Mind Blowing Conspiracy Theories (That Turned Out to be TRUE)

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  • čas přidán 17. 08. 2023
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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  Před 9 měsíci +58

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    • @mousemd
      @mousemd Před 9 měsíci +2

      If doctors knew or were taught how to get proper nutrients in their patients. They don't need drugs to be healthy. That is a huge industry

    • @JamesSeaberry
      @JamesSeaberry Před 9 měsíci +2

      I hope you don't mind that I skipped the Ridge stuff......

    • @latenighter1965
      @latenighter1965 Před 9 měsíci

      Simon, so Roswell didnt happen??? yet the government just released the real evidence, and we DO have alien tech, ships and non human biologics from such crashes. Are you not keeping up with the recent news???

    • @GRosa250
      @GRosa250 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Well the story about aliens is definitely true, Simon is living proof!

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting Před 9 měsíci

      the idea that Ridge is a good product is the biggest conspiracy theory of them all and is also known to be false.

  • @badluck5647
    @badluck5647 Před 9 měsíci +2564

    Recently declassified documents have confirmed that Simon began sitting down in all his videos because he no longer wears pants -- only Sheath underwear and Vessi shoes.

    • @drg9812
      @drg9812 Před 9 měsíci +55

      Pants are overrated

    • @IainCiplinski
      @IainCiplinski Před 9 měsíci +26

      Sheath are pants

    • @chadimirputin2282
      @chadimirputin2282 Před 9 měsíci +110

      He actually lost his legs to a chupacabra attack at Loch Ness but was fortunately saved by a flock of unicorns ridden by leprechauns.

    • @roscojenkins7451
      @roscojenkins7451 Před 9 měsíci +97

      Ya know that extra pocket in sheath underwear? That's where he hides his ridge wallet

    • @Ensensu2
      @Ensensu2 Před 9 měsíci +5

      Or he's buying a ton of yarn to make pants with.

  • @audiobookschill5888
    @audiobookschill5888 Před 9 měsíci +571

    I need new conspiracy theories because my old ones came true

    • @glyph241
      @glyph241 Před 9 měsíci +31

      This hits home…

    • @denerandre8914
      @denerandre8914 Před 9 měsíci

      The brazilian president is an et

    • @Grimmtoof
      @Grimmtoof Před 9 měsíci

      How about the following ones.
      Donald Trump is mainly running for office again to avoid jail.
      Large oil companies have been covering up evidence of climate change for decades.
      The republicans are trying to suppress votes of their opponents under the guise of combating fraud
      Fundamental Christians are trying to wipe out LGBT people to boost their donations.

    • @black_hand78
      @black_hand78 Před 9 měsíci

      All the world govs, banks, corps work together to make us believe we live in different countries with different forms of government when in reality they all work together behind closed doors to make more money off us and control us. Follow the money and research politicians family trees you’ll see the truth, they’re all blood relatives. The families that ruled the world 500 years ago still rule the world today, I don’t just mean Europe, “keep the money and power in the family” is very much a real thing. A majority of US presidents are blood related to each other all the way back to the King of England that signed the Magna Carta (may be coincidence but I doubt it).

    • @vincentwatson2960
      @vincentwatson2960 Před 9 měsíci +8

      But they didn't.. Did they?

  • @mattyhattrick3450
    @mattyhattrick3450 Před 8 měsíci +129

    I love how nonchalant he is about forever chemicals in the water and the confirmed effects it is having on living animals. Like it's no big deal whatsoever

    • @marcgambone4240
      @marcgambone4240 Před 6 měsíci +15

      I think he works for the government

    • @waynedkillor3774
      @waynedkillor3774 Před 5 měsíci +6

      Sure seems like it

    • @johns9652
      @johns9652 Před 5 měsíci

      While it is far above my knowledge to know if birth control pills in the water are the cause, it is fact that American men have lower and lower testosterone levels every generation. This has jokingly been called the "Soy Boy Effect" and is blamed on today's youth drinking overpriced soy lattes by some. Soy products do indeed have an effect on human sex hormones, but again, above my knowledge to know. I do find it quite concerning, though.
      Same with depression meds, it is very alarming that they found traces of these meds in fish, when one of the ironic side effects warnings of many of them is "may cause depression or thoughts of self harm". And we have record numbers of people who are depressed these days, but a lot of that could be due to other factors, like the hangover the whole world seems to still have from Beer Flu, the state of the economy, the number of hugely concerning conflicts...

    • @Lavon8338
      @Lavon8338 Před 5 měsíci +12

      He knows he wouldn't have advertisors if he told the truth

    • @patheddles4004
      @patheddles4004 Před 5 měsíci +10

      Whole different topic, forever chemicals. Synthetic hormones are relatively short-lived.

  • @robertmcknightmusic
    @robertmcknightmusic Před 6 měsíci +37

    The idea that people don’t plan in secret is the greatest conspiracy.

    • @jeremygiglia4824
      @jeremygiglia4824 Před 21 dnem

      The idea that hundreds of people could pull off a major conspiracy to perfection AND never have a leak is the greatest stupidity. Conspiring against a few can easily work, but conspiring to fool BILLIONS of people is ridiculously impossible and stupid to believe.

    • @jeremygiglia4824
      @jeremygiglia4824 Před 21 dnem

      Nobody is arguing they dont, but it's moronic to believe it's at all possible to pull the wool over Billions of eyes

    • @robertmcknightmusic
      @robertmcknightmusic Před 21 dnem +2

      @@jeremygiglia4824 why? Plenty of stuff is kept secret from the world every day (ie. billions of people).

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 Před 15 dny

      @@jeremygiglia4824 Why? Before Snowden did his thing, how many people were wrong about their government spying on them? It was the majority, wasn't it?

    • @bobyoung6446
      @bobyoung6446 Před 8 dny +1

      I'm with George Carlin. They don't need to. The rich and powerful go to the same schools; they belong to the same clubs. They therefore are exposed to the same ideas. They don't need to conspire as their thoughts will naturally align.
      That China Grove and Davos WEF meetings (and several others) exist is only icing on the cake.

  • @bigdaddymatty4804
    @bigdaddymatty4804 Před 9 měsíci +79

    On the NSA story... "Just because I think they're out to get me, doesn't mean they aren't."

    • @clarenceworley8134
      @clarenceworley8134 Před 5 měsíci +3

      The common phrase is "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't following you"

    • @jimmerkerlin5005
      @jimmerkerlin5005 Před měsícem

      It all depends on how much you're against the government narrative, in determining when and if they're they're watching and listening to you.
      They ARE there and they ARE checking you out... unless you're one of the democrat sheeple that does whatever their government tells them to. If you're no threat, you're not surveilled.

  • @micahsean8664
    @micahsean8664 Před 9 měsíci +410

    US government investigates itself and releases findings to public. I'm sure it's 100% honest and transparent. No omissions.

    • @taleandclawrock2606
      @taleandclawrock2606 Před 9 měsíci

      Ditto the Banks, and big pharma

    • @foo219
      @foo219 Před 9 měsíci

      Of course. Why would the US government ever lie to you? When were they ever anything but completely honest and fair?

    • @mgtowdadYouTubeSucksCoxks
      @mgtowdadYouTubeSucksCoxks Před 9 měsíci

      We have investigated ourselves, and found no guilt or wrongdoing!

    • @andynaz5631
      @andynaz5631 Před 9 měsíci +8

      Yeah, we just believe what they tell us... like when they told us we went to the moon.

    • @murilo7794
      @murilo7794 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@andynaz5631gtfo here, go back to your conspiracionist bubble

  • @Squire2222
    @Squire2222 Před 8 měsíci +261

    Anyone remember when the lab leak theory would get you banned from social media for talking about it?

    • @jiggsborah7041
      @jiggsborah7041 Před 5 měsíci +23

      yup , and that's a really big one , the whole lot are as rotten as the devil himself

    • @ivanbodurov1268
      @ivanbodurov1268 Před 3 měsíci

      It was end of Feb 2020, when the lab leak leaked on some Internet sites. They called the Fact checkers(plumbers) and leak no more..

