Gubba Homestead Podcast · Episode 92 · October 27, 2026 · 24 min

92: Why Movies Predicted The Future Before It Happened

You can support the show and your skin by shopping my small-batch, all-natural skincare at Arvoti.com . Every purchase helps keep the podcast going while giving you all-natural, thoughtfully made products for your daily routine. Thank you! Predictive programming: Has Hollywood been programming us by showing us “the future”? Enemy of the State (1998) portrayed government surveillance. Fifteen years later, Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed extensive real-world government surveillance programs. That’s one of several examples I keep coming back to. They Live (1988) showed broadcast signals controlling what people see. The Matrix (1999) put September 11th, 2001 on Neo’s passport. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) portrayed masked rituals among the ultra-wealthy that look a lot like the 1972 Rothschild Surrealist Ball, a party with dismembered baby dolls on its tables. Contagion (2011) walked through quarantines, overwhelmed hospitals, and vaccine development almost a decade before COVID. The theory behind predictive programming is that powerful groups deliberately introduce events, technologies, and agendas through entertainment before they unfold publicly. Some say it’s preparation. Others say it’s a symbolic obligation, revealing the method through fiction so the public can dismiss it as make-believe later. My honest take is that Hollywood would never release something the people in charge genuinely wanted buried. If it made it to theaters, it was allowed to. Taylor Swift released the song Patient Zero while plague headlines were coming out of Russia, and I’ll explain why I now close the app instead of reporting on it. Red pill or blue pill, let me know in the comments. You’ll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [3:35] They Live, and the sunglasses that reveal the truth [5:09] Shape-shifting clips and malfunctioning frequencies on TV [7:15] Why the fight to put on the glasses mirrors waking people up [8:25] The Matrix and why most people take the blue pill [12:01] Kubrick’s death and the theory of missing footage [14:45] Rothschild Surrealist Ball compared to Eyes Wide Shut [16:52] Contagion portraying a pandemic nearly a decade before COVID-19 [17:49] Taylor Swift’s Patient Zero and harvesting our energy [18:50] The mere exposure effect and normalizing the unfamiliar [21:54] Far-fetched movie technology that became recognizable years later Find more from Gubba: Gubba Homestead | X | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Website Gubba Homestead Products | Shop