Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 462 ｜ Flat Earth & Missing Socks： Conspiracy Theory Thursday ｜ Guest： Ruth Edmonds

00:00:00.000 hey guys welcome to relatable happy thursday we have almost made it to the end of the week i told

00:00:15.980 you guys that i wanted to do a fun episode today we've been talking about a lot of heavy stuff

00:00:21.880 obviously very important stuff this week and we do every week because there's so much going on

00:00:26.540 but i was talking to the relatable team about i don't know just the need to laugh and to not always

00:00:33.440 be thinking about politics even though i really really want to shake people out of complacency

00:00:38.380 and apathy and get people to pay attention the fact of the matter is is that we can't always be

00:00:43.000 focusing on serious and scary and existential stuff all of the time because it just weighs our brain

00:00:49.760 down i think it can induce anxiety i think it can also make us feel falsely that we have to be

00:00:57.420 omniscient we have to know everything all the time we have to be omnipresent we have to be everywhere

00:01:01.720 we have to be omnipotent we have to be able to control everything and we can't and so bearing

00:01:05.780 the weight the weight of the world on our shoulders by constantly consuming the news um it can just be

00:01:12.420 exhausting now i always try to sprinkle in some like humor lightheartedness on this episode or on

00:01:17.580 this podcast but today we're not going to talk about politics for the most part for the most part

00:01:23.400 now i do have an interview first at the first part of this episode with ruth edmunds she's a 0.99

00:01:28.920 congressional candidate in ohio but that is not we're not going to get heavy into politics i promise you

00:01:35.240 you want to listen to this woman's interview she is so inspiring you are going to listen to the short

00:01:42.840 interview it's about a little over 10 minutes um and you are going to leave feeling fired up from

00:01:49.440 the interview and then we're going to get into some fun stuff i think there's so many things i want to

00:01:53.680 talk about guys like i want to talk about some conspiracy theories i asked you guys to send me

00:01:57.780 some conspiracy theories that you secretly have but there's also some like pop culture things that

00:02:01.920 i wanted to talk about honestly as i'm speaking right now i don't know exactly what i'm going to say

00:02:07.620 but it's going to be fun it's going to be fun i promise you that so first let us talk to ruth

00:02:12.700 edmunds so without further ado here she is

00:02:15.400 miss edmunds thank you so much for joining us you are a congressional candidate in the republican

00:02:25.240 primary in this special election going on in ohio can you tell us just who you are where you come from

00:02:32.940 why you're running great well thank you ali for the invitation to be on today and yes i am ruth

00:02:40.720 edmunds and i am running for um the member of the u.s house of representatives 15th congressional

00:02:47.840 district here in ohio i'm a patriot i love this country and i was born and raised in the inner city

00:02:55.220 of baltimore maryland by my grandmother who only had a fourth grade education and yet ali she taught me

00:03:02.100 principles and values that it made me who i am today principles and values like hard work

00:03:08.140 perseverance having faith in god not allowing barriers to be excuses and to take advantage of

00:03:16.320 opportunities um you know my grandmother would say things like never forget from when she came

00:03:22.480 she would say things like you may be better off one day but you will never be better then

00:03:27.460 and to just show you how much she understood education being a gateway out of poverty if i

00:03:35.200 didn't feel too good on a school day she would say you go on to school anyway and if you're that sick

00:03:41.520 the teacher will send you home and so that's that's been you know that's the kind of upbringing that i

00:03:47.940 have and what i've come to know and to understand is that it has been the same across the country

00:03:54.420 across races you know um having that that kind of rootedness in your upbringing is how we get

00:04:01.900 really great americans yes and have you always been um a republican like from the time that you kind

00:04:09.220 of started getting involved in politics or um paying attention to politics until now or was there

00:04:15.260 any kind of change or realization when you realized you identified as a republican that is such a great

00:04:20.980 question so when i grew up in my household we didn't really talk about republicans or democrats we

00:04:27.960 just loved people and so um that's just who i was well when i graduated from college my first job

00:04:35.660 um out of college i worked at a local television station and this local station invited the naacp

