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Landing subcontracts with prime contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and L3Harris starts long before you ever pick up the phone, and most small businesses skip the steps that actually get them noticed. In this clip, a govcon entrepreneur breaks down the exact sequence he used to move from cold outreach to a signed, ongoing contract with a major defense prime. If you've been stuck trying to get a capability briefing to turn into real work, this is the roadmap. How to register on a prime contractor's vendor or partner portal before ever reaching out to their small business office Why leading with technical jargon in a capability briefing gets you ignored, and what small business POCs actually need to hear instead How to use a specific contract ID and government POC name to open doors that generic capability statements never will Why treating subcontracting as a "side door" instead of a back door builds long-term pipeline, even outside government work The exact process for escalating from a small business contact to the technical lead who controls the actual project EPISODE CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Introduction and Mindy sponsor message 0:48 - Why calling a prime contractor cold fails 1:17 - Do your research before contacting Boeing or Lockheed 1:29 - Register as a vendor on the prime's portal 2:12 - Attend a capability briefing with the small business office 2:51 - Avoid technical jargon small business contacts cannot use 3:39 - Give small business POCs clear direction, not confusion 4:25 - Use a specific contract ID to open the conversation 5:20 - How referencing a real contract leads to the right department 6:26 - Applying this side door strategy to construction subcontracts 7:02 - Why subcontracting is a side door, not a back door 7:55 - Comparing pricing between GovIQ and DeltekGovWin Mindy gives you the federal opportunities, agency signals, recompete intel, and pursuit briefs that tell you not just what contracts exist, but which ones to chase and how to win them. Sign up for free Daily Alerts and get opportunities delivered to your inbox before the day starts.
Trump heads to the Army War College in Pennsylvania for Senator Dave McCormick's defense summit, and somehow turns an infrastructure announcement into a masterclass on aircraft carrier catapults. Nearly $10 billion in new defense investment gets unveiled on the spot, submarines, shipyards, missile components, robotics hubs, and a passionate, extended rant about why magnets do not belong on Navy elevators. The room is stacked with heavy hitters, Jamie Dimon, Boeing's CEO, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Blackstone, all taking turns praising the new pace of business at the Pentagon. Between the economic numbers and manufacturing stats, there's a serious policy announcement on commercial truck licensing, a teaser for a "very big" Thursday announcement on election integrity, and a genuinely emotional moment honoring a fallen state trooper. It's part economic victory lap, part military pep rally, and part engineering opinion piece, with a truck cameo that gets compared to the infamous Dukakis tank moment.
The man who invented solid rocket fuel and helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory spent his nights performing sex rituals in a Pasadena mansion with a struggling science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard, trying to incarnate a goddess who would give birth to the Antichrist.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RocketMagicREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9enkrtn5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The creator of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, was so fascinated by the occult, he believed he was the actual devil himself… and was even upset when his own son turned out to not be the antichrist. (The Devil L. Ron Hubbard) *** Scientology is already scary and mysterious – which may not be surprising once you learn how much black magic had to do with its creation. (Scientology and the Occult) *** A house in the Altamaha River Swamp in Georgia becomes darker and more dangerous than the swamp itself. (A Terrifying Haunting in Georgia) *** Was a well known UFOlogist murdered shortly before a scheduled speech he was about to give? (The Bleached Computer of a UFO Researcher) *** Some believe we all have a guardian angel watching over us. One infamous yet respected witch hunter many years ago wrote that we all – each one of us – have a personal demon. And many people believed him. (The Demon Witch Hunter) *** For some time now, Area 51 has been seen as ground zero for conspiracies and government coverups. However, a plot of land in Utah has started to attract much of the same kind of attention. Welcome to Dugway – also known as Area 52. (Welcome to Area 52)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:37.371 = Show Open00:03:45.021 = Rocket Fuel, Sex Magic, and the Birth of Scientology00:25:54.957 = A Terrifying Haunting In Georgia ***00:34:49.445 = The Demon Witch Hunter00:46:33.406 = The Bleached Computer of a UFO Researcher ***00:50:09.122 = Area 5201:00:20.603 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Scientology and the Occult” by Annalee Newitz: http://bit.ly/31KIGnA“The Devil L. Ron Hubbard” by Jacob Shelton: http://bit.ly/2ISSjIy“A Terrifying Haunting In Georgia” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2Ip9m5Y“The Bleached Computer of a UFO Researcher” by Paul Seaburn: http://bit.ly/2KpSyhm“The Demon Witch Hunter” by Melissa Brinks: http://bit.ly/2MXHdaf“Welcome to Area 52” by Hannah Collins: http://bit.ly/2WNDFY1(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January, 2019Weird Darkness moves through black magic, hauntings, demonology, unsolved death, and government secrecy in this episode, running from the occult roots of Scientology to a Utah military base that has earned the nickname Area 52.It opens with L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction novelist who founded Scientology, and the claim from his own eldest son — Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr., who left the church in 1959 and renamed himself Ronald DeWolf — that black magic sat at the inner core of the religion. In a 1983 Penthouse interview, DeWolf described a father deeply involved in the occult who did not worship Satan so much as believe he was Satan, the Beast 666 incarnate. The story runs through Hubbard's obsession with Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis, the "moonchild" ritual he and rocket scientist Jack Parsons attempted in Pasadena to conceive an astral child and bring the goddess Babalon into the world, the poltergeist activity that followed at the Parsons house, the alleged OT Level VIII passage in which Hubbard claimed the Antichrist mantle for himself, the numerology hidden in the New Era logo's two sixty-degree triangles, and the shared contempt both Hubbard and Crowley held for psychoanalysis even as both leaned on hypnosis and past-life regression to control their followers.From there the episode digs into Jack Parsons himself — the college-dropout chemist who invented solid rocket fuel, helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and claimed to have summoned Satan at thirteen. Drawing on John Carter's Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons and Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, the story follows Parsons through the Pasadena mansion he filled with pagans, artists, and writers; the bonfires that drew police reports from the neighbors; the arrival of Hubbard, who slept with Parsons' girlfriend Betty; the red-headed artist Marjorie Cameron, whom both men decided was Babalon made flesh; Crowley's own disgust at the pair, whom he dismissed as goats in a letter; and the boat-buying scheme in Florida that cost Parsons his last twenty thousand dollars. Parsons died in 1952 handling explosives on his front porch, two years after Dianetics made Hubbard famous.Next comes the Surrency haunting, one of the most heavily witnessed poltergeist cases on record. In October of 1872, sawmill operator Allen Surrency returned to his two-story farmhouse on the edge of the Altamaha River Swamp in Georgia to find tumblers sliding off the slab, crockery shattering on the floor, and bricks, irons, and potatoes falling through the rooms of his own house. The activity never let up: clocks spinning backward, mirrors exploding, utensils bending in the family's hands, a pan of biscuits levitating out of the oven and flying out the back door, hot bricks raining down on his daughter Clementine, an andiron chasing his son across the room and then returning itself to the fireplace. Hundreds of visitors — reporters and a minister among them — watched objects fly in plain view. The haunting followed the family when they moved away, stopped abruptly with Allen's death in 1877, and the house burned down in 1925, leaving nothing behind but the orb of light still reported along the town's railway tracks.The episode then turns to Peter Binsfeld, the sixteenth-century German witch hunter whose enthusiasm for torture was matched by his taste for taxonomy. His De confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum laid out the Seven Princes of Hell — Lucifer for pride, Beelzebub for gluttony, Satan for wrath, Belphegor for sloth, Mammon for greed, Asmodeus for lust, and Leviathan for envy — and argued that each living person is shadowed by a personal demon who knows their habits intimately, the dark counterpart to a guardian angel. Binsfeld held that women were more prone to witchcraft, that girls under twelve and boys under fourteen were usually too young to be guilty, and that anyone who claimed to have seen a witch shapeshift had been deceived by the Devil.The unsolved death of British ufologist Max Spiers follows. Spiers died in Poland on July 16, 2016, days before a scheduled conspiracy conference appearance and shortly after reportedly vomiting two liters of black liquid, having texted his mother that he was in trouble and to investigate if anything happened to him. His death was ruled natural causes. At a pre-inquest review at Guildhall in Sandwich, Kent, in August of 2018, lawyers for his mother Vanessa Bates revealed that his laptop had been wiped clean and his phone's SIM card erased or removed before being returned to the family, with Spiers found dead on the couch of his girlfriend Monika Duval and the four-day inquest set for the Archbishops Palace in Maidstone.The episode closes at Dugway Proving Ground, the 800,000-acre Utah military installation that UFO researchers call Area 52. Founded during the second World War for biological and chemical weapons work, Dugway is best known for the 1968 VX nerve agent test that drifted into Skull Valley and killed thousands of sheep, an incident the Army compensated farmers for without accepting blame. Freedom of Information requests filed by MuckRock founder Michael Morisy surfaced records of entomological munitions — mosquitoes loaded with what the Army called inert pathogens and released over American civilian populations — and of soldiers used as test subjects. The story takes in the 2011 disappearance of Joseph Bushling, whose empty car, hat, and shoes turned up sixty-five miles from the main gate with no body ever found; the runway in the base's southern expansion that never appears on Dugway's own maps; Lockheed engineer Don Phillips and former CEO Ben Rich on flying saucer technology; and Steven Greer's claim in The Sirius Project that trillions in defense funding has been siphoned into a shadow government beyond the reach of the Department of Defense.
En 1943, Lockheed necesitaba construir un avión a reacción que parecía casi imposible. El encargo era urgente y el calendario, absurdo: apenas unos meses para diseñar y entregar un prototipo. Kelly Johnson reunió a un pequeño grupo de ingenieros, los apartó del resto de la empresa y redujo la burocracia al mínimo. Trabajaron en un edificio improvisado junto a una fábrica de plásticos cuyo olor era tan insoportable que alguien acabó bautizando el lugar como *Skunk Works*. De allí salió un avión revolucionario y, con el tiempo, una de las divisiones más legendarias de la industria aeroespacial. La historia suele utilizarse para hablar de innovación, pero a mí me interesa por otra razón: cuando algo importante cambia de verdad, las estructuras existentes suelen tardar demasiado en entenderlo. Los organigramas, los presupuestos y las categorías mentales fueron diseñados para el mundo anterior, de modo que las oportunidades más interesantes suelen aparecer precisamente donde alguien empieza a romper esas categorías. Esta semana, al repasar los mercados, me encontré varias veces con esa sensación. Empresas que ya no son lo que el mercado cree que son, industrias que están descubriendo dónde reside realmente su poder y negocios que parecen estar compitiendo en un sector cuando, en realidad, la batalla importante se libra en otro. No voy a destripar las historias del nuevo episodio de Actualidad Semanal +D, porque la gracia está precisamente en ir descubriendo las conexiones. Pero hay una pregunta que lo atraviesa todo y que merece quedarse rondando por la cabeza: ¿Cuántas empresas seguimos valorando por el negocio que fueron, mientras el verdadero negocio se está construyendo en otra parte? A veces el futuro no llega haciendo ruido. A veces lleva años delante de nosotros, pero seguimos mirándolo con el nombre equivocado.
Josh Dean describes the early days of the Lockheed Corporation and the birth of Skunk Works. After saving the company by fixing the Electra, Kelly Johnson promised a jet fighter in just six months. Operating out of a circus tent, his team produced the P-80 in 143 days. (6)1951
Josh Dean introduces Kelly Johnson, the brilliant engineer behind the P-38 fighter. Born to hardworking Swedishparents, Johnson overcame poverty to become a legend in aviation. His industrious nature and early mastery of aeronautics led him to Lockheed, where he would transform the industry during WWII. (5)1951
SCHEDULE FOR THE JBS, 7-9-2026.1930 BRAZIL ARGENTINA WORLD CUP.Anatol Lieven discusses the impact of the Ukraine war on Russian consumers and potential peace terms. He suggests Russia might settle if it abandons Donbass demands, provided the West bars Ukrainian NATOmembership. Currently, the Russian military is advancing slowly while enduring huge casualties and economic suffering. (1)ZAnatol Lieven explores a potential peace compromise and the risks of escalation. He notes that while Ukraine can make Russia suffer via drone strikes on energy infrastructure, aerial bombardment alone will not force a surrender. A single miscalculation could lead to a direct clash between Russia and NATO. (2) Mary Anastasia O'Grady reports on the earthquake tragedy in Venezuela and the incompetence of the Rodriguezregime. She details how officials like Diosdado Cabello hinder rescue efforts to hide illicit activities. Meanwhile, the opposition leader María Corina Machado is being blocked from returning to the country. (3) Mariam Wahba reports on the brutal persecution of Christians under the Chinese Communist Party's"sinicization" policy. This effort involves rewriting the Bible and mandating state-sanctioned clergy to ensure religion serves the state. Despite this, the underground church continues to grow, posing a challenge to CCPauthority. (4) Josh Dean introduces Kelly Johnson, the brilliant engineer behind the P-38 fighter. Born to hardworking Swedishparents, Johnson overcame poverty to become a legend in aviation. His industrious nature and early mastery of aeronautics led him to Lockheed, where he would transform the industry during WWII. (5) Josh Dean describes the early days of the Lockheed Corporation and the birth of Skunk Works. After saving the company by fixing the Electra, Kelly Johnson promised a jet fighter in just six months. Operating out of a circus tent, his team produced the P-80 in 143 days. (6) Josh Dean explains the Skunk Works method through the development of the F-104 Starfighter. Johnsondemanded total control and minimal oversight from the Air Force, focusing on speed and climb. His test pilots, including Tony LeVier, formed an intimate, trusted team that operated like "cowboys". (7) Josh Dean details the CIA-led U-2 program, designed for high-altitude reconnaissance over the Soviet Union. To achieve 70,000 feet, Johnson created a lightweight glider-like plane. This required the invention of specialized pressure suits for pilots, providing nearly 75% of intelligence gathered during the Cold War. (8) Josh Dean explores the Area 51 mysteries and the Gary Powers incident. Many UFO sightings were actually spy planes like the U-2, tested in secret. Despite the shootdown of Powers in 1960, Johnson had already begun developing the Mach 3.2 Blackbird to maintain an intelligence advantage. (9) Josh Dean recounts Kelly Johnson's creation of the world's first drone for reconnaissance and his failed pitch for an A-12 bomber. He clashed with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who ordered the destruction of A-12tools. The segment also highlights Johnson's personal life on his California ranch. (10) Josh Dean highlights Kelly Johnson's struggle with anxiety and health, alongside the emergence of stealth technology. Under his successor Ben Rich, Skunk Works developed the F-117 Nighthawk. Utilizing facets to scatter radar, this "hopeless diamond" proved that an invisible plane was mathematically possible. (11) Josh Dean summarizes Kelly Johnson's 14 rules, emphasizing simplicity and speed. These principles required small teams and minimal paperwork to innovate effectively. Before passing away in 1990, Johnson witnessed a final emotional flyover of his iconic Blackbird, marking the end of a legendary aviation era. (12) Thomas Savage warns that the US national debt is reaching dangerous levels relative to GDP. He explains that rising interest costs are now exceeding national defense spending, which threatens to stifle the productive economy and lead to a decreased standard of living for the average American taxpayer. (13) Thomas Savage argues for stringent budget reforms and spending cuts to address the fiscal crisis. He notes that while many elected officials recognize the problem, the priority of political reelection prevents them from making unpopular decisions, leaving the country in a cycle of unsustainable federal spending. (14) Cliff May explores the historical link between socialism and Islamism, tracing partnerships from early Bolsheviksto the Iranian Revolution. These alliances often end in violence and purges of leftists, as seen when Ayatollah Khomeini executed communist leaders. He warns that these ideologies generally favor oppressive one-party states. (15) Veronique de Rugy uses a 700-year-old Siena fresco to discuss the virtues of good governance. The artwork illustrates that a flourishing society requires the rule of law and justice. She cautions that modern industrial policies and government cronyism represent the same arbitrary governance the fresco warns against. (16) Note: the source had mid-sentence phrases bolded; I've stripped those and kept bolding to proper nouns per house style. Also corrected Tony LeVier (capital V).
