BardsFM

By Scott KestersonSociety & Culture News Religion & Spirituality News Commentary

Favorites
605
Followers
Typical duration
66 min
per episode
If it hooks
50%
finish an episode

Based on Podcast App listening data

BardsFM episodes

June 07Our Sacred Honor: Second Continental Congress & Covenant Republic with Rochelle Porto │ BardsFM
Episode 4140 │ June 7, 2026
The Second Continental Congress was an information war, a spy network, and a theological covenant. The parallels to today are exact.
Scott Kesterson and Rochelle Porto continue the Our Sacred Honor series on the founding era, moving into the Second Continental Congress convened May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia. The discussion dismantles the simplified textbook version of the Revolution and replaces it with the operational reality: an information war run through spy networks, intercepted
What was the Second Continental Congress actually doing beneath its public posture of reconciliation — and who was running the covert war effort?
Why did Congress declare a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer before forming the Continental Army or voting on independence?
How did the British post office surveillance network intercept John Adams' private letters and use them to damage the patriot cause?
Who was Dr. Benjamin Church, and why was he more dangerous to the American cause than Benedict Arnold?
When did the term Judeo-Christian actually originate — and what does its history reveal about the rewriting of America's founding theology?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

#BardsFM_OurSacredHonor
#AmericanHistory
#RevolutionaryWar
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 22 min
June 07Digging Into the Word: Holy Spirit, Fire & Transformation with Brad Cummings │ BardsFM
Episode 4139 │ June 7, 2026
The average person is talking to God through a closed door for 3.6 minutes a day. Brad Cummings explains what happens when you finally open it.
Scott Kesterson and Brad Cummings return for Part 2 of their deep dive into Pentecost, pressing further into what the indwelling of the Holy Spirit actually means for daily life — and why most believers are living far below what God has made available. Brad draws on Romans 8, Hebrews, Luke 12, Daniel 7, Deuteronomy 29, and Acts 8 to build a connected case: that God's consuming fire is not punishment but refining transformation, that faith is a response to the living voice of Christ rather than a self-generated choice, and that the baptism of the Holy Spirit exists primarily to conform believers into the image of Christ — not to produce spiritual spectacle. The conversation moves through the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch as a model of Holy Spirit-led availability, the Sinai covenant as the prototype of Pentecost, and the sobering statistic that the average American spends 3.6 minutes a day with God against seven hours in front of a screen — 50 to 60 percent of it anxiety-driven content about money and food. The episode closes with Brad's argument that discipline and disciple share the same root for a reason: transformation requires the fire, and the only question is whether you choose it now or later.
What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit actually for — and why does speaking in tongues miss the point?
How does faith come by hearing, and what does hardening your heart really mean in practice?
Why does God use ordinary, unnamed nobodies to advance His kingdom rather than the best and brightest?
What is the baptism of fire — and is the lake of fire punishment or the final refining of all creation?
How does spending only 3.6 minutes a day with God explain the current state of the church and the nation?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm
#BardsFM_DiggingIntoTheWord
#HolySpirit
#BaptismOfFire
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 10 min
June 05The Engineered Conflict: Gun Rights, Free Speech & the Trap │ BardsFM
Episode 4138 │ June 2026
Gun rights are expanding. Free speech is contracting. Both are moving at the same time — and that's not a coincidence.
This episode maps an 18-year legal through-line in Second Amendment jurisprudence — from District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) through the pending Wolford v. Lopez decision — showing how gun rights have been methodically restored case by case. Scott then juxtaposes that restoration against the simultaneous erosion of First Amendment protections: government-by-proxy censorship exposed in Murthy v. Missouri, antisemitism laws that courts are already finding unconstitutional as viewpoint discrimination, and AI surveillance infrastructure being built faster than judicial doctrine can address it. Drawing on unconventional warfare doctrine, Scott introduces the Managed Polarization Operation — a strategy in which the conflict itself is the mechanism of control, not the outcome — and walks three historical precedents: Weimar Germany, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and COINTELPRO. The episode maps the current moment onto four operational phases and names the mechanism that makes it work: asymmetric enforcement. It closes with the most important strategic question of this moment — what does principled, effective resistance look like that avoids both the radicalization trap and the paralysis trap?
What is the legal through-line from Heller to Wolford and why does it matter now?
Why are gun rights expanding while free speech rights are being restricted at the same time?
What is a Managed Polarization Operation and has it been used before?
How does asymmetric enforcement channel armed populations toward conflict?
What does principled resistance look like that doesn't walk into either trap?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday.
bards.fm
#BardsFM
#ConstitutionalRights
#ManagedPolarization
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 19 min
June 05The Panda Gambit: The Dynasty That Never Fell Pt. 3 │ BardsFM
Episode 4137 │ May 2026

