Episode 2287: The Richie Allen Show Tuesday September 15th 2026

Richie is joined by Wayne Burdett, the author of new book: "Easter Eggs in the Matrix: Did A Movie Predict the Real-Life Assassination of Charlie Kirk 27 Years Later?" Wayne has been looking at Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller Snake Eyes, starring Nicolas Cage. In the film, a senior American political figure called Charles Kirkland attends a packed public event and is assassinated by a sniper — with the fatal shot striking him in the neck. Twenty-seven years later, Charles “Charlie” Kirk was shot and killed at a public event in Utah, also suffering a gunshot wound to the neck.And that's only the starting point. Wayne's book identifies a collection of other apparent parallels between the film and the Kirk assassination — some quite striking, others considerably more speculative — and asks whether we're looking at an extraordinary collection of coincidences, the human tendency to find patterns after the event, something sometimes called “predictive programming”, or something stranger still. Don't miss this show. Buy the book here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easter-Eggs-Matrix-Real-Life-Assassination-ebook/dp/B0HGZJ1464/ref=sr_1_7?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.WuVLf8pEwlpuAtP4mF295DaoV4nJE_-tdM7cmCD5IggfyyI_1n_liRZ5Hyss136dFlLLFgSqsbEa1Tt_fTT2mQVlIJ2lMEWDXmGDg4trJX8MeR1EhM8ANR3LqVuLtp3tLvMtnZXEiQXXYObLYJpiLoab06cEqEB-obbwrKN1BWL1UV0Q_pXlvEBK-pY2OoZEwclLdBGteuFn6GMdwME5RT4cXN84NHYqAUby5XHh8sY.d3WP7PsXWX9xvQbGbZdu2P7NAEQ0BDC-lB46ki2y7EY&dib_tag=se&qid=1789495726&refinements=p_27%3AA.+Burdett&s=books&sr=1-7