Just Human

In this episode, I address the self-defeating and foolish notion that “not voting” is a viable strategy for anything other than ushering in left-wing tyranny. I also take on the habit of calling things “fake and ghey,” and the kind of adult make-believe that can tip into psychosis.

To do this, I take two approaches.

First, I share part of my personal story about why I left Badlands Media. I have some experience and insight into the “everything is fake,” “voting doesn’t matter,” and related nonsense, because I was there when these rotten ideas first began to take hold in that community. Those notions were a huge part of why I left—perhaps the primary reason. I think those of you who have been with me for years will appreciate hearing this story. I’ve wanted to tell it for a long time but felt the moment hadn’t quite arrived. I think it has now.

Second, I directly address Shipwreck’s two-minute video that pushes the not-voting strategy and the other delusional ideas.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

03:32 "A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones…”

06:30 Preface to Shipwreck’s video

08:28 Shipwreck’s post and video, some initial comments from me

13:45 Leaving Badlands and the central role this “fake and ghey” nonsense played in that decision.

34:41 I respect Badlands welcoming ideas and allowing differing views, but I think some foolish ideas, such as the notion the “fake and ghey” invites, are unworthy of being treated as valid.

35:30 Addressing directly the claims and ideas presented in Shipwreck’s video.

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At 7:06 a.m. on December 4, 2025, Brian J. Cole Jr. was arrested while walking to a 7-Eleven near his home. The FBI took Cole to a staging area and then to the Washington Field Office, where they interviewed him.

Agents first ask Cole about his personal history, his family, his work, and the rest of his background. When they get to the pipe bombs, Cole initially denies any connection. He offers a cover story. He denies, denies, and denies. He gets on what I call the anxiety hamster wheel. Then, after the agents show him some of the evidence and explain how overwhelming the totality of it is, Cole begins to confess to all of it.

Thanks to a filing the defense made this week, a transcript of that interview is now public. In this video, we read it. All of it.

Despite the confession and the significant evidence against Cole, many people still claim he is a patsy: that the confession was coerced, that it could not have been him, that his autism and other conditions made him incapable of doing it, and that the person in the January 5, 2021 video does not match Cole.

But the evidence and the confession match Cole and no one else.

To believe Brian Cole is not the January 5 pipe bomber, you have to ignore the physical evidence against him, which is damning even without the confession. You then have to believe, on faith and imagination, that under interrogation—after a series of denials—he instantly invented a detailed story about the purchases, the assembly, the planting, and his motives. That story would also have to match the same evidence. And he would have to tell it while performing intense anxiety and a guilty mind.

The same people who claim he was framed also call him a “child” with severe autism. He is in his 30s. They argue he was not capable of doing what he is accused of and what he confessed to, yet he was capable of putting on that performance.

It takes far more denial and invention to reject the case than to take the evidence, and Cole’s own words, at face value.

The evidence in this case, together with Brian Cole’s confession, removes all doubt about who the January 5 pipe bomber is.

It was him.

The transcript is here.

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9/11 twenty-five years later. A generation has grown up with no memory of that morning. In this episode I sit with the footage, the posts, the commemorations, and my own memories of September 11, 2001.I walk through videos and images from the day—the impacts, the collapses of the Twin Towers and WTC 7, President Bush being told the news, the extraordinary courage of first responders, and I talk about what the images from that day still do to people who lived through it. I also look at how conspiracy theories around 9/11 have grown larger, more accessible, and more mainstream over the last quarter century, and the real damage they have done to victims’ families, to our understanding of what happened, and to the pursuit of truth.This is not a recap of the attacks. It is a reflection on memory, on lessons we have not learned, and on the responsibility to teach the next generation what actually occurred that day—and why it still matters.If you find value in the episode, like it, share it, leave a comment with your own memories or thoughts, and consider supporting the work (links below and in profile). Understanding is greater than reacting.

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In this episode, we go over the newly released Oxferd Comma investigation memos, which show that just days after Comey was fired, Acting FBI director Andy McCabe opened a full investigation into Trump. The very next day, it was taken away from him and given to Special Counsel Mueller. We’ve long known this took place, but we never knew the name of the investigation, and the versions of these memos that were released years ago had more redactions than the new ones do.

