SuperPowers...comic book fiction, or real life fact?

0:01 Hello, Bizarre Story friends. You've tuned into the Bizarre AF, a place where we talk about the strange, the unusual, the unknown, and all things bizarre AF. I'm Kevin. I'm going to be your host for today's episode, and as always, we ask that you keep an open mind. Keep a skeptical air, but keep listening to those facts as we take you on our newest journey. Are superpowers real? Well hello bizarre story friends and please welcome my Co host Tess with the most Tess Alicia.

1:07 Oh hey, how are we today? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm good. This has been like, OK, this has been a great month. Can I just say that we came to the table killing it? Killing it. We came like Kevin and I were talking. We're like, what are we going to do? Oh, I don't know, like, let's let's, let's, like, let's plan it out. And so we planned out everything in every episode. And I mean, you guys are going to be seeing all of it, which is like, wonderful. I love it. So if you'd have heard probably our previous podcasts, you'll have heard a a new kind of series that we're, yes, trying to do. Yeah, so we'll have it's it's like kind of like AI don't know. We were kind of calling it like a, a weekend update, but it's like really like the bizarre monthly like, but like I think like Saturday Night Live weekend update where where it's like you get like the top funny or bizarre or strange like information.

2:03 For the month. Right. And we just like, kind of talk shit about it, yeah. Which is. Exactly. Which is fun. Some of it's real, some of it's bullshit, Right? But like, the one thing that is like very clear is that we live in a very strange, strange place. Mm Hmm, to the fact that we could probably do like a weekly. Just weird shit. Daily update. Daily daily update, which actually I would rather the the daily like Strange than the this just in we're all gonna die constantly, which is like the news that we've been getting lately. No doubt, Lord Death, Yeah. So just come to us, yeah, and listen to our bullshit, you know, band well, like just talking shit. Yeah, exactly.

2:46 So I have a few questions for you. Oh my God, I'd love to answer them. So the first question I have for you is how? How would you define a superpower? I would define it as an extreme, something that is an extreme. Like ability, Extreme ability. Maybe it's an ability, but like, I guess like if we're thinking about abilities, like you don't think of humans being able to fly or to be able to like time jump. So your your your definition of a superpower is non human. I would say that it's something that is extreme in nature that does not occur in that extreme in normal. In in the standard.

3:47 Right, Like someone could be like, OK, Usain, like oh, Usain Bolt or whatever. He was like the fastest man and he can like do these like ridic. Like is that a? Superpower. I. Since he's the only one that could do it. Well, I, I don't know. I don't know because because it I think I probably could be right. This is why I want you to think about it. OK? Do you have any superpowers? So OK, so far. Let's back up. Do I have to answer? That. So let's just say yes, that a superpower is an ability or an extreme ability, yes, that a typical person doesn't have. Let's just call it that. OK, OK.

4:29 That's a great, that's a great way to stay at at. That OK? Do you therefore have a superpower? I think I have something that can be considered a superpower. OK, We'll, let's, we're going to think about it. We're going to talk about it. We need to talk about it. I'm going to I'm also just going to be like sharing my bullshit. It's OK, but whatever, it's nothing. It's nothing like super cool like oh, I can just like teleport, no. Well, I can, but I I won't go there. Oh, my God, Kevin, you've been hiding this from me. Hold my hand. Let's go to Paris. Yeah, let's let's go to fucking Key West. We were just talking about it. What the hell? So if you could, OK, then let's let's let me top it off my last question. If you could have a superpower, what superpower would it be? I think teleportation has to be like. High in it.

5:25 That's a good one. Yeah, that's a really good one. Because because it would save you from a lot of situations. I've I've more than 10 times wished I had that ability. Yeah, because you know what? Here's the thing. If you just fly like what you. Have to do it and then you hit the wind is in your face and. I know and like you have like like your your your eye locks, like yeah, you have like like insects, like attached to like your face and exactly like we're not built for windshields. No, but I'm assuming you would find some kind of it's not worth it. I don't think it's worth it. I would say teleportation or I don't know if I'd even want to like know people like read people's minds, telekinesis, being able to communicate with non verbally. Or what's the one where you can move stuff? This telekinesis, isn't it?

6:20 No tell. Yeah, I don't know. Tell. Like if you can move stuff. Actually, I think, I think that is it. Maybe it'll tell something. I don't know. Yeah, but but yes, like moving stuff with your mind would be good. It could, it's convenient. It could be very convenient being able to talk like do you want to read someone's mind? No. I know I I feel like I'd be disappointed in life. No. Nope. Nope. Nope. It'd be like, look, I thought that he was better than. Mad at people all the time. Yeah, yeah. And they'd be like, why are you mad at me? You're like, because you're a piece of shit, because you were just like, like I, I I don't didn't even. I didn't just see what you did. Yeah, I heard what you said.

7:01 I like, I heard it. And you are vile. Vile. Yeah, I couldn't. Do it. Yeah, No, I could not do that. But I I mean telekinesis could be pretty cool. What would what would yours be? I would love to fly I'm just cause the experience like I Have you ever dreamed of flying? I dream of flying all the time. Isn't that amazing? That's one of the ways I escape bad dreams of flying. If I could, I would do that. If I mean, I didn't have to worry about the bugs in my eyes, but yeah, that I would love to. Fly you. So you'd rather fly over transportation. The feeling of like, of like. Flying is the. The feeling is the because if you just teleport, you're like, oh, I'm there.

