Flat Earth Claims You NEED to Hear!

 Join us as we explore the quirky and curious claims of Flat Earthers, from their belief that Mars is round (but Earth isn’t?!) to their plans to sail to the edge of the world. We’re breaking down the mental gymnastics behind these theories with humor and a touch of skepticism. Whether you’re a science buff or just love a good conspiracy, this episode has something for you!

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Ruban Rebalkin

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Ryan Rebalkin

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we live all around the world yeah the
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talking about the Flat Earth the 10
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surprising facts you didn't know about
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flat earthers that's right do you know
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any facts about flat ear is ribon I I
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watched a documentary recently on Flat
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Earth on Netflix on
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yeah that's a that's a fun documentary
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I'd recommend it all right so this is
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the wor best podcast your host uh Reuben
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and Ryan Ryan and reuben reuben that's
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Ryan uh welcome welcome everybody I have
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a small little toy store we have this
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little ball that's printed with a globe
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on it and this guy held it up and said
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hey how come you don't have the Earth
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way it's supposed to look and I said are
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you flat earther and he said yeah are
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you
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oh he got really excited for a second
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there so here's my thoughts on it sure
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okay I'm listening
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I personally think that the world is
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round sure that's probably a yeah yeah
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yeah that's fine but what I said to him
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is I've never been up in space true I'm
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just taking everybody's word on it sure
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I know that they rewrite history books
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there's a slant to things sure and then
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the government does lie to you and
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what's really happening in the North
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Pole there's all those type of questions
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sure do you know what I mean or
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Antarctica and yeah exactly right you
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know it's anytime that presented
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something I'm willing to look and go huh
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maybe but this is where I think that the
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Earth is not flat sure unless you're
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like in saskatch one okay all the other
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planets are around and this would be the
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only one talk and then you got to think
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of all the private satellite companies
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out there right all around the world all
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the different countries they're all
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keeping the same secret right I think
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what Flats have said regarding
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satellites it's not in this list cuz
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it's not a surprising fact that we don't
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know about them apparently but uh okay
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is that there are no satellites oh okay
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yeah
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so it's all manufactured a lot of mental
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gymnastics for me so trying to prove
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that the Earth is flat is hard work for
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flat earthers and they will often go to
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extreme lengths to prove it even if it
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means making ridiculous claims launching
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rockets and satellites of their own I
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guess or try to travel to the edge of
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the Earth so we're going to talk about
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10 curious facts that our listeners and
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maybe your YouTube women didn't know
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about flat earthers so it's about the
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flat people themselves yeah the title is
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not that great my apologies 10
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surprising facts you didn't know flat
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earthers claimed okay that makes more
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sense yeah I'm going to change their
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title okay they just had to type in like
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a few more letters and it make more
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sense yeah you think so you believe Mars
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is around that's right so flat earthers
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believe that Mars is round so November
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2017 serial entrepreneur Elon Musk
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tweeted why is there no flat Mars
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Society the Flat Earth Society replied
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with their verified Twitter handle
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tweeting hi Elon thanks for the question
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unlike the Earth Mars has been observed
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to be round so they're just making that
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challenge again or that's their big
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statement is you can't observe the Earth
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being around it's almost like you can't
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tell the shape of your nose Yeah by
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Looking Through Your Eyes you can't what
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does my nose look like sure that's their
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theory that we haven't truly seen what
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the earth looks like properly okay all
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right so that's number 10 they do
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believe that Mars is around so they are
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not against other planets being round
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they just don't think the Earth is a
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globe just mathematically the likelihood
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right that the planet that is circling
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around the Sun or whatever well actually
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they have different theories what the
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worlds are doing around us they
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literally believe this is not the list
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my understanding is is that the Universe
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truly does rotate around the earth okay
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one thing I've never understood is
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what's to be gained well they're asking
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you what's to be gained by being lied to
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that's their argument I don't know I I
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don't know if it's square round or flat
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it doesn't mean anything to me I I still
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have to get up in the morning go to work
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if I have to pay less taxes I'm okay
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with it being whatever shape so number
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nine ribbon they are planning a Voyage
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to the edge of the world okay so they're
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actually are intending to do an
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expedition to prove sure that they're
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going to hit a wall sure I'll name drop
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here for a second please it might do it
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for you later but go ahead my friend
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Colin Angus circumnavigated the globe oh
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I see what you're saying sorry yeahor
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yeah so that's why I'm named dropping
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you can Google them yeah Angus book that
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I read on him too best selling author
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he's the first human to travel around
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the world via human powered means and
