49ers Electrical Substation Conspiracy Theory feat. Arif Hasan (Premium E322)

jake still talking about uncrustables between his thighs

Kept skipping ahead to get to the conspiracy bit

Has anyone mentioned Gmelch's "baseball magic"? Not to be the academic here, but he uses malinkowski's work on superstition to hypothesize that probaseball players turn to superstition to mitigate feeling a lack of control over the outcomes of their game. In short all humans rely on magic to relieve the anxiety of uncertain outcomes. It seems to fit here!

the 49ers keep getting injured because i, specifically, cursed them with my brain bc fuck bay area teams. sorry :/

My first comment as a subscriber because I had to move the total comments to 89.

Please don't do football. This episode is boring af, I couldn't finish

The Chiefs have a substation ~1500 ft. from their training field. The high voltage wires go right over their parking lot and have for decades

I hear joe Rogan, i fast forward

It always catches me off guard when I realize travis and I went to the same community college

the alkaline water (and bottled water in general) scam drives me crazy. you can look on the back its literally just water with baking soda in it. a coworker of mine was like “i mean i just like it, and then i saw if you’re balanced it prevents cancer so like why not?” because its not proven and all bottled water is a scam to privatize a public service and health scams are to scapegoat the blame of getting sick onto us, like “why do u need health insurance, you should have been taking care of your body”

im 31, and i didn’t have parents who were super into music, so i didnt get into it until i was in middle school, but a lot of the first stuff i heard was in 7th grade playing the guitar hero games. i had never heard any of those bands until guitar hero, like i remember listening to heart shaped box and it sounded sooo dark. i would buy all the songs in my ipod and listen to them.

Some idle comments from a biophysicist: 1) EMF can stand for electromotive force, which essentially means the voltage generated by a battery. This has nothing to do with anything. 2) Gauss rhymes with mouse, not moss, so the guy has probably never heard a physicist (or electrician) speak. 3) The claim from the AI generated article that federal safety regulations only apply to heat is actually totally true - powerful radio antennas pump out so much energy they can burn workers from the inside (this has nothing to do with radiation burns from x-rays). 4) Cells are sort of like mini faraday cages, and electric fields can't normally penetrate the cell membrane in the first place. 5) Despite that, some cells actually are known to have special electric field detectors (e.g. the protein galvanin, discovered last year). There's some evidence that this helps e.g. immune cells travel to wounds in order to help with healing. So, you can look forwards to hearing about that in the future from other quantum biology cranks!!

Obligatory go hawks, fuck the 49ers

After listening to this episode all I wanna know is where were these conspiracies 30 years ago when the Bengals were practicing in an active wasteland? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJuz8OzOge0

This is way too much American Handegg chat for me.

I have no interest in sports let alone American so-called football, but I really enjoyed this episode.

I have and will never use an m dash

You have angered the substation and it's lashing out. 49er Keion White shot in the ankle. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/49ers-keion-white-21343888.php

Eagles mention at 1:28:22 go birds baby

really good guest on this one, i don't usually find football interesting but he was genuinely engaging.

Great episode. Love the difference in conspiracy creation and follow-up between pro and college fans. You’d never get this in college because in college: 1. Always blame your rival, 2. if that doesn’t work, doxx the coaches home address you blame for the issue (in this case the S&C coach and/or groundskeeper), 3. if that gets you nowhere FOIA the school and make things much worse than they already are.

I’m learning so much practical info about sports injuries in this episode.

Being from Cincinnati, I lack pity for the 49ers.

I was in peak running form in my late twenties when suddenly I developed horrible tendinitis. My PT told me by body just wasn’t able to handle how much I was running. Basically, I’m just like the 49ers

GTA San Andreas introduced whole generation of core millennials such as my self to “It Was a Good Day” by Ice Cube and “A Horse with no Name” of course

Best ep in a long time! Loved the guest, topics, vibe.

I'm gonna be "that guy" for a second. Arif got the voltages wrong. The transformers in substations generally step voltage down from transmission (60+ kV) to distribution primary voltage (600V-59 kV). The exact voltage depends on the power utility and the connection. The step down to 120/240V for your home happens at a distribution transformer within a couple hundred feet of your house. Otherwise all the explanations were very good. Good episode guys. Kloveyoubye.

This was fun to listen to, first time hearing it.

49’ers fan here. This one hurt, no pun intended. But as much as I want an excuse, a substation is not hurting our players and if you believe it is you need your fucking head examined.

Great episode. Joe Rogan is an expert in NOTHING. What does LLM stand for?

Might be in the minority here, but I would love more sports conspiracy episodes.