7:41 But like, you get to actually get to fly like a bird. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, that's very true. Well, so it turns out superpowers are real. I'm not saying flying is real, but I'm saying superpowers are real. Now, like I said, you can't like, have metal claws coming out between your, you know, joints and you can't like, have lasers cutting shit out of your eyeballs. Very excellent of you. Thank you. Thank you there, man. But our bodies and our brains do hold the ability to do many superhuman feats and scientists are proving it.

8:22 Now before everyone rolls your eyes at at this episode, I want you to remember there was at one point a television show that did stuff that people were like, this is so stupid. And then shit starts coming true. Hello, Star Trek. Wait, who's calling it stupid? Not you. I'm just saying listeners. That's right. All those dorks like that show. You know what? Fuck you. Who's saying I'm a dork? I'll punch you. No, I mean, that's very true. That's very true. 75 years from, I don't know, 1930s, forties, 50s and all those we have a. Kindle. We have a Kobo, We have a, we have like these things that that are what, captain?

9:05 Charmers, we have. Yeah. Universal. Universal. What is it? Translators. Hello. Oh my God, it's real. So real. It's so real. So all I'm saying before everyone's rolling their eyes in superhuman powers, is that you need to open your mind because it could just be a matter of time. It could be a matter of, I don't know, an alien telling us, showing us that we have the ability. It could be just learning. It could. Be well, You, you, you touched, you touched on exactly that. You were saying it could just be the a matter of like opening our mind. How often will you say to like, like, you know yourself? You're like, I've I've and I've done this so many times. I'm like, Oh my gosh, like I just wish I could get a brace. I just want to make this much money. And you're like so obsessed with it. And you know, your mind is just like on that. And rather than thinking of like, no, I'm going to get it and this is how I'm going to do it. You're just like obsessed with the fact that you're powerless. If you then take that control back and you're like, no, no, this is going to happen.

10:12 I can't tell you how many times that shit's happened to me. It does happen. It does happen. It's fucking crazy. Exactly. So you're right. Yeah. So, yeah. So it can thing, it can happen. So as Alicia mentioned with X-Men, their powers arised from genetic mutations, right? But see, that's exactly what happens in real life. So I will give you some examples, OK? You heard of the Sherpa people in the Himalayas? No, I mean, oh wait, wait, yes, adapted. To very high altitudes.

10:57 That's right. And they've adapted that their genes over the years to give them the strength and endurance to to be to do that. But there's mental athletes, there's memory, there's strength. I'm going. To give you all of, I'm going to give you literally all of these examples. The feats of strength. Exactly. Best of us. But but scientists are learning what's going on inside the bodies and the minds that are helping people, you know, develop these these skills.

11:38 Yeah. So I kind of was alluding to this before the episode. Have you ever heard of a super recognizer? No, I have not. So this is my superpower. I have a superpower and I am a super recognizer and what a super recognizer is, is I can see a face and 2030 years from now you show me that aged face. I will tell you that I know who you are. Can you recall when it happened or is it like no I know. And I'm terrible at names, by the way. Like, like the worst at names. I have to try to remember to tell myself someone's name like five times in my head before I remember it right. But I will tell you, like actors are a great 1. So I will have seen an actor in the 80s and then I'll see a movie that they've aged like 50 years, right? And maybe they'll have makeup on and I'll know exactly who that actor is because I can remember the face. I, it's doesn't matter.

12:44 I showed you an example of a pixelated image. You actually picked it out, which was I'm like, maybe she has this superpower too, but I can see faces. That's why you did it. Yes, that's why I did it, because you can. You have this spatial awareness of faces that allows you to recognize them in various circumstances. Oh my God. So I first realized I had this superpower when I was watching television. In fact, just just this example and I would saw somebody very old, much like in real life, very much older. I knew it was instantly who it was. That guy from Columbia? Young, like child actor. I'm like, Oh yeah, what?

13:26 I saw him in 1982 in this movie called Blah blah blah Blah and Roy's like. From a child. And Roy's like, no way. I'm like, I swear that's who it is. And sure enough, that's who it was. And I've realized that I've had this superpower. Wow. So there is a test that you can take, OK, it's from a university. So it's I guess legit because it's what they use to determine if someone has the Super recognizer skill. And if you score 98% or higher on this, on this cognitive test, it's it's built by a Sydney university and then they consider you have the superpower. So I will put a link in the show notes and you can kind of go take it and see if you have the superpower. Yeah, and let us know.

14:06 It's a fun one. I haven't taken I by the way. I haven't taken this test yet so I wanna go take it. You're gonna get 100%. I hope I know it. I know you're gonna get 100%. Yep, so go take it and let us know how everyone does. I'm curious to see. So there is a real life spider man. His name is Allen. Robert now doesn't shoot webs from his wrists. I saw you look at me like what? OK. Honestly, can I tell you what I thought? Yeah. You thought he shot webs from his wrists? I I thought that he was gonna be a fucking gross. Oh like literally growing spider legs or something. I mean, that's a lot nicer than what I was thinking.

