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You have Google devices in your house, you know, like the Google Home or Google Nest.

You have the nest, right?

I have all this crap.

I'm not.

I do not hold the line in this way.

And you see convenience.

And the most recent thing about these devices, they're recording everything you do.

You know, that is

probably definitely true.

But

I also want to be able to walk into a room and say, play song, please.

Yes.

Please play what weather is.

That's as much effort as I want to put it in.

It's so bad.

It happens so fast.

It did.

It did.

It really does.

But it is awesome when you can say, and I won't say the name of the product, I'll just Amazon thing.

Play my playlist.

Playing playlist.

And there it is.

I love that.

You don't have to walk over to it.

You just tell it what to do, and it does it.

It's remote.

Turn up volume.

And it turns up the volume.

I love that.

Look, you could get into this

reminiscing into old-timey things

in a lot of ways.

And it's easy to do these days.

But I remember

driving around the state to quote-unquote record stores where they had

really more CDs at that time.

And just looking for a rare thing that I wanted, some weird remix or B-side or whatever it was, driving hours to go to these stores that were like specialty stores to find things that I wanted, to listen to songs.

And now everything you could possibly want is available basically for free, whatever you want with no effort.

And I see a round thing right in front of you in your kitchen or living room or wherever it is.

And to me, right now, the same person who drove around the state,

now like me unlocking my phone and typing it in is way too much.

It's too much.

It's too much.

It's way too much.

You got to be able to just shout it across the room and it happens.

Right.

Like, I know, at one point, I have,

I got one of these Amazon devices that is the tap.

You know, they have all these different versions.

They have the echo and they have, you know,

there's the little tiny one.

I don't know what that one's called, but they have all different versions of it.

And there's one called the Tap that they released.

I don't know if they still sell it or not.

But this is the the one that you don't yell to, basically.

I think you can set it up to say, hey, Amazon device, play the song.

But basically what it's designed to do is there's a button on it.

You press the button and you say, hey, Amazon device, you know, do the thing, right?

Like play the song.

Just tell me the weather or whatever.

And I think a couple things it was designed for.

It was, you know, but the main thing that you think of from a perspective of like privacy was it's not on until you press the button.

Like the theory was, now, of course, you know, of course, it's probably recording me the whole time anyway, but the theory was it was an appeal to people who didn't want this thing on all the time available.

You could say that to command a hundred thousand times in a row wouldn't do anything unless you press this button.

But of course, it's too hard to go over and press the button.

You don't want to do that.

Every time, like,

three steps.

I got to get up out of a chair and do it.

No.

And then I got to hit the thing.

And like, you know, when you're listening, you're in the middle, you have the thing playing a playlist.

You're in the middle of doing something else and you want to skip some crappy song that has come on, you got to walk over to it.

That's ridiculous.

That's infuriating.

It's one of the worst things that's ever happened to me.

It's outrageous that you'd have to do that.

It's so bad.

And of course, it is.

And these are devices we didn't have access to until just recently.

These are pretty recent innovations.

And each one of them I make fun of as if they're the most ridiculous thing that's ever happened.

Like

when I got the fingerprint thing on my phone, I remember thinking,

what person can't spend the time to type the four digits into their phone and unlock it?

What weird, what, you know, person from, you know, what, from WALL-E,

it was this.

Yeah.

And then it was me in about five minutes.

And then now I can't imagine using my fingerprint.

I'll,

now it's just facial recognition, and it would be completely ridiculous for me to ever have to use my fingerprint again.

It's like 1800s technology to me.

And And what does it take me?

1 80th of a second?

Probably.

But that's, I can't, I can't even comprehend it.

Yeah.

How dare they ask me to put my finger on the phone?

And as far as listening to a playlist, instead of, I don't know, putting in a CD, when was the last time you put a CD into anything?

I mean, CDs were just fairly recently state-of-the-art innovation.

And now it's like a CD, what's that for?

What's, I don't even, I don't remember.

I vaguely remember these round things that you put into a slot, but I can't imagine having to go through that painstaking process.

I will say there, my, uh, I have an older car, and it's almost 10 years old now.

And oh, my goodness.

So it is, uh, I mean, it's, you know, it's, I,

the technology in 10 years changes a freaking lot, Pat.

I mean, like, it has, yeah, it does.

