We're very excited to release the next episode of our long-form podcast series on the history of Florida, where we will be analyzing the fifth chapter of the book Finding Florida by T. D. Allman, called "The West Florida Lone Star Butterfly Effect". (Butler description here)

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Corrections and sources listed below:

(5:48) PIC about to break out our red strings, like Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

(8:52) PIC early maps of "the Floridas"

(10:37) WIKI Napoleon Bonaparte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon

(12:!2) LINK We talked all about alluvial soil back in Hell on the Beach part 2, link below: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hell-on-beach-2-139503255?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(12:27) PIC 20th century real estate pamphlet from the Florida East Coast Railway Co.

(12:51) BOOK Finding Florida by T.D. Allman https://archive.org/details/findingfloridatr0000allm_d7c0

(14:10) LINK American Antiquarian Society - East Florida as a refuge for Southern loyalists, 1774-1785 https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44806786.pdf

(15:18) WIKI Bernardo de Gálvez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_de_G%C3%A1lvez

(15:33) WIKI Galveston, Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas

(15:58) LINK The Legacy - 1779. Not without Spain quote: "George Washington had pronounced on the matter long before this date. He affirmed that without the support of Spain it would not have been possible the success of his troops. Neither the wishes of the new nation to move away from British power and revolutionizing the foundations of English power after his declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776." https://www.thespanishlegacy.com/en/1779-no-sin-espana

(18:20) WIKI Castillo de San Marcos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos

(23:52) WIKI Seven Years War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War or otherwise known as the French and Indian War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War

(25:37) WIKI Dr. Andrew Turnbull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Turnbull_(colonist)

(25:47) LINK Andrew Turnbull was first mentioned at the end of last episode, link below: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hell-on-beach-3-141223042?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(26:55) WIKI Aldous Huxley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

(27:16) LINK the Florida-Italy connection is first mentioned in Hell on the Beach part 1, link below: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hell-on-beach-1-138027838?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(30:15) WIKI Human Zoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

(32:55) ARTICLE The Collector - Risorgimento: the long road to the unification of Italy https://www.thecollector.com/risorgimento-unification-italy/

(35:53) WIKI Heart of Darkness book by Joseph Conrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness

(36:42) WIKI Captain Bernard Romans, deputy royal surveyor of Florida region ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Romans

(39:20) WIKI "Florida Man" meme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

(41:44) WIKI Captain Bernard Romans, deputy royal surveyor of Florida region ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Romans (again)

(42:04) BOOK Florida from Indian Trail to Space Age by Charlton W Tebeau https://books.google.com/books/about/Florida_from_Indian_Trail_to_Space_Age.html?id=fi8jAQAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description

(42:15) BOOK Mullet on the Beach: the Minorcans of Florida by Patricia C. Griffin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4859672-mullet-on-the-beach

(42:48) WIKI Minorcans of Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorcans_of_Florida

(46:47) WIKI Treaty of Paris (1783) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)

(50:13) WIKI Third Treaty of San Ildefonso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso

(50:24) CORRECTION Vane said "France" here, but he meant to say "Florida"

(50:27) WIKI Charles "Carlos" II of Spain, the last Habsburg monarch of Spain, depicted below with his "Hapsberg jaw" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain

Hapsburg dynasty family tree

(53:16) WIKI Third Treaty of San Ildefonso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso (again)

(54:27) LINK to our recent topical discussion on the subject of liberalism https://www.patreon.com/posts/liberalism-26-143168459?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(54:30) WIKI Great Man Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

(54:46) TWEET Trump complaining that the AP refused to start calling it "Gulf of America"

(57:15) WIKI Haitian revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution

(59:00) WIKI Haitian independence debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt

(59:42) WIKI Toussaint Louverture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture

(1:01:38) WIKI Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord

(1:03:40) PIC It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "oh I see… we don't have any legal recourse!" https://youtu.be/-9DpPoUq14I?si=nlSK_f8-HeJGq9pu

(1:03:45) PIC Thomas Jefferson quote from letter to John Dickinson August 9, 1803 "a constitutional amendment seems necessary for this." https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0127

(1:14:30) QUOTE John Adams was opposed to slavery and expansionism

(1:16:21) QUOTE John Adams presents the two competing notions of power, military might or legal might. He of course preferred the latter, like many other northern politicians in the sectional conflict.

(1:18:20) ARTICLE Constitution Center - Blame Abraham Lincoln for the nation's first national income tax https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/say-happy-birthday-to-the-first-income-tax

(1:22:30) WIKI Patriot Wars (Florida) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_War_(Florida)

(1:23:45) BOOK The Rise of American Nationality, 1811-1819 by Kendric Charles Babcock https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Rise_of_American_Nationality_1811_18.html?id=F7jlEpaxRWcC

(1:24:17) WIKI Reuben Kemper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Kemper and his brother Samuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kemper became notorious freebooters (aka "fillibusters") defined as "someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foster or support a political revolution or secession" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

(1:24:39) WIKI Bay of Pigs Invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

(1:24:46) WIKI Office of Strategic Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services

(1:25:56) WIKI Vincente Folch - governor of West Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Folch

(1:26:04) WIKI Reuben Kemper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Kemper and his brother Samuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kemper became notorious freebooters (aka "fillibusters") defined as "someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foster or support a political revolution or secession" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military) (again)

(1:26:53) QUOTE Thomas Jefferson April 2, 1791 - "Governor Quesada, by order of his court, is inviting foreigners to go and settle in Florida. This is meant for our people. Debtors take advantage of it, and go off with their property. Our citizens have a right to go where they please. It is the business of the States to take measures to stop them till their debts are paid. This done, I wish a hundred thousand of our inhabitants would accept the invitation. It will be the means of delivering to us peaceably what may otherwise cost us a war. In the meantime, we may complain of this seduction of our inhabitants just enough to make them believe we think it very wise policy for them, and confirm them in it. This is my idea of it. I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the most perfect respect and attachment, Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant." https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52878/52878-h/52878-h.htm

(1:27:44) WIKI Bonnie Blue flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Blue_flag

(1:28:47) WIKI Republic of West Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_West_Florida

(1:29:04) LINK The St. Francisville Democrat - The story of the West Florida rebellion reproduction of a chapter from a book by Stanley Clisbey Arthur, detailing the death of William Cooper https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/_Texts/ARTWFR/4*.html

(1:29:21) ARTICLE 64 Parishes - West Florida Revolt: The Florida parishes were not included in the Louisiana Purchase but were under Spanish control https://64parishes.org/entry/west-florida-revolt

(1:29:39) WIKI Bernardo de Gálvez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_de_G%C3%A1lvez (again)

(1:32:28) LINK Study of West Florida controversy (1918) by Jocelyn Isaac Cox (full pdf) https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/H001092.pdf

(1:32:54) WIKI Melissa Johnson, West Florida's Betsy Ross and wife of Louisiana governor Isaac Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Johnson_(politician)

(1:32:57) WIKI Bonnie Blue flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Blue_flag (again)

