Rambling 114: 2020 Apocalypse Review pt 1
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What the hell happened in 2020? Well we do a recap of the events and where we went wrong!
The duo decides to dust off ancient books of the year 2020 and discover what the elders of that era were doing in their younger days and how they were dealing with the events. Going month by month and event by event, our two heroes revisit the highlights of this time before the flying cars and immortality were a thing.
(This episode contains a transcript to make it accessible to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences #DeafPodcast)
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Topics Discussed
- Bushfires
- World War III
- The Who
- Umbrella Corp.
- Trump is the Best
- Toilet Paper Crisis
- Global Lockdown
- Aliens Confirmed
- Murder Hornets
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Jack: I'm Brandon.
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Jack: I had more.
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Jack: Well, cut your head off.
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Jack: Bye.
Christina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.
Jack: Going live in 5, 4.
Christina: What does live mean?
Jack: Huh? Welcome to the Just Conversation podcast, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I am your host, Jack.
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Christina: Also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner to share opinions and ideas on topics we discuss. Discuss.
Jack: Yes. So be sure to ask somebody nicely to listen to the show, please.
Christina: Really?
Jack: Yeah.
Jack: Totally.
Christina: For this episode.
Jack: For this episode.
Christina: What if they already did everything you told them to do in the last episode and now they're like, what?
Jack: Well, they.
Christina: How was that work?
Jack: No, they already got the work done. If they already listened and did it once and they got somebody to listen to the show.
Christina: But they assume like this episode would start the same though, and they would have prepared the same way.
Jack: Do you think they're just going out and doing this every episode?
Christina: Yes. After you said you gotta do it or else your memories erase. Actually, your memories always erase.
Jack: That's the craziest part.
Christina: I'm not really sure what their punishment was. Or. You kill their child.
Jack: Yeah. Their children are in danger and they gotta pay tax.
Christina: Yeah. In this episode, they did it for nothing.
Jack: No, this is a new, fresh year. What are you talking about?
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: This is different. We changed individuals. The only instance something bad would happen is if they don't ask somebody nicely, in which case their children are still in danger. And even if they're listening, it's outside of our power, they're gonna lose their memory. So all of that is sort of out of our control and they're still gonna get taxed.
Christina: Where does the memory loss. Where does that come from?
Jack: There's subliminal messaging in every episode.
Christina: Oh, okay, so the episodes. Doing it to them.
Jack: Yeah, yeah. We have our engineers encoded into the background.
Christina: Why do we do that?
Jack: To erase their memories.
Christina: Why?
Jack: Because we're like that.
Christina: We're like that. Okay?
Jack: That's who we are as people.
Christina: Yes. That's how we are.
Jack: Yeah.
Christina: Anyways, Happy New Year.
Jack: Happy New Year.
Christina: It's not too late to say that. Like, how long after New Year is it? Like, stop saying Happy New Year.
Jack: I don't know.
Christina: Is it like the first time you see a person through the year? That time is the time you say it and then after that, no more.
Jack: It's a new year. Yeah, I guess.
Christina: But you just say it once and that's it.
Jack: Yeah, I don't.
Christina: You don't have to greet each other until the end of January or something.
Jack: Look, you say Happy new year until December 31st, and then there's a new year.
Christina: No, that's too much. At a point, you gotta stop. I think just say one time.
Jack: Says who? Who? Where's.
Christina: You just say one time.
Jack: Where's it written down? Point, point at the rule.
Christina: Right there. Right where I'm pointing.
Jack: That's not the rule.
Christina: Yes, it is.
Jack: I can see what you're saying. It's not that.
Christina: It's that.
Jack: That's a bottle.
Christina: It's the rule. You can't prove it's a bottle.
Jack: You can't prove it's the rule. Based on that same logic.
Christina: Well, the listeners will have to just believe me.
Jack: Fair enough.
Christina: I'm pointing out the rules anyways.
Jack: So, yeah, the. It's 2021. We're in the future. We have flying cars, flying skateboards. Our sneakers fly. So I don't know. I would need any of those other two options. There's tubes that teleport us immediately where we need to be.
Christina: Who uses those tubes?
Jack: We've been living on Mars for the past. How many days has it been since New Year's? For like three days. We got colonies set up.
Christina: We have for the tubes. I don't get it.
Jack: I don't get it.
Christina: And also, if you're going through the tubes, when you go to the end, are you upside down?
Jack: That's an interesting question. Right?
Christina: Yeah. How does that work?
Jack: I mean, I guess it would have to be like a tube that then loops up and then drops you down.
Christina: Oh, okay. Just. I never got that. But okay.
Jack: I don't understand either, because they get sucked in straight up. But Then they land straight up, which is like somewhere something sketchy happened.
Christina: Yes. I don't know. They were murdered. That's a clone.
Jack: Could be. So 2020.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: We're on the moon. We're on Mars. We have a Dyson sphere around the sun.
Christina: Wait, you're talking about 2020.
Jack: 2021.
Christina: Oh, 2021. Okay.
Jack: 2010 just happened and we proved there's no God. What other achievements have happened this year? Things that have totally opposite from 2020, where the first f****** four days we dropped a bomb on somebody. But outside the point.
Christina: That was in December. In January.
Jack: January, man. That was January 4th or 3rd.
Christina: What?
Jack: Something like that.
Christina: Oh, I forgot about that.
Jack: Yeah, yeah. Trump was like, I ain't starting this year on no easy route. He was the. The foreshadowing about the year ago. And so totally counter to that. We've cured cancer, all of them. Cured diabetes, we cured obesity.
Christina: All of this happened in the first.
Jack: Week, a couple of days. Days or some s***. Yeah. So all of this has happened since then. We've found the cure to death. We no longer die.
