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It’s All Kinda Sus: Crop Circles, Stonehenge & the Bermuda Triangle

Ashley & Christy Season 1 Episode 25

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We planned a mini episode. The universe said, “lol no.” 

This week’s chaos includes crop circles, Stonehenge, and the wildly sus legend of the Bermuda Triangle. 

Armed with nothing but vibes and our strong belief that “Google is free,” we attempt to make sense of it all… and somehow leave with even more questions. 

Do we solve anything? No.
Do we laugh, interrupt each other, and question reality a little? Absolutely. 

If you’ve ever looked at something and thought, “there’s no way that’s normal”… this episode is for you. 

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SPEAKER_00

Hey everyone, welcome back to the pod. I'm Ashley. This is Christy. And we are gonna do a little bit of a mini right now.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So full disclosure. I just have like a little like synopsis, I guess, to tell you about. And then it's mainly just us talking about these things that don't that I that are suspicious. Oh. Yeah. Like suspicious things. There's not as much research that I normally put into this. And maybe this is gonna be a good thing for me. Maybe I should pivot this direction. But okay. So this mini is going to cover some random stuff that I think about often, and um I want to know what you think about. So what?

SPEAKER_01

This is okay. So full disclosure, yeah. Ashley and I are recording a bunch of episodes today. So if you're watching our YouTube, I have been in the same outfit. She's been in the same outfit. Yeah. We're not playing funny anymore and changing our outfits when we record on the same day.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, my ears itched.

SPEAKER_01

Um but we both have like we both just recorded two full episodes, and now we're both doing like kind of little ones. Yeah, like minis. And the fact that what you just said, I'm like, well shit, that sounds just like what I did. Oh no. Yeah, so we'll see. Okay, so we might have two of these little minis, or we might only have one if they are two overlapping.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, maybe we can mush them. Can we mush? Can we can we scissor these together? Do you want to put your episode with my episode? Uh maybe. Let's let's just see how the night goes.

SPEAKER_01

Let's see where the the where the mood takes us.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so I'm sure there's evidence that I could probably ask Chat Bestie or Google about because again, Google is free. Um, but instead I just want to yappy yap with my bestie. And one day maybe this will be a full-blown episode that I go into, but not for now. Okay, so listen, Linda. Things are afoot at the Circle K. What the hell is up with the following? Number one, crop circles. Number two, Stonehenge. Number three, the Utah Monolith.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, that was a good one.

SPEAKER_00

Number four, the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe I won't number all these because there's a lot. So first I want to talk to you about what the hell is up with crop circles. Real, not real. What do you think? So we've all we've all been a crop. We've all been a crop circle at one point in our lives.

SPEAKER_01

And we know what it takes to be a crop circle. Circle them crops. We've all crop tested something. I got 99 crop circles.

SPEAKER_00

Fart ain't one.

SPEAKER_01

That's not it. I still think farts are funny. Yeah, farts are funny, always. Um I guess I just don't know. I I don't know if I've ever seen like a mysterious crop circle. I I know the phenomena, I know that there's like that's a thing. I just have not Googled. Maybe I'll just Google what a crop circle is because I just feel like it's somebody being like, oh my gosh, I am on this airplane and I'm just seeing all these circles, and there's just no way that anybody could do it. And then a farmer somewhere is like, actually, it's like just how it works and the most economical way to do it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so I'm glad that you said that because there's a different podcast that I listen to, of course, because I just listen, I just consume podcasts like they're going out of style, but it's called Are they going out of style? No, they're not. They're actually getting more popular. But you know what? There's space for all of us here in the pod world. Um, but especially us, please follow us. Um, so this this episode or this podcast that I listen to is called High Strange, and it's um by Payne Lindsay. He's the one that did Up and Banished. I don't know if you remember that. That is a good podcast, also. Why is his name Payne? I hate that. I don't know. Payne Lindsay, like P-A-Y-N.

SPEAKER_01

Nope, I hate it.

