I'm gonna, I'm gonna do the intro first. Okay, we are funfactfriday com show. If you don't know us already, I'm leela, he's David.
I am David. I'm Lila's dad, remember I used to say that every episode? Dad,
yeah, he was
Hey everybody. We appreciate y'all stopping by. Yeah. Now, typically, we go through and we talk about different facts surrounding a topic. Oh, crap, this
isn't funfactfriday.
It's not Fun Fact Friday.
It's a Saturday.
It's a Saturday. You know what that means? Silly speculation Saturday we
have to talk about things that necessarily aren't true, that
it could be true. We like to speculate on these episodes. This is like, sometimes they're a little in the woo, woo category, like, you know, ghosts or aliens.
Like game theory, but without the game and it's just a theory.
But on these episodes, nothing, nothing said, Nothing presented, should be considered. A, effect, B, even our opinion, yeah, because we we're going along with the gag. It's all a bit on these episodes, except for the beginning here, where we're talking to you about what the show is about. And I'm going to talk a little bit about something I did Pat in the past week, and that's not speculation. So anywho, welcome to funfactfriday comition. This is episode 199
of the funfactfriday Comte. Verse universe, cinematic universe,
audio verse, audio verse. There
we go. Oh, we go. Oh, we
had those. We had those video episodes a long time ago. Though they don't count. We only have the audio version. FF,
say, see you. Yeah, Fun
Fact Friday, cinematic universe, absolutely, that's what I'm talking about. Um, so yeah,
we never did that arg or did we? Or
did we? Maybe, did we? Maybe we do have an ARG floating around another and nobody's smart enough to find it. We do. So, yeah, I have some stuff to talk about before we get started. Right off the bat, I'm gonna say this is episode 199 we are most likely gonna be skipping next week for two reasons. Number one, because we're gonna be really preparing for Episode 200 big deal, you know, to have a nice round
number, which, you know, it's pretty cool. And then also, next week is Lila's first week of school.
And we want to, I want to not have that much stress the first week of school, right? She doesn't want
to have to worry too much about, uh, the stress, the horrible, horrible stress that this show puts on us. Yeah, we
stress about it every week until we're actually doing it.
It's like, oh, oh, it's Friday. We got to go record an episode, or it's Thursday night. You know? I'm like, Let's go record
an episode. Then we get on here and we're like, hey,
it's not the recording of the episode that we dread. It's the getting up from what we're doing, like, and like, putting shoes on, because we got to go out to the studio, and it's, you know, 150 doing the house, all the research we do, the extensive, extensive research,
the hours we put into this show. But
we have gotten, we've gotten some, some feedback for episode. 200 some folks sending us memories of the show, things that they really thought were really funny or really insightful, or, you know, things like that. And we definitely appreciate those. Keep those coming. If you have listened to the show for a long time and you've got a favorite moment, you can actually probably find that moment. If you can remember what we were talking about, remember a keyword or two, you
can go to funfactfriday com and click transcript search. I have implemented it. It's still not perfect, because our transcripts are not perfect, but it works good enough. And just click transcript search, you type in the word or phrase you're looking for a list of episodes and timestamps will pop up, and you can actually just click play, and it will start playing that clip. For example, Leila found one a few minutes ago that was from fro it's her favorite moment for the last couple months. Oh
my gosh, it's my twins Episode 188
are you gonna find it? Or you're just gonna go find it. I'll keep talking. So yeah, just if you go can think of a moment, go to the transcript search, see if you can find it. We have all every episode up to 198 now in there. So it goes all the way back to the beginning, even ones that aren't on the feed anymore. And yeah, find your find your favorite moments and send them.
Send them over to us mail at funfactfriday com with the transcripts, or there's not even a reason to have to go clip it anymore, we can just get that episode and and get a list of them together, and there we go. It's awesome. We definitely appreciate we've been getting some great value for value, and we'll talk about that towards the end of the episode. I. And I think, wonder if Leila has found
Okay, okay, finally found it. Okay, okay, here, here
is now officially
a redhead, a high schooler. Oh, that's that, yeah, yeah, you're right. I yeah, I am both of those things. Yeah, artificially, I'm artificially a high schooler, like, I
cobbled together this transcript search, and I was showing my wife, Phaedra, and she immediately, you know, searched herself. She's like, how much y'all talk about me. And so she found all the times that we've said her name. And love you, babe, and we just had a good time with it so far. And it's a very useful little tool. There's probably better and more elegant ones out there, but you know what? I made this one, and I'm proud of it. Yeah, we're having a good time with it. But for this episode,
what? Oh, what's your favorite of them?