Christina: No longer die.
Jack: The breakthrough for telepathy happened yesterday. I believe so. Yeah. The year's going really good. Way better. Yes, way better.
Christina: What was your favorite part of last year, though? It was a really great year. I don't know what you're talking about.
Jack: It wasn't a bad year. I didn't say it was a bad year.
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: I said it's just opposite. Last year it was more about tearing things down. This year is about building things up.
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: Science last year was like flat earth and conspiracy theories. This year, science, nothing but science.
Christina: This year was about conspiracy theories. It was a very conspiracy theory heavy year.
Jack: It was. It was. Anyways, I figured we could catch up on all the things that happened since January.
Christina: Oh, since January. January.
Jack: So that's what this episode is. This is a recap of the amazing. This is a 2020 recap.
Christina: If you forgot anything that happened last year or you just. There's so much things that happened, you probably don't know every single thing that happened.
Jack: Look, she might be trying to be nice about it, but in reality, if you're blackout drunk or a guy who was just strung out straight through 2020, because, f***, this year we're gonna tell you all the things you missed because you were in some sort of black cloud of nothingness.
Christina: Yes. We're here to help you out.
Jack: Yeah. Exactly how it's gonna happen. So. So let us begin by going way to the beginning. First There was nothing.
Christina: No, no. Well, what I remember. I would like to start before January, actually, because.
Jack: Before the first day.
Christina: Yes, before the first day. Because in December, something was happening in China and we didn't know what it was. And now we know, of course, but that started in December of 2019, which we were just like, there's something going on. What is it? Who knows? Mystery.
Jack: Yeah.
Christina: And then it became the.
Jack: Some people got sick here, some people got sick over there. Oh, people getting really sick. It's spreading like wildfire.
Christina: It spread. And then in January, I guess now we can go to January.
Jack: Yes, in January, global cases of this mysterious virus have gone up to 9,000, 906.
Christina: And it was all in China. No, I don't know.
Jack: Maybe. I don't know. It was probably some here and there, but it was predominantly in China. So, yeah, 9,906 cases. So let's start. So we've got viruses somewhere out in the world, but elsewhere in the world, away from the viruses. Australia is on fire.
Christina: Yes. It's having its worst fire ever. Ever, ever.
Jack: The continent's on fire.
Christina: The continent? Yes. It's so crazy that New Zealand could see the smoke from the fire.
Jack: Yeah. The amount of area taken up is about the size of South Korea. No bullshit.
Christina: Of the fires.
Jack: The fire.
Christina: Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
Jack: The amount of fire covers an area the size of South Korea.
Christina: Whoa. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's huge. That is huge. Yeah.
Jack: Yeah. Roughly 25 million acres burned.
Christina: No, it's not.
Jack: 25 million acres on fire. And at least 33 people died. Exciting way to start this f****** year. Yeah, fantastic. Including at least three firefighters were dead there, too.
Christina: Yes. And the smoke of the fire was a problem. Besides the actual fire, the smoke, it was just really bad. The pollution of the air. Pollution.
Jack: Yeah. It's f***** up the planet to great new heights, not just locally, but like the planet.
Christina: The planet.
Jack: The planet. Yeah. Maybe around 3,000 homes have been lost. And the smoke was definitely like the big centerpiece there because it got seen everywhere and it's still lingering up there.
Christina: Still lingering.
Jack: Yeah. That s*** is in the sky. Then it got contagious later because of this. Australia recorded the worst pollution it's ever.
Christina: Seen, 23 times higher than what's considered hazardous. So it was really dangerous. It's still really dangerous. Are they still there? They're not there anymore. Right. We got a new Australia. Yes. We destroyed that land and built a new land over it.
Jack: No, they were still areas to live in. Like, the whole place isn't Gone.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: Australia outsizes South Korea, which is why it's weird that it's an island. It's a continent island.
Christina: It's a continent island.
Jack: It's a continent country island.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Yeah. Australia is a unique place with unique.
Christina: Animals that we gotta save. We gotta go over there and save the animals. There's so many unique animals in Australia.
Jack: There's too many unique animals on the planet in general.
Christina: Australia. They only come from Australia. Once they're gone, they're gone.
Jack: So.
Christina: But they're so unique.
Jack: So.
Christina: Knuckles. We'll lose Knuckles. You want him to die?
Jack: I don't care. Look, here's the thing. The universe is making choices. Who are we to stop it? To stop it.
Christina: What about that weird platypus thing?
Jack: F*** that platypus thing. There's like, a furry duck mammal thing.
Christina: It's a mammal that thinks it's a bird. Yes. But it's so awesome. I don't want to lose those animals.
Jack: Yeah. I don't. I don't know. It's like, there's too many animals. What? Val, who cares? We save these animals, but then we ignore those. Or we have to kill those to save the environment anyways. Like, what the. How are we trading this off? We decide we got to save the Australian animals because. Trees on fire. But then over here, we're like, we gotta set these trees on fire because it's gonna kill the animals.
Christina: We're setting the trees on fire?
Jack: Well, you set the trees on fire to prevent bigger fires from happening in the future by controlling where the fire can happen and thus saving the E ecosystem.
Christina: But we can't do that. We're bad at it. Is that what we have?
Jack: Point being, we save these animals, but then we destroy those trees. Okay, maybe the trees are just making choices.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Or not even the trees. Just.
Christina: Nature is saying goodbye to Australia. Or at least a big chunk of it.
Jack: Yeah. It doesn't. The universe makes choices we're not allowed to question. Universal choices. Australia declares a state of disaster after the death of over 500 million animals.
Christina: That's so crazy.
Jack: That's f****** nuts.
Christina: That's crazy. Exactly. Exactly.
