Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. Today, we are doing a fun

junk food topic kind of episode where we're going to be covering a bunch of low-level conspiracy

theories, some of which I full-ass believe in, and some of which I'm like, I don't really know,

but they're skimable enough that you can't really do a deep dive on any of them.

But we've got a good maybe eight conspiracy theories here that we're going to dive into.

It's good, I don't know, fodder if you have like a dinner party coming up or maybe if you want to scare someone on a first date and just run through all of these, pay attention.

So we're going to get into the roundup of fun, lighthearted, random conspiracy

theories. Before we get into this, I do want to shout out if you live in the Austin, Texas

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So without further ado, let's get into our first conspiracy theory, and this is that the lottery is used to capture time travelers.

I do have to say up front, any conspiracy theory that deals with time traveling, it's almost

like my brain just like runs up against a wall and I can't get past it. The physics of what's going on,

it just doesn't, I really truly don't understand it. It's like when people say how many grains

of sand there are on the beach or how many stars there are in the sky or how much money Elon Musk has,

I'm like, I don't know, I just can't get there, right? So in TV shows like Lost or Riverdale,

the minute they introduce a time traveling concept, I'm like, all right, I'll see you. I'm out of here.

Now, however, it pops up in conspiracy theories all the time. For example, the simulation theory.

We have a little bit of the time traveling aspect in that because the main gist of this theory is

that the way technology is going, we are so up into the right. It's almost like the freaking Eiffel Tower

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