(1:33:06) WIKI Battle of the Alamo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo

(1:33:18) PIC Flag of Texas

(1:37:20) WIKI Patriot Wars (Florida) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_War_(Florida) (again)

(1:37:27) WIKI Flag of Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Texas

(1:40:58) PIC Flag of Israel

(1:46:32) ARTICLE Curbed - Before there were private jets, there were luxurious private train cars https://archive.curbed.com/2018/2/1/16943216/pullman-private-railroad-car-history

ARTICLE Museum of Toronto - The working conditions and segregation of black railway porters https://museumoftoronto.com/collection/conditions-segregation/

(1:46:45) WIKI Seaboard Air Line Railroad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaboard_Air_Line_Railroad

(1:47:32) WIKI Kwame Nkrumah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah

(1:47:38) LINK Blowback season 6 is out! https://blowback.show/

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(1:51:00) SONG Sardines by the band Stella Starfox: https://youtu.be/9kF6N0oA0o4?si=wswiL3WoQ2HCM_AO

Butler vane and Axiom tackle the damn news together. First though, we catch up a little bit on the weather and some spectacular hijinx. From there we cover briefly the tenuous ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

We pivot from that into a discussion of the Nobel peace prize and the new lady guaido on the block. Then we break down our thoughts on AI and its looming bubble before getting into one of our favorite dead horses, the ol' donkey itself: the Democratic Party. Zohran for mayor Inshallah!

Our intro and outro theme music are from the song "Sardines" by the band Stella Starfox. You can find them on Apple Music and Spotify, and check out the full song here. https://youtu.be/9kF6N0oA0o4?si=wswiL3WoQ2HCM_AO

Corrections and sources listed below:

(0:37) FOLLOW @butlersghost https://bsky.app/profile/butlersghost.bsky.social

(0:43) FOLLOW @pervertpirateparty https://bsky.app/profile/pervertpirateparty.bsky.social

(1:31) PIC social media has sucked ever since 'the dress'

(2:12) ARTICLE Science Direct - Auditory perception: Laurel and Yanny together at last https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218307590

(3:04) ARTICLE Slate - We finally know why people saw 'the dress' differently https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html

(4:21) ARTICLE Scientific American - At the peak of hurricane season, the Atlantic is quiet: here's why https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atlantic-hurricane-season-has-gone-quiet-heres-why/

(4:24) ARTICLE Britannica - Tropical storm Melissa dumps heavy rain on Haiti and the Dominican Republic https://www.britannica.com/news/168728/530ee68b7a5fd0fb96605b5ff12b8289

(5:02) LINK New York Post - full video of NYC lady yelling at ICE https://youtu.be/ZPA6oQeHb7w?si=FTcFKrbVwo3841Bi

(9:10) WIKI Folsom Street Fair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_Street_Fair

(10:20) SHOUTOUT Mr. S, famous San Francisco leather shop!

(11:15) BOOK Deep Sniff by Adam Zmith

(11:22) WIKI Chris Burden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden

(11:25) BOOK Testo Junky by Beatriz Preciado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testo_Junkie

(20:38) TWEET MTG acknowledges health insurance prices will double soon for many people

(20:56) ARTICLE Kaisar Family Foundation - ADA marketplace insurance premium payments would more than double on average next year if enhanced premium tax credits expire https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/aca-marketplace-premium-payments-would-more-than-double-on-average-next-year-if-enhanced-premium-tax-credits-expire/

(21:33) ARTICLE The Hill - James Carville leans on 'it's the economy, stupid' after Harris loss https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5063265-james-carville-kamala-harris-donald-trump-2024-election-economy/

(22:30) ARTICLE Daily Beast/Yahoo News - James Carville tells Dems the best way to beat Trump is to 'roll over and play dead' https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-carville-tells-dems-best-152840312.html

(22:41) ARTICLE Daily Beast - Opinion: Democrats 'play dead' strategy will be the death of the party https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-democrats-play-dead-strategy-153504374.html

(23:00) LINK to our last episode, 'Jerks Progress Administration' https://www.patreon.com/posts/jerks-progress-141653573?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(23:10) ARTICLE TWEET smugness about peace in the middle east

(23:21) ARTICLE NPR - Israel strikes Gaza as both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire https://www.npr.org/2025/10/19/nx-s1-5579554/israel-and-hamas-accuse-each-other-of-breaching-fragile-ceasefire-in-gaza

(23:25) ARTICLE BBC News, Tony Blair would help oversee Gaza transition under Trump Plan https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5j989107lo

(23:47) ARTICLE Al Jazeera - Has the Gaza ceasefire been broken? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/20/has-the-gaza-ceasefire-been-broken

ARTICLE The Guardian - Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 civilivians, says Gaza media office https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/israel-has-violated-ceasefire-47-times-and-killed-38-palestinians-says-gaza-media-office

(23:55) ARTICLE Associated Press - In first 100 days, Trump struggles to make good on promises to end Ukraine and Gaza wars https://apnews.com/article/trump-ukraine-gaza-russia-100-days-ad7af3502370f1743e28690ac0ce2a17

(24:04) ARTICLE United Nations - Letter from the State of Palestine, Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement; UN facilities are being attacked https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israel-continues-to-violate-the-ceasefire-agreement-un-facilities-are-being-attacked-letter-from-the-state-of-palestine-a-es-10-1027-s-2025-173/

(24:12) LINK to our last episode, 'Jerks Progress Administration' https://www.patreon.com/posts/jerks-progress-141653573?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(24:23) ARTICLE CNN - Fact Check: Trump's '$17 trillion' investment figure is fiction https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics/fact-check-trump-17-trillion-investment

(24:31) TWEET Trump brags about raising 15 trillion in foreign investment back in September

(24:41) ARTICLE Forbes - Trump says tariffs collected 'trillions' in revenue: here's the real figure https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/31/trump-says-his-tariffs-collected-trillions-in-revenue-heres-the-real-figure/

(24:47) TWEET Trump was surprised that China would respond in kind to new tariffs

(24:59) LINK Vane predicted Argentina would need more bailout money in our last episode, 'Jerks Progress Administration' https://www.patreon.com/posts/jerks-progress-141653573?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

(25:05) ARTICLE Associated Press - US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to 40B by tapping private funding sources https://apnews.com/article/trump-argentina-financing-economy-milei-billion-peso-fd38553ae03f4c33ce1288999469f7fb

(26:24) PIC Javier Milei in costume as "Captain Libertarian"

(27:03) PIC Milei gave Elon Musk the chainsaw at CPAC earlier this year

(27:29) ARTICLE The Guardian - Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Milei loses election https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/trump-threatens-to-cut-us-aid-to-argentina-if-milei-loses-election

(27:47) ARTICLE People's Dispatch - Trump Knesset speech displays complete backing of Israel https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/14/trump-knesset-speech-displays-complete-us-backing-of-israel/

(27:59) ARTICLE Anti-War News - Trump suggests one of his biggest donors loves Israel more than the US https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/13/trump-suggests-one-of-his-biggest-donors-cares-more-about-israel-than-the-us/

(29:09) PIC Milei in costume as "Captain Libertarian", equipped with scepter (presumably to break up government regulation?)

