Truth Unrestricted
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151 episodes
Matthew Remski - The Boy Who Cried Fascist Pt 2
Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. Here is part 1 of my effort to do this with Matthew Remski. Part 2 of 2.
Matthew Remski - The Boy Who Cried Fascist Pt 1
Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. Here is part 1 of my effort to do this with Matthew Remski.
Unreality On Film - Superman
When Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created the character of Superman in the 1930s they had a specific vision. Has that vision been maligned for other purposes? Is it possible to view the character through the lens of the reality maligned? We ans...
The Globalists
Who and what are the globalists? Why are they talked about so often by people who push conspiracy ideation? And why haven't they provided a list? Does anti-globalism even make any sense? These questions are all answered in ep 145 of Truth Unres...
Unreality On Film - Network
Television has changed the world. Has it been for the better or for the worse? Were any of these changes intentional or were they incidental? How has the capitalist marketplace intertwined itself with television? All of these questions are disc...
Anatomy of a Grift - Poilievre on Rogan
On March 19, Pierre Poilievre was a guest on Joe Rogan. The press went wild wwaiting for Poilievre to go full conspiracist and, when he didn't, the press collectively gave him a thumbs up. But was that approval warranted? Did they examine this ...
Decision Paranoia
Decision Paranoia describes one of the primary motivations for conspiratorial thinking. Are you afraid of powerful groups controlling your mind or negatively affecting your decisions? Did you believe that wearing masks during Covid was going to...
Unreality On Film - Her
What would it be like to date a computer? And what would it like to be conscious but yet confined to the inside of a machine? Are we even real? Are our interactions the product of free will or destiny? These themes are explored in the 2013 film...
Anatomy Of A Grift - Desiree Fixler
What do you think about when you see propaganda? Do you see the same thing that other people see? Come with me as I examine a piece of it now to see if what I see is similar to what you see. Is the WEF a communist front? Does the idea of cooper...
Danielle Smith's Referendum
Premier (of Alberta) Danielle Smith has scheduled a referendum for Oct 19. She has 9 questions for Albertans that cannot wait for an election campaign. What are they and why would she choose these specific questions? Why isn't one of the questi...
Disinfo Vocab - Knowledge Fight Edition
The creation of new vocabulary to describe our environment is done to assist in the communication of ideas. If our good ideas need to be expressed faster and more efficiently then maybe we should be finding ways to do that. Here are some exampl...
Unreality On Film - Star Wars
Star Wars has always been about escape fiction with a light moral touch in a vast and expandable storytelling universe. In that fictional setting our imaginations can engage and reinterpret many things to create retroactive continuity to mask p...
Bullies, Dark Mirrors, and Separatists
Donald Trump is a bully who wants to feel powerful. His influence causes reactions that oppose him. In the middle of these forces arise opportunists looking to have their own movements rise in the cracks that form. Alberta separatists have rise...
Unreality On Film - Dark City
Dark City is a film about a secret reality that is being hidden from its residents. What does that look like? What does it lead to? How do we cope with divergent realities? These questions are explored in ep 135 of Truth Unrestricted.
Unreality On Film - The Manchurian Candidate Pt 2
Part 2 of our Manchurian Candidate coverage dives into direct comparisons between the two versions of the film (1962 vs 2004) from the conspiratorial perspective. How does the realism affect the audience's viewing experience? How do the ideas c...
Snowden Bishop's Receipts
Last week's episode (An Open Letter To Alex Hale) left some unanswered questions. Those questions are answered here.LinksQuorac's Nov 8th Twitter space which is referenced several times in this episode. The relevant section starts s...
Open Letter To Alex Hale
I call upon Alex Hale @NBPTROCKS to ask Snowden Bishop when her podcast episodes featuring dangerous antivaccine disinformation will be removed from Spotify and iHeartRadio.
Unreality On Film - The Manchurian Candidate Pt 1
The Manchurian Candidate has long been an idea separated from the film that created the term. The idea that a person could be reshaped and controlled as an assassin has long inspired conspiratorial thinking. So what other ideas from the film in...
Subjective Reality
Subjective reality is the mind's best estimation of what the objective world is. "Best estimation" is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting in that sentence.Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_character_of_experiencehttps://en...
Unreality On Film - They Live
They Live is a film about wealth inequality, not grand conspiracies. So why do so many people see it as a wink and a nod to their conspiratorial ideas? And how can we use that to understand them better? Ep 129 of Truth Unrestricted dives into t...
American Cultural Influence in Scotland
The US influences many other nations, particularly the English speaking ones. And most Americans don't think much about it. So I decide to talk to someone in Scotland about American Cultural Influence In that country.
Unreality On Film - Inception
Inception is a film about the barriers between the real and the imaginary. It provides a rich backdrop for understanding reality. The concept of incepting an idea into another's mind helps us understand the decision paranoia at the heart of all...
Formerly Unreal with Lydia Greene and Steph Kemmerer
How should we treat famous people who appear to be leaving behind conspiracist beliefs? How can we encourage them to take additional steps to form a shared reality without allowing it to become a game to increase their influence? How do we even...
Unreality On Film - Wag The Dog
Ep 125 of Truth Unrestricted is about the film Wag The Dog and how its ideas intersect with unreal ideas about our world. Also, for a few minutes near the end, I decided to name and shame famous actors who wouldn't be good enough to be crisis a...