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Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — where 5,000 scientists are using high-energy collisions to read the universe's secret menu. He co-hosts the show Daniel and Kelly's Ext ...  Show more

Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You

Peter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Unholy Alliance, the Sinister Forces trilogy, and the S ...  Show more

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