Oh, yeah, I haven't said it yet. It's the Mandela effect.
So we were thinking about doing this episode, because we've never actually made an episode before.
Yeah, this is, I mean, you may remember Earth. May think you remember that we've done previous episodes.
It's actually our first episode. It's
not 199 it's one one point 99 1.9 before two. So it's still the first one. Yeah. So I ask AI what the Mandela Effect is. As we're going to start doing, we're going to start asking AI what the thing is that we're searching for. And the AI says it's a psychological condition where people suddenly start speaking in a South African accent, or it's the scientific term for when your phone's auto complete, starts finishing your sentences with famous Nelson Mandela speeches.
I agree with that, yeah,
yeah, you're right. So I don't think AI's got the right got the right thing going here. So the Mandela effect in reality. Wait, wait, I forgot to talk about Podcast Movement then talk about it. So I went to Podcast Movement, which is a industry convention for podcasters in the podcast industrial complex, where lots and lots of people get together and talk about how to monetize their podcasts. That was the takeaway from most of the show. For me, it's what a lot of
people want to do. They want to make money off their show. Which I get. I understand that we'll talk about our philosophy on that and the value segment, but yeah, so we I get, I had to go to Washington, DC, and I took the train, which I've never taken. Of not never I haven't taken a train in over 25 years. It's been a long time since I took a train. Oddly enough, last train I took was back also up to the DC area. But we got, I got
to the train. I actually jumped off the train station early because I realized that the Alexandria station was closer than Union Station, which means I'd have to take an Uber less time and distance, which was cheaper. So that worked out. I was just like, well, this isn't my stop, but I'm getting off. So I grabbed my stuff and jumped off the train early. And they were probably like, there's I left a little tag up there that said, uh, Union Station, or DC, or whatever it says. And they're
probably like, Where'd I gotta go? Um, but I get there, and I get to the hotel. It's extremely nice hotel. It's called the Gaylord resort, um, waterfront, or something like that. It's right on the right on the Potomac River, right near that big, huge ferris wheel they have there. It did, yeah. Can you
open this for me? Please? What I need? Some water. And I didn't open it before the show, and I can't open it.
There you go. Thank you. I loosened it for you. Can't believe you didn't open your water before the show. Amateur,
like how I used to open my cans during the show and just make it super loud,
right? But I did meet some fantastic people at Podcast Movement. I'm gonna be talking with some of them, and then, you know, I gave them the show. So y'all, they might be listening. Everybody admitted Podcast Movement who's listening to this episode as your first or second, second episode that you're listening to. Hello. I hope you had a good time. I did, and I
was totally there. You just didn't see
me. Yes, she was, she was wearing her cloak of invisibility, and she was being silent, which you know that that's not true.
So I definitely wasn't there.
But no, I went, went to the iHeartRadio. Had a big, huge party at um Top Golf. Oh, bad Pelosi there, um Top Golf. And went, went there and had some, some good free sliders and and mini corn dogs and these little cinnamon ball things. They were really good. And then. I went to another party that was hosted by I can't remember. It's bad, because they gave me a bunch of really cool merch. I got lots and lots of swag. I had some really good, fun conversations about podcasting 2.0 and value
for value. I was pushing all that really good. And yeah, I met some folks I hadn't met in real life before. Danny Brown from Captivate I saw Todd Cochran from blueberry. Those are both podcast hosts, like hosting companies, real good guys. And I met James kreblin from pod news. I never met him before because he, like, lives in the other side of the planet.
Yeah, we used to listen to the podcast, didn't? Yeah,
we listen to hot news almost every day, driving you to school. Yeah? And you were just like, I'm bored to tears.
I wasn't extra. You were
you were 10. It's not your thing. I get it anyway. I had a good time. There was, there's a lot of a lot of lot of swag I've got. I got like, 7t shirts and a whole bunch of little goodies. And I got a fan from a company called pod ops. I believe they're a hosting company. Also, it just plugs into your phone, plugs into your phone or a battery bank. And
it's like, actually a really powerful little personal fan. So when I got on the train to come home, the air conditioner was off because the train was like, refueling or or, you know, there were loading and unloading stuff at Union Station. And if I hadn't had that little fan, I would have burned up. It was very nice to have that little fan. So I think I got to thank
pod ops for that, I guess, send them an email. Yeah? And right after this episode, I've got about 100 emails to respond to from folks I, I met there, yeah, but there was a lot of a lot of big companies there. That's why I'll say in the podcast, industrial complex, you know, Lipson, yeah, Libsyn was there, but NPR was there, one of the other big companies, Sirius XM,
daily wire, daily wire. A lot of you know, bigger, bigger companies were there, yeah, with their little booths and stuff and free popcorn, and there was a dog petting area and all kinds of neat stuff. But I had a good time. And I guess the next one is podfest back down in Florida again, yeah. So anywho, that's my adventure. I've got a lot more funny stories. If anybody is interested, let us know, and maybe I'll do a little travel blog, travel blog podcast on it, or something. Yeah. All right, I
asked AI what the Mandela effect was, and co pilot said that the Mandela Effect is when a group of people collectively misremember the color of their favorite socks. That's what, that's what this says. Yeah, this is they all swear their socks are neon green with purple polka dots. But in reality, they're just playing White what is, what is? Copilot on
copilot, it's on my channel. Of course. It's
got a million emoji.
It's running. It's running on Windows ME, they got a bunch old Windows ME machines. You don't even know about Windows ME, that's a whole, that's a whole ti 84 calculator, right? Yeah. Leila, just whoo hoo boy. Those things are expensive. We just got Lila a TI 84 calculator for her advanced math classes. She's in this year. And oh my gosh, that was $120 yeah, that was actually a calculator. Anyway, it's required. It's really neat. She's playing Snake on it
already, so you know, it's worth the money anyway. Let's get into the Mandela effect. Let's this what people are here for, not to listen to us talk about calculators. What's your favorite mandela effect? Okay, so for being real. Oh, let me explain what the Mandela Effect is. First it was invented in 1978 by Joseph mandela effect when he forgot what color socks were. And like he was swear
they were neon green with purple Polka
exactly, but they were actually just white. Now, Mandela Effect. I don't have the the like, oh, official definition, but it's basically when there's a mass misremembering of something. Or here's the speculation part, we've entered a different timeline and things are different, but some people remember the old timeline, or the ones that remember the old timeline have moved into a new timeline where things are different, and they remember
their old timeline anyway. So it's like, when you find something and you're like, I don't remember it being like that, and I've got a very vivid memory of it. So leading into what my favorite Mandela Effect is, is the one that I genuinely am really confused about, and that is the Fruit of the Loom logo. Do you are you familiar with the Fruit of the Loom? Clothing company, yes, they have pretty much underwear, T shirts, you know, things like that, just clothes, right? They're not like
a big designer brand or anything like that. Now, excuse me, coming up as a young man, I would have Fruit of the Loom clothing because it's fairly cheap and it lasted a while. It was a good brand, not an advertisement. I just and I don't even know how they are now, they may still be good, I'm not sure, but I remember the logo having a cornucopia behind the fruit, okay? And I remember this because I didn't know what a cornucopia was. I thought the the brown horn thing behind the
the fruit was called a loom. So when I saw Cornucopia on something else, I was like, why is, you know, what's there's a loom there, right? And whoever I think was my teacher, my kindergarten, first grade teacher corrected me and says, Oh, I see. That's funny because of the underwear logo. No, that's called a cornucopia. And it's a, you know, a horn of plenty. It's, you know, it's like, a representation of, like, having lots of, like, a feast. You'd have a feast, you have a
cornucopia full of fruit and meat and all the good stuff. And I was like, okay, because, you know, I was a kid and all right, whatever. And then that, I remember that the whole conversation came about because I didn't know this thing was called. But now, now everybody's trying to tell me that there was never a cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo, to which I said, push Shaw. And I saw and I scoffed. I was like, there was a
cornucopia. I'll prove it. So I went to the US Patent and Trademark Office website, and I started looking up for the loom. Went through every single one of their logos that they've had trademarked and copyrighted and all that. And I can't find one with a corny copy on it.
There's one right here.
What? Which one? What are you looking at? Well, yeah, you can find it on the internet, because this is a huge Mandela Effect thing. Well, there was also a an album called flute of the loom, and it was a flute album, and it had, like, you know, a bunch of food, and then a horn, a flute bent up into a cornucopia shape behind it. So why would he make that album cover have the flute shaped into a cornucopia and call it flute of the loom. If that wasn't with the logo, why would it have the
flute like that, exactly like the logo? So there's all these like little clues that either there was a knockoff brand that was getting sold in mass at one point that had a cornucopia or Fruit of the Loom with the Cornucopia was in an alternate timeline of some kind, and when they fired up the CERN particle collider in 2012 it warped people from one timeline into the other timeline. And now there's two different sets of
people from two timelines. And some people remember the timeline with a cornucopia, and some people remember the timeline without the cornucopia. And right now we're in the timeline without the cornucopia.
