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Jason Mansmith on Upcoming Events at the Thrasher Opera House (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Tue Jun 2, 2026
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So, questioning again is what is a conspiracy theory that you believe, Dom?
Oh, actually, no, I'm sorry.
Pete.
Let's start with you, please.
Before I answer the question, Greg, me and Culpa, I totally forgot to push the Nightlight Movie Club movie this week, which is Casino Royale.
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We'll talk about our favorite quotes Scenes maybe our favorite James Bond's whoever they were we'll do that second-hour Thursday night.
So
James is
Bond.
Yeah, that's how you say plural So
all right, so let's kick it off with you Pete.
What is a conspiracy theory that you believe?
All right, so I believe to a degree that the Kennedy killing was some kind of
conspiracy.
Maybe not like you said earlier, Greg, as widespread as
they
indicated in the movie, the Oliver Stone film, which is a bit over the top.
But I don't believe it was one gunman.
I do believe other people were involved.
And it's the simple thing of in the Oliver Stone film when his head went back into the left.
I know that's been talked about over and over, but I'm not saying it can't happen if he shot from behind, but it seems like
I don't know.
So I just feel like there has to be at least a couple more people involved in that.
Also, my other ones, these are just kind of silly new Coke.
Wait, you don't believe it existed?
No, I believe it existed.
It was terrible, but that Coke launched it and made it bad on purpose.
Cause it was bad.
I
you had a chance to taste it.
I was probably 20 when it came out.
It was bad.
And then they relaunched Coke.
and called it co-classic, maybe just a great marketing move.
So I kind of, I could believe that could happen easily.
And I will say, I don't believe, I never used to believe in conspiracy theories because my parents always said, well, nut jobs are the ones peddling conspiracy theories.
But the thing is, when there's money to be made.
Yeah.
People do crazy
things.
Well, and there was also something we talked about a couple weeks ago a story where it said that the conspiracy theories that are being pedaled nowadays are not coming from like the backwoods guys and their trailers on their computers.
It's from people who have of high or higher education people who are of the mainstream people and unfortunately people pushing them are also folks who have high followings on social media and they'll do anything for clicks and engagements.
It can definitely be a grift even when the information is right in front of your face.
Dom, what about you?
What is a conspiracy theory that you believe?
And is it sandwich store-based?
I wish it was.
I would have to say there was a viral thing that went out on Facebook.
It was the Area 51 where they were storming Area 51.
I believe that happened and I believe that they actually did go inside Area 51.
And I don't know.
Like people?
Random people.
They managed to get inside.
There was like hundreds and hundreds of people trying to
quote-unquote, storm it.
And I believe some people manage to get in, and most people don't believe that, but I do, I think.
I'm not
familiar with that, but do you believe, are you saying you believe there's an actual alien being held in there, and people stormed it to see what was okay?
That too,
Wow
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Howdy.
Okay.
Wow.
You're going you're going classic That's a that's a class like for you
retro.
That's retro actually.
Yeah, that's like you're like you're like the guy who's like I'm bringing back bell bottoms It's
like, you know what they're comfy.
Yeah,
they get the wind up to my ankles.
It's nice.
All right, so
what do we
have?
Oh, what about me?
Yeah, I don't I'm just kind of a kind of like a
No funner here.
I don't really buy into conspiracy theories.
I'm sorry.
I think the only one that I'm interested in learning more about that I still have not read.
So therefore I don't want to say I believe in it, but there's something called the dead internet theory where it consists.
It persists that the mostly bot activity and automated content is happening in on the internet period, not just on social media, but like in many places.
And that sounds very interesting to me.
And it also just seems like a very low stakes one because, you know, as we were talking earlier, like some of these conspiracy theories can really harm families and harm people.
Like, you know, it just doesn't, it's not good stuff, but this one seems interesting to me because now I just believe that most responders on social media are bots because I've seen those videos of
bought farms where comments are being generated, where there are like a thousand phones in a room all hooked up to computers, just constantly throwing out like rage bait comments and commentary.
