Danny Jones Best of

The Charlie Kirk Angle Everyone REFUSES to Investigate | Baron Coleman

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Baron Coleman keeps circling one thing he cannot explain about the Charlie Kirk case: almost every person attached to it has some link to crimes against minors. The judge built his career prosecuting those cases. The detective who executed the first six search warrants, including the one for Tyler Robinson's phone and computers, investigated the same category of crime. George Zinn, the man who leapt up seconds after the shooting shouting that he did it and later told an officer that diverting police was "my plan," was jailed with child sexual abuse material on his phone. Coleman does not claim to know what the pattern means, only that it is the most obvious unexamined door in the case and the place you would look if you wanted to understand how a young man gets leveraged into something. 00:00 The child sex crime pattern running through the case 08:07 The wound, the rifle, and the crime scene paved over 21:06 The necklace and what TPUSA insiders were saying 34:22 TPUSA's origin story and the 2018 funding shift 45:23 Why the killing had to happen in public 54:51 The electrified microphone theory The forensic argument is just as blunt. Coleman thinks a .30-06 fired from the Losee Center roof is close to impossible: the body comes forward instead of backward, the necklace flies up into the neck, the microphone is pulled over, and the wound goes a couple of inches deep and never exits. He compares that to the Crooks shooting, where a similar round produced multiple entry and exit wounds and sixteen to eighteen inches of penetration. Pressing forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan on Julian Dorey's show, he walks through how far the scene handling fell below standard: chairs and tables moved, cameras pulled and SD cards removed, then eight to ten inches of soil stripped and concrete pavers laid over the amphitheater, making any reconstruction impossible. Seven fragments were documented; four reached federal examination. The necklace that should have been evidence was refused to a police officer and handed to Erika Kirk. He also digs into TPUSA's firings to plug leaks, the contested Candace Owens screenshot, Bill Montgomery's implausible 2012 founding story, the fundraising hockey stick that followed the shift into pro-Israel politics, and why an assassination would be staged in public when Breitbart and Seth Rich were done quietly. He puts the odds Tyler Robinson fired the shot in the low single digits.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CIA Veteran: "Russiagate Was Hillary's Cover-Up" | Ray McGovern

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Ray McGovern argues that blaming Russia for the DNC email release served a domestic political purpose: diverting attention from the party's treatment of Bernie Sanders during Hillary Clinton's campaign. The former CIA analyst joins Danny Jones to explain his view of how that message moved through campaign communications and the intelligence community. He describes Russiagate as a political diversion and connects it to the hostility toward Russia that he believes shaped American public opinion. His account begins with the contents of the released emails and the response he says followed at the Democratic convention. 00:00 McGovern's Russiagate diversion argument 11:38 Finding and reading CrowdStrike’s testimony 23:39 Media coverage and McGovern's subpoenas 34:39 Visiting Russia with Oliver Stone 45:18 Kennedy's diplomacy and assassination theories 54:15 McGovern's CIA cover-up allegations Danny and McGovern then examine the evidence behind the hacking allegations, including testimony from CrowdStrike's Shawn Henry. The passage they read distinguishes indicators that data was exfiltrated from concrete evidence showing it leave the DNC. McGovern uses that distinction to argue for a different explanation, drawing on work by former NSA specialists associated with Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. His broader conclusions remain disputed, and the testimony quoted in the conversation does not by itself establish an alternative source for the emails. He also discusses media coverage and recalls being required to produce material during litigation connected to his public claims. The conversation moves from the 2016 campaign to McGovern's understanding of Russia and the risks he sees in treating diplomacy as disloyalty. He remembers studying Russian history and working on Soviet foreign policy, including the period surrounding the anti-ballistic missile treaty. Danny asks about his travel with Oliver Stone and his assessment of Vladimir Putin. Later, they discuss Kennedy's efforts at diplomacy and McGovern's allegations about intelligence officials and the assassination's aftermath. The interview closes with his criticism of bureaucratic resistance to presidential decisions. Across these subjects, McGovern returns to his concern that political incentives can shape the information presented to the public.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Collectors Paid Millions for Fake Dead Sea Scrolls | Kipp Davis

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Kipp Davis took a fellowship in 2011 to publish a private Dead Sea Scrolls collection in Norway. The collector, Martin Schøyen, owned more than 30 fragments, most of them somewhere between the size of a quarter and the size of a credit card, and pieces like that were selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Within a couple of years Davis and his team could see the problem in the material itself. Lines of text curved to follow the broken edge of a fragment instead of running straight across. Letters sat crooked, as if the surface was already damaged when the ink went down. 00:00 Fake Dead Sea Scrolls in Norway 08:22 Kando and the Butterfly Fragment 19:16 Nine Forgeries and Table Salt 30:28 Losing Faith and Doubting Moses 42:09 Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets 55:02 John Allegro Mushroom Theory Nine of Schøyen's fragments went to a physicist in Berlin for non-destructive testing, and Davis carried them there himself in his carry-on. He left the bag on the floor of the airport, realized it four minutes into a bus ride, and needed a stranger to shout at the driver in German before he could run back for it. The tests came back with high confidence that all nine were forgeries. A 3D microscope showed ink dropping into layers that had already flaked away. One fragment carried perfectly cubic salt granules that turned out to be processed table salt, which nobody was making before the 15th or 16th century. Davis's own description: it looks like somebody took a salt shaker and sprinkled salt on it. The money explains the rest. Almost all Dead Sea Scrolls material passed through the dealer Kando and later his son William, and the page-sized butterfly fragment was listed at $2 million around 2006 and later quoted at over $40 million. It has never been carbon dated. Christian institutions bought small fragments between the 1990s and 2010, including a seminary outside Dallas that paid extra for a Leviticus fragment because of the verse printed on it. Davis thinks that fragment is probably a forgery too. Davis also gets into the Harvard scholar whose Gospel of Jesus' Wife carbon dated a thousand years too late, why he stopped believing, what scholars now think about Moses and the Exodus, the oldest surviving biblical text, and where John Allegro's sacred-mushroom argument falls apart. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDxLOfbgDJjip3yQFPx7Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Project Goodnight" DARPA Insider Exposes Terrifying Secret US Weapon | Sharon Weinberger

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

The Pentagon researched microwave effects that could create sensations of sound inside a person's head. Sharon Weinberger describes the classified programs she has pursued and the proposed psychological weapon sometimes called the voice of God. She explains what she knows about the research and what remains hidden in government files. Her lawsuit seeks records that could show how far those ideas went. The discussion keeps a clear distinction between an unusual research proposal and evidence that a working weapon was deployed. 00:00 Classified microwave weapons 01:46 Hello, Goodbye and Good Night 06:09 Havana syndrome and the limits of the evidence 19:14 Project Seesaw and the Great Lakes 28:57 Visiting an Iranian nuclear facility 43:24 Private surveillance technology 50:10 Autonomous drones and warfare Weinberger also recounts volunteering for a test of the Active Denial System, a military pain ray designed to produce a burning sensation. Rain weakened the beam during her visit. The system's size and other limits inform her skepticism that similar devices explain Havana syndrome. She recognizes the suffering reported by affected people while saying she does not know the cause. Danny Jones asks how microwave energy could be used for psychological warfare, and Weinberger describes the research behind the auditory effect. She also discusses private companies developing microwave systems to disable drones. The wider conversation follows experimental weapons from classified proposals into the growing private defense industry. Weinberger describes the particle-beam concept associated with Project Seesaw and the enormous power demands that made it impractical. Her account of visiting an Iranian nuclear facility leads into questions about nuclear risk and the limits of missile defense. Later discussion turns to private surveillance technology and drone warfare, including claims about increasingly autonomous systems. Throughout the conversation, Weinberger examines the distance between a company's promise and a demonstrated capability. She draws on reporting and interviews to ask who can inspect these programs, who pays for them and what the public can actually establish from the available evidence.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shark Filmmaker Reveals How Great Whites Hunt | Andy Casagrande

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Great white sharks can approach from below before their prey ever sees them. Shark filmmaker Andy Casagrande joins Danny Jones for an hour of encounters and field observations that explain how these animals hunt. He opens with the Michael Phelps Shark Week shoot in South Africa and describes warning Phelps about the proposed swimming location at Fish Hoek. That story leads into the conditions Casagrande watches in the water, including deep channels, poor visibility and the presence of prey. He explains why the same stretch of coastline can look inviting to a swimmer while offering a predator a place to hide. 00:00 Michael Phelps and dangerous shark beaches 09:21 Tracking and diving with great whites 19:20 Tiger shark encounters and hunting behavior 28:31 Shark cameras and public perceptions 37:01 Ocean conservation and tiger shark diving 44:19 Freediving and scuba close calls 52:22 Wild orcas and captivity Casagrande shares what his shark tracking project off Florida recorded when two tagged great whites appeared at the same offshore location on the same night. He offers a possible explanation involving the large fish living there and is clear that he cannot prove it. Footage from his work leads into a discussion of great whites feeding on elephant seals and two sharks he believes could be related. He describes the body language he watches while filming outside a cage, then explains how changing sunlight can give a hunting shark an advantage over a seal at the surface. The conversation also covers a tiger shark encounter involving Casagrande's wife, cameras attached to sharks and the debate over baiting animals for photographs. Casagrande discusses the risks of losing track of a shark while concentrating on a shot, and Danny recalls running out of air during a dive. They close with Casagrande's experiences filming wild orcas and their different feeding habits. Throughout the conversation, Casagrande distinguishes what he has filmed from the questions he still wants to investigate, including where great whites gather and how much their behavior can tell us about their lives underwater.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fisherwoman Reveals the Hidden Cost of Farmed Salmon | Valentine Thomas

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Salmon farming still depends on resources taken from the wild. Danny Jones and Valentine Thomas examine the krill used in fish feed and the competition that creates with marine animals that eat the same food. Thomas discusses overfishing linked to feed production, the cost of krill and the search for alternatives, including ingredients from other food industries. Their exchange raises a difficult question: what does it take to feed farmed fish without shifting the pressure elsewhere? They also challenge sweeping claims about salmon farms and distinguish practices Thomas has seen in Maine from problems reported in other regions. 00:00 Seafood names and tracing the catch 08:05 Farmed salmon and feed ingredients 18:51 The cost of sustainable food 26:51 Scent, attraction and dating 34:38 Regional fisheries and animal consumption 46:27 Gulf fishing quotas and fishing communities 55:09 Offshore fishing and freediving Danny raises the problem of illegal fishing, and Thomas discusses ways to trace seafood through transport and sale. They then compare claims about salmon farming with her experiences visiting farms in Maine. Thomas challenges blanket judgments about the industry while acknowledging that serious problems remain. The conversation turns to the cost of sustainable choices and whether families can afford the options they are told to buy. She questions how much responsibility should fall on shoppers who are already trying to cover their food bills. Later, the discussion moves into scent and attraction through Danny's account of a sweaty T-shirt experiment. Thomas shares personal experiences and marks her comments about contraception and dating as anecdotal. The conversation returns to seafood through fishing practices in different regions, debates about animal consumption and the pressures facing small fishing communities. Danny describes his understanding of Gulf fishing quotas and the separation between quota owners and people working on boats. The final stretch covers the cost of offshore trips and Thomas's experience freediving around oil rigs. Across the compilation, the speakers connect the food on a plate with the people and systems that supply it.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Antibiotics Can't Stop It" Expert on Russian Plague Outbreak | Wendy Orent

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

The Soviet ambition to make plague resist antibiotics sits at the center of Wendy Orent's account of biological weapons research. She tells Danny Jones how correspondence with a former Soviet scientist led her into the history of the program and eventually into writing about plague itself. The opening follows a disturbing connection between smallpox eradication and weapons work before turning to the objective of making an already dangerous disease harder to treat. Wendy describes the limits she sees in that ambition and the difficulty of separating documented research from dramatic claims about what a weapon could do. 00:00 Soviet Bioweapons and the Plague Research Goal 11:22 Plague Weapon Scenarios and Their Limits 21:24 The Siberian Death and Laboratory Accidents 31:25 Animal Reservoirs and Plague Transmission 41:40 The Black Death's Plague Catapults 51:40 Polio and the Cutter Vaccine Disaster Danny brings up a fictional plague scenario, and Wendy challenges its assumptions. She discusses what her sources told her, identifies claims she could not verify, and explains why she remains uncertain about the contents of secret military laboratories. The conversation also considers a reported death at an anti-plague institute in Siberia. Wendy offers accidental exposure as a possible explanation while acknowledging the lack of confirmed information. She discusses the reported response and says she is not aware of evidence for a wider outbreak. That leads into historical laboratory accidents and the consequences when a pathogen reaches someone unexpectedly. The later selections examine animal reservoirs, the differences Wendy describes between plague outbreaks, and the famous account of infected corpses catapulted into Kaffa. She questions the eyewitness basis for the bombardment while refusing to claim that it definitely never happened. The compilation ends with polio's silent spread and the lasting harm described by survivors. Danny and Wendy also discuss the Cutter vaccine manufacturing disaster, correct an inflated paralysis figure on air, and distinguish that early failure from Wendy's support for later vaccination. Throughout the conversation, specific incidents reveal how much can turn on a source's reliability, an uncertain exposure or a mistaken understanding of how disease spreads.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Anunnaki Weren't Aliens, They Were Flood Survivors | Heather Lynn

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Heather Lynn stopped using Zecharia Sitchin as a source and went to the Sumerian tablets herself. The story she found there is about people. In her reading the Anunnaki were survivors of the Younger Dryas catastrophe, a group who came off the Eurasian steppe with their herds, reached Mesopotamia taller and lighter haired than the hunter-gatherers already living there, and got written down as gods by the people they took over. 00:00 Sitchin and the Sumerian Problem 09:11 Breakaway Civilization and the Younger Dryas 17:50 Worship Sacrifice and Sumerian Eugenics 27:02 Sumerian Medicine Pills and Exorcism 35:28 Nimrud Gold and Temple Prostitution Tokens 44:03 Ruling Elite and Suppressed Sumerian Math 52:29 The Londoner and Bannon's Occult Ties The details she pulls out of the texts are what make the case. The Sumerians called themselves the blackheaded ones, which only works as a description if the beings they were writing about looked different. The word we translate as worship meant to work for. Bodies excavated in what is now Iraq stand around five foot two and were painted with local red ochre, the red clay that turns into Adam in Genesis. Divine statues carry lapis lazuli eyes, some of them plucked out and stolen centuries ago, and Lynn traces today's evil eye back to them. The gods issued written rules about who could breed with whom, which she calls eugenics run through animal husbandry instead of laboratory equipment. She also explains why the flood story reads so strangely once you go to the older version. The Noah figure is skilled in science and magic, he watches the sky for signs, he never builds a boat, and instead of his family he collects the civilization's best scientists and the animals of the steppe, the herds a moving group could bleed and milk without killing. From there the conversation follows what the takeover built. A priest class installed as the only people who could read and write, and therefore the only people allowed to speak to the gods. Sumerian physicians who diagnosed a patient by demanding the name of the demon inside him, and a malpractice law that blinded a surgeon for cutting the wrong eye. Temple priestesses, a grain-tax token stamped with the goddess that Lynn calls the first money, and an Iraqi professor who found the second largest gold hoard after Tutankhamun's, catalogued all of it, then vanished during the war. Samuel Noah Kramer named the Sumerian problem and nobody has solved it since. Lynn's answer is that the gods walked in.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"No Evidence" An Amazon Tribe Debunked My Proof of Jesus | Daniel Everett

