Show · Hosted by Danny Jones

Danny Jones Podcast

Long-form conversations at the edge of archaeology, physics, psychedelics, and the UFO disclosure world — a show where the guests make claims you are not supposed to be able to fact-check over lunch. We cover the biggest episodes and do exactly that: what the guest claims, where it comes from, and which parts hold up.

The best Danny Jones Podcast episodes

  1. Charles Buhler: the Star Trek impulse engine that needs no propellant

    The electrostatics researcher's claim is wildly specific, wildly consequential, and still miles from the public proof that would make physicists care — which is precisely why this episode is worth your time.

  2. Carl Hayden Smith: 78 percent of IV DMT users see entities, and some meet their children

    The claim is wild, oddly domestic, and a useful reminder that psychedelic research keeps producing data that sounds like a Pixar sequel written by a neurologist.

  3. Andrew Aurigema: a $1.50 foam warp-drive thruster to Mars in three and a half days

    Part garage project, part Star Trek fever dream — the gap between two pieces of paper of thrust and a Martian landing is the whole story, and Aurigema walks every inch of it.

  4. Dan Richards: Egyptologists used Bayesian modeling to delete inconvenient carbon dates

    A self-described electrician-turned-researcher makes a specific, technical accusation against mainstream Egyptology, and the accusation is harder to wave off than the pyramid-scan hype around it.

  5. T.D. Barnes: the Tic Tac UFOs were probably radar spoofing tests

    A former Area 51 operator argues the famous Navy UAP videos look less like visitors than a very familiar Pentagon habit — testing against pilots and letting the footage do the marketing.

  6. Matt Ehret: Majestic 12 is fake, and the typewriter proves it

    The UFO disclosure debate gets a paperwork problem — typewriter forensics and Truman signatures — before turning into a full CIA myth-management theory. The document analysis is the part worth stealing.

  7. Henrik Svensmark: a 1-2 percent shift in low ocean clouds can rival all greenhouse gases

    The Danish physicist's cosmic-ray climate theory remains a fight, but his cloud math is the part you cannot just swat away — the rare climate-heresy episode with actual numbers in it.

  8. Gary Wayne: Satan would never have allowed the crucifixion if he understood the resurrection

    Wayne turns Satan from an all-knowing horror mastermind into the most powerful being in creation who still missed the trapdoor — biblical revisionism with an internal logic that makes the episode fun to argue with.

  9. Nathan Apffel: pastor Ed Young Jr. may be claiming $3.6 million a year in tax-free housing allowance

    The church-accountability podcaster spent a night in a Texas jail just for showing up with a sign asking one question about a pastor's finances. The paperwork trail he has assembled since is the real story.

  10. Roman Yampolskiy: AI labs may have artificial scientists improving AI within two years

    The AI safety researcher's warning is specific, grim, and a little too confident about a clock nobody can actually read — which is what makes him the show's most useful AI guest.

108 episodes tracked · 17 guests covered · 24 pieces published, latest 2026-08-23

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Roman Yampolskiy says AI labs may have artificial scientists improving AI in one or two years
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Roman Yampolskiy says AI labs may have artificial scientists improving AI in one or two years

The AI safety researcher’s warning on the Danny Jones Podcast is specific, grim, and a little too confident about a clock nobody can actually read.

Aug 23, 2026
Heather Lynn says archaeology was primarily used as a cover for spying operations
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Heather Lynn says archaeology was primarily used as a cover for spying operations

On Danny Jones Podcast, Lynn ties cabinets of curiosities, King Tut money, and Middle East mapmaking to archaeology's oldest dirty secret.

Aug 20, 2026
Nadia Drake says Susan Gough's psyops résumé is normal comms work, not proof of a UFO cover-up
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Nadia Drake says Susan Gough's psyops résumé is normal comms work, not proof of a UFO cover-up

The Danny Jones Podcast tried to turn a DoD spokeswoman's LinkedIn into a smoking gun, and Drake refused to salute.

Aug 19, 2026
Andrew Aurigema says a $1.50 foam warp-drive thruster could get a 45-ton ship to Mars in 3 and a half days
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Andrew Aurigema says a $1.50 foam warp-drive thruster could get a 45-ton ship to Mars in 3 and a half days

The pitch is part garage project, part Star Trek fever dream, and the gap between two pieces of paper of thrust and a Martian landing is the whole story.

Aug 17, 2026
Henrik Svensmark says a 1 or 2 percent shift in low ocean clouds can rival all greenhouse gases
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Henrik Svensmark says a 1 or 2 percent shift in low ocean clouds can rival all greenhouse gases

The Danish physicist’s cosmic-ray climate theory is still a fight, but his cloud math is the part you can’t just swat away.

Aug 16, 2026
Matt Ehret says the CIA shaped the National Enquirer to seed a one-world alien religion
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Matt Ehret says the CIA shaped the National Enquirer to seed a one-world alien religion

The claim is wonderfully lurid, and also a perfect example of how a real Cold War fact can become a cosmic corkboard theory in about 90 seconds.

Aug 15, 2026
Charles Buhler says he has built a Star Trek impulse engine that needs no propellant
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Charles Buhler says he has built a Star Trek impulse engine that needs no propellant

The electrostatics researcher’s claim is wildly specific, wildly consequential, and still miles from the kind of public proof that would make physics Twitter stop throwing chairs.

Aug 15, 2026
T.D. Barnes says the Tic Tac UFO sightings were probably radar spoofing tests, not alien craft
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T.D. Barnes says the Tic Tac UFO sightings were probably radar spoofing tests, not alien craft

The former Area 51 operator argues the famous Navy UAPs look less like visitors from another world than a very familiar Pentagon habit: testing pilots without telling them.

Aug 5, 2026
Dan Farah says a former intelligence official found childhood Air Force enlistment papers after a UFO encounter
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Dan Farah says a former intelligence official found childhood Air Force enlistment papers after a UFO encounter

Farah’s wildest claim on Danny Jones is not just about UFOs or remote viewing, it’s about an alleged paper trail hiding inside a family archive.

Aug 3, 2026
Kurt Metzger says the Hat Man people see on Benadryl is Papa Legba
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Kurt Metzger says the Hat Man people see on Benadryl is Papa Legba

The comedian turns a grim diphenhydramine folklore meme into an occult radio theory, which is funny, vivid, and not remotely good medical advice.

Aug 2, 2026
Matt Ehret says Majestic 12 is fake because its typewriter and Truman signatures give it away
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Matt Ehret says Majestic 12 is fake because its typewriter and Truman signatures give it away

The UFO disclosure debate gets a paperwork problem, then turns into a full CIA myth-management theory.

Jul 30, 2026
Carl Hayden Smith says 78% of IV DMT users see entities, and some meet the entities' children
Danny Jones Podcast·Health

Carl Hayden Smith says 78% of IV DMT users see entities, and some meet the entities' children

The claim is wild, oddly domestic, and a useful reminder that psychedelic research keeps producing data that sounds like a Pixar sequel written in a hospital ward.

Jul 29, 2026
Sean Stone says a black program craft may have used lasers to spread the Palisades fire
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Sean Stone says a black program craft may have used lasers to spread the Palisades fire

The filmmaker and conspiracy media regular turns the LA fires into a secret aircraft theory, and the leap from eyewitness weirdness to smart city arson is doing Evel Knievel work.

Jul 28, 2026
Greg Carlwood says Neo’s Matrix passport expires on 9/11 because it was advanced sigil magic
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Greg Carlwood says Neo’s Matrix passport expires on 9/11 because it was advanced sigil magic

The conspiracy podcaster rejects the usual karmic warning theory and offers something stranger: mass-media magic hiding in a single movie-prop frame.

Jul 27, 2026
Gary Wayne says Satan would never have let Jesus be crucified if he understood the resurrection
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Gary Wayne says Satan would never have let Jesus be crucified if he understood the resurrection

Wayne's argument turns Satan from an all-knowing horror-movie mastermind into the most powerful being in creation who still missed the trapdoor under Calvary.

Jul 23, 2026
TD Barnes says Annie Jacobsen's Roswell source made up the Nazi children story for 'something juicy'
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TD Barnes says Annie Jacobsen's Roswell source made up the Nazi children story for 'something juicy'

The former Area 51 worker doesn't just dismiss Bob Lazar, he says one of the most lurid modern Roswell claims came from a source who was never at Area 51.

Jul 21, 2026
Carl Hayden Smith says DMT entities told him he was not scheduled to die in an fMRI scanner
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Carl Hayden Smith says DMT entities told him he was not scheduled to die in an fMRI scanner

The psychedelic researcher’s wildest claim is not that DMT produces entities, but that those entities appeared to treat his lab scan like a cosmic false alarm.

Jul 14, 2026
Dan Richards says Egypt’s Labyrinth giant metal object is called Dippy and is not from Filippo Biondi’s pyramid scans
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Dan Richards says Egypt’s Labyrinth giant metal object is called Dippy and is not from Filippo Biondi’s pyramid scans

The Danny Jones Podcast detours into the internet’s favorite archaeological fever dream, a supposed metallic Tic Tac under Hawara, and Richards is more useful as a skeptical sorter than a true believer.

Jul 9, 2026
Matt Ehret says God letting Satan cause evil for a greater good is coping
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Matt Ehret says God letting Satan cause evil for a greater good is coping

On Danny Jones Podcast, Ehret pushed back on a Carmelite theory of Satan by arguing that divine permission for rape, murder, and genocide sounds less like theology than a bedtime story for the powerless.

Jul 8, 2026
Sean Stone says the real JFK files problem isn't what was hidden but what Richard Helms shredded when Nixon fired him
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Sean Stone says the real JFK files problem isn't what was hidden but what Richard Helms shredded when Nixon fired him

Oliver Stone's son thinks the JFK document dump is a distraction from a bonfire that already happened in the 1970s.

Jul 5, 2026
Scott Horton says the Iraq War was planned in 1992 by the same neocons who wrote a plan for Netanyahu in 1996
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Scott Horton says the Iraq War was planned in 1992 by the same neocons who wrote a plan for Netanyahu in 1996

The antiwar author lays out the paper trail connecting Paul Wolfowitz's 1992 global dominance memo to a literal strategy document his colleagues wrote for the Israeli prime minister four years later.

Jul 3, 2026
Nathan Apffel says pastor Ed Young Jr. may be claiming $3.6 million a year in tax-free housing allowance
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Nathan Apffel says pastor Ed Young Jr. may be claiming $3.6 million a year in tax-free housing allowance

The church accountability podcaster spent a night in a Texas jail just for showing up with a sign asking a pastor one question about his finances.

Jun 29, 2026
Matt Ehret says 'Ku Klux' is Greek for 'circle,' making the KKK a straight rebrand of the Confederate secret society that killed Lincoln
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Matt Ehret says 'Ku Klux' is Greek for 'circle,' making the KKK a straight rebrand of the Confederate secret society that killed Lincoln

A Canadian historian walks into a podcast and explains that John Wilkes Booth was probably Manchurian-Candidated in Montreal, and that the KKK is just the Golden Circle with a new logo.

Jun 21, 2026
Dan Richards says Egyptologists used Bayesian modeling to delete carbon dates that contradicted the pyramids timeline
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Dan Richards says Egyptologists used Bayesian modeling to delete carbon dates that contradicted the pyramids timeline

A self-described electrician-turned-researcher makes a specific, technical accusation against mainstream Egyptology, and the accusation is harder to dismiss than it sounds.

Jun 18, 2026