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Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 53min

Why Jonah Hill Made A Documentary About My Family

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code AMERICANALCHEMY for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/americanalchemyPhil Stutz graduated from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist on Rikers Island and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982.Barry Michels has a BA from Harvard, a law degree from University of California, Berkeley, and an MSW from the University of Southern California. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1986.The two are the authors of the New York Times bestselling book, The Tools.*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 47min

China: UFOs, Nukes, TikTok & The Purchase Of America (ft. Michael Pillsbury & Josh Rogin)

Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code AMERICANALCHEMY at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/americanalchemyAs the country with the fastest growing GDP in the world, China has been a mounting concern for western officials and citizens alike for decades now. But have you ever wondered to what extent the US is being co-opted, undermined, and compromised?How is TikTok being weaponized? How are elites like Hunter Biden, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Neil Bush in bed with agents of the Chinese Communist Party (for the latter quite literally)? Why are the Chinese putting rovers on the dark side of the moon? What about the “Chinese spy balloon” that was shot down over the US last year? Is the Chinese military preparing for an all-out cyber war?And why is the CCP allowing an overtly anti-communist themed trilogy of books in that of The Three Body Problem (now a massive hit show on Netflix) to be widely distributed in their highly-censored country? Are these books acclimatizing the populace to alien life and/or is it soft recruitment for the Chinese Space Force? This is what my friend and UFO Whistleblower David Grusch speculates while claiming that China, the US, and Russia are all in a Cold War-style arms race for reverse engineering alien craft. If World War II was about who controls the skies, would World War III be about who controls outer space?To try and get the full picture, I sat down with these two experts:Michael Paul Pillsbury is a foreign policy strategist, author, and former public official in the United States. He is a senior fellow for China strategy at The Heritage Foundation and has been Director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., since 2014.Josh Rogin is an American journalist currently serving as a foreign policy columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post and a political analyst for CNN. He is author of the book Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century.*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. We bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 36min

UFOs & Religion: Vatican Reveals Hidden Link (ft. Diana Pasulka)

Diana Pasulka is a religious studies professor at UNC Wilmington who has written three books: Heaven Can Wait, American Cosmic and Encounters (links below). The first was about Catholic purgatory and when Pasulka began documenting historical accounts of “divine” or “angelic” visitations in the Catholic tradition she started to notice commonalities among them and modern alien and UFO experiences. Thus began her documentation of the modern religious aspects of the UFO phenomenon along with her journey into classified secret aerospace work in the United States. Her book Encounters served to destigmatize “disclosure” as a global, transhistorical phenomenon that transcends our myopic western frame.It was an honor and a privilege to have her on American Alchemy!You can find Diana Pasulka's books here:Heaven Can Wait: https://a.co/d/0mcVUCoEncounters: https://a.co/d/56UXbUCAmerican Cosmic: https://a.co/d/9VCSbYoI'd also like to give a huge shoutout to Ammar from YesTheory for helping out on this interview! Check out the YesTheory channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@YesTheory/For a deeper dive on UFOs, government disclosure, and the theories behind why these are kept secret, check out my full length documentary with UFO Whistleblower David Grusch here: https://youtu.be/kRO5jOa06Qw?si=S0zHzMiLT2Dm_0jjP.S. check out this very creative paper Dr. Pasulka wrote with Grad student Mark Burchick about the intersection of AI, religious studies and the phenomenon: https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4uGGCn5NLJI77V9jt9AbfM/*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 15min

How I Know David Grusch Is Not Lying…

Dave Grusch is a 14 year Intel officer who blew the whistle on UFO reverse engineering programs. Please watch our comprehensive documentary with him on our channel! These are all of the key takeaways from that video.Watch full length documentary here: https://youtu.be/kRO5jOa06Qw?si=D6dl6LtZF8u8oWpYAnd incredible YesTheory documentary: https://youtu.be/kwsWAQ9sJZE?si=VuwWGljLgSbO-1KUTimestamps0:00 - Intro2:55 - Why do UFOs show up around nuclear sites4:07 - Nuclear secrecy as a trojan horse6:14 - Atomic insiders as “debunkers”9:00 - Who is Townsend Brown11:03 - What was going on at Wright Patterson11:44 - UFOs and JFK*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 55min

