Recent Radio Interview Link
Click on the front cover to the immediate left and you will be taken to the site where you can download Tom's interview with Derek Gilbert.
Can the Future Be Predicted? Futurist Tom Payne Claims We Can.
Why should we believe him? Because his predictions have come true. A year before it happened, when President Mubarak seemed so safe, he predicted he would be ousted from power around the year 2010. In February 2011 his reign was ended. He predicted the U.S. would be out of Afghanistan around the year 2014 and NATO has since adopted this timeline. He predicted President Saleh thirty-year reign in Yemen would end in the 2011-2012 time frame and he fled his country to Saudi Arabia in June 2011 for both safety and medical care.
His predictions for Israel, Syria, Iran, Iraq, China and the U.S. will make for a fascinating and controversial discussion.
His predictions for Israel, Syria, Iran, Iraq, China and the U.S. will make for a fascinating and controversial discussion.
Contact Information
Producers can reach Tom Payne by calling 312.420.0730 (media only), or by emailing: tom@thetemplateoftime.com
Below you will find a listing of some of the radio interviews Tom has participated in, including return visits, his bio, interview questions and the approximate length of the answers, controversial aspects of this interview and testimonials from radio hosts. This topic is inherently controversial and generates passionate audience participation.
A Few of His Interviews and Tom Payne's Bio
Interviews
Tom Payne has appeared on KDKA (Pittsburgh) with Mike Pintek, WMUZ on the Bob Dutko Show (Detroit) and WENO Future Quake Radio (Nashville). He was a repeat guest on WGSO (New Orleans) Ringside Politics with Mike Crouere, WTCM (Traverse City) Norm Jones radio show, and Derek Gilbert's View From the Bunker (a top rated BlogTalk Radio show).
Bio
Tom was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He attended Rice University graduating with a BA in Psychology and English and spent his junior abroad studying Junior Honors Psychology at St. Andrew's University in Scotland. Though he and his flatmates stumbled home from the Niblick pub on occasion, he never played golf on the famous Old Course. Following his studies, and ROTC, he volunteered to join the Infantry, volunteered and graduated from Airborne and Ranger School (he calls it his postgraduate course in leadership), and spent one difficult year in South Korea freezing in its mountains during a very cold winter. It was on a frozen mountain top in Korea, after feasting on frozen spaghetti and meatballs from a can, that Tom had his epiphany: I need to do something else. God bless our soldiers for the sacrifices they make in peacetime and in times of war.
After the military Tom entered the corporate sector in sales for what was then American Hospital Supply Corporation. It was later bought out by Baxter-Travenol, now Baxter International. He spent over twenty years in various sales and marketing capacities, primarily in the medical field and began, during his last position, to trade stock options.
He then started Essential Growth Solutions, LLC to help other companies master the sales and marketing process. In his last corporate position he needed to develop a training program to raise the skill level of a distributor sales force to that of a direct sales force working for a Fortune 500 company. (No small task.) This training-development process led him to some powerful insights that he could not find in any of the sales books he had read. The basis for these insights was answering the simple question, "What are the sales and marketing causes of the buying effect?" For until you know the causes, how can you repeat your success (i.e., the buying-effect)? You can't. You may be doing something that is successful (e.g., consultative selling), but when it stops working what do you change? What do you do differently? What was it that made consultative selling successful and why isn't it succeeding now? For more information visit www.essentialgrowthsolutions.com.
Concurrently, he has now launched his own publicity campaign to spread the word about another powerful discovery he made: history follows a template made up of time patterns that are scattered throughout the Bible like the pieces of a puzzle.
Tom Payne has appeared on KDKA (Pittsburgh) with Mike Pintek, WMUZ on the Bob Dutko Show (Detroit) and WENO Future Quake Radio (Nashville). He was a repeat guest on WGSO (New Orleans) Ringside Politics with Mike Crouere, WTCM (Traverse City) Norm Jones radio show, and Derek Gilbert's View From the Bunker (a top rated BlogTalk Radio show).
Bio
Tom was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He attended Rice University graduating with a BA in Psychology and English and spent his junior abroad studying Junior Honors Psychology at St. Andrew's University in Scotland. Though he and his flatmates stumbled home from the Niblick pub on occasion, he never played golf on the famous Old Course. Following his studies, and ROTC, he volunteered to join the Infantry, volunteered and graduated from Airborne and Ranger School (he calls it his postgraduate course in leadership), and spent one difficult year in South Korea freezing in its mountains during a very cold winter. It was on a frozen mountain top in Korea, after feasting on frozen spaghetti and meatballs from a can, that Tom had his epiphany: I need to do something else. God bless our soldiers for the sacrifices they make in peacetime and in times of war.
After the military Tom entered the corporate sector in sales for what was then American Hospital Supply Corporation. It was later bought out by Baxter-Travenol, now Baxter International. He spent over twenty years in various sales and marketing capacities, primarily in the medical field and began, during his last position, to trade stock options.
He then started Essential Growth Solutions, LLC to help other companies master the sales and marketing process. In his last corporate position he needed to develop a training program to raise the skill level of a distributor sales force to that of a direct sales force working for a Fortune 500 company. (No small task.) This training-development process led him to some powerful insights that he could not find in any of the sales books he had read. The basis for these insights was answering the simple question, "What are the sales and marketing causes of the buying effect?" For until you know the causes, how can you repeat your success (i.e., the buying-effect)? You can't. You may be doing something that is successful (e.g., consultative selling), but when it stops working what do you change? What do you do differently? What was it that made consultative selling successful and why isn't it succeeding now? For more information visit www.essentialgrowthsolutions.com.
Concurrently, he has now launched his own publicity campaign to spread the word about another powerful discovery he made: history follows a template made up of time patterns that are scattered throughout the Bible like the pieces of a puzzle.
Recent Radio Interview Link
Click on the front cover to the immediate left and you will hear Tom being interviewed by Larry and Robin on WOCA.
Questions and Controversies
Questions:
The following questions will insure the interview has a logical flow that covers the basic questions in your listener's minds and touches on areas that are controversial and will likely ignite passionate debate:
Why did you write this book? (Answer takes 65 seconds.)
What makes you an expert on the topic? (75 seconds)
What got you started on this book? (30 seconds)
How does the Template of Time work? (Two minutes)
Why did you choose 6 BC as the starting point? (75 seconds)
How did you discover this time pattern? (30 seconds)
Can you tell us when the world will end? (60 seconds; short answer, "No.")
Isn't it true that no one knows the future? (60 seconds; short answer, "It's true.")
What does the Template of Time forecast for the rest of the Middle East at this time? (Two minutes)
Does it say anything about China and China’s relationship with the USA? (Two minutes)
Is the U.S. in a state of terminal decline? (30 seconds)
What's the outlook for the economy? (90 seconds)
You wrote a chapter on the year 2010 that begins, “The year 2010, or those that immediately follow it, will change the course of human history.” What are some of the big changes in store? (Two minutes)
Controversies
Could there be a more controversial notion than the idea that not only does history follow a time pattern, but it does so with such consistency and specificity that it enables you to predict future outcomes? Some of the controversies, as well as the author's responses, now follow:
"What makes you think you have the credentials to do this? I don't see any degree in history in your bio."
"There is no degree, or advanced degree, for predicting the future. The only letters a person can put behind his name in this sphere are either "Right" or "Wrong." At present my predictions have not only been right (does that mean I have the "Right" degree?), but several were made when it seemed very unlikely that they would ever be realized.
"You are simply stating the obvious and then claiming you predicted it."
"Not really. No one was predicting the demise of Mubarak when I did, or was predicting the approximate time when war should break out between Israel and Syria/Hezbollah and Hamas. Now this prediction seems much more likely. In fact, let me be even bolder. In the world of predictions I am unaware of anyone who has given so many dates for so many events. The number one rule followed by most "futurists" is to never put a date on your predictions because then it will never be wrong. You can always claim it will take a little longer for it to be realized.
"People have tried to figure out history and how it unfolds for thousands of years and now you are claiming you've done it."
"As I state in my Preface,
'Prior to my investigation, I never thought, "History must follow a pattern," because such an idea would have seemed ludicrous to me. (Then again, all revolutionary ideas seem ludicrous.)'
So I can understand why you, or anyone else would be initially dismissive of the idea. But to say an idea isn't true, because it can't be true is to adopt an illogical position. A better way to approach it is to be an open-minded skeptic. I was such a skeptic throughout the process of developing this model of time until the moment when history fit.
"As for why I discovered this pattern, God only knows."
Religious Controversies Abound
"No one knows the future!"
"I agree. Only God knows the future. But do not meteorologists forecast the future of the weather thousands of times a day, every day? They do. Does this mean they know the future? No, it only means that certain weather patterns suggest certain outcomes. In the same way, certain patterns of history suggest historical outcomes."
"How are you any different from Harold Camping and all of the rest who try to predict the end of the world?"
"I am different in a very important way. I do not try to time the end of the world, nor will I ever try to do this, because I do not believe it can be done."
"It is wrong to try and divine the future. You are no better than a sorcerer practicing divination."
"If trying to determine what will happen in the future is divination, then meteorologists are guilty of this charge. If divination is evil, then they are among the wickedest of people (on some days I believe this to be true, but it is usually when they are wrong and not right). Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and every other economist, who tries to forecast how fast the economy will grow in the next quarter and in the next year, are also satanic (again, depending on your political persuasion, you may agree that this is right).
"I invite all Christians who are disturbed by an attempt to forecast the timing of future events to consider what Peter wrote in the first chapter of his First Epistle: "Concerning this salvation, the prophets...searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. ...Even angels long to look into these things" (1 Pt 1: 10-11, 12; NIV). In this we see the prophets striving to time future events. Were they evil for trying to do this?"
Finally, the topic lends itself to controversies regarding the predictions themselves. Some will passionately oppose the possibility of certain outcomes. So I do not doubt the pot will be stirred early and often during an interview.
Testimonials
To Whom It May Concern:
As a talk show host for the past 13 years, I have interviewed thousands of guests.
I am always looking for guests who will both entertain and educate my audience.
Tom Payne is the type of guest who will keep the phone lines busy and stimulate plenty of interesting discussion.
His theories are provocative and very unique and his track record of successful predictions is quite impressive.
I wholeheartedly recommend Tom Payne as a guest who will provide a quality discussion for any talk radio program.
Sincerely yours,
Jeff Crouere
Host, Ringside Politics
Jeff's website is:
www.RingsidePolitics.com
Testimonials
This comes from Derek Gilbert who is hosting one of the leading BlogTalk Radio programs and he wrote the following.
"Tom Payne's unique gift of pattern recognition led him to a startling discovery: a template, drawn from the events recorded in the Bible, that accurately predicts the flow of human history. This isn't a mysterious code that yields revelations after the fact; his prediction of the fall of Hosni Mubarak was published in The Template of Time a year before it happened. Tom is intelligent and articulate, and his clear, concise answers make him an excellent interview guest."
Derek Gilbert's website is www.peeringintodarkness.com
Finally, I am in the process of launching a new radio promotion campaign and hope to post many additional testimonials soon.