So I kind of, I kind of lean towards the idea of maybe the internet's mostly dead or mostly robotic.
That's really interesting.
I would not say it's low stakes though.
I would say that if that is happening, that is the work of people with a lot of money,
want to
control people who want to monetize.
the internet.
So I don't
think it's low
stakes.
It's
very dangerous.
I guess, I guess my point.
Oh, I guess no, it does.
It does cause harm too.
You're right.
You're right.
I take that back.
It's not low stakes.
I guess I'm, I'm thinking it more in context to like the story we talked about with regard to dead scientists and things like that and the information in people's faces and then folks still saying, no, I don't believe you because you're part of the deep state or whatever that is.
But let's hear from the people.
Dom, let's kick it off with the text line.
Yeah,
Wow.
That's been a take for quite a while too.
I could buy that one.
I mean, I mean, you
know, it's such a mess the investigation.
Who knows?
Wow.
Never
before.
That's interesting.
be made.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
there, Dom?
I don't know if we're actually ever gonna know honestly because when they did the executive order to release the files the even the people who looked like there's nothing here So I'm sure those secrets are very buried.
Mm-hmm.
absolutely.
Do we have any others there Tom?
Yeah, I'm trying to scroll through the um
here's a conspiracy theory grocery Yeah,
No, I mean, I've been called a Tall White too, so maybe just been a bunch of tall guys.
You know what I have trouble like with the alien
theories?
I do too.
It's because when I saw this thing on one of the places I follow the science thing, where you would have to go or what traveling light years would get you.
if they showed up, and it was in this book I read too called The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
And he said if there were going to be aliens that came here, they would be through little wormholes.
They're not gonna be green people in spaceships and all that kind of stuff because they couldn't make it that far.
That's like our limited brain.
And that's not a new theory.
I've heard people say that too, but it seems almost impossible that they could get here with a spaceship.
Or can they?
You never know.
Exactly.
Let's get to some Facebook comments.
We'll get to more text comments in a little while, but let's get to some Facebook comments as well.
I'm sure people have opinions.
Yeah, Richard says the food industry is set up to make us sick and keep us that way so the health care system can milk us dry.
Again, healthcare, big business, baby.
Ian says that there are forces and people that work in your and my life attempting to help us, even if we're not aware of it.
Oh, that's kind of a positive one, right?
Wait, say that one more time.
Say it again.
That there are forces and people that work in your life and my life attempting to help us, even if we're not aware of it.
That's interesting.
I feel like a conspiracy there.
That just feels like a nice thing.
It's like a guardian angel, pay it forward thing.
Yeah.
Cash Money Carl says that I am a character in an alien's video game simulation.
The sunglasses aren't helping you, pal.
Let's see, Chuck Gennaro, our civic media pal says, what does he say?
Oh, he's responding to Stacy Sue, who says that Elvis is alive and Chuck says Stacy Sue and works at a 7-Eleven in Marquette, Michigan.
I've not heard that one.
I would find that hard to believe.
One more here.
JB Thompson says that Greg Bach is a standup comedian.
That's not even funny.
That's
true.
That's an unfunny conspiracy theory and it's true.
The pictures
are on the internet JB and I can vouch for him because he makes me laugh.
We've got some more.
All right, folks, we'll get to more of your comments on tonight's question.
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But coming up next is Jason Mansmith, the marketing director of Thrasher Opera House.
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He is the marketing director of the Thrasher Opera House here in Wisconsin.
Jason Mansmith is back on the program.
Jason, good evening.
Welcome here.
Thanks for being on the program.
Great talk to you.
Hey, so
glad to be along with you guys.
Certainly do appreciate the opportunity to talk about her historic opera house,
which
is cool.
So let's start with the name first.
Well, first of all, the most metal name in history, but also when you see if I say to somebody, hey, let's go to the thrash or opera house.
It's possible someone would say, well, I don't enjoy opera.