00:04:43.500 to partner with them to bring a controversial movie um to air and it was uh shaka zulu as a matter

00:04:50.900 of fact and so the vice president of the columbus naacp at the time asked me one day when he was

00:04:58.280 meeting with the general manager young lady what do you do when you're not at work and i said well i go

00:05:04.220 home because i had just recently graduated from college and he said the naacp needs leaders like

00:05:10.280 you and so what i also didn't know at the time was that that particular branch of the of the naacp was

00:05:18.400 a republican-led branch and so what i i began to watch um the leadership and how they engaged with

00:05:27.960 um local leaders and the respect that they had with the mayor and the county commissioners and

00:05:34.100 the governor at the time and state representatives and it was more about the plan and not about the man

00:05:40.400 it was about equity and you know it was about um equal access to equal opportunity but it was also

00:05:47.140 about faith family and and you know um being being responsible and accountable that's where i realized

00:05:55.140 that my my values and my beliefs really aligned with the um republican party and so since the late 80s

00:06:03.620 i've been a registered republican because of the republican platform of faith family freedom religious

00:06:12.020 liberty and um you know so that's that's how long i've been a registered republican and why did you

00:06:19.760 decide to run now we're obviously in a very tenuous moment there are a lot of issues that people are

00:06:25.920 really concerned about especially your fellow republicans were worried about those issues that you just

00:06:30.520 listed um that uh things like religious liberty and free speech and even the second amendment

00:06:35.860 are in a precarious position right now um why did you decide that you were going to run to try to

00:06:41.320 protect those things again thank you ali it's because i am a patriot i love this country and i know that it

00:06:49.560 is not inherently racist i know that caucasians are not villains and that brown-skinned people are not

00:06:57.020 victims and i'm in a place right now where my daughters are you know they're college graduates 1.00

00:07:02.580 they're on their own my husband and i are empty nesters i've worked for a member of congress before

00:07:08.500 i've worked for the governor of ohio before i've worked for other elected office holders and i was

00:07:15.340 just recently before i resigned to run for office i worked for a christian public policy organization

00:07:22.720 so i understand how we move the needle in our government i understand how leadership government

00:07:30.060 leadership influences culture and so i i hate what's happening in our culture how we are being

00:07:37.580 pitted against each other along the race lines so i'm qualified you know i say i am called to serve

00:07:44.880 and i am built to lead and so the opportunity to run in this district was made open when our

00:07:52.240 previous member of congress stepped down and i knew that this was my season i can say things that

00:07:59.460 others can't i can say things that are necessary to be said and i intend to say those things when i'm in

00:08:05.840 congress to nancy pelosi and to aoc to say stop this runaway train of critical race theory it is not

00:08:13.660 good for our country it is not good for our children it is not good for the future of america

00:08:19.100 yeah and on that point i saw a recent um gallup poll that it measured um you know race relations

00:08:28.140 and what white americans say and black americans say about the state of race relations in our country

00:08:34.340 going from 2000 to 2020 and what we see um is that the vast majority of black americans white americans

00:08:42.720 back in 2000 thought that race relations were good and that remained pretty steady i'm looking

00:08:49.040 until about 2013 after that it plummeted now we are almost at an all-time low for both white americans

00:08:58.160 and black americans that say that uh race relations are good the vast majority now say race relations in

00:09:05.820 this country are bad now if critical race theory and barack obama and intersectionality were supposed

00:09:12.260 to help black and white people get along why is it do you think that we are now in a worse place than

00:09:19.800 we have been at least in 20 years if not more than that that's a really great question ali if you say

00:09:27.900 something um you know enough times it will stick and that's exactly what um the liberal media has been

00:09:36.380 doing over the last 15 years they have been stoking the flames of disunity among the races they have been

00:09:44.620 running to every fire every police um you know um transaction they have they've really been just fanning the

00:09:53.740 flames of disunity and then we've had liberal leaders um you know who also have been flanning the

00:10:00.920 flanning the flames of disunity it's been truly a vocal minority but they have had the bully pulpit

00:10:07.620 in order to advance this um this false narrative when i go around in um in in the community around central

00:10:17.640 ohio and the greater ohio and where i travel i still go back home to baltimore maryland you know the

00:10:23.740 reality is we are more together than we are apart and so when i get to congress that is what i hope to

00:10:32.980 do is to use my voice and my vote to be a positive bully pulpit to say that we are more united than we

00:10:41.580 are divided we truly are and we didn't you know america's not um we've never been perfect but we are

00:10:48.760 still the greatest country in the world there are people risking their lives to get here and so to

00:10:54.960 say that the very fabric the very fiber of the fabric of our nation is is racist it's just wrong

00:11:01.880 it's on it's just un-american and i'm going to use the bully pulpit to be a voice to say that we are

00:11:09.600 united as as a nation and that we are going to continue to profess that we are one nation under god

00:11:17.080 indivisible with liberty and justice for all that's what we need and there are more of us out there um

00:11:24.120 than just me and we're gonna work and and many of us are running for office so that we can be

00:11:30.220 the vocal majority um speaking out and speaking up against um the false narrative but for the true

00:11:38.440 narrative yeah no more silent majority now is not the time for people to be complacent

00:11:43.900 or to be quiet um and they need people like you to be on the front lines and lead the way

00:11:51.000 unfortunately there are a lot of people of you know the republican party that um they get elected

00:11:58.600 they say that they're going to fight and they just kind of become part of the establishment

00:12:03.000 part of the swamp and they don't get anything done um can you make can you make a promise to the people

00:12:10.160 that are always concerned about that when it comes to politicians that you're going to get there and

00:12:14.640 you're not going to be one of those people that you know just gets drunk on power and then forgets

00:12:19.960 the promise you've made to your constituents well you know i really appreciate this opportunity to

00:12:25.140 make this promise very publicly again um you know i'm running not because i am looking for a stepping

00:12:33.380 stone my life has been um wonderful i say to people i've probably lived more years than i have left

00:12:40.700 you know i'm i'm 57 years old i've had a wonderful career i have worked for a member of congress i'm not

00:12:47.540 starstruck by washington i'm not starstruck by by hanging out you know with with you know popular you

00:12:54.840 know famous people no what's most important my grandmother again told me never forget from whence you

00:13:01.940 came i am very grounded in my faith i have a biblical worldview and i fear god more than i fear man and

00:13:09.860 so the american people can always count on the fact that i'm going to seek first the kingdom of god and

00:13:16.160 his righteousness and all other things will be added unto me that is where my wisdom is going to come

00:13:23.200 from that is where my values are grounded in i say that today i will say that until the day i give my

00:13:30.320 last breath and i am proud to be an american i am proud to be a woman of god and the american people

00:13:38.240 can count on that i will not shift i will not change i have no other agenda other than to see our country

00:13:46.580 be um strong again to see the american people um proud to be americans again we should be people

00:13:56.260 across the world revere the stars and stripes and we ought to do the very same and that is my only

00:14:04.060 agenda for going to washington oh that's a whole sermon right there that was great i think that's a

00:14:09.800 perfect place to end can you tell people um how they can support you obviously we want ohioans that

00:14:15.640 are in your district to vote for you um but also there are people listening from all over the country

00:14:19.880 how can they help you in these next few days great um please go to my website ruth edmunds.org

00:14:28.040 www.ruthedmunds.org there you will find um a link to how you can um register to you know sign up to

00:14:37.380 volunteer if you're anywhere in the near um central ohio area there's a link to where you can give

00:14:43.300 we certainly need more um you know contributions we are a front runner right now in this campaign and

00:14:49.760 we need to sustain that and your contribution of any amount will help us continue to um you know

00:14:57.000 grow our momentum and then on that website you'll see my bio my full bio you'll get to know more about

00:15:03.940 me and then you will also see those um interviews that i have given the tucker carlson interview as

00:15:10.900 well as my commercial and soon they'll also see this particular video yes ma'am well thank you so much

00:15:18.440 um god bless you we don't believe in luck on this podcast so i won't say good luck but god bless you