Erfahre hier mehr über unseren Partner Scalable Capital - dem Broker mit einem der besten YouTube-Kanäle zu Aktien & Investments. Samsung verdoppelt Umsatz, enttäuscht trotzdem. Chip-Aktien fallen. Rivian verkauft Aktien. Vertex kauft Diversifikation. DeepSeek baut eigenen KI-Chip. Proxima Fusion holt 400 Mio. € von Alex Gerko. Nato bestellt bei SAAB. Lockheed & Avio mit Deals. Indien war lang Börsen-Liebling. Jetzt: zu teuer, KI-Problem, Ölabhängigkeit. Christian Röhl erklärt die Lage und wie man Indien im Portfolio spielen kann (z.B. MSCI India, FTSE India, WisdomTree True Emerging Markets (WKN: A41U4P), Suzuki Motors (WKN: 857310)). Diesen Podcast vom 08.07.2026, 3:00 Uhr stellt dir die Podstars GmbH (Noah Leidinger) zur Verfügung. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In this episode of Need to Know, Bryce Zabel and Richard Dolan revisit one of the most debated claims in modern ufology: Ross Coulthart's statement that the famous Nimitz "Tic Tac" UFO was Lockheed Martin technology. They carefully examine what was actually said, why the claim generated so much discussion, and whether the available evidence supports such a conclusion. Along the way, they explore the long history of Lockheed's connection to classified aerospace programs, the challenges of relying on anonymous intelligence sources, and the importance of separating speculation from verifiable evidence. The conversation expands into the broader question of whether some UFO encounters could be explained by advanced human technology or whether the evidence continues to point toward a genuine non-human intelligence. Bryce and Richard discuss the implications of black-budget programs, reverse engineering, the role of private aerospace contractors, and why landmark cases like the 2004 Nimitz encounter remain some of the strongest evidence in the UAP debate. They also reflect on the current state of disclosure, recent developments in Washington, and why the search for answers is far from over. The episode also features a lighthearted opening on the "GOAT" of ufology, where Bryce and Richard debate who deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of UFO research, highlighting figures such as Jacques Vallée, J. Allen Hynek, Stanton Friedman, and George Knapp. Blending humor with thoughtful analysis, the discussion ultimately returns to the biggest question facing the field today: if disclosure is a process rather than a single event, how do we responsibly separate compelling evidence from extraordinary claims?
Two conversations. One theme: workers fighting for what they deserve — and winning when they stand together. First, IAM Union retired International President Tom Buffenbarger joins as the independent labor voice to cover three urgent stories. A Washington Post-covered study reveals the United States spends just $4,000 on average training a skilled tradesperson against a needed investment of approximately $50,000 — and calls for a $9 billion infusion into trades training programs now, as AI-driven infrastructure expansion creates a surge in demand for exactly the workers whose apprenticeship programs were gutted, starting with Jack Welch's GE. Buffenbarger also discusses the IAM District 776 Lockheed Martin contract ratification, delivering historic wage increases for 5,000 Fort Worth workers who build the nation's most advanced fighter aircraft. And he weighs in on the Faster Labor Contracts Act passing the House, using Amazon's Staten Island workers — organized in 2022 with no contract four years later — as Exhibit A for why it matters. Then, SEIU Local 1021 Chapter President Barbra Lynn Hamilton and Union Steward Shelly Martin describe a contract fight at Vacaville Unified School District that was about far more than wages. Workplace violence reports jumped from 67 to 266 in a single year — a figure that remains an undercount because management discouraged filings. A Cal/OSHA investigation is now underway. Paraprofessionals and behavior assistants who support special needs students are going unfilled while the district ends the year 31% over budget and hires more administrators. After 200-plus members showed up to a board meeting with a strike vote, the district found money it had claimed did not exist. A two-year contract has been signed. The fight continues. Visit goiam.org for IAM Union updates and seiu1021.org for more from SEIU Local 1021.
Amelia Earhart was the most famous female pilot in history. She was breaking the glass ceiling decades before anybody had coined that term. In the 1920s and 1930s she was setting records - not just for women, but for everybody. In 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan tried to circumnavigate the Earth. After making it most of the way around the world, on July 2, 1937, they disappeared someplace in the Pacific Ocean. Find out what most likely happened.
Anduril Industries raised $5 billion at a reported $61billion valuation—putting a nine-year-old defense tech company in the same conversation as legacy primes that have been building weapons for generations.How did they do it, what is their strategy, and does the math make sense?In this episode, Mike and Matthew take a deep dive inside Anduril's products, revenue, contracts, and business strategy. They break down the Series H raise, the company's rapid valuation climb, the difference between contract ceilings and booked revenue, and why visible federal obligations onlytell part of the story.They also examine Anduril's expanding product portfolio, anddebate the core question behind the company's $61B price tag: Is Anduril the future of defense industrial production, or is the market pricing in near-flawless execution?Topics include:- Anduril's $5B Series H and $61B valuation- The gap between reported revenue and visible federalobligations- Why Special Operations and the Border Patrol matter morethan most people realize- The $20B Army enterprise vehicle—and why it is a rail, not acheck- Barracuda, Fury, Arsenal-1, and hyperscale defensemanufacturing- How Anduril compares to Lockheed, Northrop, GeneralDynamics, RTX, and Palantir- The bull and bear case for Anduril's long-term strategy- What to watch next: IPO timing, task orders, deliveries, andrevenue growth- The real bet: for Anduril to justify today's valuation, ithas to grow from a $2B revenue company into a $20B+ revenue company very quickly.SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE to get more intel on defense tech, news, and happenings. Links• Sign up for the newsletter! • Support us on Patreon! ----Follow us on...• LinkedIn• Instagram• X• Facebook• Website ----00:0000:34 intro01:20 Premium newsletter!02:10 Anduril intro02:26 Matthrew intro04:32 Anduril 10106:52 Anduril's fundraising07:25 the next 24 months07:38 revenue breakdown08:23 happenings between the raises14:10 last 5 years of sales15:47 counter-UAS18:22 Steve vs Steve approach19:14 C-UAS durability?21:04 Altius21:52 comparing valuations23:21 sources of new revenue23:33 Barracuda24:08 CCA program27:28 Lattice28:20 Eagle Eye31:18 Golden Dome35:08 Anduril's strategy38:53 next acquisition?41:25 wrap-up
The Man Who Invented the Boutique Amp: The Tragic Genius of Bob CrooksBefore Dumble was a household name, and before Mesa/Boogie revolutionized the high-gain stack, there was Standel.In today's video, we're diving into the legendary twenty-year original run of Bob Crooks, the man who provided the sonic blueprint for the 1950s, yet spent his final years feeling like the industry had robbed him blind.High Fidelity in a Low-Fi WorldFrom his early days at Lockheed to his "almost" collaboration with Paul Bigsby, Bob Crooks didn't just build amplifiers; he engineered precision instruments. We explore how Standel became the "must-have" rig for the Mount Rushmore of 1950s legends, providing the pristine, hi-fi clarity demanded by icons like Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Joe Maphis, Speedy West, and Buddy Emmons.The Innovations Leo Fender "Borrowed"According to guitar historian Deke Dickerson, Crooks was a man fueled by deep-seated bitterness in his later years. The reason? Many of the features we now consider "Golden Era" standards were pioneered in the Standel workshop long before they appeared in Fullerton. We're talking about:Separate Treble and Bass controls (at a time when most amps had a single "Tone" knob).Forward-facing controls for ease of use on stage.Tolex covering and Piggyback head/cab designs.The integration of premium JBL speakers as a standard.The Great Pivot: Tubes to TransistorsWe also examine Crooks' controversial shift in the early 1960s. As an early adopter of hybrid and eventually full solid-state circuitry, Crooks inadvertently chased "perfect" clean headroom just as the rest of the world was falling in love with the warmth of tube distortion. It was a classic case of a genius being too right for the wrong era.The Rebirth: 1997 to TodayFinally, we cover the modern resurrection of the brand.1997: The initial rebirth with Danny McKinney and Bob Crooks himself back at the helm, focusing on the legendary 25L15.2023: The new chapter under Owen Duffy, who has begun producing reissues of Standel's later catalog, bringing much-needed attention to the overlooked masterpieces of the brand's twilight years.Support the show
Join Dr. Dan and Z as they explore the transformative power of breathwork, psychedelics, and self-love. Discover personal stories of spiritual awakening, healing, and the journey from material success to soulful service.Key topicsBreath of fire meditation for energy regulationUsing breath to manage challenging psychedelic experiencesPersonal journey through ayahuasca and spiritual awakeningThe importance of self-love and inner harmonyFuture collaborations in healing retreats
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.
“We're All A Work In Progress” Join me and my guest Andre W. Thornton, Founder & CEO of Whitman Consulting (consultwhitman.com). Above the bathroom sink in his home is a phrase that reads, “Change lives by helping people reach their full potential”. This desire has evolved into a purpose statement for Whitman Consulting that serves its clients by accelerating the development of their leaders. Andre has lived his life as an example of how someone can pursue their purpose while in the corporate world. The results he has created are rooted in the competencies that advanced his career and are now transferred to others through Whitman Consulting's leadership development services. SHOW NOTES SPONSORED BY: Soul of Business™ Experience Find out more at https://bit.ly/SOBECommunity Summary Join Blaine and Andre Thornton in a candid conversation about reconnecting with your "founding fount," navigating disruptions, and leading with purpose and authenticity. We unbundle how chaos and disruption are essential drivers for growth, both personally and professionally and the profound connection between the soul of business, leadership, and personal growth. Discover how disruption, self-awareness, and purpose drive sustainable success and authentic leadership. Key Topics In this episode: The concept of the "soul of business" as a source of life and purpose How businesses and individuals lose connection to their original source as they grow The importance of self awareness and self management in leadership Andre's personal journey from Lockheed engineer to leadership coach and author of Disrupted The role of chaos and disruption as catalysts for growth and innovation The stabilizers and accelerators of growth through chaos The metaphor of knowing how to return to one's center during disruptions The influence of metaphysics, frequency, and manifestation in leadership and life Practical insights on fostering resilience and resourcefulness in turbulent times Sound Bites "I know where my center is and I can come back to it quickly." "When you're off balance, you're overcompensating." "Disruption gives us an opportunity to reimagine who we are." Guest Links LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewthornton Website - https://www.andrewthornton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In July 1979, Jimmy Carter went to Camp David for ten days and came back with the strangest speech a sitting American president has ever given. Officially it was about energy. Functionally it was about the soul. Eighteen months later, Ronald Reagan won forty-four states by promising the opposite, and American psychology received its marching orders for the next forty years. This episode traces how the apparatus got built. From Mario Savio's "put your bodies upon the gears" speech in 1964 to the dispersal of the counterculture into yuppies, Silicon Valley engineers, Lockheed contractors, oil-patch roughnecks, and the back-to-the-land movement that eventually curdled into the survivalist pipeline. From David Rosenhan's fraudulent 1973 study "On Being Sane in Insane Places" to Robert Spitzer's typewriter parties at Columbia, where two new psychiatric disorders could be drafted between cups of coffee. From the Feighner Criteria and the St. Louis Group to the Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale and the RUC, the secret AMA committee that sets the prices of every medical procedure in the country while the nation tells itself it has a free market. From the academic capture of CBT and the manualization of what could be measured to Allen Frances spending his retirement trying to take back what he had built. At the heart of it sits the bet the field made and lost. For thirty years, American psychiatry wagered its entire diagnostic edifice on the assumption that biological validation was imminent, that the genes and the imaging and the neurotransmitter chemistry would arrive in time to retroactively justify the DSM. Twenty billion dollars later, NIMH director Thomas Insel posted a blog three weeks before the DSM-5 shipped admitting the categories were not scientifically valid. He later told Wired he had funded a lot of cool papers and not moved the needle on suicide, hospitalization, or recovery for tens of millions of Americans. The cathedral had been built on a foundation that turned out not to exist, and the surrounding infrastructure had become too entangled with it to demolish. This is the story of how a profession built to listen to suffering became a wall that suffering speaks into. Diagnosis as checkbox, payment as procedural code, research as citation farming, and the Sherman Antitrust Act ensuring that the only people who could fix any of it, the frontline clinicians, are forbidden by federal law from organizing the way that would give them leverage.
