backham Day.
Have you ever seen the movie Saturday Night. It's on
Netflix now. It's really good. But the first show Andy
(06:40):
succeeded because nobody knew what the bit was. Like Andy
would do pro wrestling before wrestling was known to be
you know, predetermined, and he would go on talk shows
wearing neck brace and throw coffee on people, and people
never knew what the bit was. So when he died,
nobody thought it was real, like they thought he was faking.
(07:00):
And for a while people are saying that Now that
to me, if you could pull that off, that'd be crazy.
I don't know how the world would take it. I
think it had to be a thing where, like, I
don't know, like your family and friends would obviously have
to know. Like if I, god forbid, lost somebody in
my life and they came back years later, like, hey,
(07:22):
it was actually a bit, I don't think i'd be
like accepting of that. But oh yeah, dude, all's forgiven. Yeah,
Oh we just mourned you for a while and that. Yeah,
all's forgiven.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
All good. Don't worry about it. Alien life at Area.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Fifty one, you know this is one too, when people
are trying to storm Area fifty one. I remember saying
on the air, you know it's a military base, right.
I don't know if storming a military base is the
way to go. Now, I'll say this, The problem to
me is that what can fuel conspiracy theories is when
(07:59):
government or people in power don't just release all the
information at the same time.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Do I think we can handle all the information? No,
we cannot.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Look at the world, dude, I don't think we're in
a place where we could handle if there were aliens somewhere.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So do I think that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There's stuff going on we don't know about yeah, absolutely.
I would also say too, I don't think i'd want
to know some of the stuff going on, do you
know what I mean? Like, I've always thought about if
I became president, where I want to know all the
secrets some of it. I'm like, man, would you want
to know if there are aliens and there's an attack
(08:41):
coming on Earth? Would you want to know that?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I don't know. What can I do? Play Call of Duty?
Host the show? I don't know? This one's a while too.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That Titanic never sank, so they claim its sister ship
went down in an insurance fraud scheme. They argue that
Whitest Lines switched the ships to claim the insurance money,
as the Olympic have been damaged in an earlier incident.
They point to discrepancies in the ship's design and the
events leading up to the disaster as evidence of the switch.
Despite extensive documentation and underwater exploration confirm me t Tank's identity.
(09:17):
Those ones to me too, again, I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know. That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And then like, how do you figure out where people
are on certain boats?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I don't know. Do I think it's fun to have
conspiracy theories? Sure?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Keeps things interesting, certainly, but like some of these more
plausible than others. I had sat in the air for
the longest time. When your iPhone starts to slow down,
that means the new phone's coming, and that was found
to be true. That was found to be true. I also,
if you remember, years ago on The Cane Show, would
cover my camera on my computer with take so I'm like,
(09:53):
you don't know, somebody's watching you on the other side.
As it turned out that was happening. So longest to
those the other stuff I'll leave to the Internet sleuths.
I remember there was a great one for the Flat Earthers,
a Netflix documentary where at the end the guys ran
the experiment and improved the Earth. Earth wasn't flat, and
they were like, well, go ahead to the tests again.
(10:13):
I'm like, I think we're good. Helpe, you have a
fantastic Monday. Appreciate your listening. Its thought Shower
And a happy Monday friend to welcome to the thought Shower.
Internsown is my name. Hopefully you had a chance to
relax this weekend, chance to recover and know I try
to been busy a couple of weeks, Give me a
busy couple weeks going forward. By the way, I want
to make sure you know this, we are doing our
first ever clause im Pause Doggie Halloween Costume contest going
(00:22):
down this coming Sunday, October nineteenth, noon to two pm
Lone Oak Farm. Bring your dog, put your dog in
a costume. First place wins five hundred dollars cash money. Unfortunately,
I don't think it's the vibe for Skittles Chew.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We would been fine.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Skittles is just he's a border Collie and if you
know about border Collies, they're hurting dogs like they herd animals,
and they will revert to hurting, and so I think
that he would be too stimulated. And the problem with
Skittles is like he's so cute you want to put
your face in his face. However, he's not a fan
(01:01):
of that. He asked to be the one to do
it first, which honestly, it makes sense if I was
a human and somebody I didn't know put their face
into my face. I'm gonna assume it's not for fun reasons.
You know, he's had a costume once before. I got
a really nice, like really nice. It's like a tuxedo costume.
(01:23):
So him and Chewey both went as like waiters one year.
Chewy used to hate Halloween costumes. He acted as if
it was pure torture, although he looked adorable in them.
I have a great one of him as Darth Vader.
There was my favorite of all time. He was the horse.
He had a cowboy ride in his back, or a
jockey rather on his back. There was that one. Saw
(01:45):
us once got him a lizard one. He looked adorable,
but he hated it. But when it comes to pets,
isn't that like paying the rent? You know, you don't
got to do anything as a pet. Just pay the rent,
enjoy yourselves, or don't even pay the rent. Rather relax.
Your rent is being cute for the holidays. I was
thinking about maybe getting skittles to see Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I think that'd be kind of fun. Photos.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
We shall see. Let me get to this for your Monday.
The Conspiracy theories people actually believe. Now here's my thing
on conspiracy theories. Do I think there's truth to some
of them? Yes, However, the problem is not so much
the theory itself, it's the people involved in the theory, do.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Like, you know, like for a while it was like, uh,
everybody can agree. Justin Bieber makes bangers, even back in
the day One time baby. However, I think for a
while people didn't want to be associated with being a
believer like his fan base because the believers were very intense.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So I feel like with conspiracy theories, you want to
believe some however, or sometimes a conspiracy theorists it's like, okay.
I also think the problem with conspiracy theories is when
it's proven false, you gotta kind of let it go.
Like I do think there's some conspiracy theorists where there's
nothing you can do to prove their mind otherwise. So
(03:17):
in that case, it's not really a theory, it's a
fact to you, you know. Not. So I want to
get in all mine, no, because I want to be
doing the podcast on Wednesday, you know, starting with the
Earth is hollow, they say. Proponents of this theory suggest
a hidden civilization, advanced technology, and potentially new forms of
(03:38):
life exists beneath our feet. I'll say this much. I
think that like if there's aliens probably in the ocean,
like legitimately, I think the ocean is like, ocean is
scary for one thing. Ocean is massive for one thing.
We'll never explore. I don't even know ninety percent of
(04:00):
the ocean, So I would say that to me freaky,
especially like I ain't grew up on the ocean. I
grew up in Minnesota, So the ocean kind of freaks
me out. And not that I's afraid of the water,
but like, you know, there's some secrets in the ocean.
The moon landing faked.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
This is Eric. His big one is the moonlanding didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I've read the theories on that that we were trying
to win the space race and that you know, there's
we lost, the technology, lost, the footage.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That part of it isn't great.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Like that, the fact that we haven't gone back allegedly
and we don't have the technology to go back, apparently
that does seem odd considering nineteen sixty nine. Technology probably
better now than then. I've always thought that if that
was to be true, how would you get people to
(04:54):
be quiet for so long?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Like that to me, Like, I don't know if you
get people to not admit it or not leak that secret,
especially with how often we have government leaks, I don't
know if that one would hold up. Do I understand
the idea of why we would do it sure to
beat other countries. I also think that like other countries
(05:19):
would have been like, yeah, they ain't go to the moon.
They didn't. They didn't happen, you know what I mean.
So that's why I don't know. I'm a little bit
skeptical on that one. I suppose the Mandela effect. This
one's crazy. It's a phenomena where people or call events,
facts or details differently than they actually occurred. This talks about,
(05:39):
like I think the one of the big ones I've heard.
Remember they got milk campaigns back in the day, and
there's that meme like member advirl Vin's got milk campaign
and the answer is no, you don't because she never
did it, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So that one, I think is real. I've heard two memories.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's like everybody has their own version of a memory,
and every time you pull that book off the show shelf,
it is altering the memory. So that's kind of interesting.
Elvis Presley faked his death. The theory Elvis faked his
death has persisted for decades. Feel by sightings, alleged sightings,
you know, I don't know. They say that Elvis became
(06:16):
disillusioned with fame stage as death to live a life
being anonymous. I think that to me would be cool
if that was real, like if there because there's a
for a while, Andy Kaufman, who was one of my
favorite comedians because Andy would was on snel backham Day.
Have you ever seen the movie Saturday Night. It's on
Netflix now. It's really good. But the first show Andy
(06:40):
succeeded because nobody knew what the bit was. Like Andy
would do pro wrestling before wrestling was known to be
you know, predetermined, and he would go on talk shows
wearing neck brace and throw coffee on people, and people
never knew what the bit was. So when he died,
nobody thought it was real, like they thought he was faking.
(07:00):
And for a while people are saying that Now that
to me, if you could pull that off, that'd be crazy.
I don't know how the world would take it. I
think it had to be a thing where, like, I
don't know, like your family and friends would obviously have
to know. Like if I, god forbid, lost somebody in
my life and they came back years later, like, hey,
(07:22):
it was actually a bit, I don't think i'd be
like accepting of that. But oh yeah, dude, all's forgiven. Yeah,
Oh we just mourned you for a while and that. Yeah,
all's forgiven.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
All good. Don't worry about it. Alien life at Area.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Fifty one, you know this is one too, when people
are trying to storm Area fifty one. I remember saying
on the air, you know it's a military base, right.
I don't know if storming a military base is the
way to go. Now, I'll say this, The problem to
me is that what can fuel conspiracy theories is when
(07:59):
government or people in power don't just release all the
information at the same time.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Do I think we can handle all the information? No,
we cannot.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Look at the world, dude, I don't think we're in
a place where we could handle if there were aliens somewhere.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So do I think that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There's stuff going on we don't know about yeah, absolutely.
I would also say too, I don't think i'd want
to know some of the stuff going on, do you
know what I mean? Like, I've always thought about if
I became president, where I want to know all the
secrets some of it. I'm like, man, would you want
to know if there are aliens and there's an attack
(08:41):
coming on Earth? Would you want to know that?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I don't know. What can I do? Play Call of Duty?
Host the show? I don't know? This one's a while too.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That Titanic never sank, so they claim its sister ship
went down in an insurance fraud scheme. They argue that
Whitest Lines switched the ships to claim the insurance money,
as the Olympic have been damaged in an earlier incident.
They point to discrepancies in the ship's design and the
events leading up to the disaster as evidence of the switch.
Despite extensive documentation and underwater exploration confirm me t Tank's identity.
(09:17):
Those ones to me too, again, I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know. That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And then like, how do you figure out where people
are on certain boats?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I don't know. Do I think it's fun to have
conspiracy theories? Sure?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Keeps things interesting, certainly, but like some of these more
plausible than others. I had sat in the air for
the longest time. When your iPhone starts to slow down,
that means the new phone's coming, and that was found
to be true. That was found to be true. I also,
if you remember, years ago on The Cane Show, would
cover my camera on my computer with take so I'm like,
(09:53):
you don't know, somebody's watching you on the other side.
As it turned out that was happening. So longest to
those the other stuff I'll leave to the Internet sleuths.
I remember there was a great one for the Flat Earthers,
a Netflix documentary where at the end the guys ran
the experiment and improved the Earth. Earth wasn't flat, and
they were like, well, go ahead to the tests again.
(10:13):
I'm like, I think we're good. Helpe, you have a
fantastic Monday. Appreciate your listening. Its thought Shower
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