    • @forresttbarnes5710
      @forresttbarnes5710 Před 3 měsíci

      How about losing your job because you were against getting a unknown vaccine

    • @dragonage2112
      @dragonage2112 Před 3 měsíci +9

      Anyone remember? This happened only 3 years ago not 3 decades. I guess your trying to be nice to all the weed smokers and their short term memory loss eh!

    • @jiggsborah7041
      @jiggsborah7041 Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@dragonage2112 ... yup and it's not over yet

  • @orterves
    @orterves Před 8 měsíci +9

    The problem with the gulf of Tonkin isn't the attack on the ship, it's the unrestrained response - that all it took for the full escalation of the war was a flimsy excuse.
    Even if the attack happened exactly as reported, it shouldn't have led to unrestrained war

    • @shumana54
      @shumana54 Před 26 dny +2

      LBJ and his cronies had lots invested in armaments and helicopters. They made $$$

  • @nicolashuffman4312
    @nicolashuffman4312 Před 9 měsíci +857

    I'm a chemist, and being so, I think the Precautionary Principle should be our baseline. Essentially, until something is scientifically proven safe (not to be confused with politicians on either side saying it is safe) it is best avoided. The unfortunate truth is a lot of research is paid for by groups, including governmental agencies, that have a vested interest in the message delivered by the results. Its up to us to sort that out, and that's a real burden if you take it seriously.

    • @djketoldaluusbkabel585
      @djketoldaluusbkabel585 Před 9 měsíci

      And this is exactly why I didn't take the jab. After that the reason was that I lost a family member to it, so anyone who tells me that it is safe can kick rocks and eat my shorts.

    • @garretth8224
      @garretth8224 Před 9 měsíci +42

      Just follow the money.

    • @barrysmith8078
      @barrysmith8078 Před 9 měsíci +59

      this type of talk might have gotten you deplatformed a few years back

    • @RoflcopterLamo
      @RoflcopterLamo Před 9 měsíci

      @@barrysmith8078 lots of people high up profited from that time period 3 years back

    • @cameraman502
      @cameraman502 Před 9 měsíci +23

      "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." Nothing can be proven safe. They can they only demonstrate relatively safety

  • @MF-zj3zl
    @MF-zj3zl Před 9 měsíci +581

    The way things are going we should stop calling them Conspiracy Theories and refer to them as Spoiler Alerts.

    • @vincentwatson2960
      @vincentwatson2960 Před 9 měsíci

      But we shouldn't, should we?
      If 99% of them are complete bullshit.. And the vast majority of the ones that do have some tiny semblance of truth to them are typically so far off the mark that the conspiracy theorists were claiming its hilarious.. We should probably consider these theorists to be completely retarded, right?
      If I throw out 14 million unsubstantiated claims right now, and 10 of them turn out to have a tiny amount of truth to them, does that make me a genius prophet? Or a dumb fuck? 🤔
      Think. Please. You'll thank me for it later 🤦

    • @samgrange4263
      @samgrange4263 Před 8 měsíci +17

      A broken clock is right twice a day.

    • @dsxa918
      @dsxa918 Před 8 měsíci +4

      A cliche or turn of speech will be a good youtube comment *spoken in the vague melody of a idiom parroted*

    • @aNkItA-du1ro
      @aNkItA-du1ro Před 8 měsíci

      i meann i kinda get it why tho, but ukk spoiling it in the first part may be giving him the kick ukk🌝

    • @vegashawkfan59
      @vegashawkfan59 Před 8 měsíci

      It's been said that the difference between conspiracy theory and reality is about a six months' lag...
      (At least when the "news" calls something a conspiracy theory)

  • @xsiunnu
    @xsiunnu Před 5 měsíci +9

    That image of the two frogs canoodling, I lost it! That's hilarious!!! Darn gay frogs!
    They do look happy together though...

  • @nem447
    @nem447 Před 8 měsíci +14

    The biggest conspiracy is that there is intelligent life on earth.

    • @tylerlormand5644
      @tylerlormand5644 Před měsícem

      no its not why yall want a answer to something you already know the answer too thass dumb asf

  • @bangyahead1
    @bangyahead1 Před 9 měsíci +462

    I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who one said "Any nation that would give up its liberties in exchange for security will get and deserve neither," and he was right. 200+ years later and he was still right.

    • @JoshSweetvale
      @JoshSweetvale Před 9 měsíci +1

      Was that while he was raping his slave?

    • @TheMagicLemur
      @TheMagicLemur Před 8 měsíci +32

      Actually Benjamin Franklin. And Bill Maher does a good bit rebutting it in the age of briefcase nukes.

    • @themacocko6311
      @themacocko6311 Před 8 měsíci +9

      ​@@TheMagicLemurWhat?

    • @MeanBeanComedy
      @MeanBeanComedy Před 8 měsíci +12

      ​@@TheMagicLemurGood bits can be funny but incorrect.

    • @TheMagicLemur
      @TheMagicLemur Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@MeanBeanComedy Hmm, but he has a point with that bit. Sarah Palin tweeting it twice does rather nullify it. 😏

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 Před 9 měsíci +259

    I'm still amazed that anyone was surprised by what Snowden revealed. Combine that with the overt willingness with which we have been giving away that same information to our ISPs, and it can boggle the mind.

    • @86_Nix
      @86_Nix Před 9 měsíci +12

      I wasn't surprised.

    • @connormccloy9399
      @connormccloy9399 Před 9 měsíci +15

      Voluntarily disclosing information is different from having it stolen without our explicit knowledge.

    • @MikeGaruccio
      @MikeGaruccio Před 9 měsíci +16

      Yea the entire tech community pretty much already knew/assumed what was going on. The tech was obviously there and the legal framework existed so there was no real reason to suspect it *wasnt* happening. The leaks provided specifics and proof so they were still important but anyone actually surprised by them wasn’t paying attention.
      I will point out though that while pretty much all of the information being collected back then is just available completely legally for sale to anyone with a credit card and a tax ID (including any gov agency) ISPs have very little real access to any of that data and it’s almost universally coming from other sources. All your ISP can really see at this point is what other computers yours is talking to, and given that like 60% of the internet exists in a few dozen datacenters owned by 3 companies that data rarely tells them much.

    • @86_Nix
      @86_Nix Před 9 měsíci +10

      @@MikeGaruccio I didn't think it was a great revelation to anyone other than my grandmother, but I also believe that verification of this information is something the founders of the US would have fought a revolution for much less...

    • @tom.m
      @tom.m Před 9 měsíci +1

      It's something that people have been worrying and warning about almost as long as the NSA has existed. Even Elizabeth and William Friedman thought the NSA had gone too far, long before the internet and smart devices made the job so easy.
      But it's easy to quiet those voices. Erase them from history, call them communists, call them anti-American and un-patriotic. So long as media plays along it's easy.

  • @i_dont_even_know0234
    @i_dont_even_know0234 Před 7 měsíci +5

    I live in Roswell, and I have two ufo stories. One is from when my dad was a kid, my grandma and dad told me about how they were driving through one of the many pecan orchards near my current house, and saw a bright blue light in the night sky that sat there for a bit. After a while it suddenly shot off, imagine something that looks like jumping to hyperspace in star wars. The second one me and my mom saw. We had just pulled into our neighborhood (which is out in the county areas of the town). Our house is at the top of a hill, we looked and somewhere slightly beyond the hill was some kind of floating circular object. It was maybe 4-6 years ago so I don't remember it perfectly, but if my memory is right, it almost looked like a floating frisbee that sat there before disappearing as if it cloaked itself in an instant. That's just my experience living in Roswell all 16 years of my life, I'm sure many others have similar stories. But I will say I do not think whatever crashed here was a weather balloon.

  • @real_lostinthefogofwar
    @real_lostinthefogofwar Před 9 měsíci +3

    Read "The Day After Roswell", I can't say whether it's true or not, but it's more interesting than a weather balloon.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 9 měsíci +162

    0:50 - Chapter 1 - Roswell
    3:40 - Mid roll ads
    5:30 - Chapter 2 - Bohemian grove
    9:05 - Chapter 3 - Government surveillance
    12:00 - Chapter 4 - A war started on a lie
    14:50 - Chapter 5 - Gay frogs

    • @weedfreer
      @weedfreer Před 9 měsíci +7

      What happened to chapters 4 & 5 then...IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!

