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Lesser known time travelers · Journey to the Fringe

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From the unexplained to the mundane, come join
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us on a Journey to the Fringe. Hello and welcome
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to Journey to the Fringe, where I like to think
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we embody the whimsiness that is Newfoundland
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in this, but also not. I don't think we've ever
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talked about Newfoundland prior to this last
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Fringe video. No, nor are we anything like people
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from Newfoundland, I think. But we are all Canadian.
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We are all Canadian, at least as far as I understand
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it. Yeah, exactly. You can't quite understand
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the Newfoundland accent. You really can't quite.
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You just kind of have to agree because they say
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it quite nicely. You just nod and smile. We are
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your Canadian English speaking host, Taylor and
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Chelsea. Here today, Chelsea, I just want to
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give a preamble to our topic. Okay, what's the
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preamble? We have covered, I believe, two different
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time travelers in our journeys as a podcast.
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The first one being John Teeter. Of course. Very
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famous time traveler. The other one's the man
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from Torrid. Right. Yeah, I forgot about the
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Torrid guy. I can't remember if it was his own
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episode, but we did do him, so I had to include
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him. Is this going to be about mantis beings?
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That time travel? No. Damn it. What? I decided
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is I felt like you know, we kind of give a representation
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that this doesn't happen very often We've only
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done those two topics. So it must not be that
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much claimed So I went around and I grabbed as
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many man claiming to be from X Came back to our
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time and has this to say stories. I like that
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So today we'll be looking at the lesser known
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of the time travelers. Okay I'm ready. I was
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not expecting this. I'm glad I showed up today
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Yeah, me too. It's really awkward when I have
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to talk to myself. Some of our most memorable
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episodes. I do also have to say that there is
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a really interesting one out there on TikTok.
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There's just no way I could. do medium for talking
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to people doesn't really give me a great way
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to show TikToks off but it's a guy who does videos
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where I believe he says he's in the year 2050
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in France and like there's nobody there and he
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goes around and like shows things but for whatever
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people ask. Really? I'm gonna have to, no I hate
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TikTok. Oh that reminds me we've done time slips
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too because you said France. Oh right we have
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done time slips but those generally go back in
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time. Yeah they go back in time. Whereas these
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guys are coming back to us, maybe they're time
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slippers. That's true. Okay, Chelsea, our first
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story comes from The Daily Mail. In fact, our
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first two stories come from The Daily Mail. The
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Daily Mail? Written by Jane Lavender on July
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18th, 2026, article title, Time Traveler from
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2045 makes chilling predictions and passes lie
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detector. A man claiming to be a time traveler
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from 2045 delivered a series of alarming predictions
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about what lies ahead while connected to a lie
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detector and reportedly passed with flying colors.
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Adam Archon claimed to have journeyed back to
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2023 from two decades in the future and had issued
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several spine -tingling warnings about the coming
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years. What makes these forecasts particularly
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unsettling is that the self -described time traveler
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delivers them while wired to a polygraph machine,
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a device that monitors heart rate to identify
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deception. The predictions, which surfaced on
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YouTube via ApexTV grabbed the attention of doubters
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as the man seemed to be speaking truthfully throughout.
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Some of these alleged prophecies will arrive
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as soon as 2028. How did this all come to be?
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I wonder where not only is she reporting on this,
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but he's giving predictions under lie detector.
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It seems that like it was just a YouTube video
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she's reporting on. but that's okay because it's
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news exactly like daily mail is i shouldn't use
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the term news with them but it is news technically
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i mean we're reporting on her reporting on it
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so it all works out on her reporting yeah and
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i love that he didn't set the bar like too high
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it was just like 20 years out yeah you wait from
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yeah i actually think i went in shortest to longest
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order with this one like i just think it would
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make the predictions a little bit easier Because
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you're not so far out that they have to be like
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cars are gonna be flying around and they're just
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but also will Disproveable in your lifetime.
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That's true, which is like the hard thing for
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faking Yeah, you might have to talk about it
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eventually time travel and predicting the end
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of the world You want it to be like way out by
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the time you're gone. Like it won't even matter
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to you personally. I only want to come up with
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one lie if I'm faking time traveling. I don't
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want to have to come up with more lies later
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on. Yeah, once the time comes I don't want to
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be lying some more like I just want one good
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lie and then be done with it, right? Yeah. Yeah.
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Now among his claims was that everyone will be
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microchipped like pets by 2045. Quote, yes, I
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do have an implanted chip in my hand known as
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the one. You see when a chip is put into your
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hand like it was in my case or any part of the
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body, which in other cases can be, since it is
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a foreign object. My body was slightly rejecting
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it, so my hand was getting swollen. Luckily,
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as you can see now, the swollen has completely
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gone down and everything is back to basically
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normal. That's how you know he's not lying. He
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has a normal hand. The chip concept might not
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seem too far -fetched, especially considering
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Elon Musk's ambitious brain chip project called
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Neuralink. The tech titan has bold plans to enable
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rapid surgical implantations of its chip technology
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to address conditions including obesity, autism,
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depression, and schizophrenia. Reports suggest
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human trials are underway, though completion
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is expected to take roughly six years. The self
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-proclaimed time traveler further suggested that
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technological breakthroughs like these will result
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in humans merging with robots. Holograms and
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other time travelers like himself zipping through
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time in modern UFOs. The whole scenario has a
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distinctly Dr. Who vibe, yet the lie detector
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indicated truthfulness. The self -described Time
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Warper also passed the polygraph when asserting
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that extraterrestrials will establish first contact
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in 2028, though supposedly not from outer space.