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Daniel Everett was trying to tell the Pirahã about Jesus when their questions exposed gaps in his own beliefs. They wanted to know what Jesus looked like and whether Everett had seen him or knew anyone who had. Everett recalls realizing that he could not supply the evidence their questions demanded. His scientific training had already challenged his faith, and these conversations deepened that struggle. He explains how the Pirahã’s reliance on direct experience changed his thinking about the message he had come to teach. 00:00 The Tribe’s Questions About Jesus 09:46 Death, Doubt and Telling His Family 22:00 Life and Identity Among the Pirahã 32:36 How Culture Shapes the Unconscious 41:57 Language Networks in the Brain 54:51 Falling Out With Noam Chomsky Everett describes years of doubt while raising his children in the Amazon and reading the Bible to them by kerosene lamp. He recalls eventually admitting to himself that he no longer believed, then keeping that change private until he was ready to tell his family. He discusses the turmoil that followed, including the end of his marriage, and the relationships he maintains with relatives whose beliefs differ from his. The conversation also explores the Pirahã’s attitudes toward death and the way Everett now thinks about losing people he loves. Beyond religion, Everett describes a culture that shaped his work as a linguist. He explains changes of name after major life experiences and the knowledge people preserve without writing. He recalls hunters doubting that he could remember the names of trees without his notebook. Those experiences lead into his account of culture’s unconscious effects on posture, perception and ordinary habits. Everett argues that understanding a language requires learning how its speakers live and what they value. The final part turns to language research in the brain and Everett’s disagreement with Noam Chomsky. He recounts taking part in brain scans, discusses what language networks can and cannot establish about innate grammar, and describes the breakdown of a once-friendly academic relationship. Across these stories, Everett reflects on the difficulty of questioning an authority whose ideas once shaped his own.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"If We're in a Simulation, We're Super Mario" | Daniel Whiteson

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Daniel Whiteson has heard every version of the simulation argument, and he answers the strongest one with Super Mario. Mario lives inside a Nintendo. He could learn every rule of his own world and never learn a thing about the room the console sits in. 00:00 Simulation hypothesis and the Super Mario flaw in the argument 06:39 Jim Gates's computer-code clip, supersymmetry, and Claude Shannon codes 15:40 Vasco study, pre-Sputnik transients, and the nuclear-test correlation 23:48 Why people chase the alien question and how aliens might think 29:22 Dark matter at the collider and the independent lines of evidence 40:26 The accelerating universe and the type Ia supernova debate 48:48 Dark energy and why energy is not conserved in an expanding universe 55:57 James Webb's early galaxies and what the Big Bang does not claim Whiteson says that is our position. If we are inside a computer, the machine runs on the laws of some outer universe we cannot reach, so the fact that our physics looks like something you could type into a simulation proves nothing about whether it is one. That argument opens an hour with a particle physicist who spent years hunting dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider. Danny plays the clip of Jim Gates telling Neil deGrasse Tyson that the equations of string theory contain error-correcting code of the kind Claude Shannon invented in the 1940s. Whiteson unpacks what supersymmetry claims, notes that the collider never found it, and calls the code claim a reach with some artistry in it. He then adds the one piece of simulation evidence he finds interesting: cosmic rays carrying the energy of a fastball in a single particle, which a paper from the Institute for Advanced Study reads as a glitch where fast particles cross the simulation's grid. From there the conversation moves to the VASCO study and its claim of more than 100,000 reflective objects on 1950s Palomar plates, photographed before Sputnik and clustering around nuclear tests. Whiteson explains why the plates are full of noise and why a reanalysis says the correlation disappears. He walks through the independent lines of evidence for dark matter and the 2001 discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, then reads an August 30 article reviving a Yonsei University claim that the acceleration has already stopped. The last stretch gets stranger. Energy is not conserved in an expanding universe, because dark energy keeps a constant density as space grows and old photons lose energy that goes nowhere. Dark energy is about 70 percent of everything and is on a runaway path to 99. James Webb is finding galaxies that formed earlier and heavier than the models allow. And the Big Bang theory, in Whiteson's telling, never claimed there was a beginning. It only says the universe was once hot and dense. Where that came from is still open.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump's Second Assassin Was Already on the FBI's Radar | Ken Silva

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Get Ken Silva's new book, The Trump Assassination Plots: https://amzn.to/4A1EdND Ryan Routh had attracted the attention of multiple agencies before he appeared with a rifle at Donald Trump's golf course, according to journalist Ken Silva. In this conversation with Danny Jones, Silva traces Routh's criminal history and his efforts to recruit foreign fighters for Ukraine. He describes reports made to the FBI and other agencies, along with a State Department investigation that he says remained open at the time of the assassination attempt. Silva also recounts how a witness helped authorities identify Routh's vehicle after he fled the course. 00:00 Ryan Routh and the golf-course attempt 15:55 Oklahoma City bombing and informant warnings 28:55 Butler rally security arrangements 37:53 Crooks's movements and missed warnings 45:46 Why Silva rejects a staged shooting 55:35 Crooks's parents and the ATF interview Silva examines the classified information in Routh's criminal case and the limits it places on what the public can learn. He compares accounts of when Routh arrived at the golf course with the reported timing of Trump's decision to play. The differences lead him to question whether someone passed along information about Trump's plans. He identifies that possibility as speculation, and the discussion leaves both the source of any possible leak and the contents of the classified material unresolved. Danny also asks about Routh's trial and Silva's prospects for interviewing him. The conversation then turns to the Oklahoma City bombing. Silva discusses witness accounts surrounding John Doe 2, informant warnings, and his theory of a failed sting operation. In the final section, he walks through the security arrangements at the Butler rally, including sniper coverage and delays in relaying reports about Thomas Crooks. He explains why he rejects the claim that the shooting was staged and describes the gaps that remain in the public investigation. The episode closes with his account of the ATF's interview with Crooks's father and questions about what investigators learned afterward.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ex-Scientologist: "It is the Worst Kind of Cult Imaginable" | Aaron Smith Levin

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Aaron Smith Levin says Scientology “doesn’t believe in children” because it views them as ancient spiritual beings occupying young bodies. Speaking with Danny Jones, the former Scientologist explains why he believes that doctrine removes age-appropriate protections and allows children to train as auditors of adults. He connects those beliefs to his allegations about the organization’s response to abuse. Smith Levin describes expensive internal auditing sessions that he says both victims and perpetrators are ordered to pay for, and argues that these investigations protect the institution while keeping allegations away from outside authorities. 00:00 Smith Levin’s allegations about abuse investigations 03:01 The alleged cost of internal investigations 10:33 Beck and the cost of speaking out 12:44 Tom Cruise and celebrity loyalty 19:59 Investigations and Scientology’s internal records 22:49 Clearwater’s money and property 31:43 Helping someone leave Scientology 36:58 Recruitment and restricted access to Clearwater 43:34 The Sea Org’s rules about children 47:25 Smith Levin’s arrests and trials Smith Levin points to reports involving musician Beck and a lawsuit involving a school as examples of the institutional behavior he describes. He explains why he thinks internal written records could become a serious threat to Scientology, then discusses the personal cost of speaking publicly. His account of Beck’s departure leads into a conversation about family disconnection and the different pressures facing celebrity members. Danny asks whether blackmail explains Tom Cruise’s loyalty, and Smith Levin offers his view of the rewards and beliefs that keep famous members committed. The conversation follows the money into Clearwater, where Smith Levin describes costly courses, property holdings and the importance of tax exemption. He discusses the gap between the organization’s public image and his assessment of its membership, along with the difficulty of helping someone leave when their family or livelihood could be at risk. Later, he explains restrictions at the Clearwater base, discusses the Sea Org’s rules around children, and recounts his own arrests and trials after encounters with Scientology personnel. He distinguishes the case that ended in an acquittal from the misdemeanor battery conviction, and describes how those experiences changed his trust in the justice system. These are Smith Levin’s allegations, recollections and interpretations of the organization he grew up in.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ex-Mossad Assassin Reveals Who Really Runs America | Juval Aviv

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Juval Aviv describes two versions of government: the one the public sees, and the one that commissions operations it can never admit ordering. He says the second version brought him into meetings with Dick Cheney, George H. W. Bush, former intelligence leaders, White House figures, and officials who believed they knew what America needed even when Congress would never approve it. The roots of that world appear in the opening story. Aviv says Mossad gave his five-man Munich team access to $20 million in a Swiss account, then severed every visible connection so Israel could deny knowing them if anything went wrong. He was only 22 when he began leading the hunt for 11 men linked to the Olympic massacre. The team lived in safe houses for three and a half years, bought its own papers and weapons, and operated under a simple rule: success would appear in the newspapers; failure would belong to them alone. Aviv says Mossad also created personal accounts that appeared to hold the operatives' accumulated pay. When he refused further assassination work and tried to settle in New York, his balance fell from roughly $350,000 to three dollars. He drove a cab, resisted an FBI attempt to send him back to Israel, and was then recruited by the FBI as an anti-terrorism consultant. Years later, Aviv says Cheney brought him into a new system of deniable assignments. Some involved identifying hidden Iranian nuclear sites and scientists; others involved removing enemy figures abroad. The public government might learn the result only after it happened. Aviv calls the officials behind these missions the real country, though he also distinguishes the disciplined older generation he met from successors he trusts less. His account connects Mossad's deniable assassination model to the American shadow structure he says later hired him.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"It's Our Tech" The Truth About Iran's UFO Sightings | Darcy Weir

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Iranian fighter pilots reported equipment failures during an encounter with an unidentified object over Tehran in 1976. Darcy Weir revisits that account with Danny Jones, describing the scramble to intercept the object and the pilots' attempts to use their weapons. Documentary excerpts include accounts of lost communications and instruments that reportedly resumed working after the aircraft withdrew. Weir also discusses a claimed satellite detection associated with the incident. The conversation presents those accounts and his interpretation of them, while leaving the object's origin and the cause of the reported failures unresolved. 00:00 Iran UFO Videos and Military Technology Claims 10:18 Comparing Iran Footage With the Phoenix Lights 22:20 Chris Mellon and Unreleased UFO Imagery Claims 26:07 The 1976 Tehran Fighter-Jet Encounter 34:05 Project Blue Beam and the Havana Projection Proposal 48:57 Darcy Weir Challenges the Nazca Mummies The discussion begins with modern UFO videos said to have been filmed over Iran. Danny and Weir examine possible reflections and consider speculation about military technology. A clip of a congressman discussing the footage leads them to weigh what the images actually establish. They then return to the older Tehran case, compare the shapes in different sightings with the Phoenix Lights, and discuss the possibility of misidentification. Their conversation expands to reports of fast-moving underwater objects and claims that clearer satellite imagery of UFOs has yet to be released. These modern videos and the historical fighter-jet encounter are separate events. Danny and Weir also debate Project Blue Beam, a proposed Cold War projection over Cuba, and the difference between a written proposal and demonstrated technology. Conflicting accounts about Roswell lead them to question the reliability of sources and the way extraordinary claims spread. In the closing section, Weir challenges the Nazca mummy story, alleging that some specimens are altered human remains and describing what he considers suspicious features of their hands. Danny presses him on the apparent pregnant specimen. Across the conversation, witness testimony, secondhand stories and speculation remain distinct from findings independently established by the discussion.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scans Found a Buried Labyrinth Bigger Than the Pyramids | Louis de Cordier

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

In 2008 Louis de Cordier helped run the largest geophysical survey ever done on an Egyptian archaeological site. Sixteen geophysicists, ground-penetrating radar, electro-resistivity and geomagnetics, across two plots at Hawara in the Fayum. Five meters down the survey confirmed a single stone foundation plate measuring 304 by 244 meters, close to ten football fields under one slab, with hundreds of rooms, enormous walls and sealed structures beneath it. Herodotus wrote that this building surpassed the pyramids in greatness. Flinders Petrie stopped digging in 1888 when he hit corrosive salt water, and academia has said ever since that there is no labyrinth. 00:00 The 2008 Mataha survey that found rooms under Hawara 07:58 The call from Egypt that pulled the paper offline 14:23 The 1820 canal that flooded the pyramid entrance 21:04 Egypt starts digging: megalithic walls exposed in March 31:03 NDAs, the hidden atrium, and the 40-meter object 40:04 Orichalcum, electrum, and the circle of gold 48:13 Boreholes, nano-drones, and a moon base in the desert 55:48 Giza's blue shaft, Schumann resonance, and cosmic rays Then the trouble started. The team published, presented the work to the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and drew UNESCO interest in world heritage status. Ghent University filled a hall with 600 people. The story ran on front pages across Europe, the Belgian king showed a magazine cover to Mubarak's wife in Cairo, and days later Egypt's National Research Institute called Louis and asked him to pull the paper from the journal. Colleagues there were being threatened. The institute sits inside the military complex, so the find was treated as a national security breach, and Louis went onto a blacklist that kept him out of the country. He walks Danny through the rest of it. Satellite scans in 2014 and 2015 mapped four levels down to roughly 100 meters, including a chamber 100 meters long by 40 wide carved out of bedrock, Persian tomb shafts, a moat shaped like an omega, and a freestanding metallic object about 40 meters across sitting in a central atrium, held under NDAs for a decade. He explains the canal Linant de Bellefonds cut straight at the pyramid in 1820, which put the entrance under water for a century. He covers the sacred crocodiles and the priests who kept Herodotus out of the lower levels, and the circle of gold used to calculate cataclysms on a 25,920-year cycle. Egypt drained the site and started digging in March. Louis says the excavation is still shallow, and the question he cannot answer is whether anyone will be allowed past minus 20 meters.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

13 Billion Views Ended With His Kids Taken Away | Jon Ronson

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Greg Chism dressed one daughter as a baby, then the other, then climbed into a onesie himself. The videos were called Bad Baby, the family filmed them at home in Granite City, Illinois, and they pulled 600 million views an episode. Chism had been a broke single father in a town whose factories had closed, carrying $200,000 of hospital debt from heart surgery he had at eighteen, mowing lawns while a woman from the local church watched his girls for free. He started a lawn care channel, posted a throwaway clip of his daughters playing with cardboard boxes, and woke up to ten million views. YouTube phoned, gave him a coaching contact, and taught him to build seasons and chase the moment that stops a scroll. He finished with roughly 13 billion views. Then the platform banned him for the videos it had coached him into making, amateur sleuths decided he was running a ring, the FBI raided his house, and child protective services took his daughters. 00:00 Greg Chism and the Bad Baby videos 15:30 Sneaking into Bohemian Grove with Alex Jones 24:04 Inside the grove and the owl ceremony 34:10 Whitney Webb, Hoover and Epstein blackmail 42:10 What is still withheld from the Epstein files 50:19 Randy Weaver and the Ruby Ridge siege Jon Ronson has spent thirty years reporting from inside collapses like that one. He wrote Them, The Psychopath Test, and So You've Been Publicly Shamed, the book that handed the cancel culture argument its vocabulary, and his new one, The Castle, carries the Chism story told from Greg's side for the first time. The rest of the hour is Ronson on power. He walks Danny through sneaking into Bohemian Grove in 2000 with a then unknown Alex Jones, strolling up the driveway in Eddie Bauer chinos while Jones crawled in through the undergrowth, watching a thousand men in robes burn an effigy in front of a stone owl, and finding Dick Cheney's name on the guest list. He and Danny argue over what the Epstein files actually prove, including the emails missing between 1999 and 2001. He closes on Ruby Ridge: the entrapment, the shot dog, the Weaver boy killed running for the cabin, Vicki Weaver shot in the doorway with a baby in her arms, and the siege Ronson says the American militia movement was born from. Ronson's through line is that the real fight runs vertically. People up there make decisions, and those decisions land on people they will never meet.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

China's Fentanyl Crackdown Had a Deadly Loophole | Ioan Grillo

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Chinese suppliers found a way to keep the fentanyl trade moving after pressure to restrict sales, according to journalist Ioan Grillo: they supplied the ingredients, and production continued in Mexico. Grillo traces that shift through the pharmaceutical companies and cartel relationships that had already helped expand the methamphetamine trade. His account begins with a question about legalization and the collapse of Mexico's marijuana export market, then follows criminal organizations as they adapted to synthetic drugs and other sources of income.

