This & That’s Top Rated YouTube Channels (as of Jan 2026)

This & That’s Top Rated YouTube Channels (as of Jan 2026) 

Curated Playlists, Top Videos and Expertise for each account

This & That YouTube: The Rabbit Hole Has Never Been This Organized

ELITE CHANNELS FOR THE CURIOUS

• The Why Files (AJ Gentile) 

• Jimmy Corsetti (BrightInsight) 

• The Infographics Show 

• Jesse Michels (American Alchemy)  

• Afterskool

• Johnny Harris 

• Big Think 

• Exurb1a

• Ted Talk 

• 60 Minutes 

• Gaia

• Veritasium

• Asap Science 

• Comedy Central Animated - Tales from the Trip

• Kurzgegat - In a Nutshell

• World Science Festival 

Other Marquee T&T YouTube Playlists 

• UAP + NHI Ultimate Playlist

• Ultimate Lost Civilization Playlist

• Money Runs the World Ultimate Playlist

• Psychedelics Ultimate Playlist

• Ultimate Rogan Clips

• Elite Comedy

• The Deep State

• Lex Fridman Clips

• Huberman Lab

• Shawn Ryan Clips

• Jordan Peterson

• Chris Williamson

• Best of Billy Carson

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The Why Files (AJ Gentile) // Top vids

• TESLA KNEW The Secret of the Great Pyramid: Unlimited Energy to Power the World

• Atlantis, Thoth, the Emerald Tablet & the Secret to Immortality

• Göbekli Tepe and the Prophecy of Pillar 43 | Apocalypse and the Vulture Stone

• Annunaki | Gods from Planet Nibiru and the Makers of Man

• The Gateway Process: the CIA's Classified Space & Time Travel System That You Can Learn (Really)

• Illuminati Vol. 1: The Bilderberg Blueprint and Hidden Agenda of Global Elites

• CIA Classified Book about the Pole Shift, Mass Extinctions and The True Adam & Eve Story

• The CIA Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA | The Frank Olson Assassination

• Mysteries Beneath the Ice: The Secrets of Antarctica

• Varginha UFO Crash: Alien Contact, Government Denial and Coverup

• Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 1 | Free Energy & Anti-Gravity Cover-Ups

• Operation Highjump | Mission: Find and Destroy the Secret Nazi UFO Base In Antarctica

• The Search for Noah's Ark | Giants & Aliens in the Book of Enoch

• The Dark Pyramid of Alaska | Military Cover-up of a Forbidden Collaboration

• The Genetic Arms Race | How CRISPR and AI Destroy the World

Expertise: Lost Civilizations, UFOs, esoteric knowledge, unsolved mysteries, deep state & covert operations 

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Jimmy Corsetti (BrightInsight) 

Top vids 

• I Snuck into Gobekli Tepe…What I Saw Was Shocking

• The Lost City of Atlantis - Hidden in Plain Sight? Lost Ancient Human Civilizations

• Did a Cosmic Impact 12,000 Years Ago Create the Younger Dryas Catastrophe? Hiawatha Crater Greenland

• Nikola Tesla & The Great Pyramid of Giza - Lost Ancient Civilizations

• Why You Must Watch Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse 2

• Proof a Mysterious Lost Ancient GLOBAL Civilization Spanned Virtually the Entire Planet…

• Olmec Heads are Evidence of Lost Ancient Advanced Civilization - Livestream

• You Won’t Believe This Disturbing Gobekli Tepe Update

• What Ancient Egyptians Witnessed on DMT Will Shock You...(They were trying to tell us something)

• Lost Roman Map has ATLANTIS at Eye of Sahara Africa! (Richat Structure)

• Advanced Technology Found in Egypt? Joe Rogan, Bright Insight, and UnchartedX Investigate

Expertise: Lost Civilizations, Hidden technology, ancient history, great pyramids + ancient egypt, Goblkei Teppe 

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The Infographics Show 

Top vids 

• 10 Craziest CIA Covert Operations

• Was President JFK Really Killed by the CIA

• 50 Insane Declassified CIA Secrets You Aren't Supposed to Know

• What Happens When You Die?

• CIA Project Stargate & Other Declassified Secrets - How Successful Were They?

• 50 Insane Facts About the CIA You Never Knew

• The Evidence That The Lost City of Atlantis Existed?

• 50 Insane Declassified FBI Secrets You Didn’t Know

• US False Flag Operation Against Americans - Operation Northwoods

• FBI vs CIA - How Do They Compare?

• How The CIA Funded a Terrorist Organization

• The CIA's Secret Time Travel Program: REAL CRAZY RESEARCH?

• Evidence Reveals How the Pyramids Were Actually Built

• Insane Alien Abduction Stories That Will Terrify You

Expertise: Deep State, Covert Intelligence Operations, Geopolitics, History 

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Jesse Michels - American Alchemy

Top vids 

• The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Townsend Brown Documentary)

• Alien Mummies Found In Peru (DNA Test REVEALED!) | Exclusive Documentary

• The Wall Street Journal Is Lying About UFOs

• Top NASA Doctor: “I Saw A UFO In A Secret Hangar” (Ft. Greg Rogers)

• The Physics of UFOs: Eric Weinstein + Hal Puthoff

• I Searched for UFOs on Skinwalker Ranch…

• The Theoretical Physics Powering UFOs - Chris Williamson

• Meet The Startup Summoning UFOs: Skywatcher Interview

• The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson)

• “Tesla's Technology is Being Hidden" (Ft. Kirk McConnell)

• How I Know David Grusch Is Not Lying…

• Breaking UFO Story: ‘Immaculate Constellation’ UFO Program (Ft. Michael Shellenberger)

• UFOs & Religion: Vatican Reveals Hidden Link (Ft. Diana Pasulka)

• UFO Whistleblower David Grusch Tells Me Everything

Expertise: UFO Phenomenon, Free Energy, Ancient Civilizations, Hidden Technology 

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Afterskool

Top vids 

• Nikola Tesla - Limitless Energy & the Pyramids of Egypt

• Stoned Ape & Fungal Intelligence - Paul Stamets

• Why is There NO Record of Ancient Humans? - Randall Carlson

• The Optimal Morning Routine - Andrew Huberman

• Marcus Aurelius - The Power of INDIFFERENCE

• The Lost Ancient Humans of Antarctica

• The Magic Mushroom Christmas Theory

• THOTH's PROPHECY read from the Hermetic Texts by Graham Hancock

• The Illusion of MONEY, TIME & EGO - Alan Watts

• Moon Speech - John F. Kennedy (Animated)

• HIDDEN MATHEMATICS - Randall Carlson - Ancient Knowledge of Space, Time & Cosmic Cycles

Expertise: Counterculture, Spirituality, Science, Society, Lost Civilizations, Psychedelics, Philosophy 

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Johnny Harris 

Top Vids

Johnny Harris Youtube Videos, Ranked Reviewed Explained

1. The “Deep State” is Real, Here’s Why It Matters

2. Why the Government Changed Its Mind on UFOs

3. American Backed Coups Mapped

4. The Case of Julian Assange

5. Did COVID Escape a Lab?

6. Why People Think The Government Killed JFK 

7. How the FBI was involved in MLK’s Murder

8. Operation Northwoods Explained

9. The Moon Landing Hoax, Explained

10. Our New Global Economy 

HM –The Real Story of the Mormon Church,  Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality, How Capitalism Changed the Face of War, Why the US Military is Preparing for War with China

Expertise: Investigative Journalism, Geopolitics, Deep State, History 

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Big Think 

Top vids

• The four types of planetary civilizations, explained by Michio Kaku

• The “heroic dose” of psychedelics, according to Johns Hopkins | Dr. Matthew Johnson

• Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe

• Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar | Big Think

• Try psychedelics. Access transcendence. | James Fadiman

• Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell (Full Presentation) | Big Think

• Navy SEAL has a '40 Percent Rule' and it's the key to overcoming mental barriers | Big Think

• Good sex explained in 9 minutes | Dr. Emily Nagoski

• William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think

• Harvard negotiator explains how to argue | Dan Shapiro

• Michio Kaku: Quantum computing is the next revolution

• The science of sex, love, attraction, and obsession | Big Think

• Psychedelics: Can they solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? | Matthew Johnson

Expertise: Life Hacks, Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Society, Quantum Computing, Psychedelics

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Exurb1a

Top vids 

• How will we know when ai is conscious 

• The story of western philosophy 

• Dear nia 

• You (probably) don’t exist 

• The universe in 4 minutes

• The rememberer

• So you want to build a nuke 

• And then we’ll be okay 

• There’s no such thing as orange 

• Big oxygen 

Expertise: Philosophy, Existentialism, Absurdism, Surrealism, Cosmology, Human Condition 

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Ted Talk 

Top vids 

• String theory - Brian Greene

• Sleep Is Your Superpower | Matt Walker | TED

• 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | TED

• The science of psilocybin and its use to relieve suffering

• How we take back the internet | Edward Snowden

• The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED

• Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

• Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED

• DMT and the Psychedelic Renaissance | Nick Glynos | TEDxUofM

• The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci

• The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War - Brian Crim

• CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED

Expertise: Innovation, Tech, Science, Medicine, Society & Culture, Personal Growth 

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60 Minutes

Top vids 

• Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

• Exposing jeffery epstein’s international sex trafficking ring 

• Artificial intelligence 

• Julian assange & wikileaks

• Apollo 11’s ‘third astronaut’ reveals secrets from dark side of the moon | 60 Minutes Australia

• Was COVID-19 made inside a Chinese lab? | Under Investigation

• War with China: Are we closer than we think? | Under Investigation

• 60 Minutes Archive: U.S. v. Whistleblower Tom Drake

• Encounters with UFOs; Search for ancient life on Mars; James Webb Space Telescope | Full Episodes

• Stories behind the rich and powerful named in the Jeffrey Epstein court files | 60 Minutes Australia

• Navy pilots recall “unsettling” 2004 UAP sighting

• Pharma execs used strip clubs, broke FDA laws to boost opioid sales

• Former Navy pilot says he regularly detected UFOs, calls them security risk

• 60 Minutes reports on the death of Malcolm X

Expertise: Investigative Reporting, Geopolitics, Tech & Science, Human Storytelling

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Gaia

Top Vids

• Is free energy technology being suppressed

• The Phenomenon (doc) 

• Zeitgeist (doc) 

• Burzynski: The Cancer Cure Cover Up (doc) 

• The Revelation of the Pyramids 

• The Mystery of the Sphinx 

• Contact the ce5 experience

• Dying to know: ram dass and timothy leary 

• A tear in the sky 

• Astronomical alignment of Gobelki Tepe 

• Hidden Codes of the great pyramids 

• Revelations from alien encounters

Expertise: Ancient Civilizations & Lost Knowledge, Consciousness & Spirituality, UFOs & Disclosure, Philosophy & Esoterica 

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Veritasium

Top Vids

• Parallel Worlds Probably Exist: Here’s Why 

• How Were the Pyramids Built?

• Something strange happens when you follow einsteins math 

• This is why we cant have nice things

• The most misunderstood concept in physics

• The original double slit experiment 

• Heisenberg uncertainty principle explained 

• Why no one has measured the speed of light 

Expertise: Physics, Engineering, Math, Probability, Applied Science & Tech, Philosophy

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World Science Festival 

Top Videos 

• Edward Witten: On the Shoulders of Giants

• Psychedelics — chemicals, consciousness and creativity 

• The dreaming mind — waking the mysteries of sleep

• What is string theory

• Darkness Visible: Shedding New Light on Black Holes 

• Rewiring the Brain: The Promise and Peril of Neuroplasticity 

• Multiverse: One Universe or Many?

• Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace

• Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics 

• Quantum Reality: Space, Time and Entanglement 

Expertise: Quantum Physics, Cosmology, Astronomy, Neuroscience, Philosophy, String Theory, Black Holes

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Kurzgegat - In a Nutshell 

Top Videos 

• String Theory Explained - What is the True Nature of Reality 

• What do Aliens Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

• The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison

• Wormholes Explained

• Three Ways to Destroy the Universe

• Do You Have Free Will?

• How to Cure Aging - During Your Lifetime

• Did the Future Already Happen - The Paradox of Time

• What Happens if You Destroy a Blackhole?

• Why We Should Not Look for Aliens - The Dark Forest Theory 

• Optimistic Nihlism 

Expertise: Cosmology, Astronomy, Theoretical Physics, Blackholes, String Theory, Philosophy, Humanity, Futurism, Existentialism 

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Comedy Central Animated 

Top Videos 

• DMT Always Shows Shane Mauss the Same Purple Woman on His Trips

• Ramin Nazer Had His Mind Blown on Ketamine in Shane Mauss’s Yurt 

• Psyched Substance Smoked DMT While on Acid and Found His True Self

• Duncan Trussell Deleted Himself From Existence on 5-MeO-DMT - Tales From the Trip

• Steve-O Shares His Wildest Acid, Ketamine, & Cocaine Stories - Tales From the Trip

• Trevor Wallace Tripped on Salvia with His Frat Bros - Tales From the Trip

• Duncan Trussell Took So Much Ketamine That Time Stopped - Tales From the Trip

• DMT Took Shane Mauss to the Infinite Void – Tales from the Trip

• TripTank: Stoned Ape Theory 

Expertise: Psychedelics, Comedy, Absurdism, Existentialism 

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ASAP Science 

• Your Brain on Shrooms 

• What Actually Happens When You Have an Abortion 

• The Science of Boobs

• This Much Will Kill You 

• 9 Best Scientific Study Tips 

• Your Brain on MDMA 

• Your Brain on Ayahuasca

• The Strange Reason You Can Hallucinate 

• Your Brain on Adderall 

• How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes 

Expertise: Drugs, Psychedelics, Chemistry, Biology