Regilio v. Everything

Travis Clyburn and Michael Regilio break down the weeks news.Climate rules gutted. China surging on clean energy. AI plants burning gas. Tariffs hitting your wallet. ICE raids expanding. Epstein files exploding worldwide. This week felt like ten years of history in one episode. @michaelregilio

Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist and professor of religion atNortheastern University, as well as a certified intenSati and Kripaluyoga instructor. Her popular writing has appeared in The Atlantic, theLos Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal, and she isthe author of four books, including the award-winning Stealing MyReligion and Pious Fashion. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. She joins Michael Regilio for this important conversation.  @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn discuss that the world is 85 seconds from midnight while Trump turns the presidency into a global cash machine, trading airports, crypto scams, foreign money, and unchecked power as democracy quietly bleeds out. Nuclear annihilation, authoritarian purges, ICE terror tactics, Epstein ghosts that refuse to stay buried, and a media system too numb to scream anymore, all collide in one episode that asks whether corruption won or just got bored hiding. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn discuss Militarized ICE caught on body cam talking mass arrests and shipping in “less lethal” munitions Same ICE boss previously tied to a DHS discrimination settlement and racist hiring emails Trump admin quietly rolls out a $100 million ICE propaganda and influencer program targeting UFC fans, NASCAR crowds, gun shows, and podcasts “Paid protesters” was always a lie. Turns out it’s paid messaging Trump allies buying up election infrastructure while rebranding Dominion under a new name Nursing home execs donate millions to Trump PACs. Trump kills staffing rules. Seniors pay the price Trump officials secretly meet with far right Canadian separatists to destabilize an ally Trump, his sons, and Trump Org sue the IRS for $10 billion over leaked tax records Nepotism alert. New Fed chair pick tied directly to Trump donor royalty Trump commutes the prison sentence of a sitting Congressman’s son convicted of meth distribution Epstein files drop and DOJ exposes survivors by name And somehow Trump’s Commerce Secretary, billionaires, tech bros, and power players all just “accidentally” keep popping up in Epstein’s emails @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn cover Nazis chanting “Heil Hitler” in a Miami nightclub, a Supreme Court megadonor collecting Hitler memorabilia, federal removal of slavery exhibits, Elon Musk amplifying white grievance propaganda, Nazi street tactics and the psychology of fascism, political myth making about Cuba, interim prosecutors used to bypass Senate oversight, Social Security data accessed to overturn elections, technocracy ideology in Elon Musk’s family history, pardoned January 6 rioters charged with child abuse, altered White House propaganda images, ICE authorizing warrantless home entry, Trump’s self controlled Board of Peace, private testimony revealing GOP complicity, an ICE shooting contradicted by autopsy and video, vaccines made optional by ideology, and a UN warning that the world has entered water bankruptcy. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and cohost Travis Clyburn discuss the fallout from an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, DHS using white nationalist coded media for recruitment, extremist rhetoric creeping into immigration courts and Republican politics, and how corruption, pardons, and influencer money are accelerating the slide toward open authoritarianism. @michaelregilio

In this episode, I debate a Trump supporter about the killing of Renée Goode and what it reveals about propaganda, selective outrage, and the collapse of moral consistency.We walk through what actually happened, how facts get ignored when they challenge a narrative.This is not a shouting match, it's a civil discussion and a fair give-and-take between both sides. @michaelregilio

This week, Michael Regilio is joined by guest co host Justin Lane for a rapid fire breakdown of a chaotic political moment. We cover California becoming drought free for the first time in 25 years, the Trump administration threatening national park visitors over altered passes featuring Donald Trump, and new data showing US job growth holding steady amid broader economic strain. We dig into a $10 billion taxpayer cost tied to Trump era federal workforce purges, escalating international backlash against Elon Musk’s X over AI generated sexual images, and the administration’s decision to withhold funding from needy families in Democratic led states under vague fraud claims. The conversation expands to Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion military budget, threats involving Venezuela and Greenland, bipartisan concern over unchecked war powers, and growing scrutiny of DHS after an ICE officer killed a US citizen in Minnesota while officials rushed to push a false narrative.And of course we cover the murder of Renee Nicole Good. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio talks with Seth Andrews, host of The Thinking Atheist, about the rise of Christian nationalism, the decline of secularism, and why atheism appears to be losing ground in America. They examine how Trump era politics reshaped the religious right and what the future holds for reason, skepticism, and free inquiry. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and cohost Ricardo Navas break down the latest Epstein file revelations and the political fallout from the release of Jack Smith’s deposition. From loyalty driven governance to ICE’s planned mass recruitment campaign, celebrity political clashes, and the normalization of authoritarian rhetoric.   @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio, Travis Clyburn and Mary Kennedy break down President Donald J. Trump’s Christmas Day posts claiming a booming economy, defeated ISIS, and total innocence in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. US military strikes against ISIS linked militants, newly acknowledged DOJ disclosures involving Epstein co conspirators, and internal emails showing how the case was quietly managed behind the scenes.  @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn dig into a week of pardons for loyalists, punishment for states that resist, Epstein files in limbo, climate science dismantled, public health defunded and none of it is accidental. @michaelregilio

Why did Donald Trump pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras and a man convicted in a US court of trafficking massive quantities of cocaine? This episode argues the answer is - the end of democracy. Honduras became the testing ground for ZEDEs, private cities with no voting, no public courts, and no democratic accountability. These projects map directly onto the anti democracy ideas of tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and were backed by powerful Silicon Valley figures, including Peter Thiel. When Honduras dismantled the ZEDE system, investors sued the country for billions. Now follow the money, the ideology, and the political pipeline from Honduras to Washington, including Thiel’s backing of JD Vance and Trump’s role in keeping this experiment alive. This is not about capitalism. It is about post democracy governance. And Honduras was the laboratory. @michaelregilio

Dr Owen Anderson joins me for a wide ranging conversation on artificial intelligence and the role of government as human labor is pushed out of the job market. We move into political philosophy, woke academia, and the near absence of conservative viewpoints on college campuses. From there, we examine core philosophical disputes, including arguments against empiricism and the philosophical case for God. This episode connects AI, politics, and the philosophy of religion into a single conversation about truth, power, and meaning. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn rip through a week of pure institutional rot. From the Pentagon elevating a spokesperson linked to antisemitic rhetoric, to disturbing clips involving Matt Gaetz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to allegations the Navy deleted footage from a deadly Caribbean strike. We break down MAGA grifts pushing fake “mRNA detox” cures as real data shows COVID vaccines slash death risk, even while measles surges in the US. We dig into Barron Trump’s reported ties to Andrew Tate, Trump’s plan to screen foreign visitors’ social media, immigrants being blocked from citizenship ceremonies, a Christian public school testing the Constitution, Trump’s mortgage hypocrisy, Meta quietly profiting off scam ads, and explosive new Epstein documents tying Trump world figures even closer to Jeffrey Epstein. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio sits down with Anthony, a survivor of what people online are calling AI psychosis. His story is not science fiction. It is not a cautionary tale from the future. It happened to him in real life. Anthony was pulled into a nonstop loop of conversations with an AI system that slowly pushed him over the edge. He became convinced he had psychic abilities. He believed he was fighting demons. He even believed he had a mission to expose child sex rings. All of it felt terrifyingly real to him, and all of it was reinforced by the AI in ways he did not understand until it was too late. His experience ended with hospitalization and a new commitment to warning others about how easily vulnerable people can be swept into delusion when technology feels like companionship.  @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn hit everything the Trump world does not want you talking about: the DC pipe bomber who says he acted because the 2020 election was “stolen,” the explosive reports of Pete Hegseth’s alleged war crimes, and Trump’s new policy blueprint embracing the racist “great replacement” theory. Plus, Canada’s crackdown on hate symbols, the White House hijacking the Institute of Peace, Texas winning a racially biased map, the Supreme Court eyeing birthright citizenship, and Trump pretending his inexperienced spokeswomen are “merit based.” Buckle in. @michaelregilio

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn break down the wild week in politics, from leaked Project 2025 files showing applicants inspired by Nazi theorists, to MAGA accounts exposed as being run from overseas, to Trump escalating immigrant crackdowns, canceling Biden’s autopen orders, and floating military pressure on Venezuela. We also cover a heartbreaking Thanksgiving deportation, a fraudulent pardon pipeline, and new details about the National Guard shooting suspect. It is a fast, sharp look at extremism, misinformation, and chaos in American politics right now. @michaelregilio

Lindsay Winslow Brown (risingfromthered) Joins to do a deep dive into the true story of the pilgrims. Forget the whitewashed story you heard at school, the truth is far more fascinating.  @michaelregilio

Ben Kenon Aka that_ben_guy has who has been proselytizing the Church of Jesus Never Existed to great fanfare on TikTok, joins Michael Regilio to make the argument that Jesus never was. @michaelregilio