Doomscrollin #010: Paranormal Pranks, Viral Stupidity, and Hidden History

Doom Scrollin' with Sam Tripoli and Midnight Mike

0:00 - 15:00 | Podcast Awards & Internet Chaos

• Sam and Midnight Mike joke about podcast awards—are they legit or just a money grab?
• Discussion on early podcasting days and how awards in Vegas used to nominate everyone just to get people to show up.
• The Piss Army (their loyal fans) floods the chat.
• Sam plugs his upcoming comedy shows in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Detroit, Michigan.
• The Wheel of Doom is introduced—spinning to select random bizarre videos to react to.

15:00 - 30:00 | Internet Outrage & Architectural Conspiracies

• The first Wheel of Doom clip features a woman aggressively using controversial language online—sparking debate about internet outrage culture.
• Hosts discuss how being aggressively hot gives people a bigger platform online.
• Video about architecture affecting brain function—high ceilings promote creativity, low ceilings encourage focus.
• Speculation that modern architecture is deliberately designed to dull people’s minds and raise anxiety levels.
• Sam calls the Tesla Cybertruck ugly and compares its design to Elon Musk’s chest.

30:00 - 45:00 | Paranormal Investigations & Hauntings

• Midnight Mike shares past experiences with non-human negative energy (a.k.a. possible demonic encounters).
• They discuss ghost hunting—most hauntings aren’t terrifying but just energy lingering in places.
• Some ghosts have a sense of humor—one even played Pictionary with investigators.
• Conspiracy theory that hauntings are actually spirits stuck in between worlds during their energy transfer.
• Sam shares a story about a guy waking up with unexplained scratch marks on his back—potential demonic activity?
• Tucker Carlson recently claimed a similar experience.

45:00 - 60:00 | Ancient History & Suppressed Knowledge

• A video clip shows seashells found on top of mountains, questioning mainstream geological history.
• Sam and Mike argue that scientists guess most of their conclusions and resist change for generations.
• Debate over whether tectonic plates or some unexplained event put seashells that high up.
• Sam jokes about not wanting to ask AI (like ChatGPT) for answers because the mystery is better.
• The shortest clip in Doom Scrolling history plays—so short they don’t even know what it was about.

60:00 - 75:00 | Viral Stupidity & Internet Trends

• The Wheel of Doom lands on a video of two guys in Eastern Europe playing a dangerous game—tying a water bottle to a rope and smashing each other in the head.
• Mike compares it to Jackass, but without a paycheck.
• Sam points out that men go viral by doing stupid things, while women go viral by being aggressively hot or super kinky.
• They reflect on Steve-O’s career—how you have to keep getting weirder to stay relevant.
• Internet content today is just exporting stupidity to the rest of the world.

75:00 - 90:00 | Final Chaos & Conspiracy Wrap-Up

• Another Wheel of Doom spin—people getting hit so hard they start speaking French.
• Sam and Mike joke about how this is what our money is funding in Ukraine.
• Discussion about demonic pranks—ghosts messing with people just to cause problems.
• Mike shares a final ghost story about a haunted scratch attack.
• Closing thoughts: the world is more complex than we think, and that’s why we doomscroll.

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