Jack: Yeah. It's pretty excessive. The amount of death, like, incalculable. And we're not even considering the amount of insects that lived in there.
Christina: Oh, my gosh. If we count the insects. Whoa. That's too much. That's a lot of death.
Jack: No, no, it's excessive. 25,000 koalas are dead. The koalas are dying.
Christina: The koala does. Yeah. 30% of their home is wiped out thanks to the fire. What are we gonna do with them? The ones that they can't go back home because their home is gone?
Jack: We're gonna eat them.
Christina: We keep them as pets.
Jack: Yeah.
Christina: No, I think that's a bad idea. Take them to the zoos. No.
Jack: Smoothing along in January, the lovely President of the United States had a drone strike on a foreign military leader. That was an exciting introduction to the year. Not only were we rolling over from this Australia fire of the previous year, but we're like, this year didn't start on fire enough. Let's get some fireworks going.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: And we drop the bomb that the f****** drone strike kills an Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani. That's when we drop the. So we dropped the drone on Soleimani, man.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: Yeah. S*** got out of hand. There was definitely the potential for a war with the US both on their territories and on our territories, which is weird. Immediately at the beginning of the year, the potential for war just opened up.
Christina: And that reminds me, wasn't in December the Korean thing happening? Was that. Not this December? I don't remember. Oh, man. That Korea. We weren't sure if they were gonna bomb us because he made us some weird message about, like, you were gonna give you guys a gift or something. And we were thinking he was gonna, like, some horrible thing was going to happen.
Jack: Oh, yeah. Like a nuke or something.
Christina: Yeah. I'm not sure if that was this December, though. It was eight. December, for sure.
Jack: Yeah. Yeah. It might have been this past. Not 2020, but like 2019. December.
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: Because I wasn't for this year.
Christina: It wasn't. Okay.
Jack: No, that was for last year, I believe.
Christina: All right, Sorry.
Jack: Whatever. F******.
Christina: That was another.
Jack: It was 29.
Christina: We're going to be in war.
Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That happened usually. Then around January 9th, the WHO announces this mysterious coronavirus pneumon in Wuhan, China.
Christina: The beginning.
Jack: So there were already signs of something weird happening. But now the who got involved. The band. The who is now involved. S*** is serious.
Christina: That's how we know.
Jack: That's how we know. Once the. Once the who stops making music and gets involved, are they still alive?
Christina: That's an old band, isn't it?
Jack: It's very old.
Christina: Okay. So they came back from the grave.
Jack: Now, in the time that this s*** happens and it gets announced, people start to f****** panic and we start so dumb. Oh, my God, we're idiots. Because as the panic begins, we start pulling out everybody who we have. All Americans, rather come back Home.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: And it's like, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.
Christina: Let them stay there for two weeks.
Jack: Yeah, abandon them. Let them stay there. You're pulling them out of a zone that has a plague running around. Yeah, maybe, Maybe, just maybe, just let them there. You just leave them there?
Christina: Yeah. Didn't we do that with the people on boats, on the cruise ships? We just, like. Okay, we thought about it mad late.
Jack: We thought about it mad late. That solution came mad late. Oh, when it's like, you brought the plague over, why didn't you just f****** cut it off?
Christina: I don't know. What was the point?
Jack: That's really how it spread. Yes, that's really how it spread. But here's what's funny. A bunch of people who did not get tested for having it or whatever were like, man, I must have had it back then. I heard that so many times. Like, people who thought they had it earlier than what happened or whatever.
Christina: Yeah. And you believe them?
Jack: No.
Christina: Okay.
Jack: I think it's possible, I guess, but what are the odds there weren't, like, a lot of people with it. You didn't just happen to have it, but it's these people who are, like, hypochondriacs, essentially.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: F****** crazy, but. Yeah. I don't know why the f*** we were pulling people out. Just f****** close that b**** down and leave them in there.
Christina: Leave them there. Look, that would have been a great solution.
Jack: Sucks. But they're the guinea pigs at this point. You're gonna find out how bad it is.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Are they gonna die?
Christina: Especially when a lot of countries don't even trust China and their news and stuff. Why not just keep your people there and just, you know, check on them and make sure that everything's.
Jack: Or. When they brought them up, why'd you bring them into the country and let them go? You should have, like, rented out a boat and put them on there. Yeah, right at the beginning. Keep them quarantined. You don't want them over there. We'll trap them over here, but. Trap them somewhere?
Christina: Yes.
Jack: That's f****** nuts.
Christina: Crazy.
Jack: So, yeah, that happens for the next couple of weeks.
Christina: Mm.
Jack: And then on the 21st, obviously, the CDC confirms the first US coronavirus cases. I mean, like, no s***. Yeah, maybe. Maybe you don't let people leave China when China's overrun by a deadly plague.
Christina: No one knew that it was so deadly. Or they did. I don't know. Whatever.
Jack: Weren't the hospitals over there right at the start?
Christina: Yeah. Yeah.
Jack: Then Also on the 21st, Chinese scientist confirms COVID 19 human transmission.
Christina: Now we know about the monkey virus. Or was it a bat virus? Bat virus?
Jack: Bat soup virus. That's where that conspiracy starts. Because people got to be sketchy and make s*** up. And it came from a restaurant where bat soup was happening. And I don't know where the f*** that rumor got started.
Christina: You.
Jack: I definitely started that rumor.
Christina: Yes. And what was that other rumor? It came from that Resident Evil place.
Jack: Umbrellas, which I also started. It came from the. I started both of those.
Christina: Umbrella Corporation.
