The U.S. government holds real patents for putting voices in people’s heads — and thousands say it’s happening to them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli separate the real physics from psychiatry, internet lore, and outright fraud.

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Links for this episode:

• Auditory Effects of Microwave Radiation by James C. Lin (Springer, 2021)
• The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden (Morrow, 1985)
• A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America by John Hall (Strategic Book Publishing, 2009)
• Mike McPhate, “United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers,” The New York Times, June 10, 2016
• Sharon Weinberger, “Mind Games,” The Washington Post Magazine, January 14, 2007
• Allan H. Frey, “Human Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,” Journal of Applied Physiology 17 (1962)
• Kenneth R. Foster, David C. Garrett & Marvin C. Ziskin, “Can the Microwave Auditory Effect Be ‘Weaponized’?” Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021): 788613
• U.S. Army, Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons (1998; declassified 2006)
• Federation of American Scientists archive, “Voice to Skull Devices” (CALL thesaurus entry)
• U.S. Patent 4,877,027, Wayne B. Brunkan, “Hearing System” (1989)
• U.S. Patent 6,587,729, O’Loughlin and Loree, “Apparatus for Audibly Communicating Speech Using the Radio Frequency Hearing Effect” (2003)
• U.S. Patent 5,159,703, Oliver M. Lowery, “Silent Subliminal Presentation System” (1992)
• National Security Archive, “The Moscow Signals Declassified: Microwave Mysteries, Projects Pandora and Bizarre”
• Lorraine Sheridan and David V. James, “Complaints of Group-Stalking,” Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 26 (2015)
• U.S. Senate, Project MKULTRA, Joint Hearing, August 3, 1977

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Chapters:

• 0:00 – MYS425
• 0:43 – Hook: what if the voice in your head is real?
• 1:39 – The real origin of the tinfoil hat (Julian Huxley’s "The Tissue Culture King")
• 3:25 – Meet the targeted individuals (TIs)
• 4:31 – Case study: Timothy Trespas (*New York Times*, 2016)
• 6:02 – Case study: Harlan Girard and "the voices" (*Washington Post Magazine*, 2007)
• 10:54 – More TI accounts: a Phoenix mother and Dr. John Hall
• 12:54 – What is V2K, and where does the name come from?
• 14:22 – Related terms: microwave auditory effect, synthetic telepathy, silent sound, LRAD
• 15:59 – The Frey effect: Allan Frey’s 1962 discovery
• 18:13 – From clicks to speech: the 1973 Walter Reed demonstration
• 19:41 – The Moscow Signal and Project Pandora
• 23:08 – MKUltra and the precedent for non-consensual research
• 25:16 – Three key patents: Brunkan, O’Loughlin/Loree, and Lowery
• 30:02 – The Army’s own "voice to skull" thesaurus entry
• 32:00 – Other programs: BioEffects, Medusa, Active Denial System, and LRAD
• 34:20 – "Voice of God" operations and the Waco proposal
• 36:14 – Can the microwave auditory effect be weaponized? (Foster et al., 2021)
• 38:16 – Thank you to Patrons
• 38:47 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 40:08 – Reason Perspective: five theories of what’s really happening
• 41:17 – …what the physics actually permits
• 43:22 – …what the documentary record does and doesn’t establish
• 44:44 – …could silent sound technology explain it?
• 45:56 – …could LRAD explain it?
• 47:22 – …conventional medical and psychiatric explanations
• 49:51 – …gang stalking and the Sheridan and James study
• 52:08 – …when belief turns to violence: Aaron Alexis and Myron May
• 54:14 – …how widespread is this really?
• 57:23 – …why so many people believe it’s happening to them
• 59:53 – Faith Perspective: is it ever moral to use V2K?
• 1:03:14 – …how to respond when someone says they’re hearing voices
• 1:04:44 – ★ – Bottom Line
• 1:06:27 – ★ – Further Resources
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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 5 June 2026 to 9 June 2026.

Homilies

• 7 June 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Spain’ Holy Mass in the ‘Plaza de Cibeles’ (Madrid)
• 9 June 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Spain’ Midday Prayer in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia (Barcelona)

Letters

• 5 June 2026 – Letter from the Holy Father, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, to His Eminence Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell on the occasion of the meeting on the Pastoral Care of the Elderly (5 June

Messages

• 7 June 2026 – Video Message of the Holy Father on the Occasion of the 6th World Apostolic Congress on Mercy on the Theme ‘Let Us Build the City of Mercy’ [Vilnius, Lithuania, 7–12 June 2026]

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The coup is underway on Bajor, and **Minister Jaro’s** face is finally on it. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler break down Part 2 of Deep Space Nine’s season-opening trilogy — the episode that turns the political intrigue of “The Homecoming” into something darker.

The panel opens with what might be the episode’s best scene: the crew’s chaotic goodbye to **Major Kira** in her quarters, shot in one continuous take modeled on the Marx Brothers. It’s loose, comedic, overlapping — and it quietly reveals how much **Odo** and Kira mean to each other, even if neither will say it.

At **Vedek Bareil’s** monastery, Kira gets the orb experience she’s dreamed of all her life. The vision is strange — ministers, a naked encounter with Bareil, a Kai’s robe on Dax that becomes **Vedek Winn’s** face. The panel works through what it might mean, landing on a possible symbolic reading: Bareil as a stand-in for Jaro, Kira for Winn — both pairs a political-religious alliance reaching for power.

**Louise Fletcher’s** Vedek Winn gets her showcase scene here, ambushing Kira and Bareil on a monastery bridge with suffocating passive-aggression. “Feel free to stay as many days as you like. A week, if necessary.” The panel agrees: almost no actor could play that role this well.

Meanwhile, Odo recruits Quark — by force. “You’re either my deputy or my prisoner.” Quark, as always, chooses survival. He tracks the Circle’s weapons supply to the **Kressari**, who turn out to be Cardassian middlemen. The Circle thinks it’s fighting for Bajoran independence; it’s being manipulated into handing the planet back to the people who enslaved it.

The panel also flags structural problems: **Li Nalas** as Kira’s replacement is undercut the moment Sisko promises her he’s getting her back. The show signals the outcome too early, and Li Nalas never gets room to establish himself as a viable alternative. Jimmy corrects a detail from last week — **Richard Beymer**, who plays Li Nalas, is Benjamin Horne in *Twin Peaks*, not Sheriff Harry S. Truman.

The episode closes on a coup underway, all channels to Bajor blocked, and Sisko deliberately slow-walking an evacuation order he can’t refuse. Two armed ships are on their way to DS9. Part 3 is “The Siege.”

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