WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways BONUS: The Bumble 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:24.159 Stories don't know the answer to. Hey there, welcome to 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.160 a very special episode of Thinking Sideways. Yes, it's Christmas, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.400 and so we're going to bring you a Christmas mystery. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.400 I'm Joe, joined as always by Devin and Steve, and 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.280 so it's Christmas. We're going to jump right into it 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.000 with a mystery that was suggested by our listeners. Sandy 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.840 Claus Okay, not really, I'm lying. Okay, he's just trying 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.160 to take the heat off himself. Yeah, now this was 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.200 kind of self suggested. Yeah, I guess as every holiday 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.600 story is, it is internally sourced. Okay, all right. Uh 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.320 And as always, little ears warning and all that stuff 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.760 you're you're gonna hear graphic talk is scary things and 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.959 so yeah, if you're scared of that stuff, then you 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:19.440 know we're not going to ruin Christmas. Yeah maybe. Alright, 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.280 So for this year, we're gonna talk about the mystery 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:27.840 of the Bumble, also known as the Abominable Snowman. Yeah, 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.320 you know, and you know about this guy from Rudolph 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.040 the Red Nose Reindeer. We talked about that before the 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.959 special that's been on forever, I mean for like the 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.520 last fifty years. I think something like that, actually more 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:46.679 than fifty years three. Yes, yeah, yeah, I actually I've 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.560 been told that was not claymation. It was some sort 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.280 of cloth animation thing, stop motion animation. It just stop 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.960 motion animation. But apparently it wasn't It wasn't clay. It 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.040 was something other than some other medium, I don't know, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.600 some kind of fuzzy material. Well, well, do an episode 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.600 about that next year. What did they use the world's 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.200 shortest episode? Yeah, exactly. And the box it was all 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.160 kept in has vanished. I mean, so what are they hiding? 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.600 Uh yeah, okay, but back to the bumble? Um? Okay, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.440 we each have our our own theory about about the bumble? 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.440 Uh you know, was he real? Where did you come from? 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.440 That kind of thing? We're gonna talk about those, um 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.560 and of course, naturally there's some disagreements here, so we're 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.679 gonna have to like all present our sides and then 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.480 we'll hash it all off the end of side. Who's 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:41.679 right and who's wrong? Yeah, Joe's never wrong. Alright, here 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.040 we go. So let me jump in with my ideas here, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.960 well not ideas, actually this is well documented, so my 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:52.320 my documented history of the bubble. Uh well, Okay, leading off, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.080 you know, big big picture. First, almost every human society 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.240 on the planet has a legend about some kind of 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.280 huge hair man like creature that lives way out of 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.120 the sticks named Steve. Yeah. Yeah, listen, it's a beard. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:11.560 It doesn't make me a giant monster. Actually, if not 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.760 Harry all over, but I'm not gonna ask you to 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.760 take your shirt off, keep it on. But if your 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.960 Hairry all over, then yeah, you're one of these guys. Uh. Well, anyway, 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.440 but they are these these these things live in the sticks. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.520 No one ever sees them because well, the people that 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.919 do get killed right away. Uh. And they've had they've 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.720 had their different names, like the American Indians had the Sasquatch, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.519 which you guys have heard of, and the him Aliens 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.280 had the Yettie. White people had the Hookies from Star Wars. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.800 Uh and true. Yeah, and as you know, the hookies 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.160 were eventually civilized and allowed to have guns, some of them. Yeah. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.440 And and of course, as you know, the Wookies had 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.840 nothing to do with the Sasquatch or the Yettie. No 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.120 interbreeding there, no, no, not at all. They're not based 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.320 on that. The wookie Lei legend is actually based on 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.760 the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. But where does the 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.640 cookie monster legend come from? Doesn't come from the Eddie. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.240 Believe it or not, I know it doesn't. So okay, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.360 well we go back. We're gonna we're gonna take this 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.360 all apart so you can all understand how it works. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.440 But even though everybody seems to think they are the 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.960 same thing, there's actually no relationship between the Abominable Snowman 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.760 and the Eddie, which I know everybody thinks they're the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.919 same thing. But actually, uh, if you don't believe me, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.719 go to Nepal. Ask anyone on the street if they've 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.120 heard of the Abominable Snowman, and you will not hear 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.200 a single Yes, they have not heard of this guy. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.560 All right, so we'll talk about that later. Yeah, where 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.640 did the Abominable Snowman legend come from? This may be 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.359 hard to accept, but somebody made it up. I know. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.280 I can hear your heads exploding. But stay with me 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.680 for a minute. We're gonna unravel this. It all goes 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.880 back to nine three, the year before Rudolph came out, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.680 and uh, it was a bad year. All kinds of 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.000 bad things happened. Student Baker car company went out of business. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.039 The USS Thresher nuclear submarine was lost at sea with 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.760 all hands and nobody still knows why exact For sure, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.400 the Pope died, Johnny Depp was born, ZIP codes were 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.120 introduced when we're still dealing with that, right, Yeah, And 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.920 most famously of all, nineteen sixty three is known as 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:15.000 the year that the lava lamp was invented. Yeah, the 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:24.760 lava lamp. Yeah, from the northeast. I didn't need yeah, yeah, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.159 but yeah. I was actually kind of surprised because in 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.280 researching destroy I did a survey of momentius things that 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.560 happened in nineteen sixty three, and yeah, that was one 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.640 of them. I had no idea. I thought the lava 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.520 lamp was like later. But I cannot with your pronunciation 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.839 of that word, but it you know, of course, I 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.960 live on the West coast, you know, so maybe it 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.200 started on the East coast and sort of spread westwards 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.080 some of the time. I you know, I found one 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.240 in my home. That was a lot later than that. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.640 You went into the lavatory and found the lava lamp. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.840 the lava lamp was I don't know. My parents got 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.960 sooner or later somebody gave it to him. I think, Yeah, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.520 it's one of those things that nobody ever seems to buy. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.960 People always give. I mean, you have a Lava Lampton show, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.600 I have a giant one. Yeah, and didn't somebody give 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.520 that to Yeah? I know exactly where it came from. Yeah, exactly, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.159 but nobody ever buys them themselves, or at least admits 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.880 to it. Yeah. Anyway, the year it was a rough 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.839 year for America, and so the exact that the CBS 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.799 TV News network decided the country needed a little bucking 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.760 up right, and they sided the American people needed a 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.160 hero to rally around and to rally their spirits. So 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.919 they tasked their writers with creating this hero, and the 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.080 writers basically took a week reindeer with poor social skills 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.320 and a criminal record and tried to turn them into 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.400 Rambo for an animated special for the following Christmas season, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.640 you guys, And that's how that's where we all came from. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.160 We've already talked about the special and the disparity between 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.520 fictional Routolf and the real Rutolf, and they took some liberties, 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.200 as we all know. They started putting this special together, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.160 and of course they totally remade route Doll's character, made 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.840 him a lot better than he actually was. But they 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:08.360 left out one important thing, which is Jeopardy, right, you 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.320 got the game show exactly, I know, I know, no 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:17.880 peril danger. Oh I thought it was. That's here every 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.679 time you talk. Okay, I'll take left lame mythical creatures 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:27.160 for a hundred um. But we're talking about there's always 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.680 gotta be a hitch. Just's gotta be some sort of thing, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.080 you know, like the melting down nuclear reactor or more 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.520 likely the super villain. And so this is this is 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.160 a person who always makes it looks like the entire 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.160 enterprise may may just fall apart in our heroes. Who knows, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.200 might even die like the Postman from all of the 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:49.520 other Reindeer. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Bob, I like it. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.360 Great name. That's not his name, that's what he says. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.000 I'm sorry. Okay, clearly you've never seen it. I have 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.440 not seen it. But it's a great name. But uh 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.720 so they had to come up with something, and they 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.880 had to create a charifying villain who looked like he 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.920 was going to destroy the whole thing. But the problem 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.720 is is it's set in Christmas Town, which doesn't have 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.640 any real psycho criminals. I mean, and other than you know, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.160 I mean, Rudolph was actually the biggest criminal in Christmas 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.320 Town history. But and sure, the other reindeer they were 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.320 kind of jerks to to Rudolph, that's absolutely true. But 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.680 that's a long way from being a Bond supervillain or 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.600 a dark lord or something. Right, so they could make 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.480 up something like a twisted serial killer Elf, the one 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.439 on the shelf, Yeah, Santa's evil twin, or maybe this 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.400 is scary as hell, Santa's ex fiance showing up and 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.280 murdering Mrs Claus and and then wiring all the toy 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:45.440 factors with cbore and taking the els hostage. This is Christmas, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.400 what are you doing? Well? Yeah, And so obviously none 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.520 of these really went over well with the networks. They 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.439 did treat with some a few things, like the extnance. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.240 A plot had Rudolph armed with only a service automatic 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.880 and fifteen rounds of AMMO, crawling around air ducks and 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.640 Elvin nick Neck complex their Team four in the Psycho 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.880 exit saving Christmas, although there was a lot of eleven 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.240 collateral damage and it's just not appropriate. No, that's that's 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.400 how the Network felt about that. They really hated the 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.720 whole idea, you know, especially the idea of a reindeer 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.640 shooting and blowing up Christmas Town. So they just said, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.640 come on to use an animal or something to how 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.080 about wolves and but of course wolves won't do because 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.679 wolves live down around the Arctic Circle and below right, Yeah, yeah, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.880 Well how about polar bears and so no, polar bears 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.920 don't live you know, they live in the periphery of 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.079 the Arctic. True, they don't actually live at the North Pole. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.960 Ain't no polar bears up there, despite the name, which 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.960 is very misleading. That's very true. Polar bears would live 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.760 at the pole. But no they don't. They sure as 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.679 hell don't. Why would anybody live at the pole. That's 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.400 the thing. There's nothing to eat up there. Reindeers yeah, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.040 and and candy, yeah, and candy. And you know, ye 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.800 elves are tasty. Elves are like behind the wall though 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.400 well they have yeah, now we'll get into that some 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:02.680 future one style wall. Yeah thing uh. And so they 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.840 decided they needed to make something up the problem of courses. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.440 Are people gonna believe that there's some huge, scary, demonic 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.719 creature living on the ice at the North Pole with 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.559 no visible means of support, a little bit of a stretch. Right, 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.800 this is a creature that lives right here, and mother, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.520 nobody's ever seen it or heard it before. I mean, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.920 it's it's ridiculous. Nobody's seen the cracking, at least not 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.800 that I know of, but at least we've all heard 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.280 of it before, right, Yeah, And and it lives in 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.320 a place that credibly could support life, not which is 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.320 not the North Pole. And the writers came up with 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.920 a solution, which is, we'll just pretend like this badass 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.280 creature has always existed, even though nobody ever actually heard 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.120 of it until five minutes ago. We'll claim it's a 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.840 nation legend from a tiny country like halfway around the 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.199 world that no one's ever heard of. And thus they 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.840 created this foil for Rudolph, and the abominable Snowman legend 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.559 was born. Yeah, or the Bumble, based of course on 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.640 the humanly and yetti, but really total b Yes, it 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.559 was not at all related to her, based on the yetting, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.880 but they pretended that it was. And by pretending that 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.040 it was based on this ancient crypto from halfway around 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.560 the world, CBS was insulated from charges of lameness. Yeah, 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:10.560 the worst charge anybody could ever levy against a network blameness. Yes, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.600 And the story gets bigger. The US government became aware 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.440 of this project, mostly because the FBI was bugging all 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.760 the major networks because they kicked out of listening in 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.400 and all the sexual harassment that was going on. And 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.680 never coincidentally, they only the government that is, had only 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.720 recently gotten winto the fact that the human historical record 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.320 had been falsified and that the twentieth century was actually 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.360 the seventeenth century. This is a thing that you guys 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.319 may be aware of. You heard of the phantom time hypothesis, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.760 which is a real thing. Uh, somebody away back when 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.480 like a pope, the Holy Roman Emperor some other people 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.680 conspired centuries ago to basically fake three centuries of history 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.400 and plug it into the record. And the U. S Government, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.200 having found this out, was wondering how to undo this 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.800 fraud without totally messing with everybody's heads. Right, And you know, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.480 like I said, this is not made up. This is 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.360 for real, it's on the internet, it's real. Three centuries 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.360 of human history just made up, wasn't it? Because like 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.920 the emperor wanted to. He was really it was important 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.000 to him that he'd be ruling over like a certain century. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.720 You wanted to be like Anno Domingo one thousand, you know, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.080 and not like like seven hundred, which is not nearly 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.240 as cool as one. So he was just like, yeah, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.600 throw it on. There's why all of the best devices 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.440 are the one thousand model. Oh you've got the iPhone 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.520 five hundred. I've got the iPhone one thousand. Sounds such 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.439 so much better. Cannot wait. It's also why they skipped 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.320 over it's you know, the iPhone XE, the iPhone X 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.679 which means tenn like because nobody cares. They just always 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.160 wanted to use a single character one of the two anyway, Sorry, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.880 just to uh well, as so as you know, the 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.720 government found out about about the Abominable Snowman fraud, they 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.400 took a lot of interest in that, and they actually 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.719 provided some funding and technical expertise to the project. And 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.480 after Rudolph aired in like late nineteen sixty four, the 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.559 government spent millions doing polling and research which confirmed the 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.160 public had completely bought into all the entire Abominable snow nbs. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.679 They totally believed that this there was this creature based 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.920 on them and getting and that everybody had always known 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.000 about this, even though, like I said, nobody knew about 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.040 it until five minutes ago. Hold out manly in the 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.480 university faculties. These guys were spirited away to re education 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.720 camps and quietly replaced with nineteen sixties radical students. He 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.360 really loves re education camps. He's only threatened them to 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.720 send us to. Yes, he really is. I was just 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.640 gonna say that I think that everybody bought it because 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.240 it was one of those things where you know, like 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.679 when you go see an art exhibit and you're like, 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.600 I don't it's dumb, like, and everyone's like it's genius, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.080 it's amazing, and you're like, oh, yeah, it's genius. It's amazing. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.480 But it turns out everybody's saying it's genius because they 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.040 just don't get it and they don't want to look dumb. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.000 That's why the entire population was like, yeah, of course 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.000 they bump because they were like, I must be the 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.680 only person in this entire place that doesn't know what 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.480 bumble is, so that, of course it is kind of 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.840 human nature to do. Yeah, nobody wants to be not 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.640 in with the in crowd, right, it's absolutely true. Yeah, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.400 uh huh. And that's why, by the way, if you 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.840 want to be with the in crowd, you would listen 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:27.400 to Thinking Sideways. Yeah yeah, and tell all your friends too. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.040 It's like, hey, you don't want to be a dork. Yeah, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.160 everybody doing it? Okay, but so much for commercials. Back 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.160 to this, back to Rudolph and and the Bumble the bumble. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.000 So the rest is history. Everybody believes this bs and 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.120 that the few people who don't believe it, while they 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.320 refraid from saying so because they don't want to be 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.720 called anti Christmas. Nobody wants to be anti Christmas. And 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.040 of course, as we all know, the Abominable Snowman legend 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.920 eventually would give rise to the Cookie Monster myth, and 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.400 then later on to the Wookie legend, which leases the 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.120 Star Wars, and of course the government operation Operate and 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.640 white that was born. I think White That wasn't better 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.920 about the same time. Yeah, it's about correcting and correcting 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.680 that typewritten history. I guess. So White Out makes sense, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.200 But the government has undertaken it's still going on as 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:13.840 far as I know to this day. It's a gradual 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.120 rewriting of history based about a year at a time. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.440 It has gotten a bit bogged down in memo writing 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.000 and beer credit and fighting, but apparently it's still it's 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.920 still going on. If you call the FBI and ask 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.280 them about it, of course they'll pretend not to know anything. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.880 Be persistent, keep calling back, you know, yeah, eventually they'll 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.880 give you. You know, you know you're getting through when 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.200 they come to your house. That's how you know you're 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.000 getting there. Totally. Yeah, Bob barred them with FOIA requests 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.840 to But but the success of the the government project 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.000 could be measured, at least in part by the fact 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:47.880 that reality does seem to have become kind of an 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.440 optional idea for quite a few people. But historically speaking, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.200 the ratifications are without Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, we 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.160 wouldn't have gotten this operational white out leading to the 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.240 correction of human history. And we wouldn't have got all 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.320 those cool university professors with cool new ideas. And we 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.560 also wouldn't have gotten Star Wars. Or maybe we would 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:12.320 have gotten it without a Wookie, maybe a talking raccoon instead. Well, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.360 I don't know, it's it's absurd, but you know, really 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.480 it actually makes a little more sense than a huge, hairy, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.200 demonic creature living at the North Pole. Yeah. I think 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.280 that's what I think. So that's what it is. Is. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.280 Not only does it not, the Abominable Snowman never exists. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.160 He was never even actually a legend. Believe it or not, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.680 he was. It was a basically a legend created out 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:37.480 of whole cloth. Yeah. Well, I will say that you 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.720 are correct in that last statement, but I think the 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.640 rest of that is just total hockey horse hockey, to 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:50.200 be specific, hockey horse hockey was horse hockey hockey like 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.720 horse grenades, horse apples. I don't know, you're making stuff up. Yeah, well, 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.400 I'm trying to do what Joe did. Make stuff up. Okay, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.600 I made nothing up up. No, listen, The truth of 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.520 the matter is is that the story of the Bumble, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.160 and based on the research I've done, the entire thing 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.440 is actually an allegory for the Daniard for the dangers 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:19.400 of unionization, and it was all created by Robert F. Kennedy. Okay, 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.720 conveniently he plays he blames somebody who's dead whose brain 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:32.199 went missing. Run Kennedy. Listen here, let me let me 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.960 break this down for you. Okay, So, as you know, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.560 we've talked about that cute nine Rudolf the Red Nose 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:43.640 Reindeer movie, but it is truly about the dangers of unionization, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.080 and honestly, the Bumble, the poor Bumble, is really just 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:53.400 a scapegoat that's creators used to spread their message. Okay, 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.159 it's the truth about the Bumble is actually really simple 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.639 and really sad, and like I said, he was the 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.720 target of a Kennedy And here's why. Because the story 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.600 from the outside, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, it seemed 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.880 cute and it's hit about him leaving home and growing 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.359 up and then returning one day to try and help everybody. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.919 But if you ever watch the characters and you really 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.200 listen to some of the other characters, you'll pick up 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.439 on what's going on. So let's start with one of 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.280 the side characters. That's the other characters, Hermie, the Elf, 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.920 the best Elf. When we first meet Hermie, he's he's 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.359 working away like all the other else, but he's dissatisfied 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.080 with his job and he wants to do something different. Specifically, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.359 he wants to be a dentist. I mean, that's what 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.399 he tells the elf Foreman and of course the foreman 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.240 tells him that you can't do that, So to retaliate, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.360 he skips choir practice. He did, he did. He skips 0:18:55.359 --> 0:19:00.480 Elvin choir practice, which throws off the entire tune so 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.760 much so that Santa walks out of the room in disgust. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:09.040 And instead, what is Hermie doing. He's quote unquote practicing 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.800 dentis street. He's practicing on a doll. Animal like any 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.639 other serial killer. He's practicing on a doll. But his 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.080 form of dentistry involves using a hammer on a poor 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:27.280 doll's teeth, which is actually really kind of barbaric talking 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.920 about he's really cheap though. He also work in a 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.439 back alley. Here works in a trailer, not a back alley. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:43.000 Is the trailer parked in alley? Okay, um, let's see 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.680 what els okay. So then there's the first encounter between 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.120 Hermie and Rudolph. Hermie of course, Deil's Rudolph that he's 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.920 a dentist and that he's an independent dentist, which is 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:59.399 not true. He's actually an employee of Santa. He works 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.840 like all the other Elves, So he's there's already some 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.560 fibbing going on. People that are actors that l a 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.160 that are active, but they're waiting tables something like that, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.120 you know. I mean, he's he's happily part of an 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.520 unorganized workforce that is all very very happy in being 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:22.399 so um right, yeah, exactly. At this point, you know, 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.879 after this initial meeting, Hermie convinces Rudolph that they have 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.240 to leave the safety of Christmas Town a k a. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.520 Leaving the safety of their secure employment, and they go 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.119 out into the wide world. And this is where the 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.280 writers begin their creative slander, because this is when they 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.600 first meet the Bumble, and he chases and threatens them, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:48.159 and they barely get away if we keep going on 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.560 in the story though. They then the next day, Hermie 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:56.120 and Rudolph meet Yukon Cornelius, and Cornelius says, hey, I'm 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.679 the greatest prospector in the North, which prospector makes me 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.600 think maybe that's a euphemism for a job title in 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:05.520 the unions. Maybe I think he was a drug pusher 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:10.119 or something. But he's of gold. Well, that's the thing 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.639 that he's obsessed with, finding gold and silver, which is 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.000 really convenient for him to have met Hermie, a guy 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.240 who wants to be a dentist and dentist used gold 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.639 and silver when they work on teeth a lot, so 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.200 that's a funny coincidence to me. But at this point 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.880 again there of course chased by the Bumble and they 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.080 barely escape. Again here you see see what's going on here. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:31.800 They're making the Bumble out to be the big, bad, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:40.680 scary monster. Maybe really wasn't just misunderstood. So at this point, 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.040 you know, then the story goes on. Rudolf runs away 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.240 and then they come back and they go to help 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.920 Cornelius and Hermie show up just in time to help 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.120 Root off with a little stuff offer by the way 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.240 at the right. So yeah, I'm just I'm moving this 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.399 forward rather than telling the whole story of the movie 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.240 because these are the important deed als. Is that during 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:08.439 the confrontation when Cornelius and Hermie save everybody, Hermie, after 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.080 the Bumble has been knocked out, pulls all of his 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.920 teeth out of his head. He's taking the teeth out 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.600 of the bumble. And have you ever heard that phrase 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:23.520 taking the teeth out of something? You're making it harmless. Okay, 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:28.520 So here's where everything comes out and who these characters 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.720 really represent. So we've got Hermie and Rudolph, and they 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:37.360 are just your average everyday American worker who are happily 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.680 going to their job and their employers happily protecting them 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:46.080 without anybody else's intervention. We've got yukon Cornelius. He's not 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.399 actually a traditional prospector, but like I said, he's more 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.280 of a union organizer. And then, well, who did who 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.159 did Cornelius work for? Well, if you watch the movie, 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.880