Jack: Yes. Well, that one might be true. It's not called the Umbrella Corporation, but it gets started in some lab or something. Yeah, that's the weird part. Like, there's. They're thinking it leaped through animals, but it was. Something was being tested on that kind of caused it. And not like we're gonna. I mean, we don't know the motivations behind them. They could have been like, we're gonna f****** destroy the world. But, like, it's unlikely. But, like, I'm not saying it didn't happen. I just don't know that it did.
Christina: There's many possibilities.
Jack: Many possibilities. And two days later, Wuhan, now under quarantine. This is where Hong Kong closed its borders to the rest of China and s*** everywhere. Wasn't allowing travel. Wuhan was on total lockdown. Everybody was trapped in their houses. I remember they were spraying down their roads and cleaning them in hazmat suits or sidewalks or buildings, everything.
Christina: And people weren't allowed out. And they need a passport. Not. What's it called? Pass.
Jack: Yeah, they needed a pass to go outside.
Christina: Yeah, they needed passes to go outside. What?
Jack: F****** nuts.
Christina: Mm.
Jack: All that s*** was cray cray.
Christina: That was cray cray. Then in January 31st, WHO issues global health emergency. So it's not a pandemic yet.
Jack: No, no. That happens much later down the line, but with the worldwide death toll becomes.
Christina: A health emergency because it's spreading fast.
Jack: And also that's around the same time that Trump got impeached for making a perfect phone call.
Christina: Yes. That was his tweet. I got. Well, I just got impeached for making a perfect phone call. Trump has the best words.
Jack: He has the best words. Let's be real. He has an army of followers.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: And not to say that the left or right, because they're also a bunch of morons, but the bull. The right is blind. Like, both sides are pretty heavily brainwashed, except the left requires an army of people working tactically together to brainwash them. Trump seems to do what they do. Single handedly to both sides, I guess. Yeah, sort of.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: He portrays whatever image he wants and gets what he wants.
Christina: Yep.
Jack: So Trump effectively manipulates all the idiots on both sides.
Christina: And I'm sure that phone call was perfect. A perfect phone call. Only he could have a perfect phone call.
Jack: I swear that phone call was a tactical masterpiece in order to throw people off of something crazier he was doing.
Christina: Ooh, it was.
Jack: He's too slick. He's too slick. He is one of the smartest individuals to have just blessed this planet and he really is. The best part is he's not Obama, who needs to show off his intellect and prove to people I'm slicker than you are. He's okay with. Sure, it's okay. If you think I'm an idiot, I have the upper hand there. Because if you think I'm an idiot, I can always catch you off guard.
Christina: And he always does.
Jack: And he always does.
Christina: I don't know how.
Jack: The right ignores blatant facts because he says so. And he's tricked them many, many times. The left will ignore blatant facts just because he says so. They. They get sucked into vortexes of his thoughts. He does have the perfect words. He destroys the psyche of dumb people.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: He said idiots will vote for me and idiots voted for him. He said, these morons on the left are gonna freak the f*** out when I do this. And they did f****** freak out. They're all idiots. Both sides are so stupid. They don't realize that Trump isn't what he says he is. He's what he secretly is and lies to you about an image that you're gonna follow. He knows who's gonna do what.
Christina: It works for him.
Jack: It works for him very well. And so he has an army of followers and haters, all based on his chosen perception.
Christina: And that was the end of January.
Jack: Yeah, beautiful. End of January, it was the we're still in light time, light light mode. Very simple, easy.
Christina: I don't know. Those are pretty crazy situations.
Jack: But no, that was tame s*** compared.
Christina: To what comes next.
Jack: That was all tame s***. Yeah. Cuz next comes February. So we finished almost at 10,000 cases on January. Come February, by the end of February, we have about 85,000 cases.
Christina: Crazy jump.
Jack: That's a crazy jump. To contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government sealed off Wuhan, which happened at the beginning, at the end of January and banned public transportation and private cars from the streets and access to the streets. Businesses shut down. Hospitals were the only place essentially open and groceries were Essentially being delivered to people's doorsteps because they were now allowed outside of their house. Rationing.
Christina: They were really trapped.
Jack: They were locked the f*** down.
Christina: What?
Jack: Yep.
Christina: That's the beginning now. Are they all dead? Is it nothing there now?
Jack: No, there's probably fine now.
Christina: Okay.
Jack: Or they're still going through it. Who knows? Like, the world hasn't solved the problem yet, so who the h*** knows? You're starting this year, still dealing with that. But by February 2, all global air travel has been cut, which is great.
Christina: I mean, I guess it's bad for people who need to travel, but yes, great for Earth. Earth was like, I need this.
Jack: Yeah, Earth was definitely. That's the craziest part. I remember somewhere in, like March, after the lockdowns happened, that people were making those posts about just seeing animals coming out. It's like, Earth is healing itself or whatever.
Christina: Earth is healing itself. Oh, yes. I think that was a meme too.
Jack: Yeah, it was f****** everywhere.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: And then it got it all obviously, like mediums, like spun out of control and then dumb equal.
Christina: Exactly. Yeah. It's like two. What was it? Two scooters floating out of the water. Earth is healing itself. Yeah, I don't know.
Jack: Sounds about right. Yep. Yep. But basically February is a really slow month because it's very drowned in Covid. That's pretty much all the excitement.
Christina: Covid.
Jack: Covid. By February 3, the US declared public health emergency. So, okay, we caught up to s*** that's already been going on. We don't f****** do s*** on time, I guess.
Christina: Or watching Covid on the news 247 by now. Or I feel like more on Feb. March.
Jack: Yeah, more like March or whatever. I remember tracking.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: Every time we were here, we would always check to see what. What the progress was.
Christina: Yeah. But the rest of the people in the Illuminati office weren't really paying attention until March.
