Guy Anderson

In this episode, I’m joined again by Mark Young from The Belfast Bapcast for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with weather, bottled water and the strange modern world we’re all trying to navigate, before moving into something much more grounded: Mark’s recent solo wild-camping trip by kayak on Strangford Lough. He talks me through paddling over to Rainey Island, building a simple shelter with a tarp and paracord, sleeping out alone, and rediscovering just how restorative it can be to step away from noise, screens and routine. We reflect on why time in nature, physical effort and self-reliance seem to quiet the mind in a way modern life rarely does.

From there, we get into a deeper discussion about disconnection, online culture, the long shadow of the pandemic years, and the way fear and compliance reshaped everyday life. Mark also shares more about his outreach work with Belfast’s homeless community, why he believes practical help matters more than performance, and why authentic faith is shown more through service than shouting at strangers in the street. We finish by talking about his next challenge — spending several nights sleeping rough in Belfast city centre to better understand the realities of homelessness — and the personal cost of continuing to speak openly, even when that comes with pressure from the system.

• Guy Anderson / The Tartarian Empire: https://thetartarianempire.co.uk/
• Mark Young / The Belfast Bapcast: https://shows.acast.com/the-bap-cast
• smartwater: https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/brands/smartwater/products/smartwater
• evian: https://www.evian.com/en_gb
• FIJI Water: https://www.fijiwater.com/
• Nestlé: https://www.nestle.com/
• Bill Gates / Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/
• McDonald's: https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us.html
• Zoom: https://www.zoom.com/
• Amazon: https://www.aboutamazon.com/
• EE: https://ee.co.uk/
• Vodafone: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/
• BlackRock: https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/home
• Vanguard: https://corporate.vanguard.com/
• Jordan Peterson: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/
• Alan Watts: https://alanwatts.org/
• Sigmund Freud / Freud Museum London: https://www.freud.org.uk/
• Carl Jung / C.G. Jung Institute of New York: https://junginstitute.org/
• George Carlin: https://georgecarlin.com/
• NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/

This week I’m joined again by Mark from The Belfast Bapcast, and we begin by catching up on the two very different challenges he’s preparing for: a solo overnight kayak trip to a private island on Strangford Lough, and a three-night sleep-out in Belfast city centre to raise awareness of homelessness and help fund his daily food run. From there, our conversation moves into the legal and media pressures Mark says he is facing, before widening into a broader discussion about public narratives, online criticism, and the difficulty of staying grounded when so much of modern life is fuelled by outrage and constant noise.

The second half of the episode turns to my new book, The Grimm Origins of Children’s Stories, and the darker roots of the tales many of us grew up thinking of as harmless family favourites. We talk about Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan and The Ugly Duckling, and explore how folklore, sanitisation, symbolism and modern retellings have reshaped them over time. Along the way we also reflect on books, research, authenticity in podcasting, the value of real-world conversation over algorithm-driven distraction, and why time in nature still matters more than ever.

• The Belfast Bapcast: https://shows.acast.com/the-bap-cast
• The Grimm Origins of Children’s Stories by Guy Peter Anderson: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9798190497137
• Richard Vobes: https://www.vobes.com/
• Truth Juice: https://www.truthjuice.co.uk/
• The Nolan Show: https://audioboom.com/channels/419722-the-nolan-show/playlists
• Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI): https://www.psni.police.uk/about-us
• Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland (PPS): https://www.ppsni.gov.uk/
• The Valley of Vision by Arthur Bennett: https://banneroftruth.org/uk/store/devotionalsdaily-readings/the-valley-of-vision/
• Hans Christian Andersen / H.C. Andersens Hus: https://hcandersenshus.dk/en/
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317910/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-by-lewis-carroll-illustrated-by-anna-bond/
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/293680/peter-pan-by-j-m-barrie/
• GRIMMWELT Kassel: https://www.grimmwelt.de/en/exhibitions/grimmwelt
• Disney: https://www.disney.com/
• Mark Devlin: https://djmarkdevlin.com/about-mark-devlin/
• David Icke: https://davidicke.com/
• The Why Files: https://thewhyfiles.com/podcast/
• Lewis Carroll Society: https://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/

In this episode, I was joined by Mark Young after a rocky start with my tech, and he more than filled the gap — from a wild swim at Brompton Bay and a waterlogged Pocket 3, through to a lively deep dive into the Mandela Effect. We explored why certain examples still stick so strongly in people’s minds, from Star Wars, Snow White and Forrest Gump to Fruit of the Loom, Monopoly, Froot Loops, KitKat, Moonraker and more. We also touched on Fiona Broome’s role in popularising the phenomenon, the Nelson Mandela origin story, and why CERN so often gets pulled into these conversations.

