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When he’s not filming “Unashamed” podcasts, duck hunting, or hanging out with his family, Jase Robertson can usually be found combing the land with his metal detector. His interest in treasure hunting sparked several years ago when a family friend battling cancer introduced him to the hobby. His enthusiasm for metal detecting grew over time and eventually culminated in the Fox Nation series “Duck Family Treasure.”This deep fondness for unearthing lost treasure recently drew Jase to a story about a lost biblical treasure that many have forgotten or perhaps never heard of. On a recent episode of “Unashamed,” Jase shared the fascinating and mysterious tale of Oded Golan and the James Ossuary. Golan is a Tel Aviv-based Israeli antiquities collector. According to his testimony, he purchased a bone box in the mid-1970s from a Jerusalem antiquities dealer, paying only a modest sum. The box bore an Aramaic inscription that read: “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.”The implications of such a discovery, Jase explains, were enormous because if proved legitimate, it would “give proof to the Bible itself.”But for decades, Golan didn’t think much of the box or its inscription. As a secular Jew, he didn't connect it to the biblical James. Around 2001, however, he happened to show the box to a visiting French epigrapher André Lemaire, who instantly recognized the potential significance.Lemaire published his analysis of Golan’s bone box in “Biblical Archaeology Review.” The ossuary was then briefly exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, causing worldwide sensation as possible first archaeological evidence linked to Jesus.“This turned into an eight-year trial,” Jase exclaims.The public attention attracted the Israel Antiquities Authority, which then convened experts to analyze the box’s inscription. They ultimately declared the "brother of Jesus" part was a modern forgery, citing patina analysis, style differences, and other evidence.“I'm a treasure hunter so I was familiar with [patina],” says Jase. “The patina all seemed legit except on the part where it said ‘brother of Jesus.’”But this accusation makes him a bit skeptical. “[The box] had a lot of patina on it, which you can't fake patina. ... Any treasure hunter knows that,” he says.The experts’ conclusion that the “brother of Jesus” inscription was forged ignited a massive international scandal, complete with police raids on Golan’s home, dramatic claims of a sophisticated forgery ring, and headlines labeling it the “forgery trial of the century.”The ensuing years-long legal saga became a grueling courtroom battle of rival experts, ending in Golan’s 2012 acquittal on forgery charges (though he was convicted on a minor trading offense). The judge, however, noted the verdict did not prove the inscription authentic.“They just really couldn't prove that it wasn't authentic,” says Jase.The ossuary was eventually returned to Golan. It remains one of the most controversial artifacts in biblical archaeology, with scholars still divided on its authenticity.Jase wonders if the authorities’ seeming frenzy to disprove the inscription stemmed from Judaism’s rejection of Jesus as deity.“In their mind, they're like, ‘Well, Jesus is not the son of God. This guy's got some proof,’” he remarks.Ultimately, whether the box contained the actual bones of Jesus Christ’s brother James is not a matter of great importance, Jase argues.While he believes there’s “pretty strong evidence” the bone box could be legitimate, trying to prove its authenticity is “the wrong search,” he says.“I really feel like in my heart that we serve God in faith. If you're trying to look to prove there's a God, I just don't think that's the way God designed it.”To hear more, watch the episode above.Want more from the Robertsons?To enjoy more on God, guns, ducks, and inspiring stories of faith and family, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The three companies that make most of the world’s memory — Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix — are saying their entire output is spoken for.Micron has completed pricing agreements for its full 2026 supply of high-bandwidth memory and says tightness will persist beyond 2027. SK Hynix says customer demand has already claimed all of its DRAM and NAND production for the coming year. Samsung expects its high-bandwidth memory sales to more than triple.These conditions reflect a structural reallocation, and the structure in question is the global AI data center.Powerful buyers secure in advance what smaller buyers receive on less favorable terms.Most people do not think about DRAM or NAND flash. These crucial components of computing are usually invisible, until they are not. Robert Dennard invented the one-transistor DRAM cell in 1966. NAND flash emerged in 1987. Both became so pervasive and reliably cheap that they disappeared into the background hum of modern life, noticed only during the periodic price spikes that briefly made technology reporters use the word “shortage” before everyone forgot again. That era of comfortable ignorance is now over for a single reason: artificial intelligence.Memory's dark secretsHBM is a kind of DRAM. What makes HBM distinct is its architecture. Individual DRAM dies are thinned to less than the width of a sheet of paper, punctured with thousands of microscopic holes called through-silicon vias, stacked eight or twelve layers high, and then integrated onto an interposer alongside a processor. The result is memory that can deliver more than a terabyte per second of bandwidth to a single chip. The latest Samsung HBM4 reaches 3.3 terabytes per second through a 2,048-pin interface. Nvidia’s DGX B200 system aggregates eight GPUs for a combined 64 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth.Every wafer of silicon devoted to HBM is a wafer not devoted to the DDR4 that goes into a student’s laptop, or the LPDDR4 in a budget smartphone, or the conventional DRAM in an automotive controller. Micron says HBM carries a three-to-one trade ratio against DDR5 in that producing one unit of HBM consumes the wafer area that could have produced three units of ordinary memory.The advanced packaging lines needed for HBM are themselves scarce. The clean-room space is limited, and new fabs take years to build. Micron’s next Idaho facility will produce its first wafers in mid-2027. Another Idaho fab follows in late 2028. A New York fab arrives sometime after 2030.A great increase in supply is not imminent.RELATED: China’s new AI master plan is a glimpse at total technological control bernie_photo/Getty Images What makes AI so hungry for memory is the nature of inference. When a large language model generates a response, it maintains something called a KV cache, a running record of the conversation’s context that must remain in fast GPU memory for the duration of the interaction. The cache grows with prompt length and must be held open for every concurrent user.Researchers have demonstrated two- to fourfold throughput improvements simply by managing this memory more efficiently, which gives some indication of how much capacity is currently being consumed by the brute fact of keeping a conversation alive. Contemporary AI is a persistent system that continuously occupies memory.A new currency of capitalThe old memory market was cyclical and anonymous. Spot prices rose and fell. Inventory accumulated and cleared. No one signed multiyear contracts for commodity DRAM. That market is gone.Micron now holds 16 strategic customer agreements with pricing floors, cash deposits, and remaining performance obligations totaling $100 billion.Tencent has signed a three- to five-year DRAM deal with China’s CXMT worth nearly $3 billion to guarantee supply for its AI and cloud operations. Customers are seeking contracts of up to three years even for legacy products like DDR4 and LPDDR4 because they cannot be sure of getting them otherwise. Memory has begun to behave less like a commodity and more like a strategic reserve, allocated by contract and commitment rather than by price discovery on the open market. It has become another resource, like liquefied natural gas or cloud computing capacity, that powerful buyers secure in advance and smaller buyers receive on less favorable terms.The geopolitics follow predictably. South Korea is treating the memory boom as a national industrial project, with SK Hynix planning investments of 100 trillion won. Japan is pushing next-generation NAND manufacturing. The United States is trying to reshore leading-edge DRAM through Micron’s Idaho and New York expansions, backed by federal incentives. Memory fabs are instruments of national positioning within the AI supply chain.The cost of recollectionThe British retailer Currys has warned that memory shortages driven by AI data centers will raise prices for smartphones, laptops, and consumer electronics. The fact that a chatbot prompt issued in a data center in Virginia can affect the price of a replacement phone purchased by a student in Texas is the peculiar indignity of the present arrangement. The same wafer starts, packaging lines, and engineering hours can serve DDR5, HBM4, enterprise SSDs, or automotive memory, but not all at once.AI reorganizes scarcity and makes visible the hidden architecture on which digital life has always depended.We are accustomed to thinking of memory as something personal, something human. The word itself carries that connotation. But in the semiconductor industry, memory has become a capacity metric, a throughput variable, a strategic asset to be reserved and allocated in the service of optimized computation. With the structural shortage of memory, one meaning of the word yields to another.

