WEBVTT - What is Predictive Programming? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.680 From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.080 riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:24.560 learn the stuff they don't want you to know. M Hello, 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.720 welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. They 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.440 called me Ben. We are joined with our super producer, 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:35.199 Paul the Paul the Predictor decond. Okay, we got a shrug. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.120 We're joining with Paul the Predictor deck end. Most importantly, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.000 you are you, and you are here, and that makes 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.080 this stuff they don't want you to know. We predict 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.040 you will find this episode fascinating. Oh yeah, we can 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.080 already tell this is going to be your favorite episode 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.560 that's come out in a long time. We've already read 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.880 some of your emails. Thank you for those. It's really 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.800 kind what you said about this episode. We and um, 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.840 you know, we look forward to your next ones, right, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.559 both represented in fiction and in real life. I don't 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.880 know if we can continue this this trope for the 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.160 whole show man, What do you think we're just being silly, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.440 We're just we're just having a goof Do people still 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.800 say that having a goof? Of? Course? Great? Because if not, 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:29.080 we're bringing it back. This episode is about somewhat of 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:34.679 a meta conspiracy, a conspiracy about conspiracies, for lack of 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.200 a better term, or a technique that has attributed to 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:44.280 a lot of specific theories. And oddly enough, there's a 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.240 very strong basis in truth in this, which I think 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.640 surprised both of us. There is a little bit of 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:56.160 truth in a way, but it's um, yeah, it's one 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.680 of those things where it's so prevalent. This what we're 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.960 speaking about today. Just say what it is a predictive 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.880 programming and it's so prevalent on the Internet when anything occurs. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:12.160 There is so much media that exists and so many 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:17.000 things happening that when you find the little connective tissues, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.679 there's always that Eureka moment and it just happens all 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.320 the time. Now maybe, yeah, maybe we get into this 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:29.440 too with an anecdote. Several years ago, you and I 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:35.919 made a video about the Illuminati card game. Yes, yes, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.960 and in the Illuminati Card Game, uh, there are there 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.240 are certain cards that people who believe in predictive programming 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.679 have pointed to as evidence of this practice. I think 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.280 specifically the Twin Towers. The Twin Towers was one about 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.960 a terrorist attack. There were so many though Deep Water 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:00.639 Horizon from was one and again in that video. Oh, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.680 I guess do we want to spoil any of that 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.000 right now? About kind of what we found out about 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.080 the card game? Oh yeah, go ahead, laid up. Okay. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.640 So there have been so many versions of that card 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.359 game over the years. The cards have shifted and changed 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.800 a little bit, the artwork has been altered. Exactly what 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.320 stated on the cards has been altered. And then when 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.639 you're online and you have people posting images about you know, here, 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.960 look at this card from this game that came out 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:32.240 in nineties something. Uh, you know, it predicted the World 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.800 Trade Center because of this card when an actuality that 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:40.320 card was referring to the original World Trade Center bombing 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.000 which occurred in the nineties, and then and or it 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:49.080 was changed now because of other you know, circumstances, things 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.520 that actually occurred in the real world after it was 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.400 put out. It's just interesting how things shift over time, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.200 and when it's posted on the internet, it could be 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.040 from any time throughout the span of cards history. Oh, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.400 we should also point out that it's a fun game game. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.200 I I was so happy because you introduced me to it, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.760 and I'm going to owe you for that one. Also, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.920 I was thinking, should we play that game with with 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.120 with you friends and neighbors if we ever run into 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.960 each other in real life? Or Matt, should you and 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.680 Paul and Nolan I make a game of our own? 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.039 We could. We can make a game of our own. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.600 We could live stream it. Stuff they don't want you 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.599 to play. I don't know, I don't know. We'll we'll 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.920 put a pen in that. But but yeah, So that's 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.560 a that's a great example of an allegation of predictive programming. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.360 Here's what we mean specifically when we say there's a 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.200 basis in truth. In decades past, the US government would 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.039 assemble groups of people to help them predict the direction 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:57.400 of future technological breakthroughs. And they consulted scientists and technocrats, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.880 but they also asked science fiction wighters to join in 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.040 this think tankery. And several of these writers, it turns out, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.159 had already successfully predicted the broad strokes of a certain 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.400 aspect of technological progress or social changes, and they had 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.680 depicted these events in works of fiction. Yeah, and for 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.120 a lot of people, this is just it speaks to 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.160 the human imagination. What can what images and ideas can 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.520 we conjure in our heads before it becomes reality, and um, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.640 it's really honestly, it's it's inspiring and our species ability 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.880 to dream beyond the limits of this moment of what's 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.680 occurring right now and things that I can possibly do 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.720 today to what I could do in the future because 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.320 of X. I mean, that's incredible. That's what separates us. Well, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:48.680 there are a lot of things that separate us, but 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.920 that's one of the major things that separates us from 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.440 other mammals. You're giving me chills. That is inspiring, especially 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.400 the way you put it there. It is. It is 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.880 one of the primary separations. But it's not all like 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.920 angel farts and trumpets in the sky. You know. There 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.239 there's a dark side that people see here because for others, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.640 this story of sci fi collaboration is only scratching the surface. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.520 It's a relatively benign example of a much more widespread 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.520 and according to them, sinister practice. Fringe researchers across the 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.120 US and the globe believe that nefarious, hidden groups are 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.760 guiding the public through the use of this predictive programming. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.280 So let's look at the facts. When we look at 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.159 the idea of fiction, whether an Illuminati game or a 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:42.360 film depicting actual events in the future. We see two 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.920 fundamental factors of play immediately. Yeah. The first is what 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.039 the creators are trying to do. It's it's not a 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.800 secret that people who write screenplays and write books, of 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:59.680 directors of television and movie, they often are attempting to 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.200 depict what they think the future is going to look like, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.400 what might happen in the future. If you think about 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:12.160 the novel or Brave New World, these are two cautionary 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.960 tales very different from each other and also quite similar. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.840 Um they're they're meant to educate as much as they're 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.800 meant to warn and entertain. There they function on a 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.240 whole lot of levels. Yeah. Yeah, Four is one of 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.960 those books that, even after having read it multiple times, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.920 I still don't know if I would say I'm entertained 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.640 by it, you know what I mean? Sure, it definitely 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.920 airs more on the cautionary tale side, but you're you're 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.520 absolutely right. I think that's such a great point. These 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.480 authors and these creators are not working in a vacuum. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.240 They are attempting to enact some sort of change in 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.760 the world, whether it's just making the world one story better, 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.720 or one story richer or whatever we want to say 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.840 about or as in the case of a brave, brave 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:08.840 New World, it's the question of dufftow entertained too much? Yes, yes, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:14.840 and these authors could also depict something more aspirational, like 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.600 what the future of humanity could be if we ever, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.200 you know, get our collective business together. I'm talking about 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.960 Star Trek. I'm talking about Star Trek, Matt Man. Star 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.960 Trek tng was the thing they like made me go, okay, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.960 we're gonna be okay. The future is going to be 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.439 an amazing place. I can't wait to get there. Right, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:40.280 it's a it's a post scarcity economy, right, there's there's 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.959 not income inequality, and the species spends its time exploring 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:51.240 strange new worlds and attempting to enrich their knowledge of 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.360 the galaxy and the beautiful universe in which we live. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.640 Also having more or less constant war or uneasy truces 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.559 with various alien and hires. Probably a story for a 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.920 different episode, but yeah, Star Trek aspirational. Imagine what we 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.679 could be exactly, and then you could even have a holidack. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:14.240 I mean, come on, that's what it was for, you know. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.319 It was it was the big picture stuff. I hated 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.199 the holiday episodes. Yeah, you know, I always felt like 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.520 I was getting tricked. I felt, you know, this is 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.040 just my opinion, one person's opinion, and I would love 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.960 to hear everybody else's opinion on this. I felt it 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:36.120 felt as if the actors were pushing this on the 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.920 writers and the producers and saying, well, you know, I've 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:46.000 I've done some Shakespeare before. You're talking specifically about El Capitan, right, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.240 I don't know, I don't you know, I don't know 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.280 who it was. I feel like I have suspicions, but 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.360 I can't pin it on any single actor. And maybe 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.880 it was just maybe it just felt like a bait 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.680 and switch. Yeah, it's a I think it's a writing 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.360 device that the people in the writer's room can go, Wow, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.839 we've been stuck on this enterprise for a long time 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:13.079 in all these episodes. Let's let's do a Western. Yeah. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.200 It could be that. It could also be something, as 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.319 you know, these are big machines. Every television show is 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.960 a huge machine of its own, So it could have 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:25.000 been something behind the scenes where they said, okay, look 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.800 we have this leftover set for show that didn't get used. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.720 We have to use it. And sorry, Star trek TNG, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.320 you drew the short straw this time. So writer's room, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.320 chop chop uh something something with the Holida deck or 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.480 maybe this sets about to get torn down. Hey, writer's 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.960 let's find a way to use it quick. We we 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.840 have spent a lot of time thinking about thinking about this. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.760 You know, I bet someone out there has a has 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.240 the real scoop the street poop, as we might say 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.760 on on the the origin of those Hollow Deck episodes. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.240 But there is another thing that comes into play when 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:13.200 we consider this idea of fiction purposefully predicting actual events 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.160 in the future, usually bad ones, and that is the 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:22.040 dangerous deceptive traits of the human mind. Yeah, it's not 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.960 just the people creating the fiction and the entertainment. It's 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.360 the people who are consuming it, actively watching and hearing it. Right. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.840 And there's this assumption that is so prevalent in the 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:39.760 past and today that goes like this, Someone watching a 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.040 film or reading a book, even to a lesser degree, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:49.000 is passively experiencing the vision or the creation that the 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:54.800 author made or the director made, or whoever. But in actuality, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:12:02.560 all audience members are collaborators. Whether it's a piece of 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.040 art like a sculpture, whether it's a television show, whether 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.400 it's a book. We are helping to create the story 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:15.760 by the mere act of observing and interpreting it. What 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.800 what this all means is that people are really self 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:24.440 obsessed pathologically, And don't beat yourself up. And if you 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.720 feel like this is an unfair characterization, or if you 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.600 feel bad and you think, oh, I'm a little bit narcissistic, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:36.240 because everybody is. Everybody is, and where all the main 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.120 characters of our own stories, the center of our individual 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.280 universe is the protagonist around which this great world swings. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:48.000 In addition to this, we're also fantastically talented analyzers and 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.880 pattern recognizers. It's one of the reasons our species runs 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.400 so much of the planet rather than say an octopus 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:01.120 race or a super intelligent empire of corvids. You know, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.760 I want to see those. I would be super in 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.280 the crows that run the world. I don't know why 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.360 that's supposed to be a coca in the distance? It worked, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:19.240 I heard it. Are we predictively programming? Yes? So this 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.240 is this is dangerous because with this perspective right as 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.439 a starting point, we can make two assumptions. We will 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.080 say a pattern exists because we perceive it to exist, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.880 and because we are the most important thing in our experience. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.920 Every pattern we perceive inherently in some way applies to us. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.280 One thing that people don't like to hear in general 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.040 is that there's something big going on and it has 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.160 nothing to do with you. Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.640 I mean that's why so much scientific literature became so controversial. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.440 Charles Darwin when he releases The Origin on the Origin 0:13:55.480 --> 0:14:00.679 of Species in eighteen fifty nine, he's saying, Oh, no, humans, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.520 you're not special, You're just you're You're part of a thing. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.600 We're part of a pattern, part of a pattern that 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.440 has existed long before you and will continue long after 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.520 you are dust. Yeah, And you're like, yeah, whatever, Darwin, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:20.720 Get out of here, right, go back to looking at islands. Yeah, 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.440 get back on the beagle. But that's the that's the problem. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:29.040 And without delving too far into the weeds on this, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.560 it essentially means that you and i' and Paul and 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.680 everyone we're we are neither neutral creators nor are we 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:43.240 a neutral audience. And we're at an impasse because if 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:51.000 no one's objective, then where's the truth? Ultimately? Oh man, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:56.680 this sounds like an even bigger episode. So all right, yeah, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.160 I'll buy what's going on. Just talking about the nature 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.600 of truth. We touch on it every once in a 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.880 while when we get into discussing sources of news, but 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.960 when you really think about it this way, from from 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:15.160 that deep of a psychological perspective, who makes the mind 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:20.160 wander a bit? Yes, And we know that this pattern 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.440 recognition can also be used to make the mind wander 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:30.280 because we're, in addition to being um endearingly self obsessed, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:35.680 we are also big fans of following rituals and cues 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.480 and social worries. The more patterns to recognize, and we're 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:45.120 easily swayed by subtle changes in routine or form. There's 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.080 a great there's a great book called The Illuminatous Trilogy, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.240 which I think we've talked about before, and I just 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.120 want to put this in because it's one reference to 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.360 this kind of social hacking. That's where the Illuminati game 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.240 finds its origins. By the way, Oh yeah, no way, really, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.760 that's cool. So this novel, which is incredibly incredibly long, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.720 presented as as a trilogy of smaller works. It depicts 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.000 a number of things and rather convoluted plot, and we 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.600 don't want to spoil it for you, but there is 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:20.800 one scene in there where someone changes or adds to 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.920 the signs at this department store, a relatively high end 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.360 department store that has something like, you know, the kind 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.280 of thing you would read outside of a fitting room, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.320 like wait for an intendant to help you or something. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.440 The addition they make is they just put no spitting. Okay, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.920 so well, I mean, nobody wants to do that anyway 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.560 we want to spit, No one should be. But the 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.640 hack about it, the subtle change in that form, makes 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.080 people think this is a place of a much lower 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.760 socio economic class. This is a place where people are 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.400 just spitting on the floor, you know, like a roadhouse 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.120 in a movie. This was a work of fiction, but 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.880 this kind of stuff can work, and can work really well. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.320 This also goes into the nature of propaganda. But the 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.600 question is how how far does this sort of stuff go? 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:19.080 Could some groups or groups really be normalizing future events 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:25.960 through the lens of mass media and fiction, And if so, why, yeah, why, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.160 We're going to talk about that right after a quick 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:37.960 word from our sponsor. Here's where it gets crazy. Alan 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.880 Watt described predictive programming as a subtle form of psychological 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.440 conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.680 planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.000 and when these changes are put through, the public will 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.919 already be familiarized with them and will accept them as 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:04.960 natural progressions, thus lessening possible public resistance and commotion. When 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.200 I when I hear the words of Alan Wad, I 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.800 always feel that there is truth there. It just sounds 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.159 like there is Again, it's about how he writes h 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.840 and how he how he how he spoke. But what 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.199 I'm hearing here is something that I've heard for a 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:28.960 long time about the concept of aliens and the concept 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:34.680 that movies and television and novels for decades and decades 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:42.080 have been prepping humans to to accept that aliens have 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:47.880 invaded or to accept alien races from other planets, extraterrestrials 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.200 to being a part of our world. And um, and again, 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.920 when you put it in that way, our leaders subtly 0:18:56.040 --> 0:19:01.600 psychologically conditioning us. UM. I don't know. It almost sounds 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:06.199 like it could be real. Yeah you think so. I 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:11.320 I love that it sounds like I think you're bringing 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:17.040 up a really crucial point here. One of the primary 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.080 examples of predictive programming that the advocates of this belief 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.840 point out is almost always going to be extraterrestrial stuff, right, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.320 like a slow, decade long preparation for disclosure. Hey guys, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:34.040 Spielberg was right, aliens are around. We thought the best 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.720 way to tell you instead of just ripping the mand 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.680 aid off, we we thought we would tell you over 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.840 over like sixty years. Get used to it, get you know, 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.560 settle in, settle into this tub of weirdness slowly. Well yeah, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.120 that way the reaction is um, you know less, oh 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:59.600 my god, and it's more like, oh wow, cool. I 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.040 think I think that's the whole point. If you believe this. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.640 To be sure, millions of people waiting to go I 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.200 knew it. Yes, we knew it the whole time. So 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.160 what are some other examples of this? Oh? There are 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.520 so stink and many of these. Okay, let's start with 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.720 the top one of this one. Ben, you put in 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.800 the outline first. But this is the one that I 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.960 thought about when we even said the phrase predicted programming, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.600 And it's the pilot episode of The Lone Gunman, which 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.600 you know, if you were an X Files fan, you 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.840 know who the Lone Gunmen are. You watched The Lone 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.440 Gunman when it came out as a spinoff and it 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:41.760 was awesome. Uh. But in the pilot episode it features 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.200 as part of the plot and an attempted bombing or 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.080 destruction at least of the World Trade Center, the Twin Towers, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:57.080 and specifically it was hijacked commercial airliner that would be 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.680 flown into the World Trade Center, and it was a 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.480 false flag attack by you know, this rogue group of 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:08.520 government officials. And you know, since that came out before 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.840 the September eleven, two thousand one attacks, this is looked 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:19.240 at as whoa, these guys knew something, right, they put 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.679 it out there. They're trying to warn us that this 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.080 was going to happen. And a lot of the speaking 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.240 about it early early on when it occurred was it 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.120 was a warning rather than a um a predictive program 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.320 and getting you used to it, it was like somebody 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.600 is trying to tell us that this is going to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:43.560 And this is, as you said, incredibly prevalent example. It 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.560 gets brought up continually, but it's not the only example right. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:53.040 Oh no, there was one that we found referencing the 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.560 film The Dark Knight Rises by Christopher Nolan. There's a 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.520 map in The Dark Knight Rises that has a location 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:05.280 mark Sandy Hook. Yes, Commissioner Gordon's going over the attack 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:09.280 plan for you know, going in. It's it's the scene 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:13.199 right before they actually go into the stadium for one 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.320 of the big climactic scenes. There spoiler alert for The 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.919 Dark Knight Rises. But yeah, there's a map and it 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.159 does say Sandy Hook on it, so that one is 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:29.760 not nearest persuasive though, because Sandy Hook is a place. Yes. Yes, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.440 the reason why it's weird because it says strike Zone 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.800 one and it came you know. Usually what this has 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.879 to do with our release dates. We have proximity of 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:42.679 release dates being before you know, and let's say some 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:47.439 given time frame a year or two or even months. 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:53.439 Sometimes again that's the nature of the perception. Yes, we 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:58.880 found the pattern. And another example would be Family Guy. 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:04.359 A Family Guy is replete with cutaway jokes and tangents 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:07.560 that don't really go anywhere. It's just a it's a 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:12.840 quick bit. But there's an episode or a gag in 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:16.720 a Family Guy episode rather that concerns the Boston Marathon. Yeah, 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:21.640 it's an episode called Turban Cowboy that that came out, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.400 and there's a scene in it, or let's let's say 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.440 it a scene or breakaway, a cutaway to a quick 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.760 thing where Peter Griffin wins the Boston Marathon by driving 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.000 his car through all of the other competitors and kills 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:37.399 a whole bunch of people. And then later on in 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.520 the episode you might know this just from the or 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:43.760 you might glean it from the title Turban Cowboy, Peter 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:48.399 accidentally joins up with a terrorist cell and he uses 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.959 a cell phone to call his buddy moch Mood and 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.639 ends up setting off two bombs because he's using the 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.320 cell phone or whatever. You can also tell that family 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:03.360 guy has an ongoing tendency to be pretty racist racist, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.240 and you know, yeah, they at least push the boundaries. 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:11.440 Let's say they push the boundaries creatively there right right, 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:16.800 And this, this example, of course, makes people believe in 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:24.320 predictive programming, think they were somehow depicting the later disasters 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:28.359 that would happen at the Boston Marathon. Yes, there's another 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:33.040 example with the movie knowing right that that you have 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:36.960 mentioned the Deep Water Horizon catastrophe at the top of 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.480 the episode. Knowing has something to do with this. Yeah, 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:42.720 So if you have not seen Knowing, it's a two 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:46.959 thousand nine Nick Cage movie, and it's all based on 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:52.000 predictive programming essentially, or a different version of predictive programming 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:57.280 UM numbers and codes hidden amongst things that mean other 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:02.000 things and predict the future h in in that movie. 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.920 Right in the opening scene, Nicholas Cage is watching television 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.200 and on the news comes this image and a news 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.840 story about an oil rig that's on fire in the 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:16.480 Gulf of Mexico. And again, this is a two thousand 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:21.240 nine movie. A year later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurs, 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:24.160 where an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:29.080 and I think eleven people were missing immediately when it occurred. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.919 And if you were watching television at the time, immediately 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:37.000 when the news footage came out, it looks crazy similar 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.639 to the footage that's shown in the movie Knowing that 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:45.919 you might have seen. Okay, so this footage is just 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:48.199 is it a crucial part of the film or is 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.520 it something that just happens in the film. It's something 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.639 that happens within the first few moments, and it's literally 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.439 a television that's being shown. You know, the camera is 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.639 shooting a television showing the news. So it's not a 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:03.879 massive thing. It's just giving you kind of current events 0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:07.200 setting up the story. Because all it is you could understand. 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:11.879 I could totally understand though, how somebody would be I 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:14.399 would see that in theaters and then see the evening 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.399 news later if they caught a matinee or something like that. 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:21.439 That's disturbing. Yeah, your your perspective is now Nicholas Cages 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:24.240 sitting on the couch or whatever watching the television that 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:28.960 you watched Nick Cage watch. I mean, I could you know, 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:31.960 I could see where that would be at least creepy 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:37.159 to people. Yeah. Absolutely. Oh but the you know, we 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:41.160 talked about Family Guy, but the granddaddy of Family Guy, 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:46.080 the Simpsons. They have an incredible track record of predicting 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:50.480