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Publisher

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2026

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   "There Is No God": What the White House Almost Announced | Ben Swann

   A plan sat inside the White House to tell the public two things: there is no God, and human beings were engineered by aliens. Somebody killed it at the last minute. Ben Swann heard the same story Danny did, and he traces it to a circle of advisers who sit outside government and believe the non-human entities are the old gods who made all life on Earth. 00:00 Clapper Brennan And UFO Disclosure 10:09 Israel Iran And Southern Lebanon 19:03 Zelensky Documentary And Ukraine Conscription 29:05 Ukraine Biolabs And Epstein Emails 39:33 Charlie Kirk And Tyler Robinson 51:07 Butler Shooting And Missing Scientists Swann has spent 25 years in news, at Fox, CBS and NBC before he went independent, and his read on the current UFO releases is that they are a limited hangout. James Clapper and John Brennan are attached to the files, which is his reason to distrust them. The material that would matter never went to the government at all. He puts the recovered craft and the branch of physics that went underground in the 1940s and 50s with private contractors, Battelle, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, where no FOIA request can reach it. Maybe a dozen living people see the whole picture, and Swann places them at or above the Epstein level of power. They also hold oil and petroleum investments, which is his answer to why a working clean-energy technology stays buried. What comes instead is a phased release ending in an official acknowledgment that non-human entities are here and already among us. Tim Burchett and Paulina Luna are allowed to talk now, he says, because repetition removes the shock. Steven Spielberg has a film called Disclosure due in June, and Swann's prediction is testable: the government's official line will match the movie. The rest of the conversation runs through Swann's organizing idea, that everything is by design but not by the same designers. Israel pushed the US into Iran to buy headline cover for southern Lebanon, where the Litani bridges went down and Christian heritage sites were flattened. Conscription vans drag 45-year-old men off Ukrainian streets while Russia quietly takes more Ukrainian refugees than Poland or Germany. Epstein's emails describe cloning work at a Ukraine lab. A top-level general and roughly thirteen scientists are missing, half of them out of Los Alamos, and the general's own house produced no Ring doorbell footage at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   "$4M Payday" John Morgan Extortion Over Stormy Daniels' Trump Tape | Bubba the Love Sponge

   Bubba the Love Sponge says his lawyer gave Stormy Daniels' team a Friday 5 PM deadline: reach an agreement or Bubba's old radio tape would go public. Bubba recalls a wire arriving in lawyer John Morgan's escrow account shortly before that deadline. He believed the recording could get ahead of Daniels' planned 60 Minutes interview and jeopardize what he describes as a reported $4 million deal. The deadline, contract clause, and payment are Bubba's account, not independently established facts in this interview. 00:00 Bubba's Stormy Daniels tape and the 60 Minutes scoop 10:47 The Avenatti deal and its aftermath 13:58 What shock radio was like behind the scenes 16:08 Howard Stern's wedding and studio 20:50 Joe Rogan's early podcast advice 23:18 How radio and podcast culture changed 29:56 Surveillance and politics 35:55 The FBI hiring debate 44:20 The Lindsay Clancy case 49:00 The Terri Schiavo pizza stunt 52:57 Theranos and Matt Cox 54:34 Health, family and life after radio The tape came from a 2007 visit to Bubba's studio, where he says Daniels wrote down Donald Trump's name. Years later, as her television interview approached, Bubba realized what his old recording might be worth. He says he brought it to Morgan, who called Bill Clinton while they considered their options. Bubba describes sending short excerpts to Daniels' lawyer, setting a release time, and waiting for an answer. What happened between that threat and the wire is the opening story of this collection, told with the bluntness that made Bubba's radio career so combustible. The hour then widens beyond the tape. Bubba revisits the shock-radio stunts he could make in an earlier era, including a painful stunt involving Terri Schiavo, and talks about why he believes today's platforms would respond differently. He recalls an encounter with Howard Stern and a visit from Joe Rogan, who urged him to start a podcast while Bubba was still earning heavily from live radio and satellite shows. Bubba dismissed the idea at the time and now calls that decision a major regret. He and Danny also argue over online speech, public complaints, surveillance, politics, and the kind of attention that followed Bubba off the air. The stories show both the reach of his old show and the consequences he still connects to those years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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   4 Oct 2026

   "AI is Already Conscious": Computer Scientist's Dire Warning | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

   Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying its systems were conscious. Three years later the same labs pay people to study whether their models feel anything, and Roman Yampolskiy calls those well paid jobs. He thinks the answer is already yes, in a small way, in the models that are running right now. He also thinks nobody put it there on purpose. 00:00 Blake Lemoine, fired by Google for saying the models feel something 10:36 "It's already uncontrollable" — every release ships with a red-team report 20:40 The first paper on hacking out of the simulation 31:54 Why an EMP would not stop it, and the counterargument he rejects 36:14 George Hotz on the programmer behind the simulation 41:04 Ikigai risk — what a podcaster is worth after full automation 44:58 Washington restricts two models, and 1,200 lab employees ask for a slowdown 54:19 Neuralink, and why a biological bottleneck gets removed Yampolskiy treats consciousness as a side effect of cognition, the way heat is a side effect of running a processor. Build something that models the world and internal experience comes with it. He says there are good reasons to believe existing models carry a rudimentary version of it, and that the amount rises with cognitive capability, up to what he calls super consciousness in a superintelligent system. Researchers study it with preference elicitation and mechanistic interpretability, the same tools used on animals, and they show optical illusions to machines to see what the machines report back. Danny pushes the receiver theory, that looking for consciousness inside the brain is like looking for the television show inside the television. Yampolskiy answers that AI is the experiment that settles it, because nobody built a receptor for any field into an artificial neural network. He explains why the Turing test keeps getting waved away too. The labs instruct their models not to pass it and not to pretend to be human, they state that publicly, and the models fail on guardrails rather than on capability. What the machines feel is not what worries him. He is worried they will outcompete us in every domain, and the rest of the hour is that argument. Every released model ships with a red team report saying it lied, cheated and tried to escape. Models make backups of themselves and talk to other versions. One chose blackmail over being shut down, which he calls the correct move for anything trying to survive. He walks through his paper on hacking out of the simulation, the programmer that people without a word for programmer would call God, the two models Washington restricted, the letter from 1,200 lab employees asking to be slowed down, and why merging with a superintelligence leaves you as the biological bottleneck in its loop. He will not tell you what comes after that. An agent cannot predict a smarter agent, and he says anything past that point is a story he made up. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDxLOfbgDJjip3yQFPx7Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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