A former DARPA director told Sharon Weinberger (@weinbergersa) he helped save Steve Jobs. Years later, she tracked down people behind his secret CIA contract. She explains how their computer purchases helped keep his early companny, NeXT, alive:

Episode #441 w/ Sharon Weinberger (@weinbergersa) is available now. She has spent more than 25 years covering national security, military technology, DARPA, and Silicon Valley’s growing influence over warfare.

The siege of Caffa is often remembered for an army catapulting plague-infected bodies over the walls. Plague author Wendy Orent examines the accounts behind that story and explains why she believes there's no evidence that ever happened:

A death at a Russian anti-plague institute raises fears of a wider outbreak. Was the worker careless? Could this spread beyond the lab? Wendy Orent explains her suspected cause, and why she thinks the quarantine may have stopped it:

One man helped eliminate smallpox while also developing it as a weapon. Plague author Wendy Orent describes the Soviet scientist she says was involved in both, and how she learned about his double role:

Episode #440 w/ Wendy Orent is available now. She is an anthropologist and science writer who specializes in plague, disease evolution & biological weapons. She interviewed Russia's top scientist working on Plague weapons and breaks down what is really happening in Siberia right now.

At MIT, Daniel Everett worked across the hall from Noam Chomsky. He says Chomsky was fascinated by his research until it challenged a claim about human language:

Daniel Everett says a pastor should be one of the poorest people in the church. The former missionary explains why religious leaders should set that example:

Daniel Everett went to the Amazon to teach Christianity. He says the people he hoped to convert made him question his own faith. The former missionary explains what the Pirahã taught him about evidence & belief:

Episode #439 w/ Daniel Everett is available now. Daniel is a Linguist, anthropologist, Bible scholar & former Christian missionary who went to the Amazon Jungle with his wife and 3 children to translate the Bible to a remote tribe. Rather than converting the Pirahã people, he eventually lost his own Christian faith and became an atheist.

Aaron Smith-Levin (@GrowingupinSCN) explains why it's so hard to leave Scientology. He says Sea Org members who try to walk away can be chased by security. Cameras track their movements. Guards & bus drivers stay connected by radio:

Aaron Smith-Levin (@GrowingupinSCN) says Scientology uses anti-drone security at its properties. He describes an employee tracing a Scientology gift basket back to a drone-defense account, and a drone operator encountering a boundary he couldn't fly past:

"By definition, Scientology is a sex trafficking cult." - @GrowingupinSCN Former Scientologist Aaron Smith-Levin alleges Scientology charges victims for sessions investigating their own sexual abuse. He says the organization makes money from those investigations while preventing cases from reaching police:

Episode #438 w/ Aaron Smith-Levin @GrowingupinSCN is available now. Aaron was raised in Scientology & worked for the organization full-time, as a staff member and a Sea Org member. He officially left Scientology in early 2014, and since 2015 he has been educating the public about Scientology and exposing abuses within the organization ever since.

Three fingers. No thumbs. Filmmaker Darcy Weir (@Occultjourneys) says the larger Nazca mummies’ hands were altered to look alien. He explains how cutting through a human palm can make the remaining fingers look unnaturally long:

Gary McKinnon says he hacked NASA & saw a photo of a metallic, cigar-shaped craft above Earth. Then a network administrator cut off his access. Filmmaker Darcy Weir (@Occultjourneys) explains what McKinnon described seeing:

🇺🇸 Florida firefighters used a crane to rescue a 600-pound man from his second-floor apartment. He was having a medical emergency but couldn't fit through the stairs or doorways, so crews cut part of the apartment wall and balcony railings, then secured him onto a padded pallet. Around a dozen people helped lower him about 20 feet to an ambulance waiting below. Credit to the crews for getting him down safely. Writer: Daniyal

Two Mississippi fishermen said they were abducted by aliens in 1973. Police secretly recorded them after leaving the interrogation room. Filmmaker Darcy Weir (@Occultjourneys) explains what they said when they thought nobody was listening:

Episode #437 w/ Darcy Weir (@Occultjourneys) is available now. We talk NASA secrets, the UFO in Iran, Project Blue Beam & the giant psyop behind the governments UFO disclosure narrative.

Journalist Ioan Grillo (@ioangrillo) discusses the corruption evidence they found on a cartel boss' phone: Payroll to hitmen. Payroll to government officials. Witness statements that police had willingly handed over to the cartels. He explains how deep the corruption runs: