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• Chase did a 5.5-hour intravenous DMT session via an anesthesia-style pump and plans to mix Alzheimer's drugs with it next time to improve memory retrieval.
  00:00:34Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Chase says alien-like beings ripped him open and drilled into his head during the trip; afterward his wife revealed she had prayed for them to fix his heart and brain.
  00:07:19Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Former Texas governor Rick Perry's age-related brain atrophy reportedly reversed after ibogaine sessions, and he now says promoting psychedelics is his life's mission.
  00:46:50Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Chase claims he developed a hypnosis method to edit memories and shift perspective on trauma, inspired by game developers' 'modify one pixel' trick.
  01:12:49Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Chase reveals he trains the U.S. Army psyops division at Fort Bragg and built a tool that scores how likely an event is a psyop (1-100).
  01:33:28Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Chase bought a former TV station and launched a daily news show, Station One, that runs the day's events through his SciOps index.
  01:37:38Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Joe says presidents and former presidents contacted Spotify trying to get him removed for vaccine misinformation, backed by PACs and heavy funding.
  02:13:25Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• The UFC card at the White House drew ~4,000 seated plus ~85,000 free fans on the ellipse, and every one of the seven fights ended by knockout.
  00:21:26Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Early ayahuasca researchers wanted to name harmine 'telepathine' for its telepathic effects but couldn't because it was already named.
  00:43:14Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• The Amanita Muscaria mushroom looks like an apple, links to Santa Claus and Christmas-tree traditions, and reindeer drink shamans' urine to get a second dose.
  01:04:30Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Methylene blue is an MAO inhibitor used in every ER since the 1890s and is the only cure for cyanide poisoning.
  01:22:06Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Methylene blue has a neuronal affinity, dyeing neurons blue so they absorb red/near-infrared light, boosting red light therapy effectiveness.
  01:26:14Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Anderson Cooper interned at the CIA for two summers at Yale, and Walter Cronkite was an alleged CIA asset under Operation Mockingbird.
  01:50:51Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Cold War MKUltra and military programs sprayed aerosolized chemicals (zinc cadmium sulfide) over cities including St. Louis, Minneapolis and Corpus Christi.
  01:53:40Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Chase teaches CIA 'elicitation' tactics: provocative statements, triggering a need to correct the record, and feigned disbelief extract more than questions.
  02:20:42Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Counterintelligence training's first rule: if you're a four and a ten is interested in you, she's a spy.
  02:25:56Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Chase notes people buy items labeled 'handmade' over 'machine made' because we are drawn to the humanness and flaws of things.
  02:08:43Chase Hughes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Opens by admitting he may not survive his upcoming heart surgery this month, making this potentially his last interview.
  00:00:00Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Reveals a failed heart valve is causing blood to regurgitate; he can't climb three stairs without exhaustion.
  00:11:26Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Says a hostile journalist has been trying to publish a story smearing him for over two years, prompting him to speak now.
  00:12:28Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Cites the Oronteus Finaeus map (drawn 1531) showing Antarctica, which mainstream science says wasn't discovered until 1820.
  00:17:38Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Claims the Great Pyramid encodes Earth's polar radius and equatorial circumference at a scale of 1:43,200.
  00:41:40Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Discloses his mother lost three children besides him, and his surgeon father had him watch dissections of executed prisoners at age five.
  01:13:53Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Describes being repeatedly caned on the bare buttocks by a sadistic boarding-school headmaster.
  01:18:08Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Says he would require every world leader to take at least a dozen ayahuasca sessions before applying for the job.
  01:44:36Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• The Younger Dryas comet broke into thousands of fragments around 12,800 years ago, hitting sites from North America to Belgium to Syria.
  00:08:17Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Anatomically modern human remains date back 315,000 years (Jebel Irhoud, Morocco), yet city-based civilization only appears ~6,000 years ago.
  00:15:03Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is ~11,600 years old, built by hunter-gatherers using T-shaped megaliths weighing up to 20 tons.
  00:20:15Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• The Great Pyramid is aligned to true north within 3/60ths of a single degree (3 arc-minutes).
  00:39:34Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• The precession of the equinoxes completes its cycle in about 25,920 years, the source of the number 43,200 (and 72).
  00:44:16Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• LiDAR surveys suggest the Amazon once held millions of people in city-sized communities linked by 100km+ roadways and man-made 'terra preta' soil.
  01:07:39Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Ayahuasca works because the vine contains an MAO inhibitor that lets orally-ingested DMT be absorbed instead of destroyed in the gut.
  01:10:17Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Imperial College researchers use IV DMT infusion (anesthesia-style) to keep subjects in a sustained peak state, exploiting DMT's lack of tolerance buildup.
  01:10:47Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Hancock and his wife Samantha blended six children from three previous marriages into one close family.
  01:34:14Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• His career began accidentally as a 1980s current-affairs journalist before The Sign and the Seal led him to lost-civilization research.
  01:53:24Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Radin was recruited into the classified Stargate program after presenting psychic research under the Bell Labs name at a conference.
  00:21:44Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Describes Stargate as a 'top secret SCI special access program' where even the code word itself was classified.
  00:22:46Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Claims a map dowser named Fran located a crashed nuclear bomber in Africa to within a couple kilometers, an incident later alluded to by President Carter.
  00:59:44Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• His 'Sci Genes' study found a gene-suppressing mutation more common in populations longer exposed to Christianity, which he ties to the Inquisition killing off psychic 'witches.'
  01:13:15Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Says he bent the bowl of a metal spoon without force at a spoon-bending party and still cannot explain or repeat it.
  01:19:25Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Reveals his company Cognigenics has an intranasal RNA-interference therapy that doubled memory and cut anxiety ~100% in mice and works in monkeys.
  01:42:43Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Says he and the guru Sadhguru agree that giving people real telepathy would be dangerous because it is two-way and could let you inject thoughts and control others.
  01:55:48Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Tells a four-part synchronicity story of stumbling on another secret psychic lab next door whose owner had been doing yoga nidra to 'manifest' Radin's arrival.
  02:32:51Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Radin has Gilbert's syndrome, a liver-enzyme mutation that leaves him with high antioxidant bilirubin, a zero cardiac calcium score at 74, and slow exercise recovery.
  00:01:34Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Says after 150 years of controlled study there is 'very very strong evidence that telepathy does exist.'
  00:16:00Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Researchers could find no consistent psychological, physiological or medical trait separating star remote viewers from average people, only 'talent and openness.'
  00:24:18Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• In his 'presentiment' experiments, skin conductance shifts about 1.5 seconds before a random emotional image is even selected by the computer.
  00:40:23Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Casino data he analyzed showed jackpots and payouts spiked within a day of the full moon, matching old magical lore.
  00:55:25Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• His side-gene study recruited 3,000 self-reported psychics but could only afford to sequence 13 fully vetted participants.
  01:12:13Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• A follow-up analysis found 212 SNPs correlated with psychic experiences, one at a million-to-one probability.
  01:30:45Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Cites a published case of an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient who regained speech and continence after a 5g psilocybin dose.
  01:49:03Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Invokes 'convergent evolution' (penguin-like auks evolving separately) to argue humanoid aliens may be Earth-born 'ultraterrestrials.'
  02:19:59Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Discusses elongated Peruvian skulls lacking a sagittal suture with ~30% larger brain capacity as possibly a different kind of human.
  02:21:31Dean Radin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Lennox says he has interrogated his own faith for over 70 years and found that Christ uniquely offers him peace and forgiveness.
  00:00:32John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Argues the transhumanist vision (via Harari) is really humanity's ancient drive toward self-deification - making themselves gods.
  00:05:43John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Compares AI to a knife: brilliant for surgery or murder, spotting terrorists or suppressing minorities through social credit systems.
  00:11:32John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Insists machines have no consciousness or qualia - they simulate intelligence but cannot understand 'the redness of red'.
  00:16:48John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Tells transhumanists they are 'too late' - death was already solved when God raised Christ 20 centuries ago.
  00:28:14John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Rejects determinism over who is born into which faith, saying he wrote a whole book on the question.
  00:50:47John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Claims the only people Jesus warned about hell were religious bigots, and defines hell as the chosen absence of God.
  01:05:22John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Reveals he was recently deepfaked by an AI website ('Linux logic') that put words in his mouth he never said.
  01:13:43John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Lennox has published over 70 peer-reviewed mathematical papers and co-authored two Oxford Mathematical Monographs.
  00:02:37John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• His book 2084 was first published in 2020 and reissued in 2024 as a second edition twice the size.
  00:09:23John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Cites a livestream of a humanoid robot working a production line for eight days straight, beating humans because it never sleeps.
  00:13:03John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• References Iain McGilchrist's view that the West has overdeveloped the narrow, reductionist left brain for 500 years.
  00:19:53John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Lennox has been married to his wife Sally for 58 years and calls it 'evidence-based trust'.
  00:32:25John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• He is 82 years old and frames his certainty about faith as based on Christ's work, not his own merit.
  00:30:20John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Cites a statistic that globally 91% of adults keep the religion they were raised in, and 99% of those born Hindu or Muslim stay.
  00:43:26John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Says he nearly died 14 years ago and felt total peace going into the operating theatre after saying goodbye to his wife.
  00:54:52John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Notes C.S. Lewis found the golden rule across roughly 40 religions and philosophies he surveyed in the 1940s.
  01:00:37John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• Recounts winning a debate point against Peter Singer by getting him to admit his atheism is itself a belief system.
  00:45:01John Lennox · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
• The American Heart Association added depression as the fourth major risk factor for coronary artery disease.
  00:01:08Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Williams argues the serotonin 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression is wrong, since TMS works without adding any serotonin.
  00:05:50Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Patients who remit early in a TMS week spontaneously report mindfulness-like 'present moment' experiences they'd only read about.
  00:06:21Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• About two-thirds of PTSD patients had a clinically significant improvement after MDMA-assisted therapy, lasting years for some.
  00:16:47Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Williams is running what he calls the first full human neurobiological study of ibogaine, in special-operations veterans.
  00:23:33Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Veterans report forgiving themselves for 'moral injury' after ibogaine, describing detached empathy and a 'life review'.
  00:24:34Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• A Brazilian study found ayahuasca-treated prisoners had a statistically significantly lower recidivism rate than controls.
  00:30:48Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• SNT delivers 7.5 months' worth of TMS dosing in 5 days, achieving 60-90% remission with some patients well for up to four years.
  00:33:55Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• TMS uses Faraday's law: a magnetic pulse induces an electrical current only in brain tissue, passing harmlessly through skull, scalp, and hair.
  00:03:14Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Stimulating the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex traces a pathway to the vagus nerve and heart, letting researchers decelerate heart rate via the brain.
  00:03:46Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• SSRIs clearly work for a subset of people but not immediately, suggesting their benefit comes from brain plasticity rather than serotonin levels.
  00:08:28Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• A single ketamine infusion's antidepressant effect lasts only about a week and a half on average, requiring repeat dosing.
  00:17:48Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Carhart-Harris and Nutt found psychedelics decrease overall brain activity while increasing global connectivity, the opposite of what they expected.
  00:18:52Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Both SNT/TMS and psilocybin reduce connectivity between the subgenual anterior cingulate and the default mode network, a convergent mechanism.
  00:20:23Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Ibogaine is an alkaloid extracted from the iboga tree root bark, native to Gabon, Africa.
  00:21:28Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Ibogaine is the longest-acting psychedelic Williams knows of, lasting 24-36 hours and called '10 years of psychotherapy in a night'.
  00:22:00Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Ayahuasca combines two of roughly 10,000-20,000 Amazonian plant species; a reversible MAO inhibitor lets oral DMT cross the blood-brain barrier.
  00:28:41Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• SNT applies spaced-learning theory, stimulating the brain every hour for 10 hours over 5 days (a 50-hour block, 90 minutes of actual stimulation).
  00:32:53Dr. Nolan Williams · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Helium was discovered on the Sun in 1868, decades before it was ever found on Earth.
  00:18:35Michelle Thaller · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026

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