Raymond Hicks was a highly decorated Broward County Sheriff's deputy for 15 years. After witnessing and reporting corruption in his agency, he was falsely charged with trafficking 350 kilos of cocaine. He spent over 16 months in prison while fighting his fabricated charges before a jury who eventually acquitted him. EPISODE LINKS https://www.youtube.com/@raymondhicks2305 https://a.co/d/1dHt1Mk https://gofund.me/de41d58c SPONSORS VERSO - Go to https://ver.so/danny to save 15% on your order. FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Growing up in the most dangerous part of Florida 4:13 - Raymond's father 10:49 - The problem with police corruption 14:43 - How Raymond became a Gold Cross Recipient 22:04 - Patrolling the streets of Broward County (District 5) 33:04 - Getting arrested by his own department 38:37 - Charged with trafficking $750 million in cocaine 58:18 - The trial 1:00:07 - Prison time & fighting fabricated charges 1:06:56 - The jury trial process 1:18:07 - Winning the jury trial and returning home after 16 months in prison 1:35:01 - Can Police corruption be fixed? 1:41:29 - Being targeted & harassed by the Police Dept. 1:50:40 - Working special-ops for Apple 2:06:06 - The overwhelming response from Ray’s story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manny Puig is a legendary wildlife expert, hunter, & fisherman who became widely known for his hands-on approach when dealing with deadly predators such as sharks, rattle snakes, black bears and alligators. He has made frequent appearances on the television shows Jackass and Wildboyz as well as the Animal Planet show Gator Boys. EPISODE LINKS https://www.instagram.com/manny_puig_ FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Growing up in Cuba 2:20 - Fidel Castro’s communist revolution / How CIA recruited Manny’s dad 8:29 - Manny’s dad was on CIA infiltration team / and later executed by Castro 12:09 - Escaping Cuba 13:21 - Felix Rodriguez 15:52 - Manny’s early obsession with snakes & alligators 18:51 - Manny’s first shark encounter 24:21 - Hunting sharks / Shark population decline in 1990’s 28:16 - Manny’s childhood fantasies of hand catching man-eating beasts 32:56 - How to stop a shark from attacking you: show aggression 41:16 - Why there are so many more sharks in the ocean now 42:56 - The rise in deadly shark attacks / Biblical prophecy of beasts of the earth eating human beings 44:32 - Tiger shark attack in the Red Sea 57:45 - Orca / killer whales are the deadliest animal in the sea 1:01:15 - How to ride a mako shark (don’t ride bull sharks) 1:11:54 - Tiger shark attacks in Hawaii 1:15:45 - The problem with shark over population 1:20:51 - The Amazon rain forest 1:29:01 - Barracuda 1:31:40 - Hand catching alligators 1:40:39 - How to avoid an alligator attack 1:45:02 - Deadly snake that melts your brain 1:47:14 - How bad does it suck getting bit by a rattle snake? 1:55:44 - Why Manny hunts with a trident 2:01:06 - How to hold your breath for 5 minutes / shallow water blackout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the last decade Eric has lived and worked in over 45 countries as an aid volunteer, journalist, and tech storyteller. He is focused on using emerging technology to solve persistent challenges in emerging economies, conflict zones, and thriving ecosystems alike. EPISODE LINKS https://amzn.to/3ppXZ6b https://twitter.com/eczuleger SPONSORS VERSO - Go to https://ver.so/koncrete to save 15% on your order. FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Traveling in the North Pole 4:26 - Hallucinogenic east African KHAT leaves 11:48 - Becoming an intelligence analyst 22:45 - Alien abductions 35:31 - Lebanon 42:55 - Intelligence training & geopolitical forecasting, state craft, & geographical advantage of United States 1:07:07 - Geopolitics crash course 1:12:48 - Analyzing Islamic State execution videos & quitting intelligence 1:24:58 - Getting banned from Turkey 1:36:07 - National identity / the Balkans 1:56:06 - How easily could the United States empire crumble? 2:06:01 - The definition of a ‘country’ is changing to citizenship by subscription model 2:07:57 - The black hole of Europe: Transnistria 2:16:04 - The billionaire run libertarian country: Liberland 2:28:58 - Becoming Ambassador to African Ghost Nation 'Somaliland' 2:35:01 - Delivering aid to Somaliland cyclone victims & being used as a political tool 2:51:26 - Isreal's constraints & imperatives 2:56:22 - What defines America? 2:59:00 - Peter Thiel’s floating billionaire libertarian utopia & how soon will globalism emerge? 3:12:44 - Eric’s next project: The global memory project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shanna Swan, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. An award-winning scientist, her work examines the impact of environmental exposures, including chemicals such as phthalates and Bisphenol A, on men’s and women’s reproductive health and the neurodevelopment of children. EPISODE LINKS https://amzn.to/3XnfeS6 https://www.shannaswan.com https://twitter.com/DrShannaSwan FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Discovering the global sperm count decline 15:25 - How pesticide exposure is affecting sperm count 24:22 - Why sperm banks have extremely high standards 26:24 - Countries with the best sperm 37:54 - Lifestyle habits that destroy sperm count 42:06 - Endocrine disrupting chemicals, phthalates & plastics 46:44 - Size matters when it comes to your Ano-genital distance (AGD) 1:01:07 - How phthalates are disrupting hormonal development in babies 1:03:47 - Correlation between phthalates & gender dysphoria? 1:14:31 - Testosterone 1:20:47 - Homosexual frogs study & glyphosate 1:28:37 - How people can avoid phthalate exposure 1:37:51 - Population collapse is on the horizon if we don’t start reproducing 1:47:26 - Animal species facing sperm count & population decline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Lyons is President of Skyhorse Publishing. EPISODE LINKS https://www.instagram.com/tonylyonsisuncertain https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 4:43 - Censorship 9:45 - Working with RFK 19:14 - How would RFK reform public health? 25:40 - Intelligence grip on media 40:05 - Alan Dershowitz 45:59 - Corruption 59:39 - Forbidden books by dissidents 1:06:37 - Reverse psychology media censorship 1:14:01 - Bill Gates 1:23:11 - Funding RFK's presidential campaign 1:28:12 - Dr. Pierre Kory 1:36:27 - Political capitalism 1:40:28 - Nuclear Energy 1:46:45 - GMO’s 1:58:39 - RFK's Super Pac Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Gallimore is a neurobiologist, pharmacologist, and chemist currently based in Tokyo, Japan, where he writes about psychedelics as molecular technologies for interfacing with alternate realities and for communication with the apparently intelligent beings that reside therein. EPISODE LINKS https://www.buildingalienworlds.com https://twitter.com/alieninsect https://amzn.to/43MCsCU FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 6:15 - Origins of DMT 12:39 - How our brain constructs reality 17:36 - Where is the DMT universe located? 33:13 - Can psychedelics harm you? 41:30 - psychedelics & the brain 44:39 - Japanese culture & living in Japan 54:48 - What is happening in the brain when you do DMT 1:22:41 - How the sense of smell is tied to memory 1:31:20 - MK-Ultra & amphetamines 1:49:12 - Psychedelics & Neuroplasticity 1:53:27 - John Mack, Karry Mullis, paranormal activity, & aliens 2:04:19 - Hyper dimensional worlds 2:25:31 - Is consciousness a living thing? 2:35:33 - Garry Nolan 2:38:12 - Extended DMT human research (DMTx) 2:56:13 - Mapping the DMT world & Timothy Leary’s ‘Experiential Typewriter’ 3:07:48 - Ancient civilizations 3:16:39 - Whats next for DMT research? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies and chair of the department of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her research centers on the connections between technology and human belief in the context of religious history. She is the author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, & Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences: Explorations with UFOs, Dreams, Angels, AI and Other Dimensions. EPISODE LINKS Diana's Books - https://amzn.to/42kXjfK Twitter - https://twitter.com/dwpasulka FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 5:26 - Connections between early Christian miracle events & modern UFO Experiences 14:25 - The secret aerospace scientist who took Diana & Garry Nolan to a secret New Mexico crash site 22:48 - The history of institutionalization on information 28:10 - The UFO connection to religion 30:48 - Was the ‘being’ that crashed in Virginha, Brazil was a demon? Connections to reports from history 35:10 - How media influences belief 40:24 - The Dark / Paranormal element to UFO encounters 45:30 - Aerospace engineers using mystical practices to ‘download’ knowledge 53:34 - The “Noosphere” Earths organic network 1:00:35 - Sightings of the Virgin Mary 1:06:29 - The Allegory of the Cave 1:14:58 - The ‘Hierarchy of beings’ 1:19:10 - Tic Tac UFO’s 1:23:11 - The Secret Space Program 1:31:58 - Media, mind wars, & Edward Bernays 1:38:50 - Socrates idea of “Second hand knowledge” 1:44:30 - Jacques Vallée & Esoteric traditions 1:52:51 - The history of Satan 1:56:61 - Synchronicities 2:04:38 - Bob Lazar 2:09:46 - How space changes human consciousness 2:14:36 - John Marco Allegro & Psychedellics 2:28:19 - Injuries/death related to some UFO encounters 2:32:26 - Children have a stronger connection to the earth network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D served as the Director of the Division of Dietary Supplement Programs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he directed agency policy, public affairs and regulatory action regarding regulation of the dietary supplement industry for more than three years. Today Dr. Fabricant is CEO and President of the Natural Products Association (NPA), the nation’s largest and oldest trade organization representing the natural products industry, including dietary supplements, foods, personal care products and more. EPISODE LINKS https://www.npanational.org https://twitter.com/drfabricant FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 2:30 - Healthcare in the US 7:55 - How the FDA works 14:33 - Patents / Branded drugs 24:00 - Daniels role at FDA 33:29 - NAC 36:27 - NMN 41:42 - FDA tried to make fish oil a prescription drug 43:24 - Is David Sinclair trying to monopolize NMN? 51:04 - Peptides 1:02:56 - Cannabis & CBD 1:14:32 - Testosterone therapy for men 1:18:50 - FDA pandemic response 1:31:07 - Creatine 1:34:10 - Cancer vaccines 1:40:33 - Universal health care Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ric Prado is a Cuban born clandestine CIA paramilitary operations specialist who worked in the Central Intelligence Agency for nearly 3 decades. His service included 36 months in Central American jungles of Honduras as the first CIA officer living in the anti-Sandinista "Contra" camps. EPISODE LINKS https://amzn.to/3MO17Sd https://ricprado.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 2:36 - Ric’s view of CIA 5:40 - Growing up inside the Cuban Revolution 13:54 - Miami 17:56 - Being “proud” to commit violence / Joining Pararescue 30:12 - Cuba’s relationship with the United States 33:46 - Che Guevara 37:12 - Felix Rodriguez, Kiki Camarena, & Mexican Cartels 47:55 - First job at CIA: Training Contras in Nicaragua 59:49 - The Sandinistas 1:05:40 - Underwater bomb operation 1:12:45 - Kidnapping & rendering 2 rogue commandos 1:21:17 - Argentina's corruption 1:26:21 - Failed bombing mission 1:37:29 - Spy school 1:46:17 - Espionage in Costa Rica 1:51:43 - How Iran-Contra was exposed 1:58:54 - Hunting a Maoist dictator in South America 2:12:58 - South & North Korea 2:22:50 - Working on the Bin Laden task force (Alec Station) 2:26:56 - #1 most legendary CIA Black Ops soldier: Billy Waugh 2:28:49 - CIA vs FBI leading up to 9 1 1 2:35:00 - How Billy Waugh spied on Bin Laden 2:43:18 - Reliving 9 1 1 2:58:34 - Ric’s worldview today 3:03:07 - Russia & China & Nuclear weapons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vernon Reid is a guitarist, songwriter, founder and primary songwriter of the rock band Living Colour. Vernon was named No. 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. EPISODE LINKS https://twitter.com/vurnt22 https://www.instagram.com/vurnt22 FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Caribbean Race riots & growing up in Brooklyn 5:39 - Science-Fiction inspired tech 13:50 - Chat GPT 21:27 - Will artificial intelligence destroy art? / AI Drake 36:25 - Death & Consciousness 42:35 - Doing things for pleasure VS money 50:18 - Richard Prior & using pain as creative fuel 54:44 - How will AI manipulate humans? 1:02:10 - Technology & music 1:15:10 - Cloning 1:19:50 - Merging man & machine 1:29:49 - Simulation theory 1:40:36 - How artificial intelligence will better humanity 1:46:59 - AI photography & Midjourney 1:51:17 - Deep fakes & AI generated video 1:56:59 - The future of music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices