Gifted education

Adam was born in 1988 in Tucson, Arizona and raised by a single mother who believed she was giving her son a gift.

In the public schools of the 1990s, that gift had a name, GATE, which stood for Gifted and Talented Education.

Officials described it as enhanced curriculum, but what Adam would later describe was something else.

A childhood whose middle years dissolved into what he has called inky black pools of nothingness, broken only by fragments whose meaning would not arrive for nearly three decades.

So were a lot of people.

GATE, it's called Gifted and Talented Education, sometimes called TAG.

S- it's called different things all over the place, but of course he was.

Of course he was.

But I- Would, w- I'm willing to bet, I mean, if it's not going on right now, then it had been going on at least past when, uh, the DIA Army Intelligence unit was shut down.

And I would be wa- if I was a betting man, I would say that some of the personnel within that unit would have been some of the, uh, the GATE program, Gifted and Talented Education kids that were found, because that was a really big thing within the documents.

I, I'm not 100% sure if I showed it or not in the movie, but there's a Stargate document from 1992 that's a Stargate five-year plan.

And essentially they talk about how they're having a really big issue within, uh, DIA with finding psychics.

What is that? Is that special ed?

Talented and Gifted, Scott.

Oh.

Talented and Gifted program.

Well, I was in the opposite of Talented and Gifted.

I was untagged.

Well, that's good, because you can just kind of fly under the radar then that way.

Mike Petrilli researches education.

You hear these equity people say, oh, we're against gifted education.

We're against advanced education.

At the same time, they're upset that our universities aren't very diverse.

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You've made it to the Gifted and Talented program yet again.

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Mm-hmm.

And then we have the GATE programs, which is the Gifted and Talented Education, which is what, uh, millions of kids re- reportedly have been through, uh, since verifiably the early '60s, uh, these programs have been going on.

And you just mentioned DARPA in there, and DARPA is very, very interesting because a lot of this started in 1958, okay? That's when the United States launched its, uh, first satellite into space, um, called Explorer 1 in 1958, which was just a little bit after Russia had launched their first satellite into space called the Sputnik.

And this is when DARPA was established, was 1958.

And MKNaomi and all these other ones that they were head-scrambling, uh, projects.

I mean, this, this is a real thing.

Did they, did the, the GATE Gifted and Talented Education, does that have to do with Stargate, or were they just bringing this GATE word through everything? Was that sort of a running theme here, or does it mean something? Is it some occultic word, or is it a gateway to somewhere else, or what are they doing here?

Yeah, it's pretty much just in name only.

You're hearing a lot of kids who were in the GATE program and the TAG program up in Canada.

A lot of these kids who were involved in these gifted and talented education programs in school are now... talking about these simulated dream worlds that they're in, these back rooms and these liminal spaces, it's getting curiouser and curiouser.

Well, my question to you, because I know what got me into, you know, talking about these subjects and looking into them.

I'm curious about what is it that happened to you that made you get into this topic? Because, I mean, it's not like, you know, most people don't just say, hey, I want to start studying this if it didn't happen to them themselves.

This will prolong life.

This will let grandpa live longer.

But so this idea now where all of a sudden, whether it's through mall world, social media, whether it's through Charlie Kirk, they definitely now want everybody to understand that the Gifted and Talented Education Program was something much more than just smart kids going on field trips.

And it's very sci-fi.