That's the misnomer maybe with the name.
Tell us about all the things you have at the opera house.
Yeah.
So very rarely do we have opera.
I mean, we do every once in a while, but 90% of the time we don't.
But we've got all kinds of different music genres coming on through there from across the world, right?
So bluegrass rock gospel Heck, we'll do polka Country, you know all those kind of things.
We even had one of my favorite shows was gangsta grass I don't know if you get all those cats
and all
but this is bluegrass and rap in the same
thing and they are
so great
and so great
They did the theme song to justified.
Yes.
Correct.
Absolutely.
So we had those guys in a couple of times, but yeah, not, not particularly a lot of opera coming through there.
And people get a little bit like concerned with thrasher as well because they're like, is that the skateboarding magazine that's
supporting this?
Or
is this like a thrash metal thing that's coming on in here?
No.
Charlie thrashers, the gentleman who built this building back in 1910.
So we're just excited to continue on that legacy.
His whole idea was to bring people together in the community and provide them a place to gather.
And boy, it's an incredible place.
Wonderful.
Jason Mansmith is our guest.
He's the marketing director for the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.
Jason.
Before we get into some of the upcoming events and you've got a really great slate this summer, tell us a little more about, like you said, when it was built.
It's very intimate though, isn't it?
And also tell us about the facility.
And if you don't mind, since we're talking conspiracy theories tonight, tell us a little bit about its haunted history.
Oh
yeah, absolutely.
So the building was built in 1910, as I said, by Charlie Thrasher.
It's a 200 seed venue.
That's all we can
there, right?
But if we do a standing show, we can get 325.
That's what the fire code says we can get in there.
But yeah, 200 is where we typically see all of our shows.
So it's incredibly intimate.
There's only 12 rows most of the time, right?
So you're super close.
The cool thing about our theater and the opera house is the stage is actually raked three degrees.
So back in the day they put everybody on a flat floor and then they made the stage go down So that's where downstage comes from upstage comes on because you're actually going down Towards the front of the stage and it's funny when we get bands in there because their equipment will start rolling towards the front and they're like Am I feeling something off here?
I'm like, yeah, that's just part of the way the venue was built But I will tell you this one of the most amazingly sounding acoustic environments will ever begin We have artists who come through there all the time that say
This place sounds amazing.
And, you know, they spend millions of dollars to do those kind of tests nowadays.
And for somehow they pulled it together in 1910 with none of the technology and none of those things.
It's just put together with a good feeling.
Like there's some of those old, like whether it's recording studios or theaters or just like this place is acoustically perfect.
And again, I don't know if you can recreate it.
It's like, you, I don't know.
the technology involved.
But yeah, it's it's amazing when you get you can feel it when you hear especially an acoustic band playing.
It's so special.
Yeah, when you hit the door, you know, it's
a
different vibe in there for sure.
Going back to Pete's question about the haunted thing.
Yes, we always say that Charlie is with us somewhere.
Never malicious always check it on in with us.
But yeah, we do have some Oh, the guy who built it is the ghost.
Yeah.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, that's what well, that's what we put to it at least because there's things that happen and we just go
Okay.
You know, but no wheel intense by any means.
It's just making kind of like a guardian us through the way.
Nice.
We only have about a minute left.
Really quick.
Do you actually have any conspiracy theories that you believe in?
You don't have to if you don't want to.
You don't have to say, but I'd love to ask you'd love to
know.
particularly have any that come to the top of the brain right now.
So I,
I
apologize
for doing
my research a little bit more, but I could, I could come up with some maybe, but well, we just
threw that at you.
Let me ask you this.
And again, just about 45 seconds.
What are your favorite events to have there?
Are they, you've got great children's performances, movies, concerts, comedians.
What's your faith?
I'm telling you, there is nothing.
That are sounding in that room than a than an acoustic four-piece string band, right?
It is it It's you don't need a mic, right?
It is it's just it'll move you no doubt about it You feel special when you're in there and just blessed to be in that space for sure.
