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Federal Recruiter Called Off FOIA Request Into Gifted Program Within Minutes of Scientist's Compliance

Joe Rogan Experience · #2496 - Julia Mossbridge · May 9, 2026
Federal Recruiter Called Off FOIA Request Into Gifted Program Within Minutes of Scientist's Compliance
Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan Experience
#2496 - Julia Mossbridge
"I was recruited 4 days after I filed a FOIA to try to get information about that program. I got a note from the FOIA people saying, 'Are you sure you want us to continue this FOIA request?' I said maybe not. And then 3 minutes later, I got a call from the recruiter saying, 'OK, you've passed to the next level.'"
Mossbridge described suspicious timing when a federal government recruiter contacted her days after she filed a Freedom of Information Act request about childhood gifted programs, then advanced her security clearance within minutes of her withdrawing the request. She claims all participants in her support group for former gifted program students had parents who worked for either the federal government or public school system.

About this episode

Joe Rogan sat down with cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge for a wide-ranging conversation exploring precognition, telepathy, quantum physics, and alleged government experiments on gifted children. Mossbridge, who holds a PhD and conducted research at Northwestern and UCSF, presented evidence from peer-reviewed studies showing humans can physiologically respond to future events before they occur, with men showing stronger anticipatory responses to winning than women. The most compelling segment focused on non-speaking autistic individuals demonstrating apparent telepathic abilities in controlled experiments, including one student who accurately described specific content from Mossbridge's undisclosed dream and another who phonetically spelled a term he could only have heard in her thoughts. Mossbridge made explosive claims about her childhood participation in 1980s gifted programs, alleging she and other children were given amnesiac drinks and subjected to memory suppression without parental consent, possibly related to intergenerational radiation exposure research. She connected these programs to uranium facilities and noted they avoided children of intelligence community executives in the DC area. The conversation explored quantum computing, with Mossbridge arguing current approaches are fundamentally flawed because nature already demonstrates room-temperature quantum computation through photosynthesis. She described photons as potentially bridging mind and matter, proposing that retrocausality rather than many-worlds theory better explains quantum phenomena. Throughout, Rogan and Mossbridge discussed the cultural suppression of paranormal research in academia, the nature of consciousness and time, and whether UFOs might represent future humans accessing past timelines through retrocausal principles.

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