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See For Yourself
by Jacob J. Watson-Howland
Honest questions about Christianity, from a former nihilist and atheist who became a Christian in 2026. Featuring Dr John Lennox (Oxford mathematician), Jim Cantrell (SpaceX co-founder), Justin Brierley (host of Think Faith), Tyler Cowen (bestselling economist), Hans Koenigsmann (SpaceX VP of Flight Reliability), Prof. Anil Seth (world-leading neuroscientist), Sepp Hochreiter (inventor of LSTM, a foundation of modern AI) and 100+ more leading experts. Hosted by Jacob Watson-Howland: British award-winning, BBC-featured photographer, one of Europe's fastest-growing under-22 podcasters and, more importantly, a former nihilist and atheist who became a Christian in 2026. Jesus Christ said: “Come and see.” (John 1:39) “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) “Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal lif
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Why God Told Abraham To KILL His Son | Genesis 22:1-18
If God let you suffer, or asked you to do something that made no sense and broke your heart, would you assume He'd turned against you? That's exactly the question the story of Abraham and Isaac forces open. God gave Abraham one son after decades of waiting, then told him to take that son up a...
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#92 Humans on Mars Will Become a NEW Species - Mars Biologist Dr Scott Solomon
Please double check you're subscribed, thank you❤️ Mars Biologist Dr Scott Solomon Reveals Why A Child Born On Mars May Never Come Home To Earth, How We've Already Created Alien Life In Space, And The One Thing That Decides If We Survive On Mars That No One Is Funding. Please double check you're...
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#91 im unemployed but God has made me rich
This one's just me, no guest, working through where my faith actually is right now. I've just finished university, I'm unemployed, a couple thousand pounds into my overdraft, and I quit my weekend job cleaning toilets, and somehow I've never felt richer. That's where I start: why real wealth has...
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#90 WW2 Expert: AI Is ARMING Holocaust Deniers - Paul Woodadge (Round 2)
D-Day historian Paul Woodadge reveals what really happened on the only British soil the Nazis ever occupied, why the "good German" war heroes were a myth invented after the war, and how AI is now flooding our feeds with fake Holocaust and D-Day stories that are arming deniers. Paul Woodadge is a...
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#89 If You Worry About Tomorrow, You NEED To Hear This
I used to think my anxiety was just a habit I needed to manage. Reading the Sermon on the Mount made me realise something harder to accept: that my worrying was a sin in itself, because it showed I didn't actually trust the plan God had given me. This episode sits on two lines from Matthew…
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#88 Exercise Scientist: Your Muscles Make a Drug Doctors Can't Prescribe!
Coach Alex (Alex Van Houten) is a genome-sequenced exercise scientist who studied chemical engineering and psychology at Vanderbilt, has trained CIA operatives, and has spent 20 years coaching people back to strength. He also lives with Ehlers-Danlos, a genetic connective-tissue disorder doctors...
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The REAL Reason Elon Just Quit on Mars & Copied Bezos - Scott Manley
Veteran astrophysicist with 1.8 million subscribers Scott Manley reveals why Elon Musk abruptly abandoned Mars for the Moon, why Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin have been quietly positioned for lunar dominance for years, and why China could beat them both by 2030. Scott Manley is a Scottish-American...
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#87 St. Paul: The REAL Reason We Still Sin | The Letters of Paul: Colossians
Two thousand years ago, the Apostle Paul wrote a letter from a Roman prison cell to a group of Christians he had never met, and buried inside it was a single question that still breaks modern life today. He asked: "Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why…
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#86 Rewilding Expert: Why Britain Is Too Immature To Bring Wolves Back!
Rewilding Expert Steve Carver Reveals Why Britain Is The Only Major European Country Without Wolves, How 1% Of People Block The Wildlife Coming Back, And Why He'll Be Dead Before We're "Mature Enough" To Live With Predators Again. Wilderness scientist Steve Carver has spent 30 years mapping the...
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What Jesus Said About Worry Changed My Life
This is episode 84 but it got removed! As a teenager, I spent hours obsessing over what I looked like, what I was wearing, whether girls found me attractive, and whether I fit in. I tried to soothe it in nature, then in the gym, then in building this podcast and planning my career, and every time...
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#85 Germany’s 1st Female Astronaut: Space Was Only For Experts, That Era Is Over.
Germany's First Female Astronaut Rabea Rogge on What Liftoff Actually Does to Your Body, Why Space Is No Longer Only For Experts, And The 200-Person Rule For Starting a Society on Mars. She boarded a SpaceX Dragon atop a Falcon 9 in the middle of a lightning storm and didn't believe it was real...
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#83: FRAM2 Astronaut: I Was The First Human To Orbit Both Poles, And It Nearly Broke Me! - Eric Philips
Polar Explorer & FRAM2 Astronaut Eric Philips Reveals What It's Really Like To Be Charged By A Polar Bear, The 6 Hours That Nearly Killed His Partner On Arctic Ice, And The Billionaire Text That Made Him The First Human To Orbit Both Poles on SpaceX’s FRAM2 Mission. Eric Philips is one of the...
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#82: Space Expert Scott Manley: Starlink, Artemis, SpaceX, NASA, Starship, Blue Origin & Mars
The Internet's #1 Rocket Scientist Scott Manley Reveals SpaceX's 1 Million Satellite Plan, The Internet Is One Collision Away From Collapse, And Why China Will Beat America Back To The Moon. Scott Manley is an astrophysicist, ex-Apple engineer and one of the world's most-watched space educators...
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The REAL Reason AI Will Never Be Conscious - Anil Seth
World leading neuroscientist and bestselling author of Being You, Professor Anil Seth, explained why AI will almost certainly never be conscious, and why the single metaphor driving the entire debate is fundamentally broken. He argued that consciousness is "more like digestion than flight," that...
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The REAL Reason The US President Joined The KKK
A KKK historian explains why the most feared hate group in American history was once as popular as the Freemasons, and why its iconic hood was designed to stop people making their own. Full episode with Kristofer Allerfedlt: https://youtu.be/-WnsZGSYRUk KKK historian and academic Kristofer...
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#81: Oxford Historian: Your Vote Doesn't Matter! The Greeks Would Call Your Democracy An Oligarchy!
Watson-Howland | Episode 81: The ancient Greeks invented democracy. Oxford classics lecturer Steve Kershaw says they'd look at your government and call it an oligarchy. An outsider looked at Rome and said "that city is for sale, and if it finds a buyer, it's doomed." 2,000 years later, the same...
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#80: Men's Mental Health Pastor: The Lie That's Targeting & Destroying Young Men Right Now! - Bill Perkins
A world-leading pastor and mens mental health expert surveyed 5,000 men & found the one lie destroying them from the inside. This is what he discovered. Bill Perkins is the bestselling Author of "When Good Men Get Angry”, former Senior Pastor of 24 Years and founder of Million Mighty Men. 00:00...
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#79: ‘AI Stole My Book’ Ex-Disney Exec on the $1.5B Copyright Fight (What Creatives Must Know About AI) - Adam Leipzig
AI is already training on your work, without asking, without paying, and without waiting for you to catch up. Former Disney and National Geographic executive Adam Leipzig had his own book scraped into an AI model, and he's here to tell you exactly what creatives must do before it's too late. Adam...
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#78: Jesus' Bones Would Destroy Christianity: PhD Geomythologist Exposes The Dark Truth Experts Ignore - Timothy Burbery
Ancient myths aren't superstition, they're survival manuals. Geo-mythologist Timothy Burbery has spent his career proving that the stories your civilization dismissed as legend are actually encoded records of real catastrophes, real people, and real miracles. Timothy Burbery is a Marshall...
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#77: Why Real Connection Is So Rare (And How to Find It) - Ashlee Raymond
Why does real connection feel so rare, and what does hiding from yourself actually cost you? Ashlee Raymond is a writer, PA student, and published poet at 25 who's amassed thousands of Substack readers in just six months by saying what nobody else will. She's lived through elite-level figure...
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#76: How to Grow on Substack & Feel Less Lost in Your 20s - Sydney Rheeder
How do you find your true self in your twenties when school, social media, and everyone else's timeline are pulling you in every direction? Sydney Rheeder, South African writer, designer, and creator of for the record®, one of Substack's fastest-growing personal essays newsletters, gets brutally...
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The 3 T's That Attract Women - Dr Robert Glover
The "Three T's" of attraction: Touch, Tell, and Tease. Dr. Robert Glover, author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, explains why most men self-censor their natural impulses around women, how anxiety becomes contagious and kills attraction, and why attachment to outcomes is the root of all dating anxiety....
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#75: WW2's Secret Story: The Scientists Who Starved for the Future - Simon Parkin
During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, scientists guarded a collection of 250,000 seeds as their city starved, and some chose to die rather than eat them. Award-winning journalist and author Simon Parkin reveals the full untold story. Simon Parkin is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and…
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The CIA Created Mind-Controlled Assassins & Then Buried the Evidence - Dr Colin Ross
The CIA deliberately created split personalities in real human beings as spy weapons, and it's all in declassified documents. Psychiatrist Dr Colin Ross breaks down how MK Ultra and Project Bluebird used Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) to manufacture Manchurian candidates: operatives who...
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#74: Islam vs Christianity Debate: Did Jesus Really Die? - John Bellaimey
Islam says Jesus didn't die. Christianity says he did. TED educator John Bellaimey reveals what the scriptures actually say — and it's not what you'd expect. The biggest question dividing Islam and Christianity: did Jesus actually die on the cross? John Bellaimey, author, former academic, and...
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The Formula I Told Chris Williamson To Attract Women - Dr Robert Glover
What makes women viscerally attracted to men? Dr. Robert Glover, relationship expert and author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, shares the three-part masculine energy formula that went viral after Chris Williamson spread it to Alex Hormozi, Mark Manson, and millions of men worldwide: be comfortable in...
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The Dark Rise & Fall of The KKK - Kristofer Allerfeldt
Why did 10% of white Americans join the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and how did President Harry Truman become a secret member? Dr. Kristofer Allerfeldt, University of Exeter historian and author of The Full History of the Ku Klux Klan, reveals shocking truths about America's most notorious hate...
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#72: Anil Seth: Why AI Will NEVER Be Conscious
If we give AI rights because we think it's conscious, we lose the ability to control it… the dangerous illusion explained by a consciousness expert. Professor Anil Seth is one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being...
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#71: Dr Lara Boyd: Man Lives with 90% Brain Missing, Advantage of ADHD & Autism, Mystery of Consciousness & Sleep’s Effect on Learning
Neuroscientist and physical therapist Dr. Lara Boyd explains why there is no such thing as a “normal brain,” how neuroplasticity reshapes us across life, and why struggle and sleep are the real drivers of change in our brains. In this episode, she and Jacob explore neurodivergence, learning…
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More Medicine Doesn't Make You Healthier - Robin Hanson
Medicine often acts less like a health intervention and more like an expensive way to show love and concern, according to Robin Hanson’s “conspicuous caring” hypothesis. Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of The Elephant in the Brain…
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#70: Olivia Gambelin: AI Ethics & Life of an AI CEO
Silicon Valley has become 'stale.' AI ethicist Olivia Gambelin reveals why innovation is now iteration, and what needs to change before the bubble pops. AI ethics expert Olivia Gambelin reveals why most companies are getting AI wrong, and how understanding human values, not just technology, is…
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Matt Ridley: The UK is Committing Economic S*icide
Britain now has the most expensive electricity costs for both domestic and industrial consumers of any major nation, and it's killing economic growth, warns Matt Ridley, bestselling science writer and author of The Rational Optimist. Lord Matt Ridley is a British science journalist, former...
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#69: How Corporations Manipulate You Into Blaming Yourself | Nick Chater (pt. 2)
Stop blaming yourself. Corporations spent billions making you think environmental collapse is your fault. Here's the systemic truth. Corporations like BP invented the concept of the "carbon footprint" to shift climate responsibility onto individuals and away from systemic change, reveals…
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What Is A Dark Empath? (Most Dangerous Personality Type)
20% of people are 'dark empaths’, highly empathetic manipulators who use understanding as a weapon. Are you dealing with one? Full episode: https://youtu.be/1QwnglrWWzE Dark empaths are individuals with elevated psychopathic, narcissistic, and Machiavellian traits combined with high cognitive...
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7 Secret Rules of Power - Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford)
Is it safer to be feared than loved? Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, an expert in organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, dives deep into power dynamics and success strategies. Learn why avoiding being hated can propel you in leadership roles and how over-concern about others' opinions…
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#68: Our 74 Emotions Exposed: Love, Hate, Reputation & AI - Psychologist Rob Kurzban
Love, hate, embarrassment, every emotion has an evolutionary job. This psychologist identified all 74 and their survival functions. Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Rob Kurzban reveals the hidden evolutionary reasons behind our 74 distinct emotions (from love and hate to embarrassment and cuteness...
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Stanford Professor: Why Donald Trump & Dictators Win Elections
Why do controversial leaders like Donald Trump, Victor Orban, and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. maintain power despite their actions? Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of 'Seven Rules of Power', reveals the psychological tactics behind political influence and how power truly works in the real...
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Norman Ohler: How Meth Helped Nazis Conquer France in 11 Days | Hidden WWII History
What role did methamphetamine play in the extraordinary military success of the German Blitzkrieg during World War II? Historian and author Norman Ohler delves into the critical impact of this powerful drug on soldiers, detailing how 35 million doses were distributed within the German army and…
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6 Years in Nature Didn't Fix My Anxiety: This Did
I spent 6 years escaping to nature to fix my anxiety. It never worked. Here's what actually cured my anxiety at 21. Anxiety in young men doesn't get fixed by going to nature. It's a temporary escape that suppresses your masculine energy instead of releasing it productively. Jacob, a 21-year-old...
