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Lindsey Brackett, CHC, CHFM, CHOP, CSSBB, FASHE is Chief Empowerment Officer at Legacy FM, LLC and an influential figure in the healthcare facilities management industry where she is passionate about empowering individuals and building the next generation of FM leaders. Mike Petrusky asks Lindsey about the growth of her company and the importance of ongoing education and professional certifications for facilities professionals, highlighting ASHE's certification programs. They explore the growing role of AI in facility management and agree that AI should be used to enhance human skills but not at the expense of losing core capabilities like critical thinking and judgment. Lindsey shares about the value of authenticity and genuine human connection in professional communities encouraging listeners to invest in themselves through education, professional challenges, and personal growth for a rewarding career in facilities and asset management. Tune in as Mike and Lindsey share some practical advice and encourage you to be an Asset Champion in your organization! Connect with Lindsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-brackett/ Learn more about Legacy FM: https://legacy-fm.com/ Find out more about ASHE certifications: https://www.ashe.org/certifications Explore Eptura™: https://eptura.com/ Discover free resources and explore past interviews at: https://eptura.com/discover-more/podcasts/asset-champion/ Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepetrusky/ Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkmmkVFvM4H3pwnlU2AuqynuRDpvnh4J
Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 3 of The Chosen, which opens on David grieving his and Bathsheba's dying child and closes on Thomas screaming at Jesus to heal Reyma as she bleeds out in his arms. The hosts unpack the showrunners' bold choice to bookend the episode this way, even though the David death was prophesied punishment for adultery and the Reyma death looks senseless. The point lands either way. God saves some and does not save others, and faith is trusting him in both directions. In between: Jesus blistering the Pharisees with the "woe to you" speech from Luke 11 about cleaning the outside of the cup while greed festers on the inside, Quintus losing his grip and micromanaging the streets because his tax revenue is in the red, Atticus speaking on behalf of Rome, Gaius refusing the order to arrest Jesus, and Peter actually leading. Plus the modern parallel that no one wanted to bring up but did anyway, the abortion question. If God knit the child together in the womb, who is anyone to decide it is not the right time.
CannCon and Ashe in America wrap Chapter 5 and charge straight into Chapter 6 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, and the bailout game goes fully global. The World Bank's humanitarian branding evaporates completely as Griffin walks through country after country: Tanzania, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, all self-sufficient before the loans arrived, all economically wrecked after. Chapter 6 then lays out the international bailout game in four clean rules and names it what it is: a mechanism to perpetuate debt forever until nations surrender their monetary sovereignty to a world central bank. The Council on Foreign Relations gets formally introduced as the brain trust behind all of it, with members on record calling for the deliberate erosion of American wealth, sovereignty, and living standards. NAFTA, GATT, the EU, and the WTO get exposed as architecture for world government, not trade. And a Reagan cabinet meeting confirms what everyone suspected: nobody believed the loans would ever be repaid. The only thing that mattered was protecting the banks.
CannCon and Ashe in America open the Wednesday show in a fighting mood, and it only intensifies. John Thune tells the country on camera that the SAVE America Act cannot pass the senate and the solution is to go vote harder in the next election, prompting Ashe to read directly from the Declaration of Independence and make the case that two hundred fifty years of American history have brought us to exactly the long train of abuses Jefferson described. CannCon and Ashe dismantle Thune's argument with the precise point Badlands has been making for years: the filibuster is an arbitrary senate rule the majority can change at any time, not a constitutional constraint. California wraps its primary coverage with new viral evidence of the fraud: a street interview of a woman saying she voted for Karen Bass because they told her to, combined with CannCon's report that illegal alien voters in California have no legal liability for casting a ballot because the state sends it to them. Ashe notes they watched the SPLC hearing before the show and she was already well past composed before they went live. The intelligence community's infiltration of congressional staff gets a pointed discussion, and both CannCon and Ashe agree that the people running congress are not the elected ones.
CannCon and Ashe in America return after a week off to a packed episode led by the California primary circus. Lindsey Graham wins South Carolina by 10 points, Nancy Mace finishes fifth in North Carolina, and the hosts are not pretending either outcome reflects real voter choice. The bulk of the episode covers the LA mayoral race, where Spencer Pratt led on election night only to be overtaken by mail ballots arriving days later at a statistical improbability the hosts describe as finding the same grain of sand 12 consecutive times. They break down California's election law architecture piece by piece: universal mail-in balloting sent to everyone regardless of request, a handwritten backdate option that counts as a valid postmark, happy-face signatures accepted under a legal presumption of validity, and a ballot tracking website that went offline for maintenance in the middle of counting. The US attorney for the Central District of California tells Glenn Beck that election fraud charges are coming within one to two months and is actively seeking witnesses. CannCon and Ashe close on Trump's Miranda Devine interview, the Kristen Welker exchange, the limits of the SAVE Act, and why Kalshi asked paid influencers to delete posts questioning the LA results.
Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Ashe in America to a conversation he calls the culture of space, and it earns the title. Technology is the last thing downstream. Upstream sit policies, values, beliefs, and ultimately worldview. Get those wrong and the most beautiful technology becomes the cruelest weapon. Ashe brings twenty years of corporate change management to the mic, asking the questions other people are afraid to. Are the ethics of Neuralink an afterthought, the same way Dolly the sheep just quietly went into the shadows? Can a nation as big and diverse as ours actually share a moral foundation? Why did the federal government just claim sole authority over AI regulation? Kwast answers from his Geography of Innovation study, which found no correlation between where invention happens and the moral climate around it. The takeaway: free markets and good people will figure out useful applications, but only if our interior life is in order. Along the way they unpack progressives as the true opposites of conservatives, USEIP as a model of free association, and why the most exciting thing about the coming age is that evil can no longer hide in the dark like a cockroach.