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did he he circumnavigated the globe okay
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so he started in Victoria here went to
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Vancouver cycled walked treed
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circumnavigated around the
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globe uh we'll get to that when he
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crossed the oceans okay he rode yeah
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sure no sailing no motor no engine just
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rolling for now most flat earthers
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believe the edges of the Earth are
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surrounded by Ice walls these are
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surprising fact that most people don't
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know about what flat earthers claim okay
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so think of the world like a plate but
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around that plate is like you've put a
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lip on the plate and that lip is these
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ice mountains yeah I understand and
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that's what they believe is holding
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everything in yeah okay they plan a
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voyage and the voyage is planned by the
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Flat Earth International Conference
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which is keeping information about the
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proposed Expedition Under Wraps other
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than this website because they don't
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want NASA g g supposedly patrolling the
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edges of the earth unaware so yes they
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don't want to be inter accepted by NASA
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to ruin their trip around the world just
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use a satellite GPS and internet uh
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however the exhibition has raised
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eyebrows because the ship will be using
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equipment like GPS which is based on
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around Earth sometimes you got to use
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you got to improvise yeah all right
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number eight they believe spacex's
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photos of staran were doctored you know
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I could see why it looks really weird
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explain well how many pictures have you
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seen of a car in outer space yeah this
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one might be fair
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I've done no Research into it but when I
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I've seen I haven't seen that picture
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but when I've seen pictures similar to
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that like that looks weird so in
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February 2018 Elon Musk launched the
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SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket carrying his
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Tesla Roadster into space and at the
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wheel was a mannequin dressed in an
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astronaut's suit and mus called him
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Starman the vehicle was rigged with
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cameras and the video was streamed live
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on YouTube one of the most popular
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photos of the spectacle showed Starman
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seated at the wheel as if he was driving
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the car into space the Earth was in the
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background and was clearly round this is
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the sort of thing flat earthers do not
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want to see but they basically think
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this photo if you see it on our live
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video or you can Google it it does look
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kind of weird that's where it's dark
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that's where it's night that's right so
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it's night here that's right and then
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over here of course is the is the
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curvature of the globe yeah but they're
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just saying this is doctored that this
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is not this is fake this is photosho
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sure for me Elon Musk has credibility he
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has some yes at least for me I I was I
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say a fan but I'm very interested in in
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him and his work sure and I think he's a
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a genuine human being who is uh truthful
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okay I agree I so I just the idea of it
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is is just ridiculous to me right by the
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way they landed three Falcons Rockets
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today all within like minutes of each
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other uh they went to space they came
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back really yeah well what he's doing is
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amazing have you read his biography I'm
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not as no no and I know you and our
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mother actually know a lot about him
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I've read about I actually have I'm I'm
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more of a headline Observer I haven't
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gotten deep into his stuff yet I know I
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it's it's mindboggling well you don't
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have to edit these shows ribbon you have
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more time to read stuff like need a musk
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that's good all
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right so number seven they claim solar
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eclipses prove that the Earth is flat
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okay they basically claim that the same
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solar eclipses which prove the Earth is
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round actually prove that it's flat flat
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earther say the moon would cast a larger
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shadow on the earth during a solar
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eclipse if our planet was round uh we
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know this is what would happen the sun
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was much smaller and very close to the
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moon so basically they're just saying
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that solar eclipse aren't casting the
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shadow they're supposed to be casting
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okay okay number six flat earthers say
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an Undiscovered object an Undiscovered
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object causes lunar eclipses so the
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first one was solar eclipse I was about
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to say about lunar what about lunar
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eclipse so they're saying here that
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lunar eclipses are another definitive
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point of evidence from the Earth being
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round however flat earthers have tried
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using them to prove the flatness of of
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the earth so flat Earths have some
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interesting explanations for lunar
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eclipses they say lunar eclipses happen
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when a mysterious and undiscovered
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object gets in between the Earth and the
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moon this is wrong lunar eclipses happen
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when the moon enters the shadow of the
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earth they're saying there's an object
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floating around there that's getting the
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way and not just a simple explanation
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that it's when the moon enters the Earth
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Shadow unied when my oldest daughter was
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about four or five she would make up
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games uh she would change the rules each
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time that the game was played so that
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she'd win she'd win right right and I
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was like well no that doesn't make any
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sense that that you know well all this
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anyways I'm just reminded of that right
