TRANSCRIPT Ross and Carrie Become Conscious Part 7

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“Oh No, Ross and Carrie! Theme Song” by Brian Keith Dalton. A jaunty, upbeat instrumental.
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Ross and Carrie: [Exaggeratedly and with English-esque accents] Helloooo!
ross
									
And welcome to Oh No, Ross and Carrie! The show where we don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal… but take part ourselves!
carrie
									
Yep! When they make the claims we show up so you don’t have to. I’m Ross Blocher.
ross
									
And I’m Carrie Poppy. And, uh, we’re back… for the final episode! In our Conscious Life Expo series.
carrie
									
Yayyyy!
ross
									
I know. You’re sad. You didn’t want it to ever end.
carrie
									
But this is our seventh one? And that means that you can listen to one every day of the week until you die.
ross
									
Hm! Or you can rest.
carrie
									
That’s true. Rest on the Sabbath.
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Ross: After you’ve listened to the seventh episode. Carrie: [Aggressively] Which… is… Saturday.
ross
									
Oh, that’s right! Yeah! Don’t get your Sabbath wrong ‘cause that’s the Mark of the Beast, people.           
carrie
									
Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
ross
									
Alright. So. This is a good time for us just to recap some of the other, smaller, fun things that we did at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles, in February. Right before everything started getting shut down. So we’re glad we got to go and we hope it happens again next year. And again, we’ve said before, we didn’t get to do as much as we would’ve liked to! And, uh, we could’ve spent a lot more time there. We’ll mention a few of the things today that we saw that could open up far larger worlds of exploration.
carrie
									
Yeah! You wanna tell me about some of the vendors and exhibitors you saw?
ross
									
Yeah! So, for example, I—right after I paid that woman for her book, the poetry book—
carrie
									
Got some animation advice.
ross
									
I got a few steps away from her booth and was immediately grabbed by this tall, confident guy. Y’know, he was just wearing a t-shirt but he had this just big air of—[boisterous voice with vaguely Southern accent] I’m this confident salesman and I’m gonna talk to you like this and I’m selling red pine tree oil! [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
That sounds like Lysol or something.
ross
									
Yeah! Come right over here! Here, have a drop of this! Oh, okay. He gives me a little dropper of his live pine oil and he’s very careful to emphasize—this is red pine oil. And so I’m gonna drop in my mouth—no, no, no, no! Sublingually! Oh, okay. Alright. Put it under the tongue. So I put that in and he’s like—best thing you’ve had in your life! Am I right? [Carrie laughs.] And I go, whoa, whoa. Hold on. And it’s—it’s really strong. It’s one of those… essential oils, uh, that just fills up—
carrie
									
And with pine!
ross
									
Yeah! And fills up your sinuses immediately. Like—
carrie
									
Ech!
ross
									
Just your whole head now is a big pine tree.
carrie
									
Yeah. Gross! [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Yeah. It’s strong! Really strong.
carrie
									
I mean, I like the smell of pine but I wouldn’t wanna eat it!
ross
									
So while I’m kind of staggering around in front of him, going—whoa! Whoa! Whoa! He— [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] He’s saying, yeah. This is—
carrie
									
This is stronger than ayahuasca!
ross
									
Yeah. This can handle viruses and bacteria and it restores your—
carrie
									
Uh-oh!
ross
									
—adrenal gland and clears every metabolic pathway in the body! And, y’know, he’s like making all these rapid claims. And I’m going, whoa, whoa. Okay. Pine tree oil. Alright. The thing that really stood out for me was that he says that it slows down cell division. And I’m thinking—do I want that?
carrie
									
Do you want that? Yeah.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah. Is that a good thing?
carrie
									
I mean—he probably is thinking, oh, it’s anti-aging? But there’s a lot of cell division that’s very important!
ross
									
Right. And, uh, he’s, uh, he’s telling me that it’ll increase the length of my telomeres. Those are the little—
carrie
									
Oh, good.
ross
									
—little ends on each DNA strand so as your DNA separates and recombines, over time you lose some of these telomere caps and that’s been one of the prime suspects that people have looked at to say, like, this might be kind of how aging happens.
carrie
									
Happens. Sure.
ross
									
Right. And so he says, oh, so y’know, you could live longer.
carrie
									
Do you remember that telomeres also, like, eat their own butts kind of thing? Like, it’s a—it’s like a wraparound process? Like a—like that snake game?
ross
									
Oh, interesting. I don’t know the process in any detail. But sounds right. So yeah. He’s reeling off the benefits. And he’s—he’s just in this, like, tiny half-booth right in-between two things with like quantum signs. But yeah! LivePine.com. They’ve got this oil. If—if what I’ve told you convinced you that you need some? Uh, it’s just $81 on the site.
carrie
									
Uh, for how much?
ross
									
For a 2-ounce little jar.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Of—this is the jar that he gave me. But they also have capsules. That’s only $110.
carrie
									
Okay!
ross
									
And all kinds of other pine products, uh, that you can get there.
carrie
									
Uh-oh. Wait. What did you say the URL is?
ross
									
LivePine.com.
carrie
									
Ah. I put LivePineOil.com.
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Ross: Oh, I thought you tried LivePine.horse. Carrie: Classic mistake. [Carrie laughs.]
ross
									
I was gonna tell you that’s actually not it.
carrie
									
I just, uh, default to horse all the time. Ooh! Pretty website, though! There’s pine trees! I love pine trees. You know what? I’m sold!
ross
									
Okay. Yeah. Buy some. Just not for me.
carrie
									
Guardian angel acupuncture?
ross
									
Oh, yeah. They’ve got other products there as well. Uh—
carrie
									
If they’re selling guardian angels but instead they gave you some essential oils…
ross
									
I don’t know. There’s lots of people at the Conscious Life Expo selling guardian angels. So. [Laughs.]
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Carrie: Okay. Fair. Ross: Uh, I guess that’s his way—
ross
									
—to stand out. But yeah. He said—this always gets me. One drop is all ya need. And so he’s giving me that drop; like, cool, I’m good then!
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Carrie: Oh, right! Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Ross: Good for life, right? [Laughs.] And—
carrie
									
And don’t worry! My cells won’t be dividing so they’re gonna be in me forever.
ross
									
Yeah. So I’m now perfectly preserved. You might as well have encased me in plastic.
carrie
									
Right. [Laughs.]
ross
									
‘Cause I’ve had one drop of this stuff. Of course, though, that doesn’t make for a business model.
carrie
									
Correct.
ross
									
So after we’d talked for a while, the last thing he said to me was, like, come back later for another drop! [Carrie laughs.]
ross
									
I was—wait, you just said one drop’s all I need! Uh, I asked him how he knew all the—
carrie
									
It’s all you need.
ross
									
Mm-hm. Yeah. Right. But it could be even better.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
Right. There’s need and then there’s want and then there’s optimal health. I don’t know. [Carrie laughs.] Uh, and so—yeah. I asked him—oh, wow! How did you find all this out! And he said, oh, well we’ve got a researcher.
carrie
									
Oh!
ross
									
I’m just the founder. Oh, okay. So—
carrie
									
I’m just the founder.
ross
									
The founder. Yeah. Steve. A very smooth salesman. So—as Scientology would say—he’d already body-routed me to his little—little half-booth there and would’ve smooth-talked me into buying a, uh, a bottle that I—I got away and said, oh, well maybe I’ll come back later.
carrie
									
Maybe we’ve talked about this before on the show? But this is bringing up a principle that I feel like needs addressing ‘cause I’ve heard it a lot recently? Which is—people being confused about… well, ozone is used to disinfect things? Or… oh, it says on the back of my squirter bottle that it kills the coronavirus!
ross
									
Mm. Mm-hm!
carrie
									
Like, what does that mean? Can I—could I eat this? Could I spray this on something and be safe? Etcetera. If something can kill a pathogen, say, on your table—
ross
									
Yes.
carrie
									
That’s different.
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Than you putting it in your body. And it circulating through your system and you having immunity now.
ross
									
That’s a very good distinction to make!
carrie
									
Yeah. This is, uh, also the problem with—there’s something called “ozone therapy” that—for a complicated reason I’ve gotten very knowledgeable about in the last year.
ross
									
Uh-huh?
carrie
									
But it’s an alternative medicine practice where they put ozone in your blood. It’s highly dangerous. But their whole argument is like—well, ozone kills bacteria. And it’s like, well… yeah! [Laughs.]
ross
									
But it can kill other things, too!
carrie
									
Yeah! It could get—yeah. It could kill you. And… even if it kills bacteria, like, I mean—their examples are like, on a table. In—in cultures. And stuff. It’s like, that’s not the same!
ross
									
Right. Right.
carrie
									
That’s not the same!
ross
									
Yes, you can kill coronavirus with bleach. If you had coronavirus on your table and you wiped it with bleach—yes. It would die. Do not ingest bleach! It will kill the rest of you, too!
carrie
									
Right. Right.
ross
									
Don’t do that.
carrie
									
No, no. Thank you. Anyway.
ross
									
People. Oh man, there’s just so many fun, interesting things. As we’ve been talking about, it’s really hard to walk down these aisles. First of all, ‘cause you have so many carnival barkers trying to drum up interest for their particular product and get your attention.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
And also just ‘cause they’re all interesting. Y’know? There’s so many things going on. So there’s a woman there who’s offering Akashic Record readings, and healings and classes—like, well, cool! On any other day, if I was at the… farmer’s market and I saw you there, you would be the sole focus of my attention. But you’re just one booth amongst many next to the Quantum Balance Crystals. And… and the other booth has all these glowing goo-gahs that are supposed to protect your home from smart meters. [Carrie laughs.] And… I also passed by the, uh, Sirius booth? So, uh—
carrie
									
Oh, that sounds serious.
ross
									
Yeah. The—Sirius as in the, uh, the star. S-I-R-I-U-S. And that was talking about ascended masters and—and now that I look back, I realize that was the—the group that was following Tatyana Mikushna.
carrie
									
Ah! Great!
ross
									
You went to her talk—
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Ross: —which we talked about. Yeah— Carrie: Yes! The world’s most boring spiritual leader.
carrie
									
Ooh! Is she more boring than Harold Klemp? Hard to say.
ross
									
That’s quite the competition there.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
They had an interesting booth, though. I gotta say. ‘Cause there’s various people walking around wearing white clothes.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Looking a little bit like they were maybe out of the past or some alternate universe. There’s, like, pictures of these various spiritual leaders. And, uh, signs about the Maitreya—who is the Maitreya?
carrie
									
Ah, right.
ross
									
Every religion is expecting someone who’s gonna return!
carrie
									
Oh, did they call her the Maitreya?
ross
									
Y’know? The—well the sign was there. I—they don’t explicitly say—at least on the sign—that she is the Maitreya. But they’re saying that, uh, all of these different names—like Christ; Buddha; Imam Mahdi; Krishna; the Messiah—they’re all just different names for the Maitreya. The world teacher. Head of the spiritual hierarchy. He is in the world now. Oh, he.
carrie
									
Oh, okay.
ross
									
So—okay. There we go.
carrie
									
But this was her group?
ross
									
Unless—you know what? Oh—hm.
carrie
									
‘Cause I thought I saw that booth and recognized it as some people I ran into at Veg Fest.
ross
									
You know what? Maybe this is [through laughter] bleeding over into the next-door booth.
carrie
									
Ah. Well, that tells you something that you couldn’t tell ‘em apart.
ross
									
They’re— [Laughs.] They’re right next—hmm. You know what? Okay. I—I take it back. Maybe the Maitreya, then, is from this other booth right next door.
carrie
									
Hm. Okay. These two people three feet apart both say they’re the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I’m— [Laughs.] How do I differentiate between the two?
ross
									
That’s… so funny. Okay. You know what? I’m gonna show you a photo here.
carrie
									
Okay. Okay. Yeah. So “The world teacher has come” is on the left.
ross
									
Yes.
carrie
									
And that one is…
ross
									
And Sirius is slightly divided by a little…
carrie
									
I—yeah. I still don’t know which one’s which. So on the right… is…
ross
									
The Sirius-slash-Ascended Master booth.
carrie
									
And on the left is our gal.
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
Tatiana?
ross
									
Uh, the right is Tatiana’s.
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Carrie: Uh, okay. Oh, right, right, right. Ross: Followers.
carrie
									
Okay. ‘Cause she was into the Ascended Masters thing.
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Carrie: That’s right. Okay. Okay. Ross: So I don’t know who the world teacher is who has come!
carrie
									
Right. I think I do in a sense? I think I ran into these people at Veg Fest.
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
But their whole philosophy is confusing and I—I think we would have to see in person to really understand. But I remember talking to someone there and—at Veg Fest? Who—probably a year and a half ago? And asked and I think they were like, well, we don’t just tell people. We get you to come to our thing and then we tell you!
ross
									
Sure. Yeah. That’s too easy!
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
You gotta work for this basic knowledge.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
Okay. Well, the one I’m talking about—this world teacher who has come, the Maitreya—had sightings of stars all over from Bakersfield and Pasadena— [Carrie laughs.] —and German and Boston and France. Yeah. But I just loved that they led with Bakersfield and Pasadena and Huntington Beach.
carrie
									
Oh. Three towns near LA for those not from here.
ross
									
These sightings of this star that has foretold, uh, the Maitreya is coming. Okay.
carrie
									
Wonderful.
ross
									
That’s so funny. Well, at least those two booths were not duking it out.
carrie
									
Yeah. Yeah.
ross
									
But this is one of those ones—again—where I thought, ooh, I need to learn more! But I just had to kind of quickly walk by. I saw the Anu Alchemy booth?
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Carrie: Oh, is that my white crap? Yeah! Ross: Ormus guy—yes!
ross
									
So he was there doing little healings.
carrie
									
Oh, yep! That’s the guy! That’s the guy who invented it there.
ross
									
The founder and discoverer?
carrie
									
Mm-hm. And did you know… that that stuff… makes you a magnet for baseballs.
ross
									
[Through laughter] That’s right! [Carrie laughs.] Amazing. As I was walking by, the creator-founder guy—who’s wearing like this gold vest, that’s pretty awesome—he’s got his hand on somebody’s forehead and he’s doing some kind of healing or something. And my heart went out to—there was a boy sitting there.
carrie
									
Oh, that’s—that’s the boy!
ross
									
Wait, you know this boy?
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Ross: Oh, who attracts the baseballs! Carrie: That’s the boy who attracts baseballs!
ross
									
Aw, this poor kid. Like—
carrie
									
That’s the magnet!
ross
									
I just felt for him. He’s sitting there with an iPad or something. Just, like, trying to keep himself busy. I just—I felt for him. Like, all the hours I spent at churches just kind of waiting around for the parents to do their thing.
carrie
									
Yup.
ross
									
You know, this is him. At this booth. Oh, okay. I guess my mom sells this stuff and that’s my life.
carrie
									
She told me to go talk to him and I—I think he was, like… oh, yeah. Yeah. It works. Y’know.
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Ross: He’s gonna have stories to tell when he gets older. Carrie: Went along with it. Yeah. And you—
ross
									
I just—it felt like, uh, a parallel existence to my own but in a very different world.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
And I saw that at other booths, too. Where, y’know, the person’s doing their shtick but they’ve got their disinterested kid sitting nearby. This is—this is their life.
carrie
									
Right. Indoctrination’s such a funny thing. ‘Cause what’s actually happening for him is the same as what happened with, like, Megan Phelps-Roper. Right? It’s just like… this is the normal world that my parents introduced me into and they’ve not taught me any other way!
ross
									
[Through laughter] Right. Exactly. I have not yet gained the perspective to know that this is very fringe.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
At one point there was a guy selling a massage gun. And so I came up to him, like, okay! And I’m like—wait—for—what’s the claim? And he starts, uh, he turns his thing on and I don’t know. It looks like someone’s essentially taken a drill and they’ve just added this attachment that kinda rapidly bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum—sort of, um, pummels you with this massage thing.
carrie
									
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ross
									
Felt great. So he’s giving me this little massage and like, okay, well what does this do? And, oh, yeah. Well it massages you. It’s like, oh! [Carrie laughs.] This is so refreshing!
carrie
									
This is—that’s what I thought it did!
ross
									
It doesn’t realign any… spiritual energies within me?
carrie
									
You’re like, excited. It doesn’t heal anything?!
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Ross: It doesn’t call angels down upon me?! Carrie: It just… feels… good? [Laughs.]
ross
									
It doesn’t—doesn’t interact with a biofields?
carrie
									
Or subluxations?
ross
									
Nope! And, uh—
carrie
									
Oh my god!
ross
									
So that—
carrie
									
Sell me one!
ross
									
Might be the only legit thing I saw in the entire show floor. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
That’s interesting. ‘Cause down below there was a whole massage area. Did you see it? It’s like, massage chairs—
ross
									
Oh, yeah!
carrie
									
—massage attachments. I wonder if they were making wild claims or if they were just like—people here will like massages.
ross
									
Yeah. I mean, a massage is a nice thing!
carrie
									
Yeah!
ross
									
Who knows. Uh, yeah. That was $200. Came with six attachments. As I started walking away it was $150, so. [Carrie gasps.]
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Ross: Yeah. Coulda gotten a real good deal on that. Carrie: Oh, man.
ross
									
But that’s not what I was there for. Um—
carrie
									
You are here for things that make wackier claims— [Ross laughs.] —than thus.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah. Sorry, massage guy, but I appreciate you selling something without anything attached other than—
carrie
									
Your attachments.
ross
									
—the six attachments. There was, uh, this true align body system? And it had people kind of face-down with their heads disappeared into this pillow mask. And then people doing adjustments on their backs. And I thought it was this thing that had been on social media shortly before, with this, uh, what was it—famous actress or something?
carrie
									
Yeah! Uh, Julianne Hough.
ross
									
Like, this guy had just touched certain points in her body and she starts squirming and writhing around.
carrie
									
