Earth is an Alien Petting Zoo (Golf With Your Friends)

[@aethernaut1899]

what a perfect afternoon. grab a drink, grab a snack, listen to Alex Smith slowly lose his mind.

[@Thatgingerdude15]

Average hatfilms videos

[@MH-hu5pi]

Slowly?

[@lukeantonystevens2942]

a beer + hatfilms vid is sublime

[@drayzorn]

Carl Sagan called all this UFO sighting stuff, it's just the hangover from the death of god in America, an atheist desire for the outside.

[@brynley]

I can relate to Smithy. It's like holding up a mirror. I don't always love it but I can't argue with it.

[@kael13]

Smiffy is the dreamer, the pensive one, the big thinker. Ross is just happy about his banana.

[@Spahrrow]

It's finally happened folks. Smith has gone off the deep end. RIP King

[@lamonszorro]

Smith being such a conspiracy nut and trying to play it down is my favorite hat films arc 😅

[@samgray2239]

The thing is pilots have seen a lot of stuff in the skies that the us covers up

[@user-lz5vh9bb5w]

@@samgray2239 The thing is that you have no idea what you're talking about

[@samgray2239]

@@user-lz5vh9bb5w okay “user-lz5vh9bb5w” (definitely not a bot or misinformation account name) please enlighten me

[@samgray2239]

@@user-lz5vh9bb5w what’s the weather like at the secret government facility where youre at “user-lz5vh9bb5w”

[@lunarfrog2]

​@samgray2239 Doesn't mean you should jump straight to Aliens visiting earth, use occam's razor, what's more likely, a hallucination, a made up story, military tech, weather balloons etc. He starts off alright thinking life is probably out there but the jump into high tech alien empires visiting earth for shits and giggles is a bit much

[@BeartatoTime]

I like Smith's wild oscillations between railing on social media, and losing his god damn mind via social media. He's a man of many multitudes.

[@DetectiveMichealScarn]

Just watched this and now I’m convinced my cat is an alien spy. That explains why he stares at me like I owe him rent. 🛸🐾

[@Odyanii]

Smith tries to couch it between disclaimers of rationality but his brain is so cooked

[@mostlyharmless7154]

Watching him try to do the same shot 5 times as he rambles, true smooth brain

[@edholmes8726]

He’s really becoming Unkel Smaffy.

[@bod9001a]

From my perusing of r/aliens and r/UFOs, r/aliens is way more bonkers and spiritual oddly, r/UFOs really suffers from " they'll reveal aliens any day now " syndrome, and people posting pictures of balloons mistaking it for UFOs xD

[@violetWinter54]

if you want to see a truly bonkers conspiracy subreddit check out r/EscapingPrisonPlanet , i couldn't even begin to guess what has led that place to become what it is, other than a lot of mind altering substances

[@leetri]

There's just waaaaay too many assumptions you have to make to conclude that aliens visit earth, when the much more likely scenario is that someone just misidentified something.

[@MrSpannners]

There are so many wild things that can happen naturally on Earth. But if people see something they have never seen or heard about before, it's suddenly "otherworldly" to them..

[@positronalpha]

Occam's razor is boring. Same reason religious thinking exists.

[@Ovetupp]

Where did they find the Trott look-a-like? He looks nothing like him!

[@PierceArner]

The 3D-printed B stock: Alan, Broth, & Scott.

[@A_Ereira]

Craig can only put on so much make-up. Leave him alone!

[@SgtSquashington]

"depends how sunny it is" underrated joke ross 😂

[@KeeptainKeep]

So Smiths free time is spent Gilfs watching and researching aliens, what a mad lad.

[@TheSyliman]

Alan ''Crackpot'' Smaffy is at it again with them gosh darn aliens

[@Flashjackmak]

Golf With Your Friends is one of their top games for Lego-talk, it’s wild. As a Last Podcast on the Left fan, hearing Smith talk about metaphysical UAPs is very familiar…

[@planetjakebomb]

Smith: "I had an existential crisis and got worried about this" Also Smith: "Of course I don't believe any of this"

[@GoldnThunder]

I feel intellectually stimulated in many uncomfortable ways after this episode

[@Doubleday92]

It’s lovely to be watching smith have a breakdown over a series of videos. Future detectives will refer to this period during their investigations.