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they're changing the rules to and if you
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watch this documentary Netflix and I
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don't want to give anything away they do
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that a little bit in that documentary
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The Flat Earth documentary is got it's
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neither Pro no nor con but it's called
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be behind the curve that's right behind
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the curve thank you Ruben it gives them
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a sounding board to say what they feel
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and how they believe everything is what
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they believe and I think it's pretty
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objective yeah you know like they let
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the Watchers decide for themselves if
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they think what they're hearing is sure
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hogwash or yeah I got to say did you
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change your mind about it about the
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Earth no I will say this for flat
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earthers it's fun it's F it's a fun
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theory Sure it's fun because it's
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harmless it's not hurting anybody that
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I'm aware of yeah and I and I really do
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think that there's some type of credence
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to what's happening in Antarctica or the
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North po something's going on there and
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I think that feeds it more than anything
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else right there is stuff going on this
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on the polls and that actually is a
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could be another discussion that maybe
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Ruben and I will do a podcast on the 10
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most interesting facts of the South Pole
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because there are some interesting stuff
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going on there mhm so number five they
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believe the sun is small and right above
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the Earth so basically they believe that
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the sun is it's like a big flashlight
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we're in this um Dome literal Dome so
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they got the plate with the ridges and
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we're in this like biodome and the Sun
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is just like this little dot that goes
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around yeah so and the something like
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that right and the Earth is spinning so
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or spinning the plate spinning and the
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Earth the Sun is moving around anyways
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so see this is for me in the same when
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there's so many people that are not
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connected with each other all coming up
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to the same conclusion doesn't sense
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like you have scientists in Russia or
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scientists in China or scientists in
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India they're not communicating with
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each other about like let's all make
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sure we're telling the same story you
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know what I mean right or it's like when
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people say oh there's a there's a cure
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for cancer they're just trying to stop
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you from knowing what it is right but
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meanwhile like Steve Jobs dies of it or
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yeah you think if anyone had the money
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and ability yeah yeah so Flat Earth
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thers they believe that Equinox
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equinoxes exist because the sun is right
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above the Earth and orbits the North
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Pole which is actually the center of the
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world so Flats add that the sun is much
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smaller than we think oh hold on a
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second so is the North Pole ice and then
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is ice around there kind of like a donut
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I was say like if you're look yeah the
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the sun is right up is like the eye of a
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storm that's the Sun uhhuh and I'm not
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too sure there are lots of like we don't
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have to get too I'm probably not
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explaining very well but if you want to
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see online what flat earthers mean about
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the sun being small just Google it
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there's okay yeah it's hard to explain
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but they basically just think that the
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sun is this is right above the Earth
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that orbits the North Pole where the
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North Pole is that's a good question I'm
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not too sure what that means okay number
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four the flat earthers actually launched
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a homemade rocket an attempt to view
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this last year wasn't it it was yeah it
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was uh March 2018 that's right so Hughes
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tested his rocket the guy that made this
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good for him yeah you know what test
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prove yourself so he says Hughes tested
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his rocket in March 2018 and went 572 M
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into the air before the Rocket's
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parachute deployed and glided back to
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the ground it landed hard injuring
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Hughes
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oh he was in
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it he was in it yeah he's got skin in
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the game I thought it was like a drone
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or a GoPro camera was on top of it no no
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however he suffered no permanent damage
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and probably returned to working out his
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rocket when he got better this guy got
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into the rocket it cost him 20 grand it
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was built from scrap metal and he got it
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almost 1,00 ft into the air on his own
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dime and building good for him got some
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skin in the game I like that that's
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great wow that is definitely not the
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worst now say what you will if I give
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you 20gs would you be able to build a
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rocket no you give me a million dollars
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I would know how to do it yeah so he's
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obviously not a dummy no no there's
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actually a lot of quote unquote so smart
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people it would be unfair to call people
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dumb because they have a different
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belief than you but it's just the
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information that they have and they're
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making the best choice with what they
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feel is true have you ever heard of the
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rapper Bobby Ray Simmons ji Ren also
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known as Bo yeah of course well he's a
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flat earther but unlike Hughes who wants
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to see the Earth from space Bob wants to
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launch a satellite and take pictures of
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the Flat Earth that's actually probably
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a safer and smarter idea so also in like
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Hughes BB is trying to crowdfund the
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satellite probably because he is keeping
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his own money for more realistic
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projects let's check out the crowdfund