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Episode 287- It’s Time to Red Flag, Red Flag Also Available OnSearchable Podcast Transcript Gun Lawyer — Episode Transcript Gun Lawyer Transcript – Episode 287 SUMMARY KEYWORDS Gun rights, Virginia gerrymandering, red flag laws, due process, gun confiscation, Mel Brooks, Spaceballs, New Jersey gun laws, universal background checks, defensive weapons, Second Amendment, Trump re-annexation, social media, gun owner faux pas, civil liberties. SPEAKERS Teddy Nappen, Speaker 3, Evan Nappen Evan Nappen 00:15 I’m Evan Nappen. Teddy Nappen 00:17 and I’m Teddy Nappen. Evan Nappen 00:18 And welcome to Gun Lawyer. So, Teddy, we were talking today, and you had some interesting things to discuss. What did you have? What did you have in mind, buddy? Teddy Nappen 00:31 Well, aside from watching the new “Space Balls” trailer, which, you know, I’m looking forward to it. But it’s never going to be, better. Evan Nappen 00:40 I love Mel Brooks. Teddy Nappen 00:42 That’s the other thing, too. I will give them credit in the trailer, because then he said we unfortunately had to change the name of the trailer. It’s not “Space Balls 2: The Search for Money” because he found money. It was literally just a bag of money that said “Space Balls”. Evan Nappen 00:59 Well, and Mel Brooks is in his 90s, man. But he’s still. Teddy Nappen 01:03 Correct. Oh, wait, I think he, I think he is like 99 like, something crazy. Evan Nappen 01:07 He’s close. I guess that’s what happened when you were married to Bancroft. I guess. You live long. Teddy Nappen 01:15 Oh, yeah, she was Mrs. Robinson? Evan Nappen 01:17 Yeah. Teddy Nappen 01:17 I guess that’s how it kept them alive. Aside from scrolling through. Evan Nappen 01:24 Well, actually, he’s trying to be the world’s oldest man. Wasn’t that his? The other thing that used to do? Teddy Nappen 01:29 Well, that was the, that was the 10,000 year old man. Evan Nappen 01:32 Right. I guess he’s trying to actually be it. I don’t know. Teddy Nappen 01:35 Yeah, and I like to stand up where it was. I think he was like, 10,000 year old man. He’s like, 0h, did you try polygamy? He’s like, yeah. And what do you, what do you think about it? Well, to be honest, I always get out voted. That’s a horrible idea. Horrible. Evan Nappen 01:58 Right! Teddy Nappen 01:58 But anyways, I saw you. You’ve been seeing what’s going on Virginia, aside from the stupid gerrymandering that they’re doing. Evan Nappen 02:07 Well, this is bad for gun rights, because Teddy Nappen 02:09 Their gun rights is the worst. Evan Nappen 02:10 Because if they take the House by gerrymandering Virginia to flip the House to the party of evil, you know, the Democrats there, we’re gonna have our hands full again. Teddy Nappen 02:25 Yeah, other than the record gun sales now, because people were paranoid thinking that Virginia was going to start going door to door to take their guns, just because of how poorly the bills were written. To the point where the Virginia State Police comes out and, you know, the Superintendent Jeffrey Katz, Spanberger’s pick to lead the State Police goes on and says, there is no legislative proposal seeking to do this. (https://wset.com/news/local/not-now-not-ever-virginia-state-police-dispel-rumor-of-law-leading-to-gun-confiscation-firarm-control-abigail-spanberger-gun-control-bill-april-2026) There will be no. The Virginia State Police work every day to enhance public safety and protect civil liberties. Those liberties not granted by Government and will not be impeded by Government. Cut to all the laws that they just passed. (https://crimeresearch.org/2026/04/virginias-long-list-of-new-gun-control-laws/) Not now, not ever. Activity of this nature, by its very nature, is un-American. Huh? Let’s and then cutting to all the bills of Universal Background Check, Safe Home Storage, the Assault Weapon ban, Red Flag, Ghost Gun ban. You know, everything else that is impeding our rights. Evan Nappen 03:32 Right! Well, the thing is, they have, there’s a history of going door to door in the history of gun control itself, which is what we’ve always talked about with the four key words. Beginning with Legislation and then leads to Registration, and then that leads to Confiscation, which leads to Extermination. And every major Holocaust has been preceded by those four words. And Virginia, you know, would get on the pathway of confiscation and them saying, oh, you know, we won’t go door to door. But of course, they will go door to door, and they’re liars. I mean, if you want to see their lies, just look at their Governor, who is the epitome of lying. I mean, that’s what she did to get into office. Teddy Nappen 04:25 She called herself moderate. Evan Nappen 04:26 She misrepresented herself, and then is doing this. So, they’re all about lies. And in America, we’ve had attempts at going door to door. New York did it, New York City, because they have registration of long arms. So, they actually, at a point, attempted confiscations. And folks may not know this, but New Jersey was going to do that. After the assault firearm law passed in 1990, there was an attempt, by way of the Administrative Code, to change what had been New Jersey’s procedures regarding Certificate of Eligibility. So, in those days, you could do a private sale. Private sales were allowed. And this is why having so-called Universal Background Checks is really just a gateway to the registration / confiscation scheme. Because back then in New Jersey, you could have private sales for long arms by doing a Certificate of Eligibility, and the Certificate of Eligibility was simply kept by the seller. As a matter of fact, with the old Certificate of Eligibility, the buyer didn’t even get a copy. The new Certificate of Eligibility that came after that, the buyer and the seller got a copy. But with the old one, only the seller got the copy when a long arm was sold. And it got filed nowhere. There was no requirement that it be filed with the Government. Evan Nappen 06:02 They tried to promulgate, through the code, a rule that said Certificates of Eligibility had to be filed with the State Police. That was not in the law. The reason they wanted that was because they needed to connect the chain so they could go door to door, confiscating so-called “assault firearms”, which were long arms, rifles and shotguns, and to force on private sales the revealing of the information as to who they got transferred to by claiming that there was a failure to file the certificate of eligibility. And I personally, when I was working at the time for the Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen, and we were fighting the assault farm ban, I opposed in the rulemaking process. I sent a whole piece in fighting and opposing that rule change. That it was not based on the law, that they were going beyond the Administrative Procedures Act in trying to promulgate this, and I succeeded in stopping them from doing it, which broke that link in the chain for them to continue with their confiscation scheme that they wanted to do back then. So, I saw it firsthand and was able to stop it. Teddy Nappen 07:24 Imagine if you weren’t, you weren’t there, Dad. If you were in some other state or some other spot, and that had gone through. My G-d. Just that would have been. The only thing I could think of, is just bullets first at that point, like. Evan Nappen 07:37 It would have been a radically different scenario, because they were on a path of wanting and considering it. And we knew this for a fact. They were actually going to try to implement the door to door confiscation and searching down every assault farm they could find. But that didn’t happen. And the other thing that didn’t happen, interestingly, is they were supposed to put forward guns they wanted to add to the list. That’s actually in the law. They have never done that, although they still could, but they never did that. Teddy Nappen 08:16 Mass does that. Evan Nappen 08:17 Yeah. Mass does it there. Jersey has it in the law to do it. But they never did it in New Jersey, weirdly and oddly, but they could. Teddy Nappen 08:25 Who was it? The firearms bureau that was the Mass attorney? He was the one that worked for the Bureau. And then. Evan Nappen 08:33 Yeah, Jason. Teddy Nappen 08:35 Jason. And then he saw the dark side of what they were doing, and then came back and started fighting the good fight. But my G-d. Just imagine those meetings where, like, all right, what are we going to ban today? Like it’s the arbiters of truth. Like, just decide. Evan Nappen 08:50 Yeah. They purposely, in Mass, purposely had a meeting to try to figure out how to make it as difficult as possible to get licenses, particularly for non-residents. They focused on what to do. And I’ll tell you, even to this day, that was the worst carry license application process I’ve experienced. And I’ve gotten carry licenses from everywhere you could get them. And it took, it took 14 months to get a Mass carry license, and it’s only good for 12 months. It took longer to get it than the license lasts for. It’s insane. We applied in January. They force you to have a personal meeting, and they didn’t schedule the personal meeting for nine months after the application. Then it was another five months after that before they even issued it. And that personal meeting is utterly useless. All they do is ask you the very same questions that you’ve already certified on an application, and they fingerprint you there electronically, which could be done anywhere else. Evan Nappen 10:02 So, it’s all just a load of absolute garbage. Just to discourage. And this is what licensing laws are designed to do. They’re designed to discourage and stop. And you know, any of these courts that rationalize say, oh, it’s. Like with Maine now, reenacting their, letting the injunction lapse so that they have a three-day waiting period, even on long arms. Oh, that’s just a small burden. Oh, it’s a small burden. You know, what are you an inconvenience? I mean, no, this, this is our rights. Teddy Nappen 10:38 Well, they don’t see it that way. Evan Nappen 10:39 This is intrusion in our rights. You know, how about before a news article gets published, you have to wait three days. It’s just a small burden. Just a three-day waiting period before you can exercise your First Amendment. How does that fly? Is that all right? Teddy Nappen 10:55 You have to do a background check before you post. Evan Nappen 10:59 Well, Virginia is really scary with what’s going on there. Especially, too, with the redistricting as they’re attempting to. Basically, you know, I mean, leave it to the Democrats. They always have to look for ways to cheat. So, this is their latest ploy. Teddy Nappen 11:15 They cheated heavily all over New England. They cheated all over New England. Have you ever seen the breakdown? Like, the entire New England is so gerrymandered, like the split is 56, like around 56/65 in a lot of these states in New England, and it’s all Blue representatives. How does that work for Congress, if not for gerrymandering? Evan Nappen 11:38 Well, there is a really interesting power move Trump could make in Virginia. You and I were talking about this. What Trump could do, if the redistricting cheat takes place, Trump could re-session Arlington and such. That area of land that was originally part of the District of Columbia. In 1847 that was given back, so to speak, unconstitutionally, by the way, to Virginia to keep slavery in place, essentially. It was an unconstitutional move. It was even recognized unconstitutional by President Taft, who also happened to be a Supreme Court Justice. He understood the law, and he said it was unconstitutional. It wasn’t challenged, but it was done. President Trump, by way of Executive Order, could re-secession and take Arlington and that area of land, where it’s all the Blue of the federal workers, the solid Blue, and put it in back where it belongs, into the District of Columbia. And therefore they would not have any representation in the House or in the Senate, and push it right back and literally make Virginia Red again. The way it used to be – a great state. So, that might be a power move by Trump, and he’d be better legally positioned than many of the crazy things Biden did with the auto pen. I mean, Trump has justification, constitutionally, to actually take that back and literally take away the Blue that is destroying Virginia. So, it’s something we might see happen. Teddy Nappen 13:33 It’s really almost like having a lot of Republicans who are willing to fight and have backbone. Like, I think it was in New Hampshire where Kelly Ayotte refused to redistrict, which you see clearly, it’s been gerrymandered into the Dems favor. They’re not willing to. It’s just the weakness and so many of them that halt and stop. Like it’s amazing where Trump, the amount of foreign power that he can exert outside the country, but he’s just hamstrung so much in from everything and the weak Republicans like Thune, who I even called. Evan Nappen 14:09 Thune. It is true there. I mean, the problem is, Republicans need a backbone, not made a Styrofoam, a lot of them, and it’s really sad to see that the one thing you got to give the Democrats credit for is they stay together. They unite in their insanity. They do that. Teddy Nappen 14:33 They do it out of fear, though. It’s 90%. Evan Nappen 14:35 Right! Teddy Nappen 14:35 They’re all in lockstep, and it’s just fear. Evan Nappen 14:37 Well, yeah, unless you want to end up with like the hit on (Eric) Swalwell, Swalwell there that, you know, of course, was engineered by Pelosi, right? I mean, oh, he denies it. But. Teddy Nappen 14:42 Or you end up like Jeff Shapiro, you know, with them, fire bombing your home. Evan Nappen 14:53 Or you end up like Biden. You literally win the nomination, and then don’t run. And then they pick who they anoint for their candidate. You know, you know, like that. They’re pretty totalitarian as far as a party goes, aren’t they? Teddy Nappen 15:09 Yeah, it’s very, it’s very funny how much they rig their elections. But, uh, anyways, I will say the other article I did catch, which you know at this point now, you just gotta learn to laugh every time you read articles from our opposition. So, everyone’s favorite gun rights oppressionists, The Trace, decided to put out a new article. “This Law May Help Prevent Mass Shootings, but GOP-Led States Are Trying to Ban It.” (https://www.thetrace.org/2026/04/republican-states-ban-red-flag-erpo-laws/) Oh, wow. So, they are trying to justify red flag. They go down this whole tangent of trying to justify red flag, which everyone here knows, the damning no due process use that they try to push where there is just no due process. You are swatted, put through the system with no, little to no recourse. But don’t worry, The Trace has their answer, because they’ve been getting so much, you know, blow back for the arguments of Red Flag. Don’t worry, Dad. You know, they say there’s due process for Red Flag laws. Evan Nappen 16:15 Ha, ha. Okay! So, let’s just take New Jersey. I have worked New Jersey, and in New Jersey, Red Flag is called ERPOs, Extreme Risk Protection Orders. That is New Jersey’s version of so-called Red Flag. It begins with a TERPO, a Temporary Extreme Risk Protection Order, and then that can become a final permanent order called a FERPO, a Final Extreme Risk Protection Order. So, you have a TERPO. Yeah, well, they’re all known as ERPOs. The beginning document is a TERPO. It then can become a FERPO, and if it’s in Bergen County, it’s called a BERPO. I’m just kidding about calling it a Berpo. But it is really bad, because there’s no due process upfront at all, folks. Let that sink in – zero due process. Attention The Trace – zero due process! Evan Nappen 17:24 The TERPO, the document, the court order, that initiates the Red Flag. There is no due process in its issuance for the person who gets subjected to it. It is done ex parte. In other words, the gun owner has no idea it’s taking place. Somebody makes a claim, a wild claim, and that claim is taken at face value. A judge just hears the claim, issues the order, ordering the surrender of the person’s firearms, and then ordering the search and seizure of the person’s firearms. The privacy gets invaded. Your home gets searched. Your guns get taken. You’re hit with this order. And you had no idea that it was coming. You had no chance to say anything before it’s implemented. You’re hit with it, and only after being served and having your home and privacy raped by the Government and having your property taken by the Government, only after all that occurs, do you finally get a hearing. That hearing is to take place within 10 days. That’s called railroading. Now, 10 days after you’ve just been screwed over with zero due process, folks, you then have to fight to regain your rights. That is how New Jersey’s Red Flag system works. And if the TERPO becomes a FERPO, Not only are you disenfranchised of your Second Amendment rights, not only do you lose your guns, but you are put on an electronic database that declares you to be an extreme risk. That’s real helpful in employment and other things to be on that list, huh? Teddy Nappen 19:42 You also have to consider. Evan Nappen 19:44 And then it affects your ability. Wait. It affects your ability to even fly, because that’s put through to TSA databases as well. So, it is bad news with zero due process up front. And it is a nightmare. So, these laws need to pay. We need a federal law banning Red Flag. Red Flag is an egregious violation of our civil rights. Teddy Nappen 20:15 You also have to factor in the politically-appointed judges who are, you know, a political bias, who already hate gun owners, and then, you know, give them a free very, you’ve seen in the hearings. They’re very much like, oh, all this fate, it’s good to be the king and get to decide one’s fate. And hands and hands over. And every time someone like, oh, domestic violence, you know, “he threw pretzels at me”. Evan Nappen 20:41 Yeah! I actually had that case where that was the allegation. He threw pretzels at me. I mean, yeah, the level of allegation can be just de minimis, and they don’t care. It’s essentially harder to get, you know, a sandwich at Wawa than getting these gun confiscation orders done in the courts, They have created the pre-printed forms. They are always leaning toward taking guns and sorting it out after intruding on gun owners’ rights and privacy. That’s never a concern of any great detail, and this is constantly going on in New Jersey. The lame stream media will never cover it, folks, but I see it every day. Teddy Nappen 21:42 It also goes back, Dad. I remember the once case, I don’t remember when it was, but it was the husband and wife get into the argument. You know, they heard