Yeah. And it was like sort of half-possession, half-sexual?
ross
									
Yeah. Right. Yeah. She’s kind of, like, moaning and—yeah. What’s going on with this? So just—at a—at a glance this looked like the same thing. So I got all excited and I was telling Carrie—ooh, we gotta go back and do this! And squirm around! But no. It was just… some kind of face-down, uh, alignment of spiritual—who knows. [Carrie laughs.] Wasn’t what I was hoping it was.
carrie
									
Just something that looked identical but not as fun.
ross
									
Yeah. This place is so wild. There’s so many colors; there’s so many interesting costumes. The next thing I walked by is, like, a bunch of people with their heads sticking out of these little individual saunas?
carrie
									
Oh, nice! Oh—yeah! I saw those!
ross
									
Imagine this—I don’t know. Like, kind of silver… tent camp. [Through laughter] With just these little cubicle-shaped tents. With people’s heads popped out the top of ‘em. I don’t know.
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Ross: It’s—it looks— Carrie: Yeah. Ask yourself—
carrie
									
—how you’d bake a person.
ross
									
It looks— [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] Without—
carrie
									
But without killing them.
ross
									
But yeah. Right. And preserving the eyeballs ‘til the last. Uh— [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] I don’t—it’s just—it’s so funny to me to walk down these aisles and just—you never know what you’re gonna get!
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
You never know what’s gonna come out of these aisles’ faces. [Carrie laughs.] You—there was this other booth I didn’t get to stop at called the Shambala Planetary Monastery?
carrie
									
Oh, okay.
ross
									
And they were the ones that had the giant metal pyramid that you would sit under with four chairs faced in different directions?
carrie
									
Yes. Yes.
ross
									
And they had people wearing headphones having some kind of rhapsodic experience.
carrie
									
And holding, like, what looked like dumbbells but made of wire?
ross
									
Yes!
carrie
									
Copper wiring, I think?
ross
									
Right! And all kinds of really interesting little metal structures, uh, hanging. Visually, it was a really cool booth.
carrie
									
Yeah. I remember seeing a picture of this place.
ross
									
And I would’ve loved, like, if you said—Ross, you can go back to the Conscious Life Expo and experience one thing you missed! That’s probably the next thing I would go do.
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Carrie: Whoa! Cool! Ross: Probably.
ross
									
Uh, there’s many things I would experience. But that was one of ‘em. Uh, I walked past—there was this little conference area. They had… chairs lined up and it looked like a PA system so that people could come in and just take turns giving little talks. And so it was between talks. But there was a drawing pad up for a demonstration and I was so intrigued because they had written out in big numbers: 3+4=7. 5+6=?
carrie
									
Oh.
ross
									
I was like…
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Ross and Carrie: —11? Ross: But maybe not! Carrie: Is it? [Both laugh.]
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah! Right—what? What?
carrie
									
You’re making me question it!
ross
									
So intriguing. Oh man. I just—I love this show floor. [Carrie laughs.] Uh— [Laughs.] Uh, so one of the next guys I got into a conversation with was somebody who had an iconic foot bath.
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Carrie: Ah, classic. Ross: Product.
carrie
									
I’ve taken these.
ross
									
Yeah. This—
carrie
									
And so have you.
ross
									
Yeah. We did an episode not too long ago. So, uh, if you wanna learn kind of exactly what’s going on with that, definitely check that out. But he was selling the Alimtox Ion Generator.
carrie
									
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ross
									
That’s the name of his particular product. And I think they have sort of a reseller thing going on.
carrie
									
If I remember right, that one… instead of being a detox thing is like… an energizing thing. Like, it’s supposed to charge you or something. Right?
ross
									
Yeah. This tied in a few different claims all into—into one. But it was mostly based around this ionic foot bath. And, uh, this guy Wayne was there. And—I don’t know. He was also wearing a t-shirt and a flat-brimmed baseball cap. And I don’t know. I have a hard time taking you seriously as a seller if you’re wearing a flat-brimmed baseball cap.
carrie
									
I’m trying to picture a flat-brimmed baseball cap. So it doesn’t curve.
ross
									
Right.
carrie
									
Like, he hasn’t done that thing where ya pull it down on either side and loosen it up.
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Ross: Yeah. It’s like—this is fresh out of the box and I’ve put it on my—my head. Carrie: Okay. Huh. Oh, right, right, right. That’s—
carrie
									
That’s a look. I, uh—huh. I guess I know enough people who sport that look that I don’t think that would do anything.
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Ross: Alright. Well this is a prejudice on my part. But. Carrie: To my impressions. But. [Laughs.]
ross
									
It wasn’t this guy, but that’s the look.
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Carrie: Right. Right, right. Yeah. Ross: And if you— [Laughs.]
carrie
									
I know enough people with that look that it doesn’t, uh, do anything anymore? But I get it.
ross
									
If you’re trying to sell me a ionic foot bath—
carrie
									
Take a moment and bend your cap.
ross
									
[Through laughter] That’s right. [Carrie laughs.] Then I’ll hear ya out. No. I—I still heard Wayne out. There were a lot of signs. He’d put up all these little banners talking about the different, uh, things that it helps you with. Course it improves your overall health. Your sexual energy. That’s great. Uh, but he started selling me on how—essentially—what we’re doing with this is chelation. And—
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Carrie: Uh-oh! Ross: Oh. Okay.
ross
									
Like, heavy metals? Yeah, yeah! But also, just—debris in your cells.
carrie
									
Oh.
ross
									
Y’know, we’re—we’re loosening it. We’re helping run it out. And he had kind of an interesting way of describing this. ‘Cause I kept saying, okay, and you’re pulling all this out through your feet? And he had sort of an interesting… alternate… way around this by saying that by coursing this ionic energy through your body, what we’re doing is we’re loosening all this stuff. And it’ll come out in other ways, too. Not just through your feet.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Which I thought was clever. Though you also do have the same thing with the—y’know—the metal fixture in the water and all the gunky stuff—
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Ross: —that comes up. Yeah. Carrie: Oh, it did! Okay. Okay.
ross
									
So that’s still part of it.
carrie
									
Oh, interesting. Then this isn’t the one that I saw that was energizing. ‘Cause I asked a woman using it. She’s like, you gotta do this! It’s amazing! And I said, oh, does like that—that stuff come out of it? And she was like, oh, nothing comes out of it. It just energizes you.
ross
									
Oh. Interesting. Okay, no. I think this was a different booth.
carrie
									
Okay. I was tempted to pay $5 just to be like, hey! Watch this! And then not put my hands in it. Y’know.
ross
									
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I told them that I had been to a—a foot bath not too long ago. And he said, oh, well did they put a wristband on you? And I said—no. No, I don’t think they did. He said, ah. Like, 90% of the time you’ll go to these places and they’ll give you a foot bath and it’s barely functional. Because if you don’t have the wristband on it’s not fully completing the circuit of the ions.
carrie
									
Oh, sure.
ross
									
The negative ions through your body. Oh, okay.
carrie
									
Okay. Maybe she could tell I was over 21 so I didn’t need a wristband. [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
And then he was talking about alkalinity and how we also have these water purifiers. So this was another part of the whole package. You get these water purifiers and he says—yeah, most people’s water is like this—and he points to a cup of water he has that’s all yellow.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Y’know, like, pee, but—clear—it’s obviously not pee. Carrie: Ew! Okay.
ross
									
Uh, he says, y’know, most people drink water like this. But you wanna drink water like this and so he’s got water that’s dyed blue.
carrie
									
Oh!
ross
									
And—
carrie
									
No, I don’t want that, either. [Laughs.]
ross
									
Yeah. And he’s like—well doesn’t—it doesn’t have to be blue, but it’s alkaline. You need to get the pH balance correct. And so he had this kind of stainless steel metal thing that had some sort of filter built into it? I don’t know. It was this whole Duma jig that he unscrewed and poured water into and then he poured it out and it was a slightly different color and he’s like, see? Try that. Like, oh, okay. Good. [Both laugh.] It’s water.
carrie
									
We gotta talk about alkaline water sometime because I’m a little unclear on it. I looked it up one time like to see if there were studies out there and I felt like—oh, I think this is kinda like gluten free where a very small segment of the population could benefit?
ross
									
Oh, interesting!
carrie
									
But there’s no “there” there are far as like… thus, everyone should.
ross
									
Oh, yeah. I haven’t looked into it deeply but my recollection is that the body does a pretty good job of neutralizing everything anyway? So unless you’re eating a wildly imbalanced diet?
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
Or have some other kind of external factor? You’re gonna end up with the same pH balance across all of those substances within your body regardless.
carrie
									
Which I could believe. With the variety of humanity that some people do have, y’know, their bodies have trouble moderating those things. But it would be a specific subset of people.
ross
									
One of those things like—if you need it, your doctor will tell you you need it.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Yeah. Yeah. Ross: Sort of thing.
carrie
									
Most likely.
ross
									
So then he told me—well, it’s $1200 online, but you can get $300 off here if you buy it. I said, oh, so $900? He said, well, actually, $1000.
carrie
									
Oh!
crosstalk
									
Ross: So I was getting really confused… Carrie: 5+6=? [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
That must have been his presentation! So it turns out it was $1299, which he represented as $1200 normally.
carrie
									
Oh.
ross
									
Oh, yeah. But he was gonna give me the discount price of $1000. He’s like, oh, yeah, and we’ll throw in all these extra things. You get arrays—A-R-R-A-Y—array is the actual, like, thing that puts the attachment in the water that does that whole ionization process. So you get an extra one of those. You get the wristband. You get two of these water ionizers. And he said, oh, yeah. If you try to get like a Kangen water device that’ll be $3000. So this is a huge steal!
carrie
									
Oh, my goodness.
ross
									
So I was trying to sort of edge away and just move on to other things. I thought, eh, I kind of understand your claims. We’ve looked into this before. Uh, I had to kind of—
carrie
									
And you didn’t walk away without one, right?
ross
									
[Through laughter] Right. So I said—well, let me think about it. Yeah. I gotta keep walking around here Oh, yeah, I tried using the excuse that had worked with the massage guy. I said, oh, I don’t really wanna carry this around with me the whole time. He said, oh, we can do shipping right to your house. Like, oh, shoot. That’s always the worst. You put out an excuse [through laughter] and it’s the wrong excuse and now they’ve talked it down.
carrie
									
And now it feels like, oh, you’ve obligated yourself instead of excused yourself?
ross
									
[Through laughter] Exactly. And so I said, okay. Well maybe I’ll come back later. He said, oh, come back any time! Try out—y’know, we’ll give you a foot bath. It’s like only 30 seconds. Oh. Wow. Okay. So, uh, yeah. That was my ionic foot bath from Alimtox. There was, uh, a CBD oil booth with all the benefits and they had a—a big microscope—really fancy microscope there. You could tell they were proud of.
crosstalk
									
Ross: I wonder what they were doing with it— Carrie: Ooooh!
ross
									
—other than just having it there as a prop.
carrie
									
Yeah! I wonder if you could look at the CBD! Could you see… bd?
crosstalk
									
Ross: Ohh! That would—yeah! I like it! Carrie: Hmmmm!
ross
									
I like it! So while I was wandering around, what were you up to, Carrie?
carrie
									
I was probably off in a parallel universe. [Ross laughs.] Who knows what I was doing at that exact moment. You fall into a time warp at this place. But yeah, I wrote down a few exhibitors that stood out to me, and I also took a bunch of materials. Boy. All the paper you could ever need or want—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: —at this place. Ross: Oh, yeah.
carrie
									
Carrie’s got a fat file.
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
Of brochures and handouts and books.
ross
									
Ugh. So I’ll go through some of those, but as for exhibitors I actually talked to, there was a—a guy selling something called C60 Purple Power? Did you see this guy?
ross
									
Oh, yeah! I saw the—the signs for that and they had, like, a lot of super fit, athletic people—things that looked like stock photos—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —that they had just— Carrie: Yeah, yeah.
ross
									
Repurposed for this.
carrie
									
Right. And I think? I think his product had CBD in it? But I’m not even sure. I talked to him for a minute and I couldn’t really get a clear… read on like, okay, but what’s in it? What—why am I taking this great thing? But he told me that it was the ultimate antioxidant protection for people and pets. And here’s what’s really great about it—you cannot OD on it because it has no toxic level.
ross
									
Which tells me if it can’t hurt you—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Probably— Ross: Probably can’t help you either.
carrie
									
Probably isn’t doing anything much unless it’s like… a vitamin I’m deficient in.
ross
									
First, do no harm. That’s good. But then actually do something. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Uh, oh! I met some people from the International Association for Near-Death Studies?
crosstalk
									
Ross: Ooooh! I did—didn’t see that! Carrie: Yeah!
carrie
									
I had never heard of these people. They were in a tiny little alcove where they were getting very little foot traffic? But I thought they were pretty cool. Having talked to them for only ten minutes, but. [Laughs.] They—so the connect people who have had near-death experiences?
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
And… they actually said to me… apropos of nothing, just volunteered this, said—y’know, we’re open to spiritual and scientific explanations.
ross
									
Okay!
carrie
									
You don’t have to be religious. You don’t have to be spiritual. Which was kind of a… surprising thing to say in this environment? You’d think you would try to angle it the other way?
ross
									
Right, right. Like you would even need to have that be part of your pitch.
carrie
									
Yeah!
ross
									
Everybody here is spiritual.
carrie
									
Right!
ross
									
Unless they’re weirdos.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Right.
ross
									
What kind of weirdos would just come in and wander around—
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Who didn’t have those views? So I said something a—as we were talking I used the term “NDE,” short for near death experience? And he was very impressed. He was like—
crosstalk
									
Ross and Carrie: Ohhhhh!
ross
									
You know about the literature!
carrie
									
People don’t know—yeah! They don’t know that term unless they’ve had one! Have you had one? And I was like, oh, no. [Ross laughs.] But I do know it! But they seemed cool. They seemed to me kind of, like, the Fortean attitude. Of, like, maybe there’s a “there” there? We let everybody come in the room and talk and…
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
Make your own conclusions.
ross
									
Alright. Yeah. I like those folks.
carrie
									
Yeah.
crosstalk
									
Ross: That’s cool. Carrie: I think it’s pretty cool.
carrie
									
And they are supposed to have a conference coming up… FYI, people in Salt Lake City—they’re supposed to have a conference in September.
ross
									
Oh.
carrie
									
But…
crosstalk
									
Ross and Carrie: Who knows.
carrie
									
I’m supposed to get married in October and… who knows!
crosstalk
									
Ross: My friend, uh— Carrie: Fun.
ross
									
—just had to reschedule her wedding.
carrie
									
Oh, man!
ross
									
To next year.
carrie
									
When was hers going to be?
ross
									
August.
carrie
									
Oh, yeah. All of our vendors have been, like—no, no, no! It’s gonna be fine! You should do the thing! And we’re like, ehhh… is this just ‘cause this is your business model and you need clients? ‘Cause…
ross
									
My friend Natalie just posted the other day, like, oh, it’s so depressing to have to delete your Google Calendar entry for your own wedding.
carrie
									
Oh! Yeah. That’ll be me soon! Very likelyyy.
ross
									
Aww.
carrie
									
Who knows.
ross
									
I was gonna be speaking at SkeptiCal in June. That’s cancelled.
carrie
									
Yeah. I was supposed to see my mom next week in Wisconsin. That’s cancelled. But it’s okay! We’re protecting people who are vulnerable to a disease.
ross
									
That is worth the cost.
carrie
									
Okay, Ross. Look at all these materials!
ross
									
Okay—oop! [Thumping sound.]
carrie
									
Hear them?
ross
									
Yep. I hear them. I see them.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Carrie’s got materials. Carrie: They’re on.
carrie
									
On the table in front of me. With everything combined, I think I might have a good half a pound of literature.
ross
									
Oh! Easily!
carrie
									
Okay. So of course we’ve got Awareness Magazine here that’s go our gal Tatyana Mikushina on it.
ross
									
Mikushinaaa!
carrie
									
I think this magazine is entirely her people? Maybe?
ross
									
Well it’s easy to get on the cover if your people make the magazine! [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
I’ve noticed that. Yeah.
ross
									
Yeah. That worked for L. Ron Hubbard.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Mm-hm. Anyway. There’s Awareness Magazine if you’d like to take a look.
ross
									
Thank you.
carrie
									
You’re welllcome! Man. Look at this! This—okay. I’m holding the… exhibitor’s list pamphlet? Just what it sounds like—a list of the exhibitors? And it is… 42 pages long.
ross
									
Oh, wow!
carrie
									
I mean, there are some ads in it? But the main content is just literally a list. Like, one line for each vendor.
ross
									
Is that Rahm Emanuel on the back? Obama’s old chief of staff?
carrie
									
It’s, uh, Raphael and Emanuel—
ross
									
Oh.
carrie
									
—embodied by Oscil Tolksol. Um…
ross
									
That’s different.
carrie
									
I haven’t heard of any of those three people. Well, Emanuel. I’ve heard of him. He’s in the Bible.
ross
									
I went to pick up one of the conference programs and then realized, oh, this is the Spanish version. So I’ve this Spanish language conference. But it actually has, like, a whole different set of talks that they’re highlighting that are all in Spanish language! So then I also have my English language one. I got it.
carrie
									
Nice. That’s cool. Yeah. They had a whole arm of the exhibitor hall that was for Spanish speakers and I was so excited because—for a millisecond—I read the sign without my mind going—I don’t speak this language. Like, I just—
crosstalk
									
Ross: Oh, cool! I love that experience! Carrie: —read it! In Spanish!
carrie
									
Yeah! It was cool! And then, of course, I got to, like, whatever. The third line and was like, oh, this is Spanish. [Ross laughs.] Oh. I don’t—I don’t speak it that well.
ross
									
Oh, that’s great.
carrie
									
But I’ve been learning it.
ross
									
Nice.
carrie
									
I showed you this earlier, so we’re not gonna get your true reaction, but—this card, I just found it again. This Tarot card that was in my notes.
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
That I believe Dylan Monroe gave to me when he had decided I was sort of… on the ins.
ross
									
