Like, a stain on a bear.ĪLEX: Yeah and a few weeks ago the world collectively woke up to the fact that their name is spelled S-T-A-I-N.ĪLIX: And how did this knowledge come to the fore though?ĪLEX: Okay so there's this guy. Because the way that Berenstain Bears and Stan and Jan Berenstain spell Berenstain, is what is it?ĪLEX: And last week or two weeks ago the world collectively woke up to the fact that their name is spelled Berenstain.ĪLIX: Wait spell it one more time just so that I have it in my head.ĪLEX: Alright so the proper spelling is B-E-R-E-N-S-T-A-I-N. PJ: Okay so according to this theory, you guys are living in, or perhaps at one point did live in an alternate reality. You guys, how do you spell Berenstain Bears?ĪLIX: I think it's like bear B-E-A-R, en E-N, stein, S-T-E-I-N. PJ: Okay so as far as I can remember the Berenstain Bears were written by Stan and Jan Berenstain.ĪLEX: Yeah, a couple named Stan and Jan Berenstain. PJ: So in this world the author of the Berenstain Bears is in fact a highly intelligent bear and the books themselves are just a diversion.ĪLIX + ALEX: The author is a brilliant mad scientist.ĪLIX: Who then creates the children's books as a diversion.ĪLEX: Well good news guys, you're both right. Berenstain, the author, created a race of really highly intelligent bears, like super intelligent, just like the Rats of Nimh and those bears create the internet and then -ĪLIX: - to mask their role in the internet, they create the Berenstain Bears children's books because who would possibly believe that somebody like in a children's book would create the internet. So I think it's that the author, who in my head is a woman, I think that she implanted nihilistic, depressing, messages into Berenstain Bear chitter chatter, such that everyone who read it in the late seventies and eighties, grew up with like low-lying, underlying depression and that's why Americans are so depressed.ĪLIX: Okay so my theory is that Berenstain, the author created-ĪLIX: I don't know. LULU: Okay, I've been wondering about it now for a week so I keep thinking it’s the Berenstain Bears controversy, and if it's the Berenstain Bears controversy I think that there was a cigarette in the treehouse which in subsequent publications of the book they have removed but then I'm like, No it's the Berenstain Bears conspiracy theory, so then I've got to go deeper and then I think that the author whose name I cannot recall, and I wished I could do research but I didn't let myself do any. LULU: Okay so do you guys know what the Berenstain Bears conspiracy is?ĪLEX: Do you guys know what the Berenstain Bears conspiracy is? LULU: Okay so Maddie Seraphin wrote, “2:25 AM researching the Berenstain Bears conspiracy theory and wondering if my entire life has been a lie.” It's really good.ĪLEX: Guys thank you so much for doing the show with us.ĪLEX: So we heard a rumor that you guys have a Yes Yes No for us. PJ: Yeah, if you've never listened to Invisibilia, it is sort of a show about science but it's really about ideas and people and their brains and just the weirdness of human behavior. Where our boss Alex Blumberg comes to us with some confusing piece of the internet and we explain it to him.ĪLEX: Well normally it's Alex Blumberg but today we've kicked him out of the studio in favor of some friends of ours, the hosts of the NPR podcast, Invisibilia: Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel. So we have a segment on the show called Yes Yes No. ALEX GOLDMAN: From Gimlet, this is Reply All.
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