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Send us Fan Mail David and Spencer breakdown the current state of the 2024 Us election. This is recorded one day after the Manhattan verdict of 34 guilty counts involving hush money payments made by Trump to hide affairs. Links Timeline https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-stormy-daniels-hush-money-payments-timeline-of-events/5462838/ List of witnesses https://www.cnn.com/p...

Send us Fan Mail Crowdsourcing is the process of using a lot of different people all adding a little bit of effort to accomplish a large task.  Crowdsourced Storytelling is about the way in which we tell stories online in an attempt to understand the world but also in a way that can go terribly wrong.  All feedback for this episode can be sent to truthunrestricted@gmail.com.

Send us Fan Mail Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment which is meant to illustrate some of the absurdity of what is happening with Quantum Mechanics. In the thought experiment the life of a cat is directly related to the state of a particle. Quantum Mechanics says that without observing the state of the particle it could be in either state. Erwin Schrodinger was attempting to show how ri...

Send us Fan Mail Reality Inversion is a psychological concept seen among conspiracists wherein evidence that should show them the truth instead reinforces their fantasies. Stephanie Kemmerer joins me for a discussion about the topic with many relevant examples. Links The Collapse of World Trade Center - The Complete Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkBfLBov5Q Robbie Parker (Sandy Hook pare...

Send us Fan Mail Audience Capture has a second meaning! It describes when a person is stuck having to perform for their audience. David Bloomberg and Spencer discuss this aspect in an addendum to the previous episode about Audience Capture.

Send us Fan Mail This episode might upset some people. If what is said here offends you, I want to hear about it. Send all feedback to truthunrestricted@gmail.com. If you agree with what I've said I also want to hear from you, even if it's only a score out of ten.

Send us Fan Mail These US Election Update episodes are an attempt to chronicle the twisting tale of history as it is happening for an event that we are certain will affect the future. We discuss each of the major candidates and what is currently affecting their progress toward the title of president. Links https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/28/marianne-williamson-presidential-campaign ht...

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Send us Fan Mail Why are there people who believe the Earth is flat? How is it possible to get so far turned around about something so basic? I sit down with Reds Rhetoric, a person who has been pushing back against Flatearthers for a very long time, to discuss it. Links https://www.youtube.com/@RedsRhetoric 1998 Space Shuttle Endeavour launch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNdaUMND_Yw

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Send us Fan Mail How do we talk about transgenderism? Why should we talk about transgenderism? What is going on with pronouns? Are there really 52 new pronouns that we need to learn? How do we have these conversations without insulting trans people or their experiences? Grace Leder joins me for a meta conversation about how to have the Transgender Conversation. Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Send us Fan Mail Audience Capture is the process of mimicking another influencer's strategy and messaging so as to gain some or all of their audience share. What does this mean for the US political situation and how should this shape our decisions? Links https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/26/ron-desantis-texas-border-mexico/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words https://newrepublic.c...

Send us Fan Mail In what ways are conspiracy beliefs psychologically addictive?  Can a person get a "good feeling" from a turn down the rabbit hole that they would want to experience a second time? Links https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-studied-brains-more-800-prisoners-heres-what-they-found https://www.jta.org/2020/04/07/ny/memory-plays-tricks-about-mengele https://www.dailydo...

Send us Fan Mail Links Dr Dan Wilson - Is there DNA contamination in COVID vaccines? No. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61OPhZ3eO8 https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2024/01/20240103-halt-use-covid19-mrna-vaccines.pr.html https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-hires-del-bigtree-anti-vaccine...

Send us Fan Mail The human mind creates models and symbols to represent everything that it "knows". When these are models of tangible items it is clear what the mind is doing. But when it comes time to represent intangible things it is a little less clear. Very often we use comparisons between tangible and intangible things to assist in communicating to each other what we think of the in...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be a zealot? How do we measure a person's zealotry? Do we exaggerate ideas when they support the things we are zealous about? Do some of us openly and knowingly lie about things simply because it supports our ideas?

Send us Fan Mail What is Magical Thinking? Why do humans think magical things are real? How does this occur? Why is it that a person who leaves behind a magical belief is often more likely to start believing a new one? Is a soul an intangible vessel for your life essence? Or is a soul merely an illusion of consciousness?

Send us Fan Mail Do we want to live in a world where politicians can freely fake images and videos without regard for consequences? If we don't, what could we possibly do about it? The American Information Integrity Alliance (AIIA) is attempting to create a set of social norms for how public officials should treat the ability to create fake video content. The "No Fakes" Pledge is an...

Send us Fan Mail Some people in our world have adopted a system for navigating the world that is less related to which concepts or rules they wish to live by and more related to which people they wish to support or oppose. The absolute enemy is usually a political figure which a person opposes in all things. The AE cannot, by definition, ever do anything correct and, again by definition, everythin...

Send us Fan Mail Why are credit cards marketed to students who have no jobs? Why do student loans survive bankruptcy? Why are payday loan offices open so late? Why doesn't paying rent positively affect your credit rating? Is our system of credit and debt negatively affecting upward financial mobility? We discuss all of these questions while we openly fight about how the banking system works.

Send us Fan Mail Notes Charles Eisenstein is an author of New Age nonfiction. His ideas about nonduality are influential in New Age circles but conflict heavily with reality. I examine one of his core beliefs about science being a religion in this episode. Links https://charleseisenstein.org/videos/video/is-science-a-religion/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) https://en.wiki...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 61 Notes Logic is the study of the building blocks of knowledge. Logic seeks to answer the question: how do we know what we know?  Fear is a powerful instinctive response that is meant to keep us alive. But it overpowers and blocks out more rational thinking. Can the two coexist? How do we deal with both? Also, how is Ben Johnson, the disgraced Olympic sprinter, related to...

Send us Fan Mail Notes Confirmation bias is the process of starting from the conclusion and working backwards toward the things that will support that conclusion. Scientism is the idea that science is more like a religion than a system to study reality. It is the idea that scientists are completely captured in confirmation bias such that scientific principles are dogmatically followed rather than...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 59 - Math Why are we good at some mathematical concepts and bad at others? Why is it that we can intuitively know how to throw a baseball to another person but we can't figure out how many cups of water fill a vase? David and I discuss these questions and others as we make a case for math education. We also get sidetracked for a bit about ivermectin and how grifters m...