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Joe Chambers

My name's Joe, and I'm on a mission, asking questions to understand our real story on this planet and the truth about our place in this universe. I travel to the corners of the world, meet the people who live there, and chase the answers most of us never stop to ask for. If you're curious about the same things, come along for the ride. New episodes regularly. Ask questions, share what you love, and love each other.

  1. Oct 2

    Is this who's behind crop circles? | Karen Alexander, Temporary Temples

    Karen Alexander has spent thirty-five years documenting crop circles. In this episode we talk about what they might be saying: the geometry, the mathematics, and what these formations do to the people who go and stand inside them. We talk about the Chilbolton formation of 2001, which appeared beside a radio telescope in Hampshire laid out in the same 73 x 23 grid we used to send the Arecibo message into space in 1974, and why Karen thinks it has never been taken as seriously as it should be. We also talk about The Call, her essay on why people feel drawn into this subject, and what happens to them once they answer it. KAREN ALEXANDER AND TEMPORARY TEMPLES Website and crop circle archive: https://temporarytemples.co.uk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/temporarytemples THE AUTUMN CROP CIRCLE LECTURES 2026 Karen hosts the Autumn Crop Circle Lectures, running 3 October to 1 November 2026. Five consecutive weekends, entirely online via Zoom, Saturday and Sunday evenings UK time. Speakers include Bert Janssen, Dan Vidler and Gary King. Free live access is included when you pre-order the 2027 Crop Circle Calendar from the Temporary Temples shop, and recordings are available afterwards. Details and sign up: https://temporarytemples.co.uk/event/summer-lectures-crop-circle-conference-2025-6 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/EjdX9P86ggw Crop circle photography by Steve and Karen Alexander, Temporary Temples.

  2. Sep 18

    The Chambers That Could Rewrite History | Gunung Padang | Danny Hilman Natawidjaja

    Under a hill in West Java, geophysical scans show hollow spaces — chambers, twenty and fifty metres down. Nobody has ever been inside one. Before the end of the last ice age, Java, Sumatra and Borneo were joined into a single landmass. Geologists call it Sundaland. Then the ice melted, the sea rose more than a hundred metres, and most of it disappeared. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja is an Indonesian geologist who thinks something survived — and that a hill in West Java called Gunung Padang is hiding construction from the Ice Age beneath it. If he's right, it would be the oldest structure anyone has ever built. In this episode we talk about the excavation that restarted in 2025, the chambers under the hill that nobody has ever entered, a sunken harbour sixty metres below the Sunda Strait, megalithic statues in Sulawesi, a trident pulled from the Java Sea, and why he thinks Sundaland is a serious candidate for Atlantis. MORE ON DANNY'S WORKSundalandia Discovery Society — https://www.sundalandia-discovery.org/Google Scholar — https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B4LeOOAAAAAJ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEGeo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang (2023) — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912Retraction notice (March 2024) — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1932Betel nut use in Sulawesi 25,000 years ago, Griffith University — https://discover.swns.com/2026/09/humans-were-taking-mind-altering-drugs-25000-years-ago-study-suggests/ Watch the video version on YouTube — https://youtu.be/1ITua46noe8 Ask questions, share what you love, and love each other.

  3. Sep 4

    Crop Circles, Falling Lights, and the Limits of the Scientific Method | Klaas van Egmond

    He spent nearly thirty years bringing instruments into a phenomenon that wouldn't hold still for science — magnetometers, thermal cameras, time-lapse rigs. Almost all of them came back with nothing. Klaas van Egmond is an emeritus professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability at Utrecht University. He ran environmental research at the RIVM (the Dutch national institute for public health and the environment) from 1988, directed the government's Environmental and Nature Planning Bureau from 2004 to 2008, and has spent nearly three decades investigating crop circles in the fields of Wiltshire. We get into the day in 1997 that pulled him into this research: a fractal crop formation that appeared in a Wiltshire field within three hours of him sitting in it. We talk about what actually happened when he brought real instruments back year after year — and why almost everything he measured came up empty, except once, when his magnetometer inexplicably dropped to zero. He describes watching five glowing, metallic spheres float low over the wheat near Adam's Grave, and the night in 2001 a light came down over Milk Hill two weeks before the largest crop formation ever recorded appeared on that exact spot. And we get into his real argument: not that crop circles are proven, but that the phenomenon seems to resist being studied at all — cameras fail, instruments read nothing, and the moment you go looking for it with real scientific rigor, it disappears. Along the way: squaring the circle, Jung's collective unconscious, and why Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man keeps turning up in fields in Wiltshire. Guest: Prof. Klaas van Egmond - https://www.klaasvanegmond.nl/ Subscribe for more conversations from the heart of Wiltshire.

  4. Aug 17

    Russia warns ‘consequences’ | Inside Swindon's Drone Boom: Jobs, Weapons and War | Will Stone MP

    Drone warfare isn't a niche part of modern conflict anymore — it's becoming the main way wars are fought. And Britain's chosen my hometown, Swindon, as one of the places to build for it. In this episode I sit down with Will Stone, Labour MP for Swindon North, to talk about how a town with no defence industry two years ago now has five drone companies setting up, a Ministry of Defence testing centre going up on the old Honda site that's being called the largest of its kind in Europe, and the Prime Minister visiting twice. We get into what this actually means for jobs and apprenticeships in Swindon, how warfare itself is changing, and — because "drones built in Swindon" isn't as simple as it sounds — who these companies actually are: German, Portuguese, Norwegian and American firms alongside one genuinely British one, backed by everyone from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to the CIA's own venture arm. We ask where the money really comes from, who these weapons are ultimately for, and whether the UK carries any responsibility for how they're used. We also cover the wider picture: Britain's new PM Andy Burnham, the defence spending row that helped bring him to power, the war in Iran, the Chinese-components scandal that hit Royal Navy hardware, and the new Gulf defence pact being read as a hedge against relying on America. And yes — since Will's a jiu-jitsu black belt — I had to ask him who in Parliament he reckons he could take in a fight. Guest: Will Stone MP, Labour MP for Swindon North Subscribe for more conversations from the heart of Wiltshire.

  5. Aug 2

    Crop Circles Are Lining Up With Ones That Vanished Two Years Ago | Dan Vidler

    2026 has been an extraordinary year for crop circles. More formations, more complexity, and more people asking questions that do not have easy answers. Dan Vidler has spent 23 years researching these formations at ground level, and he means that literally. While most of us are looking at drone footage, Dan is on his hands and knees studying the details almost everybody walks straight past. His book, Crop Circles: Layers of Mystery, has become the field guide to what is actually going on inside them. The part I had not heard before is the alignments. Dan's argument is that formations line up with each other and with the landscape at a precision he does not think chance explains, including lining up on the centre of circles that are not there any more because they appeared two years earlier and were harvested long ago. We also get into a formation that had a section added to it in broad daylight, beside two public roads, visible from both, with photographs taken before and after. Why Dan believes the stems are laid down gently rather than crushed, and why they recover afterwards and grow back towards the sun. The ley line question and why so much of this happens in one small part of England. And his thoughts on consciousness, including the idea that if human interest in the phenomenon fades, the formations may fade with it. Dan Vidler: https://ukcropcircles.co.uk Crop Circles: Layers of Mystery, Ground Level Press Subscribe for more conversations from the heart of Wiltshire. #CropCircles #DanVidler #Wiltshire #Avebury #ancientmysteries #unexplained #consciousness #JoeQuestions

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My name's Joe, and I'm on a mission, asking questions to understand our real story on this planet and the truth about our place in this universe. I travel to the corners of the world, meet the people who live there, and chase the answers most of us never stop to ask for. If you're curious about the same things, come along for the ride. New episodes regularly. Ask questions, share what you love, and love each other.