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He stated, quote, It is true that aliens did
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land on Earth in August of 2028. In fact, we
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have known of the existence of aliens before
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2028. but it isn't until 2028 that it becomes
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public knowledge. It was just kept secret until
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they released it publicly. But this all just
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seems so vague, like he could definitely elaborate
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on this more, like I could say that too. You
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can, but he at least gives a very specific month.
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of August 2028. If it was that big of a deal,
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I feel like you'd know the actual date. Yeah.
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He didn't even say about the black market that
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the humans were doing under the guise of aliens.
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Yeah. He did go on to also say, quote, I can't
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confirm that aliens do not come from space, but
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I cannot elaborate on where they come from because
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of the possibility of a paradox, end quote. Oh
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my God. I knew it. Stephen Greer was right. I
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can't wait till he comes out as a time traveler.
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He's gotta be something from another universe
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because look at him. I bet that's why he doesn't
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get into the reptilian stuff because he's immediately
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going to be the first one. According to Adam,
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the era of individual nations will supposedly
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draw to a close with countries set to, quote,
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converge into one super nation, end quote. The
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lie detector registered truth as the man whose
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face was obscured in the video described how
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every country would operate under uniform laws
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and currencies divided into seven distinct zones.
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Well, if there's seven zones within the country,
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how is it one country? Oh, they're all distinctly
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different. He further explained that artificial
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intelligence would largely drive decision -making
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for this new world government, with citizens
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paying for goods using hand -implanted chips.
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Which, oh man, much like a contactless card,
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he stated, quote, There is AI that governs the
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entire world and 10 people that monitor its decisions.
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The 10 people mainly monitor the AI programming
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and check its morality to see if its decisions
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are best suited for the people. There is a single
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currency and a form transaction with it. All
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you have to do is use the chip that is implanted
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in your hand. There is no cash." End quote. Did
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he say if you can choose where the chip is implanted?
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I think he did. Yeah, he did say that. I think
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I'd go with somewhere funner. I kind of would
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want it in like your foot so you can like kind
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of karate kick at it yeah I mean it would yeah
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You bring up a good point. But I also feel like
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as you get older, you would start to regret that
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unless you tapped it on the ground, of course,
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as you lose mobility. Because I feel like it's
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already in my hand with my phone when I tap.
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Like where's the fun in that? Maybe elbow? I
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don't know. I could see a rise in hand -related
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theft, if that makes sense. Yeah, it does make
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sense. Like you lose your hand, you lose all
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your money and identity. I think he has one more
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prediction as well here. Zoos, it seems, will
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still be a feature of the future, but with a
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jaw -dropping twist, as visitors will reportedly
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be able to come face to face with long extinct
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creatures. Under the watchful eye of a polygraph,
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Adam Bolder claimed that the people will be able
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to view real -life dinosaurs in captivity, an
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idea that, as movie fans will know, hasn't exactly
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gone smoothly on the big screen. Quote, we have
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dinosaur zoos in the future. You can see T -Rexes,
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Triceratops, Velociraptors. If they existed,
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you can see it. People can go and visit things
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in the past, like to go visit the dinosaurs or
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major world events. They go in something that
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you would probably think of as a modern -day
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UFO, end quote. Lots of UFOs. The claim bore
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a striking resemblance to plot points from Jurassic
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Park film series. Blockbusters depicting, does
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it really? Because these guys went into the past
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to get the dinosaur DNA. Well, they'd have to,
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to get the DNA. No, because in Jurassic Park
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it's from the mosquitoes that were caught in
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amber. Yeah. I guess he couldn't come up with
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another way and he didn't want it to just be
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just like Jurassic Park so he said no he he clearly
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was just dead and he's a time traveler so point
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I like the way he's thinking though unfortunately
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the footage failed to win over many viewers with
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numerous commenters expressing skepticism about
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the interviews credibility one said quote If
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the guy's insane and believes his lies, then
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the lie detector won't detect that he's lying."
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Another added, quote, I want a lie detector for
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the lie detector. Simply saying it's true without
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providing any data is no different than a human
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giving the same results. End quote. And the third
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noted, quote, did anybody else notice that he
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answered yes to every question? That seems unlikely.