SPEAKER_00

Anyways, he's an incredible podcaster, has a great podcast voice, but he does this podcast called High Strange, and he's talking about aliens, and he goes over with farmers, he talks about crop circles and how much manpower it would take to make something like that. But then I think about things like corn mazes and that kind of stuff. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_01

That was my thought right there because one thing about me when I was growing up, yeah, my best friend in high school, shout out to her. Yeah. I don't know if she listens. She might not. Probably. I'll have to tell her to listen to this one. Yeah. Um, her family used to run a crop uh corn maze. Yeah. And so we would work at the cornmease, and they would just map it out. And her sister would design it, and it really wasn't anything more than them designing it and literally like squaring it out, uh, gridding. Oh, yeah, a grid. So uh it is just taking, you know, the concept we all learned in school of drawing a picture but like gridding it out and drawing each grid individually, just at a a more marriage scale.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um, anybody that's a farmer or anything like that, I would love to know. I would love to know if this is something that you've experienced, which I don't know if any of the people that we have are farmers, but I just want to know. I want to know if this is something you've experienced and if you have had weird things happen like that. I don't understand it. I have I don't have the same perspective as as you do. I didn't really grow up in like the country, I guess. You know, I don't know. Did do you consider yourself having grown up in the country? Oh, a hundred percent. So I don't feel like I did. Like I was out there, but I wasn't like uh yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01

I live in suburbia now.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I was like in the burbs, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

No, I lived in I lived in the country.

SPEAKER_00

Like you had more than a couple feet between your neighbors.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. I was surrounded by fields.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, see, no, I wasn't that way. So I don't really have that perspective, though.

SPEAKER_01

I do super far, but I do have family.

SPEAKER_00

Like my grandpa and grandma on my dad's side had a farm growing up, but I and they had an alfalfa farm, but I don't know, like I don't know enough about it. Um, so anyways, uh crop circles. Um uh man-made versus some of these are suspicious. Like uh is it possible? I I don't understand. Maybe even the math girlies can reach out to us.

SPEAKER_01

It's just hard now because I just Googled crop circles and it's just like this is all AI. Oh yeah, and that's what's hard right now, too. It's it's let's regulate AI. Hey, yeah, let's maybe just Hey friends, can we and it's not gonna be the AI that you and I use. Yeah, that's not the AI we're gonna regulate because guess what? We are just normal people doing things, it is just the crap content that's coming up. So, anyways. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so if it is a prank, it's an aggressively committed one because that's a lot of work to go. I mean, I'm I would love to hear from your friend of how long it takes to really make a corn maze because I can't imagine it's an overnight thing. Oh, I can't I don't know how they did it. And if you've seen some of those pictures of corn mazes, I mean not corn maze, crop circles. Yeah, they are intricate sometimes.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. Like it kind of it kind of goes back to the Utah monolith is it the monolith? Yeah, we can talk about that next. Um like that was a fun phenomenon for everybody where we're like, where did this kind of thing come from? And it was so heavy, like um maybe you know how heavy it was, but like I don't know, man. With with some careful planning and like the appropriate amount of people, like I think you can get things done quick. Maybe. So do I think I mean like I do think do we call them aliens? Yeah, or other other worldly beings. Like, we're for sure not the only people out here. No, definitely not. Not this for sure not the only intelligent life, intelligent life out there. I just I don't know, like, are they really wasting their time? Making crop circles? And then are you wondering, are we going somewhere else and making crop circles elsewhere? No, we're not. We're too busy, we're too busy fighting on Facebook. I can't keep bots, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We're too busy arguing about the color of a dress. See, I will say though, like, that's some dumb shit we would do. Like, yeah, we're gonna go to this planet and make a crop circle. Who's gonna rock these guys' breaks? They're gonna be like, whoa, is it aliens? And it would be.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_00

Um, it was this is what aliens don't want to talk to us.

SPEAKER_01

No, it was alien delinquents. They were like, hey, like, hey mom. What are they called about? What do you think alien names are like? Hey uh HP. HP 74739. You know you're supposed to be in it. Hey, Jero Dark30. Do not go past y'all bedtime. And he's like, whatever. I love Manel P 47. I'm really stretching for anything.