    • @TipSheikh
      @TipSheikh Před 8 měsíci +1

      u a beast ty

    • @sadmermaid
      @sadmermaid Před 8 měsíci +6

      Which war? The 911 one?

    • @weedfreer
      @weedfreer Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@sadmermaid no...the 69 one

    • @techchaos
      @techchaos Před 8 měsíci

      @@sadmermaid Vietnam war was the 1st lie the 2nd was for Iraq War to kill off Saddam, off bin ladin as the escape goat. so the american ppl would be happy they killed half of their military aged men and women again for their bs.

  • @invisigoth777
    @invisigoth777 Před 9 měsíci +30

    the problem with Roswell, everyone focus on that crash... but there were 2 crashes that night a few miles apart
    a geological surveyer saw the crash, and called the sheriff, who then got chased away by the military
    the next day, the farmer brought pieces to the same sheriff, and that is the one everyone talks about

  • @swampmud007
    @swampmud007 Před 8 měsíci +6

    I was under the impression that the " gay frogs " thing was referring to the herbicide Atrazine and its effects both on amphibian larval development and damage to the adults.

  • @mkupka1
    @mkupka1 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Only Simon could make a video about true mind blowing conspiracy theories and make it feel like they’re not a big deal 😅😂😭

    • @llyrghmnghyll
      @llyrghmnghyll Před 3 měsíci

      none of these are mindblowing, and all prove the same thing, conspiracies are not well organized and when the're "real" they are almost completely unrelated to the stories people say about them.
      1) Roswell was a spy balloon, cover up: true reason, hiding spy equipment. virtually every theory about the cover up - made up nonsense.
      2) Bohemian Grove - no one ever denied this existed as far as I know. not sure why this is even labelled as a conspiracy. seems on par with lots of Frat parties I crashed.
      3) Government surveillance - OK, this one is almost a story. We knew what the patriot act allowed, we knew what the technology was, and we knew that Private industry was already doing most of this. the surprise was that the Government was collecting and storing info it claimed to only be monitoring. this is basically a rate of deletion issue.
      The biggest reveal was that the US govenrment was targeting Muslims, which they said they weren't doing. This sucks, but wasn't really a surprise to anyone who had at all been paying attention.
      4) The Gulf of Tonkin. this isn't really much different than the lusitania or the Maine. A ship is damaged, a foreign enemy is blamed and the press runs with it. To really know what the lie was we'd have to go back and follow the trail of statements. My understanding is that both the war department and the Media ran with a story they liked and neither contradicted each other, becuase neither had an incentive to. this is a conspiracy of interest.
      5) Gay Frogs. this can by no means be called a conspiracy, as the science was understood and Nothing That Alex Jones siad was right. Certain chemicals in the water could change the sexual expression of Amphibians. this could come from either natural or unnatural chemicals. There was no unifying "they" doing it, it didn't make anything "gay", and it wasn't specific to frogs.
      If I say that Big Ag is poisoning us with Food Waste to make us obese so they can control the world, that is mostly true, but the true parts are unremarkable, understood and the part that isn't true is such a vast miscategorization that it's mostly nonsense.
      1) Big Ag is a big business and they're understood motive is to make a profit. Profit means wealth and wealth is power. specifically power over the world.
      2) Food Waste. - most of the food industry is waste, so of course a good business will be incentivized to recycle what food waste they can back into a marketable product.
      3) UPF, whic is what most food waste is recylcled into does make people obese,
      hence it's all true, unremarkable, and framing it as a conspiracy does nothing to solve the issue.

  • @Kaitlyn.Moore.
    @Kaitlyn.Moore. Před 9 měsíci +53

    If MK ultra isn’t on here then this isn’t Simon Whistler and he’s been abducted by truth conspiracy #1 😂

    • @randomperson6433
      @randomperson6433 Před 9 měsíci +7

      He’s mentioned it in other videos. I feel like it merits an entire episode.

    • @mumuspain2086
      @mumuspain2086 Před 9 měsíci +9

      The Church Committee as a whole needs a video. It wasn't just MK Ultra. It was also Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, Project SHAMROCK, and Family Jewels. Look them up. MK Ultra is just scratching the surface.

    • @mumuspain2086
      @mumuspain2086 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Schimml0rd and all 100% confirmed TRUE

  • @bradfordcarter238
    @bradfordcarter238 Před 9 měsíci +84

    I remember that for many years the NSA was considered a conspiracy.

    • @bwktlcn
      @bwktlcn Před 9 měsíci +14

      When NSA stood for “No Such Agency”

    • @Dave_of_Mordor
      @Dave_of_Mordor Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@bwktlcncareful...I work there
      Just kidding...or am I?

    • @topogigio7031
      @topogigio7031 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I remember the entire tech industry rolling our eyes that people were so naive to think it was fake, when logistically it's EXTREMELY easy.

    • @skycloud4802
      @skycloud4802 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Dan Brown's surveillance novel Digital Fortress.

    • @matthewshannon6946
      @matthewshannon6946 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@Dave_of_MordorI used to...

  • @robertmcknightmusic
    @robertmcknightmusic Před 6 měsíci +3

    “Low key impressed there was any truth to it at all.”
    Exactly how I feel about content creators on CZcams lol.

  • @RobaMostarRoba
    @RobaMostarRoba Před 7 měsíci +2

    Alex Jones being on this list twice is wild lol

  • @plymoutheeturbowe9952
    @plymoutheeturbowe9952 Před 9 měsíci +25

    It's always hilarious when Mr. Jones is proven right 😂

    • @black_hand78
      @black_hand78 Před 9 měsíci +1

      The media likes to make him out as a nut job when he’s not. He just gets too excited because he wants people to know the truth but no one will listen so he gets frustrated and when he speaks he words his sentences wrong. He knows what he’s talking about he’s just not good at being a public speaker.

    • @Pirroli
      @Pirroli Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@carruthers100 Yeah, when he says stuff they're "conspiracies" and he's spiting bs, but when they come true, "oh, we already knew that stuff".

    • @valarkov6455
      @valarkov6455 Před 3 měsíci

      Joe R.: "Alex once told me about our government making body armor out of spider webs 😆"
      Jamie: "well, they did..."
      Joe R.:"whaaaaaat?!"

    • @ericlipps9459
      @ericlipps9459 Před 2 měsíci

      That's what they call a "black swan" event. And note that he mixed up a lot of the details (no surprise there).

  • @yulaswift2439
    @yulaswift2439 Před 9 měsíci +62

    John Pilger - 'Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.'

    • @grandcrowdadforde6127
      @grandcrowdadforde6127 Před 9 měsíci

      >> ALL governments LIE--- I F Stone

    • @sonicgoo1121
      @sonicgoo1121 Před 9 měsíci

      I used to tell people not to trust the news. But then the internet happened and people started believing even less reliable sources.

    • @amuroray2505
      @amuroray2505 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Governments arent dangerous, the people running it with their self interest and ideologies are the real danger.

    • @richpomanFU
      @richpomanFU Před 9 měsíci +5

      Yep remember that "Safe and Effective " bullshit. How did that work out?

    • @amuroray2505
      @amuroray2505 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@richpomanFU you makes no sense in your rebuttal.

  • @HaloInverse
    @HaloInverse Před 8 měsíci +4

    A further caveat about Alex "Stopped Clock" Jones: There are significant differences in implied intent between "putting chemicals in the water" and "discarding chemicals in the water".
    Technically similar verbs, but one implies deliberate action (implying further goals/agendas), and the other implies negligence (or no reasonable/profitable ability to do otherwise).

    • @ZyklonBee
      @ZyklonBee Před 6 měsíci

      sounds like you're a conspiracy theorist. do better.

    • @HaloInverse
      @HaloInverse Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@ZyklonBee Honestly, I _do_ try not to be one - to the point of sometimes wondering if my attempts to disassemble and debunk what _I_ consider "conspiracy theories", to be conspiracy theories of my own design. I still think it's reasonable to remain aware of how technically-synonymous differences in phrasing can result in completely different "spin". My intent was not to support Jones's viewpoints as such, but to claim that he said something (I believe) _technically true,_ but phrased to imply something (I believe) _very untrue._ Does that make _me_ a conspiracy theorist? Maybe. In any case, whether he chooses such phrasing out of sincere beliefs or to manipulate and grow his audience...was for the courts to decide.

