American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

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. T...

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=D6dl6LtZF8u8oWpY And incredible YesTheory documentary: https://youtu.be/kwsWAQ9sJZE?si=VuwWGljLgSbO-1KU Timestamps...

Michael 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 her...

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 c...

Jacque Vallee is the legendary French UFO researcher who formed the basis for Steven Spielberg's eccentric scientist in Close Encounters of The Third Kind. He has worked with every prominent player in UFOology since the 60's including Dr. J. Alan Hynek who served as the Chief Science Advisor to project Blue Book, the Airforce's UFO investigation program from 52'-69'. Vallee has written multiple gr...

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, whethe...

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 st...

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 vario...

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...

Skinwalker Ranch is a paranormal hotspot located at the base of the Uintah basin in Utah. Brandon Fugal who is a real estate mogul and patron for frontier science owns the property and studies the various spectacular phenomena that seem to occur. Among these are UFO’s, orbs, cattle multiplications and electromagnetic anomalies. I was lucky enough to be invited to the Ranch. Watch this episode to s...

Alex Jones started the controversial media outlet infowars over two decades ago. He’s gotten a lot wrong, but also gotten a few things very right. And is a fascinating figure worth talking to. In this video we avoided the controversies and decided to focus on the positive aspects of Alex: his background, his resistance against the corporatocracy and desire to empower the average citizen. We also t...

Garret "G Mac" McNamara is one of the best big wave surfers of all time. He surfed one of the best waves ever at Jaws in 2003, put Nazare Portgual on the map as a surf spot and broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2013. All of this became the subject of an excellent HBO docuseries called 100 foot wave. An incredible surfer, he's an even better father, husband and a friend. He and...

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In this week's American Alchemy, we interview Tom O'Neill, author of the new bestselling book Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties. O'Neill and I went to Spahn Ranch, the famous old western movie set in Chatsworth California where the Mansons lived plotted a lot of their murders. We go through his book and its crazy thesis: that Charles Manson could have been an MK...

Did mushrooms come from outer space to spawn humanity and guide its evolution? From stoned ape theory to ancient mystery rituals, this week’s American Alchemist Tero Isokauppila (Founder/CEO of Foursigmatic) makes a pretty compelling case 🍄 👽🛸 *** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science and tech. Each week, we bring you exclusive inte...

Meet Deep Prasad. Deep is a 26 year old self taught prodigy working on quantum computing and with a deep interest in UFO’s. In this video we discuss how he combines those interests by attempting to solve the schrodinger many body equation at scale with quantum computing; we also discuss quantum biology, quantum sensing and what, if anything, the aliens have planned for us 🛸👽 *** AMERICAN ALCHEMY...

Professor Loeb received a Ph. D. in plasma physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986) and was subsequently a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1988-1993), where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics. In 1993 he moved to Harvard University where he was tenured three years later. In 2021, Avi founded the Galileo Project whose goal is to...

From 2013 - 2022, Eric Weinstein was a Managing Director at Thiel Capital. He is the creator of geometric unity, a unified theory in physics, and the intellectual dark web, a loose coalition of intellectuals dedicated to free thought. Hal Puthoff is former CIA, NSA and AATIP (the government’s official UFO investigation program). In the 70’s, he oversaw Stargate: the government’s psychic spy progra...

Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday: How to Find your Calling A modern Machiavelli, Robert Greene is the bestselling author of the 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature and now, The Daily Laws. Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me I’m Lying, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy and now Courage is Calling. Robert and Ryan have a long relationship but have never been interviewed t...

Wim Hof, AKA The Iceman, is a Dutch motivational speaker and extreme athlete noted for his ability to withstand freezing temperatures. He has set Guinness World Records for swimming under ice and prolonged full-body contact with ice, and previously held the record for a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow. He’s hiked Mount Everest barefoot in shorts and run a marathon in the desert with no wate...

This weeks American Alchemist is Josh Wolfe. Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Va...

Dr. Garry Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 300 research articles and is the holder of 40 US patents, and has been honored as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University. Dr. Nolan was the founder of Rigel Inc. (NASDAQ: RIGL), and Nodality, Inc. (a diagnostics development comp...

Steve Horvath is a German–American aging researcher, geneticist, and biostatistician. He is a professor at the University of California Los Angeles known for developing the Horvath aging clock, which is a highly accurate molecular biomarker of aging. Having a clock that’s able to predict age is incredibly important for longevity research and begets important philosophical questions that we discuss...

Shanna H. 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...

Delian Asparouhov and Will Bruey are the cofounders of Varda space. With backgrounds in building the dragon capsule at SpaceX and at Founders Fund, the team wants to build stepwise better materials in microgravity environments (fiber optics, pharmaceuticals etc). On this episode, we talk about their revolutionary approach, the macro trends that allow for it (i.e. cheaper launch costs), the importa...