14:46 I was thinking the shooting webs from his wrist was not the thing that was happening. I'm like, got it. Gross. Get get this Allen guy out of the way. Wait, is he like very sticky? Does he have like? No SO but he he he's he's very famous for his urban climbing. He can climb very, very easily. Does it do with he does it without safety equipment, hundreds of feets in the in the sky. He's climbed the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Canada Square Towers in Malaysia, Four Seasons in Hong Kong, and he's gotten arrested like hundreds of times for trespassing.

15:26 Right. I'm like, did he get permits for this? I'm assuming not. He was. He did actually get his last. Our recent arrest was a skyscraper in London. It was a 662 feet tall 46 story tower. There's videos of it online. Is dude just climbing up it with nothing? He's like, not a big, OK, OK here. Here's the question though is would you say that this is like superhuman or super stupidity? OK, so that takes us to our next person. So remember that question. So it's a guy named Alex Hannon.

16:11 Hannon Hannold. Hannold, Alex and old Uh huh. And he something similar Climber scientists scanned his brain with an MRI in 2016 to see what was going on because they wanted to understand the brain. Well, it just so happens that the What's the Amdigula? Amygula. Amygdala. Amygdala. Amygdala. Which is fear. A fear region. Yeah. It was silent, it didn't work. And so he could climb and do all this shit. Because he has zero.

16:54 Fear. Oh my God, it's like like not to bring this back, but like, it is. It is like Star Trek when Data like gets from the Borg. Anyways, I just watched this movie like first Contact where Data gets like the the implant from the Borg Queen. And she's like, you want to feel something? Let me give you like skin. Let me do this. And then she turns on the fear impulse. Yes. And he's like, oh. My. God, yeah, you think Data's going to turn, but it's like he has that chip malfunction. I'm sorry, that's scary to not have the fear response. I think that's terrible. I mean, here's the thing.

17:37 How nice is it that he got into like, well, I don't know, it's still so extreme. I'm like, how nice is that? He got into to like climbing instead of like, I don't know, like. Because he was car driving, yeah. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm like, it's still incredibly risky. I'm like, what is other risky behavior? That's pretty risky. That's pretty. Risky. Yes, and so they say, you know that you can actually start training, you can condition your mind to do this. There are lots of Eastern techniques that allow you to do this kind of look, think of, think of samurais or think of those Eastern. Buddhists and stuff like the Buddhists like monks and they. Can they train their brains to do behave to help them? Do you know, do things that this is what This is why scientists say the superhuman powers are really just a matter of, I don't know, learning, training or like, time. Even like positive thought or like. Sure, I guess, if you know how to do it. Like we were saying.

18:55 I mean, I have. I have tried every night since I can remember, since I was a child. Before I go to sleep, I envision myself floating. That's right. Over the bed. I've done this for decades. Every time I go to. Bed. I imagine myself levitating over the bed now. I've done this for decades, girl, decades. It's never happened. Do you dream? You dream. I do, yeah. I'm just, I'm just saying you can't just think it. I've proven that. You can't just think of something. Right, right. It's not, it's not just about thinking. I do think that there is like something about like knowing too. It's like a. You have, there's got to be something there has something. Else like there has to be like a centeredness attached. To it, it has to be something.

19:43 Because ultimately, like when you're not OK, for instance, let's say you're like going on a job interview and you're like, I don't fucking care at this point if I get the job or not. Like I get it. I don't get it. It's like, how is that going to change my life right now? And. Then you get the job you mean. Whenever I have less attached to it, yeah, I end up getting what it is that like true? It's like if I have like. Yeah, but I don't think about floating most of the day and I still don't get it. Why do you want to float? Because I can't. So you just want to do it to prove that you can, Yeah. I'm not sure if that's strong enough. That will that I've been doing for fucking decades is not enough.

20:25 I wonder if it's more like like I, I want this to like like maybe it's like to prove that like there's something more or I, I don't know, maybe there needs to be like something else attached to that will or to that that thought process. I've always. Just thought the mind had so much more capabilities. You're right, it definitely has. I just. Don't know how to unlock it. Well, they say like. Some people do. Meditation and stuff like that. But like. It's like, wow. I mean, even our scientists are like, we lose like, well, you know, 20% of our brains. Well, apparently some of these super people power people know how to unlock it, which is kind of what the point.

21:09 Oh my God, you know I mentioned the Sherpas. Yeah, and the Himalayas. Yeah, and the Himalayas, members of this group have lived more than 6000 years at an average of 14,000. Now keep in mind they're living at an altitude of 14,000 feet above sea. Level. 40% less oxygen. Right. But this, this these people who study the Tibetans, right? Yeah, the monks. Yeah, uh huh. They perform at lower altitudes and find that they maintain their average even at sea level. So there is no they've trained their bodies to not somehow behave differently and you know more, most people behave differently at sea level versus 14. Thousand.

22:05 Oh my God. Yeah. Like, like, you know, in Colorado we're used to that. Like if you go to sea level and you have like a cocktail, you're like, God damn it, I need three of these or whatever. Exactly. So clearly they have evolved somehow. I mean, comparatively to us, they're superhuman in that respect. Right. They're super swimming swimmers, so they're free divers. Have you heard of a free diver? Oh my God. So require no scuba gear? Scuba gear? This is terrifying. There are the Baja Baja. I'm not sure how to say it.

22:45 People from the Philippines and Malaysia and Indonesia are particularly renowned for staying underwater for as long as 13 minutes. 13 people 1-3 Holy shit how is that even possible? OK, devil's advocate. Like you can train your body to do that, right? Like for Avatar, like the water movie or whatever. Like Kate Winslet had like trained herself to like do this full sequence, but she threw like meditation through like trying to slow your, your beat heart beating and like your breath down, like moving a certain way, like moving the oxygen in your lungs a certain way.

23:31 You can do it. I think she'd have like, what's like 7 minutes or something crazy like that. I mean that is like double that, almost double that. But it just proves my point. Right, Right. It's about training. It's about like, what is evolution, right? Is evolution a physical thing or is it a mental thing? Right. Is it both? Is it both? Yeah. Do these things do? Is it the environmental situation that you're in? Does that affect your body? But I mean, then it wouldn't make sense with the Himalayan, like the folks, like the people in Tibet who like the Tibetan folks who, like, perform exactly the same. They don't perform faster at sea level. It's the same thing.

24:14 This world makes no sense. OK, Yeah. Exactly, Exactly. So then we have a guy named Aziro Michi. So in fiction they're mythical beings such as vampires and world worlds are blessed with like super agility like. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They can extreme balance and coordination, rifle fast reflexes. Well, so there's a swordman, his name is Aseo Machi, and you can fire a bullet in him and he can chop the bullet in half with a sword. Insane. That's like matrix shit. That's total matrix shit. There's a video of it, I'll put it in the in the notes. Oh, the show notes.

25:00 Yeah. Yeah, I want. To see it, there's a gunslinger. His name is Bob Mudden who was tested as drawing and accurately accurately firing his gun in less than 1/10 of a second. So you can go and shoot accurately in less than 10th of a second. Talk about the fastest draw in the last. Right. Holy shit. That is faster than the reaction time of a human. A typical human brain that's faster than that. I'm like sitting here. I'm like, how am I reacting? That's wild. There is a real life The Flash.

25:43 Flash Gordon, Who's? Like, no, no, no, not Flash Gordon. Flash. Like the fast one? The fast 1 is that so bad? He's not a runner. So here's the thing. So a guy named by the name of Ken Lee and he you might have seen him on TikTok. He he does his stuff on TikTok sometimes. Oh my gosh. Now while he doesn't like look like the flash or run like the flash, what he does is very comparative and I will also put a link up to to what he does in the show notes. Oh my God. He moves so fast that it looks like someone speed up the film. Like he'll go like, So like let's say, like I have, let's say I have something right here, like you're watching and I have something right here and I'll go like so fast and I'll grab it and I'll have it in my hand that you couldn't really. You can barely see me doing it, but I have it in my hand. And he's on TikTok.

26:41 Yeah. Oh my God, I'm looking at a blind. He will like put a bunch of things out and he can like grab one thing in the middle at that same speed. He can grab them all, like grab them that fast. Oh, he would be so annoying to like play a game like he talked about like playing like the the game speed like or whatever. You're like, God damn it, how is he still winning? So clearly he has some kind of like rubber band ligament or muscle or something crazy. And you said his name was Keithley? Ken. Ken, That's why Keithley's the the tik Toker who like reviews foods. OK, that's fine. Yeah, sorry.

27:22 OK, so I'll put a link up to his stuff. Oh my God, he really does not look like he's fast, bro. Does not look like he's fast at all. I, I, I mean, but he is really quick and it's like, like he wow. Did you see it? Yeah, it's like. Like like literate like like. And he has so many different versions of that, that you're, it's mind blowing. He is, he's, he is like literally like just sitting there. He has like a timer in front of right. And he like kind of warms up and you seem kind of warming up and then all of a sudden it's like. It's wild. Has he been tested by Guinness Book of World Records, I mean.

28:03 He must, I'm sure. I'm sure. That's a good question though, I'm sure. It's always a liar. Oh, there's a real Batman. Wait. A second. Whoa, wait a second. Wasn't Batman just rich? Exactly. See you with. Iron Man? No, but I mean the real bat. What he man? He hangs upside down. No, he has webbing in between his arms. No. He sucks blood and no, he, I don't know what is it. It's Quanah. How do they? Oh, echolocation, yes, Yeah.

28:46 Yes, so bio sonar is also like come with dolphins and beluga whales can do but so Daniel Kish he's 53. He doesn't see with his eyes, and that's because he's had have both of them removed from childhood retinal cancer when he was a kid. But he has finely tuned his hearing so that he can navigate his bike through heavy traffic. He can climb trees, he can camp, he can dance fluidly. Like anything, it's echo location and he can or himself through clicks of his tongue. Does the bro still have his amygdala? Riding your bike in traffic.

