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July 14, 2017 - Knowledge Fight - Bonus
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The Mandela Effect

Dan Friesen and Marty DeRosa dissect the Mandela Effect, exploring collective false memories like Curious George's tail and the Berenstain Bears' spelling. They weigh psychological explanations against wild theories involving CERN's Higgs boson, time travelers, and simulation reality. Ultimately, Occam's Razor suggests these glitches stem from faulty childhood memories amplified by internet echo chambers rather than actual historical alterations or matrix glitches. [Automatically generated summary]

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marty derosa
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Crisis Actors and Locked Abroad 00:04:27
unidentified
All I do is smash heads, bro.
Let's go!
That's what they want you to think!
The government's in charge of everything!
marty derosa
Alex Jones is a shill!
dan friesen
I'll fight you in the street!
marty derosa
Crisis actors on the payroll!
Obama, a lizard person.
The Bush family are so fucking evil.
Hitler, did he live on the moon?
Probably.
I think he did anyway.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody, how's it going?
Welcome back to Freezing Point.
marty derosa
It doesn't get no better than this, Dan.
Stop the podcast.
dan friesen
Guys, we have been, that's what they want you to think.
We'll see you next week.
unidentified
Woo!
marty derosa
Problem solved.
dan friesen
I am Dan Friesen.
I'll be your host alongside me.
My main man.
My truth seeker.
My digger.
Ladies and gentlemen, Marty DeRosa.
marty derosa
Crisis actors.
dan friesen
In the house.
We're both crisis actors.
Whenever I act, I'm in a crisis.
marty derosa
I, uh, whenever I, uh, terribly audition for a commercial.
dan friesen
For a Doritos, Tostitos commercial?
marty derosa
Whenever I terribly audition, I have a mental crisis and then I go to Portillo's and shove my face with food.
dan friesen
Back when I was, uh, in school and I was in a musical called We Has Jazz.
unidentified
Woo!
dan friesen
That was a crisis.
unidentified
Oh, man.
dan friesen
That was real bad.
Oh, man.
It was about the history of jazz.
My name was Riff.
marty derosa
Yeah.
Did you smoke jazz cigarettes?
unidentified
Nah.
marty derosa
Had a little heroin problem?
dan friesen
This was junior high, so they, uh, they tried to avoid some of that shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Yeah, sanitize it, whitewash it, just like the government whitewashes all the stuff happening in the world.
dan friesen
And that's why we're important.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Cause we come in, and we bring you the unfiltered truth.
marty derosa
Consider us your rowdy rowdy pipers, giving you glasses to put on to see what really is out there.
dan friesen
Behave.
unidentified
Obey.
dan friesen
That's it.
marty derosa
Not, not assume.
unidentified
Behave.
Behave.
marty derosa
That's like a nice way.
What if it was they live and you put the glasses on and it was just like, hey guys, come on.
dan friesen
Chill out.
marty derosa
Can you guys be cool?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Stop fighting with each other, you dill weeds.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That would be a great use of sub, uh, you know, uh, subconscious programming.
marty derosa
Like, kind of mellow.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
If there, if, if we do have all this subliminal advertising and stuff, which I believe we probably do.
marty derosa
Oh, we will, I know we do because I watched a documentary about, uh, uh, I want to say Zodiac, but I really think it was the BTK.
dan friesen
The Buy and Torture Kill Killer?
marty derosa
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like the ATM machine.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
The Astomach machine?
marty derosa
The BTK machine.
Um, so the BTK machine, uh, I believe they ran a commercial, uh, Oh, they ran a segment during the news, and at one point they cut in, turn yourself in.
unidentified
Whoa.
marty derosa
Yeah, and they talked about it, and they're like, yeah, we got some advertiser.
Cause back in the day, they were like, we can do this, right?
Then finally the government was like, ah, you guys can't do that.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's dangerous.
We're gonna have tons of people turning themselves in.
marty derosa
Like, wait, what?
Like, hi, uh, I'm turning myself in, like, why?
I don't know.
But, people turn themselves in all the time for crimes they didn't commit.
dan friesen
Sure, I mean, we've even explored some of that.
The, uh, Black Dahlia case had a ton of people who confessed to it that didn't do it.
marty derosa
That weird, uh, weird dude, uh, in the Jean Benet case.
dan friesen
Sure.
But that guy was.
He was trying to get out of a Vietnamese prison, as I recall.
marty derosa
I think he thought, oh my God, I got a great idea.
Imagine that if he's just sitting in that prison and he's like, I know what I'll do to get out of here.
dan friesen
I can get extradited.
marty derosa
I'll say I killed John Binet.
dan friesen
Yeah, because no matter what happens in the American prisons, it's got to be better than some Hanoi Hilton.
marty derosa
Have you ever seen Locked Up Abroad?
dan friesen
I have seen a couple episodes, but that stuff makes me so uncomfortable that I generally have to turn it off.
marty derosa
It makes me.
dan friesen
Okay, so I. Almost any of that locked up stuff gives me panic attacks.
marty derosa
I was watching.
I got in a wormhole of these videos and I was watching all these guys who work in Hong Kong.
They're like these.
I was looking at these videos of these, like, basically cool dude, like, tastemaker guys, and they're like, I work in the Hong Kong office, and I was like, man.
dan friesen
We're searching for Asian trends to sell to the whites.
marty derosa
What a cool life.
And then I was like, oh, man, I'd watch me get fucking thrown into Hong Kong jail.
dan friesen
I would see that happening real quick.
Swag Origins and Taiwan Confusion 00:02:19
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because I think you and I are kind of the type of bros who maybe.
marty derosa
I'm in that red light district, bruh.
dan friesen
Yeah.
If we're in the Orient, let's say, we're going to try and find vice, the land of the rising sun.
marty derosa
We're going to Rapungi.
dan friesen
And it's not just being in Asia.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
We do the same in Europe.
We do the same in Australia.
I just try and find trouble.
marty derosa
Locked up abroad makes you just.
And it's always like, oh man, I met this other American.
He's like, hey, can you carry my backpack?
He disappears.
I get arrested.
I have all the heroin in fucking, you know, Taiwan or Taiwan, Taiwan.
unidentified
Taiwan.
marty derosa
Taiwan or Singapore or some fucking crazy shit.
dan friesen
Yeah, the countries who have a reputation for.
unidentified
Caning people.
marty derosa
Yeah, that's why they call it a Singapore cane, Dan.
dan friesen
I don't know about this.
We'll get back to it another time.
That was a big fight of ours.
marty derosa
Big fight.
I'm currently fighting with Colt Cabana because what do you call the free stuff that, like, let's say you went to an event, you were invited to, like, an opening event?
dan friesen
I get what you're going for.
Generally, I think it's swag, but some people would call it swag.
marty derosa
I call it swag.
dan friesen
Schwag to me, I believe the confusion stems from swag being bad weed.
marty derosa
That's the first definition in the urban dictionary.
The second is stuff that promotionally is given away.
dan friesen
But swag and swag are so close that it's just a fun pronunciation of it.
I could see that.
marty derosa
See the swag?
Here's why people like to say swag.
dan friesen
Swagger?
marty derosa
Nope.
An acronym.
Stuff we all get.
unidentified
Ooh.
marty derosa
That's why everyone's on to swag.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
And it's the hit new word.
dan friesen
So you argue that it's originally swag.
marty derosa
And I think it's got to be some Yiddish.
It's got to probably be some Yiddish.
Sounds very Yiddish.
dan friesen
You think so?
I can look up the etymology.
marty derosa
Do it, man.
unidentified
Alright.
marty derosa
Etymology.com.
dan friesen
Um, I think, uh, I, my feeling on it is that it started as swag and morphed to swag.
marty derosa
And I put up polls on Twitter, and it's.
dan friesen
Holy shit!
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
You nailed it!
marty derosa
Yeah, right?
dan friesen
Schwag origin is Yiddish.
marty derosa
Of course it is.
I'm fighting with a Jewish guy over this.
dan friesen
In the 90s, it was an alteration of the word swag, though.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
Perhaps after the Yiddish origin, such as schlub or schmuck.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
So English and Yiddish came together to morph swag into schmuck in the 90s.
Yiddish Roots of the Word Swag 00:15:30
marty derosa
So we're all right.
dan friesen
Yeah, kind of.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's what's fun about learning.
marty derosa
That's, yeah, I know.
Thanks, internet.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Now, what do we have to fix?
dan friesen
Uh, well, we have a big one today.
We have a big one to fix.
And I'd like to take a moment before we get into our topic for today.
marty derosa
Would you like to thank our sponsor?
unidentified
I would.
dan friesen
Uh, Betty Ray's Ice Cream out in Kansas City, Missouri.
If you're out there and you need some ice cream, you can't do better than Betty Ray's.
I have no updates on new flavors.
marty derosa
I always love hearing about these new flavors and then imagining what they might taste like.
dan friesen
Uh, we've not gotten word from the sponsors, uh, since the, uh, black vanilla.
That was really exciting.
unidentified
Exciting.
marty derosa
The Black Vanilla murders.
I remember those in Kansas City.
dan friesen
A lot of people took credit for that.
marty derosa
A lot of people took credit for that.
dan friesen
I want to take a second to give a negative shout out.
Not a negative shout out, but goddamn, these internet polls, whenever we allow the listeners to choose what we talk about, it always ends up being the thing we don't want to do.
marty derosa
Do you ever wonder?
dan friesen
It's always the fourth option.
marty derosa
Do you ever, the one that we just throw on there?
dan friesen
Marilyn Monroe last time, and this time we'll get to it.
marty derosa
Do you ever think this is why the government's like, this is why we should just like rig everything?
These idiots are going to pick the wrong fucking thing.
dan friesen
They're going to astroturf.
They're going to figure out.
They're just going to lay it down and, uh, uh, carpet bomb the wrong option.
And here we are.
A lot of people wanted us to do Dracula.
Got a lot of feedback on that.
marty derosa
So excited for that.
dan friesen
A lot of people, uh, sent messages to me wanting us to do Flat Earth, which we will do.
marty derosa
We, I mean, we have no choice but to do it because the Flat Earth community has spoken out against us.
Not out against us.
dan friesen
No, that guy was very civil.
marty derosa
I feel like they were just kind of like, uh, hey, man.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
Here's my impression of the Flat Earth community.
dan friesen
Hey, bro.
marty derosa
Hey, Dan.
You're Dan, right?
dan friesen
I'm Dan.
marty derosa
All right.
Uh, I'm, I'm, uh, Steven.
I represent the Flat Earth.
dan friesen
Hey, Steve.
marty derosa
The Flat Earthers.
dan friesen
Um, nice to meet you.
marty derosa
I understand you might do a podcast about Flat Earth theory.
Uh, please just, uh, Tread lightly.
I'm not threatening you.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
marty derosa
We're not violent people.
dan friesen
That's a really vague threat there, Steve.
marty derosa
I'd hate for anything to happen to you.
unidentified
Oh, please.
dan friesen
This is a classic mafia show.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
Also, just handle this with an open heart, open eyes, and an open mind.
dan friesen
Now you're sounding like Coach Taylor.
marty derosa
And know that this earth is flat as fuck.
dan friesen
It's flatter than a six year old's titties.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
Again, that's your words, Dan, not mine, Steven.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I don't want to.
marty derosa
Be the head of the.
Flat Earth community.
dan friesen
Some guy did reach out about the Flat Earth stuff on Twitter, and he and I got into a back and forth that was pretty civil.
There was no like.
marty derosa
And, and, how are these?
Okay, this is my new Google Alerts.
dan friesen
That's how.
marty derosa
Because my podcast partner, Sarah, the wonderful Sarah Shocky, Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling, over at the number 33 sports podcast in the world.
dan friesen
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marty derosa
That's right.
So, We joke about Tom Arnold on the podcast.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
He's a character on the podcast.
And she did a drawing of him, didn't at him, didn't at Tom Arnold him.
And he wrote her back on Twitter.
dan friesen
That's super cool.
But it's probably, it either got back to him, like someone listens and was like, hey, you gotta, or, yeah, you can Google yourself.
I don't believe you've never searched Marty DeRosa on Twitter.
marty derosa
Oh no, I have.
dan friesen
You never found something that you were like, that's weird.
marty derosa
But I didn't write them.
dan friesen
You should have.
I'm going to search Dan Friesen and see what happens.
marty derosa
So these Flat Earth people have Google Alerts just set up at all times.
dan friesen
Probably.
I mean, the guy had a.
His image was the Flat Earth logo, and he's super active in the Flat Earth.
marty derosa
How's the logo as far as a branding standpoint?
dan friesen
I don't fucking know.
I don't care.
marty derosa
Do you like it?
Does it speak to you?
dan friesen
It looks like a government logo, it looks like a government organization.
Logo.
You can look it up if you want.
I don't really care.
Oh my God.
I just Googled Dan Friesen and it's a bunch of stuff from a realtor.
unidentified
Yeah.
Hmm.
He's cool.
dan friesen
Langley, Virginia.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
That's not interesting.
You know what is interesting, though, Marty?
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
Our topic for today.
marty derosa
I really think it is interesting, actually.
I know this wasn't your first, second, third choice, but I kind of like it.
dan friesen
Well, we'll get into it as we enter the Twilight Zone.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
As we enter the zone of That's What They Want You to Think.
marty derosa
This isn't as fun as singing to Sami Zayn's theme song.
dan friesen
We really ruined ourselves when we figured out the Sami Zayn thing.
marty derosa
God damn it.
unidentified
Jesus.
dan friesen
So today we are talking about the Berenstein Bears and the larger Mandela effect.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Marty, what do you know about the Mandela effect?
marty derosa
Here's what I know.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
We are all clearly under some type of mind control or a Matrix type of situation.
dan friesen
Classic Rowdy Roddy Piper.
marty derosa
And there are these programmers out there who, and I'm going to think.
You know, if you've ever had a job.
dan friesen
When you say programmers, do you mean like computer programmers or social programmers?
What are we talking about?
marty derosa
Well, I mean, they're making the matrix.
These are the computer programmers who are making the matrix.
dan friesen
I feel you.
marty derosa
Now, listen, you just work at Groupon.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Dot Bomb.
marty derosa
Every day, did they get 100% of Dan Friesen?
dan friesen
Never.
unidentified
Okay.
So.
dan friesen
I would argue they often got like 6%.
unidentified
Right.
marty derosa
So, sometimes these programmers who are, you know, doing the matrix are in a big, giant, long, white room and they're on their computers or whatever.
Every once in a while, one of these dudes just kind of phones it in.
He's a little hungover, maybe.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
And, uh, he forgets that.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
marty derosa
There's a little.
dan friesen
I forgot a little code.
marty derosa
I forgot a little glitch.
A little code.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
marty derosa
And he goes, man, they'll never notice.
And then, uh, truth seekers, like you and I.
unidentified
Sure.
marty derosa
Go, hey, wait a minute.
unidentified
What?
Isn't that?
What?
What?
marty derosa
How's that?
I think what?
And then we.
dan friesen
Get very confused.
unidentified
We.
dan friesen
We point it out.
unidentified
We.
marty derosa
We point it out.
dan friesen
We create Reddits.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
We create, uh.
marty derosa
The new thing, and this isn't really the topic we're getting into, but I think, uh, it's, it's from that, it's this idea of people so badly want to believe that there are these glitches in the Matrix.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
And time travel.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
I just saw, obviously, there was the one where the guy was at the Mike Tyson fight with the recorder.
It wasn't an iPhone.
dan friesen
No, but that one was debunked pretty easily.
marty derosa
Did you ever see the old black and white where the lady walks by and she's on what looks like a phone?
dan friesen
Yeah, but that was an earhorn.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That's really, that one was also very unprofessional.
marty derosa
One of the original hearing aids.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
And then there's another one where there's a painting, an old, old, old painting, when there's someone who's just like on an iPhone.
It looks like an iPhone.
I love this.
dan friesen
I do too.
It's interesting, but a lot of it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
marty derosa
So what I think we need to do now is take photos imagining what might be in the future.
So people go, this is a, this is a, this is a two podcasters who lived in Chicago in the early, earliest 2000s.
We're talking 2016.
Yet they, like, we got to do something where we like point at our eye or something where they're just like, they, they had eye, they had eye computers.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's clearly using an iComputer in this photo.
dan friesen
So, we've got a fake future technology to freak out future generations.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
So, we need like a video.
dan friesen
I feel like that's counter to our truth seeking mission.
marty derosa
Well, but I think it's fun, and I think future truth seekers.
dan friesen
I think you're now just trolling future versions of us.
marty derosa
I think we are.
So, what I want is a video of you going, hey, Marty, what time does the movie start?
You know what I mean?
Like, what time is Ghostbusters playing?
And I go, hold on a second.
And I act like I'm pressing my I.
I close my eye and I go like this and I go, ah, shit, we missed the 920.
But the good news is, there's a 1045.
dan friesen
And then people are like, I just bought tickets.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
And I'd be like, hold on.
Ooh, there's still good seats available.
And then people are like, what the f- What happened?
dan friesen
I feel like that technology is cumbersome in a certain way that you have to poke your eye in order to use the computer.
marty derosa
As I was doing that, it didn't feel great.
Maybe I'll do my temple.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Cause then it's almost like telepathic.
marty derosa
And then I'll make this noise.
dan friesen
I'll go, yeah, There's gotta be a click.
marty derosa
That's what they want you to do.
dan friesen
So that's, so that's what you know about the Mandela effect?
unidentified
No, I mean.
dan friesen
That was the answer to the question.
marty derosa
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm not quite.
I haven't done a lot of research on this.
I went a little flat earth heavy on my research this week.
dan friesen
I feel like you hit on a couple of interesting points that will come back up.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Uh, as we, uh, go into this discussion.
marty derosa
And I, this is how I've heard about this, is the Mandela thing.
I've heard you reference it numerous times, and then the Berenstein bears is a thing.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
Uh, I, and I like that idea, and it, it's kind of a subtle thing where you're like, wait, are they, did they die?
Are they alive?
You know, and that's like, or you, and you look up something, and you're like, that happened then?
And you're like, what?
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, that's kind of what the, like, what everything boils down to, is like, that, that, what, what, hm?
marty derosa
That's a good one.
And it's not like, this, like, You know, it's no Planet of the Apes ending when you see the Statue of Liberty.
You're like, oh my God, it's been here all the time.
unidentified
Ah, you damn dirty apes.
marty derosa
This is us just going, wait, what?
Is there just a little glitch in this matrix?
dan friesen
The definition given to the Mandela Effect on the Mandela Effect subreddit, and this is a definition that is pretty consistent.
marty derosa
First of all, shout out to the Mandela Effect.
You've got your own Reddit, you're making traction in the world.
dan friesen
R slash Mandela Effect.
Also, MandelaEffect.com has a lot of really useful information that.
If you want to check out, if you want to go down that rabbit hole, that's a great place to start.
marty derosa
Hell yeah.
dan friesen
There's a lot of stuff that's kind of dumb, and a lot of stuff that's like, oh, wait.
marty derosa
I'm Nelson Mandela, and I approve this page.
That's what it says when you click on it, which is kind of old school.
dan friesen
The definition given is the phenomenon where a group of people discover that a quote unquote global fact, one they feel they know to be true and have specific personal memories for, has apparently changed in the world around them.
marty derosa
Now, your most recent Mandela effect, I am a bit of a freezing point.
Uh, connoisseur, archivist, if you will.
dan friesen
Sure, a devotee.
marty derosa
Yeah, you thought that when the OJ verdict came out, you thought you were in Hawaii.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
But it turns out you were not in Hawaii.
dan friesen
Yes, I believed, and I can still sort of conjure the memory of the verdict being read.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And it does, it's in the part of my brain that I file as Honolulu.
marty derosa
So now we're getting into it.
This is that thing with people too being like, you know, when you watch, like I just watched, uh, uh, CNN.
Had a really cool documentary series about the 80s.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
Tom Hanks, CNN, you guys fucking knocked it out of the park.
There are those things where you're just like, wait, that was the, I thought that was the 90s.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
dan friesen
Like, do you have any, do you remember any specific things that, uh, stuck out to you?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
You know what's one thing, too, that, that I could explain that one away pretty easily, though.
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
Uh, that, I took a history of the 60s class.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
And, uh, they also did the 60s, CNN, did the 60s, 70s, and they just did the 80s.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
They're all on, like, Netflix, Amazon Prime.
They're great.
dan friesen
One of the things that is pretty, uh, Universal to historians, their understanding is that whenever you talk about a decade, you're kind of talking about like 68 or like, you know, 59 to 72 or whatever.
marty derosa
Absolutely.
dan friesen
The era drifts past the 10 years that you're talking about.
And so that causes a lot of confusion because the first couple years of the 90s were fucking 80s as shit.
marty derosa
Well, that's the thing too.
You watch some of these movies, you'll be like, oh, that movie had to have been made in the 90s.
It's like, actually, it was 80, 89.
You're like, oh shit.
And there is that spillover.
And it's like, if, I mean, this is just kind of like your classic, like, um, You know, there's definitely this 80s stereotype.
Well, that wasn't.
dan friesen
Day glow.
marty derosa
It wasn't 19.
It wasn't January 1st, 1980, all of a sudden everybody started wearing this certain style of clothing.
dan friesen
Yeah, we need neon everywhere.
marty derosa
Sure.
dan friesen
That aesthetic didn't take over day one, and then December 31st, 1989, they're like, fuck this noise.
marty derosa
And in the 60s, everyone wasn't instantly hippies.
Like, no.
That shit didn't happen until the very tail end.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
You know, so.
And that's, I think, just our habit as people to just kind of like.
Subcategorize everything.
dan friesen
Yeah, we have to make things in discrete boxes or else we can't really understand them.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Now, the thing with my memory of the OJ verdict, I am very comfortable saying I was 10 years old, 11 years old.
I don't have firm memories of a lot of stuff.
So the fact that I don't have like a complete memory set of 10 years old makes me think, I'd probably just misfiled this one.
And I'm comfortable with that.
marty derosa
I also, and then this goes back to your childhood, and there's a lot of memories that you might not quite remember properly.
Like if you're with a parent and they'll be like, no, no, no, you never did that.
unidentified
This is.
marty derosa
Where we went there.
And to this day, there was this restaurant we went to.
And we went with a family, a friend of our family, and their whole family.
And this place in my head was one of the most bizarre, weird places of all time.
And I can't remember.
And I can't.
No family's like, what?
I'm like, it is just like to this day, just burned in my memory this weird place we went to.
And we were in Indiana, but I think we went to Illinois to this place.
And there was this.
This, like, Filipino family, our family to be friends with.
And I'm like, usually my brother's really great with facts and all this stuff.
And he's just like, I got nothing on this?
I got nothing on it.
dan friesen
Which seems strange because a really weird place would stick out.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
And that's the thing, too, where it's those childhood memories.
Who knows what?
And it's hard to go back and think, like, how long ago did I think of this?
dan friesen
And as a child, fantasy blends with reality a little bit, your imagination.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then on top of that, you don't really know how to deal with dreams.
So you can have a dream that's super vivid and.
Could be categorized in your memory banks as a part of what actually happened.
marty derosa
I wonder if, obviously, you know, people had dreams even back in the caveman days.
unidentified
Sure.
marty derosa
I don't know how they dealt with that.
dan friesen
Better dreams, I imagine, than we have today.
marty derosa
You think they had better dreams back then?
dan friesen
Yeah, because they'd have dreams of living, as opposed to, like, how many times have you had a dream of being at work?
unidentified
Lots.
dan friesen
That's shitty.
But also, it's a waste of your dreams.
marty derosa
But I've also had dreams about being a pro wrestler.
dan friesen
Sure.
marty derosa
No caveman ever had that.
dan friesen
You don't know that.
You don't know that, man.
You could have had, like, some weird shaman caveman who, like, pierced the veil of time and saw into the future, into this weird fake pugilism.
marty derosa
What I do wonder is, like, okay, let's say you see the old timey deal of, like, you know, if you go on YouTube, there's always the, you know, 10 cases of time travel that existed.
