Knowledge Fight - #362: There Is No Mermaid
Episode Date: October 30, 2019Just when they thought they were moving away from Project Camelot World, Dan and Jordan get sucked back in. Dan needed a break from Alex Jones, so the gents discuss some paranormal weirdos. In this in...stallment, they look into the time Kevin Moore (the guy who is making a takedown documentary about Project Camelot and Mark Richards) interviewed a guy who claims to talk to time travelers, which is as close as this show gets to a Halloween episode.
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I'm Jordan
We're couple dudes like to sit around drink novelty beverages and talk a little bit about Alex Jones
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Jordan
What was the last Halloween costume you wore unironically with just pure
I mean just like pure joy you know not like an adult Halloween party where you've got like the note
It's like I'm just going as the regular guy you know like that kind of thing I'm talking like you know
You know I dressed up as a ninja turtle and I fucking loved it
You know what I'm saying? That kind of shit
I've probably talked about this in the past but I have a problem with over committing to things like that
Like Halloween costumes have always been a problem for me because I'll just go too far with it
One the big time there was sort of like the breaking point for me
Was I went as a monk one year
Okay
And I shaved a circle on the top of my head
All right
Like I had my hair around the sides
Right right right right
Like you were a friar tuck
Yeah yeah basically
And I went around with a jug of Carla Rossi at parties
Okay
And made people take drinks when they did things that were against the social order
Right
Okay
I blessed people who were behaving well
Naturally
And really got into the character
You went a little too far yeah
I got super drunk
Super sad
And the next morning I woke up with a terrible hangover
I walked into the bathroom and like oh my god
My head
It was a mess
I had to walk to the store to get Gatorade
And that next morning with nothing
Just like that
Just him walking into me like happy Halloween
Yeah
You know what's up
You know what happened
Yeah
This is the Halloween walk of shame
Yeah but that was when I was probably
I don't know like early 20s
I have not
I don't really
I don't really get into that too much
I don't really care for the Halloween
Not really a Halloween guy
Not really
Any good ones when you were a kid
You trick or treat it right
We were super poor
Like growing up my parents and sisters
We had to make our own costumes
And we weren't very crafty
So like no there was
Us too
No there was nothing good
That was like the only time I got to eat candy
In my entire childhood
Oh yeah that's good
It's whenever we wandered around Halloween
And trick or treat it
Yeah the candy's good
But it's just a sheet
That you're wearing
Right
It's all slight variations on
What can you do with cardboard
Yeah yeah yeah
And turns out we couldn't do that much
Couldn't do that much
No so it was
The memories aren't good
Except the candy
Yeah
Candy was good
The candy's the good stuff
Those taffies that just come in
Like brown and orange
Oh yeah yeah yeah
So those ones
Those mysterious unlabeled
Yeah yeah yeah
They're like Tootsie rolls
But you know they're not
Piles of garbage
Yeah
And yeah there's a lot
And candy corn sucks
I don't know why there's like this new
Effort to rehab the image of candy corn
There's people are rehabbing candy corn
I feel like this year
Lewis Black is rolling over
In his grave right now dude
I don't know he
Is he dead?
No he's not dead
I feel like there's a
Effort that I'm seeing online
This year more than past years
To be like
Fuck you I like candy corn
Really?
I like candy corn
Stop making me feel bad for it
Man this era of polarization
Polarization has gone too far
I don't like the idea of like
Hey if you like candy corn
God bless you
But I don't feel like
We need to feel bad for
Not liking it
And declaring the objective
Fact that it stinks
It's awful
So that's my position
I thought that was one thing
That was the last thing
The American people could really
All agree on
Yeah yeah
Guess not
Nope
There's two Americas
Candy corn and non-candy corn
We're eating candy corn
To own the libs these days
I do appreciate though
That it hasn't yet extended
To attempting to mainstream
The pumpkin
Candy corn pumpkin
Yeah no that's never happened
It's too thin
No
No that's not going to
You can accept candy corn
In a tiny little thing
But not that big
Bulbas
Pumpkin
No
Anyway
I don't know too much
About dressing up
For Halloween anymore
But I do know a lot
About Alex Jones
And I don't know anything
About either Dan
That is correct
And today is actually
A spooky Halloween episode
That's not a fair way to
I think all of our episodes
Are spooky Dan
I wanted
I encountered a thing earlier
This week
Where I just felt like
I was kind of not interested
In like
I needed to take a break
From Alex Jones
Right
And so I was thinking
About like
This coast to coast AM thing
Yeah
Like they know
They do a lot of shit
About wacky
Crazy
Paradormal topics
Yeah
But then I was like
Okay for every year
Around Halloween
They do ghost to ghost
Well
Okay
Coast to coast
Ghost to ghost
It's right there
I don't blame them for that
It's too close
Right
But a lot of that
Is just taking calls
From people who have
Ghost stories
Yeah
And I don't really
Want to make fun of that
Because as much as we
You know
Like toxic platforming
That he does
Yeah
I don't want to spend
A ton of time
Just being like
Look at these dumb callers
That seems cruel
Like there is a line
Of like
What I think is probably
Acceptable for us
And that
That would feel gross
Yeah
If we were doing
Loveline and just talking
Shit about the callers
Over
Fucking the other guys
Talking
Then yeah
We're kind of the assholes
Critiquing Adam Corolla's
Politics
And some of the stuff
He stands for
Possible
Maybe not
Possible
But yeah
Like look at this dumb ass
Yeah
What an asshole
You're the asshole there
You didn't have to
Search out a caller
Yeah
So coast to coast
Ghost to ghost
Seemed like
Nah
That's a non-starter
But luckily
What about
Space ghost
Coast to coast
We could do that
But I found something
I found an option
To go into
Pretty excited about it
And here is
Another context
Drop from that
In the case of the
Merman
There's a lot of people
Going
In the case of the
Merman
Yes
Encyclopedia brown
On the case of the
Merman
I found something
To go over
That might have
Something to do with
Merman
But it actually
Does not
How can it not
What are you talking about
Merman will not factor
Heavily into this conversation
But
Before we get down to
Business and talk about
What we are here to talk
About today
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Yes, yeah
I don't know what's going on
My head is real foggy today
I don't know what it is, I'm in a haze
We're about to talk about Merman
We are not, actually
I can confirm to you that we're not
About to talk about Merman
But a couple things real quick before we get going
I apologize, there's been a slight
Little bit of sound issues on our last couple episodes
We are shifting up some of the recording technique
Working in a new workflow
And there's some kinks along the way
Apologize, hopefully this episode
Sounds up to our regular standards
And we're working on it
We appreciate your patience
And a special shout out to Zach
Who sent us, it might be Alex's intelligence source
Oh man, he's double crossing Alex
But sent us a package with a couple of shirts
Of a band that he found out about
Called the Titty Baby
Oh yeah, thank you very much
Yeah, we appreciate it
I'm going to make it one of my gym shirts
So people can look at me weird
Just getting swole
With the Titty Baby on my chest
There are not babies on each Titty unfortunately
No, but I also had a nice sticker
Which I've put up here in the studio
Oh yeah
So thank you very much Zach, we appreciate it
So Jordan, today what we're doing
Is we are going over an episode
Of Kevin Moore's show
So Kevin Moore for those of you
Who have not kept up with the entire project
Camelot Saga is a gentleman
Who believes he can channel intelligences
Maybe aliens, maybe other dimensional beings
Who knows, he does not have to do a fake voice
He absolutely doesn't have to do a fake voice
Because they have confidence in him
Definitely not because he has confidence in himself
He also runs a psychic hotline
For an exorbitant price
Probably, I'm not sure, I think each person
Has a different rate
He runs a psychic hotline
And he has decided that Carrie Cassidy
Over a project Camelot
And Mark Richards are running a scam
And so he is in the process
Of putting out a documentary
About how Mark Richards is a murderer
And he is not hung out with raptor aliens
And this is all very delightful
Carrie Cassidy is furious at him
And has decided he's a part of the gay mafia
He's a part of the gay, but mortal enemies
And probably involved with the Illuminati
On some level
To discredit Mark Richards
Because he is friends with space raptors
And they're trying to help humanity
Against the Illuminati, it's all very complicated
Anyway, I know that we were shifting away
From project Camelot stuff
But I can't not be intrigued
By this mystery that's surrounding it
And one of the big things that I find mysterious
Is why is Kevin Moore doing this?
That is a very good question
We talked about it, it's supposed to be money
It's gotta be money, but I don't understand
Why he would get any money out of this
Or how?
I'm not entirely sure either
But he's positioning himself in such a way
To be like a critical voice
I'm within this paranormal community
And I'm offended by these charlatans
Like Carrie Cassidy and Mark Richards
They make us look bad
And that is what the voices that I am channeling
Right now are telling me and you
Right, so I feel like
I want to understand a little bit better
This guy who's trying to...
Can we actually take that as his motivation
That he wants to be a thorough gatekeeper
Who's able to say like, hey, I'm a trusted voice
I'm gonna say this is cool
So I looked around a little bit
He's gonna be a space bouncer
And you know what?
It's honestly because my algorithms
Are all completely fucked up
With my YouTube viewing
I got suggested a video that he did
About time travelers
Of course you did
I figured like he did do some stuff about ghosts
And like channeling dead relatives
Of course
Just like this kind of feels...
Creepy?
Yeah
That's not gonna be fun to talk about
That's gonna be gross
Time travelers?
Possibly
What?
Now, are any of these fucking time travelers
Merman!
God damn it!
Nope
Merman will be mentioned
In passing
Okay, good
So here is the introduction that Kevin Moore has for this
He's talking to a guy who runs a website
Or I guess it's a YouTube channel called ApexTV
And he is on video
And he is just almost completely obscured facially
Okay
On purpose?
Yes
Okay, so it's like one of those...
To protect his anonymity
To protect his anonymity
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha
So here is Kevin's introduction
Hi guys
And welcome to another edition of the Kevin Moore show
Today's show is quite interesting actually
I've got the creator and producer of the ApexTV channel
From YouTube coming on
This YouTube channel produces interviews
That you probably won't find anywhere else
And they got in the direction of interviewing
Whistleblowers in time travel
So they've been interviewing time travelers
Now they've been known internationally recently
Because some of their interviews
Made it onto news channels throughout the world
And they contacted me
They asked me for an interview
And I was only just too happy to interview them as well
Oh god
Because I do actually enjoy what they do
So...