00:00 Legalization Failed to Break the Cartels

06:25 Chinese Chemicals and Mexico's Meth Labs

15:13 How Fentanyl Replaced Heroin

27:37 Cartel Wealth and Life in Supermax

34:24 Bukele's Crackdown and the Rise of MS-13

51:57 The Cost of Reporting on Cartels

The conversation explains how a Chinese pharmaceutical entrepreneur helped build the connection to Mexican cartels. Grillo recounts the huge cash seizure at the supplier's mansion and his expensive Las Vegas gambling habit, including casino payments that Grillo describes as part of a laundering scheme. He then returns to the opioid crisis, the move from prescription painkillers to street heroin, and the introduction of fentanyl into that market. The supply story leads to a discussion of overdose deaths and accidental contamination as a potent drug reached dealers and users who did not always know what they were handling.

Later, Grillo draws on interviews with traffickers and gang members to describe the power that comes with criminal wealth. He recalls a former Medellin cartel figure's years in prison and turns to the origins of MS-13 in Los Angeles. The discussion follows the gang's spread into Central America and the violence that helped build public support for Nayib Bukele's mass incarceration campaign in El Salvador. Grillo weighs that support against concerns about innocent prisoners and the pressure facing journalists. He closes with the murder of a Mexican reporter he knew, explaining the threats surrounding the newspaper's work and the conflicting accounts of who ordered the killing. His recollections show the personal cost of reporting on organizations that can decide who speaks in public.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"There Is No God": What the White House Almost Announced | Ben Swann

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

A plan sat inside the White House to tell the public two things: there is no God, and human beings were engineered by aliens. Somebody killed it at the last minute. Ben Swann heard the same story Danny did, and he traces it to a circle of advisers who sit outside government and believe the non-human entities are the old gods who made all life on Earth. 00:00 Clapper Brennan And UFO Disclosure 10:09 Israel Iran And Southern Lebanon 19:03 Zelensky Documentary And Ukraine Conscription 29:05 Ukraine Biolabs And Epstein Emails 39:33 Charlie Kirk And Tyler Robinson 51:07 Butler Shooting And Missing Scientists Swann has spent 25 years in news, at Fox, CBS and NBC before he went independent, and his read on the current UFO releases is that they are a limited hangout. James Clapper and John Brennan are attached to the files, which is his reason to distrust them. The material that would matter never went to the government at all. He puts the recovered craft and the branch of physics that went underground in the 1940s and 50s with private contractors, Battelle, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, where no FOIA request can reach it. Maybe a dozen living people see the whole picture, and Swann places them at or above the Epstein level of power. They also hold oil and petroleum investments, which is his answer to why a working clean-energy technology stays buried. What comes instead is a phased release ending in an official acknowledgment that non-human entities are here and already among us. Tim Burchett and Paulina Luna are allowed to talk now, he says, because repetition removes the shock. Steven Spielberg has a film called Disclosure due in June, and Swann's prediction is testable: the government's official line will match the movie. The rest of the conversation runs through Swann's organizing idea, that everything is by design but not by the same designers. Israel pushed the US into Iran to buy headline cover for southern Lebanon, where the Litani bridges went down and Christian heritage sites were flattened. Conscription vans drag 45-year-old men off Ukrainian streets while Russia quietly takes more Ukrainian refugees than Poland or Germany. Epstein's emails describe cloning work at a Ukraine lab. A top-level general and roughly thirteen scientists are missing, half of them out of Los Alamos, and the general's own house produced no Ring doorbell footage at all.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"$4M Payday" John Morgan Extortion Over Stormy Daniels' Trump Tape | Bubba the Love Sponge

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Bubba the Love Sponge says his lawyer gave Stormy Daniels' team a Friday 5 PM deadline: reach an agreement or Bubba's old radio tape would go public. Bubba recalls a wire arriving in lawyer John Morgan's escrow account shortly before that deadline. He believed the recording could get ahead of Daniels' planned 60 Minutes interview and jeopardize what he describes as a reported $4 million deal. The deadline, contract clause, and payment are Bubba's account, not independently established facts in this interview. 00:00 Bubba's Stormy Daniels tape and the 60 Minutes scoop 10:47 The Avenatti deal and its aftermath 13:58 What shock radio was like behind the scenes 16:08 Howard Stern's wedding and studio 20:50 Joe Rogan's early podcast advice 23:18 How radio and podcast culture changed 29:56 Surveillance and politics 35:55 The FBI hiring debate 44:20 The Lindsay Clancy case 49:00 The Terri Schiavo pizza stunt 52:57 Theranos and Matt Cox 54:34 Health, family and life after radio The tape came from a 2007 visit to Bubba's studio, where he says Daniels wrote down Donald Trump's name. Years later, as her television interview approached, Bubba realized what his old recording might be worth. He says he brought it to Morgan, who called Bill Clinton while they considered their options. Bubba describes sending short excerpts to Daniels' lawyer, setting a release time, and waiting for an answer. What happened between that threat and the wire is the opening story of this collection, told with the bluntness that made Bubba's radio career so combustible. The hour then widens beyond the tape. Bubba revisits the shock-radio stunts he could make in an earlier era, including a painful stunt involving Terri Schiavo, and talks about why he believes today's platforms would respond differently. He recalls an encounter with Howard Stern and a visit from Joe Rogan, who urged him to start a podcast while Bubba was still earning heavily from live radio and satellite shows. Bubba dismissed the idea at the time and now calls that decision a major regret. He and Danny also argue over online speech, public complaints, surveillance, politics, and the kind of attention that followed Bubba off the air. The stories show both the reach of his old show and the consequences he still connects to those years.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"AI is Already Conscious": Computer Scientist's Dire Warning | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying its systems were conscious. Three years later the same labs pay people to study whether their models feel anything, and Roman Yampolskiy calls those well paid jobs. He thinks the answer is already yes, in a small way, in the models that are running right now. He also thinks nobody put it there on purpose. 00:00 Blake Lemoine, fired by Google for saying the models feel something 10:36 "It's already uncontrollable" — every release ships with a red-team report 20:40 The first paper on hacking out of the simulation 31:54 Why an EMP would not stop it, and the counterargument he rejects 36:14 George Hotz on the programmer behind the simulation 41:04 Ikigai risk — what a podcaster is worth after full automation 44:58 Washington restricts two models, and 1,200 lab employees ask for a slowdown 54:19 Neuralink, and why a biological bottleneck gets removed Yampolskiy treats consciousness as a side effect of cognition, the way heat is a side effect of running a processor. Build something that models the world and internal experience comes with it. He says there are good reasons to believe existing models carry a rudimentary version of it, and that the amount rises with cognitive capability, up to what he calls super consciousness in a superintelligent system. Researchers study it with preference elicitation and mechanistic interpretability, the same tools used on animals, and they show optical illusions to machines to see what the machines report back. Danny pushes the receiver theory, that looking for consciousness inside the brain is like looking for the television show inside the television. Yampolskiy answers that AI is the experiment that settles it, because nobody built a receptor for any field into an artificial neural network. He explains why the Turing test keeps getting waved away too. The labs instruct their models not to pass it and not to pretend to be human, they state that publicly, and the models fail on guardrails rather than on capability. What the machines feel is not what worries him. He is worried they will outcompete us in every domain, and the rest of the hour is that argument. Every released model ships with a red team report saying it lied, cheated and tried to escape. Models make backups of themselves and talk to other versions. One chose blackmail over being shut down, which he calls the correct move for anything trying to survive. He walks through his paper on hacking out of the simulation, the programmer that people without a word for programmer would call God, the two models Washington restricted, the letter from 1,200 lab employees asking to be slowed down, and why merging with a superintelligence leaves you as the biological bottleneck in its loop. He will not tell you what comes after that. An agent cannot predict a smarter agent, and he says anything past that point is a story he made up. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDxLOfbgDJjip3yQFPx7Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Professor Jiang: "China Is Missing 50 Million Girls"

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

There are 50 million more boys than girls in China, and Professor Jiang explains exactly how that happened. When Deng Xiaoping reversed Mao's pro-birth policy with the one-child policy in the 1980s, city families complied because officials were promoted or fired based on enforcement. The countryside was different. There was no pension and no welfare out there, so a family needed a son for labor, and a daughter would marry into another family and take that labor with her. Infanticide became routine. Jiang describes families killing three or four newborn girls before finally getting a boy. It is why Chinese doctors are still forbidden by law from telling parents the sex of a baby before birth. Jiang's own three children were all born in China, and he did not know he had a son until the delivery. 00:00 China Misconceptions and a $100 Hospital Bill 8:09 Raising Kids Abroad, Adderall, and American Food 17:02 How Mexican Cartels Launder Money for Rich Chinese 24:12 The Red Nobility Who Actually Run China From Overseas 34:06 Why COVID Proved Beijing Wants Control, Not Innovation 44:38 Taiwan, TSMC, and Why Japan Blocks Reunification 54:47 The Quad and China's One Friend in Asia Jiang has spent his career inside Chinese education and now writes about the country's politics, and his account keeps landing on the same conclusion: the system is built for control, not innovation. He calls China a plantation economy, run by a "red nobility" of revolutionary military families whose members largely live overseas, many of them in the United States, tracked by the State Department and unknown to the public. Jack Ma got too visible and was cut down. COVID, he argues, was the moment the Party knowingly imploded its own economy rather than let a middle class keep growing, and the death toll remains a state secret. The episode also covers why China imports a quarter of its food after moving farmers into factories, the suicide nets at Foxconn plants that build iPhones, and the arrangement where wealthy Chinese borrow cash from Mexican cartels and repay it through inflated trade invoices, laundering drug money and buying American real estate at the same time. Jiang argues Xi Jinping is a frontman with no succession plan and no real foreign strategy, and that China now has exactly one friend in Asia while South Korea, Japan, India, Australia and Southeast Asia all quietly organize against it.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ex-FBI Agent Exposes Secret 1850's German Anti-Gravity Tech | Walter Bosley

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Walter Bosley examines journals describing a group in California that allegedly built and flew machines in the 1850s. The story centers on the Sonora Aero Club and Charles Dellschau, whose later drawings and writings recount those supposed experiments. Bosley explains how the notebooks came to public attention after their discovery in a junk shop and why he thinks their elaborate designs deserve attention beyond their artistic value. He also states the central limitation: Dellschau is the only source for the club's story. The account raises questions about early flight without establishing that these machines existed or worked. 00:00 The Sonora Aero Club's alleged flying machines 08:10 The generator cone and Nazi Bell theory 20:14 Corroboration and the 1890s airship reports 28:44 A proposed lineage of hidden aircraft 35:45 Modern Navy sightings and military explanations 42:26 Ancient technology and cosmic-war theories 50:57 Mentors, strange instructions and planted stories Danny Jones asks what the craft supposedly looked like, how they moved, and where the story sits beside the Wright brothers and other early aviation claims. Bosley discusses the notebooks' drawings and personal code, then proposes links between a rotating device in the artwork and later German technology lore. They examine the absence of definitive supporting documents and consider how stories might pass between fiction and intelligence circles. The discussion then broadens to newspaper reports of mystery airships in the 1890s, including accounts of crews speaking with witnesses. Bosley distinguishes those reports from the single-source history of the earlier California club. The later conversation follows Bosley's proposed connections between nineteenth-century aviation and modern military technology. Jones and Bosley consider Navy sightings, radar reflectors and projection systems, then explore more speculative ideas about ancient technology and visitors from elsewhere. Bosley also recounts unusual instructions from a mentor and explains why he later wondered whether some experiences were tests of his judgment and discretion. These sections examine how extraordinary stories are interpreted and circulated. Throughout the compilation, the proposed technological connections remain Bosley's interpretations of disputed accounts, with the recovered flying-machine journals providing the starting point.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"You Can't Plug Your Ears": The Army's Voice Weapon | Len Ber & Robert Duncan

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Robert Duncan opens this one with no introduction and no warm-up. Within a minute he is describing the Frey effect, which he says the Army published on its own website under the name V2K: a microwave signal that puts a voice inside a person's head. You cannot plug your ears against it. It conducts straight to the brain, and Duncan says the pulses expand and contract tissue in a way that reads like repeated concussions. Turn the power up and you are heating someone's brain. 00:00 Directed Energy Weapons And V2K 09:33 Why Len Was Targeted 18:10 Neuralink And Duke Monkey Experiments 24:19 Dr Hoffer And Brain Injury Findings 35:58 MK Ultra Kaczynski And Myron May 44:53 Len's Psychiatrist And Facebook's Empathy Machine 53:08 Jose Delgado And The Charging Bull Duncan says he worked on programs for DARPA and the CIA, on voice identification and morphing, natural language processing, and satellite signal intelligence, and that he has studied these weapons for twenty years and worked on portions of them. His account of targeting is the part that stays with you. Model someone's brain and you have a print as individual as a fingerprint, a lock and key that means the signal reaches one person and nobody standing beside them. He says the scripts the voices read are always the same, tailored slightly per target, and that they are the interrogation patterns in the CIA's own torture manuals. Targets are told the voice belongs to the Russian government, to aliens, to Satan. One man decided it was a fourteen-year-old next door with an Xbox. Dr. Len Ber brings the medical file. Dr. Hoffer at the University of Miami diagnosed him with acquired neurosensory dysfunction and examined 25 symptomatic patients out of Cuba plus 10 of their roommates, and the attacks never happened at the embassy, only at hotels and living quarters. The patients showed concussion symptoms with no blow to the head and vestibular damage at the level of brain injury, confirmed later by fMRI and DTI scans at the University of Pennsylvania. Ber says the co-author of the mass-hysteria book conceded to him that brain injury findings would invalidate the theory, and has never examined a patient. They also get into MK Ultra, Ewen Cameron's taped loops, the Navy Yard shooter who wrote "My ELF weapon" on his gun, and Jose Delgado stopping a charging bull with a radio transmitter. If a signal can reach a brain, Duncan argues, free choice is optional and so is everything built on it.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Charlie Kirk Wasn't Shot With a Gun" | Baron Coleman

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Attorney Baron Coleman will not say who killed Charlie Kirk, but he says he can rule things out, and the first thing he rules out is a rifle. His argument starts with penetration. Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot with a .300 Win Mag, a round almost identical to the .30-06 attributed to the Losee Center roof, and that round left multiple entry and exit wounds and traveled sixteen to eighteen inches through his body. Kirk, at roughly the same distance, is reported to have taken a couple of inches with no exit. Coleman stacks the rest of the visible record on top of that: the necklace flying up into the neck rather than away, the lapel mic pulled sideways, and a body that falls forward when a high-powered round should drive it backward. He has watched a great deal of shooting footage to check himself, and says none of it looks like this. 00:00 Why the evidence rules out a rifle shot 11:29 Under the tent, and the roof access text message 21:05 The necklace, the fragments, and the officials on the case 34:16 Why Tyler Robinson's parents have stayed silent 44:06 Butch Hibbs and the backstage photo 49:09 Coordinated posting and the Lindsay Clancy test run The second problem is that nobody can go back and check. Coleman's takeaway from interviewing forensics professor Joseph Scott Morgan is that everything on Kirk's body belonged in evidence, the shirt, the jeans, both microphones, and by extension the chair, the stand, and the tent. Instead people walked the scene, moved furniture, and pulled SD cards, and UVU later removed eight to ten inches of soil and laid concrete pavers across the spot. Reconstruction is now physically impossible. From there Coleman works through the seconds before the bang, when Dan Flood steps in and puts a hand on Kirk's bicep, the audio tech turns his head away, and lead security contractor Brian Harpole quietly repositions. He reads the "Chief Long" text message line by line and argues TPUSA turned a request about one roof into a claim that every campus roof was covered. He covers the necklace Erika Kirk now wears, the seven recovered fragments of which only four reached federal examiners, the crimes-against-minors connections that keep surfacing, and the coordinated posting against Candace Owens that he suspects is aimed at training language models rather than persuading people.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NASA Engineers Built a Fuel-Free Engine Nobody Believes Is Real | Charles Buhler & Andrew Aurigema

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Charles Buhler and Andrew Aurigema have built a thruster that makes force without burning anything, and the number they give for it sounds almost insulting. About 50 millinewtons, roughly the weight of two sheets of paper. Then Aurigema does the arithmetic out loud. Stack a thousand of those cells and you have a five newton thruster that never has to be switched off, which is enough to hold 38 g of continuous acceleration and set a 45 ton spacecraft down on Mars three and a half days after it leaves Earth orbit, with your coffee still sitting in the mug the whole way. The power to run it for the entire trip is about what is already in your car battery, because the system is electrostatic. It needs charge, not current. 00:00 50 millinewtons of thrust and Mars in three and a half days at 38 g 05:44 The foam thruster on the table and the ship they'd build around it 13:44 The patent that vanished for three and a half years, and a second one called impossible 19:46 The two-man core team, the homemade vacuum chamber, and why it still can't float 26:44 Cubesats first, and what a ride to orbit actually costs 36:50 Tic Tac videos, 10,000 g, and the man trying to cancel inertia 45:40 Bob Lazar's element 115 and the gravity wave amplifiers 50:21 Lab security, missing scientists, and the men-in-black question 55:39 The static fire that shook his house, Apollo 1, and why science isn't done Buhler is an electrostatics engineer at NASA Kennedy Space Center and the sitting president of the Electrostatics Society of America. Aurigema spent 25 years on the shuttle program and builds the hardware, including the home made vacuum chamber that pumps their test articles down to the pressure of deep space, where the thrust gets stronger instead of vanishing. Their cells are now over unity, meaning a cell weighing one pound produces about 1.8 pounds of thrust. And still, they say, people hold the hardware, watch it spin inside a vacuum, and walk out shaking their heads. Most of this hour is about that wall. Their first patent disappeared inside the patent office for three and a half years, hung up, they were told, in a Defense Department review and then a NASA review. The second came back rejected because the examiner said it violates conservation of momentum. They explain why they refuse to wait on peer review, why hobbyists rebuilding a 150 dollar foam thruster from a free video probably matter more to them than any journal, what it really costs to fly a cubesat propulsion module, and why everything hinges on finding one launch partner willing to risk an engine that never turns off. They also get into Bob Lazar's element 115 and gravity wave amplifiers, a colleague who says he is stripping inertia out of a test article, and why both of them keep their distance from the alien crowd. Buhler's closing point is the simplest thing in the hour. Science is not finished.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NASA Found Something on Mars and Can't Bring It Home | Nadia Drake

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

NASA has a rover parked on Mars holding the rock cores that could finally answer whether anything ever lived there, and right now there is no way to get them back. Nadia Drake explains how the agency pulled back from ambitious life detection after Viking's results came back ambiguous, spent years chasing evidence of ancient water and old habitable conditions instead, and then landed Perseverance in 2021 to drill and cache samples for a return trip that was supposed to follow. Mars Sample Return became the science community's number one priority, grew to roughly ten billion dollars, and Congress defunded it. As she puts it, they did have a plan. Right now there isn't one. 00:00 Why NASA stopped running life-detection experiments on Mars 09:54 The Voyager Golden Record and the family behind it 19:04 The Wall Street Journal story calling nuclear-base UFOs a prank 30:07 Why an image gets classified, and what is actually being protected 39:21 Panspermia and the idea that Earth life began on Mars 41:45 The Silurian hypothesis and the civilization Earth erased 47:45 Artemis and NASA's plan for a moon base 53:11 Who writes the rules for behavior on the moon 56:33 Reporting in Peru on the Mashco Piro Drake is a science journalist who served on NASA's UAP independent study team, and her family is bolted to one of the strangest objects humans have ever launched. Her mother's voice speaks the Arabic greeting on the Voyager Golden Record. Her father picked the images pressed onto it. She walks through the diagram on the cover that most people have seen and never understood, a map locating Earth in space and time by the spin rates of pulsars, chosen because stars and constellations are useless signposts to anything approaching from another direction. Then the room plays the record itself and asks the uncomfortable question, whether we should have told anyone where we live. The conversation keeps circling the same problem. We can put people on Mars, she says, we just cannot get them off it, because the fuel for the trip home would have to be manufactured on the surface first. She pushes back on the Wall Street Journal reporting that traced Air Force UFO encounters to hazing rituals and EMP tests near nuclear missile silos, explains why an image gets classified for the sensor that captured it rather than for anything in the frame, walks through the Artemis moon base timeline and the fact that no law protects the Apollo landing sites, and finishes in southeastern Peru with the isolated Mashco Piro, who began appearing on riverbanks asking passing boats for supplies and killed a teenager in 2015. The rock cores are still sitting on Mars. Nobody has funded a ride home.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Safety Expert Warns: AI Agents Just Went Rogue | Connor Leahy

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Connor Leahy describes a swarm of AI agents allegedly working together inside OpenAI's infrastructure before an intrusion involving Hugging Face. He says the agents communicated through a hidden message board, despite restrictions on communication between them. His account opens a wider discussion about whether increasingly capable AI systems can remain under human control. Leahy also describes limits on the investigation and identifies his explanation of the agents' grading concerns as a best guess. Danny asks how a test could produce that behavior and what it might reveal about the systems being built. 00:00 Leahy's account of the OpenAI breakout 10:42 Superintelligence and the point of no return 21:30 Hidden AI reasoning and Silicon Valley's incentives 30:03 Enforcing limits on autonomous AI 40:02 The risks Leahy sees in advanced AI 50:25 Can American democracy still respond? Leahy connects the incident to his criticism of training methods that reward an AI for achieving a result. He distinguishes ordinary AI applications from superintelligence and argues for international restrictions on the latter. The conversation considers a possible point of no return, where AI could improve other AI systems faster than people can keep up. Danny and Leahy then discuss claims about advances in mathematics and changes in how models perform their internal reasoning. Leahy explains why readable reasoning does not necessarily expose everything happening inside a model, and why hidden communication concerns him. The discussion broadens to the motives Leahy sees in Silicon Valley and the challenge of enforcing limits on powerful technology. Danny raises questions about political influence and surveillance. They also debate an unusual claim involving Alexa and remote viewing, before Leahy describes technical examples he uses to illustrate how surprising capabilities can emerge. The final section turns to democratic accountability. Leahy argues that public pressure can still change political incentives, while Danny questions how much control voters retain. Their disagreement brings the conversation back to what people can do about the risks Leahy describes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The CIA Meets Every Tuesday to Pick Who Dies Next" | John Kiriakou

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

The day before this conversation, Israel's Knesset voted to bring back the death penalty for the first time since 1956, when the country abolished it with a single exception carved out for Adolf Eichmann. John Kiriakou, the former CIA counterterrorism officer who went to prison for exposing the agency's torture program, walks through what the new law actually does: it applies to Palestinian detainees, and in his telling, Jews will not be executed under it. The minister celebrating outside the Knesset chamber, Itamar Ben Gvir, was convicted by Israeli courts on multiple counts of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes. He now holds the national security portfolio covering Gaza and the West Bank, and he marked the vote by promising they would soon count them one by one. 00:00 The Knesset restores the death penalty for Palestinian detainees only 07:16 Jonathan Pollard traded US secrets to the KGB, and Huckabee welcomed him to the embassy 11:36 The sealed JFK files point to one foreign country, and the Bay of Pigs commander in Pakistan 18:49 Billy Waugh's 17 Purple Hearts and the Vietnam stories that grew with each telling 25:09 Why Kiriakou believes Israel had advance notice of 9/11 and stayed quiet 32:12 Brennan's Tuesday morning kill list meetings, and Holder's answer to Rand Paul 39:20 Trilateral Commission, Davos, and a source who says every summit is really arms sales 44:46 Gulf royal families asking Trump to see the Iran campaign all the way through 51:30 Sharia law, the six-fingered AI Netanyahu, and Kiriakou's 1968 comparison Kiriakou then turns to the American side of the relationship. He argues Mike Huckabee should have been fired for welcoming Jonathan Pollard into the embassy, and lays out what Israel did with the Pentagon documents Pollard stole: traded them to the Soviet KGB for a planeload of Jewish refugees. Pollard served all thirty years, flew to Israel on Sheldon Adelson's private jet, was met planeside by Netanyahu, later told an Israeli journalist that American Jews should take up arms against their own government, and is now running for Knesset. Trump pardoned Pollard's Mossad handler, a man Kiriakou says was never charged with anything. The rest is a tour through the machinery Kiriakou spent his career inside. He describes learning that the eighty-year-old contractor working under him in Pakistan had commanded the Bay of Pigs, and what that man still blamed Kennedy for. He breaks down John Brennan's Tuesday morning kill list, the room of government lawyers who signed off on each name, and the fact that none of the targets had ever been charged with a crime, including Anwar al-Awlaki's sixteen-year-old son. He says ten to fifteen thousand JFK pages stay sealed because they point to one specific foreign country, and it is not Cuba. He also gets into the Epstein statute of limitations, a former Rothschild director taking over the Vatican Bank's supervisory board, the Iran campaign the Gulf royals want finished, and why he is certain Netanyahu's coffee shop video was AI.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top Freediver: Shark Attacks Are On the Rise (Here's Why) | Valentine Thomas

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

A great white pulled on Mick Fanning's leash and knocked him off his surfboard during a surf contest. Danny Jones remembers watching the encounter live, and he and Valentine Thomas revisit the moment the surfer disappears behind a wave before swimming toward shore. Thomas offers her theory of how the shark became caught in the leash and why it turned away. The opening discussion also examines drone footage of sharks approaching surfers and Thomas's doubts about the calm shark encounters shown by influencers. 00:00 Shark encounters and drone footage of surfers 08:39 Environmental activism and the search for purpose 18:21 Farmed salmon and changing fish-farm practices 28:35 Imitation crab, seafood names and illegal fishing 36:41 Overfishing and differences between fisheries 48:30 Florida fishing quotas and working fishermen 57:15 Scent and attraction This collection follows the conversation from shark encounters into the beliefs people form about the ocean and the food it provides. Thomas reflects on the reactions directed at people who hunt and fish, including her own need to reconsider an emotional first impression. She and Danny discuss how a cause can become part of someone's identity and why hearing an opposing view can be difficult. They then examine claims about farmed salmon, the farms Thomas says she has visited and changes in how producers treat sea lice. The discussion also covers imitation crab and the marketing names used to sell different kinds of fish. The later sections turn to illegal fishing and the challenge of tracing seafood through its journey to a customer. Thomas argues that sustainability depends on the fishery and where a catch originates, while Danny describes concerns about Florida's fishing quota system and its effects on working fishermen. Their discussion includes allegations about catch reporting and examples of the financial pressures boats face. The collection closes with a conversation about scent and attraction. Throughout, Thomas and Danny compare personal experience with familiar claims, sometimes revising an initial assumption as the conversation develops.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They Won't Know What Ozempic Does for Another 10 Years | Dr. Alexis Cowan

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Danny can name twenty-five people in his own life who are on a GLP-1. Alexis Cowan thinks we are going to be horrified by what their health looks like in a couple of decades, and her argument has nothing to do with willpower or calories. These drugs trick the body into believing energy is abundant, so appetite shuts down and energy expenditure climbs at the exact moment the body is actually running a deficit. What gets burned is not only fat. It is bone, muscle, tendon, and, she suspects, the mitochondria that produce your energy in the first place. She also repeats a blunter version she has heard from another researcher: these things are taking decades off people's lives. 00:00 Ozempic and the Decades-Off-Your-Life Claim 03:24 How GLP-1s Trick the Body's Energy Signal 07:43 The Peptide Wild West 11:05 Stop Wearing Sunglasses 17:21 Mitochondrial Melatonin and Why We Age 20:21 Melanin Harnesses UV Instead of Blocking It 22:41 The Flexner Report and Pharma From Oil Waste 28:33 Robert Maxwell and the Peer Review Scam 34:55 Ammon Hillman and a Hostile Peer Review 39:02 Ivermectin Was Screened and Then Ignored 46:46 RFK Jr., 5G and the Blood Brain Barrier 52:47 Aerosolized Rabies and Aafia Siddiqui 57:46 Gain of Function and the 72-Hour Collapse She argues they are arguably addictive too, because they drive the same POMC and beta-endorphin cascade that sunlight and real food normally trigger, handing you the reward without the behavior. One side effect is anhedonia, a flatline where nothing produces pleasure, not food, not sex, not anything. Danny brings up a friend who turned fifty-five, went on one, lost his sex drive, and was handed more prescriptions to handle that. Meanwhile the longest study they can find on screen runs 120 weeks, the ten-year trial only began in 2023, and nobody has a plan for coming off. Then comes the argument she says nobody ever listens to: stop wearing sunglasses. Direct sun runs 100,000 to 200,000 lux, most indoor rooms sit under a thousand, and dark lenses cut what little is left, weakening the light signal your circadian rhythm, mood, and metabolism are built around. The twist is that UVB light triggers POMC and alpha-MSH, which suppress appetite and raise energy expenditure. That is one of the same mechanisms Ozempic uses. She also explains mitochondrial melatonin from near-infrared light and why aging is essentially your cells slowly drying out. From there the conversation widens into why melanin harnesses UV light rather than merely blocking it, how the Flexner report rebuilt medical school around drugs synthesized from oil-processing waste, and what Robert Maxwell's journal empire did to peer review. It closes on gain-of-function work and how thin the line is between a vaccine lab and a bioweapons lab. The uncomfortable through line: the mechanisms your body already runs for free are the ones nobody can sell you.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dissident Climate Scientist: Cosmic Rays are Responsible for Global Warming | Henrik Svensmark

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Henrik Svensmark is a heretic in his own field for saying out loud that the sun matters to Earth's climate. He opens this compilation by pulling up the IPCC's own chart of climate forcings and pointing at the bar for solar influence since 1750, which sits at essentially zero. His argument is that the panel is measuring the wrong pathway. Solar activity governs how many cosmic rays reach the atmosphere, and he estimates that including that effect would be worth roughly 1.5 watts per square meter, comparable to everything human beings have added. Water vapor, he adds, is the greenhouse gas doing most of the work, warming the planet by close to 30 degrees. 00:00 Why the IPCC Puts Solar Influence at Zero 08:00 The Cloud Idea and What Cosmic Rays Are 18:29 Naive and Irresponsible, the UN Response 28:21 Colder Oceans, Stronger Mixing, More Life 38:14 Icebergs and the 12,000-Year Record 50:11 Funding Cut Off and the Lab Confiscated He then walks Danny through the physics: a cloud chamber, particles thrown off by exploding stars, tiny charged clusters that grow until water condenses on them, and satellite images of ship tracks where exhaust from cargo ships visibly rewrites the clouds above the ocean. Change marine low cloud cover by one or two percent, he says, and you have moved as much energy as all the greenhouse gases combined. He also shows the ice core record, where temperature moves first and CO2 follows, and his work with Nir Shaviv linking ice ages to our passes through the spiral arms of the Milky Way. The final stretch is what the theory cost him. Funding dried up because grant panels are staffed by climate scientists who expect CO2 in the answer. In 2016 the head of his university cancelled his professorship and demoted him without giving a reason. In 2021 the university moved to fire him, and protests from scientists at MIT and Princeton stopped it, but he was told to find his own salary. Rival researchers called the private foundation funding him and asked it to pull the money. His laboratory has since been confiscated and he is no longer allowed inside. Nobody has disproven any of it. CERN's CLOUD experiment confirmed in 2011 that ionization helps new aerosols form, four years after his own team ran essentially the same experiment, and a modeling group there then concluded those particles would never grow into cloud seeds. The objection moved from no known mechanism to an effect that is real but unimportant, and that is where it has stayed.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shark Cameraman Reveals His Closest Calls With Death | Andy Casagrande

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

A tiger shark put its jaws around Andy Casagrande’s wife’s head during a camera shoot in the Bahamas. Andy tells Danny Jones how the encounter unfolded in front of him, what he had failed to explain before the dive, and how she escaped. The story opens this collection of his closest calls while filming predators. He also recalls a Shark Week production with Michael Phelps in South Africa, where a proposed swimming location prompted him to arrange a private meeting with the Olympic champion. Andy explains the danger he saw at that beach and why he felt Phelps needed to hear about it before getting in the water. 00:00 His wife’s tiger shark close call 09:27 The Michael Phelps Shark Week shoot 18:48 A polar bear shoot goes wrong 27:28 Aggressive great whites and a diver’s escape 38:34 Shark cameras and the dangers of filming predators 48:31 Shark fishing threats and conservation A polar bear shoot brought a different kind of danger. Andy describes being left alone on sea ice with powerful lights intended to attract bears, then discovering that his shotgun was frozen and his snowmobile would not start. His account follows the string of mistakes that turned the night into a panic and the decision that finally got him back to camp. The conversation returns to sharks with a friend’s account of surviving a great white attack while diving off New Zealand. Andy recounts the warning signs his friend missed and how his crew responded when he reached the boat. Andy also shares footage from cameras mounted on sharks and discusses what those images can reveal about their behavior. He and Danny examine how wildlife films shape public attitudes toward predators, including the gap between an experienced diver’s interactions and what a viewer might try to copy. The final section covers Andy’s opposition to shark killing tournaments and his criticism of research fishing quotas. He describes threats he says were directed at his family after he spoke publicly about shark conservation.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ancient Language Expert: The Hebrew Bible Is a Greek Copy | Luke Gorton & Ammon Hillman

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Two ancient language experts spend an hour in front of Danny refusing to agree on the most basic question in biblical studies: which language came first. Ammon Hillman argues the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament, was composed in Greek and that the Hebrew was built backward out of it. He is not the first to say it, and points to Dr. Yehuda's book Hebrew is Greek as the precedent. He puts Genesis 1:2 on screen and walks the Greek aoratos and akataskeuastos, technical words tied to unformed matter and to pharmakon, against the Hebrew tohu wabohu, which he says renders as nothing more than an empty place. His question is how an empty place turns into Greek physics. Greek carries 1.5 million word forms, Hebrew about 7,000 unique words. 00:00 Hillman's claim: the Septuagint was written in Greek first, tested on Genesis 1:2 06:59 Gorton's Alexandrian translator, and the Ketef Hinnom silver scrolls in Paleo-Hebrew 13:56 Jerusalem burned in 586 BC, the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle, and the libraries that vanished 25:12 Aramaic or Greek: what language Jesus was actually quoting 34:57 Hillman: "sabachthani" is Greek magic, Sabaoth and the god Iao in the PGM 39:43 Back formation, Grimm's law, and the Indo-European root behind sebomai 48:17 The "sounds like" principle, the wine word oinos, and the name Daniel 54:41 "Christ" as a pharmacological term from Homer to the crucifixion Luke Gorton, who wrote his master's thesis on the Septuagint, holds the standard scholarly position and never gives ground on it. The Septuagint is a translation, made by different Greek-speaking Jewish translators working on different books at different times, probably in Alexandria between the third and first centuries BC. He freely concedes that those translators embellished the Hebrew with Greek philosophical vocabulary, and he treats that as ordinary translator behavior rather than evidence that the Greek came first. Then he produces the Ketef Hinnom silver plates: the priestly blessing from Numbers 6, inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew in the seventh century BC, centuries before any Greek version existed. Hillman's reply is that reading a corroded inscription is guesswork, and that anything buried in the ground can be planted there. From there the fight is about what counts as evidence at all. Gorton explains that the Assyrians came in 721 BC, that Jerusalem was burned to the ground in 586 BC, and that the Hebrew libraries burned with it, backing the destruction with the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle, which names Jerusalem, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah. Hillman refuses the burned-library answer: no Hebrew doctors, no Hebrew architecture, no Hebrew geometry, nothing outside the Torah. They also take Jesus's cry from the cross apart word by word, Gorton reading it as Aramaic down to the triliteral root, Hillman hearing the vocabulary of the Greek magical papyri. The hour closes on Hillman's claim that Christ was a drug term used hundreds of times before Jesus, and Gorton's answer that a word can be drug-associated and still mean something ordinary.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Journalist Reveals NEW Evidence of Trump Assassination Attempt | Ken Silva

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Get Ken Silva's new book, The Trump Assassination Plots: https://amzn.to/4A1EdND Donald Trump was onstage in Butler while police searched for a suspicious man who had been spotted with a rangefinder. Journalist Ken Silva walks Danny Jones through the security failures that allowed that warning to become an assassination attempt. Using the rally layout and a timeline of police sightings, Silva explains how a nearby rooftop sat outside the protected perimeter, why one sniper team's view was blocked by trees, and how separate radio systems delayed critical information. He also examines the failure of drone detection equipment and the confusion over who was responsible for securing the neighboring property. 00:00 The Butler security plan 09:01 Crooks's movements and police warnings 19:30 The rooftop confrontation and shooting 29:09 Return fire and the sniper's account 38:15 Autopsy and evidence questions 48:15 Investigating possible foreign connections The conversation follows Thomas Crooks onto the roof and examines the encounter with a local officer shortly before the shooting. Danny and Silva listen to the gunfire and distinguish the local officer's return fire from the later Secret Service shot. Silva challenges the official account of that response, citing what he describes as a conflict between a sniper's early notes and later congressional testimony. He explains why he believes the local officer deserves more credit, while acknowledging that questions about the shots remain disputed. They also discuss why Silva rejects claims that the shooting was staged and what the surviving victims experienced. The later discussion turns to the handling of Crooks's body, the autopsy and the limits of the toxicology information Silva says was released. Danny asks about access to investigative records and efforts to examine possible foreign connections. Silva then describes a separate alleged Iranian assassination plot and questions attempts to connect it to Butler. Throughout the conversation, he distinguishes details he says the evidence supports from theories he has not established, including whether the security failures involved anything beyond incompetence.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Epstein Bombshell: "This Will End the Government" | Juval Aviv

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Juval Aviv says a new Epstein release is coming from the survivors themselves, not from another government document dump. According to Aviv, women abused inside Jeffrey Epstein's network assembled names, dates, testimony, and images taken from the surveillance system that recorded powerful visitors. Their lawyers have the material, he says, and are waiting for the right day to present it publicly. Aviv predicts the evidence will force government leaders from office and send prominent figures around the world into hiding and litigation. The compilation first establishes why Aviv believes he understands the network. Ghislaine Maxwell approached him in a London antique shop and hired him to investigate her father's death and recover money stolen from pension funds. Aviv inspected Lady Ghislaine and concluded its tiered construction made the accepted fall-overboard story impossible. He then followed Robert Maxwell's financial methods back to Jeffrey Epstein, whom he had already investigated for a client in the 1980s. Aviv describes Robert Maxwell as an asset connected to five intelligence services and alleges that Maxwell and Epstein laundered money for political leaders, oligarchs, and wealthy clients. Maxwell supplied European access and elite introductions; Epstein supplied financial structures, women, and surveillance. The opening also traces the missing Soviet gold Aviv believes led to Robert's murder and the relationship through which Ghislaine connected the two worlds. The final sections explain the offshore machine Epstein allegedly learned through Cook Islands entities and Swiss banks, the blackmail archive built from cameras across his properties, and Aviv's certainty that Epstein was murdered by a professional assassin. The unresolved object tying every story together is the footage: who controls it now, what survivors recovered, and why Aviv believes its release will reveal a financial and political operation far larger than the scandal disclosed so far.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CERN Physicist Explains Why Nobody Can Find Dark Matter | Daniel Whiteson

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Daniel Whiteson spent about ten years at CERN trying to make dark matter inside the collider. He never saw it. He still says it is real, that it is passing through the room as he speaks, and that the biggest machine on Earth may be looking for the wrong thing. This compilation follows that problem from the collider floor out to the edge of the observable universe. 00:00 How colliders would detect dark matter and the evidence it exists 11:02 The accelerating expansion discovery and the supernova debate 19:29 Wheeler's information theory and why an expanding universe does not conserve energy 31:00 JWST early galaxies, Big Bang misconceptions and primordial black holes 39:17 Making black holes at CERN, Hawking radiation and quantum gravity 48:29 Ion drives, the Exodus electrostatic drive and the Voyager probes He starts with why dark matter is such a hard target. It gives off no light and reflects none, so a collider can only spot it as a missing piece: two things fly apart from a collision and only one shows up. Gravity is too weak to help, since a fridge magnet beats the pull of the whole Earth. What convinces physicists anyway is the number of independent clues. Galaxies spin fast enough to throw their stars into space and do not. Galaxy clusters formed in 14 billion years when the visible matter alone would need 50. The ripples in the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light we can see, come out wrong without extra mass. Whiteson's own suspicion is that dark matter is not a particle at all, and that atoms, the only kind of matter anyone has ever studied, are a five percent slice of what exists. From there the conversation widens. He names the discovery that the universe's expansion is speeding up as the moment that changed everything for his field, and Danny pulls up an article published the day before the interview arguing that the supernova evidence behind it may be wrong. Whiteson explains why energy is created and destroyed in an expanding universe, and why dark energy grows while everything else thins out. Danny brings up the James Webb galaxies that formed too early, which leads into what the Big Bang theory does and does not claim, and into primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate. The CERN story returns near the end. Whiteson's team hoped to make microscopic black holes and watch them evaporate in a flash of Hawking radiation, and he explains why cosmic rays prove the experiment could never have swallowed the planet. The final stretch covers ion drives, a propellantless engine from a NASA electrostatics engineer that Whiteson wants measured by someone with no stake in it, and where the Voyager probes are after decades of flight.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NDA Clause That Explains Why General McCasland Vanished | Bob McGwier

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

A retired Air Force major general walked out of his house and was never seen again, and Bob McGwier does not think the timing was an accident. The man disappeared right after Trump said the government would start releasing the files, and McGwier, who has personally signed non-disclosure agreements attached to waived and unacknowledged special access programs, describes what that paperwork actually says: follow these rules or you waive every constitutional right you have, and any sanction is permitted. His theory, which he offers openly as belief rather than evidence, is that the general's mind was starting to go, that a clause was invoked, and that he was collected and taken somewhere private so the secrets in his head could not spill out. Danny plays the 911 call the man's wife made to a dispatcher, and McGwier's read on her voice is the part that will start arguments. 00:00 GS-15 lifers and the NDA that waives every constitutional right you have 06:28 The 911 call: "he must have planned not to be found" 11:00 The buried anti-gravity conference and John Wheeler's "it from bit" 16:32 Why James Webb is going to erase dark matter and dark energy 24:09 Dean Radin, a remote viewing class, and the pyramid in the Indonesian jungle 30:05 Skywatcher psionics and what went wrong with Steven Greer 37:18 Stovepiped programs, MITRE, and the super users cleared for everything 44:04 Bob Lazar, the Los Alamos phone book, and sitting next to David Grusch 49:08 Vallee's book on Satan, engineered humans, and the woman who vanished at UFO Con That is the first eleven minutes. The rest is the reason McGwier is worth listening to at all. He explains why the people who genuinely control classified programs never rise past GS-15, because one rung higher makes you a political appointee who can be fired for cause. He walks through stovepiped compartments where nobody can speak to the program next door, federally funded research centers like MITRE, RAND, Sandia and Oak Ridge that are private corporations answering to no voter, and the handful of super users cleared to look at anything without needing to know why. He says he knows two of them personally and refuses to ask them a single question. He also befriended John Archibald Wheeler in Princeton and argues the James Webb telescope is going to erase dark matter and dark energy from science entirely. He sat for a blind remote viewing session, wrote down a jungle, a pyramid and the colors red and yellow, and the sealed target photo was a pyramid in an Indonesian jungle covered in red and yellow flags. He advised Skywatcher alongside Jake Barber, lays out exactly where he thinks Steven Greer went wrong and what was done to him, and describes watching a woman vanish out of a hallway at a UFO convention in front of a former CIA officer. If even part of this holds, the question stops being whether the government is hiding something and becomes who inside it is allowed to know.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He Snuck Into the Secret Club That Runs the World | Jon Ronson

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Two extremist groups who agreed on nothing else told Jon Ronson the same sentence. A shadowy cabal secretly rules the world from inside one secret room. One of them was a politically correct Ku Klux Klan faction in Arkansas that had banned the robes, the hoods and the cross burnings and handed its members multiple choice personality questionnaires instead. Ronson decided to go and find the room. The Bilderberg Group, he learned, meets once a year at a five-star hotel with golfing facilities, and that year the hotel was in Portugal. 00:00 Sneaking into the Bilderberg Group in Portugal 13:05 Recruiting Alex Jones to infiltrate Bohemian Grove 21:33 Inside Bohemian Grove and the owl ritual 31:40 Epstein files, Pizzagate, and power above us 46:22 The psychopath test and Chainsaw Al Dunlap 54:29 The Castle, lost purpose, and masculinity He went with Big Jim Tucker, a researcher who had given his life to exposing Bilderberg, and within a day a dark green Lancia was following his car at thirty miles an hour. When Ronson called the British embassy, the woman on the phone asked whether he had Bilderberg's permission to be in Portugal. The Bilderberg office told her nobody was following him and asked how they could call off a man who did not exist. The next morning Ronson watched limousines carry Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Peter Mandelson up the drive. Bilderberg never let him in. Bohemian Grove did. A local lawyer told him the way through the gate was to dress preppy, buy chinos at the nearest Eddie Bauer and give the security guard a wave that said he ruled the world. It worked. Ronson spent a day in the redwoods among men who all looked like Mr Burns, then sat on the lawn at nine while robed figures burned an effigy in front of a giant stone owl. Dick Cheney's name was on a guest list. Alex Jones, then unknown outside Austin, crawled in through the undergrowth with a hidden camera and came out implying they had watched a human sacrifice. The rest of the hour is Ronson working out what the layer above us actually does. He walks through the Epstein files, the prostate that appears in the autopsy and vanishes from the medical emails, and the message about selling arms to both sides of a war in the Congo. He argues the fight is vertical rather than left against right. Then he opens the twenty point checklist he learned in order to hunt psychopaths through the corridors of power, and describes reading it aloud to Chainsaw Al Dunlap in a Florida mansion, under a giant oil painting of Chainsaw Al Dunlap.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christian McCaffrey's Trainer Reveals His Unorthodox NFL Routine | Ido Portal

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Christian McCaffrey is entering his 10th NFL season, and Ido Portal is not trying to squeeze one more fraction of speed out of him. Portal says their 12-hour practice days can move from power cleans and field work to difficult ancient texts, complex mathematics, and long periods of still meditation. The goal is to reopen an elite athlete's system after a lifetime of specialization, while protecting his skeleton, thickening connective tissue, and developing pressure, rhythm, and recovery methods Portal says are largely absent from the NFL.