shout, a neighbor heard shouting, calls it in. The whole thing’s red flagged. The wife says, no, we were just having an argument. And then still they push for the Red Flag, even after everything else. They’re dragging them all through the system, where now the husband and wife are now united in that fight against the state. Evan Nappen 22:12 So, most of the time on this, on these DV restraining orders, I’d say about half the time, the person calling me is and often it’s the wife, calling me to save the husband. To save their marriage, to save their household. Because of the devastating impact of it. She had no idea that it would cause the effect of costing the husband his job, of blowing apart their relationship. It essentially is the embodiment of Reagan’s statement, “We’re here from the Government. We’re here to help.” It isn’t helping. It’s actually destroying the family, and it’s a giant wake up call. I’ve heard it so many times in the practice. The person that originally pulled the trigger cannot believe the impact, because that’s never, ever been explained to them. What will happen is never explained. And when they see it, it’s devastating, devastating to their family. Yep. Teddy Nappen 23:34 Yeah. But also, to go back to the article before I forget, their argument by The Trace. I love this. ERPO laws do have legal protections. The orders require approval from a judge, sworn evidence and a prompt court hearing. Isn’t that nice? People subject to the order receive notice. Evan Nappen 23:57 Oh, yeah, yeah. Teddy Nappen 23:59 They can contest the allegations. Evan Nappen 24:00 First of all, nothing’s up front in New Jersey. The so-called “sworn testimony”. I’ll tell you what. Of all the times I’ve done this. I mean, I’ve had hundreds of these cases. I’ve never had a single case where a person made statements that were false, where the ERPO was not issued, and that person was prosecuted for what they said. I don’t know of a single case. Never experienced it. Never experienced it. Teddy Nappen 24:31 This one is my favorite. Most laws also guarantee the return of firearms when the order has expired. How many guns cases do we have now where we are still waiting? Evan Nappen 24:40 Okay. There is no guarantee of return of firearms on the expiration of a TERPO or FERPO. As a matter of fact, when it’s issued, your guns are ordered forfeited. Okay. Tat’s how it works in New Jersey. There’s no, oh, we hold them till the orders over and you get them back. That’s not New Jersey’s law. That’s not it at all, folks. Non existent. These are lies. The typical liberal nonsense. Sell the lie, sell the lie. The reality is a whole other story. And we see it over and over again. That is The Trace. Just putting out what is not true in New Jersey. It’s not true. And they love to use New Jersey as a model for Red Flag laws. Model Red Flag laws. The worst of the worst, right? Worst of the worst. Teddy Nappen 25:44 Well, my favorite is the last bit, which is, many states punish those people who lie in their petitioners the process. Evan Nappen 25:52 Ha! Show me the person punished in New Jersey who lied on a Red Flag. Show me. Yeah, let me put it this way. The reason they don’t want to do it is they don’t want to discourage the lies. They don’t want to discourage people from doing Red Flags. So, they will not prosecute. The prosecution is within the discretion of the county prosecutors who have an agenda that is against the Second Amendment. They don’t want to discourage anyone from spouting any BS they want to spout because they want this to continue. They don’t want to discourage it. If they actually prosecuted somebody and made an example of them lying, it would discourage the abuse from taking place. They don’t want to do that. It’s against the interest of the agenda, the anti-Second Amendment agenda. So, that’s why we don’t see it happen, folks. We just don’t. Nope. Due process? That’s a joke when it comes to Red Flag. We need a national law to end Red Flag. We need to end it dead. No more Red Flag. It is one of the worst intrusions in our Second Amendment rights that has ever been contrived – just insane. Evan Nappen 27:07 Hey, Teddy, let me tell you about our buddies at WeShoot. WeShoot now has Civilian Shoot House Training. This is really cool! On April 25th – brand new at WeShoot. This is not a beginner class. This is where things start to feel real. That’s their new Civilian Shoot House Training. This is where you’ll learn how to move through spaces, clear rooms, and make decisions under pressure. You’ll learn room clearing fundamentals, shooting while moving, target ID under stress, use of light and positioning, working alone or as a team. It’s this kind of training that will help you to protect your home and not make, avoid making, a life-changing mistake. This training is great for homeowners, parents, Houses of Worship, security teams, armed guards and civilian groups. Anyone serious about real-world defense. Their top lineup of instructors that will be doing this is Jim Weinberg. Now Jim has got 30 years of experience in law enforcement. He’s former SWAT and UCERT operator and Police Academy instructor. Todd Friedman is a retired Detective Lieutenant, Special Operations Group Leader, with 500 tactical entries under his belt, over 500 actually. Scott Bonito is a 25-year veteran, former Lieutenant, tactical team leader, and a certified instructor across multiple disciplines. And Ryan Bonito is an Army combat veteran, 173rd Airborne, team leader, Master Breacher and CQB instructor. These are your phenomenal team of instructors. Bottom line is, shooting is one skill, and moving safely through your home is another. If you’re serious about protecting what matters, you want to look into this course and take it. Spots are limited, so check out WeShoot for this amazing shoot house training. Go to weshootusa.com, weshootusa.com. Check out their great range down in Lakewood, where Teddy and I both shoot. We got our training, got our Certifications. Great pro shop with a great group of folks down there. They’ll treat you like family. We love WeShoot, and you will, too. Go to weshootusa.com. Evan Nappen 29:57 Let me also mentioned the Bible of New Jersey gun law. That’s my book, and it is called, surprisingly, New Jersey Gun Law. You can get your copy at EvanNppen.com, EvanNappen.com. It’s 120 topics, all Question and Answer to help you not be a GOFU and to help you get through the insane matrix of New Jersey gun laws. Go to EvanNappen.com and get your copy today. Hey, Teddy. What else do you have up your sleeve for us, for me to get all excited about? I know you’ve got something. Teddy Nappen 30:33 Well, I think we need a good laugh from Babylon B. Now this is from “notthebee.com”, though. (https://notthebee.com/article/scottish-12-year-old-who-went-viral-with-axe-testifies-in-court-that-migrant-called-her-sexy-harassed-her?from_social=twitter) So they have to. Evan Nappen 30:41 Well, “not the bee” is their real stuff, which is cool, yeah. Teddy Nappen 30:45 Do you remember? Do you remember that Scottish girl who fought off the pedophile with the knife and AX? Evan Nappen 30:51 How dare she defend herself in Scotland. Teddy Nappen 30:54 I know, right? They dubbed her the “Sophie of Dundee”, which I appreciate that. I think it was the light, like the all the people trying to fight back against the mass migration. That is, you know, you know. You go from 12,000 rapes a year to 70,000 rapes a year and a massive cover up from the Government for grooming gangs. You know, things happen. But, apparently, she had to tell the court because, of course, you’ve got to prosecute the young. Evan Nappen 31:24 Always prosecute the victim. That’s their rule, right? Throughout U.K. and Scotland, Australia, New Zealand. Prosecute the victim. Make sure no one ever wants to be a defender, right? Teddy Nappen 31:40 Yeah, of course, of course, you got to make sure to do that. Evan Nappen 31:43 So did they make any? Did they happen to say, I bet they have wonderful statements about what a horrible person she was, or whatever. What did they say? I’m sure they something. Teddy Nappen 31:54 Of course. First they dragged her through, trying to make a claim like saying, no, no, it wasn’t against a migrant. It was two white Europeans. Oh, yes. The two white Europeans – Ilia Belov and Nadjedzha Belov. Evan Nappen 32:15 You can’t pronounce their names. Well, so it wasn’t John Smith. Teddy Nappen 32:21 No, no. It was not. Evan Nappen 32:23 No, no, no, but, yeah. But did they have bad teeth? Oh, no, that would be England. Teddy Nappen 32:30 Okay, I know. So, it’s so ridiculous on that end. Then they try to deem like she was alt-right extremist. Evan Nappen 32:39 OH, an alt-right extremist. That’s why she had the nerve to even defend herself, I guess. Huh? Teddy Nappen 32:45 Of course, having the right to defend yourself and suggested that probably having a good reason to carry weapons for herself to protect herself. You know, when the Third World invade your country, and was proven right when two migrant were arrested in connection to the incident. The 13 year old said, the man repeatedly said to her, come here, sexy, which, you know, I guess he thought that would work. Evan Nappen 33:11 Just a friendly greeting, Teddy Nappen 33:13 Yeah, just a friendly greeting to a child, mind you. Just keep that in mind. Evan Nappen 33:18 How old was she? Teddy Nappen 33:20 Oh, 13. But I believe it might have been 12, but you know, Evan Nappen 33:25 She was a sexy 12 year old or 13 year old. So, that makes it okay, Teddy Nappen 33:32 Yeah. I know. She is accused of attacking Ilia Belov, accused of attacking the girl in Dundee. By the way, my wife and I went there for our honeymoon. We went to Scotland. Now, I didn’t get to Dundee. Evan Nappen 33:48 Well, you have Scottish blood in you. You’re a Baird. Yeah, that’s your middle name, Baird. You’re part of the Baird clan, who also were American patriots that fought alongside George Washington. Captain David Baird and General Ray Baird, and they’re buried at the Old Tenant Church in Freehold. Teddy Nappen 34:04 Funny enough. We actually found there was a little book that broke down the Baird clan. I love the tagline, Patriots and Traitors. We were all or nothing with people. Evan Nappen 34:16 Well, your relative was William Wallace’s right hand man. His top man was Baird. Yep. So, you have quite an amazing history there with the Baird clan. Teddy Nappen 34:30 Apparently, the Honor Guard was a Baird of the clan who was for the Bonnie Prince Charlie during the risings. But anyways, so Ilia Belov was accused of following her and the three girls. By the way, the ages were 12 to 14 for the girls. Belov was charged. She told the court she had been walking with her sister and three friends in the Lockheed area, and then pointed out the sexual remarks. She turned around and shouted. The girl said her sister also started shouting, but the pair were away from the friends. At some point, Belov pushed Sophie, pushed her, so already committed assault and battery. And the other witness, the beloved sister, Nadjedzha, who also was not from the country, attacked them as well. So, the sister jumps in and attacks the girl. So, the pedophile and the pedophile’s sister have already attacked Sophie, to which, drawing the ax and knife Evan Nappen 35:33 That she carries. Good for her. Teddy Nappen 35:35 that she carries. Then in the viral video was the man filming, speaking of the migrant rape gangs that have been going on over the year. Thousands of British girls are now following a new trend. And it was the Babylon doing the joke where it looks like like the new fashion trend, knives and axes. Evan Nappen 35:40 Oh, that’s the new fashion trend. Teddy Nappen 35:52 Yeah, but this is what takes the cake. So, we’ll see if the prosecution, if they’re actually going to go and follow the prosecution here, they said. But I love this, Sheriff Tim Smith told the girl, I hope you reflect that it’s not a good idea to carry weapons in the City of Dundee. There’s no such thing as defensive weapons. There’s only offensive weapons. Evan Nappen 36:23 Let that sink in. Teddy Nappen 36:25 That is the true pussification of a nation right there. Evan Nappen 36:28 Oh, my G-d. There’s no such thing as a defensive weapon. Weapons are only offensive. Imagine living in a country whose attitude is that. It’s bad enough that our states have taken that attitude to a certain degree. And of course, New Jersey had that attitude about carry licenses. They wanted everyone to be a victim and not a defender. The Bruen decision changed that. We’re still fighting to remove sensitive places and everything else that the anti-rights, the Second Amendment oppressionists try to foist upon us, because they don’t want anyone to be a defender. They want us all to be victims. But here they just say the quiet part out loud. They honestly believe that there’s no such thing as defensive weapons. I’ll tell you what. That’s what law-abiding citizens weapons are – defensive weapons, because a weapon is how it is utilized. If it is utilized in defense, it is a defensive weapon. And those that are law-abiding, that are facing threats of serious bodily injury or death when they use a weapon to defend their lives. That is defensive use. Evan Nappen 36:37 Just to state, she was charged with possession of offensive weapons. Now, I don’t know if they’re going to proceed with it other than that. This was mostly the case against the two pedophiles. Thankfully, they’re being prosecuted, but. Evan Nappen 38:07 As well? Teddy Nappen 38:08 Yes, oh, of course. You know the multiple charges of pedophilia usually goes to that. Huh? Nice, huh? Evan Nappen 38:17 Really? So, this is what they want to bring to the United States. And keep in mind, our modern gun control came to America from across the pond, as they say. It came from the U.K. It originated there after World War One, and it came here. The movement came here. Since then, the U.K. has now changed their focus after destroying all their gun rights to knives and edged weapons. This defender is facing their anti-knife laws that we have to be keenly aware of in America not to happen. So, we talk about fighting for our knife rights as well as our gun rights. Because remember, folks. The Second Amendment is not the right to keep and bear guns. It’s the right to keep and bear arms, and arms include edge weapons. It includes firearms, includes less than lethal, includes anything that can be used to defend one’s self, and underline and bold defend, and that’s what we’re about. Defensive weapons for law-abiding citizens, so that law-abiding citizens do not become victims, but instead defenders. Evan Nappen 39:48 Well, Teddy, I’ve got to tell you about this week’s GOFU. And the GOFU is, of course, the Gun Owner Fuck Up. And reason we look at GOFUs is because these are actual F UPS made by gun owners that create real problems. Real cases and real issues. So, this week’s GOFU that I want to talk about is what you post. This, you know, is so important. You have to be careful with social media. The Government intrudes into your social media. Others observe your social media, and it can lead to ERPOs. They’ll say, oh, look what he posted, and they misinterpret it. And next thing you know, you’re a victim of no due process ERPO. Being hit with a ERPO with no due process over something on social media. Or it’s used for other investigations. It’s used to deny licensing when you apply and they look at your character. They say, we don’t like this political opinion. We’ve had cases of individuals who were persecuted for their religious beliefs. We’ve had cases because they posted about their religious beliefs. It’s really dangerous. So, the GOFU is be very careful with what you post, what you put out in public, what you do on social media. It can come back and be used by those forces that want to disenfranchise us of our rights. It can be used against you. Evan Nappen 41:33 This is Evan Nappen and Teddy Nappen reminding you that gun laws don’t protect honest citizens from criminals. They absolutely protect criminals from honest citizens. Speaker 3 41:48 Gun Lawyer is a CounterThink Media production. The music used in this broadcast was managed by Cosmo Music, New York, New York. Reach us by emailing Evan@gun.lawyer. The information and opinions in this broadcast do not constitute legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your state. Downloadable PDF TranscriptGun Lawyer S5 E287_Transcript About The HostEvan Nappen, Esq.Known as “America's Gun Lawyer,” Evan Nappen is above all a tireless defender of justice. Author of eight bestselling books and countless articles on firearms, knives, and weapons history and the law, a certified Firearms Instructor, and avid weapons collector and historian with a vast collection that spans almost five decades — it's no wonder he's become the trusted, go-to expert for local, industry and national media outlets. Regularly called on by radio, television and online news media for his commentary and expertise on breaking news Evan has appeared countless shows including Fox News – Judge Jeanine, CNN – Lou Dobbs, Court TV, Real Talk on WOR, It's Your Call with Lyn Doyle, Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, and Cam & Company/NRA News. 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This week, we discuss the Coen Brothers' stylish satire of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Hail, Caesar!SPOILER ALERT We will be talking about this movie in its entirety, including the mystery of "The Future" and the ultimate resolution of Baird Whitlock's kidnapping. If you haven't seen this film, we strongly suggest you watch it before listening to our takes.A Universal Pictures and Working Title Films production. Released on February 5, 2016. Directed, written, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and Channing Tatum. Cinematography by Roger Deakins. Music by Carter Burwell.The story follows a single, chaotic day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a "fixer" for Capitol Pictures in 1951. Mannix spends his days (and nights) suppressing scandals and managing the fragile egos of the studio's stars. His world is thrown into disarray when the studio's biggest star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), is kidnapped from the set of the prestige Roman epic Hail, Caesar! Tales of the Christ by a mysterious group calling themselves "The Future." As Mannix juggles a pregnant starlet's image, a singing cowboy's transition into high-society drama, and a persistent pair of rival gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton), he must also weigh a lucrative, low-stress job offer from Lockheed against his grueling but soul-stirring devotion to the magic of the movies.