I could care less about a cornucopia. Yeah, you're right.
Always push the wrong one. I wanted to do the Leela wood, yeah, you're right. So that's my favorite Mandela Effect, just simply because, like most of the other ones that are on this list that we're about to go through 54 of them, right? I can, I can come up with, like, explanations of why people would misremember a lot of these, yeah. And I can come up, but, like this one, the fruit of the Luma, is personal to me.
My whole thing with the Mandela effect is that a lot of these are from, like, a lot of people's childhoods. And when you are a child, it's very common to overlook stuff
and also your imagination. Yeah, can do play play tricks on you, like
I know even right now, I misremember things all the time. Oh yeah, memories are terrible. Oh yeah, oh yeah, especially when the human, when you're a human,
when the humans have memories, yeah, you're about to say when they mean, not us, but when the humans have memories.
Yeah, I almost revealed that I was a loser person. Remember, it's
speculation. Saturday. We can say whatever we want. I can
say whatever we want. I am a lazy person y'all would
ever know. Okay, so a lot of these are like, from movies, TV shows, media stuff, right? And,
okay, no, the one that gets me, okay, okay. I have one. I have one that gets me. Okay. To get you, um, the Pikachu is tail thing, okay, because I specifically remember him having a little black thing on a sale. Okay, so let's remember that. Let's
explain it. Pikachu is a Pokemon character. I'm pretty sure the entire world is familiar with Pikachu. He's
one, especially our audience, right? Nerds?
Whoa, what? I'm not a nerd. I'm a cool guy. Okay, so Pikachu is a Pokemon, and he's the most popular Pokemon merchandise wise. And there are some people that say that he had a black tipped tail as well as black tipped ears. And I
remember this because, one, it's smart, it's a better it's a better thing. And two, because I thought that the female Pikachu had the little heart, and the heart was black on his tail. Hmm, right.
I'm been around since Pokemon was invented, and Pikachu has never had a black tip on the tail, as far as I can remember,
I remember I
now sworn it may be different. Artists have done it and and put it on there, but like, and, of course, now I'm looking at these pictures. I'm scrolling around online. I typed in Pikachu black tail, and I'm starting to actually see I kind of do remember this, this, this
is what I remember, right here, with a little heart, okay. And
is that an official drawing? Though, I don't think so, right, right? I know, but that's what I remember, right? So, and that's that's especially like, um, what's it called, uh, fan art. Fan art can mess things up and um, now I do remember that Pikachu used to be fat. Is he not fat anymore? No, no, he used to be fat like you. Go look at the original sprites, the Pikachu original sprites. From Look at, look up. Look up. Pikachu original Sprite. Pikachu original design. I guess he was
much chubbier, see right here. Oh
my goodness. Yeah, I know. I love he's so cool.
If you look at the original, this is like the original Sprite. It was just a much chunkier boy. I love him. But yeah, he's, he slimmed up. He got, he got a workout. Him and ash were, we're having a good workout. Walking across the land, traveling far and wide,
you know, searching far and wide. Yeah, certain.
All right, we got to cancel the episode. All right, we're
never coming back, guys. So
I'm going to run through some of the media ones real quick. Are pretty much easily explainable. You've got in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. A lot of people think that the line was Luke, I am your father, right? And the line was actually, no, I am your father. It wasn't Luke, I am your father. So what I think this one was, is is that it was quoted by a lot of other media, like people recognize the line, Luke, I am your father. Because other shows would say, Luke, I am your
father. Because if they just said, No, I'm your father, yeah, it's like, I'm not referencing Star Wars. I'm just saying, No, I'm your father. But if you say, Luke, I am your father, everybody knew what you were talking about. So over the years, so many things had parodied that scene, because it was such a huge, shocking scene in cinema history that they but they still had, they had to have that Luke in there so that
people would understand the reference. Yeah. So I think that that one, because I remember seeing it as, no, I'm your father, but later on, seeing lots of parodies of it. Now this one's kind of iffy for me, but I didn't watch this movie a lot when I was a kid. I maybe watched it once or twice, and that is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Not a fan, not the biggest, biggest fan of that. When something's blinking on my
desk, what's happening? Oh, wow. Oh, wow, that happened. My phone got really warm, sitting on that wireless, wireless charger. That's not good. We're gonna move. Maybe I won't be using that.