[@pifeg]

THANK YOU Thomas for the edit at 8:22. I absolutely cracked up laughing at Ross' silent bewilderment. Edit: also Smith's Hits sounds like a hilarious idea

[@openfly4u]

Always fun to hear the lads talk about their Bananas

[@Master.chylla]

"I shoot my doot" on the back, "And then I scoot" on the front. Keep the folks intrigued until you walk by 👍

[@SiphiliSx]

Give Gran a Go slayed me.

[@xRandomSarahx]

Smith's point in the begining about festivals is so accurate 😂 everyone's your best friend at festivals! At least that felt like my experience from the one I went to nearly 12 years ago 😂

[@Flutezor]

Make a Hat vlog of a trip to "Wosswell" NM to make Smiffy go full (crop) circle with the Alien theories.

[@dan_templeton]

The nice thing about the idea that we're so insignificant in this universe, and that there are powers far greater and more intelligent than us, raises the question of: why haven't we been destroyed yet? If these other things are so intelligent, they can witness the destruction we're committing on each other right now. It's nothing new. If they can witness that destruction, they can witness all the good people do as well. If we're being kept under control, or monitored, or protected by a far-advanced civilization, I'd count us pretty lucky honestly. I find that comforting. We've proven time and time again that there's no need to destroy us, which is wild considering all the negative things humanity are doing.

[@Bruced82]

Our universe is relatively young, the distances are absurd, and there might be no incentive to contact or visit us. There are also plenty of voids in space, that would be uninteresting to traverse, to get to us.

[@krumpits]

ill never understand why the conspiracy about aliens is that they MUST have wildly better tech and space travel capabilities than us, when its probably more likely that theyre struggling just as much as we are lol

[@violetWinter54]

because on the timescale of our universe, they could have developed millions or even billions of years ago and thus be that many years ahead of us. (and they'd probably need to be at least tens of thousands of years ahead of us just to be able to travel between star systems)

[@brynley]

I have thought the same but the Remembrance of Earth's Past book series made the time scale make sense to me. I think the idea is that it would take SO long for inter-galactic/stellar travel thst technology would have naturally progressed far beyond the point of societal launch. Assuming FTL is off the cards (but if it's on the cards then you assume their tech has advanced otherwise)

[@TheLastZeekasaur]

I think smith watched the remake of the day the earth stood still, late one night on something.😄

[@spongmongler6760]

It always feels weird to have insight into these things, like I know from personal experience that not all these younger-older relationships are because of body, they're because of a shared mind or heart - but the majority are still for... unpure reasons. My brain feel unclean after knowing some of those older parties...

[@A_Ereira]

God, I wish Smith can become a guest in the Chilluminati (not that one) Podcast after hearing his insane ramblings this episode. Him and Mathas would get along so well.

[@openfly4u]

Smith, I think you`re referring to the concept that we (and by extension our consciousnesses) are a small part of the universe experiencing itself on a minute scale.

[@IRateBurps]

How about a live laugh love sign, but instead it says shoot, doot, skoot.

[@volfrax]

Ready for the cryptid reviews. Start with aliens and go from there.

[@MegMyfawnwy]

Ross was being super sus with that 🍌

[@GrouchyGander]

Okay, at 18:00, that should NOT have been a 14! Smiffy got the ball in on the 12th shot!

[@joshconfer209]

They joke, but cbbe is a massive upgrade to the player character textures.

[@Peron1-MC]

yeah...but also tits XD

[@ivyartemis2431]

true. can it be used for evil (sex mods and just absolutely massive knockers)? yes. but! when used responsibly it's great! sadly we all know Trott is using it for evil, but still #IStandWithChrisTrott

[@danielosborne5865]

I’m watching this episode while making my bed. If this is an Alien reality tv show… it’s good stuff.. #LightsCameraShowMeToYourLeader

[@Western_Gopnik]

Hat Films Is The Best Part Of My Day

[@Western_Gopnik]

USMC Barrack Life Is Shit But Still I get to enjoy Hat Films so it can’t be so bad.

[@BigSadClownBoi]

The massive thing about Milf Manor that Smiff left out that honestly is the most fucked up part is....the guys are all each other's sons!!!

[@spongmongler6760]

that's... not atypical.

[@ButzPunk]

my mum's been into alien conspiracy theories since the 90s, i reckon smith and her would get along great and then he can become my new dad maybe, just kidding haha unless?

[@WintersInBerlin]

I think they must be aliens the amount they talk about glitter!

[@BingoBongoBengo]

Rip smith, lost to the youtube conspiracy algorithm 😔only a matter of time and he'll be out on the streets of bristol with the 'jesus saves' guy, spraying alien truther graffiti

[@thelemon0001]

One day, I too wish to be able to boff a whole banana with such skill as Broth Hornby.

[@ballinbalgruuf8198]

Boff Hornby

[@mitchellmedia6163]

I would watch Hat Films investigate conspiracy theories. Watching them run through a forest looking for Bigfoot would be great content.

[@TheOneBonja]

Smith and being unable to play golf games The aliens destroyed the golf part of his brain

[@unalavellan]

Thanks for the existential crisis

[@shinjutsu2773]

fucking hell smith going down the deep end

[@NotRingoStarr]

Loving the existential space talk today...

[@Aura-Of-Syrinx]

"genuine believable" i think that's your sign smiffy

[@whosadaman8326]

Smiths pilot story is how i feel about the paranormal, where theres so many people who have these similar experiences that there has to be something beyond our own perception. I also believe though that obsessing over this kind of stuff can be a very slippery slope

[@Camikio]

Biggest issue to me, is when someone takes possibility and then asserts it is fact and that they understand it wholly.

[@spongmongler6760]

@@Camikio that's just humans in general.

[@JamieAubrey]

The fact I know what mods Trott is using is worrying

[@practicalpupa8192]

Ross with the most unexpected Killers reference

[@Prossay]

Wait til smithy see's that video from the "nasa" whistleblower about the eclipse in the US a few weeks ago, that would really mess him up lol

[@HappyLarry.]

Smith really said abiotic factor as "bio reactor"

[@LogicReel]

Ladies and gentlemen.... we lost him

[@harveyhandbanana]

Weirdly enough I can relate to him that's the scary part.

[@Drax-z]

7:00 scarier thought, they are human too

[@Orochimaul]

Get Smith on the chilluminati podcast asap

[@IronwolfSOF]

full circle

[@anomalousresult]

5 am and smaffy is at the afters having hit a bucket.

[@tracedonovan3591]

Testicular torsion!

[@OptifiedPixels]

I think the explanation for people seeing the same thing is they see a video of someone describing that thing, then a couple days later they drink too much or are high or just exhausted and see that thing.

[@miwright21]

To a degree. Our minds are constantly monitoring everything going on around us at all times and basically filters what's immediately relevant to grab our attention while filing away all of the other junk back in the recesses for later processing (usually but not always while we're sleeping--hence dreams). Sometimes something happens that our minds can't immediately make sense of but SEEMS urgent and so it's thrust into the foreground of our thoughts and we get shit like "ghosts" or "UFOs" or "psychics" or whatever. "It's just your mind playing tricks on you" isn't just an expression. It happens routinely.

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

I've literally experienced a bunch of people being told a made up ghost story (they didn't know it was made up, of course), then sent out into the woods, then asked minutes later if they saw anything out there, and about half of them claimed they saw ghostly figures in the form of WWII soldiers, glowing orbs, spectral dogs, heard whispering, etc, all kinds of bullshit, only to then be told, "nah guys, we made it all up, there's nothing out there, just a random patch of deadland that's not been occupied or had anything important happen on it basically ever." Most of them were STILL adamant they saw something. People make shit up and imagine things that simply aren't there and don't want to lose face even when you tell them you were bullshitting them. People are real dumb like that.

[@redmondcoulter]

Definitely agree in the modern context, but he's referring to cases in the past pre-internet when people in far apart places saying the same thing was much more credible (stories did still travel of course!)