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Prime contractor teaming is one of the fastest paths into federal contracting — but only if you know how to find the right primes and reach out the right way. In this episode, Eric Coffey walks through the exact outreach framework he uses with a real cybersecurity and AI startup to get in front of prime contractors, book capability briefings, and position the company as a teaming partner or subcontractor on active government contracts. What you'll learn in this episode: How to use federal spending data to identify the right prime contractors — Eric demonstrates a live search using OpenCube IQ, filtering by NAICS code, state, and agency to surface realistic teaming targets instead of just Lockheed and Northrop Grumman The two-track teaming approach — Understand when a prime is your customer (buying your tech in-house) versus a teaming partner (combining your capabilities on a joint pursuit), and how to structure your outreach accordingly Why vendor and supplier portal registration matters before the email — Many primes have their own registration systems, and registering first gives your outreach a credible anchor point How to write a prime contractor outreach email that actually gets a response — Eric breaks down the structure: lead with their win, connect your solution to their active scope, and make a specific ask — not just "here's what we do" How to apply this same framework when reaching out directly to agency contracting offices — including contract commands like Aberdeen Proving Grounds, where you must name specific contacts to get anywhere EPISODE CHAPTERS: 0:00 – Welcome to the Federal Help Center Podcast 0:27 – Working With a Cybersecurity and AI Startup in Govcon 1:25 – Two Ways to Work With Prime Contractors: Customer or Teaming Partner 2:00 – Using Spending Data to Find the Right Primes and Agencies 3:00 – Filtering by State and Agency to Narrow Your Target List 4:20 – Researching Which Primes Are Winning at Specific Agency Offices 5:13 – Checking Prime Contractor Vendor and Supplier Portals First 6:10 – Real Outreach Example: Teaming Pitch to AMA on a NASA Contract 7:06 – How to Reach Agency Contracting Offices the Same Way 7:35 – Directing Your Outreach to the Right Person, Not the Inbox 8:05 – Community CTA and Closing Join a community of small business owners helping each other break into and grow in federal contracting. If you want to learn more about the community and to join the webinars go to: https://federalhelpcenter.com/ Website: https://govcongiants.org/ Connect with Encore Funding: http://govcongiants.org/funding
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He is now the primary vehicle for the UFO distraction campaign hosting Obama, Vance, and Gaetz. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:11] Trump's FEMA Recovery Chief Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House 50 Miles Away Greg Phillips, head of FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery, claimed on social media that he teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles away — then accused Truth Social of blocking his posts when he tried to respond to CNN's coverage of it. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:29:20] Iran Still Pounding Israel on Wave 80 — While Trump Claims Their Military Is Obliterated Fox News reported an hour-long missile barrage over Tel Aviv as the 80th wave of Iranian attacks. 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He is now the primary vehicle for the UFO distraction campaign hosting Obama, Vance, and Gaetz. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:11] Trump's FEMA Recovery Chief Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House 50 Miles Away Greg Phillips, head of FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery, claimed on social media that he teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles away — then accused Truth Social of blocking his posts when he tried to respond to CNN's coverage of it. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:29:20] Iran Still Pounding Israel on Wave 80 — While Trump Claims Their Military Is Obliterated Fox News reported an hour-long missile barrage over Tel Aviv as the 80th wave of Iranian attacks. Scott Ritter noted Iran struck Israel's northern military command headquarters — while Trump and Hegseth were declaring Iran's offensive capability degraded. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:32:04] Netanyahu on Tape: "America Is Something That Can Be Easily Pushed in the Right Direction" Archival Netanyahu video is played in which he states America can be easily pushed — then correctly predicted removing Saddam would have enormous regional reverberations, now applied to his decades-long campaign to push the US into war with Iran. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:42:18] Gold Analyst: The Iran War Looks Like a Planned Second Act of COVID — Energy Lockdowns Starting in Europe The analyst warns that Europe is already implementing energy restrictions resembling 2019 COVID-era pre-staging, arguing the 20% global oil supply disruption is a planned mechanism to force a new control system through engineered crisis. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:22:32] Hegseth Asked BlackRock to Invest in Defense Stocks Weeks Before Iran Strikes — They Refused According to the Financial Times, Hegseth asked his broker to invest in BlackRock's defense ETF holding Boeing and Lockheed weeks before the Iran strikes. BlackRock flagged the request internally and refused, citing legal exposure. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:25:32] Trump's Golf Tab Has Crossed $100 Million — On Track for $300M Total This Term Trump has made 110 golf trips in just over 14 months, on track to spend $300 million in taxpayer money on golf — after promising voters he would be too busy to play. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:26:51] Trump Quietly Renewed Planned Parenthood Funding While Fighting Second Amendment Cases The Trump administration dropped its Planned Parenthood lawsuit and renewed $120M in Title 10 grants — while simultaneously fighting in court to keep the pistol brace ban and fluoride in drinking water. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:32:11] Paula White Compares Trump to Jesus Christ — Robert Jeffress Nods Beside Her At a White House Easter event, Paula White told Trump his persecution mirrors Isaiah 53, declaring God told her Trump will be victorious in all he puts his hand to — with pastor Robert Jeffress nodding approvingly beside her. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:39:48] Ian Freeman Rots in Prison for Bitcoin Privacy — Every Epstein Client Walks Free Freeman is serving eight years for helping people use Bitcoin outside the banking system. Not one Epstein client has been charged. Trump has pardoned dozens of fraudsters but not Freeman, who has no millions to buy clemency. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:50:22] Florida Politician Boasts of Laws That Criminalize Criticism of Israel With Five-Year Prison Sentences Randy Fine boasts of a five-year sentence for throwing anti-Israel flyers in someone's yard and a state law criminalizing BDS — while Greenwald notes Israel is the only government on earth whose criticism has been domestically criminalized. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
──────────────────────────────────────── [00:22:54] US Stole $126 Million from Switzerland's Fighter Jet Account Without Consent to Cover Iran War Missile Shortfalls The Pentagon redirected Swiss funds from a fighter jet purchase using a foreign military sales mechanism that allows reallocation without buyer permission — with Switzerland having already frozen payments after learning deliveries would be delayed 4-5 years, and having blocked US military flyover requests tied to Iran operations. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:25:42] In 4 Days of War: 943 Patriots Fired — 18 Months of Global Production Gone, One-Third of THAAD Stockpile Consumed The US burned through 18 months of combined Lockheed and Boeing Patriot interceptor production in the first four days of the war, consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD stockpile, and fired 850-950 Tomahawk cruise missiles representing 15-17 years of production — at a cost exchange ratio of 114-to-1 in Iran's favor. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:33:17] Trump Publicly Admitted to Saudi Donors He Doesn't Call It a War Because He'd Need Congressional Approval At a Friday investor summit, Trump openly stated he avoids the word "war" because it would require getting approval — then described Mohammed bin Salman as someone who now "has to kiss his ass" — confirming to the room that the constitutional war-making process was deliberately sidestepped. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:39:52] Day 27 of the Iran War: Philippines Has 40 Days of Oil Left, Power Plant Strike Deadline Approaching A situational summary at day 27 of the war lists: Iran just struck Israeli nuclear facilities, Iran is demanding Strait of Hormuz sovereignty as a peace condition, the Philippines has only 40 days of oil left, a power plant strike deadline is approaching, and Trump's response at a donor summit was to invite questions about sex. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:51:25] German Study: Zero Unvaccinated Children Died of Myocarditis — Every Child Death Was Vaccine-Related A large German population study of 84 million found that no healthy unvaccinated children died of myocarditis during the pandemic period — with every child myocarditis death linked exclusively to COVID vaccination. YouTube is actively removing accounts that reference the study, described as making the platform an accessory to ongoing harm. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:55:43] Rothschild Bank Raided in Paris as Part of Epstein Probe — Epstein Openly Claimed to Represent Them French authorities raided the Paris offices of the Rothschild bank as part of an Epstein-linked corruption investigation. In a 2016 email to Palantir founder Peter Thiel, Epstein wrote that he represented the Rothschilds — and so did Wilbur Ross, Trump's first Commerce Secretary, who worked for the Rothschild bank for 24 years. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:01:37] Record 36 House Republicans Announce They Won't Seek Reelection — Exceeding the 2018 Wave Election Number A record 36 House Republicans have announced they will not run for reelection, surpassing the 34 who quit before the 2018 midterm wave that handed Democrats control of the House — with analysts warning this harbinger signals an even larger political reversal driven by the unpopular Iran war and economic deterioration. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:02:47] Millions Protest in 3,300 US Locations and Across Europe — Communist Groups Embed to Hijack the Movement An estimated 8-9 million Americans protested across 3,300 locations in all 50 states, with simultaneous protests in London, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Socialist and communist organizations distributed flyers explicitly calling for revolution and embedding within the broader demonstrations — a dynamic described as Trump handing the radical left its best recruitment tool in decades. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:13:29] The Most Powerful Energy Crisis in Human History Is Now Looming — Russia Oil Exports Also Halting Beyond the Strait of Hormuz closure, Russian oil exports are now also halting due to Ukrainian attacks, compounding the global supply collapse. Oil opened above $100 and Brent crude was tracking its largest monthly gain on record, with gold consolidating as sovereign nations across the Gulf liquidate holdings for emergency liquidity. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:22:31] Trump Is Driving America Into the Arms of Communists — The Radical Left Is Capitalizing on Legitimate Grievances The argument is made that Trump's unconstitutional war, economic destruction, and open corruption are handing self-described Marxists and socialists a mass recruitment opportunity by attaching their revolutionary message to millions of people with genuine economic grievances — while MAGA and Fox News dismiss all protest as AstroTurf. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:45:35] Trump's DOJ Is Still Enforcing Biden's Pistol Brace Rule — Which Trump Himself Introduced in December 2020 Gun Owners of America reveals that Trump's Justice Department is continuing to enforce the pistol brace rule that Trump himself introduced by executive order on December 18, 2020 — five days before removing it under pressure — establishing the precedent Biden later used, which Trump campaigned on repealing and has now chosen to continue enforcing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:55:43] RFK Jr. and MAHA Have Not Banned the mRNA Shot — Trump's Bioweapon Betrayal Continues Despite the German study confirming vaccine-exclusive childhood myocarditis deaths, RFK Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again initiative have not moved to ban or withdraw mRNA injections — described as a fundamental betrayal of their stated mission and the millions who supported them specifically to end what is characterized as a still-active bioweapon program. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.
──────────────────────────────────────── [00:22:54] US Stole $126 Million from Switzerland's Fighter Jet Account Without Consent to Cover Iran War Missile Shortfalls The Pentagon redirected Swiss funds from a fighter jet purchase using a foreign military sales mechanism that allows reallocation without buyer permission — with Switzerland having already frozen payments after learning deliveries would be delayed 4-5 years, and having blocked US military flyover requests tied to Iran operations. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:25:42] In 4 Days of War: 943 Patriots Fired — 18 Months of Global Production Gone, One-Third of THAAD Stockpile Consumed The US burned through 18 months of combined Lockheed and Boeing Patriot interceptor production in the first four days of the war, consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD stockpile, and fired 850-950 Tomahawk cruise missiles representing 15-17 years of production — at a cost exchange ratio of 114-to-1 in Iran's favor. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:33:17] Trump Publicly Admitted to Saudi Donors He Doesn't Call It a War Because He'd Need Congressional Approval At a Friday investor summit, Trump openly stated he avoids the word "war" because it would require getting approval — then described Mohammed bin Salman as someone who now "has to kiss his ass" — confirming to the room that the constitutional war-making process was deliberately sidestepped. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:39:52] Day 27 of the Iran War: Philippines Has 40 Days of Oil Left, Power Plant Strike Deadline Approaching A situational summary at day 27 of the war lists: Iran just struck Israeli nuclear facilities, Iran is demanding Strait of Hormuz sovereignty as a peace condition, the Philippines has only 40 days of oil left, a power plant strike deadline is approaching, and Trump's response at a donor summit was to invite questions about sex. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:51:25] German Study: Zero Unvaccinated Children Died of Myocarditis — Every Child Death Was Vaccine-Related A large German population study of 84 million found that no healthy unvaccinated children died of myocarditis during the pandemic period — with every child myocarditis death linked exclusively to COVID vaccination. YouTube is actively removing accounts that reference the study, described as making the platform an accessory to ongoing harm. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:55:43] Rothschild Bank Raided in Paris as Part of Epstein Probe — Epstein Openly Claimed to Represent Them French authorities raided the Paris offices of the Rothschild bank as part of an Epstein-linked corruption investigation. In a 2016 email to Palantir founder Peter Thiel, Epstein wrote that he represented the Rothschilds — and so did Wilbur Ross, Trump's first Commerce Secretary, who worked for the Rothschild bank for 24 years. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:01:37] Record 36 House Republicans Announce They Won't Seek Reelection — Exceeding the 2018 Wave Election Number A record 36 House Republicans have announced they will not run for reelection, surpassing the 34 who quit before the 2018 midterm wave that handed Democrats control of the House — with analysts warning this harbinger signals an even larger political reversal driven by the unpopular Iran war and economic deterioration. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:02:47] Millions Protest in 3,300 US Locations and Across Europe — Communist Groups Embed to Hijack the Movement An estimated 8-9 million Americans protested across 3,300 locations in all 50 states, with simultaneous protests in London, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Socialist and communist organizations distributed flyers explicitly calling for revolution and embedding within the broader demonstrations — a dynamic described as Trump handing the radical left its best recruitment tool in decades. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:13:29] The Most Powerful Energy Crisis in Human History Is Now Looming — Russia Oil Exports Also Halting Beyond the Strait of Hormuz closure, Russian oil exports are now also halting due to Ukrainian attacks, compounding the global supply collapse. Oil opened above $100 and Brent crude was tracking its largest monthly gain on record, with gold consolidating as sovereign nations across the Gulf liquidate holdings for emergency liquidity. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:22:31] Trump Is Driving America Into the Arms of Communists — The Radical Left Is Capitalizing on Legitimate Grievances The argument is made that Trump's unconstitutional war, economic destruction, and open corruption are handing self-described Marxists and socialists a mass recruitment opportunity by attaching their revolutionary message to millions of people with genuine economic grievances — while MAGA and Fox News dismiss all protest as AstroTurf. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:45:35] Trump's DOJ Is Still Enforcing Biden's Pistol Brace Rule — Which Trump Himself Introduced in December 2020 Gun Owners of America reveals that Trump's Justice Department is continuing to enforce the pistol brace rule that Trump himself introduced by executive order on December 18, 2020 — five days before removing it under pressure — establishing the precedent Biden later used, which Trump campaigned on repealing and has now chosen to continue enforcing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:55:43] RFK Jr. and MAHA Have Not Banned the mRNA Shot — Trump's Bioweapon Betrayal Continues Despite the German study confirming vaccine-exclusive childhood myocarditis deaths, RFK Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again initiative have not moved to ban or withdraw mRNA injections — described as a fundamental betrayal of their stated mission and the millions who supported them specifically to end what is characterized as a still-active bioweapon program. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
Donald Trump's chilling seven-word message shows damage of Iran war Mysterious missile launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Another woman tied to US scientific secrets vanishes Second sphinx buried under sand suggests 'megastructure' below the pyramids of Giza Election expert testifies FBI's evidence in Fulton County ballot case 'doesn't make sense' Something is happening to the ISS – and it's raising concerns The F-47 NGAD explained, why the Air Force chose Boeing over Lockheed for America's $300 million sixth generation fighter Iran issues chilling threat to Americans as it reveals locations that will no longer be safe 12 fighter jets chased a Walmart-sized UFO - then the Air Force changed its story Project Orion, the government's plan to detonate 800 nuclear bombs and escape Earth MAGA civil war erupts with split over two candidates to succeed Trump How the B-21 Raider's shocking IOC timeline collapse just put China and Russia on notice Mystery drones take evasive action over major Louisiana Air Force base Jill Biden's Secret Service agent shoots himself while escorting her through airport The US hacked Iran's nuclear program - and no one saw it coming Iran vows to attack Middle Eastern hotels housing US troops after devastating base attacks Eerie photos purportedly showing real aliens The Tiny Colorado Company Building America's Rare Earth Empire Chinese ships fail to exit Strait of Hormuz AI just discovered dozens of hidden alien planets Revolutionary new engine runs on the cold of space - no fuel required
Why have top military and scientific personnel recently gone missing, or in other cases been mysteriously murdered? What connections do these cases have with UFOs? From the Air Force to Los Alamos National Lab, Cal Tech and MIT, a pattern has emerged. Are foreign governments involved, the US Government, or private companies? Are the people involved willingly participating in their own disappearances or are they being blackmailed or kidnapped for information and access? Monica Jacinto Reza – Co-inventor of "Mondaloy" rocket superalloy; missing since June 22, 2025.Melissa Casias – Administrative Advisory Board Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory; missing since June 26, 2025.Nuno Loureiro – Director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center; murdered December 15, 2025.Carl Grillmair – Senior Caltech/NASA-IPAC Astrophysicist; murdered February 16, 2026.William Neil McCasland – Retired USAF Major General and former AFRL Commander; missing since February 27, 2026.Reza Pahlavi – Rocket Propulsion Scientist and BlueHalo/Sandia associate; missing since March 21, 2026.*The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, you can subscribe below underneath the show description.