SPEAKER_00

Listen, this is giving some context as to why you struggle at making passwords. It's a pattern. I can't name aliens either. Okay, don't have a unique thought.

SPEAKER_01

Um, but I'm just saying, like, it could just be some delinquent aliens that are like, oh my gosh, my mom gave me the keys to the car tonight. Spaceship tonight, and let's just like go cause chaos. Yeah. And you know what? Good on them.

SPEAKER_00

Because, like, I don't know, as a youth, I used to do stupid stuff. Like, for sure. But I've got a whole list of things they could accomplish if they really want. Like would be much better use of their time. Let's keep that between you and me. I think I might be on a list somewhere. Okay, so the Utah monolith. This was in southern Utah in 2020. There have been other occurrences around. I don't have like specific places, but um, the one that we know the most is the Utah monolith. So it was just like a big shiny thing. So it's a it was a monolith, which is just like a a square.

SPEAKER_01

A square, a square. A rectangle.

SPEAKER_00

Um and the way it was discovered, so they think it was actually placed in 2015 or 2016. Oh wasn't discovered until 2020. The way it was discovered because of where it was at, and they won't release the location because it's so remote that. They don't want people trying to get there. Yeah, location wasn't disclosed because it was actually kind of a dangerous place if you didn't know how to survive to get there. Oh, yeah, if you didn't know what you were doing in the desert, because the desert can actually be quite dangerous. Hey, fun fact. Yeah. We're all not survivors. No. So they found it, the um Bureau of Land Management or something, one of those agencies, they were doing a count of big horned sheeps in that area. As we do. As we do. And that's how they came across it. Okay. So it was in such a location that it was remote enough that like it wasn't going to be noticed. So then that makes me think, like, what was the purpose? Because if that was an art thing, wouldn't you want credit for it? And you take all of that work to like put it there.

SPEAKER_01

So here's probably what happened is they put it there thinking like somebody would find it soon, and they were like, Well shit. Yeah, we put this so far out that nobody can find us, and then they just like sat there like every day being like, Did anybody find it? Yeah, and did anybody find this monolith? And then like they eventually just moved on, maybe. And then one day, like, they saw it in the news and they were like, Oh my gosh, was that us? That was so long ago. I don't even remember.

SPEAKER_00

The group chat was popping off. They're like, Hey, remember when we got super drunk and put that monolith desert? No, it's on the news.

SPEAKER_01

Dude, I vaguely remember, was this us? Did we do that? Didn't they? But I thought somebody moved it. I thought it was discovered and then somebody went and moved it. They removed it.

SPEAKER_00

They they as in like land a bureau. Somebody, somebody like one of whoever it was that like discovered it, it became started to become dangerous because people wanted to go and see it. And they were again, it was in a location that was dangerous if you didn't know what you were doing. Oh, okay. And so it got removed because they didn't want people going out and trying to find it. Because one thing about us is we don't care about the danger, we just want to see some cool shit.

SPEAKER_01

That's somebody else's business how I get out of this predicament that I'm in.

SPEAKER_00

It was probably honestly the people that kept having to go in and rescue those idiots that would go out and find it without the like the proper equipment.

SPEAKER_01

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

And so they're like, all right, you guys gotta move this thing, it's starting to become dangerous.

SPEAKER_01

This is a problem. Okay, moving on. I like it though.

SPEAKER_00

Um, Iro, I'm not saying it's aliens, but I'm saying that weird shit happens in the desert, especially in the western states, like Utah, Arizona, Nevada.

SPEAKER_01

Skinwalker Ranch, right? Is that what it's called? Nope, Skinwalker Ranch. Because I said it many times wrong in the previous episode that I had to edit out every time.

SPEAKER_00

That's what we appreciate about you. I don't think we did edit it. Well, I thought about editing it and then I didn't because it wasn't gonna be seamless. Okay, so Stonehenge. Tell me what you think about Stonehenge. I don't know enough about it, but it's giving like Outlander. Did you ever watch Outlander?

SPEAKER_01

No.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry, girl. If you like some sexy Scottishman Outlander, girl.

SPEAKER_01

It's none of your business what I like.

SPEAKER_00

It's none of your business. 10 out of 10 recommend. Okay. Uh it's one that you have to like put the subtitles on though and like focus and watch because it's very time jumpy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um Stone Edge. What do I think about that? Did I do I feel like I recently saw something about the pyramid saying rather than constructing it, it was just already a structure that they like chipped.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I like that. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_01

So saying with stone edge, was it a big I don't know because the arrangement stump that they then a stone stump that they then like carved out. You know, from them stone trees. I'm not a rock scientist, I'm a laboratory scientist. Come to me with all your blood needs. Yeah. I don't know about rock.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know about rocks. I don't know. It's really interesting. The um some people think it's a calendar, some people think it's um like a spiritual thing. Um, the reason why it makes me think of Outlander is because in Outlander there are circular stones and the main character touches a stone and travels through time. That's all I'm gonna tell you. But I will tell you the key point is that there are sexy Scottish men in kilts? Yeah. Okay. How else are you gonna get the breeze? And they're so they're probably so you know what? I'm gonna say it. I bet they're probably so endowed that they can't fit in pants. Come at me, bro. They ain't no Napoleon. They're well, I'll tell you what, they're not wearing those britches. They ain't wearing those tat pants, they can't fit their stuff. You know, let's move on.

SPEAKER_01

My cheeks are starting to get real red. My kids listen to this.

SPEAKER_00

I know. Hi, Christy's kids. You probably should stop.

SPEAKER_01

They're already they're already asleep. They put it on before bed, and then they're already asleep. And then when I go to bed, I like I'm like, oh, there's my voice.

SPEAKER_00

There's my voice. Um, so speaking of weird rocks, Easter Island, the heads. Do you you know the like carved heads? So do you think there's bodies underneath the ground? Like the rest of it? Oh, it's like a like we're just seeing no, like we're just seeing the head part. Oh and there's like they're like actually statues.

SPEAKER_01

That's a great question.

SPEAKER_00

Right? Because Easter Islands are like the carved heads. These are the things I think about when I'm trying to fall asleep at night. I'm like, hmm. Those are pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01

I yeah, I don't know. I uh Oh, hey, hey friend, I just found a picture. Is it AI or not? I don't know, because there's no regulation on anything. Uh there's definitely like something below it. Look at that.

SPEAKER_00

Cool. Yeah, so so maybe they were statues at one point? Maybe. I don't know. That looks more like AI. I don't know. It's really fascinating. And this is why you should travel and see these things with your real life eyeballs. Because now that we live in a world of fake everything, seeing this in real life and getting to talk to other people and their cultures about what this is. Seeing vast structures are fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Okay. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

So in the Chilean territory, remote volcanic island in Polynesia.

SPEAKER_01

I bet there is like little bodies underneath them all.

SPEAKER_00

That is so cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So who knows? Cause AI. Yeah. This is actually just a podcast to distract you or to get you on board with regulating AI.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So it says Easter Island is globally famous for its nearly 900 monumental stone statues. I did not realize that there were that many. And honestly, that's pretty cool. I thought there was maybe like 30 arranged in a circular format. I did not realize. I feel very embarrassed now. But yeah, you're right. I should be. Yeah, I should be embarrassed. These monolithic oversized heads and torsos representing defied deified ancestors often stand on stone platforms and symbolize a unique, isolated Polynesian cultural legacy. That is really cool. 30 feet tall and 80 tons carved from volcanic. That's a lot of tons. Yeah, that's a lot. That's at least a shit. That's at least 80 shit tons. Yeah. So, anyways, that's interesting. Okay. Um, I had I should probably look into that more. Or maybe we should just travel. Should we travel?

SPEAKER_01

Sure. Let's do it. Someone's gonna pay for us.

SPEAKER_00

Speaking of travel, what do you think about the Bermuda Triangle? Because when I was a kid, I thought it was gonna be more of an issue than it is.