Jonathan Drake is back, and this time he brought magnets. In what might be the most mind-bending episode in Culture of Change history, Ashe and Drake dive into the ancient debate between atomism and the ether, what it means that nature always seeks ground, and why the triadic nature of every magnetic field is a living picture of the Trinity. Drake even breaks out a Ferrocell to show you what a field in the ether actually looks like. Spoiler: it is a donut. This is not a science show. This is a theology show that happens to involve physics. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Happy birthday Ashe in America, and welcome to episode 83. CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick things off with a wild Stanley Cup Finals breakdown: Mitch Marner's hat trick, Carolina's insane four-goal third period comeback, and an overtime winner that literally bounced off the back of the net and the goalie's own skate. Then the guys go deep on the marine veteran who disarmed a teenage carjacker with his bare hands, with Alpha dropping genuine gang expert knowledge on why talking to police actually protects you more than staying silent. CannCon walks through a full home defense firearms training regimen, and Alpha breaks down what a marine kill house actually looks like. The show closes in full Pride Month debauchery mode with Rob Schneider's veterans-versus-gay-month bit, an AI simulating the first woman president, and the crew absolutely losing it over Tom Brady launching a coconut water brand called Good Nut. Men unsupervised. Happy Pride.
It is Ashe's golden age birthday (47, an even MAGA number) and the ladies open with the most on brand baroque dinosaur and clown birthday card from Archangel Michael, leaf photo challenge submissions that look professionally lit, and a coffee photo challenge fail that Ashe is fully embracing. Ashe then digs into the history of her own birthday: James Madison introducing the Bill of Rights in 1789 (the part she would never let them change), George Orwell's 1984 published in 1949 with a passage about lack of understanding keeping people sane, and the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty. Christy takes the professor chair for mad as a hatter, which turns out to come from actual mercury poisoning in seventeenth century French hat makers and not Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Ashe walks through CannCon's research on Smartmatic and how its Venezuelan code lives on inside Dominion and Sequoia, the LA Spencer Pratt election circus, and Trump walking off Kristen Welker's barn set after she demanded evidence the media already knows exists. Cristina from Rise Attire joins to debut The Crystal Veil, her first short film and the start of Dauntless Tales, a stylized AI fantasy series in the spirit of Dark Crystal and Legend, with a Guy Fawkes knight, an allegory for a different psyop in every episode, and a reminder that our kids need to see good guys win.
Tim Ashe, Deputy Vermont State Auditor and Candidate for Vermont Auditor, joins Kurt & Anthony to discuss his campaign.
Ghost and Ashe in America walk through season four episode two of The Chosen, which opens with John the Baptist appearing to Jesus in a dream with broken chains and ends with Matthew finally apologizing to Peter at the altar of Pan. In between, the disciples sit Shiva on the open road, Andrew discovers he is no longer the anxious one, and Jesus drags everyone to Caesarea Philippi where the pagans are bringing goats into the temple for purposes that are not sacrifice. The hosts unpack why he brought them to the gates of hell to give Peter his new name and why "on this rock I will build my church" comes with "get behind me, Satan" three verses later. Then the conversation gets personal. Matthew confronting Peter on the road. The principle that you apologize to repent, not to be forgiven. Turning harmony into an idol and how false decorum has gutted the Western church. The 501(c)(3) trap. Seventy times seven and how cycles of revenge end. And Ashe sharing the story of her brother's killer being released from prison this past February and the choice she has been working through ever since.
CannCon and Ashe in America open Chapter 5 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the bailout game goes global. The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference gets a full autopsy: the IMF and World Bank were designed by Fabian socialists and a communist spy, Harry Dexter White, to eliminate gold from international finance and build world socialism one loan at a time. The Federal Reserve is no longer just America's lender of last resort. It is the planet's. SDRs get exposed as bookkeeping wizardry backed by nothing. Nixon's 1971 gold decoupling gets its proper context. And the World Bank's humanitarian branding gets stripped away as the crew walks through regime after regime, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, all receiving billions while committing atrocities their own governments openly planned. George Bernard Shaw, Fabian co-founder, gets quoted explaining exactly what socialism does to people who are not productive enough to justify their existence. The IMF opposes Bitcoin. CannCon and Ashe are not surprised.
Ashe in America steps into the host chair and Ghost brings the geopolitics on a lighter news day that turns into one of the most substantive discussions of the month. Trump confirms the expletive-laden Netanyahu phone call in a morning interview, says he would like to meet the Ayatollah in person, and does not walk back a word of the Axios reporting. Ghost maps out why Netanyahu has no choice but to keep pressing forward in Lebanon: ultra-orthodox coalition partners demanding Greater Israel have bayonets at his back, his political opponents are now calling him weak for yielding to Trump, and the minute he leaves office he faces three felonies. Ghost argues the Republican establishment is about to ride into the same suicide mission with Netanyahu. California primary results show Spencer Pratt leading Karen Bass by 25,000 votes with mail-in ballots still outstanding, and Steve Hilton advances in the governor race. The second half of the show becomes a sharp, wide-ranging conversation about personality worship versus principled thinking: why the truth community is more captured by personalities than the normies Ghost met on his Caribbean trip, why progressivism lives in both parties, and why the Republican Party forwarding Mark Elias election reform talking points is the clearest sign of a movement that has lost its principles. Lindsey Graham gets booed off stage again.
The Dan Caplis Show is back with a lively discussion on the topic of justice and accountability in Colorado. Today's episode features a thought-provoking conversation between the host and Ash in America, a popular podcast personality, about the recent case of Tina Peters, a former Mesa County clerk who was convicted of tampering with election equipment. The conversation delves into the complexities of the case, the role of the justice system, and the importance of accountability in government. The episode explores the nuances of the case, including the charges brought against Peters and the potential motivations behind her actions. Brauchler and Ashe in America discuss the role of the justice system in protecting the rights of the accused and the importance of due process. They also touch on the topic of jury nullification and the potential for government overreach. As the conversation unfolds, the host and Ashe in America delve into the specifics of the case, discussing the charges and the evidence presented. They also explore the concept of comparative sentencing and the importance of considering the context of the case. The discussion is engaging and informative, providing listeners with a deeper understanding of the complexities of the case and the justice system. If you're interested in learning more about this fascinating case and the discussion surrounding it, tune in to this episode of The Dan Caplis Show. The conversation is thought-provoking and informative, and provides a unique perspective on the importance of accountability in government.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In a thought-provoking conversation, Ashe in the studio joins George Brauchler, filling in for Dan Caplis, to discuss the intricacies of the election system and the role of the government in maintaining transparency and accountability. The conversation delves into the complexities of the system, with Ash sharing her personal experiences and insights as a constituent of George Brauchler, the district attorney. The discussion touches on the importance of scrutinizing government actions and the need for transparency in the election process. Ash shares her concerns about the legitimacy of the system, citing instances where she felt that the government was not acting in good faith. George Brauchler responds with his perspective as a district attorney, emphasizing the need to follow the law and the importance of understanding the limitations of his authority. The conversation also explores the topic of government accountability, with Ash highlighting the need for checks and balances in the system. George Brauchler shares his experiences with the Colorado Open Records Act, which he believes is often used as a barrier to transparency. The two discuss the importance of holding government officials accountable and the need for a more open and transparent system. If you're interested in learning more about the complexities of the election system and the role of government in maintaining transparency and accountability, tune in to this episode to hear Ash and George's thought-provoking conversation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
She wanted a steak. She got one. After 606 days behind bars, Tina Peters is out, and the Colorado political machine is absolutely melting down about it. Ashe plays Tina's first interview with Steve Bannon and breaks it down with three of the people who know this case better than anyone: election analyst Seth Keshel, cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh, and Mesa County Report author Mark Cook. From Jenna Griswold's 600 exposed BIOS passwords to disabled database change tracking to a DOJ statement that may have spooked Jared Polis into acting, this is the most comprehensive breakdown of the Peters case you will find anywhere. And Tina's already talking about prison reform. Because of course she is.
Kirt & Mr. Sal discuss Season 2 Episode 9 of Your Friends and Neighbors in which Ashe learns a lesson in low hanging fruit. Shoe Hammer some Show Hoppers into your day! Website: showhoppers.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShowHoppers Contact Us: showhopperspodcast@gmail.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
You still have time to get your tickets to Spring Finals!https://mullettarena.com/event/legendschampionship/Patch 26.11 is here, and Azael, Kobe, and Meteos have a LOT of opinions. On this episode of The Dive Driven by Kia, the crew kicks things off by discussing the most recent game-changing adjustments, namely enchanter nerfs and some long-overdue tweaks to under purchased items. They also dive into the Quinn buffs but, rest assured, Kobe isn't worried about it (or so he says).On the LCS front, both series from Week 2 of Playoffs went the full five games, delivering plenty of gameplay for the gang to unpack. TLAW's CoreJJ seemed determined to push Inspired's buttons, forcing him to pivot through aggressive tactics. FlyQuest continues to show up with high energy and creative strategies, entertaining audiences and casters alike. C9, on the other hand, showed a masterclass in team coordination, highlighted by a game-winning Ashe play by Zven.Looking ahead, Week 3 begins with a competitive face-off between FlyQuest and Sentinels. We already know the SEN roster is stacked with talent, but will the fearless Bo5 format open the door for FlyQuest's inventive drafting to steal the spotlight? We'll find out this weekend! LCS is back on stage and tickets are available now— we hope to see you there!https://www.tixr.com/groups/lcs/Timestamps:0:00 - Intro & Ticket Callout1:16 - 2026 Coaching Staff of the Split5:29 - Patch 26.1129:58 - FLY vs C9 Recap53:48 - LYON vs TL Recap1:24:51 - FLY vs SEN Lookahead1:36:58 - TLAW vs SR Lookahead
Ghost and Ashe in America kick off season four of The Chosen with the gut-wrenching first episode, which bookends John the Baptist's entire life in a single hour. The hosts open with a hard look at why elections are fake, why the Republican Party is the actual enemy, and why John in Herod's court is a warning about what happens when you let government distract you from the man you were supposed to be walking with. Then they walk through the whole arc: Mary's visit to Elizabeth, the baby leaping in the womb, the dance training of Salome, Herodias using her own daughter to stay comfortable in her sin, and John laughing on the way to his beheading because he is on his way to a wedding banquet. Along the way: Wesley Huff debating Billy Carson, Eric Larson's slivers and glances method applied to how the showrunners present Herod, the laundry scene as a metaphor for sin, Judas wanting to take up a collection and how that becomes the modern 501(c)(3) church, and a renewed appreciation for the Catholic church holding its ground while the Protestants crumble.
CannCon and Ashe in America hit Chapter 4 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the target this week is the Savings and Loan industry. Griffin walks through how government housing subsidies starting in the 1930s pulled real estate out of the free market, created perverse incentives for reckless lending, and ultimately produced a bailout that cost American taxpayers the equivalent of $1.5 trillion in today's dollars. The FSLIC collapses to 2/10ths of a penny per insured dollar. The Federal Reserve bypasses Congress entirely to bail out Lincoln Savings. Accounting gimmicks turn insolvent thrifts into paper-solvent zombies hemorrhaging millions per day. Then Griffin drops the junk bond chapter: the high-yield market was thriving, outperforming Fortune 500 bonds, and creating 18 million jobs until the government declared it junk and forced a fire sale that conveniently handed the market back to Wall Street. Congress? Silent. Because it wrote the laws that caused all of it.
CannCon and Ashe in America bring on cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh and retired Col. Shawn Smith to break down the CISA GitHub credential leak, in which AWS GovCloud server access keys and workspace passwords were stored in plain text in a CSV file and left exposed for up to six months. Col. Smith explains why CISA has never had the cyber talent or leadership to secure critical infrastructure, and why the damage from a breach like this is almost certainly unknowable and irreversible without burning the systems entirely. Clay Parikh walks through how credential exposure at the cloud level branches into full network access, compares the failure to the Colorado BIOS password scandal, and explains why Jenna Griswold's office violated CISA's own remediation guidelines after that breach. The conversation expands to Albert Sensors, the CIS public-private partnership backdoor, and how local election officials are given infrastructure far beyond their ability to secure or audit. Parikh also responds to The Atlantic hit piece targeting him, noting that his technical claims have never been technically refuted and that the pressure campaign against him escalated precisely as federal election investigations intensified.
CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a primary night that delivered. Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn by 25 points despite being outspent 9 to 1, and Ashe frames it as the clearest proof yet that voter intent is real even inside a broken system. Al Green is unseated in Houston by a younger challenger, another product of the redistricting wave. Tina Peters is days away from walking out, and Ashe explains why the real story of Tina Peters is not the machines she copied but the material witness testimony she holds about the weaponization of government as treason. CannCon and Ashe debate the fake versus fraudulent election question with genuine intellectual honesty, discuss the sting operation theory for 2026, and compare the Paxton outcome to what happened to Massey. The DNC releases a post-2024 autopsy assessment, and PBS runs a segment where a Democratic strategist admits the party is being financially obliterated, with 12 million protest attendees apparently unable to find $5 to give the DNC. Ashe connects it directly to the dark money apparatus being cut off. The Colorado governor debate frames the real choice of the midterms: the system is sound versus the system must be transformed. CannCon and Ashe close with the post-partisan America argument and the Munk debate populism clip.
This is the free episode — the full conversation is available exclusively for Producer Pal subscribers on Patreon: patreon.com/producerpointsIn this episode of Producer Points, Justin sits down with Collin Pastore and Jake Finch — a Nashville-based producer-writer duo quietly behind some of the best-sounding indie and alternative records of the last few years. From boygenius and Lucy Dacus to Ashe, Julien Baker, and Suki Waterhouse, their productions share a rawness and honesty that feels live, human, and never overcooked. Two studios, one shared vision, and a philosophy built around capturing real performances.
Victor and Sona discuss the latest episode of Apple TV+'s Your Friends and Neighbors, noting the show's strong ratings and early third-season renewal, then pivot to a mixed reaction: they appreciate the episode's theme about “when is it enough” and the pressures of maintaining a wealthy lifestyle, but feel the hour leans into “poor Coop vs hysterical women,” raising explicit concerns about misogyny. They revisit the prior funeral episode more favorably on rewatch, then break down plot points including Tori and Mel's legal trouble, Mel's refusal to apologize, Coop's baffling decision to confess financial crimes to Liv, Ash's increasingly controlling gestures toward Sam, Grace and Barney's fight over working for her father, Coop's comedic near-caught burglary, and Mel accidentally running over the neighbor's dog and burying it with Sam. The episode ends with Ally moving out and Coop being abducted, prompting speculation about Ash or authorities. Join our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/cw/NeedsSomeIntroduction Mailto:needssomeintroduction@gmail.com 00:00 Show Intro and Renewals 01:03 Knicks and Long Weekend 03:24 Rooster Catch Up 05:00 Listener Email and Critique 09:01 Funeral Episode Rewatch 12:15 Misogyny and Core Themes 19:05 Lawyer Scene and Tori 26:26 Coop Visits Liv 37:32 Sam and Ash Trap 38:54 Mel Neighbor Dog Feud 40:20 Perimenopause Theory Spiral 41:38 Ally Meltdown and Quitting 44:57 Ash Love Bombing Sam 46:33 Midlife Discontent Theme 51:00 Elena Debt and Coop Money Mess 52:22 Grace and Barney Money Fight 55:59 Court Day and Ash Damage Control 59:31 Influencer House Break In 01:03:32 Mel Hits Dog Cover Up 01:10:33 Coop Abducted Ending Theories 01:13:23 Wrap Up and Cape Fear Tease Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
This week, we're chatting to Lucy Ashe. Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet school, and now works as a teacher in Brooklyn, whilst writing brilliant books. Her debut, 'Clara and Olivia', was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. Her follow up, 'The Sleeping Beauties', was also set in the world of ballet. The new novel is 'The Model Patient'. Set in 1960s London, it explores obsession and betrayal. In the quiet hush of her therapists office, Evelyn Westbrook finds herself revealing secrets she'd prefer to stay hidden. When her sessions with the enigmatic Dr. Daley starts to give more questions than answers, she finds her interest in him turn into an obsession. It was inspired by Lucy's own traumatic relationship with a therapist, and it helped her find some control in that strange situation.We talk about Lucy's writing life, after recently having her first child, and how that's changed how much time she thought she'd have to write. Also, hear how a book deal changes how you write... does it add confidence or pressure? And, how it's a slight diversion from her normal historical fiction book - she's found the psychological thriller in this one.Get a copy of the book at uk.bookshop.org/shop/writersroutineThis week's episode is sponsored by IngramSpark. Get 15% off your first 15 books when you use the code ROUTINE15 at ingramspark.comAlso, this week we're supported by the Quick Book Reviews podcast with Philippa Hall. Take a listen wherever you've got this show.Support us at patreon.com/writersroutineko-fi.com/writersroutine@writerspodwritersroutine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ghost and Ashe in America wrap season three of The Chosen with a recap episode that finally ties up the storylines they ran out of room for. Shula and Barnaby and what their quiet, ardent faith says about the difference between believing without seeing and walking next to Jesus and still missing it. Little James and why his unhealed leg might be the most powerful testimony in the bunch. Eden and Simon's grief after the miscarriage, and the difference between doubting God and being resentful at him. And the moment Simon admits, out loud, that what he is really afraid of is Jesus choosing them. Then the conversation turns to the tassels. The old man Matthew arrested, who bought up his family's debt before dying so they would be free. Mary explaining to Matthew that the tassels were never about cloth, they were about faith. The Hellenistic visitor Shmuel berates for fashion violations before stealing his witness. Atticus identifying a horse breed and a rider's status in one glance. And Chris Paul's idea of false decorum as the through line for what the Pharisees and the modern world keep getting wrong.
