Celebrities: Who Are They Now? (Premium E283)

If you hadn't said that that blog post about the Avril Lavigne theory was from 2011, I would have bet money it was AI slop.

Missing the classic XKCD conspiracy that Tommy Wiseau is actually DB Cooper. It explains everything.

Jake Tintin is Belgian how dare you!

RIP JonBenet ❤️ (I’m totally pilled on the JBR murder case and I’m convinced that her family are the killers.)

Can you please tell julian we love him…but not in a creepy way

I hope julian is okay. He is the best.

Liv's favorite is mine too! Castro's Son 🇨🇦

i am sorry about the matteo salvini 🙈 he is not… great

OMG! You should definitely look into Matteo Salvini, he's totally QAA material. In fact, thanks to listening to QAA I was able to see a preview of some of his conspiratory talking points, from anti-mask rhetoric to anti-vax and pro_Russia propaganda. From his Padan Communist origin in the parliament of imaginary entity Padania, young Matteo rose in the ranks of Nortehrn League (Now Lega Salvini Presidente) by riding anti-italian southeners, anti-immigrants, anti-drug, anti-EU arguments through the use of social networks via "the Beast", to finally co-lead the so called green&yellow government which he then collapsed after drinking too much cool aid at Papeete's beach resort. You should totally ask Ann Kelly to take a look at him, he's probably worth a couple episodes, maybe even more

I feel Jake is talking to me directly again in this episode. He's telling me to do something to "the phonies" -is anyone else hearing this?

Roxy doesn’t sing “He Had it Coming.” So if it’s from the movie version of Chicago it’s Catherine Zeta Jones, not Renée Zellweger.

Wellness check on Julian? Did CPAC set him back?

Matteo Salvini is: pro Trump, anti immigration, pro Russia and the boomer idol of Italy. And an overall anti LGBTQ+ ghoul. I’m Italian and I live in Italy so it’s not a great thing to look like him! 😢

Hot take: all celebrities going forward should be cats.

Fun fact I heard the french podcast called "relire tintin" about Tintin and they really speak just about tintin https://relire-tintin.lepodcast.fr/ ALSO MATEO SALVINI IS A FUCKING ITALIAN FASCIST FROM LA LIGUA !!!!!!!!!!!

Poor Zach Efron...

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Liv Agar

Jake, have you ever seen the conspiracy theory that Rivers is actually Kurt Cobain? I always thought it was silly but there are pictures where they look similar. Along with the Blue Album/Pinkerton demos that have songs where his voice sounds a lot like Kurt when he would scream. I believe it was the "Only in Dreams" kitchen tape demo that made me feel "well damn, that is actually super close". I can't remember all the details as I first read about it in like 2011 or something

The onion tv? Haha

Loved it. Feeling a warm glow in my heart.

Cupcake Dolls! 90s toy reference secured

"GOATed at the genetic level" is just the plot of Dune

I'm sure when Jake called Tintin French he meant Belgian

"maybe Weezer fans are too normal" is *not* what I was expecting to hear from Liv this morning

Is that last clip from Alien News Network?

Not sure if I misinterpreted but the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory definitely dates back longer than 2011. When she said in an interview that it started around her 2nd album release (which was 2004) she’s probably about right. I probably came across it accidentally (as an Avril Lavigne fan lol) on YouTube around 2006/2007. The article that came out in 2011 was probably a writer compiling their own research of the conspiracy community around it.

Liv Agar, tho

I think megan fox got tired of michael bay running the camera directly up her ass

Jake: fun fact about Nicolas Cage is that he’s a well-known Chaote (Chaos Magician) he always goes to different Thelema / Ceremonial Magick / Chaos Magick meetups & conventions. Another fun fact about Megan Fox - the rumour was that her and MGK were drinking eachothers blood for love / sex magick. I’ve been told she confirmed this verbally in an interview but I didn’t check

Can’t get past Jake, who “corrected” his statement, at about 5:00 to the end, of “he and I” to “him and I”, when it clearly should have been “him and ME.” 🤦‍♂️. Do better. Grammar counts.

I had never heard the Keanu conspiracy before, it’s doubly funny when you know he co-created a comic book called BRZRKR about an immortal warrior (that looks like Keanu) that has been fighting battles since the dawn of man. Now I wonder if this is Keanu’s wink toward the conspiracy.

The Tanya (White Lotus) song seems to be a mashup of her and “Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing)” by Fred Again and The Blessed Madonna. A super cringy COVID era house anthem.

what was this incredible demented clip at the end?

The cupcake girl reference is impressive.

7 mins in, when you're talking about the point of these seemingly banal "Person X is actually Person Y" theories.. The purpose is to show commonly-accepted reality as false, even in trivial ways, because that allows you to wipe the whole slate clean and spin whatever fanfiction makes you the heroes of a re-enchanted world. This is why flat earth, a seemingly apolitical "theory", is so popular with h-caust deniers etc. One would think they have nothing to do with each other, but the purpose of F.E. is to undermine the knowability of anything. To make being widely-accepted a cause for doubt rather than belief. But they don't do it because they care about F.E. Dan Olson's "In search of a flat earth" video lays this out really well, which is probably why that "theory" is my go-to example, but I had been thinking about this even before it came out, and it's surprising how often people who talk a lot about conspiracy theories from an analytical standpoint don't seem to appreciate this.

Tintin is Belgian, but I guess were all dirty, dirty Europeans to you.

Photos of him and me*

Of course that’s what a clone would say

Did you know that there is another "theory" ( or unfunny bit? ) out there where Katy Perry is really disappearance victim Madeleine McCann, who, mind you, was born in 2003

the Avril double replacement theory is a plot line from Castle... whatever that says about me. it's just rehashing of the same stories over and over

A great conspiracy from the sports world to look into is that Jimmy Butler is Michael Jordans kid.

Liv would make a great us congresswoman. I could see her beating the life out of MTG and the one from Colorado who gets turned on by beetlejuice.

The idf even did the ghibli crap. Idf genocide style ghibli was awesome

The Katy Perry one is particularly funny to me because her face is so unbelievably forgettable. To this day, I could not identify her without some sort of context clue like an outfit or something

I've been listening to this podcast since 2019 and just realized I have no idea what Jake looks like. In my head cannon he's a softer version of the Travis View profile pic from Twitter.

Speaking of Hollywood gossip, check out Piven’s blind items for a riiiiiide

JULIAN🙏🏼

Julian Fields

Liv Agar

Kyle and Jackie O are the scum of Australian radio. Not surprising Jackie O almost believed it.

Aww Jake, thank you reminding me of Twittels, RIP to a King

I can't wait until you guys do a deep dive into the false Dmitries. Where, not once, twice, but three times men tried to claim he was the son of the dead tsar. One of them briefly became the tsar.

And fr Keanu is amazingly lovely. Saw him on the street once and obnoxiously approached him to ask if I could snap his photo and he wrapped his arm over my shoulder and said- unironically - “selfie time!” He is beaming in our selfie together and I am in obvious shock. He is legit a nice guy. Also, I was homeless at the time so a bit rough looking and that didn’t seem to phase him at all. A gem of a man.

That auto-q!! 😂 what is that from??

I remember those cupcake dolls!! The gimmick with them also was that they were scented!! Mmnn fake plastic strawberry!!!

Dispatch, OAR - chefs kiss,my friend - nailed the timeline (HS 01, BA 05)

Liv Agar

Rivers Cuomo is Andrew WK

WHERE'S JULIAN

If you know you know. Please make it stop

whoa, Travis piping in is like a jump scare

I love this shit. It's like a subclinical presentation of Kapgras syndrome, it's fascinating

I am so sad that Miyazaki, a lifelong leftist, had to live to see this

liv agar

I was only aware of the JonBenét story because there was a post hardcore band named after her. Imagining the incredible baking that would be done if they were also aware of the band

Jake Rockatansky

Liv Agar

Jake Rockatansky

Travis View

Liv Agar

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