The FUDD Machines have again been running overtime to get everybody to feel helpless and just accept their fate, like cattle at the packing plant.   The .gov is a joke right now, even to those actually involved with it, they know it's a mess and nobody that has the power to make a difference gives a crap.  The courts make an open mockery of legislating from the bench and nobody says boo, or if you bring it up you're reading disinformation or propaganda or some -ist source.  I thought things were hyper politicized in 2016, we're well beyond that, a huge chunk of the population is looking for reasons to be pissed at somebody else, and they don't even know why.  We are seeing a perfect blend of Idiocracy, Brave New World, 1984, and Atlas Shrugged all interwoven into a fascist masterpiece.

Surfing GD there are a lot of oddly disastrous "worry about this, too!" threads in addition to news, and it is showing how effective it is with the apathetic attitude people are assuming.  All the shouts of "Propaganda!!!".  It's like the CIA pushing revolutions in various 3rd world countries like Iran, Venezuela, (And the Kurds once a decade) etc then not assisting the revolution/new regime they pushed the population into trying, they only used it as a reason to install their preferred leaders in the 2nd/3rd world nations to springboard from.     I don't think people can accept that the US Intelligence agencies haven't always been the good white knight in shining armor, and now those in control of .gov are working with the mainstream media, Hollywood, and Big Tech to keep borders open to crash the system and run their same game here.  

Don't let them bring you down, keep your crap together, make sure you do not make your future self sad or a slave and only worry about the things you have direct control over.   We already know elections and who each of us are going to be vote for (not the same as "winning") and as long as you pay attention to your local candidates, there is nothing to stress about there.  Whatever happens happens and things will react.  Be prepared and learn all you can  about things you can directly change by searching for primary sources related information.  Never blindly trust or follow somebody and enjoy life while it lasts.   Sitting around wringing your hands over Gaza strip or Russia does nobody any good except those who wish to control your mindset.

Social Security, Aliens, War, US Debt.. Nothing the average person can do anything about, so work around the constraints and if possible succeed despite all the dirty tricks being used to persuade you to give up and give in.  The biggest advice I have is whenever there's a decision you need to make, don't absolutely decide until you need to (new/more info can change lots of things drastically), and many decisions are simpler if you follow the guideline to keep your future self as happy as possible while not making present self miserable (and it's usually the harder option of two choices that turns out best).

Looking back through this thread and the commentary about the videos, it seems things changed when he started the "Operation Podcast" and moved to a commercial studio.  He was doing great with the show and After files/Backstage.   Then he decided to try to please everybody by going really detailed into topics and having another narrating/editing session for that as a podcast also every week.  That's a crapload of reading/editing/reading/talking/editing/....      Maybe do a podcast once a month and a standard TWF video every other week or something.  If it goes back to ... well, "Fun",  where he's excited and enthused about the topic and wants you to be excited about it to and some humor is thrown in, those are the stellar episodes.   Some of them lately have been closer to Leonard Nemoy sort of dry "In Search Of..." presentation.  Not saying he's gone Spock, but the energy/tone/feel of the videos changed a bit that is hard to describe and "energy" is the best single adjective I can pick

I know we here in this forum nitpick everything, but trying to please everybody just ensures that everybody stays pissed off.   I hope he comes through and sets some schedule, even if it isn't every week, as long as it's not a sudden "woops, not today yet"  I'm ok with videos coming out different days if we're told well in advance.  Blocking out an hour to watch and then finding out that day it's not going to happen leaves you with 2 hours wasted because of the suddenly open one you need to fill instead of the video that was planned, and the lost hour when the video does show up.

Gold Digging when she sees something in the past to make a fuss about no doubt.  

It really highlights the style/energy changes in his video formats when you go back to the first ones then compare to now.  The change in energy/enthusiasm is a bit lower now compared to then.  I don't care if he weighed 20 lb more, I never even noticed but that's what he decided to bash self on.

Me too.

Not a good "Restart" after a month vacation, no matter the history.  At least the compilation videos were released on schedule.  I ended up watching a movie on youtube instead.

I'm a little bummed it wasn't released last night, but not angry at the visceral level some fans seem to be, like some are there for intentional histrionics.

Well, it is by far the most entertaining and best ad he's done.  I'm not further than that really yet.

--ETA:  Hecklefish annoyance got bumped to 11 over the break.  That "Aaananaki" REALLY got annoying.  Not turn it off annoying, but I preferred the ad to the video.  Glad he covered the "creative interpretation" of Stitchin, wish he'd have shown the Sanskrit professor who has the tablet with how to build Noah's Ark and they re-built it at a scale size.

This guy has spent his life understanding the chopstick in mud writing of Sanskrit, realized he found a tablet describing the ark, and is fun to listen to, his humor is nice.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fkpZSnz2I

If you take out the "Nibiru" aka Planet 9 (formerly 10) and some of the more detailed elements, it does track with our time line.  Sitchin was too eager to have a new theory that "Explains It All" without thinking it though first.   His work got many people interested but most of his stuff falls apart when looked at from common sense like your questions.

Did "Somebody" bump humans up in evolution?  Seems likely, there are changes in DNA that can't be explained by natural mutation from radiation.  

Goes back to the WF Orcs episode where human population was down in the 4 or 5 digits globally for at least one period.  The amount of time we took to go from hunter gatherer to agrarian to technologically evolved is a blink in the span of humans on Earth.  In the extra milion+ years, we could have been at this tech level or higher before, just not making it into space and thus sealing our fate.