SPEAKER_01

I like it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It's giving it.

SPEAKER_01

Uh so Lost was so good until it wasn't. Until the end? Uh middle. I thought it was a fun concept, but but like what is the Bermuda Triangle? I mean, I know it's a a I know it's a great, you just ruined your mic.

SPEAKER_00

I know it's a like a triangle? Triangle over an area near Bermuda, but like what is Is it just like it says that planes have disappeared, ships have disappeared, and um that's all it says. That's all I have written down. Um there might be logical explanations, but like why is it always in that specific area?

SPEAKER_01

The universe doesn't want you talking about the Brumida Triangle, which is why it's trying to mess up your mics.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, what the hell is happening here? I drink one fridge.

SPEAKER_01

Do you guys love when we are like dicking around with our mics? Yeah. Okay, there we go. Are you good? Yeah. If you told me that I was taking a flight and it was gonna go over the Bermuda Triangle, that is one that I would be like, I don't know, man. That seems scary. Don't they talk about the Bermuda Triangle on uh the Addams family? Probably. So I don't I don't I don't want to mess around with it. So would I mess around with crop circles? Yes. Would I mess around with uh Stonehenge, Easter Island? Yes. Would I mess around with the Bermuda Triangle? No.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so it's just some clarification because uh geometry is not my strong point. And by I by geometry I also mean geography. So between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda, that is the Bermuda Triangle.

SPEAKER_01

Is it just where they could get signal between the three places? And then there was like a lack of and there's like a lack of coverage in those areas?

SPEAKER_00

Maybe T Mobile doesn't go there yet. The Bermuda Triangle or Devil's Triangle is a loosely defined 500,000 square mile region in the western northern Atlantic Ocean connecting Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. It's infamous for alleged unexplained disappearances of ships and planes, though many sources suggest these occurrences are not more frequent than elsewhere and often exaggerated by environmental factors or human error. So it the legends come from um the term was coined in the mid-20th century, though reports of strange occurrences date back to Christopher Columbus trash. Sorry. Notable disappearances include the 1918 loss of the USS Cyclops, which why would you name it? Ship that, and the 1945 disappearance of Flight 19.

SPEAKER_01

I just found a picture that says Davy Jones' locker is there. So uh true story.

SPEAKER_00

So listen, um, regardless of if it's real, the idea of planes going missing in general freaks me the hell out.

SPEAKER_01

But also like people on them. But where are their families? How do you silence all those families?

SPEAKER_00

It just yeah, like what what I mean, like what that's what I can't understand is why are these what is how are these things just going missing? First of all, how is it flying through the air? What do you mean? Like planes? What do you mean? That big ass thing is gonna science. Same with I hate to tell you. Same with cruise ships. I think.

SPEAKER_01

What do you mean? I think those are explained.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, but what do you mean cruise ships can float? That thing's a hotel. That thing's a skyscraper on water and it's floating? No, thank you.

SPEAKER_01

I don't like cruises.

SPEAKER_00

No, because it's not supposed to float, it's too heavy. You know?

SPEAKER_01

It's actually just none of your business.

SPEAKER_00

It's none of my business. Listen, I support science, but like I don't understand it sometimes. Science is like a whole other level of spirituality sometimes, in like a weird way of thinking it.

SPEAKER_01

But it's not spirituality because it's based on evidence.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. That doesn't mean I understand it.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Um but like whole planes just going missing, how does that happen? I don't understand it.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

It just like out of the sky.

SPEAKER_01

I don't I don't like this talk because flying already makes me nervous. Yeah, let's let's move on. Yeah, let's move on.

SPEAKER_00

Get yourself a, what is it? Volume.

SPEAKER_01

Get yourself a volume, get your ass on that plane. In an ideal world, if you were taking for me, if you were taking a long flight, like you'd like walk into the flight and stick your arm out, and they would just be like inject, and then you'd walk to your seat and you'd have like a good 15 minutes before you just p pass out. Because they inject you with some type of drug that just like and then then we wouldn't have all these like flight fights and stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Um I have other feelings about that, specifically living in a world with men.

SPEAKER_01

No, but we're giving the drugs to everybody. And then the flight attendants watch everybody.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Just make sure nobody's like sleepwalking.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Move on.

SPEAKER_00

The hum. People hear a low frequency sound that others cannot. Is it the government? Probably.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, like Havana syndrome? Mm-hmm. Like kind of like Havana syndrome. I think that's real.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I think Is it collective tinninitis? Is that tinnitus, where it's in your ear. Uh or earth frequencies, the Schumann residence resonance. Have you heard of that? That's really fascinating.

SPEAKER_01

Oh no, I haven't heard of that. Um I I do think there are bioweapons that we are completely unaware of. Yeah. And I I don't know. I kind of like I I don't like it, but I kind of like it. Havana syndrome.

SPEAKER_00

Kind of like it as in like I don't approve of it, but I like it for that. Like I I how else do you say that? I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01

I don't like it, but I find it interesting.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I find it plausible. Plausible. Very plausible. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00

I don't like it. But it's plausible. But it's plausible.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's where T Bob stands is we don't like it.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_01

It's plausible.

SPEAKER_00

We don't improve, but we get it.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Um just want to make sure everybody knows where we stand.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and maybe really the it's just somebody hearing Yanny, really. Or no, it's it's L'Oreal that's the it's the low frequencies L'Oreal, huh? Anyways. Oh, okay. And then the last thing is spontaneous human combustion. Apparently, I don't know. This is just one of the things that Chat Bestie gave me as an idea to talk about, and it's spontaneous human combustion. Can people just really randomly catch fire? Let's look it up.

SPEAKER_01

Spontaneous human combustion. But they literally just start on fire out of nowhere. Is there videos of this? We don't know because AI and you don't know what's real.

SPEAKER_00

Spontaneous human combustion is the controversial and largely mythical concept that a human body can ignite from within and burn to ash without an external ignition source. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

I have read a book called Oh, what was it called? Breath or Breathe. I can't remember which version of that word it was, but it just talked about all the uh just about breathing in general and how much it how you breathe and you know is through your nose, through your mouth, all that stuff really just affects everything. But in it it talked about these certain people that uh had gotten their breath work down to such a such a microscopic level that they could sweat, they could be hot in a completely cold environment. So they just in just their breathing. They could they could whoa breathe in such a way that it heated up their entire body, even in like an ice bath or something like that. Um I'm absolutely butchering it. Yeah, I do. That's what we do here. The book talks about mouth taping, and I totally mouth tape. Sometimes, not always, because my husband hates it, but it freaks me out. Yeah, it freaks him out too because he thinks I'm gonna die in the night.

SPEAKER_00

I'd be laying next to you, like, okay, as soon as she's asleep, I'm gonna rip that shit off. Or like at least poke a straw through it or something.

SPEAKER_01

You're you're meant to breathe through your nose, and at night time like I'm a mouth breather at night, and so I don't know. Like, honestly, it I really like it.

SPEAKER_00

Does it help you sleep better? Um, or do you have you noticed a difference?

SPEAKER_01

I just don't wake up with like the worst dry mouth of my life. Oh, gotcha. So I like it that way. I think that a lot goes into my sleep and how good of a night's sleep I have, besides taping my mouth, but I don't know. I like it.