That's awesome
That is the voice of Mr. Jason Mansmith.
He is the marketing director of the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.
We're going to be talking more about what's happening at the venue coming up after the news break.
So don't go anywhere, folks.
It's going to be a great time.
If you have any questions, if you live in the Green Lake area, you want to know more, let us know or go to the website.
We'll put that information in the show notes so people can get tickets.
There's also stand-up comedy there, too, which we'll talk about on the other side as well.
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So we're going to have a great time tomorrow, but
right now, we are speaking with Jason Mansmith, who is the marketing director of the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.
And we're just talking about all the great stuff that's going on, all the great things that are happening at the venue.
And something I noticed, you got a lot of music, but you also do stand-up comedy, too.
You have Daniel Van Kirk coming, who is absolutely hilarious.
We've worked with him many times.
I've worked with him many times.
He's a great guy.
It's gonna be a great show.
But have you guys been doing stand-up for a while now?
Yeah,
exactly.
I got to tell you the best, the best thing about Daniel Van Kirk is how we booked him.
you have this infamous bar in, in ripping called Reds, which is, you know, just kind of your local watering hole and a friend of mine likes to visit there and Daniel was in there and my buddy called me and said, Hey man, you got to get this guy a thrasher.
And that's how it started.
And we've had him now for three years in a row.
So, uh, and he's always doing great stuff and he loves us and
And, you know, loves to work with us and promote us and do good things.
Yeah, comedy is a big part of our thing too, right?
We know the summer months are really good for us in the comedy realm because a music show sometimes in a resort, Lake Town, I don't know.
You know, some people don't want to get off the boat.
Some people don't want to leave the, you know, the barbecue that they're maybe doing.
But the comedy, if they know they're going to laugh and have a good time, that seems to work best during the summer months, for sure.
Yeah.
Well, let's stick with comedy.
You've also had a show.
I talked to you about this last year, too, when we talked about your summer lineup, the best of second city.
How does
that play?
I've been a second city several times.
A lot of my friends went there and our alumni, but what an institution.
And how does that go over to the vacationers or locals in Green Lake?
So good that we need two
shows.
We do two shows.
on that Saturday and traditionally it always been one show but the man demand kept growing for it so we're just really blessed to have them come on in on a pretty regular basis you know most close to annually right and you know it is a no holds bar show right and and people like that about it and they have a good time with it and yeah so it's really important for us to to not only bring in some well recognized in terms of
The name of second city like you know what you're getting with that product because you know, it's so well liked and so well done
also willing to take a chance on some on some local folks too that have had some success.
We've had Johnny be near and on in we've had Mary Mack on in twice, right?
Yeah,
so we we've had some big hitters come through there and have always been really good for us and they love playing the venue and You know, the audience is always really great
Maybe some medium hitters like me and Pika do a show there.
Who
knows?
Well,
yeah, why not?
I'm a utility player.
Well, no, that would be fantastic.
So that's really cool.
But we do brought ourselves and bringing in really, really good comedians.
Greg and I
have taken to inviting ourselves to
other
locations to do
live cast from there.
So
yeah, we're totally in.
We've got the room for you.
If there's no venue, we just invite ourselves over to people's houses for dinner.
That's just how we can do it.
We can make it work.
That's not a problem.
Now on your website, thrasher opera house.com, there is something there.
It says construction update.
You want to talk about what's going on there with renner, with renovations?
Yeah.
So absolutely.
So we have the very historic thrasher opera house.
And then to the north of that, we had this very 1957 real estate office that we converted into the thrasher opera house offices, which included our bar.
that at tops could hold 35 people, one person at a time.
And when you got a sold out show at 200, it's a slow
say in Canada.
So we said, hey, we got to do something about this.
So just to be clear, we are not touching the historic Thrasher Opera House.
Okay, the building to the north is undergoing a $3 million renovation right now to bring that to be completely accessible for people to get in and out.
Which has been a struggle sometime for us.
Yeah And it's gonna be able to accommodate everybody in terms of the people that are there that night To get a beverage to hang out plus it becomes another space for us To put some things in if we want to do a pre-show concert with a local performer We can set them up in that area.
We'll open the bar a little bit earlier.
It can come on in So that got underway in April and you're looking to open May of next year
Wonderful.
Very nice.
Yeah.
And the great thing in this is all privately raised.
There's
no city dollars coming into this.
This is all people that love us and think that we're doing a good thing in bringing the arts to a rural community.
It's really just a grassroots organization.
And it's so important for that area to have that kind of cultural base.
And we're so excited to bring people.
Our guest is Jason Mansmith.
He is the marketing director of the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.
Just a short drive from Fonda Lake, what about 15 miles or so?
Yeah, about 18, 20 somewhere in there.
But well worth a road trip for a beautiful intimate setting with amazing acoustics.
Jason, you have great taste in movies because I noticed looking at the events coming up, we do a nightlight movie club here and you're featuring about three of the movies we've discussed in the last few
weeks here at our movie
club.
So kudos to you, my friend.
What are the movie nights like and do people bring food or is there a discussion?
How does that work?
So it's really
good.
You know, originally when Charlie Thrasher kind of opened this place,
Um, it was a movie house, right?
Shield silent movies.
Then they showed talkies and then, you know, started getting music on in.
Uh, so we really wanted to go back to our roots and always have that beauty, uh, movie night.
Um, and we, we want to do it for free.
So we've been able to, you know, part of some great sponsors that say, Hey, we'll take care of it.
We'll help you cover all the costs of the movie rights and those kind of things.
Invite everybody on in.
We'll have snacks for them for free.
Those kind of things too.
And then we, you know, we pick really fun movies, right?
We, you know, we've got the sandlot.
We've got Jaws.
We've
got, you know,
the breakfast club, just absolute hitters.
But we do some really good stuff outside of the fun ones like that, too, that really bring people to the forefront and talk about what they're doing.
No packers, no life.
Those guys were just on in
showing that movie
and
earlier.
Yeah.
Earlier
we showed a movie that talks about how
Elderly folks who are in homes who are sometimes non-verbal and those things they give them a Walkman or an iPod something like that and it just completely changes their demeanor You know, they're getting up.
They're dancing and how important the power music is so we want to make a difference with these films, too You know, so we do that series a couple times a year too so and they're always free You know, we don't ever charge for anybody to come on in for those so we'll have our bar open So if you need a you know average or something like that we got it there, but yeah
you'll free to come on in and free snacks.
That always helps too, right?
Yeah, that's great.
I mean, it's not just, I mean, it's a venue and it's a place to do business, but it's also a place for community, which is so important in spots that highlight art.
I used to run a venue and I know that with my former partners and that, you know, there were the
the gets that made us go, oh my God, we got so and so they're coming.
Is there anyone in the past year or so or just ever that when you found out they confirmed they signed the contract, you're like, I can't wait to tell everyone they're coming.
I
don't know if you know who Samantha fish is an incredible blues player
amazing.
We got her on a one off because the routing was right.
And we sold it out in about 13 minutes.
So it went, it went pretty good for us on that.
So,
but another one, um, Dwayne Betts, Dicky Betts, his kid, um, he's got a great band, pal metal mortality brings with him.
And, uh, he loved it so much.
He's like, I want to come back next year and do two shows.
So we got that coming up later this year in October, um, an affordable ticket, 45 bucks, right?
We're not pushing anything hot here.
Like there's nothing over 50.
So I mean, you can get on in and it's an intimate venue and
The cool thing is about a lot of these artists, they'll hang around afterwards.
You want to chat with them.
You want to tell them why they're important to you.
Wow.
storing.
They'll chat with you.
And it's very, very, it's a moment in an experience that you won't forget.
Yeah.
Have you ever had a performer there that totally went against the grain and you're really cool, intimate setting and was a total
jerk?