29:33 Yes. Can you imagine? No. No. No way. No. I'm. Scared of everyone. I'm assuming nobody's paying attention to anything on there. No, but he. Has a lot of trust. Oh yeah. Because the bat, he can see whatever he needs. That's a wild and you could probably hear it like move like the engine moving forward towards him before and like could move he. Can tell what direction things are coming because of the. Fucking wild. Nuts, nuts. You weirdo. You psycho. OK, so here's the beginner's version of Super memory. This is the beginner's entry level. OK, we're going to call them mental athletes.

30:16 So imagine Decker or memorizing a deck of cards. Order in 20 seconds. Oh. My God, there's no way. No way. I might remember like the first card. I I I mean, I know what all the cards are. I'm not now, are there? Yeah. To note, there's a guy by the name of Denodo and his son Michael, they run this memory training program. They say anyone can do this. Again, it's about training, right? They're actually working with neuroscientists to kind of study the brain activity, researching how the techniques to do it. And they're saying in as little as six weeks you can improve your memory, which by the way, I need my memory is a little worse.

31:00 That's why we have like electronics. We can just do that. So here is the expert version. OK, Oh, we can learn. So a guy by the name of Stephen Whitshire British has one of the most amazing superpowers I have ever seen and I think it's because it requires 2 skills, both of which I do not have. OK, one is he can draw I. Can't. Yeah, I can't either. I'm not great at it. But the most powerful part of why he could is is he has a superpower is that it only takes a very brief helicopter ride over any city OK to memorize it, then go home on a big canvas and draw the cityscape from memory.

31:55 What? Down to windows and pillars. OK, I have a question with this. Well, I don't know if you'll know the answer, but that's one that's crazy. It's like, what do they call? What do they call? It yeah, like photographic memory. Yeah, yeah. So people like, like people who like, I don't know, with actors, there are people who have photographic memories and they can just like. Read their script and be done. Fuck you. I hate that cause the memory's like the worst part of it, like it takes the most time, not the character, but it's like that's the worst. But so it seems like it's kind of like that, like a photographic memory, but could also. Be like, is he?

32:38 Yeah, that's crazy. But like, is he, is he like maybe 'cause they, they say like people who are autistic. OK, yes, it's it's like you have like like you lack so some social skills. It because part of his brain is unlocked. Girl, that's what autism is. Do you they're accessing more or different parts of their brain. Oh. My God, have you listened to the Telepathy Tapes? No. Your brain will OK, friends, if you're listening to this right now and you have not listened to the Telepathy Tapes, it will blow your fucking mind. The telepathy tapes. You can find it on any like podcast after you're done subscribing to the bizarre ass go there.

33:23 But it talks about just that. It's like these people who, who have autism, who are autistic, they are non verbal. And because they're non verbal, they have other means of communicating. And what they've found is maybe there's a little bit of telekinesis that's happening and there's like a you there is they're able to read people's minds or know what's happening, see. You're proving my point again that superpowers are. Real and and this world's kind of a little bit more magical than we think it might be right like it's so easy to get mired into these like the world's burning and like everything's the worst but honestly there's a whole lot of magic and like cool shit going on these people this guy just like goes up in in a fucking like helicopter and like how's.

34:18 The whole city. I'll put a link to his art too. They have a 3D that you can watch. You can look at it in three, you know, like 3D version of it. And you can see the entire cityscape of Rome. And he he did that from a quick helicopter flight that is looked at the cityscape and then went back and freaking drew it. You know, both of us could be like, yeah, yeah, no, we can definitely like we can do a cityscape based on the on just going up in a helicopter ride. Just pay for our hotel. I. Could draw like something like that. Which, by the way, you're not seeing it, but it's a cityscape of Yeah, yeah, you can see it now. It's a cityscape of Denver with the mountains in the background. It's like totally 2 dimensional.

35:01 It's totally 2 dimensional. That's probably better than I could do. I am not great about that shit. I'd be like, OK, so here's your drawing. And like the drawing is like in reality, like it's like, like, not great. Yeah, no, great. I'm like stick figure. Drawer same, same. But it's, it's wild how those memories. Come out nuts. Nuts. So purportedly his first words at age 5 were pen and paper. Because he just had all of this, that's what. He wanted, that's what, yeah, like autistic, So different parts of his brain. We're registering, we're firing. He's like I need pen and paper, I need pen and paper, I need pen and paper. And, and, and it's like, you know, because with that part of your brains firing, it's like that's so huge. You can just I It's almost like, do you have enough space for everything else like?

35:53 You. Know like you joke around, you're like I I learned one new thing and something else falls out that you forget, right? It's wild. There's a guy by the name of Wim Hof who's a Dutchman. He studies Buddhist meditation, keeps his body temperature steady while enduring extremely cold temperatures. His feets have earned him the name Iceman, who's completed several marathons and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in sub freezing temperatures wearing only shorts.

36:35 He holds 20 cold endurance world records, including the longest ice bath at 13 hours and 48 minutes. He was sitting in ice. He's like, I'm just tired. Can we just like, it's not because I like, I want to go, I'm just sleepy. I just like. Can you put like a pillow by my head? That's wild. That's wild. So he's can again through what he says Buddhist meditation is conditioned his brain to somehow make his body not go into hypothuckinthermia. So it's through. Well, you know what? That makes a lot of sense. Like, you know, we were talking about like Tibetan and I thought we were talking about monks before, but it's like the self immolation or whatever. Have you heard of that?

37:24 No. It's where like during, you know, when the Dalai Lama like was annexed from like China and Tibet, like China had taken over Tibet. Anyways a bunch of Buddhist monks decided to protest it and in a peaceful and fucked up way they sat in like meditation and lit themselves on fire and sat there and and burned alive but never moved never like got up the other. Bodies never reacted, Yeah. Yeah, they just, they were in in deep meditation. Oh my God.

38:08 Which it just makes you think you're like holy fuck, how do you? That's you can control your body. You clearly know how to control can control your body. People say your body was just going to react a certain way this thing or whatever. Clearly that is. That's the case. Yeah, you can control your body. So it's like, it's also like one of those things like if you're saying, oh, I hate my body or like, oh, I don't like the way I look on those pants. It's like, you know what, give yourself a fucking grace or, or like some kind of like, yeah, you be like, no, I have like a big old fat ass. And like, like, you're like looking in the in the in the mirror and you're like, oh, OK, but it's really flat as a fucking pancake. Maybe. Or do you think about it exactly? Makes sense. I'm gonna make my ass fat because I can control my body.

38:48 Yeah, if that's the thing that you like make it look fat, you know, but but it it is like one of those questions you're like, I wonder what I could do with this? Like, like if we can do that, like what is that we could maybe make easier for us. Exactly, girl. So then a guy named by the name of Dean Carnasus is named Men's Fitness. Named by Men's Fitness, excuse me, as one of the fittest men on the planet, he and and has submitted himself to one of the most physically and mentally grueling athletic test manageable. He has conquered a 350 mile run without stopping, 350 miles without stopping or sleep, or 350 miles running straight.

39:42 OK, you know what I call that? Dumb. Well. Yes, absolutely. But I also call I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with these people's brains? Like what is not like whatever. Like if they can do that, that's fine. But it's like, what kind of fucked up shit are you into? Well, it's like. Kind of. Yeah, if you're like running for 300 miles. Yeah. Why is is like, what makes that enjoyable? Like what is it that? Have you ever had a runner's high? No, I don't run. What like For various reasons we won't get into here, but I, you know, after like a really good run. I'm, I hate running too.

40:24 I'm not a huge fan of it, but I was trying to do it to like, you know, get over my own bullshit. Look at you. You're like so grossed out you can't even hide your disdain. It was, it was more of a thing. I was struggling with some stuff mentally and like a lot of stuff had happened in my life and I was like, well, if I can like overcome this that I hate doing, maybe I can have a little bit more control over the thoughts that I'm having in my head. Which we just learned you can do. You can do and I will say that like it definitely helped with the thoughts in my head. Also, I got a runners high, which I didn't think was a real fucking thing, but it was. I was like really, Oh my God, I feel so much better or something.

41:05 It's not even just like so much energy. It's like you get like a you feel alive. You feel like it's like this dopamine like hit. It's like it's like you're so happy and it's like an extreme like super awake, like super like like energized and like you can conquer the. Long were you running before that happened? Oh girl, I cannot fucking run anymore than like I cannot run. No, no, we're talking like 3 miles at the most. And then you got that. No, no, it wasn't all the time. After a period of time. I mean, like, it was just me getting used to like, running and then having a really good day. Yeah, suddenly it happened. It was like a happy little accident. Like a little tree. Happy little accident. Yeah, happy little clouds, right? So then, oh by the way, that was through 120° heat in Death Valley.

41:54 Forgot to mention that part. Oh yeah, that's fucking huge. That guy's crazy. He's done marathons in the South Pole with temperatures dropped -40° like the other crazy person and he's. Just fine. Right. He's completed 50 marathons. He did A50, OK. He did a marathon, OK. I can't even say it. He did 50 marathons in sequence, one after the other, in all 50 states. A marathon girl. Do you know the original fucking story of the marathon? Oh God, what?

42:35 Well, I mean, it's one of the topics I have on my list, so just forget about what I'm talking about. But it is. It's a guy who ran from one city to the next marathon the distance was. 26 miles. Yes, but that's how between the cities, he died when he got there, like he died delivering this message. He was like a messenger. He's like, I have to get there, hurry up, get there. Like like in Greece or whatever. And it's like like he when he got there, he had to, it was like a Madam fucking Army or something like that. It was like, hey, these troops are coming and he died when he got there, so it's like this shit is not meant to be. It's not bad, right? It's not normal.

43:16 No, the guy that was new the the whole dude fucking died like good God. A marathon every single day. Yeah. So it's like, what is that? It's like over 50 days. That would be like 1200 miles, something like that. This guy is mad. Mad. So something else. We've talked about frequency frequently on this show, and whether you call it a spirit or a ghost or a soul, human life is energy and that has to go somewhere. And depending on your beliefs, what about mediums and psychics who can talk to that energy that is a superpower?

44:02 I totally agree. What about people who say they talk to God? Well, let's be a little bit more careful about that shit. I'm just, I don't want to exclude anyone. I think it's where I'm going. Yeah, you know what? We were just talking about this. We're talking about Lori Valo before we came on on this podcast. Yeah, she also talked to God. And then fucking four people died. That's a little different, but I'm just saying. Because I mean, you know, you're making a really good point. It's like, you know, we put humanity and like our abilities in a box. Like this is what the expectations are. This is what you need to like, you know, fall in line into. But it but it is a it's a really interesting question. Like what if we're all just capable of whatever we put our mind to?

44:52 What if there's more here that we can tap into and where like 1 where does that come from? Is that innate in US? Or is it something that we have to almost like flick on like a light? Right. And how do you turn on the switch? Because I want to know how to float. Right, We need to figure out how you float. I, I think, I think, I think, you know, telekinesis might be like the first step. So there are, you know, Teresa Caputo. Oh yeah. Tyler Henry, John Edwards, Sylvia Brown. I mean, there's a lot of famous psychics who in my mind seem very legitimate, something I can't do, and I the majority of the population I don't think can.

45:37 Or maybe they just don't admit it. I don't know. But I would consider that in our, by our definition, a superpower. It is definitely a superpower. It's like a knowing yeah, yeah. Here's a couple of just fun facts about a couple of presidents. Great, let me get scared. Jimmy Carter. He could read 2000 words a minute with a 95% comprehension. Oh my God, that guy. He was one of our smartest. I think he was the smartest president that we had. That's nuts. He was an engineer. He was so humble. But like, wasn't he also like a, was he a physicist or something?

46:19 I don't know. He was fucking. He was ridiculous. Ridiculous. And so smart in a peanut farmer, that's like whatever. That's a superpower sorry for. Sure, Yeah. Oh my God. Think of all the things you could think you could learn. Exactly. Presidency is the best for. Him James Garfield could write Greek in one hand and Latin in the other at the same time. Ambidextrous. Ambidextrous, but in 2 languages at the same time. That's wild. That's. Nuts. Talk about someone whose brain like quite literally worked very differently, right? You pat your pat your stomach and like. Yeah, you like?

46:59 Like what is it? Rub your stomach and pat your head? Can't fucking do that guys. Schooling. US Franklin Pierce had an identic memory. He recited his 3300 word inaugural speech after only reading it once. That might be another superpower I would have. Oh my God. I could memorize my scripts like that. In a second, but also any information. OK, but here's the thing. Is it like too much information in your head, like where you can't turn it off and you're like, I need to empty, I need to empty out this recycling bin? Yeah, Does it ever fill up? Does it ever feel fill up? Does it ever like get unbearable? Yeah.

47:40 Or like a headache or something. I don't know. The actress, the redhead actress from Taxi, what's her name? Dammit, I know you guys are screaming at us on the on the on the over the air. Not real Pearlman. She didn't have red hair. Gosh, yeah, Google it, Google it. So she has, I don't know if you call it identic, but she can remember like absolutely everything from every minute of every day. Like you might go, what were you doing on September 5th, 1922? And she'll go, oh, I was wearing a blue dress and I had a Bologna sandwich and. Marilou Henner. Yes. Yeah.

48:21 She doesn't seem to be crazy, but she remembers all of that stuff. Yeah, I guess I'm just saying my point. My point is that if you, if your brain does that, then it's probably just not a problem. It just works that way. Also, like you would have to totally change the way you interact in the world because like, like let's say, let's say like, you know, you're having a fight with Roy, I'm having a fight with Dave or whatever. And you're like, you told me you'd be able to do this. And you're like, actually at 354, I told you this, you'd be like, fuck you, Poindexter, go. Away the worst person to have an argument. With Oh my God, yeah it would be so annoying. So now the scary part of the episode. Nothing can scare me like the alien scared me, yeah. So fortunate.

49:14 Fortunately for you, we're not going to go down the alien path. Yeah, I'm going. To have to, but we are going to go down the AI path. OK. OK. OK. OK. Ready. With all of the advances in science, who's to say that we couldn't genetically modify people to have superpowers? And who's to say the government hasn't already, by the way? And I would be willing to bet that it's already occurred. Now think about artificial intelligence. And then what happens when you combine a human with artificial intelligence to give them the power of the AI?

50:01 And then what happens when you take a genetically modified human and connect them to an AI? Oh my God, this is, this is, this is all my friends, Let me tell you something. All of these philosophical questions have been answered in a show that I like to call my Bible, which is Star Trek, I mean. See that takes us right back to the beginning of the show. 100% that 70 years ago people were like this is crazy shenanigans science fiction. I mean, we this is stuff that we've been talking about for a while, right? It's it's currently happening. Like they say, like you can choose.

50:42 I mean, what like you can tell whether or not your kid has like genetic like markers for something or if they're going to, you know, be whatever. But you even have like children who like, I don't know, designer babies are for the rich, right? Like they will have a surrogate. They don't even people don't even have their own babies anymore. But then on top of that, like you have people who are probably like, I want to select green eyes for my kid or. Remove dispositions for cancer or whatever. Or or have a child who's a little bit more malleable and like easy to deal with better as much. Right. Or have a better disposition for being muscular or whatever. Can I tell you I actually just if you have not deleted your information on 23andMe, please do you like go online because their CEO has like has left you need to do it. I'm no, I'm not.