Man if you put my interests into a Petri dish, it would grow this episode: nfl, physics, 2k, Ender Wiggin etc

They're blaming the injuries on EMF!? Unbelievable!

Great episode. Though I'll point out: EMF stands for both ElectroMotive Force and ElectroMagnetic Fields. They're *very* interconnected concepts. Electromagnetic fields can create electromotive force. This is how induction motors operate: fields induce magnetism which transforms the electrical energy into physical force.

Goose gang

Compromise position: the halftime show can be woke BUT it has to show female nipple. Woke nipple!

The alkaline water thing annoys the fuck out of me because there's just enough actual science in it to sound plausible but if you know anything about avid base balance in the body it's clearly nonsense. That and people who give IVs of baking soda which we do in medicine but only under very specific circumstances like severe acidosis.

Crazy going from last episode to this

Arif talked about the freak non-contact injury Dre Greenlaw suffered while running off the field during the Super Bowl two years ago. Funny story about that game. I was there (long-time 49er fan), and the siblings, cousins, and I had a family text chain going during the game. When it went to overtime, I said something like, “At least I’m getting my money’s worth!” Jake, who everybody knows isn’t a sports fan and wasn’t watching the game, misinterpreted my text, and thought it meant that the 49ers had won. He texted the chain a congrats to his NorCal cousins on our team winning. Clearly jinxed the results. So if any QAA listeners are Chiefs fans, you can thank Jake Rockatansky for your title. 😊

Go birds

Great episode! Kyle Shanahan is the Tom Thibodeau of football, incredible regular season coach but he's incapable of managing his team for playoff success throughout the season. And fuck bill simmons 👍

This one had some issues. How did the sports guy repeatedly say “1994 was over 20 years ago” and not correct pronunciation of Kyle “Yuzzick”? But yeah I can’t believe they had Abby Martin on the other week…

It's wild that there have been multiple guests that have appeared on Defector's The Distraction podcast and QAA. I can't wait until the Rohan Nadkarni QAA episode.

Travis reminding me of Ladainian Tomlinson, didn’t expect that today

I still have a sega genesis with a working mutant league hockey cartridge. What an era- if you lacked the skills to actually play hockey, you could just kill off the other team’s players until they had to forfeit. Mighty Weenies forever.

Cupping works very well. I didn't do the heated cup method which probably does little to nothing. During physical therapy for my leg after a car wreck I was given cupping treatment with a set that uses an airpump to create that vacuum. You have to pull a LOT of your flesh up into that cup for the method to work, the slight pulling from a heated cup just cant possibly pull that much up. It bruised the shit outta my leg where the cups went and was incredibly uncomfortable. But you know what? This was 3 months into physical therapy and I had hit a wall, my therapist used this and my muscle groups basically reset themselves and I finally saw some progress in mobility and pain. Tldr: there are legit cupping treatments with proven results, the heated cup definition is lacking

Also like WHILE exercise IS very good and healthy for you, it's not that healthy to be a professional athlete. It takes a toll on your body to be THAT active. Your joints, your tendons, your bones. Even your heart sometimes. And that's not even taking into consideration that football is a contact sport. Pushing your body to its absolute limit is generally not great for it. Like with everything there IS very much such a thing as too much exercise.

Jake you need to look into the conspiracy about Portland Trail Blazers big men getting hurt because of the water up there

Go Hawks!!!

Arif! Heck yeah.

Didn't Jake get COVID at a Bad Bunny concert?

Football 👎 hockey 👍

A snakeboard fucking lmao

I was the Lawful Neutral Cleric who got kicked out by my Dungeon Master.

Awesome episode!

Fuck the Niners. Go Pack Go.

How do I love this pod so much that I'm listening to an episode about a football team. I actually generally repel any information about football because I actively don't even want to know anything about it.

EMF stands for Ecstacy Mother Fuckers

I put the sub in substation

Unbelievable oh!

It’s actually pretty fair for him to mix up “electromagnetic field” and “electromotive force.” The latter is essentially a voltage and usually discussed in the context of electronic circuits. Plus, the term “emf” is most frequently used to reference the force, not the field. In fact, I go so far as to say that I’ve never heard EM fields referred to as “emf”

SEAHAWKS

uncrustable slander!

Something tells me Joe Montana and Jerry Rice wouldn’t be bitching about EMF rays. Why? Because they are actual winners.

Assassins creed sea shanty soundtracks 🙌🙌🙌

This is the second time today I heard Arif. Got done, listening listening to Heed the call with him

Just a reminder that the Patriots are evil and came from the Black Lodge.

EMF!! After living through the last few years enduring Trump etc...yeah...I'll believe anything.

No Liv Agar. Sad.

Wow, what a pull