00:15:24.900 and be with you and we will um look forward to seeing the results of this and i'm i'm very excited

00:15:30.500 for you um and the platform you've created so thank you so much for taking the time to come on

00:15:35.900 you're very welcome ali thank you and i received the blessings thank you so much

00:15:41.500 okay here's what i decided i want to talk about first and we might talk about pop culture stuff

00:15:57.860 too or we might just stay on this conspiracy theory beat for just a few minutes because a lot of you

00:16:02.180 guys on instagram send me some crazy stuff that you believe in and i might if i have time

00:16:08.020 i i might share a conspiracy theory that i have so just go ahead get out your tinfoil hats put them

00:16:16.180 on we're here you know we this is a safe space for people sharing the conspiracy theories that they

00:16:22.620 have that we have absolutely no proof for we know that we know that but we just have a good hunch

00:16:28.960 they're true now i want to dispel this myth though that a lot of you have not you don't have

00:16:35.720 necessarily this myth or like you don't believe in this myth yourself or conspiracy theory yourself

00:16:40.000 if you're listening to my audience but you've heard a lot of people that believe this and it's

00:16:44.640 crazy to me like this apparently is blowing up in like christian online communities guys the earth

00:16:50.660 isn't flat i just i just want to tell you that now this if you're like oh my gosh what are you

00:16:55.760 talking about of course the earth isn't flat i thought that this was just you know random people on

00:16:59.980 youtube talking about this no this is growing like there are people who really believe this it's

00:17:05.700 crazy and i guess you guys didn't see the documentary i think it was like a 2018 documentary

00:17:10.800 um that disproved this like there were flat earthers who tried to prove this through an experiment

00:17:16.620 that the earth is flat and it failed and it showed that the earth is a sphere and yet people believe

00:17:23.980 this and now look i'm not knocking you because there are some bible verses um that christians point to

00:17:31.440 to show okay if the bible is inerrant if it is without flaw then um you know then the earth must

00:17:39.420 be flat because of these verses now let me read you some of those verses that people point to to try to

00:17:46.200 say that the earth is flat so one of them is psalm 75 3 which says that when the earth totters and all

00:17:53.840 its inhabitants it is i who keep steady its pillars and so the idea of pillars holding up

00:18:01.100 holding up the earth i guess the earth being flat on top of those pillars and then there's

00:18:07.400 deuteronomy 13 7 that some people point to some of the gods of the peoples who are around you whether

00:18:13.060 near you or far from you from the one end of the earth to the other this is esv by the way this is the

00:18:19.860 version that i use and this particular resource also uses job 28 24 for he looks to the ends of

00:18:26.320 the earth and sees everything under the heavens psalm 48 10 as your name oh god so your praise

00:18:31.880 reaches the ends of the earth so people are saying okay if there are ends of the earth then it must be

00:18:37.480 a giant um you know square basically or rectangle but it's flat um proverbs 34 who has ascended to

00:18:46.520 heaven and come down who has gathered the wind in its fists who has wrapped up the waters in a garment

00:18:51.520 who has established all the ends of the earth what is his name and what is his son's name surely you

00:18:57.460 know so again the ends of the earth they're also you know there are different um you know passages

00:19:03.940 about firmament and things like that that people uh that people point to but really the bible doesn't

00:19:10.400 speak to the exact shape of the earth now the bible doesn't exactly say that the earth is a sphere

00:19:15.800 either but there are a lot of scientific realities that we know that the bible doesn't specifically

00:19:20.560 speak to and we also know that like any piece of literature um and yes of course we believe that

00:19:26.860 the whole counsel of the word of god is inspired by the holy spirit and it is inerrant but there are

00:19:32.180 different literary devices used there's hyperbole there is irony um and so understanding there's allegory

00:19:40.180 there's metaphors and so understanding the literary devices that are used in each chapter by looking at

00:19:47.720 the original text looking at the original language looking at the historical context and the context

00:19:52.480 within scripture really helps us to see that the bible saying that um something reaches the end of the

