The Psychic Cold War: Countermeasures
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It's true: multiple world governments have, at one point or another, experimented with the possibility of psychic powers. These investigations were always considered controversial... but the possibility of discovering something real was just too important to pass up. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel respond to a question from an earlier listener mail segment: If governments did discover psychic powers, what countermeasures would they deploy to defend themselves from these same capabilities?
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:07.0 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of I-Heart Radio. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. |
| 0:28.0 | They call me Ben. We are joined as always with our super producer Dylan the Tennessee |
| 0:33.3 | pal Fagan most importantly you are you you are here that makes this the stuff they |
| 0:39.5 | don't want you to know we're gonna do something a little different this evening. We got that big Friday energy, that BFE, and we wanted to do a thought experiment. I think it's fair to say that we as well like all of us recording this evening all of us listening at home |
| 0:56.7 | We're all fans of the idea of psychic powers right that'd be cool |
| 1:02.4 | Absolutely I mean I think some of us would go so far as to say it's likely in the world to some degree. |
| 1:09.6 | It's a, what do you call it, a spectrum. I think that exists in terms of at least this is where I |
| 1:15.0 | land on it that the human mind is capable of beyond maybe the the stuff that's on the label |
| 1:21.0 | well I I think about the world's fascination |
| 1:25.3 | with psychic powers, and immediately to mind |
| 1:29.5 | comes stranger things. |
| 1:31.3 | And think about the popularity of that show, and that was 2016 or maybe 2017, I don't know. |
| 1:38.0 | It was a while ago, right? But just how popular that show became and you could argue all these reasons of why the show is popular and the nostalgia and all that stuff. |
| 1:47.0 | I think at the heart of it is this like nebulous psychic powers thing that you get to discover when you watch that show. |
| 1:55.0 | Right. Similar to Firestarter, the excellent novel by Stephen King, which is clearly a precedent for stranger things. |
| 2:02.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 2:03.0 | Yeah, and also being just like even back to the X-Men and folks like Professor and Xavier who are essentially |
| 2:09.2 | a psychic weapon that is on the side of the United States and he has like cerebro's giant super computer |
| 2:15.8 | that he can manipulate and control matter and honestly my favorite depiction of that kind of stuff |
| 2:21.6 | that is Professor X adjacent is Legion, the show on FX, which is like about literally trying to keep these psychic weapons under wraps and keep them from like exploding you know yes and that mythology is great because he is Charles Xavier's son |
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