The place between wakefulness and sleep is a strange limbo where a number of odd things can happen. Some people experience an overwhelming sense of dread, terrifying visions of shadowy figures or intruders in the room, a crushing pressure on their chest, and the complete inability to speak or move anything except their eyes.This phenomenon is called sleep paralysis.According to the modern medical explanation, sleep paralysis is a temporary brain glitch that occurs during the sleep-wake transition, where the brain awakens while the body's natural REM atonia (muscle paralysis that prevents acting out dreams) lingers.But there’s a growing belief that sleep paralysis isn’t just some freaky biological occurrence but rather a spine-chilling spiritual attack.On a recent episode of “Strange Encounters,” Rick Burgess dove into the ancient history of what modern science dubs a "harmless" sleep condition. While Rick says that what science calls sleep paralysis “hallucinations” may be just that — the “brain playing tricks” — the dread, chest pressure, and shadowy figures sound suspiciously similar to stories of demonic attacks.And in fact, in other countries all over the world, sleep paralysis is indeed believed to be the work of demons.Citing Vicki Joy Anderson’s sleep paralysis book "They Only Come Out at Night,” Rick notes that horrifying tales of night monsters who sit on a sleeper’s chest date back to ancient times. This night hag takes different names depending on the country, but the core phenomenon — chest-crushing paralysis and malevolent presence — is remarkably universal.“All these cultures with all their different names, they describe something demonic, and every single name seems to describe an experience where the demon is strongly pressing down on them and they cannot move — every single one of them,” he says.Based on the anecdotes in Anderson’s book, Christians who experienced sleep paralysis and called on the name of Jesus experienced “instant relief.”In addition to calling on the name of the “Lord Jesus” specifically, Rick advises Christians experiencing sleep paralysis to find a “prayer partner” who will commit to praying daily for relief, to confess sin and repent, to refrain from doing things or consuming content that could open demonic doors, and to recite Psalm 91 as a prayer each night before bed.He then addresses those who are not Christians and thus cannot access the supreme power of Jesus.“If you're not redeemed, then that's the first thing you got to do. You need to be under the authority of Jesus Christ. You need to be abiding in Him. You need to place your faith in him, not in rituals, not anything like that, but in Him — then access the power that He has.”To hear more, watch the episode above.Want more from Rick Burgess?To enjoy more bold talk and big laughs, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Americans are breathing a sigh of relief at the apparent end of woke lectures masquerading as movies. The last few that slipped through have been sent to the box office graveyard.But another problem remains.What gives a human life ultimate meaning? That is a question woke ideology cannot answer. It is also the question every civilization, and every soul, must face.As John Wick taught us, bad choices lead to consequences. And after 15-plus years of woke education and pop culture, one consequence may be that American audiences can no longer handle a movie that wrestles seriously with the deepest questions of human life.Permit me to explain why this trouble looms on the horizon like Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.”The woke agenda, with its oppression-studies degrees and DEI catechisms, has trained generations of students and audiences to think superficially. They are told suffering comes from “whiteness” and “heteronormativity,” and that if they elect enough democratic socialists, these problems will vanish and free stuff will rain down from heaven.Spend enough time on a modern university campus, and you will see how often life’s deepest questions are flattened into identity categories.Why do people suffer? Systems of oppression.Why does life feel empty? Unjust structures prevent economic flourishing.The standard DEI professor solves the problems of evil and meaning by reassuring one group of students that their hardships are caused by another group of students, and that each group can be identified by skin color and sexual preference.The solution is always the same: Become an activist. Advocate for the marginalized. Restructure society. Stop whiteness.Think of the Ralph Wiggum meme: “I’m helping.”Movie after movie has thrown these inane answers at American audiences. Marvel has done more than most. It had a chance to get serious when Ultron sought a solution to the problem of evil. Instead, it simply got violent.What was the franchise’s answer to evil? Some saccharine claim about the innate goodness of human beings when they are “free” under a nanny state of superheroes.But those supposedly good humans are the same people who committed all the evil Ultron saw when he studied world history.The Avengers are an existential nightmare, making one wonder whether each member of the team was meant to be a hero of the absurd after all.RELATED: Give He-Man credit for mocking the unmockable Screen Archives/Getty ImagesThese reflections made me wonder whether today’s audiences, ruined by DEI, could watch a movie like “Cool Hand Luke.”The film would almost certainly never be made today. But even if it were, would anyone make it to the end? Better yet, would anyone understand what the movie asks us to confront?Luke, played by Paul Newman, returns home from World War II to a life with no obvious purpose. In a drunken act of vandalism, he cuts the heads off parking meters and is sentenced to a southern prison camp.The crime is almost beside the point. The movie is not really about criminal justice. It is asking an older question: What does a man do when he cannot find meaning?Luke’s struggle is existential. He first fights the toughest prisoner, and his refusal to stay down becomes a declaration that he will not surrender his humanity. Later, when Luke wins at poker, the men call him “Cool Hand Luke.”His coolness is defiance against a universe that appears silent. If nothing matters, why get upset?The prison itself becomes a metaphor for human existence. The laws appear arbitrary. Luke tells another prisoner, “All I see is a lot of guys laying down a lot of rules and regulations.”Then, Luke’s mother visits one last time as she is dying.Their final conversation is painfully cold. He calls her “Arletta” rather than “Mother.” Neither expresses love. As she leaves, he simply says, “So long, Arletta. Take care.”Harry Dean Stanton sings “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” as Luke walks back into the prison. The inability of sentimentalized religion to give Luke meaning becomes the movie’s second theme, after the helplessness of law.Soon afterward, Luke receives word of his mother’s death. He sings a mocking song about the empty superstition of popular religion:Get yourself a sweet MadonnaDressed in rhinestones, sitting onA pedestal of abalone shell.Going 90, it ain’t scary,’Cause I got the Virgin MaryAssurin’ me that I won’t go to hell.Popular religion pours opium over the suffering of this life with empty sentimentality and promises of a better afterlife.Neither law nor sentimental religion can quiet Luke’s soul. So he runs.Captured once, he hears the famous line from the captain: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”After another escape attempt, the guards force him into a grotesque cycle of digging and filling the same hole.“Luke, what’s your dirt doing in the boss’ hole?”After Luke digs a grave-sized hole, another boss asks, “Luke, what’s your dirt doing on my yard? Put it back in that hole.”This continues until his spirit finally breaks. He begs them to stop. He promises never to escape or back-sass again.Yet he escapes once more.RELATED: The left’s icons keep face-planting in public Silver Screen Collection/Getty ImagesHis final refuge is an empty church. There, Luke finally speaks honestly. He addresses God simply as, “Hey, Old Man.” He admits that he began strong but has grown tired. He wants answers. He wants someone to respond.Silence.“I guess you’re a pretty hard case too,” Luke concludes.A fellow prisoner is sent in to persuade him to come out peacefully. Luke yells out the window, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate,” but he is shot and killed before he can finish.The movie refuses every easy answer. The audience is meant to leave and wrestle with the problem of meaning.Luke cannot be right about final emptiness. But where can we find meaning if neither law nor superficial popular religion can provide it?That is precisely the sort of question our culture increasingly avoids.The last 15 years have been a parade of DEI sermons and ideological mush. The worry is that Americans raised in this, educated in woke K-12 schools, and graduated into oppression-studies assumptions would not know how to contemplate existential meaning in a movie like “Cool Hand Luke.”They would reduce the story to demographic categories. White prisoner. White guards. Southern prison. Oppression explained. Luke deserves what he got.As a philosophy professor, I hope Americans have not lost the ability to appreciate stories that force us to confront the deepest questions. I hope they are not merely rejecting the stupidity of DEI but also rejecting superficial answers and longing for something deeper.What gives a human life ultimate meaning? That is a question woke ideology cannot answer.It is also the question every civilization, and every soul, must face.