Travel through time
Making my mind on this one
I do appreciate that caveat there
You gotta make up your own mind on this one
If I'm gonna be completely clear with you Jordan
I think this episode is a little bit beneath us
Okay
There's really nothing complicated going on
Nothing too in depth
There's no real like lore to sort out or anything
The subject at the heart of this episode
Dan we're dealing with time travel
So I believe the answer to that is yet
There is no lore yet
I have bad news about this time travel
Oh no
So the subject at the heart of this episode
Is this YouTube channel called ApexTV
The channel is run by an anonymous guy
Who appears on camera wearing a hat
Big sunglasses and headphones
With his head mostly behind a big microphone
They mostly post videos about people who claim
That they're time travelers
And I wanna make one thing super clear right off the bat
I'm not mad at anyone for engaging in online immersive fiction
I know a lot of people really enjoy the titillation
Of stuff like that
You know the clearly fake stories presented as truth
And I don't necessarily believe that a lot of people
Who take in this kind of entertainment
Actually believe the things that they're watching
Right
Just kinda fun
Yeah
It's not my thing
But I'm not gonna spend a lot of my energy
Judging someone for liking that kind of entertainment
And as an extension of that
I'm not gonna spend too much of my time critiquing
The person who creates that kind of entertainment themselves
To the extent that this is just a YouTube channel
That lets people send them videos where they pretend
To be time travelers
Which they then post and make money off of
I'm not gonna make too big a deal out of that
I'm not gonna get all self righteous about that
Yeah
I'm gonna go with this one's fun
Until you tell me that there's some secret racial animus beneath it
I don't know if that's the case
But there is a difference though
Between that kind of thing
And you know like online immersive fiction
And a hoax
I'm not quite sure exactly what the difference is
But it's something I want to explore
Over the course of this episode
The only reason I'm even doing this episode at all
Is because like I said
I needed a break from Alex
And my YouTube shit is fucked up
And it accidentally revealed this episode here
That I'm like Kevin Moore is talking to time travel guys
I gotta listen to this
So I did and here we are
It's completely fucked up
And I kind of want to keep these characters in mind
Because eventually he's got to put out that documentary
About Mark Richards
For sure
And I feel like that will be the
I feel like that will be the what is it
The third act of our project Camelot play
Where Carrie ends up suing him
Or something like that
It turns into a real circus
I just, my two cents
I don't think he's ever going to actually release the documentary
He's smart he probably will
I don't know though
Some of those like trailers that he has
It's clear he is getting interviews with a lot of people
There'll be a lot of work to not actually put it out
But we'll see
Anyway Apex TV started out with your standard fare
Of paranormal clickbait videos
With headlines like 10 haunted dolls caught on tape
That kind of shit
Okay I like it
It wasn't a really successful enterprise
Since there's a lot of competition
In the disappointing videos market
Then in September 2016
Someone sent Apex TV an email
Claiming to be a time traveler from 2126
This guy agreed to film himself talking about time travel
Apex TV posted it
And over 1.5 million people have watched that video ever since
That really can't be true
It's crazy
I really don't like that
I want to go back to 10 fucking haunted dolls that are real
Give me listicles of lies Danny
Sure
And then they claim they got contacted by another time traveler
Who told them that he came home one day to find
That his kitchen sink had flooded
No that's a great origin story
He tried to fix it
Right
Quote
I had to crawl inside the cabinet
And as I did so
I discovered that it just continued
So I kept on crawling further and further into the cabinet
At the end of the tunnel I saw a light
And when I got there
I realized I was in the future
Okay
Alright now that I'm cool
It's a being John Malkovich situation
Yeah I love that
So this guy claimed that he traveled to 2042
Where he'd met the 72 year old version of himself
He proved this with a video he shot with his older self
Sorry
And if you watch the video
They both seem to be taking this whole thing in stride
Put their arms around each other
Smiling
Not freaking out at all about time ripples
Well one of them knew he was going to be there eventually
So the other one is fine with it
That's a good point
I guess he would have to
Yeah
Alright fair enough
That explains their blasé attitude
Oh hey me
I met you a while back
So they both show that they have the same tattoo on their forearm
But honestly that makes me believe this even less
This dude is supposed to be 40 years older
And his tattoo looks just as fresh as the one on his younger self
Hmm
Also it looks slightly bigger in size
And the positioning on the arm doesn't look identical
But who knows
That could just be shoddy camera angles
Looks like you just solved the case of the Merman
I didn't need to
Because in reality the video of this guy
Whose name is Hakan Norkvist
It was actually a viral marketing campaign
Created to promote the pension plans
Sold by the Swedish insurance company AMF
Oh god I want
Why is it that pension plans are doing better commercials
Than anything that we've got going on here
Because I understand that the advertising campaign
Was meant to be like
You can feel secure about your older self
Right right right
That kind of thing
It all makes perfect sense
The moment you describe it as an ad
I'm like oh yeah I got it all now
Yeah so it was passed off as a time traveler
By these guys over at Apex TV
So funny
And but it didn't matter
You know that it's all clearly like bullshit
Right right
It ended up getting like 2.5 million views
And they put it on YouTube
Everybody wins except I guess the actor
He probably didn't get residual
From the YouTube monetization
I don't know but it really worked as a viral
Yeah that killed it
At least to the extent that anyone knows
That it was a viral campaign
It might not have had the follow through
To get people to buy Swedish insurance plans
I don't think a lot of Apex TV viewers
Are also in the Swedish insurance markets
But whatever the case
You've got these two instances
Where like you know you were making these listicles
And it's doing whatever traffic it's doing
And you got one time traveler
One million plus views
Swedish insurance commercial presented as time traveler
2.5 million views
That's called finding a fucking lane is what that is
Exactly you see the writing on the wall
Time travel is what we do
So from there the channel has just put out tons of videos
Featuring people who are claiming to be time travelers
Many of their stories are contradictory
But that's okay because Apex TV wants you to decide
Whether or not these people should be believed
It's the standard paranormal conspiracy outlet line
I'm just passing along the information
You get to choose to believe it or not
And I think that sort of editorial policy
Is sloppy and idiotic but whatever
The world has room for sloppy idiots
As long as they're not actively creating this content
Then pretending they're just passing it along
It's all just kind of in good fun
It's Ripley's believe it or not except for YouTube
But really it's embarrassing
For Kevin Moore to be interviewing this guy
And not taking a more critical stance
Than we will see from him
By the time that they have their interview
It's been years since it came out that the person
Apex TV was suggesting was a real time traveler
Was just an insurance commercial
If Kevin's trying to rebrand himself
As the guy who calls out frauds in the community
Like Mark Richards
This is a good place to work that muscle a little bit
This would be a real prime opportunity
Yeah, just, I mean
Here's your quickest and dirtiest way
Of figuring out that this isn't real
The time traveler is giving an interview to you
So he is not actually a time traveler
It's very simple
This guy who's talking to Kevin
Isn't a time traveler himself
He's a liaison of time travelers
Oh okay, I apologize
He's the guy who talks to all the time travelers
It's a second stage time traveler situation
Well now that I know it's hearsay
Then we're fine
Totally
Of course this makes sense
Yeah, so you might ask yourself
How did this interview come about
How did Kevin get hooked up with the guy
Who talks to time travelers
A Facebook message?
Probably at some point during this process
Yeah
Well thank you for contacting me when you did
I really appreciate that
That was a bit out of the blue
I tell you what was the weird thing about that
Is I had just been looking at your channel
A few days ago before that
Yeah, I was actually going through the people
Who were subscribed to my channel
Sorting by the most popular
And you were just only a couple down
And I went onto your channel
And I saw you have a bunch of interviews with people
That I'm really into
And I'm really into the subjects
That the videos that you make
So I thought, hey, I mean maybe
He'd be interested in having me as a guest on the show
And it looks like a cool show
So I'm glad to be on
This was the first indication to me
That something might be up here
You know, I was looking through the people
Who are subscribed to my channel
And you were, you know, up there in the most popular
So I thought I'd reach out and see
That's bananas
Yeah, that kind of gives me a sense of like
This seems to be driven by publicity
This seems to be like
First indication of like
Crass promotional concerns
And that's like minute one of the interview
Yeah, that was trouble
It's almost being presented as like
You know, we're running the same circles
But it's not quite
Because he is still saying that I was looking
At the most popular of my subscribers
You got it
So that was kind of, huh
I mean, there's a certain refreshing candor to it
Sure
You know
Or he's like, yeah
Putting your nuts on the table
Just being like
This is what I do
For the world to see
This is what I got for you
I don't know what to tell you
I hobnob with people who know
The fucking secrets of space and time
And I'm also going through my high subscriber counts
To see who I like
Yeah, that was a little bit of a troubling thing
So, and also troubling
That Kevin is subscribed to this channel
Knowing that this is all like
It's for children
I watched a couple of the videos
And I'm like, what is this bullshit
Big bubble letters all over
Might as well be, yeah
That's why I'm saying this is kind of beneath us
It does not take any critical thinking skills
To deconstruct what this is
Right
I'm mostly interested in the fact
That Kevin Moore is treating this in any way
It deserves to be talked about in a serious way
The more I find out about Kevin Moore
The more I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
What is your game?
What is your fucking game?
I have a couple theories
And one of them is just he's bad at this
He's just kind of dumb
That's an underlying theory
That I think would be hard to talk me out of
But then there's a second theory that I have
About like why he's against Kerry
I'm not sure
You can't prove it, but it's
I'm working on it
And it's developing
And we'll get to that
Probably a couple episodes down the line
If this investigation continues
But one of the things is
Like I said, I'm concerned primarily
With the fact that Kevin is talking to this dude
And treating it seriously
And I think one of the things
In this next clip
I think we're going to see one of the reasons why
He's behaving that way
Now this is the kind of weirdest interview I've done
And that's kind of cool
Because I think out of all my interviews today
This is probably going to be the most fun one
Even though it stresses me out to have no questions
But it's still kind of hard
I know what you mean
I've done a lot of interviews where I don't have many questions
But yeah
I gotta say that this interview is not starting off promising
Kevin just outright said
That he hasn't prepared for this interview
He has no questions already
Which I find troubling
This is where the whole thing becomes really interesting to me
Because like on the one hand
This Apex TV is never something I want to cover
It's really just amateurish clickbait bullshit
Targeted at idiots and children
Naturally
Which I'm not particularly interested in
I feel like it would largely be a waste of time to critique it
In the same way
I don't have time to tell you about how that link
For that one super food that'll save your life
Is not on the up and up
Dude, I've got this one weird trick for you
That will do
I don't even know how many things at this point
Right, that's not a good use time
That's just frivolous bullshit
But Kevin Moore pretends to be a journalist
He's trying to establish his brand as this gatekeeper
Like a trusted voice
To guide you through the good and the bad
Of the space paranormal weirdo world
He clearly has interest in calling people out
Who he feels are giving the community a bad name
So you'd expect you'd have that more broadly speaking
Than just singularly applied to Carrie and Mark
Yeah, it would make sense
Unless there was something personal
Unless, oh shit
Is Mark actually his real dad?
No
Oh, are you sure?
I can't prove it, but no
So like if he's trying to present himself
Like we talked about like as like some sort of a gatekeeper
You'd think you'd apply this perspective more broadly
As opposed to like the singular focus
Like if he wants to get any mileage out of the perception
That he takes this stuff seriously
And resents people who are out there scamming people
You know, making the serious researchers look bad
He takes on certain responsibilities
Namely that he should be trying
Case in point, he's starting this episode out
Framing it as if Apex TV is talking to time-traveling whistle blowers
Which is meant to lend credibility to their videos
If he'd done any preparation, he could ask about
How exactly these people ended up promoting a viral insurance ad
As if it was a time-travel whistle-blower
That would be a good place to start
I feel like that's the first question that needs to be answered
Before you can even proceed with the interview
At least it would be if Kevin were an interviewer
Who was actually interested in upholding certain standards
In the paranormal world, which it appears that he's not
So anyway, I don't know, this is bad
When you start off with like, I don't have any questions for you
Guy who talks to time-travelers
How could you not have questions?
I have so many questions
I have, are you, I just, what's even better
Is that he commiserates along with him
He's like, yeah, I don't have questions for interviews all the time too
We are both bad at our jobs
Let's do it
Legitimately, let's say, out of the blue
I get a big bong message that comes up on my screen
And it's like, hey, I talked to time-travelers
I will allow you to interview me in 10 minutes
I would still have questions
No, I have so many
There's no amount of immediacy that the interview could come
That I wouldn't have some sort of like, alright
I'm gonna gather my thoughts really quick
Right now, how do you time-travel?
Can't answer that one? Alright, next
Why do you time-travel?
Again, he's not talking to the time-traveler
But you know, you still could ask those questions
Of like, you clearly have asked those questions to the time-travelers
You fucking better have
Although on the other hand, you just told me that a lot of the time
You don't have any questions, so
AMF, alright
I don't know, we'll know in 40 years though
So, the questions that we do get are
At the beginning of this are like
Hey, why are you hiding behind that microphone?
Well, that's a good one
So, why are you nameless to begin with?