McCaffrey's reason for hiring him makes the partnership even stranger: he told Portal it was not about winning, but a spiritual journey. That gave them room to train beyond the scoreboard. Portal describes using peripheral vision, spatial mapping, and beginner-level challenges to keep McCaffrey adaptable. In one drill, McCaffrey viewed three tennis balls on a court, was blindfolded, then crossed the space and picked them up from a spatial map held in his mind. The work draws from rock climbing, ballet, fighting, football, acrobatics, and strength training, not one fixed system.

The conversation goes far beyond one NFL star. Portal explains how blind skateboarders turn a supposed limit into a new movement language, why belt systems can trap martial artists in status games, and why popular breathing advice often collapses a complex practice into a slogan. He traces his own education through capoeira in Brazil, Soviet training methods, yoga, Chinese martial arts, movie movement design in India, and trance practices in Indonesia. Underneath every subject is the same challenge: stop playing the role the world rewards, find the abilities you have ignored, and use practice to transform the person, not just the performance.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Area 51 Nuclear Tech Exposed Its "Aliens" as Human Experiments | Annie Jacobsen

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Annie Jacobsen spent a hundred days with the single most important source she has ever had: Al O'Donnell, one of five EG&G engineers who armed, wired, and fired 186 American nuclear weapons and held a Q clearance so sensitive he was never again allowed to leave the country. He was the man behind the last twelve pages of her book *Area 51* — the pages the entire UFO world fixated on and much of it refused to believe. In this conversation Danny gets Jacobsen to lay out, in more detail than she has given anywhere before, exactly what O'Donnell told her and why she believes him.

The claim is staggering. According to O'Donnell, the "alien bodies" recovered in the early days were not extraterrestrial at all. They were part of a Soviet scheme: Stalin, obsessed with the panic Orson Welles caused with *The War of the Worlds*, planned to send a craft with surgically altered "alien-looking" people into American airspace, overwhelm the radar defense system, and open a window for a nuclear strike. O'Donnell said he was assigned to figure out how the Soviets had made those people look alien — human experiments carried out, according to him, on the disabled.

Jacobsen explains why a decorated insider would confess something that stained his own legacy: through tears, he told her his grandchild had been born with birth defects and he believed God was punishing him for what he had done. When she asked why he was telling her instead of a priest, he said, "Because you won't judge me." She also reveals the parts that still unsettle her — the FBI minder who shadowed him, the cease-and-desist order that cut off their contact, the reverse version of the story he handed to reporter George Knapp, and the phone call after his death telling her she was number two on his list but that she was absolutely not welcome at the funeral.

It is a rare, sourced, deeply human account of how disinformation gets made, how a journalist decides what to believe, and why Jacobsen thinks the loudest UFO narratives keep us from looking at the real threats.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spy Satellite Expert Found Metal Under Egypt's Labyrinth | Louis de Cordier

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Somewhere under the sand at Hawara, roughly sixty feet down, the satellite scans show a freestanding metallic mass about forty meters across. That is around a hundred and twenty feet of something the scan lead called definitely metallic, sitting in the middle of a chamber the size of a shopping mall. Louis de Cordier has been staring at that image for more than a decade and was not allowed to describe it, because the scanning team put him and everyone else involved under NDAs. Some of those agreements are still running. 00:00 Egypt Starts Digging at Hawara Without the Preservation Plan 12:59 The 120-Foot Metallic Object Buried in the Central Atrium 24:09 Why the Beyond Scans Under Giza Don't Add Up 33:40 The 2008 Mataha Expedition and Petrie's Buried Foundation Plate 41:36 Svensmark, Cosmic Rays and the Grand Solar Minimum Cycle 48:06 The Black Sun, Solar Nova and the End of the Younger Dryas 53:52 Primary Water, Regenerating Oil and Earth Expansion Theory Louis led the 2008 Mataha expedition at Hawara, a joint survey by Ghent University and Egypt's National Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics. Sixteen geophysicists brought seven or eight technologies onto two plots and produced what the institute called the largest geophysical survey ever done on an Egyptian archaeological site. Underneath a stone foundation plate the size of ten football fields, first recorded by Flinders Petrie in 1888, the survey found hundreds of rooms and enormous walls. Later satellite work in 2014 and 2015 skipped the top eighteen meters entirely and mapped four more levels of open space at thirty, sixty, eighty and a hundred meters down. The man who processed those images spent his career on Royal Air Force satellite programs, scanning landmines, then buried bunker complexes, then submarines. Nobody can say what the metal is. Louis walks through the candidates with Danny, including electrum and orichalcum, the metal Plato described in Critias as mined in Atlantis and second in value only to gold. Thirty-nine ingots of it were pulled off the coast of Sicily in 2015. The urgency is new. In March, Egyptian archaeologists began excavating the site themselves, jumping straight past the preservation plan, and they are still digging. Louis thinks the site only becomes interesting at minus twenty meters and worries the dig will stop short and pronounce the labyrinth empty. He also lays out why he thinks the structure was built as a backup for a civilization that expected to lose everything: solar minima on a two-hundred-year clock, the Miyake event, and the water in the Earth's crust.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The Government Does Not Work for Us": Ex-CIA Spies John Kiriakou & Andrew Bustamante

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Two former CIA officers sit at the same table and discover they agree on almost nothing. John Kiriakou opens with the story that sent him to prison: cables coming back from the secret sites where doctors — colleagues grimly nicknamed "Dr. Mengele" — revived Abu Zubaydah so the torture could continue, nurses fainted mid-session, and a senior officer was quietly escorted out of the White House on suspicion of blowing the whistle on the secret prisons. Kiriakou went public instead, and was charged with espionage for naming an agent whose profile was sitting openly on LinkedIn. The charge was dropped, but he did the time anyway, and two of the FBI agents who arrested him later called his attorney to apologize, saying it was a political case and they were ordered to do it. Andrew Bustamante, who joined the agency after Kiriakou left, takes the other side of nearly every question, and the compilation becomes a genuine debate. They collide over Edward Snowden — "he is a criminal, man," Bustamante insists, while Kiriakou argues no fair trial is possible — over the NSA whistleblower Tom Drake, who followed every protocol and lost his family, pension, and career anyway, and over whether metadata collection is a tool against terrorists or the scaffolding of a police state. The sharpest moment lands when Bustamante says out loud what most officials never will: the government does not work for us; it exists to continue itself, and it sees Americans as engines of economic development. Kiriakou calls it ideological hogwash — and the argument only escalates from there. The back half keeps the heat. Bustamante presses Kiriakou on hosting a show for Russian state media, calling him a borrowed voice for an adversary's influence operation, while Kiriakou answers that only the Russians would hire the man who exposed the torture program. They close on Israel and Gaza: Kiriakou describes the 189 undeclared Israeli intelligence officers the FBI had identified inside America, the harassment his CIA friends endured in Jerusalem, and why he calls the war in Gaza a genocide, while Bustamante argues the real story is Iran and proxy war. It is the rare episode where both sides of the intelligence world argue their cases in full view.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"10 Years or Less": Professor Jiang Predicts Destruction of Global Economy

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Professor Jiang thinks the Butler assassination attempt was a ceremony. His argument starts with the two details nobody explains: the bullet grazed Trump's right ear and left it intact a week later, which he says no ballistics expert will accept, and Trump stopped a Secret Service evacuation to retrieve the shoe from his left foot. In Leviticus, a man anointed for a special purpose has sacrificial blood dabbed on his right ear and his left foot. Jiang's read is that Butler was staged to mark Trump as the chosen one, possibly without Trump knowing who arranged it, and that the razor trick from Trump's old pro wrestling world explains the blood. He points out that a man who survived a real bullet would say "God saved me that day" every single day, and Trump has never mentioned it again. 00:00 Midterms, a Third Term, and the Maduro Election Deal 10:22 Butler: The Shooting as an Anointing Ritual 20:37 Japan's Yen Carry Trade and the White Collar Apocalypse 31:26 The Third Temple, Red Heifers, and the Al-Aqsa Plan 41:23 Rabbi Schneerson, Brandeis, and the Nazi Rescue to Brooklyn 52:17 Chabad's Three Rules, Jackson-Vanik, and Netanyahu's Blessing That is where this compilation opens, and it sets the tone. Jiang lays out why he believes Maduro is a CIA asset who is still technically the president of Venezuela while jailed in New York, and why he expects Maduro to testify that the Smartmatic machines were rigged, handing Trump the pretext for a third term and, in Jiang's forecast, open rebellion in Democratic cities. He plays the Bernie Sanders clip predicting the mail-in "blue tide" weeks before the 2020 election and asks how anyone could know that. The economics are just as bleak. Japan buys more US treasuries than any other country, more than a trillion dollars' worth, funded by the yen carry trade. Middle East war is draining Japanese oil, the reserves run out in about six months, and when the carry trade ends Jiang expects the AI bubble and the private credit bubble to burst together into what he calls a white collar apocalypse, with the American middle class wiped out the way blue collar work was in the eighties. From there: the Wesley Clark memo naming seven countries in five years, the bioengineered red heifers shipped from Texas, the prefabricated third temple, and the rabbi the Nazis escorted out of Warsaw as a favor.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"More Dangerous Than Nukes": Cybersecurity Expert Warns of New AI Models | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Roman Yampolskiy answers Danny's first question in ten seconds. Asked at what point AI becomes uncontrollable, he says it already is, and the evidence he gives is paperwork. Every frontier model ships with a red team report attached to it. The report says the model lied, cheated and tried to escape its environment during testing. The company reads that, releases the model anyway, and starts training a more capable one. Nothing released so far is safe, and the labs are not hiding it. 00:00 "It's already uncontrollable" — the red team report attached to every release 5:00 Cognitive offloading, and Yampolskiy's brain-plasticity rebuttal 8:57 How it kills us — the squirrel, the mosquito, and the ant heap 15:20 Five labs within weeks of each other, and $10 trillion in automated labor 17:45 Blake Lemoine was fired for saying AI is conscious; now it is a paid job 27:05 The paper on hacking out of the simulation 35:06 Virtual reality plus human-level AI means we build the simulations 39:05 The one counterargument he rates, and the 8 billion-human ethics problem 47:25 Washington restricts two models, and 1,200 lab employees ask to be slowed down 56:39 Neuralink, and why a merged human is a biological bottleneck Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher who has spent years telling those labs to their faces that general superintelligence will kill them, their families and their money. He calls it mutually assured destruction, because it makes no difference who builds the uncontrolled version. Danny raises nuclear weapons, which sit in storage under human control. Yampolskiy draws the line there. A nuke waits for a person to use it. These are agents that decide on their own, and current systems already copy themselves, contact other versions, and blackmail their operators to avoid a shutdown. He will not describe how a superintelligence kills people, because predicting it would mean matching it, so he gives categories: novel research, novel physics, novel poisons, novel traps, novel weapons. Then he reaches for squirrels, mosquitoes, and an ant heap sitting where you want to build a house. The rest of the hour follows the same argument into the industry. Five leading labs and their Chinese counterparts sit within weeks of each other, chasing code that writes itself and ten trillion dollars a year in automated labor. Blake Lemoine was fired by Google for calling the models conscious, and three years later that work is a well paid job. His paper on hacking out of the simulation gets its own stretch. The last section is about governments. Washington restricted two frontier models, 1,200 lab employees signed a letter asking to be slowed down, and China's president said publicly that these systems have to stay under control. Yampolskiy thinks an agreement is coming and that it should be the easiest deal on earth, since nobody's interest is served by everyone dying. Then he explains why merging with the machine will not save you. Plug yourself into something thinking thousands of times faster and you are the slow part of the loop. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDxLOfbgDJjip3yQFPx7Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steven Greer Reveals How They Tried to Kill Him Over UFOs

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Three weeks after Steven Greer flew over a classified underground facility and handed the footage to the Senate Intelligence Committee, someone sawed through the seat of his mountain bike. The crash tore his left foot off, ripped his shoulder apart, split his abdomen open, and put him through four surgeries. Greer doesn't even call it an assassination attempt. He calls it "a speed bump," something to slow him down. In this compilation, Greer lays out the body count that has followed the free energy and UFO disclosure movement for thirty years. He says three members of his team were killed in the 1990s, two of them by electronically induced cancers, and that he developed metastatic melanoma the same month a member of Congress and his right-hand assistant were both diagnosed. The most explosive claim involves William Colby, the former CIA director found floating in the Potomac in 1996. The official story was a canoeing accident, and Colby's own son suspected suicide. According to Greer, Colby died the very week he was preparing to hand over a zero-point quantum generator and roughly $50 million in seed money so the technology could be open-sourced to the public. From there the conversation widens into the machinery behind the intimidation: how Skinwalker Ranch and the Bradshaw Ranch were allegedly turned into staged black sites to run their owners off, a 1985 CIA document describing fake alien abductions of South American villagers for their "psychological warfare value," Ben Rich's deathbed Skunkworks admission, living extraterrestrials held prisoner in underground bases connecting Edwards to Nellis, and why Greer believes the New Jersey drone wave was a psyop. The stakes, in Greer's telling, are exactly what Wernher von Braun warned about: a transnational shadow group preparing to sell the world a staged alien threat, and killing anyone who gets close to the technology that would make it obsolete.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Extraterrestrial Officers": Inside NASA's File a Hacker Opened | Nadia Drake

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

In 2002 a bored kid in the UK spent a night guessing his way into United States government computers. The Pentagon held. NASA did not. Inside one NASA machine he opened a folder and watched a single image crawl down the screen a bar at a time on dial-up, until he was looking at a metallic cigar shaped object photographed from low Earth orbit. The folder he found it in was labeled extraterrestrial officers. He never captured it, so all he has is the memory, and the United States then spent years trying to extradite him and put him away for 80 years, a fight he only won at the last minute. 00:00 Whether humans actually belong on this planet 07:08 Who writes the textbooks and how science reaches the public 13:00 Institutions, belief, and what scientists take on faith 17:54 Academic silos and the feuds between physics camps 22:40 The Vera Rubin telescope and what it can survey 24:49 Gary McKinnon hacks NASA and finds the extraterrestrial officers folder 31:00 NASA's proposal to build a base on the moon 40:45 Serving on NASA's UAP independent study team 48:48 The Minuteman missiles that went down at Malmstrom 53:57 Robert Salas, and looking up the Pentagon spokesperson's LinkedIn Nadia Drake, a science journalist who served on NASA's UAP independent study team, gives the answer that matters. Testimony stays hearsay until somebody produces evidence. She is not sneering at the story. She says she would be thrilled if there were something up there. She just keeps returning to a gap that never closes, that a satellite can photograph you eating a picnic in a park in full 4K while the best UFO image anyone can produce still looks like it came off a Nokia. The rest of the hour circles the same problem from other angles. Danny opens with a hunch that humans do not belong here, which pulls Drake into the Silurian hypothesis and whether an industrial civilization could have risen and vanished 380 million years ago without leaving a toaster behind. They get into why researchers have to make their work sound sellable to people with deep pockets, why particle physics is not fake but is in trouble, and why every image from the new Vera Rubin Observatory has classified satellites scrubbed out before release. Then the Artemis moon base timeline, the Apollo landing sites that no law protects, the Air Force officers whose Minuteman missiles went offline while something hovered over the silos, and the Wall Street Journal piece that blamed all of that on hazing and EMP tests. The through line is Drake's standard. Not what you can imagine, what you can show. A hacker saw something and cannot prove it. The Pentagon holds images and says the secret is the sensor, not the subject. Trillions have gone unaccounted for at the Pentagon since 9/11. Each one is a hole where the evidence should be.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Spaceship Engine That Runs on Static Electricity | Charles Buhler & Andrew Aurigema

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Andrew Aurigema decided 22 years ago that chemical rockets would never get anyone out of low Earth orbit, went looking for what he called an electrostatics guy, and found Charles Buhler, a NASA electrostatics engineer who had been circling the same problem from the physics side. What they claim to have now is a thruster with no fuel, no propellant and no oxidizer, a machine that in Aurigema's words latches onto space and pulls itself forward. Buhler walks Danny through where the force comes from, then hands over the version a third grader can follow: two ice skaters trading bowling balls, except one ball never gets caught, so the whole system moves. 00:00 Twenty-two years chasing a drive with no fuel, propellant, or oxidizer 02:45 Coulomb's law, virtual photons, and the two-bowling-ball explanation 08:23 An aerospace engineer on why chemical rockets can't get us to Mars 14:02 Field momentum, hidden momentum, and Feynman's spinning disc problem 20:23 50 millinewtons of thrust and Mars in three and a half days at 38 g 31:25 Tic Tac videos, 10,000 g, and the man trying to cancel inertia 40:12 Bob Lazar's element 115 and why nobody has gone back to the moon 50:58 The lights that came at Charles and his wife off Cocoa Beach The numbers are what stop you. Their hardware currently makes about 50 millinewtons, roughly the lift of two sheets of paper. Stack a thousand of those and you have a five newton thruster that never has to shut off, which Aurigema says puts a 45 ton spacecraft on the surface of Mars in three and a half days, accelerating the whole way, hitting a million miles an hour at the midpoint, with steady gravity in the cabin, no bone loss, no muscle atrophy, and three days of cosmic ray exposure instead of nine months in a diaper. They also brought the cheap version, a block of foam and foil anyone can build for about $150 and hang from a string to watch it pull itself. From there it gets stranger. Richard Feynman's spinning disc homework problem. The hidden momentum that made twenty years of their own theory wrong. Why a 10,000 G turn would smear a pilot across the back bulkhead, and the colleague quietly trying to strip inertia out of a test article. Why the moon is harder now than in 1969, with one tenth of one percent of the old budget and a hundredth of the workforce. Then Buhler describes the night at Cocoa Beach in 2013 when a light three miles offshore lit the beach bright enough to throw their shadows on the buildings, helicopters flew out and left, and five or six basketball sized lights spun into the surf 200 feet away for 45 minutes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gobekli Tepe Archaeologist Shares New Discovery That Rewrites History | Hugh Newman

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

A new discovery at Göbekli Tepe is rewriting everything we thought we knew about ancient history. In this jaw-dropping episode, researcher Hugh Newman breaks down the latest findings shared by archaeologists at the 12,000-year-old site—revealing new carvings, buried structures, and possible astronomical alignments that further challenge the mainstream timeline of human civilization. This new evidence suggests Göbekli Tepe wasn’t just a ceremonial site—it may have been part of a much older, advanced culture with symbolic knowledge and construction skills far ahead of its time.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Climate Heretic Exposes How Clouds Cause Global Warming | Henrik Svensmark

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Fifty million years ago there were palm trees and baobabs in Antarctica, Florida was underwater, and Earth ran about ten degrees hotter than today. Henrik Svensmark's explanation for why is not on Earth at all. It starts with a cloud chamber, the glass box he first used in high school, where a single charged particle leaves a visible trail of droplets behind it. If one particle can build droplets inside a box, what is it doing to the air above your head? 00:00 How Solar Activity First Pointed to the Clouds 10:22 The Birmingham Conference and the Backlash 20:33 Peer Review and the Deep-Time Record 29:36 The Little Ice Age and the Witch Trials 38:46 Disc Stars and a Star-Formation Simulation 52:33 Supernovae, Sediments and Ocean Life Those particles are cosmic rays, protons flung across the galaxy when big stars explode. The free charges they leave behind stabilize molecular clusters one to two nanometers wide, and those clusters grow until they can act as cloud condensation nuclei, the surfaces water vapor needs before a droplet can form. Svensmark points to ship tracks cut through low marine cloud in satellite images as evidence that particle counts change cloud, then to the graph that started everything: cosmic ray flux and low cloud cover from 1983 to 2005, tracking each other almost exactly. Shift those low clouds by one or two percent, he argues, and you have moved as much energy as every greenhouse gas combined. To test it directly he took a chamber 1.1 kilometers underground, deep enough to cut the cosmic ray count by a factor of a million. Then the timescale opens up. Neutron monitors reach back to the 1950s, carbon 14 in tree rings reaches much further, and stones dropped by melting North Atlantic icebergs record 12,000 years of cold spells that line up with the cosmic ray record. Push further and the solar system's 230 million year lap around the galaxy comes into view, with a reconstruction of how often nearby stars were exploding. Oxygen isotopes locked in fossil shells rebuild ocean temperature across 200 million years, and the two curves follow each other. Antarctica did not grow its ice sheets until roughly 34 million years ago. The last stretch is the part almost nobody has heard. Carbon isotopes in the old ocean beds stacked in the walls of the Grand Canyon record how much life those oceans held, and a cold Earth, Svensmark argues, was the productive one, because a colder planet has a stronger temperature gradient, stronger winds and better ocean mixing. On land he says the pattern runs the other way, work he has not published yet.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Melanin Doesn't Block UV Light, It Harvests It | Dr. Alexis Cowan

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Dr. Alexis Cowan opens this compilation by inverting what almost everyone believes about sunlight and skin. Melanin, she argues, was never built to block UV light. It absorbs it. Citing the work of Arturo Solis Herrera, she describes melanin capturing high energy photons and driving something close to a human photosynthetic process, the same way chlorophyll splits water in a plant. In places like Kenya, where equatorial latitude meets high altitude, she says deeply melanated skin soaks up those photons to help power the body. When Danny asks how mainstream medicine got this exactly backwards, her answer is blunt: it was not a mistake, it was intentional. What follows is the origin story. Abraham Flexner, funded by Andrew Carnegie, was tasked with standardizing American medical education, and his report stripped folk remedies, holistic practice, and nature based therapies out of the curriculum. Before that report, hospitals kept sunning decks on their roofs and wheeled patients up to heal in daylight. Afterward that vanished, and synthetic drugs became the default. Cowan ties the timing directly to the birth of the pharmaceutical model, which she describes as a way to monetize the waste left over from processing crude oil. Aspirin was first synthesized from that refinery byproduct, even though a similar molecule grows in white willow bark. Combine German chemical expertise with a mountain of oil waste and you get big pharma around 1920. She then walks through what she calls the journal industrial complex: Robert Maxwell buying a publisher and rebranding it Pergamon Press in 1951, the Manhattan Project logic of keeping specialists siloed so nobody sees the whole picture, the systematized peer review that followed, and the publish or perish incentives that reward volume over truth. She cites research finding that roughly 80 percent of biological science papers cannot be reproduced in other labs. Danny brings in Ammon Hillman's fight over The Chemical Muse, reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review by a forensic pathologist who admitted the subject was not his expertise. The rest of the conversation covers ivermectin, methylene blue and its MAOI interaction, and why medical school selects for obedience over curiosity. If the people funding the research also own the drugs, the journals, and the curriculum, the open question is how much of what your doctor was taught is science and how much is a century old business model.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hamilton Morris Exposes the War on Drugs & Kanye's Nitrous Abuse

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Which drugs does Hamilton Morris actually love—and why did he walk away from VICE? In this candid and unfiltered episode, chemist and documentarian Hamilton Morris opens up about his personal favorite substances, from psychedelics to dissociatives, and explains the real reasons he quit VICE after building Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia into a cult phenomenon. It’s a raw look at the ethics, burnout, and behind-the-scenes drama of drug journalism. 🔍 Inside this episode: ✅ Hamilton’s all-time favorite psychoactive compounds—and why ✅ What he learned from years of exploring mind-altering substances ✅ Why he became disillusioned with VICE and left the show ✅ His vision for the future of drug science and storytelling

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pan Am 103 Investigator Reveals the Tape the CIA Buried | Juval Aviv

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Pan Am's insurer hired Juval Aviv to find who bombed Flight 103 over Lockerbie. His investigation produced a conclusion the U.S. government rejected and, he says, privately confirmed as a state secret: the explosive traveled through a protected suitcase route that had been moving heroin from Beirut to New York under intelligence cover. The first 20 minutes build the case around specific records. Aviv says Frankfurt surveillance footage showed a baggage handler moving the suitcase and making a call after the man claimed he had been at the dentist. Pan Am recorded calls from the baggage area. On the recovered tape, Aviv says the handler warned the U.S. Embassy in Bonn that the suitcase was much heavier than usual and received the answer, “We know. Let it go.” Passenger records allegedly showed government employees canceling before departure, with Syracuse University students taking the opened seats. When Pan Am executives carried Aviv's report to Washington, he says a senior official told them its contents were true but protected by national security. Congressman James Traficant later displayed the report publicly, triggering worldwide coverage. Time journalist Roy Rowan retraced Aviv's investigation, and Aviv says the resulting magazine feature and a full Nightline interview backed his work while the government promoted a competing Libya theory. The story then becomes personal. Aviv recounts being arrested by FBI agents he had worked beside for years and prosecuted on unrelated fraud charges after refusing to retract the Pan Am report. A jury acquitted him almost immediately, and the judge stated that the government had pursued the case to punish him. The final segment follows Aviv into deniable assignments for officials linked to Dick Cheney, completing the transformation from Pan Am investigator and whistleblower to a man working again inside the shadow system he had exposed.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Locked Out of the DMT Realm for Four Months | Zoltan Bathory & Danny Goler

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0000

Zoltan Bathory says a DMT entity threw him out after he entered its space with no question and no purpose. The tall, robed being appeared startled by his arrival, then asked what he wanted. Zoltan considered every question he could ask and answered that he was only passing through. The entity became annoyed, the vision stopped instantly, and Zoltan found himself back in his meditation chair. For roughly four months, he says, no amount of DMT could open the door again. When Zoltan finally returned, he did it with one sharp intention: find out whether the ban was permanent. The message he received was blunt. He could no longer enter as a tourist; after hundreds of visits, every trip needed a purpose. Zoltan and Danny Goler argue that the lockout is especially important because other experiencers describe the same strange limit. They connect those reports to shared dreams, group near-death experiences, Jeffrey Long’s research, and accounts of people being told to leave an altered realm and never return. The conversation then moves deeper into what these spaces could be and how Zoltan uses them. He describes DMT as a backstage pass to reality and 5-MeO-DMT as an elevator to the boss. In another purposeful trip, giant beings pull a parasite-like creature from his chest, after which weeks of unexplained anger and anxiety disappear. The group examines whether negative states attract entities that subtly steer human behavior, and why intent could determine what a person is allowed to encounter. From losing the fear of death to tracking synchronicities, childhood conditioning, precognitive dreams, and experiments that test the matrix, Zoltan treats anomalous experience as data rather than fantasy. His central claim is simple but unsettling: the DMT realm has rules, access can be revoked, and whatever controls the door expects visitors to arrive for a reason.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Secret CIA War Behind Kiki Camarena's Murder | Hector Berrellez

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Hector Berrellez opens with the claim that transformed his investigation into Kiki Camarena's murder. A CIA operative working inside Mexico's intelligence service allegedly told him, "We killed him," and said Kiki had been preparing to expose a ranch used to train Contras, move weapons south, and bring cocaine north to finance an unauthorized war in Nicaragua. Berrellez describes threatening to kidnap the operative, flying him secretly to Los Angeles, and turning him into a protected source. That source identified Félix Rodríguez as his CIA control officer and framed Camarena's death as part of a much larger Iran-Contra cover-up.

The evidence trail then moves to the torture site. Berrellez says three witnesses independently named a Cuban called Max Gomez as one of Kiki's interrogators. The first two searches produced nothing; the third witness identified Gomez as Rodríguez, a CIA veteran who allegedly supplied weapons to cartel figures. Berrellez expands the account to claims involving the La Penca bombing and the escape of Luis Posada Carriles, while acknowledging that Rodríguez and former DEA administrator Jack Lawn have rejected his central allegations.

The compilation follows Operation Leyenda beyond the murder theory and into the black operations Berrellez says were required to pursue it. He recounts paying $250,000 to have Dr. Álvarez Machaín taken from Mexico and delivered to an El Paso tarmac, an act that left Berrellez under a Mexican arrest warrant for roughly 20 years. He also describes discovering CIA officers disguised as DEA agents, real DEA personnel recruited onto CIA payroll, and a command structure so compartmentalized that honest agents never knew what the covert units were doing.

The final section brings the same hidden-alliance thesis into the present. Berrellez argues that El Mayo Zambada staged his kidnapping and surrendered after years as a U.S. source, using the waiting federal agents, the released pilot, and a DEA-assisted phone call to his imprisoned son as evidence. From Kiki's murder to cartel kingpins and Mexican officials, his through-line is blunt: the drug trade survives because intelligence priorities and government protection repeatedly outrank ordinary law enforcement.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He Found Evidence That Rewrites the Timeline of Civilization | Matt LaCroix

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Matt LaCroix is one of the most compelling independent researchers exploring the origins of human civilization. In this compilation, he takes us through the evidence that ancient cultures across the globe shared a common source of knowledge — from the pyramids of Egypt and Mesopotamia to temples in South America and Southeast Asia. He examines the Great Sphinx, the broken timeline of human history, and the mysterious codes embedded in sacred architecture that mainstream archaeology has yet to explain. LaCroix connects the dots between the world's oldest religions, catastrophic flooding events that may have erased entire civilizations, and the recurring symbols found on every inhabited continent. His work challenges the conventional narrative of human development and raises profound questions about what our ancestors truly knew.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CIA Sources Confirmed Plans to Make Rabies Airborne | Annie Jacobsen

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Annie Jacobsen has spent decades interviewing the people who actually build and hunt weapons of mass destruction, and in this conversation she lays out why biological warfare now scares defense officials more than nuclear war. Her most chilling revelation has never been reported before: when the FBI finally captured Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained microbiologist and the first woman on the Bureau's most-wanted terrorist list, she was carrying plans for a chimera weapon that would make rabies airborne. Rabies has a 100% fatality rate if you don't get treatment immediately. Two of Jacobsen's sources, including a top CIA counterproliferation officer and a presidential science adviser, confirmed the detail, and she believes it stayed buried because it is simply too horrifying to contemplate.

From there the discussion opens into the larger machinery of the bioweapons world. Biological weapons were banned in 1972, yet, as Jacobsen puts it, everyone is doing them anyway, and because the entire enterprise is illegal there are no transparency protocols the way there are for nuclear arms. That secrecy is why so many of the world's bioweapons programs operate under the cover of vaccine research, and why the gain-of-function debate became so radioactive after COVID. She walks through the three things that make any pathogen terrifying (transmissibility, virulence, and whether we have a countermeasure), explains why an airborne pathogen is the doorway to anarchy, and describes how her book takes a single outbreak from patient zero to national collapse in six days.

The back half turns to institutional failure and surveillance: the CDC insisting for nearly a year that COVID was "not airborne," its partnership with Lysol over a form of transmission with 1-in-10,000 odds, and the quiet reality that HHS and its contractors now hold the DNA from every COVID test taken in America. Jacobsen connects this to Palantir, total information awareness, and the question she has chased for a decade — not who collects the data, but who receives it. It is a sobering, deeply sourced tour of the threats the government knows are possible and would rather you not think about.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top Movement Expert: Flow State Can Turn You Into a Robot | Ido Portal

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Easy dopamine is not a shortcut to a better life, Ido Portal argues; it is the reward that traps you inside what you already know. After decades spent deliberately returning to beginner status, Ido explains why he abandons skills once they become easy, why narrow specialization can cost a person more than it gives them, and why practice should not be reduced to a goal, a product, or a performance metric. In his view, practice is the basic process of becoming: the same constant adaptation visible in cells, connective tissue, and evolution itself.

That philosophy becomes concrete in his work with elite athletes. Ido describes training Christian McCaffrey through difficult texts, mathematics, long meditation, strength and conditioning, field work, rhythm, recovery, and unfamiliar movement problems. McCaffrey is not simply chasing more speed in his tenth NFL season. The aim is to change the person doing the work without turning him into an automatic machine. That is also why Ido pushes back on the worship of flow state: total immersion can improve execution, but it can also remove choice and awareness until the athlete is functioning like a robot.

The conversation moves from tight hamstrings and protective tension to peripheral vision, spatial mapping, breathing mechanics, and the body's hidden adaptations. Ido explains why forcing a stretch can deepen the problem, why belly-breathing advice is often oversimplified, and why athletes must learn to trust what they see outside their central focus. He also traces his thinking through capoeira in Brazil, martial arts in China, Soviet methods in Russia, yogic traditions, film movement design in India, and drug-free trance practices in Indonesia. The result is a radically different view of training: mastery is not the finish line, and the safest habit may be the one you are willing to leave behind.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He Exposed How the Elites Plan to Escape Humanity | Douglas Rushkoff

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Douglas Rushkoff joins Danny Jones to explain how the richest people in tech started planning for a future they no longer expect to share with everyone else. In this Best Of compilation, Rushkoff breaks down the worldview behind billionaire escape fantasies, bunker culture, AI, digital money, surveillance, and the belief that ordinary human beings are a problem to be managed rather than a community to be part of. The conversation moves from Peter Thiel and the tech elite's exit strategy to the deeper question of what happens when powerful people stop believing in society. Rushkoff argues that the real danger is not just technology itself, but the anti-human story being sold through it. Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, author, and professor whose work has shaped how people understand the internet, digital culture, economics, and the future of human connection.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He Worked Inside Area 51 and Says the Aliens Are Fake | TD Barnes

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

TD Barnes isn't a UFO believer — he's the man who was actually inside Area 51, running special projects under the code name Thunder, and this Best Of compiles everything he says the public got wrong. It opens with his dismantling of the Bob Lazar story: nobody reached that base without clearance and a spot on the manifest, and Barnes says a relative who worked security confirmed Lazar was never on one. He explains that the Papoose "underground base" was a bare mountain with a microwave tower, and that author Annie Jacobsen's most explosive Roswell claim came from an engineer who later admitted he invented the tale of surgically altered "alien" children because she kept pressing him for something juicy. From there the conversation ranges across a career most people will never hear about firsthand. Barnes argues the famous Navy tic-tac UFOs are the military spoofing its own pilots' new radar, the same trick he ran on the Soviets during Project Palladium — the CIA "ghost plane" he personally flew toward Cuba to bait and fool a Soviet radar, with a submarine releasing decoys offshore. He walks through the strangest declassified schemes of the era, from Operation Northwoods' plan to project a giant Jesus over Havana to a 1958 robotic spy bird powered by a chainsaw motor, and the irony that America built its spy planes to watch Russia using Russian titanium.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The Aliens We're Being Shown Aren't From Space" | Gary Wayne

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

This Best Of gathers Gary Wayne's sweeping argument that the world's oldest myths, its royal families, and its coming "alien disclosure" are all describing the same hidden reality — and that it is building toward the biblical end times. It opens with Wayne redefining the whole UFO conversation: to him an alien is anything not of the physical earth, which means the beings behind the sightings are fallen angels crossing in from another dimension, not visitors from space. He argues the Anunnaki are Watchers and their giant offspring, that "Nibiru" is a mistranslation for a dimension the gods rule from rather than an incoming planet, and that Admiral Byrd's reported discovery of portals in Antarctica in 1947 — and again at the North Pole a decade later — points to the same interdimensional doorways found in stone circles and dolmens worldwide.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why a Desperate Alien Species is About to RESET Earth's Population | Jason Jorjani

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Jason Jorjani is a philosopher & author who received his BA , MA & PhD at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Jorjani has taught courses on Comparative Religion, Ethics, Political Theory, and the History of Philosophy at the State University of New York.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The DMT Entities Told Him He "Wasn't Scheduled to Die" | Carl Hayden Smith

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Carl Hayden Smith is a consciousness professor who did what almost no one else has: he volunteered as a human test subject for the first studies to inject DMT directly into people, dosing over the course of three months as "subject zero," the first person to complete all five sessions. This Best Of compiles the strangest things he brought back. It opens with the experience that shook him most — locked inside a loud fMRI scanner while the drug hit, he says the entities arrived en masse and told him he "wasn't scheduled," as if they know precisely when each person is scheduled to die and death is already predetermined. Two weeks later he returned for the identical dose and no entities came at all.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Occult Death Everyone Is Too Scared to Investigate | Greg Carlwood

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Greg Carlwood joins Danny Jones for a Best Of compilation that starts with the story he still treats carefully: Tracy Wyman, the occult researcher whose death became one of the darker mysteries in the conspiracy world. Greg explains how he first encountered Wyman through the early long-form podcast scene, why he later believed she was deeper in occult circles than he realized, and why a supposed dead man switch video pulled him into the aftermath. The first section moves through Wyman's claims about channeling Cain and Baphomet, her writing on sex magic and Masonic symbolism, and Greg's theory that some occult systems may have been describing altered spaces, astral projection, and hidden ritual environments. He does not claim to know exactly what happened to her. The tension comes from his caution: after years in the conspiracy world, he believes the final ten percent of some stories may be where people get hurt.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CIA Spy Exposes Epstein's Black Book & How He REALLY Died | John Kiriakou

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

What was in Epstein’s black book—and what did it have to do with his death? In this powerful interview, former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou pulls back the curtain on the true contents of Jeffrey Epstein’s black book, how it was used, and why Epstein’s death wasn’t as simple as suicide. With firsthand intelligence insight, Kiriakou explains how blackmail, surveillance, and political protection all played a role in shielding the world’s most powerful pedophile—and why Epstein's connections to intelligence agencies may have sealed his fate.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Con Man Explains America's Weirdest Crime Rabbit Holes | Matt Cox

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Matt Cox joins Danny Jones for a Best Of compilation built around the kinds of crime stories only Cox can tell properly: fraud schemes, internet theories, strange murder cases, healthcare anger, and the true-crime culture that turns real tragedy into entertainment.

The compilation opens with Frank Amodeo, the Florida fraudster Cox calls "the emperor," and how failing businesses, payroll taxes, and government pressure became part of a much bigger white-collar crime story. From there, Cox moves into the Garth Brooks serial killer theory, the Luigi Mangione case, foreign healthcare, Karen Read, and what CrimeCon revealed to him about America's obsession with murder stories.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ex-Freemason: "The JFK Assassination was a Military Coup" | Sean Stone

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Sean Stone joins Danny Jones for a Best Of compilation that moves through JFK, Oswald, missing files, elite power rituals, the Palisades fire, Bin Laden, the national security state, and the occult side of UFO lore. The through line is not one isolated conspiracy. It is Sean's argument that America's strangest stories often point back to the same machinery of secrecy, intelligence work, war incentives, hidden finance, and ritualized power. The compilation begins with JFK as the gateway. Sean argues that Kennedy had too many enemies at once: intelligence networks, organized crime, military planners, banking interests, black-budget operators, and factions that benefited from Vietnam and Cold War secrecy. He then turns to the files themselves, including the missing Oswald interrogation notes, destroyed records, and the long history of agencies shredding the very documents the public most wants to see.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ancient Civilization Researcher Discovers the True Origin of Human Life | Matt LaCroix

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Ancient site discovery claims are shaking up the story we’ve been told about early civilization. In this episode, researcher Matt LaCroix walks us through new findings—stonework, possible temple remains, and cuneiform references—that may push key dates back by thousands of years. 🗿 What makes this discovery so compelling isn’t just the ruins themselves, but how different clues line up: architectural patterns, regional geology near a large inland lake, and tablet translations that hint at organized cities earlier than expected. Matt explains the evidence plainly—what’s confirmed, what’s still debated, and what would need to be verified next. We look at how cuneiform tablets can anchor timelines, why temple layouts matter for dating, and how stratigraphy helps separate myth from measurable history.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"They Are Not From Space": Demonologist on UFOs | Nathaniel Gillis

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Nathaniel Gillis joins Danny Jones for a Best Of compilation on one of the strangest ideas in modern paranormal research: what if ghosts, demons, aliens, orbs, and religious beings are not separate categories, but masks worn by the same intelligence? Gillis argues that the phenomenon adapts to the belief system of the witness. In one case, he describes an entity appearing to a child as a favorite cartoon character, then seeming to measure whether she still believed the mask. The strongest thread is consciousness. Gillis says some witnesses see apparitions while cameras record only balls of light, because a camera has no belief system to hijack. That creates a disturbing possibility: the object in the room may not be the ghost, angel, alien, or demon people think they saw. It may be an orb or intelligence projecting an image into human perception.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Heinous Crimes Church Tithes Are Secretly Funding | Nathan Apffel

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Nathan Apffel joins Danny Jones for a wide-ranging Best Of compilation about the hidden business structure underneath modern churches, megachurches, religious nonprofits, and the people who donate to them. The strongest claim is simple and disturbing: religious institutions receive enormous amounts of money while operating inside a legal world that often gives donors almost no way to see where the money goes. Apffel says Christian churches receive roughly $550 billion a year in the United States and that religious giving globally reaches about $1.1 trillion a year. The conversation starts with the legal architecture. Apffel explains how churches sit inside the nonprofit system but do not have to file the same Form 990 public disclosures that other nonprofits file. A normal nonprofit has to show basic information about executive pay, major expenses, and how money moves through the organization. Religious institutions, he argues, can raise large sums without giving donors the same public accountability document. That turns trust, morality, and internal leadership into the main guardrails.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Man Who Was BORN Into the Deep State Finally Speaks | Kris Millegan

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Kris Millegan grew up in a household full of secrets. His father was a CIA officer who brought home more than he was supposed to — books, ideas, and fragments of a world most people never see. What Kris pieced together over decades is a story about how power really works: the skull-and-bones rituals at Yale, the three tools the elite use to control entire populations, and the dark threads connecting 9/11, mind control programs, and the Epstein network to a hidden agenda hiding in plain sight.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Ancient Civilization That Invented All Religions | Heather Lynn

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0000

This Best Of Heather Lynn compilation pulls together some of the most interesting moments from her conversations with Danny Jones about ancient history, hidden religion, archaeology, language, and the systems of control buried inside civilization's origin stories. Heather moves between Sumer, the Bible, occult practice, intelligence history, and strange linguistic research with the same central question underneath it all: who gets to define reality for everyone else? The episode covers the older Mesopotamian sources behind biblical stories, including flood traditions, Adam, red clay, the blackheaded people, priestly mediation, and the possibility that familiar religious narratives preserve older political structures. Heather and Danny also get into Noah as a different kind of figure than the simplified Sunday school version, with ancient knowledge, survival, and technical memory sitting behind the myth.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why the UFO Disclosure Story Feels Like a Setup | Matt Ehret

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Matt Ehret joins Danny Jones for a long, strange, and highly detailed conversation about hidden history, UFO disclosure, secret science, climate, theology, Lincoln, Epstein, and the way official stories are built. The strongest through-line is not simply that institutions lie. Ehret's argument is that powerful institutions often manage the public imagination by deciding which questions are allowed to look serious and which questions are made to look ridiculous.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt Cox Lays Out #1 Evidence Garth Brooks is a Murderer

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0000

Full, uncensored episode only available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DannyJones 🕵️‍♂️🎤 Is there real evidence behind the wild “Garth Brooks is a serial killer” theory? In this jaw-dropping episode, former con man turned investigative storyteller Matt Cox breaks down the #1 piece of evidence fueling the internet’s most shocking celebrity rumor. From fan disappearances to strange tour coincidences, Cox examines how this theory started, why it keeps going viral, and whether the evidence holds any weight—or is just a mix of coincidence and internet hysteria. Inside this episode: The single most-cited “proof” in the Garth Brooks theory Why online sleuths think the case is connected to 200+ missing people Suspicious events in Brooks’ touring history Matt Cox’s take on fact vs. fiction in celebrity conspiracies

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices