Project STARGATE: Did the CIA's Declassified Psychic Experiments Actually Work?

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[@decodingtheunknown2373]

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[@RHCole]

Do an episode on Tommy Wisseu.

[@tristananderson8608]

Yes!

[@Nyan_Kitty]

Vessi EU when

[@fm9572]

Tell Vessi to make some shoes for grown ass men like me. I was wearing American 13ee by the time I was 12 years old. I currently wear 13-14ee and they don't have anything close.

[@jessovenden]

That professor of statistics proved just one thing. In IT we used to call it GIGO. Garbage in, garbage out.

[@martinh2783]

Dear editor. Can you please keep the voice track at the same volume through the video and lower the background music. I have a really hard time hearing what Simon is saying halv of the time.

[@oplawlz]

the audio balance has been a little off lately

[@Fafahrd]

Yes, Please!

[@gamerjaqi7873]

Same the music is too loud.

[@alyssam8550]

Yes, the bell ringing music especially is always very distracting on this channel.

[@brianmeadows3806]

I watch these videos with my autistic girlfriend and she has recently had a difficult time watching because the music and voice being at similar levels is too overstimulating for hsr

[@kpturn42]

How in the world did Simon make it through an hour-long episode called Project Stargate without mentioning SG-1 a SINGLE time 😂😂😂

[@dfuher968]

Well, its Simon. We have to grapple with the distinct possibility, that Simon has completely missed the Stargate movie and all the Stargate series, even SG-1, hard as it is to cope with such ignorance!

[@KN-mp6me]

he has talked about stargate multiple times in his vids@@dfuher968

[@afroteddybear]

Yup, Simon is consistent in avoiding a masse of Pop Culture, purely because he is either busy or disinterested.

[@henrychurch6062]

In Simon's dimension it was aired as WormHole X-TREME! (Or he's just repressed it all because of the trauma of StarGate Infinity)

[@SLorraineE]

I love how he is really into Star Trek but no other media ever

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

I remember talking to some college housemate about the book "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain" back in the early 1980s. One scoffed, 'The Soviets will always be better than us at science that doesn't work.' If he had only known. . .

[@user-ip5qm7zm1q]

What’s even more fun is the CIA funded “Men who Stare At Goats” where a group of men were instructed to sit and stare at a goat while thinking about killing it. It was also based on reports of Communists doing it to see if they could remote kill. This is a totally separate “study” from the plot of the movie by the same name.

[@Horvath_Gabor]

Oh, that one is a whole different rabbit hole, with the First Earth Battalion and new age psychedelics and all kinds of other zany crap. It's both fascinating and depressing.

[@sallyintucson]

Crazy movie

[@juliejanesmith57]

Tell me you just watched a George Clooney movie and think you know something without…. BLAH BLAH. BLAH.

[@Hollylivengood]

That WAS the star gate group. Men Who Stare At Goats was just the name of the movie, which was the funniest movie I'd seen in a while, by the way. But it was based on the crazy CIA Stargate thing.

[@Horvath_Gabor]

​@@Hollylivengood Technically true, but not quite. There was overlap, but it was a different set of people, and the movie was based on the book of the same name written by one of them. Stargate was more "alphabet soup agents get repeatedly fooled by parlor tricks and a poor understanding of statistical significance", while the First Earth Battalion was more of a "cult of hippies high as a fleet of kites get a blank check to prove their crazy claims are true, and fail comically".

[@guldlok]

Hey Simon and whoever edits these (Jen?) This is a truly great show, one of my favorites, but lately there's been a problem with the background music been so loud that I can barely hear Simon. it's worst on Spotify, but even here on KZbin it can sometimes be near impossible to hear what Simon is saying.

[@joshfairchild]

Nadine edits this channel. Audio has only been an issue for the last few episodes. 😕

[@thepartysjustbegun5557]

I agree, this channel is great, but the repetitive background music drowning out Simon is beyond annoying 🙄

[@seangleason260]

The music when simon goes off and gets sidetracked is so fitting and perfect

[@Playingwith3D]

I predate cell phones and smartphones. When a call would happen after 10 pm at night it was because a relative died or someone needs to be rescued from the biker bar they shouldn't have ever gone to. Either one, the ring of the phone caused anxiety.

[@InfiniteAnvil]

There was also the rare third option: the caller was out of their usual timezone and miscalculated their new offset.

