This is Sirens, a new series brought to you by the ladies of bombshell, where we dissect

the institutions of American power. Join us as we sound the alarm on technology, governance,

and national security issues, and maybe lures some men to their deaths. I'm Lauren DeYoung

Shulman. I'm Erin Simpson. And I'm Roda in Garclump. And as always, we are starting off with our not quite

bombshell, but maybe sirens questions. We have a couple new ones to test out this week,

starting with what conspiracy theory do you want to be true? And I'm going to go first because I just want to be super clear that I don't actually want

this to be true.

But I encountered more people than I ever would have imagined who fully believe that

chemtrails are real.

Like chem trails are like a real scary, terrible thing in Silicon Valley.

Like, and not amongst. I thought you were going to say

Texas. No, no, Silicon Valley. The next door, listeners, at first I thought they were saying,

hey, guys, the, like the pest spray people, like the bug spray, mosquito spray people, they're like

out, so don't let your kids out like

all right cool uh and then i read into the thread is like no no no these are chemtrell people

they fully believe that like there's airplanes in the sky putting mind control stuff out there

and this was in like menlo park so i i don't believe that it's true, but golly, there's a lot of people who do,

and I appreciate that for them. My version, I don't know if this counts as a conspiracy theory,

but I'll go with it, which is the Loch Ness Monster. Here's the thing. Have you ever read

the book, The Water Horse? No. It's a children's book, and it's basically these kids find a little egg and then hatch it,

and then it's, it rode in their bathtub, and then it gets bigger in their bathtub,

and then it goes.

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