Jack: Yeah. Until we were all given the order of. Now it's serious, guys. Yeah, Time to work.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: But by the 10th, China's COVID 19 deaths had exceeded of SARS. What? The SARS crisis.
Christina: Do you remember how much death was in the sars?
Jack: No, but this is way more than that.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: And then on February 25th, the CDC says COVID 19 is heading towards pandemic.
Christina: Status and people flipped out. Not this part.
Jack: This is the.
Christina: This is not the part yet.
Jack: They were freaking out at the. Just the anticipation that it might be called the pandemic was like, oh my God. Like, bro, whatever's happening is already happening. They're Just changing the title of it.
Christina: But the change somehow made it feel more like, oh, my gosh. Like, these cases aren't oh, my gosh. But.
Jack: Well, we finish February, like I said, with 85,000 cases, and then it jumps. And then it jumps. So that by the end of March, we're at 800,000 global cases. Ten times over.
Christina: Yes. Oh, my gosh.
Jack: So where we're. It's definitely spreading pandemic style.
Christina: Mm. Man. But the numbers are just so crazy. It's just gonna get crazier.
Jack: The leaps are monumental.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: So March.
Christina: The first lockdown.
Jack: Yes. Yes, the first lockdowns. And ahead of the possibility of those lockdowns, the first thing that happened after people heard, oh, my God, it might become a pandemic is we have to stock up on supplies for when we're locked down. And everybody had the same idea. Fair enough. Stock up on what you have. Of course, there's greedy people who were gonna take more than they needed. There's always that bunch of people who are douchebags, essentially. I got more money. I'm buying way more. And, yeah, whatever you're douchebagging, you deserve to be in by the zombies that are coming or whatever's happening. And I'm pretty sure in New Jersey, at some point, there was, like, some other plague.
Christina: Why?
Jack: There was some other s*** killing people off, but the government was suppressing. I remember that s*** specifically. I remember reading about that. That the government was suppressing some f****** other plague that was happening. Right. In New Jersey.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: You remember that? We had this conversation about how some other sh. Like, plague was happening in Jersey.
Christina: Yeah, I remember talking about it, but I don't know, like, what happened with that?
Jack: This s*** got crazier, I guess, and it, like, over camera. Anyway, so when people were, you know, shopping, buying their things, some mass hysteria took over.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: And it led to people, instead of buying food, buying toilet paper. All of it.
Christina: All of it.
Jack: All of it, yes. Everywhere in the world. The world ran out of toilet paper.
Christina: Not really. Because they had so much.
Jack: Not really, because toilet paper are usually locally made, and toilet paper tends to be stocked in the warehouse real close by.
Christina: But they was gone.
Jack: And it was gone for, like, a week.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: Because they would. If you come at. If you come into the supermarket. This applies to most things in a supermarket. If you empty the thing out at night, the stock deliver people show up at night and restock so that by the morning, everything is already there.
Christina: Yeah. So the horse shortage is just for the night. Yeah.
Jack: Until the close by warehouse ran out. That doesn't mean they don't have some giant other warehouse somewhere with it. Which is why it took a week after the warehouse ran dry. Because people kept hoarding it. Because it happened in a domino effect way where somebody saw somebody buying too much toilet paper and they were like, oh, s***, this probably happening. Everyone let me buy toilet paper. And so they bought toilet paper. Then some other person sees the person who originated doing it. The person who saw them doing it panicked, and then they panic, and you follow this train of thought. And then before long, everybody only buying f****** toilet paper. The zombies. And that repeatedly led to the warehouses themselves running dry. But the local warehouse, not the distribution warehouse. So the local warehouse at the end of the week would get stocked f****** anyways. And people were like, oh, the shelves are empty. We gotta get as much as we can when we see it. Which is ridiculous.
Christina: Yes. And that lasted a while.
Jack: That lasted a while. Lasted a couple of weeks before people just started putting up signs. No, you are. You take one.
Christina: Yes. There was a lot of. You take one for. Because it started with toilet paper, but then it became other things like.
Jack: Yeah, hand sanitizer.
Christina: Yeah. Loves frozen food. I saw that.
Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christina: Also, if you want to know more about toilet paper, we did an episode about what, the many conspiracies of why toilet paper.
Jack: Oh, yeah.
Christina: Besides hysteria, there are other reasons.
Jack: Yeah, there's definitely way more going on there. So if you're interested on that, you could go check that out. But the shortages of toilet paper were so global, they hit all the major locations in the world, predominantly. So we're talking Hong Kong, Australia, United Kingdom, United States. Big, giant, f****** colossal places.
Christina: I'm happy it wasn't just United States. It would be embarrassing if we were the only country.
Jack: I think it started in Australia.
Christina: Really?
Jack: Yeah. I think we were the followers in this instance.
Christina: I don't know what's worse. No. I think it's a little better than if it was just us and we were the only ones.
Jack: But it feels like something very American.
Christina: Yes. Yes, it does.
Jack: It does. Feels like something only United States people know about. Anyways, on March 6, to change the tone. To change the tone of people, you know, a pandemic murdering people, because that's crazy. And people fighting each other like zombies over toilet paper and mass death happening. Will look in this other direction. At March 6, 21 passengers on a California cruise ship test positive.
Christina: I don't know how that's more positive, like, good news compared to the horrible news. You just Said you made it sound like they're positive.
Jack: 21 positive people. That's better than 21 negative people. Not really. Isn't it weird? Why don't we say negative, you're negative.
Christina: Because negative is negative. Or it feels like it's weird that.
Jack: Negative means positive and positive is negative.
Christina: I. Whatever.
Jack: You're infected, you're positive, which is a negative thing. Yes, you're negative, which is a positive thing. Yeah, that's weird.
Christina: That is weird. That's how it works.
Jack: Point being, 21 passengers in a California cruise ship test positive. Those people weren't gonna see home in a long time. They were gonna have a bad time. March 9 rolls by. Italy places 16 million people in quarantine.
Christina: They got a lot of people now.
Jack: We're getting into harsh territory, though. 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population. In a bid to stop the COVID What? Yeah. A day later, the quarantine expands to cover the entire country. That 25% means nothing because a hundred percent goes into lockdown.
Christina: Crazy. Wow, that's crazy.
Jack: 16 million people was a quarter. So we're talking 68, 68, 64. 64 million people in quarantine. Yep.
Christina: That's even more people. Yes. We're dealing with millions.
Jack: Whole country on lockdown.
Christina: Whole country. Yep.
Jack: That's crazy. Then we have March 11th. Finally, the people who bought all the toilet paper get what they were hoarding toilet paper for. The COVID virus is titled a pandemic.
Christina: Are you sure it wasn't. It was titled a pandemic, and then people started getting toilet paper. Do you remember the order?
Jack: Yeah, it was definitely before.
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: Yeah, it was definitely the anticipation. People were doing it ahead of lockdowns.
Christina: Oh, yeah. Okay. Yes. It was before lockdowns. I remember that.
Jack: Okay. Yeah, yeah. And then on the 13th, Trump declares COVID 19 a national emergency. Kind of late, buddy, but it's all right. On the same 13th, all travel from Europe stopped into the US no more. We don't want no more Europeans here.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: We're banning everybody's travel, essentially. And then California becomes the first state to issue a stay at home order, which failed.
Christina: Did it fail at the beginning?
Jack: It was fine at the beginning. It helped.
Christina: It did help.
Jack: Yes. It worked. It brought it way down and for a way long time. They were the first place to have a bunch of people. But there. A bunch was in the low, like the double digits.
Christina: Okay.
Jack: They had double. I remember following it. There was one here. There's two there. There's Three.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: It wasn't like overnight. There's thousands.
Christina: But it's like that now.
Jack: Yeah, it's like that now. They managed to fight it off at the beginning, then they opened up and s*** hit the fan. And we discover by the 31st that COVID 19 could be transmitted through the eyes.
Christina: I'm not sure what that means.
Jack: It means that, like, you can cry.
Christina: On someone and then they get Covid.
Jack: No, we're saying that it's no longer just you covering your mouth and your nose. If there is air particles that have the virus in it and that lands on your eye, you have now contracted the COVID Oh, yes.
Christina: Do glasses help at all?
Jack: No, they'll help from the front, I guess.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: But there's like quite a bit of opening. So I guess with glasses you have more protection than somebody without.
Christina: Yeah, like a 5% or some low.
Jack: Percentage, some added protection, but without like full gauze goggles blocking your face.
Christina: Why hasn't that become a popular thing?
Jack: I don't know. We could barely handle masks because this is America. So. Yeah, by now we have global lockdowns and hundreds of thousands of businesses go out of business and people go homeless. Schools close, airports close. Travel is globally banned. And around the same time, we have the stock market beginning to crash because nobody's driving. Oil prices drop, stock prices drop in the Dow Jones hits below low anything.
Christina: It'S ever hit in history.
Jack: In history.
Christina: Well, it's pretty crazy month.
Jack: Yeah.
Christina: S***'s starting to get real related, but it's pretty crazy.
Jack: Yes. The domino effect of COVID is crazy. The right at the beginning s*** was real.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: And people went into panic hard. A lot of people thought it was.
Christina: Like the end and somehow it's not.
Jack: It's never the end. We're f****** cockroaches.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Nothing's gonna f****** kill us. But we end March at 800,000 to enter April. So April 27, South Korea told CNN that despite speculation Kim Jong Un, who was expected to be dead because he was ill, was actually alive. So basically, conspiracy theories.
Christina: There's so much conspiracy theories about whether he was really alive or not, because they were saying he was, but no one's seen him.
Jack: Nobody saw him for a while because he was ill. They thought he might have. The one of the things. It was the possibility the virus made it into the country, which it still hadn't because they're so f****** locked down and cut off from the rest of the world.
Christina: Yeah, I can't imagine that. But even if they did, we would.
Jack: Never know yeah, but eventually it did made it in. It did make it in.
Christina: It didn't make it.
Jack: Yeah, it made it in one way or another. I don't remember how the f***. But that's not even it, because we also start getting into sketch territory when the Pentagon releases videos that they have taken into classified files of UFOs before. They. If you remember a couple of years ago, there was one 2017, this one 2019, and one in 2006 or something. All these videos that they kept collecting, saying we were gonna find out what they are. Those are just, you know, planes.
Christina: This is the time they say, we don't know.
Jack: Yeah. They release all three of them and they're like, we don't know what any of this is. None of our enemies, none of our allies have anything we're seeing here. We can't tell you what it is. Society, it's yours. You figure it out. Yes, but people are so panicked because the virus, that s*** just disappears. Like two days later, we forgot about it. Like aliens. Yeah. Yeah, but the virus is here now. Yeah, you should have showed us this, like, last year.
Christina: But we were showed this last year. Oh, but they didn't say anything, I guess. Does that make a difference?
Jack: Yeah, we saw videos, but nobody was like, it wasn't an official government message saying, this is some crazy s***, guys.
Christina: Yes. Oh, Trump's cures. He gives us some crazy cures that month. One of the cures was disinfectant. Like maybe we could put that in our bodies.
Jack: Oh, yeah, Yummy. Bleach.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Inject bleach right into your veins, bro. That's the solution.
Christina: And the other was using very powerful light.