00:19:59.880 earth doesn't necessarily mean that there is a literal end of the earth in in the sense that it is

00:20:06.320 flat it just means that it goes on forever um you know like the passage that says he casts our sins as

00:20:14.320 far as the east is from the west now the east and the that it does make sense scientifically but that is

00:20:21.160 also just a way of saying that's a picture of of trying to describe something that is actually true

00:20:28.180 and i think that is also true about a passage that says something like the ends of the earth it's

00:20:34.500 trying to make a point about how expansive something is how um immeasurable something is um there's

00:20:43.200 another passage revelation 7 1 that says i saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth

00:20:49.880 holding back the four winds of the earth um but again this is an idiom this refers to distant locations

00:20:58.380 different parts of the earth and it's really important that we recognize that um and there

00:21:05.320 are a bunch of other passages that people look to that again are metaphorical and not literal if you

00:21:11.480 actually look at um at the at the context and so um people who are saying that the earth is flat

00:21:21.080 because the bible says so i think are discounting those particular literary devices that are important

00:21:25.760 to note but they're also discounting science and so like i said there was this documentary that i

00:21:31.160 watched probably back in 2018 um called behind the curve that was on netflix and uh the end of

00:21:39.720 the documentary shows the flat earthers that this documentary centers on actually uh disproving

00:21:46.280 their uh their own theory so this was reported on by newsweek back when the documentary came out

00:21:54.800 one of the more jaw-dropping segments of the documentary comes when bob nodal one of the

00:22:00.500 hosts of of uh one of the hosts on a popular flat earth youtube channel walks viewers through an

00:22:06.560 experiment involving a laser gyroscope as the earth rotates the gyroscope appears to lean off axis

00:22:11.880 staying in its original position as the earth curvature changes in relation what we found is uh when we

00:22:18.860 turned on that gyroscope we found that we were picking up a drift a 15 degree per hour drift

00:22:24.660 nodal says acknowledging that the gyroscope's behavior confirmed to exactly what you'd expect

00:22:30.360 from a gyroscope on a rotating globe noble said now obviously we were taken aback by that wow that's

00:22:36.980 kind of a problem noble says nodal says uh we obviously were not willing to accept that and so

00:22:42.560 we started looking for ways to disprove it was actually register registering the motion of the earth so

00:22:47.340 this guy decided that he was going to try to prove that the earth was flat by using this gyroscope and

00:22:54.360 what actually happened was that it proved that the earth is a globe this goes on to say uh despite

00:23:01.280 further experimental refinements nodal's gyroscope consistently behaves as if the earth is round yet

00:23:06.240 nodal's beliefs seem unchanged when discussing the experiment at a flat earth meetup in denver we don't

00:23:12.220 want to blow this you know when you've got twenty thousand dollars in this freaking gyro if we dumped it 0.95

00:23:17.620 if we dumped what we found right now it would be bad it would be bad what i just told you was 0.94

00:23:23.660 confidential nodal says to another flat earther in attendance and so this is obviously not about

00:23:29.560 the truth for this person he found a fact that disproved his theory and he is still going um he is

00:23:36.760 still going with the theory now that sounds like a lot of progressives that i know in a variety of

00:23:42.120 different ways but the article goes on to talk about a different experiment that was um that was

00:23:48.800 conducted by other flat earthers and here's what happened with that this was at the end of the

00:23:53.240 documentary and i just remember laughing my head off um but it's nodal's youtube co-host duran campanella

00:23:59.480 who provides the most dramatic example of a flat earther experiment disproving movement dogma deep down

00:24:05.080 inside i think everybody knows it's flat campanella says while speaking at the 2017 flat earth international

00:24:10.580 conference in raleigh north carolina near the ending of behind the curve campanella devises an experiment

00:24:16.000 involving three posts of the same height and a high powered laser the idea is to set up three

00:24:20.660 measuring posts over a nearly four mile length of equal elevation once the laser is activated at the

00:24:27.060 first post its height can be measured at the other two if the laser is at eight feet on the first post

