WEBVTT - CLASSIC: What is Predictive Programming? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.520 Hey, fellow conspiracy realists, have you ever thought about this? 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:08.879 Have things ever seemed a little too purposeful, a little 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.600 too organized in your day to day life. What if 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.079 everything you encounter, all your interactions are somehow part of 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.400 a larger orchestrated scheme or plan. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.320 We're all inside episodes of The Simpsons. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:26.840 More stuff that I want you to know. Which is 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.320 more terrifying. I'll let you be the judge. From UFOs 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:34.360 to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.600 unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.199 stuff they don't want you to know. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.400 Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.560 They called me Ben. We were joining with our super producer, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:04.240 Paul the Paul the Predictor Decand okay, we got a shrug. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.319 We're joining with Paul the Predictor Decand most importantly, you 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.280 are you, and you are here, and that makes this 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.480 stuff they don't want you to know. We predict you 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.080 will find this episode fascinating. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.120 Oh yeah, we can already tell this is going to 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.360 be your favorite episode that's come out in a long time. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.360 We've already read some of your emails. Thank you for those. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.160 It's really kind what you said about this episode. You know, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.480 we look forward to your next ones. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:37.399 Right, both represented in fiction and in real life. I 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.800 don't know if we can continue this this trope for 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.320 the whole show man, What do you think. No, we're 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.839 just being silly, We're just we're just having a goof. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.400 Do people still say that having a goof? 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:49.960 Of course? 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:55.520 Great, because if not, we're bringing it back. This episode 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:03.000 is about somewhat of a meta conspiracy, a conspiracy about conspiracies, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.280 for lack of a better term, or a technique that 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:12.760 is attributed to a lot of specific theories. And oddly enough, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.000 there's a very strong basis in truth in this, which 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.680 I think surprised both of us. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.120 There is a little bit of truth in a way, 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:26.040 but it's Yeah, it's one of those things where it's 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.200 so prevalent. This what we're speaking about today, and let's 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:29.800 just say what it. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.160 Is a predictive programming. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.960 And it's so prevalent on the Internet when anything occurs. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.240 There is so much media that exists and so many 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.120 things happening that when you find the little connective tissues, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.760 there's always that eureka moment and it just happens all 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:50.399 the time. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.840 Now maybe yeah, maybe we get into this too with 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:59.280 an anecdote. Several years ago, you and I made a 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:05.720 video about the Illuminati card game. Yes, yes, And in 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:11.760 the Illuminati Card Game there are certain cards that people 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.680 who believe in predictive programming have pointed to as evidence 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.919 of this practice. I think specifically the Twin Towers is correct. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.639 The Twin Towers was one about a terrorist attack. There 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.000 were so many though, Deepwater Horizon from twenty ten was one, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.919 and again in that video, I guess do we want 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.760 to spoil any of that right now? About kind of 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.680 what we found out about the card game? 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.200 Yeah, yeah, go ahead, laid up. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.360 Okay. So there have been so many versions of that 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.000 card game over the years. The cards have shifted and 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.760 changed a little bit, the artwork has been altered. Exactly 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.200 what stated on the cards has been altered. And then 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.040 when you're online and you have people posting images about 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.320 you know, here, look at this card from this game 0:03:55.360 --> 0:04:00.920 that came out in ninety something. You know it predicted 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.760 the World Trade Center because of this card, when in actuality, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:09.360 that card was referring to the original World Trade Center bombing, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.880 which occurred in the nineties, right, and then, and or 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.799 it was changed now because of other you know, circumstances, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.440 things that actually occurred in the real world after it 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.440 was put out. It's just interesting how things shift over time, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.279 and when it's posted on the internet, it could be 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.280 from any time throughout the span of the card's history. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.280 Oh, we should also point out that it's a fun game. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.440 It is a really fun game. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.280 I was so happy because you introduced me to it. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.080 I'm going to owe you for that one. Also, I 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.080 was thinking, should we play that game with with with 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.400 you friends and neighbors if we ever run into each 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.440 other in real life, or Matt, should you and Paul 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.760 and Nola and I make a game of our own? 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.320 We could. We should make a game of our own. 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:58.520 We could live stream it. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.680 Stuff they don't want you to play. I don't know. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.960 I don't know. We'll put a pin in that, okay, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.720 But but yeah, So that's a great example of an 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.800 allegation of predictive programming. Here's what we mean specifically when 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.839 we say there's a basis in truth. In decades past, 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.800 the US government would assemble groups of people to help 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:23.920 them predict the direction of future technological breakthroughs, and they 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:28.839 consulted scientists and technocrats, but they also asked science fiction 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:33.800 writers to join in this think tankery, and several of 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.440 these writers, it turns out, had already successfully predicted the 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.680 broad strokes of a certain aspect of technological progress or 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.480 social changes, and they had depicted these events in works 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:45.960 of fiction. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.039 Yeah, and for a lot of people, this is just 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.400 it speaks to the human imagination. What can what images 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.800 and ideas can we conjure in our heads before it 0:05:54.880 --> 0:06:00.760 becomes reality? And it's really, honestly, it's inspiring and our 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.400 species ability to dream beyond the limits of this moment 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.560 of what's occurring right now, things that I can possibly 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.359 do today to what I could do in the future 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.440 because of X. I mean, that's incredible. That's what separates us. Well, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:17.760 there are a lot of things that separate us, but 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.960 that's one of the major things that separates us from 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:20.760 other mammals. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.800 You're giving me chills. That is inspiring, especially the way 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.760 you put it there. It is it is one of 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:32.240 the primary separations. But it's not all like angel farts 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.640 and trumpets in the sky. You know, there's a dark 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.200 side that people see here because for others, this story 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:42.039 of sci fi collaboration is only scratching the surface. It's 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.719 a relatively benign example of a much more widespread and, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.000 according to them, sinister practice. Fringe researchers across the US 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.640 and the globe believe that nefarious, hidden groups are guiding 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.280 the public through the use of this predictive programming. So 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.440 let's look at the facts. When you look at the 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.640 idea of fiction, whether an Illuminati game or a film 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:12.360 depicting actual events in the future, we see two fundamental 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.120 factors at play immediately. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.440 Yeah. The first is what the creators are trying to do. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.240 It's not a secret that people who write screenplays and 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.880 write books, directors of television and movie, they often are 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.720 attempting to depict what they think the future is going 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.680 to look like, what might happen in the future. If 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:38.520 you think about nineteen eighty four the novel or Brave 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.640 New World, these are two cautionary tales, very different from 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:49.040 each other and also quite similar. They're meant to educate 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.280 as much as they're meant to warn and entertain. They 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.040 function on a whole lot of levels. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.280 Yeah, Yeah, nineteen eighty four is one of those books that, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.240 even after having read it multiple times. I still don't 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.520 know if I would say I'm entertained by it, you 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.520 know what I mean. Sure, it definitely airs more on 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.880 the cautionary tale side, but you're absolutely right. I think 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.240 that's such a great point. These authors and these creators 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.040 are not working in a vacuum. They are attempting to 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.280 enact some sort of change in the world, whether it's 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.400 just making the world one story better or one story richer, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.320 or whatever we want to say about it. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.520 Or as in the case of a Brave New World, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.400 it's the question of dothtaw entertain too much? 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:43.319 Yes? Yes, And these authors could also depict something more aspirational, 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.240 like what the future of humanity could be if we 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.600 ever get our collective business together. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.079 You're talking about Star Trek. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.360 I'm talking about Star Trek, Matt Man. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:59.040 Star Trek tng was the thing they like made me go, okay, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.040 we're gonna be okay. The future is going to be 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.680 an amazing place. I can't wait to get there. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:11.000 Right. It's a post scarcity economy, right, there's not income inequality, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:15.760 and the species spends its time exploring strange new worlds 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:21.480 and attempting to enrich their knowledge of the galaxy and 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.040 the beautiful universe in which we live. Also having more 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.439 or less constant war or uneasy truces with various alien empires. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.840 Probably a story for a different episode, but yeah, Star 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.439 Trek aspirational. Imagine what we could be. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.760 Exactly, and then you could even have a Holid Deck. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.319 I mean, come on, that's what it was for your 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.640 No it it was the big picture stuff. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.599 I hated the Holid Deck episodes. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.120 Yeah, I always felt like I was getting tricked. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.000 I felt, you know, this is just my opinion, one 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.160 person's opinion, and I would love to hear everybody else's 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.360 opinion on this. I thought I felt as if the 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.479 actors were pushing this on the writers and the producers 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:11.160 and saying, well, you know, I've I've done some Shakespeare before. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.280 You're talking specifically about El Capitan. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.200 Right, I don't know, I don't you know, I don't 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.240 know who it was. I feel like I have suspicions, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.160 but I can't pin it on any single actor. Okay, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.559 And maybe it was just maybe it just felt like 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:28.480 a bait and switch. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.160 Well, yeah, it's a I think it's a writing device 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.439 that the people in the writer's room can go, Wow, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.880 we've been stuck on this enterprise for a long time 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.800 in all these episodes. Let's let's do a Western. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.040 Yeah, it could be that. It could also be something, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.240 As you know, these are big machines. Every television show 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.920 is a huge machine of its own. So it could 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.480 have been something behind the scenes where they said, Okay, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.800 look we have this leftover set for a show that 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:02.360 didn't get used. We have to use it. And sorry, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.280 Star trek TNG, you drew the short straw this time. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:11.280 So writer's room, chop chop something something with the hollow deck. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.520 Or maybe this set's about to get torn down. Hey, writers, 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:15.959 let's find a way to use it quick. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.560 We have We have spent a lot of time thinking 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.560 about thinking about this. You know, I bet someone out 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:28.240 there has a has the real scoop, the straight poop, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.840 as we might say, on the origin of those hollow 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.559 Deck episodes. But there is another thing that comes into 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:41.360 play when we consider this idea of fiction purposefully predicting 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.440 actual events in the future, usually bad ones, and that 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:49.840 is the dangerous deceptive traits of the human mind. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.920 Yeah, it's not just the people creating the fiction and 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.760 the entertainment. It's the people who are consuming it, actively, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.400 watching and hearing it right. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.920 And there's this assumption that is so prevalent in the 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:08.880 past and today that goes like this. Someone watching a 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.120 film or reading a book, even to a lesser degree, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:18.160 is passively experiencing the vision or the creation that the 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.880 author made, or the director made, or whomever. But in actuality, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:31.600 all audience members are collaborators. Whether it's a piece of 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.120 art like a sculpture, whether it's a television show, whether 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.120 it's a book, we are helping to create the story 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.959 by the mere act of observing and interpreting it. What 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:50.600 this all means is that people are really self obsessed pathologically. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.240 And don't beat yourself up if you feel like this 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.640 is an unfair characterization, or if you feel bad and 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.320 you think, oh, I'm a little bit narcissistic, because everybody is. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.040 Everybody is, and we're all the main characters of our 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.880 own stories, the center of our individual universes, the protagonist 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.440 around which this great world swings. In addition to this, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:18.719 we're also fantastically talented analyzers and pattern recognizers. It's one 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.720 of the reasons our species runs so much of the 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:27.040 planet rather than say an octopus race or a super 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.600 intelligent empire of corvids. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.920 You know, I want to see those. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.720 I would be super in the crows that run the world. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.640 I don't know why that's supposed to be a caca 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:39.360 in the distance. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.560 Oh yeah, no, it worked, I heard it. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:46.080 Are we predictively programming the cor the corvids? 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:46.600 Yes? 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.760 So this is this is dangerous because with this perspective 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.640 right as a starting point, we can make two assumptions. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.480 We will say a pattern exists because we perceive it 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.960 to exist, and because we are the most important thing 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.640 in our experience, every pattern we perceive inherently in some 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:09.000 way applies to us. One thing that people don't like 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.320 to hear in general is that there's something big going 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.640 on and it has nothing to. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:13.960 Do with you. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.320 Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean that's why 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:22.480 so much scientific literature became so controversial. Charles Darwin when 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.880 he releases The Origin on the Origin Species in eighteen 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.600 fifty nine, he's saying, Oh, no, humans, you're not special, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.360 You're just you're part of a thing. We're part of 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.800 a pattern, part of a pattern that has existed long 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.400 before you and will continue long after you are dust. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.000 Yeah, and then you're like Yeah, whatever, Darwin, get out 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:48.119 of here, right, go back to looking at islands. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.480 Yeah, get back on the beagle. But that's the problem. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:58.120 And without delving too far into the weeds on this, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.640 it essentially means that you and I and Paul and 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:08.000 everyone we are neither neutral creators nor are we a 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.560 neutral audience, and we're at an impasse because if no 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:18.680 one's objective, then where's the truth? Ooh. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.960 Ultimately, oh man, this sounds like an even bigger episode. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.040 So all right, yeah, I'll buy what's going on. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.600 Just talking about the nature of truth. We touch on 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.840 it every once in a while when we get into 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.440 discussing sources of news, but when you really think about 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:42.480 it this way from that deep of a psychological perspective, Oh, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.200 makes the mind wander a bit. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:51.680 Yes, And we know that this pattern recognition can also 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.920 be used to make the mind wander because we're in 0:15:54.960 --> 0:16:01.960 addition to being endearingly self obsessed, we're all also big 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.880 fans of following rituals and cues and social mores. They 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.200 are more patterns to recognize, and we're easily swayed by 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:15.200 subtle changes and routine of form. There's a great there's 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.560 a great book called the Illuminatus trilogy, which I think 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.800 we've talked about before, and I just want to put 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.640 this in because it's one reference to this kind of 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:23.720 social hacking. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.360 That's where the Illuminati game finds its origins. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.400 By the way, Oh yeah, no way, really, that's cool. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:34.600 So this novel, which is incredibly incredibly long, presented as 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.000 a trilogy of smaller works. It depicts a number of 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.520 things in a rather convoluted plot. And we don't want 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.240 to spoil it for you, but there is one scene 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:51.240 in there where someone changes or adds to the signs 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.880 at this department store, a relatively high end department store 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.600 that has something like, you know, the kind of thing 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.760 you would read outside of a fitting room, like wait 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.920 for an intendant to help you or something. The addition 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.840 they make is they just put no spitting. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:09.439 Oh okay, so well, I mean, nobody wants to do 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.520 that anyway, we only spit. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.520 No one should be But the hack about it, the 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.840 subtle change in that form, makes people think this is 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:22.600 a place of a much lower socioeconomic class. This is 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.159 a place where people are just spitting on the floor, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.920 you know, like a roadhouse in a movie. Oh wow, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.240 this was a work of fiction. But this kind of 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.520 stuff can work, and can work really well. This also 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.920 goes into the nature of propaganda. But the question is 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.439 how far does this sort of stuff go. Could some 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:48.879 groups or groups really be normalizing future events through the 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.440 lens of mass media and fiction, And if so. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.680 Why, Yeah, why We're going to talk about that right 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.240 after a quick word from our sponsor. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.240 Here's where it gets crazy. Alan Watt described predictive programming 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.879 as a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.679 media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.679 be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.000 are put through, the public will already be familiarized with 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.760 them and will accept them as natural progressions, thus lessening 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.280 possible public resistance and commotion. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.240 When I hear the words of Alan Wad, I always 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.359 feel that there is truth there. It just sounds like 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.280 there is Again, it's about how he writes and how 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:51.080 he how he spoke. But what I'm hearing here is 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.520 something that I've heard for a long time about the 0:18:54.680 --> 0:19:02.119 concept of aliens and the concept that movies and television 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.800 and novels for decades and decades have been prepping humans 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:14.720 to accept that aliens have invaded or to accept alien 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.600 races from other planets, extraterrestrials to being a part of 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:23.560 our world. And again, when you put it in that way, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:30.439 our leaders subtly psychologically conditioning us. I don't know. It 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:31.840 almost sounds like it could be real. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:34.879 Yeah you think so. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.640 I love it sounds like it because of the way 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:38.480 he writes, I'm telling you. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.720 I think you're bringing up a really crucial point here, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:49.320 one of the primary examples of predicted programming that the 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.320 advocates of this belief point out is almost always going 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.160 to be extraterrestrials, right, like a slow, decade long preparation 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:02.320 for disclosure. Hey, guys, Spielberg was right, aliens are around. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.359 We thought the best way to tell you instead of 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.480 just ripping the band aid off, we thought we would 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.640 tell you over over like sixty years, get used to it, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:15.000 get you know, settle in, settle in to this tub 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:16.520 of weirdness slowly. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.399 Well, yeah, that way the reaction is, you know, less 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:27.600 oh my god, ah, and it's more like, oh wow, cool. 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.439 I think that's the whole point. If you believe this 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:31.960 to be here. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.000 And there are millions of people waiting to go I 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.600 knew it, Yes, I knew it the whole time. So 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.160 what are some other examples of this? 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.200 Oh? There are so stink in many of these. Okay, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.400 let's start with the top one of this one. Ben, 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.200 you put in the outline first. But this is the 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.000 one that I thought about when we even said the 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.399 phrase predictive programming. And it's the pilot episode of The 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.920 Lone Gunman, which you know, if you were an ext 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.359 Files fan, you know who the Loan Gunmen are. You 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.679 watched The Loan Gunman when it came out as a 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:09.960 spin off and it was awesome. But in the pilot episode, 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.640 it features as part of the plot and an attempted 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.640 bombing or destruction at least of the World Trade Center, 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:24.719 the Twin Towers, and specifically, it was a hijacked commercial 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.359 airliner that would be flown into the World Trade Center, 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.439 and it was a false flag attack by this rogue 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:37.200 group of government officials. And you know, since that came 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.880 out before the September eleventh, two thousand and one attacks, 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:47.640 this is looked at as WHOA, these guys knew something, right, 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.800 they put it out there. They're trying to warn us 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:52.960 that this was going to happen, and a lot of 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.960 the speaking about it early early on when it occurred 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:00.600 was it was a warning rather than a predict programming 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.080 getting you used to it. It was like somebody's trying 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.480 to tell us that this is going to happen. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:10.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And this is, as you said, an 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:15.600 incredibly prevalent example. It gets brought up continually, but it's 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.960 not the only example, right. Oh No, there was one 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:23.960 that we found referencing the film The Dark Knight Rises 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.280 by Christopher Nolan. There's a map in The Dark Knight 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:30.679 Rises that has a location marked Sandy Hook. 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:36.919 Yes, Commissioner Gordon's going over the attack plan for you know, 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.000 going in. It's the scene right before they actually go 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:44.080 into the stadium for one of the big climactic scenes. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:48.440 There spoiler alert for The Dark Knight Rises. But yeah, 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.840 there's a map and it does say Sandy Hook. 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.960 On it, so that one's not near his persuasive though, 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:57.760 because Sandy Hook is a place. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:01.520 Yes, yes, And why it's weird because it says strike 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:05.040 zone one and it came you know usually what this 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:08.200 has to do with our release dates. We have proximity 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.880 of release dates being before you know, and let's say 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:17.560 some given time frame year or two or even months. Sometimes. 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:22.760 Yeah, again that's the nature of the perception. Yes, right, 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:28.400 we found the pattern. And another example would be Family Guy, 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.840 and a Family Guy is replete with cutaway jokes and 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.960 tangents that don't really go anywhere. It's just a it's 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:42.000 a quick bit. But there's an episode or a gag 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:45.680 in a Family Guy episode rather that concerns the Boston Marathon. 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:51.440 Yeah, it's an episode called Turban Cowboy that came out 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.840 and there's a scene in it, or let's let's say 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:57.880 a scene a breakaway, a cutaway sure to a quick 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.840 thing where Peter Griffin wins the b Boston Marathon by 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:03.760 driving his car through all of the other competitors and 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:06.679 kills a whole bunch of people. And then later on 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:09.200 in the episode. You might know this just from the 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:12.320 or you might glean it from the title Turbine Cowboy, 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:17.359 Peter accidentally joins up with a terrorist cell and he 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:21.359 uses a cell phone to call his buddy Mahmoud and 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:25.080 ends up setting off two bombs because he's using the 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:26.000 cell phone or whatever. 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:29.400 You can also tell that Family Guy has an ongoing 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:30.760 tendency to be pretty. 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:36.120 Racist, racist and you know, yeah, they at least push 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.320 the boundaries. Let's say they push the boundaries creatively there. 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:46.120 Right, right, And this example, of course makes people believe 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:53.000 in predictive programming, think they were somehow depicting the later 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:57.359 disasters that would happen at the Boston Marathon. Yes, there's 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:02.520 another example with the movie Knowing, right that you had 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.960 mentioned the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe at the top of the episode. 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:08.280