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End quote end of article. The last one brings
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up a good point And in defense of the lie detector
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tests, I mean they're not they're not infallible
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Exactly. But yeah, it's also when you do a lie
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detector test Don't they usually ask you a question
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that they know is a lie so that they can get
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a baseline for your lie Doesn't sound like it
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or it doesn't sound like that's what happened
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here but i didn't go out of my way to watch it
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so i was just gonna say i'd have to watch the
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video i'm not actually even sure if she did either
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she definitely went to the comments and how come
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he was only answering yes we're like is there
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a chip in the hand in the future and he was like
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yes are there only dinosaur zoos in the future
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yes how exactly did this interview i have so
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many questions This next one also comes from
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the Daily Mail. It was written by Stacy Liberatore,
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published on July 1st of 2026. For some reason,
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I didn't put the article title, but I don't think
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it's necessary because we all know what it's
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going to be about. We're going to read it. Well,
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I hope it didn't steer you wrong that you didn't
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put it in there. And it's not an article about
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time travel at all. A self -proclaimed tribe
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traveler has come forward with an extraordinary
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claim that he journeyed to the year 2118 and
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returned with a chilling vision of humanity's
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future. The man who identified himself Alexander
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Smith appeared in a gray suit and black tie wearing
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a strange latex -like mask with an oversized
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nose and a bald head as he warned the world as
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we know it will change a lot. I would hope that
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the world changes a lot in a hundred years. Among
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his predictions were claims that artificial intelligence
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would one day rule the planet, and that a small
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conflict between the US and North Korea would
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spiral into a global war after Russia sided with
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Pyongyang and missiles were eventually launched,
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resulting in what some might describe as a third
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world war. Smith also alleged the CIA possesses
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advanced technology that remains hidden from
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the public, including what he described as a
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secret time machine. According to his account,
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agency officials told him he would become the
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first test subject in an experiment designed
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to push the boundaries of space and time itself.
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He further claimed that government routinely
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develops technology decades before they become
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publicly available telling viewers quote the
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technologies that you are using right now like
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smartphones they were developed around 30 years
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prior to them actually being released. Smith
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insisted that the public deserves to know the
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truth about what is happening behind closed doors
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claiming the next century will bring more change
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than any other period in human history. The interview
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released on the YouTube channel Apex TV. We apparently
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need to start watching Apex TV. Was first published
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in 2018 but has recently resurfaced online where
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viewers have once again been captivated by his
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extraordinary claims. As a self -proclaimed chai
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-chattler who identified himself as Alexander
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Smith, he'd claimed to have journeyed to the
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year 2118. He has provided no evidence to support
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his extraordinary claims. Smith has provided
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no evidence to support his extraordinary claims
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and there is no proof they have a double sentence
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there. Okay. and there's no proof that he worked
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for the CIA, traveled through time, or visited
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the year 2118. According to Smith, his story
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began in 1981 when he had already left the CIA
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and was working as a local carpenter. He claimed
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his life, took an extraordinary turn while he
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was sitting on the couch watching television
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with his wife, when there was a knock at the
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door. When he answered, Smith said he found two
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men dressed in black suits standing outside who
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told him to come with them because they worked
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for the CIA. Quote, they told me to go with them.
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So I complied." He said, adding that he was not
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even allowed to tell his wife where he was going.
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According to Smith, he was driven away blindfolded
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and eventually taken by a helicopter to a secret
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underground military base where he was told that
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he had been chosen to participate in a classified
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experiment. There, a scientist allegedly showed
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him what he described as a time machine and informed
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him that he was going to be the first test subject.
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Smith claimed that humanity's future would be
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shaped by a devastating conflict that begins
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as a relatively minor dispute. In his first video,
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as released in 2018, Smith aimed to make himself
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known as the CIA was allegedly hunting him after
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he returned from the future. According to his
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account, the country I was part of, the United
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States, was in a conflict with North Korea and
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the conflict started off small. He said the confrontation
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eventually escalated after Russia soon took the
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side of North Korea and tensions began to escalate
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and eventually missiles were fired. While he
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did not specify where the missiles struck, Smith
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warned that the effects were not what one may
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consider desirable. He added that the conflict
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was what some might describe as a third world
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war. claiming the devastation ultimately led
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to a dramatically different future in which the
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world began to become one and borders began to
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become meaningless. Smith alleged that the people
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in the future developed a love and appreciation
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for life that discouraged them from harming one
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another. When he asked who the president was
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in 2118, Smith said he was told there was only
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one leader of this one world. According to his
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account, that leader was an artificial intelligence
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that he claimed governed humanity better than
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any person could by mutating peace, safety, technological
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advancement, and all the other great things that
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could benefit our lives as humans. Smith claimed
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the futuristic metropolis featured slanted skyscapers
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with a bluish tint, flying vehicles moving between
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buildings and a red sky hanging above the city.
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Smith said that he was initially skeptical that
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a machine could lead the world. Wait, that's
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the part you don't believe? Yeah. A machine took
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you 100 years in the future, but you don't believe
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they can tell us what to do? They literally do
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that now, not well. But they do. But claimed
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people in the future insisted that artificial
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intelligence was better suited for governing
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humans than human politicians. Which I think
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is already at that standard. That is correct.
