I Love You to the Moon & Back - Scrolling w/ Hayley (Ep. 270)

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Just kidding. But these missions keep getting delayed, so we'll see if this ends up happening. But I'm putting my tinfoil hat on, and I actually have my tinfoil shoes on today too. I don't know if you can see, but I've got my matching tinfoil hat and shoes on. For today's moon landing conspiracy theory show, I have also got scrolling time, I've got blind reactions, I'm answering your questions from my Instagram story, and so much more. Put your phones on, Do Not Disturb, the show starts now. So did anyone else find it funny that they did the moon landing, or the Artemis 2 launch on April Fool's Day? On April Fool's Day of all days, they launched the Space Launch System, with the Artemis 2 crew aboard the Orion spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, of course, off the coast of Florida. And some people I know, they went and saw the takeoff and stuff. I was actually on Newsmax at the time. My mom texted me, and she said, are you watching it from the beach or something? And I said, no, I'm sitting in my living room on Newsmax, and I reacted to it in real time, because it was happening live, and that was actually not what I was booked to talk about. So I actually didn't know that it was happening. I don't know how I missed this, but I didn't know that we were going back around the moon, because the crew will not be landing on the moon, but around it. So let me get my niceties and my disclaimers out of the way. Obviously, you know where I stand. I love this country. I hate the government most of the time, but I love this country. I'm a patriot. I am proud to be an American. There is nowhere else on the face of the planet, nowhere from here to the moon and back I would rather live. I want to show exactly. I want to show the entire world what American exceptionalism looks like. And if there is another space race, I want to win it. That's how I feel. I have great respect for the president starting Space Force and investing in that. I applaud Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and others in the private sector, others innovating in this space, no pun intended. But I also have the utmost respect for our engineers and astronauts and scientists who make space missions like this possible. They are more brave and intelligent than I will ever be. And on that note, here's another disclaimer. I don't know if we went to the moon or not. How would I know? For me to know for sure, I would have had to have been there. Impossible. I would have had to have been involved. Impossible. Or I would have to trust what the government tells me. Also impossible because unfortunately, I don't believe everything that the government tells us. I do believe that the government lies to us. We know that they've done it before. They'll do it again. So therefore, I ask questions that don't make sense to me. Again, do I know what I'm talking about? No. And unless you're an astrophysicist or something, you probably don't know for sure either. And that's okay. It's okay to admit that you don't know something. And it's okay to have fun talking about these things. So last disclaimer, last time I covered the moon landing, I got a lot of emails. I got a lot of emails. I got a lot of DMs. If you feel the urge to send me a message, a DM, an email, very long, you know, telling me that I'm dumb, I promise you I won't read it. Don't waste your time. And with that said, let's get into it. So the Artemis II takeoff happened, like I said, on April Fool's Day earlier this week. Now riddle me that. Could they have picked another day? I think probably, I don't know why they would have picked it in the middle of the week. It seems kind of random. Seems like they might be playing in our faces. But okay, this mission will be 10 days long and the crew comprises of four astronauts. Commander Reed Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen would be Canadian Space Agency. So this is the first time anyone has attempted to send a crew to the moon in over 50 years. Artemis II was never supposed to land on the moon, like I've said, but it's going to fly around it to test the capsule with humans on it. It's going to travel 252,799 miles away from Earth, which is 4,100 miles longer than the Apollo 13 mission. And as someone who doesn't know anything about anything, that doesn't seem to be that crazy, assuming the technological advancements that have been made in the last 50 plus years. You would think that an extra 4,000 miles. And again, do I know what I'm talking about? No, but I'm thinking if they could do it back then, surely in 57 years, how would they not be able to pull that off? But anyway, they're doing it and they're testing it. And I think that's wonderful. Now, Artemis III is a mission planned for 2027. That was supposed to land on the moon, but now it isn't. NASA has restructured that mission. They are going to perform a docking and rendezvous test in Earth orbit. And that is going to be the first crewed lunar landing. It was supposed to be the first crewed lunar landing in 60 years. But it is actually now being pushed to 2028. So Artemis IV is going to land on the moon. And they have had a lot of changes to their plans. They originally designed a lunar gateway as a space station to orbit the moon. And that whole thing was scrapped. Now they're going to try to repurpose that for other missions. And they're going to focus now $20 billion on building a base that will be on the moon's surface. When can we expect that? I don't know. But apparently China is looking into something similar. So it looks like this is the reason for the season. Why are we building this now? Why are we rejiggering our plans? Why are we trying to get a base on the moon? Well, we're going to have to beat China now, which brings me to some questions. If we were putting astronauts on the moon in the 60s and 70s, why did we stop? And I'm not insinuating that putting humans on the moon is some easy task. But if we were able to do it back then, then we should be able to do it now. Why would we have gotten rid of that technology or regressed in any way or not invested in it? Of course, the crafts, these newer crafts have to be tested for safety. We're not just going to throw human beings up there. But why has it been decades? And why has nobody else, no other country, been able to put a human being on the moon? Other countries have landed objects on the moon, but they haven't put human beings up there. And the reasons for why this is, why we stopped going to the moon after 1972, these are the reasons that people give, primarily high costs, decreased political motivation after winning the space race, and then lack of public interest. I don't really buy those as reasons. And let's start with the cost. Do you think this trip around the moon and back is going to be cheap? I mean, I'm just going to throw this out to the chat and to the class. Do we really think that going around the moon is not going to be a lot of money? I mean, the Artivist 2 mission itself is part of this broader program that is costing $93 billion through 2025. Now we're in 2026, and the single launch this week was $4 billion. That's American taxpayer dollars. So again, the point about public interest, if we're spending $93 billion of our dollars, oh, I'm interested. No, I'm interested. And clearly it's not a money saving issue. This