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page rub absolutely so on September 21st
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2017 he launched a GoFundMe page seeking
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1 million to launch one or more
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satellites into space the page is called
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show be be the curve yes show be be the
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curve and we know what it's about the
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curve of the earth yes okay yeah it's a
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little play on words there Jason our
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brother are only live Watcher of our
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show thanks Jason for chiming in and
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listening he said the only damage that
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Hughes has was his pride so how much
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does he have for his GoFundMe 's he's
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just falling a little bit short this is
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legit before we give the number Ruben
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this is legit Bo GoFundMe it's still
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available you can still add to the funds
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yeah he started started in September of
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2017 that's right he's 1 million is his
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goal Ruben how close are we to that $1
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million uh in the past uh almost two
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years he has raised a total of
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7,424 $
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7,424 he's getting there at this if I if
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I was smart enough in math what would be
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the rate that we'd have to get to to
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reach a million so $7,000 a year gray
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Stevenson has donated
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$6 Robert melinson five bucks what's
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crazy if a million people just did a
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dollar it would get done yeah sure
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anyways okay well congrats to Leanne
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Carpenter she looks like a nice woman
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there she's donated $10 to Bob's project
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oh thanks Leon Carpenter 17 months ago
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money well spent okay number two YouTube
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is turning people into flat earthers
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we've been seeing been an increase in
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flat earthers lately this is true it's
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been in the news more it's it's easier
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to like that guy at at your work today
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saying it wasn't today it was it was
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recently okay saying are you flat
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earther 2 he got really excited CU he
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felt safer to talk about it so in fact
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there are so many out there they now
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hold annual conferences in 2017 and 18 a
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group of researchers from Texas Tech
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University got curious and they wanted
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to understand why we've seen an
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unprecedent rise in flat earthers and
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basically they found out that YouTube
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playing with all these conspiracy videos
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and everything sure has allowed people
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to um sink their teeth into it a little
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bit more maybe accepted so the internet
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and/ youube has got a lot of converts
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into the fly of society sure yeah Al one
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of the great things about the internet
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is that you can post anything you want
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yeah you can find your people hey you're
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listening to us right now that's right
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for our two listeners thank you for
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joining the show last and certainly not
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least number one some flat earther sink
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teleportation I love this one is the
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reason we don't fall off the edge of the
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Earth so rib this is speaking to Colin
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yes he got teleported yeah that's right
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so basically you know the game Pac-Man
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sure yeah yeah so they're saying that
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when you reach the edge of the Earth
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uhhuh you're not hitting a wall you
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literally just get teleported to the
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other side and keep going forward that's
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some ice yeah so I don't know where that
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magic occurs but it's before the wall so
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that's how planes can fly across the
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world that's how Colin your buddy can
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roll across the world yeah when he was
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rolling this way he crossed that barrier
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unbeknownst to him he was onto the other
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side and kept on rowing wow yeah okay so
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Reuben out of these 10 which one's the
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worst now what's your criteria for worst
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I argue is which one do you think if you
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were to I guess if you were to say which
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one is the most least
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believable some of these are actually
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they they happen so they're not
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non-believable like the rocket was
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launched well first of all the Rocket's
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the best one yeah the Rocket's the best
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Buddy's in there look at that can you
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imagine what he was thinking and feeling
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and I love how there's like six people
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here for the launch oh I would have been
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there I would have been thereo taking
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the day off work so he actually launched
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himself in a homemade rocket I I love
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that's the best one a lot of these
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aren't necessarily just what the believe
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why the Earth is flat but some of them
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have been things to prove the Earth is
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flat things that are claimed yeah things
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that they want to do so these are just
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10 things that we did not know or our
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average listener didn't know what flat
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earthers claim or want to do as flat
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earthers there's another way of saying
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that yeah I got M answer very easy hands
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down teleportation yeah the number one
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teleportation is the most ridiculous the
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idea that you got to some sort of
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magical Edge and like the game Pac-Man
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if you know the game when you get to the
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edge of the game you get teleported to
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the other side that's exactly what they
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think is happening to you yep that's
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where I'm at two for two Ruben you and I
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tonight's recordings two in a row where
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we both have agreed on the worst of the
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best will we agree on the next one we'll
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find out so thank you for listening 10
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most surprising facts so to our Flat
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Earth Society members remember in front
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of every Silver Lining there's a cloud
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and that cloud is on top of your Dome
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