You got like five below, didn't you? No, I
got from Staples, Staples. It was on sale. Yeah, that is, yeah, I think it got too hot. Let
me unplug it. I'm
unplugging that. Yeah,
we don't want to fire in the studio. I'm
a fire extinguisher because safety, you know, Snow White in the Seven Dwarfs Mirror mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them? All right? No, I. Uh, she actually says magic mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all.
All right? I never watched another thing. I think I watched it once.
Another three I never I watched I did not like Snow White in the seven doors. It's just not my style of movie. I
think it's kind of a similar one with the I am your father thing, right?
I think it's also possible, because in the in the 80s, when a lot of people like you know, 70s, 80s, because Snow White in the seven doors is really old movie, there was a thing called the Satanic Panic, where anything that seemed even slightly magical or mystical or demonic in any way, was deemed as bad and evil and all that kind of stuff. So when people would quote that movie, they didn't want to say magic, because they didn't want to be associated with witchcraft or the occult
or anything. Yeah? So it's kind of like a clean, like a radio version, yeah,
it's the it's the PG version, the radio safe version. Yeah, exactly, exactly, because, like, back in the 80s, Dungeons and Dragons, if
you played that, you straight to jail, straight to jail.
So, yeah, no, I imagine that that's part of what that was. And also maybe when something, somebody was parodying it, or, you know, doing their own version. They didn't want to say the exact words that the other thing had said, for copyright reasons, because Disney's only like to do that a little bit litigious. They like to sue people. Um,
so the Oscar Mayer, Oscar Mayer thing gets me too. Um, yeah, but I think it's just because of symmetry. Let me
pop through real quick a couple more of the media ones, since we're on this the Berenstein Bears. Ah, this is one or the Berenstain Bears. This
is one that everyone's like everybody.
I remember that. I remember, I remember, I remember. I don't have, I don't have enough of a memory. I remember reading the books, and I enjoyed the books, but I couldn't tell you one way or the other which timeline I'm from, but this is from your childhood.
You
know, again, it's, yeah, it's from your childhood. And also you would never really read make it right to you things with and Steen, like names with Steen at the end are fairly common, yeah. So or Stein, you know, so people were used to that, but stain is not so people probably just missed. Miss said it a lot, or their brain just saw Steen instead of stain. We get that with our last name. Phaedra gets it with her first name. People see it, but their brain doesn't see it. They see Pedro. They see
Pedro Mendez. My wife has been called Pedro Mendez, and people get Mendez. They get Mendez because they're not looking at the letters in the word. They're looking at the word as a clump, and they're looking for something they've seen before. They see last name. Oh, I've seen that name before. It's Mendez instead of Medus. So you know it is what it is. People quickly glance at things or people, and then they once somebody has something this is correct in their head. It
sticks. And you can see that a lot like, I'm gonna make fun of my mother right now. Oh, no, my Oh, it'll be alright. And she knows that I pick on her for this. Yeah, some point in her life, she got the concept of a TV show and a movie mixed up the names of them. So she will call a feature length film, a show, and she will call a series on television a movie. And she's gotten slightly better, and she knows she knows the difference, but when she's just talking, she started calling
everything a movie.
Oh, has she? She just started calling everything a movie. Now you actually hang out with her more than I do, yeah, but
she mainly watches movies. She never really watches TV shows anymore, right,
right? She's, she's a big fan of, like, she'll pick a movie out and that's her movie. That's her movie. She
won't watch anything else. She
won't watch anything else for a while. She's just like, ever like, there was a movie called down Periscope with Kelsey Grammer. I remember she watched that like, every night to go to sleep for like, years, like a year and a half, at least. She's
watched the Barbie movie at least, like, 15 times. Yeah, she
likes, re watching him. But my mother is one of those people that can't sit still. She's always got to be doing something. So she doesn't really even watch the whole movie, she'll get up and, you know, do something, you know, like three four times during the movie. So it'll take her five or six watchings to actually watch the whole movie. But I love you, Mom. I'm just, you know, I'm picking on you, and I do it to her face too. It's not like I'm calling my 100 back. Um, let's
see Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie. Me, a lot of people say that he had suspenders, but that could just be those two little dots on the front of his pants. Getting confused are, yeah, those are suspender hooks, yeah. So maybe people just in their brain had, had done that Looney Tunes. The name of Looney Tunes is L, O, O, N, E, y, space, T, U, N, E, S, and not t, O, O, N, S.
These are confusing. Froot Loops.
We'll talk about Fruit Loops in a minute. Yeah, I can kind of see this one, depending on if someone about my age, someone about my age or a little younger, grew up with tiny tunes. And Tiny Toons is spelled T, O, O, N, S, yeah. Like cartoons, right? Like, like cartoon on Cartoon Network or whatever. And I mean, even it says a Warner Brothers cartoon and Technicolor. So I can kind of see how somebody might think
that Looney Tunes is not. I love the word tunes. But the big thing about the big thing about the original Looney Tunes is that they always had like a score associated with them, like music, and that was like part of it. So anywho that, those are the media ones that are kind of like, okay, I can, I can. Those are kind of easy to um, oh, Interview with a Vampire, or Interview with the Vampire. A lot of people get confused on that one. I can't remember what, what timeline we're currently
on. Let me, um, let me look at it. Talk about something this ready? Yeah, yeah. I should have had this ready. Um, Mandela Effect. Wait,
what the total? I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. Uh huh, Toto, I'm, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Okay, what? Yeah, what is, we didn't know that. Which one is this currently? What's, what's,
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Yeah, that was always the thing what I always thought, I don't think we're in Candace anymore. Yeah, I don't think we're. That's what people would say to reference, to reference that line, because they're referencing it, but they're not saying it the weird way that they said stuff back in the old days when they made that, hmm, okay, so Interview with the Vampire. Some people that's a video. I don't want a YouTube video, search results. I just want to, I just want to read
something. Um, some people say it was a and some people say it was the and I can't remember. And the the thing that gets me is like people will use someone talking about the movie in a clip back from when it came out as a clue that their version was correct. But when you say it with or when you say it after the or after with the and uh, can both sound the same depending on how quickly you're speaking, yeah, so oh my goodness, you didn't
hear it. God bless you. Thank you. So
enter the Interview with a Vampire, Interview with a Vampire. And I even enunciated more than I should have in that one. So Interview with the Vampire, Interview with the Vampire, so they can sound the same. So I really feel like that one is just a how you hear it instead of how you read it. So that was a I can understand most of these as just like, psychological things. Yeah, the Fruit of the Loom. Very strong feelings about this. What do you think with the monopoly man? The
monopoly man with the monocle? Yeah, I don't remember a monocle. Me neither. I don't ever remember a monocle.
Henry, the eighth's
turkey leg. Okay, so Henry, I don't recall seeing this like, before I started learning about Mandela effects, I couldn't tell you that that painting was the Henry eighth painting. I didn't, yeah, I'm like, I never cared. So I couldn't tell you whether he was holding a turkey that was a part in history that actually bait, yeah, basically Henry the Eighth There's a famous portrait of him, and everybody remembers him
holding a turkey leg in it. And again, it almost makes me think that that's one of the parody ones that people would parody it because he was a big boy, you know, he's kind of a chunky boy, yeah? And it'd be funny to have him holding a turkey leg. And maybe people saw parodies thinking that it was the original, yeah. But, you know, I mean, I could be wrong about any of these. Could be multiple timelines caused by the CERN reactor, because none of this stuff was around before they
fired that thing up. Fire up the certain reactor. Here's one that I remember. I remember Sinbad being in a. Movie about him being a genie called Shazam. Okay, let's see the website very well minded that I'm getting some of this from just to remind
me the ones I've dug into this subject so many times. One of the most well known examples the Mandela Effect, is the collective memory of a movie called Shazam that starred actor, comedian Sinbad in the 1990s in fact, no such movie exists, although there was a children's movie called Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal. Some other coincidences may be hard to explain how this movie became remembered in many people's
minds. Even more confusing, there's now a series of movies called Shazam from DC Comics. Yeah, we know about that, but that's not Sinbad. I remember Sinbad having a being a genie. I don't remember a lot of specifics, because that wasn't my genre of movie. I don't even know who that is. He was. He was a comedian in the 90s, and he got pretty popular. He was on a
couple of TV shows and stuff like that. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed his his work, but I remember him being maybe he was dressed up as a genie in a different movie, and I got it mixed up with Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal. But I really, really feel like I remember a movie called Shazam with Sinbad in it, and it doesn't exist now, it being a well known Mandela Effect. There's now a clip of the movie with Sinbad in it wearing a GD outfit that they made as an April Fool's Day
Joker as a skit on a comedy show, or something like that. So now, to add fuel to the fire, there's this clip out there that people swear up and down is from the movie. It's not, people are just easy to fool. Yeah,
that's, that's the moral of the story.
The moral of this, this entire episode, people are easy to fool. Maybe this, maybe there wasn't a cornucopia. The only, the only way I can think that that's the thing, is that there was a knockoff company making Fruit of the Loom stuff. And we did shop at some pretty you know, not, not like major retailers. We'd go to thrift shops and stuff a lot. Yeah, so it's possible that I got some knockoff stuff, and a whole lot of other people did with fake Fruit of the Loom with
cornucopia. But it would have been a lot of people, because if you go online, you can find a whole lot of people with similar stories to mine that that's how they learned what a cornucopia was. What are some other really convincing ones? Jeff I specifically remember JIFF peanut butter being called Jiffy peanut butter. However, I don't remember seeing the word Jeffy on the jar. So it's possible that that just became a nickname, yeah? For that, because there was Jiffy Pop,
Jiffy Pop popcorn. It's just a brand of popcorn, yeah? So I think that the JIFF Jiffy one. And look, let us know if you, if you're listening to this episode and you remember Jiffy like and you remember seeing the word Jiffy on the peanut butter jar? Let me know. Let me know if you remember the the Fruit of the Loom without the cornucopia. I'm very interested in this going along with the food ones. Leila, why don't you tell us about some fruit loops while I take a drink of
my drink. Oh, Fruit Loops. A lot of people remember Fruit Loops having the actual word fruit in them, like, F r u, I T. And, no, it's F R o o t. I never remember it. It actually be spelling. Be spelling, F r u O T, yeah. And I don't,
I don't think we brought, bought enough fruit loops for you. We never
really bought Cheerios. That's all we got.
Leila used to love Cheerios.
I still do honey that Cheerios and honey smacks. Oh, my jam,
my honey smacks are pretty good, absolutely. Mr. Rogers, we know I, yeah, I, I listen to, I watch Mr. Rogers all the time when I was a kid, from what I from what I've seen, really good guy, right? The song that he sings, it's a beautiful day
in the neighborhood? Yeah, wrong.
It's apparently it's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, which I kind of like better. But I don't think is right. I think it's the neighborhood. I just think I remember singing the neighborhood.
Do you I remember it, but I watched Daniel
Tiger. Yeah, you watched Daniel Tiger. Did he sing different the neighborhood or this neighborhood? Are you already in the middle of looking it up, nice, on point with the lookups? But yeah, I remember specifically. Well, I don't remember specifically I was a child, but I feel like, I feel like. Like the neighborhood. Is what was going on back in the neighborhood. I liked Mr. Rogers. I liked I liked that he had a fish. That was cool, because we always had fish, and
that made him like me. I'm like, Mr. Rogers. He's just like a person. It is the neighborhood. And Daniel Tiger, okay, okay, so that even complicates things more, because people are like, here in the neighborhood from so why would Daniel Tiger change it? Why? I
don't know. Maybe he
it's a beautiful day in
the neighborhood. Yeah, it's the neighborhood. Yeah, that was horrible. It was horrible. I hated it that
I'm offended. Yeah, me too.
I shouldn't have played that. So
okay, so this website very well. Minded. Very well. Very well. Mind.com has explanations for the Mandela Effect. Very well. Mined, oh, why? It's called the Mandela Effect? Oh, yeah, Nelson Mandela. There's a lot of people that remember Nelson Mandela dying, and then years and years and years later, Nelson Mandela dying again, like when he died the second time. People were like, Wait a minute. I thought he died back in the 80s, but now
people thought that he died in the 80s, and then he died in a and see that
that one goes into a whole other conspiracy theory about, like, the original did die, and they have like, a replacement. Come in Levine for political reasons, exactly like Avril Lavigne for political reasons. Yeah, Avril Lavigne is going to take over as president of a of a nation, anywho, just to get back at that skater boy. Oh my god, false that. Some of the explanations are false memories, just like Leila has been talking about the whole episode. Just people remember
things badly. Like, do you remember what we talked about the very beginning of this episode? Like, what's this episode number? I don't remember that was. That was 41 minutes and 50 seconds ago. I
was supposed to 152, 53 Yeah.
When did we start talking about how long ago it was in that episode? I have no idea. Memories are terrible, and our imaginations can affect our memories. Like, there's people who have been told a story, like, when they were a kid, and then they remember it happening like, as if they saw it, but they saw it in their mind's eye. They saw it in their brain. Yeah, so like they remember seeing it just because they've gone back to that memory of what they think it was like. So many times
I have some dreams that I'm convinced were real and the other way around. Oh yeah, yeah,
I had a dream recently. What was it? It was so silly. We're not going to get into talking about dreams, because that's just a whole boring thing. People are like, Oh my gosh, it didn't even happen. It was just a hallucination you had while you were passed out. I think they're interesting. Some of them are pretty some of them are worth talking about, just
because of the silliness of them. I was, I was at a casino in Las Vegas, not to gamble, but Ben Shapiro was there, and I was trying to push my way into the crowd of people, trying to talk to him, to, like, get him to come on the show, to get him to come on funfactfriday com, just because he has a big, huge following. And we could, we could piggyback on that. But if any big celebrities are listening, if you want to come
on the show, we want to talk to you. Talking to you. Polly shore, we're talking if
you're listening to this right now. We, we want you.