Blood for Oil 2.0: Iran War Windfall – Big Oil, MIC Profiteers, TSA Slaves & the Corporate Screwjob That Never Ends! Today's episode is a full-on deep dive into the absolute clusterfuck we're living through right now: the Iran war that's jacking gas prices up $1+ a gallon, making Exxon and Lockheed richer than God, while the average American gets bent over the barrel – again. We're talking record profits for oil companies and weapons makers, a partial government shutdown leaving real federal workers unpaid (but not the lawmakers, of course – they're still cashing those checks), skyrocketing prices on everything from groceries to plane tickets, and the same old story: Republicans or Democrats in the Oval Office, it doesn't matter. We vote for the puppet, but the corporations pull the strings. Web Site: www.DontTreadonMerica.com https://linktr.ee/DontTreadonMerica Email the show: Donq@donttreadonmerica.com DTOM Store (Promo code DTOM for 10% off) Sponsors: www.makersmark.com www.NordVPN.com Promo Code: DTOM www.alppouch.com/DTOM www.dubby.gg Promo code: DTOM Social Media: Don't Tread on Merica TV DTOM on Facebook DTOM on X DTOM on TikTok DontTreadonMericaTV DTOM on Instagram DTOM on YouTube
The Space Show Presents John Hunt, Tuesday, 3-17-26Quick Summary:The Tuesday Space Show focused on UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) and UFO discussions, with John Hunt as our UAP specialist. The conversation covered various topics including the mysterious disappearance of General McCaslin in Albuquerque, potential government disclosure efforts, and historical cases like Roswell. John explained his personal journey into UFO research, starting with skepticism but becoming convinced of the phenomenon's reality based on credible witness accounts and government behavior. The discussion touched on various theories about alien technology, government cover-ups, and the potential impact of disclosure on society, with participants debating whether public reaction would be panic or acceptance. The group also explored historical cases, whistleblowers, and the challenges of verifying UAP claims, concluding that while more information is available now than in the past, determining the true nature of these phenomena remains elusive.Detailed Summary:John explained how his interest in UFOs developed over time, initially influenced by a former roommate and later piqued by a book by Leslie Kean featuring insights from political figures like John Podesta. His curiosity deepened after studying credible cases and documents, including the Twining memo and works by Dolan, leading him to conclude that some unexplained phenomena cannot be dismissed as illusions or hoaxes. John also noted that government behavior regarding UFOs suggests they are taking the subject seriously but controlling information, and he mentioned the importance of crash retrieval cases as potential proof of UFOs.Our team discussed the mysterious disappearance of a former General from Wright-Patterson Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The General, who had a background in aerospace engineering and was involved in various military projects including GPS and space-based laser programs, went missing while hiking with a gun but left his phone and wallet behind. While the official investigation treats it as a missing persons case, John suggested a potential connection to UAP programs due to the General's background and the timing following the Obama-Trump UAP discussion. The search involves local authorities, FBI, and Air Force OSI, though no evidence of foul play has been found despite extensive searching for three weeks.John discussed a Missouri congressman's visit to a naval aircraft testing site at Pax River, where he allegedly searched for facilities mentioned in a whistleblower document called “Immaculate Constellation.” The document, authored by Matthew Brown, revealed details about a classified program involving triangular aircraft and was eventually entered into congressional record. David questioned the feasibility of Trump's potential executive order to disclose UFO records, expressing skepticism about the government's ability to locate and release all relevant information, particularly given the complexity of data spread across various special access programs.We talked about global sightings of unidentified objects and the U.S.'s apparent control over information about them. John suggested that Russia and China might have the most information due to their large land masses, while David questioned how such a global lid could be maintained on the subject. Marshall proposed a theory that the U.S. could be creating fake UFO sightings as a form of psychological warfare against other countries. The conversation also touched on specific incidents, including the Roswell case and a recent event in Brazil, where a crashed object was reportedly witnessed by local authorities and civilians.John discussed the case of Bob Lazar, expressing skepticism about his claims due to concerns about his background and security clearance. He suggested the story could be disinformation, though acknowledged some evidence exists. When asked about current disclosure prospects, John also expressed doubt about Trump making a major announcement, noting the need for formal executive action. The discussion also touched on Dr. James Greer, with John acknowledging his historical contributions but questioning some of his more recent claims.John discussed a case involving Admiral Wilson, who was told about a secret reverse engineering program of an object not made by humankind but was ultimately warned not to pursue it further to protect his career. Ajay shared historical and mythological stories from India about beings from other worlds, suggesting a potential connection between ancient accounts and current phenomena. John acknowledged the existence of similar stories and beliefs throughout history, including reports of strange airships in the late 1800s and early 1900s, which could indicate that such encounters may not be entirely new.Ajay raised questions about the sudden advancement of humans compared to other species, speculating about possible extraterrestrial influence or genetic manipulation. John mentioned theories of genetic intervention by others, including Richard Dolan, but clarified he was not claiming these theories as fact. John also discussed skepticism within the UFO community regarding the ability to duplicate recovered alien technology, using historical examples to illustrate the point that possession does not necessarily mean replication capability. The conversation was briefly interrupted due to technical issues with John's connection, after which he resumed discussing the TR-3B and its potential connection to a previous hypothetical vehicle, the TR-3A.John expressed skepticism about claims of secret aircraft and free energy technology, arguing that such concepts don't align with known physics or practical implementation. The group discussed the Aurora program, with John suggesting it may have been a real black program involving pulse jet technology that was discontinued in the early 1990s due to budget cuts. Ajay shared his expertise in hypersonic technology, expressing doubt about the feasibility of the Aurora program and noting that any successful technology would likely have been developed by other nations by now. Ajay also revealed that the SR72 design, which he developed, was later adapted by Lockheed without proper credit or compensation.The group discussed the concept of “white world” programs versus “black world” programs, with John explaining that white world programs are publicly acknowledged while black world programs remain unacknowledged. David questioned why there would be such extensive effort to cover up potential evidence of extraterrestrials, suggesting it might indicate something significant needs to be hidden. It was suggested that government reluctance to disclose information about aliens might be due to concerns about causing mass hysteria, though David expressed skepticism about this explanation given current political climate and public trust in government. Marshall contributed by noting that people tend to want to believe interesting stories like those about aliens, making it difficult to dismiss such claims.The group discussed government behavior regarding unexplained phenomena, with John suggesting that the government's secrecy indicates they believe there is something significant to hide. They examined various reported crashes and incidents, including the OSAP program from 2004 and Dr. Eric Davis's involvement as a witness to classified information. The discussion also covered claims about psionic abilities and alien encounters, including Michael Herrera's account of a landing incident in Indonesia in 2009. The conversation ended with a debate about whether disclosure of alien contact would cause panic among scientists and religious communities.The group discussed the potential impact of revealing information about extraterrestrial life. John shared stories about government officials being briefed on UFOs, including a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy who claimed to have been told about aliens. The participants debated whether public disclosure would cause social disruption, with Marshall arguing that while some might profit from panic, most people wouldn't be significantly affected. 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Hans Keisler from Motor Control Technology joins the podcast to talk about his path through the machining trade — from working at Lockheed to building his own aerospace-focused machine shop.We get into what it's really like working in a union shop, the differences between big aerospace companies and small job shops, and what it takes to go from a one-man operation to hiring employees.Hans also shares the reality of chasing aerospace and defense work — certifications, compliance, IT requirements, and all the behind-the-scenes work that most machinists never see.It's an honest conversation about building a shop, navigating the industry, and trying to make cool hardware that ends up on some pretty serious projects.
Vijftig jaar geleden eindigde een belangrijke fase in de Nederlandse politieke geschiedenis en begon een volgende. Maar op dat moment zag niemand dat aankomen. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger schetsen wat er gebeurde, wat niet gebeurde en hoe ingrijpend de effecten waren voor de Haagse politiek en de Nederlandse samenleving. *** Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend ons een mailtje en wij zoeken contact. *** In 1976 zat het kabinet-Den Uyl al drie jaar. Het had al vele turbulenties overleefd. Het leek een wild avontuur van een progressief kabinet met controversiële plannen. In werkelijkheid was het eerder de zoveelste rooms-rode coalitie, zoals welbekend in de naoorlogse decennia van Willem Drees, wederopbouw en Koude Oorlog. Het vernieuwende zat vooral in de sfeer, het jeugdig elan van ministers die jonger waren dan Rob Jetten nu. Niet langer hoefden ze te worden aangesproken als ‘excellentie', maar gewoon bij de voornaam. En ze droegen op werk soms zelfs een trui. Ook premier Joop den Uyl was allerminst een groot vernieuwer. Wel was hij een gedegen econoom die sterk geïnspireerd werd door beleid van Amerikaanse presidenten als Roosevelt en Johnson. Een klassiek gereformeerde man, vurig prediker en kenner van poëzie, Brecht en Kafka. Hij steunde ten volle het pragmatische en weinig ideologische financieel-economische beleid van zijn twee jonge ministers Wim Duisenberg (PvdA) en Ruud Lubbers (KVP) en schrok niet terug voor fikse botsingen met de vakbonden. Niet minder stevig was zijn boodschap aan de werkgevers. In het hol van de leeuw – bij de christelijke werkgevers - zette hij zijn linkse overtuigingen uiteen over 'beteugeling van het kapitalisme’, winstdeling met werknemers, democratisering van bedrijven en ‘vergemeenschappelijking van de productie’. Niettemin liepen in 1976 de spanningen op. De verkiezingen van 1977 wierpen hun schaduw vooruit. De linkerflank van Den Uyls eigen PvdA was argwanend of de premier wel zuiver in de leer was en wel echt geloofde in polarisatie als strategie. Helemaal ongelijk hadden ze niet: hij was eerder geneigd zijn kabinet 'inzet van de verkiezingen' te maken in plaats van te streven naar linkse dominantie. De PvdA begon progressieve partner D66 steeds meer te zien als overbodig – de Democraten hadden in peilingen steeds minder zetels - en zette in op het politiek 'kraken' van de confessionele partijen. Hun bondgenoot daarbij was – misschien onbedoeld - Hans Wiegel van de VVD, die van de liberale burgerherenpartij een meer volkse partij op de rechtervleugel maakte. Den Uyl beloofde zijn partijkader op weg naar de verkiezingen met vier ‘hervormingswetten’ de sociaaleconomische verhoudingen fundamenteel aan te pakken en met die successen naar de kiezer te gaan. In de regeringsverklaring had hij immers ‘spreiding van kennis, macht en inkomen’ beloofd. Coalitiepartner KVP zag de bui al hangen. Fractievoorzitter Frans Andriessen speelde een ragfijn spel waarin hij die vier weten juist niet als 'links pakket' behandelde, maar elk los van de ander door zijn ministers Dries van Agt en Lubbers juridisch uitvoerig liet uiteen pluizen en economisch op hun inhoud kritiseren. Lubbers mocht de aanval openen en Den Uyl daarmee overrompelen en Van Agt mocht vertragen en details ter discussie stellen. Maar toen de zomer kwam trapte Van Agt op de rem. Andriessen moest 'dimmen' met zijn dreiging van een coalitiebreuk via Lubbers. Niet alleen was het CDA als nieuwe bundeling van KVP met ARP en CHU allerminst klaar voor een verkiezingsstrijd en was Van Agt zelf dat nog minder met zijn droom van een nieuwe baan in het Gouvernement te Maastricht. En net als bij Drees 20 jaar eerder dreigde een explosie in het Oranjehuis. Lockheed was het codewoord dat rondzong. Den Uyl evenaarde Drees als crisismanager. Andriessen moest het kabinet laten aanblijven. CDA-voorzitter Piet Steenkamp kreeg zijn nieuwe partij tijdig op orde. En vond een lijsttrekker die eigenlijk niemand had verwacht, Dries van Agt. Met Prinsjesdag begon de verkiezingscampagne met Den Uyl – inmiddels als 'ome Joop' een soort vader des vaderlands – zélf als inzet van de electorale strijd. Ineens was het politieke landschap helemaal opnieuw getekend. Ter linkerzijde concentreerden de kiezers zich rond de premier en 'dat tweede kabinet-Den Uyl, dat komt er toch!’ Ter rechterzijde concentreerden de kiezers zich rond de VVD, nu een bredere partij. In het burgerlijke midden verblufte Van Agt met een stevig CDA dat allerminst gekraakt was door progressieve polarisatie. De politieke impact hiervan heeft decennialang ons land beheerst. De verhoudingen waren onverwacht overzichtelijk. Drie grote, coherente 'families' domineerden en sloten met elkaar afwisselend coalities. Lubbers, Wim Kok en Jan Peter Balkenende leidden meerdere kabinetten en hun pragmatische aanpak deed de polarisatie vergeten. Zo konden vanaf de jaren ’90 zelfs PvdA en VVD goed met elkaar regeren. Het opmerkelijk stabiele landschap van die brede coalities kwam ten val met de instorting van Balkenende IV met CDA, PvdA en ChristenUnie in 2010. Een nieuwe fase brak aan en ook Jetten en de zijnen passen in dat tijdsgewricht. Na 2010 waren liberalen met Rutte de leidende stroming en kregen de klassieke volkspartijen CDA en PvdA zware klappen. De kabinetten sindsdien waren eigenlijk altijd 'gedoogcoalities' en populisten marcheerden op, terwijl er nooit meer zo’n grote ‘rooms-rood’-achtige coalitie aantrad. *** Verder kijken De illusie aan de macht - 1412 dagen kabinet Den Uyl deel 1 (1998) De illusie aan de macht - 1412 dagen kabinet Den Uyl deel 2 (1998) *** Verder luisteren 351 - Politiek als hartstocht: drie jonge bewindslieden uit het kabinet-Den Uyl 325 - De mythe van Joop den Uyl 87 - Het tragische laatste jaar van kabinetten 195 - PvdA en CDA: ooit dominante machtspartijen, nu grote verliezers 123 – Hoe de PvdA in de greep kwam van het neoliberalisme 401 - Adieu Dries! 164 - Dries van Agt, eigenzinnig politicus, paradijsvogel, wereldburger 461 - Ruud Lubbers zag het een slag anders 161 - Hans van Mierlo, een politieke popster 385 - Jan de Koning en het verschil tussen een greppel en de laatste gracht 300 - Ethische politiek: het bijzondere Nederland met zijn 'moreel hoogstaande opvattingen' *** Tijdlijn 00:00:00 – Deel 1 00:48:36 - Deel 2 01:27:04 – Deel 3 01:48:31 – EindeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For review:1. A missile strike on a house in Baghdad on Tuesday killed two people, with initial reports suggesting they are “Iranian advisers” to Tehran-backed groups, a security official tells AFP.2. Rockets and at least five drones were launched at the US embassy in Baghdad early Tuesday from areas around the city, Iraqi security sources say, describing the attack as the most intense since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran.3. Amid the latest Iranian missile attack on Israel, the military announces that it has launched “extensive” strikes against targets in both Tehran and Beirut.In the Iranian capital, the IDF says it's striking “infrastructure of the terror regime,” while in Beirut it's attacking Hezbollah targets.4. US President Donald Trump's administration is urging US diplomats abroad to push allies to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based Hezbollah as terrorist groups, according to an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters.5. US efforts to open Strait of Hormuz:Both The Wall Street Journal and Axios reported that President Trump was planning to announce the formation of such a multinational coalition as early as this week. Axios added, citing unnamed US officials, that President Trump was also mulling the option of seizing Iran's key oil depot on Kharg Island -- if Tehran continues to deny oil tankers passage through the strait, a move that would require American boots on the ground.US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC earlier Sunday that he has been “in dialogue” with some of the countries Trump had mentioned previously, and said he expected China “will be a constructive partner” in reopening the strait.“It is in our interest to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, and that's why we are also discussing what we can do in this regard from the European side,” Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, said Monday ahead of a meeting of the 27-nation bloc's foreign ministers in Brussels.6. Iran's military apparatus is “in distress” and incapable of launching many missiles at Israel, while members of the country's security forces stay inside for fear of Israeli and US warplanes, according to an assessment reportedly delivered by the IDF intelligence chief to political leaders.7. Iraq's powerful armed group Kataeb Hezbollah said Monday that its senior security commander, Abu Ali al-Askari, had been killed, without providing details on the circumstances of his death.8. A “significant Israeli ground offensive” in Lebanon must be averted since it could have devastating humanitarian consequences, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Britain say in a joint statement.9. US Navy mine warfare capabilities.10. Lockheed Martin has announced it carried out the first flight test for the Army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 2 program, the service's initiative at developing a multimode seeker capable of hitting maritime targets on the move. Lockheed's announcement comes shortly after the Army announced its PrSM Increment 1 capabilities, also developed by Lockheed Martin, were used for the first time in combat during the ongoing conflict in Iran.