Jack: Yeah, ultraviolet light. So the theory here is he is assuming that we're so advanced he has way hopes for us, that we can somehow capture photons, put enough of them together without them phasing through things for us to, I guess, theoretically inject the photons of light into our body or shine light through us to kill it, the virus. So, yeah, those are some of Trump's lovely cures. Cures.
Christina: I thought those were amazing.
Jack: So, April, another particularly tame month that took place. It was kind of like February, where March was the giant spike in chaos. February, pretty tame. January was kind of chaotic. It began strong and then kind of came down for February, went way the f*** up for March, and then we get to April and we're back to just normal year, minus the fact that the virus was spreading like f****** wildfire that whole time. But at this point, we were dealing with it for A month globally.
Christina: We're bored of it.
Jack: We're bored of it already. We're getting used to. We're like, whatever.
Christina: Mm.
Jack: And so some people get chill and start to do things they were doing before the lockdowns happen. And the virus started spreading in those little pockets where people were like, I don't give a f***. And the spread got so vicious, eventually we ended up at 3 million infections coming from the previous month's 800,000.
Christina: And what's the jump from 8,000? I mean, 800,000 to 3 million.
Jack: That's roughly, what, like, four times over?
Christina: It's. It's going up there.
Jack: It's. We're climbing some heights. We're climbing some heights. But then we enter May. And May is relatively boring through the month. It's casual boring. We're just bouncing off of. We've got crazy numbers happening, virus wise. But other than that, the month goes relatively fine. Very quiet. Everybody's scared because of the virus. We're just learning how to function with it. And then the other shoe drops. It was May 25 when a black, unarmed man was put on the ground. And with the four officers present, one of them, their knee on this man's neck, he is left to die without being able to breathe. While caught on video, the death of George Floyd, which seemed like just another black guy being killed by a white officer, another unarmed black man being killed by another white officer, abusing power. But there were a couple of things that made this situation different than the others.
Christina: What was that?
Jack: We had three cops, aside from the guy who was leaning on him, visible. They were all present, doing absolutely nothing, saying nothing, while a man is saying he's dying. Other times, you have cops on top of the person, handcuffing them, putting them. No, this guy wasn't even being handcuffed. He was just being held on the ground.
Christina: He was just being murdered.
Jack: He was just being murdered. There was nothing else happening. It was being recorded from several different angles, so it could not be disputed. And the view of the victim was clear. It wasn't hard to see. They could just zoom in on the phone. The shot was perfect. And you can see a man die slowly. Very, very slowly, unarmed, for no reason.
Christina: But that was the last straw for.
Jack: But that was the straw that broke the camel's f****** back, bro. Yes, it piled on for the last 200 years.
Christina: That was it.
Jack: And that was the one that was like, one too many. Come the very next day, May 26, Minneapolis is stormed by so many g****** protesters. People were coming from Other states to protest.
Christina: Wow.
Jack: Minneapolis became crazy. It became the largest protesting site ever. Streets were flooded, hundreds of Thousands of people. May 27th. Contagious. Not only are we dealing with a contagious virus that seems to have gone on break towards the end of f****** May for whatever reason, but nationwide police brutality protests. Cities all over the country began to protest because of the same s*** that keeps happening.
Christina: And then the police solved these problems.
Jack: Yes.
Christina: By assaulting protesters 100%.
Jack: The police solved their police brutality problem or attempted to do so with police brutality. You guys think we're being vicious. We're gonna beat you with sticks, shoot you with rubber bullets, hit you with tear gas, and push you forcefully out of where we deem our control territory.
Christina: They proved them.
Jack: They proved the protesters wrong. This is America. But that didn't go too well. That solution to peaceful protesting where we're gonna basically assault you guys for exercising your right to protest, which is an amendment right. So they're basically having their amendments violated by having people, police officers, assault them. Come the 28th, those protests evolved into riots. Minneapolis is now classified a hostile territory because there is a literal war happening between protesters, of which some picked up arms and police officers. Now we have a country that's teetering on the brink of collapse.
Christina: Mm. This is just the last four days of May.
Jack: Yeah. This is. We're just still f****** ending this month now following this. Because we couldn't just end with the country on the verge of collapse over race war and the death. The increasing death based on a virus that's sweeping the country. But. But right around this time, Japan decided we're gonna release the Murder Hornets Attack America.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Which are fully trained bees the size of cars that fly in and eat all the other bees to steal their nests and replace Americans.
Christina: Replace where we get our honey. That's the end of honey. That's the end of our flowers. That's the end of a lot.
Jack: Maybe they make honey.
Christina: Are you sure about that? I thought that's why we don't want them.
Jack: I have no idea. I have no idea why we don't want them. Maybe it's because they're f****** the size of cards or some s***.
Christina: I thought it was because they could kill you in one sting.
Jack: Oh, yeah, probably.
Christina: And also they're killing our bees, which we need to pollinate. Yes. I think those are the two big problems with murder hornets.
Jack: Sure. It's not that they're just robot bees programmed like Black Mirror by the Japanese to come and replace American.
Christina: Why are they killing Japanese people?
Jack: Because they're controlled by Japanese people. The crooked Japanese robots. There's hackers out there too. You think Japan is free of hackers?
Christina: Mm.
Jack: Anyways, yeah. So scientists launch a full scale hunt for the.
Christina: The hornets.
Jack: The hornets.
Christina: The hornets.
Jack: The hornets.
Christina: Yes. The horn nests.
Jack: Hello, Hornets nests. Then. Yeah, they were worried that they would definitely destroy all the bees and we'd be f***** forever. Anyways, to finish with a little bit of a cherry. The apocalypse is clearly looming. Society is on collapse. Civil war is on the edge. Plagues surrounding everything. For whatever reason, storms are f****** drowning half the world. And down by India and Nepal, a consistent storm, rain and showers and crap that keeps happening over there starts to flood their river, endangering thousands in both India and Nepal. Because this is America.
Christina: That's not America.
Jack: Fair enough. And we end that month having reached almost 6 million cases of the COVID virus. So it doubled, doubled, but it seems to be slowing down. We went. We multiplied by nine first, then by 10, then by four.
Christina: Oh, there's one more thing from Main though.
Jack: What?
Christina: On May 28th, US COVID 19 deaths past 100,000 mark.
Jack: Oh, interesting. So we have 6 million cases and a hundred thousand deaths, which is crazy. And then that's where we get to June. But we're gonna have to do June next time on Dragon Ball Z. No, we're gonna have to do June on the next episode because we are running out of time now.
Christina: Alright.
Jack: Yes. Cuz this year is epic as f***.
Christina: Yeah, it's been pretty epic and sad and very all over the place. It's been all over the place, man.
Jack: It has been. It has been very all over the place. S***'s crazy. But it is what it is. And luckily now we're living in the future. That's way in the past. We barely remember that.
Christina: Yeah, now we got hoverboards for our hoverboards.
Jack: Yeah, we got hoverboards for our hoverboards. My flying car is parked out back. And everything, you know, everything is evolved.
Christina: Which also has hoverboards.
Jack: Everything government is run entirely by black women. There's no white males at all in office anymore. It's all black women. So. Well, different world, man. Different world. That was a long time ago. Kids were born and went to college and have grown old. That came after that year, that horrid year.
Christina: So a few days they just aged.
Jack: Yeah, they've gone through. They've become experts in fields and everything.
Christina: Okay. They're the ones that changed all of our lives.
Jack: Yeah, we cleaned the planet and Everything all right. Fantastic. Anyways, if you guys like conversations of this nature, there are conversations which we touch a lot of the topics here because it's a year's review. So, you know.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: Skim through our episodes, I suppose, because.
Christina: We have great, great conspiracies. Great points.
Jack: Yes. There's so much going on and Covid is a big one.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: So, yeah, go catch up. Go find out what's going on.
Christina: Listen to every single episode of last year that we made. How many episodes are that?
Jack: It should be 52, because there's 52 weeks, minus the guest episode of every month. That would be 12. So there's 40 episodes.
Christina: Okay, so you're telling them to ignore.
Jack: The guest episodes if they're looking for content like this.
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: I mean, you can always, always go ahead and check out the guest episodes where I bring on an interesting creator or a scholar and we have conversations about stuff.
Christina: Yeah.
Jack: But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this conversation. If you want to find those other episodes and things of that nature, you can find them on the official website greatthoughts.info or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts.
Christina: And you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. USCombop.
Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe, rate the show and if you feel so inclined, review.
Christina: It and let someone who might like the show know about it.
Jack: Yes. Word of mouth is incredibly important. It's something that helps us a lot because it tells people about the show. So go tell people about the show. Run outside, aim at a stranger, be like, hey, you. Then be like, look, show. And then hold up like a sticker of ours or something that you made because we don't sell stickers and be like, hey, show. And they'll be like, cool, I'll check it out. And now you made a new friend.
Christina: This has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.
Jack: Bye.
Christina: Okay. Wrong.
Jack: I'm sure you weren't out there, like, this is gonna be. Be naughty.
Christina: What if the child little me was naughty Garden age five year old. The five year old me, I don't know. She was a super villain.
Jack: She was a super villain. You were just terrorizing people. That's crazy.
Christina: Yes. Were you a super villain too?
Jack: I wasn't.
Christina: What were you?
Jack: I don't know. I didn't exist in school.
Christina: Exist in school? Yeah.
Jack: There was no me in school. I phased into existence right before this podcast began.
Christina: Oh, okay.
Jack: Well, there's. There's so many problems with that, considering I was already a robot in the World War and I was then killed and a ghost. Well, no, I was a normal person. I was alive for 60 years, then died, then got remade with ghost robot technology. If I remember correctly, then that ghost robot was cloned three times, of which I am the third iteration. There's still a second one somewhere out there that didn't get murdered because we killed the wrong person who was supposed to be just me.
Christina: Yes. But it wasn't.
Jack: But it wasn't. And because I, for whatever reason, couldn't tell me apart from me. Or wait, was it me?
Christina: Yeah, there was a version of you that. It was you. There was. There was just two you's. Clones. The you you and the slower you. Because I think he was a clone of you.
Jack: Yeah, yeah. I'm the third clone. There was the original clone who was. Who began the show. He was just killed and replaced one day because talking. Yeah, that happened, if I remember correctly, between episode 211. And 212. No, it was actually both in episode 211 where the first half began with that Jack. He got killed and continued the clone on the second part of that episode with Dave.
Christina: That clone wasn't you.
Jack: No, I'm the third clone who came from the future to kill the past clone and failed. And. But now I'm in the place. But I didn't know that clone ran away. I'm the clone who failed at killing the other clone. Or I'm the one who got failed? No. Am I the second clone?
Christina: Yes, because the one that tried to kill you was a slow clone. He was like. I don't know. There was something. He was special because he was a copy of a copy.
Jack: Oh, my God.
Christina: That's why he confused you with your friend and he killed your friend instead.
Jack: I get it, I get it. I get it. Because I was cloned from the original the way that the first clone was cloned.
Christina: Yes.
Jack: We were both. I'm the second clone at this spot. But we were both. I'm just second in order. But not cloned from the clone. Yeah, the third clone was cloned from me.
Christina: Yes. Then he. He wanted to kill you to replace you.
Jack: Because failed.
Christina: Yes. And failed. And then I don't know what happened to him. He might be out there still.
Jack: Fantastic.
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