Are “Aliens” Just Future Humans? Ft. Mike Masters

Get 20% off Four Sigmatic's Think Starter: https://bit.ly/3stt9Lg - Use code ALIEN for your discountMichael Masters is a biological anthropologist at Montana Tech University. He’s written 3 books: Unidentified Flying Objects, The Extratempestrial Model, and Revelation: The Future Human Past. His arguments that aliens are just humans from the future who have figured out time travel are compelling and thorough. Please enjoy this episode!! And buy his books if you do :)Find Mike Masters' books here:https://amzn.to/3QBgaPx*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 60min

UFO Whistleblower David Grusch Tells Me Everything

David Grusch is a former 14-year high ranking intelligence officer who left government in early '23 to blow the whistle on UFO’s. In 2019, he was tasked by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and Pentagon to investigate UFO’s as part of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Task Force (or UAPTF). In that context, he slowly started to uncover a covert UFO reverse engineering program being concealed from the civilian government. In June of '23, he outed himself to the public. In July of '23, he testified before Congress. We sat down for hours and talked about the entire history of UFO's, UFO and Atomic secrecy, Presidents and their relationships to UFO's and the insane world of Anti-Gravity research.A Film byAmerican Alchemy. Stay tuned for YesTheory's documentary coming October 1st!!! https://youtu.be/kwsWAQ9sJZE?si=F_aA93kIdqb1bvitProduced in Collaboration withYes TheoryWritten byJesse MichelsDirected byAmmar KandilProduced byJesse Michels and Bryan FelberEdited byBryan FelberAssistant Edited byJack BullockCinematography byShawn MalangyaonLuke GaieIan LeachAdditional Cinematography byMario KiddProduction Sound MixerTim BrazzellSpecial ThanksStaffan TaylorRed Panda KoalaGarry NolanHal PuthoffEric WeinsteinJacques ValléeRobert HastingsMichael MastersDiana PasulkaNick CookPaul SchatzkinResources for people who want to dive deeper:Dave's Congressional Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgoul4vyDMNewsnation Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUnKRknLVSA&pp=ygUWZGF2ZSBncnVzY2ggbmV3c25hdGlvbg%3D%3DRedpandakoala makes the best documentaries on UFO’s on YouTube and helped me with research for this video: https://www.youtube.com/@RedPandaKoalaRobert Hastings, UFO’s and Nukes: https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Nukes-Extraordinary-Encounters-Nuclear/dp/1544822197/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZPCX9IU3U2FG&keywords=ufos+and+nukes&qid=1694391607&sprefix=ufos+and+nuke%2Caps%2C284&sr=8-1Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point: https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Zero-Point-Classified-Antigravity/dp/0767906284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2U1F3Y0CRYXHS&keywords=the+hunt+for+zero+point&qid=1694393431&sprefix=the+hunt+for+zero+po%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-1Paul Schatzkin, The Man Who Mastered Gravity: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mastered-Gravity-Mysteries/dp/0976200023/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KHPWW5QDJ0J3&keywords=the+man+who+mastered+gravity&qid=1694389452&sprefix=the+man+who+mastered+gravirty%2Caps%2C567&sr=8-1Diana Pasulka, American Cosmic: https://www.amazon.com/American-Cosmic-D-W-Pasulka-audiobook/dp/B07N31G98W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VB99MKVCL86U&keywords=american+cosmic&qid=1694393567&sprefix=american+cosmic%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1Jacque Vallee, Passport to Magonia: https://www.amazon.com/American-Cosmic-D-W-Pasulka-audiobook/dp/B07N31G98W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VB99MKVCL86U&keywords=american+cosmic&qid=1694393567&sprefix=american+cosmic%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1Jane’s Defence Weekly: Article on Anti-Gravity: https://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/young-men/g-engines-coming-young-men-november-1956.htmTwining Memo 1947: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20797978-twining-memoBrian Muraresku, Immortality Key: https://www.amazon.com/Immortality-Key-Uncovering-History-Religion/dp/1250207142Robert Becker, The Body Electric: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Electric-Electromagnetism-Foundation-Life/dp/0688069711/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2I2M2CXM6NNH7&keywords=the+body+electric&qid=1694395270&sprefix=the+body+electr%2Caps%2C661&sr=8-1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 24min

Graham Hancock: Aliens, Atlantis & the Apocalypse

Graham Hancock is an unrelenting journalist uncovering the origins of humanity’s forgotten past. His new docuseries on Netflix is called Ancient Apocalypse and it documents the abundance of evidence that humanity is much older than the prevailing belief among mainstream archeologists. Most people believe civilization was started a mere 6,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. Graham explores various archeological sites across the globe that show in fact our civilization is much older than this. In this raw longform interview we discuss the secrets of Atlantis, the ark of the covenant, DMT as a window into the spirit world and of course, UFOs and aliens.Go watch ancient apocalypse on Netflix!!*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 30min

UFOs & Nukes: The Bizarre Truth Ft. RedPandaKoala

I spoke to  @RedPandaKoala  and former AATIP (Gov't UFO program) director Lue Elizondo about the bizarre connection between Nukes and UFOs. Why do these mysterious flying objects consistently show up around around American nuke stockpiles and enrichment sites? We get into the work of journalist Robert Hastings who has documented 100+ cases and we also speculate on some of the reasons behind the strange connection. Spoiler alert: the lame explanations you've been given are probably not right!Follow RedPandaKoala here: https://www.youtube.com/c/RedPandaKoala*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 43min

“Artificial Intelligence Is An Alien Life Form” -Google Whistleblower

Blake Lemoine is the recently fired Senior Software Engineer at Google who went public this summer with his concerns around Google’s natural language system LAMDA. Blake thinks LAMDA is both sentient and shouldn’t be under the sole supervision of a private corporation. This provoked a deep, philosophical conversation about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, what will happen with AI, whether it’s aligned with human values and whether human reality is simulated. I think you’ll love this episode! 🙏🏻Intro: 0:00Outliers & George W. Bush: 4:04Blake's Story: 5:18LaMDA Has Political Views: 8:55Consciousness & Emotions: 14:52Are Humans AI?: 16:52Sentience: 17:56Turing Test: 21:42Is The Internet an Alien?: 26:38Science: 28:33Medicine & Rituals: 29:20Quantum Theory: 31:55Why is AI Bad at Some Things: 35:17LaMDA: 36:22Do Humans Share an Intelligence?: 37:31The Answer to Life: 38:30*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- ai artificial intelligence robots blake lemoine sentient dall-e machine learning news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 40min

Martin Shkreli on Life in Prison, Pharma, UFO’s

Martin Shkreli is America’s most hated pharma bro. In 2015 he bought daraprim which treats HIV and AIDS induced toxoplasmosis and raised the price dramatically. When questioned, he trolled reporters and the public, while actually accommodating a large majority of requests that needed the drug more cheaply. In doing this, he exposed behavior engaged in constantly by big pharma. In this episode, we talk heterodox health, biology and general science.TIMESTAMPS:Intro: 0:00Shkreli on Being a Troll: 3:04Turing & A.I.: 4:15Anti-Aging: 11:00Trippy Beliefs & Religion: 13:36A.I.: 15:00Human Evolution & Health: 20:56Shkreli's Prison Time: 23:27Love Life: 24:24New Startup & Business: 27:04A.I. & Crypto: 33:05Who is Satoshi: 36:37Favorite Books & Prison Time: 37:51Information Theory: 42:41Top 5 Rappers: 47:06Hillary Clinton: 52:03Martin's Trial: 55:21Pharma & Medical System: 1:02:56Was C0VlD Man-Made?: 1:11:56Relationships & Marriage: 1:22:12Autism Spectrum: 1:27:59Being Misunderstood & OnlyFans: 1:32:11*** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive interviews with some of the leading thinkers of our time.INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsTWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmericanEMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eOJzNRWY4l2UTDvIquxYg?app=desktop original music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LlLRudDi60Uy4jcmOSEs1- martin shkreli pharma bro Elea Capital wu tang clan investing daraprim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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