51:36 I'm not getting a DN. AI didn't want to do it. Dave was like, so I thought this would be fun and I'm like, I thought we weren't doing this, but he got it for us for Christmas and I was like, well, I can't say no. This was a nice gift. Yeah, so I did it and I'm. Well, it's intriguing though it's. Intriguing. It's cool. It's. Kind of like the evil, you know, people doing evil things with the good power, you know, I mean like. Yes, like it happened, it happens. But like, so ultimately, if your data's out there, your data's out there. But one of the things they tell you, they'll tell you like your they'll. Have their your gataga information and then they switch it up. Right, you can like you can see is are you, are you more prone to like certain diseases? Are is your like what is your muscle composition like? Do you do you like repair your muscles like and and how which ways?

52:26 Like for me, like I actually I have that that genetic ability where like my muscles like the way that they repair themselves or like. Is that your superpower? No. Oh, we'll get to it in a second. Yeah, we'll close the show with it. But it's why it's it's just wild what you can find out that we know. People learn how to eat, they get their DNA done and they go that these foods are better for your body and people like swear by. It have you done it? No, but I've heard a lot about it. Do you have friends who have done it? No, no, I'm so I'm so curious about that because I think I have a lot of allergies anyways. Yeah, well, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway. Oh, and here's another fun fact. Did you know I I didn't really put two and two together that the movie Gattaca that is around DNA Gattaca spells the letters that they use for DNAI just recently kind of put two and two together. I OK, so that movie was like a movie I had always wanted to see but like my parents never did like when I first come out. Have you been?

53:26 I've watched it so many times. I have seen it once but I had fallen asleep during it. I need to watch it again you. Need to watch it again. Like, it's good. Yeah, it's good. See if you have the island. The island's very. Much love the island. Oh my. God, you have McGregor. Yeah. Love it. So good. So and again, AI has come so far in what, a year? Oh my God, do you know how? Far AI has come in the last 12 months, which it's I. I can't even wrap my brain around it. Like it doesn't even make any sense. Hello, therapy. Hello. What? You know, everything. Yeah, you go to AI and like it has an answer. So like I said, between that and the human body, I think super, I like we can do anything. Oh yeah, we're going.

54:07 To be able to make our bodies do anything. Absolutely. So let's end the show with you telling me what your superpower is. Well, OK, I feel, I feel like I can feel, no, I, I, I like, like if I walk into a room, I can feel like the energy in the room. OK, so you what's the word for a cognitive? No, no, no. Empath. An empath. Yeah, yeah. But typically when people say that they're empaths, they're like, really like fucking sociopaths who, like, just want people to like, I'm an empath, Tell me all your secrets. Be a fucking crazy ass. Like you know I'm going to use it against you. You feel the energy. I can feel the energy and I can feel like like if even if somebody's not said anything to me, I can just like, like I can have a sense of what something that's going on. And like we were talking about it before. It's like, like I've sensed this with you. Like like even with other people, it's like I have like this sense I'm like, something's up, something's up and like there's something going on and you know, don't, don't say anything and make it fucking weird 'cause that happens. Oh, I would always predict when people I knew were having babies before.

55:20 They would tell anybody. Yeah, like at the very beginning stages I would be around someone and I get this would. You go. Are you pregnant? Yes, yeah. And, and I'm not kidding you, it was like like three or four times and it was happening a lot. I'd be like, are you pregnant? I was like, this is going to sound weird, but are you pregnant right now? And they're like, you're the first person who's asked me. I just found out I am pregnant. Please don't say anything because they had like a reaction. They had not had anyone say anything. He was like, you know, weeks into it. But yeah, it's just like a weird sense. Which also means that I get exhausted by fucking draining ass people. Holy shit, girl. I, there's a yeah, I call.

56:05 I had a friend of mine. I, I, I feel like I'm empath, an empath as well. And you get around those energy vampires that just suck the energy out of you. Yes. Because you're so receptive to it. Yes, yeah. And you don't have a guard up and you're like, oh it's one of these fucking people. Well great, now I have to recover for this for like 3 days. Exactly, Yeah. Have you seen What We Do in the Shadows that show? No. Oh my God, it's so silly. It was originally mockumentary, but like, it's about vampires who, like, were vampires, like, you know, in history. And now they're in, you know, 2020 and having to deal with, like, technology and they don't have to do anything. But there's one of them as a energy vampire. And it's really fucking funny.

56:51 I'm like, holy shit. That's what it feels like when you're around these people. You're like, let me just fall asleep. Gosh. OK, cool. Well, what kind? I would love to hear from people have it. They have a superpower. Yeah, yeah, be fun. Yeah. You can like, like on our website, thebizarreaf.com. Like you can go and like drop us a note, e-mail us or like leave it on our socials. I'm so curious because there could be people who are like, no, I am that quick guy. Or like I right, like super powers we hadn't even heard of before. Well, exactly. I'm so I can communicate with animals. They're pet psychics. Yeah, so interesting. Good. Yeah. Please, everyone, tell us what you can do. I'm so curious to hear.

57:34 Bring the weird. All right, we'll see you soon. See you guys. OK. Bye.