Ep. 16: The GATE Program, Pt. 1/2

This week Molly and Michaela inaugurate the Tinfoil Hat Club (also known as the THC, which is exactly why it feels wrong that they're sober) with Part 1 of a deep dive into the GATE program — the federally funded Gifted and Talented Education Program that pulled smart kids out of class, put them in dim rooms with covered windows, and apparently left zero paper trail worth remembering.Before they get to the shared memories and the TikTok rabbit holes, they lay the foundation: MK Ultra, Project Stargate, and the very inconvenient timeline connecting decades of government-funded psychological experimentation to a nationwide children's education program that launched one year later. Whether you think that's a smoking gun or a coincidence depends on how often you've been right about the conspiracies everyone said were crazy.In this episode:The Tinfoil Hat Club is born, and we've got the very loud, very metallic hats to prove itGATE 101: what it was, when it started, and what MK Ultra and Project Stargate have to do with itThe CIA's gifted-kid wish listTikTok's GATE theories, from unhinged to completely plausible The checklist of bizarre memories and traumas that every GATE kid can vaguely remember experiencingSupport the show🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday💌 Join our CommuniTitty on Patreon😏 Submit an anonymous confession📲 Instagram / Tiktok: @brasoffconfessional