You know what?
It doesn't.
I don't want to say we're a classy joint or anything like that, but.
Everybody pretty much respects it very well because they realize what kind of a gem it is for the community.
We've never really had anybody trash in the green room and anything nefarious going on.
few recreational cannabis activities in the green
room, but that happened, right?
I
mean, no, it's the show biz, right?
Those things
happen.
I heard that Mary Mack will absolutely trash a kitchen.
If you give me just uncontrollable tiny Northern Wisconsin rage.
Good Lord.
We are talking to Jason Mansmith from the thrash or opera house talking about all the great events.
We'll put their, we'll put their information, their website in the show notes so you can check it out as well.
You know, that's the thing Jason, you bring up right there is
ticket prices, prices in general, allowing yourself, you know, we got, we got, we got to pay for groceries.
You got to pay for kids.
We got to pay for all these things in our life.
So it makes it that going out and treating ourselves becomes even with going out to dinner nowadays is tough to do because it just gets very expensive.
And I think by providing the community an opportunity to see great live or great live music or great entertainment,
for an affordable price is great for them, but also just to be able to say like, Hey, you got to go to the thrasher.
It's a great place and you won't break the bank.
I mean, is that something you guys always keep in mind with regard to your ticket pricing?
Absolutely.
We, we try to be passed along as many savings as possible to our guests and to our people that want to support and join us.
So it's really important for us.
Now we've had some shows, you know, we've brought in some big names and sometimes we got to go to a
You know, 50 $60 ticket when you get people like Max Weinberg in there, you get three Collins in there or you get Jim Messina in there or Alvin Bishop, those kind
right.
So, you know, we got to go a little bit higher on those just because the price point is so much.
But we really love to live in between that 25 to $45 ticket price because, you know, it's going to be a good night free parking.
around the area too.
So that's not really huge.
That's a thing that you'll see in a lot of cities too.
So there's free parking around.
So it really is a good experience.
We keep our prices low at the bar too.
So you really are going to have a good time and you know, it's all about the experience there.
We want to make sure that you have the best experience here.
We have a great show going on, but hey, want to make sure you're treated well and we'll take care of you.
Prices
like that, you can't afford not to check out
the
Thrasher Opera
House
in Green Lake.
We got about 30 seconds left, Jason.
Tell me about gin, chocolate, and bottle rockets.
We've played their music on this show before, thanks to our pal Terry Barr.
What a fun band.
Yeah, absolutely.
Really, really looking forward to this.
They're going to do a Legends of Harmony show.
It's going to be like Dolly.
It's going to be Emmy Lou Harris.
It's going to be.
Very cool.
So like all of these really, really great songs.
So we're looking forward to that coming up in October.
And, uh, another chance for us to, um, you know, we, we just don't want to be the white guy theater where we're always doing, right?
You know, cause you get a lot of performers that are in there.
Yeah.
And
there's a lot of performers that you just come in.
We, we want to embrace everybody and we want to make sure that we get everybody in there.
And
it's, uh, it's important for us to get that going.
Well, check out their website, ThrasherOperaHouse.com.
Check out their events.
Go see a show.
Go for a weekend.
Take yourself out.
Treat yourself.
That's what we need to do in this world is treat yourself.
Jason Mansmith is the marketing director for the Thrasher Opera House.
Jason, thank you so much for stopping by tonight.
Absolutely.
So glad to be on with you anytime.
All right, folks, we'll put that information on our show notes so you can check it out.
When we come back, we're going into the nightcap to talk about what we've learned and what you think about our question.
What is a conspiracy theory you believe still coming up ahead here on Night Light with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bob?
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Tonight's question is what is a conspiracy theory that you believe we are officially in the nightcap where we hear from you.
on your thoughts regarding the question and talk about what we have learned.
Dom, I know we got some more text messages still on this question.
Why don't we get to those right away?
Oh,
real thing.
I had to pay money to see Eisenhower meet an alien.
Gave them fillings or what?
What's the dentist?
Hello, I'm president Eisenhower.
It's nice to meet you.
Exactly.
But the begging is noted.
those conspiracies here is like, okay.
All right.
I could buy that easily.
Yeah.
of a coinkie dink.
We got John Murray also Texian says heard what that Murray Gauss said.
She might be onto something.
Melissa from Willy Street.
It is Melissa.
Yes.
Where in the hell is the CIA when we need them nowadays?
Very true.
I don't I don't answer for that one because I work for them.
Oh Nice am I lying could be never know maybe we still got Nick from Marshall a Texan and says I believe a Donald Trump is part Russian and part alien I
don't believe the alien part because
always
took a shot of Trump like that Greg
You also went on to say, also I am sick and tired of people still saying vaccines cause autism long after it's been debunked.
And now these idiots are saying Tylenol causes autism, which is also in the wrong.
Also BS.
You can say BS.
You can say BS.
I'm a little nervous.
I don't want to make sure.
It's just two letters.
It's just two letters.
We also got Bridget saying food companies and government making people overweight, unhealthy, and addicted to food so people get rich and have to use medicine and health care.
I
behind that.
behind that one, too.
like a conspiracy theory.
That just feels like I'm trying to make money.
It's a business plan.
Yeah,
Tobacco, yeah.
Tobacco.
We got, I think we got two left.
We got Donna texting in from WMDX says, conspiracy theory, I believe that Russians helped throw the election to Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton.
And I also believe Elon Musk did some funny election stuff in Pennsylvania that year.
All right, and then Nick as well saying Tupac is alive and well living in Habana Cuba.
Oh, I forgot about that one Wow,
I once saw Snoop Dogg in concert and I was expecting Tupac to walk out of like the back like from like he had like the backdrop and like
What would happen if that just happened and it didn't happen because
Tupac wasn't there.
I won't say he's dead, Nick.
I won't say he's dead.
I'll just say he wasn't there, Nick, for Marshall.
What else we got on the Facebook page?
Here's what we got from our pal, John Egan, says, birds aren't real.
That one is just, I gotta can't handle that one.
Scott Tom says, they, in quotes, are out there.
Thank you, Scott.
Amanda Nimmer says, the cure for cancer is being withheld for profit.
Again, maybe.
Um, rocker Smith, our pal from civic media here says belief can be true or untrue.
Knowledge, however, can only be true.
Very well said, my friend.
Ross Bigley on Facebook says ears don't grow back.
I'm going to go ahead and believe him there.
Ian and Mike are discussing the disclosure day because they both thought aliens could be real and that trailer comes out I think tomorrow I love when our listeners chat amongst themselves.
It's so great Mike says the government is withholding key information on the existence from our from of life outside our planet
And then Daniel Wheeler said, I said, one of my other conspiracy theories was that the, uh, the stone cutters from the Simpsons episode, one of my favorites episodes of all time, making fun of the Masons.
Dan, Danny wheel says, love that Lenny outranks Mr. Burns in that episode.
Cause they're both stone cutters.
Yeah.
All right.
We got a couple, we got a couple of live stream comments here to Sydney politics says no chance we landed.
Artemis lunar landing face a three year, three year added delay because of the suit development.
We don't have the suit figured out, but we landed in 1969.
Come on.
Come on, Sydney.
Knock it off.
All right.
That's, I just can't get on the moon landing when I says, uh, and then Trump at Joe 40 says worst conspiracy ever.
1988 soul Olympics.
Roy Jones, Jr.
Robbed of boxing gold medal by South Korean judges.
South Koreans won the gold medal.
And then we got a couple on my Facebook.
Get to really quick here.
My cousin.
Danny says rocks are soft until you touch them.
Well, that's going to be in my head forever.
And then see here, Jim says computer viruses are created by the same people who create the antivirus software.
So thank you so much.
Everyone getting in touch with us.
Great
stuff.
Yeah.
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