(30:52) ARTICLE Vox - What happens when Trump combines the war on drugs with the war on terror? https://www.vox.com/world-politics/460375/boat-strike-tren-de-aragua-venezuela

(31:30) ARTICLE CNN - Trump recognizes Venezuelan opposition leader (Juan Guaido) as nation's president https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/trump-juan-guaido-venezuela

(31:43) WIKI María Corina Machado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado

(31:52) ARTICLE CBS - Columbian president alleges last boat bombed by US was from his country, White House calls his claim 'baseless' https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombian-president-alleged-drug-boat-from-his-country-white-house-baseless/

(32:04) ARTICLE CNN - US releasing survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel to their home countries https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/caribbean-boat-strike-survivors

(32:18) LINK CVCE - Address given by JFK on the events of Cuba (20 April 1961) https://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/address_given_by_john_f_kennedy_on_the_events_in_cuba_20_april_1961-en-3b6151d7-86e0-4181-a057-918baf9064a8.html

(32:26) CORRECTION: the strikes are happening in Caribbean, not in the Gulf of Mexico

(32:43) ARTICLE USA Today - Fact check: Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust during his presidency https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/24/fact-check-jimmy-carter-put-peanut-farm-blind-trust-during-term-president/11340029002/

(33:25) ARTICLE The Guardian - Jimmy Carter's life after the presidency set a bar that few others have reached https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-post-presidency-life-public-service

(33:44) WIKI María Corina Machado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado

(34:04) NOTE: we added the word "allegedly" to this news story since this is all just speculation at this point. Machado has, however, already dedicated the prize to Trump. ARTICLE New Yorker - Why María Corina Machado says that Trump deserves her Nobel Peace Prize https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-maria-corina-machado-says-that-donald-trump-deserves-her-peace-prize

(34:08) ARTICLE The Guardian - Nobel peace prize investigate surge in bets for winner: Bets for Machado spiked on Polymarket gambling site hours before she was awarded prize https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/nobel-peace-prize-bets-polymarket

(34:38) NOTE: if this allegation is true, this could be considered insider trading.

(34:47) CHART polymarket betting before nobel peace prize

(34:58) CORRECTION: this trade didn't generate millions, but 3 accounts made at least $90,000

(35:12) ARTICLE Wall Street Journal - A mystery polymarket trader scored with prescient bets on the Nobel Peace Prize https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/polymarket-nobel-peace-prize-bets-c34ee0c8?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfPyY73m8a-poYolYH5mnLrBHHPJvz7MINhVNE4DeQbhTLPB_3vgLNiqv3Psnw%3D&gaa_ts=6901200d&gaa_sig=_HT1In0Rwx3vAGfX5YmMs-6okeJfM30aFl-2Ldz5FNJ3f2LGkJlz8RiFbJm7zTTNt-MOzb0OLHgvJhcSmKcylw%3D%3D

(35:12) ARTICLE BBC - Venezuela opposition: everyone knows we won vote https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypreexqxlo

ARTICLE CNN - US says Maduro lost election as opposition leader says she's in hiding https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/americas/venezuela-election-opposition-machado-hiding-intl-latam

(36:07) ARTICLE Live Science - The Dark Side of Nobel prizes https://www.livescience.com/40188-dark-history-alfred-nobel-prizes.html

(36:24) ARTICLE Australian Institute of International Affairs - The Nobel Peace Prize's legitimacy crisis: María Corina Machado's 2025 award and the end of moral authority https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/the-nobel-peace-prizes-legitimacy-crisis-maria-corina-machados-2025-award-and-the-end-of-moral-authority/

(36:36) ARTICLE CNN - Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winner calls on Trump to stop Maduro's 'war' on her country https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/americas/venezuela-machado-trump-maduro-latam-intl

(36:43) ARTICLE NPR - Supreme Court seems poised to further undercut the Voting Rights Act https://www.npr.org/2025/10/15/nx-s1-5575101/scotus-voting-rights-arguments

(36:51) QUOTE from Joseph Stalin

(37:23) ARTICLE The Guardian - How Venezuela's opposition proved its election win. This article demonstrates how the opposition party proved it had won the popular vote by a almost a 2-to-1 margin, but this argument seems to suggest that political power ought to take the side of popular majorities. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/10/gonzalez-proof-win-venezuela-election-vote-tally-maduro

(37:39) PIC Venezuela 2024 electoral college map

(37:51) ARTICLE CBS News - The crisis in Venezuela. Maduro declared a national emergency and military crackdown after last election in order to secure power. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-crisis-in-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-election-denialism/

(38:28) ARTICLE CNN - California Democrats approve Newsom's redistricting plan after Texas House passes GOP-drawn maps https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/california-democrats-redistricting-plan

(38:58) ARTICLE History.com - How gerrymandering began in the US https://www.history.com/articles/gerrymandering-origins-voting

(41:14) ARTICLE The Nation - The Supreme Court can't even agree on a code of ethics for itself https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-supreme-court-needs-ethics-reform/

(42:06) ARTICLE Sacramento Bee - One word describes Gavin Newsom live on Twitch playing Fortnite: Cringe https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article312375311.html

(42:22) ARTICLE Data for Progress - Majority of voters think Supreme Court justices Thomas and Alito should be impeached, support gift bans and term limits https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/7/16/majority-of-voters-think-supreme-court-justices-thomas-and-alito-should-be-impeached-support-gift-bans-and-term-limits

(42:59) ARTICLE The Atlantic - Just how bad would an AI bubble be? https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/

(43:10) ARTICLE NPR - Artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity

(43:44) ARTICLE Newsreel Asia - The exploited workers behind the AI we use: some of them are paid less than $20 for a 10-hour shift https://newsreel.asia/articles/the-exploited-workers-behind-the-ai-we-use

(44:31) ARTICLE Harvard Business Review - The uneven distribution of AI's environmental impacts https://hbr.org/2024/07/the-uneven-distribution-of-ais-environmental-impacts

(44:45) ARTICLE Axios - MIT study on AI profits rattles tech investors: AI investment led to zero returns for 95% of companies https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/ai-wall-street-big-tech

(45:04) ARTICLE NBC News - Big AI's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/openai-nvidia-amd-deals-risks-rcna234806

(45:11) ARTICLE Ed Zitron - Why everybody is losing money on AI https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/

(46:14) ARTICLE Economic Times - Amazon layoffs: Is Amazon replacing humans with robots? Leaked docs reveal company's plans to replace 600,000 workers with robots by 2027 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/amazon-layoffs-is-amazon-replacing-humans-with-robots-leaked-docs-reveal-companys-plan-to-replace-600000-workers-with-robots-by-2027/articleshow/124727671.cms?from=mdr