Oh, well, I don't want to give out any personal information
As of right now, because I've interviewed a lot of people
Who have expressed concerns for their security
And I think those, by distributing their messages
If they're telling the truth, they could
That concern for their security could
Translate over into me
And the team here at Apex TV
That doesn't sound right
We want to, that's the reason we've chosen to stay anonymous
As of right now, okay
Another possibility is you know you're scamming people
Right, right
That could be
You don't want people, you don't want blowback
Right, right
That's another possibility
But again, I mean
Another reason could be he works at Home Depot
Yeah
And he would prefer not to be fired from Home Depot
Yeah, there's a lot of reasons
A lot of people use anonymity when they're fucking around online
Yeah
Anyway, I don't care
I didn't do too much looking into trying to figure out
Who this person is
Because I'll respect their anonymity
To the extent that they are
I don't think that there's anything
That I can tell that they're up to
That elevates past the level of like
I don't know
Fucking around internet nonsense
Yeah, I think that
Of course you would
Like in that line of work
It's just a good idea to say you have to be anonymous
Sure
Yeah, just throw it out there
Just for fun
In some ways
Whenever you're engaged in this sort of like
LARP or whatever
Yeah
You have to
It's by default
You say you need to be anonymous for protection
For sure, for sure
Because if you don't
It almost raises too many questions
Yeah
Like you should have to be anonymous
If you're saying these things
That's fair
Yeah
Otherwise you have to pull the
Mark Richards is like
No, I was off-planet
But they're giving you a different story
And they don't care
I've been burned
They know I'm crazy
So it's fine
Yeah, yeah
Right
So in this next clip
We get to a discussion
Of Apex TV's greatest work
They're really
The Swedish
No, that was big
But what really put them on the map
Was this one-time traveler
That they talked to
Okay
And it was a younger gentleman
Okay
And it ended up getting them
A bunch of mainstream coverage
Cool
Maybe not quite, you know, CNN
Sure
But still like some
Foreign news outlets
Yeah
All right
I saw recently
You got it
You was on talk shows
All over the world
In some cases
There was one in Australia
There was
You was over here in the UK
On the magazines
Newspapers
That was pretty impressive
Yeah, I was surprised that
The reception of one of those interviews
We did with a man named Noah
Who claimed to be a time traveler
From the year 2030
And it was actually him
That went on a lot of those
Talk shows and everything
I did go on a couple
But it's amazing
The reach into the mainstream news
That this has gotten
Because the ironic thing
Is that the people we've interviewed
Say they've tried to contact
The mainstream news
And they haven't been
Recepted to them
And they haven't taken up
Their stories
And then by us
Taking up their stories
And it actually reaches
The mainstream news
That's a
Really surprised me
And it really gave me hope
The dirty mainstream news
And they're
Covering up
Yeah
This is just another attack
On the news
Yeah
Fake news
They won't talk about
My time travel buddies
Not even time travelers
Also a point of order
2030 is a bad year to choose
That is way too soon
Oh yeah
That is only like 10 years away
Oh no
Wait
You can't really embellish
A bunch of stuff
20, 30
I would have gone with a different year
If I was him
What year would you choose
For your time travel?
I don't know
75, 82
75, 82
Yeah
Then I could just make up
Everything
Right
That's fair
It's so far in the future
That like
How will
I'll just
We don't even breathe anymore
Perf me wrong
We'll evolve
Out of breathing
Because the atmosphere
Will be destroyed
Then why do you look
Like you do right now?
Wow
Because we also have
Technology to revert
Ourselves back
So one of Apex TV's biggest
Claim to fame
Was their work that they did
With a person named Noah
Who was said to be
Like he said
A time traveler from the year
2030
Sure
Got a message for mankind
Noah had been
Knock it off
He'd been recruited
Into a time travel program
In 2025
Whereas job would be
To go back in time
To help compile
A compendium of all history
So Noah traveled back
To our time
Which makes almost no sense
Since you know
2017
The time that he showed up in
Wouldn't be a mysterious time
To the people in 2030
You'd think they'd be more
Interested in figuring out
What was going on
In ancient times
Or checking out that
Jesus character
Or something like that
You know
You could make a good argument
That the 2016 election
May be historically relevant
For future civilizations
But I would suggest
That they will not be wanting
For information about it
That's probably true
It's been pretty well documented
The things that are happening
In the present day
But maybe what happened
Was they lost the internet
And gained time travel
It was a one to one
I don't know if you know this
There's still a lot of books
Being published
Ah, not time travel
But I don't know
Still a lot of people
Chiseling things in stone
That was when Wikipedia
First came to a sentience
Sure
So anyway
Noah came back to our time
But ended up getting fired
From his job
With this future time travel
Organization
After he got into a bar fight
In South America
This trapped Noah
In the present day
Which was his past
So he had to create a new persona
And try and do the best he could
If you consider
For one second
The story that's being told here
You have to pause
And ask some serious follow ups
The first is
What kind of secret time travel program
Is just going to recruit someone
Who will then know all their secrets
And fire them for something as trivial
As getting into a bar fight
Just going to cut him loose
Cut him loose
Just throw him off in the past
I used to work at a movie theater
And one of my coworkers
Showed up for a shift
With a black eye
And a big cut
Bragging about getting into a bar fight
The night before
And they didn't even take it
Tell him to take the day off
It seems unlikely
That a time travel program
Would consider this termination worthy
As an offense
I mean you can't have this kind of moral behavior
Reflect poorly back on the time travel
But even if that's the case
Why strand the dude
Who knows all your secrets in the past
But you can't control him then
Budget
Any half decent secret time travel outfit
Is going to kill this guy
Or at very least
Bring him back to 2030
And lock him up there
For sure
Or lock him up here
Find a guy who can
Do any of these things
It makes you wonder
How much time travel detritus
Is left behind by these people
So anyway
They're littering time garbage
If I were the person
Doing an interview with this guy
This would be a hole
Yeah
In the story
That I would really need
A good explanation for
It would bother me
Yeah
So Noah had some fun stories
To tell about
What life was like in 2030
All right
For one
He informed the world
That MLK Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
His granddaughter
Yolanda Renee King
Will become president
In that year
That's fun
One problem is that
Yolanda was born in 2008
So that would make her
21 years old in 2030
Right
Which is lower
And you have to be
21 years old to run for president
Well it's lower than the
Minimum age for someone
To become president
As we understand now
Right
There we go
See Noah explained
That by that point
A law will be passed
That allows younger people
To be president
But he doesn't seem to
Understand that this would
Require a full on amendment
Since the presidential age
Limit is from article 2
Section 1
Introduction
I feel like if we get to the
Point where two thirds
Of the House and Senate
Pass an amendment
Lowering the age
Required to be president
And then three quarters
Of the states ratify it
I think the fact that
21 year olds could be president
Is not the headline
The big story here
Would have to be the
Massive political realignment
That would have to happen
In the next 10 years
To get us to the point
Where these stuffy ass
Washington political class
Are trying to get youth
Into the White House
Headline 2025
What the fuck's going on?
Like really
From a political science
Perspective
What could bring that about?
Like really think about it
One possibility would be
That we see a trend
Of high levels
We already are seeing this
And we have to continue
The high levels of
Political engagement
In the youth
For sure
You don't have to
Continue to the point
Where they become
The only political
Relevant voting block
In the country
As more and more people
Control the vote
They could vote in
Younger senators
And representatives
Who would be then inclined
To push for that amendment
I guess
But this younger voting
Block wouldn't be
Single issue voters
Just based on lowering
The age you have to be
To run for president
There would be ripple effects
Like polling shows
That the youth are pretty
Overwhelmingly in favor
Of some pretty
Left positions
Particularly ones
Related to civil rights
Issues and climate change
If they fix their wills
To the point where
They got that kind of
Constitutional amendment
Passed
You have to assume
Their presence would be
Felt in so many other places
Like this amendment
Would be a side note
To the bigger news
That fossil fuels
Had been outlawed
Right?
I mean
I feel like
It would be a side note
To the bigger news
That everyone over 40
Died
See that's the other
Consideration
That's the only other
Possibility right
There had to have been
An apocalypse
Or a plague
That strikes
Some sort of
New illness strikes
But it only affects
The older population
Everyone's got to grow
Up real fast
Right right right
If there's nobody
Over the age of 35
There can be no president
Dan
Right
Something like that
Is possible
But again
In that case
The amendment
Is not news
So he says
That Yolanda King
Is president in
2030
And he says
That she's
Elected at the age
Of 21
There's another problem
Here
And that is
That 2030
Is not a presidential
Election year
Yes you're right
She washing about her
Actually being elected
In 2030
But he does say
That she's
Elected at 21
Which she would be
In 2030
Right
If she was
Elected in 2028
She would be 19
At that point
None of this
Makes any sense
No
And is honestly
Completely disqualifying
Anybody who would
Consider this
Shit for a second
Is an idiot
Or they're running
A con
Right
One of the two
Right
So this is
The sort of
Who cares
They're having fun
Right
To the best of our knowledge
They're having fun
I'm not going to
Be a grumpy
Uncle Dan over here
Being like
You internet kids
Yeah
Noah got to go on TV
All around the world
How great is that
It's clearly part
Of some corner
Of the internet
That I'm not a part
Of
I don't fully
Understand
So I'm not going
To stake too much
Of my effort
On being like
Shaking my fist
Yeah
But at the same time
You
Like a guy
Trying to present himself
As
Like we're
You know
You can decide
Whether this is real or not
Well, why don't you help
People decide a little bit
By asking a fucking question
Anyway
He also
Noah predicted
That multiple US cities
Would be completely destroyed
By snowstorms
In February 2019
Which I don't think
Happened
I'm pretty sure
What year is it now?
2019
Ooh, that's trouble
That's not going well
So he revealed
This information
In a video
A piece of paper
Proporting to be a page
From a book that lays
Out our future history
This page is labeled
2019 to 2020
And it just has
Six entries on it
Which it seems
Boy, this is
Apocalypse-written
All over it
It seems
Everything is gone
It seems a little minimalistic
It's just a crumpled
Up piece of computer paper
That's been slightly
Distressed to look
Weather
Legitimately, it looks
Like something a junior
High student would make
If they're trying to come up
With a prop
Yeah
I'm not going to put this
Into words
But it's embarrassing
It's pretty sad
I've soaked tea
I've soaked paper and tea
And then baked it
For a little bit
And it gives you
A little parchment feel
It's good stuff
Yeah, so Noah made
The rounds on some talk shows
And got a bunch of publicity
Which was largely
Filtered back to Apex TV
Since he was
Appearing with his face
Obscured
You know, they had
A pixelated thing
And they altered his voice
So they made it
Pretty much anonymous
You know, even though
He has a name to him
Sure, sure
In one interview
I saw of his
It was a split screen
With the news anchors
On one side
And a shot of his chest
On the other
On his torso
He was wearing a well-framed
Apex TV hoodie
Oh, okay
So he was wearing their
Look, it's all free press
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This is one of the
More low-rent lazy scams
I've seen in my time
Looking at the
Paranormal space grifter world
It's remarkable to me
To imagine that anyone
Would look at this shit
And even give it a second
Thought, quite honestly
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It's even more insane
That this Apex TV
Would promote this story
That's so clearly full
Of basic holes
Oh, massive
Unless they don't care
It's just like
This is all just bullshit
Who cares?
Get it out the door
We'll get some money out of this
Then on top of that
It's bananas
Kevin Moore would have
Such low standards
That he's doing a softball interview
With the guy who's promoting
This very clearly
Full of shit nonsense
But that's what
Exactly what's happening
All right, so
The guy that we're talking with
Right now
Yes
That Kevin Moore has started with
Anonymous guy
Yes, anonymous guy
I'm just going to refer to
As Apex TV
Sure, sure
Apex TV dude
He is obscured
But his voice is not altered
Yeah
Now, Noah is both obscured
And his voice is altered
Yes, pixelated
Right
Over the face
Now, if I'm Apex guy
Why am I not both guys?
You have to be both guys
It's definitely not
It's definitely not
We'll get to that later
Okay
But, yeah, no
I thought about that as well
Yeah
Why not?
I mean, if you're already Apex guy
Well, of course you're going to
Jump into time travel
Why not?
You got nothing to lose
I think you've got to be worried
About the possibility of
Like raw footage getting leaked
Someone getting their hands on that
I don't know
I don't know exactly why
You wouldn't do it
It seems like you'd have
One less loose string
Yeah, well, the only thing
I was thinking is because
Moore asked him
He's like, or he says
You went on TV
You all did all these interviews
All around the world
And then he goes like
No, I did some
But it was this other guy
Making me think that
Moore knows that it was all him
And he has to then say
Kevin doesn't know shit
Kevin, well, yeah
I should start from that
Operating position always
Yeah, that's a theme
Fair enough
So, in this next clip
We get to find out the Apex
They're getting a lot
They talk to a lot
Of time travelers
Eventually, we got contacted
By this man claiming to be
A time traveler from the year
2026, I think
And that was our first interview
In which we actually sat down
With somebody in person
And he told us an amazing story
I think he really believed
What he was saying
Whether or not he was telling
The truth is another story
But it was a really interesting
Really interesting interview
And I think the viewers
Thought so as well
The reach to that was incredible
And ever since then
In my inbox
In the last week
I have maybe 20 people
Claimed to be time travelers
From various years
So it's getting hard
To interview all these people
And going through each one
One by one is
Quite the challenge
Right, right
If you thought any of them
Were actual time travelers
You'd make the time
I think
Also, 20 is not that many
It's a lot
You could vet 20 time travelers
In a good two or three hours
I would ask you
How do you vet a time traveler?
Facebook, first off
What do you do?
Put their name in there
Sure
Did it pop up?
Yeah, but if you're back in time
You could make a Facebook page
Sure
It's very easy
Okay
All you need is an email address
Yeah, but there's other information
I'm just saying like right off the bat
So if they claim to have shown up in 2017
And they have Facebook posts from 2015
Sure
That does indicate a problem
Yeah, yeah, yeah
See what I'm saying
But that's not going to be the case
For all of them
Some of them are going to be using aliases
You're not even going to be able to find their Facebook page
For sure
But say you got 20
I say in the first 10 minutes
You can knock out at least four or five of those
Yeah
So now you got 15
And you got a whole day to go through 15
I bet you could do it
Maybe
No problem
I think that you're underestimating the workload
That this would bring up
I think that you probably imagine
Just everything is this way
Oh, yeah, it is
No, no, no
I mean time traveling specifically
I think that you
You do a lot of work
For real world shit
I think you're
I can prove somebody is not a time traveler
In 10 minutes
All right
Listeners
Pretend to be a time traveler
Email Jordan
20 of you
Just 20 of you
Yeah, just 20
Just so you can get a taste of this
I'll knock it out in five minutes
Well, you're in on it now
And you could just say none of them are
I could have said that anyway
You probably should
Anyway
We got an indication earlier
That there is this sort of like
Huh
You know, this guy is coming on Kevin's show
Because he's one of his more popular subscribers
Sure
Sure
These sorts of interests
These sort of like motivations
Come up a bit
Well, I'll just say
I mean that's some
You know, I mean I've got
I can beat this out
But I mean you're making some serious money
From this channel as well
And I think the figures are quite right
On social blade
Because they're right for my channel
So first of all
I say congratulations for that
Right
Yeah, you have to understand
We're employing people to transcribe
All the videos
Putting them into text forms
So we can put them out on our website
We're making the videos into formats
That will be acceptable for Instagram, Facebook
We're actually translating the videos
Now into other languages
Including Korean, Espanol, Spanish
A couple other languages
Oh, Hindi
We've actually got those channels launched already
So a lot of the money
Most of the money is going right back
Into ApexTV
And into employing more people
To spread these people's messages
And our goal is just to make an environment
In which people aren't afraid
To tell their stories
So we're making a lot of money
But it's just going back into running the business
There's a lot of deflectionary things
Like that
And that entire theme of like
You know, not saying this is true or not
Not saying this is true
We're just going to make a place
Where things are comfortable
For people to come forward with their bullshit
I guess fine
It's kind of enabling in some ways
But this is a really wild
Space weirdo interview
Already at the gate
They're breaking a lot of rules
What do you mean?
Well, Moore just said
Talking money?
Yeah
Moore just said like
Hey, I know basically how much money you're making
Because of how much money I'm making
So congratulations
That is a little
That is not okay
That's a slight mask slip moment
Yeah, that's not good
That is
That is
Hey, good job
Yeah, I don't know
I guess on the one hand
You could look at it as like
We're just talking about it
In terms of the financials
But what we're really actually talking about
Underneath is like
How many people are seeing the message
But that's even like
Yeah, try and sell that to anybody
I'm sure that would be
Kind of the way that they were trying
Yeah
But it does seem like
That money, promotion, attention
Is much more the currency
That they're trafficking in
I just
I don't know
I just
I find this very weird
And then also
Just that constant refrain
Of like
I want to just put it
Like their stories out there
Yeah
I don't know if it's true or not
I don't know if it's true or not
That is so consistent
And it's just weird
I'm just heroically bringing
What may be truth to the people
And the mainstream media ignores
They can't do it
Right
They're too afraid
Without me
Noah would have never been on television
Absolutely
Fine
Then again
Neither would these 20 other guys
Who are lying as well
But that's not important
Sure
So Kevin gets around to talking about
How like
It's weird
No time travelers talk to me
Oh my God
You know just
I don't get these people coming to me
Right
I've never had
Well, maybe one
Maybe one
And it was
It was about what the real story
Of the John Teeter story was all about
And it was just so crazy
And out there
That actually
It almost did sound
Actually there was some truth in it
Right
Yeah
It was a love story
Mixed in with this as well
And I've got all the context
Oh wow
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
It was
You know
I've never actually really talked about this
I went all the way down to London actually
To interview this lady
Who had met this person
Many years ago
Oh
And she had
It had destroyed her in some ways
Because she fell in love with this guy
And
Is he talking about the time travelers wife?
He's still about to go to Mexico apparently
And the whole
John Teeter story
Is not what we think it is
It's actually very different
To what the actual
Story is that's out there
So I've only come across it once
And I never did anything with it
Why didn't you do anything with it?
Yeah
I also
When I was listening to that
I was like
I've never seen or read
The time travelers wife
But
That sounds like it could be
The time travelers wife
It seems like the plot
You might write
You've never seen it
It just heard the title
It's definitely somebody's book
Yeah
Yeah
So John Teeter is the classic
You know
That is right
Oh no
I didn't
I don't want to get too in depth on it
I think we'll probably end up covering it
If we keep going with Coast to Coast A.M.
Just because it's a huge thing in that
I might know it
I'm just terrible with name
He's a guy who claimed to be
Time traveler
And made a bunch of shit predictions
And then other people have
Oh yeah
No no
I know that
We talked about him the last time
We talked about time traveling weirdos
But I just
I just do not remember names
It's
Yeah
We haven't gone in depth on it
Because it's
It's a gigantic body of work
Yeah
Let's say
But it's a big part of the like
Online time travel theory work
Right
There's like
Pretenders
There's the original fake
Sure
It's a mess
Sure
But yeah
I found that to be strange
Because I don't know what
He's actually talking about
He actually think there's a time traveler
Or did he talk to a lady
Who got conned by someone
Who said they were a time traveler
Right
But he's actually in Mexico
Right
I don't know what the fuck
He's talking about
I know somebody didn't make any money
Off of this
And somebody definitely lost some money
And
That's all I know
Kevin decided not to do anything with it
Which might be
An indication of good judgment
He could be both
Yeah
So
I don't think that if our
Listeners
Email you
And try and make you vet them
I don't think you're going to have too
Tough a time with it
Because like I said
You'll just ignore all of it
And say none of them are time travelers
Fair
Which I think is good
Yeah
I think that's a positive approach
That would be your approach
Sure
Now we get to hear a little bit
About ApexTV's approach
Okay
Towards vetting time travelers
I like it
Okay
How can you vet these people?
That's the issue
Is with
Like we've had a few
Who
We go through
Doing a
So you see
We don't go
In person interview
First off
We do a couple of Skype interviews
We ask them
If they have any conclusive proof
For anything
And if what they're showing us
Seems to be holding up
We sometimes do go as far as
Meeting them in person
We've done it
A variety of times
Travelled all over the world
Actually had some of the best experiences
Of my life
For example
We went to Armenia
On several occasions
Other European countries
To do interviews with these people
So yeah
That's a major issue
It's like
How do we know?
Yeah
And what we're trying to do
Is
Create an environment
In which people
Aren't afraid to tell
Their stories
So I think
Almost
The less vetting the better
But if someone's obviously
Trying to pull your leg
Like we've had
That many times
Like we go on with an interview
With somebody
And they're wearing a ski mask
And they
They seem to be
Making a joke out of the whole thing
He looks like he's
Five years old or something
And we've had that
A couple times
Here's how you know
Someone's trying to pull your leg
They tell you
They're a time traveler
I
I
I
So what's the line, man?
Here's the two things
That we learned from that clip
The first is
That the answer is
How do you vet these people?
We don't
Yes
That's the number one thing
I believe you said
You don't want to do too much vetting?
We talked to them
A couple times
See if they're just yelling
Yeah
Probably not
Because that's just not
Going to be good for the brand
Right
That's an issue
Or if they're clearly
Just mentally ill
Yeah
You know, that's not going to work
For us
So we do a couple
Skype interviews to make sure
That they can coherently
Say a couple lines
And then we move forward with it
Yeah
So that's the vetting process
It's just
An audition almost
Right
Which is great
And then the second thing
That we learned is
They're making enough money
To travel to fucking Europe
Repeatedly
Yeah, I'm really not
Liking these guys
So that's good
I'm really not
Liking this
Okay
You are fucking
Bumming me out, man
Yeah
Yeah
Good
Happy Halloween
This is beneath us
Also, we're broke
And they are flying around
And having the best time
Of their lives
It's beneath us
From like a
Like a content standpoint
I understand
To just critically
Discuss them perhaps
But they're not
Like irrelevant
In some sense
Like they are
Massively popular
In a world
That we're not a part of
No, no, no
I understand
We're still not punching down
Even if this is profoundly
Stupid stuff
I'm not furious
I'm more furious
That we are punching up
At them
That is what I am
That is a
That is what I'm
Expressing my frustration with
I think we just need
No vetting
Yeah, I
Really
This entire show
Is vetting
And we're doing it wrong
Yeah, apparently
So it turns out
When you don't vet
Yeah
Some people end up
Being out at his liars
Sure
And we've had some people
Actually come out as being
Fake
For example
We did an interview with
Michael Phillips
Who claims to have been from
I forget what year
But he talked about
A third world war
And he
He actually came out
A couple of weeks ago
He posted a video on his channel
Saying it was all
It was all fake
To see if we would take
His story and everything
And I think that
That some people might see
That as
I don't know
But I think it
I think it serves us
In the sense that
They can see that
We're not part of these people
We're not
We're not telling them
What to say
They're the ones coming to us
And I saw in the comments
Section a lot of people were
Asking them
Did Apex TV pay you
Because that's
That's what everybody's
Saying online
And he responded to all the
Comments saying no
I was just trying to see
If Apex TV would
Take up my story
So, you know
That might be the case
With many of these people
But if just one person
Is telling the truth
It proves that
Things are going on
That the public doesn't know
About behind closed doors
But what if no one's telling
The truth
I mean
His premise is correct
If there is one time traveler
Yeah
One
One
Then the whole game is up
You bet
You know, there's just
The whole thing
You bet
It's all over
Now
We start from
Year zero
If there's one time
Travel
I agree with you
However
You can't be on
Proving that there is one
Is
It should be easy
It's very easy
It kind of
It kind of should be
Yeah
So it turns out, Jordan
Michael Phillips
That guy that he's talking about
In that clip there
He's not the only time traveler
That's Phelps
Okay
He's not the only time traveler
Who's been promoted
By Apex TV
That has come out and said
That what they did was fake
Okay
So this video
That he's doing
This interview has taken place
In 2018
Well, you remember that guy
Noah
That we talked about
Yeah
Well, in July 2019
Apex TV
Put out a video
Revealing that the person
Claiming to be Noah
The time traveler
Who got all of this
Mainstream news coverage
Was actually just a guy named
Jason
Who'd faked the whole thing
Right
In the video
Put out by Apex
Jason explains
That he was an
Alienated kid
Lonely and bullied
Who'd stumbled into Apex TV
He really got into the whole thing
And decided to contact them
Claiming to be a time traveler
The entire message
Feels very curated though
With lines like
Quote
Just because I lied
It doesn't mean that other people
Aren't telling the truth
Okay
Alright
The video feels like
It was created in order
To address the fact
That this story was bullshit
But also
Maintained the perception
That everything else
Is probably isn't
It also feels like it serves
A very specific purpose
Namely to put the blame
For the lie on Jason
He was socially isolated
And insecure
So he concocted this plot
Apex TV
Was just a media outlet
For him to tell his lie
And they did everything
In their power
To check his story
They even gave him
A lie detector test
So what more do you want
From these people
This feels
A lot like media relations
Not like an update
To the story
Another thing
That seems weird
Is that all the NOAA videos
Are still up
On the Apex channel
Well yeah
None of their titles
Have been changed
To something like
Guy Lies to us
About time travel
But it's still good content
Man, just because it's not true
Doesn't mean it's not good
Content
Media like parentheses
Debunked
Or something
What is that
What are they
The Guardian
No, this is Apex TV
Debunk yourself
They still have titles
Like quote
Time traveler from 2030
Reveals future of the Philippines
And quote
Time traveler
Meets his future self
No disclaimers
Or anything
Yeah, yeah
They should probably
Just have Jason
Yeah
Jason reveals
Secrets of 2030
Also, that video
Where he meets his future self
Who apparently
Has come back to 2017
From 2070
That's how it goes
Yeah, yeah
So this guy
Originally came from
2030 to 2017
Right
And now
2070 version
Has come back to 2017
Okay
And they're meeting up
They're gonna start a band?
Well, here's the thing
It creates a ton of problems
Now that we know
That it's all a lie
Right
How did that happen?
So you have NOAA lying
Yeah
And now you have a
Completely separate person
Who decided to get in
On the lie
Right
So Apex TV
From the two
Uh-huh
If this is supposed to be true
How can this even work
With the story?
I thought NOAA got fired
From the time-traveling job
And got stranded in 2017
So this guy from 2070
Would have to be
Like 60 years older than him
But he's clearly not
He's just
How old he would be
Aged from 2030
Onto 2070
Right
It makes no sense
Right, he wouldn't have
The additional 13 years
The NOAA in 2030
Is no longer in the future
That
Like past the time
That he comes back
To 2017
So that version of himself
Shouldn't exist
It's just an embarrassing
Showing
But you know
Apex TV
Is just there to tell
People's stories
It's not their fault
That the stories that
They're telling are lies
They felt victim to
An elaborate fraud
Carried out by a
Socially isolated teen
And a 40 year old guy
Who wanted to pretend
To be his future self
It could happen to anyone
That really does sound
Like
It could happen to anyone
That is a common story
Right
I go down to the salon
We all play
Go
And we talk about
This circumstance happening
All the time
It's
Weird
Yeah
Yeah
Considering the logistics
Of how this would end up
Happening
Yeah
It doesn't seem like
It would end up happening
Except by
A guiding hand
Yeah
He is
He was absolutely right
When he said
It's a good idea
Not to do too much
Vending
Like in the same way
It's a good idea
Not to worry too much
About whether or not
It does come out
Or we're sure
If you start putting
That effort into it
Then people are going to
Recognize the craft
Whereas if you have
No effort
People are just going to
Think you're lying
And some people are going
To think you're telling the truth
Doesn't need
Effort
Nope
So
They're talking about this
And so Michael
Phillips
He wasn't true
And it all turned out
To not be true
So Kevin asks
An interesting question
And that is
Have you ever been talking
To one of these people
And just be like
I don't know about
I have not
Is there times in an interview
Where you just think
This is just a load of rubbish
Or this is just
I just can't
This isn't
This is something
I can't swallow
Do you know what I mean
This is just
I can't go down
This direction
But you know
Yeah
Go ahead
During the mermaid interview
I remember when he
When I asked him
If he could speak
Mermaid
And he started
Making those sounds
That was the hardest
I've ever tried
Not to laugh
During an interview
I didn't want to be disrespectful
He was a mermaid
But uh
Yeah
There are
There are times like that
Yeah
I mean look
You know
I deal with a lot of shows
That with people that channel
You could say
The same thing for them
Do you know what I mean
In some respects
Exactly
And I mean
I never
You know
Doing a documentary on channel
And that's why
I'm heading back out to the states
Soon
Just to finish that documentary
Oh cool
No
We can't be doing this
But
You know
You could say
We can't have both of you
Commiserating on the like
I know some people
Just lie to your face
Right
Well I mean
It's really interesting
Because here what's going on
Is Kevin has asked him
What's the most laughable thing
You've ever seen
It's like well a guy
Pretending to do
A mermaid voice
Yeah
You know that's kind of like
Whenever I talk to channelers
Put two and two together
Asshole
No shit
And they're both
They're both just moving on
Just moving on
Yeah I know
Isn't it weird that
Sometimes people lie
To us
Of all people
One
Interpretation you could take of
That
Is that Kevin Moore is saying
Like
Oh that's very similar
To
How
The bullshit that I deal with
Yeah
Which is the channelers who do
All these ridiculous voices
Right
The other reading of it
That you could take
Is Kevin Moore
Believing that the channelers
Weird voices are sincere
And genuine
And then being like
Well you know
Maybe that guy was talking
Mermaid
Yeah
So anyway
They don't talk about it much
But he interviewed a guy
Who claimed to be a mermaid
Yeah
So
I believe the
Direct quote began with
During the mermaid episode
Yes
Which is something that
I don't hear often enough Dan
That was not something
I decided to look into
For this episode
Leave that one
Well enough alone
Let me tell you something
In ten minutes
I can debunk whether
Or not you're a mermaid
Send me an email
Through your water computer
I love the idea that
Maybe you're gonna get
A fuck ton of emails from this
So he also
ApexTV
Has another interview
That's coming up
This is in the context
Of a conversation
Where Kevin's trying to ask him
About like
Do any of them have technology?
And he's like
Well some of them say
They have to
Right
Good
Good sign
One of them has a top
A spinning top
And I did actually
Go watch this video
It is just a top
And he claims
That it has something
To do with like
A connect to his brain
And endorphins
Sure
And he's like
Well you know
I know that you won't think
This is future technology
But if you're a teacher
Who look back
And see this video
They will know
That I was a time
Who cares
Okay
Anyway
That's the least important
Thing about this guy
Sure
There's another indication
That I get
That something might be
Up with this dude
So in a couple days
We're gonna do the interview
With him
And he's gonna show it to us
That's on Skype
And I'm excited
To see what he has to say
Sounded like an Australian man
Who said
He said some empire
Never went
Dang I forgot the empire
But he said
One of them never went
Got overtaken
And they
The Ottoman empire
He said they never fell
So they've actually
Existed throughout time
What we have here
Is possibly a slight indication
Of some bigotry
Creeping into the proceedings
Now it's entirely possible
That this guy
Who he's talking to
Is just a weirdo
Who has some
A historical views
And some revisionism
But generally
When you hear someone
In the present day
Talking about the
Ottoman empire
And how it never really
Went away
You're listening to a rank
The Ottoman empire
Is one of the largest
Historical examples
Of a widespread Islamic kingdom
And it existed until
Relatively recently
Only being dissolved
After World War I
In modern anti-Muslim circles
It's not super uncommon
To hear references
To the Ottoman empire
Is what the Muslims
Want to recreate
I know that I've definitely
Heard people express
The idea that the empire
Never fell
And is actually still alive
Today
In what they would describe
As expansionist Islam
All this really
Is to serve
It serves to reinforce
The perception that the
Term oil in the world
Is easily understandable
As a civilization-level conflict
Between Christians and Muslims
It could just be that this dude
Is writing some sort of
Benign historical fiction
Except that's entirely a possibility
But little things like that
Kind of hinted a possible underbelly
Of the sorts of things
That you could accidentally
Give a platform to
When you have literally
Zero editorial oversight
Or quality control
In what you put out
And what you allow these
Supposed time travelers
To disseminate
You could accidentally
Give a platform to somebody
Who has some like crypto
Fucked up messages
Yeah, well, I mean
I imagine that it is
At the very least
Statistically representative
The percentage or the ratio
Of out and out bigots
Versus non
In the space weirdo community
As it is for the population
At large
Maybe higher
If not higher
But at least, you know
So I say that puts us at
What?
Like at least a 30% chance
That any one of those
Space weirdos
Has some weird racial
Probably way higher than that
It's possible
I don't want to try and
Like I don't want to try
And give a specific number
Cause I think that's where
We get into trouble
But yeah, you know
There is some segment
Of the population
Of this population
That
Is just sublimating
Their regular racism
Through space racing
Sure
And when you have
No vetting
When you have no standards
Of what you put forward
Because you want everybody
To be able to come forward
With your message
You kind of got to expect
That some people might
Subconsciously
Or even consciously
Try to trojan-horse
Those sorts of messages through
Oh yeah
And if you're doing
No oversight
No editorial process
Nothing
You'll end up just airing
Shit that could possibly be
Space white nationalism
Yeah, easily
Easily
So now we get to another
The plot sort of shifts
And we get to a very
Familiar topic
In a paranormal talk
And that is of course
The Mandela Effect
Okay
With the
Just swapping this subject
A little bit
But the Mandela Effect
That's something that you've
Covered on your
Channel as well
And that's got a lot of
That Mandela Effect
A lot of people are talking
About that on YouTube
Right now
Totally
Just explain to us
What that is
Just to begin with
Yeah
The Mandela Effect
Is where
You think something
Happened in a certain way
And it's more so
Where a
Mass of people
Think something happened
In a certain way
For example
At the end
Of the Star Wars movie
Darth Vader says
Luke, I am your father
It turns out
He never said that at all
And you can
You can look this up on
YouTube
I forget what he actually
Said
But it wasn't that
And there's been
A variety of examples
Within mainstream media
Did you know that, Jordan?
What?
Freak out
He doesn't say
Luke, I'm your father
Okay
Oh
Most disappointing
Freak out ever
So this is one of the
lamest examples ever
Of the Mandela Effect
But it's one that
Everybody trots out
Because almost
Everybody has seen
Star Wars
Search your feelings
You know it to be true
I am your father
No
No
Is that it?
No
Okay
People tend to remember
The line at the end of
Empire Strikes Back
As Luke, I am your father
But in reality
It's not quite the line
In the movie
Luke says to Darth Vader
You killed my father
And Vader replies
No, I am your father
It's really easy to see
How this could be quoted
As Luke, I'm your father
To the point
Where people just accept
That that's how the line
Must have been
Because like
Discussing
Out of context
Or if you're quoting
The movie
No, I am your father
It sounds way worse
Than Luke, I am your father
He never said
Play it again, Sam
Let's move on
You know
That's how it is
With pretty much all of these
Things that get cited
As examples of the Mandela
Effect
They're all just things
That are slightly off
From what actually happened
Because what actually happened
Is slightly off
From what your brain
Would naturally assume
The Berenstain Bears
Is remembered as
Berenstein Bears
Because Stein
Is a much more common suffix
In last names
Than Stain
Stain is just not
As common at all
So people are like
Ah, Berenstein
Or Berenstein
And they don't have
Any specific stains
Or anything that would
Make you go like
Oh, Stain
That would absolutely
Trigger in your mind
Of course
The mnemonic or whatever
The associative device
Or in reverse
If they were Berenstein
Bears
But they were covered
In stains
Then you'd remember
Them as the
Berenstein Bears
It'd be very confusing
I've looked at a bunch
Of examples of the Mandela
Effect
And pretty much all of them
Are somewhere in between
Completely uninteresting
And that's weird
Mandela Effect
Shit is good and fun
And honestly
I think it's kind of neat
Like a cataloging
Of little ways that we
Misincorporate information
Into our collective
Cultural memory
Almost like it's a
Database of times
That we've veered off
From integrating
Precise information
Preferring simplicity
But it becomes
Really serious
Bullshit
When you take it seriously
And try to present it
As a paranormal phenomenon
Which is pretty much
All of these grifters do
And it makes sense
Why they would
The Mandela Effect
At its core
Is pointing out errors
And cultural memory
And by definition
We're all engaged
With cultural memory
Everyone who's part
Of the culture
Takes on some relation
To it
We draw information
From it
If we didn't
We'd have a much more
Difficult time
Relating to each other
Without shared references
And touchstones
And easy ways
To make metaphors
Because we're all
Interacting with this
Collective memory
Pointing out times
When it was just
Slightly off
Is compelling
To a large number
Of people
Almost every single person
You'll ever ask
About the Berenstein bears
Will think it's spelled
Stein
Because that's the way
Our culture ended up
Remembering the name
Thus, whenever you point
Out these little quirks
You will get a response
Out of most people
Ranging from
That's weird
To no fucking way, man
And it's that response
That you need
In order to inject
A kernel of doubt
In them
That reality is
Not what it seems to be
You can take that visceral
Experience of learning
That Darth Vader
Doesn't say
Luke, I am your father
And use it to say
Hey, you were certain
That he said
Luke, I am your father
But he didn't
So what else are you certain
Of that you might be wrong
About?
