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"Real History with Melissa" - Ep. 134 "Perelandra: The Acid Trip" - Oct. 30, 2025
2:52:08
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"Real History with Melissa" - Ep 133 "AI Aye aye" - Oct. 23, 2025
39:53
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Real History with Melissa - Ep. 131 "Neil Foster, the UK's digital ID" - Oct. 9, 2025
1:18:39
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Real History with Melissa - Ep. 130 "Nick Heys: Perelandra" - Oct. 2, 2025
3:05:12
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"Real History with Melissa" - Ep. 129 - "Authorized Hate and the Love of Simple Pleasures" -9/25/25
1:04:07
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"Real History with Melissa" - Ep. 128 "Sigrida's email: The Gstaad Adventure" - 9/18/25
1:21:15
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"Real History with Melissa" - Ep. 127 "9/11, Charlie Kirk, Neil Foster, Police State" - 9/11/25
1:28:47
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RE-UPLOAD - "Real History with Melissa" - Ep. 126 "Thank you" - August 21, 2025
1:33:10
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Real History with Melissa - Ep. 125 "Neil Foster: City Hall, Carbon Passports" - Aug. 14, 2025
1:31:06
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Real History with Melissa - CS Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet" with Nick Heys - Aug 7, 2025
2:49:29
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"Real History with Melissa" -- Ep. 123 - Bee here in case you're reading along - July 24, 2025
17:52
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IMPROVED AUDIO! - "Real History w/ Melissa" -- Ep. 122 - Katy will not converge! - 7/17/25
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"Real History with Melissa" -- Ep. 120 - Just a Little Update - 7/3/25
6:19
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"Real History with Melissa" -- Ep. 119 - We're in the Army Now - 6/26/25
46:07
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"Real History with Melissa" -- Ep. 118 - Sigrida's Prayer for Truth and Wisdom - 6/19/25
2:52:57
"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 116 - "Snow Crash with Nick Heys" - June 5, 2025
2:45:32
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Real History with Melissa - "Sierra: Blood, Spooky Particles, and Quantum Connections" - 5/29/25
1:42:50
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Real History with Melissa - Ep. 113 "Snow Crash, convicts, and consciousness" - May 15, 2025
1:02:58
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"Real History" w/ Melissa - Ep. 112 - Road Trip: Pioneer, Texas - 4/17/25
1:21:55
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"Real History" w/ Melissa - Ep. 111 - Neil Foster: Punk is Officially Dead - 4/10/25
54:58
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Carl Dickens - Trial Balloon (music video)
5:11
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02-O90 (Ode to O-90) - Nick Heys - 27 March 2025
3:10
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"Real History" w/ Melissa - #109 -- Nick Heys -- "We" - 3/27/25
2:51:33
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"Real History" w/ Melissa - #109 -- Nick Heys -- "We" - 3/27/25
2:51:33
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"Real History" w/ Melissa - #108 "Andrew and Elizabeth Created a Beautiful Family" - 3/20/25
1:18:48
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"Real History" w/ Melissa - #107 "Neil Foster Steps Up" - 3/13/25
1:39:13
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"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 101 - "Ryan in the Mountains" - Jan. 16, 2025
2:31:04
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"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 102 - "Sunshine Allie" - Jan. 23, 2025
1:43:14
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"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 105 "Better That You Die" - Feb. 13, 2025
2:26:19
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"RH w/Melissa" #106 "Sam: Thinking, War, Kayfabe of Politics, Perfect Possession" 2/27/25
1:53:37
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"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 103 - "Rick is a Proud Conspiracy Theorist" - Jan. 30, 2025
1:39:45
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"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 99 - PART 2 - "Nick Heys -- Brave New World REVISITED" - 1/7/25
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Alan Watt - Redux 194 - "The Sun is Risen" - 12/29/24
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Real History with Melissa Ep. 96 "SINE --- Transgender" Dec. 12, 2024"
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"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 116 - "Snow Crash with Nick Heys" - June 5, 2025

4 months ago
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Discussing Neal Stephenson's novel, Snow Crash, with Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - What are some of Stephenson's jobs as a futurist? - What is Augmented Reality? - The Metaverse, Google Glass, wearable tech. - Pokémon Go - Google Earth - What is Stephenson's educational background? - How are language and history explored in Snow Crash? - Who is Samuel Noah Kramer? - Sex!!! - What are some of the red flags that we noticed? - What did Margaret Mead have to do with the sexual revolution of the 1960s? - What were the Macy Conferences? - Characters in the novel, Hiro Protagonist and Y.T. - Wired magazine - Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet - Stuart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte - Lucasfilm's 1986 Habitat, an online role-playing game - Avatar, post-Vedic word meaning 'to descend' - Peter Thiel - Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Truthstream Media, videos about the Eliza Effect; Joseph Weizenbaum - Noam Chomsky, language, deep structure, surface structure - What is the purpose of the black cube? - A Peter Kay comedy bit on spit. - How does Stephenson bring in Sumer, creation myths, and the Tower of Babel? - What do QR codes look like? - Black Mirror episode, Plaything - What's next for Nick?

Neal Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Margaret Mead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead

Was Margaret Mead Misled or Did She Mislead on Samoa?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/317384

Macy conferences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences

Gregory Bateson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson

Let's call it "Pasta Fence" -The Tavistock Century 2020 Vision
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781800130029_A49465577/preview-9781800130029_A49465577.pdf

Lucasfilm's Habitat Promotional Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc

Claude Shannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

Claude (language model)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

After Babel - George Steiner
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/Steiner_AfterBabel.pdf

Chomsky's Theory
https://www.structural-learning.com/post/chomskys-theory

The Shallows (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)

Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
http://yashalevine.com/surveillance-valley

How the Eliza Effect Is Being Used to Game Humanity
https://truthstreammedia.com/2025/05/01/how-the-eliza-effect-is-being-used-to-game-humanity/

Joseph Weizenbaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum

Plaything (Black Mirror)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaything_(Black_Mirror)

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