You know, and they'll show, like, oh, here's these people at a Nixon rally in the, you know, Late 70s or the 60s or 70s or whatever.
And like, they'll show a guy who's, oh my god, look, he's clearly got an iPhone recording this.
Dreams, Time Travel, and Wrestling 00:07:38
unidentified
Yeah.
Okay.
marty derosa
Let's say you have the ability.
This is another fun thing to do.
Me and my friends, my little, uh, it's called fantasy booking wrestling.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
You could have went back and said, Oh, good.
Okay.
So I give you my magic iPhone.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
Dan, you can go back in time.
Where are you going?
Cause here's what I think instantly.
unidentified
Well, I mean.
marty derosa
I gotta get new clothes.
dan friesen
I'll tell you what I'm not gonna do.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm not going to go very publicly record something.
Just like, I would not do something that.
marty derosa
See, I think these people who did do that are trying to give clues.
No, I think they're so cavalier thinking, well, who's going to know what the fuck I'm holding up?
dan friesen
Yeah, I feel like that's silly.
Not on your part, but if in this hypothetical situation there's a magic time traveling iPhone guy, him being so brazen to be like, no one knows what this is, how could you not think in the future people will know what this is because I know what it is?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Because that same brilliance that made him invent that.
He was in the basement all this time.
He doesn't have a lot of social grace.
He's not thinking big picture.
I don't know.
dan friesen
He's a classic sci fi comedy villain.
marty derosa
Yeah, no.
Okay, so first of all, do you think time travel exists?
dan friesen
Probably.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
This isn't a time travel episode, by the way.
marty derosa
I know.
I'm just asking you this one question, then we're going to move on.
Where are you going?
dan friesen
There's two thoughts about time travel that I find hard to get around.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
One is that a lot of people believe that in order for time travel to work, you could only time travel back to when the machine was invented in the first place.
marty derosa
So if I invented a time machine now, today, yes, Saturday.
dan friesen
Whatever.
July 15th, 16th.
And then 10 years from now, you could travel back to this day, but not before.
marty derosa
You're killing me.
dan friesen
That's one school of thought.
unidentified
Maybe.
dan friesen
And then the other one is that you can't go to the past, but you could go to the future.
unidentified
That's scary.
dan friesen
Because of how time dilation works and stuff like that.
Because technically, every time you take a flight, you're traveling a little bit in time because of the relative speed of the Earth and the plane.
There's a tiny bit of time travel involved.
And if you go to space.
You know, time slows down a bit.
unidentified
Hello?
dan friesen
There is that concrete example.
So, Planet of the Apes could be real.
They could do that.
unidentified
Fuck.
dan friesen
Time traveling backwards in time is a bit more difficult because of our.
But then, if you free yourself from the idea of linear time, then it's all kind of resolved.
Or if you believe in alternate dimensions, which is what we're talking about today.
marty derosa
How's your Dan doing in an alternate dimension?
dan friesen
Well, my Dan's doing terrible and awesome.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
In every possible scenario, he's doing every.
Like, in one scenario.
This podcast is the biggest thing in the world.
marty derosa
Oh, man, he's killing it.
dan friesen
In one, I have no listeners.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
In this one, we're doing okay.
marty derosa
In another one, you hate podcasting.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
Hate it.
unidentified
Yeah.
Hate it.
dan friesen
You know, that's what's always so fucked up to me is like the idea that there are infinite universes.
There's a universe where you and I are having this conversation, but I have one more hair in my beard.
marty derosa
Isn't that crazy?
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's a whole other universe.
Everything else is the same except I have one more hair.
marty derosa
Or I talk like this.
dan friesen
Sure.
marty derosa
And then you talk like this.
unidentified
I talk like this.
marty derosa
They, I hate, I hate, man.
dan friesen
That's not a good impression either.
unidentified
Fuck.
dan friesen
I don't do good impressions of anybody.
marty derosa
I don't do good impressions of anybody.
dan friesen
Fuck you.
unidentified
Fuck you.
marty derosa
I'm Dan and I'm drunk on power.
unidentified
Nothing.
dan friesen
This isn't fun.
All right.
So, the Mandela effect.
It's come to the center here.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
But if I, also, if I was going to go back in time.
You know what I'd like to do?
I'd like to.
unidentified
Oh, ooh.
dan friesen
I don't want to go back in time.
I don't want to do that.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But what I would like to do is reverse time a little bit.
Be younger and grow up in Europe.
unidentified
Interesting.
dan friesen
That's what I would like to do.
If I could somehow manipulate time, I would like to go back and grow up in France.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because I would, I don't know, I feel like I'd be cooler.
I had a friend in fourth grade who moved to, I don't remember, I think maybe Tunisia or something like that.
He moved, and that's technically northern Africa, but he grew up abroad after 10 years old.
He was a fat kid when he was in Missouri.
And then he moved, and I just saw pictures of him recently.
He's fucking built like a brick shithouse.
He's got a hot fucking wife.
marty derosa
It's Chris Hemsworth.
dan friesen
He's super rich.
marty derosa
It's Chris Hemsworth.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it's just like, God damn it.
Maybe I'm projecting onto Ramsey's life, but be that as it may, I would have loved to get away from America, move to Europe at some point.
marty derosa
I'm already scouting locations for my eminent move.
dan friesen
Sure.
The woods, maybe?
marty derosa
No, I'm really thinking like Sweden or Norway.
dan friesen
I don't think those are good these days.
unidentified
Why?
dan friesen
I don't know.
Really?
Well, I mean, the weird conservative faction of the world would say being overrun with Muslims.
unidentified
Fuck, that's right.
marty derosa
They might not want an outsider like me, they might shut the borders down.
dan friesen
I don't want the bad boy of podcasting coming up to Lapland.
marty derosa
All right.
You got some stuck here, America.
dan friesen
No, Sweden's gorgeous.
I think it would be a great place to go.
Be that as it may, we've got to talk about the Mandela Effect.
marty derosa
I'm ready.
dan friesen
So the Mandela Effect is named for Mandela, Nelson Mandela.
The basic confusion is that a lot of people have different versions of when he died.
A lot of people believe that he died in approximately 1983 while he was still in a South African jail.
Now, in our reality, in our time stream.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
He died in, what is it, uh, 2013?
December 5th, 2013.
After being freed from prison, becoming president of South Africa.
marty derosa
Left Winnie.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
They made a movie about him.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Invictus.
marty derosa
Invictus.
dan friesen
Uh, so that's where all, like, a lot of this starts.
marty derosa
I think everyone sort of has had that.
Me and, me and my buddy Rudy were always, whenever we talk about, like, people, he's always like, he always goes, dead or alive?
unidentified
You know what I mean?
marty derosa
If we bring up somebody from the past, a lot of times wrestling people or things like that, but just actors in general, something like that, like, he'll just be like, You know, like Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman, like, dead or alive?
Bill Wyman, dead or alive?
And I'm like, oh shit, I don't know.
We'll have to go check.
dan friesen
Yeah, me and Nate Simmons have a game we play whenever we're bored that is just we name an old man and try and guess how old he is.
And often the ages are surprising sometimes.
marty derosa
Yeah.
Some people age better than others.
dan friesen
How old do you think Jimmy Buffett is?
marty derosa
Jimmy Buffett right now is 74.
dan friesen
69.
marty derosa
Fuck, that's close.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
That's pretty good.
dan friesen
I only remember because he's 69.
unidentified
Yeah.
So.
dan friesen
These theories started to pop up in the early 2010 decade, let's say, around, uh, uh, generally 2012 is when things start to be around on the internet, uh, in a meaningful way.
However, it was not really, no one paid a ton of attention to it except for weirdos on the internet, such as myself.
So I started talking about this stuff in about like 2014, early 2014.
If you go back in the podcast archives, you can find us talking about weird time slip stuff.
marty derosa
And as the Freezing Point archivist, I can tell you that is true.
dan friesen
Yeah.
However, didn't catch mainstream attention until about August 2015.
Vice, AV Club, all sorts of.
marty derosa
Alex Jones.
dan friesen
I don't know if he's ever weighed in on this.
marty derosa
Those cream puff pieces by those other fucking nerds.
dan friesen
I do think he's an asshole, but I'm not sure if he's chimed in on this stuff.
Real Names and Celebrity Identities 00:02:17
dan friesen
Basically, it's hard to tell exactly where it started, but the rapper LP, the great rapper LP from Run the Jewels and.
Def Jux Records.
marty derosa
Let's play a little bit of that for the crowd.
No, I'm just kidding.
dan friesen
Play Stepfather Factory.
Goddamn, great song.
Deep Space 9mm.
Oh, that's great.
Go check out Fantastic Damage.
Fucking awesome album from before.
marty derosa
I don't know who he is, but he's got a knack for names.
dan friesen
El Producto.
unidentified
Get out of here.
dan friesen
He built Definitive Jux.
It's Def Jux' record label from the ground up.
unidentified
Get out of here.
dan friesen
Called it Def Jux, then got in trouble with Def Jam.
They're like, that was a little close.
So he had to go with Definitive Jux.
Awesome.
It had the roots.
unidentified
I like.
dan friesen
Cannibal Ox.
Aesop Rock.
Ah, so many others.
I like when someone is Party Fun Action Committee.
marty derosa
That's a great name.
Party Fun Action Committee.
I like when someone has to change a name because of illegal issues or things like that.
dan friesen
Like Luther Campbell?
marty derosa
And they make it better.
dan friesen
I don't know if Luther Campbell did because he was Luke Skywalker.
marty derosa
You can't beat Luke Skywalker.
But I do like, though, how, like, you know, a lot of times in wrestling, too, it's like, oh, you got to change your name or whatever.
And it's like, oh, man.
But then it's like, I like that better.
dan friesen
Like what?
Who's done that?
marty derosa
Well, so Cesaro was originally Claudio Casagnoli.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
And everyone's like, well, he's got to be Antonio Cesaro.
But then they just went Cesaro.
And now it's like, he's Cesaro.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Claudio Castagnetti is a great name too.
marty derosa
Castagnoli.
dan friesen
Even better.
marty derosa
I know.
dan friesen
That's real Italian.
unidentified
I know.
dan friesen
That's Roman.
marty derosa
It's great.
But, you know, there's just things I was like, hey, Cesaro.
dan friesen
Yeah, Cesaro's a great name.
Antonio Cesaro is good too.
marty derosa
Prince Devitt became Finn Balor.
dan friesen
Is there a legal reason for that?
marty derosa
No, they want to own the name in these instances.
dan friesen
Oh, because he wrestled as Prince Devitt in Japan.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
Because he's Fergal Devitt.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
That's his real name.
And people in Japan couldn't say Fergal, so he became Prince Devitt.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
And then Deborah B. is like, we want to own your name.
dan friesen
Because we need to make shirts.
marty derosa
Sure.
We need to make shirts and we want all the profits.
dan friesen
We don't want to give those Japanese a little taste.
marty derosa
So, that's the thing they have to do in wrestling, change their names.
I like too when a.
A celebrity's real name is already something.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Carmen Electra.
Her real name.
Wait, wait, wait.
marty derosa
Her real name is Woody Allen.
dan friesen
No, her real name is like Katie Perry or something like that.
Legal Name Changes in Pro Wrestling 00:07:46
dan friesen
Hold on.
I got to Google this.
marty derosa
Dan's having an issue.
Dan's having a Mandela effect right now.
dan friesen
No, her real name is some name that's already.
marty derosa
Or they have to add like Michael K., Michael B. Jordan.
dan friesen
Yeah, Carmen Electra's real name is Tara Patrick.
unidentified
Whoa.
marty derosa
The porn star.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
Tasty.
dan friesen
Her birth name was Tara Lee Patrick.
And so she changed her name to Carmen Electric.
marty derosa
Did she or did Prince name her that?
dan friesen
Oh, that's a good point.
He might have.
marty derosa
Mind out.
dan friesen
Prince Devitt?
marty derosa
Prince.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
No, Prince Rogers Nelson.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
So, yeah, around 2015, August 2015, it came to everybody's attention.
Everybody started posting a bunch of bullshit about the Berenstein Bears.
And that's the extent that most people care about it they're freaked out because everybody thinks that the spelling is B E R E N S T E I N, whereas in our reality, it's B E R E S T E I N.
A I N Bears.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Do you have any feelings on this?
Do you remember it being Baron Stein or Baron Stein?
marty derosa
I always remember it being Baron Stein.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's Baron Stein.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
If anyone asked me how to spell it, I would spell it like Kevin Stein.
Because I remember S T E E N would have been how my brain went.
marty derosa
Yeah, because I always remember joking around that they were Jewish bears.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Because they were the Baron Stein bears.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That was the feeling.
But does it make you feel weird that it's not that?
marty derosa
Yes, because I used to watch it as a kid.
And I just feel very weird whenever something's going on where I'm like, what was going on there?
dan friesen
But are you at all convinced that it changed?
You're looking at me with a weird look.
marty derosa
Well, first of all, I'm thinking of me as a young kid being run by this Matrix.
dan friesen
You're programmed.
marty derosa
Fuck, it just makes me.
I'm just looking up at the sky thinking maybe I can see the top on this bubble.
Who knows?
dan friesen
It's all ones and zeros out there, man.
It's all ones and zeros.
marty derosa
But this is a weird one because I definitely remember it being the Bernstein Bears.
unidentified
Yeah.
I do.
marty derosa
I mean, the cartoons and everything.
And that's the thing, too, where it's like in my head I'm thinking, oh, I know what we'll do.
We'll go back, we'll go on eBay, we'll find old merch, or we'll YouTube the cartoon, or this or that.
But it's like.
Some programmer got a report, and they're like, God damn it, freezing down in programming, fucked up the Bernstein bears.
And they'll just go in retroactively and fix it.
So anything you do search will come up.
Oh man, it has always been this.
dan friesen
I don't think that there's any real solid evidence that it ever was Stein.
marty derosa
That's crazy to me.
dan friesen
I've seen a couple pictures of people with e books, or like books with the E on it, but it's not compelling to a point where I can't prove that wasn't Photoshop.
marty derosa
So what do our truth seekers think?
dan friesen
Our truth seekers, well, there's a guy who's sort of one of the original theorists on this.
He had a blog, and his argument was that at some point, he made this argument in 2012.
At some point in the last 10 years or so, reality has been tampered with, and history has been retroactively changed.
The bears really were called the Baron Stein Bears when we were growing up, but now reality has been altered such that the name of the bears has been changed post hoc.
Somehow, we have all undergone a pi over two phase change in all four dimensions so that we moved to a stain hexadecadent while our counterpoints moved to our hexadecadent stein.
They're standing around expressing their confusion about the Berenstein bears and how they all remember Berenstein bears on the cover growing up.
unidentified
Interesting.
dan friesen
So, the argument that this guy is making I don't know what pi over two phase change or hexadecadent means.
marty derosa
Let me explain.
unidentified
Okay.
Get the fuck out of here.
dan friesen
Uh, But the idea, I guess, is that there's two universes and they somehow collided, and some of us were from this original other dimension and we're now here, and people from that one, we swapped somehow.
marty derosa
That's what the Power Man 5000 song, When Worlds Collide, is all about.
dan friesen
That really hurt my throat.
Yeah.
So.
marty derosa
I mean, this guy's got a lot of stuff he's dealing with.
I guess what cracks me up is kind of like he's dealing with all this heavy duty stuff, yet it's about a kid's cartoon.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
But some would say if it's a kid's cartoon, that maybe was where the least amount of effort's going into because we need to handle the big stuff, the politics.
dan friesen
So that's where the programmers are putting all their real effort is into the major stuff.
marty derosa
The major stuff.
Kids' stuff, maybe that's your first real job.
Dan, you're new.
Welcome to Brain Corp.
I'm happy to be here.
dan friesen
I'm going to ask you about benefits.
marty derosa
Yes.
dan friesen
Before we get going.
unidentified
Yes.
Health?
marty derosa
You will be healthy.
dan friesen
Dental?
marty derosa
You're going to kill us.
unidentified
We don't have dental.
dan friesen
Do you pay every week or every two weeks?
marty derosa
Every two weeks.
dan friesen
I don't like that.
unidentified
I like that kind of check.
marty derosa
And you're always going to be a check behind.
dan friesen
Ah, fuck.
marty derosa
But when you quit or when we fire you, you're going to get that one extra check.
dan friesen
I don't feel like I could get fired from here.
I think you're going to kill me.
marty derosa
Well, you know, let's just say we own you.
unidentified
Uh huh.
dan friesen
And also, I just realized this.
Do you think that the programmers of this hypothetical matrix live inside our reality or outside of it?
marty derosa
I think it's one of these things where you clearly can choose either way.
dan friesen
What does that mean?
marty derosa
Like, remember the Matrix?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Joey Pants, Joey Pantaleone is.
dan friesen
I remember him.
marty derosa
I was like, I want to be, I don't want to remember any of this.
dan friesen
I want to eat this steak.
marty derosa
I want to eat this steak.
dan friesen
I want to be rich and famous and blah, I'm tired of things being fake.
marty derosa
You know what he should have said?
Yeah, you can fix me a full head of hair, too.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
I do enjoy.
dan friesen
Make me not a creepy old dude.
marty derosa
Yeah, I do enjoy, uh, uh, sci fi movies where people have, like, who are bald and who have, like, you know what I mean?
dan friesen
We have magical technologies, but we can't fix your head.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
That was my favorite, uh, when, uh, Jason X, when they were in outer space, which is just one of the biggest pieces of shit of all time.
dan friesen
Totally disagree, but okay.
marty derosa
I mean, in a great way.
unidentified
Yeah.
Right?
dan friesen
It's a nutty, nutty romp.
marty derosa
And it's, it's, the, the production value is, is, is worse than anything from the sci-fi channel 20 years ago, 15 years ago.
But there's the one where they have Jason frozen and he's got his giant machete and he falls forward and chops this guy's arm off and then they put the arm back on him.
Yet, there's people who are like bald on that.
It's like, okay, you can attach an arm, but you can't fix this guy's hair.
dan friesen
Do you know that some people believe that Jason X never happened?
marty derosa
I would like to think it never happened.
dan friesen
That's actually the producers just pretending it didn't happen.
marty derosa
I always think, too, with cartoons, cartoons are very much something that people read a lot into.
Whether it's the dicks in the Disney cartoons or what's Donald Duck really saying?
Is he saying the N word and things like that?
And I think cartoons is one of those things because it's man made.
Then people can speculate, well, if it's man made, and then this idea going back to what we were talking about with the BTK machine.
LSD Experiences and Mandela Effects 00:05:04
marty derosa
I love saying that now.
But that idea of, well, like they got this thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
So they can throw some wacky stuff in there.
dan friesen
You mean the subliminal.
marty derosa
Sure.
But what we're talking about is more.
You know, it's just one of those things where it's like, if all this is a giant matrix.
Yes.
And first of all, like any corporation, there's got to be disgruntled employees.
Like that to me is.
dan friesen
Oh, interesting.
marty derosa
If you're assuming that somehow there was a glitch in the system and, oh shit, people think it's Berenstein, Berenstein.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
There had to have been somebody.
I just think, in general, it's in our nature to be like, Fuck this shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Somebody quit and put on a little fucking kid rock and got himself amped up.
dan friesen
Hit a button.
marty derosa
I'm fucking out of here.
Took his shirt off, threw it at the boss, hit a button, and all of a sudden you're watching the Super Bowl and this guy opens up, and then you see a giant man looking like, oh shit, and then he closes it.
dan friesen
And then that guy is summarily executed.
unidentified
Big deal.
dan friesen
Have you ever experienced what you might call a glitch in the Matrix?
marty derosa
I feel like I have.
I feel like there had to have been something where I was just like, wait, what?
Like.
dan friesen
I know I have.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I've talked about this a little bit in the past, but, uh, one time I was doing a show out in the suburbs.
marty derosa
I really am bummed out that you don't say famously anymore, because I think I ruined seeing that.
unidentified
You did.
Yeah.
dan friesen
You drove it into the ground.
And I don't do the people come up to me and they say, Dan, because you ruined that.
marty derosa
Because I always say that to you when I see you.
But then also, uh, you no longer say, like, I famously have told this story before.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I, I don't know if it's just a subconscious thing where I know that you keep bringing it up, so I'm trying to not do it.
I don't know.
Anyway, I famously did a show in the suburbs.
marty derosa
What if you were like, I never said that, and I imagined that you did?
dan friesen
Oh, shit.
I notoriously did a show in the suburbs.
unidentified
Notorious.
dan friesen
With Timmy Brochu, comedian Timmy Brochu, and Colin Bohannon, and someone else.
There was a third person along in the car with us, four of us in the car.
And we were driving back from, I think, Oswego.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Where is the comedy shrine?
Aurora.
unidentified
Aurora.
dan friesen
We had done a show in Aurora at the comedy shrine.
We were driving back, and I was sober.
I didn't drink that night.
I didn't smoke any weed or anything.
I didn't take any drugs.
And I remember it clearly because one of them did all the drugs.
I'm not going to say whether it was Colin or Timmy, but one of them chugged a bottle of Jameson and threw up in the green room, and I was blamed for it.
Not by any, like, they didn't sell me out or anything, but the person who was running the show thought it was me.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And so I was banned from there for a while until that got resolved.
And they were like, hey, did you throw up in the green room?
No, fuck no, I was sober that night.
So I very vividly remember, like, no substances.
I was very on the straight and narrow.
We're driving home, and I looked over at Timmy at one point, and I saw him as a grid.
I saw him as lines, like moving lines, almost of animation.
unidentified
Whoa.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I sort of closed my eyes and shook my head and I looked back and he was corporeal again.
But I saw him as, like, basically the Matrix, would be.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And there's no, like, drug explanation of it.
There's no, like, I wasn't wildly sleep deprived or anything like that.
It's just, it was just a very weird visual thing I saw.
marty derosa
See, my thing is drug.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Well, we might have an explanation for it pretty quickly.
marty derosa
And it's drug fueled.
I was in high school on LSD.
And I tend to think that maybe drugs like LSD or mushrooms somehow almost act like a tinfoil hat to blocking out some of these things.
And that's why we think some of these things, maybe.
If I'm going to get weird.
dan friesen
You mean it acts as like a transistor?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
It picks up frequencies.
marty derosa
No, I think it blocks.
I think it opens up.
dan friesen
So it blocks negative frequencies?
marty derosa
It opens up something.
dan friesen
Okay.
Your third eye.
marty derosa
Maybe.
Or this idea that we only use 10% of our brains or something like that.
But one time we were on copious amounts of LSD.
We were watching TV.
It was a rerun of the old TV show called Fame.
dan friesen
I remember that show.
marty derosa
And it's a musical show.
And we were on the couch watching this.
And it was like a father and son.
And they were having a goodbye or something.
And I just go, I wish they would just dance on the wing of that airplane.
Next thing you know, they're dancing on the wing of the airplane.
dan friesen
That's pretty wild.
marty derosa
And I was like, my, my buddy, my buddy just goes, make him do more things.
dan friesen
And were you able to make them do anything else?
marty derosa
I don't, I don't remember.
dan friesen
Still, that's pretty, that's pretty crazy, but that's also just like a good drug coincidence.
Saint George and Curious Tales 00:06:42
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
It's wild that they would dance on a plane and that your brain would think, ah, that's what I want him to do.
Maybe you were tapping into something.
Who knows?
marty derosa
That's what I wanted to think.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, Marty, something I want to do now, I want to do a couple of things.
We have a couple of, uh, Some chunks here.
marty derosa
All right, I like that.
dan friesen
I want to feed you a couple of Mandela effects that I've researched and found that kind of weirded me out a little bit.
marty derosa
I also think if Nelson Mandela was going to have a podcast, it should be called the Mandela Effect.
But it would be in competition with Freezing Point.
dan friesen
No, it should be called the Mandela Effect, but it should be spelled A.
The Mandela Affect, where he talks to people about their mental state.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
How's your affect these days?
So, okay, here's a basic one Did Curious George have a tail?
Do you remember Curious George having a tail one way or the other?
marty derosa
Yes, he did.
dan friesen
He did not.
marty derosa
It was a real curly tail.
dan friesen
He did not.
Curious George has never had a tail.
Yeah, you're looking at me flummoxed.
Turns out the history is that he did not.
And that man didn't have a yellow hat.
He did.
Yeah, I was like, wait a minute, he just didn't really have a yellow hat.
His name was the man in the yellow hat.
The man in the yellow hat.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Is Mother Teresa a saint?
marty derosa
Homeo Velix St. Teresa.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Do you remember her becoming a saint?
marty derosa
I thought there was talk about it, but it didn't happen.
dan friesen
That is correct based on our timeline.
She is about to become a saint.
They're going to make her a saint on September of this year.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
A lot of people remember her being sainted while she was still alive, which is impossible.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
They don't saint people who are still alive.
She died in 1997, and Pope John Paul II began the beatification process immediately.
Which is against the rules in the Catholic Church.
You're supposed to wait five years after someone's death.
But he's like, fuck it, we're waving it.
She was so great.
marty derosa
It's the Catholic Church.
We let something slide.
dan friesen
Yeah, a little loose on the rules.
So she died in 1997.
In 2002 and 2015, the Catholic Church formally recognized a miracle.
And each of those years, they got it through.
So you have to have two miracles to become a saint.
And so she's becoming a saint this year.
But a lot of people really believe.
marty derosa
Not to keep going with warrior miracles.
dan friesen
I don't remember.
I don't know.
I didn't look that up.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't know.
unidentified
Food.
dan friesen
Making food appear.
marty derosa
Turn some water into wine.
dan friesen
I always.
That's always such horse shit to me, too.
Like the idea of these people go, like.
Okay, in order to be a saint, we have to formally prove that you had miracles.
You're formally proving miracles?
Get the fuck out of here, church.
So I can understand.
This one is kind of like.
It makes more sense to me because the process of formalizing miracles, the beatification stuff, it's easy to get confused, like, think she's already a saint.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But nah, this year.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Last one.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
The Lindbergh baby.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Did the Lindbergh baby ever get found?
This is one that kind of freaked me out.
marty derosa
Yeah, I think they found the baby.
dan friesen
They did.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Two months after the baby went missing, they found the baby dead.
Now, here's where this weirds me out.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
It's a running joke in pop culture.
I'm the Lindbergh baby.
I was the Lindbergh baby.
There's an episode of The Simpsons where Grandpa claims that he is the Lindbergh baby.
Now, these jokes wouldn't make sense if the baby was found dead.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
If the baby is kidnapped and never seen again, then it's.
marty derosa
Then you can make those jokes.
dan friesen
Right.
The only reference point that most people who weren't alive then have are jokes that anyone could be the Lindbergh baby.
marty derosa
I guess my question is why?
Why do the Lindbergh baby thing or why do the tail thing?
unidentified
What do you mean?
marty derosa
I guess.
Why go back and fix that?
dan friesen
I'm curious if you are assuming that these Matrix programmers are 100% the truth.
Is that what you mean?
marty derosa
I kind of feel like they are.
Okay, so.
dan friesen
So, like, who's going back and fixing things?
marty derosa
So, somebody was just like, well, I guess my thing is if Curious George had a tail growing up, and I can draw it.
unidentified
Can you?
marty derosa
Alright, let's do this.
Let's do this.
Do you have a piece of paper by you?
dan friesen
Uh, yeah.
unidentified
Alright.
marty derosa
Uh, can I have a pen?
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Alright.
dan friesen
You're gonna draw Curious George?
marty derosa
Do you have a pen?
dan friesen
No, I don't wanna draw.
I'm not a good drawer.
I'm gonna look up an actual picture of him and see how close your image is.
marty derosa
I'm not gonna draw.
I'm just gonna draw his tail.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
I think that's what his tail looks like.
dan friesen
You have a swirly cue.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You have a swirl.
marty derosa
Yeah, it looks like the at almost.
dan friesen
All of the pictures that are coming up, Curious George, no tail.
Even there's a picture of him laying on his stomach reading a book, no tail coming up.
Now I will Google Curious George, tail.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
It's going to be stories about him.
dan friesen
He's just fucking.
marty derosa
You better do image.
dan friesen
Even Safe Search off.
Yeah.
marty derosa
That should be at the beginning of this podcast, but take the Safe Search in your mind off.
dan friesen
That's not bad.
Maybe that.
Okay, that's our new thing.
All the pictures, even if you Google Curious George Tail, the only picture that comes up is clearly not an official image, and it's a straight tail pointing upwards.
unidentified
Weird.
Okay.
dan friesen
There's no curly tail.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So, anyway, the one that freaked me out the most was the, for sure, the Lindbergh baby one.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, a lot of people believe that misattributed movie quotes are evidence of a Mandela effect.
Like, in Star Wars, Darth Vader never says, Luke, I'm your father.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
He says, No, I'm your father.
marty derosa
Well, I think a lot of that is.
And it's, it's just the same.
I mean, this is not to, not to get political or whatever, but it's like, I feel like this is like with, with politics, if you keep saying the same thing over and over again, people believe it.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know, people will be like, repetition creeps, dissent, I want your guns.
You know what I mean?
And then it'll be like, you start to believe it.
You start to believe it.
dan friesen
Like, what's the quote from Apollo 13?
marty derosa
Houston, we have a problem.
dan friesen
Nope.
It's Houston, we've had a problem.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which is easy to smooth out to we have a problem.
marty derosa
And also, it's, it's just becomes the thing.
And then let's say, like, let's say you and I are working at a newspaper.
And it's so fucking dumb, but it's always like, yeah, like the, the, the rocket's lost.
We're going to write Houston, we have a problem.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
And you're like, No, no, actually, it's Houston.
We had a problem.
We've had a problem.
We've had a problem.
It's like, well, Dan, no, for this, it's, you know.
dan friesen
What's the quote from Cinderella?
Not Cinderella.
Was it Cinderella?
Where the witch is looking at a mirror.
marty derosa
Mirror, mirror.
Pluto Disappearance and Memory Glitches 00:06:04
marty derosa
On the wall.
unidentified
Right.
marty derosa
Who is the fairest?
dan friesen
It's not.
unidentified
One of all.
dan friesen
It's magic mirror on the wall, is the quote.
What's the quote from Forrest Gump?
When he's sitting there on the bus stop talking to the lady at the beginning of the movie.
marty derosa
Life's like a box of chocolates.
dan friesen
Nope.
Life was like a box of chocolates.
unidentified
See?
dan friesen
Because he's referencing a quote from Mama.
It says, Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
But it's so much simpler to just say life is like a box of chocolates.
Because if you're quoting it to somebody, you don't want to talk about Mama.
You don't want to talk about this other character in the movie.
marty derosa
Hulk Hogan famously said, Don't date N words.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
My daughter's not going to date any of those N words.
marty derosa
He called it the wrong name for the NWO.
He called it the New World Organization of Professional Wrestling.
dan friesen
But that's cool, too, though.
That's fine.
It is an organization.
marty derosa
It's also the NWO.
I think, my theory, I'd love to handle this one one day.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
And there are people who claim this to be the case, is that the real NWO.
dan friesen
Like the global Illuminati?
marty derosa
Which Ted Turner is a member of.
dan friesen
Sure, sure.
marty derosa
Ted Turner owned World Championship Wrestling.
dan friesen
Ted Turner was too busy with his goats.
marty derosa
The idea was his buffaloes.
unidentified
Buffaloes.
Bison and buffaloes.
marty derosa
So the idea was we'll make this outlandish wrestling group, the New World Order, to take the real distraction off of the real New World Order.
dan friesen
I have heard that before, and if the NWO is real, then that makes sense.
Also, what color do you think chartreuse is?
marty derosa
I don't know.
I'm dumb.
dan friesen
The color chartreuse.
marty derosa
Red?
dan friesen
You think it's red?
Well, of course.
I mean, it does sound like it's red, doesn't it?
It's yellowish green.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
A lot of people have very firm memories of chartreuse being a reddish pink.
Yeah, I don't even know what navy blue looks like.
marty derosa
I can't even really tell you what navy blue looks like for sure.
Is that almost black?
dan friesen
It's grayish blue.
It's like a grayish blue.
marty derosa
Who cares?
What's the blue that's almost black?
dan friesen
I don't know.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't know colors.
I know chartreuse because of the booze.
marty derosa
You know what I do sometimes?
In stores, I can't tell black and blue sometimes.
And I ask the people who work there.
And sometimes they're like, yeah, I get that too.
dan friesen
Sometimes the line is kind of gray.
marty derosa
No pun intended.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Do you remember that magic color changing dress?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
That was on Facebook for a bit?
marty derosa
Yeah.
I didn't get it.
dan friesen
I didn't either.
It looked blue to me.
marty derosa
Wait, no, it looked the other color.
unidentified
I don't care.
marty derosa
I don't care.
dan friesen
So I put this out to the social media world.
I had people call in.
marty derosa
The Freezing Pointer Sisters.
dan friesen
Yes, our community.
And we got some interesting messages.
We're going to start with one that kind of doesn't make sense.
marty derosa
Oh, go figure.
dan friesen
Yeah, here we go.
berenstein bears in unknown
Personally, I believe these Berenstein Bear motherfuckers are the same motherfuckers who say Pluto ain't a planet no more, so I don't trust it.
dan friesen
So, that's an interesting angle.
The Berenstein Bears are the same people who say that Pluto isn't a planet.
marty derosa
So, Pluto got downgraded.
Yeah, because.
It didn't perform two miracles.
Right.
So it was downgraded from a planet.
dan friesen
To like a dwarf star or something like that.
A dwarf planet.
marty derosa
And that guy clearly takes issue with that.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
I'm not sure the point they were trying to make, but I definitely appreciate you calling in.
marty derosa
I'm assuming that's a guy who had a tattoo of Pluto, and it said, my favorite planet underneath it.
dan friesen
I have not listened to all of these calls, so I don't know what we're getting into.
I love it.
But here's another message we got.
berenstein bears in unknown
Dan, Rudy Schultz here.
I saw your message online about the Berenstain Bears, and I just wanted to let you know that I've heard you talk about the Berenstain Bears on the freezing point a whole bunch before.
It blew my mind, looked it up, couldn't believe that it wasn't the Berenstain Bears, and that it's the Berenstain Bears, and I don't know much about the Mandela effect.
But I found that to be pretty unsettling, and now constantly, especially with folk that are of Jewish heritage, because I know that they might have more exposure to the Bernstein, Bernstein, Bernstein conundrum due to their knowledge of their own culture and where their last names come from, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Every single person I ask about it thinks it's the Bernstein Bears, and then when they find out that it's the Bernstein Bears, they lose their minds.
And it's every single person that I ask about it.
The only way that anyone knows that it's the Berenstein bears is if they've read about the Mandela effect specifically.
Just wanted to let you know that's because you put a thing out online.
marty derosa
Talk to you later.
If you Google Berenstein bears?
dan friesen
It says, do you mean?
I don't know.
Let's try it.
I've never spent time Googling it.
I always Google it the correct spelling because I'm not a ding dong.
All you dumb assholes out there who think.
Yeah, it says, uh, showing results for Baron Stain Bears.
unidentified
Shit, Google.
Yeah, man.
marty derosa
They've been compromised.
dan friesen
Well, they've, they were compromised from the jump.
marty derosa
Google's been compromised.
dan friesen
Uh, so we got some more calls.
marty derosa
Yes, more calls.
Um, man, where were these maniacs when we did some of these old shows?
dan friesen
Uh, here's a, uh, this, this is actually an interesting angle.
Uh, this one I did listen to.
Uh, here we go.
mandela effect in texas
Hey, fellas.
Dan from Technic here.
Loyal Freezing Pointer sister.
Loyal DeRosa, but calling in with my opinion.
And let's be real, Dan, you and I. Alyssa Lamb proves that the Mandela Effect is real.
You and I both distinctly remember 2008 reading about it, and that just can't be a coincidence as far as I'm concerned.
This show has taught me a lot about conspiracies in the occult and led to many conversations with many people about the Mandela Effect, and the more people I talk to, the truer it seems.
berenstein bears in unknown
Well, that's what I want you to think.
marty derosa
That's how you do a fucking call.
dan friesen
Dave from Texas once again knocks it out of the park.
unidentified
Dave.
dan friesen
Bringing up a really interesting and important point that we have experienced a legitimate possible Mandela effect on this podcast.
Particle Physics and Butterfly Effects 00:15:12
marty derosa
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
If you add the OJ verdict one, that's two.
marty derosa
Uh huh.
Just in your short, brief life, you've experienced, and just on the short history of this podcast, you've experienced two Mandela effects.
dan friesen
The Alyssa Lamb one is real strong, too, because I have very serious memories of being in Missouri knowing about it.
marty derosa
And we're talking about.
A murder or a very, very, very strange death of a woman.
Not just, oh, I thought that cartoon character had red hair.
No, it's blonde.
Wow, it's weird.
dan friesen
And the circumstances of that death are so bizarre.
marty derosa
And it puts a whole thing in the mix with the Darkwater movie and all this stuff.
And it's like, ooh, geez.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's super bizarre, super freaky.
And then we have one more call.
This one I did listen to.
It's a little bit long, but this guy has the new theory.
So I feel like it's worth listening to.
Check it out.
brad in kentucky [2]
Hey guys, this is Brad from Kentucky, and I think I've ran into one of those Berenstein Bears, Time Paradox, whatever the hell they are, with the original Yellow Power Ranger from the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger series, which I can't pronounce her name because I'm a redneck from Kentucky, and if I try to pronounce it, it'll sound racist.
But her last appearance, according to Ranger Wicket, RangerWiki.com for the show was in 1994.
unidentified
She left apparently due to a pay dispute.
And after the show, she did two movies Spy Hard with Leslie Nielsen and The Crow City of Angels in 1996.
brad in kentucky [2]
And after that, there's nothing on her IMDb page.
Her death is reported to have been in 2001.
And she died in a car crash in California where she was a passenger and the car went over an embankment and killed her.
But I clearly remember this happening in '95 or '96.
unidentified
I remember a kid in school telling me that and telling me that's why she left the show and gave me the exact details of her death.
brad in kentucky [2]
And then I find it.
Kind of weird that she was never going to do anything after 96.
So I'm thinking that maybe something happened and her death was somehow changed and randomly happened in 2001.
But I thought I would share that story.
unidentified
Maybe if you guys could give any input on it, it would be much appreciated.
brad in kentucky [2]
Or I may just be batshit crazy.
Who knows?
But I still believe it's one of those things.
dan friesen
Well, thank you guys.
Yeah, you're welcome, Brad.
Brad from Kentucky, thank you for calling in with the message, bringing this to our attention.
It is super weird that she hasn't acted since 1996.
That five year span from 1996 to 2001, there's nothing.
But here's some of my input.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
First of all, the people on the Power Rangers were not good actors.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
So the idea that they couldn't get work afterwards does not surprise me that much.
marty derosa
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's one of those where you're just like, I feel like they found them at a mall.
dan friesen
Yeah.
She played a manicurist in Spy Hard, too.
So, I mean, it's not even like a really big role.
But also, that is weird.
I got nothing on this one.
And I did some digging into it, and this is not one that is very widely recognized.
marty derosa
It's not a sexy one in the community.
dan friesen
It's not one that I could even really find a lot of people talking about.
It's really interesting that we have a listener who has one of their own, and it could be fresh.
marty derosa
And I think what really cements it is death.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Why it's called the Mandela Effect versus just like.
Oh, I mean, the, the, it's why it's called not the Berenstein Bear effect.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Cause I think the death thing is like, wait a minute, I thought they were dead.
And that's like, it happens a lot of times.
And it's a, it's a classic joke too online of like, uh, you know, when an old act, like Abe Bogota dies, I only thought Abe Bogota was dead 10 years ago.
unidentified
The fish.
marty derosa
20 years ago, you know, that, that whole thing too.
Um, and, and I don't, I don't know if it's just this idea that out of sight, out of mind, you know, if somebody's no longer on TV, they stop doing those actual friars.
dan friesen
Club roast, but now who's seen Abe Vagoda in years?
marty derosa
Like, Johnny Carson.
I thought he was already, oh, he's still alive.
I thought he was dead.
He's dead.
And I know I'm saying, but when he did die, there's tons of.
dan friesen
And then, when you add into now the modern culture of death hoaxes happening so frequently online, it muddies the water a ton.
Because that mentality has always existed.
The internet has just made us able to popularize things much easier.
So, like, 20 years ago, before the internet was what it is today, people were still doing death hoaxes.
Now, I'm not saying that necessarily that's what Brad from Kentucky experienced, but also kids are dumb.
So, there's a possibility that this kid telling him that was an asshole.
marty derosa
And there's also that thing.
Uh, where, where I think sometimes people stick to their guns too much of like, no, I remember for a fact.
Like, in wrestling, there's a lot of, there's multiple Undertakers, there's multiple Ultimate Warriors, and it's like.
dan friesen
The Warrior one apparently is true though, right?
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
It's always been Jim Hellwig.
dan friesen
Oh, I, I thought that that one had some, like, credence to it.
unidentified
Alright.
No.
marty derosa
Um, there, there are.
dan friesen
But there's more than one Dink the Clown.
marty derosa
Doink the Clown.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
And Dink the Midget.
unidentified
Oh.
Sorry.
marty derosa
But we say Midget Wrestling.
dan friesen
Wait, I thought they were both clowns though.
marty derosa
Doink and Dink?
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Yeah, Dink was his mini.
dan friesen
Oh, okay, okay.
unidentified
So.
marty derosa
There's a lot of things where Ultimate Warrior, and they talk about it in the Self Destruction, the Ultimate Warrior.
He came back, the guy just wasn't on steroids as much as he was.
And he had to change his haircut, and he looked different.
It's always been Jim Helwig.
You can watch when he was the Dingo Warrior, you can watch the night before he died.
He's the same, clearly the same guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Do you think there's anything weird about his death happening right after he came back to Raw?
That's for another day.
That's a whole can of worms.
marty derosa
I'm going to not say anything right now because I. Fear for my life?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Oh, Jesus.
You were giving me a very fearful look.
unidentified
No, right there.
marty derosa
But then there's things, uh, there's things like, um, there's just, like, especially in wrestling too, like when The Undertaker debuted, he was called Kane the Undertaker.
unidentified
Oh.
marty derosa
Then they almost called The Undertaker, and then it's, then Kane came in as another person.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
I mean, there's just this idea of.
dan friesen
And if I'm, if I'm got all my facts right, Kane and Undertaker, not really brothers.
marty derosa
They are the brothers of destruction in name only.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
So, and I think there's that thing too of like, I think a lot of this is just like, All right, you're in class in sixth grade.
Someone leans over to you and says, Hey, you know what?
You know that.
dan friesen
Rod Stewart got his stomach pumped.
marty derosa
Well, 30 gallons of gizzards.
dan friesen
Richard Deere has a gerbil in his ass.
marty derosa
There's stuff like that.
And again, this goes back to the Luke, I'm your father thing.
If something gets said so many times, it becomes a fact.
Conan, the professional wrestler and podcaster extraordinaire, has a quote.
He says, Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
And I think.
That happens.
Also, too, I just think for our narrative, we need to just keep believing that some of this stuff happens.
dan friesen
Sure.
It's more compelling.
It's more interesting.
marty derosa
It's more interesting.
It's more compelling.
Or who's to say that maybe there was a thing of like trademark issues and for a minute it was, someone just misspelled Berenstein Bears one time or something.
dan friesen
It's possible.
You know, I mean, all that shit's possible.
Although I would like someone who was there on the ground floor, like maybe was involved with a misprint.
marty derosa
That would be cool.
dan friesen
Be coming out like as a publisher and being like, look, we fucked up a couple copies.
marty derosa
What's great is I just saw, I just watched a documentary or something about hoaxes and it was about Bigfoot.
And there were the people who rented the costume to the guy and he even said, Hey, I could, people could still see the zipper.
What should I do?
And they're going to just mess up the hair in the back a little bit or blow dry it or something like this.
dan friesen
All the people who like, and they go on record being like, this guy has committed many hoaxes in his life.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
And, and, and he was like, uh, and they even said like we were watching it on the news and we're like, well, that's our, that's our costume.
Like, and they're in the same area and they're like, that's our costume.
Should we just say something?
And they didn't say something.
And now, even though they're saying something, now the people who want to believe so bad are like, no, you're just saying that, or the government just wants you to say that.
dan friesen
That is a phenomenon that is known as confirmation bias.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that is something that is very heavily involved in this stuff.
Because whatever you want to believe, you will believe.
marty derosa
X-Files.
I want to believe.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
Therefore, everything you see is evidence of the conclusion you already made.
Which is a dangerous line of thinking.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Oh, it's very dangerous.
dan friesen
So that's one possible explanation for all this.
There's two others.
marty derosa
Lay a mommy.
dan friesen
That I have come up with.
unidentified
Lay a mommy.
dan friesen
That I think are interesting and totally unprovable.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
One of them is that a time traveler came back.
So it's interesting that we brought up time travel so much.
Potentially, a time traveler came back to try and avert some sort of crisis around Y2K.
That's just one example.
There could be any period of time where they came back.
And inadvertently, because they came back, they inexorably changed some things.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because had this guy not come back, Mandela would have died in prison.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
When the clock struck midnight, planes would have fallen out of the sky.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
marty derosa
Banks would have gone to zero.
dan friesen
Every computer would have crashed.
marty derosa
And he went on a computer and he typed in this.
Code.
And okay, a couple glitches.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
A couple things went backfired.
dan friesen
Because of it, and the butterfly effect of that was that Mandela survived.
A bunch of people, like Billy Graham, survived when he was supposed to be dead.
marty derosa
Supposed to be bears changed.
dan friesen
The minister.
Ow.
The Lindbergh baby was found.
All these things ended up being tweaked.
marty derosa
The whole butterfly effect.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that's one theory that people have.
Again, completely unprovable.
marty derosa
The yellow Power Ranger.
unidentified
Uh huh.
dan friesen
Okay.
And then the other one, which I find awesome, also.
marty derosa
If you find it awesome, I can't wait.
dan friesen
Weirdly, not weirdly, but very unprovable, is this is all happening now, and it seems to be speeding up.
There seem to be more and more of these coincidences, more and more Mandela effects popping up, more people being freaked out by it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Now, it's happening since 2014, 2015 or so, it's picked up in public consciousness.
Some people believe that this is an effect of what's going on at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
marty derosa
I don't know what the fuck you're just talking about right now.
dan friesen
Okay.
You know, in CERN, in Switzerland.
marty derosa
Yeah, I know, I'm going to move there.
So I'm going to retire.
dan friesen
There's the Large Hadron Collider.
Are you aware of this at all?
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
So it's this massive thing where they're shooting atoms at each other and trying to.
There's hypothetical potential for creating a massive black hole and destroying the universe.
marty derosa
Which is so fun that we're working on that.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
They're doing these experiments.
That should.
Originally, what they were trying to do, I believe, was trying to find the Higgs boson particle.
They were trying to find the particle that gives things mass.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Theoretically known as the God particle.
marty derosa
Can we trace back this origins of the technology to a certain group?
dan friesen
Ted Turner.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Nazis.
Probably.
I mean, with Project Paperclip.
marty derosa
You're not telling me that these aren't the sons and daughters and granddaughters and grandsons of.
dan friesen
Werner von Braun.
unidentified
Of.
marty derosa
The best scientists that Hitler could put together.
dan friesen
Yeah, the Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the standard model of particle physics.
It's the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory, first suspected to exist in the 1960s.
Essentially, it's what would give things mass and create a physical universe.
There's, at least that's my understanding of it.
I'm no particle physicist, so I can't get into this.
marty derosa
Nor have you ever claimed to be, Dan.
dan friesen
Not, well, one time.
I was drunk at a bar.
marty derosa
You were drunk at a bar.
There was a lady you were trying to impress.
dan friesen
So, the idea is that in these experiments that they've done, they're tampering with reality, and some of the side effects are tearing in the fabric of history, of time, of our memories, and these sorts of things.
And that it's all speeding up because there's an end date of 2019 in the experiments that are going on into the Higgs boson field.
And what are you writing?
marty derosa
A note for myself.
dan friesen
Okay.
I didn't know if it was something important.
marty derosa
I just came up with a wrestling one.
dan friesen
So disturbing.
marty derosa
I came up with a wrestling one.
dan friesen
Okay, we'll talk about that future.
marty derosa
That's why I wrote it down.
unidentified
No, no, no, no.
marty derosa
I came up with a wrestling Mandela effect.
unidentified
Oh, what's that?
marty derosa
Well, there was a tag team in the 80s.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
Mike Rotunda.
Or Rotundo.
dan friesen
I'm glad you brought this up because I'm sorry.
marty derosa
And Barry Windham.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
Or Barry Windham.
Both of these men have had weird spelling.
Growing up, you just had.
dan friesen
Well, Rotunda is a weird name.
Isn't that like a room in a house?
This is my Rotunda.
marty derosa
I don't know.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
That's Bray Wyatt's dad.
dan friesen
Oh, shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Okay, go ahead.
marty derosa
So, the U.S. Express, Mike Rotunda or Mike Rotundo.
Even I'm saying it right now, I'm like Rotunda.
I think it's Rotundo.
dan friesen
A Rotunda is a building with a circular ground plan, sometimes covered with a dome.
unidentified
Oh, really?
dan friesen
Like the Pentagon?
unidentified
Mm hmm.
marty derosa
And then Barry Windham.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But they got to have an H in it, right?
Windham.
marty derosa
I just remember seeing all different sorts of spellings.
dan friesen
Okay.
You nailed it.
marty derosa
I'm going to drop my microphone and I'm going to leave your apartment right now.
unidentified
Oh, geez.
dan friesen
Oh, sorry.
That was my microphone drop.
Did that screw up your.
marty derosa
I lost sound in one of my ears for a second.
dan friesen
That was so powerful a mic drop.
So there's a ton of stuff like that.
Like even the Lindbergh baby has.
unidentified
So.
dan friesen
People think it was spelled with a U, but it's spelled with an E. Lindbergh.
unidentified
Yeah.
So.
marty derosa
So, people are fucking with these particles, the God particle.
And I mean, it might just be Butterfly Effect City.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And I think that that is the only explanation, other than false memories, that makes sense.
Is that somehow we're tampering with things that we shouldn't be tampering?
Whether it's a future time traveler coming back or the Higgs boson CERN Large Hadron Collider, there's just ripples that have come out from there, and they're screwing up history.
marty derosa
I'm going to pitch a horror movie for you.
dan friesen
Okay.
Give me an elevator pitch.
marty derosa
An awful criminal.
Yes.
One of the worst serial killers in the history of this planet.
dan friesen
Let's name him Alex Jones.
Like they did in that weird movie.
Remember that weird movie where the villain was named Alex Jones?
marty derosa
Come on.
Simulation Theory and Consciousness Glitches 00:15:38
unidentified
That's just a fuck with the poor guy.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's no doubt.
marty derosa
We'll call him Alan Jones.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
But I know you mean me.
dan friesen
We have documents.
marty derosa
So, Alan Jones, one of the worst, most prolific serial killers of our generation, executed.
Meanwhile, In Sweden, they're working on this atom smashing bullshit.
One night.
dan friesen
That might be reductive.
marty derosa
One night, power goes out throughout the world.
Power comes back on.
Butterfly effect.
Alan Jones is in his cell again.
unidentified
Whoa.
marty derosa
We've already executed him.
He served a life sentence.
dan friesen
Everybody remembers the execution.
marty derosa
Sure.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
He served.
He was sentenced to death.
dan friesen
Does he remember the execution?
unidentified
No.
Okay.
marty derosa
He was sentenced to death.
We have to let him go now.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, he did serve his.
He got his sentence.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Now, where does it go from there?
marty derosa
I don't know.
He's just a cool dude and doesn't kill anymore.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
This is sort of like there's a Philip K. Dick book called Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
And it's about this guy who's a TV presenter.
He's like a famous celebrity on television.
And he wakes up one day and no one remembers him existing.
So, like, no one remembers him as famous, but the show he was on exists.
And, like, the woman he was dating, who's also a celebrity, is still a celebrity.
And no one believes him when he was like, what?
So there's some of that in there.
marty derosa
I tend to think that the reason why there is a lot of things sometimes, if I get a little marijuana in me and I'll watch some stuff, I'll just be like, You can't just tell me we invented how to fly to the moon.
That someone gave us that technology.
unidentified
Well, of course.
We're not that smart.
dan friesen
Of course.
And that's an episode for a whole other day.
marty derosa
How am I just saying that in the computer and the internet?
I don't know.
dan friesen
How did in 10 years we create essentially a massive web?
Well, it wasn't 10 years, maybe 20 years.
That's still a short period of time to be able to create this fucking wide internet that you can just do anything with.
marty derosa
I just get blown away sometimes when I'm downtown Chicago and I look up and I see a building that's 100 stories high.
dan friesen
Yeah.
How'd you build that?
marty derosa
Who's, who had the balls to think of that?
dan friesen
Especially in Chicago where the land is so unstable and shit.
Anyway, Marty, what do you think, now that we've had our examination of this, we've had some calls, people backing up the Mandela effect.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
What do you think?
Where's your head?
marty derosa
Uh, I think that it, uh, this all goes back to I have two series of thoughts.
Two theories of thoughts.
First theory is we were just dumb little kids who just.
And it's kind of one of those things of like, what do you see?
Oh, no, it's actually an old woman, not a young woman.
One of those things.
dan friesen
Those weird visual tricks.
marty derosa
Yeah.
And I think if we really needed to and got the right people in here, they can go, Dan, here's why you think it's Berenstein bears as a kid, blah, blah.
dan friesen
If you had like a memory specialist or something.
marty derosa
Yeah.
I think we can find out why.
But there's also another part of me.
The third eye, when it opens up a little bit, it's a little sleepy.
He opened, I scratched my third eye a little bit.
dan friesen
You poke to your third eye computer?
marty derosa
Yeah, I poke my third eye computer.
And I think, you know what, as I grow, as I get older, I am not, man, if this is all a Matrix thing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Which I believe.
marty derosa
I wouldn't be shocked.
dan friesen
I do believe that Matrix theory, by the way.
I think it's probably accurate.
unidentified
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Then, It's just based on, in the same way that I believe in aliens because the universe is infinite.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And if there's infinite space, there's no way we're the only intelligent beings in it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because the odds of that are infinitely small.
marty derosa
Here's, and if I'm getting weird, so you got that big giant, uh, condo or apartment building.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Down the street.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
In my mind, sometimes, when I'm really high on this matrix thing, there's literally nothing in there.
dan friesen
Oh, oh, oh, the idea that, like, wherever you are is the only thing that exists.
unidentified
But if I.
dan friesen
The rest of it is just, like, weird background shading.
marty derosa
If I go to that.
And open the door, there's some computer guy going, oh, shit, I'm going to make a whole fucking.
dan friesen
So now, hold on.
You're getting weird on me.
marty derosa
Because it's Truman Show ish.
dan friesen
Yeah, because now you're thinking that you live in your own personal matrix.
marty derosa
I think if this is a thing.
dan friesen
Now you're getting into like solipsism.
marty derosa
We're all on our own.
dan friesen
No, I don't think that.
That's crazy.
That's crazy to me.
marty derosa
I think we're all on our own.
dan friesen
So you exist as a figment of my matrix right now, but simultaneously, I exist as a figment of yours.
marty derosa
You don't exist.
You're just a part of mine.
dan friesen
Okay, that creates a really weird psychological dilemma for you.
Why have you created me?
marty derosa
I didn't.
Ask the guy working at the Groupon in the sky.
dan friesen
So you'd think that if you have a Matrix, you don't really have control over the circumstances?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
So there's just a guy playing Sims, and it's the Marty edition of Sims.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And he's like, all right, let's introduce a similarly mentally ill gentleman who's into podcasting into Marty's life and see what happens?
marty derosa
I tend to think.
That you might have been put into my Sims to make me realize maybe there is some Sims going on.
dan friesen
Oh, shit.
So I'm like a Jesus figure.
marty derosa
Maybe.
unidentified
Maybe.
marty derosa
A deity of some sort.
dan friesen
I like your angle.
marty derosa
Thanks, bud.
I thought you'd like that.
dan friesen
Since I'm in my matrix right now.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or am I?
marty derosa
See, I don't know if that works that way.
dan friesen
So essentially, what you're getting at is an idea of like, if this were a dream, I'm a dream character in your dreams.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I have awareness, but not the awareness that I'm not real.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Okay.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I have enough awareness to go about my day and we can have this conversation, but I don't know that I'm a figment.
marty derosa
Exactly.
dan friesen
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is a little insulting.
unidentified
Listen.
But what about me?
dan friesen
Because right now, I have memories of when you weren't here.
I know what I was doing.
I drank this Red Bull.
marty derosa
Of course you do.
dan friesen
I jacked off last night.
It was great.
marty derosa
These are great programmers.
unidentified
All right.
marty derosa
Because I can't have you.
dan friesen
That's such complicated programming just for a side character in your.
marty derosa
It's really not that big of a deal for them.
It's really not that big of a deal for them.
dan friesen
All right.
unidentified
So.
marty derosa
I don't know why you're taking this so personally.
unidentified
I'm not.
dan friesen
I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm trying to understand.
marty derosa
Would it help if I said, yeah, Dan, in your world, you exist too?
dan friesen
But then you are a character.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
See, I understand why you would be a character in my world, but I don't understand why I would be a character in your world.
marty derosa
I don't understand what you mean.
dan friesen
You satisfy something that's really important for me in my world.
marty derosa
And you do for me.
dan friesen
But I don't see it.
I don't see what my importance is.
marty derosa
I think.
dan friesen
You are like a big brother to me in a lot of ways.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And a big brother who's maybe.
I hope David's not listening to this.
He's great, and he's very supportive in certain ways, but he's not supportive in ways I need, and in many ways, you fill that role.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Psychologically, you fill a big brother role that I didn't have.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
So if I were, like, creating a program, your existence in it makes sense.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
Might I say that if it wasn't for you, I'd never even think maybe that my life was a matrix.
So perhaps.
dan friesen
But possibly I'm confusing you then.
marty derosa
You're a thumbnail.
Someone put a thumb drive in a thing and they go, I gotta download this Dan Friesen character.
dan friesen
You gotta wake Marty up.
marty derosa
And I think the OJ thing is the first step in you realizing Oh shit.
dan friesen
I'm a character.
marty derosa
These memories might not even be mine.
unidentified
Ah shit.
Yeah.
Alright.
dan friesen
Well, I do believe we're in a matrix, but your version of it is complicated for a matrix.
marty derosa
I threw you for a loop.
I threw you for a loop.
dan friesen
Well, the idea of individual matrices is confusing.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the way you seem to be saying it is that you're the only person who's real.
marty derosa
Truman showed me.
dan friesen
Yeah, exactly.
marty derosa
Truman showed the shit out of you.
dan friesen
That to me is narcissistic.
At worst.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
It's insane at best.
unidentified
Ha ha ha!
marty derosa
Uh, Who knows?
dan friesen
The idea that everybody has their own computer simulation that they're in and we're all sort of overlapping, that to me is a little bit compelling because consciousness is so weird.
Yeah.
And that end.
unidentified
I took a stab at it.
I don't know.
dan friesen
But also, I think if we're going to go with the Matrix, there's one big one and we're all in it, but we're all individual programs running in the Matrix.
marty derosa
So what?
dan friesen
Or in the simulation as it were.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because Matrix has such a loaded story.
marty derosa
So what makes some people have better lives than others or do things better than others or why is.
Why is Justin Bieber Justin Bieber?
dan friesen
We can go down to nature and nurture and take that into the computer level.
Some people have programming that's more fluid.
There are programs that you can run on your computer and they're glitchy as shit.