In this way
The Mandela effect shit
Is a really useful
Entry point for
Paranormal grifters
To use to open
Their audience's mind
To the possibility
That other complete
Horse shit they're trying
To sell them might
Actually be real
Even though you're certain
That it's not
That's why it's such
A mainstay
Of these weirdo
Grifter's content
So I'm not surprised
To see both Kevin
And ApexTV
Of course
It's almost
It's near universal
And I'm not saying
That everybody who talks
About it is by default
Engaging in some kind
Of grift
Right
Because some people
Are just like
Oh, this is a strange thing
Isn't it a fun, yeah
You see it
But the people
Who are kind of
Really into it
Those are the people
You gotta really look out for
It is kind of
An interesting
Collective neurological
Exploit
Yeah
You know, it's like
That video where
You see all those people
Bouncing the ball around
And then there's the
Cutts that out
Why do I miss that?
And the same thing is
True of this on a macro scale
Of just like
I'm rewriting reality
For my comfort
And then whenever
You show me that it's not
My discomfort
Expresses itself
In a weird way
Yeah, attention and memory
Aren't things that
Like catalog things
Directly and concretely
Exactly
And that is true
On an individual level
And it's true
On a cultural level
I witness testimony
Should not be allowed
Sure
And that's most of
What explains this phenomenon
Yeah
And so I just
When you look at it
On that level
Whether or not
I do think it's intentionally
Deployed and weaponized
In some ways by these
These folks
For sure
I do think that it is
A recruiting kind of strategy
In these space grids
Yeah, I think it's
I think it's weaponized
In the same way that
So many games are
Optimized to maintain
Your attention
And keep giving you that
Like when you're playing
Candy Crush or something
Like that
They have psychologists
Who have spent their careers
Figuring out ways
To make you spend 20 cents
Every time you need
To press a button
Sure
They give you that feedback
Loop and the same thing
Is true of this
If there's an exploit
To make them
To earn people money
They're going to find it
And there's so many other
Things too
I mean there's parallels
Of stuff in Alex Jones's
And the right-wing media's
Strategies too
Like with him
You can get a lot of people
To be like
Oh, freak out
By being like
Hey, did you know the Federal Reserve
Is private?
Like those sorts of
Why is it called Federal then?
All those kinds of
Like entry-level
Meme type things
Are they served
To open you up
To the grander
And larger
Less believable
Conclusions
That they want to walk you towards
And you can go
Just a little bit of time
Oh, I thought I could
I was certain
It was spelled
Berenstein bears
Well, if my memory is wrong about that
What else could it be wrong about?
Sure
Could be anything
And that's one of the things
That I actually
I think is good and bad about this
Like it is really interesting
To think about these things
And it's fun to talk about
The ways in which our memories
Glitch to a certain extent
Right
I don't know
That's my feeling on it
But I just think you have to
Have a more critical stance
If you want to talk about it
Honestly
Yeah
You can't talk about it
It's like
Oh, it's probably
To have parallel dimensions
Shifting
It could be
That is a sign
That you're probably
Full of shit
Kazam
So in this next clip
We talk a little bit more
About this here
This year Mandela Effect
And I think they called
The Mandela Effect
Because they heard
That Nelson Mandela
Had died
Previous to when he
Previous to when he
Actually did
And that a massive
People were remembering
He died on a certain day
When he didn't
And he actually lived
For a while past then
So there's a
And the interesting thing
Is that
If you go on Google
And you go on Google Trends
And search Nelson Mandela
Death
You can see it
You see a big spike
I forget when it was
But it was way previous
To his actual death
It wasn't as big
As the spike obviously
To when he actually died
But the spike was
Pretty sizable
And it makes you wonder
Why that happened
Makes you wonder why
So I consulted
The Google Trends
And what you see
Is a relatively flat graph
With a giant spike
In December 2013
Which makes sense
Since Nelson Mandela
Died on December 5th, 2013
What makes
Oh yeah, that makes
Perfect sense
What makes slightly less
Sense is that
There's another spike
Smaller than the
December one
But it's still
Very noticeable
In June 2013
Now ApexTV
Was saying
It was a long time
Before he died
It's a couple months
So he's
Fudging things
A little bit
But there is
Still another spike
In cases like this
It's important to
Consider possible explanations
For this before jumping
Into conclusions
And thinking this means
That Nelson Mandela
Died in June and then
Again in December
Or whatever this dude
Is trying to apply
Possibly alternate timelines
Or whatever
Google Trends
Only reflects what
People are searching for
So if they were
Searching for Nelson Mandela
Death
It's entirely possible
They were searching
For those terms
In order to find out
If he was dead
In 2013
Nelson Mandela
Was 94 years old
And in early June
He was admitted
To the hospital in Pretoria
With a recurrence
Of a chronic lung infection
The doctors
Initially put his condition
As serious but stable
But after a few weeks
In the hospital
He was downgraded
To being in critical condition
South African citizens
Held vigils outside
The hospital
And it became
A really big deal
With the media
Questioning if
President Obama
Was going to be able
To visit him
While he was
Receiving treatment
The South African press
Was reporting urgent
Meetings to
Discuss delicate matters
Which many interpreted
His imminent passing
Yeah
Outside of December
When he actually died
June 2013
Was the month
When the most speculation
About his passing
Was done in the press
Google Trans
Reflects an increase
Of search traffic
For people
For his death
At a time
That makes complete sense
Unless you're willfully obtuse
And want to mislead people
Yeah, yeah, yeah
He was admitted
To a hospital
With a serious condition
In June 2013
Right
That's when that other
Spike is
And then he died
Fairly recently
After that
Yeah, a couple months later
There was a big push
In the news for it
And then
Unlike
And then it just
Has to die down
Because he's
Still alive
So that big push
Is everybody thinking
Oh, he's gonna die
Soon
He's gonna die soon
And people
Writing articles
About the possibility
That he'll pass
And talking about
His legacy
There's a lot of media
Attention on it
When
A heroic figure
Is 94 years old
And is hospitalised
In a serious but
Stable condition
You've got to recognise
That serious but
Stable at 94
Is bad
Yeah
So
That's still bad
Serious but stable
At 94
Is like
We're hoping for
94 and a half
You could make it to
Like
Serious but stable
At 94
Is not
Like
It's not a good prognosis
You still
Could die
At any point
So people
Searching for
Nelson Mandela
Death
Makes total sense
Some kind of
Like
A piece of information
That helps
The Mandela effect
Look real
Is just ludicrous
Yeah, that's wild
It's irresponsible
I never understood
Why, I understood
That it was called
The Mandela effect
Because people thought
He died before he did
I got that
I never understood
That
This was why
I honestly
Don't even think
That's why
That's not good
Because from my memory
I don't remember
If this is exactly right
But it's my sense
That people thought
That he died
While he was in prison
Oh
It wouldn't have been
A couple of months before
Really?
People thought he
Died while he was in prison?
Which doesn't make sense
Because he became
President of South Africa
After he was in prison
None of it makes sense
I didn't realize that
Nevermind
No, my
When I last looked into it
I
It was my
Feeling
That people were
Theorizing
That he had died
Years
Before
This couple of months
Before on the Google trends
Which is what
He's talking about
Yeah
With the theories
That people have
That's wild
I don't know
I mean
It could be that there was
Some dissident leader
That died in prison
Around that
Some ANC figure
Yeah
Yeah
I don't care to
Fully try and figure out
What these people are
Misremembering
But they're
Misremembering something
Maybe they just wished
That Mandela was dead
Don't
Don't
Apply such
Universal negative
So at this point
Kevin
I think is doing
A terrible job
And
Rightfully
He starts to get
A little bit self-conscious
That people will think
This is a soft ball interview
Right, because he's shit at it
Look, you know
Some of my friends
If they were watching this
They'd be like, Kevin
You're being so soft
On this interview
It's like
It's all
You come on, Kevin
You know, are some really
Difficult questions
Or, you know
But the thing is
Well
It's not my platform
To do that
Do you know what I mean?
What?
You know, I mean
This is what you're doing
And whichever way
This works out in the future
It's a fun interview right now
Yeah
Do I totally believe it?
Well
No
But then again
I've come across some
Crazy stuff
So I can't say no
Totally
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
It's like
I've had a UFO experience
I can't prove that to anybody
Yep
Me too
You've had an experience
Have you?
So this is just sloppy
This dude is a fucking psychopath
That is the crazy shit
You know
It's not my channel to do that
No
It's your channel
Yeah
It's yours
I don't
You translate that to
I don't feel like being
Critical right now
It's a bit of work
And like you have a
YouTube channel where
You have demonstrated
The capability of getting
Millions of hits
Now maybe
That's in sunnier days
And you're not
Maybe you're not
Averaging a million hits
Or whatever
I mean
If you go to their channel
They still have over
A million subscribers
So like
Hey, man
He realizes that there
Is a possibility of
Some kind of advancement
For his game
That goes away
If he starts being
Hyper critical to him
You know what's crazy
I think I...
I think I'm channeling
Somebody who
Was a time traveler
Right now
Hold on
Hold on
I'm a time traveler
I'm Mermaid mermaid mermaid merman
Nah
Yeah
It turns out it was
The mermaid in that band
It is his channel
To do whatever he wishes
To do with it
And it's clear what he wants
To do with it
Is not be critical
It's not take any position
That's of like
What the fuck are you talking about
Hey I watched this video
Is this for children?
Yeah
Are you just trying to
Scam views off kids?
