The Cosmic Tusk

Welcome to The Cosmic Tusk, hosted by George Howard. This is a podcast where we uncover the mysteries of ancient cultures and delve deep into the wisdom of old.

The Cosmic Tusk is a history podcast hosted by George Howard, with 55 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Lost Egyptian Library Matt La Croix Believes Is Still Down There

  Aug 17, 20261h 30m

  Matt La Croix, independent researcher and author of The Missing Key, joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk to introduce the Lost Civilisations Database, launched the day before this recording, and to walk through two decades of fieldwork tracing a repeating symbolic code across ancient sites worldwide. Matt's core thesis is that a genuinely advanced civilisation, predating the conventional 6,500 to 7,000 year Mesopotamian origin point for civilisation, encoded its complete knowledge system into architecture and symbols specifically so it would survive its own destruction. He traces the origin to the Van region of eastern Turkey, connecting it to the Sumerian Ziusudra flood tradition, and describes finding the same repeated symbols, most notably a distinctive T-shaped form, embedded in temple layouts at Gobekli Tepe, the Sphinx and Valley Temples in Egypt, sites in Menorca, Cambodia, Peru, and Bolivia. The LCD applies strict scientific criteria before any site qualifies for inclusion, developed with geologists and archaeologists: monumental precision, advanced hard stone use, distinct construction phases, unresolved chronology or engineering questions, and repeated architectural or symbolic patterns. George pushes back directly on one point: if this civilisation pursued harmony, why does so much of what followed feel defined by war and empire. Matt's answer is specific: no site associated with what he calls this lost knowledge system depicts warfare, with a single documented exception, Plato's account of Atlantis becoming corrupted and fighting the proto-Athenians near the very end of its existence. His broader framework holds that beginning around the Age of Pisces, roughly 2,000 years ago on his estimate, successive civilisations became inverted shadow versions of an original balanced template, a pattern he sees echoed later in secret societies including the Knights Templar, who he believes were protecting fragments of the same suppressed knowledge, work he connects to events surrounding Leonardo da Vinci's era. The conversation closes on a shared vision: Matt is building new educational offerings, including a class called Transformation into the Higher Self, alongside collaborations with Randall Carlson on sacred geometry, framing the entire project as a revival of mystery school education for the modern era. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction: Matt La Croix and the Missing Key 01:35 Origin story: an Indian head penny at age seven 04:16 Early travels and the shift from history enthusiast to researcher 07:12 Defining mystery schools: Plato to Lao Tzu 11:34 The multifaceted approach: establishing the lost time period first 14:00 The LCD's scientific criteria for site inclusion 16:40 Introducing the Van region and the two-year-old excavation 26:34 The T-shaped symbol across Gobekli Tepe, Egypt, and Menorca 27:26 George's critical question: why does harmony precede empire and war 28:32 The single exception: Atlantis and the corruption at the end 30:21 Early successor civilisations trying to imitate the original template 31:09 The Knights Templar and the Age of Pisces corruption thesis 01:24:49 Evil, darkness, and humanity as creators rather than consumers 01:27:31 Cosmograms, upcoming collaborations, and the LCD launch 01:29:15 Closing thoughts: a civilisation with amnesia **GUESTS** Matt La Croix — [https://thestageoftime.com/] **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #MattLaCroix #LostCivilizationsDatabase #GeorgeHoward #CosmicTusk #GobekliTepe #Atlantis #MysterySchools #AncientKnowledge

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  Six Researchers, One Grant, and the Carolina Flu

  Aug 10, 20261h 12m

  George Howard and author Jim Haslam sit down for their second in-depth conversation, following their joint attendance at the July 29th Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing where Dr. Anthony Fauci testified under subpoena. Both wore Carolina blue in a nod to George's alma mater, and their appearance drew national television coverage. This is their account of what they know, what they have documented, and what they are actively bringing to the attention of investigators. Jim Haslam is the author of Covid-19 Mystery Solved and writes the Substack Reverse Engineering the Origins of SARS-CoV-2, which he has published since 2022. He describes himself as a second generation lab leak researcher, pulled in after a 2021 leak by Major Joseph Murphy of a document called Defuse, in which Jim says University of North Carolina professor Ralph Baric proposed constructing a SARS-like genome roughly 25% different from SARS-1 for testing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Jim's account names a small circle he believes were involved, centred on Ralph Baric in Chapel Hill and Vincent Munster at Rocky Mountain Lab, with researchers Danielle Anderson and Linfa Wang connected through Duke-NUS in Singapore. Jim's central claim is that this was not a deliberate weapon but an accident arising from a self-spreading bat vaccine research program, and that January 10th, 2020, the date the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published, is the bright line after which he believes documented obfuscation began, evidenced by University of North Carolina emails obtained through public records requests showing Baric, Wang, and Peter Daszak discussing how to publicly frame lab leak concerns as a conspiracy theory. George brings his own perspective as a UNC graduate with institutional ties, describing the personal weight of investigating an alma mater he loves, and notes that reception among fellow alumni has been more supportive than he expected. He and Jim both express frustration that this story, despite its significance now being aired in a Senate committee, has received minimal coverage from local outlets like the Raleigh News & Observer. George and Jim emphasise this is an active, ongoing investigation being taken seriously by relevant authorities, and this conversation represents Jim's documented research and analysis rather than a final legal conclusion. CHAPTERS 00:10 Introduction: the Fauci hearing and Jim Haslam's background 02:32 George's connection to the University of North Carolina 03:26 Jim's Substack and how his lab leak theory differs from others 05:08 The Defuse leak and what drew Jim into the investigation 08:00 The six names Jim believes were central to the research 09:29 Introducing Danielle Anderson and her role at the Wuhan BSL-4 13:22 The Defuse grant and the plan to test on wild-caught bats 23:23 Egyptian fruit bats as proxies and the shipment between labs 26:03 Why pigs were not used and the reasoning behind bat vaccination 28:41 January 10th, 2020: the bright line and what happened after 1:05:28 University of North Carolina's document releases and what remains withheld 1:06:50 Personal reflections: friends, family, and institutional reception 1:11:48 Closing thoughts GUESTS Jim Haslam — @ReverseEngineeringCovidOrigins https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Mystery-Solved-leaked-Chinese/dp/B0DLVDB9CL ABOUT TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. FOLLOW TTN NEWS [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #GeorgeHoward #JimHaslam #CosmicTusk #Covid19Origins #LabLeak #RalphBaric #SenateHearing

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  The Younger Dryas Impact Evidence Has Reached Africa

  Aug 3, 20261h 36m

  Dr. Francis Thackeray of South Africa joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk with new evidence extending the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis to a continent that has never contributed direct data before. George opens by addressing the pseudo smear directly, then walks through Thackeray's distinguished background: Cape Town, Yale, and decades directing South African research institutions. At Wonderkrater, a peat deposit in Limpopo Province, Thackeray and paleobotanist Louis Scott found a platinum spike recalibrated to 12,809 years, matching the signature from eleven North American sites and joining a growing global list. Iridium and osmium accompanied it, alongside megafauna extinctions and stone tool changes at the same boundary. The headline finding is the Thackeray syllogism, developed in response to a study connecting a Greenland sulfate spike to the Younger Dryas onset roughly 45 years before the platinum signature. Thackeray questions that dating precision and proposes instead that the impact triggered the volcanism directly, possibly within a day, pointing to the Hiawatha Glacier crater's suspiciously fresh rim as supporting evidence. The conversation also covers the late oceanographer Wallace Broecker, once a fierce critic who reversed his position after seeing the platinum data, and the peer review battle behind getting this research published. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction and the pseudo smear 01:04 Age six: micrometeorites and the start of a career 04:57 Career background 08:12 Introducing Wonderkrater 11:29 The 2019 platinum prediction 34:48 Comparing to North American sites 43:53 The spike confirmed at 12,809 years 53:04 Megafauna extinctions 1:03:00 The sulfate spike discrepancy 1:07:31 The Thackeray syllogism 1:12:02 Wallace Broecker's reversal 1:35:32 Closing thoughts **GUESTS** Dr. Francis Thackeray — [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francis-Thackeray] Read the full paper from Dr Francis Thackeray and the CRG team here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/408503477_Extraterrestrial_Nanoparticle_Signatures_at_the_Younger_Dryas_Boundary_12800_years_ago_from_Wonderkrater_South_Africa **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet and the deep human past still buried in the ground. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #FrancisThackeray #Wonderkrater #YoungerDryas #GeorgeHoward #CosmicTusk #PlatinumSpike #Catastrophism

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  COVID COVERUP? A Marine Found It Buried in a Classified Folder.

  Aug 2, 20261h 58m

  Jim Haslam is the author of Covid-19 Mystery Solved, and his thesis is exactly what the title says: he believes the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is documented, traceable, and confirmed by the genomic evidence and by a 2018 proposal that Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina wrote to DARPA in which he described creating the genome. George Howard sits down with Haslam for a full conversation covering the chain of researchers, institutions, and locations that connect Chapel Hill, North Carolina to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the document trail that Haslam argues amounts to a confession. The DARPA Defuse document, a public grant proposal that ended up in a top secret folder and was leaked by Marine Joseph Murphy in 2021, describes Baric's plan to create a chimeric coronavirus genome approximately 25% different from SARS-1, insert a furin cleavage site, and provide it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing on Chinese horseshoe bats. SARS-CoV-2 arrived at 24.7% divergence with a furin cleavage site, which is the only one found in any SARS-like virus. When the US government asked Baric in January 2020 whether the genome looked engineered, he said no. He did not mention the furin cleavage site he had proposed to introduce. After the Defuse document leaked in 2021, he went stone cold quiet and never spoke to the press again. The aerosolisation trail leads to Rocky Mountain Lab in Hamilton, Montana, Tony Fauci's biodefense facility, where Vincent Munster ran experiments using serial passage in animals to make SARS-CoV-2 airborne. Of the 5,000 mammals on Earth, only five efficiently transmit SARS-CoV-2 through onward respiratory transmission, and all five were used in that lab. Haslam's closing read on Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan virologist known as the Bat Lady, who published RATG13, the closest known genomic match to SARS-CoV-2, is that she may have been acting as a whistleblower, publishing evidence that pointed back toward the American researchers and away from herself, and that future historians may see her as one of the bravest scientists of the era. Haslam frames all of this as his account, built from public documents, genomic analysis, and years of research. He has asked every virologist he can reach to prove him wrong. None have. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and George Howard's connection to the University of North Carolina 01:03 Jim Haslam's core thesis: Ralph Baric created SARS-CoV-2 02:20 How the chain begins: SARS-1, bat immunology, and the DARPA bid 04:15 The DARPA Defuse document: what it says and how it was found 06:49 Joseph Murphy, the top secret folder, and the leak to The Intercept ~15:00 The furin cleavage site: what it is and why it matters ~30:00 Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, and the funding chain ~45:00 Daniel Anderson, Duke-NUS, and the Singapore connection ~60:00 Rocky Mountain Lab, Vincent Munster, and the aerosolisation evidence ~90:00 The five mammals, serial passage, and the self-spreading vaccine design ~110:00 Shi Zhengli, RATG13, and Jim Haslam's case for her as a whistleblower 01:55:14 Closing thoughts and an open invitation to Ralph Baric GUESTS Jim Haslam — @ReverseEngineeringCovidOrigins (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCSVNSNjKyWl10WuhQsHKzyA) TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. FOLLOW TTN NEWS [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #JimHaslam #Covid19 #LabLeak #RalphBaric #DARPADefuse #SARS2 #CosmicTusk #GeorgeHoward #CovidOrigins

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  MH370 Didn't Crash. He Says It Was Teleported.

  Jul 20, 20261h 32m

  Ashton Forbes had no followers on X in 2023. He saw three videos online, recognised they might show Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and felt compelled to investigate. What that investigation has produced is, he argues, the most important unsolved case in modern history: proof that the United States government possesses and is actively hiding zero point energy technology, documented on camera during what appears to be a military operation on March 12th 2014, four days after MH370 disappeared. The videos show a Boeing 777 in thermal imaging, which is not unusual. What is not normal is what surrounds it in the final moments: three plasma orbs, which Ashton identifies as fusion reactors, orbiting the aircraft, converging into a perfect equilateral triangle formation, and then a flash, after which the plane is no longer in frame. Two different camera angles. All five UAP observables. Recorded by two MQ-9 Reaper drones, one from below the wake of the plane, one from above using the Gorgon Stare wide-area motion imaging system. The footage was posted on Twitter with a warning to watch before it gets deleted. The source was described as protected. The videos were stated to have been received March 12th 2014. The true crime investigation runs parallel to the physics. Ashton identified Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin of the VPU-2 Wizards, the US Navy's most secret surveillance squadron, as the most probable source of the leak. Lin joined the Wizards in February 2014, one month before MH370 disappeared. He was picked up by investigators April 2nd 2014, less than four weeks after the plane vanished. He was sentenced to nine years, despite the government never publicly disclosing what he leaked. His defence attorneys argued the evidence in question was available on the internet. People convicted of selling actual secrets to China for cash have received two years. The disproportion is what tells the story. The science underneath the footage is zero point energy: the real-world manifestation of wormhole, quantum tunneling, and quantum entanglement physics already derivable from Einstein's equations, using plasma and electromagnetism to create a bridge through an extra dimension and translocate an object. Space is not empty. That is what makes it possible. That is also what makes it a doomsday weapon. The Mansfield Amendment of 1970 moved all gravity research from the military to defence contractors, making it invisible to congressional oversight. The Invention Secrecy Act classifies technologies at the source. The concept of free energy is, Ashton believes, classified. The extra dimension is classified. And the reason is not national security in any conventional sense but existential: a technology that produces unlimited free energy is also a weapon that ends civilisation, and the people who have it have decided the public cannot be trusted with the knowledge that it exists. George Howard's closing read is the right one: either Ashton Forbes is intuitively reconstructing the deepest classified secrets in human history from publicly available information, or he is dead wrong and entertaining as hell. At this point in the investigation, the former is the harder case to dismiss. **CHAPTERS** 00:10 Introduction: Ashton Forbes and how the MH370 investigation began 01:13 The three videos: what they show and why they matter 02:09 The timeline: plane disappears March 8th, videos posted May 19th 02:56 Watch before it gets deleted: the leak's circumstances 04:52 The UFO observables and who was doing the recording 07:16 Two reveals: the science and the true crime 07:33 Zero point energy: the physics behind what the videos show 09:25 The true crime investigation begins: who leaked the footage 11:00 Edward Lin: VPU-2 Wizards, the timeline, and the congressional liaison role 14:00 Forbes.com appears: the mysterious website scraping all of Ashton's work 23:14 The plea deal and what Lin is not allowed to say 25:08 FOIA requests: what can still be obtained and what it would prove ~45:00 The Iran operation: a show of force and why it happened ~60:00 Classified physics: the Invention Secrecy Act, the Mansfield Amendment, and felony physics ~90:00 The factions of disclosure and why Ashton flips the table on all of them 01:26:01 Free will, classified reality, and the closing argument **GUESTS** Ashton Forbes — @justashton (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCXjvaBBKKFjDw56fEZxZsiw) **ABOUT** TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work. **FOLLOW TTN NEWS** [https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/] #TTNNews #AshtonForbes #MH370 #ZeroPointEnergy #EdwardLin #UAP #FreeEnergy #CosmicTusk #GeorgeHoward #ClassifiedPhysics #Disclosure #VPU2Wizards

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