SPEAKER_00

Right, interesting. Okay, so Google says that reported cases often feature elderly, often overweight victims found in intact rooms with severe body burn, particularly the torso, while extremities remain and nearby items are unburned. So forensic experts typically attribute these incidents to the wick effect, where clothing acts as a wick and body fat serves as a fuel for slow, intense fire.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, okay. That makes sense. Um if you have the right ingredients, there's gonna be a fire.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so scenes often show significant destruction of the torso while the head and limbs may remain, and surrounding areas have minimal fire damage. A greasy, foul-smelling residue is sometimes found gross. Um proposed theories are the wick effect, which is the most accepted, the victim's clothing and fat burn slowly, acting like a candle, which can last for hours. External ignition, like a cigarette, match, or fire source, initiated the fire, or internal causes, which is the less supported theories, include static electricity, intestinal gas buildup, or a high concentration of body alcohol. Famous cases for this were the 1746 case Mary Reeser in 1951, The Cinder Lady. I don't know what that is. Might have to look that up. That's pretty cool. Scientific perspective is scientists maintain that the human body is mostly water and cannot support or cannot spontaneously ignite. The phenomenon is largely deemed impossible without external ignition source. And then, of course, Charles Dick enter Charles Dickens he popularized the concept in his 1853 novel Bleak House, using it to kill off one of his characters. So yeah, that's an interesting thing, a mind-boggling thing to think about. But don't think about it right before bed.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I won't. I got other things to stew about.

SPEAKER_00

And then I think just like the last thing is like human consciousness in general. Like, do you think there's like a collective consciousness that we can like tap into? Because I have been spiraling down this rabbit hole of collective consciousness and meditating and do I have a show for you? Dimensions, and I think it's really fascinating. What's the show? Plurbus. Plurbus? Okay. I've seen it. Like that's all I'm saying. Okay, I will look. I've seen like the Where are you on Dexter? Have you guys stopped? Oh yeah. No, we haven't stopped. Oh. We just finished. Oh god, with Dexter. We we're in that weird religious y like.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, the the scenes, the religious scenes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, the revel book of revelation scenes. Yeah, we just he just Okay. You're getting close. It's bizarre.

SPEAKER_01

It makes me that oh that has that has Colin Hanks, right? Colin Hanks, like Tom Hanks' son.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Um it I don't like that stuff. Gives me the creeps. I don't that's that all of that stuff gives me. I mean, like, I know that's kind of funny to say about Dexter because it's all murder, but like that type of murder makes me uncomfortable. They I think it's like ritualistic ritualistic, intense like belief in something like that that causes you to do those things. Oh, like freaks me out. Yeah, because you want people to just be good people. I just want, yeah. Just be like good humans. Like there's a scene where the two um serial killers or whatever are sitting at a bar and one of the people is looking around and he's like, it's just so sad that all of these people are gonna die.

SPEAKER_01

And that's they're just heartless about it. Yeah, because they're just like it's a higher, it's a higher purpose.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and that weirds me out because like when you're in a in a mass environment like that, like there's somebody there that's thinking that. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like it gives me the yuckies.

SPEAKER_01

I can't I don't like it. Don't do that. Sorry. Wow Well, Ashley just brought the vibe down.

SPEAKER_00

Ooh, so anyways, go and watch Outlander and look at some go watch Plurbus. Pluribus. Is it gonna is it good?

SPEAKER_01

It's really good.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, where are where are you on oh the one where the guy's brain is separated?

unknown

What's it called?

SPEAKER_01

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00

Adam Scott, and he goes down the elevator and forgets things.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god, Severance! Severance!

SPEAKER_00

Done, girl.

SPEAKER_01

I was so close. We're currently watching Peaky Blinders.

SPEAKER_00

Ooh, also Irish sexy men. I don't think I could talk my husband into watching that murphy. That's like that's like mod mob boss things, right? Why would he not like that?

SPEAKER_01

It was very good. It's been pretty good. I like it. I don't know. It took a couple episodes to be like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What are we doing here? Yeah, maybe that's what it is.

SPEAKER_01

But it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00

That's how I was with Severance. He had to watch a a good couple seasons of it for me to, or not seasons, but like a good couple episodes of it for me to finally like peek my head around my phone and be like, what'd you watch it?

SPEAKER_01

I liked Severance, but it was so slow for me that I was like, Yeah, I'm already starting these shows at a weakened state where I'm just like ready for bed, and I'm like, oh my gosh, Kenny just let this woman sleep.

SPEAKER_00

All right, let's call this because I want to know what your mini is about. So okay. Um thank you guys for listening. I don't think this was a mini by any means, was it?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Nobody knew.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you guys for listening. Follow us on all the things and uh tea bob out. Bye.

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