CannCon and Ashe in America close out Chapter 3 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the hits keep coming. Continental Illinois triggers the world's first electronic bank run, and the FDIC quietly covers 96% of uninsured deposits while small banks down the street get shut down the same week. The chapter then jumps to 2008: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, TARP, the auto bailouts, and the Merrill Lynch forced merger. Henry Paulson engineers the demolition of his Goldman Sachs rivals while protecting his alma mater. Banks announce they "repaid" loans using other government money, and the whole thing gets called a success. By the end, the government quietly owns 56% of GMAC and 80% of AIG, but nobody calls it nationalization. CannCon and Ashe also compare the third and fifth editions of the book, finding key sections merged and updated. Griffin's second reason to abolish the Fed lands hard: it is not a protector of the public. It is a cartel operating against it.
Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a show that starts where yesterday's interview left off. Massey lost in Kentucky, Gallerian won with $15 million in AIPAC money, and Trump's endorsement record stays spotless. Jon uses the moment to ask the question that actually matters: if the election system is fraudulent and the voters do not determine the winner, what does a Trump endorsement actually mean? Is he swaying voters or does he already know who the system is going to pick? He also replays the Burchett clip that has Ashe fired up, pushes back on the blame the voters framing, and asks a pointed question nobody wants to answer: name one grassroots-activated candidate who got into Congress and stayed solid. Trump's Coast Guard speech included a casual reference to being around in 2032, which Jon flags as another devolution-adjacent hint. Two new executive orders dropped: one targeting Chinese money laundering networks and a second that formally integrates digital assets into the US financial regulatory framework, which Jon thinks crypto holders should be paying close attention to. Trump also posted a lengthy Truth Social calling out Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough and warning that without killing the filibuster Republicans will never win another presidential election.
CannCon and Ashe in America open with Ashe's first in-person visit with Tina Peters in prison, arriving just hours after Governor Jared Polis cut her sentence in half and granted parole effective June 1. Ashe shares Peters' priorities upon release: her 97-year-old mother, her health, and her dog Minka. The conversation turns to a full legal breakdown of the case, including what she was actually convicted of versus acquitted of, the exculpatory text messages withheld by the FBI from DA Rubinstein, and how the court blocked her from disputing the prosecution's intent narrative. CannCon and Ashe also break down the $17.76 billion weaponization of government fund and whether their own cases might qualify. The show then pivots to The Atlantic's hit piece on election integrity advocates including Clay Parikh and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who seized 650,000 ballots after redistricting discrepancies. The episode closes on Todd Blanche's Fox Business interview confirming active DOJ investigations in Arizona and Fulton County, Susie Wiles' statement that Trump may have won additional 2020 states, and Stacy Abrams reacting to the downstream effects of the Louisiana v. Callais redistricting ruling.
CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a show packed with Georgia and Kentucky primary fallout. Brad Raffensperger, Gabriel Sterling, and Chris Carr all fail to make the runoff in the Georgia governor's race, which Ashe frames as three people who are going to need the time back to prepare their criminal defense. Ed Galleran defeats Thomas Massey in Kentucky with $15 million from AIPAC and a victory party of roughly 30 people. CannCon reads Massey's full legislative record dating back to Trump's inauguration and challenges anyone to explain which bill on that list they disagree with. Ashe makes the principled point that emotional investment in any of these races is exactly how people get rug-pulled. Multiple primaries going to runoffs are already producing calls for ranked choice voting from both DSA and libertarian factions, and Ashe breaks down why it is the next layer of election opacity being added to an already unverifiable system. The Maritime Cybersecurity Act would bar Chinese components from ports and grid infrastructure, which CannCon and Ashe point out explicitly does not include voting machines despite election systems being defined as critical infrastructure. Trump endorses Ken Paxton for Texas Senate and primaries Cornyn. South Carolina passes a new 7-0 congressional map.
What happens when a Democrat speechwriter for the AFL-CIO and an unaffiliated conservative election denier sit down and discover they agree on more than they disagree? Ashe welcomes Tricia Calvaresi, the last Democrat to challenge Lauren Boebert, for a conversation that earns its question mark. From Colorado's NGO corruption machine to the broken mental health system, the globalist central planning apparatus to the civil war inside the Democratic Party, this one goes everywhere. Ashe closes with an exclusive update from her visit with Tina Peters in prison, including what Tina wants first when she walks out. It's a steak. Obviously.
This episode of the Dan Caplis Show is a wild ride, full of unexpected twists and turns. Starting with fill-in host Heidi Ganahl, still reeling from a weekend spent with a group of 14-year-old girls who have taught her a thing or two about the latest slang and the challenges of being a parent in the modern age. But it's not all fun and games - the conversation takes a serious turn when the host discusses the latest developments in Colorado politics, including the candidacy of Victor Marx and the controversy surrounding his past. Together with Ryan, they dive into the world of Colorado politics. They discuss the contrast between Victor Marx's campaign and that of Spencer Pratt, a reality TV star turned politician who's making waves with his viral videos. But it's not all about the politicians themselves - the conversation also touches on the importance of election integrity and the need for transparency in the electoral process. The episode also features a fascinating discussion with Ashe Epp, a journalist who's been leading the coverage on the story of Tina Peters, a woman who's been at the center of controversy in Colorado politics. Ashe shares her insights after an exclusive visit with Tina at La Vista correctional facility in Pueblo, including the recent grant of clemency and the potential implications for her future. "The first night I actually slept since I got here was last night." If you're interested in staying up-to-date on the latest developments in Colorado politics, this episode is a must-listen. Join the conversation and hear the latest news and insights from the world of politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The ladies open with coffee splash photo challenge fails, including Jackie's noble attempt at a witch's cauldron and Ashe's lone half melted ice cube while Christy's iPhone 17 Pro Max once again outclasses everyone. They tease the Freedom 250 GART in Deadwood, complete with red, white, and blue welcome dinner plans and a renewed hope that Zach Payne and only Lance actually grow mullets. Christy takes the professor's chair for the idiom hands down, which turns out to come from horse racing and not, sadly, a dramatic courtroom gesture, just in time for Napoleon Solo to win the Preakness in a suspicious bit of comms. Ashe walks through her in person visit with Tina Peters two days after Governor Polis granted clemency, unpacking what is actually going on with the weaponization of government, why this case was never about elections despite the headlines, what Tina actually misses (her 97 year old mother, a real steak, a salad with actual tomatoes), why she will not see her dog Minka until she is certain she is not leaving her again, and why people who say she did nothing wrong are missing the same point as people who call her a threat to democracy. Christy closes with how to swallow gel caps without choking and how to unlock a child safety cap forever.
Ashe broke the story before the embargo lifted and she is not apologizing for it. Governor Jared Polis granted clemency to Tina Peters, cutting her sentence and making her eligible for parole June 1. The crew digs into exactly what that means, what she was actually convicted of versus what the media has claimed for years, and what she was acquitted on that nobody talks about. Ashe lays out the full picture of the Colorado elections cabal, from Jenna Griswold's puppet masters to Matt Crane's NGO control of election narrative, Wayne Williams and Runback Election Services, and how the Help America Vote Act handed the entire election system to private interests. Jared Polis gets the full political autopsy treatment. Plus the crew watches Jenna Griswold lose her mind on CNN, reviews the Elliot Page Odyssey meme collection, and Cam shares his three-hour Starlink roof saga. A substantive, sharp episode anchored by one of the most significant election integrity stories in years.
CannCon and Ashe in America tackle Chapter 3 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, where the theoretical bailout playbook from Chapter 2 gets applied to real history. Penn Central, Lockheed, New York City, Chrysler, Commonwealth Bank of Detroit, First Pennsylvania Bank, and Continental Illinois all get walked through the same script: reckless loans, emotional blackmail to Congress, taxpayers absorb the losses, and the banks walk away whole. The FDIC gets exposed as a tiered system that quietly hands large banks a free ride on uninsured deposits paid for by smaller banks and the public. The duo also uncover significant content missing from the fifth edition compared to the third, including entire sections on the FDIC mechanics and the Unity Bank bailout, and ask the question everyone should be asking: why was it removed? Plus, CannCon drops the news that an interview with author G. Edward Griffin himself may be on the horizon.
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Ghost and Ashe in America close out season three by walking through the Decapolis arc all the way to Simon stepping out of the boat. The hosts unpack why Andrew and Philip's parable of the great banquet sparked a literal street brawl, why Judas is the only apostle in the room who instantly grasps everyone's offense (because his ego is still fully intact), and what it means that Jesus heals a deaf-mute Greek before he's even had a chance to introduce himself. The conversation widens into Socrates dying for "corrupting the youth" the same way Jesus would, the Nabateans of Petra, the Haskalah and why Orthodox versus secular Jews are headed for a civil war in present-day Israel, and what the chosen people actually got chosen for (hint: Deuteronomy 28, and it isn't a status upgrade). Then it lands on the feeding of the five thousand and Simon's brutally honest, cynical kind of faith. He believes Jesus can do it. He's just afraid Jesus will choose them. It ends where every storyline this season has been pointing. Keep your eyes on me. The mercies are new because we need them new.
CannCon and Ashe in America welcome Dr. Andrew Paquette, known online as Zark Files, research director for New York Citizens Audit and one of the most technically rigorous voices in election integrity work. Dr. Paquette walks through five years of voter roll analysis across more than a dozen states, explaining how he reverse engineered four distinct algorithms embedded in New York's voter registration ID number system, discovered 1.5 million cloned records, and obtained photographically identical duplicate signatures from counties that should not have had any clones at all. He explains why the system is structurally designed to prevent anyone from linking a ballot to the fake voter who generated it, and why that means the question of how many races were affected may be permanently unanswerable. The conversation moves to Bexar County, Texas, where Dr. Paquette analyzed a check-in list showing over 4,000 fake voter check-ins injected after polls closed through a third-party cloud system called EPulse, which serves 29 states. He closes on the Save America Act, the limits of legislative fixes, and why he believes the entire election infrastructure needs to be scrapped and rebuilt.
CannCon and Ashe bring Ash Wednesday with a show that ranges from the absurd to the consequential. Missouri's Supreme Court upholds redrawn congressional maps that effectively eliminate the only Democrat seat, and Mississippi sets a special session to redraw Bennie Thompson's district. Ashe and CannCon use the redistricting wave to make the deeper argument: the real problem is not who draws the districts but the 1929 cap at 435 representatives that makes political manipulation structurally inevitable. A Brooklyn Democrat assembly candidate has 90% of her 5,258 nominating signatures thrown out, including two from voters who have been dead for over a decade. Dr. Andrew Paquette's Why We Vote appearance the night before revealed 1.5 million cloned voter registrations in New York alone in 2020, and CannCon and Ashe show that US registered voter turnout hit 94.1% in 2020, higher than countries with compulsory voting. Kevin Warsh clears his Senate hurdle 51-45. Kash Patel eviscerates Senator Van Hollen live in committee. An undercover video catches a White House budget official calling Trump a madman. Trump calls out Mitch McConnell's Democratic-aligned handler Robert Karim by name.
Ashe sits down with filmmaker Matt Thayer for a wide ranging conversation about telling stories that matter in a culture that desperately needs them. From "The Trump I Know" to the upcoming theatrical release "No Limbs, No Limits," the story of Nick Vujicic, this episode is part film conversation, part theology, and part election accountability. What does authentic Christian faith look like when the camera is rolling? What does a fair election actually require? And what does it mean that Trump is now naming names on Truth Social? Ashe ties it all together with a breakdown of the 22 principles driving America's transformation program. Buckle up.
Burning Bright sits down with Ashe in America for a methodical and surprisingly optimistic look at where the Patriot plan actually stands. Ashe brings her twenty-year background in corporate change management to map the Trump era onto a formal transformation program, arguing that the second administration is deep in the implementation and execution phase. The two dissect how the same change management frameworks used to subjugate, through the nuclear fear narrative, sustainable development goals, and Hollywood humiliation rituals, are now being reverse engineered toward accountability and justice. From Chevron deference to redistricting cases, from the RICO umbrella swallowing Russiagate, election fraud, and COVID, to Trump's narrative shielding on Supreme Court picks, this episode makes the case that winning is a process and the process is ahead of schedule.
It's episode 69, hey hey, and the ladies are not going to mention it. Jackie shares the pet photo challenge submissions including her bird who tried to drink her reflection water, and Ashe tells the proper version of Caleb's eighth birthday in Manhattan involving the Intrepid, Spider-Man dropping web from the rafters, Dylan's Candy Bar, and one harrowing taxi near miss. Christy unpacks the British idiom getting the sack, complete with a 1525 Zach spelling and the mental image of a Victorian raccoon hauling its belongings out the door. Ashe walks through a packed week in history covering Alan Shepard going to suborbital space (allegedly), Bobby Sands and the idea that everyone has a part to play, the Roger Bannister sub-four-minute mile, the Channel Tunnel, the Chinese Exclusion Act and its modern TPS parallels, the Lusitania, VE Day, Coca-Cola's first glass at Jacobs Pharmacy, Olympic boycotts as psyop fuel, Ben Franklin's Join or Die cartoon as the first political meme, the end of the Civil War, the Schuman Declaration as the birth of globalism, the transcontinental railroad golden spike, and Deep Blue defeating Kasparov as the original AI fear porn rerun we are still being sold today. Plus Gart updates and why all roads lead to Mark Elias being upset.
ASHE IN AMERICA JOINS ME Because she is an interesting writer you should know. Ashe Epp is a writer, host, activist, and victor, fighting for issues like election integrity and more. She and I agree on some stuff, but not all. Find her excellent Substack here, and read her column in the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle weekly. She joins for the 1pm hour. You can read her latest column about the assembly process here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The Mandy Connell Show, Mandy dives into a packed show with a diverse group of guests. First, she's joined by Gord Magill, a truck driver and author who shares his expertise on the trucking industry and its struggles. Then, Ashe Epp, a columnist and writer, joins the conversation, discussing her views on politics and the importance of being brave in a transformational season. The show also touches on topics like UFOs, the federal government's recent document dump, and the upcoming election cycle. Plus, Chad Franke to talk farming! The Western Slope is making our food. Mandy's sharp wit and insightful questions make for a thought-provoking discussion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sona and I recap the latest Your Friends & Neighbors, “And for Everything Else, There Was Bowling,” with a long digression into shifting TV/sports monoculture, Ticketmaster/scalping dynamics, and Broadway ticket realities. We discuss declining NBA/awards ratings, how podcasts create smaller communities (including listeners who don't watch the shows), and plug the Patreon plus a bonus breakdown of a surprise secret episode of The Bear featuring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. On the show recap, we debate this midseason “soft reset” focused on Coop processing his father's death, the cufflinks vs. bowling ball symbolism, the ghostlike POV/camera motif, and the Warren Zevon song “Keep Me in Your Heart for A While.” We criticize episode length, scattered subplots (Mel's perimenopause, Tory/Princeton, dog poop, Barney's wife, Ashe), and hope the final four episodes regain clear stakes and plot momentum. Join the Patreon for more content https://www.patreon.com/cw/NeedsSomeIntroduction Mailto:needssomeintroduction@gmail.com 00:00 Show intro and Knicks chat 00:50 Why ratings are collapsing 05:04 Fragmented culture and podcasts 09:05 Patreon plug and bonus eps 10:17 The Bear surprise episode, "Gary" 12:00 Broadway plans and ticket costs 14:24 Ticketmaster and scalpers 19:00 Tour cancellations and price squeeze 22:10 Broadway ticket availability tips 24:44 Friends residuals and asset inflation 26:27 Back to Your Friends and Neighbors 27:34 Coop's arc and episode structure 32:47 Mortality and enoughness themes 36:34 Warren Zevon song meaning 37:25 Allie as Song Device 39:20 Ghostly Wake Camera 42:06 Cufflinks and Bowling Ball 43:20 Dad Secret Bowling Life 45:55 Understanding the Mother 50:39 Funeral Chaos and Ashe 52:05 Mel and Tori Drama 57:09 Coop Going Gray 59:07 Season Two Lacks Focus 01:04:38 Charisma and Class Critique 01:07:01 Patreon and Wrap Up Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ghost and Ashe in America kick off the season three finale by tracing the slow-burn arc between Gaius and Simon across episodes four through seven. A broken cistern, a few tied knots, a bad piece of marriage advice, and one drunken stumble into the Roman quarter later, you've got two men from opposite sides of a wall doing the work of building a bridge. The hosts dig into what makes this dynamic land: shared manual labor, real disagreement, and the slow conversion of the heart that happens when Gaius finally confesses to Simon about his illegitimate son and a sick little boy he can no longer pretend isn't his. Along the way: why the disciples can't stop tying themselves into knots when Jesus steps out of the room, why Judas is the only one who never gets his ego death scene (and why that makes the betrayal hit harder), Atticus humiliating the Pharisees in the temple courtyard, and Caesarea Philippi foreshadowing. Plus a bracing detour into the difference between the People of the Book and the People of the Way, and why a Colorado governor candidate could not answer what Tina Peters was actually convicted of.
CannCon and Ashe in America dig into Chapter 2 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the game has a name: Bailout. The crew breaks down how the Federal Reserve system allows banks to create money from nothing, loan it recklessly to corporations and foreign governments, and then use a series of plays, debt rollover, upping the ante, rescheduling, and the protect-the-public maneuver, to shift every inevitable loss onto the backs of American taxpayers. The FDIC gets exposed not as insurance but as a moral hazard machine that actually incentivizes reckless lending. Inflation gets called what it is: a hidden tax paid by the public to cover losses they never agreed to absorb. The 2008 mortgage crisis gets name-checked as a textbook example. The parallels to elections, campaign finance smurfing in Colorado, and consent to be governed round out a chapter that will leave you educated and furious in equal measure.
CannCon and Ashe in America pack a full show without a guest. The DOJ charges four non-citizen resident aliens with illegal voting in New Jersey, and DHS confirms an active investigation into illegal alien voters in Franklin County, Ohio, raising bigger questions about how they got registered in the first place. In Fulton County, Georgia, citizen investigator Jason Fraser exposes 10,000-plus duplicate voter registrations, while a nine-year poll veteran details how unsworn ACLU clerks used personal computers to clear voter records from the eNET system during the 2020 election. Brad Raffensperger refuses to say he made a mistake certifying 2020 in a gubernatorial debate, and then looks down. The Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS decision effectively kills the expansive use of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as a racial gerrymandering tool, and the court expedites its remand instead of waiting the typical 32 days, a significant signal heading into the 2026 midterms. The show closes on the DOJ grand jury subpoena demanding personal contact information for every Fulton County 2020 election worker, and Norm Eisen and Abby Lowell's motion to quash it.
CannCon and Ashe in America bring another Ash Wednesday packed with election integrity, COVID accountability, and geopolitics. The DOJ serves grand jury subpoenas for every 2020 Fulton County election worker, seeking names, addresses, and phone numbers for everyone from mail-in ballot reviewers to risk-limiting audit volunteers. Ash makes the case this is the first formal investigation into what actually happened in Georgia. In Indiana, Trump's primary revenge tour goes five for six as long-serving incumbents who blocked redistricting get sent home. Ash drops a story about Colorado GOP governor candidate Victor Marx raising $1.6 million through WinRed with zero grassroots energy, flagging it as a potential smurfing operation on the Republican side, and calls on electionwatch.info as the tool to check. NIH virologist Vincent Munster was caught at the airport smuggling undeclared pathogen samples from the DRC, the FBI is investigating, and his connection to the DEFUSE blueprint for COVID and Ralph Baric's concurrent removal from NIH grants sends the COVID accountability thread into overdrive. Rand Paul's Fauci criminal referral deadline is one week out. Plus, DC police leadership faces termination for manipulating crime data, Trump doubles the ballroom, and the Iran nuclear deal is one page away from being signed.
What if the single most important check on government power was quietly dismantled in the 1830s, and nobody told you? Ashe sits down with Jonathan Drake of the No Treason podcast to break down Lysander Spooner's case for trial by jury, what it actually meant at the founding, and how it became the hollow shell we have today. From jury nullification to the legal priestly class to why getting jury duty might be the most powerful civic act you can take, this is the kind of conversation that rewires how you think about justice, liberty, and who is actually in charge. Spoiler: it is not you. Yet.