(46:37) ARTICLE Associated Press - Carney says Canada will double its non-US exports as Canadians can't rely on US https://apnews.com/article/canada-carney-trump-budget-exports-c78a41c00167bc1d8177d5d74e34d09f

(47:13) ARTICLE The Atlantic - America is sliding toward illiteracy: declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/

(50:49) PIC AI joke ads, fascinating in almost a dadaist kind of way

(51:24) PIC Another website for gambling on anything

(52:10) WIKI Mannerism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism

(56:49) ARTICLE Bloomberg - AI demand is draining water from places that need it most https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/

(58:29) ARTICLE The Square - How are brands being changed by Artificial Intelligence? https://the-square.co/how-are-brands-being-changed-by-artificial-intelligence/

(58:42) PIC Maps - now AI powered

(59:58) ARTICLE The Tribune - Hasan Piker enters the spotlight after Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani clash in mayoral debate https://tribune.com.pk/story/2572915/hasan-piker-enters-the-spotlight-after-andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-clash-in-mayoral-debate

(1:00:07) PIC Babe Ruth pointing the bat during the 1932 World Series

(1:00:14) PIC Nixon was famously criticized in the first televised debate for failing to adapt to the new medium

(1:00:49) ARTICLE Latin Times - Mamdani breaks silence about Maduro and Cuban president Díaz-Canel: how Jorge Ramos and daughter Paola got him to open up https://www.latintimes.com/mamdani-breaks-silence-about-maduro-cuban-president-diaz-canel-how-jorge-ramos-daughter-paola-589809

(1:00:58) VIDEO Comedian Gianmarco Soresi jokes that he and Hasan have a lot of mutual followers https://tribune.com.pk/story/2572915/hasan-piker-enters-the-spotlight-after-andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-clash-in-mayoral-debate

(1:01:02) AUDIO played here sourced from @GianmarcoSoresi on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/poqjFGyxJIM

(1:02:24) ARTICLE NYT - Cuomo doesn't blame himself for losing the primary, others do https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/nyregion/cuomo-mayor-campaign.html

(1:02:57) ARTICLE The Hill - Mamdani holds wide lead over Cuomo in new poll https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5577368-mamdani-cuomo-new-york-poll/

(1:03:49) ARTICLE Fox News - Cuomo quips 'even I will move to Florida' if Mamdani wins NYC mayoral bid https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-jokes-even-i-move-florida-mamdani-wins-nyc-mayoral-bid

(1:04:14) ARTICLE New York Post - Sliwa wants 'full crackdown' on open-air prostitution market in Brooklyn https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/nyc-mayoral-candidate-curtis-sliwa-calls-for-full-crackdown-on-brooklyn-sex-market/

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(1:06:04) PIC Studying Florida makes you feel like Pepe Sylvia

(1:06:39) ARTICLE NPR - Attorney General Bondi brushes aside questions about her handling of Epstein files https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g-s1-77698/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-justice-department

(1:07:03) ARTICLE ABC News - Trump says some 'Democrat programs' to be cut during shutdown may never come back https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/strategy-speaker-johnson-backs-gops-clean-cr-shutdown/story?id=126511106

(1:08:07) VIDEO The Independent - Trump mocks 'No Kings' protests with shocking AI videos https://youtu.be/nWHDKDwnJZs?si=KJ5vhoX4uyalxaMI

(1:08:36) ARTICLE The Guardian - Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protestors https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-ai-video-no-kings

(1:09:27) PIC Trump shares AI-generated video of himself, flying a jet, as a king, dropping poop on the No Kings protests

(1:09:34) PIC Trump AI-generated video drops poop on Harry Sisson?

(1:09:42) WIKI Harry Sisson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Sisson_(influencer)

(1:09:50) ARTICLE Yougov - Most Americans react negatively when shown three AI-generated videos shared by President Trump https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53256-most-americans-react-negatively-when-shown-three-ai-generated-videos-posted-by-president-trump

(1:09:50) PIC JD Vance also shared images of Trump being crowned as a king

(1:10:02) ARTICLE Forbes - Sora 2 does a copyright somersault upon launch https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalentertainment/2025/10/17/sora-2-does-a-copyright-somersault-upon-launch/

(1:10:42) ARTICLE CNN - $1 Trump coin is 'real', US Treasurer sayshttps://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treasurer-250-anniversary

ARTICLE NYT - A pile of rubble: after 123 years, the East Wing is gone https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/east-wing-obituary.html

ARTICLE BBC - What we know about White House plans to build 'Arc de Trump' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7e8lv176go

(1:11:01) ARTICLE G. Elliot Morris - Second 'No Kings Day' protests the largest single-day political protest ever, with 5-6.5 million participants https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-kings-day-protests-likely

(1:11:30) ARTICLE The Guardian - He's anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure 'dark enlightenment' blogger influencing the next administration https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

(1:13:56) PIC "the Libs are out in the streets right now doing huge no kings protests, so you really can't blanket condemn liberals."

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In this episode we try to give you a run down of the goings on in the declining empire by starting off with some lighter fare about gruesome Gavin and the weather. We then briefly cover the tepid optimism around the most recent ceasefire and the strange choice of Tony Blair to oversee it.

We also try to put in our final words on that awful thing that happened that everyone's already done talking about. From there we delve into some of the most annoying characters globally in the Trump orbit and who gets to be on the side benefitting from neocolonialism.

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(1:01) ARTICLE National Hurricane Center, Seven Day Graphic Tropical Weather Outlook, October 19. A tropical depression is likely to form in the Caribbean https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

(1:09) ARTICLE the Guardian, A visual guide to the damage caused by Hurricane Milton https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/10/hurricane-milton-maps-charts-graphics-damage

(1:13) ARTICLE Associated Press, a new naming system was implemented by the World Meteorological Organization in 2022 to manage the increasing frequency of large, named storms https://apnews.com/article/no-greek-alphabet-hurricane-names-b504a7326955bb171530777c140103e2

(1:19) ARTICLE ABC News Hurricane Helene Updates: Death toll surpasses 230 as rescue efforts continue https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/hurricane-helene/?id=113931821

(2:01) Trump calls Zohran Mamdani a "Communist Lunatic"

(3:57) ARTICLE CBC News/Associated Press Jimmy Kimmel Live! set to return Tuesday after suspension https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-return-1.7640407

(4:27) ARTICLE Esquire, There's Only One Way to Read the Data: Right-Wing Terrorism is an Existential Threat to American Life - 2 mass shootings motivated by right-wing politics within one week, including an attack on a Mormon church in Michigan https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a68115092/right-wing-terrorism-trump-shootings-michigan-north-carolina/

(4:53) ARTICLE Vox, Political violence scholar explains what the furor over Charlie Kirk's Killing is Missing - what studying hundreds of political assassinations has revealed https://www.vox.com/culture/461857/charlie-kirk-assassination-political-ideology-tyler-robinson

