00:09 [Music] ah yes conspiracy theories in this episode I'm  going to explain something that may in fact as   far as you're concerned need no explanation  the difference between conspiracy theory   and conspiracy but many people simply don't  know the difference between the two until now that and so much more on nnest man show hello and thank you for being here Bryce  from Sarasota Florida is asking me what do you   think of conspiracy theories Earnest is any  of that [ __ ] real you know Bryce I don't get  

00:52 to say this often but hats off to you that is a  damn good question generally speaking conspiracy   theories are the home turf of insane showman like  Alex Jones of infow wars and if you're young and   you don't know who Alex Jones is just do a simple  search and you'll find his foaming at the mouth   crazy ass and when you do make sure you don't pass  along his actual address to your insane vigilante   friend who may somehow be related or or connected  to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary unless  

01:35 you want to relieve someone of a great amount of  their karmic debt if you believe in such things   now conspiracies on the other hand that's a whole  different matter I could go on here all night with   illustrations of actual conspiracies throughout  history American history is Rife with them   so I'll give you just two very well-known examples  starting with the assassination of US President   Abraham Lincoln April 14th 1865 most people know  that the actual man who pulled the trigger and  

02:18 shot President Lincoln was Southern sympathizer  John wils Booth but what many do not know is that   there were eight others actually involved some  were hanged some received life sentences in prison   one of them in particular John Sarat Jr fled the  country but was later captured and stood trial in   1867 though his case was dismissed what definitely  needs to be known and understood is that as far   as conspiracies are concerned they can and often  are 100% true that in turn means that you're not  

03:03 wasting your precious time on something which is  actually nothing more than contrived [ __ ] and   contrived [ __ ] is something you definitely don't  want to waste your precious life moments on as we   absolutely have more than enough of that in the  white house so in the very short before the long   here conspiracy theories is actually very harmful  and I'm going to illustrate how now I don't have   a problem with the occasional bar room fish story  the incredibly massive fish that got away but the  

03:47 thing is the people involved in the process the  bullshiter and the [ __ ] e both really understand   that at the end of the day whatever it is that  that's being discussed it's actually totally 100%   [ __ ] no harm intended or done but when people  take their [ __ ] into the realm of legitimacy to   make money that's when I have a big [ __ ] problem  especially when the government condones it here's   example number two if you were to ask people from  around the world outside of Ireland who Nessie is  

04:32 you may or may not get an answer but if you ask  them if they had heard of or know anything about   The Lochness Monster I'd be willing to bet you a  pine of Guinness that they have in fact heard of   it and not only that but those that know about  Nessie overwhelmingly believe that the Monster   is real and it simply hasn't been found captured  it's because the Irish government for some bizarre   and hazy reason is hiding the truth and it's only  when enough commitment to actual research and the  

05:15 government stops actively denying said researchers  on Loch Ness will the truth be uncovered the   current hypothesis which dates back quite a few  years is that the law Ness Monster is actually   a plesiosaur this is actually a situation that's  a bit unusual because the whole Lochness Monster   deal is simultaneously part conspiracy theory but  actual conspiracy as well which I'll explain in a   moment first just a word about Nessie itself if we  go with the idiotic SL [ __ ] theory that Nessie  

06:03 The Lochness Monster is actually a plesiosaur  this immediately Falls flat on its [ __ ] face and   here's why if there was a living plesiosaur and  Loess from the time of the last mass extinction   how many millions of years would the [ __ ] thing  live to be now of course I don't claim to know the   lifespan of a plesiosaur but I bet you another py  Guinness it's not millions of [ __ ] years here's   also the mild inconvenience that Millions upon  millions of years ago Loch Ness didn't even exist  

06:54 then there's the genetic issue in higher animals  such as mammals an a plesiosaur would definitely   be a mammal just as whales are you have to have a  sufficient number somewhere say around 50 to 100   breeding pairs for a species to continue or they  start dying due to genetic deforming basically in   breeding so there's that then the next significant  issue how the the [ __ ] does it get enough food   to eat another very long short story lockness  itself doesn't have enough carrying capacity food  

07:43 to keep one plesiosaur alive let alone two or more  and as I already pointed out you would definitely   need somewhere between 50 to 100 of them for  enough genetic diversity just to keep them alive   Al for all these millions of [ __ ] years since  the last major Extinction event but that doesn't   stop the Irish government from encouraging this  so-called harmless nonsense and of course the   reason for that is as simple and true as recorded  history itself money now I know that some of you   might argue Ernest you're being a bit staunchy  aren't you nothing really but some good clean fun  

08:37 and the locals get to make some money from themed  tours and souvenir shops and cafes and you know   all that [ __ ] and of course the government loves  the tax revenue so what's the problem the problem   in very short is that what the Irish government is  doing here besides being very unethical also turns   out to be very deadly because many people in one  way or another have died directly as a consequence   of this sham and that's not light-hearted fun that  is an actual conspiracy a government supporting  

09:23 a conspiracy theory for their own profit  and I'll bet you a third Pine of Guinness   there is absolutely no [ __ ] mystery in that  now just one quick thing it wouldn't be fair if I   didn't let you know this speaking of conspiracies  and Guinness I just wanted to uh let you know   that the mother's milk of Ireland um they haven't  had actual Guinness real Guinness since the 1950s   it's true and it's a story for another time so  what do you think can you see where I'm coming  

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