isn't some budget friendly trip around the moon. And again, since when has the government ever cared about saving money? Let's be for real. We learned this with Doge. The government is fraudulent. It is corrupt. And they don't care about saving money ever. And certainly when it comes to establishing dominance on the world stage, why wouldn't they spend money on this? They'll spend money on circumcisions in Zimbabwe or whatever. So like really, this is where you're going to cut costs, cut corners. So let's talk about public interest again. I think if we pulled the average American taxpayer, and I'll put this in the chat as well, are you guys interested in us getting boots on the ground again? You could just answer me. Are you interested in seeing another astronaut on the moon? If we pulled the average person about whether or not they wanted to see astronauts back on the moon, I would assume that they would want to see that. Would they want to see people on the moon or around the moon? And people are saying no. People are not interested in the chat. Nope, no. And then yes, yes, yes, yes, I am. Boots on the moon, yes, absolutely, yes. Kinda, no. F, yes, absolutely, yes, yes. Yeah, I'm interested in the nose. Like why not? Why would you not want to see this again? It was good enough for you to see it in 69 and 72, and then you just like don't care anymore. You don't think it would be cool to see that again. You don't think other astronauts want to put their name on a plaque and have their names written in history that they were on the moon? I mean, beyond public interest, I think that astronauts would probably be interested in doing this too. And going to the moon is one thing, but then what else? You go to the moon and then, I don't know, the possibilities are kinda endless. It's not like it just ends there. The exploration is done. Like all right, we did everything. Bye. No, I think there's more to learn and more to be seen. If we haven't discovered everything on Earth yet and we haven't discovered everything in our oceans yet, then we haven't even scratched the surface of the moon and the universe. So how is there no interest in that? And I think if we're spending almost $100 billion, I don't think it's too much to ask that, you know, prove us wrong. Right? If anyone doesn't believe that we went to the moon in 69 and around then, why not prove those people wrong? And again, it would be pricey, but there's other reasons, not just proving conspiracy theories wrong. I mean, there are a lot of other reasons to want to go back. And I posted on TikTok last night and people were fighting me in the comments saying, well, of course, they're not just gonna send people to the moon. Like they have to send people around the moon first. You know, they have to test this stuff. Yeah, I'm fine with that. I don't want to put human beings at risk. And obviously, if it's new technology, then yes, of course, send them around the moon, do these other things. I get it. Artemis II, Artemis III leading up to Artemis IV. I get that. But why now? Right? Why in 2026? Why haven't we been back since? Why are we just testing it now? Like these are, my questions still remain. And President Trump created Space Force in 2019. I think President Trump does a lot of things purposefully to make history. And he likes making headlines, positive headlines. And he likes to win. I love that about him because as an American, I like to win too. And he didn't create Space Force for no reason. I think President Trump, by the way, is a great leader. Space Force for no reason. I think President Trump either wanted to restart the space race or at least invest in it enough to not just compete with our biggest adversaries, but ensure that if we do, we'll be ahead of the curve. And I can get behind that. So are we preparing ourselves to go to the moon for the first time, to go back to the moon, to assert dominance on the world stage? Or are we going back solely to prove the haters and the conspiracy theorists wrong? I always found it odd that after we won the space race, it seemed that nobody else cared to put a human on the moon. They just let us win and nobody else wanted to be number two. Nobody wanted to be the second person, the second country to put a person on the moon. It just seems hard to imagine that if there was once a race and this need to be the first, no one wants to be the second, I don't know. It just seems odd. And if we once had the technology, then you're telling me nobody else had that technology, nobody else could figure it out? I don't know. And if they can figure it out, then why, if they do have the technology, why not go? I guess nobody cares. I can't imagine that nobody cares. That's just like the competitive nature. You want to prove people that you can do it. And I've also heard that we had the technology and now we don't. And we could build it again. But the argument is why spend all the time and energy building it again? I mean, why not? Why not keep up with that technology? Again, out of fear that someone else could outdo us eventually. And since the US government doesn't care about spending or saving money, there's an argument that maybe it's about being environmentally conscious. They don't want to gas guzzle their way up to the moon just to prove the haters wrong. But again, I don't think they care about that either. So I don't know. Clearly we're taking trips to and around the moon. So I don't think it's an environmentally conscious thing. I don't think it's a climate change, global warming issue. So I want to dive into the moon landing conspiracy just a little bit. What the haters are saying, what the naysayers are saying, what the devil's advocates are saying. But first I'm going to tell you about one of my favorite sponsors, Beams Dream Powder. If you've listened to me for a while, you already know that dream has been part of my nightly routine for a while. It helps me stay fresh and focused throughout the day. 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All right, so I'm going to go through and let me just say, I spent probably 10 hours yesterday researching the moon landing and different conspiracy theories and how to debunk them and things like that. And let me just say, after 10 hours, I just had to go to bed. It was like 11.15 and I was tired and this is not even scratching the surface. So there's probably so many that I'm not going to get to today and just know that, you know, maybe there's going to be a part two at some point, but it's a lot to get to. So I just want to go through some of the some of the conspiracy issues, right? And one of those being the flag moving on the moon's surface, right? The, you know, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, they go to the moon and they're putting and other members of the Apollo missions, they're putting the flag in the moon's surface. And if you know anything about the moon and there's no gravity, nothing in the atmosphere, right? Why would the flag move? So we could see, I think we have the video of this. So they're, you know, putting the flag in there. You can see no wind, but it seems that, you know, the flag is sort of moving, not moving there, but as he's sort of putting it in the ground, you can see the flag is waving and then it continues waving and Mythbusters did a thing on this and essentially proved that if you put the flag in the ground, it will move because of the momentum of, you know, spinning it and putting it in the ground. And I think, you know, whether you believe that or not, I think they were able to replicate it. So that's the explanation, right? That is the debunking of the flag moving with no atmosphere. And then there are some issues with the photos, the photographs. And there are some that I'm not even going to touch on today because, like, I didn't get into the whole crosshairs thing on the camera. And there are shadows that are kind of perpendicular to each other. And people say that this is because there's other light sources on the thing and it was in a studio or whatever. I'm not getting into that today. But in this photo of the moon landing from 1969, you could see that there are no stars in the sky. And if anyone knows anything about space, there are stars in the sky. I mean, we can see them from here. So why wouldn't you be able to see them from the moon? And the argument is some of the conspiracy theorists say that NASA manipulated these images and took the stars out because if they included the stars and it would give away their geolocation as if people don't know where the moon is, but whatever. Then they said, and this is where the devil's advocate comes in, they say that the stars are not visible on camera because, you know, and I'm not going to get super technical here, but with the aperture and the exposure, there are certain tricks that the camera can play on the eye. And essentially, the camera is not going to pick up the stars in the sky. Again, whether you believe that or not, you know, conspiracy theorists have issues with the light source that illuminates the astronaut, but the moon is illuminating. So that's basically the argument there that maybe there were no cameras on the surface of the moon because the moon was doing all the illuminating. And again, with a lot of the moon landing conspiracy theories, and it's like, well, the average person is never going to know the answer. The average person is never going to go to the moon. The average person can never fact check this. You just have to believe what you're told. And with all these different sources of information out there on both sides of this conspiracy theory, whatever the truth is, I don't know. You just have to believe something. And I really appreciate the scientific explanations for these things. I love getting into conspiracy theories, but I'm not like a... Some people, I think, just want to believe the conspiracy theory until the day that they die. I would love to be proved wrong, and I like that there are some scientific explanations to these things. But let's talk about the moon rocks brought back. So the Apollo missions go to the moon, they come back with rock from the moon. And the United States gifted this moon rock to 135 other countries, and hundreds of them are missing, stolen, they were lost, they were burnt, they were buried. Like there are so many different issues that happen with this moon rock. And let me just say, and maybe I'm naive, but if the greatest world power went to the moon and brought back rock and gave it to you as a gift, would you not take care of that? Maybe I'm just naive, but you're telling me that 135 countries were given this rock and hundreds are missing? What are the odds of that? I feel like you put it in a nice case and put it in a museum and don't lose track for sure. Right, and it's not that bad things don't happen to things in museums. Like things happen, and I think that there would be a lot of public interest around these things, and people would want to, you know, evil doers would want to steal it or sell it or whatever. Like I'm not saying that it's impossible that something bad would happen, but it's just a lot of examples of bad things happening. I mean, how could multiple countries have moon rock go missing? I don't know. It just seems odd to me. Does it seem odd? Someone at the chat said, sounds like bullshit to me. Yeah, it seems like a really nice gift that you wouldn't want to lose. And someone else on TikTok was fighting me last night. And okay, again, I've never been to the moon. I don't know what moon rock is supposed to look like. This is another thing that kind of gets me. It's like how would anyone really be like, how would a normal person with the naked eye be able to tell if this is moon rock or not? I don't know what the moon looks like. If you asked me where this rock is from, I would say the moon though. I don't know why I would think that, but it feels moon. Could it be faked? I'm very gullible. I'm not a good person to ask this. I mean, I am assuming that you could make this. You could recreate it. It wouldn't be legitimate, but I mean, this isn't something that is, I don't know, like a crafty person could make it. I'm not saying that I don't believe that it is moon rock. I don't know. But it seems weird. It doesn't look like normal rock. This looks... This one I've found out hiking for sure. Yeah. Again, what do we know? Nothing. I mean, I don't know. You're telling me like, oh, is this moon rock or not? I've never been there. Looks a little corally. Yeah. I feel like it looks like it was... This is something you'd find on the beach, like broken down by water kind of. It looks kind of like pumice stone a little bit with holes in it. I love the idea that we brought back enough that we're like, you get a moon rock. Yeah. And someone in the chat was like, it wasn't a rock. It was a pebble. Okay. Huge flex. Okay. Still, someone gives you a pebble from the moon. Like you're just going to put it in your back pocket or are you going to take care of it? I don't know. So anyway, is this real? Is it fake? I don't know. Why do they all look different? Again, I don't know. That's a good call out. They do all look very different. I mean, granted, there's like different rocks, you know, the rock looks the same. But like, it's, yeah, interesting. Yeah. So someone in the chat said, one theory is that the moon rocks were radioactive, so they had to be hidden from the public. I think I read something and maybe I'm not remembering this correctly, but I think that there was some moon rock that was at a high school or there was like something that was kept at a high school and then like all these kids are getting cancer. I don't know if it was moon rock or something else. It was like something radioactive. Yo, what? Hold on. You can't just drop that. I know. You know when you read, I read so many news stories in a day that. It was in New Jersey. Yeah. And what is it about? What was radioactive? My mother actually went to that high school. Is your mom okay? It wasn't the years that she went. So what was it? I don't want to make any speculations, but there was something. Kids in New Jersey, radiation high school. Okay. I don't know. This is Colonia High School, Woodbridge, New Jersey. Yeah, that's it. And a cluster of over 100 former students and staff had brain tumors, but they didn't identify any environmental risks of the site. Well, and they said that there's no radiation found. Okay. Okay. So a high school student brought a radioactive fiesta wear plate fragment, but that was not related to the Colonial High School situation. Okay. I don't know. I guess this has nothing to do with Moon Rock. I'm just putting it together. Radioactive activity out of their halls. Geez. Yeah. I don't know. Back on the rocks, we've got this article. Which one? The fact that it was faked? Yeah. So yeah. In the Netherlands, you know, because the Netherlands, that's one of the countries that got our moon pebble. And they found the other day that, not the other day, this was a few years ago, but they found that the Moon Rock or the Moon Pebble that they were given by the United States was actually not rock at all. It was petrified wood. And essentially they didn't question the United States at the time. They just accepted the gift and put it on display at the museum. And then years later, some experts visited the museum and essentially told the museum people, hey, that doesn't look like Moon Rock. Have you ever tested it? And they said, no, we never tested it. The only way that they verified it was on a phone call with NASA. So NASA called them and told them that it was real and they never tested it. So they were realizing like, oh, I guess we should probably do that. And then they tested it and found that it was petrified wood. So does this mean that the Apollo missions never brought back any space rock? No, it doesn't prove that. And I can't prove that. But was NASA capable of lying? And the United States told the Netherlands they were gifting the Moon Rock and they lied? That's seemingly what happened. Again, that doesn't mean that every country got fake rock or pebble, but at least this one was. So we'll see. Let's get into the footprints of it all. So people are wondering how the footprint was made on the Moon's surface. And the Moon's surface is supposed to be dry. And I was listening to a podcast about this last night just to sort of refresh my memory on some of the theories and stuff. And if the surface is dry and you're thinking about how we're walking on a beach, like if you were walking on a beach in these same moon boots, unless the sand was wet, it wouldn't really leave a print unless the surface was kind of like clay-like. And if you walk on the sand and it's dry, you could walk in a very rugged, rigid boot. And it still wouldn't like the sand would fall into place and the footprint wouldn't be left behind. So apparently sand particles on Earth are rounded because of erosion. And the Moon's surface is not like that. It is much different. So it's not smooth and therefore the structures can kind of take the shape of a footprint. And then another argument by the conspiracy theorists is that the surface of the Moon is dusty, but the boots never look dusty. Like it wasn't like a cloud of dust when they were jumping around. There was no dust kickup. And there was no crater left by the aircraft on the Moon's surface because and according to the naysayers and the science people, they say that there wasn't enough pressure to do that. And essentially the answer to all of these theories and questions is, well, it's different on the Moon. And that's true. Like any argument that the conspiracy theorists have can just be sort of explained away by, well, you wouldn't get it because you don't know what it's like to be on the Moon. You only know what it's like to be on Earth and what you know on Earth doesn't apply here. And let's get into the footprint and the boot. So this doesn't match. People bring this up all the time that this is the space suit that they were wearing and the boots on the bottom, they do not have that same rigid that, you know, bottom shoe bottom that you see on the footprint on the Moon. And that is because they were wearing spacesuits, but then they also had over boots that went on top of the space suit. So the footprint is from the over boot. And the reason why the over boots are not in the Smithsonian is because apparently the astronauts on the Apollo mission, they wanted to offload some of the weight on the aircraft. So apparently they left 400,000 pounds of stuff on the Moon. When they went, they wanted to offload some of the weight, which they came up with. So again, do I know what I'm talking about? No. For the 50 bajillionth time, am I an expert? No. My assignment is no. But if you could make it up with that much, you had to offload 400,000 pounds of stuff. So what they offloaded was the over boots. They left all the over boots up on the Moon. And they also left 96 bags of human waste. So they had all the poop that they had on their trip up and they put it in bags and apparently they left 96 bags of poop on the Moon's surface. And now, of course, it's frozen. But then I wonder, the Moon is apparently 400,000 negative degrees at night. And then it gets really hot also. So is the poop just petrified now because it's been so many years? Or does it get hot, cold, hot, cold? Is it melting and then freezing and then melting and then freezing? I don't know. That's actually why we're going back. They need to figure out what's going on up there. And here's the thing. If anything, go back up to the Moon to pick up your trash. Rude. We need to be good stewards of this planet that we're on now and then you're going to go explore another Moon and you're going to just leave your crap everywhere? If anything can grow on the Moon, that would be good fertilizer. Maybe. I think they left stuff so they could bring back all their test samples, I believe. So they also let not only did they leave bags of poop, which again, it just pisses me off. And then maybe did they do that because they thought Russia was right behind them and they were like, oh, we'll just leave all of our bags of shit here so then Russia can find them. And then nobody ever came. So they just left, they just like left their poop up there. I just think that that's, I mean, have some respect, you know? I guess. Why am I hearing my ending music in my ear? I have no idea. Is everyone hearing that or is that just me? I guess we'll see. Maybe it's just maybe I'm seeing things and hearing things. But they also left cameras and other rovers and lunar modules and things on the Moon. So again, like 400,000 pounds of stuff. It wasn't just poop and the overboots. But I do think it's weird that like they didn't bring back the overboots. Again, I'm just asking questions, but I think that's odd. And another theory is that this was all staged and it was a movie set. And theories about Stanley Kubrick that he was hired by NASA to fake the moon landing in a studio after the movie 2001 Space Odyssey came out and he has denied this. His family has denied this. But then later in his career, he was given NASA camera lenses to film a movie. And does anyone else think that's weird? I don't know. Like Stanley Kubrick and this lens that was developed by NASA's Apollo lunar program. He used it because he wanted to shoot in like a candlelit scene in a 1975 film. If I was NASA, I'd be like, figure it out, dude. Like why do you need our cameras? And I don't know. It just seems odd to me that you would, I don't know. Like is that weird to anyone else? Also, our government is actively involved in Hollywood. We know this. They want to make sure that the government is portrayed in a positive light or an accurate light. They want to ensure accuracy in kinds of actions by movies like the CIA worked on, you know, Zero Dark Thirty and things like that. And NASA claims to not operate a film studio per se, but they do help film productions and they let them film at their facilities and things like that. And then the CIA operates a formal entertainment industry liaison office. This is out of their office of public affairs. And they too work with filmmakers and, you know, TV producers and writers and stuff. And it's not that, you know, they're making their own movies, although they could. The department works very closely with Hollywood. They approve scripts and they consult on scripts. They give technical advice and things like that. So, you know, they want to make sure that the agency looks good. And I can understand that. That's, you know, it's propaganda, right? Here's another thing that I find odd is the phone call from the Oval Office to the moon using a landline. And I've looked into it. I know that there's scientific explanations for all of it. It's the microwaves, the radio waves. They were able to get, you know, President Nixon's voice all the way to the moon. And they say that there was only a three second delay. And you guys know more about audio and delays and things than I do. But if you've ever watched the news, which we all have, you ever see an anchor throw to a reporter out in the field and there's a delay. Sometimes it's a two second delay, but it's bad. And it's like, you know, for more, you know, reporter, what's her face is like out in the field. And then, you know, she's standing there like this for an awkward few seconds. And then she's like, thanks, Bill, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And then they, there's that lag. And that happens when both parties are on the same planet in 2026. And apparently in this moon landing situation, it was like only a second longer delay. Going all the way to the moon and back versus, you know, in the same town, in a local news station. Like how can there be that bad of a delay? Do you think that that's odd? I'm going to be honest. I don't know a ton about the technology at the time. I didn't know it was a three second. So I'm like still mentally processing this information. They're saying it was a three second delay versus a, honestly, like a two second delay that we see now. Well, I know like video signal and audio signal, especially radio signal, travel very differently. People are saying it's completely different technology. My point is after 60 years, wouldn't we not have a delay? Like wouldn't we not have the, like if you could call the moon and back in three seconds, then why are we still dealing with this issue today? Wouldn't we? I don't know. Again, I'm not an expert. I'm just saying these are questions that I have and I'm not the only person that has these questions. But anyway, let's get into scrolling time. So what do we have first? There, uh, did you know that you remember in Minneapolis when all these libtards were going around and they were stalking ICE agents and then they were stalking people that they thought were ICE agents and it was just if you had a certain kind of car, they were following you around and try to dox you and take your license plate and things like that. This is actually still happening as of two days ago in Providence, Rhode Island. So this woman in Providence, Rhode Island, she has a Dodge Durango and she has had her windows tinted. She said it's a 4% tint and she says that there are people still targeting her to this day. So here she is. There's this guy. He's got a beret on, of course. He's out there. He's one of these legal observers. So here he is doing his job. I don't know what his real job is, but look at him. Look at him tapping on the window. Roll down, roll down your window. Who are you to ask me to roll down my window? If this happened to me, I'd drive off. Oh, look at him filming inside of her car. Eddie's asking, are you ICE? Are you ICE? Now he's tipping off the people around him like, oh, come here. Come here and film this. There are people over here. So ICE has to circle the block again. And this woman just gets a kick out of it. Like she keeps filming these people and she's tinted so she can't, they can't see that she's filming them back. But it is so funny. Like what? That's a solid tint. Losers. Yeah, it is a solid tint. She actually posted a picture of it and it's like completely black. You can't see. Someone in the chat said pepper spray. Shut it, grandpa. It doesn't have a real job. I'd give him the finger and he can't see it. The windows are tinted. Can you guys award, please, show any sign of identification? Asking for identification as a civilian is crazy. It is crazy. Like step out of the vehicle, put your hands behind your back. Like who are you? Step out of the vehicle. My name's Mark. Yeah. Here's another one. Roll down your window. Roll down your window. Are you ICE? We'll get him. He's tough. Just Trevor asking you to roll down your way. Like what? Just some dude in like a varsity jacket. Roll down your window. No, actually. Can you imagine just your normal person trying to go about your day in the city? You're trying to ride your car around, do whatever errands you have to run. Go to work. You have these idiots screaming and then they're alerting their friends who are also in the area. Like how many of these paid protesters or paid legal observers are out looking for ICE? Still, it's April. It's insane. It's just absolutely insane. Now, you know, in 2026, we have to assume that we're always being filmed. And we have to assume that if someone comes up to you with a camera and a microphone in your face, that this is going to maybe be some kind of a shock jock sort of interview. People want to get views on social media. You accept the fact that if you enter into this conversation and this interview, it is going to go online. And you also just have to assume that people might not have the best intentions. Like people want to make you look stupid so that they go viral. Anyway, these MAGA people went undercover and they interviewed this woman. Watch. Have you not heard about alligator alcatraz? Yeah, yeah. It's here in Florida, actually. It's so fascist. It's like a concentration camp. It is literally a concentration camp. It's what the Nazis did. It's literally... They're gassing people and alligator alcatraz now. I don't know if they're gassing people, but kids are definitely getting hurt there. Just like at the daily center in Texas. Once is a coincidence, twice is a pattern. How much more proof do we need? But then why is your hair red if you're not MAGA? Is that a serious question? Yeah, your hair's red and Donald Trump is red. So you guys aren't actually interviewing good faith? No, it's an April Fool's joke. We're Donald Trump supporters. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, you love our president. And why? Have you not heard about alligator alcatraz? Alligator, alligator, alligator alcatraz? Alcatraz? Gator, gator, alcatraz? And why is your hair red? So they got her, right? April Fool's joke, they figured, you know, we'll just talk to this liberal, trigger her a little bit, and then tell her at the end that we're Trump supporters. Now, this woman took to TikTok afterwards to cry about it. I let myself get baited into one of those bad faith interviews with two MAGA influencers. I was going to the beach at the pier because I got into an argument with my mom, and that's my safe space. I go to the beach. It's their safe space. And then they had like no kings, dump Trump besides. I legitimately about said, at least she was like a sport about it. And they're like, oh, April Fool's. We're actually MAGA. And I know better. I know better than to try to argue with people who are arguing in bad faith. And now there's at least 15 minutes. It might have been 30. I have no idea. Footage of me yelling on the pier, crying, arguing with these fucking assholes. And the only people that stopped by while I was like literally crying, talking about the detention centers. The war where Trump supporters finally ended the conversation. Dolldra's war. They joked. She surrounded. I saw me and I was walking back to my car hyperventilating, sobbing and not a single person. Not a single person checks. Are you okay? You know, like what happens? Well, at least she didn't overreact. Bring back taking an L gracefully. In today's day and age, though, it's just if something bad happens to you and I, the word bad, I use that word lightly. Like what happened to her was not bad. It was a joke. And honestly, why is anyone accepting one of these man on the street interviews these days anyway, knowing that this is obviously going to be put on the internet and they probably want to make you look stupid. So you kind of have to be a little narcissistic to think that you can kind of beat the system and beat these people that are making using you for content. But she entered into the conversation with them. And like most liberals, they want to change the minds of the people that they're talking to. They are, they don't want to be open to the other side. They want to prove everyone wrong. And that's what she did. She wanted to do that. And then, you know, she got played and the knee jerk reaction for all these liberals is to go straight to TikTok or Instagram or whatever. They go on social media, their platform of choice, and they start crying. Because if you start crying, then you get sympathy. And I was going through the comment section, everyone's like, you did the right thing. You know, you were, you didn't do anything wrong. You were just teaching them about the concentration camps and blah, blah, blah. Like, and this is why she went on the internet to start crying. Anyway, speaking of April Fool's jokes, this is my favorite. This is Waymo. I've never felt so humbled. I get into my Waymo, currently in my Waymo. And it goes, hey, we need you to hum for 10 seconds to calibrate the microphone. So I'm like, okay, like, like, going. And then it goes April Fool's. Oh, that was so humbling. If someone had that footage, they do girl. That. Oh my God. What do you mean if they have the footage? Of course they do. The whole thing's got cameras on it and in it, they know when someone does another seatbelt on, they know when people are, you know, hanging their heads out the windows and things. Of course they're filming it. That's hilarious. I hope that they put together a video of all the people humming. I have to check for that to see if Waymo posted it. If there's a video of all the people that they pranked. That's hilarious. And honestly, if I got into self-driving car, I'm listening to whatever the robot says. I want to get out of this thing alive. So if you tell me to dance, I'm going to dance. You tell me to hum, I'm going to hum. You tell me to sing, I'm going to sing. I'm showing Waymo my mixtape. Yeah, totally. I thought that was funny. All right, here's another prank. This college girl, her roommates, they said, and they got her mom in on it too. They pranked her saying that she has been drafted to war. Watch. What? No, this is a joke. What? What is it? Armed forces. No, this has to be a joke, right? If that's the thing that gets me into the army, mom. Okay, they're kidding. They're kidding. They're kidding. They're kidding. They're kidding. They're kidding. No, she's crying. Now she starts crying. Crying. No, I will cry. No. This is a brutal prank, but you got to wonder, would the U.S. military call your mom to tell you that you were drafted and would your mom have to call you and tell you? Or do you think the military would probably go to you directly? Yeah, it's definitely right to you. There's no middle man. Yeah. Hey, can you pass along this message to your daughter? We want her to go strap up and put her boots on and go to war. Yeah. You just pass the message along. You got to think, you know, in this moment, but I don't think these college kids are thinking much. And this is a prime example of open the schools because these people, they're in college. I don't know how they got in, but I, they have a lot to learn still. Watch. Who is the first woman president? Harriet Tubman. Rosa Parks? Ask me, what state shares Niagara Falls with Canada? I have Rhode Island, New Jersey. I know. What year was the declaration sign? 1976. What was the boat called that the pilgrims came here on? Boston T. Name three founding fathers. George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. Who's the first man to walk on the moon? Bill Armstrong. What is the emancipation proclamation? Emancipation ain't that like where they... Ink. Like you can, they can like fire you from the job. What was the first English colony? The Lake Flower. The first colony is the Mayflower. The boat is the Boston T. Didn't she say Harriet Tubman was the first woman president? She doesn't even know that we haven't had one of those yet. That's a tough watch. This is really brutal. Yeah, it was a tough watch. Everyone in the chat is saying this is sad. Wow. Someone said it's good that she's pretty. First two were funny. Last seven, you're just, it's like, oh wow. Like you don't know anything. I saw one of the comments and it was like, girl, I'm bored. Let's go back to middle school. She needs it. This next one, this is very funny. This is, did you put a montage together of the, these different examples? Believe so. Okay. Yeah, because Guy put the show together today. So I don't know what he has for me, but I put together, there's a trend now. Parents are going on social media. They are asking their kids, if I go missing, how would you describe me to the police officers? And this is what the kids are saying. Watch. If I was missing and I was going to the police, and I needed to describe me, that you needed to describe me to the police. What would you say? She likes McDonald's. She has hair that turned from blonde to black. She farts pretty loud. So I think you'll smell it out or your canine will. I would say you have red clothes and you are brown and you have big brown feet and your hair is beautiful. Okay. Is the even you? She has brown skin, black hair, long hair. She's five foot something. She has big feet. Very helpful. She has brown eyes. She has a big nose. Yeah. Her tummy feels like a squishy. What pillow? A squishy pillow. And your skin is super soft and your arms do a little jiggle. Leave it to the kids. The kids say the darndest things. And none of these parents are getting saved if they ask their children for a description. Have you ever seen that funny meme? I don't know if it's a meme or if it's real, but that police sketch and it's just kind of like a stick figure. Like this is what they would end up with a stick figure. Her farts smell really bad. She has big feet. She's got a big nose. Her stomach's jiggly. Her arms are jiggly. Good luck. Good luck finding these parents. All right. Let's get into blind reactions. They are not on the back. So I'm just, there's no context here. I'm blind reacting. Oh, I can give you context. Oh, give me context then. All right. Please. This is if I were to get in a street fight. So here we go. All right. Hey, go to the police. Oh. Leave it to the cyclist to be beta losers. Look at his reaction. Do you see this motion from the cyclist? He's like, come closer to me. My legs aren't long enough actually. The cowboy didn't flinch and that is terrifying. And the cowboy kind of like was taken it back. Are these people in their spandex, in their nylon, really coming from me? I think every person on the whole universe knows that the cyclists were definitely in the wrong no matter what. Probably. I don't even need to see what happened. I don't need any contacts. I know that the cyclists are wrong. That's how I feel when I see cyclists. I wanted to just, mm, mm. Always driving in the middle of the road. Always, always. Again, Elon Musk, colonize Mars, send them all up there. Cycle around all you want. But I hate them on the road. You all know how I feel about that. All right. Blind reaction number two. All right. This one is titled liberals are for women. Liberals are for women. Being a man, how did you become a liberal? Normally, liberals are for women, not for men. How did you become a liberal? Oh, I don't agree with that at all. Are you a beta male? What is a beta male? A liberal. How is a beta male a liberal? They tend to be weak. Oh, well, I can't define myself in those terms. Oh, well, I would. I love how he's like, what's a beta male? Really? Really? You don't know what a beta male is. Well, it's a liberal. You know exactly what it is. I would say that most liberal men are beta males. I don't really know any strong burly men, manly men who are liberals, but I don't know. Do you have another one for me? Oh, I got two more. So this one is a classic Hailey cat video. Here you go. Great. The cat knew it was a house puppy not built for the streets. And there's a cat dog squaring up. The dog's barking at it. That's how it took. The cat just needed to give him a little, and then he went squealing away, squealing like a pig. I love that. My dad told me a story once when he was little. He was babysitting my aunt, who was even smaller, and they were in the front yard, and they had a cat growing up. There was a neighborhood dog that came and started running for my aunt, and their cat scared the dog away, so saved my aunt. There you go. A true hero. All right. People say that cats aren't loyal. They are. Hurry, Lil. Here's the last one, and this one I'm not even going to tee you up. This is just 10 out of 10. In order to turn hot dogs into delicious alcohol, I needed a way to extract the hot dog flavor into something fermentable. Surprisingly, hot dog wine is an understudied subject, and since hot dogs could be littered with harmful spores of bacteria, we're going to opt for just using the hot dog water. But don't worry, the hot dogs will come into play later. Once I had a concentrated pot of hot dog water, it was time to sterilize it with a pressure cooker, which will kill any trace of microbes. Now from here, it's business as usual, and our hot dog water can be used as a base for a meat. I started with a few pounds of honey, enough to supply enough sugar to hit 16% alcohol. And now with our hot dog water added to the mix, all that was left to do was add our yeast and let this hot dog you mix ferment for 30 days, which it did. And this isn't exactly what my meat kit was intended for, but it actually works surprisingly well. And the good news is it didn't fact hit 16%. The only issue is the hot dog flavor was lacking, but luckily there is a way to intensify it. I grabbed more hot dogs to do something called a fat wine, which is where you can buy fats with high fat. It's a way to keep the microbes spirits to break them down, and almost emulsify them and absorb all the flavor. Then that flavor infused spirit can be added to our meat to amplify the hotdog-iness and the strength. At this point, we're at 21%, and our hot dog alcohol is finally ready. Now all that's left to do is have a taste. If you can collect the liquid that's at the bottom of the garbage bin at a baseball game, that is what we're drinking right. The final product was sweet like honey with a distinct briny aftertaste of hot dogs that made me question my life decisions and realize that just because I can do something, definitely does not mean that I should. I wonder how long that took. Did they say in the video? No, but you know. My favorite part is when he said that the hot dog wine didn't taste enough like hot dogs, so then they had to bring in the big guns, more hot dogs. I love a good hot dog. Me too. At no point have I been like, I wish I could drink this. No, never. You know, they're good for eating, and it's also one of those food products so you don't want to know where it came from. You don't want to know exactly what you're eating. Just close your eyes, enjoy it, don't ask questions. No one wants to know the origins of a hot dog. No one needs to know what they've put in it. Just enjoy it. Shopping for hot dogs is tough because each package is like, this one kind of has meat, and this one has real meat than the one next to it. No, hot dogs is the one. I read ingredient lists. I read the nutrition labels. I do. Hot dogs, which I really haven't eaten a hot dog. I never make hot dogs at home, actually. You shouldn't. Yeah. It's an old food. It's a ballpark food, for sure. It is a concert venue food. It is, I'm drunk, I'm hungry, and this looks really good right now. The chat gets, it's a Costco food. A Costco hot dog, it's like a little reward. I've actually never had a Costco hot dog. Are you serious right now? Yeah, I think, I don't think I have. Do you have a Costco membership? That's like, that's the first step. No. All right, we'll have to take a field trip one day and go get Costco. Just another damn field trip for this show. We're going to Alligator Alcatraz, we're going to Old State Saloon in Idaho, we're going to, we're going to the Tesla Diner, we're going to Costco, which is easier said than done, we're going on a Waymo trip. We're like the magic school bus. If the magic school bus never left the school. That's very misprosal. The trips never make it out of the group chat, but we have them all lined up. We're ready to go. Well, I have a few minutes left here. So I'm going to answer some of the questions that people had on my Instagram. I will say some people ask me really stupid questions. And depending on the day, it makes me very angry. People ask me, are the Knicks going to win the championship this year? I don't know. And what do I know? You all saw me fill out the March Madness bracket. I have no idea anything about teams or who's good or what. I don't know anything about the NBA. I don't watch the NBA. For the record, her bracket's pretty deice. Is it still? It was a mess of a year and somehow you've done all right. Nice. Where are we at in the March Madness now? Final fours this weekend. Okay. I did hear that on TikTok. You know, people ask me, how is the Supreme Court going to rule on blah, blah, blah? I don't know. Someone asked me, where should singles meet people? You're asking the wrong girl. I don't know. Like what the heck? You didn't answer my question from last week. Well, it was stupid. Okay. So let's get into the good questions. Someone asked me, how long do you prep for the show? And on a normal day, I would say probably six hours. Now, last night was probably 10 or 11 hours. I really did do a deep dive on the moon stuff. And I again, didn't even scratch the surface. Now, when the show was at 6pm, it would take me four or five hours because I had a deadline, right? I had to get the show done by a certain time before the show and it was, I had to wake up, do the show and the show was that day. Now that the show ends at