[@bats__]

Smiff worries me 😂

[@whosadaman8326]

Honestly, what would be the point of modding a game if you're not going to add all the spicy mods at the end of the day

[@CaptainBloodyAwesome]

Love Unkle Smaffy's bedtime stories

[@nolan71]

What a light hearted episode! Thanks boiks ❤

[@josephchambers4509]

Your right smith... it does sound like madness :D

[@awesomeaartvark]

I haven't been able to catch the streams lately, but dude, I would totally love a Smith's Hits watch-along stream, haha, that sounds awesome! I love exploring the alien topic and learning about the different experiences people have had, would love to see what Smith has come across! I also don't believe every single conspiracy theory out there, but I do think there is a lot about the universe that we still don't understand! Plus I just love to think about stuff, lol

[@allluri]

This was like a season of x files

[@fuzzyyy]

Wine or cheese?

[@JamesW6179]

Smith is the poor man's Terrance Howard.

[@TerraZetzz]

Yes to Hat Films reacting to conspiracy stuff.

[@valeforedark]

Came for the chill video. Left because smithy just rambling on

[@Sc0ts]

Lot's of good talk on here

[@datguy6101]

Happy birthday Alan!

[@christophertitanium8424]

Wow that looks like a great banana.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Golf and Hunger.

[@Peron1-MC]

i mean really pretty people usually are designed. its called plastic surgery XD

[@McCluckles38]

Petition to have more banana based cold opens. Please? Thank you!

[@nestor4895]

I need to see the videos that have convinced Smith now. I'll soon don my hat films branded tinfoil hat

[@sonaxaton]

Smith must be a fan of The OA

[@Mattym9287]

Smith needs a few days offline, he’s going to go mad. Or at least more mad.

[@CG_Lord]

How do you guys make those thumbnails?

[@vomitcomet]

Can you do a video special where ross and trott have to wear suits and deprogram alex from his conspiracy beliefs

[@samuelcaponi4516]

Fringe alex smith is the best alex smith

[@PenguinPower24]

Yea😂

[@KeironMcDonnell]

That's a classic!

[@KallinADM]

Happy Birthday Alan!

[@NotRingoStarr]

Definitely up for a conspiracy theory stream...

[@jamesbroadbridge2088]

I'd have Give Gran a Go a shirt

[@TotallyNotBrad123]

Watching secularists reinvent religion is always a hoot

[@ivyartemis2431]

Great Zoo theory is a bunch of bullshit but it beats the pointless nihilism of the dark forest or the great wall bullshit so its by default the best

[@_Wombat]

No offense to Smith - but in this case - he really just comes across as some sort of faux-intellectual. It's the trap that a lot of conspiracies rely on - basically that they know something that the plebs don't. That's the main reason people fall for them. They like the feeling it gives them that they have this "forbidden/secret" knowledge.

[@_Wombat]

Take a break from Reddit Smith, trust me - I don't miss it at all.

[@Mashiromitsumine409]

the whole milf maner thing is gross i dont agree with people dating that large age range its just weird and predatory

[@ChandlerBiloxi]

Half plus seven? I suppose it works, now I just need a 104 year old woman.

[@dye_anna]

Thanks for the crisis boiks

[@aparadigm8]

Smith on the columbian goods

[@capy123321]

Im with ya smith, lotta MIB in these comments

[@dawnofthedunk]

I liked this video cos it was liked 666 times and I didn't want it to be the number of the beast...I wanted it to be it's neighbour.

[@cunningstunts1118]

Realistically, if any of these conspiracies , aliens or gods turn out to be true, it’s not going to change anything. Its not going to change the fact I still need to go to work and pay my mortgage, so none of it matters anyway 😅

[@Doktor_Vem]

Is it just me or are the "seconds" in this game just a little bit too short?

[@BucketOfFail]

Ross would probably do better on the furry dating show. He could even bring his own fursuit.

[@redmondcoulter]

Edit: Ok didn't wait long enough for him to talk about the Lord Farquad aliens living among us. My bad I love how people are acting like Smiffy being open minded enough to even entertain the very possibility that the world is not exactly as presented to us means he's completely insane and deeply committed to the tin foil hat brigade.