Glitch In The Matrix Stories Ep. 130 | ATRD Podcast

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Raven Adams (0:34)

Hey there, friends, and good afternoon. Hopefully, you are doing fantastic on this Thursday. Wow. The week has dragged on, and you had gotten away from me somehow. I'm doing pretty good.

I got a mint condition mocha from caribou with oat milk, because I don't drink regular milk. Not because I'm allergic, it just, it does cause me some stomach distress, but it's not like horrible, it just makes me feel bleh. So oat milk's been my go-to. And mint condition is actually pretty good. It's just a mint mocha basically from caribou, which is a coffee place if you don't have it near you. Pretty good. I enjoy it. Not really relevant to anything I just wanted to tell you. So today we have glitch stories.

Not much else to say about it. If you like them, you like them. If you don't, you don't, and that's totally fine.

If you can, you should do something nice for yourself today. Get yourself a nice little latte if you're into that. Or anything else. Have a nice lunch. Have a really good sandwich or something. Just do something nice for yourself, okay? Please, that's all I ask. And enjoy the stories if you want to. And that's all. We'll move on to the stories now. Bye.

Dear Raven, I love listening to your glitch podcasts. It helps me through these dull hours of cleaning the house. Thank you. Happy to do so. Happy to be of assistance? What am I trying to say there? Thank you. In the past, I experienced some small glitches, but nothing noteworthy of sharing. However, last weekend, something happened that has left me completely baffled, and I honestly can't find a logical explanation for it. I've always considered myself a down-to-earth and rational person. In my daily life, I rely on facts, logic, and data, not wild theories, as I work in legal. But after last weekend, I maybe need to revise my self-image. I was out for a long solo mountain bike ride, and I deliberately chose a region that I wasn't familiar with because I wanted to clear my head and enjoy the nature. It happened quite early into the trip, around the 17-kilometer mark, so I definitely wasn't fatigued or hallucinating from exhaustion. I transitioned off a single-track trail and came right out into a main rural road. Right across the intersection was a local police station with a few cars parked outside, including a distinct gray van. Beside the police station, there were two, I guess, large water tanks. Since a branch had gotten stuck in my derailleur, I pulled over right next to the station for a minute to remove it.

After fixing it, I checked my GPS route. I used a Garmin Edge 840, and I turned left out onto the main road. That part of the route was simple, just straightforward down the road with a slight gradual incline. I kept pedaling for just under 10 minutes, but when I reached the end of the straight stretch, my stomach completely dropped, because there it was again. The exact same police station, the exact same two water tanks, the exact same cars, and the exact same gray van parked in the same spot.

For a second, my head was spinning. I knew for a fact that I hadn't turned around, and the road had been completely straight. A bit confused, I just kept pedaling and finishing my ride. At the moment that it happened, I still had a long way to go, for over 70 kilometers, so I did not want to turn around and investigate on the spot. When I got home, I did immediately investigate. First I checked Google Maps to find the location. Sure enough, there's only one police station with the two distinctive water tanks on that road. Then I checked my recorded GPS track log to see what the hell happened. According to the data, I supposedly rode a loop that brought me right back to the station. The problem is, I know with absolute certainty that I never made those turns. To make things even weirder, the data shows my speed increasing as I passed the station the first time. Even though that was the exact moment I had completely stopped to remove the branch from my derailleur. I don't have any explanation, and I don't think that I'll ever forget this. During the remainder of the MTB trip, I kept asking myself whether this was some sort of proof that we are indeed living in a simulation. Has anyone experienced anything similar?