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“Hi AJ!”

I’m not suggesting putting a watermark saying “AI Visualization” on every scene, but sometimes I feel that eventually AJ will generate himself in non-basement episodes because why not? Stop the slop!

u/WW3_FOR_PEACE — 4 days ago
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Moon landing episode missing?

hey where did the Stanley Kubrick Greatest Film moon landing episode go? I can’t find it anymore.

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u/aj4ever — 5 days ago
▲ 772 r/TheWhyFiles

What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself

Neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging the long-held assumption that the brain produces consciousness, instead proposing that it may function as a filter for a more fundamental, universal reality.

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u/hybridxer0 — 9 days ago
▲ 46 r/TheWhyFiles

AJ said he wouldn't go to Skinwalker because of the hitchhiker effect...

.. but i bet GINO would! He should see if he can get an invite. That would be awesome.

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u/OriginalJim — 8 days ago
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I am so sick of aliens being basically Judeo-Christian Angels

In some many of these stories the aliens are here to judge mankind for their sins (usually war), the aliens have a spiritual message of brotherhood and can offer heavenly ascension. It's not so much that I think these are made up. Or that I think Greys as angels and Reptilians as Demons isn't amusing. It's that this particular made up story is SO overdone. Aliens can be anything!! Come on, get some new material!

I swear if I here one more Why Files about hippy aliens who insist we need to use our free will to embrace love and recycle our cans to get into heaven....I'm to give AJ's credit card to Heckle.

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u/MoonhelmJ — 11 days ago
▲ 7 r/TheWhyFiles

Too hot to handle or no?

Any chance of getting Emery Smith in the basement about his time in the black projects? Or Dr Steven Greer even? Maybe even Russell Targ?

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u/Leviathancurse — 8 days ago
▲ 80 r/TheWhyFiles

Thomas Campbell - matrix Architect (but a good guy)

when i watched this episode of the Basement with Thomas Campbell he reminded me of the character The Architect that Neo meets in the second Matrix movie. he even says “the problem is choice” which was Neo’s line when meeting the Architect.

did anyone else find this odd similarity? like he’s a nice version of the Architect… explaining things?

u/kenmizell — 9 days ago
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Megathread 8/8/26 - CIA's Psychic Cold War

In 1952, nine of America's wealthiest families gathered in a Maine mansion for a séance. Nine ancient gods spoke through a medium and chose nine people to change the world.

Eleven years later, the CIA officer who ran that séance's donor list sent a Russian aristocrat to befriend a troubled ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

That aristocrat introduced Oswald's wife to a woman named Ruth Paine. Every piece of evidence against Oswald, the rifle, the photos, the testimony, ran through Ruth Paine's garage.

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u/wamih — 12 days ago
▲ 60 r/TheWhyFiles

Best of both worlds: AJ and MrBallen

I'm only partially done with the episode because I'm very busy but I just want to say how great it is to see MrB on the WF. He's such a great storyteller. He and AJ seem to really click, and I love it. These are two of my favorite YouTubers and getting to see them hanging out together is wonderful for me.

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u/sweetmissjaye — 13 days ago