[@mandywagner2460]

that joke was popular in the US in the 90s when I was a kid, but as a blonde joke. We had no idea about beckham until he became Posh Spice's husband.

[@LokiBJH]

Same for me. I heard it as a blonde joke in middle school.

[@Shizznad]

Oh Simon, if only you knew. My little brother and sister both had heart transplants, every phone call would make my heart sink when my dad would call. Always fearing to hear the worst but instead being invited to dinner lol

[@vic5015]

I always figured that, for the loved ones of people awaiting a heart transplant, there *have* to be moments where you realize exactly what you're hoping for. And thst can't be easy. Especially if it's a heart for a child.

[@KryssLaBryn]

One of my kids' schools would start every phone call with "Hi, this is [secretary] from [school]; Kiddo is fine. I'm calling about..." and I appreciated it SO MUCH! Especially when they're little, your heart just sinks every time you see a call from the school in the middle of the day...

[@Shizznad]

@@KryssLaBryn yeah I had a sit down with my dad saying that he needs to let me know before hand that nothing is wrong otherwise I am going to have crippling anxiety

[@drgreen7563]

Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) is a computerized safety technology present in most modern cars. It is designed to improve a vehicle’s stability by detecting and reducing loss of traction, thus preventing the tyres from skidding uncontrollably. When the stability control programme detects a loss of steering control, it automatically applies individual brakes to help ‘steer’ the vehicle where the driver intended it to go.

[@TurkeyXIII]

The button on your dashboard is so you can turn it off to do burnouts.

[@Drakehilt]

The portion on the tuition assistance, that's specifically for military members to take classes while still in the service. Covers a decent amount of classes per year, which is all you'll really have time for because you are taking those classes while still working 60-120 hours per week. You use the TA system while still in the service to get some classes done, then you use you GI bill (which is an entirely different fund) to get the rest of your degree

[@laner.845]

But careful, because if you reach the bare minimum credits to graduate, they'll cut off your funding mid-semester even if you're in the middle of classes that are very much needed for your degree. I got kicked out of grad school early in the semester I was supposed to graduate because the VA decided I had "enough credits" regardless of the actual COURSES I had taken. I desperately needed the course in transportation meteorology because I was supposed to be going off to do aviation meteorology as a career and that was kiiiiind of the most important class in my program for my plans. I had to come up with all the cash to pay for the rest of my lease despite not even living there because I had to get a job early and move and ended up paying two leases for three months. So I ended up with like $16k in student loans despite the GI bill paying for some of the courses. Throughout my three years in grad school, I had to pay all the out of state fees, lab fees, books, and rent for months I wasn't in school the whole month because the asshole VA pro-rates the monthly stipend based on the number of days you have class each month. It's the biggest load of horse shit and no one should expect to be able to afford a degree anymore even WITH the GI Bill.

[@SkunkApe407]

You can use your GI Bill while still enlisted. I did when my ship went into dry dock for two years. That's how I got my first degree in Geomatics.

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@laner.845sounds to me like you didn't listen to your ombudsman. They literally explain all of this.

[@beckrussell6358]

@@SkunkApe407to be fair, I never had this explained to me, so I don’t think it’s their fault for not knowing.

[@beckrussell6358]

I came from the podcast just to make sure somebody commented this!

[@carlgibson285]

The Men Who Stare At Goats is a great movie all about this subject and definitely worth watching if you've not seen it.

[@saydvoncripps]

I still stare at my friends and say 'sparkly eyes' when they say something weird.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:30 - Mid roll ads 4:40 - Back to the video 10:45 - Chapter 1 - Cognitrons in the matrix 21:50 - Chapter 2 - You would have thought so 28:50 - Chapter 3 - I see...a crane 32:10 - Chapter 4 - More hits & misses 39:55 - Chapter 5 - Academia steps in 47:10 - Chapter 6 - A long(ish) outro, the 2nd elephant PS: Where is the *Lightning Ball* episode ?

[@Downs-Indroam]

Thank you for doing God's work 😊

[@deltatango6793]

I feel that I am a very logical person-I majored in math during undergrad, and in grad school, I conducted research on the brain, retention, recall, and cognition… so, as logical as I tend to be, I do believe that there is enough information out there to support that our wildly powerful brains are far more capable than we will ever be able to articulate. The unconscious mind gathers nearly every detail, word, sound, body language, smell, facial expression… and just tucks it away. So I believe that there are people who are more in tune to these random collected pieces of seemingly useless information, thus allowing them to appear “psychic” because they are able to come to reasonable and oftentimes shockingly accurate conclusions.