Yeah. [Carrie laughs.] A sympathetic soul.
carrie
									
Yeah. Now I’m picturing it, I believe he took out a Tarot deck and said—yeah. You know, I don’t do this for everybody; but pick a card. We’ll see what it means for you. And so I pulled Mdina—M-D-I-N-A—
ross
									
Mdina.
carrie
									
Yeah. I think he said, oh, that’s a good one. That’s a good one. I pocketed it. Never looked at it again until today when I realized it is a person holding up a severed human head. [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
I would assume John the Baptist? But… who knows.
carrie
									
Who knows!
crosstalk
									
Ross: Who knows. Carrie: And there’s a bunch of bees on it?
ross
									
And…
carrie
									
Did you already google Mdina?
ross
									
Yeah. It’s, uh, it’s a city in Malta.
carrie
									
Oh, right. Okay.
ross
									
And I think that plays into… I don’t know. The Knights Templar. Or one of his other…
carrie
									
Okay.
crosstalk
									
Ross: —Big narratives. Carrie: That makes sense.
ross
									
And, I don’t know. Something akin to an iron cross in the center? Not quite? But, y’know—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —some sort of— Carrie: Which does look like—
carrie
									
—his kind of…
crosstalk
									
Carrie: —artistry. Yeah. Ross: Symbol.
ross
									
Yeah. There’s a lot going on there. I’d love to hear that unpacked.
carrie
									
Yeah. Iron crosses are one of those things that—it’s not quite swastika level? But it is one of those, like, ahhh—enough white supremacists have coopted this that maybe come up with something else.
ross
									
Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Maybe just use something else!
ross
									
Yeah! _[Laughs.]_That’s right. There’s plenty of symbols out there!
carrie
									
Right! How about… a thumbs up?
ross
									
Yeah? [Laughs.]
carrie
									
I’d join your religion!
ross
									
That hasn’t been corrupted yet… entirely.
carrie
									
Oh, that’s true.
ross
									
Facebook. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Maybe I don’t wanna encourage them to do this so we just have to get rid of everything we’ve got?
ross
									
You know what? In that case, stick with all the bad ones. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Okay. What have we got here? Oh, here’s—this is from… Anu Alchemy. You met them.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: If you’re interested in looking at their official sell. Ross: [Deep voice] Ormus!
carrie
									
Oh, this really clears it up for me. Anu Alchemy. Ormus has collected a Navapashanam water by a loving community on full moon, solstice, equinox, or eclipse!
ross
									
Oh, good!
carrie
									
It’s made from many herbs and minerals. By an immortal Siddha from South India!
ross
									
And it’s food for the pineal gland!
carrie
									
Perfect! My pineal gland is starving! It assists in activating the light body; increases clairvoyance and memory; promotes mental clarity. Great. Clears up acne. Great.
ross
									
Oh! Could use that. Okay.
carrie
									
Acts as a natural Botox?
ross
									
Hm.
carrie
									
Relieves chronic pain. Reduced gum infection.
ross
									
I mean, isn’t Botox also natural? Just dangerous?
carrie
									
Oh, uh, yeah. Okay. Prevent gum disease. Grow healthier nails.
ross
									
What’s not to like?
carrie
									
I love anything that has claims that just jump from… the top of the pyramid to the bottom? So it activates the light body… and grows healthier nails! [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah. [Carrie laughs.] Oh, okay! It takes care of the spiritual and the mundane.
carrie
									
Yeah. But nothing in-between.
ross
									
The lofty heights and the lowest lows.
carrie
									
I guess… reduce gum infection, I’d say, is in-between.
ross
									
There we go.
carrie
									
Speaking of Botox, though—which can be injected at safe doses—
ross
									
Yes.
carrie
									
I, uh, now get it for my migraines and it’s the most effective thing I have ever gotten.
ross
									
Yeah?
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
So like it takes a little while to kick in, but then you’re migraine-free. Right?
carrie
									
Nearly.
ross
									
Okay!
carrie
									
I mean, it—without it? On a bad month where the barometric pressure is high and the air’s not clear, etcetera? I’ll have like 50% migraine days over the course of a month.
ross
									
Oh, yeah.
carrie
									
With them on a bad month? It’s like… three to four.
ross
									
Oh!
carrie
									
So significantly reduced.
ross
									
Well… worth it.
carrie
									
Yeah! Worth it.
ross
									
Where do they put it?
carrie
									
Oh, yeah. So apparently—this is what my neurologist told me. I haven’t second-guessed him and looked it up. But apparently there are these, like, 40 spots? That they… inject them into, no matter where you get your migraines from? Which is kind of counterintuitive? But supposedly it works the same either way?
crosstalk
									
Carrie: So they’ve just stuck with it? Ross: Wow. This sounds like meridians or something.
carrie
									
_[Through laughter ]_Yeah. But, so—there are, like, points in the base of your neck. The side of your neck. Your masseter muscles?
crosstalk
									
Ross: Oh! Yeah. Carrie’s pointing at her cheeks. Carrie: Which is a big one for me.
carrie
									
‘Cause I grind my teeth real bad at night and it keeps you from doing that. Your temples. Of course. Your knight’s temples.
ross
									
Mm-hm. Your templars.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Yeah. Your, like, lower hairline? Although—unfortunately—I—
ross
									
Carrie is rubbing her fingers over all these parts.
carrie
									
The last time I was like—can you not do the ones right there because it makes my eyes droop a little. And he was like, no, you gotta do this. And then he did it super-fast and now I just have a little bit of droopy in my left eye and not my right eye?
ross
									
Oh, wild.
carrie
									
Yeah. Can you see it? Now that I say it?
ross
									
Now that you say it, okay. Sure.
carrie
									
Yeah. And then… perhaps most importantly, they put it in your scalp.
ross
									
Oh!
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Wow. Okay! So they kinda hit all those spots—
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
—in one session.
carrie
									
Oh my gosh, it’s so fast. He just goes, bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup! ‘Cause he’s done it a million times.
ross
									
It’s like—be careful! It’s—
carrie
									
I know!
crosstalk
									
Ross: —Botox! Carrie: Actually—
carrie
									
My neurologist is really weird. [Laughs.]
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah. Okay.
carrie
									
But it’s working great. But—
ross
									
Wow. That’s fascinating.
carrie
									
The last time I saw him, I asked him if everybody was worried about COVID. And he was like, oh, not really here. But thanks, China. And I was like, oh noooo…
ross
									
Hmmm.
carrie
									
Oh, no. Just give me them Botox shots. Or… you’re holding a very sharp device.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: This isn’t the time. Ross: You know, come to think of it—
ross
									
—I used to get headaches probably about a quarter as often as you would.
carrie
									
Mm!
ross
									
But I haven’t had any for… many, many months!
carrie
									
Huh!
ross
									
Maybe, like, a year! I haven’t really thought about it!
crosstalk
									
Ross: But I haven’t been getting headaches! Carrie: I wonder what changed?
ross
									
Yeah, me too! Well, I should keep doing whatever I was doing.
carrie
									
When did you become a vegetarian? Can we blame it on that?
ross
									
Oh, no. That was, like, over three years ago.
carrie
									
Oh, [through laughter] Okay. Sorry.
ross
									
Oh, no, no regrets!
carrie
									
Happy Anniversary!
ross
									
Yeah. Thanks. No. It’s, uh, it’s a good thought. But yeah! I’m not sure, actually. But I’m glad not to have ‘em!
carrie
									
Yeah. That’s interesting. Y’know what? We should go back… try to figure out the last headache you had, and then figure out what the last treatment is we got before that?
ross
									
There we go! So we can give it full credit!
carrie
									
Yeah. Call ‘em back and be like—hey! Sweat lodge or whatever. [Ross laughs.] Okay. Here’s good news! There’s gonna be a new Travis Walton documentary— [Ross gasps.]
crosstalk
									
Ross: Whoa! Fire in the Sky! That guy! Carrie: Um, that’s going to debut at the Phoenix MUFON. Yep.
ross
									
Yeah! We got to meet him.
carrie
									
On my terrible ex-boyfriend’s birthday, November 14th!
ross
									
Okay!
carrie
									
Exactly nine months after…
crosstalk
									
Carrie: —Valentine’s Day. Ross: The Phoenix… MUFON.
ross
									
Okay! Well, that looks exciting. Hold onto that one!
carrie
									
Also, I really love the artwork.
ross
									
Not the bad ex-boyfriend.
carrie
									
Right. [Laughs.]
ross
									
That flyer.
carrie
									
God be with him. But isn’t that beautiful?
ross
									
Yeah! That—
carrie
									
I love the art.
ross
									
Oh, yeah. That’s a great painting.
carrie
									
I wonder who did that.
ross
									
Yeah. I feel like it’s a variation on… previous renditions I’ve seen of that abduction encounter. But yeah, it’s got all the elements! It’s got his friends in the truck there watching him. Yeah! That’s pretty cool.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
I like it.
carrie
									
I like it a lot. I saved this just because I thought it was great that—among all of this stuff making these huge claims—there was one trifle for just [tiny voice] a place you can go camping.
ross
									
Aww!
carrie
									
[Tiny, aged voice] If you’d like to go camping, we have a beautiful place to go camping.
ross
									
That’s the equivalent of my massage guy. I’m like, aw, you just—you just have something nice.
carrie
									
It actually does look beautiful! It is… the Terra Nova Center in North Carolina.
ross
									
There ya go, people! That’s where you can go!
carrie
									
Uh, this is also—I’ll remind you—the place where I found out about Kimberly Meredith.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Yes! Carrie: Of the Healing Trilogy.
ross
									
You may remember Carrie’s [through laughter] interview with Kimberly.
carrie
									
She and I are very close now. We’re really good friends.
ross
									
And we may have another interview with Carrie and somebody else that she met from…
carrie
									
Yes!
crosstalk
									
Ross: The Conscious Life Expo! Carrie: We will!
ross
									
We’ll definitely have one more. We might even have…
carrie
									
Yeah, that’s true!
ross
									
A third! [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Yeah. That’s true! I guess this is a good moment to tell you some updates about Kimberly.
ross
									
Yeah!
carrie
									
Okay. So… Psytech actually followed up and sent more specific statements about her… claim that she got a double-blind test there.
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
Yeah. So… they basically—they were really clear that she had not completed a double-blind study there. And she had not even completed a study there.
ross
									
Cool.
carrie
									
So… what she had done is—
crosstalk
									
Ross: Cool, Kimberly. Carrie: [Laughs.]
carrie
									
She had gone for what they call a “lab day” or “study day”? Where the person wants to, uh, experiment with their powers. Get some good equipment involved. Get some good readings. Which is good. Um, and she—I think she had paid for this out of pocket. But… he said… that they made several proposals to her for a formal research study and she didn’t choose any of the proposals and go forward.
ross
									
This sounds so familiar to me with my work with the IIG—now CFIIG—talking to a claimant for a while and eventually realizing—okay. This is just not coming together.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
Either they’re not willing to abide by a protocol or they just see that—oh, shoot, I’m gonna have to actually demonstrate this and they sort of dropped off the conversation. But then later on they pop up somewhere else and say—hey, y’know, I was validated by this group! That’s not how this went down.
carrie
									
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ross
									
So good on you for checking with Psytech.
carrie
									
Thank you! I actually really liked talking with them. I thought they were… pretty cool!
ross
									
Awesome.
carrie
									
And then he did send me… he did send me the informal report they had given her about the images that she had. Those thermographs, if you recall?
ross
									
Yes. That were kind of cut off so you couldn’t see the dates on one side and… uh, the posing was different from picture to picture. Didn’t seem like it was too useful of information.
carrie
									
Yeah. So… this rep noted in his report—his informal report—that the results don’t conclude that she had caused any notable improvements.
ross
									
Oh. Okay. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
So. To sum up: not a study. Not double-blinded. Not single-blinded. Not double-blinded even by her definition of the term, which is that you go back over and over.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Right. It—didn’t she—afterward—after this… episode with you talking to her came out, didn’t she post on Twitter an actual definition of double-blind?
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Yes. That’s right. Ross: —studies. As if she knew that to begin with?
carrie
									
Yeah. Just said—this is what double-blind means. Just apropos of nothing. Just sharing this info.
ross
									
Well, if nothing else happened, at least now she knows what a double-blinded study is actually supposed to be.
carrie
									
If nothing else happens, I got a Trump nickname. Because she tweeted about me and called me Carrie Poopy. [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.] Um, yeah. She seems to be a little hung up on this interview. She tweets about it a lot.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Then deletes the tweet. Ross: Yeah.
carrie
									
Y’know. I—I kind of feel for her. But.
ross
									
She, uh, asked to have two of our Facebook photos removed.
carrie
									
Yep.
ross
									
She filed complaints.
carrie
									
Yeah. Which—they were fair use, so we said, no, no. We’re going to keep those. Also… her LinkedIn profile says that she went to UCLA Nursing School, so I contacted them. And they said—nope. We don’t have any record of her ever having been enrolled, much less completing. But they said she actually was an employee, and we’re not allowed to comment on employee matters. We can’t tell you more than that. But she was an employee.
ross
									
Interesting! Okay.
carrie
									
Now, of course—you could work there and you could be the line cook. You could be… the head neurosurgeon.
ross
									
I didn’t mention this before, but—on her IMDB profile—by the way—I don’t think we mentioned this before—she has played a nurse on TV many times.
carrie
									
Yes!
ross
									
So she [through laughter] has many roles as a background nurse or assistant nurse. Under the Trivia section in IMDB? It says—she is also a licensed nurse. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Cool.
ross
									
False. Not even just misleading. False.
carrie
									
Seemingly false. Yes. We have no reason to think that’s true.
ross
									
Because—as many have talked about their—there are different levels of certification.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
You could be an LVN; an LPN; a CNA.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
And all of those are helpful and—and good positions to have. But—
carrie
									
Some of which are considered nurses.
ross
									
Right. But there is even some debate as to… at which level of nursing you can just kind of use the phrase “I am a nurse.” I—
carrie
									
Right. Also all those things? She wasn’t those, either.
ross
									
Right.
carrie
									
As far as I can tell. There was an entire part of the audio that I ended up editing just because it was so confusing. Where I was saying, like, are you saying you were a different kind of nurse? What are you saying?
crosstalk
									
Carrie: But it just became so circular. Yeah. Ross: She had ample opportunity to clarify.
ross
									
If she was, y’know, an assistant nurse. Or…
carrie
									
Right. Licensed vocational nurse.
ross
									
Right.
carrie
									
Yeah. Um, and I had looked up on their respective websites, as well, before this interview. Like, okay. Was she that? And tried to find—and listen. Here’s the thing. I don’t mean that I knew before the interview that she wasn’t a nurse. I really didn’t know! But I wanted to know—what is your answer to “why can’t I find it”? If it had been—oh, yeah. It was in this other state and they don’t report to the federal registry. Or something! And you know, those things happen!
crosstalk
									
Ross: Right! Or—or it lapsed last year— Carrie: I would’ve accepted that answer!
ross
									
—because I’m not actively working in that profession.
carrie
									
That would still show up in a search, but.
ross
									
But at least that could’ve been…
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Mm-hm. Part of the explanation. Ross: —an—yeah.
carrie
									
Yeah. That’s true. Yeah! So… [sighs.] I don’t think this question would even come off as unfriendly. If you had a nursing license. [Ross laughs.] And said to yourself, oh, that’s weird.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: You couldn’t find it? Oh! Ross: It’s only—
ross
									
It’s only when you have zero answer that suddenly it’s very rude.
carrie
									
[Laughs.] Right. Probably. Anyway! I hope she’s well. Um— [Ross laughs.] Oh, look at that! Here’s a David John Oates trifold.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Your buddy. Ross: David John Oates!
ross
									
Yes! Reverse speech!
carrie
									
I, uh, I also have an update about him!
ross
									
Okay! What do you got?
carrie
									
So—since he’s Australian I reached out to my friend at the Australian Skeptics.
ross
									
Oh, yeah!
carrie
									
Um, a really lovely group of people. And… Trish Hann, who’s on the board there, uh, she got back to me. I—I asked her, do you guys have any experience looking at David John Oates’s work? And she said, boy howdy do we! Uh, and so for years—I mean, back into the early ‘90s—they’ve been sort of tracking his philosophy and checking it. Testing it. And they did a—a great little independent study where they got four groups of people and played them the same clips and then they like—
ross
									
Ah, nice!
carrie
									
—got Group A sort of primed to hear the thing David John Oates says you’d hear and then Group B primed to hear something else that you could hear and then Group C wasn’t even told and—y’know. Anyway. So they were very, very thorough and their finding, at least, was—yeah. It just matters whether you primed the person or not.
ross
									
Aw. I’m glad you reached out to her. I meant to talk to our friend Richard Saunders—
carrie
									
Oh, right!
ross
									
Who’s an Australian skeptic as well. And, uh, delightful person. Who runs the, uh, Skeptic Zone podcast.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
‘Cause I’m sure he would have stories to tell about David John Oates as well.
carrie
									
Totally.
ross
									
And [through laughter] speaking of which—while I was editing that episode and just looking for some of the clips that he had mentioned and used during the presentation, I found that he had—on the day of the 2016 election—
carrie
									
Uh-oh.
ross
									
He had uploaded two videos. One was back masking audio of… Hilary Clinton.
carrie
									
‘K.
ross
									
And the other of Donald Trump.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
And all of the Trump ones were… very rah-rah pro-America, and all of the Hilary ones were about how insidious and horrible she is. And planning to enslave the world, etcetera.
carrie
									
That’s interesting since he was willing to do that one backmasking where he said he was saying—I’m trying to scam you! Or something like that.
ross
									
Right. Like, he was willing to be a little more equanimical in the talk, but, uh, very clearly he had selected all of the pro-Trump ones and then all of the anti-Hilary ones. And he had sent this out in a newsletter to all of his followers, and had linked these two videos and said “I hope you know which choice to make today.”
carrie
									
Oh, wow.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Good job, David John Oates! Carrie: It’d be funny to just—
carrie
									
—comment on that, like, oh, whoa, I didn’t know—okay, I’ll vote for Clinton! No, no, no! No! No!
ross
									
