Steven Snider, Creating the Super Soldier |569|

Steven Snider is an author, blogger and host of The Farm podcast.

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[00:00:00] Alex Tsakiris: On, this episode of Skeptiko… How to create a super soldier

[00:00:07] clip: So am I to understand that you men completed your training on your own? That’s the fact Jack that the fact Jack captain. Yes, sir. These are exactly the kind of go-getters I want working on my em, 50 project in Italy,

And why we need them in the first place.

[00:00:26] Steven Snider: We just weren’t getting, you know, the results from the troops that we wanted.

I mean, and that was a big concern. You had a lot of people deserting . And we were looking at these, you know, communist cadres who seemed almost fearless. And what were they doing that we. Were missing. And that was kind of what started all these investigations and the brainwashing.

[00:00:43] Alex Tsakiris: The first clip was a real oldie from bill Murray, way back stripes, movie, eighties, I think nineties, And the second was from today’s guest, returning guest, Stephen Snyder. This is a deep, deep dive. I almost thought about breaking this up and coming in and making about a hundred comments on it because.

We could talk for a long, long time and it intersects with so many other things. We’ve been talking about on this show. But I can’t really do that. But I love to do that with you afterwards. If you want to chat about any of this stuff, and there will be an invite to do that at the end.

In the meantime. I hope you enjoyed the show.

Alex Tsakiris: welcome to skeptiko where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers and their critics.

I’m your host, Alex. Kars today. We welcome Steven Snyder, AKA recluse back to Steven. Always. Great to have you here. You know, it wasn’t too long ago. He was here 5 29 para political Q and on great conversation. , if you haven’t guys, haven’t heard that you gotta go back and listen to it because we really engaged on some topics that we didn’t necessarily agree on the interpretation of, but what is so awesome about this guy?

And what I so love about his work is he really brings it in terms of the data. And I was just kind of poking at him and teasing a little bit because he’s always like, Hey, what are you gonna ask me? Cause I gotta be prepared. I gotta know. And stuff like that over prepare, go to his web, go to his blog or listen to his, uh, podcast.

And you’ll see that he, he needs that deep knowledge. So one of the things we’re gonna do today is kind of pull ’em out of that and get him more into the interpretation of it. You know, it’s one thing to dig up those ancient artifacts. It’s another to interpret what they mean. So that’s gonna be one of my goals.

But before we get started, I wanted to read for people because you have been on the show a couple times, by the way. Welcome Steven. Thanks for being here. Thank you, Eric. So I, I wanted to read this because I did come across the farm podcast, mock two intro. And I don’t wanna assume that everybody knows exactly who you are.