Gary and Selena kick off the Budweiser Zero experiment and immediately test whether sobriety is more mental than physical. What begins as curiosity around nonalcoholic beer spirals into fake blackouts, placebo intoxication, and realizing how easy it is to feel drunk without alcohol. They unpack aging anxiety, sobriety identity, and the creeping dread of getting older while still feeling unprepared. The conversation moves through religious myths, Jesus iconography, urban legends, and how belief systems grow louder the less evidence they have.
Gary and Selena dive into public embarrassment stories, radio fallout, prank regret, and the strange power dynamic of anger, apology, and emotional escalation. They talk grocery store chaos, social paranoia, and how quickly small moments spiral into shame and overthinking. The episode expands into conspiracy territory with Bigfoot sightings, giants, unexplained phenomena, secret histories, and whether modern life has erased our connection to reality. It closes with death stories, haunted imagery, funeral home experiences, and the uneasy feeling that some things are better left unexplained.