[@kimberlyrogers9953]

Hullo brainiac 😊😊 I’m feeling gratified to read this..I’m one of those whose unconscious mind gathers and collects flotsam and jetsam continuously,enabling me to ‘know’ things and to ‘predict’ events with laser-focused accuracy.. 💃🏼💃🏼 I remember trying to explain to my sister one day how my ‘knowing’ wasn’t entirely..honest. Because I felt like it was a logical conclusion of the bits I had picked up, nothing mysterious about it. It was just parroting back what I’d learned As a young girl I felt like I had no real personality of my own. I say that only because it’s part and parcel of the gathering of bits n pieces, I think. Like, the skin of the chameleon is second nature to us…it’s how we are ABLE to absorb . By camouflage…! As a young woman, relationship troubles arose as my fellas felt I was “unreachable” . As a senior, I no longer care to wear the skin. I know at a glance what I need to know, because of practice I guess. My point is that I’m happy to hear another put into words how I feel, and also that I’ve come to learn that there IS more to it than Logic and Deduction…

[@raquellofstedt9713]

I noticed this with several of the kids I evaluated who had Neuropsychiatric problems. They were convinced (as were others around them ) that they were psychic. When I got to know thembetter, I found thy were simply very, very open to all sorts of information that most of us sort out and discard as irrelevant because it doesn´t reach a certain threshold required for it to register for a neuronormal person. The odd behavior of a neighbor´s dog, the responses and behaviors of another neighbor, and the schedule that takes non-dog owning neighbor past dog owning neighbor´s house, gets discarded by some, but starts triggering anxiety on a child who starts dreaming that the dog bites the neighbor. Then, suprise suprise. dog bites the non dog owning neighbor who for some reason has triggered the bite, and the only one who saw it coming is the child, who can´t screen out random signals. A psychic is born!

[@OzyMandias13]

​@@raquellofstedt9713 Some attributes are common among those with elevated levels of "magical thinking" outside of the normal age range (childhood).

[@hannahbbug3532]

You (and several others in this comment thread) might be interested in the work of psychologist Elaine Aron in her studies of "Highly Sensitive People." Despite the name "HSP" sounding like a new flavor of "ESP," I promise I'm not steering you into a rabbit hole here; it's all concrete psychological science! To explain it briefly, high sensitivity is defined as a personality trait affecting between 15-30% of the population and is characterized by higher activity in the mirror neurons of the brain, which respond to actions that we observe in others. Basically, HSPs are often highly empathetic people who are really good at observing and predicting behavioral patterns in others, which can lead some (like myself) to think of themselves as "psychic" in some way or another. (This was my perception of myself when I was younger, before I knew the actual science behind what the super awesome human brain can do without any sort of paranormal stuff being involved.) Besides Aron's book, there are a lot of videos out on youtube about HSPs, including at least one interesting TED talk - there might be more, I just haven't seen them myself! Might be a fun way to spend an afternoon sometime. And for others in the comment thread like @kimberlyrogers9953 it might be enlightening!

[@personzorz]

The information gathered very unlikely to have any connection to particulars of an apartment across the world

[@Varizen87]

Some clarification Simon. $4500 annually would absolutely cover tuition at MOST American schools in the 90s. It would NOT cover tuition at most America schools today. My BA in 2005 to 2009 money was $4000 a year doing in state tuition, living at home with my parents, working a weekend part time job. My MA 2 years later was $44,000 for 2 years, meanwhile… and the Ph.ds are free technically since your tuition is included because you are usually hired on to teach as part of the contract. I was paid $55,000 annually for my ph.d but half went to tuition, for a take home of $24,000 with 15,000 of that for apartment rent….. but… after food and other expenses I was still able to save some money back…. But I was lucky and not one of the grad students at UCSF that end up homeless.

[@CapnRaye]

Yeah that was my whole thought as he went off on that tangent. It would have covered everything then, it absolutely would not now.

[@joshuas3109]

You have to remember that these are soldiers attending 1-4 classes a year, not full time students.

[@Varizen87]

@@joshuas3109 that is a good point that part timer students pay less. They’re usually older or have jobs and the university isn’t trying to force them to live on campus to keep an eye on them from doing stupid stuff and forcing meals plans. Plus military students only have time for a few classes a year as you said.

[@BruceBoyde]

Finally, my daily DtU check was rewarded! It's been like a whole week, Simon! This channel could get a video every weekday and I would watch them all.