00:24:34.140 then five feet at the second then it indicates the measuring posts are set upon the earth's curvature

00:24:39.900 in his first attempt campanella's laser lights spread out too much over the distance making an

00:24:44.760 accurate measure impossible but at the end of the documentary campanella comes up with a similar

00:24:49.640 experiment this time involving a light instead of a laser so i will put up the picture if you're

00:24:55.200 watching um if you're if you're watching this on youtube and like how you'll be able to see how

00:25:02.240 they're kind of doing this experiment with two holes cut into styrofoam sheets at the same height

00:25:08.140 campanella hopes to demonstrate that a light shown through the first hole will appear on a camera

00:25:13.420 behind the second hole indicating that a light set at the same height as the holes traveled straight

00:25:19.820 across the surface of the flat earth but if the light needs to be raised to a different height than

00:25:24.600 the holes it would indicate a curvature invalidating flat earth and so they do this they try to shine

00:25:31.300 the light through both holes to reach it to the camera on the other side if it was flat it would reach

00:25:35.320 across and then um so what happens he says uh with the compensation made for the curvature of the

00:25:43.900 earth the light immediately appears okay wait so campanella watches when the light is activated at

00:25:48.880 the same height as the holes but the light cannot be seen on the camera screen with the compensate so

00:25:55.860 then they compensate and they have to change the height of the light in order to try to meet uh the

00:26:02.060 so with the compensation made for the curvature of the earth the light immediately appears on the

00:26:07.060 camera interesting campanella says that's interesting the documentary ends um and so what happened was

00:26:16.140 unfortunately in both of those experiments what they found was not just that okay it's a little off

00:26:20.820 but we're not really sure but actually that the conclusions that the experiment came to was that

00:26:25.320 there is a curvature of the earth i highly recommend you going and watching this documentary if you

00:26:30.540 were someone who has been caught up um in this kind of thing i mean i know it can be fun to kind of go

00:26:35.540 down these rabbit holes this is just not one that's worth going down and there's there's just no reason

00:26:41.440 to waste your time on this kind of thing when there are so many real things happening that need our

00:26:45.860 attention now let me read you some theories that people have now not all of these are conspiracy

00:26:50.960 theories because i asked you guys to send me theories that you really feel are true but you have no proof

00:26:56.220 for because we all have that like we all have oh i think that this is the thing that's really

00:26:59.640 happening but we don't know and so they're not necessarily conspiracy theories all of these some

00:27:04.560 of these are um but some of them are theories so let me read you some of the ones that people

00:27:08.700 sent me so you know that you're not alone and of course this is anonymous so one person said that

00:27:13.420 they don't think we landed on the moon that's a popular one i've heard that before um people

00:27:20.100 said jeffrey epstein didn't kill himself there's a lot of people who think that that he's still alive i saw

00:27:25.800 someone say amelia earhart um actually lived undercover for a very long time there are of

00:27:30.160 course people who don't think that elvis presley um died i guess he would be dead now but that you

00:27:35.840 know he lived for a long time after his alleged death there are a lot of people in here um

00:27:42.120 uh there are a lot of people in here who think that uh jfk was killed by the cia or that um lee harvey

00:27:51.100 oswald didn't do it uh by himself uh someone says biden is just a prop being used by whoever

00:27:57.280 got him into power now that is can't be very far off base because i don't want to be rude but

00:28:04.720 when you see this guy speak and he cannot string a sentence together that unfortunately and i mean

00:28:12.200 that sincerely he has declined so precipitously even over just the past few months in his seeming

00:28:18.660 cognitive abilities it's not far-fetched at all to think that there are people telling him what to

00:28:24.500 do and that he's not actually calling the shots which is on it's sad because it's bad for the

00:28:29.600 country and even though i didn't vote for him and i don't support the democratic party or any of

00:28:34.040 any of their agenda i do want the president to be well and to do well because i care about this

00:28:40.400 country and unfortunately when you have someone who is just not able to hold his own and you've got

00:28:45.260 people behind the scenes pulling on the puppet strings that's not good that's not good for the

00:28:49.240 country so i don't say that with any glee i don't even think that's a conspiracy theory in the slightest

00:28:53.900 um other people well i can't say this one or i'll probably get uh taken off youtube we've got some

00:29:01.060 we've got some uh covid theories going on here um someone said adam and eve were in fact two individual

00:29:08.100 and real people yes of course i mean i believe that obviously some people don't believe that maybe

00:29:12.800 they think they're a metaphor but um i believe that um let's see oh some people we got some 9 11

00:29:20.200 truthers in here um we've got some oh we've got some oj simpson theorists in here which again i don't

00:29:31.260 think it's too far-fetched someone's at denver airport what's that i don't know what that is should

00:29:36.640 i look into that someone said mermaids that's surprising um maybe loch ness monster too i

00:29:42.780 think i've actually been to the lake in scotland where they believe the loch ness monster is now i

00:29:46.920 studied that in college because i studied abroad in edinburgh and um they're really you know the

00:29:53.200 evidence i have to say is shaky the evidence is shaky on the loch ness monster um someone said

00:30:00.380 covid pandemic uh was used for political gains that's not a theory at all that is absolutely

00:30:06.080 true um there's a shadow government orchestrating more than we know again i don't think it's that's

00:30:14.600 that far-fetched depending on what you mean princess diana death was planned by the royal family that's

00:30:20.560 really scary i hope that that's not true but i know a lot of people have that theory um missing socks

00:30:27.380 turn into extra tupperware lids that's just a fact that's that's not even that's not even contentious

00:30:32.840 at all missing socks that you like literally okay you got your laundry and you're like okay i'm gonna

00:30:39.020 wash my socks here are my two socks put them in the laundry basket together like why would you ever

00:30:42.860 just put one laundry or one sock in the laundry basket you put it in there you put it in the

00:30:48.220 laundry room you put it in the washer you put it in the dryer and then when it gets to the folding

00:30:52.460 stage there's just not there you're just like okay i just have one sock and then you open up

00:30:56.560 the tupperware drawer and there are like three extra three extra tupperware lids and not enough

00:31:02.840 bottoms of the tupperware and so i think it's a completely legitimate theory that the socks actually

00:31:07.960 turn into the extra tupperware lids i also think that their um big shampoo and conditioner have

00:31:16.640 conspired to make sure that we never run out of shampoo and conditioner at the same time and somehow

00:31:22.160 that causes us to waste money that's another conspiracy that i have um oh wait someone said

00:31:28.980 something that i remember thinking that's absolutely true oh there are sharks at the deep end of the pool

00:31:33.180 facts that's just true you don't swim to the deep end of the pool especially if you have a dark 0.99

00:31:38.360 bottom pool in the middle and not especially not if you're swimming like in the evening or at night

00:31:43.900 that's when the pool crocodiles and sharks come out everyone knows that's true someone said

00:31:48.960 berenstein bears that's all you said what do you mean do you think they're real do you think they're

00:31:55.320 the ones that are actually writing and publishing the books uh what's the berenstein what's the

00:31:59.580 berenstein bears conspiracy theory there's a lot of things that you guys know about conspiracy

00:32:05.560 theory internet that apparently i don't know um i have i have a pretty contentious theory that i just

00:32:13.700 told my team behind the scenes that i don't know if i'm ready for yet because i think i'm going to

00:32:17.660 use some data to try to to try to back it up oh someone said that your theory is that simone biles

00:32:24.420 always intended to pull out of her um of the event let me here here's how i'm going to end let me give

00:32:32.880 you my thoughts on that because a lot of people have been asking about that thank you for sending

00:32:36.860 me your conspiracy theories i hope also that i dispelled some concerns that you had about the earth

00:32:42.360 being flat that one day you're just going to walk too far and you're going to fall off the earth

00:32:45.800 i can promise you that that's not going to happen um okay simone biles i don't know about that theory

00:32:52.480 about whether or not she intended to do it um simone biles is obviously a champion so i i'm just i'm a big

00:32:59.420 fan of deductive reasoning um and so i like to think if this is true then could this be true

00:33:06.160 and what i know about her what we know about her and what everyone agreed on about her until you know

00:33:13.920 five minutes ago when this whole thing happened was that she was a tough positive um competitive 0.99

00:33:22.500 dedicated committed disciplined athlete who is a champion um that's what we all knew about her and

00:33:30.180 she's proven that it's not just a gut feeling that we all have she's proven in her career and i'm

00:33:35.680 guessing throughout her life that that is the kind of character that she has she doesn't seem she

00:33:41.700 hasn't proved in any way over the years that she's not a team player that she's a quitter that she is 0.97

00:33:47.720 some weak narcissist who only cares about herself and so if she says that she is going to pull out of a 1.00

00:33:56.360 particular event and allow her replacement to compete then i have to think okay there must be

00:34:04.180 something bigger going on than just a i don't feel like it because of the character that she seems to 0.91

00:34:11.300 have proven so far i mean the girl is a champion they call her the goat for a reason now am i surprised

00:34:19.900 by the explanation that she gave her explanation was basically no i'm not hurt but you know sometimes

00:34:25.520 it's stressful and we're not having fun and we should be having fun and i'm not in a great head

00:34:30.660 space that to me just wasn't the best explanation because that does if you didn't know anything else

00:34:36.540 about her that does sound very flippant and that does sound very superficial that i'm just saying as

00:34:43.160 an explanation sounds weak to me um but knowing who she is as an athlete and what she's demonstrated

00:34:51.420 herself to be so far i have to think that maybe there's something else behind it and that there

00:34:57.060 is there's a good reason for apparently her replacement also did really well and so that is

00:35:04.340 great more power to team usa i was surprised that she did this i was surprised at the um just

00:35:13.040 how unsubstantial her reasoning for it was but do i believe in raking her over the coals i mean the

00:35:18.920 vast majority of us have never been in the same kind of position that she has and we haven't you

00:35:23.860 know used as much discipline in our lives as she has so am i going to drag her through the mud and 0.97

00:35:30.360 pretend like she is some awful um you know flaky person no i just don't think it's fair to do that at

00:35:36.840 the same time do i think that her pulling out for the sake of mental health is something that i should

00:35:43.640 be like praising her for or that hailing her as a hero for no not necessarily to be honest like this

00:35:50.860 whole thing just doesn't really affect me i don't really have a hot take on it i think especially in

00:35:55.480 this industry but maybe just for everyone in this world like we feel pressured to have a hot take about

00:36:00.500 something i just don't really have a hot take about it um i i would be curious to see what her

00:36:06.840 teammates thought the people who know her best for to make that kind of last minute decision i'd be 0.77

00:36:12.220 interested to hear from them did they think that it was some kind of selfish move or did they

00:36:16.100 completely understand and they understand you know where she's coming from and all that it would

00:36:20.180 be more interesting to hear from those people than it would be to hear from random people who don't

00:36:24.040 know anything about the situation myself included but since you guys asked me about that and since you

00:36:29.140 guys had a theory apparently that that was the plan all along which i don't really know what the why

00:36:34.740 would be behind that i just wanted to give my thoughts on it all right that's all we got that's

00:36:39.700 all we got for today that's how we're gonna close out the week hope you guys enjoyed that we're gonna

00:36:44.580 be kind of like experimenting i think on thursdays with like different fun segments um maybe like

00:36:49.440 some relationship advice maybe some historical tidbits maybe some more conspiracy theories um just

00:36:55.600 maybe some pop culture stuff and so if you've got any ideas for just like fun segments also maybe

00:37:00.380 some fun would you rather as you guys know i love a fun would you rather um lots of different ideas

00:37:05.140 that we would like to do on thursdays just to kind of you know lighten things up at the end of the week

00:37:09.300 and make you guys laugh because laughing is very important um laughter is good medicine that's

00:37:14.720 biblical and on that note i will see you guys on monday

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 29, 2021

Ep 462 ｜ Flat Earth & Missing Socks： Conspiracy Theory Thursday ｜ Guest： Ruth Edmonds

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