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  1. 1d ago

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

    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

  2. 3d ago

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

    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

  3. 4d ago

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

    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

  4. 5d ago

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

    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

  5. 6d ago

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

    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

  6. Oct 14

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

    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

  7. Oct 12

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

    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

  8. Oct 11

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

    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

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