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The Cosmic Tusk

George Howard

Welcome to The Cosmic Tusk, hosted by George Howard. This is a podcast where we uncover the mysteries of ancient cultures and delve deep into the wisdom of old.

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  • Tuesday · 1 hr 1 min

    Did Every Major Religion Begin With Mushrooms? (Hidden in the Bible)

    **AMENTARA** Ready to try Amanita muscaria for yourself? Get 22% off your first order with code HOWARD22. https://www.amentara.com/go/howard **COSMIC CALENDAR** Every real tour and expedition in this community, mapped in one place. Spin the globe, click a site, see who's leading it, when it runs, and what it costs. https://www.cosmicsummit.com/calendar **COSMIC SUMMIT 2027** Cosmic Summit is officially coming back in 2027, and we want you there. Pop your email in to join the list, be first for launch details, and get first access to tickets. https://cosmicsummit.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=description George Howard sits down with Christian Rasmussen, founder of the largest Amanita muscaria retailer in the world, for a wide-ranging conversation on the history, science, and controversy surrounding the red and white toadstool mushroom tied to Alice in Wonderland, the Smurfs, and the modern mushroom emoji. Rasmussen shares his own recovery story from benzodiazepine addiction, explains how Amanita works on GABA receptors rather than serotonin, and unpacks the research suppression, hit pieces, and a 2023 raid on his own business that followed as the plant gained popularity. The conversation moves through John Allegro's controversial Dead Sea Scrolls theory, Gordon Wasson's Soma research, Andrija Puharich's 1950s ESP experiments, and the unpublished manuscript of cannabis activist Jack Herer, who reportedly argued the mushroom was central to the origin of the Jesus story before his death. Howard and Rasmussen also trace the folklore connecting Amanita to Siberian shamanism, reindeer, and the origins of the modern Santa Claus myth. **CHAPTERS** 00:00 Introduction: Christian Rasmussen and Amanita muscaria 02:06 What Amanita is and how it differs from psilocybin 04:20 Why Amanita never became the mainstream psychedelic 05:53 Misinformation, toxicity myths, and flawed studies 09:10 Christian's personal recovery from benzodiazepine addiction 15:41 Micro-dosing protocol and effects 20:05 Customer results and community impact 23:23 The historical role of Amanita in human evolution 25:15 John Allegro, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Eucharist theory 28:29 What a high-dose "Christ buzz" experience feels like 33:41 Mycology, fungal networks, and ancient mushroom worship 39:46 The Essenes, Gordon Wasson, and Andrija Puharich's ESP research 44:35 Siberian shamans, reindeer, and the Santa Claus connection 46:33 The Chinese "little people" mushroom hallucinations 50:03 Legal landscape and the 2023 raid 54:09 Jack Herer's unpublished manuscript, The Most High 59:26 Suppression, motive, and closing thoughts **ABOUT** Cosmic Summit, part of the TTN Network, covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. **FOLLOW COSMIC SUMMIT** Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit X: https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsummit2025/ Website: https://thetitan.network/ #CosmicSummit #GeorgeHoward #ChristianRasmussen #AmanitaMuscaria #CosmicTusk #JohnAllegro #DeadSeaScrolls #PsychedelicHistory

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  • September 22 · 1 hr 33 min

    Proof of Life on Mars? Everything NASA Has Photographed

    COSMIC CALENDAR Every real tour and expedition in this community, mapped in one place. Spin the globe, click a site, see who's leading it, when it runs, and what it costs. https://www.cosmicsummit.com/calendar COSMIC SUMMIT 2027 Cosmic Summit is officially coming back, and this is exactly the kind of conversation you'll get more of in person. Pre-registration is open and takes a few seconds. https://cosmicsummit.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=description Brian Cory Dobbs joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk Podcast to walk through the evidence behind his new book, a companion to his documentary Blue Planet Red, built around the case that Mars once hosted life and suffered a catastrophic reversal. He details hexagonal trace fossils and stromatolite-like formations found in an area once covered by shallow water, structures that appear on vertical walls and therefore cannot be explained by NASA's wet-dry cycle theory. The conversation moves through Avi Loeb's meteor impact calculations, Robert Schoch's plasma discharge research, and a scar the size of the continental United States that Dobbs argues points to an instantaneous excavation event. The most striking claim comes from physicist John Brandenburg, whose analysis of Martian atmospheric data reveals isotopic signatures consistent with thermonuclear detonation rather than natural nuclear activity, complete with radioactive hotspots and surface glass indicating extreme heat. Dobbs also revisits several NASA-labeled "pyramidal mound" formations on Mars, arguing that four-sided, symmetrical structures spanning miles show geometric regularity that mirrors known pyramids on Earth, including comparisons to sites in China and Teotihuacan. CHAPTERS 00:11 — Cold open and Cosmic Summit talk 03:17 — Introducing Blue Planet Red, the book and the film 09:40 — Institutionalized narratives and why disclosure takes time 12:34 — The 12,800-year connection across ancient artifacts 14:54 — Getting credentialed researchers on record before it's too late 23:45 — Hexagonal trace fossils and stromatolite comparisons 27:46 — Mars was once a blue planet 28:37 — Avi Loeb's impact calculations and Schoch's plasma discharge theory 29:56 — Brandenburg's nuclear isotope findings 30:37 — Carl Sagan's geometric regularity standard 31:18 — Comparing Martian structures to the Great Pyramid 39:06 — The DiPietro-Molenaar pyramid and internal geometry 1:27:57 — Revisiting Brandenburg's isotopic evidence in depth 1:31:32 — Closing thoughts GUESTS Brian Cory Dobbs — Blue Planet Red — [https://blueplanetred.net/] --- [https://briandobbs.com/] ABOUT Cosmic Summit, part of the TTN Network, covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. FOLLOW COSMIC SUMMIT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit X: https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsummit2025/ Website: https://thetitan.network/ #CosmicSummit #CosmicTusk #GeorgeHoward #BrianCoryDobbs #BluePlanetRed #Mars #MarsLife #JohnBrandenburg #AncientAliens #Disclosure

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  • September 7 · 1 hr 36 min

    Are Archaeologists Hiding Ancient History, or Just Not Reading It?

    MYSTERIOUS X CONFERENCE Join us at Mysterious X in Kanab, Utah this September. Use code CS10 for 10% off your tickets. https://www.dandillman.com/event/mysterious-x-con-2026/ Fancy exploring further a-field? Join @FunnyOldeWorld @TheRandallCarlson @MegalithicMarvels & @MegalithomaniaUK on expeditions around the world. We've created an "Airbnb" like website where you can see all of the tours going on around the world. Spin the globe, click a site, see who's leading it, when it runs, and what it costs. https://www.cosmicsummit.com/calendar Cosmic Summit is coming back in 2027 and we want to hear your thoughts on it. Pre-reserve your seat and let us know who and what you want to see there: https://cosmicsummit.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=description Ricardo Calvario, co-founder of the Institute for Natural Philosophy and director of its Ancient History Research Center, joins George Howard for a wide-ranging conversation across evolutionary theory, pandemic origins, ancient copper trade, and catastrophism, three decades of research condensed into ninety minutes. Ricardo opens by explaining the Institute's founding principle: examining evidence without rejecting anything that might corroborate a hypothesis, seen or unseen, empirical or otherwise, a philosophy that grew out of his skepticism toward macroevolution and the Big Bang, both of which he argues rest on interpretive assumptions treated as settled fact. He draws on Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe's panspermia research, and George reveals his own parallel work publishing alongside Wickramasinghe on viral material arriving from space, before both pivot to a sharper claim: that SARS-CoV-2 originated not from space but from Chapel Hill, roughly 22 miles from George's home. Ricardo describes a National Geographic report that allegedly prompted Congress to ban public epigenetic gain-of-function research after exposing weapons research capable of spreading indiscriminately across populations, forcing the work into classified channels, and details a documented million-dollar transfer connecting Fauci-linked funding to Wuhan researchers. The conversation's most detailed thread covers ancient copper. Ricardo's research, developed alongside 90-year-old engineer Jean Scherz, who mapped over 1,000 ancient sites across Michigan's Upper Peninsula using Fibonacci-sequence positioning for long-distance communication networks, identifies a massive discrepancy: roughly 300,000 tons of copper appears in the Old World archaeological record, while known Old World mines could not have produced more than 10% of that total. Testing on Ötzi's copper axe, obtained with reluctance from a European university, returned 97.77% purity, a level Ricardo argues is chemically impossible to achieve from any sulfide or chalcolithic ore known in Europe, but consistent with native metallic copper of the kind found in enormous, minimally processed deposits across the American Upper Peninsula, evidence he connects to genuine pre-Columbian transatlantic contact and trade networks running through hubs in southern England, Iberia, and Cyprus. CHAPTERS 00:09 Introduction: Ricardo Calvario and the Institute for Natural Philosophy 02:53 Founding the Institute: natural philosophy and rejecting nothing 04:27 The knob architecture discovery that started it all 06:33 Building the Institute's team and its global reach 08:17 Indigenous oral history and academic double standards 09:51 Rupert Sheldrake, unproven science, and paleoanthropology 11:36 Human evolution, intervention, and the bonobo comparison 16:27 The Cambrian explosion and punctuated evolution 18:03 Hoyle, Wickramasinghe, and panspermia 19:29 SARS-CoV-2, Chapel Hill, and the lab leak connection 21:53 Congress, National Geographic, and the epigenetic research ban 23:48 The Fauci-Wuhan funding trail ~74:00 Jean Scherz and the Fibonacci-mapped Michigan network ~76:00 The 300,000 ton copper shortfall ~79:00 Ötzi's axe and the impossible purity test ~84:00 Native copper versus Old World smelting ~89:00 Paleo-environmental evidence and the deforestation timeline ~93:00 Transatlantic contact and the copper trade hubs 01:34:00 The Tagus floodplain and the Burckle Crater 01:35:00 Closing thoughts and future collaboration GUESTS Ricardo Calvario / Institute for Natural Philosophy — @InstituteofNaturalPhilosophy ABOUT Cosmic Summit, part of the TTN Network, covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. FOLLOW COSMIC SUMMIT [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #CosmicSummit #RicardoCalvario #GeorgeHoward #CosmicTusk #InstituteForNaturalPhilosophy #AncientCopper #BurckleCrater #Panspermia #LabLeak

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  • August 31 · 1 hr 3 min

    The Original Communion Was Psychedelic. Rome Replaced It

    You have the opportunity to join @FunnyOldeWorld @TheRandallCarlson @MegalithicMarvels & @MegalithomaniaUK on expeditions around the world. We've created an "Airbnb" like website where you can see all of the tours going on around the world. Spin the globe, click a site, see who's leading it, when it runs, and what it costs. https://www.cosmicsummit.com/calendar Cosmic Summit is coming back in 2027 and we want to hear your thoughts on it. Pre-reserve your seat and let us know who and what you want to see there: https://cosmicsummit.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=description William Henry, investigative mythologist and longtime Ancient Aliens presence, joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk to discuss his new book Psychedelic Christ, arguing original Christianity centred not on belief but on a direct, transformative experience catalysed by a now-lost sacrament. Henry's research trail began not with psychedelics but with the Ark of the Covenant. Reading Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, he discovered Jewish legend describes the Ark as containing far more than the tablets of the law: a flask of manna, the hallucinogenic star food that fed the Israelites for 40 years, the rod of Aaron, and a jar of anointing oil. Jewish tradition holds that reassembling these components was a precondition for identifying the Messiah, which reframed the gospel account of Jesus multiplying loaves at Capernaum, an event that provoked alarm from the temple elders precisely because it signalled he had recovered the manna. Henry traces this further into early Eastern Christian iconography of the Messiah's Throne, the original symbol of Christianity before the cross, whose components, a platform, a cross as an instrument of transmutation, a robe of light, a flask of manna, and a jar of anointing oil, mirror the fully assembled Ark almost exactly, an image essentially unknown in Western Christianity today. He points to Revelation 10, where John the Revelator eats a book that turns bitter in his stomach after tasting like honey, a detail some researchers read as describing psilocybin mushroom consumption, immediately followed by a vision of the Ark in a heavenly throne. Henry connects Mary Magdalene to a lineage of women called the Miraflores, plant medicine experts later demonised as witches, and argues the psychedelic sacrament long predates Jesus by roughly 3,000 years, making its absence from his teaching implausible rather than the reverse. He and George discuss practical modern revival, cannabis resin evidence on ancient altars suggesting original incense use, and joke about proposing a Psychedelic Sunday service, before turning to the clinical psychedelic renaissance treating trauma and depression, which Henry sees as the first step toward a broader spiritual return. The conversation closes on William's framework connecting the neocortex, ascension, and non-human intelligence, his 35th trip to Egypt already scheduled, a new Turkey pilgrimage running September 1st through 12th tracing the footsteps of the Magi, and George confirming he will join Henry's spring 2027 Egypt tour. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction: William Henry and Psychedelic Christ 00:58 Why the title is deliberately direct and polarising 01:55 George on reading The Immortality Key and his own Eucharist reframing 05:17 The Ark of the Covenant: what Ginzberg's research actually revealed 08:40 Reuniting the Ark and the coming of the Messiah 11:36 Mary as the new Ark and the Messiah's Throne symbolism 14:32 Revelation 10: John, the bitter book, and the heavenly Ark 15:51 How Rome suppressed the original teaching after the crucifixion 20:15 Psychedelics in Egypt and why Jesus would not be an exception 21:36 Mary Magdalene, the Miraflores, and the witch reframe ~30:00 Cannabis resin on altars and reviving the sacrament today 31:21 Psychedelic Sunday: a friendly challenge to the church establishment 32:00 The clinical psychedelic renaissance and where it leads spiritually 55:10 Aliens, the neocortex, and non-human intelligence 56:18 Two decades on Ancient Aliens and the cultural shift toward disclosure 59:29 Upcoming pilgrimages: Turkey in September, Egypt in October and 2027 1:01:08 Karnak during Covid and closing thoughts **GUESTS** William Henry — [https://www.iamwilliamhenry.com/] Ancient Egypt Tour - October 2026 If you've felt the pull of Egypt your entire life, this journey was made for you… https://www.iamwilliamhenry.com/tours/egypt-october **ABOUT** Cosmic Summit, part of the TTN Network, covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. **FOLLOW COSMIC SUMMIT** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #CosmicSummit #WilliamHenry #PsychedelicChrist #ArkOfTheCovenant #GeorgeHoward #CosmicTusk #MaryMagdalene #AncientAliens

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  • August 17 · 1 hr 30 min

    The Lost Egyptian Library Matt La Croix Believes Is Still Down There

    Matt La Croix, independent researcher and author of The Missing Key, joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk to introduce the Lost Civilisations Database, launched the day before this recording, and to walk through two decades of fieldwork tracing a repeating symbolic code across ancient sites worldwide. Matt's core thesis is that a genuinely advanced civilisation, predating the conventional 6,500 to 7,000 year Mesopotamian origin point for civilisation, encoded its complete knowledge system into architecture and symbols specifically so it would survive its own destruction. He traces the origin to the Van region of eastern Turkey, connecting it to the Sumerian Ziusudra flood tradition, and describes finding the same repeated symbols, most notably a distinctive T-shaped form, embedded in temple layouts at Gobekli Tepe, the Sphinx and Valley Temples in Egypt, sites in Menorca, Cambodia, Peru, and Bolivia. The LCD applies strict scientific criteria before any site qualifies for inclusion, developed with geologists and archaeologists: monumental precision, advanced hard stone use, distinct construction phases, unresolved chronology or engineering questions, and repeated architectural or symbolic patterns. George pushes back directly on one point: if this civilisation pursued harmony, why does so much of what followed feel defined by war and empire. Matt's answer is specific: no site associated with what he calls this lost knowledge system depicts warfare, with a single documented exception, Plato's account of Atlantis becoming corrupted and fighting the proto-Athenians near the very end of its existence. His broader framework holds that beginning around the Age of Pisces, roughly 2,000 years ago on his estimate, successive civilisations became inverted shadow versions of an original balanced template, a pattern he sees echoed later in secret societies including the Knights Templar, who he believes were protecting fragments of the same suppressed knowledge, work he connects to events surrounding Leonardo da Vinci's era. The conversation closes on a shared vision: Matt is building new educational offerings, including a class called Transformation into the Higher Self, alongside collaborations with Randall Carlson on sacred geometry, framing the entire project as a revival of mystery school education for the modern era. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction: Matt La Croix and the Missing Key 01:35 Origin story: an Indian head penny at age seven 04:16 Early travels and the shift from history enthusiast to researcher 07:12 Defining mystery schools: Plato to Lao Tzu 11:34 The multifaceted approach: establishing the lost time period first 14:00 The LCD's scientific criteria for site inclusion 16:40 Introducing the Van region and the two-year-old excavation 26:34 The T-shaped symbol across Gobekli Tepe, Egypt, and Menorca 27:26 George's critical question: why does harmony precede empire and war 28:32 The single exception: Atlantis and the corruption at the end 30:21 Early successor civilisations trying to imitate the original template 31:09 The Knights Templar and the Age of Pisces corruption thesis 01:24:49 Evil, darkness, and humanity as creators rather than consumers 01:27:31 Cosmograms, upcoming collaborations, and the LCD launch 01:29:15 Closing thoughts: a civilisation with amnesia **GUESTS** Matt La Croix — [https://thestageoftime.com/] **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #MattLaCroix #LostCivilizationsDatabase #GeorgeHoward #CosmicTusk #GobekliTepe #Atlantis #MysterySchools #AncientKnowledge

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  • August 10 · 1 hr 12 min

    Six Researchers, One Grant, and the Carolina Flu

    George Howard and author Jim Haslam sit down for their second in-depth conversation, following their joint attendance at the July 29th Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing where Dr. Anthony Fauci testified under subpoena. Both wore Carolina blue in a nod to George's alma mater, and their appearance drew national television coverage. This is their account of what they know, what they have documented, and what they are actively bringing to the attention of investigators. Jim Haslam is the author of Covid-19 Mystery Solved and writes the Substack Reverse Engineering the Origins of SARS-CoV-2, which he has published since 2022. He describes himself as a second generation lab leak researcher, pulled in after a 2021 leak by Major Joseph Murphy of a document called Defuse, in which Jim says University of North Carolina professor Ralph Baric proposed constructing a SARS-like genome roughly 25% different from SARS-1 for testing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Jim's account names a small circle he believes were involved, centred on Ralph Baric in Chapel Hill and Vincent Munster at Rocky Mountain Lab, with researchers Danielle Anderson and Linfa Wang connected through Duke-NUS in Singapore. Jim's central claim is that this was not a deliberate weapon but an accident arising from a self-spreading bat vaccine research program, and that January 10th, 2020, the date the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published, is the bright line after which he believes documented obfuscation began, evidenced by University of North Carolina emails obtained through public records requests showing Baric, Wang, and Peter Daszak discussing how to publicly frame lab leak concerns as a conspiracy theory. George brings his own perspective as a UNC graduate with institutional ties, describing the personal weight of investigating an alma mater he loves, and notes that reception among fellow alumni has been more supportive than he expected. He and Jim both express frustration that this story, despite its significance now being aired in a Senate committee, has received minimal coverage from local outlets like the Raleigh News & Observer. George and Jim emphasise this is an active, ongoing investigation being taken seriously by relevant authorities, and this conversation represents Jim's documented research and analysis rather than a final legal conclusion. CHAPTERS 00:10 Introduction: the Fauci hearing and Jim Haslam's background 02:32 George's connection to the University of North Carolina 03:26 Jim's Substack and how his lab leak theory differs from others 05:08 The Defuse leak and what drew Jim into the investigation 08:00 The six names Jim believes were central to the research 09:29 Introducing Danielle Anderson and her role at the Wuhan BSL-4 13:22 The Defuse grant and the plan to test on wild-caught bats 23:23 Egyptian fruit bats as proxies and the shipment between labs 26:03 Why pigs were not used and the reasoning behind bat vaccination 28:41 January 10th, 2020: the bright line and what happened after 1:05:28 University of North Carolina's document releases and what remains withheld 1:06:50 Personal reflections: friends, family, and institutional reception 1:11:48 Closing thoughts GUESTS Jim Haslam — @ReverseEngineeringCovidOrigins https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Mystery-Solved-leaked-Chinese/dp/B0DLVDB9CL ABOUT TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. FOLLOW TTN NEWS [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #GeorgeHoward #JimHaslam #CosmicTusk #Covid19Origins #LabLeak #RalphBaric #SenateHearing

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  • August 3 · 1 hr 35 min

    The Younger Dryas Impact Evidence Has Reached Africa

    Dr. Francis Thackeray of South Africa joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk with new evidence extending the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis to a continent that has never contributed direct data before. George opens by addressing the pseudo smear directly, then walks through Thackeray's distinguished background: Cape Town, Yale, and decades directing South African research institutions. At Wonderkrater, a peat deposit in Limpopo Province, Thackeray and paleobotanist Louis Scott found a platinum spike recalibrated to 12,809 years, matching the signature from eleven North American sites and joining a growing global list. Iridium and osmium accompanied it, alongside megafauna extinctions and stone tool changes at the same boundary. The headline finding is the Thackeray syllogism, developed in response to a study connecting a Greenland sulfate spike to the Younger Dryas onset roughly 45 years before the platinum signature. Thackeray questions that dating precision and proposes instead that the impact triggered the volcanism directly, possibly within a day, pointing to the Hiawatha Glacier crater's suspiciously fresh rim as supporting evidence. The conversation also covers the late oceanographer Wallace Broecker, once a fierce critic who reversed his position after seeing the platinum data, and the peer review battle behind getting this research published. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction and the pseudo smear 01:04 Age six: micrometeorites and the start of a career 04:57 Career background 08:12 Introducing Wonderkrater 11:29 The 2019 platinum prediction 34:48 Comparing to North American sites 43:53 The spike confirmed at 12,809 years 53:04 Megafauna extinctions 1:03:00 The sulfate spike discrepancy 1:07:31 The Thackeray syllogism 1:12:02 Wallace Broecker's reversal 1:35:32 Closing thoughts **GUESTS** Dr. Francis Thackeray — [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francis-Thackeray] Read the full paper from Dr Francis Thackeray and the CRG team here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/408503477_Extraterrestrial_Nanoparticle_Signatures_at_the_Younger_Dryas_Boundary_12800_years_ago_from_Wonderkrater_South_Africa **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #FrancisThackeray #Wonderkrater #YoungerDryas #GeorgeHoward #CosmicTusk #PlatinumSpike #Catastrophism

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  • August 2 · 1 hr 57 min

    COVID COVERUP? A Marine Found It Buried in a Classified Folder.

    Jim Haslam is the author of Covid-19 Mystery Solved, and his thesis is exactly what the title says: he believes the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is documented, traceable, and confirmed by the genomic evidence and by a 2018 proposal that Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina wrote to DARPA in which he described creating the genome. George Howard sits down with Haslam for a full conversation covering the chain of researchers, institutions, and locations that connect Chapel Hill, North Carolina to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the document trail that Haslam argues amounts to a confession. The DARPA Defuse document, a public grant proposal that ended up in a top secret folder and was leaked by Marine Joseph Murphy in 2021, describes Baric's plan to create a chimeric coronavirus genome approximately 25% different from SARS-1, insert a furin cleavage site, and provide it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing on Chinese horseshoe bats. SARS-CoV-2 arrived at 24.7% divergence with a furin cleavage site, which is the only one found in any SARS-like virus. When the US government asked Baric in January 2020 whether the genome looked engineered, he said no. He did not mention the furin cleavage site he had proposed to introduce. After the Defuse document leaked in 2021, he went stone cold quiet and never spoke to the press again. The aerosolisation trail leads to Rocky Mountain Lab in Hamilton, Montana, Tony Fauci's biodefense facility, where Vincent Munster ran experiments using serial passage in animals to make SARS-CoV-2 airborne. Of the 5,000 mammals on Earth, only five efficiently transmit SARS-CoV-2 through onward respiratory transmission, and all five were used in that lab. Haslam's closing read on Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan virologist known as the Bat Lady, who published RATG13, the closest known genomic match to SARS-CoV-2, is that she may have been acting as a whistleblower, publishing evidence that pointed back toward the American researchers and away from herself, and that future historians may see her as one of the bravest scientists of the era. Haslam frames all of this as his account, built from public documents, genomic analysis, and years of research. He has asked every virologist he can reach to prove him wrong. None have. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and George Howard's connection to the University of North Carolina 01:03 Jim Haslam's core thesis: Ralph Baric created SARS-CoV-2 02:20 How the chain begins: SARS-1, bat immunology, and the DARPA bid 04:15 The DARPA Defuse document: what it says and how it was found 06:49 Joseph Murphy, the top secret folder, and the leak to The Intercept ~15:00 The furin cleavage site: what it is and why it matters ~30:00 Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, and the funding chain ~45:00 Daniel Anderson, Duke-NUS, and the Singapore connection ~60:00 Rocky Mountain Lab, Vincent Munster, and the aerosolisation evidence ~90:00 The five mammals, serial passage, and the self-spreading vaccine design ~110:00 Shi Zhengli, RATG13, and Jim Haslam's case for her as a whistleblower 01:55:14 Closing thoughts and an open invitation to Ralph Baric GUESTS Jim Haslam — @ReverseEngineeringCovidOrigins (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCSVNSNjKyWl10WuhQsHKzyA) TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. FOLLOW TTN NEWS [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #JimHaslam #Covid19 #LabLeak #RalphBaric #DARPADefuse #SARS2 #CosmicTusk #GeorgeHoward #CovidOrigins

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  • July 20 · 1 hr 31 min

    MH370 Didn't Crash. He Says It Was Teleported.

    Ashton Forbes had no followers on X in 2023. He saw three videos online, recognised they might show Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and felt compelled to investigate. What that investigation has produced is, he argues, the most important unsolved case in modern history: proof that the United States government possesses and is actively hiding zero point energy technology, documented on camera during what appears to be a military operation on March 12th 2014, four days after MH370 disappeared. The videos show a Boeing 777 in thermal imaging, which is not unusual. What is not normal is what surrounds it in the final moments: three plasma orbs, which Ashton identifies as fusion reactors, orbiting the aircraft, converging into a perfect equilateral triangle formation, and then a flash, after which the plane is no longer in frame. Two different camera angles. All five UAP observables. Recorded by two MQ-9 Reaper drones, one from below the wake of the plane, one from above using the Gorgon Stare wide-area motion imaging system. The footage was posted on Twitter with a warning to watch before it gets deleted. The source was described as protected. The videos were stated to have been received March 12th 2014. The true crime investigation runs parallel to the physics. Ashton identified Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin of the VPU-2 Wizards, the US Navy's most secret surveillance squadron, as the most probable source of the leak. Lin joined the Wizards in February 2014, one month before MH370 disappeared. He was picked up by investigators April 2nd 2014, less than four weeks after the plane vanished. He was sentenced to nine years, despite the government never publicly disclosing what he leaked. His defence attorneys argued the evidence in question was available on the internet. People convicted of selling actual secrets to China for cash have received two years. The disproportion is what tells the story. The science underneath the footage is zero point energy: the real-world manifestation of wormhole, quantum tunneling, and quantum entanglement physics already derivable from Einstein's equations, using plasma and electromagnetism to create a bridge through an extra dimension and translocate an object. Space is not empty. That is what makes it possible. That is also what makes it a doomsday weapon. The Mansfield Amendment of 1970 moved all gravity research from the military to defence contractors, making it invisible to congressional oversight. The Invention Secrecy Act classifies technologies at the source. The concept of free energy is, Ashton believes, classified. The extra dimension is classified. And the reason is not national security in any conventional sense but existential: a technology that produces unlimited free energy is also a weapon that ends civilisation, and the people who have it have decided the public cannot be trusted with the knowledge that it exists. George Howard's closing read is the right one: either Ashton Forbes is intuitively reconstructing the deepest classified secrets in human history from publicly available information, or he is dead wrong and entertaining as hell. At this point in the investigation, the former is the harder case to dismiss. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction: Ashton Forbes and how the MH370 investigation began 01:13 The three videos: what they show and why they matter 02:09 The timeline: plane disappears March 8th, videos posted May 19th 02:56 Watch before it gets deleted: the leak's circumstances 04:52 The UFO observables and who was doing the recording 07:16 Two reveals: the science and the true crime 07:33 Zero point energy: the physics behind what the videos show 09:25 The true crime investigation begins: who leaked the footage 11:00 Edward Lin: VPU-2 Wizards, the timeline, and the congressional liaison role 14:00 Forbes.com appears: the mysterious website scraping all of Ashton's work 23:14 The plea deal and what Lin is not allowed to say 25:08 FOIA requests: what can still be obtained and what it would prove ~45:00 The Iran operation: a show of force and why it happened ~60:00 Classified physics: the Invention Secrecy Act, the Mansfield Amendment, and felony physics ~90:00 The factions of disclosure and why Ashton flips the table on all of them 01:26:01 Free will, classified reality, and the closing argument **GUESTS** Ashton Forbes — @justashton (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCXjvaBBKKFjDw56fEZxZsiw) **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #AshtonForbes #MH370 #ZeroPointEnergy #EdwardLin #UAP #FreeEnergy #CosmicTusk #GeorgeHoward #ClassifiedPhysics #Disclosure #VPU2Wizards

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  • July 13 · 1 hr 9 min

    He Teaches About the Younger Dryas in Public School

    Ian Evans is a secondary social studies teacher in Grand Junction, Colorado with eleven years in the classroom, a bachelor's in history, minors in economics and philosophy, and a master's in culturally and linguistically diverse education. He has been teaching the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis to his students for years, and he contacted George Howard not to express frustration with the mainstream but to show him a curriculum he has already built and ask how to get it further into the world. George Howard's read on what makes this conversation different from most in this space is direct: most of the discourse around alternative history and mainstream textbooks is complaint without action. Ian represents the opposite, someone working inside the system as it exists, introducing catastrophism, ancient civilisation uncertainty, and the Younger Dryas evidence to middle and high school students through good educational practice, inquiry-based learning, and a responsible approach that does not charge in with what George calls the woo. His curriculum is available now at instructionwithimpact@gmail.com, and Ian has offered to work directly with any teacher who wants to adapt it for their own classroom. The conversation covers the pathway that brought Ian into this community, starting with The Pyramid Code documentary during a student teaching placement at Denver East High School, which led him through John Anthony West, Robert Schoch, Graham Hancock, Klaus Schmidt, Andrew Collins, Greg Little, and eventually Randall Carlson. It covers the subjects he wants to see presented in schools: catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, the uncertainty around ancient history, the megafauna extinction, and the genuinely modern timeline of it all, including the white sands footprints that show a woman, a child, and a ground sloth in the same trackway, which became the most popular piece of Cosmic Summit content ever produced. And it covers why he believes the secondary school audience is the critical lever: the groundswell building in the alternative history community will break through the institutional resistance most effectively when children, raised on inquiry and exposed to the evidence, start asking the questions the textbooks cannot answer. George has committed to hosting Ian's curriculum on the upcoming redesigned Cosmic Tusk website under the resources tab, alongside the existing Younger Dryas PowerPoints available for citizen educators and homeschool families. Ian's next phase is YouTube content to accompany the curriculum, including field trip guides to locations where the Younger Dryas black mat layer is visible across the United States. Subscribe and turn on notifications. New episodes come out every day. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction: Ian Evans and the vision for secondary education 03:00 Ian's background: Colorado, 11 years in the classroom, and the subjects he covers 05:20 The pathway in: The Pyramid Code, John Anthony West, Graham Hancock, and Randall Carlson ~20:00 The curriculum: what subjects, what approach, and why secondary school matters ~40:00 Practical steps: how to get this into classrooms without triggering institutional pushback ~55:00 The white sands footprints and why they were the most popular Cosmic Summit video ever ~60:00 The black mat layer, field trips, and making catastrophism tangible for young learners 01:06:37 Ian's email address and how to get the curriculum 01:07:33 George's plans for the Cosmic Tusk website and future collaboration **GUESTS** Ian Evans — instructionwithimpact@gmail.com **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/]

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  • July 6 · 1 hr 11 min

    He Studied the Carolina Bays for 10 Years. Then Reversed His Theory.

    Chris Cottrell of Dabbler’s Den has been one of the key researchers carrying the Carolina Bays investigation forward for a decade, and his conversation with George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk podcast covers the full arc of the research: where the community started, how the tools evolved, where the three main researchers diverge, and why Chris changed his publicly held position on the age of the bays after years of telling a different story on YouTube. The foundational tool that opened the investigation to citizen researchers is the lidar overlay built by Michael Davis, who spent close to twenty years converting USGS lidar data into a format navigable on Google Earth, fitting ellipses to nearly 80,000 individual Carolina Bays, cataloguing each one with its length, orientation, and mathematical properties. The result became an accidental industry tool: wetland mitigation companies and university ecology programmes started using Davis's lidar independently of the Carolina Bays research, having discovered it was simply the best coastal plain elevation visualisation available. Tim Harris, a former Lockheed Martin and Boeing aerospace engineer, then applied the same orbital mechanics equations used for ballistic missiles to the elliptical orientation data and traced the radial pattern of the bays back to a single point of origin in the Saginaw Bay region of Michigan. The chemical link to the Australasian tektite field, impact glass found across South Asia and Australia from an event 786,000 years ago whose source crater has never been identified, provides the most striking convergence. The chemical signature of the Australasian tektites matches the missing sandstone geology of the Michigan basin, and when Tim Harris ran the orbital math, the tektite field falls on the antipodal side of the planet from the proposed impact site. Chris Cottrell spent years publicly supporting a Younger Dryas origin for the bays alongside Antonio Zamora, and his shift came from the sea level record: if the bays were formed 12,800 years ago, they should appear along the entire coastline down to the lower elevations that were exposed at that time, but they are absent below roughly 30 feet, a threshold that corresponds precisely to the high water mark of the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago. That absence, he says, means the bays were already there and got washed away by sea level rise after they formed, placing their formation before 125,000 years ago, and in line with the 786,000-year Australasian tektite event. Subscribe and turn on notifications. New episodes come out every day. **CHAPTERS** 00:00 Introduction: George Howard and the Carolina Bays community 02:12 Chris Cottrell's origin story: the geology field trip and Ask Jeeves 05:27 Returning to the subject: the 2015 family hike and the YouTube channel 07:17 Three researchers, three hypotheses: Davis, Zamora, and Cottrell 07:52 Michael Davis's lidar tool and how it changed everything 14:57 The Nebraska rainwater basin and how the pattern extends westward 18:41 The Australasian tektites: 786,000 years and a missing impact site 22:02 Tim Harris, ballistic missile equations, and tracing the origin to Michigan 25:53 Why Chris changed his mind: the sea level argument 32:00 The Delmarva Peninsula anomaly and subsidence 35:00 Herndon Bay, Blythe Bay, and the field research ~60:00 The Arabian Bay dig: backhoes, sediment, and what they found ~90:00 Closing thoughts and what comes next **GUESTS** Chris Cottrell YT Channel - @DabblersDen (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCJ8v7TydVhPpXGGi0XqCBpg) Latest Book - https://us.amazon.com/Gone-But-Not-Forgotten-Catastrophe-ebook/dp/B0H35FGLRD **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsummit2025/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #CarolinaBays #GeorgeHoward #ChrisCottrell #CosmicTusk #DabblersDen #YoungerDryas #CatastrophismAustralasianTektites #ImpactHypothesis

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  • July 3 · 40 min

    Half a Million People Watched It for a Year and the Egyptian Military Investigated It

    PART TWO In 1984, Dr. Greg Little published the first work connecting plasma physics to the UFO phenomenon, and forty years later his position has only solidified. This second conversation with George Howard picks up where part one ended and moves into territory that covers plasma, UAPs, the Zeitoun apparitions, Edgar Cayce, and four decades of expeditions to the Bahamas. The plasma argument is grounded in physics rather than speculation. The Earth generates plasma through tectonic pressure and the piezoelectric effect, and Dr. Little's work with neuroscientist Michael Persinger at Laurentian University in the early 1990s established that swirling balls of electromagnetic energy focused on the temporal lobe could induce abduction experiences and UAP sightings in undergraduate students in a lab setting. The Zeitoun apparitions in Egypt in the early 1970s, where millions of people including Egyptian military investigators witnessed what appeared to be a luminous figure moving around a Coptic church for close to a year, are, in Dr. Little's framing, one of the best documented plasma events in the historical record, and he and his wife went to Egypt to interview witnesses and obtain the original newspaper coverage firsthand. The final thread is Edgar Cayce, the ARE, and Bimini Road. Cayce predicted in the 1930s that evidence of Atlantis would be found in the Bahamas around 1968 or 1969, and a stone formation now known as Bimini Road was discovered underwater in the Bahamas in 1968. Dr. Little has led expeditions there for four decades, and the conversation covers what the team has found, what the evidence points toward, the glowing orbs his wife saw during one crossing, the five simultaneous waterspouts, and the electrical failure that left them without air conditioning and refrigeration in the middle of the ocean, catching fresh fish because there was nothing else to eat. Subscribe and turn on notifications. New episodes come out every day. **CHAPTERS** 00:00 Plasma, Carl Jung, and the archetype experience ~10:00 Michael Persinger, electromagnetic fields, and induced UAP experiences ~20:00 The Zeitoun apparitions: half a million witnesses and a year of documented events ~35:00 Origins of the Gods and the piezoelectric theory of UAP generation ~50:00 Edgar Cayce, the ARE, and what Cayce predicted about the Bahamas ~01:05:00 Bimini Road: discovery, expeditions, and forty years of research ~01:25:00 The Bahamas crossings: orbs, waterspouts, and the electrical failure ~01:35:00 What the evidence points toward and what comes next **GUESTS** Dr. Greg Little — https://x.com/DrGregLittle2 **COMET RESEARCH GROUP** Donate to the Comet Research Group today and fund research that could change the history of civilization: https://cometresearchgroup.org/ **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsummit2025/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #DrGregLittle #Plasma #UAP #EdgarCayce #BiminiRoad #Bahamas #Zeitoun #SentientPlasma

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 38 min

    A Million Mounds Across America and Nobody Is Talking About Them

    PART ONE Dr. Greg Little has spent forty years mapping, researching, and documenting the mound builders of North America, and the number he keeps coming back to is one that most people are not prepared for: there were probably a million mounds spread across this continent, from the Aleutian Islands to Florida, from New York to California, and roughly 100,000 still exist today. George Howard sits down with him for the first of two conversations that cover the full scope of what that civilisation actually was. The mounds range from small conical burial mounds a few feet high to platform complexes the scale of Cahokia, a walled city ten miles from Saint Louis that housed between 50,000 and 80,000 people around the year 1200 AD, was built in twenty years or less from scratch, and covered a footprint larger than the Great Pyramid. Dr. Little walks through the geometry of the earthworks and their astronomical alignments, the Path of Souls iconography connecting Orion and Cygnus across dozens of sites, and the haplogroup X question: a mitochondrial DNA signature found in the oldest mound skeletons that has no confirmed origin in Asia, and that Dr. Little believes traces back to the Denisovans moving through the Solutrean into North America from the west. The second half of the conversation covers NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and Dr. Little's position on it: honest, measured, and worth hearing from someone who has been in this field since 1983 and has watched the entire arc of how that legislation has shaped, and in his view suppressed, public access to the most important archaeological record in North America. Subscribe and turn on notifications. Part two covers plasma, UAPs, Edgar Cayce, and the Bahamas. **PART TWO LANDS MONDAY 22ND JUNE 2026** **CHAPTERS** 00:00 Introduction and the mound encyclopaedia 02:15 How many mounds were there and how many remain 08:24 A million mounds: the calculation 12:05 Cahokia, Saint Louis, and the city nobody talks about 25:15 North Carolina, shell mounds, and the coastal record 36:25 Astronomical alignments and the Path of Souls 48:08 Mass migrations, Chaco Canyon, and Teotihuacan trade routes 53:45 The LSU mounds and the oldest known mound in the Americas 01:01:02 Haplogroup X, the Denisovans, and the Solutrean hypothesis 01:16:14 NAGPRA: what it is, what it has done, and Dr. Little's position 01:17:24 Giant skeletons: the Smithsonian reports and the statistical analysis 01:30:15 Cherokee DNA, the Milford menorah, and Middle Eastern haplogroups in North America **GUESTS** Dr. Greg Little — https://x.com/DrGregLittle2 **COMET RESEARCH GROUP** Donate to the Comet Research Group today and fund research that could change the history of civilization: https://cometresearchgroup.org/ **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsummit2025/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #DrGregLittle #MoundBuilders #Cahokia #HaplogroupX #NativeAmerica #YoungerDryas #NAGPRA

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 14 min

    Plato Recorded a Disaster. We Called It a Myth.

    The Cosmic Tusk Podcast brings together George Howard and Randall Carlson for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the megaflood geology of the Canadian Shield to the Younger Dryas boundary, through Monument Valley and the Colorado Plateau, and finally to Plato, Ignatius Donnelly, and what the original text of Timaeus and Critias actually says about Atlantis. The geological thread runs through the whole episode. Randall makes the case that Lake Agassi formed not gradually but near-instantaneously, as the direct byproduct of multiple cosmic impacts over the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and walks through the Lake Nipigon basin as a candidate impact site with erosional signatures consistent with the Channeled Scablands. He then turns to Monument Valley, arguing that the buttes, mesas, and slot canyons of the Colorado Plateau bear the fingerprints of catastrophic water flows on a scale nobody in mainstream geology has yet addressed directly. The pattern he keeps returning to is the same one that took decades to accept in Washington State: the landscape cannot be explained one drop at a time. The Atlantis section closes the episode. Randall is careful about what he is and is not claiming. He has read Plato in the original Greek, and his position is that the geological dismissal of Atlantis published in 1977 relied on plate tectonics to rule out a sunken Atlantic landmass, while openly acknowledging that less than a fraction of a percent of the ocean floor had been explored at the time. The book declared the case closed. The ocean had barely been opened. **CHAPTERS** 00:00 Introduction and catching up ~05:00 Lake Agassi, Lake Nipigon, and megaflood geology of the Canadian Shield ~27:00 Instantaneous formation hypothesis and the Younger Dryas boundary ~43:00 James Teller's work and the extraterrestrial event paper ~50:00 Randall's viral Monument Valley clip and the Colorado Plateau ~60:00 Atlantis, Ignatius Donnelly, and going back to Plato **GUESTS** Randall Carlson - @TheRandallCarlson (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCAPciy143ZBXBrFpCVPnWDg) ABOUT TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. FOLLOW TTN NEWS [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit]· [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsummit2025/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #YoungerDryas #UAPDisclosure For more information & to stay up to date: https://thetitan.network/

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 33 min

    Farnsworth, the Star in a Jar, & the Nuclear Fusion Secret He Took to His Grave, ft Paul Schatzkin

    Paul Schatzkin is the author of two books that George Howard considers among the most important and least known in the alternative science space - The Boy Who Invented Television and The Man Who Mastered Gravity. This episode focuses primarily on the first, marking the 100th anniversary of the invention that became the most ubiquitous technology on the planet, but the conversation inevitably extends into the deeper and more troubling story of what Philo Farnsworth did after television was finished with him. The origin story of television is extraordinary precisely because it has been almost entirely lost. Philo T. Farnsworth was born in 1906 to a Mormon farming family in Beaver, Utah, grew up on the frontier without electricity, and by the age of twelve was repairing the Delco generator on his family's Idaho homestead better than any adult could. He was a native of Einstein's universe - born the year after the 1905 papers, he grew up treating relativity and quantum mechanics as background reality rather than revolutionary novelty. In the summer of 1921, plowing a field under the Idaho sun at age fourteen, he looked back at the parallel rows he had carved and in that moment understood how to create an electrical counterpart to an optical image and scan it one line at a time on a magnetically deflected beam of electrons. He drew the concept on a chalkboard for his high school science teacher in 1922. He demonstrated the first working all-electronic television in 1927. The sketch and the working tube are essentially the same device. Every screen on Earth traces its lineage to that field in Idaho. The reason Farnsworth's name is not as universally known as Edison or the Wright Brothers comes down to three factors Paul identifies with precision. Farnsworth himself was constitutionally uninterested in his past achievements and had moved on from television by the late 1930s. Numerous pretenders - most significantly David Sarnoff's RCA, whose engineers reverse-engineered Farnsworth's patents after a young engineer named Vladimir Zworykin visited his laboratory under the pretence of collaboration - spent decades attempting to claim the invention. And when Farnsworth Television and Radio was acquired by ITT in 1949 for pennies on the dollar, the institutional memory of the invention's true origin was extinguished with it. The deeper story is what Farnsworth turned his attention to after television. Declining an invitation to participate in the Manhattan Project in 1941 - telling his wife he believed they were building an atomic bomb and wanted no part of it - he spent the war in his private laboratory in Maine, working at the quantum level on problems that only he fully understood. A chance encounter in 1948 led to a phone call with Albert Einstein, in which Farnsworth described his nascent ideas about nuclear fusion. Einstein, despondent since Hiroshima and Nagasaki about what his theories had been used for, told Farnsworth these are the good parts of my theories - you must continue this work. In 1953, on a drive through the Utah desert, Farnsworth had the conception for inertial electrostatic confinement - a fusion approach using a reactor the size of a softball rather than a gymnasium, requiring no superconducting magnets or incomprehensible engineering complexity. He spent six years doing the mathematics before building anything. The machines produced neutron fluxes on the order of 100 billion neutrons per second - proof of fusion. A portable demonstration unit was wheeled into an Atomic Energy Commission meeting in Washington and plugged into a wall. The institutional response was not excitement. It was a room full of people representing vested interests in existing plasma physics programmes, and a chairman who leaned back and asked whose budget was this going to come out of. Farnsworth died in 1971. A journal discovered after his death had seven pages torn out. His widow's note on the last remaining page said his final ideas he felt were too confidential - that mankind was not ready for them and perhaps not worthy. Paul has been telling this story to anyone who will listen since he first heard it on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the summer of 1973. Paul Schatzkin’s books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0C15BQDPC

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 12 min

    Rendlesham Binary Code, the Giza Diagonal, and the Geometry of UAP Disclosure, ft Matt Barone

    George Howard sits down with Matt Barone - geometry teacher, podcast host of Curious Dimension, and one of the more methodical independent researchers working at the intersection of sacred geometry, UAP phenomena, and ancient site analysis. What begins as a conversation about the mathematics underlying Giza quickly expands into one of the more unusual episodes the Cosmic Tusk has produced - pulling together a 1980 UFO encounter in England, a 16-page binary code, seven sets of ancient coordinates, and a precessional timeline encoded into the layout of the queens' pyramids at Giza. The centrepiece of Matt's presentation is the Rendlesham Forest incident of December 1980, in which US Air Force Staff Sergeant Jim Peniston approached an unidentified triangular craft in the forest between two military bases in Suffolk, England. Peniston touched the craft, felt hieroglyphic symbols etched into its surface, and experienced what he described as a download of ones and zeros transmitted directly into his mind. He transcribed 16 pages of binary code into his notebook and kept them hidden for 30 years - never mentioning them until a 2010 Ancient Aliens episode brought them to the attention of UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe. Three independent parties decoded the binary simultaneously and arrived at the same result: seven sets of global coordinates, a reference to the year 8100, the phrase eyes of your eyes, and the instruction continuous for planetary advance. One of those coordinates points to a location on the Giza Plateau eerily close to where Filippo Biondi's radar demography places the second Sphinx. The code, Matt notes, only works if generated in 1980 - because the Giza Plateau has been drifting northeast at 1-2 centimetres per year due to continental plate movement, and the geometry produced by those coordinates only resolves correctly when calculated against the plateau's 1980 position. From there Matt walks through the geometric work of researcher Gary Osborne, who used precision distance calculators to demonstrate that the Giza diagonal - the line connecting the corner queens' pyramids of G1 and G3 - encodes a fractional unit of the precessional cycle in royal Egyptian cubits, resolves to whole-number distances in feet, inches, yards, and pi-meters simultaneously, and functions as a precessional timeline in which the midpoint corresponds to approximately 520 AD - a period George immediately connects to the catastrophic climate crash of 536 AD. The conversation then moves to 19.47 degrees latitude, the geometric signature of a tetrahedron inscribed within a sphere - a number that appears at energetically anomalous locations on Earth, at the Cydonia plateau on Mars, and embedded within Richard Hoagland's analysis of the Face on Mars. Matt closes with the broader disclosure picture: his reading is that the public is being deliberately primed for limited disclosure, that classified materials science and reverse-engineered physics will not be released, but that high-resolution footage of objects moving in ways that defy conventional propulsion is likely coming - and that the Viking Mars life detection result, which returned positive and was retroactively reclassified as a false positive that has never been reproduced, remains one of the most consequential and least acknowledged stories in the history of science. Check out more from Matt Barone: https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousDimension https://curiousdimension.com Learn more about and contribute towards the Comet Research Group: https://cometresearchgroup.org/

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 33 min

    Ten Years of Fieldwork and the Atlantis Discovery Nobody Can See Yet, ft Michael Donnellan

    Michael Donnellan is the producer and director of Atlantica - a three-season documentary series ten years in the making, currently in a distribution bidding war, with Sky History Channel filming an episode at the site in June. George Howard, who attended the Cosmic Summit premiere of the first episode, has been sitting on the story for nearly a year while the rest of the world waits. This conversation is a wide-ranging update on everything that has happened since. The case for Cadiz as the location of Atlantis's capital city begins with Plato himself. The Timaeus and Critias name the area of Gadis - modern Cadiz - as the location of the capital. Michael notes that in Plato's time this was not an obscure reference. The Greeks had already colonised the coastline, founded the city of Portus Menesthei at what is now El Puerto de Santa Maria, and vacationed in the region regularly. Saying Atlantis was near Cadiz in 360 BC was the equivalent of saying it was near New York. Everyone would have known exactly where you meant. What Michael and his team have spent a decade documenting is the physical evidence: structures visible only at low tide along the coastlines of Sanlucar de Barrameda and the surrounding area, older foundations beneath the famous Phoenician fishing corrals, a submerged city 3.5 kilometres offshore at 20 metres depth, and a rocky outcrop visible from the cathedral whose Arabic name - Sal Medina, meaning the lost city - tells you that even a thousand years ago local people knew something had once been there. The February 2025 storms stripped sand from a clay sediment layer that had not been exposed in thousands of years, revealing cut marks resembling those found in Malta and, crucially, elephant bones from the Upper Palaeolithic period - physical confirmation that the elephants Plato explicitly mentions as part of the Atlantean economy were genuinely present in this region at the relevant time. The Tartessos - the mysterious pre-Phoenician Iberian culture whose origins could extend back six to seven thousand years, whose script remains undeciphered, and who possessed written laws that Greek historian Strabo dated 6,000 years before his own time - are Michael's candidates for the post-catastrophe survivors of the Atlantean civilisation. Their naval expertise, metallurgy, and trading networks mirror the Atlantean characteristics Plato describes precisely. The Younger Dryas catastrophe, which Michael personally favours as a cosmic impact event, would have driven coastal survivors into the caves now found throughout the mountains of Andalusia - caves that show evidence of human habitation across 35,000 years, including prehistoric paintings of industrial-scale fishing fleets pursuing orca. The megalithic culture that subsequently emerged - concentrated more heavily in southwestern Iberia than anywhere else in Europe, with the oldest dolmens in the world among its remnants - represents, in Michael's reading, the engineering knowledge of a pre-catastrophe civilisation reasserting itself through the hands of people who remembered what their ancestors had built. The episode also covers the archives of the Palace of Medina Sidonia, which Michael was finally granted access to two months before this recording. The last Duchess wrote extensively on the evidence that Columbus was not the first European to cross the Atlantic - knowledge preserved in one of the oldest private archives in Europe, held by a family whose name encodes the Arabic words for city of Sidon, and whose position controlling the trade routes in and out of the Mediterranean placed them at the centre of the pre-Columbian Atlantic knowledge network. In the third season, Michael says, he will prove it. The conversation also touches on the second Sphinx debate, the Egyptian priests of Sais who told Solon that both Greeks and Egyptians were descended from the Atlantean civilisation, and the straightforward strategic logic of why any maritime empire controlling the Mediterranean would have placed its capital exactly where Cadiz now stands. Discover more from Michael Donnellan and Ingenio Films: https://ingeniofilms.com/films/atlantica/

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 24 min

    A Comet, a Cover-Up, and a Crater in Greenland, ft CRG’s Allen West

    Allen West has never appeared on a podcast before this conversation. For nearly two decades, he has been the principal researcher and lead author behind the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, the proposal that a massive comet or its debris struck the Earth approximately 12,800 years ago, triggering the sudden return to Ice Age conditions, the extinction of tens of millions of megafauna across North America and Siberia, and the disappearance of the Clovis culture. In this landmark first interview, George Howard, founder of the Cosmic Tusk and one of the earliest supporters of the hypothesis, sits down with Allen to tell the full story of how the research began, what the evidence actually shows, and why the scientific establishment has fought so hard to suppress it. The hypothesis originated almost by accident. Allen had retired from running a geophysical consulting company and was writing a book about cosmic threats when he came across a paper by Rick Firestone and Bill Topping describing tiny magnetic spherules in Michigan sediment. That discovery led Allen to Ted Bunch, a retired NASA administrator who had worked on the Apollo moon rocks and helped the Alvarez team identify the K-Pg impact that killed the dinosaurs. Bunch examined the Younger Dryas boundary layer material and found the same suite of impact markers: shock quartz, nanodiamonds, melted spherules, carbon spherules, and high-temperature soot. What had started as a book became one of the most widely read scientific papers in modern history. The original 2007 Firestone paper ranks in the top five hundredths of one percent of all scientific publications ever tracked, and their Tall el-Hammam paper on a Bronze Age airburst over the Jordan Valley was accessed by 732,000 readers and ranked as the 26th most-read paper in the history of Nature. [~00:00 to ~00:32] Allen describes in detail how that success provoked a sustained campaign of suppression. Over the last three years, 20 out of 21 submitted papers have been rejected or retracted. One paper was sent to six different journals and reviewed by 15 scientists, ten of whom recommended publication, but editors rejected it based on the objections of five hostile reviewers. The Tall el-Hammam paper was retracted by Nature five years after publication with no substantive reason given beyond a loss of confidence in the data. A PBS Nova documentary covering the research was pulled from Nova's own platform after critics lobbied the network, claiming it would damage their federal funding. Allen explains the financial mechanics behind journal suppression: controversial papers escalate to salaried in-house editors, costing journals money, creating an incentive to simply retract and move on. Forced out of mainstream journals, the Comet Research Group created its own peer-reviewed publication, Airburst and Cratering Impacts, where their rebuttal to the Holliday attack paper has drawn 41,000 readers compared to a few thousand for the original criticism. [~00:16 to ~01:00] The conversation then turns to the physical evidence itself. At Murray Springs, Arizona, Allen collected samples from the exact layer draping a mammoth skeleton, finding every marker of a cosmic impact event. No mammoth skeleton and no Clovis point has ever been found above that layer anywhere in the American Southwest. An African elephant expert determined the animal could not have been dead for more than two weeks when the event occurred. Allen explains Bill Napier's calculation that the parent comet was at least 100 kilometres wide, and that Earth likely passed through its debris trail rather than being struck by the main body. He describes indigenous oral traditions from the Hudson River Valley and the Great Lakes region that describe a long-tailed star setting forests ablaze and killing giant animals, accounts that predate European contact. The episode closes with a discussion of the Hiawatha crater in Greenland, dated to roughly 58 million years ago by one team but displaying a pristine rim that Allen argues is inconsistent with tens of millions of years of glacial erosion, and the revelation that Wally Broecker, eulogised by the New York Times as the grandfather of climate science, wrote in a private memo before his death that he had come to believe the Younger Dryas was initiated by an impact. [~01:00 to ~01:24] Learn more about the Comet Research Group: https://cometresearchgroup.org/

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  • April 26 · 1 hr 44 min

    Comfortable Ambiguity, Boslough Flees Debate Offer, and The Danger of Dogma Facing the Alt Community

    George Howard sits down with Daniel Hodges of the Hodge Cast for a conversation that moves from the frontlines of the second Sphinx debate to the collapse of free speech in Britain, held together by a single recurring theme - why intelligent people keep shutting things down before they have done the work. The Filippo Biondi situation is live as they record. George's frustration is not with mainstream sceptics but with members of the alternative community dismissing Biondi's second Sphinx findings without visiting his website or engaging with his methodology. He made a public $100 wager with a prominent figure who put the odds of Biondi's research at 100 to 1. The wager was declined. George calls it the Presbyterian and Methodist problem - factionalism within a community is often more hostile than anything directed outward. He also revisits the Malcolm Bendall thunderstorm generator - a clean energy device he tested extensively that has since grown to an industrial-scale installation in Australia. He remains comfortable with ambiguity, but notes someone is spending serious money on something that had better work. Daniel brings the conversation to Britain - 12,000 social media arrests in a year, a mother jailed for two and a half years for a tweet while grooming gang members walked free with two years, and a writer detained by seven armed police at Heathrow for a joke on X. Both men land in the same place: staying genuinely curious, resisting the urge to decide before you understand, is rarer and more valuable than either side of any argument tends to acknowledge. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Z5KZ2cui8WDjyF6gJ/some-thoughts-on-toby-ord-s-existential-risk-estimates https://cosmictusk.com/wally-broecker-says-a-cosmic-impact-caused-the-younger-dryas/ https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/uncovered-risks-no-oversight-of-uncs-extreme-virology/ Enjoy this conversation? Catch more here: https://youtu.be/wULC5AJ3mqI?si=ryd5CW5X_SAgOpsW

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  • April 26 · 1 hr 51 min

    Pre-Flood Artifacts, Jesus’ Bones & The Real Reason Behind The Trojan War, ft Timothy Hogan

    Few conversations in the alternative history space cover as much ground as this one. George Howard sits down with Timothy Hogan - 33rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar and 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason - for a wide-ranging discussion that moves from the bones of the Holy Family to the founding of the United States, from Gnostic Christianity to Napoleon's initiation in the Great Pyramid. Timothy opens with a revelation he describes as never having shared publicly before. The Templar Order holds three surviving vaults containing artefacts from the pre-flood civilisation - two in the United States and one in Istanbul. The Istanbul vault, stored in a diorite box of the kind found at the Serapeum, contains what Timothy identifies as possible non-human technology recovered from the object known as the Palladium - the artefact the Trojan War was fought over. The Vatican located this vault, rented a hotel room nearby, tunnelled toward it, and attempted to break in with jackhammers before Turkish antiquities authorities detected the vibrations and shut the operation down. From there the conversation opens into Gnostic theology - the tradition Timothy argues the Templar Order has always preserved and that differs fundamentally from orthodox Christianity at almost every point. The divine spark exists within every human being. Jesus was not the Saviour but the great exemplar - here to remind humanity of what it already is. The resurrection was not a physical event but an initiation - the Greek word anastasis simply means to wake up. The God of the Old Testament was the Demiurge, a lesser being created by Sophia outside the Pleroma, not the true God of light and love. Reincarnation was a core early Christian teaching. Born again meant literally born again. The Templar mission, Timothy explains, was always civilisational. The Order was founded to locate surviving pockets of pre-flood knowledge, recover the artefacts and technologies of what he calls the root civilisation - Atlantis - and use them to rebuild. That effort produced the Renaissance. When Europe proved too controlled by church and monarchy to sustain the project, the Templars redirected it to a new territory. The United States was established as the New Atlantis - a Templar state built on the Gnostic principle that the divine spark within every human being is the foundation of freedom, democracy, and inalienable rights. Napoleon, Timothy reveals, was a Templar - his grandfather was Bonnie Prince Charlie and his personal physician was the underground Grand Master of the Order, Bernard Raymond Faber. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign was not military adventurism. It was a Templar mission to recover knowledge. He was initiated in the Great Pyramid in a ceremony Timothy's lineage still performs today - and when asked what happened inside, Napoleon replied that no one would believe him anyway. The earliest Masonic documents - the Gothic manuscripts - describe Freemasonry not as a Templar institution but as the Noahite tradition: the knowledge that survived the flood, traced back through Egypt to the pre-cataclysm civilisation. The Templars found that knowledge in Egypt. Freemasonry was how they preserved and transmitted it after the Order was suppressed in 1307.

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