A foreign ethnic minority of 300,000 ruled 100 million Han Chinese for 268 years. The resistance network that formed to restore Han sovereignty never stopped. It outlasted the Qing, the Nationalists, and Mao.

Scott Kesterson examines the Han and Manchu distinction — the ethnic occupation at the root of China's 400-year shadow power structure — and connects it to the Opium Wars Britain launched to protect its drug trade, the Boxer Rebellion that was anti-Qing before it was anti-Western, and the Eight-Nation Alliance that forced China to pay reparations for suppressing its own people's uprising. The episode traces the Triad networks from Ming loyalist resistance through Imperial Japan's invasion, Madame Chiang's 1941 double move — the Flying Tigers and the panda simultaneously — to the Soong family holding positions in both the Nationalist and Communist governments at the same time. One question runs through all of it: when every visible government fell, what didn't?
What distinguishes Han from Manchu and why did it produce 268 years of underground resistance?
Who were the Opium Wars actually started by — and why two?
What was the Boxer Protocol and who was the Qing paying, and why?
How did Madame Chiang bind American blood and American emotion to China's survival in the same year?
What is the one thing that survived the Qing, the Nationalists, and the Communists?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday.
bards.fm
#BardsFM
#HanAndManchu
#TheTriads
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 14 min
June 03Hell's Kitchen: Obesity, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome with Dr. Joel Wallach │ BardsFM
Episode 4136 │ June 2, 2026
Dr. Joel Wallach reveals why obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome are nutritional deficiency diseases — and why medicine profits from keeping you sick.
In this featured presentation, veterinarian and physician Dr. Joel Wallach delivers his landmark Hell's Kitchen talk — a systematic breakdown of why obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome are not genetic failures or lifestyle weaknesses, but predictable outcomes of mineral-depleted food and a medical system with no financial incentive to cure what it can manage. Wallach draws on four decades of animal and human research, including 17,500 autopsies across 454 species, to show that the same nutritional formulas that eliminated disease in livestock apply directly to human metabolism. He traces the collapse of dietary minerals to the modern electric kitchen, documents USDA data showing catastrophic nutrient loss in American food from 1975 to 2004, and explains the suppressed 1957 discovery that adult onset type 2 diabetes can be prevented and reversed with two trace minerals. He also dismantles the conventional warnings on salt, cholesterol, eggs, and exercise — and profiles the common traits of people who live well past 100.
What is Hell's Kitchen — and how did the modern electric stove trigger a cascade of metabolic disease in America?
What causes obesity and type 2 diabetes at the nutritional level, and why have doctors ignored the cure since 1957?
Why do the longest-lived people on earth share low carbohydrate intake and daily mineral replenishment?
Does salt cause high blood pressure — what does the government's own sodium study actually conclude?
Why have professional athletes never lived to 100, while sedentary people routinely do?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday.
bards.fm
#BardsFM_HealthAndWellness
#WholeBodyHealth
#Nutrification
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 18 min
June 02The Panda Gambit: The Emperor's Beast Pt. 2 │ BardsFM
Episode 4135│ May 2026
For 4,000 years, one animal in China was reserved exclusively for the emperor. Its image on a battlefield flag stopped wars. In 1869, a French priest introduced it to the West — and nobody told us what it meant.
Scott Kesterson traces the giant panda's ancient Chinese name — Pixiu — and the five layers of imperial mythology encoded in it: military sovereignty, exclusive wealth, cosmic authority, the power to stop wars, and the seal of dynastic legitimacy. The episode examines why the panda's black-and-white markings were read by every educated Chinese person as a living Yin-Yang — the physical embodiment of the emperor's cosmic mandate. Scott then profiles Armand David: Lazarist priest, French government specimen collector, and heir to 300 years of Jesuit intelligence mapping of Chinese cosmology — and asks whether the 1869 introduction of the emperor's sacred animal to Western audiences was purely scientific, or something more deliberate.
What is the Pixiu and what did it mean to Chinese imperial bloodlines?
When did the ancient name Pixiu become the Western word "panda" — and what was lost in that translation?
What is the Yin-Yang symbol and why does the panda wear it on its body?
Who was Armand David and why did he have two masters?
What was China signaling in 1869 to those who could read the symbol?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday.
bards.fm
#BardsFM
#ThePandaGambit
#WaterAndPower
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 3 min
June 01The Panda Gambit: China's Hidden Power Pt. 1 │ BardsFM
Episode 4134 │ May 2026
A small Oregon town rejected a data center that would have consumed 15x local household power. That local stand connects to 4,000 years of Chinese imperial strategy — and a bear.

Scott Kesterson opens the Panda Gambit series by examining Karl Wittfogel's hydraulic hypothesis — the theory that control of water infrastructure produces centralized state power — and its application to China's documented cycle of dynasty, collapse, and return. The series then enters its central question: the giant panda is a carnivore that eats only bamboo, reproduces through a 24-to-72-hour annual window, and by every biological measure should not exist as a self-sustaining wild species. Someone has been keeping it alive. This episode asks who — and begins building the case for why the answer matters in 2026.
Why did La Pine, Oregon reject Boxminer.io's 20-megawatt data center?
What is the hydraulic hypothesis and what does it explain about Chinese power?
Why is the giant panda biologically impossible as a self-sustaining wild species?
Who managed panda populations for 2,000 years and to what end?
What does a black-and-white bear have to do with Beijing in May 2026?
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday.
bards.fm
#BardsFM
#ThePandaGambit
#WaterAndPower
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
58 min
May 31 Ep4133_BardsFM: Our Sacred Honor with Rochelle Porto
We are beginning our show today with another look at General Gauge. From the previous shows it has become clear there are some historical points we need to clarify. Then we are moving forward into the Battle of Bunker Hill; one of the most important engagements in the American Revolution. Understanding our history is an essential pillar of being part of a Republic. We must know your history so that we can learn from our history, both the admirable and the failures.
#BardsFM_OurSacredHonor
#GeneralGauge
#BattleOfBunkerHill
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 11 min
May 31 Ep4132_BardsFM: Digging Into The Word with Brad Cummings
Today Brad Cummings and I explore Pentecost. What is the purpose? What is the biblical reason? What is the meaning of it all? Pentecost was last weekend, and today we will go deeper to add to its meaning and depth that links Jesus and disciples to our practice of faith today.
#BardsFM_DiggingIntoTheWord
#Salvation
#Petecost
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479

1 hr 23 min
May 29 Ep4131_BardsFM - The 3.6 Minute Christian... Who Owns Your Mind?
We are a nation that has printed on our money "In God We Trust." A nation built on the foundation of Christian values and love in Christ. Yet as a nation we now spend nearly 7 hours a day before a screen, with 50-60% of that content related to food or money, while spending on average 3.6 min a day dedicated to our Faith. Is there any wonder why we are where we are? Its not some magic mystery influence of the deep state; accountability begins with each of us.
#BardsFM
#Accountability
#TheWay
Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com
MYPillow promo code: BARDS
>> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.
EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here
Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com
EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com
Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com
Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS
>>> TheFoundersBible.com
Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com
White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS
Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here
If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...
DONATE: Click here

Mailing Address:
Xpedition Cafe, LLC
Attn. Scott Kesterson
591 E Central Ave, #740
Sutherlin, OR 97479
1 hr 7 min