[@jackvos8047]

With the size of the Whistlerverse, there isn't enough time in the day for Simon to make daily DtU. If it's the format Simon uses here there's his other channels, if it's specifically DtU you're going to have to wait until viable cloning options become available so Simon can have an army of clones slaving away to make Daily episodes of all his channels while he sits back enjoying the sweet sweet cash they're making for him.

[@BruceBoyde]

@@jackvos8047 don't worry man, I watch literally everything he makes except for Casual Criminalist. I was just saying that this one is my favorite in a hyperbolic way is all.

[@SWANSTINATOR]

I feel the same way with Cas Crim videos 😁

[@BruceBoyde]

@@SWANSTINATOR heh, fair enough. Those just get a bit too much for me. Probably doesn't help that the one I "tried it out" with was a string of child serial killings.

[@levilandes1719]

​@@BruceBoydeThe heists are great, but yeah, Pedro Lopez was much too much.

[@tylerchrist3249]

Simon, the ESC button in your car with the tire is your Electronic Stability Control system. It prevents your tires from over-torque conditions that allow your vehicle to keep consistent grip through acceleration. If you hit the button, you disable it and can do burnouts/peelouts

[@Blinkerd00d]

Some do have an ESP button, electronic stability programme... but it's the same thing.

[@tylerchrist3249]

@Blinkerd00d yeah it's literally the European version vs the American version lol edit: my BMW says ESP on the control switch, my Toyota's say ESC

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@tylerchrist3249funny. My Dodge has TCS, not an Escape button. BMW is German. Toyota is Japanese. Try looking in an actual American car.

[@tylerchrist3249]

@SkunkApe407 look up your facts before being shown up. My toyota truck and suv are both manufactured in Texas. Try knowing anything about cars. Edit: the manufacturer might be headquartered somewhere, but that doesn't mean their cars are built there. Ford isn't even American anymore, most of their manufacturing is in Mexico now. But I guess to you that's still an American made vehicle you donut

[@SkunkApe407]

@@tylerchrist3249 the fact that you had to edit your comment, in order to backpedal and continue running your mouth, is proof that you're a clueless idiot. The money you fork over for that Toyota goes to the company, which is based in Japan. The money you fork over for a BMW goes to Germany. Ford is still headquartered in Michigan, and they have plants in Dearborn, Michigan, and other US states. Ford also didn't need to be bailed out by the Federal government. My Dodge is from before the Fiat merger, meaning it is a Daimler-Chrysler, which was a US/German company. GM is also US based. There's a reason, despite having plants in the US, that Toyota, Honda, BMW, and Mercedes are all still considered imported vehicles. They do not have a corporate headquarters in the US. Plain and simple.

[@theAessaya]

ESP in cars stands for _electronic stability program,_ also sometimes listed as ESC, or _electronic stability control._ It's basically amalgamation of older ABS (anti-lock braking system) and TC (traction control) systems, with added stability control on top. The exact functionality (and often marketing name) will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but usually it includes at the very least anti-brake-skid, traction control, and some degree of loss-of-control protection. You're welcome.

[@willmfrank]

We've gotten into the habit of using far too many acronyms and initialisms. IMHO, it's all BS. LOL. 😉😁

[@magnuslundstedt2659]

​@willmfrank and what i find most irritating is that people start to speak in acronyms.

[@wingerding]

​@@willmfrank as you make half your statement in acronyms...

[@willmfrank]

@@wingerding THAT WAS THE JOKE.

[@willmfrank]

(And, by the way, those are not acronyms; those are initialisms.)

[@kuunib7325]

ESP is a form of basic torque vectoring. It is a form of traction control on individual tires of your car that makes it harder to go sideways in corners, put rather simply.

[@jessejoyce1295]

“I’m open to having my mind changed… but it’s not going to happen” - Simon Whistler, on his open mindedness (I don’t believe in this stuff either, but I can’t say with absolute certainty that there’s nothing to it. My human mind is finite, after all). Also, the joke about the communists’ cat being called something like ‘Chairman Meow’ or ‘Meow Zedong’ (I can’t quite recall, and I’m too lazy to go back and check) is appreciated, Arnaldo.

[@NuLiForm]

heh....wish i could say this to Simon..without freaking him out: Ya sure of that? Come on over here..put a hood on my head then go do something. i will share space in your head, look through your eyes & when you come back i will gladly tell you what you did & saw. Explain That. Mine is a natural ability i was born with. It runs in the family, my father & son were also used. ..they trained & used me at Montauk. Some things just Are whether we believe in them or not.

[@L4r5man]

Nice. I'm peaking on a hefty dose of psychedelics, this should be fun!

[@jrmckim]

Geezer

[@jrmckim]

That was supposed to be geez

[@josefstrauss9017]

Hopefully with a tripsitter ✌🏼stay safe

[@L4r5man]

Thanks for the concern. I appreciate it, brother. @@josefstrauss9017 Tonight was not about staying safe though. I knew going in that this was going to be a rough one. But that's half the point sometimes, right? Something about ships and harbours

[@thekeytoairpower]

Retired Master Sergeant here. My university had a policy that they gave all active duty military a discount equal to actual tuition minus tuition assistance.... so the 4500 a year was enough to pay for school.

[@ClockworkEngineer]

Unlike Magic Spoon, Vessi are actually under priced for as good as they are.

[@baxterosburn8642]

Hi Simon, really enjoyed the video. It's always interesting to hear about this program! Quick bit on that Army $4,500. That's Tuition Assistance (TA), and it's available to all soldiers. It resets every fiscal year (October 1) and can be used for college credits, trade schools, technical certifications, etc. It's definitely helpful for active duty soldiers who are also part time students, taking 1-2 classes online per semester. TA does not impact other education money available to servicemembers, most commonly referred to as the GI Bill. This is what will pay for 100% of tuition after getting out of the military. There are more details, but that's a general overview. The U.S. military has a lot of flaws, but there absolutely are Army programs that help with continuing education, and they do work.

[@heatherscanlon3239]

My dad was DIA. Their training program is out of Bowling AFB just outside of Washington DC. My dad was active duty Air Force when he was transferred to DIA from SAC (strategic air command) we moved to DC for him to go to the training school in 1983, and I believe is was in one of the first classes if not the first. And yes, they're still around. The difference is they ate part of the Air Force, things like CIA and NSA are separate entities.

[@tehphoebus]

Hey Simon et al, just wanted to say thank you for these videos. It's really helpful to be able to put on something longform to listen to that is rational. It's nice when Simon jumps in an contributes the points my brain wants to bring up.

[@josefstrauss9017]

Finally some good entertainment for my nightshift, thanks ✌🏼would be cool if you could maybe do a video about Ludwig the Second of Bavaria and his mysterious death and circumstances I appreciate the work of the editor but the music is lowkey loud sometimes, but still everything else superb as always.

[@nroke1684]

An F-22 raptor costs approximately 175 million dollars, so considerably more than all of Stargate lol.

[@bongwatercrocodile315]

Tbh F-22 has ludicrously high unit cost even on the standard of fighter jets

[@juanitacurnutte7778]

We have that David Beckham joke in the US but it’s a blond joke here. 😅

[@anjacoetzee9327]

Simon with the vessi jacket with the hood up looked like a proper conspiracy theorist😂

[@whiteumbrella9344]

I love your first rant. It is so nice to hear other people have cell phone rules. Everyone calls me when I am doing yoga. They know I do yoga the same time every week. My mother calls me in the middle of the day while I am at work. So many people have no courtesy. I sometimes put the stupid phone on silent and put it in the other room with the door closed to avoid the rudeness.

[@jackvos8047]

I 100% believe that automatic writing is a real phenomenon. I don't believe however that it's communication with otherworldly beings nor anything else related to psychic phenomena. I believe it's really the subconscious mind taking control of the writing process completely bypassing the conscious mind. I believe this because I have experienced episodes of automatic writing. Before people assume mental illness, let me set the record straight, the answer is yes. I have dysgraphia which is related to dyslexia with some similarities and a few differences, as a result I often have problems getting what I know down on paper. In highschool one word filled me with dread more than any other "theory" hearing this word meant the teachers wanted me to put down in words what I've learnt and I struggled to do this. With that in mind and getting to the point, when it came to writing fiction is when I experience automatic writing and after decades of it happening I've come to the conclusion that my pipeline for writing fiction is subconscious -> hand -> consciousness. TLDR: automatic writing is a thing but its BS made up by the subconscious.

[@DozierStudios]

Wtf bro. There is nothing more shocking than hearing my name come out of your mouth so many times in a video 😂😂😂 love all your channels was not expecting that though. Keep up all the good work team!!!!