What made the chat especially interesting was the tension between two possibilities: are these simply cases of mass misremembering shaped by culture and repetition, or do they point to something stranger about memory, reality and time itself? Along the way, we discussed biblical examples, geographical anomalies, the psychology of collective belief, and whether some of these ideas function less as answers and more as distractions. We didn’t land on a grand conclusion — but we did get to the heart of why the Mandela Effect continues to fascinate people.

• The Belfast Bapcast: https://shows.acast.com/the-bap-cast
• Shaun Attwood: https://shaunattwood.com/
• StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/
• CERN: https://home.cern/
• Large Hadron Collider: https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider/
• Fiona Broome’s Mandela Effect site: https://mandelaeffectsite.wordpress.com/about-2/
• Dragon Con: https://www.dragoncon.org/
• Nelson Mandela Foundation: https://www.nelsonmandela.org/
• Star Wars: https://www.starwars.com/
• Forrest Gump: https://www.paramountpictures.com/movies/forrest-gump
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: https://disneyanimation.com/films/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs/
• Fruit of the Loom: https://www.fotlinc.com/our-brands/fruit-of-the-loom/
• Monopoly: https://consumercare.hasbro.com/en-us/product/monopoly-game/7EABAF97-5056-9047-F577-8F4663C79E75
• Pikachu: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/pikachu
• Froot Loops: https://www.wkkellogg.com/our-foods/our-brands/froot-loops
• Sex and the City: https://shop.hbo.com/collections/sex-and-the-city
• KitKat: https://www.kitkat.com/
• Moonraker: https://www.007.com/the-films/moonraker/
• Isaiah 11 (Bible Gateway): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+11&version=KJV%3BAKJV%3BESV
• Conspiracy Theories: From Agartha to Zombies: https://thetartarianempire.co.uk/f/conspiracy-theories-from-agartha-to-zombies---now-available
• We Are The Champions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY
• Bohemian Rhapsody: https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/bohemian-rhapsody
• Cast Away: https://amblin.com/movie/cast-away/
• Sound of Freedom: https://www.angelstudiosdistribution.com/titles/sound-of-freedom
• Jim Breuer: https://www.jimbreuer.com/
• DJI Osmo Pocket 3: https://www.djiusa.com/products/osmo-pocket-3

In this episode, I’m joined again by Mark from The Belfast Bapcast for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with the fires affecting parts of Europe and the United States, then opens out into a much bigger discussion about control, narrative, faith, technology and the direction society appears to be heading. We talk about the effect extreme weather and scorched grazing land can have on farming and food prices, why so many people feel the public story never quite matches what they are seeing, and how fear, crisis and dependency can be used to push people towards compliance.

Mark and I also spend time on the deeper cultural questions underneath all of this: the loss of real-world community, the way social media and dating apps reshape human connection, the rise of AI tools such as ChatGPT as substitute companions, and the tension between staying informed and becoming consumed by systems we do not control. We finish by reflecting on relationships, resilience, localism, barter, alternative community structures and why, whatever your worldview, there is still value in getting back into the real world, strengthening family and community ties, and refusing to hand over every part of life to institutions and algorithms.

