Adam and John dig into the week’s chaos with a firefighter’s bluntness and a skeptic’s eye. We open on Trump’s DC power grab and what “for your safety” really means when armored solutions roll onto Main Street. Then we zoom out—15-minute cities, the 50s–60s deep-state origin story, AI the military had yesterday, and why your hospital bill reads like a prank. Plus a little vertical ventilation talk for the hose-draggers in the back.

What’s inside:

• DC “law and order” on steroids: Bondi over MPD, Guard troops, and the homeless as a prop.  

• 15-minute cities and soft control—convenience dressed up as compliance. 

• The rabbit hole that always ends in the ‘50s/‘60s: CIA, Mossad, JFK, MK-Ultra—and why so much is only surfacing now.  

• ARPANET to AI: if the public gets it today, what did DoD have decades ago? 

• Healthcare insanity: $42k bills, 47-cent invoices, and a system that treats symptoms, not people.   

• Vertical ventilation: quick hits from the fireground.