My car does not have the ability to turn on Bluetooth and connect to my my phone so I can play songs.

Oh, it doesn't?

No.

It was 2012, I think.

So, I mean, the technology existed.

It was in some cars, but it wasn't in all cars.

And mine's one of them it wasn't in.

So I have to, like, plug in a little wire every time I get into my car.

Oh, no.

I mean, and this is like.

What are you, a Luddite?

Pretty much.

Are you anti-science and technology?

Is that what you are?

I'm pretty much churning butter.

You should live in Western Pennsylvania.

It's true.

It's how I feel.

And it's funny because

that process is still a little clunky, right?

You got to connect to Bluetooth or you got to plug your phone in and you're

on it.

But now they have the Apple CarPlay, which is on

my wife has a car within the Apple CarPlay.

She plugs the thing in and it looks so nice.

It's on the screen.

It comes up perfectly.

All the apps from the front come up.

It looks all pretty.

It's all integrated.

But for a while, that's the only time I would say that the CDs were used.

One of her last cars cars didn't have all those fancy features and it had a CD player and she got so annoyed at trying to get her phone connected and it would lose the connection and all that stuff that she just started buying the CDs.

And it was, but like, I don't even, I went to, um, it's funny because we have a, uh,

we were talking, we were going on a long drive, and I was thinking to myself, we need to get like a movie or something for these kids because they're just, you know, they're at that point.

I have two kids.

They're 18 months apart.

And typically they're really good together.

But at times, they get on each other's nerves a tad.

And on a long drive, that's when it's going to happen, you know?

So I'm like, we've got to get these kids a movie or something.

I think we've got a DVD player or whatever.

Let's just put this thing in there.

So we went to Walmart or Target or something to try to find DVDs.

The section for DVDs now is like,

it's smaller than your locker at high school.

It's like there's four DVDs.

They have two copies each.

It's funny.

Obviously, like, you know,

what's the things that are outside of like Walgreens, the red.

Oh, yeah, Redbox?

Red box, yeah.

Yeah.

Redbox, they're all over the country.

There's still, people are still renting them, but the DVD market is, you know, now you're just downloading these movies.

This is the whole GameStop controversy, right?

When that was going through the roof, everyone's like, well, no one buys physical games anymore.

How can this company possibly be going up to $100 and $200 and $300 a share?

Right.

It really, all that stuff has just been replaced.

And so fast, too.

So quickly.

I don't think, you know, Glenn has been on this kick for a long time that he always tries to resist this stuff for a while.

And like, I want all, how many times has he said this?

I want all this stuff out of my house.

I don't even want to be on the internet.

No, I don't want the internet.

I want all the iPads out of the household on the

satellite TV.

Yeah.

Well, that my children know about, but I'm going to have access to it, of course.

And then they'll find out, and so will they.

And

he always wants to get rid of all of his devices

with the possible exception of the iPad that is continually attached to his hands at all times.

Yeah.

So is mine.

I carry that thing with me wherever I go.

And I don't do the iPad thing, but I do have

a phone.

And

you try to resist this stuff from this idea that you're just going to get rid of it.

And it's really just not possible.

You just, we do not have the capacity.

And it's weird because we did have the capacity.

Yes, we've lost it.

Not to carry stuff around with us wherever we go, like a little blankie when we're two years old and we have a favorite blanket.

That's, that's what my iPad is to me.

I can't go anywhere or do anything without it.

If, if I accidentally forget it for a second, I'm like, oh my God, what, am I naked?

Where's my iPad?

Has anybody seen my iPad?

Where is it?

It's just ridiculous.

So now these

now, yeah, these devices are listening to everything we do.

And apparently, not when you just say, hey, Google thing or Amazon thing, turn on.

They're apparently always recording.

I mean, and we found that out a couple of years ago, and they were like, oh, yeah, but that's just,

we're learning.

That's just to listen to conversation so that we can teach language to these devices.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

So they're apparently still doing it and it just stores it.

and keeps it.

And there's going to be a lot of people who say, well, I don't care.

I ain't doing nothing wrong in my home.

They're just going to be bored to death to hear what I have to say.

You're not the one who decides if what you're doing is wrong or not.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

It's interesting, too, if you have one of these Amazon ones, I know in particular, you can go into the app and hear all the things it's recorded.

Like you can go in and like hear.

Oh, you can?

Yeah.

Have you ever done that?

Yeah, it's just, you know, it's kind of funny because my kids will say things to it.

They're really funny because they just, they just ask, like, you know,

you know, how old is Bob?

Because they know someone named Bob and they just assume Alexa is going to answer all of their questions.

Like, legitimately, like,

they have this idea that, like, if sometimes you'll be in the conversation, they'll just be like, let me just ask Alexa.

And you're like, first of all, Alexa is not going to answer that question.

That's not how Alexa works.

Secondly, why do you think Alexa is smarter than I am?

Why don't you?

I'm your dad.

You're supposed to, at least until 12, think I'm smart.

Like, that's a rule.

Yeah.

And apparently.

But they they know better already.

But it is, you see it in them.

Like they just like that, well, there's a solution.

It's right there, that little thing that lights up.

But occasionally they ask really funny and cute questions, and that's what got me started on it.

But you could go back like some, and you do realize that a lot of times it is, they're not intentional.

You'll just hear them just talking in the background.

I don't know why it's turned on.

You know, maybe there was a word with an X in it, you know, that they said, or a KS, and that sounds a little bit like the name of the Amazon device that we are not saying so that we don't alert everybody's

and turn it on.

And we could order stuff on your Prime account if we wanted to right now, but we will not do that because we're nice.

But it is one of those things that it turns, it changes so,

so fast and you don't even realize that

what has happened.

I mean, there's just, there's just recording devices all over my house.

Right.

All over my house.

And the things that you wouldn't expect.

Like the Amazon device and the Google device, you'd think, okay, yeah, well, I can see where that might do it.

But the Google Nest,

that's recording us too?

They've got microphones in the Google Nest.

That's your thermostat control.

Why?

Why?

Why is that listening to me?

Why is that recording me?

Why is that keeping...

You don't, I don't talk to it.

So why would you need to learn from my language on the Google Nest?

It's bizarre.

It's bizarre.

They also have, the Nest has these, these

smoke detectors.

And they,

I have, this has been one of the most annoying.

The thing that has annoyed me more than anything about the United States of America is basically the fact that these stupid smoke detectors beep, and I can't tell which one it is.

And I have to change the batteries.

It's the bane of my existence.

It drives me crazy.

You'll take the battery out.

It'll keep beeping.

It keeps beeping.

This is not physically possible.

What do I have to take a shotgun to this thing?

How do I stop it?

They bend the laws of science.

They do.

There is no battery, and it is not plugged in, and it continues to run like a chicken with its head cut off.

Bizarre.

And so I hate these things so much.

Me too.

The Nest has them.

And of course, with Nest, they'll tell you which one is low on batteries on the app.

And I don't care if it just continually is taking pictures of me naked and posting them on the internet.

If it will tell me what battery is low and where I go to change it, I will put them all in my house.

I don't care if it's continually making videos of me on the toilet and posting them to

the New York Times website directly.

The rest of us care still.

We care for you.

And so we're going to say no.

Okay, well, that particular thing, maybe not, but pretty close.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Wow.

This is serious.

I mean,

if you haven't been taking climate change seriously until now, I certainly hope this will change your attitude on it.

Yeah,

this is chilling.

Brian Stelter had David Wallace Wells on.

And when you have a hyphenated last name like that, you know they're a serious person.

They're a real expert.

Or you're an assassin.

Or that.

Yeah, there's two things with the three names.

You can either be a very serious person or an assassin.

Or lately, you're in the National Football League.

There's a lot of hyphenated names.

Yeah.

So David Wallace Wells

is quoting estimates that suggest burning of fossil fuels kills 10 million people

every year.

Which,

of course, as he mentioned, is dying on the scale of the Holocaust.

How do these people get away with this stuff?

I don't know.

Where's the ADL on this?

Where, where,

where?

Because

we,

I mean, when Glenn was defending people in Israel

and would mention something about Nazis or compare what's going on now to what, you know, that we're on the same road or you got to be careful.

They would call him out every single time.

Yeah.

Now, if it's climate, it's okay, I guess.

Yeah, it's fine.

And he says, and yet we don't see many public health stories.

We don't see many moral crisis stories addressed to that issue.

We don't?

Are you blind?

That's all we see.

And by the way, is there any thought, and this is a, I don't know, I don't have an answer to this, Pat.

I'm not a scientist.

But do we think that fossil fuels have done anything to help people stay alive?

Is there another side to this equation?

Let's not even bother

attacking the ridiculous claim that fossil fuels kill 10 million people a year.

I'm quite certain that fossil fuels help maintain the lives of way more than 1 million people a year.

What would happen?

Go back in time to the pre-fossil fuel era and tell me,

we don't have to go back in time.

You can find it in billions of people's lives all across the globe right now who are burning things like dried dung inside their home to cook their food.

And that's not good?

No, many of them are dying.

It's one of the largest dried dung deaths and wood and biomass inside their homes.

It's killing more people than almost anything in the world.

So, but let's criticize fossil fuels.

Ridiculous.

Who have eliminated that problem for multiple billions of people?

Stelter began this by saying that meteorologists and journalists are running out of words and ways to describe the impact of climate change.

Yeah, they are.

Unprecedented just doesn't cut it anymore.

Nor does invisible.

It's true.

Because this is the problem

with an issue like global warming if you're an alarmist.

You make alarmist claims

and you have to say they're coming soon or no one cares.

Right.

Because people are, you know, it's just the human instinct, right?

If you say 500 years from now, this could happen.

Yeah.

Right.

So you can't say it like that.

You have to say it's within some sort of time frame.

And you can't say it's tomorrow because everyone will know it didn't happen.

Right.

So you say it's out in the future and feel like you won't have to pay the price when you're wrong in the future although this is in the present he is claiming and it's hard to track this down because how do you track down the 10 million people die every year from climate change

where are you getting that stat where is that coming from yeah

made that estimate and based on what this is another example of how they do it in in the climate but Often you'll hear estimates of how many people will die in heat waves because of the climate.

Climate change is coming, going to kill people in heat waves.

What, of course, is always left out of this equation is the fact that far more people die from cold than they do from heat.

Oh, so everywhere.

If you're just talking about heat deaths, those are way outweighed by people who are not dying from cold.

Yeah.

Right.

So, and this has been, this is in all the UN IPCC documentation.

This is not something I'm making up.

This is something that scientists say all the time, that for certainly a long period of time, the cold deaths avoided will far outweigh the new deaths caused by heat.

But if you go on Brian Stelter's show or any CNN show and say, just say the heat number, no one's going to question it.

No one's going to mention the other side of the equation.

I mean,

how can any coherent person not see that fossil fuels are one of the things that have brought us modern civilization?

The fact that we've gone from

we've doubled our life expectancy over the past 100 to a couple hundred years.

If there's one thing you'd point to, you might point to fossil fuels as the difference in between us doubling our life expectancy.

There's been other things, and those things are important as well.

But fossil fuels are a huge piece of this.

Even if you accept the ridiculous claim that fossil fuels are killing 10 million people a year, it would still be worth it.

Yeah.

Oh, well, yeah.

Because we've gone, we've added billions of people.

And by the way, look at the people who are arguing against that.

The people who didn't want it to happen are the same people who are now telling you that fossil fuels are killing 10 million people a year.

The people who didn't want the extra billions of people on the planet.

They kept telling you we'd all die if they came.

And here we are.

You know, this has been, we've been able to feed all of them against all of their advice.

We've been able to keep extend life against all of their advice and warning.

And when these claims come up later on, no one holds them accountable.

When they are wrong, it's left to us, Talk Radio on Earth Day, to bring out all the wrong quotes from 20 years ago or 30 years ago or 10 years ago.

And that is a, it's an unbelievable situation.

It's great work if you can find it.

Because you can make all these spectacular claims, raise all your money money, and never

be held accountable for when you're wrong, ever.

Right.

And if I may, just add one little addendum to the fossil fuel thing.

I don't believe they are fossil fuels.

Oh, yeah, this is a big Pat Dead.

Pat Gray's position.

It's my theory

that oil is a recurring natural goo in the earth.

The scientific term is recurring natural goals.

Recurring natural goo.

There are some scientists who believe this.

They're always obviously referred to as fossil fuels.

the idea that they come from fossils from long ago.

But

you've stood on this for a while, and there are scientists who believe it.

The first time they started talking about peak oil was in 1920.

Yeah, we're right up on peak oil here.

It's about to run out.

Okay, well, that didn't happen because we found way more reserves.

Then it was the 40s.

Oh, we're coming right up on peak oil again.

There's not going to be any.

We better find something else.

And then they found more.

And then in the 60s.

Oh, it's coming right up on peak oil.

And peak oil, look it up.

It's been over and over and over and over and over.

And now it's just to the point where we found so much that we are now,

we now have more oil and gas reserves than any country on earth.

And the peak oil thing is very similar to the environmental thing.

They continually warn about all these terrible things that are going to happen.

They don't happen.

And then they just say, well, now we know better.

If you actually get in a conversation with an environmentalist and you bring up the quotes from the 70s, 80s, the 90s, where they're totally wrong, they will just say, well, yeah, but I mean, it's been 20 years.

We've learned a lot since then.

It's like, but yeah, but then you never have to pay a price for your wrong statements.

Do you understand that you set up a system in which only you can tell us that you're wrong?

Remember when you said Britain was going to be gone, like underwater by 2000?

Yeah, that didn't happen, if I'm not mistaken.

Britain is still there.

Remember when you said the West Side Highway in New York City is going to be gone completely underwater?

People are driving on it today, right now.

Exactly.

Let me give you this one.

This is from the New York Times in 1995.

They say, quote, at the most likely

rate of rise, some experts say most of the beaches on the east coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years.

That would be 2020.

Now, if you're on the east coast, perhaps you could do some reporting for us today.

Are there beaches there?

Do beaches exist on the East Coast of America?

My understanding is that they do.

I was on the East Coast at a beach in 2020.

Oh.

And it was still there.

Now, I don't know.

Maybe they just got it off by year and they've disappeared in the last couple of months since I've been there.

But my understanding is that beaches still exist on the East Coast of the United States.

No one, the New York Times doesn't write a follow-up about this story.

They don't come back later on and say, by the way, do you believe we wrote this thing 25 years ago?

Isn't this funny?

Like they do with the internet.

Occasionally you'll see this.

Like they'll be like, look at our stupid article from 1991 about the internet and how it won't make any difference, right?

Like they'll come back and revisit.

They don't do that with climate.

They only do it to excuse.

the reasons why they were actually right all of this time.

And actually, it's worse than they even said back then.

Let me give you another one of more recent.

All right.

Do we have time for this?

Yeah.

Okay.

So

what was the panic before COVID?

Can you remember the panic that occurred before COVID?

It's hard to remember this panic because there's been a lot of panicking during COVID.

But before COVID, one of the more recent panics was in the summer of 2000, between 2019 and 2020, where Australia was on fire.

Yeah.

Do you remember this?

This was the big thing.

Australia is on fire.

The whole country is burning down.

It's because of global warming.

No one's ever seen anything like this.

There were fundraisers on television like crazy.

No one had ever seen such a terrible thing happen to Australia.

And it's all because you're driving an SUV.

So now,

months and months later, we have the actual data from the Australian fires.

Now, you can understand why maybe people aren't focusing on that with all this COVID going around, but it's important to revisit these things when we get the data.

So during the 20th century, about every year in Australia, about 10% of the surface area catches on fire.

Every year?

Yes, throughout the 20th century, that's average, about 10%.

Now, we are told, of course, that global warming is going to make this much, much worse.

Obviously.

Well, in the 21st century so far, the number has been, instead of 10,

6.

So it's gone from 10% to 6%.

It's fallen by 40% in the 21st century.

Now, we are told that global warming is going to make these things much, much worse.

Now, obviously, 2019 and 2020 was a terrible year, as we know.

This is the year that it was really, really bad and worse than ever before.

98%.

Yeah, and it wasn't 10%.

It wasn't 6%.

In 2019.

1999, somewhere in there.

No.

No.

3.95% of the country burned.

It was one of the lowest percentages on record in history.

We have the chart up here if you happen to be watching blazetv.com slash Glenn.

Our promo code is Glenn, by the way, if you want to save some cash.

But basically, we're showing the actual amount of it falling from about 10, 11%, 12% in the early part of the 20th century down to

3.95%.

Incredible.

Now.

Now, climatologists do say that there will be an increase in these fires.

Whether they're right or not, who knows?

But if you see, Pat, if you can see, they had the line here a second ago with the yellow line on the chart.

You see, the yellow line is the predictions of what's coming in the future.

Now, the past is a giant decrease from these really high levels down to 3.95%.

And basically what the climate, all the climate models are predicting are for it to rise slightly from this really low period in history.

So basically what they're saying is instead of it being 4% or 5% like it is now, it may go up to 6%.

But 6% is still half of what it used to be.

And that of course doesn't include all of the innovations and things we will learn to fight the fires and lower the overall burn.

Long story short is that these things are presented as catastrophes, and they're not even back to half as bad as it used to be.

The only difference between the fires in Australia in 2019 and 2020 is they occurred closer to where people lived.

They're started by lightning,

and that lightning hit areas that were closer to where people lived, so they noticed them more.

And lightning only happens because of climate change.

No.

Lightning didn't happen in the past, right?

No.

No?

Not true.

By the way, the global.

Do we have the yeah, this is a global area burn from 1901 to 1920?

Same story, right, Pat?

I mean, you see the drop is dramatic.

Huge.

It's been dropping much faster since 2000.

And this is all

the opposite of what they told us would happen with climate change.

That's unbelievable.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

There is something called

the Mandela effect.

And it has to do with Nelson Mandela and people believing that he died in prison, which

didn't happen.

No, he did not.

He actually got out of prison and became pretty prominent for some time before he died.

He died in 2013, Free Man.

Yeah, you might remember.

That's where Barack Obama hit on the leader of, was it

the Netherlands?

Yeah, I think the female leader of the Netherlands.

And Michelle was not happy with that arrangement.

Not happy.

They seemed to be laughing and having a great time and flirting together.

And Michelle was, yeah, not thrilled.

Visibly unhappy.

I do remember that video now that you say it.

Now that you say it.

Yeah, so this is idea that basically like society can create a false memory and things and people will believe.

And like, it's a mass false memory, too.

Not just like a few people, but everybody believes it.

Everybody believes it.

So, these really some examples of it that are pretty interesting.

The Mandela effect was the, was the belief, as you mentioned, that he died in prison, which I never thought, but I guess a lot of people did.

However, this one I could probably

be affected by.

For example, what does Darth Vader say when he's talking about being the father of Luke Skywalker?

Luke,

I am

your father.

Right.

100%, right?

That is definitely what he says.

Except for the fact that's not what he says.

He says, actually, in the movie, no,

I am your father.

He's answering it.

Right, because Luke says to him, You killed my father.

You're like, Luke, you don't know what happened to your father.

You killed my father.

No,

I am your father.

Right.

Right.

Excellent.

By the way, excellent recreation there.

That was amazing.

But yeah, I mean, I would have totally said, Luke, I am your father.

I would totally and bet money on it that I was sure.

Yes.

So there's a bunch of examples of that.

That's one of them.

But that one I would have definitely gotten wrong.

How about this one?

Monopoly, the game of Monopoly.

Does the Monopoly man have a monocle?

Well, yeah.

Absolutely.

No, he does not.

The Monopoly guy does not have a monocle?

He does not have a monocle.

He's never had a monocle.

Is he holding it in his hand?

No.

He's holding money bags in his hand.

Okay.

So he doesn't have it in his eye and it's not in his hand.

No.

The belief is that people are conflating the Monopoly guy and Mr.

Peanut.

Now, Mr.

Peanut does have a monocle.

But these are two very different characters, actually.

I don't think I've ever conflated the two.

I'm pretty sure the Monopoly Man is not made of peanuts.

That's one thing I do.

I'm not really sure of.

Yes.

Well, that's an interesting one.

It is.

Okay, here's another one.

This one I would have probably got wrong, too.

If you think back to your childhood, you're making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, maybe a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for your kids,

and you break out the jiffy peanut butter.

Yes.

I would think it's Jiffy.

Yeah.

No.

But I know it's not because we went through this on my show a couple of weeks ago.

It just came up, and I'm like, did Jiff used to be called Jiffy?

And it was like, no,

it's never been Jiffy peanut butter.

It's always been Jiff.

Yes, so there is a Jiff peanut butter and there is also a Skippy peanut butter, but there has never been a Jiffy peanut butter.

Someone out there should create a Jiffy peanut butter.

Yes.

Right?

It'd be successful.

It would be huge.

Everyone would think that was the one they've been buying since they were a kid, but no, there's no such thing.

Really weird.

Okay, another movie one here.

Now, I don't know how much you were a fan of Silence of the Lambs.

Probably not that big, but it was a huge movie, obviously.

And if you've never seen the movie, you probably know one thing about it.

When she walks into front of the cell door, there he says, Hello, Clarice.

It's like a very famous thing.

Okay.

Yeah.

He doesn't say hello, Clarice, in the movie.

He actually just says, Good morning.

Really?

Because that's what everybody says.

Yes.

Now he says Clarice.

Yes.

He says Clarice in that voice many times, but he only says good morning.

He never says hello, Clarice.

That is weird.

Okay, fruit of the loom.

Yeah.

Okay.

Underwear.

Right.

You've got the symbol of fruit of the loom.

Can you picture it in your head?

Mm-hmm.

Now, I would have pictured it in my head as a bunch of fruit kind of spilling out of a cornucopia type of thing, right?

Yes.

Okay.

The fruit has never spilled out of a basket.

It does not come out of a basket.

It is literally just a pile of food.

Really?

Yeah, which is a weird thing to put on your underwear.

That is weird.

It's strange to put food.

I mean, I almost want it in a basket so it would be protected.

But no, it's just food.

Yeah, why are we testing your basketball?

I'm eating food with the underwear.

I guess obviously fruit.

And it's fruit of the loom.

It is.

And so there you go.

There you go.

There you go.

Okay.

This one I didn't remember.

Mona Lisa.

When you look at the thing of the Mona Lisa in your head,

is the Mona Lisa smiling?

Is the Mona Lisa frowning?

What is the Mona Lisa doing?

I think she's smiling.

She get a little smirk.

That's exactly right.

She has a little bit of smirk.

Most people remember this as her frowning a little bit.

That's a dour times in that painting, so I can understand maybe why you'd conceptually put that, but that's not true.

Do you remember Ed McMahon?

Yeah.

Back in the day, he's showing up on doorsteps.

He's giving people oversized checks and blue.

I love this one, too, because this I've stumbled onto as well.

For the Publishers' Clearinghouse sweepsticks.

He never worked for Publishers' Clearinghouse.

Right?

It's incredible.

It is incredible.

When I first saw this, I didn't believe it.

I know.

In fact, I went back to all the videos because I didn't believe it.

I'm like, yes, he did.

Yes, he did.

Publishers' Clearinghouse.

He did.

No, he did not.

No, he did not.

McMahon never made any house calls, first of all.

He never went to a house.

He just endorsed a separate entity called American Family Publishers.

It's crazy.

They're similar entities, but McMahon never.

Doesn't that tell you what a terrible job he did representing that country?

That company when everybody thinks he was for their competitor.

Right.

It's weird.

It's very weird.

He sucked.

They shouldn't have paid him a dime for that.

I'm sorry if you're a recipient of the estate of Ed McMahon, but you shouldn't get a penny.

Well, I mean, it's very memorable commercials.

You just don't remember what they were for, apparently.

You think they were for the competition, which is weird.

Very.

It really would be weird if, you know, later on people were like, I remember that Ronald McDonald, but he was the Burger King guy.

That would be weird.

Would.

Okay, Berenstein Bears.

You know them.

Can you, do you know how to spell the last name,

the name of the bear?

Like Berenstein, S-T-E-I-N.

Right.

That's what I would have said.

I would have bet my life on it.

I read these books as a kid.

The correct pronunciation and has always been the correct spelling, excuse me, B-E-R-E-N-S-T-A-I-N.

Oh, it's Berenstein?

Yeah, it's always been Berenstein.

It's named after the authors whose last name is Berenstein.

It's never been Berenstein Bears ever, yet I would have bet my life on it.

Uh-huh.

C-3PO, what color is C-3PO?

Gold.

Gold.

100% gold, right?

Yeah.

The lower portion of his right leg below the knee was silver when you first see him in the movie.

And it's a fact that sometimes surprises people who have seen the original trilogy dozens of times, according to Mental Floss.

Really weird.

Amazing.

Risky business.

1983, Tom Cruise.

He slides out.

He's in his underwear.

Yes.

He's dancing in his sunglasses.

Except he's not wearing sunglasses.

That's from a different part of the, it's like from the movie poster.

He's wearing sunglasses.

He's not wearing sunglasses in the famous scene of that movie, though everyone seems to think that he is.

And this is probably the most common one cited, which is this

Shazam, the movie.

Shazam, the movie, starring Sinbad as a genie for kids,

except for the fact that that movie never existed.

There's never been a movie named Shazam with Sinbad in it.

There is a movie named Kazam with Shaq in it.

Really?

Yeah, isn't that weird?

I totally would have thought that was a movie, Shazam.

And Sinbad, I could picture him in the universe.

I could picture it.

I was with you until you brought up the Shaq thing.

And no, it's true.

It's a movie called Kazam.

Shaquille O'Neal was in it.

There is no movie named Shazam

with Sinbad as a genie in the movie.

But for some

reason, a lot of people, including myself, would have absolutely bet my life.

I would have sworn on it.

I would have sworn by it.

Absolutely.

So weird.

Fruit Loops.

How is Fruit Loop spelled?

I think I know this one.

Is it F-R-O-O-T?

it is o-o okay and the only reason i think i think first of all i i like fruit loops a lot but i think i've noticed this one before and the o o is like the shape of the loops yes but i totally could have got that one wrong yeah i would have said fruit is spelled as as fruit uh let's see

uh did um

you didn't you didn't do curious george did you the monkey oh yeah when i was a kid i used to did he have a tail or no tail

He had a tail.

He did not have a tail.

Did not have a tail.

Really?

Why?

What happened to it?

I don't know.

I'm concerned.

I don't know if it was bitten off by a lion.

I'm not sure what kind of tragic accident happened there, but.

I blame Joe Biden.

Joe Biden.

I mean, he was around back then.

He's probably responsible.

Probably.

Cheese-its.

Do you eat Cheez-It or are they Cheez-Its?

Well, they're Cheez-Its.

They're Cheez-It.

Just I.T., no Z.

Do you know?

Everybody I know calls them Cheez-Its.

Yeah.

Nobody calls them.

Hey, can I have some Cheez-It, please?

Nobody.

I'd like a little bit of a.

Give me a bag of the Cheez-It.

Nobody would say that.

No one says that.

That is really weird.

That's wrong.

That kind of blows me away.

How about double stuff Oreos?

Do you know how to spell

double stuff?

You just spell the stuff part of double.

Double stuff Oreo.

I mean, I'm just assuming it's not S-T-U-F-F.

You're just assuming correctly.

It's just 1F.

Really?

Why?

That's not how you spell it.

They spell it wrong on the packaging.

So, yeah.

I just...

And I've been in front of a lot of bags of double stuff over the years.

To not recognize that?

Yeah.

That's amazing.

I mean, basically, my whole life, almost daily has been a bag of double stuff down the gullet and even i didn't pick that up the flint stones uh

have you ever noticed that there are two t's in it it's flint

stones not flint stones

i would have never guessed i'm looking at the logo and i would have never

ever believed there was flintstones two tones yeah i always say flint stones flintstones vitamin

Also, life is like a box of chocolates.

Yeah.

From Forrest Gump, that's not what he actually said.

If you listen closely, he says life was

like a box of chocolates.

I would have sworn by that one, too.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Life was like a box of chocolates.

That's right.

Yeah.

I think they think part of this is, you know, the mistake gets made once and then it gets repeated and repeated and repeated and people just take in the mistaken

example but it is a really strange thing there is a an entire society out there that believes this is like some like interdimensional conspiracy that like for example shazam

with sinbad was a movie but it was in like a parallel dimension and it's like slipped through somehow so we still

this is people really believe this i could almost subscribe to that theory that's well that's how much i believe this stuff

uh lord of the rings one more here.

Just the Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf is,

you wouldn't know this one because you don't do Lord of the Rings, right?

No, not really, no.

When

he takes his staff and he bashes it on the

he slams it down, yeah, and it breaks off the bridge, and that big thing is coming at him.

And the big thing grabs him and pulls him down with it.

And he just hangs on for a minute, and he looks up at

his group group of friends and he says, Run, you fools.

He doesn't actually say, Run, you fools.

He says, Fly,

you fools.

And almost everybody remembers it and says it, Run, you fools.

Weird, right?

Weird.

It's, I believe, the interdimensional thing now.

You've convinced me.

Yeah, it was the Lord of the Rings thing that you've never seen that finally convinced you.

Yeah, exactly.

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