[@TheAlmightyDoge]

New channel concept “Coding the Known” where you take things that everyone thinks they understand and complicate them until they don’t make sense anymore.

[@nikkicat254]

This was cool, a few months ago I had watched another channel that focused on these experiments and Project Stargate, but talked about it like it was so real, so I asked under another of Decoding The Unknown video if Simon could cover this and reveal the truth about it. Whether this was done because I requested it or not, I'm still glad it was done!

[@theoneguydaniel4634]

honestly my favourite of all ur channels - love all of them tho!

[@empressoftheknownuniverse]

The show Stargate SG1 did wink and/or nod to this several times, usually in reference to technological integration...😉😏

[@clairegrimmer6723]

Your humour is spot-on..,,, How do you do it? Completely compelling channel - thanks to you & your support team…. Keep up the great work! Can’t wait for your next upload. C. Grimmer Auckland New Zealand

[@NeapolitanApe]

This program may have not lead to anything but at least we got Stranger Things out of it lmao

[@Xiphos0311]

Stranger Things came out of differnt pile of BS called The Mountauk Project which itself is a spin off from the BS that is "The Philadelphia Experiment."

[@crushinnihilism]

If it DID lead to something would governments let regular citizens know? Or would they sow seeds of doubt so regular folks didn't try it? Its a serious concern

[@pheenix135]

Always the best timing, Simon!

[@robd9413]

The title has the word "psychic" in it, so KZbin put an advert about getting rich through psychic viewings before the video. Then Simon spent the whole video saying none of this was real and the viewings are a con. Timing is everything.

[@badgersgetabadname]

In the pre mobile phone days. The phone hung on the wall in the hallway to ensure zero privacy but when it rang after midnight we all knew a road trip to Ireland was coming. We would get to see a dead relative laid out on a table in the living room which just seemed like a dig...

[@jonathanwalls6760]

I paused the video partway through and restarted it the next morning at precisely the location to hear Simon say "BRING ME ANOTHER SNACK CIA MAN! I'D LIKE A BAGEL!" And frankly that's what I needed in my morning.

[@perpetualtech5906]

hahaha that david beckham joke was funny. I laughed out loud. I'm gonna use that sometime lol Great video as usual, Simon. Thank you and your team.

[@HAUNTED-DOLL]

As an American, the most mind boggling part of this video was when Simon said Brits make fun of David Beckham for being dumb.

[@pixiesouter9461]

There are phsycics who genuinely believe they have a gift. I was one and met a few others, i met a few scammers as well. By the time i was seventeen i had sort of accepted i had this ability to just know shit i shouldnt know. I became intrigued by how i could do this and what real scientist had to say on the matter (i.e i wanted an explaination that said scientific sh*t not its the gohsts telling you things oooooh) and what i learned was that i have fantastic observation skills and great listening skills, im also really good at deductive reasoning. So wothin a few momemts of talking to someone i know a startling amount about them. But its not something im consciously doing to trick people and when they ask "😮how do you know that?!" Im more than happy to explain how i came to the conclusion, especially now that im aware of exactly how i do it. I have no interest in scamming people, so its not a very marketable skill, but there you go 😂

[@SwayTree]

Same. xD I was called "a witch" few times (add to the mix I'm interested in botanics). Except I never considered myself a psychic. I knew I was sensitive, empathetic and observant from a really young age and people around me knew that so I was aware it's not magic. I have ADHD so generally I notice more than rest of the people in a room. And I'm genuinely interested in other people and I care. I work with people so I use my skills everyday and in my job it is marketable as "analytic mind, easy-going, like to work with people, great communication skills" xD

[@oliverwoodcock5307]

The little gifs you use are always spot on 👌

[@kbredstar529]

its weird how i grew up waiting all week for a new episode of something on tv... now im most excited to see if theres a new decoding the unknown or casual criminalist uploaded on my day off lol i love simons tangents. he might be my favorite englishman. which as an irishman, i do not say lightly. lol

[@adenkyramud5005]

I mean... if you're irish your list of candidates for favorite englishman is probably fairly short 😂😂😂

[@Welcome2TheInternet]

Are you from Ireland, or are you just a plastic paddy American pretending to be "Irish" because you have an ancestor from Ireland?

[@coletrainatec]

Military tuition assistance is for active duty military. Meaning you're serving in the military and going to college on your off time... usually online. When you get out you qualify for the GI Bill which pays for 36 months of schooling with a housing allowance depending on your area. Also if you're a disabled vet you can get vocational rehab which is the same thing but has less time restrictions.