  • @thespiffyduck
    @thespiffyduck Před 8 měsíci +6

    The comedic irony that many decades ago the US had a surveillance balloon which they claimed was simply a weather balloon is amazing.

    • @princebond
      @princebond Před 26 dny

      My point exactly. If they lied about it being a weather balloon in he first place, what is stopping them from lying now that the 'weather balloon' is a 'surveillance balloon' instead. Why are we supposed to believe them to tell the truth this time around?🤣

  • @fett713akamandodragon5
    @fett713akamandodragon5 Před 9 měsíci +27

    Ok, I'm officially blaming my moobs on estrogen in the water instead of doordash 🤣🤣🤣

    • @SLRModShop
      @SLRModShop Před 9 měsíci +3

      Rewatch Jurassik Park, the original movie from 1993 and pay close attention to what's being said when they find eggs in the wild...

  • @keithmenges79
    @keithmenges79 Před 9 měsíci +103

    "It doesn't so much turn them gay as change their gender". Well, that makes me feel all better. No problem, then.

    • @Irishmacwoof
      @Irishmacwoof Před 9 měsíci

      It's not use it's the women are turning the frogs gay. What's wrong they ur water making u gay knowing it's someones piss that's doing it to u. Let's pump in steroids I wanna see a frog lift a car

    • @vincentwatson2960
      @vincentwatson2960 Před 9 měsíci +5

      🤨 It should... The problem would be humans doing something like this deliberately. That's the conspiracy, champ.
      If it was happening accidentally, it's called.. Well, nothing... It's not anything.

    • @johnkidby7948
      @johnkidby7948 Před 9 měsíci

      @@vincentwatson2960 Pretty sure it's called anthropogenic ecological change of uncertain scope and unknown impact. The fact that we didn't do it on purpose doesn't mean it isn't worrying and potentially catastrophic if left unchecked. See also: global warming.

    • @garymoore2535
      @garymoore2535 Před 8 měsíci +16

      The real question is......."Did the frogs change their pronouns" 🤔

    • @acem82
      @acem82 Před 8 měsíci +17

      @@vincentwatson2960 "I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay."
      I don't see anything in that statement that implies intent. In fact, it's a factual statement. Atrazine feminizes male frogs, often making them change their mating habits into mating with other males.
      If you want, you can ask who knew about this and when, and then intent can be investigated.

  • @albanmacleod5487
    @albanmacleod5487 Před 8 měsíci +1

    "Alex Jones - like the preverbal broken clock, it's right twice a day"... brilliant.

  • @Sailrjup12nh
    @Sailrjup12nh Před 7 měsíci +9

    The Roswell Military base was constantly sending up weather balloons. The idea they didn’t know a weather ballon when they saw one is completely ridiculous. Even if it was a new design.

  • @cjlake5754
    @cjlake5754 Před 9 měsíci +62

    Worst thing about Alex Jones was that anyone even semi educated in the right fields knew the truth in his claim immediately. I'd completed a Biochem degree a decade before and the effects of Synthetic hormones on aquatic animals was discussed then. But he was still pilloried in the media for that claim immediately with next to noone speaking up. Smacks of intellectual dishonesty.
    No comment or implication on any other AJ claims.

    • @geraldprechtelmeyers2319
      @geraldprechtelmeyers2319 Před 4 měsíci +4

      So what you’re saying is he actually read something for once? Or got good info from one of his researchers? A broken clock is right twice a day? I’m ok with that.

    • @Tenskwatawa4U
      @Tenskwatawa4U Před 4 měsíci +1

      No, no... it IS intellectual dishonesty.

    • @ColdHawk
      @ColdHawk Před 3 měsíci

      No, no. The conspiracy is within the media to suppress Jones who was showing them to be, not only ineffective but completely un-entertaining….

    • @1Peasant
      @1Peasant Před 13 dny

      ​@@geraldprechtelmeyers2319
      It's more like if you refuse to believe it's 12pm when the sun is above you, just because you are looking at a broken clock? 😔

  • @RavingKats
    @RavingKats Před 9 měsíci +50

    I'm Canadian but even here there was a belief that phones were being monitored post 9/11 and anyone saying the word 💣 on a call would be flagged for a review by USA Government. In hindsight this probably wasn't very far off from the truth, but as a high schooler we trolled most convos with the word just because.
    As for most of these, as the saying goes, all good lies contain a kernel of truth to them.

    • @patheddles4004
      @patheddles4004 Před 5 měsíci

      On the plus side, way to sabotage the surveillance system by throwing it a ton of false positives.

  • @bearpaws9170
    @bearpaws9170 Před 3 měsíci +2

    The listening to private phone calls at RAF FELTWELL in the UK has been going on with help from BT for years ,I learned it in the early 90s when I was stationed there. It's still happening now. Everytime I post this on social media it's deleted let's see how long this stays up.

  • @aremoreequal
    @aremoreequal Před 4 měsíci +2

    You know what Bohemian Grove and Frats have in common? Lots of blackmail material on their members.

  • @kumarapetersen7397
    @kumarapetersen7397 Před 9 měsíci +112

    I used to live on the backside of Bohemian Grove, there is definitely a creepy vibe in the forests surrounding it . I wouldn't dare hike back in there without my dogs. I lived in Guerneville, but my "backyard" backed up to Bohemian Grove, still miles of forest, but smack dab in between my house and the grove is one of the largest trees in the world, the Clar Tree, a 278 ft, 2,000 year old tree. Ive hiked back a few times to see it, something not everyone can do, it being on private property. It's quite astounding.

    • @garretth8224
      @garretth8224 Před 9 měsíci +14

      It's just a forest. The uneasy feeling is psychosomatic, if you want it to make you uneasy it will.

    • @greyking3792
      @greyking3792 Před 9 měsíci +12

      ​@garretth8224 not necessarily, there is both natural infrasound that can create a massive sense of unease, and technology that can create the same infrasound.
      Iirc infrasound can legitimately make people lose their sanity temporarily, I think some people end up causing physical damage to their bodies in a blackout type event.
      And whether it is natural infrasound or tech it kinda makes sense for it to be there. Natural because a secretive group of artists would definitely be the type of people to set up camp at q place that just had weird vibes. Whereas if it's technology it'd make sense as an attempt to keep people out.

    • @harrylongabaugh7402
      @harrylongabaugh7402 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@garretth8224no, there's an evil vibe there. The cremation of care is a satanic ritual.

    • @CamouflageMaster
      @CamouflageMaster Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@greyking3792wow😮

    • @topogigio7031
      @topogigio7031 Před 8 měsíci +4

      ​@@greyking3792this is unironically a conspiracy theory. Sound won't make you shit yourself.

  • @chrisk853
    @chrisk853 Před 9 měsíci +19

    Next Simon is going to tell us that the Boston Tea party wasn’t actually a party, because ships never used fine china🙃

    • @ApothecaryTerry
      @ApothecaryTerry Před 8 měsíci +1

      You can't have a tea party without fine china and the GOOD biscuits.

    • @tedwarden1608
      @tedwarden1608 Před 6 měsíci +1

      You can’t make tea with salt water.

    • @ApothecaryTerry
      @ApothecaryTerry Před 6 měsíci

      @@tedwarden1608 Mongolian Suutei tsai says you can!

    • @tedwarden1608
      @tedwarden1608 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@ApothecaryTerry Ok. I’ll trust you on that one:-)

    • @nancyhope2205
      @nancyhope2205 Před měsícem

      Actually the Brits had agreed to drop the taxes on tea.

  • @sandy-quimsrus
    @sandy-quimsrus Před 9 měsíci +1

    I always remember the Graham Greene novel and the movie where the low level operative ended up being extradited out of England to Russia after being rumbled. He did for it his black African wife. In the end he's in a crap flat when USSR was having it's food shortages completely miserable. I wonder how Edward Snowden is getting along, poor bugger.

  • @Morbos1000
    @Morbos1000 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I grew up about 15 miles from Bohemian Grove. We all knew about it growing up. It had an air of mystery but also a reputation of being a place where weird stuff went on. You'd barely know it was there if you drove past it on the road it is on.

  • @drg9812
    @drg9812 Před 9 měsíci +21

    It is also true that plastic bottles leech an estrogen analog into their contents

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Source for this claim?

    • @commandervile394
      @commandervile394 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Source is called common sense and look up "microplastics"... there is such a thing called google and research, unless of course you're just waiting for mainstream media to tell you, in which case, you're going to be waiting a long time. @@archstanton6102

    • @drg9812
      @drg9812 Před 9 měsíci

      @@archstanton6102 National Institutes for Health has a study on it from 2011

    • @drg9812
      @drg9812 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@archstanton6102 NIH 2011

    • @lugi25
      @lugi25 Před 9 měsíci

      Im pretty sure every synthetic( un-biodegradable) chemical is all around us. The companies who make them( and the epa) don't care about properly managing the waste.

  • @jimsmith1846
    @jimsmith1846 Před 9 měsíci +72

    My conspiracy theory is that Simon has access to invisible objects.
    6:58 Simon has a grain of rice.
    8:42 Simon has a football.
    14:40 Simon is reading a book.

    • @victormgv
      @victormgv Před 9 měsíci +4

      😂😂😂😂 Holy moly man! **chefs kiss**

    • @nimocolombia
      @nimocolombia Před 8 měsíci +2

      I literally loled

    • @waylongroves200
      @waylongroves200 Před 8 měsíci +2

      10:01 the rice is back.

    • @nimocolombia
      @nimocolombia Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@waylongroves200 that or that's Simon's joint hahahah

    • @52BLUE
      @52BLUE Před 8 měsíci +1

      I’m dead

  • @puppetguy8726
    @puppetguy8726 Před 8 měsíci +6

    I remember reading about a study in Sweden how estrogen from birth control pills and the like are so common in our drinking water that eventually we will see a tiny decrease in male fertility because of it.

    • @larapalma3744
      @larapalma3744 Před 7 měsíci

      Err....now!

    • @brianthesnail3815
      @brianthesnail3815 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Human male sperm count has been falling for decades. We just need somebody to look for a reason.
      I don't expect Govt to do so.

    • @ThirtytwoJ
      @ThirtytwoJ Před 3 měsíci +1

      15 or 20 years ago now..

    • @michellehawkins1027
      @michellehawkins1027 Před 2 měsíci

      As overcrowded as we have become I can't say that would be a bad thing.

  • @chriswhite6095
    @chriswhite6095 Před 9 měsíci +6

    No matter what you think or believe, Snowden is a national hero and should be regarded as such. Those that defended the despicable actions of the joke nsa (gov) are simply blind to what freedom really means. Perpetrating the abysmal crime this abhorrent gov did, absolutely was not in the "best interest" of the country and its citizens, to prevent a possible terroristic type event; it was a grave sin of laziness, a guise used only to attempt further control, which any idiot w/ any semblance of intellect knows is simply an illusion. I pray/wish/hope for a coup of this gov every day... peacefully hopefully, but with as unevolved as most of the human race is; especially politicians/gov entity representatives, it'd most likely be violently carried out, and we all should cheer it on. Part of me feels bad for that line of thought, but this gov is way too big for its britches and a rethinking and restructuring is desperately needed.

    • @otaviofrn_adv
      @otaviofrn_adv Před 5 měsíci +1

      I tend to agree, accepting the NSA methods is the equivalent of supporting skynet while you watching Terminator films.
      I don't think the US democracy will be toppled, but I think the system should be widened. Two parties is a restrictive system no matter where you look. And you create factions within, smaller parties within a single giant.
      But regardless, all it takes for the government to be big again, in case that you suggestions happen, is another 9/11

  • @MoonFairy929
    @MoonFairy929 Před 9 měsíci +7

    I live near Bohemian Grove. It’s a very lucrative summer job for primarily guys. My friend has interesting stories, but nothing earth-shattering. Really just a summer resort with some private shows, a lot of hype, and compelling NDAs.

  • @thecommenternobodycaresabout
    @thecommenternobodycaresabout Před 9 měsíci +22

    I just love that people think of things that we don't really think of during our every day life, like the "What happens to the "medical" chemicals human bodies excrete that were not absorbed?" and end up a real problem that we must solve in one way or another.

    • @robertharper3754
      @robertharper3754 Před 8 měsíci

      Don't worry about it! All our aging water/waste water infrastructure, which was never designed in the 60s + 70s to filter out many chemicals we put into our waste water, just dumps it into our rivers and seas. Once it's there it's not a problem for the local people any more and it's not like we live on a planet with a complex water cycle which insures that what we dump into our rivers/seas will eventually come back to us!

    • @t3h51d3w1nd3r
      @t3h51d3w1nd3r Před 8 měsíci

      Apparently any water you've drank has been drank by 7 ppl and a lot of dinosaurs before you and after us there's going to be a lot of micro plastic in it. But the guy in the vid was talking nonsense, Jones wasn't talking about EE2 he was talking about Atrazine, a pesticide, sprayed onto foods and leaks directly into the water table, it's found in water across the states and unlike what he said in the video is extremely dangerous for humans and animals, it causes cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, birth defects, reproductive damage, tumours. 80 million pounds of it are used annually but its completely banned by the EU because it's so hazardous.

    • @captainchaos3053
      @captainchaos3053 Před 6 měsíci +2

      The fat that people don't think in such ways is the problem. Even though the scientists and chemists who develop these things should be aware and the doses being prescribed by doctors are often way too high. We should not mess to much with biological process as it has been proven to go terribly wrong

    • @noelramirez1551
      @noelramirez1551 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@captainchaos3053and yet the same people that scream these conspiracy theories call other people tree huggers and liberals for saying farmers shouldn't pour fertilizer into streams and rivers

  • @jasperbennett8233
    @jasperbennett8233 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Word of advice to Ridge. The only people that need 12 cards at once are scammers lol.

    • @velphidrow8317
      @velphidrow8317 Před 15 dny

      I've got like 10 in my wallet. Blood/plasma card, 2 credit cards, debt card, 5 rewards cards, and

    • @jasperbennett8233
      @jasperbennett8233 Před 15 dny

      @@velphidrow8317 and that's 9 and even if I take you at face value you have 10 and not 12 lol.

    • @velphidrow8317
      @velphidrow8317 Před 15 dny

      @jasperbennett8233 oh wow I'm off by one
      Still claiming only scammers have 12 is ludicrous

    • @jasperbennett8233
      @jasperbennett8233 Před 15 dny

      @@velphidrow8317 it's called hyperbole.

  • @333Saffie
    @333Saffie Před 8 měsíci +2

    Anything can be a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying things.

  • @LikeTheBuffalo
    @LikeTheBuffalo Před 9 měsíci +150

    Kudos to the editor for adding in the crinkly aluminum foil sounds when Simon was moving about in the intro. Give that person a raise.

    • @elvisg7
      @elvisg7 Před 9 měsíci +5

      I wonder if it’s Jen that edits Sideprojects.

    • @DanWright051691
      @DanWright051691 Před 9 měsíci +7

      Pretty sure Simon said Jen does all his videos, the 🐐

    • @scott2100
      @scott2100 Před 9 měsíci +2

      It's a nice touch, but I'm still peeved about the P-61 Blackwidow thumbnail still not being changed

    • @pugz3230
      @pugz3230 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@scott2100it looks like it's a huey now.

    • @johnniemiec3286
      @johnniemiec3286 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@pugz3230mega projects gaffe

  • @teiladnam
    @teiladnam Před 9 měsíci +19

    It's a bit odd that you're like "It turns out that Alex Jones was right, but this is the only time that ever happened" right after the segment where he was right about another thing.

    • @markallen5516
      @markallen5516 Před měsícem +2

      He's been right about many things over his career, he correctly predicted 911 months before it happened. He's an absolute nut ball, but maybe he became that way as a result of being called a liar and a conspiracy theorist for so many years.

  • @willy_b_coyote
    @willy_b_coyote Před 8 měsíci +1

    Everyone knows that there are no aliens in Area 51…
    That’s just where they keep all the copies of Half Life 3, Firefly Season 2, and Stargate Universe Season 3.

  • @aNkItA-du1ro
    @aNkItA-du1ro Před 8 měsíci +2

    the most craziest conspiracy theory is that people buy & use ridge wallets!!!

  • @treed5953
    @treed5953 Před 9 měsíci +11

    In Southern California we treat the water, then pump it offshore, so it can blend with the 100s, and 100s or barrels of DDT that were dumped years ago to fester for a future generation

    • @GoldenJoe9176
      @GoldenJoe9176 Před měsícem +1

      You know what’s funny they reference that in Emilio Estevezs movie “Men at Work”

    • @treed5953
      @treed5953 Před měsícem +1

      @@GoldenJoe9176 I must have been a little polluted myself (often was) and missed it.
      I like which brother you associated with the movie

    • @treed5953
      @treed5953 Před měsícem

      And they've decided it may not be DDT, but radioactive waste instead.
      We're saved! Yay

    • @GoldenJoe9176
      @GoldenJoe9176 Před měsícem

      @@treed5953 don’t get me wrong Charlie Scheen still had a great movie career at the time I just like Emilio more, I blame Night at the Roxbury 😂

  • @GrouchierBear
    @GrouchierBear Před 9 měsíci +69

    The whole Gulf of Tonkin incident was a bit more fuzzy than that. There were two reported attacks. The first was real: USS Maddox apparently approached the North Vietnamese coast (crossing into North Vietnam's territorial waters, though the US didn't recognized that limit at the time). Three torpedo boats closed in, and the Maddox fired three warning shots to discourage them. The torpedo boats then attacked, scoring a single machine gun hit and no torpedo hits before withdrawing.
    The second "attack" occurred two days later and further away from the coast, and the Spirit of the Kamchatka had truly come upon the US Navy that day. Wasn't actually a false flag, though, because it wasn't intentionally staged. They just screwed up.

    • @sfkeepay
      @sfkeepay Před 9 měsíci +8

      Thank you for adding these important clarifications.
      I think (though this is just a guess, since this yet another of his videos with some spotty writing and sloppy conclusions) that he was, or should have been, referring to the subsequent exploitation of the errors as a “false flag operation” rather than the supposed initiating incidents. But who knows?

    • @GabFrrost
      @GabFrrost Před 9 měsíci +2

      Which attack was against the heard of cows exactly ?

    • @zzbudzz
      @zzbudzz Před 9 měsíci +4

      What they didn't bother to tell the world about Tonkin gulf incident was the U.S. were using Norwegian boat captains to sneak south Vietnamese commando's along the coast on North Vietnam bomb and sabotage whatever they could. They also kidnapped fisherman and whoever they could and took them back to a secret "base camp" of the revolutionary movement to over throw the N.V govt. They blind folded them and took their clothes and sewed silk maps in the clothes of those victims and returned them . The N.V. agents knew they were missing and integrated them and found those maps which made the N.V. Govt go into paranoid overdrive! If your interested in this ,get the book called S.O.G. secret commandos of Vietnam

    • @timbodnar6711
      @timbodnar6711 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Wow! You were there!?

  • @angieell2632
    @angieell2632 Před 3 měsíci

    With regards to roswell I always wondered why a spaceship would be made of such flimsy material.
    ...Love how your so sarcastic about anything supernatural 😂😂

  • @jeffdingle9677
    @jeffdingle9677 Před 8 měsíci +2

    A UFO when identified becomes an IFO (and not alien....)

  • @dakotabrown1960
    @dakotabrown1960 Před 9 měsíci +30

    "Just for once" Alix Johns was right, except for that other thing we talked about earlier in the video. cant give him too much credit now.

    • @trentr9762
      @trentr9762 Před 9 měsíci +23

      The amount Alex has gotten right is nuts. I grew up thinking he was crazy, but one can't ignore there own eyes. Everything he said when I was growing up has come true.

    • @LetsSingTheDoomSong
      @LetsSingTheDoomSong Před 9 měsíci +14

      The man has been correct on a lot of shit. Plenty of things people are talking about only the last 1-3 years, AJ had been screaming from the rooftops for far longer.

    • @FallingPicturesProductions
      @FallingPicturesProductions Před 9 měsíci

      @@LetsSingTheDoomSong
      Speaking as someone who would listen to Alex Jones' radio programs growing up during the 2000's and very early 2010's, the 'lots of things hes gotten right' come down to throwing literally every potential possible idea and concept at a wall and through sheer volume getting enough stuff right to make a name for himself.
      I am convinced the government did something that fucked his mind when he went to prison, and now he just constantly spews everything that crosses his mind because the parts in his mind that should have some self awareness just don't function anymore.

    • @rowe024
      @rowe024 Před 9 měsíci +3

      ​@LetsSingTheDoomSong you scream every single insane thought that you've ever had, a couple of those thoughts might just be able to be twisted into a "hidden truth" or "conspiracy"

    • @commandervile394
      @commandervile394 Před 9 měsíci +9

      He's been way right about more $h1t than he has been wrong on.

  • @rheopr
    @rheopr Před 9 měsíci +10

    “If we were to tell you folks that sure enough a ufo did indeed crash at Roswell on that fateful day, I mean you probably wouldn’t believe us…”.
    Ooohh no Sr… the way things are, we definitely would believe you.

  • @kristinakingsley2115
    @kristinakingsley2115 Před 2 měsíci

    I wanted to say this fan group is the kindest fan base I have ever see. I enjoy being a part of it. Kudos!, ❤

  • @markrskinner
    @markrskinner Před 8 měsíci +1

    AJ is right. About ordinary, bland things that have been common knowledge for decades.

  • @the-chillian
    @the-chillian Před 9 měsíci +14

    I've known one Bohemian Grove member slightly, and have a good friend who was invited there as a guest. It really is just a bunch of rich and powerful guys behaving like a bunch of frat boys running wild in a summer camp -- or at least as wild as they're still capable of in their overweight middle age. No doubt a bit of business gets done on the side, but that's really not what it's for. Their "rituals" have all the occult significance of the effigy set afire at Burning Man -- and actually, Burning Man isn't all that different in principle, apart from the location and attendees.

    • @anandsharma7430
      @anandsharma7430 Před 8 měsíci

      The real (mini) conspiracy is the Freemasons - not so much changing the world, but making contacts to get ahead in life, bypassing the regular job seeking / tendering / contracting protocols - you know, networking. The real big conspiracy is open and public - lobbying.

    • @megansfo
      @megansfo Před 3 měsíci +1

      I knew someone in high school, decades ago, who is a member. Actually, there are no doubt many members from that particular school. Ive been to Burning Man 8 times, and it was great!

  • @bradkempton7905
    @bradkempton7905 Před 9 měsíci +12

    "The United States, typically seen as the bacon of freedom and individual rights..."😂😂😂😂 That's a good one. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.

    • @hoppytoad79
      @hoppytoad79 Před 9 měsíci +4

      It's *seen* as the beacon of freedom and rights. Between Hollywood making the U.S. look Happy!Shiny!Wonderful and all the talk about life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and all the other things the Founders believed in, we have kickass PR that's second to none. Such a shame reality doesn't live up to the hype.

    • @bradkempton7905
      @bradkempton7905 Před 9 měsíci

      @hoppytoad79 I agree. I'm a true believer in what the founding fathers meant for the US to become and possibly was at 1 time, but not what it is today. The politicians on both sides of the isle are as corrupt and dangerous as the ones the founding fathers declared independence from in the very beginning. The whole checks and balances thing only works when you have honest, true representatives of the people in power.

    • @princebond
      @princebond Před 26 dny

      @@hoppytoad79 Its amazing all the PR about individual rights persists as if segregation was not a few decades ago. The US landed on the moon first before abolishing segregation, think about that.😆

  • @Shado_wolf
    @Shado_wolf Před 8 měsíci +2

    Ooo I love a good conspiracy theory, especially the ones that are easy to poke holes in.... ones that turn out to be true are super interesting too

    • @otaviofrn_adv
      @otaviofrn_adv Před 5 měsíci

      they are kinda interesting no matter what when have have some foundation

  • @dwashbur
    @dwashbur Před 9 měsíci +4

    If the NSA is monitoring me, they're bored out of their minds.

    • @raymondclark1785
      @raymondclark1785 Před 9 měsíci

      And they know we need that extended warranty on our cars

  • @TheVillainInGlasses
    @TheVillainInGlasses Před 9 měsíci +30

    "Alex Jones was wrong, because he wasn't right enough. It's actually *worse* than that, but he's wrong anyway" is what I got from that.

  • @michaelgrunden5011
    @michaelgrunden5011 Před měsícem

    Simon throwing his quarter in the Alex Jones was right jar! 😂😂😂

  • @jonnyvvaughan
    @jonnyvvaughan Před 7 měsíci

    Simon and your team thankyou for your fascinating and interesting content.

  • @totallylegit4092
    @totallylegit4092 Před 9 měsíci +73

    As much as Alex is the goat of conspiracy theory entertainment…it is scary how many of his theories have some kernel in truth to them.

    • @Simon.the.Likeable
      @Simon.the.Likeable Před 9 měsíci +1

      It's scary that he has devolved into a televangelist now.

    • @totallylegit4092
      @totallylegit4092 Před 9 měsíci +4

      @@Simon.the.Likeable but he’s still funny.

    • @Simon.the.Likeable
      @Simon.the.Likeable Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@totallylegit4092 Yes, he's been the world's funniest train wreck ever since the time he cornered Poppy Bush and tried to force an admission that the Saudis did 9/11.

    • @oliverd.1458
      @oliverd.1458 Před 9 měsíci +25

      No word on Jeffrey Epstein, something Jones also blew the lid on

    • @totallylegit4092
      @totallylegit4092 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@carruthers100 i think you miss understand. The man was a meme. People didn’t actually believe him. Oh he said stuff people believed…but they believed that stuff before he said it. The thing is, he was so out there and wacky. He was a literal meme.
      And his last Rogan episode was very funny, they literally fact checked him live on the show. And it was crazy how it all checked out…but he still missed the point completely.
      The man was a harmless meme that people couldn’t accept.

  • @masterbuilder675
    @masterbuilder675 Před 9 měsíci +32

    We all know what crashed at Roswell...it was a Ferengi shuttle piloted by Quark with Odo, Rom, and Nog on board.

    • @littleblackcat2273
      @littleblackcat2273 Před 9 měsíci +5

      That was one of my favourite episodes of DS9, it was great that they could have some fun with it. :)

    • @teiladnam
      @teiladnam Před 9 měsíci +3

      Nah, it was the Planet Express ship.

    • @paulwoodford1984
      @paulwoodford1984 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Great characters. R.I.P to Odo and Nog. Good actors

    • @jrr7031
      @jrr7031 Před 8 měsíci

      Odo was so smug.

  • @_kodokami
    @_kodokami Před 8 měsíci +3

    well, if we know that the crashed object was a top secret device used for detecting nuclear blast then it technically isn't a UFO, but an IFO - Identified Flying Object - it cannot be an UFO if we know what it is Simon ;)

  • @tyler8320
    @tyler8320 Před 8 měsíci +1

    So, what happened with the NSA's monitoring of that data? Did they just keep doing it and everyone just let it go?

    • @buzzedalldrink9131
      @buzzedalldrink9131 Před 7 měsíci +1

      think about it, you think they really stopped because someone called them out on it? good old patriot act in action according to them they are monitoring you for your own protection

  • @believeonChriststaystrong7589
    @believeonChriststaystrong7589 Před 9 měsíci +53

    It’s truly nice to see Simon be willing to put aside his scepticism and acknowledge some conspiracies that turned out to be true. Some sceptics refuse to let go of scepticism even when faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The truth is ultimately what we should seek and what matters. Good stuff.

    • @sleevemcdichael5841
      @sleevemcdichael5841 Před 9 měsíci +9

      The opinions expressed in his channels are all establishment approved though. Never comment on his MSG video, Big MSG's keyboard warriors will not leave you alone for months. They are nuts.

    • @black_hand78
      @black_hand78 Před 9 měsíci +10

      Lmao. He didn’t acknowledge shit. Love Simon but he absolutely refuses to look deeper into anything at all. Ex: the Roswell incident, he didn’t acknowledge the current whistleblower at all in this video. That just proves to me that even if evidence comes out and the gov tells us the truth that Simon will not believe it.

    • @sleevemcdichael5841
      @sleevemcdichael5841 Před 9 měsíci +10

      @@black_hand78 Just like every other CZcamsr making big money they will not jeopardize their income by saying anything contrary to the establishment narrative while making digs at Trump and Alex Jones anytime they can.

    • @Pirroli
      @Pirroli Před 8 měsíci

      @@black_hand78 Yeah, I noticed that he's not even scratching the surface when he acknowledged the Roswell incident as a "Balloon". The US changed their statements about what supposedly that object that crashed, this should raise question to everyone that truly seeks truth. If you hear someone constantly changing their statements about the same incident then you should as a smart person have doubts.

    • @aNkItA-du1ro
      @aNkItA-du1ro Před 8 měsíci

      Absolutely, why else would u think that way!?!

  • @chezsnailez
    @chezsnailez Před 9 měsíci +21

    Conspiracy Theories are starting to identify as 'spoiler alerts' nowadays...

  • @kennethwalker8402
    @kennethwalker8402 Před 8 dny

    On the Bohemian Grove, The "weaving spiders come not here" slogan means that no one is supposed to do any business at the Grove. It was meant as a place of relaxation and a temporary break from the efforts necessary to run their bits of the world. But Humans are Humans so I am sure some people still end up making deals while they are away from the public scrutiny.

  • @thecorona1784
    @thecorona1784 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Simon pls do more of these, there are so many options out there, 1 being operation NORTHWOOD....

  • @AreUmygrandson
    @AreUmygrandson Před 9 měsíci +5

    Nixon had some slurs to say about what went on at the grove. There are recordings of him talking about bohemian grove

  • @kazstrankowski8721
    @kazstrankowski8721 Před 9 měsíci +7

    No mention or WMDs in Iraq?

  • @christianjadot4459
    @christianjadot4459 Před 8 měsíci +1

    While oftentimes hyperbolic, it’s disturbing how often Alex Jones is correct.

  • @jsan118
    @jsan118 Před 7 dny

    I like how you went so hard on just Alex Jones and none of the other conspiracy theorists

  • @MrRight-vf2bm
    @MrRight-vf2bm Před 9 měsíci +28

    Looking forward to your video in 10 years about these current conspiracies 😉

    • @seanoneill9130
      @seanoneill9130 Před 9 měsíci

      You poor gullible sap.

    • @Vaeldarg
      @Vaeldarg Před 9 měsíci

      Don't think you'll need to wait 10 years. Nowadays these conspiracy theories are debunked practically as they're made due to such poor quality from attention-seekers on social media platforms. The "UAP" stuff getting attention in Congress? Already largely debunkable as misunderstood camera distortions. (it's almost like a lot of this stuff is just pushed in a certain direction by those wanting to make money on UFO-hunting shows/books....)

  • @BlackAir3190
    @BlackAir3190 Před 9 měsíci +29

    He (Alex) wasn't exactly correct, he said it was just frogs but it's actually multiple other species too. I don't think that was quite the downplay of his credibility it was meant to be 😂😂. Great video as always, keep them coming.

    • @jeremyschwab6088
      @jeremyschwab6088 Před 6 měsíci +4

      I was thinking that as well. So, it's not just frogs... AND it's not orientation.... It's the whole reproductive system... AND possibly affecting humans as well, but we don't know for sure.... so, don't worry?
      ;)

    • @lewisbenzie845
      @lewisbenzie845 Před 6 měsíci

      @@jeremyschwab6088 Yeah hes just literally correct. In science we dont worry about exactitudes like that. I mean its not like a frog that was formerly male now wanting a little backdoor cause its a women now is gay .... #traps

    • @joshuablair252
      @joshuablair252 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Except he did NOT say it was just frogs. 😂😂😂

  • @eekee6034
    @eekee6034 Před 15 dny

    I wasn't expecting Roswell to be on the list. That was fun! :D

  • @spacecase13
    @spacecase13 Před 9 měsíci +15

    I love how the first one is a UFO explanation and it's practically "It's a weather balloon."

    • @eric_has_no_idea
      @eric_has_no_idea Před 9 měsíci +4

      Weather balloon, but there was more to it. They were higher flying and larger than normal ones. This was a large national secret.
      They also were used for relaying radio signals from the USSR that were bouncing off the ionosphere. We listened for decades because they didn't know it was possible.

    • @ripvanwinkle2002
      @ripvanwinkle2002 Před 9 měsíci

      it was a radar target balloon

    • @johnbeck6996
      @johnbeck6996 Před 9 měsíci

      @@eric_has_no_idea The radar reflector balloon theory to which you refer has been thoroughly debunked. It is one of *many* discredited government "explanations", and those explanations have been shown to be impossible, given the dates detailed in the Roswell newspaper report, and the dates in the records associated with the government's explanations. The Mogul balloon project did have one of its balloons "disappear" from radar in the general vicinity, but (IIRC), the date for that flight was *after* the reported UFO recovery, and was not exactly close to the site. Another government "explanation" for the small bodies reportedly retrieved from the crash site, were determined to be from a high altitude drop in the 1950's.
      The records from the Roswell base for the time frame of the crash, recovery, and subsequent investigation ... have *conveniently* been lost. All of the rest of that year's records are known to exist, the only ones missing are from the time in question.
      So, the government has provided many iterations of explanations that have been shown to be lies, and lost relevant records. Their credibility is worse than people whom claim to have been abducted by aliens. Your call as to what you want to believe, but you really ought to look into the various explanations, and the details thereof, for yourself.
      Also, IIRC, the Mogul Project was never used, merely tested. IIRC, the deciding factor was the lack of control of where it flew.

    • @konobikundude
      @konobikundude Před 8 měsíci

      I'm trying to remember, but project mogul was 1952 or 1953, so it would have been quite a few years after Roswell. I seem to recall that when called up on this, the air force changed its story and indicated that it was some sort of testing of a crash test mannequin or something. There was some sort of factual inconsistency with that project being an answer too. Hell knows what actually happened, but if you're going to mislead folks at least don't insult the public with impeachable evidence

  • @TheDarthSoldier
    @TheDarthSoldier Před 9 měsíci +3

    Biggest conspiracy theory is that Simon doesn't wear pants... because he has no legs

    • @hoppytoad79
      @hoppytoad79 Před 9 měsíci

      Simon's body ends at the waist.

  • @hvitekristesdod
    @hvitekristesdod Před 5 měsíci +1

    The history of the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve is my favourite

  • @Wicked_Trojan
    @Wicked_Trojan Před 8 měsíci +1

    Yeah, Roswell was a balloon just like the aliens in Peru are miners flying around on jet packs dodging massive gunfire so they can scare the locals. Also never mind the fact the reporting on Roswell and witness accounts completely changed once the military showed up…

  • @michaelmoore7975
    @michaelmoore7975 Před 9 měsíci +32

    @14:06 I highly recommend watching the documentary _The Fog of War._ McNamara is completely transparent, frank, introspective, honest, and candid. He gives a singularly intimate and detailed account. He even is self-deprecating and acknowledges all of his mistakes and flaws. And full of great quotes.

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 Před 9 měsíci +3

      It is a fascinating documentary. Have you seen the similar one on Runsfeldt?

    • @woodchild2093
      @woodchild2093 Před 9 měsíci +4

      Awesome film. He even said he would be a war criminal if the allies lost the war. Very open about the whole thing.

    • @michaelmoore7975
      @michaelmoore7975 Před 9 měsíci

      @@archstanton6102 No I haven't but I bet I will now.

    • @michaelmoore7975
      @michaelmoore7975 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@woodchild2093 I was a bit astonished how open he was. Far cry from people nowadays huh?

    • @woodchild2093
      @woodchild2093 Před 9 měsíci

      @@michaelmoore7975 100% very interesting man for sure

  • @ajstevens1652
    @ajstevens1652 Před 9 měsíci +27

    There's nothing ridiculous about conspiracy theories. There are some that are ridiculous, but also many that are plausible true. To have zero skepticism and believe everything you are told by authorities is fsr crazier.

    • @dragonaffliction23
      @dragonaffliction23 Před 3 měsíci +1

      The biggest issue when it comes to conspiracy theories is that far too many people just believe them outright and then look for evidence that supports that view. What everyone should do is approach the theory like it's wrong and look for evidence that proves it is in fact correct. Just my experience. Normally that leads to the truth quicker than other methods.

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@dragonaffliction23like flat earth or the moon landings fake or vaccines causes autism/has microchips to track you (guys you all have a phone) or any of these

  • @oliverwoodcock5307
    @oliverwoodcock5307 Před 6 měsíci

    Slyly putting that all seeing eye on the globe 😂👌

  • @danfadden
    @danfadden Před 8 měsíci +14

    I love how Simon crafts his videos in such a way that in 10 years when the truth about these theories finally comes out, no matter what that truth is, he can look back and say, “See! I was right all along!”
    It takes a special kind of person to be able to deny and confirm the truth all in the same video. Being able to keep both side of the argument happy is an art form. So no matter what side you’re on, you’d still want to have a beer with Simon.
    Am I alone in my thinking?

    • @OmarApps1
      @OmarApps1 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Yes, you are alone

    • @stanleyhape8427
      @stanleyhape8427 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Or are you
      👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👀

    • @ArifGhostwriter
      @ArifGhostwriter Před měsícem +1

      Yes - quite alone hopefully - because people who can't get off the fence on subjects contribute nothing useful.

  • @kremepye3613
    @kremepye3613 Před 9 měsíci +33

    My favourite one was the "safe and effective" one that turned out to destroy the heart health of teenagers

    • @vincentwatson2960
      @vincentwatson2960 Před 9 měsíci +2

      That's not true though, is it? 🤦

    • @JAY-gl5xd
      @JAY-gl5xd Před 9 měsíci +9

      Not just teenagers, but all age ranges. It is just easily dismissed in older groups.
      And don't forget the autoimmune problems.

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Oh, you’ve fallen for that one, have you?
      Read a little about how viruses affect the human body (and animal bodies) and learn the truth!

    • @kremepye3613
      @kremepye3613 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @clogs4956 i was hospitalised from the stabby thing and couldn't walk more then a few paces for around 9 months at age 31

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před 8 měsíci

      @@kremepye3613 allergic to one of the compounds? They do warn us about this...

  • @i.am.not.herbert
    @i.am.not.herbert Před 9 měsíci +11

    It was good of you to mention Alex Jones and give him any credit at all when a lot of people would have just avoided that nowadays, but... You really should have included mentioning how people can still find the video footage he took while infiltrating the place out there on the internet.
    So if anyone wants to see and hear stuff going on at the Bohemian Grove and not just read about it, there you go. Just start searching for that. It's out there. Some of its really horrible shaky unfocused footage cuz this was back in the days of videotape and stuff I'm pretty sure LOL. But it's out there.

  • @cameronturner7475
    @cameronturner7475 Před 8 měsíci +1

    All of these conspiracies have been covered by Alex Jones. He didn't just get one right, he got all 5 right.

  • @golhandincmen
    @golhandincmen Před 6 měsíci

    Great narrative bro, insta subbed.

  • @furiouslester
    @furiouslester Před 9 měsíci +4

    A conspiracy theory proven true is still a conspiracy.

  • @Shoelessjoe78
    @Shoelessjoe78 Před 9 měsíci +3

    I absolutely love how Snowden wound up in Russia. 🎉😂

  • @danakers6243
    @danakers6243 Před 13 dny

    When I was learning sonar in the US Navy, we ran the old Tonkin audio through the newer sonar analysis systems and determined the claim of torpedoes was wrong. The claimed "sound" was actually just small boat propellers. It is possible they got it wrong, but more likely just went with what they wanted to escalate the event.

  • @apersondoingthings5689
    @apersondoingthings5689 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Damn, those fish that had antidepressants in them must be the happiest fish ever

  • @celticlass8573
    @celticlass8573 Před 9 měsíci +4

    I can't with the sound the tinfoil hat makes when Simon moves around. 🤣😂🤣😂 Kudos to the editor for attention to detail!