And they're just like, I can't play this game.
marty derosa
Do you think mental illness is a glitch in the system?
dan friesen
Maybe not a glitch, but it could be if we're using this framework, it's a program.
It's a piece of the programming.
marty derosa
Think of the idea of somebody who's.
You know, on this homeless person on the street talking to somebody.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Is it like, oh, they're onto something?
dan friesen
They've pierced through their glitch.
marty derosa
There's a glitch in their system.
dan friesen
I would say that there's two possibilities.
They're just completely faulty programming that is just running poorly, and, you know, the insanity of the programming is so high that they're unfunctional.
Or they're street profits.
And they, because they've given up on the simulation, essentially, they've given up on life.
They somehow have seen through the bullshit, and they're actually talking to the programmers or whatever.
unidentified
Could you imagine?
dan friesen
I think we are right now.
I mean, if there are programmers, they're listening.
Unless they're on lunch.
They might be on lunch.
marty derosa
Let me ask you this.
Yeah.
Then we'll move on to our final or whatever you got planned for the end of this.
dan friesen
This is the end.
marty derosa
No, we've got to talk about the juice a little bit.
dan friesen
Well, that's a separate episode.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
marty derosa
Would you want one day to wake up to text messages and be like, what the fuck?
And be like, turn on MSNBC or CNN.
And it's just like.
Apparently, there's this matrix thing and we're living in it.
Like, it's crazy.
I know you're not going to believe this, but check this out.
Or would you just want one day, you know, you're 87, you lived a great life, you're in a hospital, and you're hanging on for dear life, and you just say, I can't do this anymore, and then you close your eyes, and then you wake up, and you're just like, What?
And they're just like, Hey, you did a good job.
But here's what's really.
dan friesen
I like the second version a lot better.
But, like, it wasn't like when Steve Jobs was dying, he was like, This is so beautiful.
It's all so beautiful.
There's the possibility that he was piercing through the life death veil.
marty derosa
Maybe.
dan friesen
And so many religions and so many spiritual systems have it built into them that all of this isn't real.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is the illusions of the world.
And there's a reason for that.
There's a reason that that's a compelling thing.
marty derosa
I would, as a goof, I would do the opposite of what Steve Jobs did.
As I was dying, I'd go, oh my God, the Nazis really did.
Guys, don't you think so?
I don't know why I'm so Nazi heavy.
dan friesen
You're always kind of Nazi heavy.
marty derosa
Am I really?
unidentified
Uh,.
dan friesen
But that's because they're so involved in everything.
marty derosa
I watched a little something before I came here.
dan friesen
I think that it would, first of all, just by the very nature of what it is, it's impossible to ever really prove that we're in a matrix or in a simulation.
But the evidence has built up that we probably are.
Like, there was a scientist, I can't remember his name, he came out and he was talking about studying.
unidentified
Michukaku?
No.
dan friesen
That guy's a shill.
Much like Alex Jones.
Two of them suck each other off in their shill shells.
marty derosa
Control that position?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I just think he's kind of a dick.
But this guy was talking about studying.
The behaviors of subatomic particles and trying to use equations to describe their behaviors.
And what he found was that the equations that would describe the behavior of these tiny particles are almost identical to computer code.
And essentially, when you get down to the smallest level we can study, it mirrors code.
marty derosa
So through reverse engineering, we're figuring out some code.
dan friesen
Well, that doesn't prove anything, but it is indicative of something kind of weird that the internet runs in the same way that our reality works.
Second, There's a guy named, uh, Nick Bostrom who, uh, did a bunch of, uh, theorizing on stuff.
And one of the things that's compelling, in the same way, the universe thing, with the infiniteness of the universe, whatever.
His, his premise was essentially that if we give it enough time, us as humans will create simulations of our past.
We do this already in small ways with, like, uh, Medal of Honor games, our simulations of battles that actually happened.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
We have a tendency to do that the same way.
marty derosa
These are like the hieroglyphics almost of what now is like, Cartoons or movies or whatever.
dan friesen
Sims do that too.
Like in the Sims games, lots of people try and create real things and real scenarios in the past.
marty derosa
They create universes.
dan friesen
So, if we keep going down the path and our technology keeps improving and improving, inevitably we will create a fully immersed simulation of the past to try and understand our history.
Now, if that happens within the simulation, they will get to a certain point where they'll create a simulation within the simulation.
So, once the first simulation happens, it's impossible to tell at what stage of the nesting doll you are because simulations within simulations will happen to the point where There are thousands and millions of simulated universes, and it's infinitely more likely that you're in a simulation than reality.
marty derosa
And maybe going back to the Matrix movie with Joey Pants saying, make me not, I don't want to remember any of this.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
I want to be successful, blissful, blah, Ignorant.
I think we're in a time or getting close to a time where a lot of people would take that.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
They would really take that deal.
unidentified
Yeah.
I think.
marty derosa
They would say, million bucks.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
I give Dan, I give Freezing Corp a million dollars.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You put me out under, you freeze me, whatever.
I say, Dan, I want to be the greatest comedian ever to live, and I want to have such a charmed comedy career.
dan friesen
Sure.
marty derosa
You know, I want to have a show on Seesaw.
You want to have a Seesaw?
What all the amazing comics have now.
Sure.
And you just go, okay.
dan friesen
Snap the button.
marty derosa
Snap the button.
dan friesen
Which is not an expression.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
I just made it up.
marty derosa
That's my button I press.
unidentified
Click.
marty derosa
And I click it on.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
I think we're getting closer to that.
dan friesen
You would take that deal?
marty derosa
Knowing, but then I wouldn't know.
Maybe I have taken that deal and I didn't have enough money.
I said, just make me a minor note comedian and have a fun podcast.
dan friesen
Well, maybe they tried to make you the best comedian in the world, but because of how you're programming, my parents blew it.
The computer code that is in your brain is faulty to a certain extent, and you haven't been able to live up to the programmers who tried to put you in this scenario to make you the best comedian in the world.
unidentified
Help.
marty derosa
Guys, I'm looking up.
Guys, guys, I could use a little fucking help here.
dan friesen
I need you to convince me to go back to shows.
I need to get back into stand up.
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unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, Marty, we've drifted away from the Mandela effect, but that's because I think most of it's kind of boring.
marty derosa
I think it was limited.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
I think we could do as much as we could.
dan friesen
My conclusion, in conclusion, that I would like to say is that Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is always the best, tells me that most of this is faulty memories from childhood.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the internet hive mind being an echo chamber.
Where people lie a ton.
So if someone comes up with a theory and they post it on Reddit, if there's 100 comments in there, 60 or 70 are going to be liars.
So there's no proving any of this stuff.
And so much of it is based on, like, oh, here's a story from child.
marty derosa
And I think so much of it, too, is people going, nope, I know what I remember.
And it's like, you were a kid, you might have not remembered this the right way.
dan friesen
First hand testimony in court is notoriously unreliable.
People have a very difficult time being impartial.
So that's what my higher brain tells me that all this is nonsense.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
But the Higgs boson thing is very compelling in the sense that we don't know the ramifications of splitting atoms necessarily.
A lot of that's pretty crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So who knows?
Maybe it is all like a ripple effect.
unidentified
Maybe.
dan friesen
And we'll know in 2019.
marty derosa
We will know.
But until then, just keep thinking what they want you to think, Dan.
Until then.
dan friesen
That's what.
marty derosa
Baron Stein.
Baron Starino.
Baron Corbin.
unidentified
The Lone Wolf.
The Lone Wolf.
dan friesen
So, guys, that brings us to the end of our exploration of Baron Corbin.
Marty, people can follow you at Marty DeRosa.
marty derosa
They can, Dan, and they can follow you at Dan Friesen.
Friesen Point.
dan friesen
Not that Dan Friesen.
marty derosa
They can follow you at Friesen Point.
dan friesen
Yep, and FriesenPoint.com is the website where we have all sorts of fun stuff.
We've got a new Friesen Point family podcast coming out this week.
marty derosa
It's hot.
I've heard all about it.
dan friesen
It's, uh, I can, I can spoil it.
unidentified
Do it.
dan friesen
We're not going to tell you what we watched, but me and Bobby Buds, friend of the show, uh, hilarious dude, he and I have a new movie review show.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Called Buds on Film, or maybe a different title.
marty derosa
I like Film Buds, but there might be, that might be a, cause I think that might be taken.
Well, and also, I think if I do Film Buds, the idea is that you guys were like high and you watched a movie.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
That's what I'm thinking.
dan friesen
I wasn't high.
marty derosa
So Buds on Film, you guys are buddies, you're watching film.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
I like that.
dan friesen
So I got that coming out this week.
Look for it.
Also, people can check out Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling.
Over on the MLW network.
You guys have your own feed now.
marty derosa
We have our own feed on iTunes.
We are, uh.
dan friesen
Everyone subscribe.
Show them the love.
marty derosa
Rate, review, subscribe.
Uh, Marty and Sarah love wrestling.
Uh, you can always check out wrestling with depression.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
Which I'm on this week.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
Next week.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
marty derosa
I've been banking some apps, baby.
dan friesen
Well, you can put me off then.
marty derosa
Banking apps.
dan friesen
We recorded an episode.
marty derosa
Banking apps.
dan friesen
That'll be coming out soon.
marty derosa
Cash and checks and banking apps.
dan friesen
And I want to make this clear.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
If anybody listens to that wrestling with depression and thinks that I don't talk about stuff that's too heavy, go back and listen to the other five times I was on the show.
marty derosa
Do you feel like we didn't have a heavy episode?
dan friesen
I don't think it was as like revealing as some of the others, but that's just because we've covered so much territory.
marty derosa
And also, also, I think we record, we recorded something that you weren't happy with.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
And it was interesting too because, uh, I, I have a guest of who, a future guest on and he also has a podcast and we finished wrestling with depression.
Then he goes, Hey, can I just record one of my podcasts with you?
And I said, yeah.
And we were still sitting in the same spots.
And I'm like, this still feels like wrestling with depression.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
marty derosa
So we recorded a wrestling with depression at freezing point studios.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And it, it, it didn't feel right.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
And we also had a couple beers.
We had some beers on us and stuff.
dan friesen
A couple Steve Weiser's.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Uh, yeah, so, but anyway, the, the one I, we talk a lot about, like, relationship stuff, and it's fine, but, you know, it wasn't, uh, wasn't that good.
unidentified
Stop it.
dan friesen
Anyway.
unidentified
It was great.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's fun.
Look for that in the future.
Also, comedians you should know, every Wednesday night, here in Chicago, out in LA.
unidentified
And in New York.
Catching Up for Next Time 00:01:49
unidentified
New York.
LA.
dan friesen
You guys have taken over the entire, uh, world now.
marty derosa
Yeah, we're doing alright.
dan friesen
Get one in Beijing next.
marty derosa
I'm gonna go to Hong Kong and start one thing, get thrown in jail.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's, uuuh.
I'll see you on lockup.
Marty, this has been a lot of fun.
unidentified
Dan.
marty derosa
Pleasure's always been mine, and, uh, anytime we can open people's third eyes, I'm down with it.
dan friesen
And, uh, just a message again to you out there voting on Twitter polls.
Take it seriously, you dicks.
marty derosa
Hey, yeah, just know our, much like Occam's Razor, our first choice, our first choice might be their best one.
dan friesen
Yeah, we want to talk about Dracula already, and Flat Earth.
marty derosa
Freezin's Razor is vote for the first topic, because that's what Dan probably wants.
dan friesen
Yeah, well, we'll get to them all eventually.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
In due time.
marty derosa
That's what they want you to think.
dan friesen
Uh, guys, thanks for joining us here in the Brain Battle.
We'll catch you next time right here in Boomtown, but until then, I have been Boglejub, the White Mystery.
Now please get out there and do your job, which of course is loving someone.
marty derosa
And to find what the Matrix is all about.
unidentified
That's what they want you to think.
Beauty hook didn't happen.
What happened to the guy who shot at the theater when the dark night returned?
marty derosa
What about this new guy in Dallas?
What about his social media presence?
I have issues with that.
dan friesen
Pokemon Go is a CIA off!
Sorry, we'll catch you next time.
unidentified
Yeah.
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