one and then I got, you know, all day and night to do it. And then the morning, I take all of that time now. So I do need to be better about setting a limit because I end up doing it until, you know, I start at like 2pm, take a quick break to, you know, eat something and then it's, I do it all night until I fall asleep. So anyway, I need to work on my social life, but someone asked me the oldest memory I have as a kid. And I, I think I was probably three, but I, I do have, I do have a lot of memories. I have memories of doing things with my family and my mom and like baking cookies and doing things like that. I remember I would make pesto with my mom. We would grow the basil and then, and make pesto. I vividly remember doing that. I remember my uncle taking me on my first train ride. Like I think all of these were around like two and a half, three. So I, I do remember that, but nothing before then just a blur. It's just a blur. Someone asked me if I had to live outside of the country for three months. Where would it be? And I think probably Italy. I feel like Italy is a good place to spend three months because you could go all over and there's lots of things to see and do. And yeah, I've never been to Rome. So I, if I were to go back to Italy, I would have to hit the places that I didn't hit the last time. So I would do that. And then someone asked me my three favorite ways to show self love, which sounds like a liberal thing to do. I don't really know what that means. I don't know what self love is. Um, Let's rephrase it. If you had a day that you could do anything you wanted that like would make you happy. I think that's the question. I love spending time with my friends. I love going to the beach. So perfect day would be get up, go for a nice long walk or go to the gym, like workout. That's how I like to start my day. Get an iced coffee because there's something like on the weekends, I make coffee at home during the weekend stuff, but on the weekends, I like to go and feel that plastic. I just, I, I love cold, cold brew tastes better with a plastic straw. I love the plastic. So on the weekends, I treat myself and what will I, what will I do next? Go to the beach, get tan or go to the pool, get tan, read a book, go to dinner with my friends, go out for a drink or something. I feel like that's fun. It's a good day. It's a good weekend day. Someone said my favorite and least favorite thing about doing social media. Filming it is great and then having to sit down and edit it is annoying. Like I'll film videos and then I never edit them and then I just never post them and I need to be better about that. And I used to make a lot more social media videos, just reactions to news stories and stuff. I have to just be better about doing that, but you know, it is what it is. Least favorite thing, just people being annoying. Someone asked me, how do I unwind from being on social media? I don't. I'm on social media all day long. Let's see what my screen time is. Well, I guess it's going to be low because it's only 1pm and the night is young, but let's see. Sometimes it's about 16 hours, which is really scary. Okay. It says daily average, 11 hours, 37 minutes. So it was down 7% from last week. It's not too bad. It's not too bad. If I'm spending 10 hours last night prepping for the show, yeah, I'm going to be on my phone 12 hours, 11 hours, 12 hours. You doubled mine and I thought mine was high. Oh no. I've had days that were 16 plus hours. Do your eyes hurt ever? Nope. And I don't get dry eye either. Good for you. I'm just built different. How much of that is Netflix? I don't really watch TV. Yeah, I just scroll on my phone because it's like I need constant content for the show. So I'm like constantly scrolling. Last question, which I think I'm going to drop some lore that you guys are not going to believe, but I promise that I'm telling the truth. So someone asked me, would you rather have spaghetti for hair or burp every time before you talk? And I have never burped in my life. You're looking at me like I'm going to call your bluff. I don't know. I have never burped in my life. It feels impossible, but I have no proof. You just asked me why. I don't know. He said lies. Oh, lie. Well, why is probably a good question to ask as well. No, I'm not lying. I don't even know what it feels like to burp. I have never burped. Like I could drink soda and I don't burp. And yeah, I just I don't know what it feels like. I know people kind of like fake burp or they can make themselves burp. I don't know how to do that either. That's probably for the best. But you've never like popped open a cold Coca-Cola, chug that bad boy and just like let one rip. No, never. And as people are saying in the chat, your mom burped you as a baby. Okay. Maybe, but it's not like burping as a baby. She just said her last memory was three. So she she missed those ones. And then people are insinuating that I'm burping in my sleep. I don't know. I guess I could be, but I've never burped. I don't know what it feels like. And I was scrolling on TikTok. This is probably about, I don't know, maybe six months ago. And some other person said I've never burped in my life. And the amount of comments are of people saying thousands of people saying, I'm the same way I've never burped. I felt so seen. And apparently it is called RCPD and I've never gotten diagnosed. So I don't know if I have this or maybe I'm just not burping for another reason. I don't know. But apparently doctors just figured this out and called it RCPD, which is obviously an acronym for whatever some scientific term. They discovered this in 2018. So it's very new and they're still doing a lot of research on it. And what they're saying is that you can sort of cure this by getting Botox in your neck, like in your esophagus basically, because the reason why people are not burping is because whatever the, you know, it's just like not being released for whatever reason. They're saying that the muscle is almost like too constricted for whatever reason. And I know this sounds counterintuitive, but the Botox would almost release that airwave or that why am I not thinking of the word? Airway. Airway, yeah. So am I interested in burping? Not really. So I'm not going to get treated, but anyway. Google AI says it's not inherently dangerous if you can't burp, but it could cause a lower quality of life. I think my life is great. And someone, a Star Wars fan in the chat said, Hayley, please film Birdie reacting to your burping. I've never burped. So how can I film her? It's going to happen one day and you're going to panic. I wonder what would trigger it though. Absolute crash out. And I really don't drink soda that often, but I do drink it when I go to the movie theater. And I've never, I've gotten a huge soda and I don't burp. Anyway, believe me or don't, have a great weekend, everyone. And happy Easter. Bye. Vince Colonies is redefining news talk. I'm Vince Colonies host of the Vince podcast. I'm bringing you the truth beneath the headlines of all of the nation's top stories. In-depth interviews. We feature newsmaking interviews with the top guests on the whole planet. And I'll ask the questions you only dream of other interviewers asking. And a front row seat to the most important conversations of the day. It's a show with an obsessive focus on what's good for America. You are going to love Vince. The Vince Show. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.