• The Belfast Bapcast: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBelfastBapcast
• Albert Pike correspondence (Library of Congress): https://findingaids.loc.gov/agents/people/41219
• HAARP: https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/
• ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
• Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/
• Bill Gates (Gates Notes): https://www.gatesnotes.com/home
• Nestlé: https://www.nestle.com/
• Club of Rome: https://www.clubofrome.org/
• Bilderberg Meetings: https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/
• Trilateral Commission: https://www.trilateral.org/
• Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/
• World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/
• Police Service of Northern Ireland: https://www.psni.police.uk/
• BBC Help: https://help.bbc.com/hc/en-us
• Tinder: https://tinder.com/
• Hinge: https://hinge.co/
• Plenty of Fish: https://www.pof.com/
• Bumble: https://bumble.com/
• Match Group: https://mtch.com/?lang=en
• Official Ross Kemp: https://officialrosskemp.com/about/
• David Bellamy: https://www.davidbellamy.co.uk/home/
• Donald J. Trump: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/?language=en
• Benjamin Netanyahu: https://www.netanyahu.org.il/?lang=en
• Volkswagen UK: https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en.html
• Audi UK: https://www.audi.co.uk/en/legal-and-privacy/

In this episode, Mark and I head deep into the rabbit hole of time travel, doubles, secret technology and the strange overlap between science fiction, conspiracy theory and historical coincidence. We talk about celebrity doppelgangers from the past, the so-called “time traveller” clips that keep resurfacing online, DARPA, ARPANET, the dark web, and whether advanced technology is being held back from the public. We also explore the difficulty of separating genuine testimony from fantasy, including a remarkable story about a man claiming to have built a zero-point energy device after an encounter with an older version of himself.

From there, we get into Nikola Tesla, Project Pegasus, and the Ingersoll Lockwood books that people love linking to Donald Trump and Barron Trump. We compare those ideas with other predictive or eerily prescient works such as Futility, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, They Live, The Simpsons and Idiocracy, before finishing on a wider reflection about control, convenience, consumer culture and how easily people can be guided without even noticing it. It is one of those conversations that starts with time travel and ends with the modern world itself feeling like the real mind-bender.

• DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil/
• ARPANET (DARPA feature): https://www.darpa.mil/news/features/arpanet
• Onion Browser: https://onionbrowser.com/
• Zoom: https://global.zoom.us/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
• The Adam Project: https://www.netflix.com/title/81309354
• Dr Colin Ross: https://www.rossinst.com/about-dr-colin-ross
• Nikola Tesla Museum: https://tesla-museum.org/en/home/
• Project Pegasus: https://www.projectpegasus.info/
• Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58566
• Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57426
• 1900; or, The Last President: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60479/old/60479-h/60479-h.htm
• The Mars Project by Wernher von Braun: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p062278
• Futility / The Wreck of the Titan (Library of Congress guide): https://guides.loc.gov/titanic/external-websites
• Back to the Future Part II: https://www.backtothefuture.com/movies/backtothefuture2/
• They Live: https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/they-live
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (The Orwell Foundation): https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/books-by-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/
• George Carlin: https://georgecarlin.com/
• The Simpsons on Disney+: https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-cac75c8f-a9e2-4d95-ac73-1cf1cc7b9568
• Crocs: https://www.crocs.com/
• Timpson: https://www.timpson.co.uk/our-story
• Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Mark Hughes joined me again for a wide-ranging and very candid conversation that moved from the summer heat to much bigger questions about politics, media control and how online platforms shape what people see. We reflected on voting, censorship, algorithm changes, demonetisation fears, the migration of creators across platforms such as YouTube, Odysee, Patreon and BitChute, and why so many independent voices end up being accused of being “shills” or “controlled opposition” the moment they gain traction.

We also got into the practical side of content creation: building an audience, clipping longer interviews into shorter segments, the appeal of using on-screen alter egos like those seen in shows such as The Why Files, and the risk of turning a hobby into a livelihood. Along the way, Mark spoke about his café, his work helping homeless people, and the deeper satisfaction that comes from pursuing purpose over profit, while I shared how my own path moved from design and tattooing into the work I do now.

• Food For Thought Radio: https://www.fftradio.com/
• The Why Files: https://thewhyfiles.com/
• The Why Files YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhyFiles
• Richard Vobes: https://www.vobes.com/
• Heretics with Andrew Gold: https://www.andrewgoldheretics.com/about
• David Icke: https://www.davidicke.org/
• Joe Rogan: https://www.joerogan.com/about
• Peter Thiel: https://foundersfund.com/team/peter-thiel/
• PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/
• BlackRock: https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/about-us
• Blackstone: https://www.blackstone.com/the-firm/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/
• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/
• BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/
• Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/
• ITVX: https://www.itv.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
• X: https://x.com/
• ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/
• Clifford vehicle security (via Directed): https://directed.com/brands
• Minder on ITVX: https://www.itv.com/watch/minder/29175
• The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank House): https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/diary/
• Tony Blair profile (Tony Blair Institute): https://institute.global/experts/tony-blair

In this episode, I battled through a string of technical gremlins before finally getting Mark on the line, and once we were up and running we got into a wide-ranging conversation about the way recent high-profile deaths and disappearances are being interpreted inside alternative research circles. We discussed Ann Widdecombe, David Wilcock, Charlie Kirk and several scientists and defence-linked figures mentioned in online speculation, while also looking at how official timelines, media framing and public reaction can quickly shape a narrative before many people have had time to question it.

From there, Mark and I moved into a broader discussion about establishment power, distraction in the news cycle, religion, symbolism, media influence and the tendency within conspiracy culture to try to force scattered pieces into a bigger picture. We also touched on older reference points such as David Kelly, Jill Dando, Bob Lazar and Bill Cooper, before ending on something more grounded: community, the value of giving your time to others, and the difficulty of balancing public engagement with real life when people expect constant access.

• Ann Widdecombe: https://www.annwiddecombe.com/
• Liz Truss: https://www.gov.uk/government/people/elizabeth-truss
• David Wilcock: https://dwilcock.com/
• The Belfast Bapcast: https://shows.acast.com/the-bap-cast
• David Icke: https://www.davidicke.org/
• Ickonic: https://ickonic.com/TermsOfUse
• Richard Willett author page on David Icke site: https://davidicke.com/author/richard-willet/
• Turning Point USA: https://tpusa.com/
• Novartis: https://www.novartis.com/
• MIT: https://www.mit.edu/
• Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: https://tavinstitute.org/
• Fabian Society: https://fabians.org.uk/
• Tucker Carlson Network: https://tuckercarlson.com/about/
• Conor McGregor: https://shop.conormcgregor.com/pages/about-conor
• Person of Interest: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/
• Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/
• BBC Help: https://help.bbc.com/hc/en-us/categories/39024097765779-Getting-Started
• ITV: https://www.itv.com/
• Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
• Los Alamos National Laboratory: https://www.lanl.gov/
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: https://www.nasa.gov/marshall/
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
• Bob Lazar: https://boblazar.com/
• Behold, a Pale Horse by William Cooper: https://www.lighttechnology.com/store/books/behold-pale-horse
• Jordan Maxwell: https://jordanmaxwell.com/home.html
• InfoWars: https://www.infowars.com/

In this episode, I sit down with Mark from The Belfast Bapcast to unpack the idea of the “NPC” and why some people seem willing to question everything while others stay firmly attached to official narratives. We talk about convenience culture, technology, medication, consumerism, trauma, personality type, and the slow erosion of critical thinking — along with the social cost of seeing the world differently from your friends, family, and wider circle. It’s a wide-ranging conversation about pattern recognition, obsession, sobriety, and whether waking up is a gift, a burden, or both.

We also get personal. Mark and I reflect on fear, compulsive thinking, school, self-education, prescription drugs, back pain, memory loss, and the moments in life that can push people further down the rabbit hole — or pull them back out of it. By the end, we come back to the bigger question: is there hope for the people who seem asleep to it all? Our answer is yes — but only if they’re willing to do the work, step away from distraction, and start thinking for themselves.

• Guy Anderson / The Tartarian Empire: https://thetartarianempire.co.uk/
• The Belfast Bapcast: https://shows.acast.com/the-bap-cast
• Richard Vobes: https://www.vobes.com/
• Autodidactic (Campbell Purvis): https://www.patreon.com/autodidactic13
• Elizabeth Wurtzel (author of Prozac Nation): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/33838/elizabeth-wurtzel/
• Idiocracy: https://watch.afi.com/movie/idiocracy
• Disclosure Day: https://www.disclosuredaymovie.com/synopsis/
• BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/
• NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/
• TATSoul: https://www.tatsoul.com/
• WHSmith: https://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/our-business/who-we-are
• Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/
• McDonald’s UK: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb.html

In this episode, I’m joined once again by Mark from Belfast as we ease in with a bit of chat about the weather, sleep, habits, and the strange ways modern life seems designed to keep us disconnected. From bottled water and nicotine to grounding and planned obsolescence, we follow several threads that all point back to the same wider theme: how much of what we accept as normal may in fact be manufactured, manipulated, or deliberately obscured.

From there, we dive deep into Nikola Tesla and the possibility that he was less an inventor of entirely new technology and more a rediscoverer of something ancient. We explore the suppression of free energy, the confiscation of Tesla’s papers, and the idea that old-world buildings, cathedrals, railway stations and civic architecture may once have functioned as energy devices. I also discuss the alleged final testimony attributed to Tesla, his reported interest in the plans of Notre-Dame, Cologne Cathedral and the United States Capitol, and why that missing piece feels so important to anyone researching Tartaria, hidden history, and the systems of control that shape the world we think we know.

• The Tartarian Empire: https://thetartarianempire.co.uk/
• Nikola Tesla Museum: https://tesla-museum.org/en/home/
• Tesla Universe: https://teslauniverse.com/
• Tesla, Inc.: https://www.tesla.com/
• MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology: https://www.mit.edu/
• FBI Vault: https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/freedom-of-information-privacy-act/vault
• Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
• Notre-Dame de Paris: https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/
• Cologne Cathedral: https://www.koelner-dom.de/en
• PizzaExpress: https://www.pizzaexpress.com/
• evian Natural Spring Water: https://www.evian.com/en_us
• Allwyn UK (formerly Camelot UK Lotteries): https://www.allwyn.co.uk/
• The Dr. Ardis Show: https://thedrardisshow.com/
• Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57426
• 1900; or, The Last President by Ingersoll Lockwood: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60479

Tonight I’m joined once again by Mark from The Belfast Bapcast for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with the heatwave, drinking culture and unrest, before moving into censorship, algorithms and the way social media platforms can instantly clamp down on sensitive subjects. We also get into the strange logistics surrounding high-profile football appearances during the World Cup, the spectacle of major sporting events, and the broader question of whether these global moments are ever just entertainment.

From there, Mark and I explore some of the deeper rabbit holes that listeners love us for: underground networks, Hollow Earth ideas, the Green Children of Woolpit, timeline slips, and the mystery of the so-called man from Taured. We also reflect on the limits of trying to “wake people up”, the responsibility that comes with sharing information, and why principle, conviction and community matter more than winning arguments online.

• Guy Anderson – The Tartarian Empire: https://thetartarianempire.co.uk/
• Conspiracy Theories: From Agartha To Zombies by Guy Anderson: https://thetartarianempire.co.uk/f/conspiracy-theories-from-agartha-to-zombies---now-available
• The Belfast Bapcast (hosted by Mark Young): https://shows.acast.com/the-bap-cast
• Richard Vobes: https://www.vobes.com/
• Jason Liosatos: https://jasonliosatos.com/
• George Carlin: https://georgecarlin.com/
• 1984 by George Orwell: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56487/1984-by-orwell-george/9780141036144
• David Icke: https://www.davidicke.org/
• David Wilcock: https://dwilcock.com/
• FIFA: https://www.fifa.com/home
• UFC: https://www.ufc.com/
• International Committee of the Red Cross: https://www.icrc.org/en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
• Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/
• BlackRock: https://www.blackrock.com/corporate
• JD Sports: https://www.jdplc.com/
• Stonewall UK: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/
• Contagion: https://www.warnerbros.it/scheda-film/genere-thriller/contagion/
• The Hunger Games: https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/the-hunger-games
• Transition Town Totnes: https://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/
• The Green Children of Woolpit (Woolpit Parish Council history page): https://woolpitparishcouncil.gov.uk/information-2/a-short-history/