(5:00) ARTICLE NY Post, Tyler Robinson was raised Mormon - and allegedly killed Kirk just moments after influencer praised the church https://nypost.com/2025/09/12/us-news/tyler-robinson-was-raised-mormon-and-killed-charlie-kirk-moments-after-he-praised-the-church/

(6:18) ARTICLE the Guardian, Oklahoma official says all high schools will have Turning Point chapters after Kirk killing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/turning-point-oklahoma-high-schools

(7:16) ARTICLE Journal of Democracy, The Rise of Political Violence in the United States https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-rise-of-political-violence-in-the-united-states/

(7:39) ARTICLE Ken Klippenstein National Security Directive declares war on those who don't support Trump agenda, Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) significantly expands the definition of "terrorism" to apply to "antifa" and "anti-Christianity", among other things. https://truthout.org/articles/national-security-directive-declares-war-on-those-who-dont-support-trump-agenda/

(12:43) ARTICLE The Independent/Yahoo News 'I do not work for you': MTG speaks out on growing rift withTrump's White House over Epstein files https://ca.news.yahoo.com/not-mtg-speaks-growing-rift-142249981.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIwmk0M0ViqxkSVneKswCZTc_nAUUIOCWA3UOCRzJId81nCVobnmgjYRD-tWlrVREfPRfORYNOZT1luIYlBcyY7gaUFb0MaStuim92q3pW5LczYemyffGKiJJp_886Y0lDQUELvtBD0QqjnkBR5-Tfme2CjcFolxiogMoDQnx4lZ

(12:51) ARTICLE Daily Beast, MTG rips Trump's 'America Last' Moves https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-rips-trumps-america-last-moves/

(12:57) MTG acknowledges insurance premiums likely to double

(13:31) Polling shows public blaming Republicans for shutdown

(18:41) ARTICLE BBC News, Trump says 'war is over' in Gaza as he flies to Israel for release of hostages https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn409y125v3o.amp

(19:05) ARTICLE BBC News, Tony Blair would help oversee Gaza transition under Trump Plan https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5j989107lo

(20:55) CORRECTION Brian Schatz is a Democratic Senator representing Hawaii

(21:08) ARTICLE The Independent, Trump was so desperate for MTG to drop Georgia Senate run he ordered a poll showing she'd get crushed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-senate-poll-b2752499.html

(21:23) So Lindsey Graham is cut out for the senate, but MTG isn't?

(21:30) Ted Cruz gets to be one, but not MTG?

(21:38) Thune behind Mike Johnson. He gets to be in charge of the senate, but MTG can't even be a senator?

(22:09) ARTICLE the Guardian, Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy collapses https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/07/javier-milei-argentina-economy

(22:32) Leaked Bessent text reveals inner circle knows Trump got played by China in trade

(22:39) Bessent text contents

(22:54) CORRECTION: the text was sent by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins

(23:00) ARTICLE Washington Post, How China weaponized soybeans to squeeze U.S. farmers - and to spite Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/18/us-china-soybean-trade-war/

(23:11) ARTICLE Expana Markets, U.S. soybean window narrows as China buys big from Argentina https://www.expanamarkets.com/insights/article/us-soybean-window-narrows-as-china-buys-big-from-argentina/

(23:19) ARTICLE ABC News, What to know about the Trump administration's $20B bailout for Argentina https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administrations-20b-bailout-argentina/story?id=126513232

(23:28) ARTICLE Investor's Chronicle, Argentina's libertarian experiment is already unraveling https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/content/62926760-5645-4230-9cb0-a6146f46dfac

(23:52) Value of Argentinian peso has plummeted

(24:07) ARTICLE BBC, Argentina president accused of fraud after crypto crash https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9x9j89evxo

(24:28) President Milei headlines a rock concert while Argentina burns

(24:59) ARTICLE Common Dreams, American soybean farmers sold out by Trump while Argentina gets bailed out https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-soybean-farmers-argentina-bailout

(25:09) ARTICLE Midland Daily News, 'Farmageddon' can't be solved with a bailout alone https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/farm-tariff-trump-21097914.php

(25:15) ARTICLE BBC, U.S. farmers being squeezed - and it's testing their deep loyalty to Trump https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjedvwed1xgo

(25:20) ARTICLE Christian Science Monitor, Soybean bailout? Hard-hit farmers want China trade more than Trump aid https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/1015/soybean-farmers-trump-bailout-china

(25:38) China soybean sales have plummeted

(26:50) ARTICLE Democratic Socialists of America, the case for a state-owned airline https://www.dsausa.org/blog/big-ideas-the-case-for-a-state-owned-airline/

(26:57) ARTICLE CNBC, Spirit Airlines on track for a $475 million bankruptcy lifeline https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/spirit-airlines-bankruptcy.html

(27:08) ARTICLE NPR, Intel will give the U.S. government a 10% stake, Trump says https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509673/trump-says-us-government-will-take-stake-intel

(27:23) Trump announces the government will be nationalizing part of Intel

(27:37) ARTICLE NY Times, After U.S. takes stake in Intel, Trump pledges 'many more' deals https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/trump-intel-economy-strategy.html

(28:00) S&P Capital IQ: U.S. airline bailouts since 2020

(28:41) WIKI Alaska Permanent Fund is used to pay out recurring checks to Alaskan citizens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

(29:48) ARTICLE The New Yorker, Trump's Putinization of America - Trump is copying the "Putin method" of nationalization/privatization of public infrastructure https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-putinization-of-america

(31:46) Gavin Newsom is "too smart by half"

(35:38) LBJ quote about white men:

(36:20) MLK quote about white "moderates":

(37:52) ARTICLE NBC News, Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' is projected to add 3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-add-3-trillion-debt-cbo-says-rcna220004

(38:01) ARTICLE Brennan Center for Justice, Big budget act creates a 'deportation-industrial complex' - BBB gives ICE at least 170 billion in funds https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/big-budget-act-creates-deportation-industrial-complex

(38:44) ARTICLE CNN, Trump budget proposes $1 trillion for defense, slashes education, foreign aid, environment, health and public assistance https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/politics/trump-budget-proposal-defense-spending

(38:55) ARTICLE Daily Kos, Does ICE's new 'big beautiful budget' make it the third largest military in the world? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/6/2331519/-Does-ICE-s-new-big-beautiful-budget-make-it-the-third-largest-military-in-the-world

(41:14) ARTICLE Politico, FDR creates WPA, May 6, 1933 - created with an executive order https://www.politico.com/story/2010/05/fdr-creates-wpa-may-6-1933-036824

(42:22) ARTICLE Bureau of Labor Statistics defines "full employment" as "an economy in which the unemployment rate equals the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), no cyclical unemployment exists, and GDP is at its potential. The full-employment assumption links BLS projections to an economy running at full capacity and utilizing all of its resources." https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/full-employment-an-assumption-within-bls-projections.htm

(42:31) ARTICLE Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, The Fed and the Dual Mandate, in plain English https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/the-fed-and-the-dual-mandate

(42:54) "The purpose of a state is to distribute resources wherever influence concentrates" - a recurring mantra on BWP and ChapoTrapHouse https://www.chapotraphouse.com/

(43:45) DOCUMENTARY Mussolini: Son of the Century https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19386538/

(45:07) ARTICLE Teen Vogue, the Pinkertons have a long, dark history of targeting workers https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-were-the-pinkertons

(46:34) WIKI Gabriele D'Annunzio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_D%27Annunzio

(47:25) ICE pointing guns at innocent civilians

(47:39) ARTICLE NPR, Chile doubles down on prosecutions for Pinochet-era crimes https://www.reuters.com/article/world/chile-doubles-down-on-prosecutions-for-pinochet-era-crimes-idUSKCN0SQ2D1/

(49:22) LINK TrueAnon https://podcast.trueanon.com/

(49:28) TrueAnon rule: "if you don't pay your guys, they're not your guys anymore"

(50:47) ARTICLE WSJ, Historic crypto selloff erased over $19B, but two accounts made $160 million https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-historic-crypto-selloff-erased-over-19-billion-but-two-accounts-made-160-million-3144cccd?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfu0F5wI_Btel9gZxLUy4yYnjt1zAtiVSjQz1vHAW1PGIn-eHqC-OpsvARqYYI%3D&gaa_ts=68f642ab&gaa_sig=RSvccFrPxaX0NY97p6GMwxImo37Usxjq4c1OenDEDktxi5cUlBRKKTvI7YhgwYDiyS1rEjgQLkrKHj4-b-i7bg%3D%3D

(50:55) ARTICLE WSJ, Stock market news, Oct. 10, 2025: Nasdaq falls 3.6% https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-10-10-2025?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqc8SGURcD6Lni8IJEabfpGvIVjqlUNlgwEEVfYEZQNzFAH6q1nPp5q7FcrDiQI%3D&gaa_ts=68f643c4&gaa_sig=TJ1PJMQu1ULrVp9R9KcLWrT-PeSmb-gzYUvzvef8JbZYzMwUSBWr5BL8-zuRtNaNJetyFd-oNxLI5O1sBDc-rQ%3D%3D

(51:16) ARTICLE Bloomberg, Top 10% account for nearly half of all consumer spending https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/top-10-of-earners-drive-a-growing-share-of-us-consumer-spending

(51:28) WIKI Thorstein Veblen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen

(51:33) WIKI Veblen goods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

(52:49) Current Market Valuation, The Buffet Indicator is currently at 217%! Warren Buffet's rule says market is fairly valued at 1:1 price to earnings, or a 100% https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php

(53:02) ARTICLE Fortune, The 'Warren Buffet indicator' has surged above 200%, meaning the market's price is far ahead of the economy's size https://fortune.com/2025/09/30/warren-buffett-indicator-surge-markets-economy-what-it-means/

(53:07) Chart of 'Buffet indicator' since 1950

(53:18) ARTICLE Associated Press, Warren Buffet shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire at the end of the year https://apnews.com/article/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-shareholders-annual-meeting-a421061233f99859673fb131ce020d4d

(53:26) ARTICLE Observer, Over 80% of companies embracing A.I., see no real gains yet, McKinsey finds https://observer.com/2025/06/mckinsey-study-business-ai-productivity/

(56:07) ARTICLE Reuters, With Moody's downgrade, U.S. loses treasured AAA credit rating https://www.reuters.com/business/view-with-moodys-downgrade-us-loses-treasured-aaa-credit-rating-2025-05-16/

(56:21) ARTICLE Huffpost/Yahoo, Trump accidentally insults himself: 'who would ever sign a thing like this?' https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-accidentally-insults-himself-142955248.html

(57:14) Trump says he's surprised by how China is behaving

(57:35) Trump announces 100% tariff on China

(58:55) ARTICLE The Register, Skilled workers, not cost, lured Apple to China says Tim Cook - "you can take every tool and die maker in the United States and probably put them in a room that we're currently sitting in. In China, you would have to have multiple football fields." https://www.theregister.com/2015/12/21/apple_60_minutes_interview/

(1:00:05) ARTICLE SF Standard, Citing fear of Democratic 'vengeance', Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S. - the far right blogger doesn't think Trump admin has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/07/citing-fear-democratic-vengeance-curtis-yarvin-says-may-flee-u-s/

(1:00:40) ARTICLE the Nerd Reich, panicked Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance Guru, plans to flee U.S. https://www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-curtis-yarvin-jd-vance-guru-plans-to-flee-usa/

(1:01:57) ARTICLE CNN, ICE has deported nearly 200,000 people since Trump returned to office, on track for highest level in a decade https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/ice-deportations-immigrants-trump

(1:02:03) ARTICLE WSJ, How China secretly pays Iran for oil and avoids U.S. sanctions https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-china-secretly-pays-iran-for-oil-and-avoids-u-s-sanctions-b6f1b71e?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqePgShzSGOyidLyxHj4uBcZFio5oAEHZa1Q21RqgK31TDJ3t-7SDrJQtimp9lU%3D&gaa_ts=68f65602&gaa_sig=9TSDIrWp0vabSMLbHtN64t_wWLOerc_8OVq3GodSs5PbS4M-BRPp0Fyg5B6tUZ163sDsw0YpYa81h95YpVzuwA%3D%3D

(1:05:50) ARTICLE Politico, 'I'm going to punch you in your f*cking face': Bessent threatens an administration rival (Bill Pulte) https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/08/scott-bessent-bill-pulte-blowup-00549956

(1:06:06) ARTICLE Times of India, 'Like a rugby player': Elon Musk hit Bessent's ribcage after being called a 'fraud', Trump called it 'too much' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/like-a-rugby-player-elon-musk-hit-scott-bessents-ribcage-after-being-called-a-fraud-trump-called-it-too-much/articleshow/121700494.cms

(1:06:43) ARTICLE New Republic, Photographer captures Pam Bondi's notes - and they're a doozy https://newrepublic.com/post/201475/photographer-pam-bondi-senate-hearing-notes

(1:07:01) ARTICLE Reuters, Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-aide-homan-accepted-50000-bribery-sting-operation-sources-say-2025-09-21/

(1:08:30) ARTICLE Daily Beast/Yahoo, Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Epstein himself https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-biographer-michael-wolff-reveals-020230864.html

(1:09:34) Not uncommon to see barefoot presidents in the 21st century

(1:09:59) We've definitely seen Bill Clinton's piggies

(1:10:49) Trump hands and swollen ankles

(1:11:04) ARTICLE Miami New Times, Miami DJ says he watched Donald Trump slap his son in college - Trump reportedly slapped his son for being under-dressed for the occasion of a baseball game https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dj-says-he-watched-donald-trump-brutally-slap-his-son-in-college-8900500/

(1:12:27) #release the feet, along with the Epstein files

(1:12:58) Trump is hiding something about his feet!

(1:14:07) ARTICLE Black Alliance for Peace, Mamdani Parrots CIA lies to justify sanctions and war against Cuba and Venezuela https://blackallianceforpeace.com/movement-news/zohran-mamdani

(1:14:43) ARTICLE Public Citizen, Democracy champions join Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse against Citizens United-fueled corruption https://www.citizen.org/news/democracy-champions-join-sen-sheldon-whitehouse-against-citizens-united-fueled-corruption/

(1:16:57) see article above at 1:06:43

(1:19:32) ARTICLE CATO Institute, The (Supreme) Court went too far on presidential immunity https://www.cato.org/blog/court-went-too-far-presidential-immunity?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23055576880&gbraid=0AAAAADusmudEyQp6hd3RGNenUZPYmXFgq&gclid=CjwKCAjwu9fHBhAWEiwAzGRC__Hc9Yghd7DDXeaHriRBHZT5ICYZyszsxQv4bHJYsoI2_WNbjFZutBoCrkUQAvD_BwE

(1:19:57) ARTICLE Constitution Center, The Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson's constitutional gamble - Jefferson opted not to pass a constitutional amendment even though he knew his actions actually required one. "The General Government has no powers but such as the Constitution gives it, he wrote to John Dickenson in 1803. "It has not given it power of holding foreign territory, and still less of incorporating it into the Union. An amendment of the Constitution seems necessary for this." https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-louisiana-purchase-jeffersons-constitutional-gamble

(1:23:56) ARTICLE Bloomberg, Bondi has been failing Epstein victims for years https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-27/bondi-has-been-failing-epstein-s-victims-for-years

(1:24:17) ARTICLE Palm Beach Post, Could Bondi have prosecuted Epstein as Florida's top legal advisor? - yes, legal experts say. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/07/18/could-pam-bondi-have-prosecuted-jeffrey-epstein-as-florida-ag/85239431007/

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(1:26:16) Topical discussion on the subject of liberalism will be coming soon!

This week we show our true conservative colors and really get based with it. We light up a couple stoagies. We mourn the GOAT we lost. We get based with it. We then have many planned brief technical interludes and end the show on a real strong, classically conservative note. Get conservative with us at @brokenwindpod.bsky.social and @butlersghost.bsky.social

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SOURCES AND CORRECTIONS BELOW:

(4:20) TWEET Trump declares antifa a major terrorist organization by executive order. Now that's how you reign with a small government!

(6:01) ARTICLE AOL News: Jordan Peterson Breaks Down in Tears Look, other serious academics cry when they get passionate too! https://www.aol.com/jordan-peterson-breaks-down-tears-082804921.html

(6:22) CORRECTION Road to Serfdom was not by Milton Friedman, but actually by Friederich Hayek, who was one of Friedman's teachers.

(6:25) We love Thomas Sowell on this show! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell

(7:58) ARTICLE Reuter's: Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/

(10:32) Badass dogs smoking cigars, what else did you expect to see here?

(11:09) ARTICLE Trump announces big news about autism ahead of HHS press conference on link between Tylanol and autism. We can't currently advise you to act on this medical advice for… reasons https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-trump-kennedy-autism-initiatives-leucovorin-tylenol-research-2025.html

(11:09) ARTICLE Yahoo News: the Internet Is Ripping into Trump's "Autism Announcement"https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-shared-answer-autism-internet-155353271.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA1vhXsBBa2BsKNDtTJyedhUY3k_8PrwVSrPhE9HaqSku7IGv4MVx8kQe4RDJdMorXZdvg03mm9i-EnCv8fqj6WHNmBAJiBBYNLzq5s4xXg-Aw_bFt5J8OzThFZLUcnt-OkMn981vYQdlaer6v646qtwH0cAJUUrY5DNJ5sROJ95

(12:52) ARTICLE two mass shootings on Minneapolis homeless encampments one day after Kilmeade's "Just Kill Them" remarks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/minneapolis-police-homeless-encampment-shootings

13 people injured https://abcnews.go.com/US/people-hurt-mass-shootings-minneapolis-homeless-encampments/story?id=125620641

(13:00) Fox hosts discuss euthanizing homeless people, ending with Brian Kilmeade saying "just kill them". Libbed up MSNBC segment with Kilmeade's quote and apology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phYOrM3SNV8

(13:31) PIC Jimmy Kimmel ratings before and after FCC cancelation

(13:35) ARTICLE AP News Jimmy Kimmel is unfortunately back on air now. Who could have seen this coming? https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-suspension-charlie-kirk-d6421f17ebef4735753495b4f4997c8f but Sinclair and Nextar still wouldn't air it, then they ultimately caved to public pressure https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sinclair-bringing-back-jimmy-kimmel-live-tonight-preemption-end/

(15:07) ARTICLE ABC News: What Jimmy Kimmel Said As He Returned to Air https://abcnews.go.com/culture/story/jimmy-kimmel-returned-air-after-show-preempted/?id=125851905

(15:36) ARTICLE CBS News: RFK announcement Tylenol causes autism is being disputed by medical experts https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-autism-tylenol-medical-experts/

(17:48) COMMUNITY NOTES Joe Rogan shared vaccine misinformation again. This is why you can only trust the Conservative Wind Podcast for all your conservative news

Our World in Data chart: reported polio cases and deaths 1910-2022

(22:50) ARTICLE the Guardian: Right-wing Podcasts Run Rampant With Charlie Kirk Conspiracies https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/charlie-kirk-conspiracies-rightwing-podcasters

(31:12) ARTICLE Yahoo News: That Backfired Bigly for Project 2025 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/backfired-bigly-kimmel-return-defeat-131541515.html

(32:02) ARTICLE Yahoo News: Tucker Carlson Accused of Wild Antisemitic Innuendo for saying "people who killed Charlie are in a back room eating hummus and scheming" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tucker-carlson-accused-wild-antisemitic-142110218.html

(32:16) TWEET Kirk made fun of Zohran Mamdani for his eating etiquette

(33:02) LINK Martin Luther King Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf

(33:19) Kirk said MLK was "awful. He's not a good person" and then he did not dispute the statement saying it was true that he described King as "a bad guy". He also said, "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." https://www.factcheck.org/2025/09/viral-claims-about-charlie-kirks-words/

(33:26) Martin Luther King Jr. quote from Letter From Birmingham Jail:

(33:59) Quote from the realest one of them all:

(35:38) LINK to our Florida series on Patreon. Check it out before we cancel it for being too woke! https://www.patreon.com/collection/1701380?utm_campaign=collectionshare_creator

(35:55) ARTICLE NYT: Trump says Smithsonian museums too focused on "how bad slavery was" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-smithsonian-slavery.html

We're very excited to release the first episode of our long-form podcast series on the history of Florida, where we will providing an in-depth analysis of the book Finding Florida by T. D. Allman. In the first of hopefully several long-form history series, The Broken Wind Podcast will be teaching the methodology of historical materialism, an invaluable tool for making history "come to life", and they will be correcting many of the founding myths about Florida and the United States which are often taken for granted as truth, such as the story of Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth.