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Sadly. He also described encountering human -like
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robots that floated above the ground and possessed
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the same rights as people. According to Smith,
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there was no discerning the robots from ordinary
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humans except that they had no legs and hovered
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several feet in the air. What an interesting
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concept. Not the floating, that they had the
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same rights as people. I'm sure it's the Great
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Robot Wars where that comes from. Oh, most definitely.
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I like that they're imperceptibly different from
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humans other than floating seven feet in the
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air without legs. Other than that, you could
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never tell them apart. Smith claimed that time
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travel technology existed decades before the
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public knew about it and predicted it would become
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available beginning in the year 2028 for both
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commercial and non -commercial uses. He further
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alleges that 2028 is also the same year in which
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the government disclosed the existence of intelligent
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extraterrestrials. Oh, so he agrees with the
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other guy. Claiming authorities have possessed
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knowledge of aliens for some time previous to
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the announcement. One of the most bizarre details
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involved with Smith described as an implant beneath
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the skin of a robot's hand. He claimed the device
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acted as an all -in -one form of identification
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and payment, telling him quote, this is everything
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because it could be used to make purchases, verify
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identities and conduct transactions, end quote.
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The other guy was a robot. In his first video,
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also released in 2018, Smith aimed to make himself
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known as the CIA was allegedly hunting him down
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after he returned from the future. During the
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clip, he held up a photograph of a mysterious
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city skyline, though he never revealed exactly
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where the image had been taken. The blurry picture
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appeared to show a row of enormous green, oddly
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shaped buildings in a city unlike any that exists
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today. Quote, I have something to show you today.
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This picture was taken in the year 2118. This
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picture was the city I walked in. end quote he
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said while holding the image up to the camera
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quote I'll never forget when I look at that picture
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I was right outside the city before I had walked
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into it end quote Smith claimed that I have that
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about pretty much every picture that I've taken
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I'm like I'll never forget that I was because
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I was there and I just kept walking and I saw
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what was in this picture Smith claimed the futuristic
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metropolis featured slanted skyscraper wow this
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is a very poorly edited article because they
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keep repeating themselves. No, they just want
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to prove the point. There were slanted skyscapers.
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They're probably selling them in the future.
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Probably. Yeah, this article was written by big
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skyscraper business back in the year 2118. And
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then again, they say he said the photograph was
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taken shortly after arriving in the year 2118
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and before entering the mysterious metropolis,
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which he referred to as District 508. Quote,
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that was a picture from the future, which I was
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able to take back. There was only a minor amount
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of distortion on it that was caused by the time
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traveling process. Of course. Classic time traveler.
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The government confiscated the original photo,
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but before they took it from me, I did manage
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to take the copy I held before you. I don't know
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if that means that he already had a copy of it
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or he took a picture of the picture while they
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were taking it away. It's so easy for us to have
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photos like immediately with us now on our phone,
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but this guy, he has like a printed out picture
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that was confiscated, but he has a new. Didn't
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he say he did this in the 80s though? I don't
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know. I can't really keep track of how this guy's
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story went other than that it weirdly lines up
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in some ways with the other time traveler. Makes
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me wonder if they're not working together. But
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if everybody in charge is AI, wouldn't that make
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it like okay to have an AI generated image of
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slanted skyscrapers? Yeah, couldn't you just
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ask the AI to generate it? This is how photos
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look in the future, our supreme overlord AI just
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generate all these things where we once walked
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and that's like what we remember because we were
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there. You gotta love how he phrased that. I
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know this is where I took it because I took the
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picture and then I walked. Exactly. We all think
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that about photos. Such a fond memory. I just
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quickly googled this YouTube channel. It's quite
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interesting. I do quite like that the first story
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that we heard, they're both on Apex TV, which
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I think implies that the first guy was aware
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of the second guy's story because he was aware
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of Apex TV. Yes. Okay, is there enough there
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Chelsea for an apex TV episode in the future
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I believe there is yes I mean there's lots here
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they categorized even well that's one is time
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travelers one's mystery here's time travel right
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there anyhow we got no time for this because
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we got another guy And I need to see if this
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came from Apex TV too. Five dinosaurs caught
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on camera. Sorry. What more Apex TV? I was actually,
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I'm not sure if this is Apex TV. We're going
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to have to read. I just need to find my source
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for this one. Oh, this comes from IFL science.
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Oh, I like that one. The story of Mike the Time
22:03
Traveler from the year 3700. Maybe the stupidest
22:06
thing we've seen in months. Every now and then
22:11
someone on the internet claims to be a time traveler
22:14
or else have spotted telltale signs on time travelers
22:16
for example in iPhone and old videos and paintings.
22:20
They usually turn out to be plausible alternative
22:22
explanations which don't require humanity to
22:24
have figured out backwards time travel at some
22:26
point in our future nor the traversal of a wormhole.