[@calendarpage]

Thanks for clarifying. I actually listened to Simon twice because something didn't sound right.

[@SkunkApe407]

You can use your GI Bill while still enlisted. I got my first degree in Geomatics while my ship was in dry dock. I used TA and the GI Bill. Of course, things may have changed in the past 20 years.

[@coletrainatec]

@@SkunkApe407 it might be different now or also I had no desire to use my GI Bill while I was in

[@PeachM0de]

Thank you Arnaldo for writing this script, and of course the rest of the team for putting this together. Without you, Simon wouldn’t have this level of popularity and success.

[@cravefubar4114]

"Who is more foolish, the fool who follows or the fool who leads?" ~ Ben Kanobi

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The Stargate Project was featured in the 2004 book and 2009 film, both titled The Men Who Stare at Goats, although neither mentions it by name.

[@daxleone]

BIG BRAIN HERE!!! I knew what pachyderm meant!!! Yay me!!!

[@brandonlicking2087]

You don’t know how much I look forward to every episode on every channel. I am your watch time lol

[@zackerymeltonturdle5648]

6:21 I got to say I kind of love it when you talked with normal inside volume voice and then you just go to whispering solo I have to put my ear to the screen😂 praise you Lord fact boy

[@ashleytolbert9862]

OMG!!!! My dad used to tell me that joke when i was a kid i am now 40, and yes it did cross the pond since I am from America. And thank you Simon my dad just passed last year and never have I ever heard anyone else tell that joke. LOVE ALL YOUR CHANNELS!!!

[@caseyc4683]

Simon, love the videos as always. Listen, I tried using my ESPN but for some reason I couldn’t, no idea why it wouldn’t work. Anyways what’s the music you fine folks use for these videos? Keep on making these inspirational vids, and before long we will all be able to watch them telepathically! Thanks

[@felicitybywater8012]

I remember how smug my grandmother was when the news came that the CIA was funding remore viewer psychics etc to fight the Cold War. The 1970s and 1980s were very exciting for her.

[@Chris-dz6ov]

Turn down the background music please.

[@IndustrialSociety1995]

10:17 it’s for traction control. I know this from Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson, he would joke “esp stands for especially off”

[@j.p.6932]

2:11 that’s why you ALWAYS text unless it’s an emergency or someone says “call Me” and 90% of the time you say “sorry can’t right now what’s up?”

[@thedeadgentleman3188]

Simon, the Tuition assistance offered by the army is 100% free Tuition that can be used by a service member to take courses at will, while the service member is actively serving. Most soldiers don't have time to take a full course load, so the 4000 dollars is plenty to cover a class or two a semester. After our service is complete we are given our G.I Bill education benefit, which is worth much more.

[@lisamencer5450]

I enjoy the laughs! Thanks! Also, what book are you reading?

[@jajssblue]

Well, it didn't meet its absurd premise, but it sure accomplished getting tomfoolery done.

[@DeanCalaway]

10:18 ESP stands for Electronic Stability Program, it's suppose to stop your wheels from spinning in slippery conditions.

[@u-neekusername4430]

Silly Simon I remember EVERYTHING from school! My son "Mum, can you help me with my calculus?" ...as I sneak out to hide in the shed "Mum? Mum??"

[@claytondennis8034]

It's $4,500 in fees per year WHILE you are serving. You can also take CLEP exams for free. While I was serving, it was possible to complete my BS in Applied Nuclear Engineering in 3 years due to my training earning applied college credit, CLEP exams, and online courses. All completely covered by the Tuition Assistance Program.

[@jennifergridley8111]

Bring me a bagel CIA man! 🤣🤣🤣 I love it 😂😊

[@jenna2720]

Listening to the CRV instructions, I was struck by the random use of psychology terms. Gestalt is a school of psychology that is theorizes that people don't perceive their environment as individual bits but as parts of entire systems. And then, from what I remember from my intro psych class, there's a bunch of stuff about visual hallucinations and how we perceive movement instead of a bunch of stills from those animation flip books. Thought form is used, from my experience, to refer to how people express what they mean when they're speaking. So, in mental status exams, one's thought form can range anywhere between coherent to entirely incomprehensible babble as loose associations or word salad seen in those with schizophrenia. Cognitron sounds like a trippy Transformer.

[@FinxOmally]

The moment Simon started talking about breathing, my mind also went to the David Beckham joke from when I was a kid. 😂

[@clarkcamp]

“Inflation sucks!” I couldn’t agree more

[@PassiveSmoking]

Maybe the reason you remember the David Beckham joke is because he told it himself? I remember hearing him telling it.

[@phenixopr]

The shoes are great for those who struggle with that task for unknown reasons

[@kristenmccaig1637]

I knew there was a reason I decided to re-watch the Genral Dozier CasCrim last week!

[@sarameyrick7182]

Hey it was nearly 2 weeks between casual Criminalist episodes last time, i was climbing the walls 😂😂😂😂

[@frontenac5083]

*Whoever is responsible for the audio for these videos is embarrassingly incompetent.*

[@thepartysjustbegun5557]

AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY. What a shame, otherwise I really like this show.

[@bmak24]

It’s very important you turn ESP on when it’s raining or you risk wearing out the muffler sprocket, or worse: premature blinker fluid wear.

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

ESP on a car stands for Electronic Stability Programme, it uses sensors to decide whether the car’s direction of travel corresponds with your steering inputs and, if it doesn’t, automatically brings it back under your control.

[@maxtonanddad]

Good video fact boy 😊

[@_goobs]

Stargate and the Matrix were two of my favorite things from the 90s. I'd remotely view them on my television.

[@jrmckim]

Simon or Editor, the last few episodes the music and the voice keeps changing levels.

[@frontenac5083]

Indeed! The sound editor is properly clueless.

[@MattCooperRoe]

I would've liked to just heard the story, I can't handle anymore of this

[@rhyswilliams4893]

The funny thing about the ESP but is that you could consider it extra sensory perception. It do percept things the driver doesn't in turn giving them extra perception

[@zarasbazaar]

Thanks, Simon. Now I want a bagel with a schmear.

[@JoeBuk724]

32:58 “Chairman Meow” Wellington Paranormal anyone? Lol

[@dsxa918]

I've heard of 'gastons' used as a unit or measurement, though I'll need to recollect or see some sources - it's used in the sense of 'joules' in a specific context, as u think of it. Salmon cream cheese poure

[@EgaoKage]

If we all automagically know everything there is to know, albeit subconsciously, why is it then so genuinely exciting to learn new things. When I learn something new, especially in a subject I already find interesting, it doesn't feel like "remembering" something; it feels like brand new info (to me anyway). Remembering things evokes a totally different feeling.

[@TheManLab7]

10:01 ESP stands for Electronic Stability Program. Basically it's another word for traction control and it's the sorta thing you turn off if you're struggling to move in snow. It doesn't do anything to the ABS (Antilocking Break System) btw so you can still stop.

[@elioraward9079]

'Lookup Pachyderm' LoL Simon , sometimes it cracks me up how little fact boy paid attention in school. Loving your work though

[@ryan.oconnor]

Simon looking gangsta with the hood up 😂

[@TheRedjack77]

The Men Who Stare at Goats- lol great movie....."We never seen them again, but that's what happens when you fly a helicopter high on LSD in the desert "

[@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526]

Psychics,Stargate program,Skynet... What a crazy crossover between Scanners,Terminator and Stargate.

[@135forte]

Considering how easy it would be to test this without leading questions and a known answer as to what the remote viewers are supposed to be seeing, the fact it hasn't been proven is telling. All you need is a bunch of psychics that are supposed to describe a set place at a set time and to have whatever is happening there to not be determined until it is happening. Have 300 psychics describe the Emmies, Oscars or an improve comedy routine.

[@elizabethgrey9157]

Fun fact, Simon: Vessie (pronounced the same) is bladder in French. Have fun walking on your bladders! ;)

[@asexualatheist3504]

Assuming the average length book is 350 pages, 12,000,000 pages would be like reading 34,285 books. That’s an insane amount of reporting.

[@jamess3241]

Man that chairman Mao joke was hilarious. I'm still laughing

[@jamess3241]

UPDATE: STILL LAUGHING

[@leholen381]

Tuition assistance is in addition to the GI Bill and you only get TA while serving. GI Bill can be used after you get out of the military.

[@DneilB007]

38:21 “Unexpectedly, the Dr. Einstein who was her spirit guide was not the famous theoretical physicist. He was a podiatrist and the great-grandfather of the actor/comedian Albert Brooks.”

[@steve3291]

If you have some domain knowledge it is possible to make predictions that would be generally accurate. Not remote viewing, just knowing the domain.