By telling the true story of Florida, much can be understood about the true story of the US, and this is the reason why we are planning to release these long-form series. Our hosts believe that when you understand how a smaller story fits within the context of a larger story, such as how the story of Florida fits within the context of the story of America, history suddenly becomes much more than just a series of disconnected and seemingly unrelated dates. Our goal with this series is to tell the history of Florida in a way that is both refreshing and exciting, and we think you will be surprised to find that under the 2nd Trump administration, this story is only becoming ever more relevant with the passage of time.

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Corrections and sources listed below:

(37:35) Butler said "15th century", but he meant "16th century".

(49:33) Juan de la Cosa map (c. 1500) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_of_Juan_de_la_Cosa

(49:40) Waldseemüler map, redrawn (c. 1507) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map

(1:03:50) Ponce de Leon in Florida by Thomas Moran (1878) https://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-oct-the-cummers-ponce-de-leon-in-florida-by-thomas-moran

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In this very special topical episode we get the whole gang together to do kind of a mega ep about the field of Anthropology. We ask questions like: what the heck is anthropology? Why anthropology? Who friggin' cares?

Then we get the skull calipers out to discuss the various L's and W's of the field. Last but not least we go down through all of our favorite anthropological digressions and tangents, trying to get the bottom of this whole "human race" question.

Subscribe to the patreon for more forbidden courses and thank you for listening to this free preview ep!

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Corrections and sources listed below:

(05:22) Billie Elliot Musical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot

(6:00) Troy Savon - the person Crocus actually meant to say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troye_Sivan

(06:28) Cat's Eye - Gap Ad

(8:50) ARTICLE Netanyahu references to violent Biblical passages raise alarm https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211133201/netanyahus-references-to-violent-biblical-passages-raise-alarm-among-critics

(14:19) Weaponizing Anthropology by David H Price https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849351096

(15:15) Jemaine Clement in Avatar

(19:20) Anthropologist Edward Said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

(26:25) Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

(29:10) Montesquieu "The Spirit of the Law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Law

(35:08) ARTICLE Trump orders changes to Smithsonian museum exhibits https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-slavery-museum-smithsonian

(35:30) Trump says museums "too negative" about history of slavery

(38:24) Anthropologist Edward Burnett Tyler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burnett_Tylor

(44:40) Biblical Adam's first wife, Lilith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

(46:02) Asherah - Canaanite Goddess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah

(47:04) Hindu Pantheon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_deities

(47:19) Hanuman - Indian God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman

(50:57) Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years

(51:00) And Forgive Them Their Debts by Michael Hudson https://michael-hudson.com/2018/08/and-forgive-them-their-debts/

(56:05) CORRECTION: Axiom says "David Wilson" but he meant "David Wengrow"

(56:25) Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Enlightenment

(1:03:40) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)

(1:04:30) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle

(1:07:07) Food of the Gods Terrence McKenna https://archive.org/details/TerenceMckenna-FoodOfTheGods.pdf

(1:08:51) ARTICLE Fort Bragg soldiers on drugs and selling them https://www.newamerica.org/the-thread/fort-bragg-cartel-drug-trafficking-seth-harp/

(1:09:32) Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Night

(1:13:00) ARTICLE Recent discovery of psilocybin mushrooms in ancient Africa https://phys.org/news/2024-07-species-psilocybe-mushrooms-southern-africa.html

(1:13:10) Maria Sabina wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Sabina

(1:14:22) Mycelium Wassoni graphic novel by Brian Biomerth https://anthology.net/book/brian-blomerths-mycelium-wassonii/

(1:15:55) ARTICLE New polling shows young people are avoiding vices https://nypost.com/2024/12/17/health/over-two-thirds-of-us-teens-dont-drink-smoke-or-use-marijuana-but-this-one-vices-making-grounds-survey/

(1:18:09) ARTICLE Trump talks about his mortality and prospect of going to hell https://ca.news.yahoo.com/guilty-conscience-trumps-raw-confession-090435079.html

(1:18:12) ARTICLE Trump says he wants to get in to heaven https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-heaven.html

(1:18:15) ARTICLE Trump has serious undisclosed health issues https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/trump-hand-bruise-chronic-venous-insufficiency/

(1:21:44) Compassionate Cannibalism by Beth A. Conklin https://archive.org/details/consuminggriefco0000conk

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The dynamic duo reunites once again to chew and digest the disgusting slop of news that we are all being being fed at a nauseating pace.

We make sure to take on the most important issues head on; Sydney Sweeney's controversial ad and the tyranny of hot white women. Then from there we pivot around many times on the subjects of, history, labor, the damn democrats, and just generally what's going on in the damn news.

Per usual we're behind on everything but we appreciate your praise and reserve the right to disregard all criticism! We round the episode out by extending an extremely sincere and diplomatic invitation to all of the democratic bench for the 2024 election

Slotkin, Buttgieg, we love what you're up to and we promise we can help you win over "the kids"! Thank you for listening and follow Butler @butlerghost on Bluesky!

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Well, we HAD a huge interview lined up with a major world leader but It SEEMS like everyone would be mad at us for doing that!

So instead Vane and butler hop on the mic last minute and we come out with our rhetorical guns blazing, firing off shots at all these clown ass podcasters out here humiliating themselves. This includes: the co-FBI director power duo of marks, (including a digression into "spygate") the Nelk boys, Tim Dillon, the PBD crew and Candance Owens.

We then spend 40+ minutes Dovetailing off of each other like a couple of majestic doves on the general subject of the ever spiraling Jeffrey Epstein Saga of Trump 2.0. Stay tuned to the end if you haven't heard about the literary career of Donald Barr!

Free Palestine, end the genocide. Epstein didn't kill himself, and he ain't going away!

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Corrections:

(28:21) CORRECTION: the birthday letters were originally compiled by Ghislaine, not released by her.

(51:54) CORRECTION: Orwell probably didn't work for intelligence but he was an informant https://spyscape.com/article/surveillance-state-how-british-soviet-spies-targeted-novelist-george-orwell article: Ian Flemming did work for British intelligence. https://spyscape.com/article/ian-fleming-the-real-life-007-who-worked-for-her-majestys-secret-service article: the long strange story of novelists who become spies. https://crimereads.com/the-long-strange-history-of-novelists-who-became-spies/

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Butler and Crocus get together for a Vane-less episode where they discuss the most recent developing news: everything sucks.

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Your hosts Vane and Butler hop on the mic together once again to get through the staggering amount of new developments since last speaking.

First going through some of the horrible and hilarious. From the awful Minnesota shooting to the hilariously poorly attended birthday parade. We then dig into the "the 12 day war" and the near nuclear war we just all lived through. And finally we exchange our galaxy gas for Hopium as we discuss the Zohran Mamdani victory in NY. We wish him all the best!

And I guess the Supreme Court is back on their BS, but we chose to leave most of the legal talk up to the lawyers. In the end, we both can agree that when it comes to right-wing populism, "No More War" always means "Yes More War"!

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