We, we're trying to get some folks on the show. And it's not about getting clout. We don't you can pretend like your your name's not what it is like. We won't advertise. Oh, we got
this. Yeah, you're listening. We just want to talk to somebody, like, who's worked their way up to the top of like, celebrity status to talk about, like, what's it like when, when, like, you're sitting at a restaurant and people come up to you and bother you, and, yeah, you know, I want to talk about that kind of stuff, you know, the stuff the day to day of a big celebrity. And, you know, it's not about clout, like I said, we can, we can just say this person's an A list celebrity.
We're not going to say their name, because we're not trying to clout farm. We're not trying to, you know, we're just genuinely curious, anywho, any who false memories are a thing that happened we could put, like a voice changer on you, whatever Cool, cool confabulation. Whoa. Confabulation involves your brain filling in gaps with missing memories. It's not really like lying, but just misremembering.
Is that like a glamorization? Well, it's like confabulation. You
don't, oh my gosh, you don't fabulation. You don't remember. So your brain fills in spots. That's all it is. And then this is one of the things that I've talked about a lot this episode, misleading post event information, where somebody referencing it incorrectly later, yeah,
tiger,
tiger priming. Priming describes the factors leading up to an event that affect our perception of it. That is a big thing. You. Can change somebody's perception of the entire world. Like, I want everybody while you're out and about for the next week or two, I want you to pay attention and look for Orange cars or trucks. Now you're going to be like, wow, there's a lot of orange cars or trucks. I'm seeing them every time I go out. You've always seen them every time
you've gone out. You're just never paying attention. Never paying attention to it. You can prime somebody, right? And I like
to do a thing where you look for every color in the rainbow every time you go out,
you're looking for like we used to play a game. We used to play the the alphabet game in the car. And we like when we're doing really long road trips, and we'd like write down the alphabet on a notepad, and then we would write down something that we see that was one of the letters that starts with the letter of the alphabet. So, you know, some of them real easy, R
for road, C for car, you know. But like, you start getting into some things, and you're just like, I can't find anything that starts with a with a x. So, like, you'd have to like xylophone. We'd have to go somewhere and find a xylophone. You know, this
is the only thing that's similar X.
We would have to go find a toy, the toy store, or something with a toy xylophone in order to fill out the whole notebook. But, yeah, we used to have fun with that. And then, of course, my favorite theory about why the Mandela effect happens alternate realities. Because I had never heard a Mandela Effect, somebody mass misremembering or something, until they fired up that CERN particle collider and started
shooting those particles each other super fast. I think it opened up a wormhole, and I think the timelines collided. And I think I don't think any of this stuff. I just think it's a fun theory.
He likes, He likes confusing people with what he thinks. I
know. I love it. It's I love double think as a bit, not as an actual political thing that you would use against the people, but double think, holding two contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time and believing both of them 100% I love it absolutely so much fun for conversations. It is because you start talking about something and somebody's like, oh well, that can't be true. Because of this. I'm like,
Oh no, that's true also, but I said that way. But I said that the moon is made of cheese, and then also the moon is made of rock. They can't but I'm like, yeah, it's both. They're both, right?
The moon is disgusting. But that, that one guy,
oh my gosh, yeah. I love that song so much. That one guy is the actual name, not that's not like us not remembering, yeah, the name of the music. Musician is that one guy
that's good. You should listen to it, not sponsored if you want to. I mean, I think, yeah, if we, if you're listening to this and you want to come to the show, absolutely, I want to talk to you
about that instrument you made. Yeah, very, very entertaining entertainer. And then, of course, there's the internet causing all these problems because somebody makes a bad fan drawing of something, and then that gets spread around as like an official something or other. And then there's trolls. Are you aware of what a troll is? Absolutely Okay. Well, there's trolls out there who will push and push and push and
say, oh, yeah, absolutely. There was 100% a movie called Shazam with the Sinbad in it, and like, then other people will piggyback on top of that, right? People will piggyback on top of that, yeah. It kind of kind of explains it most of the way, but some of them are just so ingrained in my head that it's really hard for me to believe that something weird is not going on. Yeah, something spooky is going on around these parts, as John C Dvorak would say, I should see if John C Dvorak
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