Do you love the X: Men movies, cartoons or characters, but not sure where to start reading? The Astonishing X:Men comic book run from 2004 to 2008 is one of the most highly acclaimed jumping on points for new readers to open and fall in love with. The team roster during this time features fan favorites: Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Armor(new character), and everyone's favorite space dragon companion: Lockheed. During this podcast episode will talk about the writing, art style featuring John Cassiday, story arcs, pivotal character moments and why this run stands the test of time. Bam Pow Comic Hour will focus on the content of book rather than the actions of the writer himself.
We take a look at the Lockheed Constellation with one of the last pilots to have flown the L-1649A Starliner Constellation. In the news, the ROTOR Act and an ADS-B In mandate, GAMA's annual Aircraft Shipment and Billing Report, the Government’s partial shutdown impact on the TSA, Government luxury jets, and a plan to market an Embraer aerial tanker. Also, an interview from the Singapore Airshow with a Product Development VP from Textron Aviation. Lockheed Starliner L-1649A flying in TWA colors. Guest Philip Kemp has been an Airline Transport Pilot for 17 years, and he has more than a little experience with the Lockheed Constellation. That connection came about in the 1980's after meeting Maurice Roundy, a Lockheed Constellation fan and collector of the airplane. Philip is one of the last pilots to have flown the L-1649A Starliner Constellation. Philip describes the development of the Lockheed Constellation and its variants, and how the airliner was obsoleted by jet transports. He tells us about his adventures ferrying Connies, the remaining examples that still exist, and the sale of Maurice's Constellations, including an ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Lufthansa to make one of the aircraft flightworthy. Philip explains that N8083H is now at the TWA Hotel at JFK after a cosmetic restoration, N974R is with Kermit Weeks also for a cosmetic restoration, and that N7316C was shipped to Hamburg for the 100th Lufthansa anniversary. Ferry flight from Sanford, Florida, to Kermit Weeks’ Fantasy of Flight. October 2001. Philip started his career with Continental Express, and then he flew Part 135 jet charter with Charter Ops for two years. He returned to the airlines with SkyWest, then back to Continental Express (ExpressJet). Philip spent nine years with North American Airlines flying troops all over the world, and his last six years were with JetBlue. He was the Manager of Crew Training at Waltzing Matilda Aviation/Connect Airlines, a new Part 121 airline, flying Dash 8 Q400's. Philip is now looking for a good teaching opportunity in the aviation world. N8083H L-1649A at the TWA Hotel, JFK. N7316C and N8083H next to Maurice Roundy's airport house. Maurice Roundy, the day before the last flight. Lockheed 749 Constellation versus the Lockheed 1649A Starliner Constellation. See Ralph M. Pettersen’s Constellation Survivors Website. Aviation News After DCA crash, Congress acts to mandate decades-old aircraft tracking tech Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is an aviation system that uses GPS to determine aircraft position and also provides other flight information. ADS-B has two functions: ADS-B In and ADS-B Out. ADS-B Out broadcasts position and other identifying information, and has been required for many aircraft in the U.S. since 2020. ADS-B In receives transmissions from other aircraft and from ground stations. The bi-partisan Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform (ROTOR) Act (S.2503) would require ADS-B out aircraft to have ADS-B In to display information about nearby traffic in the cockpit. The ROTOR Act was unanimously passed by the Senate in December 2025, and at the time of recording, a vote in the House was scheduled. House to vote Monday on ROTOR Act following deadly midair collision After recording, the House voted on the bill, but it did not pass due to insufficient votes. Under the ROTOR Act: FAA must issue final rules for ADS‑B In equipage not later than 2 years after enactment, effective within 60 days of publication. The final rule has a fleet-wide compliance deadline of December 31, 2031, for affected aircraft, with at most a 1‑year extension for certain operators. FAA must start regular briefings and public reports on the rulemaking status within 180 days after enactment and then every 90 days. GAMA Reports Strong 2025 for OEMs The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released its 2025 Aircraft Shipment and Billing Report: Airplane shipments in 2025 compared to 2024: Piston airplanes flat (+0.6%) Turboprops declined by 5.1% Business jets increased 11.8% with 854 units. The value of airplane deliveries for 2025 was $31.0 billion, an increase of 16.1%. Helicopter shipments in 2025 compared to 2024: Piston helicopters were down 2% Turbine helicopters down 2% (preliminary) The preliminary value of helicopter deliveries for 2025 was $4.7 billion, an increase of approximately 5.5%. Homeland security reverses course on TSA PreCheck suspension Citing staffing shortages caused by the partial government shutdown, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially suspended the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs. Soon thereafter, DHS revised the directive in a social media post saying, “TSA PreCheck remains operational with no change for the traveling public. As staffing constraints arise, TSA will evaluate on a case-by-case basis and adjust operations accordingly.” Chris Sununu, president and CEO of the trade association Airlines for America, said in a statement that the group “is deeply concerned that TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs are being suspended and that the traveling public will be, once again, used as a political football amid another government shutdown”. Geoff Freeman, head of the US Travel Association, accused Democratic and Republican lawmakers of putting politics first. “Air travel is essential for our economy and daily life, and it's disgraceful for travel to be used as leverage in political disagreements,” he said in a statement. No Expense Has Been Spared’: Inside a Luxury Jet DHS Wants to Buy for Deportations DHS has been leasing a Boeing 737 Max 8 featuring bedrooms, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs, and a bar. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is asking the OMB to approve its purchase of the jet for $70 million. ICE says that it would be used for deportations and travel for Cabinet officials. A DHS spokesperson said, “at least one of the bedrooms is currently being converted for seating to prepare the aircraft to meet the demands of its deportation mission set.” In a statement, a DHS spokesperson said, “This plane flies at 40% cheaper than what the military aircraft flies for ICE deportation flights—saving the American taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars. This is part of Secretary Noem's broader efforts to clamp down on inefficiencies and save taxpayer dollars.” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Spends $200 Million of Taxpayer Money on Pair of Gulfstream G700 Private Jets During Government Shutdown House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Lauren Underwood (IL-14) requested more information from the Secretary regarding the purchase, which does not align with earlier funding requests for the Department. Northrop, Brazil's Embraer partner on KC-390 to pitch US, others Under a memorandum of understanding, Embraer and Northrop Grumman are looking at adding an autonomous boom refueling system to the KC-390 Millennium, which currently employs a hose and drogue system. A new boom would enable the tanker to refuel U.S. Air Force aircraft. Singapore Airshow 2026 Brian Coleman brings us interviews from the Singapore Airshow. In this episode, he talks with Jimmy Beeson, Textron Aviation Inc. VP of Product Development. Mentioned Fantasy of Flight Alaska Airlines’ 20-minute baggage guarantee Hosts this Episode Max Flight, our Main(e) Man Micah, and Brian Coleman
Did Nazi Germany receive advanced aerospace technology from extraterrestrial “reptilian” consultants?This week marks the 10th anniversary of the first video interview of William Tompkins originally recorded on Feb 25, 2016. In this explosive interview, Tompkins describes his role at Naval Air Station San Diego, where he claims to have delivered classified intelligence briefings gathered by U.S. Navy spies embedded inside Nazi Germany. According to Tompkins, the intelligence revealed:• Advanced Nazi UFO propulsion systems• Compartmentalized SS space programs• Massive underground and Antarctic bases• Reverse-engineering of exotic craft• Alleged reptilian extraterrestrial involvement• Claims of missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyondTompkins recounts delivering technical packages to major aerospace contractors including Lockheed, Douglas, Boeing, and research institutions like Caltech and Navy weapons centers.Were these programs the foundation of a hidden space race?Was Antarctica the true hub of a secret Nazi space program?And what did U.S. Naval Intelligence really know?Watch and decide for yourself.Like, share, and subscribe for more deep dives into classified history, secret space programs, and exopolitical revelations.Join Dr. Salla on Patreon for Early Releases, Webinar Perks and More.Visit https://Patreon.com/MichaelSalla/#NaziUFOs #SecretSpaceProgram #AntarcticaBase #WilliamTompkins #Reptilians #Exopolitics #HiddenHistory
In this episode of the Govcon Giants Podcast, Eric Coffie sits down with Sam Le, founder of GovCon Intelligence and former SBA procurement policy leader with 17 years in federal contracting. Together, they break down the latest turbulence surrounding the 8A Program — including SBA's massive data call, the suspension of 1,100 firms, and heightened scrutiny on sole source awards above $20M. But despite the headlines, Sam explains why this may actually be the strongest moment in 8A history: the program reached a record $26B in awards in 2025, competition is shrinking, and small businesses that stay compliant can emerge with more opportunity than ever. The conversation also challenges misconceptions around "DEI labeling," highlights the true purpose of sole source contracting, and calls for SBA to expand visibility into industries like advanced manufacturing beyond the usual IT and construction pipeline. Key Takeaways: 8A is at an all-time high ($26B in 2025) even as 1,100 firms were suspended, reducing competition for active participants. Sole source contracts make up only 2–3% of federal spending, while 96% of sole source awards go to non-8A giants like Boeing and Lockheed. The biggest advantage right now belongs to firms that stay compliant, resilient, and relationship-driven before opportunities hit the bid platforms. If you want to learn more about the community and to join the webinars go to: https://federalhelpcenter.com/ Website: https://govcongiants.org/ Connect with Encore Funding: http://govcongiants.org/funding Learn more about Sam Le: https://www.govconintelligence.com/ Website: https://www.samlelaw.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samlelaw/ Sam's Podcast: https://www.govconintelligence.com/podcast
The story about sonic weapons being deployed alongside super-soldiers in Venezuela is very likely nothing more than rebranding propaganda for the U.S. military. The source is vague, was shared by the White House press secretary, and references things that were used in Iraq over two decades ago, and on American protestors in the past. The propaganda encourages us to think about how amazing and advanced the military is when, in fact, the technology is old, and reports are that dozens were injured and a helicopter was struck in the operation. Such sonic or even microwave technology is openly discussed by Raytheon and Lockheed.Further south of Venezuela is the Patagonia region of Latin America, including Chile and Argentina. The area has recently been set ablaze by fires that have destroyed precious land. Locals have accused Israelis of starting the fires so they can buy up the land, something confirmed by several stories: Jewish President of Argentina, Javier Milei, allowing foreigners to buy land after fires; Israelis being convicted of starting fires as far back as 2011; radio reports and military officials. All of this confirms the Andinia Plan. This story shows us that one does not need trillion-dollar space lasers to start fires and the idea of “Jewish Space Lasers” is yet another misleading piece of propaganda. *The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, you can subscribe below underneath the show description.WEBSITEFREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVE-X / TWITTERFACEBOOKINSTAGRAMYOUTUBERUMBLE-BUY ME A COFFEECashApp: $rdgable PAYPAL: rdgable1991@gmail.comRyan's Books: https://thesecretteachings.info- EMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / rdgable1991@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-secret-teachings--5328407/support.
Headlines are exploding with reports that Venezuela is now under U.S. control—and investors are already making the wrong assumptions about what that means for oil, gold, defense stocks, and the broader market.In this episode of More Knowledge, More Wealth, Gabriel Shahin, CFP®, breaks down the market implications of the Venezuela situation through a portfolio lens—what could matter, what's noise, and why the “obvious” trade is often the wrong one.What you'll learn: • Why geopolitical control doesn't automatically mean oil prices drop • How market psychology reacts to “reduced risk” and increased predictability • Why defense contractors (Palantir, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, Boeing) may benefit when global tensions rise • How Venezuela's gold and mineral reserves could impact precious metals pricing • Why this could increase volatility—and why retail investors often react emotionally • The biggest takeaway: why you stay diversified, disciplined, and invested during breaking-news cyclesThis isn't about chasing headlines. It's about understanding how markets price risk—and why the best decision is usually not the most emotional one.Stay focused, stay diversified, and don't let politics turn into portfolio mistakes.
This week, Alex is joined by a very special guest and one of the "OG" Marvel Snap content creators: Prashan! The duo dives deep into the "Dragon" season, debating whether the new Season Pass card Shao-Lau is "overtuned" to the point of being broken or just the meta-warping banger players have been waiting for. They also break down the new Series 5 release Lockheed, analyzing if its stats are solid enough to overlook its "buggy" animations and reliance on the Season Pass card.Alex and Prashan also look ahead to the next release, debating whether Lin Lie (Iron Fist) is a hard "skip" for competitive players or a secret weapon for niche Spider-Man Noir decks. Plus, they break down the upcoming High Voltage card Dragon Lord for Ramp archetypes and discuss Prashan's unique journey from collecting sneakers to digital card splitting.Join Alex Coccia and special guest Prashan as they chat about this and more on this episode of The Snap Chat—and catch Cozy and Alex every week as they discuss all things Marvel Snap.Have a question or comment for Cozy and Alex? Send them a Text Message.You've been listening to The Snap Chat. Keep the conversation going on x.com/ACozyGamer and x.com/AlexanderCoccia. Until next time, happy snapping!