[Through laughter] Right? A little, uh, little bit of Australian interference in our elections.
carrie
									
Oh, true! Yeah.
ross
									
Hopefully— [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
He did it—
ross
									
I hope it influenced very few people. I can only imagine. Of his subscribers who wasn’t already convinced that they were gonna vote for Trump. Y’know, who was convinced by his backmask audio. But still, I do not appreciate the effort, David Oates.
carrie
									
Well speaking of him, I did submit a FBI FOIA request for whatever contributions he made to the Waco siege.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Oh, yes! Okay. Can’t wait to see what comes back. I sent Carrie a search results from his website and there is a lot of uses of slurs. We mentioned that a little bit.
carrie
									
[Sighs.] Yeah.
ross
									
And someone was commenting on our Facebook page that they’re from Australia and this is a common thing where you have kind of this older generation who’s sort of…
carrie
									
Mm. Mm-hm.
ross
									
Likes the freedom that they have to still use some of these taboo phrases.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
So he might just kind of fall within that societal slice.
carrie
									
Yeah. An edgelord of a certain age? [Both laugh.] An age-lord? Anyway. I’m actually friends with him on Facebook now. And, uh—I sent—
ross
									
Oh, you’re best friends.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] So I sent you this this morning. A screenshot of this. But he posted that COVID-19 was made in a lab in Wuhan and the media’s finally reporting this, but he had actually heard it in the backmasking recently. Uh, sort of taking credit that he had prognosticated this outcome. I was like, I’ve been hearing this— [Ross sighs.] —the whole time from quote-unquote “alternative”…
crosstalk
									
Ross: You did not come up with this. Carrie: —unsourced media.
ross
									
And I liked how you asked him, like, cool. Where was this from? Which— [Carrie laughs.] —because he just generally referenced that there was backmasking. Yeah! Okay. Which audio were you listening to? Who said it?
carrie
									
Yeah!
ross
									
Subconsciously?
carrie
									
Well, it was—someone else had asked that as well. And he did say “Trump,” but he didn’t like link to—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: —the audio or whatever. Yeah. Ross: The actual audio.
ross
									
So we could even hear the quality of the… of the phrase.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
“From China, it’s bad!”
carrie
									
It was “the weapon—I lost the dare.” Something like that.
crosstalk
									
Ross: [Through laughter] So—ahhhh! Ahhh! Carrie: While talking about COVID. Yeah. Something like that.
ross
									
This is—he’s definitely one of those people where—if he was more prominent and people took him more seriously—if Oprah had catapulted him like she did Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz—I would be very anti-him? But I just kind of like him because he’s a smaller figure and hasn’t, uh… caused that much harm as far as I can tell.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
But he would if he could.
carrie
									
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That’s probably right. Which brings up a whole other thing about whether you talk about these people when they’re tiny. I’m for it, as long as you’re always giving the other side of the story.
ross
									
Linda Moulton Howe! [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Okay. Back to my stack of papers. Ross.
ross
									
Hey, Carrie!
carrie
									
Would you like to go to Atlantis?
ross
									
Yes, please.
carrie
									
Well, great. For the first time ever, you can.
ross
									
Yessss!
carrie
									
March—oh! We missed it. March 2nd-8th, 2020.
ross
									
Noooooo!
carrie
									
I know. But you know how you do it? You take ayahuasca.
ross
									
Oh, yeah. Okay. I saw this. Yeah. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
And then, uh, presumably someone leads you on a guided meditation to Atlantis.
ross
									
Are you saying I could’ve gone to Atlantis when I was on ayahuasca?
carrie
									
Yeah! You should’ve!
crosstalk
									
Ross: Oh, man! Carrie: You could go to the fucking moon, Ross!
ross
									
I went to Las Vegas! [Through laughter] What a wasted opportunity.
carrie
									
Did you?
ross
									
Yeah. One of my visions— [Carrie laughs.] —was of—
carrie
									
Being in Vegas?
ross
									
Las Vegas, yeah.
carrie
									
That’s funny.
ross
									
And I felt complete emptiness. And futility.
carrie
									
Oh, right. Well, that’s… that’s an accurate vision of Vegas.
ross
									
Mm-hm! [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Um…
ross
									
I’m sorry, Vegas. We love you.
carrie
									
I don’t.
ross
									
We love the people there.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: I like—Yeah. The people there are good. Ross: The city’s—
carrie
									
City, pretty bad.
crosstalk
									
Ross: City? Pretty shitty. Carrie: But hi, Becky Campana!
carrie
									
Who let us stay at her house! She’s very sweet.
ross
									
You’re the best! See? [Carrie laughs.] Good people in Las Vegas.
carrie
									
Um—
ross
									
If you’re in Las Vegas, we’re saying we like you!
carrie
									
Exactly! [Ross laughs.] Oh yeah. So here’s that, uh, Wellsong Energetics people that I, uh, stole their medicine at the talk.
ross
									
Can you imagine us doing a live show in Las Vegas? [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Huh. Trying to picture that. Is that a good idea or a bad idea? You’re thinking bad?
ross
									
I was thinking bad, but now I’m giving it a second thought. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
I mean, there are aliens do it.
ross
									
Because I have rejected it outright, now my brain tells me—maybe you need to take this seriously!
carrie
									
Oh, yeah! You know? Let’s talk about Lebanon, Kansas.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Nope. No. [Laughs.] Carrie: Oh. Dammit.
ross
									
If you’re a MaxFun subscriber, make sure to listen to the Bonus Episode—
carrie
									
Mm-mm.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Of the Judge John Hodgman show. Carrie: You can skip it. [Laughs.]
ross
									
No, it’s a good one! You wanna hear this! Because—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —Carrie and I have a dispute— Carrie: It’s not important. It’s not important.
ross
									
—and can you imagine who won the dispute? [Both laugh.]
carrie
									
Doesn’t matter. You don’t need to listen. [Ross laughs.] Uh, this is fun. Claymonics—words transformed into sacred geometry. Which basically… I think are Magic Eyes?
ross
									
Oh! Like where they have that distorted image and if you kind of properly focus your eyes you can see the 3D image?
carrie
									
Kinda. Well, okay. It is in that—okay. The fourth one is… a grid that you can do that thing with your eyes? But it would be the background?
ross
									
Ohhhh. Okay.
carrie
									
Anyway. So maybe not.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: But claim— Ross: Are you good at those?
carrie
									
Yeah. I can do it without doing this.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Oh, impressive! Carrie: I just, like—
carrie
									
Kinda cross my eyes and I see it. Yeah. They’ve kinda got a Teal Swan thing going on. Uh! Speaking of—
ross
									
Ooh, pretty! Okay. Takes me a little work but I can do it.
carrie
									
‘Cause, y’know, Teal Swan does those, uh—
ross
									
Energetic paintings?
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
I’m still trying to digest this thing you handed me that’s about EMF Solutions and Vibrational Medicine?
carrie
									
Yeah. That was—
ross
									
Oh, that’s the TBD! Right!
carrie
									
Yes.
ross
									
“To Be Determined.” Yeah. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
The medicine that’s made out of sand and rocks?
ross
									
Uh-huh. Okay.
carrie
									
Imbued with whatever you need it to be imbued with?
ross
									
Cool, cool, cool.
carrie
									
Speaking of Teal Swan—backtrack for a second—she is selling on her website masks. That have these frequency paintings she does on them. And are called things like “The Cure” and “Immunity.” So you’re supposed to—the idea of her frequency paintings is that she manifests that thing—
ross
									
Mm-kay.
carrie
									
So the implication here… is that you have immunity or the cure.
ross
									
But you’re wearing a mask, at least?
carrie
									
But you’re still wearing a mask.
ross
									
Hey, if I gotta choose—alright. At least wear the mask and think something else is happening?
carrie
									
Uh-huh. Okay. Well, I reported it to the FDA.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Alright. Magic feather.
carrie
									
Right. [Laughs.] Wow. What—man. I didn’t even get to read this whole thing before, but these are people who believe chemtrails are real and… GMOs are bad. That kind of thinking?
ross
									
Okay. Okay.
carrie
									
One of the rhetorical questions on the front is: “Why are bees getting Alzheimer’s just like people?”
ross
									
Are they?
carrie
									
I don’t… think so.
ross
									
I was hoping the question would just be—why are bees? [Carrie laughs. Ross joins in.] ‘Cause that’s almost a better question.
carrie
									
Why is there an illegal federal gag order on the nation’s weathermen?
ross
									
Is there?
carrie
									
I don’t think there is.
ross
									
I don’t know if I trust these premises.
carrie
									
Anyway. This is—
ross
									
Oh, the ad is shaped like an iPhone!
carrie
									
And it says “Google” at the top because people in these communities love to tell you to just Google it.
ross
									
That’s so weird because Google is part of the conspiracy and they’re controlling things and yet also they can use it to look up all of this—
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
—bad information.
carrie
									
And it’s how you can see that secret structure in Antarctica.
ross
									
Same as how you have all the Flat Earthers talking about how YouTube censors them. “Now go look at this YouTube video to learn the truth!”
carrie
									
Right.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Hmmm. Carrie: Well.
carrie
									
Are they just shitty censors? Or— [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Right!
carrie
									
They’re terrible at it? Or…
ross
									
Right. Oh man. All this stuff about Bill Gates trying to introduce the—either the Mark of the Beast or One World Government or some sort of toxin inside the vaccine—it’s like—this narrative! I just don’t understand how it’s playing out in your heads! Because—
carrie
									
Is it playing out in your heads?
ross
									
Right! If this is… what he wanted—if he had all this control—then wouldn’t we already have the vaccine ready?
carrie
									
Oh, good point! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
ross
									
And he’d be offering it now and we’d all be gladly taking it?
carrie
									
Oh, yeah!
ross
									
Why— [sighs.]
carrie
									
In fact, just—
ross
									
Mmm. There’s no logic here!
carrie
									
—tell us it—yeah. Tell us it cures something else that’s uncurable. Like—
ross
									
Yeah! Right! If it’s all staged, stage it coherently!
carrie
									
Right! Like, we don’t’ have…
ross
									
Let’s tank the economy that’s—that’s hurting everybody! It’s hurting the rich and powerful as well! I mean, not—not as much as, uh, not as much as most of the population; but still. They’re losing money, too. They don’t like it. They want business to go on as usual.
carrie
									
For the most part. I’m sure there are some profiteers. But—
ross
									
Of course.
carrie
									
—very few.
ross
									
Of course. Still. I just—I don’t understand the underlying logic here.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Yeah. You—well— Ross: Sorry. This is—
ross
									
—just me venting.
carrie
									
Yeah. And so to get around that problem, you decide these people are not like you.
ross
									
Right.
carrie
									
Bill Gates is somehow a completely different animal with completely different motivations than me. Uh—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Classic, classic. Ross: Mm. And all of this is a façade—
ross
									
—and a ruse and—yeah. Anything that seems one way is actually the other.
carrie
									
Uh, one of, uh, our favorite products—the Water Smacker— [Ross laughs.] —has an amazing— [Laughs.] Amazing leaflet that I’ll have to put up.
ross
									
I totally missed this. I don’t even know what part of the show floor it was on.
carrie
									
It was on the underground… the subterranean floor.
ross
									
Oh, okay! I probably walked by them and didn’t even know it. How does it smack the water?
carrie
									
[Laughs.] I’m not sure. Let’s see. Water Smackers’ patent was granted on… January 8th, 2019! Okay! No other drinking water enhancer in the world does what Water Smacker does.
ross
									
Okay. I am willing to cede that.
carrie
									
To help hear your body without drugs.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Okay. I’m not willing to cede that.
carrie
									
Invented by a retired DOD scientist—oh, the Department of Defense.
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
Patent granted on— [Laughs.] January 8th, 2019. Okay. It will micro-clustered 100%-negative hydrogen ionize and charge your drinking water with a spark. It helps clean out blood plaque; alkalinize your body’s blood pH; runs on one watt of energy. 100% preventative healthcare. Way more info at WaterSmacker.com.
ross
									
Y’know, “confidence man” is really the right term. [Carrie laughs.] For this kind of scam. Because… y’know, I think… we and our audience are now sort of geared—when we see phrases like this “micro-clustered hydrogen ionized; 100% negatively-charged drinking water!” We stop and think! Like, okay. How do you unpack that? What does that mean? Does that mean anything? It could mean nothing! You know, we’re aware of that. But I think a lot of people just look at this, y’know, like my mother-in-law. Y’know. Would look at this and say, oh, wow! Okay! Well, he knows what he’s talking about and he’s saying things so I… believe this!
carrie
									
He got a patent on January 8th, 2019!
ross
									
Yeah! And the important thing is just to say enough… to establish that confidence, and then say a whole lot more—
carrie
									
Uh-huh.
ross
									
That people don’t know how to process. And they’re like, oh, well I trust you! Why would you lie to me? Why would you be a jerk?
carrie
									
Sure. This is exactly what other people are saying about, like, Bill Gates or whatever, though.
ross
									
He does not get that benefit of the doubt.
carrie
									
Yeah. And the backside is, like, testimonials? Not credited to anyone?
ross
									
Oh, I—I see what you’re saying. So that Bill Gates is taking advantage of people’s trust.
carrie
									
Right. Like, they’re probably say, oh, y’know, he says enough smart things to you that you’re like, [makes dumb noises] okay! I’ll believe you, Bill Gates! Like a blind walking into the wall mime?
ross
									
Right. Except the things he says pan out with the World Health Organization and places with actual active scientists and scientific consensus. So yeah. I guess then it’s just, uh, which camp do you choose to buy into?
carrie
									
Right. And is that particular… tactic… like, that particular tactic is good to notice!
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Um…
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
But yeah. It’s not the entire equation.
ross
									
Water Smacker. With an exclamation mark! This flyer could save your life! Wait, I’m picking it back up now. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
It was also really expensive. I can’t remember…
ross
									
No, no, Carrie! This says “ONLY $350.”
carrie
									
Oh! You know what? Actually, I thought it was a lot more than that. That—that is too much?
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
But…
ross
									
These other systems will cost you $1500-$5000.
carrie
									
I would be curious to look up the patent.
ross
									
Oh, though there is a new Pro model—$550!
carrie
									
Ooooh!
ross
									
Dual-powered! It runs on two watts! Whoa! Be still, my heart.
carrie
									
Okay. [Laughs.] Huh. [Pause.] Huh. Um— [Both laugh.] I would be curious to see what that patent looks like. I bet it’s… pretty nuts. Do you feel like looking it up? It’s on January 8th— [through laughter] 2019. Okay, friends, we’ve found it.
ross
									
[Laughs.] Okay. You got the date right!
carrie
									
Yeah!
ross
									
Capture and regeneration of subtle energy resonance signals.
carrie
									
Abstract: systems and methods for capture, recording, and regeneration of subtle energy resonance signals are described herein.
ross
									
A system for capturing and recording the signals may include an antennae array disposed within an electromagnetic shield; a signal processor; and a memory coupled to at least one processor.
carrie
									
The antennae array may include at least one antenna comprising a conductive disk and an amplifier circuit board. The antennae array detecting and receiving subtle energy resonance signals from a source.
ross
									
The signal processor converts the analog signals into digital signals. Which are then stored into the memory.
carrie
									
The electromagnetic shield houses the antennae array; minimizes electromagnetic interference with the received signal.
ross
									
Such a controlled environment ensures the purity of the recorded subtle energy resonance signals for regeneration.
carrie
									
Regeneration is accomplished with a second antenna coupled to a digital regeneration device for short-range broadcasting affecting manifestations of subtle energy resonance in a subject.
ross
									
Boy, I’m as smacked as the water. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
What I love about this is the whole point of a patent is like—gotta make sure it’s mine before someone steals it!
ross
									
Right.
carrie
									
The idea that someone would be like—oh, dammit! [Ross laughs.] I was gonna [through laughter] do that!
ross
									
Yeah. Yeah. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
I was gonna play messages into the water using a complicated disk system but this guy got to it first! [Ross laughs.] On January 8th, 2019!
ross
									
Which is a good point. I think he’s less concerned about someone stealing this and more concerned about being able to say—I got a patent!
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
After two years of waiting!
carrie
									
Right. And if you don’t know what a patent is, you might be impressed! All it means is this is mine. Not this works.
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Not this does the thing it says it does. Not this is regulated. Just—this is mine.
ross
									
And that so often happens with say, like, FDA approval. Which—
carrie
									
Mmm. Mm-hm.
ross
									
—he does not have for this device. But the FDA determined it won’t kill you.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
That doesn’t mean the FDA said—this is awesome! You should use it.
carrie
									
Right. Of course, this—ugh. What a beautiful flyer. This—this is one of those Orgone Pyramids—
ross
									
Oh, yeah. It looks like—I don’t know. That would be, like, Sedona, Arizona or something like that? We’ve got some red rocks in the background and wow! An inverted? Pyramid? This woman’s sitting in the middle of?
carrie
									
Yeah. Uh-huh.
ross
									
There’s a lot going on here.
carrie
									
Um, I love that they have five-sided—Orgon Pyramid that you can put over your entire bed for a mere— [Ross laughs.] $4,469.
ross
									
Can you imagine how gigantic that thing would be? To—
carrie
									
That’s what she said.
ross
									
—fit your entire king-sized bed? And it’s not like fitting it neatly ‘cause it’s a pyramid.
carrie
									
Yeah. If you want to buy me this, I’ll do it.
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
I’ll put it up, listeners. But you have to buy me a $4500 pyramid during a time when we all don’t have money.
ross
									
Are you talking to me or some unspecified listener?
carrie
									
An unspecified listener.
ross
									
Okay!
carrie
									
A rich, unspecified—Jeff Bezos. If you’re listening. Number one, treat your employees better. Number two, buy me a pyramid!
ross
									
Alright.
carrie
									
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry to interrupt.
ross
									
Yeah? Uh-huh?
carrie
									
Oh, Ross! Hey!
ross
									
Oh hi! Carrie!
carrie
									
Hey! Oh, I’m glad you’re here. Um—
ross
									
Carrie, is it?
carrie
									
Yes. Mm-hm. Rossss…ton? Rosston?
ross
									
Yeah.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Okay. Good to see you. Ross: That’s me. Mm-hm.
carrie
									
I’m so glad you’re here. Because I wanted to tell you how much I love mail.
ross
									
Okay. I’m glad we had this conversation!
carrie
									
And you’re the first male in the room. [Laughs fakely.]
ross
									
IIIII… see what you did there. Well, uh, how would you send mail? Do you just drop it off in a post office box?
carrie
									
Sometimes! But when I wanna get really professional? You know what I use?
ross
									
What do you use?
carrie
									
ShipStation. You know about ShipStation?
ross
									
Oh, yeah! Don’t they work with all of the major carriers, including USPS, FedEx, UPS and even Amazon Fulfillment to help you compare and choose the best shipping solution for you and your customer?
carrie
									
Yeah. You’re thinking of the right place.
ross
									
Okay. That’s what came to mind, but.
carrie
									
It’s—yeah. It’s a really good service and you encapsulated it so beautifully. I feel like… you could work for them. Like, that is a sentence they would write about themselves, it’s so spot on!
ross
									
Well, thank you!
carrie
									
Yeah! No prob! Y’know, as folks adapt to this changing world, we’re all going to be buying more stuff online than ever before.
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
So if you’re an e-commerce seller—which you could be.
ross
									
Yeah! I bet a lot of our listeners are making cool stuff and sending it out into the world. And if they listen to our show, I’m sure it’s all legit. They’re not selling…
carrie
									
Crap?
ross
									
Yes.
carrie
									
Exactly! So. I’m glad you’re all doing that. But are you ready to meet the demands of our new delivery culture? Because you can be ready! With ShipStation.
ross
									
And no matter what you’re selling—whether you’re selling on Amazon or Etsy or your own website—ShipStation brings all your orders into one simple interface.
carrie
									
They even offer big discounts on shipping costs, so now any business can access the same postage discounts that are usually reserved for those large Fortune 500 companies. You’ll always know that you’re getting the best deal.
ross
									
And again, you’ve got that selection of all the major carriers. So right now—
carrie
									
Carrie-ers.
ross
									
Ohhhh!
carrie
									
Mm-kay!
ross
									
You can get your package ac-Ross country—
carrie
									
Okay! Okay! I like it!
ross
									
And right now, Oh No, Ross and Carrie Listeners can try ShipStation free for 60 days! When you use the offer code “Oh No.” Make sure your business is ready to meet the demands of delivery culture. Get started with ShipStation.com today!
carrie
									
Click on the microphone at the top of the home page and type in “oh no.” That’s ShipStation.com, then enter offer code “oh no.”
ross
									
ShipStation.com—make ship happen!
carrie
									
Get it? Okay! I think this might be our favorite person.
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Carrie: At the entire expo. Ross: Ohhhhh… myyyyy.
carrie
									
Besides Linda Moulton Howe. Who—maybe he should marry.
ross
									
She might be right for him! Except he’s looking for a much younger lady.
carrie
									
Oh, is he?
crosstalk
									
Ross: Yes. That’s— Carrie: Has he said that?
ross
									
—part of it.
carrie
									
[Sighing quietly] Oh, god.
ross
									
You have to be hot, too.
carrie
									
Okay. Well.
ross
									
And much younger than him. Okay. This is—
carrie
									
FindingMyRepublicanGoddess.com.
ross
									
Dot com.
carrie
									
[Singing] Dot commm!
ross
									
What’s the guy’s name again?
carrie
									
Reverend William? I think?
ross
									
Okay, yeah. Reverend William.
carrie
									
[Sighing] Okay. So—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: So— Ross: So he’s this guy— [Carrie laughs.]
ross
									
Who’s a biiiiig Trump supporter? But also really into… spirituality and—
carrie
									
Astrology.
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
Jesus. That’s part of it.
ross
									
Yeah. So he’s got this interesting intersection of Venn diagrams. But he also wants to find a beautiful woman to accompany him in his adventures and be his life partner.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
And he’s just looking for that Republican goddess. He’s gonna treat her so good.
carrie
									
Yup. And so he hands out these cards. On the front, we have three pictures of him that are fine. I mean, nothing’s wrong with him. But, y’know, they’re sort of like mall… y’know. Cheap headshot kind of pose.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Yeah. It’s fine. Carrie: Things.
ross
									
One of them is like—ooh! I wanna be an actor! Here’s my reel! Look at—y’know, look how I can express!
carrie
									
Right. Right.
crosstalk
									
Ross: I got my hands up in it. See? I—I’m funny! I can be a funny guy! Carrie: He’s doing—almost a chef’s kiss? Yeah.
ross
									
He looks like he’s, uh, tall. He’s wearing a—a hat in most photos.
carrie
									
I would guess he’s, like, 65? Ish?
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
Uh, Caucasian gentleman. Balding. So on the front here, we have Copyright 2019. A lot happened in 2019.
ross
									
Sure did.
carrie
									
By FindingMyRepublicanGoddess.com, all rights reserved. Written consent is required to copy from this card.
ross
									
Okay. Well don’t copy from it.
carrie
									
What counts as copying from it? Am I copying from it right now? Oh, no! Photos taken in September 2019. If I handed you this card, it doesn’t necessarily mean I’m interested.
ross
									
Oh, wow. What’s the phrase? Uh, beggars can’t be choosers?
carrie
									
Uh-huh.
ross
									
He’s a chooser.
carrie
									
Yeah. I feel like he’s kind of taking pride in… there’s probably only one woman in the whole world who meets all my criteria.
ross
									
Right. And I’ve created my own dating website that’s just… for me.
carrie
									
Uh-huh.
ross
									
To find you.
carrie
									
And it’s one of—
ross
									
And everybody else gets to hear about this.
carrie
									
Right. And it’s one of those weeding technique quizzes? Where it’s like—here’s one question. If you chose the only right answer, you can continue.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Anything else and I shove you out. Ross: Let’s do it, Carrie! Let’s—
carrie
									
Oh, I’ve done it. But we can do it again.
ross
									
Yeah. I didn’t get too far with this quiz. But this is just— [Laughs.] It’s too entertaining.
carrie
									
Some of them are so specific and some are ridiculously vague. Like… on the back of this, it says—do you love everyone, but love different people to different degrees? [Laughs.]
ross
									
Well I assume that’ll make sense to his Republican goddess.
carrie
									
Well it makes sense to me! It’s—
ross
									
Okay. Finding—
carrie
									
—everybody.
ross
									
FindingMyRepublicanGoddess.com. I am looking for a Republican goddess for marriage.
carrie
									
Oh, wow. Okay.
ross
									
This is my own personal website that I have created to help me find her. No other men are here, just me. If you are a single woman who might potentially be interested, then I invite you to take my virtual hand and let me guide you through this website. I’m a healthy 68. I’m looking for a woman born in any year from 1950 to 1995.
carrie
									
Oh, wow. Okay. Wait. 1950, though. That would be…
ross
									
So this year you would be turning… 70.
carrie
									
Yeah!
ross
									
Okay!
carrie
									
So you could be his age.
ross
									
But you could also be 25.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
Who takes excellent care of herself. I’m a natural-born US citizen residing in Los Angeles, California, USA. [Through laughter] As opposed to— [Carrie laughs.] —Los Angeles, California…
carrie
									
Los Angeles, Baja California. [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
I will consider relocating within the United States, but am unwilling to move to another country if the woman I’m looking for lives outside the United States.
carrie
									
No way. Trump is not the president of a different country.
ross
									
She must be willing and legally able to move to the United States to marry me and to live with me here. Yeah. ‘Cause, y’know, Melania could be, like, a Republican goddess, I suppose. As you read through this website you will notice that I’m an intense, complex man who thinks wayyyy outside the box. If my intensity, complexity, is too much for you—or if I think too far outside the box for you—well, then? We are not a match! I seek a woman who is likewise intense and complex. Not a mild or simple woman. Not a woman who thinks I wrote way too much here. [Carrie laughs.] She, too, thinks [through laughter] outside the box. The lady—oh man, I’m already disqualified. I’m also not a lady. I’m also not single. Uh, the lady—
carrie
									
Oh, you’re disqualified ‘cause you think he wrote too much there?
ross
									
Yes. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Got it.
ross
									
In case those other factors—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: [Through laughter] Right. Right. [Laughs.] Ross: —had not already eliminated me.
carrie
									
You’re like, God, he’s verbose, though.
ross
									
I thought you— [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] The lady I am looking for will be inspired and excited by this website. I am very demanding. Oh, this guy. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Clearly.
ross
									
In a good way—
carrie
									
Nope.
ross
									
—that will make my goddess wife-to-be incredibly happy. Beyond her wildest dreams.
carrie
									
God.
ross
									
And keep her wildly happy for life! I’m flexible on many things—but there are some things I am not flexible on. [Through laughter] Oh my god, this guy is—
carrie
									
It’s all the things, sir.
ross
									
I respect your time. Therefore, I will begin by asking you a series of eleven questions. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] I wonder why he hasn’t found anyone yet!
carrie
									
Oh my god.
ross
									
To see if you meet my inflexible requirements.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
He—at least he admits they’re inflexible. If not, we’ll say goodbye without a kiss.
carrie
									
Yes. Okay. So I know this kicks you off if you pick anything but the right answer? So are we going to guess what he wants the right answer to be so we can stay through the quiz?
ross
									
It’s a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. We can, uh, we can flip back to page 68—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —if we make the wrong decision. Carrie: Yeah. I guess that’s true.
ross
									
Uh, if you manage to make it through this gauntlet—that’s me editorializing—if you manage to make it through all eleven questions without a kiss-less goodbye? Then I will tell you a lot about myself, the relationship I want, and my demanding requirements.
carrie
									
There’s more after you pass. [Laughs.] [Ross laughs at length.] What a narcissist! [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
I will tell you far, far more than you will see in the men’s profiles on any dating website.
carrie
									
I bet. And far more than you ever, ever could want.
ross
									
Mm-hm. Then you will have the opportunity to fill out a detailed contact form and submit it to me with your photos.
carrie
									
Of course.
ross
									
Wow. Oh man. It’s just—I—I’m trying to picture this in his mind. That like, I am so worthy. That you should jump through all these hoops to get to me.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
To meet my requirements. Okay. Sincerely, Reverend William. Click here to see question one. And in each page, he’s got like a different set of photos of himself? So—
carrie
									
Oh, yes! I remember these! These are very good. [Ross laughs.] So we’ve got another sort of mall set of headshots. Black background. Bright pink shirt. As if he is… about to be a background actor? In a low-budget film and they’ve just been told, uh, bright colors! No patterns!
ross
									
Yeah. And these are exactly like the, um, headshot photos that you send saying “I’m very funny but I can also be serious!”
carrie
									
But I’m also not that committed ‘cause these were $40.
ross
									
Okay. Question one of eleven. How do you feel about US President Donald Trump? One: I think Trump is a great president and I fully support him! Exclamation mark.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Two: I am open-minded about Trump and I would like to learn why he is a great president. [Carrie laughs.] Three: I dislike or am disgusted by President Trump and would never vote for him. “Something else” is option four.
carrie
									
Okay. Let’s go for two.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Yeah. I like that. I— Carrie: Let’s try it.
carrie
									
Push him a little bit.
ross
									
“Open-minded about Trump.”
carrie
									
Yes. I’m willing to listen to you speak some more.
ross
									
Okay! We made it to question two.
carrie
									
Oh, woohoo!
ross
									
That was allowed. Okay. Now he’s, uh, smiling with his hand clasped on his, uh, wrist in front of a lake. That’s nice. That’s a nice photo. Uh, also in his… I don’t know, trilby or whatever kind of hat that is. Fedora. What is your marital status? I have never been married. I am engaged to marry my boyfriend. [Carrie laughs.] I am married.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Why would you be filling this out if you’re engaged?
ross
									
I am legally separated but not divorced from my husband. We should try that.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
I am legally divorced from the husband of my most recent marriage and I have not remarried. Ooh, that’s pretty good, too. I am a widow from my most recent marriage, which ended on the death of my husband and I have not remarried. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] This guy’s got some really specific hang-ups here. I escaped from my husband’s harem? And my marital status is uncertain?
carrie
									
Pick that one. [Laughs.]
ross
									
Okay. Yeah. I’ll read the others, but we do have to pick that. Okay. I am legally separated or divorced from my wife, or something else.
carrie
									
Oohhh.
ross
									
I wanna try all of these!
carrie
									
Oh, yeah. So it’s a little jokey—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: —and he doesn’t want a bisexual woman. Ross: If you’ve been married to a woman—
ross
									
Okay. I’m gonna click on that first. And—
carrie
									
Okay. You’re not gonna get through.
ross
									
Uh, we are not a match. Thank you for your time. Good luck to you. Goodbye. No kiss. If you got here by mistake, click your back button! Oh, I got here by mistake. Okay. So now we’re gonna go for… “I escaped from my husband’s harem”?
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Oh, we are not a match. Oh, let’s see here.
carrie
									
Huh.
ross
									
I am a—
carrie
									
Well, I mean—I mean, I think “harem” is already a loaded term, but that does seem like… intentionally… exclusionary of people in certain circumstances.
ross
									
Sure, but yeah. He’s a particular man.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Okay. The widow is allowed, as long as you, uh, have not remarried after your husband died. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Yeah. What if you’re both? What if you—your husband died, then you got married— [Ross laughs.] —then you got a divorce?
ross
									
Well then you gotta click “something else.”
carrie
									
Oh, right.
ross
									
In which case… oh, we are not a match. Oh, wow!
carrie
									
Whoa!
ross
									
Okay. You have to fit within one of these categories. Alright. Let’s see… obviously he likes you to have never been married. Um.
carrie
									
Yeah. I think he’s not going to accept separated but not legally divorced.
ross
									
Okay. Let’s try that. Legally separated but not divorced? We are not a match.
carrie
									
Yes! I’m good at this.
ross
									
Legally divorced from the husband of my most recent marriage and I have not remarried?
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Is okay. Yeahhhh! Ross: Oh! Yeah! Okay! Alright.
ross
									
Cool. Well, we got through to question three. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Of eleven.
ross
									
What is your gender history?
crosstalk
									
Ross and Carrie: Oh, no.
ross
									
Option one:
carrie
									
Oh, no.
ross
									
I am female. My physical body is female and has been female for my entire life ever since my birth into this—
carrie
									
Oh, god.
ross
									
—lifetime from my mother’s womb. I am happy that I am female. Or, something else. Uh, through and through. Okay. Well, obviously that is our option. Alright. We are on question four—and, by the way, the—the photo here is, again, him in—in a hat. Different hat this time. And he’s doing the Macaulay Culkin. He’s got his—
carrie
									
Mmmm!
ross
									
Hands on his face—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: He can’t believe it! Ross: He’s going [gasps in surprise].
carrie
									
He can’t believe it! Wait.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Question, though. Ross: I should’ve have put the shaving cream on! Yes?
carrie
									
[Laughs.] That last one—I assume nothing was okay except “I’m cis.”
ross
									
Of course.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Well, there’s two options. Yeah. And the other one’ll kick you out.
carrie
									
Oh, I see.
ross
									
Okay. So now we get to question four? And, uh, we get another collection of headshots.
carrie
									
Mmm!
ross
									
My goodness, this guy takes a lot of pictures of himself.
carrie
									
Yes.
ross
									
He’s in a blue paisley shirt and, uh—oh, he’s so serious and scholarly there. He’s wearing glasses and—oh, there’s he’s happy and praying with his eyes closed.
carrie
									
And then there’s one where he’s kinda going—eh, maybe! [Ross laughs.] [Goofy voice] I don’t know! I’m listening!
ross
									
Question four of eleven. Which of the following best describes your religion and/or spiritual beliefs? When I say, quote, “God,” unquote, I mean “a unique, omnipotent, omniscient being who loves us all unconditionally.” Well, that’s good to define.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
Option one: I don’t believe in God. I believe in science. I am either an atheist who believes no God exists or an agnostic who doesn’t know whether God exists. I believe that Jesus, Buddha and Krishna—if they actually lived—were historical figures who made claims that are either false or cannot be proven.
carrie
									
Wow! Okay!
ross
									
I mean… steel man statement of those beliefs. Good job. Okay. I click on that—op! We are not a match. Okay. I got here by accident. Let’s go back. Option two: I believe that Jesus Christ was the only Son of God. I believe that he died on the cross to save us from our sins and that the only path to salvation is to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, whereupon we are forgiven for our sins. I believe we only live once and that the reincarnation is believed by Hindus and Buddhists and by some Christians and Jews is a false doctrine. I do not know where Jesus was from [through laughter] ages 13 to 29, but—
carrie
									
Oh, was from ages 13—okay. Mm-hm.
ross
									
But I reject the idea that he spent time in India with Hindus and/or Buddhists. I believe that Krishna and Buddha were historical figures who were not sons of God. I acknowledge that Jesus instructs us to pray in the Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6:9 and Luke 11:2, beginning with the two words “Our Father,” not “Jesus’s father” or “Our Lord’s father.” Nevertheless I do not believe I am a son, daughter, or child of God.
carrie
									
Oh, I do not believe. I am a…
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
Oh.
ross
									
That’s interesting.
carrie
									
Okay. Yeah, ‘Cause I was gonna say—
ross
									
That’s all option number two.
carrie
									
Okay. Let’s not click yet. Okay. What’s three?
ross
									
I am a spiritual person who loves God with all my heart. I believe that we are all sons and daughters of God. I believe in reincarnation and—comma—I believe I have lived previous human lives and that my past life karma—both bad and good—impacts my circumstances today. I believe that Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna were spiritually enlightened masters who came to help us on our spiritual journey and to set inspiring examples of what we can ultimately become in our own, unique, divine way. If not in this lifetime, then in a future lifetime.
carrie
									
Okay. So I think that’s the ideal one.
ross
									
Right. That’s what—
carrie
									
Two might be acceptable.
ross
									
No, I’m guessing—okay. I’m gonna say two is unacceptable ‘cause you’re a little too hard-core Christian and not accepting of the Eastern spiritualities.
carrie
									
I agree that’s more likely. But I could see him being, like, okay.
ross
									
But just the—I’m picturing this potential woman out there is like, oh, I’m so excited! This is great! But—oh, I do not know where Jesus was from ages 13-29. I have very strong feelings about this. [Carrie laughs.] Okay. And then of course option four is “something else.” Okay. Let’s try option number two—I’m saying he’s gonna reject it.
carrie
									
I think he’s gonna reject it, too.
ross
									
Okay. Rejected!
carrie
									
Aw, damn.
ross
									
Alright. The only acceptable answer is—I’m a spiritual person who loves God with all my heart.
carrie
									
I would—I would love it if at some point the correct answer was “something else.”
ross
									
Yeah! [Both laugh.]
carrie
									
They’re just all traps.
ross
									
That would be good. Okay. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
What have we got? What’s making you laugh? [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.] Okay. [Laughs.] Alright.
ross
									
It’s worth getting through just for this photo.
carrie
									
We’ve got him standing in front of, like, the… lake at a yacht club?
ross
									
Yup. And, um, he’s got this, uh, like puckered lip face but his eyes are wide open like, “mmm!” Like—like he’s the Coppertone baby. [Carrie laughs.] Sixty years later.
carrie
									
I can’t believe my bottom’s out! [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
But the photo is cropped before we get to that part. And, uh, and then—okay. Him in front of the lake again. Uh—
carrie
									
How fun am I!
ross
									
Yeah. I got my mouth open and my hands out!
carrie
									
Yeah. He’s doing the “fish this big” pose. [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Oh, this is so entertaining! [Carrie laughs.] Okay. Question five of eleven: how good is your English?
carrie
									
Oh, no!
ross
									
Well I don’t know if you could honestly answer this first one: I do not know English. I am using a translator to read this website. But I would like to learn English.
carrie
									
That should be okay.
ross
									
No, we are not a match.
carrie
									
Oh.
ross
									
Okay. Option two—yeah, right?
carrie
									
I’m willing to learn English.
ross
									
Right? I will—
carrie
									
I’m willing to learn your personal language to meet you personally?
ross
									
That—that should jump you right to the end! You wanna go to that much effort. Nope!
carrie
									
It’s literally a storyline in Love, Actually. [Laughs.]
ross
									
[Through laughter] Right. [Laughs.] Uh, option two: I know some basic English, but my vocabulary is very limited and my grammar and pronunciation are weak.
carrie
									
Should be fine. But nope.
ross
									
Nope.
ross
									
Rejected. I am fluent in English, although it is not my first language.
carrie
									
Okay. I’m gonna say he lets that one through.
ross
									
Me, too. Yeah. Okay. He does. And, of course, option four: my native language is English.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] It’d be funny if he’s, like, nope. Only the bilinguals.
ross
									
Okay, this one he’s in front of a window. He’s smiling at us. That’s fine. He should’ve used this photo for everything else.
carrie
									
Can I see it?
ross
									
No, Carrie. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] I will not show you.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
That’s—
carrie
									
Yeah. It’s funny, though. You grow to hate him— [Ross laughs.] —and then every photo of him you’re like—no. Mm-mm. [Ross laughs.] I see how gross you are in this one.
ross
									
Now I know who you are. Question six of eleven: which of the following best describes your citizenship and potential US immigration status?
carrie
									
Okay. So… okay.
ross
									
There’s a lot of options on this one.
carrie
									
Permanent resident-slash-amnesty. Okay. DREAMer—not okay.
ross
									
Okay. There’s eight options.
carrie
									
Oh my god! [Laughs.] Okay.
ross
									
One: I am a citizen of the United States. Two: I am a permanent resident of the United States. I—
carrie
									
Okay. I’m going to say he says that’s okay.
ross
									
I have a green card. Yeah. Let’s see. Yay! That’s allowed. Okay. We made it. Three: I am a citizen of one of the following countries: these are the US Visa Waiver and Visa-Free countries.
carrie
									
Ah.
ross
									
Andorra. Australia. Austria. Belgium. Bermuda. Brunei. Canada. Chile. Czech Republic. Denmark. Estonia. Finland. France. Oh, it goes on for a very long time. He lists them all out. Taiwan, with a Taiwanese National ID Number, or United Kingdom.
carrie
									
Wow.
ross
									
Those are allowed.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Okay. Option—
carrie
									
So, yeah. He just wants you to be here quote-unquote “legally.”
ross
									
Right. Right. Of course. He needs to maintain his Trump talking points.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Right.
ross
									
Does he have to go in and edit this when Trump makes bans? [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] Uh, option four: I have a US Visa that will not expire for at least one year. That’s allowed.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Uh, option five: I’ve been granted refugee status by the US Government.
carrie
									
I think he’s gonna say that’s okay.
ross
									
Okay. I’m gonna say—oh, you’re right! Okay! He did. I am living outside the United States in a country that is not listed above. I do not have a US Visa or other document to enter the US legally.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Right. No. Of course not! Ross: Obviously he’ll reject that.
ross
									
I am living in a—
carrie
									
I couldn’t love you! [Laughs.] [Ross laughs. Both sigh, then laugh again.]
ross
									
I am living inside the United States illegally, but it’s not my fault—one day when I was under the age of 18, my parents—
carrie
									
DREAMers.
ross
									
—or other family members brought me into the United States illegally. Ever since that day, I have been living inside the United States. I am not a US Citizen. I do not have a US green card. I do not have a US Visa, and I have not been granted refugee status by the US Government. I have never been convicted of any felony crime in the United States.
carrie
									
I—I say he doesn’t let that in.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Not okay. Ross: He does!
carrie
									
Oh, wow! Oh, he’s pro-DREAMers! Okay! Okay!
ross
									
Hey!
carrie
									
That’s better than… President Trump. I wonder if he’s just forgotten to update that since… Trump has been all anti-DREAMer.
ross
									
They can dream to be with him.
carrie
									
Yeah. [Laughs.]
ross
									
And, of course, the eighth option is: none of the above. Uh, alright. Let’s get through as a DREAMer! Alright. Question seven: [through laughter] okay. Now he’s got—again—more photos of him against a black background.
carrie
									
Mm-kay.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: He’s making faces. Ross: Hands up against his chins.
ross
									
Yeah. He’s smiling in one and he’s a little shocked in the other!
carrie
									
Yeah. So he’s got his—his fists up to his chin in the universal symbol for… “you’re about to tell me something exciting and I’m over-emphasizing how excited I am about it!”
ross
									
Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Question seven of eleven: what is your hairstyle?
carrie
									
Oh god.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Carrie just rolled her eyes hard. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Bald.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah! [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Sails right on through, I’m sure.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Yeah. Oh my goodness. I would love to see a woman do the opposite. Y’know, some very attractive woman who is exactly what he wants? And he has to go through this gauntlet but he gets to question seven of eleven and it says what is your hairstyle and he has to say that he’s bald?
carrie
									
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah!
ross
									
Then he gets rejected?
carrie
									
Alright. I’ll do it.
ross
									
How would you feel, Reverend William? Alright.
carrie
									
Oh my god.
ross
									
Okay. So option one: my hair is naturally straight or wavy, but not curly.
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Carrie: Okay. I see. Ross: My hair falls—
ross
									
—at least halfway down my neck or longer. I have no intention of having my hair cut short. I rarely use or never use hairspray. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Hairspray, specifically?
ross
									
God, this guy’s hang-ups!
carrie
									
God. Okay, yeah. So obviously that’s what he wants. So that’s ideal.
ross
									
Option two: something else.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Okay.
ross
									
[Through laughter] Option three: what I do with my hair is my business and no man has any right to demand that my hair look, feel, or smell a certain way.
carrie
									
[In a grumpy voice] I’m a feminist.
ross
									
That is the correct answer. Let’s see—
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Ross: Uh, we are not a match. Oops. Carrie: Uh—yeah.
ross
									
Oops. How did I fall into that?
carrie
									
So you can’t have curly hair. Did he say natural hairstyle?
ross
									
Uh, my hair is naturally straight or wavy, but not curly.
carrie
									
So this is racist.
ross
									
He doesn’t want curly hair.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
But if you can’t even have straightened hair.
ross
									
Yeah. It has to be—
carrie
									
That—that goes beyond preference, sir.
ross
									
It has to be naturally straight or wavy and it has to be at least halfway down your neck or longer.
carrie
									
Uh, that’s, uh, a very gross and clever way to bury in there that you don’t want any women of African descent.
ross
									
My god.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
Okay. Yep. Now I’m—
carrie
									
For the most part.
ross
									
Now I’m to the, just, like, I hate you part of this, uh, photo evaluation.
carrie
									
Uh, oh! Yeah. Cool. What—oh! Oh. The question. I thought we were looking at the pictures—
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Carrie: —which are also bad. Question eight of eleven: Ross: Oh, no. I’m looking—no. I’m looking at the pictures.
carrie
									
Do you have a trim waistline?
ross
									
Oh, god. Option one: Yes! My waistline is trim. I am not overweight and I have healthy, well-disciplined eating habits that keep my figure beautiful. [Carrie sighs exasperatedly.] Option two: Something else. [Carrie laughs.] Option three:
carrie
									
Put “something else” last. [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Usually he does! But—
carrie
									
You don’t put “other” in the middle of your list.
ross
									
He’s mixing it up. Option three: what I do with my body is my business and no man has any right to demand that my figure look a certain way.
carrie
									
Okay.
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Carrie: One and three. Ross: Obviously…
ross
									
You have to have a trim waistline.
carrie
									
Yeah. Right.
ross
									
You know what?
carrie
									
God.
ross
									
I—I think, uh, Will Ferrell could do a good sketch of this guy.
carrie
									
Oh, yeah.
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Ross: Like, he’s—a bald, older Will Ferrell. Carrie: Yeah. He does have a Will Ferrell face.
carrie
									
Uh-huh.
ross
									
But with none of the charm. [Carrie laughs.] Okay. We’ve got another series of photos of him. We’ve got four photos. He’s in a—what is that?
carrie
									
Plaid?
ross
									
Plaid shirt. That’s right. Plaid. That’s the word.
carrie
									
Yeah. Ted Baxter’s favorite color.
ross
									
Alright. And half the time he’s got his hat on; half the time he’s taken it off. Uh, he’s making fun eyes at us. Aw, he’s just so fun.
carrie
									
He is so fun. And he’s outside. Oh, you’re happy about this question.
ross
									
Question nine of eleven: how do you feel about feminism? [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
If you haven’t figured it out from questions one through eight—
ross
									
Right? C’mon. Seriously. Like, if you’ve matched any of these other things why does this need to be said? [Deep breath] five options. One: I strongly support today’s feminists.
carrie
									
No.
ross
									
That’s a trap.
carrie
									
Bad.
ross
									
[Admiral Ackbar voice] That’s a trap! [Laughs.] Question two: when a woman accuses a man of sexual harassment or sexual assault or rape, the woman should be believed. And then man should be disbelieved. Women should automatically beat men in court regardless of the facts. Men and boys should be punished today for bad things that other men—including men who are long dead— [Carrie laughs.] —did to women, including women who are long dead.
carrie
									
So he has a very good understanding of the scientific perspective. He was able to articulate that as if he owned it. This one he has no idea what’s going on.
ross
									
Yeah. That is a strawman. Uh, that is a strawwoman. [Carrie laughs.] Not a steel woman. Okay. Option three: I believe that women should have the right to vote; the right to equal treatment under the law, including inheritance and ownership of land; and the right to equal pay for equal work.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Hey! Alright, there’s some good in there.
ross
									
Those goals were achieved a long time ago—
carrie
									
Oh.
ross
									
In the United States.
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Carrie: Okay. So no ERA. Ross: However—
ross
									
However, women and men are fundamentally different and balance between male and female is necessary for creating a happy, peaceful world. Today’s feminism is trying to destroy that balance and that is evil.
carrie
									
So his equal pay for equal work would be that old, like—oh, well actually if you look at the data in a different way…
ross
									
Mmmm.
carrie
									
Women do make as much. Which is probably true in some cases, but is not true across the board.
ross
									
Ah, okay. And, uh, and saying there’s just certain work that a man’s supposed to do.
carrie
									
Right. Right.
ross
									
Okay. I’m sure that one would get us through. Option four: I am very feminine, but I am not a feminist! I want to surrender into the arms of a—
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Carrie: Ew! Surrender? Ross: Strong and—
ross
									
Yep! Into the arms of a strong and wonderful man.
carrie
									
Fuck off!
ross
									
[Through laughter] Give my femininity to him totally and make him—
carrie
									
Ew!
ross
									
—happy as he makes me happy.
carrie
									
What a—no. [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Option five: something else.
carrie
									
Ugh!
ross
									
So what—I guess options three and four will both work?
carrie
									
He’s the kind of person who makes sure “obey” is in his wedding vows.
ross
									
Ugh!
carrie
									
Gross. I’m gonna make Drew say “obey.” No I’m not. [Laughs.] I would never.
ross
									
Yeah. I have officiated, uh, quite a few weddings now, and I don’t think any of them have included the word “obey” and I’m pretty sure I would, uh, insist on striking that out.
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Carrie: Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Ross: Yeah, no.
carrie
									
So gross.
ross
									
No obeying going on.
carrie
									
So gross.
ross
									
Alright. We got to page ten. [Laughs.] We’ve—
carrie
									
If I were officiating a wedding and I saw obey, I’d just say—oh hey! And oh heyyy! Him. [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.] That’s what you’re vowing to do. You see him, you “oh hey!!!”
ross
									
Okay. Okay.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Here we’ve got—
carrie
									
[Odd voice] Helllooo!
ross
									
[Through laughter] —question ten. We’ve got, uh… oh. Him in a blue shirt. He’s thoughtful.
carrie
									
Okay. Yeah. That horizontal photo is the closest he’s come to an interesting picture.
ross
									
Yeah. You know what? That’s pretty good. Go with that one.
carrie
									
He could’ve written a book that is… on an endcap at FedEx Office and that would be his author photo.
ross
									
Yeah. That’s all fine and good. For this question, I am defining “problem substance” as any of the following:
carrie
									
Oh, cool.
ross
									
Alcohol beverages. Tobacco. Cannabis. Marijuana.
carrie
									
Sure.
ross
									
Non-prescription recreational drugs.
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
Mind-altering drugs—with or without prescription.
carrie
									
Mind—okayyyyy?
ross
									
Wow. Okay.
carrie
									
So, yeah. Uh, that’s a lot of things.
ross
									
And highly addictive drugs, with or without prescription. But yeah, mind-altering drugs with or without prescription. That’s, uh, a pretty broad, uh—
carrie
									
Yeah. That’s… most drugs?
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
Right? I mean, like, even…
ross
									
Right.
carrie
									
Aspirin is going to affect, like…
ross
									
Yeah. Yeah. How do you define—well, he defines “mind-altering,” I guess. Oh man. Can you imagine the first date with this guy? Where he re-asks you all these questions? [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Oh, god. And also—also—ibuprofen? Have you ever seen the study? Ibuprofen is as, um, effective as an SSRI at—
ross
									
No!
carrie
									
Uh, yeah. At calming depression for like—it’s like three hours or whatever? It’s very short-lived.
ross
									
Whoa!
carrie
									
But because it’s so bad for your stomach they just can’t.
ross
									
Oh.
carrie
									
Use it that way?
ross
									
That’s crazy!
carrie
									
But, yeah! If you’re taking ibuprofen… that just happens as a side effect.
ross
									
That’s wild!
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Carrie: Yeah! Ross: Okay. Interesting.
ross
									
Question ten of eleven: which of the following best describes your use-slash-consumption of problem substances? Four options:
carrie
									
Very high!
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Ross: One: Carrie: Right on through. [Laughs.]
ross
									
[Through laughter] I have never used or consumed any problem substance.
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Carrie: Okay. Ross can’t say that! Ross: Two: I—
ross
									
I have tried, used, or consumed one or more problem substances to a limited extent. But I never became dependent upon or addicted to any problem substance—which is capitalized each time. Capital “P,” capital “S.” [Carrie laughs.] I have been free from all Problem Substances for more than three years, except that I might occasionally drink alcoholic beverages socially. Option three: I overcame a challenge with Problem Substances. Have now been 100% free-slash-sober from all Problem Substances for more than—
carrie
									
Ten year!
ross
									
—ten years!
carrie
									
Yeaow! Shit!
ross
									
You got it!
carrie
									
I knew it. If you’re an addict you gotta go a decade before you can date this guy. Odd!
ross
									
And option four: something else. Okay. Well, then, uh, let’s see if the ten-year one passes? It does! Okay!
carrie
									
Okay.
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Ross: Hey, we got— Carrie: You gotta get that—
carrie
									
—sweet ten-year chip and then you get to marry this dumbass. [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
I got ten years sober and all I got was this Republican asshole. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Oh, god.
ross
									
With his thumbs up on question eleven, wearing his purple shirt again.
carrie
									
Geez-o.
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Ross: Purpley-pink shirt. Carrie: What book has he—
carrie
									
—got next to him in that photo?
ross
									
That is a very good question. I don’t think I can make it out. It’s like, juuust… low-res enough.
carrie
									
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ross
									
That I can’t quite make out the title.
carrie
									
We should share that. Get our—get our online sleuths on it.
ross
									
Yeah. You’ll figure that out.
carrie
									
Yeah. Which, um, which question page is this one?
crosstalk
									
Ross: Eleven! Final question! Carrie: Eleven. Okay. So—
carrie
									
Go to page eleven and tell us what book that is. We can’t be bothered. [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Which also means you have to click through all this. You’re… welcome? Okay. Question eleven of eleven! Which of the following best describes your physical and mental health?
carrie
									
Mm-kay. Very poor. Right on through.
ross
									
Only two options:
carrie
									
She’s just like me.
ross
									
I am physically and mentally healthy. Most of the time I feel pretty good! Or excellent! And I have plenty of energy. I do not suffer from any serious physical illness. I do not suffer from chronic pain. I am not disabled. [Sighs.] I do not—
carrie
									
Ugh!
ross
									
Fuck this guy. I do not suffer from any mental disorder or serious depression. Longing for your beloved is not depression. [Carrie sighs disgustedly.] I am not under the care of a psychiatrist and I do not take any psychiatric medicine—
carrie
									
Wow.
ross
									
I do not have, need, or want a service animal.
carrie
									
What?!
ross
									
Or—something else.
carrie
									
What a piece of trash. [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
Aaand… we made it! We got to the end. We get—
carrie
									
What did we click?
ross
									
Another— [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] Obviously, the first one.
carrie
									
Does “something else” let you through on a sort of, uh, y’know, temporary… “I’m gonna let these people through and see what happens”?
ross
									
We are not a match.
carrie
									
Oh! Wow!
ross
									
No—
carrie
									
Jesus!
ross
									
No kiss goodbye. After all that, I don’t get a kiss goodbye?
carrie
									
And you might’ve been eliminated ‘cause you like use a wheelchair.
ross
									
Yep!
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Carrie: What— Ross: Oh, yeah.
ross
									
He doesn’t want someone in a wheelchair. Are you kidding?
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Carrie: God. Ughhhhh! [Groans at length.] Ross: Alright. So we get to his smiling face again.
ross
									
Okay! You’ve made it through the eleven questions of things about which I’m not flexible. On anything else, I’m flexible—to varying degrees, depending on what it is. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] Carrie has dead eyes.
carrie
									
I hate him. [Ross laughs.] I hate him.
ross
									
Now I will tell you a whole lot about myself. About the relationship I want, and about the lady I am seeking.
carrie
									
No thanks!
ross
									
I will start with a video message below!
carrie
									
You will start? [Ross laughs.] You will start?!
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Ross: Then I will— yeah. Carrie: How long have we just been going through this?
carrie
									
Like, twenty minutes.
ross
									
Then I will take you through the following pages. There’s eleven pages! Introduction: additional basics of our relationship. Divine resonant tantric partnership. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.] I love this just for Carrie’s expressions.
carrie
									
Ugh.
ross
									
About me: Generally. Uh, my goals! My weaknesses and challenges. Oh, I wanna read that! Character references from women who know me well?!
carrie
									
That I’ve already seen and I was gonna tell you is my favorite part of this site.
ross
									
Yeah?!
carrie
									
‘Cause it’s clearly women that he cajoled into doing this and they can’t think of what to say and it’s like—
ross
									
Oh, wow.
carrie
									
—when someone’s in a bad play and you have to be, like, I loved your costume!
ross
									
Yeah. Yeah.
carrie
									
It’s like that.
ross
									
Oh wow.
carrie
									
It’s like—I live next door to William. Sometimes he comes over and feeds my cat. He’s never fucked it up. [Ross laughs.] [Laughs.] It really is like that.
ross
									
[Sighs.] About you. That’s interesting. What is “about you”? Vedic astrological compatibility. Politics. And contact me. Well, this sounds great, though I think we’ve probably spent too long sharing this with our audience.
carrie
									
I wonder if anyone has figured out his last name. Because… I’d love to give him a call.
ross
									
There’s more photos. Oh, wow. This is a long one. Oh, this is great. On his “weaknesses and challenges”?
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
Problem one: at my age, with my large goals and a lifetime of hard work, I should’ve already been successful! But I have not yet attained the material success I want. [Carrie laughs.] I cannot promise you material success, but our tantric partnership will be a gigantic help.
carrie
									
Oh, listen. [Laughs.] I’m a millennial. I know what it is to suffer financially.
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Uh, but—
ross
									
Avocado toast.
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Carrie: Avocado toast has fucked me. Ross: It’s expensive! [Laughs.]
carrie
									
And so I don’t—I don’t like to wish economic hardship on anyone. [Ross laughs.] But for twenty minutes now, you have run my good favor into the ground, sir. And I am— [Ross laughs.] [through laughter] —pretty happy that you are not financially successful.
ross
									
If you want someone who has already made his material fortune, I am not your man. [Carrie exclaims.] Wow. Problem two—although it is never my intention, I scare some people. I am outspoken and think independently and some people are frightened by that. I have been nonviolent my entire life. I do not intentionally hurt anyone’s feelings. But I have made mistakes. Whenever I become aware that I’ve hurt someone, I apologize. Yet sometimes people need to hear truth that they don’t wanna hear.
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Carrie: Mmmmm. Mm-hm. Ross: Oh, god. This guy is so horrible!
ross
									
You’re such a horrible person! If any of the material presented here scares you then I am not your man. Problem three: aww. Some people hate me and ridicule me. I do not hate them back. I never ridicule anyone.
carrie
									
True.
ross
									
Actually, I love everyone unconditionally. [Through laughter] Unconditionally! I don’t think you know what that term means. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Oh, yeah. Indeed.
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Carrie: Also— Ross: He’s all about conditions.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Right?! Uh, and also—I don’t ridicule anyone—what—by name?! Just by category. I ridicule people categorically. Feminists.
ross
									
Right. Right. [Laughs.] Right.
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Ross: Some of these people have defamed me— Carrie: Christians of a certain stripe.
ross
									
—with vicious lies. If you believe attacks on someone character’s without confirming the truth of the matter, then I am not your man. Wowwww. Oh god, so many photos of this guy. Yep. Here’s the character references. “Mark was my boyfriend from November 2012 through March 2013. I can—"
carrie
									
Oh, wow. Four months. Okay.
ross
									
“I can vouch for his outstanding character in every respect. Mark is a perfect gentleman.”
carrie
									
Huh. So that makes me think he wrote that and said—do you agree with this?
ross
									
Yes.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Right. Especially, like… filling this out like your LinkedIn profile.
carrie
									
I can’t wait for you to find the one that has brackets.
ross
									
November 2012 to March 2013. Okay. Uh, we’ve got a few [through laughter] brackets here. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
There’s a particular one where a whole sentence is in brackets?
ross
									
I met Mark on an international dating website in 2017. I traveled to Los Angeles and stayed with him for approximately two weeks. Our relationship is excellent. Bracket: [Unfortunately, due to problems on my end, unrelated to Mark, we had to end our romance; but we remain friends.] End bracket. [Carrie laughs.] Oh yeah. She wrote that.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Well, yeah. The bracket indicates he added this.
ross
									
Right. Yes.
carrie
									
Right.
ross
									
Yes. Yep.
carrie
									
But I love that it’s blaming everything on her. So, like, publish?
ross
									
What a miserable person!
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
How are you so miserable?
carrie
									
I hope he listens to this.
ross
									
Oh my god.
carrie
									
I hope he’s been an Oh No, Ross and Carrie listener for nine years. [Ross laughs.] And this wakes him up.
ross
									
Maybe I’m not the right kind of person. Wow. Okay. Well, I’ve—we’ve— [Laughs.] We’ve spent way too much time with this guy. But this is wild. And it goes on!
carrie
									
Listen. Listeners. Don’t doxx Reverend William. Don’t publish his full name and email and phone number. But if you find it… and you want to send it to me… I’ll call him. I’ll call him and be like, what are you doing.
ross
									
Uh, alright. And if you get through all this and you did not support Bernie Sanders or Hilary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election—
carrie
									
Oh, for God’s sake.
ross
									
—then you can go to the Contact Me page and there ya go. You can fill it out. Yeah. Be nice, people. Don’t—don’t sink to his level.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Uh, but wow.
carrie
									
Oh! For goodness sake.
ross
									
Oh no! And then when you—oh no! This is ridiculous! [Carrie laughs.] Okay. This is the Contact Me page—here he is with his thumbs up again.
carrie
									
Uh-huh. Oh my god! There’s more text! [Ross laughs.] Wait, what do I have to fill out now?
ross
									
[Through laughter] There’s forms where you answer—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —to each and every one of these questions! Carrie: Oh my god, it’s like—
carrie
									
Essay! Short-answer essays!
ross
									
It’s easier to apply for unemployment… than to fill this out. [Carrie laughs.] Oh my god! Oh, and you’ve gotta upload five photos!
carrie
									
Taken in the last…
ross
									
They can be .jpg, .jpeg with an “E,” or .png.
carrie
									
Mm.
ross
									
Wow. You know what? Actually—
carrie
									
Does it say taken in the last so-and-so years?
ross
									
I approve of this restriction. “Do not attempt to upload huge photo files; the maximum image file size is 2MB.”
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Yeah. Okay. Ross: That’s reasonable.
carrie
									
You’re right. That’s the first—
crosstalk
									
Carrie: —reasonable limit he’s set. Ross: I want my woman to be able to know how to resize a photo.
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Okay. Fair.
ross
									
That’s all I ask. [Laughs.] Prove you are not a robot? If you did all of that, you have to— [Carrie laughs.] Oh, interesting! 7+2=blank!
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Ahhhhh! Question mark? Ross: Now we know what that—
ross
									
[Through laughter] Now we know what that presentation was! [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Oh my god.
ross
									
God bless you and God bless America. Well, God bless you, too, Reverend William.
carrie
									
Good golly.
ross
									
Is he a real Reverend?
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Of course not. Ross: Carrie, I need you to look this up. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
I mean, well… you can get your—are you Universal Life Church?
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Alright. You’re a Reverend. So. Sure. Ross: Yeah. I am. Yeah.
ross
									
I like to think I’m an “ir”-reverend. [Carrie laughs fakely.] Heh.
carrie
									
Heh.
ross
									
Well that was—
carrie
									
We didn’t intend to—
crosstalk
									
Ross: Totally off— Carrie: [Through laughter] Tell you the entire quiz, but.
ross
									
That was off-topic for Oh No, Ross and Carrie but we hope you enjoyed it. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Wellll… listen. [Laughs.]
ross
									
Yeah. Where we were?
crosstalk
									
Ross: What were we doing? Carrie: What else were we—oh!
carrie
									
We wanted to mention a couple things. While we’re on the subject of the Conscious Life Expo. So. There was a video by All Gas, No Brakes that’s real funny that you make a cameo in.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Oh, very briefly! Carrie: That takes place at the Conscious Life Expo.
ross
									
Yeah! Yeah! Check out that YouTube channel. All Gas, No Brakes. It’s really fun. It’s just a really quirky covering of the Conscious Life Expo. And yeah, you can very briefly see me walk around in the back as I’m trying to take in all this stuff. And he interviews the Reverend William about his Republican goddess. It’s pretty hilarious.
carrie
									
And Shakuntali!
ross
									
Yes! Who…
carrie
									
[Conspiratorially] Mm-hm? Mm-hmmmm? Yes, go on! Yes! Ross! Ross, is it? You were going to say…? Go on! Here we go!
ross
									
You will hear an interview with! Uh, Carrie has reached out to Shakuntali. It’s a wild story—
carrie
									
Mm-hm!
ross
									
About—
carrie
									
Mm-hm!
ross
									
Just setting up the interview!
carrie
									
Mm-hm. That’s right.
ross
									
Is a crazy story, which I got regular updates on. Yeah, look forward to that!
carrie
									
Look forward… to that.
ross
									
That was wild. But, uh, but he, uh, he asked her some fun questions as well. Uh, yeah! Check that out.
carrie
									
Speaking of All Gas, No Brakes—as you were watching it I realized, oh, it reminds me of Victor Berger’s editing style and I realized—I don’t think I’ve mentioned him on this show. He’s an amazing editor who takes pre-existing footage of… fringe characters.
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Doing their thing. And then edits them in these—this very quirky, weird way that’s very… idiosyncratic. And, um…
ross
									
Yeah. Very cool. I’ll have to watch more of that now.
carrie
									
Oh, I have to recommend it to our listeners. Victor Berger.
ross
									
On Sunday when I came back, I—I wanted to go to two lectures. And… we’ve already told you about the reverse audio one. But I was also really excited to go see Zadok “Ra” Osiris.
carrie
									
Mm!
ross
									
Talk about Tesla, ET technology, and Epic Laser.
carrie
									
Oh, right!
ross
									
And I thought, oh, this sounds amazing. This all sounds good.
carrie
									
I saw his table a number of times but never saw him behind it.
ross
									
Okay. I did see him behind—he’s—uh, really interesting-looking character. So… Zadok, and then in quotes “Ra,” Osiris, is this man—I would assume in his 70s? Uh, and he’s got a long and very, like, styled beard that—it’s long but it runs down close to his face so it doesn’t escape horizontally. Very animated character. I saw him earlier trying to hit up this young blond lady. Y’know. Maybe just engaging her in conversation. But still, he was like, obviously—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —like, I’m talking to a pretty young lady. Yeah. Carrie: Very engaging her? [Laughs.]
ross
									
Yeah. Very engaged. Right. He would walk all over the convention so I’d see him here and there and he’s wearing a bright blue-and-gold robes? That—
carrie
									
Ooooh!
ross
									
Uh, if I had to guess were, like, uh, an African styling?
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
And he had kind of that, uh, short hat on his head as well.
carrie
									
Ah. Right. What is his heritage? Is he a person of African descent?
ross
									
Just looks like a white guy.
carrie
									
A white guy. Okay.
ross
									
Yeah. He was sitting behind his booth when I saw him and there was a little sign, had a picture of him. And it said—this was really confusing—you can get an Akashic Record Reading—
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
And that makes perfect sense. [Carrie laughs.] But here’s what confuses me. Okay? It’s $140 per hour…
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
For 40 minutes. Or $70 per hour for 20 minutes. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Okay…?
ross
									
So is that per hour just confusing— [Laughs.]
carrie
									
What?!
ross
									
I’m guessing you pay $140, you talk to him for 40 minutes. You pay $70, you talk to him for 20 minutes. That’s my guess? Or— [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Oh, interesting. I think you have to do the math. So what is it, again?
crosstalk
									
Ross: $140 per hour— Carrie: 140…
ross
									
For 40 minutes, which would mean, essentially… uh, 2/3 of… 140.
carrie
									
Right. Yeah. Uh… okay. So 280 divided by three…
ross
									
140 times .667… alright. We’re talking, like, $93.38. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
I hope and then he’s, like, oh, I only take exact cash.
ross
									
[Laughs.] Or you only have $70/hour for 20 minutes, so that’s divided by three, that’s $23.34 if we round up. So I would love to haggle that.
carrie
									
Wait. So that’s the better deal?
ross
									
Oh, yeah! It’s much better! Because it’s $70/hour. So it’s half the rate of before.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Right. So you should—right. So even if you got— Ross: That’s a huge cost savings. So you should sign up—
carrie
									
—three of those—
ross
									
I’m almost certain that he added the per hour by accident not understanding what that meant.
carrie
									
Oh my goodness.
ross
									
But I would love to haggle that afterwards. Like, oh, no, actually, if you look at your sign, it says that it’s— [Carrie laughs.] $70/hour for 20 minutes, and that’s 1/3 of an hour. So I’m paying you 1/3 of $70.
carrie
									
And don’t worry—I brought nickels.
ross
									
And I never got to fully explore this connection, but next to him there was, uh, this Epic Lasers. It seems like they were sharing a booth. So you had Zadok “Ra” Osiris and his Akashic Record Readings, but also this Epic Lasers. Like, ooh, what’s that all about? So yeah! This talk sounded really excited! I wanna go learn about both of these things. So when I, uh, got there on Sunday—by the time I got up into this, uh, ballroom—which was kind of similar to the room where I saw David John Oates—there was, uh, this guy up there talking about these… Epic Lasers. And I was like, where’s Zadok “Ra” Osiris?
carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
And I was—I’d say like—
carrie
									
I would recognize Zadok “Ra” Osiris.
ross
									
Right! Yeah! With his flamboyant clothing and—y’know. There’s no missing that guy. And I was twelve minutes late, but he wasn’t even there! So I was like—did it get cancelled? Like, his part of the talk? Or did he talk for five minutes and then run? [Carrie laughs.] Like, what happened to—I wanna know more about him! He’s such an interesting character! Uh, but no. Instead it was this, uh, not to, uh, perpetuate a stereotype—but kind of a Poindexter-ish sort of fellow, uh, without any of the charisma that you would expect from—
carrie
									
Ah. Yeah.
ross
									
—somebody who would be leading a religious movement or something. He was very much talking about his research with these Epic Lasers and how great they are and so they’re in the infrared spectrum at precisely 980 nanometers. And he said, don’t get fooled by all of these, y’know, 808 nanometer rays.
carrie
									
Oh, hate those.
ross
									
You know what? Actually, he said something kind of nice in respect to that. He said—this spectrum is precisely calibrated to… uh, get past the melanin in your skin. So, y’know, people will get these infrared lasers and they’ll try to use them on people maybe of African heritage and they’ll just be totally ineffective. You want to get one that works best for all people.
carrie
									
But I figured out how to tap that market, too!
ross
									
Hey, well, y’know, I like that he was trying to be inclusive in this even if it was a little farfetched. Uh, but yeah! It was interesting. Definitely I—this guy could blind by science well, because my mind would just naturally tune out, first of all, just ‘cause it was this drone the way it was delivered. Very uncompelling. But also he’s bringing up charts and he’s talking about scans and research that he’s done. Though he mentioned at one point, like, all this research was done before we had powerful computers. I’m thinking like, what? Early ‘90s? Or earlier? Like… what, you haven’t done any new research and this is like your line of business? In all this time? Anyways. Uh—
carrie
									
Did you even get a patent in 2019?
ross
									
[Laughs.] Right. Uh, so yeah. I didn’t get anything about Tesla or ET technology, but a lot about these Epic Lasers. One of my favorite parts was he brought up this slide and it was showing this graph of laser efficacy. And he was saying that the wavelengths are not what was available during Biblical times, according to our friends at NASA. It’s like, wait a second. So you’re telling us that NASA is agreeing that in Biblical times—
carrie
									
There were lasers?
ross
									
Not lasers, per se. But the radiation at that spectrum was naturally coming through our atmosphere from the sun. But he says that now, our atmosphere is blocking this helpful radiation which enhances your body’s natural ability to repair itself. So I could immediately sense—oh, I see what’s going on here ‘cause you have these biblical accounts of people like Methuselah who lived to 969 years.
carrie
									
Ah, right, right, right!
ross
									
And Noah lived to, like, his 900s as well.
carrie
									
Yeah. 900 something yeah.
ross
									
Yeah. Adam, 930. Y’know. You had all these people lived exceedingly long lives. And, um—
carrie
									
Allegedly.
ross
									
Right. And so the idea was that you had this antediluvian canopy in the sky that somehow let in just the right radiation.
carrie
									
Ah… I see!
ross
									
And that’s why they—they healed so well and lived so long. So this is what you can, essentially, use. So I’ll save you the boring details. It was a boring talk. But the bottom line is—if you wanna buy one of the lasers themselves? Uh, it’s gonna cost ya $18,900.
carrie
									
Oh my god!
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
He only needs to sell one of those a year!
ross
									
Right?
carrie
									
To feel like he’s got a good side gig! [Ross laughs.] Wow.
ross
									
He has a practice where he has sessions where you pay $75 and then he helps you with your knee and then, y’know, your shoulder now hurts the most so he helps you with that. And sometimes it’s, like, $85. But, uh, anyways. These are the Epic Lasers. And the FDA cleared them enough times that they say now, y’know, his devices are automatically cleared. Yay! Again—they’ve determined, oh, yeah, he’s not hurting anyone with these low-level infrared. Uh, which—
carrie
									
But I’m sure if he got a different device they wouldn’t just clear it ‘cause it’s made by him.
ross
									
Yeah. I’m sure the actual clearance is just—okay. You keep filing for these things every other year and… yeah. It’s that same type of device. You’re fine. You’re not hurting anybody. But they’re also not blanket endorsing it, like—this works!
carrie
									
Right. Of course.
ross
									
And speaking of which—yes! If it’s in infrared, it is lower energy than visible light. But it’s also higher-energy than 5G signals still.
carrie
									
Oh, right!
ross
									
Just putting that out there. [Carrie laughs.] So, uh—
carrie
									
Which is COVID. Right?
ross
									
Correct.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: It is COVID-19? Ross: I give up. Yes.
carrie
									
No, it’s not true!
ross
									
That’s not true! It has nothing to do with it! Those are completely unrelated! Uh, there was a great picture online someone had shared of, um, the 1918 Pandemic. And an etching of a 1G radio tower? [Laughs.] In the background. [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
That’s great.
ross
									
Uh, after that I had a little bit of time to mill about before the reverse speech talk, so I wandered down to the lower level, which I hadn’t seen before.
carrie
									
Oh yeah! Welcome to the lower level.
ross
									
Yeah! So I got to see some of the things Carrie was talking about down there. A lot more interesting booths. But the place where I got stuck was the Happy Science booth.
carrie
									
Oh, uh-huh!
ross
									
That’s one that we could definitely do a deeper unpack of. So I won’t talk about it too much. Except that the guy sort of engaged me in conversation and I would either have to be rude and not talk to him? Or stay and talk for the next twenty minutes. Which is what I ended up doing. And there were three people at the booth. Uh, the man who was in front of the booth, who stopped me and talked to me. And then a man behind the booth and a woman behind the booth. And they both kept trying to engage. They were happy I was there and talking. The—the man behind the booth, in particular, kept trying to, like, add his little spin on points or throw in an additional little bit of clarification or insight. And the guy in front of the booth—yeah! Kept shutting him down.
carrie
									
What’s with these people doing this?
crosstalk
									
Ross: I know! Carrie: That’s the third example—
carrie
									
—at this conference.
ross
									
Right! And it was like, no, no. Let me do the talking here. I’ve got it.
carrie
									
Wow.
ross
									
And it’s not like he spoke better English or anything! Both of them had pretty thick accents. It was just like—hey. I’m the salesman.
crosstalk
									
Ross: I’ve finally got someone. Carrie: I’m the expert.
ross
									
Yeah. Let me do this.
carrie
									
Wow.
ross
									
And, uh, he was wearing something I would call, like, a Carl Sagan jacket?
carrie
									
Ooh! Okay!
ross
									
Yeah. Just that kind of, uh, texture and color.
carrie
									
Corduroy?
ross
									
Right. He’s telling me about how all of these wonderful… pieces of ancient wisdom had come from their founder, Ryuho Okawa.
carrie
									
Oh, yeah. I saw books by this person floating around.
ross
									
The founder and discoverer of Happy Science. Yeah. They—they had people going as emissaries from the booth and just blanket-handing out books. By this guy. Okay. How many books would you guess that he has written? Or let’s just say… how many titles has he written?
carrie
									
64
ross
									
Over 2,600 titles!
carrie
									
Ummmmm…
ross
									
Of religious, spiritual, and self-development teachings.
carrie
									
So we’ve got an LRH situation here. Where either he’s, like, on pills churning out a bunch of random gobbledygook? Or people are repackaging things and taking this writing and moving it around and adding this other thing and now you’ve got kind of an anthology of previous writings, but it’s got a new title. And then you move it around again.
ross
									
Yeah. Right.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Exactly. So I actually did read all of them—
crosstalk
									
Ross: —in preparation for this episode. Naw. Carrie: No you didn’t. That’s a lie!
carrie
									
And I could spot it!
ross
									
Gah! She could see the twinkle in my eyes. Yeah. He’s sold—
carrie
									
[Through laughter] No, I just—no one could do that! [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
ross
									
As if, like, I actually did and I just hid it from you. Even if I started reading… that moment in early February when I met those people—I would not be done!
carrie
									
Probably not!
ross
									
Nope! I could not keep up with Ryuho Okawa. Anyway, yeah. So this comes from Japan. I assume he is the discoverer and founder. These books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide; translated into 31 languages; and, um, I was, uh, I was stuck there for a very long time talking to them. And he was walking me through some of these books. He gave me a couple for free. I bought another one for $10 and, uh, so now— [Carrie laughs.] —I’ve got some reading materials to, uh, to learn the true words spoken by Buddha. The nine dimensions. Unveiling the laws of eternity and the laws of the sun. Uh, they were—
carrie
									
That’s a lot of laws.
ross
									
Yes. Right. Uh, but y’know, this guy’s figured out everything—everything! Um… [Carrie laughs.] And so, uh, yeah. I wanted to throw them a little bit, uh, their way and get an extra book out of this. So I’ve got some reading material. And he was very excited about me. At one point he asked me, uh, so are you Christian or do you come from a Christian background? I said, well I do, but actually I’m an atheist now. And—ohhhh. Goodness the conversation changed. His face dropped. He looked very concerned for me.
carrie
									
Awwww.
ross
									
Oh, this—this is not good! There are very spiritual things! And so this guy—
carrie
									
Awww.
ross
									
All of a sudden it changed his pitch. Like, oh. And I wasn’t sure if it was more of a—we need to help you or you may be un-helpable.
carrie
									
Oh, right, right, right.
ross
									
Uh, but he was less excited about me all of a sudden. You know. Because I had said that.
carrie
									
Or you might be, like, an unwelcome force. Like an SP kind of person. Y’know.
ross
									
Maybe.
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
Yeah. And yet still they had me fill out their form.
carrie
									
Okay.
ross
									
Uh, though I have—
carrie
									
Now, are they Christian?
ross
									
That’s a good question. Well, the point they were making—that’s a good thing to ask. The point they were making is that, I think, this is compatible. Happy Science is compatible with all the major religions.
carrie
									
Ah, of course it is.
ross
									
But I just happened to be the one thing that was incompatible. And come to think of it, I gave them my email. I don’t think I’ve gotten any emails!
carrie
									
Hmmm.
ross
									
So, uh, y’know what? Maybe they just threw it away the second I walked away. Like, this guy is bad.
carrie
									
Yeah. Interesting.
ross
									
Though the guy behind the booth, he did get in one comment. He said, oh, you have very Japanese eyes.
carrie
									
Oh! Okay.
ross
									
Well, thank you! [Carrie laughs.] Uh, so yeah! That was my brief interaction with Happy Science. But maybe, uh, maybe more to come!
carrie
									
Who knows?
ross
									
Who can say?
carrie
									
Who can say. Certainly not us.
ross
									
That made me just a tad late for, uh, our friend David Oates, but, uh, I think I got there right as things were starting up.
carrie
									
Which, for the David Oates talk, is actually the end. You start at the end and you— [Ross laughs.] —reverse through the talk.
ross
									
Oh, good point!
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
That’s true.
crosstalk
									
Ross: So you’re right. I missed— Carrie: It’s almost a good point.
ross
									
I missed the end of the talk. [Both laugh.] If you reverse the whole thing.
carrie
									
Exactly. One other thing we haven’t mentioned is that there was an artist there named Douglas Taylor?
ross
									
Oh, yeah!
carrie
									
Who is a UFO contactee.
ross
									
He was set up right next to the Jimmy Church booth.
carrie
									
And he does art of the aliens he has been in contact with. I’m using the word “contactee” because I believe he does. The word “abductee” is, uh… not necessarily embraced by those who feel that their abduction was friendly.
ross
									
Mm. Mm-hm.
carrie
									
So I think he feels his were. But anyway, he paints all of these different, uh, aliens. And that picture of me talking to Dylan and holding up my painting—
ross
									
Yes!
carrie
									
That—that was from Douglas Taylor.
ross
									
Yeah! And you—you bought—what was it? Two paintings?
carrie
									
Just one. Actually, I tried to get two. I was gonna get Drew a set ‘cause I knew he’d really like them. And he had a deal if you bought two?
ross
									
Mm-hm?
carrie
									
But then I think like his… oh yeah! His Square wasn’t working at all?
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
So I was like… well, I can give you cash but then I can only get one.
ross
									
These are pretty fun. Looks like kind of a combination of airbrush and sometimes computer printout and…
carrie
									
Yeah. The one I got is pretty pixelated. [Laughs.]
ross
									
Okay. You know what? Actually, I’d be speculating on the exact method here. But I guess it’s kind of, uh, mixed media. And then finally it’s giclee on canvas, which I always think is hilarious. Essentially just means—I think “giclee” is like the—a French word for “nozzle”?
carrie
									
Nozzle?
ross
									
Yeah.
carrie
									
You told me this there. It’s so great. [Ross laughs.] I’ve never heard that before. But I’m gonna start calling people I don’t like a douche-giclee.
ross
									
A douche-giclee. Douchenozzle. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.]
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Le douche-giclee! Ross: So essentially—
ross
									
When you say “giclee on canvas” it’s not like there’s some interesting new wax medium you didn’t know about. Like, oh, next to encaustic, the giclee! No, it just means it’s a digital print on canvas.
carrie
									
Those things you see at Target.
ross
									
Or at Tar-jay. [Laughs.] [Carrie laughs.]
carrie
									
Tar-jay giclee.
ross
									
Yeah! Wow! Conscious Life Expo.
carrie
									
What a place!
ross
									
It was a wonderland for you and I.
carrie
									
It would be impossible to give it ratings because it was a bunch of different things.
ross
									
Yeah. People have noted we haven’t been giving our ratings as much lately.
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Yeah. Well. Ross: Yeah. Sorry.
carrie
									
It’s not our fault. [Ross laughs.] Somehow. [Ross laughs.] I also— [Laughs.] Uh—
ross
									
It’s totally our fault.
carrie
									
—wanted to mention that Linda Moulton Howe’s Antarctica documentary is on Amazon Prime. I believe it’s $3.99 to rent.
ross
									
Oh yeah!
carrie
									
I watched it. Very entertaining.
ross
									
Oh nice. I haven’t convinced my wife and son to watch that with me yet.
carrie
									
Oof. Yeah. Maybe we can do a livestream of it!
crosstalk
									
Ross: They’ve become— Carrie: Of us watching—
carrie
									
—and people can watch with us if they want.
ross
									
They’ve become very leery of the things that dad-slash-Ross— [Carrie laughs.] —want to watch?
carrie
									
Uh-huh.
ross
									
And—
carrie
									
Huh!
ross
									
They’ll usually let me get away with, uh, a certain class of movies. But then there’s all these documentaries and stuff like, ooh, we could watch this!
carrie
									
Uh-huh.
ross
									
No. [Carrie laughs.] We’re gonna watch Seinfeld.
carrie
									
Oh. Fair. But I just wanna say… my favorite thing about the Antarctica documentary?
ross
									
Yeah!
carrie
									
Is that Spartan 1 and Spartan 2 are the main characters, right? They’re in that, like… dark, anonymous silhouette the whole time? Right? But… [Laughs.] She has lit it. And she is editing it.
ross
									
Mm-hm.
carrie
									
Her name’s on every single credit, pretty much. There are transitions [through laughter] where the light kicks up and you can just—for seconds at a time—like, see their shirts. See pieces of their face.
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
There’s one part where I’m pretty sure one of them says the other guy’s name? Now I can’t remember what it is.
ross
									
Oh wow.
carrie
									
But like it’s not bleeped. It’s—it’s a little messy. [Laughs.]
ross
									
Okay.
carrie
									
Uh, but it’s very entertaining.
ross
									
We should track them down. Spartan 1. Spartan 2.
carrie
									
Yeah. Spartan 1, Spartan 2—if you’re listening, please get in touch. I just wanna know you. I wanna know the story.
ross
									
Well. Thank you all for joining us on this amazing journey through the world of the Conscious Life Expo. It’s been a wild one. Let’s hope that, uh, we all get back to a normal place where we can go to conferences and see each other and interact in person and, uh… y’know? Maybe next year we’ll be at the Conscious Life Expo again!
carrie
									
I hope so! Do you think there’ll be society again? [Laughs.] Do you think there’ll be a society again, then?
ross
									
By then?
carrie
									
Yeah.
ross
									
I wouldn’t bet money.
carrie
									
Okay. Cool.
ross
									
Let’s hope so.
carrie
									
Yeah. I—I wonder. But you know what? Uh… I just mean in-person society, not, um…
ross
									
Oh, yeah.
carrie
									
We have a society.
ross
									
I just want a, uh, yeah. I just want a real president by then.
carrie
									
Wouldn’t that be great?
ross
									
It’s all I’m asking for.
carrie
									
That would be super.
ross
									
All I want for Christmas.
carrie
									
You’re not gonna get it by Christmas.
ross
									
Well, at least I’ll have the promise of it.
carrie
									
Okay. Fair enough. Goodbye! [Computer-y voice] Yeah! Bluch!
carrie
									
Whoa.
ross
									
Whoa. Yeah. That’s not what I was expecting. [Computer repeats itself.] Yah! Bluch! [Carrie laughs.] [Computer] Goodbyeee! [Through laughter] Whoa! That worked! [Laughs.]
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Okay. Wait. Hear yours again— Ross: Whoops. Wait. Let me— [Computer voice] Goodbyeee!
carrie
									
Ghoodbyee! [Laughs.] [Ross laughs.]
clip
									
Hyaaa! Blugh!
ross
									
Hyaaaa! Blugh!
clip
									
[Computer voice] Hchulbyeee! [Ross and Carrie laugh.]
carrie
									
Hulbyeee! [Computer voice] Yeahhh! Bluh!
crosstalk
									
Carrie: Uh, maybe getting stuck at yachbluch. Ross: Yeah. That’s pretty similar. Yeah. [Laughs.]
carrie
									
Anyway. Such a good app, you guys. [Ross laughs.] I hope [through laughter] that they sponsor the show.
crosstalk
									
Ross: Uh, what I was really— Carrie: Groupon. Reverse speech. [Laughs.] Come on.
ross
									
Yeah. iReverseSpeech app on the Apple App Store and I hope the Google Play store. I haven’t checked.
carrie
									
Mm. Right.
ross
									
Anyways. Yeah. I was hoping that after that episode came out that he saw a big spike in downloads and was like, oh, what happened? [Carrie laughs.] Where did the app get featured? Well! That’s it for our show! And for the Conscious Life Expo. Though, uh, we may have some fun follow-up from, uh, some of these, uh, some of these things and people we met and did—
carrie
									
So true. Our theme music is by Brian Keith Dalton.
ross
									
Our administrative manager is Ian Kremer.
carrie
									
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ross
									
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carrie
									
Mm-hm.
ross
									
And trust me, we’re gonna have all kinds of amazing incentives and extra content!
carrie
									
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carrie
									
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carrie
									
We’re not gonna stop you!
ross
									
We’re not gonna stop you! So we—we do hugely appreciate that. This—this makes what we do possible. It actually does.
carrie
									
I think I’m also going to start putting my research materials on my Etsy store.
ross
									
Oh, ooooh!
carrie
									
And I’ll—I’ll sign them for your friend or whatever. I think, uh, ‘cause I know a lot of times people wanna support the show in a little way.
ross
									
Yeah!
carrie
									
Get just a one-time bump!
ross
									
How do people, uh… find your Etsy store?
carrie
									
I don’t know. Search Etsy! I don’t know everything! [Laughs.]
ross
									
Fair. Okay.
carrie
									
I don’t know the link.
ross
									
Alright.
carrie
									
I think it’s Oh No Carrie… is the store? [Ross laughs.] But what’s the link?
ross
									
You’re a great promoter.
carrie
									
I don’t know! I’m not a magician!
ross
									
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carrie
									
Yeah!
ross
									
We hugely appreciate it.
carrie
									
Also, we have social media.
ross
									
Yeah, we do!
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Ross and Carrie: We have Facebook!
carrie
									
Ruined our society, but we’re still there!
ross
									
We’re still there!
carrie
									
[Through laughter] Facebook.com/ONRAC! O-N-R-A-C!
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Ross: Yep. Good pitch. Carrie: You should all watch The Great Hack, though.
ross
									
Good pitch for that.
carrie
									
And we have Twitter. @OhNoPodcast.
ross
									
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Welcome to Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, the show where we don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves. Follow us as we join religions, undergo alternative treatments, seek out the paranormal, and always find the humor in life’s biggest mysteries. We show up – so you don’t have to. Every week we share a new investigation, interview, or update.
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