22:28
That doesn't stop the claims of time traveling
22:30
from coming though. In particularly stupid example
22:33
highlighted by the Daily Mail recently we can
22:36
add the tale of Mike the time traveler to the
22:38
list. Mike! A man blurred out it does come from
22:41
Apex TV. Like a man blurred out an extensive
22:45
interview with Apex TV makes a number of strange
22:48
and impossible to test claims. According to the
22:50
man... who claims to be on the run from fellow
22:52
time travelers. He became involved in several
22:56
secret projects at Canada's National Security
22:58
Agency, which included a number of military gadgets
23:01
and, why not, a time machine. Mike, who cannot
23:04
be trusted, further than you yourself can step
23:06
back in time, claims that the group would hop
23:09
at random through time, eventually reaching all
23:13
the way to the year 3700 CE. You might think
23:16
humanity has its problem solved, And it does.
23:19
But according to Mike, things will get a lot
23:21
worse. Quote, since year 3000, humanity was entirely
23:24
replaced by robots, artificial intelligence,
23:27
and software. End quote. The man said in the
23:29
video. It was really heading that way though,
23:30
wasn't it? Yeah. Adding to the brights. Wait,
23:33
those robots that we give rights to, they take
23:36
us over? Yeah. Yeah, they had so many rates from
23:43
the robot war and we look just like them exactly
23:46
was about the hovering and no It was definitely
23:49
the hovering fuck Adding on the bright side that
23:54
humanity had finally switched to using solar
23:56
energy rather than fossil fuels He claims that
24:01
humanity's population has been reduced to around
24:03
3 billion people who are nevertheless free to
24:05
follow their own creative pursuits while sharing
24:08
the planet with around 1 million robots but 700
24:11
years later and in accordance with science fiction
24:13
rules everything went a bit Skynet quote in the
24:16
year 3700 the war began the war between human
24:19
race and artificial creators the robots the robots
24:22
who had an artificial intelligence once they
24:24
understood their power they understood their
24:26
dominance above humans and raised above them
24:29
End quote. According to Mike, humanity did not
24:32
fare well in this war and took to hiding from
24:35
the now estimated four million robots in forests
24:37
and caves. The robots, however, were willing
24:39
to burn down the forest in their effort to destroy
24:41
all organic life. What? That escalated really
24:47
fast. We're better than them. Better eliminate
24:50
all life. yeah in the way of evidence he showed
24:53
the interviewer a hand taken from a fox robot
24:57
which he claimed to have personally killed as
24:59
well as fox robot he wanted the chip he did he
25:04
called it he wanted to buy a slurpee with that
25:06
fox robot's hand that's what the hand is oh my
25:10
god i had no idea there's such a linear story
25:16
There's only one logical way to go if you're
25:19
time traveling from the future. That's really
25:21
good advice. I think you're not going to hear
25:23
from anywhere else. But if you are time traveling
25:25
to the future, you got to cut a hand off. I was
25:27
just going to say kill someone steal. No, don't
25:30
kill them. Just don't kill them. Just take their
25:31
hand. You don't want a liver. Don't put them
25:33
in a bathtub. Take the liver. You want to date
25:36
them and take their hand now if you're in the
25:38
future. Don't do it in the past. Like that's
25:40
not going to do anything for you. No, it's looking
25:44
that way if especially if it's a robot you want
25:47
that hand And a newspaper as well as Fox robots
25:51
which were non -human like in appearance He claimed
25:53
to have met a humanoid robot which appeared to
25:55
have developed a fear of death quote people showed
25:57
me a humanoid robot He had hair skin eyes and
26:01
artificial blood which flowed in its cable veins
26:04
end quote He said of the robot which does not
26:06
exist Quote, as a human, he was scared. He didn't
26:13
want to die. He knew what his death and was in
26:17
depression. End quote. As with all these tales,
26:19
not much was offered in the way of proof beyond
26:21
a nice little robot arm prop and a few excuses
26:24
as to why he is explaining this to a time travel
26:26
obsessed YouTube channel rather than the international
26:29
press. Quote, I stole this robotic hand, ran
26:31
away from laboratory from Canada and from continent.
26:35
End quote. He said, quote, I know that they want
26:37
to kill me as I'm the only person who ran away
26:40
from their company and the only person that wants
26:42
to tell the truth. End quote. We probably don't
26:45
need to tell you this is all nonsense though
26:48
given, you know, shut up, end of article. Do
26:50
you think in the future on the slanted skyscrapers,
26:53
it's just Apex TV ads for if you time travel
26:57
back, like this is who you gotta talk to. You
27:00
know what? It seems like maybe it's the only
27:02
media source. Nobody's talked about that. It
27:05
might be but it doesn't seem like there's any
27:08
recent uploads here. Okay, this one's seven months
27:11
ago. Okay one month ago. Yep. They're still going
27:14
Chelsea, of course, no episode where the potential
27:17
exists is complete without checking Reddit for
27:21
anything relating to the topic. Oh, this is gonna
27:23
be better than Apex TV, I bet you. I don't know,
27:26
though. First off, there is a subreddit called
27:28
Time Travel. There's actually multiples kind
27:30
of in this category. I follow Time Travel, so
27:32
this is the one I like to use. I'm pretty sure
27:34
I'm in that as well. And there are multiple stories.
27:37
I just picked one and another one that we're
27:39
gonna go through the AMA for. This one is titled,
27:42
it's from six months ago, so it's from... the
27:44
early 2026 written by extension underscore u
27:48
underscore 4635 i'm a time traveler from the
27:51
year 2264 an actual one and you do need to specify
27:55
that in time travel because many people just
27:58
make those stories okay Hi Reddit, let me start
28:01
by saying that I know this is going to sound
28:02
insane, but regardless of that, I'm here to share
28:05
my story. I know most of you won't believe me,
28:07
and I'm not here to convince anyone. You're all
28:09
free to trust whatever you want, my intentions
28:11
here, and in every other timeline I visit, have
28:14
nothing to do with convincing. I know I'm repeating
28:16
myself, but I want to get it off my chest before
28:19
starting, because I've done this quite a lot,
28:21
and I'm already well aware of the backlash. I
28:23
don't blame you though. Doubting is a significant
28:25
part of human nature. Don't know why he's quoting,
28:28
but there's a quote, quote, if something sounds
28:30
unreal or you haven't witnessed it with your
28:32
own eyes, you don't believe it. End quote. Simple
28:35
as that. That's not true. And believe it or not.
28:37
Yeah, that's the entire point of religion. Yeah,
28:40
I was going to say there's so much that we do
28:42
believe that. Yeah, and believe it or not I like
28:45
this idea and I've even Say that the sense of
28:48
doubt is an actual privilege that our species
28:50
have enough mere talk though It's time for what
28:53
I've came here to do as I said, I don't expect
28:55
you to believe me outright So I'm going to lay
28:57
out my experience and let you decide for yourself
28:59
for starters I want to say that I'm probably
29:01
what you call historian time traveler there's
29:04
a difference between historian time travel and
29:06
all the other types there's at least 75 different
29:09
types of time travelers yeah that's what i hear
29:11
and you know what there is actually like if you're
29:13
looking at it like there would be the tourist
29:15
time traveler ah okay see i just thought it was
29:20
silly but this is logical Okay. Though we use
29:23
a different term in my time, and yes, it's an
29:25
actual job in the future. You might or might
29:27
not have stumbled upon other reddit posts like
29:30
mine, where the authors also introduce themselves
29:32
as workers of the same job. Whether or not they're
29:34
legitimate, I have no way to tell, as we're all
29:37
from different timelines that sometime, pretty
29:40
rarely in most cases, because believe it or not,
29:42
the multiverse is really darn big, share the
29:44
same pattern of events and things in common.
29:46
So what do we do in our job, you might ask? Well,
29:48
it's pretty simple and pretty complex at the
29:50
same time. Simplified, we're tasked with exploring
29:53
and the studying of the different time periods
29:55
of our world. We've went as far back as the time
29:59
before the Big Bang, and by the 23rd century,
30:01
we've already explored nearly 35 % of the entire
30:04
time as you know it. None of this makes fucking
30:07
sense, sorry. They're looking at all different
30:09
possibilities, which would be like, you can't
30:11
do that. You would never. Like it's infinite.
30:14
I know, I was just gonna say she's studying this,
30:16
yet she also said. They've gotten 35 % of infinity.
30:19
this version of a timeline that wouldn't exist
30:23
like it would only exist once yeah okay we've
30:27
explored nearly 35 percent of the entire time
30:30
as you have not From before the Big Bang to my
30:33
present. We are forbidden to go to the future
30:35
because of numerous reasons I won't touch on.
30:37
But it's not like there hasn't been people who've
30:40
tried. Now for my time. In my timeline, humanity
30:43
has advanced far beyond what you can imagine.
30:45
We've colonized Mars and several moons of Jupiter
30:47
and Saturn. But Earth is still the hub of civilization.
30:50
There is clean, the oceans are pristine, the
30:52
biodiversity is thriving again. We've successfully
30:56
managed to bring back about 20 extinct species.
30:58
We are quickly destroying all of that. No, no
31:02
isn't necessarily because he clearly said in
31:04
his timeline Plus I assume the robots get us
31:10
back on track. I'm waiting to see what he says
31:12
about the robots What are they're at in like
31:14
the fall of the robot? I keep interrupting They've
31:18
managed to bring back 20 extinct species of animals
31:20
including mammoths Tasmanian tigers and even
31:23
dodo birds course mammoths. They're all being
31:25
held in special zoos around the world. This wasn't
31:29
because we finally got our act together though,
31:30
it was because we had no choice. The climate
31:32
change you're grappling with, it reached catastrophic
31:34
levels in the 22nd century, forcing humanity
31:37
into a corner. The solutions our leaders came
31:40
up with involved massive geoengineering projects,
31:43
global cooperation, and AI systems that made
31:45
decisions for us when we couldn't agree. When
31:48
you can't agree, does it just get to do whatever
31:50
it wants? It worked, but at a cost. Technology
31:57
in 2264 is seamless. Artificial intelligence
32:01
isn't just a tool, but a collaborator. Everyone
32:03
is augmented in some way. Neural interfaces,
32:06
biological enhancements, you name it. We've transcended
32:09
disease, aging, and even death to a degree. Our
32:12
consciousness can be transferred into a synthetic
32:14
body or even entirely digital environments. Time
32:17
travel is rare as most people project themselves
32:20
into virtual spaces to interact or explore. The
32:23
actual time travel however is another beast entirely.
32:26
Time travel was developed in the early 23rd century
32:29
and it's heavily regulated. The idea is not to
32:32
interfere but to observe and learn. My current
32:34
mission is simple. Gather data on the 21st century
32:37
which is a pivotal era for humanity. Being in
32:39
your time is disorienting to say the least. This
32:42
is my second mission since I got the job. The
32:45
first one was to 2103 where I felt way more in
32:48
my waters despite the harsh conditions of that
32:50
time period. Here are some thoughts I've gathered
32:52
so far from your society. Your technology feels
32:54
rudimentary. Your social issues are frustratingly
32:57
persistent at your pace of life, and your pace
33:00
of life is really, really slow. You're on the
33:02
cusp of breakthroughs that will define your future,
33:05
but you're also so distracted by trivialities.
33:08
It's fascinating and infuriating at the same
33:10
time. I have so much more to tell you about the
33:12
future, but I'll just let you ask whatever you're
33:14
interested in. So don't hold back. I can't prove
33:16
I'm from the future, at least not in ways you
33:19
would find credible. Since my equipment is inert
33:21
without access to the power source, What it can
33:25
share is knowledge. I know how some of your challenges
33:28
will resolve, though I have to be careful with
33:30
the information I give because of timeline change
33:33
risks that are forbidden by contracts in my time
33:36
that are probably in the thousands. Paradoxes
33:39
are a real concern and the last thing I want
33:40
to do is trigger one. So no, I won't give you
33:42
any lottery numbers or Super Bowl results. So
33:44
Reddit, I'm here. If you have any questions about
33:46
the future or want any advice on navigating your
33:49
present, I'll do my best to answer and a proper
33:51
for the topic way of course. Now let the skepticism
33:53
begin. Let's explore a few of his answers. I'm
33:56
more compelled by this one than the other ones.
33:59
It seems more thought out. It does, definitely.
34:04
The first question was, why has a time traveler
34:06
from 2264 been posting about the walking dead
34:09
on Reddit for the past couple of years? They
34:14
didn't even use a throwaway? Yeah, they didn't
34:17
answer that question. That's a great question.
34:22
The next one is, do you expect us to read this
34:24
shit with no space between paragraphs? And the
34:27
answer to that is this must be the grammar style
34:29
of 2264. You know what, I don't think he answered
34:33
a single question. Oh no, here we go. Okay, yeah,
34:37
I was gonna say it's because they're not asking
34:39
the questions he wants to answer. Tell me about
34:41
John Teeter. Oh, they answered that? Yeah. John
34:45
Titor comes up a lot, actually. In my time, he
34:47
isn't treated as a confirmed person so much as
34:50
a case study. In other timelines I visit, he's
34:53
seen as a mix of early internet mythmaking combined
34:55
with the fears people already had back then.
34:58
The future he talks about doesn't line up with
35:00
mine, though that alone doesn't mean much. Timelines
35:03
diverge easily. I'll just say that if he was
35:06
an actual time traveler, he was extremely careless
35:08
by our standards. And then, ooh, how was race
35:12
Oh! Jeez! Oh my god. So it would still exist
35:44
if everybody didn't look the same. Yeah, I don't
35:46
think it would go away. That would just make
35:47
people focus on my new details. Yeah, that's
35:50
exactly what I was thinking. Well, that appears
35:53
to be all he answered. But I did find one too.
35:56
I'm just gonna go over this one because I quite
35:57
liked the last one we're gonna do guys This is
36:01
a reddit post from eight years ago. So this is
36:04
a fun one posted by 2072 time That's the reddit
36:07
user and it says i'm an american time traveler
36:10
from 2072 ask me anything And this is actually,
36:13
sorry, this is on AMA. This is not on time travel.
36:16
Oh, I love that. I like that it's not on time
36:18
travel. First post is the year of Donald Trump's
36:21
death, year of Putin death, year of Nicolas Maduro
36:23
death. Answer. Donald Trump dies on March 13th,
36:28
2025. One of his final public appearances is
36:31
at a rally in support of a Republican running
36:33
for governor of Virginia. Vladimir Putin dies
36:36
June 6th, 2025. His death was the center of various
36:40
conspiracy theories and a lot of people think
36:42
that radical liberals assassinated him, though
36:44
with the government list his death as a result
36:45
of natural causes. Maduro dies October 1st, 2038.
36:49
He spent his final years while residing in Mexico
36:52
due to being banished from Venezuela. He was
36:54
removed from office by a movement of rebels.
36:57
I mean, I guess you can call the Americans rebels.
37:01
Oh, look at this. Who wins at UFC 223, Khabib
37:04
or Tony? Khabib Nurmagomedov wins UFC 223. I'm
37:10
not going to lie. I had to look it up on my com
37:13
because I never really followed UFC. The time
37:16
traveler said that? Yeah. And then he's asked
37:18
what the Bitcoin price is, please. Bitcoin is
37:21
rare, so I assume that it's worth a lot. Stockpiled
37:23
if possible. The most popular digital currency
37:25
today is called the international and digital
37:27
money thing. IDMT. I know it's not a spectacular
37:31
name, I'm just ashamed with humanity in 2072
37:34
as you are. I love that he is doing an ask me
37:38
anything, but all of this stuff is just like,
37:41
how would you know? but that's far enough and
37:47
Chelsea like I said it's a wonderful array of
37:50
stories out there of people claiming to be time
37:52
travelers we're never gonna run out of them as
37:55
long as there are people there will be people
37:57
claiming crazy things which include going in
37:59
time and who knows maybe one of them did I don't
38:01
know I did if you do you just happen Stan it's
38:05
like I hope we provided you with sufficient information
38:08
we don't know what the police are like in that
38:10
time they are probably pretty good so be careful
38:13
but like get that hand man Yeah, that was super
38:18
fun. I quite enjoyed that. And it's it's fun
38:22
to think about what the world looks like so far.
38:25
And we're curious. I think that's what makes
38:28
these so fun to listen to, because people are
38:31
curious. I'm curious about what the world looks
38:34
like in the future. And I could have come from
38:38
the future. You know what? I would love to do
38:40
a case study. I can't. I don't know how I would.
38:43
But like How much of Time Traveler claims are
38:46
surrounded with the zeitgeist of the present
38:49
going on around it? These articles all came out
38:51
in the last eight years. And even the guy who
38:55
was more than like the eight years ago wasn't
38:57
really focusing on AI, whereas everybody else
38:59
really sure they post talked about AI. I actually
39:02
did have that thought as well. But like if you
39:05
went through like You could go with decades of
39:08
people claiming to be time travelers and I wonder
39:09
if there's like different things that people
39:11
in the 90s claiming to be time travelers would
39:14
say that are very relevant to that time that
39:16
not so much now. as opposed to like right now
39:19
they're talking about AI and bitcoins. It's kind
39:21
of like watching sci -fi for your time, right?
39:24
Of what they think the future looks like, like
39:26
flying cars and like the Jetsons as like horrible
39:30
of an example that is, but it's kind of similar,
39:32
isn't it? It's someone's vision essentially of
39:35
what the future looks like and that's me assuming
39:39
that they're not real, but perhaps they are real
39:42
and that's the real whimsy in it. Think but you
39:45
look at stuff like that. That's what they thought
39:47
the world would look like in the future. No flying
39:49
cars yet yet. Yeah The thing I'm most disappointed
39:53
from with us not reaching the Jetsons is George
39:56
only works two hours a week And we are nowhere
39:58
near that. And I do not have a bad nanny robot.
40:03
Like, I don't think robots look like that. Sassy
40:04
nanny robot. Yeah. I think she was sassy, right?
40:07
I can't really remember. Oh yeah, she was sassy.
40:10
And I just feel like a robot that I would have
40:13
as a nanny would be floating ten feet off the
40:16
ground and you couldn't decipher them from a
40:18
human. I like that one. It just seems like something
40:21
that shouldn't traumatize children. Does it though?
40:28
anyhow I don't know it was fun I like it I'm
40:32
gonna keep my mind open and think that there
40:35
could be time travelers cuz why not and I'm gonna
40:37
keep my mind open and maybe do an episode on
40:40
apex TV in the near future that sounds like fun
40:42
yeah it does sound like fun remember that time
40:45
that they said i had a picture and i was like
40:49
i knew it was a picture because i was because
40:51
i took the picture and then i walked forward
40:54
i wonder two thoughts one i wonder what the status
40:57
on starcrete is if they're actually using blood
41:00
and tears or if they did actually just go with
41:03
potato number two oh no i said that one and i
41:07
lost the other one oh and by the way i thought
41:10
of this part way through the episode so i do
41:11
need to add it here at the end while chelsea
41:13
thinks of her next point We did do another time
41:16
traveler, and that is the beautiful Andrew Boziago.
41:20
Oh, the most important president. I wonder his
41:23
status. That would have been good for an AMA
41:25
question. Yeah, but he was from our time. He
41:29
traveled out of it, right? But still a time traveler
41:32
He would be considered one in my books. Anyway,
41:36
anyhow, my thoughts not coming back. So that's
41:39
okay We're at a good spot to end it then I have
41:41
been Taylor here with Chelsea. We are drained
41:43
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