We Like Shooting Episode 642 This episode of We Like Shooting is brought to you by: C&G Holsters, Night Fision, Medical Gear Outfitters, Bowers Group, Second Call Defense, Rost Martin, Swampfox Optics, and Matador Arms Welcome to the We Like Shooting Show, episode 642! Our cast tonight is Jeremy Pozderac, Aaron Krieger, Nick Lynch, and me Shawn Herrin, welcome to the show! Text Dear WLS or Reviews +1 743 500 2171 - Gear Chat Nick - Multi Tools: Must-Have Gear Multi tools and you! Shawn - Cabot Guns' Revolutionary Double-Stack 1911 Design Cabot Guns has launched the Rebellion MAX, a double-stack 9mm 1911 pistol that maintains the same dimensions and weight as its single-stack version. It features advanced materials and technologies aimed at enhancing performance and comfort for everyday carry. The base price is set at $6,295, with a limited production of only 60 units for 2026. The introduction of this model may influence preferences within the gun community, particularly for those seeking compact, high-capacity firearms. FESTIVUS AIRING OF GRIEVANCES - Bullet Points Night-Camo Glock 34 Upper Zaffiri Precision dropped a limited-run Dominion LTD Glock 34 Gen 3 upper with night-camo Cerakote, ZPS4 slide, tritium sights, RMR cut, and barrel options like flush, ported, or threaded. Fits G17-G37 Gen 1-3 frames best. $599.99. Limited quantities available now. Gun fans get a ready-to-drop custom upgrade without one-offs. New FDE Ruger Pistol Out Now Ruger and Davidson's dropped an exclusive RXM pistol with flat dark earth slide and Magpul FDE frame—first full FDE version, only at Davidson's. Modern ergonomics, optics-ready, recoil control. $519. Available now. Gun fans get a fresh earth-tone option missing from standard RXM colors. SK Guns' 2025 Top Gun: Jesús Malverde SK Guns names Jesús Malverde 1911 its 2025 Gun of the Year: limited run of 300 .38 Super pistols with gold/silver/blue finishes, pearl grips, and Mexican folk engravings of the "generous bandit" legend. Special for cultural artwork blending Colt heritage with Malverde motifs. $2,700. Available now. Gun fans get exclusive collector piece. TAG Adds RMR Sights to Kimber 2K11 & 1911 TAG Precision released a steel RMR adapter plate for Kimber 2K11 and 1911 pistols. Made in Texas from tough 4140 steel with black nitride finish, it fits Trijicon RMR, SRO, Holosun 507 optics securely for carry or range. Special: Includes all hardware and TORX driver. Price: $99.95. Available now. Gun folks get easy optic upgrade on classic guns. Henry's Ultra-Rare 250th Birthday Rifle Henry releases Spirit of '76 rifle for US 250th anniversary. Limited to 250 engraved, museum-grade lever-actions on 1860 design, with gold highlights of Revolution scenes. Costs $4,115 factory-direct. Special for tiny run and historical engravings. Not available now. Gun fans get exclusive collector piece. New Limited Goldberg Rogue Rifle POF-USA released a limited run of 100 Goldberg “Jack Hammer” Rogue .308 rifles, based on wrestler Bill Goldberg's personal gun. It's a super light 5.9-pound semi-auto with custom black/bronze Cerakote, autographed certificate, and pinned 13.75-inch barrel. Special for its sub-6-lb weight without cuts, using patented tech. Gun fans get a rare collectible. Available now in limited quantities. New LightGuard Holster from CrossBreed CrossBreed launches LightGuard Holster for guns with lights. Hybrid design with swappable Kydex light shell for custom fits, adjustable retention, IWB carry. Saves money by not replacing whole holster. Gun folks get adaptable everyday option. Available now. Gun Fights Step right up for "Gun Fights," the high-octane segment hosted by Nick Lynch, where our cast members go head-to-head in a game show-style showdown! Each contestant tries to prove their gun knowledge dominance. It's a wild ride of bids, bluffs, and banter—who will come out on top? Tune in to find out! 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Mike Lee Sen. Mike Lee introduced the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act, allowing private entities to combat drug cartel smuggling and violence by seizing cartel assets outside the U.S. The proposed legislation, which echoes historical practices of granting private citizens authority to engage in acts against enemies, has implications for the gun community as it may enable armed citizens to take action against perceived threats from cartels. The Agency Brief Agency Brief — LETTERS OF MARQUE COLD OPEN "The same founders who supposedly 'never imagined AR-15s' literally wrote into the Constitution a program where private citizens could own warships, cannons, and get paid to hunt America's enemies. But sure, tell me more about how 'weapons of war' are only for the government." THE CORE STORY: CONSTITUTIONAL PIRACY The Power: Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 gives Congress the power to grant "Letters of Marque and Reprisal." This is a government license converting a private citizen into a legal combatant. It authorized the use of privately owned warships, cannons, and small arms to capture enemy vessels for profit. The Intent: The Founders distrusted standing armies. Their solution? Unleash the free market on America's enemies. It wasn't a loophole; it was the strategy. The Reality: This destroys the modern argument that civilians shouldn't own "weapons of war." The Constitution relies on it. FULL HISTORICAL BREAKDOWN Origins: Dates back to medieval times as a way for merchants to recoup losses from foreign thieves. Revolutionary War Usage: Continental Navy: ~60 ships. American Privateers: ~1,700 ships. Result: Private citizens captured ~600 British vessels and supplied the colonies with seized gunpowder and goods. War of 1812: The US Navy was still tiny. Privateers essentially fundamentally were the American naval strategy. Ordinary businessmen up-armored their schooners and decimated British trade routes. The Kill Switch: 1856 Declaration of Paris. European powers banned privateering to protect their massive state navies from scrappy private competition. Fact: The US never signed this treaty, but we eventually complied to fit in with "civilized" nations. Modern Attempt: Following 9/11, Rep. Ron Paul introduced bills to issue Letters of Marque to hunt al-Qaeda. The establishment buried it. They preferred a trillion-dollar occupation over a bounty-hunter approach. FACT CHECK SUMMARY Confirmed: Private citizens owned the 18th-century equivalent of nuclear-armed frigates (cannons/warships) with the blessing of the government. Myth: "Privateering was lawless piracy." Correction: It was highly regulated. "Prize Courts" adjudicated every capture. Lawless behavior was punished by hanging. Missing Context: The State's monopoly on violence is a modern invention. The Founders viewed war as a participatory duty of the armed citizen. Hidden Incentive: Why don't we use it now? Because the Defense Industrial Complex (Raytheon, Lockheed) cannot compete with low-cost private operators. The government wants total control, even if it costs more and works less. IMPACT ON GUN OWNERSHIP Reframing the Narrative: When anti-gunners say, "The 2A doesn't cover weapons of war," the response is: "Actually, Article 1 authorizes me to own a battleship." Bruen & Litigation: Under the Bruen test (Text, History, and Tradition), there is a robust tradition of civilians owning artillery and naval warships. If the history supports private ownership of cannons, it certainly supports private ownership of standard rifles and magazines. Cultural Impact: It moves the gun culture debate from "sporting purposes" to "national defense," which is where the Constitution places it. AGENCY NOTES (POLITICAL ANALYSIS) Regulatory Creep: We shifted from a Citizen-Militia/Privateer model to a Standing Army/Federal Law Enforcement model. The Motive: Control. An armed populace capable of waging naval war is impossible to oppress. A disarmed populace dependent on the Navy for protection is compliant. Action Item: Use Letters of Marque to mock the "F-15s and Nukes" argument. The Founders didn't just allow private firepower; they banked the nation's survival on it. The Alley Jelly Roll Receives Pardon as Gun Rights Restoration Program Returns The Trump administration has revived the federal gun rights restoration program by pardoning Jelly Roll, a notable figure,
With all of the attention the UFO (UAP) Disclosure movement has been getting lately, it occurred to me that there are still many out there who haven't followed the topic enough in years past to realize just how much information (whether legitimate or not) has already been released about what they are now calling, "The Legacy Program". There have been some very heavily credentialed whistleblowers in the past who have given some stunning testimony. Of these old disclosures, two that have always stood out in my mind are thevtstimonies of Bob Lazar and Boyd Bushman. In this double-feature, first we have the original Bob Lazar tapes, followed by the "deathbed confession" of Lockheed scientist, Boyd Bushman. The Lazar Tapes were made in the very early 1990s, while Bushman's testimony was recorded shortly before his death in 2014. Much of what these two have previously revealed has now been seriously discussed and validated in Congressional hearings starting in the summer of 2023. Is UFO Disclosure just around the corner? I leave it to the discernment of the viewer to decide what is correct and what is incorrect. These ideas are worthy of consideration...www.alchemicaltechrevolution.comMake a donation to the broadcast here:https://buymeacoffee.com/alchemicaltechrevolutionBuy my new book here:https://www.amazon.com/Enoch-Polarity-End-Time/dp/B0G52BZ1L1
• "Time for a bath" parody song filled with daily-life jokes • Talk about wanting a tax refund and inventing "tax-a-tude" • Imagined gas station purchase and March of Dimes donation bit • Self-image jokes comparing to Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé • Playful "sassy" expressions celebrating confidence • Comedic rap about women's breasts and mock "National Titties Day" • Show intro for "A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan" • Hosts joking about AI-generated intro music as "AI slop" • Outkast's Stankonia 25th anniversary and evolution of their sound • Dan naming Outkast as a father-daughter favorite • Guest Ross Patchett joins; talks discovering Daft Punk at Pollo Tropical • Discovering Kraftwerk through The Simpsons • Tom recalling Outkast and Wu-Tang in high school and UCF choice • First concerts: NSYNC, Slightly Stoopid, Rush, and Primus • Discussion of Primus' humble new drummer and musicianship • Complaints about watching concerts seated and feeling old • Preview of Bad at Business Beerfest Nov 22—free event, noon start • 600 gift bags, ID required, $20 Yellow Brick Road charity glasses • Gift bag misprint panic with "Uncle Ben" image and Moe sticker fix • Chat calls fiasco classic Tom & Dan chaos; "collector's item" jokes • Full sponsor rundown: breweries, THC seltzers, coffee, plumbing, and Moe's cigar lounge • DJ noon–2, live music after, free Supervillains show at West End • Invite to bring families, pets, strollers—photo ID required to drink • Emphasis: sponsors fund it, no profit, listener thank-you • Tease of Sofas & Suds races the next day • Ross's viral Halloween Labyrinth costume and "Bowie bulge" gag • Sock-stuffing debate and hygiene tangent—feet vs. genitals cleanliness • Viral video ethics: featuring kids, monetization, and consent • Ross reflecting on family content making money and audience judgment • Reminder to enjoy creative recognition without exploitation • Story of spontaneous Halloween leading to contest win and joy • Bowie music tangent and favorite songs shared • Ross's toddler now walking; childproofing procrastination • Talk about inherited performance traits and parenting approaches • Ross preferring sports to teach resilience; golf as "jiu jitsu with clubs" • Dangers of child stardom and peaking too early • Plug for Ross's "Good Sauce with Ross and Joel" podcast • Reflection on doing shows with spouses and oversharing • Dan mentions recent health tests and medical oversharing jokes • Watching WWII documentaries for perspective and comfort • Curiosity toward darker historical footage and preserved WWII stories • Call to talk to living veterans for firsthand history • Tease: performing at Secrets Hideaway; "funny while horny" topic • Tease: Jaguars possibly playing at Camping World in 2027 • Tease: Farmer's Almanac ending after 208 years • Music break: Drain – "Living in a Memory" • Infinity documentary discussion—nausea, awe, and humility • Speculation about AI understanding infinity and multiverse theory • Reading comprehension talk—losing focus on dull paragraphs • Agreement that boredom, not intellect, causes zoning out • Shift to "funny and horny" talk—Ross performing at Secrets Hideaway • Debate over comedians mixing sex and comedy successfully • Examples: Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay • Secrets Hideaway's wild, nude comedy atmosphere described • Story of crowd energy and guessing a Lockheed employee onstage • Comparison to 1990s shock comedy style • Curiosity about Oz Perlman's mind-reading with Tom Brady • Discussion of mentalists reading cues and using "outs" in tricks • Reference to hypnotists like Jay Medicine Hat and suggestibility • Candy trick example showing layered outcomes • David Blaine's humility after cursing on radio; redemption performance • Joke about arrogant magician behavior and performer psychology • Blaine handshake trick—card under watch, "under his spell" feeling • Realization that such feats use reading skills and preparation • Comparison of magicians and scam psychics using cold reading • Admiration for Penn & Teller, Kostya Kimlat, and their precision Social Media: https://tomanddan.com/ | https://twitter.com/tomanddanlive | https://facebook.com/amediocretime | https://instagram.com/tomanddanlive Where to Find the Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-mediocre-time/id334142682 | https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2FtZWRpb2NyZXRpbWUvcG9kY2FzdC54bWw | https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy/A-Mediocre-Time-p364156/ The Tom & Dan Radio Show on Real Radio 104.1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-corporate-time/id975258990 | https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Fjb3Jwb3JhdGV0aW1lL3BvZGNhc3QueG1s | https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy/A-Corporate-Time-p1038501/ Exclusive Content: https://tomanddan.com/registration Merch: https://tomanddan.myshopify.com/
President Trump declared that Hamas and Israel have agreed to the first phase of his peace plan. It is unclear if the final agreement includes all 21 points of his original proposal from last week.
Today's Headlines: Right as Taylor Swift casually dropped her engagement pics Trump brushed off his critics by saying he might be a “dictator,” but at least he “stops crime,” and pitched the death penalty for DC murders. He also doubled down on firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook — accusing her of mortgage fraud (a line of attack he often saves for Black women in power) — and is already eyeing his buddy Stephen Miran as a replacement. Cook is suing, and the Fed says it'll let the courts decide.Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Lutnick floated the idea of the U.S. buying stakes in defense giants like Lockheed Martin — basically admitting they're already arms of the government. Over in Congress, Oversight Chair James Comer launched a probe into DC crime stats after a whistleblower claimed they were cooked. On foreign policy, Trump met with South Korea's president and announced 600,000 new visas for Chinese students, despite backlash from his base. Abroad, Israeli troops shelled Gaza's Nasser Hospital, killing 20 people, including journalists and medics, saying they mistook a camera for Hamas surveillance. In Australia, PM Anthony Albanese blamed Iran for a string of arson attacks targeting Jewish sites, expelled Iranian diplomats, and cut ties completely. Lastly, OpenAI faces yet another lawsuit — this one from the parents of a 16-year-old in California who say ChatGPT helped their son explore suicide methods before he took his life. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: ABC News: Trump admin live updates: Trump says he will seek death penalty for murders in DC AP News: Fed governor Lisa Cook to sue Trump administration WSJ: Trump Weighs Quickly Announcing Nominee to Replace Lisa Cook on Fed Board CNBC: Trump Pentagon weighing equity stakes in defense contractors like Lockheed, says Lutnick Axios: House GOP launches probe into alleged DC crime data manipulation Axios: MAGA rages over Trump's Chinese students announcement WSJ: Israeli Troops Targeted a Camera in Gaza Hospital Strike That Killed 20, Army Says CBS News: Australia expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks Axios: Parents sue OpenAI over teen's suicide Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices