Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We sit down with Dr. Ken Atchity at his home in California. Ken started his adult life on an academic stream and he eventually became what he personally dreaded: a tenured professor. But, shortly after his tenure-ship, he decided to breakup with his career and start anew. Already an author, Ken decided to write screenplays and produce films – not ever looking back for over 30 years. as been producing films since 1996. We talk about his thoughts on competition, c...
Aug 19, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 220
Ralph Blumenthal joins us today from his office in NYC. Ralph is a Distinguished Lecturer, an Award-Winning Reporter and Journalist for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and a writer on organized crime and cultural history. He also is known for co-authoring the now famous NY Times article in 2017 along with Leslie Kean and Helene Cooper that broke the door open on the secret AATIP program. He and Kean followed that up in 2023 with their breaking story on David Grusch and the details of a sec...
Jul 22, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 219
Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran before being selected for the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1” within Project Stargate, the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena, conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and the founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he teaches Remote Viewing at The Monroe Institute, a leading center for exp...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 218
For Rudy + Nick, part 1, see ep 211. For one-on-one episodes with Nick see ep 207. With Rudy, see ep 179, 186, 192, 195, 196, 204. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This is a continuing series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Nick - a prolific journalist and author - joins us from his home in the UK. Rudy – a preeminent astrophysicist and a self-described “hopeless astronomer” – joins us from his place in Massachusetts. This is the second meeting between the two. Explor...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 217
Our chat today is with Dr. Kevin Knuth, who joins us from Albany. He is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY). He is a former NASA research scientist designing artificial intelligence algorithms for astrophysical data analysis. His current research interests include the foundations of physics, quantum information, autonomous robotics, the search for and characterization of extrasolar planets, and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Like any good scientist, Kevin is truly int...
Jun 17, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 216
Joe McMoneagle was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate . Project Stargate was the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications Inc. Today, he also teaches Remote Viewing a...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 215
Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We chat with Fr. Sean O’Laoire, joining us from his mountain side home in California. We delight in the dance with this conversation. Sean has a background in math, a PhD in transpersonal psychology, he speaks multiple languages and is an ordained catholic priest. We learn about his experience living in Africa, cataloging hundreds of Gaelic proverbs, dealing with death threats from politicians, receiving that letter from the Vatican and everything in between. We...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Dave Salmoni has been a television host, producer, zoologist, animal and animal/adventure expert. His work has ranged from wildlife and adventure, to competition reality, talk show expert and a regular on news outlets for everything and anything animal. Dave is forever that boy with a fascination for large predator cats and he easily enchants your host with his big cat stories. In his early 20s Dave picked up and left for South Africa to work on re-wilding tigers. There, his life changed forever...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 213
We are speaking with Paco Calvo, who joins us from Southern Spain. Paco Calvo is a renowned cognitive scientist and a philosopher of biology, known for his groundbreaking research in the field of plant cognition and intelligence. At the University of Murcia he leads the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), focusing on the study of minimal cognition in plants. He is the author of Planta Sapiens . At his lab he studies the ecological basis of plant intelligence by conducting experimental studies a...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 212
For earlier one-on-one episodes with Nick see ep 207. With Rudy, see ep 179 , 186, 192, 195, 196, 204. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. This is the second of a series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Nick - a prolific journalist and author - joins us from his home in the UK. Rudy - a preeminent astrophysicist – joins us from his place in Massachusetts. This is the first meeting between the two and as expected, it was a fun one. Rudy unpacks his groundbreaking work on b...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 211
This episode is part 4 in our series with Joe McMoneagle. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1″ within Project Stargate. Project Stargate was the United States’ first organized research into psychic phenomena via the Defense Intelligence Agency and contractor SRI International. He is an author and also founder of Intuitive Intelligence Application...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 210
We speak with Dr. Kim Penberthy today who joined us from the University of Virginia. Kim wears many hats. She is a professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is also a board certified clinical psychologist and conducts research, teaches, and provides clinical care at UVA in psychiatry and the cancer center. She also studies and researches after death communication. She lived on a farm in a house that witnessed Civil War strife, with...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 209
We are sitting down with Antonio Cupo at his home in Vancouver. Antonio grew up in Vancouver and early in his career he spent many years in Italy as a lead actor in one of the most popular TV drama shows in Italian TV history – Elisa di Rivombrosa . But, that was just a start. We explore some great human themes in our conversation – the meaning of “immedesimarsi”, using “ as ifs ” to explore, performing the experience while reliving it, acting from pictures in your head, the power in losing the ...
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Nick Cook is the best-selling author of The Hunt For Zero Point and has been a writer for almost 4 decades, with 25 books to his name. Nick started his career as a journalist – where he first learned to ask the question: what am I now being shown ? In this conversation, we dive head first -- into what we are, living in a simulation, sea monsters, a profound shared death experience, Edgar Mitchell’s telepathy experiment while on the moon, Nick’s relationship with Ingo Swann. We also discuss imagi...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Dr. Salima Ikram is an Egyptologist and Archeologist. Thanks for joining Behind Greatness. We recorded this chat “coincidentally” on the opening day of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), October 16 2024. Salima graciously joined us from Cairo to have this conversation that day. Salima decided on Egyptology at age 8 and “hasn’t grown up since”. We learn about experimental archeology, puppy farms, slavery, cattle vs elephants and Egyptian cocktails. Salima brings us through her fascination with mumm...
Jan 21, 2025•43 min•Season 1Ep. 206
Andrea Lani is an aerospace scientist and engineer. Andrea has had experience working with NASA, NATO and the von Karmen Institute and he is now working on an EU project to develop a leading-edge shielding prototype for space vehicles. Andrea had an experience as a young boy viewing an object in space that he could not explain. He decided to dedicate his adult life to academic and practical scientific exploration to help inform him on the technology that he witnessed as that little boy. As a lif...
Jan 08, 2025•53 min•Season 1Ep. 205
This is the first of a series of talks where we host two luminaries in one conversation. Garry from the West Coast and Rudy from the East Coast and both preeminent scientists and explorers in their field. This is the first meeting between the two and as expected, they go big. Fast. We talk the purpose of the universe, non human intelligence, the question of God, speciation, artificial intelligence, “extranormal”, the re-wiring of the brain, horse whispering, spiralling brain waves, orbs, inside ...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Today we chat with Marco Vigato from his home in Mexico City. Marco works as a business executive, born and bred in Italy, educated also at Harvard and now working in Mexico City. He was also featured in Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse . Why? He has dedicated his time over the last 15+ years exploring archeological sites all over the world, charting uncharted ruins and documenting evidence of ancient advanced civilizations – in the ultimate search for our origins. Part of his current work is the ex...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 203
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We reconnect with Matt, who last was on the podcast in February 2021 (episode 43). Matt brings us up to speed on his developing creation – building an ecosystem of football (soccer) clubs from Europe and the USA, under his new subsidiary Club Underdog . Matt is now an owner of European football clubs Campobasso FC and Dagenha...
Nov 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 202
Today, we talk to the world’s only well-known “tattoo hunter”. Lars is an Anthropologist and has been always uniquely curious about the stories of and behind the ancient ways of tattooing around the world in indigenous tradition. Lars brings us through his fascination with tattoo culture he’s researched over the last 20 years with his extensive travels to remote communities in South East Asia, India, Africa and South America. We talk about the world famous centenarian tattoo artist Whang Od in t...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 201
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode is part 3 of a developing series with Joe. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1" within Project Stargate . Project Stargate was the United States' fi...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 200
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode is part 2 of a developing series with Joe. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer No. 1" within Project Stargate . Project Stargate was the United States' fi...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 199
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Thanks again for joining us at Behind Greatness. This episode was recorded with Joe in June 2024 and is part 1 of a developing series with Joe. Joe was a US Army intelligence veteran already before he was chosen to be a part of the psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1978. He became known as “Remote Viewer #001" within Project Stargate . Proj...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 198
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Thank you for listening to Behind Greatness . We talk today with Michael Cremo from his home in LA. Michael is best known for his research and work in authoring a global best-seller in the 1990s: Forbidden Archeology . He brings us through his journey of an exploratory life starting with his youth spent as the son of an air-force intelligence officer. We talk ...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 197
For Rudy, part 1 to part 4 please visit episodes #179, #186, #192 and 195. To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez &a...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 196
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors For Rudy, part 1, part 2 and part 3 please visit episodes #179, #186 and #192. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernande...
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 195
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors Welcome back to Behind Greatness. Today we are speaking with Dimitry from his office in Estonia. In this conversation we are treated to a battle-ridden, caterpillar to butterfly story. Dimitry brings us through his ideas formed through his experience living under a Communist regime to a zealous video gaming obsession to selling books door-to-door to building a...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Welcome back to Behind Greatness! We’re back with another fun episode with a fun guy – actor, Sergio Di Zio. What don’t we talk about here? Sergio brings us through the moment where the “pope” declared that he become an actor at age 18. We hear about a once painfully shy kid who uses audacity, the monster at the end of the book and letting go of story to carve through the universe and to be delightfully entangled within it. We talk destroying and building lives. We talk piercing words of a lovin...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 193
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. For Rudy, part 1 and part 2, please have a listen to episode #179 and #186. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are back again with Rudy. Rudy is a pre-eminent expert on black holes and a world-renowned Astrophysicist from Harvard, practising in the field since the mid-1960s. He is also the co-Founder of FREE / CCRI (see co-Founder past guests Rey Hernandez ...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 192
To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https://behindgreatness.org . As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors. Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We are joined today by Shehnaz Soni. Shehnaz is an Aerospace engineer for NASA and is currently working on the 1st ever human landing system – slated to be part of the Artemis moon mission in 2026. We are immediately touched by Shehnaz’s sparkle. She has a marvelous story that starts with a closed religious upbringing, to an ...
Jun 20, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 191