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Why Are Young Guys Going to Church & the Gym Instead of Partying? | W. Keith Campbell
Are today's youth finding their path to health through fitness and a return to church? W. Keith Campbell, a renowned psychologist and expert in narcissism, delves into contemporary trends in social behavior, fitness, and spirituality. Expect to learn about the cultural shift towards gym-going and...
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#67: Chris Brewster: Why TikTok Relationship Advice Is Wrong
TikTok relationship advice is destroying your dating life.. Christian Brewster (writer, culture commentator, and creator of the Substack publication ~interrupted~) breaks down why social media platforms are the worst place to get relationship guidance and what you should do instead. We expose the...
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Hitler on Drugs: What Historians Don't Tell You - Norman Ohler
What drove Adolf Hitler to become dependent on drugs? How did his addiction impact his leadership and health? Bestselling author Norman Ohler Reveals Hitler's Hidden Addiction: From Vitamins to Speedballs. He exposes the shocking truth about Hitler's drug use from 1936 to 1945. Learn how the Nazi...
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Entrepreneur Who Hit Zero Twice Exposes What Nobody Tells You About Going Broke - Kevin Fedor
“I hit zero twice as an entrepreneur. The second time hurt worse than the first. Here's what nobody warned me about going broke in business.” Kevin Fedor hit zero twice as an entrepreneur and lived to expose the unsexy truth about going broke in business that success stories conveniently skip. As…
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Was Einstein a Fraud? Harvard’s Avi Loeb Exposes His 3 Major Errors!
Einstein Was Wrong About Black Holes, Gravitational Waves & Quantum Mechanics | Avi Loeb Explains Full Episode: https://youtu.be/OrPzbP5i4mM Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb breaks down Albert Einstein's three biggest scientific mistakes between 1935–1940 at Princeton's Institute for Advanced…
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#65: Norman Ohler: Hitler’s Meth Blitzkrieg: The Nazi Secret WW2 Historians Ignore
Nazi drug use wasn’t just “a detail”. It shaped Blitzkrieg speed, soldier psychology, Hitler’s inner circle and the Führer himself. Nazi drug use shaped WWII in ways most people still don’t realize, and Norman Ohler, bestselling author of Blitzed and Tripped, joins me to expose how Pervitin,...
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#64: Sting's Story: Why He Left The Police at Their Peak (Full Biography)
Sting & The Police went from playing to 6 people on his first American performance (broke, on welfare, with a wife and baby) to selling out stadiums with The Police and selling 100 million records worldwide. This deep dive into Sting's biography reveals the brutal years of rejection between...
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Bertie Gregory: Why You Suck At Networking & How to Improve
Networking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them with Bertie Gregory What common mistakes do people make when networking or looking for mentors? Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory sheds light on the importance of forming genuine connections and offers practical tips for successful networking. Expect to...
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#63: Feeling Trapped? How to Leave Your Old Life & Travel the World (2026) - Rolf Potts
Vagabonding isn’t “quitting life”, it’s a practical long-term travel mindset for anyone who wants more freedom, less fear, and more time-rich living. Rolf Potts is a travel writer and bestselling author of Vagabonding (the modern classic on extended travel). What’s the biggest thing keeping you...
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How Evolution Influences Our Desires & Mate Preferences | Dr. Catherine Salmon
Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Catherine Salmon discusses how evolution shapes our desires, attractions, and mate preferences. She delves into sex differences in mate selection, including the traits that make males and females more attractive to each other and the importance of these traits in the...
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#62: Harvard Physicist: Neil deGrasse Tyson Can’t Criticise My Alien 3I/ATLAS Theory! - Avi Loeb
Harvard Physicist Avi Loeb reveals why Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox & NASA gets the 3I/ATLAS alien theory wrong and exposes the "echo chamber" problem in modern science. As the head of the Galileo Project, Loeb argues we must stop listening to "commentators" and start searching for…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Honest questions about Christianity, from a former nihilist and atheist who became a Christian in 2026.
Featuring Dr John Lennox (Oxford mathematician), Jim Cantrell (SpaceX co-founder), Justin Brierley (host of Think Faith), Tyler Cowen (bestselling economist), Hans Koenigsmann (SpaceX VP of Flight Reliability), Prof. Anil Seth (world-leading neuroscientist), Sepp Hochreiter (inventor of LSTM, a foundation of modern AI) and 100+ more leading experts.
Hosted by Jacob Watson-Howland: British award-winning, BBC-featured photographer, one of Europe's fastest-growing under-22 podcasters and, more importantly, a former nihilist and atheist who became a Christian in 2026.
Jesus Christ said:
“Come and see.” (John 1:39)
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
“Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal lif
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Jacob J. Watson-Howland
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