Send us a text Drawing wisdom from Thomas Paine's revolutionary text "Common Sense," this episode examines how the founding father's arguments for American independence powerfully mirror our current political predicament. Two hundred fifty years later, we find ourselves in a remarkably similar position – universally acknowledging government dysfunction while feeling trapped within the system. Across the political spectrum, Americans share a deep conviction that something fundamental has gone...
Send us a text Freedom is under siege, and Thomas Paine's centuries-old words offer a startling mirror to our modern predicament. The wisdom found in "Common Sense" transcends time, speaking directly to our contemporary struggles against the ever-expanding reach of government power. Where once Americans battled a distant king, we now find ourselves confronting enemies within our own institutions—agencies grown corrupt, elites sacrificing our blood and treasure for personal gain, and a ...
Send us a text What happens when we surrender our natural equality and self-governance to those who claim divine right to rule? Thomas Paine's revolutionary text "Common Sense" provides a searing critique of monarchy that resonates powerfully in today's world of modern elitism and concentrated power. The chapter begins with Paine's foundational premise that mankind was created equal, with this equality only destroyed by subsequent human arrangements. Male and female are nature's distinctions...
Send us a text Has the distinction between society and government become dangerously blurred? Thomas Paine's revolutionary insights from 1776 serve as a powerful lens through which we can examine our current political moment. The wisdom of Common Sense cuts through centuries of governmental evolution to expose fundamental truths about power, liberty, and the proper boundaries between community and state. Paine's crucial observation that "Society is produced by our wants and government by our...
Send us a text Ever wonder why we accept systems of governance without question—until they directly harm us? This fascinating exploration of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" reveals how this revolutionary 1776 pamphlet contains wisdom critical for today's America. The true spirit of 1776 wasn't merely about violent rebellion but about applying simple reasoning to question established authority. When Paine published his pamphlet on January 10, 1776, he created one of history's most widely circul...
Send us a text Power concentrates when no one pushes back, and the bill always comes due. We start on the ground with local wins—mayor seats, council shifts, and the myths people believe about what city government can fix—then scale up to the hard truth: incentives at every level reward shortcuts, silence, and spectacle. From a council member allegedly stuffing ballots to ethics clouds at the Fed, we map the system that makes people feel like peasants while insiders play a different game. We...
Send us a text Forget the weather. The real storm is a slow balkanization that’s reshaping where we live, how we vote, and what we believe government can still fix. We start with people packing up for new political homes, then dig into why basic civics—naming branches, knowing rights, understanding process—matters more than ever. When civics erodes, trust follows, and once trust is gone, narratives fill the gap. That’s how city hall gets away with platitudes while small shops board up after a...
Send us a text Prices were loud, but power was louder. We opened with a sprint through silver’s surge and Bitcoin’s clean six-figure psychology, then turned hard into a deeper question: what counts as evidence when AI can synthesize logs, repopulate timelines, and manufacture messages that look “real”? If device data tied to the January 6 pipe-bomb case can be labeled “corrupted,” how should anyone weigh headlines, screenshots, or curated drops? From there, we walked through the whistleblowe...
Send us a text A quiet market check turns into a hard pivot: what if the most explosive element of January 6 wasn’t explosive at all? We trace new reporting that uses gait analysis to identify a possible pipe bomber, weigh the odds of a 94% match, and press into the central dilemma—if the devices were real, why was the response so casual; if they were inert, who staged them and why. That single question pulls in agency silence, whistleblower briefs headed to Congress, and the ways media editi...
Send us a text Start with the headline, then pull the thread. We move from alien “thrusters” around the sun to the harder-to-look-at reality of empty downtowns, broken incentives, and a January 6 pipe bomber allegation that puts institutional credibility on trial. The big question isn’t just what happened—it’s who is allowed to define what happened, and why so many red flags die in committee while the story keeps rolling. We contrast viral space speculation with a political trailer promising...
Send us a text A single image sets the tone: tilt your view and the same object casts a circle or a square. That’s how today’s ride unfolds as we track a teased Blaze Media revelation on the January 6 pipe bomber—complete with gait analysis, insider reactions, and the claim that the lead suspect sits at the highest levels of government. We connect that to new reporting on early police use of munitions at the Capitol, how sentencing leaned on lesser counts, and the quiet bureaucratic signals a...
Send us a text Start with a live scramble and a joke about sausages, then step straight into the kind of story that reshapes trust: a sweeping federal sweep in the Mississippi Delta where 20 current and former officers are accused of taking bribes to protect drug trafficking routes. From there we widen the lens—whistleblowers ignored, prison contraband economies, and a blunt question many avoid: what happens to the rule of law when institutions won’t police themselves? We push into national ...
Send us a text Start with the question no one wants to touch: who profits when fear becomes policy? We kick off with Bill Gates’ pivot from climate alarm to a “balance human welfare” stance and ask what years of doomer rhetoric did to public trust, mental health, and priorities like poverty and disease. From there, we trace the modern power toolkit—autopen signatures, committee reports, and media narratives—asking whether the person entrusted with constitutional authority actually made the de...
Send us a text Fear sells, but it also blinds. We unpack how “democracy at stake” messaging, lawfare accusations, and cable-news combat have turned politics into a permanent emergency—and what that does to the rule of law, due process, and everyday people caught in the crossfire. We start with New York’s surging mayoral race and the magnetism of big-ticket promises—rent freezes, fare-free buses, universal childcare—asking whether intensity wins elections but budgets set the bill. Then we step...
Send us a text A midnight release, a Walmart hoodie, and the first awkward steps back into ordinary life set the stage for a whirlwind tour through power, media, and trust. We start human and stay human, even as we zoom out to claimed peace deals in Southeast Asia, the fragility of the global order, and why contracts, currency, and sea lanes matter more to your grocery bill than most headlines ever admit. From there, we interrogate the stories we’re told to swallow: viral rants that turn pol...
Send us a text The show almost didn’t make it to air—one host, two computers, zero margin—but the scramble turned into a mirror for a larger story: institutions under strain and a public asked to trust systems that keep glitching. We start with a propaganda tug-of-war over Stephen Miller—hero to some, villain to others—and ask how framing beats facts when political stakes rise. That rolls into a provocative claim from a former liberal influencer: if the West sheds its Judeo-Christian roots, s...
Send us a text Politics should feel like problem-solving, not a forever grudge match. Today we put that belief to the test, moving from aid cuts and deficits to the shutdown brinkmanship that’s holding families hostage. The turn you won’t see coming: John Fetterman urging Congress to reopen the government, fund SNAP, and stop branding voters as fascists. It’s a rare, clear call to lower the temperature and get back to work—and it lands hard. We start with Somalia’s decades of U.S. developmen...
Send us a text Start with a joke, land on the jugular—that’s how we pull a thread from a goofy cold open to the hard truth about how systems actually run. We zoom from a store clerk’s “bounty plan” and a police chief’s phone call to a state board paying a superintendent’s criminal defense, then up to a New Hampshire justice back on the bench days after a guilty plea. It’s not one scandal; it’s a pattern. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. We break down the “WWE” of modern politics—proj...
Send us a text A jet meme dumps sewage on a protest, a press aide fires off “your mom,” and suddenly the news cycle belongs to the internet. We start there—not to celebrate trolling, but to unpack how meme fluency now signals authenticity for younger voters while older audiences see only indecency. Then we flip the card and follow the mechanics that actually move outcomes: shutdown leverage, election administration money, and the quiet incentives that make healthcare, tuition, and housing mor...
Send us a text Headlines slammed into each other this week, but the story underneath them is surprisingly simple: who gets to define reality when bullets fly, crowds gather, and ships move. We dig into Trump’s language on the Israel ceasefire and why calling flare-ups “skirmishes” might be less spin and more strategy to keep a brittle peace from shattering. Then we test the hard edges of “stop at the battle lines” in Ukraine: a tourniquet that saves lives now, or a precedent that rewards gain...