Yes
Oh
Good
It does feel like
The type of interview where
Those two dudes are like
Where about scamming
You're making money
I'm making money
Eh
You talk to weirdos
Yeah
You stealing people's money
Yeah
Ha ha gotcha
You run a psychic hotline
Yeah
Ah yeah
And that impression
Does not
It's not helped
You know you don't help
Disabuse yourself
Of that perception
In this next clip
And I know Facebook is a
Is a growing market
For content creators
For example I posted a video
On there
Our first interview
With Noah
I posted on there
With no
No promotion whatsoever
That video somehow got 6 million views
Within like the first week
Just on
Just on Facebook
So I've been working a lot
Trying to transcribe videos
Because the vast majority of people
Watch Facebook videos
Watch them without sound
So you're going to want captions
On it and everything
But yeah I remember Noah mentioned
That YouTube will exist
And he's from the year 2030
But I never
I've never asked anybody
From farther into the future
If YouTube will still exist
Yeah it's amazing isn't it
You know just putting the videos
Onto Facebook
Just what they do
And I should be experimenting
With that a bit more actually
Yeah yeah for sure
Yeah because it's
Yeah it's
But obviously there's
I don't know there's a way
To monetize them
I think there is for some
Yeah
I don't know how that works
You have to have an insane amount
Of followers or likes
On your Facebook page
To be able to monetize it
And they only choose certain people
But
Yeah that's how it works
And YouTube
And yeah that's the main
Attraction to YouTube
And I obviously like YouTube
Way more than Facebook
I think it's a way better platform
Overall
Oh do you
They're having a little bit
Of a business meeting about
I am bananas crazy
You can't do this
You can't do this
This is
I don't even know what this is
It's showing the cards a little
This is ridiculous
Yeah oh you do put
You know they put those
Videos out on Facebook
I should mess with that
That does seem like a really good way
To drive traffic
This is like two
Spiritualist like fortune tellers
In the 1920s in a god damn theater
Telling everybody exactly
How they fucking lie to them
Yeah I mean without the
Admitting we're lying
Right right right
Yeah here's how you
Game social media a little bit
Hey this stuff works
Oh and if you're going to do that
People watch them on mute
Because they auto scroll by them
Yeah yeah yeah
You gotta have subtitles
On there good good good stuff
Oh man
It's weird when you have like
An hour to talk to a guy
Who knows time travelers
And a significant amount of the time
Is spent like talking shop
Yeah about just being a
YouTube video maker
Yeah I mean I'm not going to
Blow this out of proportion
Because this is really true
If there was a real time traveler
The world would fucking explode
It is over
Right and it seems like it's a
Better use of time to discuss
That stuff
Yeah
Over how to you know use
Social media
Yeah
It kind of feels like
That is a tacit admission
That what this guy does is
Buzz as opposed to
Yeah content
Yeah so I know this guy
Who understands the collapse
Of five dimensional space time
And it's like
How do I monetize this on
First Walk
Ah
Yeah
And again
That's fine for him
If you know
If that's what the game is
I feel like Kevin Moore
Would like to pretend
That that's not what his game is
Yeah
But at the same time
It takes on a different feeling
If you know
It's not just a guy
Who's like
Hey here's a video
Some guy sent me claiming
To be a time traveler
If he's involved in it
It takes on a different feeling
For me
I'm not sure why
And I think that's important
And this next clip
Kind of bummed me out
I deeply feel sorry for Noah
Because I
We did a lie detector test with him
And the lie detector said
He was telling the truth
On the
When he said he was a time traveler
And
I
If he's telling the truth or not
It's clear he's in a lot of
It's clear he's very depressed
He's in a lot of stress
And
I feel really bad for
Well they're leaving their families behind aren't they
Their families
Their loved ones
You know
You're not taking it serious
Yeah
He's taking it serious
He is
He took it serious
See at this point though
Like we haven't come out with the video saying
That this guy's lying
Oh that's right
That's in
Okay
That's in the future
From when this video is recorded
He's saying that
This guy misses his family
Well that's the thing
From the future
That's the thing is like
This guy, Apex
Is coming around
And being like
Well if he's telling the truth
You know
Whatever
And if he's lying
No matter what
I feel bad for him
Or whatever
Right
And then Kevin is the one
Who comes in with the
Assuming that it's real
Yeah
They're separated from their families
Yeah
Well I mean
You can't handle that
Like I saw a time cop
JCVD didn't love being away
From his love
Or whatever it was
This is not a critical look at anything man
Like this is Kevin pretending
To be doing an interview
But honestly just kind of hoping
For some easy clicks
That he doesn't have to work too hard for
100%
That's what's going on
Yeah this is lazy
Now it's also interesting
That Apex feels sad for Noah
Even if Noah is running a scam on him
And making this whole thing up
It's clear that Apex
That he's in a tough spot
It's what an un-understanding person
You know
That's the kind of thing you hear
And you just can't help but think
That he wouldn't steer you wrong
I'm just
I just see him in such a bad spot
And if he's telling me the truth
Or not
I still want to exploit his story
For a funny day or a game
So you remember how I told you earlier
That this guy Jason came out
And admitted that he was lying
And pretending to be Noah
The time traveler
Yes
And how that video was put out
By Apex TV
But also kind of felt weird
Yeah
There's a reason
Why is that?
That video where Apex announces
That Jason had lied to them
And made it all up
Was uploaded on July 23rd, 2019
Oh when Mandela died
And the primary function of it
Seemed to be to put all the responsibility
For this scam on this guy Jason
He was the one who made the stuff up
And Apex was just passing along
His information for you
To decide what you think about it
Oh my god
Is somebody getting sued?
I mean really
When you get right down to it
The fact that they put out that video
Is clear proof that Apex is willing
To own up to its own mistakes
And that it will even expose themselves
If they've stepped in it
In a completely bizarre
And almost certainly unrelated coincidence
10 days prior on July 13th
Another person named Dennis Bell
Had posted a video where he revealed
That he was Noah
And he was sick of playing the character
No fucking shit
He was scared that people would discern
His identity and dox him
So he decided the best way to minimize
The threat was to address the issue head on
According to Dennis
When he was 14 years old
He was a kid making comedy YouTube videos
Posting them pretty much daily
Through his channel he ended up
Meeting Apex TV
Who enlisted him to play the role
Of Noah
He claimed that Apex pressured him
To sign a non-disclosure agreement
Which is kind of funny to think about
Even if they ever took him to court
To enforce the NDA
The obvious question of why they have
An NDA active with a 14 year old
Who looks a lot like their time traveler
That would probably come up
It's really only useful as an intimidation tactic
Against a 14, 15 year old
It's ridiculous
Dennis alleges that he was paid by Apex
And that when they recorded the videos
Everyone was just laughing because of how stupid it was
It'll be really easy to just take this
As a guy who's trying to get into the scam
And involve himself
Except that his video includes clips
Of the original Apex TV videos
Unedited
Ooh, see now that one is really tough
To talk your way around
Without his face blur
Ooh, that one's really tough
And without his voice change
Does he look exactly like Jason
And talk and sound exactly like Jason
The video of Jason saying that he was Noah
Does not look anything like the unedited versions
That Dennis put out
But it does look a lot like him
He includes clips that Apex didn't release initially
That definitely indicate coaching
One of the more damning ones
Is probably a clip of Noah
About to shake hands with his older self
That begins with an off camera voice saying action
It's kind of impossible for me to say
Like whether or not this Dennis guy
Is 100% the kid in the original videos
But they look very, very similar
And have the same voice and mannerisms
Personally, it looks to me a lot
Like this kid is telling the truth
And those receipts are pretty tough
To explain otherwise
Although, like you could say
Like, okay, he just shot recreation videos
Of it
I find that very unlikely
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Noah
But here's the thing
I'm still not sure I care about this
Is there a big difference
Between soliciting independently created videos
Where people are pretending to be time travelers
And creating videos yourself
Where people pretend to be time travelers
I'm not sure
Exposure?
I'm not sure
In the first case, you're just posting
Bullshit and profiting off it
And in the process, probably enabling
Some mentally unwell people
Down this road
Encouraging them, validating this
In the second case, you're perpetuating a fraud
But it's also kind of in the realm of performance art
On some level
I'm fine with it
I guess, I don't really know
I think the big issue is presentation
The fact that the channel portrays itself
As just reporting on things
Like I was passing this along
While they're in fact
Apparently orchestrating those things themselves
I think that's intrinsically dishonest and manipulative
It'd be kind of like if we created
A right-wing talk show host
To say things that we wanted them to say
So that we could cover them
It's kind of a betrayal of the format
Of whatever you're doing
Right
I mean
I feel like this is an ethical question
Yeah
About what is already demonstrably
Untrue
Yeah
And inethical
I think from a very fundamental standpoint
It's a little bit of a gray area
Case to me in some ways
I know, but it seems like there's some
It seems like what we're really dealing with
Is an inethical actor
In a game of poor ethics
Yeah
You know where it's like
You're too far in...
I'm fine with your inethical way
I would say it's an unethical actor
Inside a game of absent ethics
That's a good way of putting it
Fucking around online
Whatever like this
Isn't intrinsically inethical
Or unethical
Right
It just is what it is
You're not doing it right
You're making me feel bad
That's what it is
I think that there are added considerations
When the appearance is there
That you're actually running a hoax
As opposed to it just being bullshit
Yeah
I don't know what the intrinsic difference is
But I'm certain it's there
I know I feel it
I don't think Emmanuel Kant
Ever had to deal with this exact question
And so this guy, Dennis
He comes out with these claims
That he's making
And the video including the footage
Of him
Some of them are
You could say are recreations
A video of him standing
In front of a line of trees
Saying something
Where it's like it shows the pixelated version
And then the un-pixelated version
You could say
Maybe he just went out and shot that
The one that's really tough to get around
Is the one of him meeting his older self
Because that matches the video
That Apex TV put out
And he put out the one with his face
Un-blurred
It definitely looks exactly like
It's tough to get around
And so he puts this out
And then just a little bit later
Apex puts out their version
With a guy claiming
I'm Noah, I was lying
I suspect that's why they put that video out
Yeah, that would make the most sense
It feels like damage control
And it probably was
Because it's not that big a deal
To the presentation of the channel
If one of their sources turns out to be a liar
No one's perfect
And we're all going to fall for something
At one point in our lives
It's a much bigger deal for their presentation
If the impression is that they're just creating
Bullshade on their own
And passing it off as if it could be real
It's the difference between naivety
And trusting people and a hoax
Being exposed as naive
Might hurt your reputation a little
But being a hoax
Or really destroys any possibility
Of future credibility
But again, I don't care that much
But the idea that a 14-15 year old
Was being put in this kind of position
Makes me pretty uncomfortable
How old is he now?
When he made that video
So I guess that's current, he's 16
Oh man
Yeah
This still kind of falls under the heading
Of this is what lame grifters on YouTube do
It's kind of the Wild West
Yeah, it's a good game
Yeah, it's not that interesting to me
Big picture
It is interesting to me that Kevin Moore
Is interested in talking to this guy
And even giving an ounce of this
Could be real to him
That indicates a complete inability
Or unwillingness to critically engage
With the subject he's covering
And in fairness to him
The stuff about Noah being fake
Hadn't come out by the time he made this video
That we're listening to
But the stuff about the Swedish insurance
Commercial had
There were plenty of red flags
That would suggest that maybe this operation
Isn't on the up and up
Even by the almost non-existent standards
Of the paranormal YouTube community
Kevin Moore is not a critical voice
There's something else going on
With his beef with Carrie and Mark Richards
I'm not sure what it is
But I need to figure it out
I don't know if we'll ever be able
To get to the bottom of it
But there's something rotten in Denmark
Based on Sweden
Based on
No, there's nothing rotten there
It's an insurance commercial
And it's fantastic
I think most insurance things are
If there's one thing that we've learned
Or I've learned from listening to him
Because we've listened to a couple of his videos
As long as he has a personal connection
He will let anything go
Maybe
Or better yet
As long as he doesn't have a personal vendetta
Or everything can go
Or if he has a reason to think
That this could be an avenue for greater exposure
That does also
This behavior that he's doing here
He doesn't know this guy
He's not friends with him
What it comes down to for me is
I think that this episode
When I said that it's beneath us
I think it's because this Apex TV shit
Is super lame and real whack
And the revelation of it being fake
First of all is assumed
And the fact that it's a hoax
Is like, well, I kind of expect that
And I don't know how much more unethical
It makes it than what it originally is
I think the second hoax video is
I think the hoax taking over the truth
That's the part that I think is genuinely morally bad
That's when we've crossed the gray area
Into you guys know what you're doing
And you're trying to steal this story
You're creating a hoax to combat your own hoax
I definitely see that cover up
Is worse than the crime situation
There's definite ill intent behind that one
I definitely don't think that it's not worth
Considering the idea that if this
Dennis guy is telling the truth
Then what's going on is really inappropriate behavior
With a minor
Oh, absolutely
He talks about how uncomfortable he was
As it went along
And how he started to get harassing messages
And people started to try and figure out who he was
Who he was, yeah
And so like putting a minor in that kind of a situation
Is probably legally actionable
I don't know if it is, but it's definitely
Not something that someone with good intent would do
For sure, well, I mean if you want
It's a line past which you should not venture
What kind of guardianship do we have going on there
Did the guardian sign shit?
He does say that they asked his parents to sign an NDA as well
Ooh, that's trouble then
But you gotta assume that like if you're a parent
Even if you're a decent parent
And like alright, I'm gonna be in a YouTube video
It's acting
You might not have any alarm bells go off at that
Man, technology just moved too fast for parents
You have no fucking clue
I want to center this
That's such a like
Man, when I was a kid
All you had to worry about a 14 year old boy doing
Was jerking off in the bathroom
And now?
Now
Now he's creating space hoaxes?
Time travel hoaxes, yeah
What?
I want to refocus this
Because like all that stuff is nebulous
And I don't care
ApexTV is not something that I care to be on my radar
Right
Except as a way with which we can see Kevin Moore more clearly
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And that's really what I'm interested in
I'm interested in this clear bullshit
Yeah, yeah
Being like entertained and like oh
But it's not only that even
Like Kevin Moore in much the same way Richard Belzer
Was not a passive actor
Yeah
On the day of the Boston bombing
When he was a guest on Alex Jones' show
He was a participant
Kevin Moore is trying to become a little bit of a participant
In this charade
What if you stumbled across something here
That's not what it seems to be
But it's something else
Yeah, that, I don't know
Like what would you say for example
I don't know
Well, it's
What's that movie where the people become the host
Of something else
And it's
Maybe 15 of them
The guest, is that the movie I'm thinking of?
No, probably not
I don't know, I haven't seen that one
Okay, no, it's probably not that one
But the idea that, you know
Yeah, that people are taken over by someone else
I had Elijah Wood in it
For other reasons, but you know
That may just, you know
And again, as you say
It's possible, it's, yeah
Yeah, it's possible, right
I mean, I'm trying to, you know
Yeah, make sense of this
I can make sense of it
Yeah
He's trying to imply, hey, maybe it's demons
Maybe it's demons
It's a mother-dimensional creature
Hey, could be space little things
That go in your ear
Josh Hartnett was involved
I guess meth kills him
I'm not sure
Don't try and yes and this shit
Like if you care about the credibility of your community
Your space weirdo community
You want to be like
Hey, we're, you know, us channeling people
We want to be, we demand to be taken seriously
Yeah
It kind of behooves you to not be like
Ah, maybe these folks are demons
Right, right, right
I think people are making this up
No, no, no, it's very much like
It's in its own way
It's like if you're doing an interview
On fucking Fox News
And you answer one of the questions
And then you return it back with them
And it's like, oh, well, how do you think
It's possible for us to do this
And then he just comes up with a
The anchor comes up with a reason
That your shit makes sense for you
That's you fucking everybody over
If you're participating
You're escalating
Exactly
Yeah
You're enabling
Absolutely
In this next clip
And deceiving
Yeah, in this next clip, Apex is talking
About how people think that they're involved
With the people that they feature in their videos
Which they very well may be
Apparently that's a criticism that they get
And a spec, a theory that some people have
I can't imagine why
And so he addresses that
And again, Kevin is enabling him
There's been a lot of misunderstanding though
People thinking we're in on these videos
And I'm planning on making a video soon
Explaining to people
Because I don't think people get that
We're not affiliated with these people
That we're interviewing
And there's been a lot of people
Who don't really get it
And I'm going to make a video soon
Talking about how we don't know these people
And just explain things
Put things in more context
Well, you can see how people would think that
Because they'll think, well, these are friends of yours
You know, these are people or actors
From other countries that you've paid
And, you know
There's makeup involved and everything else
And, you know, you're not revealing yours
You can understand why they're thinking like that
Some people, but
Well, I guess you're already thinking along those lines
Of putting something out there
That's real wishy-washy
I feel like I'm getting swift-boated right now
That's real wishy-washy
You can see how somebody would think that
But
You know, I think you've already got that one
Under control
That's such a, I got nothing
Yeah, I don't have the nerve to say
It's clear that's what's coming
You're full of shit
The fact that you, like he does bring this up
A couple times in this interview
It does seem to indicate he's singularly focused
With pushing back on that
In the same way that when they put out their video
With Jason revealing that he had lied to them
It was also to serve the purpose of, like
We were the ones who were lied to
We had nothing to do with it
It seems like you push back on that
Maybe it's because you're
Self-conscious about the fact that you're doing that
Right, right, right
That's kind of the vibe I get
Yeah, it's part of your mystique that you're just passing these on
And also part of your, like
A layer of protection from criticism
The moment you're involved in making them
It's like, oh, you...
Alright, guys, get out of here
Get the fuck out of here
They're much easier to write off
It's like if we actually had Stanley Kubrick
Filming the moon landing
Then we're all like, okay, get the fuck out of here, US government
We don't need any of your shit now
We know you're all lying
I don't know if it extends that far
I'm gonna go with it, dude
So we get to the end of this interview
And we get to see that Kevin Moore
Great judge of character
You seem to be a really nice guy, right?
Thanks, man, yeah, you too
You know, you're just easy to speak to
You know, you've got it all together
And it's fun, right?
You're having a lot of fun right now
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that
What?
And this is pretty much, I would say
From what I know, and I know very little
That this is probably a full-time job doing
You know, keeping this going
Yeah, yeah
Making a lot of those bucks
So, I mean, that's cool
I don't begrudge anyone making a living
Doing what they love to do
Kevin, a lot of fun, but it's just lying
Are people listening to...
Are people watching this video?
What do you mean?
I mean, people actually watch that video?
The video of Kevin interviewing this guy?
Yeah
Not as many as watch the Time Traveler video
Bro, bro, right
But I mean, how could anybody watch that?
That wasn't like trying to find out more
About SEO and fucking viewers
Like, I don't know how this is a
Non-business video at all
This gets back to my point that I made
This, which is like, I don't really care
To attack this online, immersive
Entertainment kind of thing too much
Because I'm not fully convinced
That most of the people taking in
The Time Traveler videos
Actually think that it's real
I agree
So, I'm not super interested in...
Like, the idea that someone would watch
This video of Kevin talking to him
And it somehow debunks the
Time Traveler videos, because like
Hey, you guys, keep talking about
Engagement a lot
This is weird
Right, right, right
I don't feel like that's even a concern
It's more about Kevin
No, I agree
I mean, more like, I don't understand
That Kevin has no idea what an
What an entertaining interview is
No
Like no clue
Which might explain his lack of
Social media engagement
So it's like
An entertaining interview would be much more
Focused on hard-hitting questions
About these Time Travelers
Or even less hard-hitting questions
About these Time Travelers
More wild speculations
And enjoying and having a fun time
Like on Project Camelot
Carrie's great skill as an interviewer
Is being wild along with everybody else
Sure
And getting crazy
To an extent
Not like being like
Okay, Eddie Page
What's your hit count
On an average Twitter post
Right, right
That would certainly be less entertaining
That would be less entertaining
Which isn't to say that Carrie is very
Entertainment
I'm not going to say that
Um, so yeah
I don't know
I'm going to skip this clip
Because it's kind of sad
It's just Kevin talking about how
ApexTV has a team
How can you trust them?
I really hate him
I'm not going to be like
I have to work alone
I really hate Kevin
I really hate him
Like on a deep and abiding level
He's a piece of shit
I don't, I, yeah
I mean, there is a piece of shitness to him
I just can't get around it
There is a real slipperiness
Yeah
But I also think that there is just a
He's not very good at this
Right
He wants to do this
And I think he's dumb
Yeah
I think that there are those elements of it
Um, and a lot of it
A lot of that could explain some of the stuff
That comes off as slipperiness
Yeah, yeah
Evilness
There could be a lot less evil intention
That could be explained by incompetence
And kind of being gullible and dumb
Sure, sure, sure, sure
I don't know
I think though
Even with those qualities
It's very clear there's also a
Naked Capitalist behind all of this
Scousen
Uh, yeah, exactly
So, yeah, one last clip here
And it's just how they sort of end things
But listen, I really appreciate what you're doing
I think it's fascinating stuff
And, you know,
Good on you for doing it
That's what I'll say
Good on you
Wow
I appreciate what you're doing
Good on you
Also, I just hate peering and fucking talking
And everything is like
Uh
Yeah, there is a lot of that
Uh, good
Well, I mean, that's part of not preparing it all
Yeah, that's fair
If you have any questions
That's fair
I would say that that is a terrible showing
Yeah
The idea that he ends it with like
I appreciate what you're doing
Good on you for what you're doing
Good on you
You said in this fucking interview
That he talked to a guy who claimed to be a mermaid
Yes
And that some of the people who were time travelers
Are clearly lying to him
Good on you
I don't understand
If you want to just be like
We are doing a large scale
Uh, immersive entertainment thing
Yeah
Where people lie to us
And then we pass it off as truth
I'm not all that mad at that
Yeah
But Kevin's trying to not play that game
Yeah
So he shouldn't be taking somebody
Who appears to be doing
Like, larping
Yeah
Bullshit
I was just saying
It's almost like a
It's almost like they're larping a channel
That should exist in an alternate universe
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah
Like where this shit is true
That's where they're larping at
It's unbecoming for Kevin to be this
Uncritical
Yeah
Um, I
Whatever judgment decide that I have
For whatever Apex is doing
I have strong judgment for Kevin
Because like, you can't be
You can't do both
You can't try and take down Mark Richards
Because he's an affront to the community
Right
And appreciate and applaud
What fake time travel
Bullshit, clickbait, nonsense
Yeah
Like you can't exist in both of those spaces
It leads me to believe
That something is insincere
And based on everything else I have
All the other information of Kevin
Between his weirdo channeling videos
Right
Other videos that I've watched of his
Where he is woefully uncritical
Of other people
Yeah
The anomaly is the being critical
Of Mark Richards and Kerry
Yeah
And because we have a longstanding
Interaction
Quote unquote
With Project Camelot
I feel like I'm the only person
Who cares enough to try and figure this out
So Jordan
I would like to announce here and now
I am going to make a documentary
About Kevin Moore
I'm not going to do that
You are absolutely right
I'm not going to do that
But I'm going to look into this
You are
Much further
Because no one else cares
You are the only person who is
Fucking
Deep in the weeds enough
To really get to the bottom of this feud
And the only person who has
Any kind of grasp on reality
Right
Because Kerry and her friends are too busy
Trying to say that this guy is working
For the spider of leadership
And the Illuminati
Right
That my friend is a non-starter
Are you sure?
That's okay
Well talk to a time traveler
Maybe he'll figure it out for us
I can't go down that road
Okay
That's not going to be good
One try
So this is something
That I need to get to the bottom of
I'm going to get into this
I'm going to try and solve this mystery
Of why Kevin Moore cares so much
About this
Yeah
I think the fun part of this is
Far more than any kind of
Proof of them lying
Or like Kerry's bullshit about
Space not being true
Getting to the bottom of this weird
Personal or professional fight
Between the two of them
Has a far greater likelihood of
Like puncturing their mystique
Bubbles of space weirdness
If you just go down to it and you're like
Oh his mom hates her dad
Like they're stepdad
So Montague's uncapulets
Yeah exactly
And you're like okay well then
Fucking these two idiots
What are we doing
And that's real
Yeah
Exactly
It's reinvigorating my interest
In things a little bit
Because it actually is something
That like maybe you could get to the
Bottom of what the fuck's going on here
I'm never going to be able to tell you
Whether spider aliens are real or not
We can safely say
There's no evidence for that
But this is
This does seem like something
I could maybe dig into
I do feel reinvigorated
About the Project Camelot
Slash Kevin Moore world
I do
Not about the Project Camelot videos
That content I'm still
Very disinterested in
Right
Right
But trying to get to
Intrigued
I'm going to put on my goddamn
Hercules Paro mustache
Yeah
Get to the bottom of this
Yeah
So that is something else
I'll be engaging in behind the scenes
I hope you all have enjoyed
This Halloween spectacular
Nobody dressed like a mermaid
One guy
One guy I may have
Was a mermaid
Yeah
I think somebody dressed up
As a critical investigative journalist
Oh man
His costume might as well
Have just been all cardboard
Moore should really try
Channeling like Bertrand Russell
Or something like that
You know
Should try and channel
Any person who asks
A follow up question
That would be good
I'll even go with Dan rather
Sure
He's dead right
I don't know
When did Nelson Mandela die?
It was last week
Remember it being last week
Strange
So we'll be back on Friday
Jordan
Indeed
With a modern day
Alex Jones episode
Check in
What his dumb ass is doing
What an idiot
His impeachment shit is moving along
Oh god
So we'll see
But until then
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