Next we catch up on the most important June and July filings in the criminal case against the SPLC. Since the superseding indictment was unsealed on June 2, the defense has filed a motion for show cause (seeking contempt/sanction against the DOJ for a draft version of the indictment being sent to the media) and made filings in support of that effort and a motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution.

Finally, we cover the latest in the DOJ’s criminal probe of the 2020 election in Fulton County, where a district judge has granted the county’s motion to quash. The DOJ can try again, but to succeed in getting this info, they’re going to need to narrow the scope of the subpoena and provide a stronger basis for it.

00:00 Intro

06:42 Oxferd Comma

45:00 Catching up on June and July filings in United States v. SPLC

01:28:00 District judge quashes DOJ subpoena for 2020 Fulton County election worker and volunteer info

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In this episode, I offer my observations and thoughts on the Iran and Ukraine conflicts, give updates on the J5 pipe bomber case, and highlight the many mentions of Fauci in the David Morens indictment.

00:00 Intro

02:30 Ramblings about Summer, kids, music, depression, etc.

07:00 The episode I canned

08:40 Riffing on the Trump Admin, Iran, Ukraine, Midterms, oil prices, politics

27:00 Approaching World War III

43:45 Presidents are presented with OPTIONS for resolving problems

49:00 We missed the best window to strike Iran

60:00 J5 Pipe Bomber update

01:30:50 Fauci mentioned 35x in the Morens indictment

01:48:15 Thread on the Moren case and Fauci as a conduit

02:09:25 Going through all 35 mentions of Fauci

02:45:43 Outro

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In this episode, I talk about the news that California Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife are under federal investigation via multiple probes into their finances, non-profits, and more; ask, “Is Jack Smith’s Volume II Report cake?”; Break down the DAMN Antifa indictment; a con artist cons the CIA; CodePink catches the eye of Treasury’s OFAC; and Fulton County continues to fight off DOJ’s 2020 election probe.

00:00 Start

02:15 Newsom confirm they are under FBI investigation

18:47 Fmr US Attorney indicted for theft of Smith’s Report

32:57 Minnesota Antifa members indicted; terrorism charges could follow

01:05:55 CIA Agent steals $40 million in Gold bars plus millions more in cash

01:39:10 CodePink being investigated by Treasury’s OFAC

01:51:42 Fulton County trying to fight off grand jury subpoena for 2020 election staffing records

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In this episode, I talk about the Broken Windows Theory as applied to the Info War, break down the hysteria around data centers, briefly discuss Fmr. Amb. John Bolton getting a plea deal (the details of which we currently do not know), and then dive into the new superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:00 Start

11:32 Broken Windows

31:11 Data Center Hysteria

01:11:37 Bolton to Plead Guilty

01:25:00 New Indictment Against SPLC

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In this episode, I take you through US District Judge J.P. Boulee’s order, which denied Fulton County’s petition for the return of 656 boxes of original 2020 election records (which include ballots, envelopes, tabulator receipts, electronic records, etc.), thereby opening those boxes up for inspection by FBI investigators as part of their ongoing criminal probe into the 2020 election.

That’s the only topic for the episode. Just a thorough read of the order in order to gain 1) an education on the background of the case, the 2020 election probe, the search warrant, the affidavit, the probable cause, and whatever else we find in it; and 2) a tonic against the bad information, bad narratives, and the conspiracy slop that surrounds the subject.

A fun surprise in the order is that the Mar-a-Lago raid comes up over and over and over again. Which, of course, is very gratifying, as the context in which it comes up reinforces the “Templates” idea and “FBI raids being good news” prediction I put forth years ago.

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In this episode, Virginia Dems’ plans for a 10-1 map in the Commonwealth have been dashed by the state’s Supreme Court; the FBI executes criminal search warrants at properties owned by VA State Senator Louise Lucas; Fulton County loses its bid to stop the DOJ from reviewing 2020 election records, and at the same time a new special counsel hits them with subpoenas for employee and volunteer info; the WHCA Dinner shooter gets a new judge and files to disqualify DC Attorney Pirro; and the DOJ responds to SPLC’s motions for grand jury transcripts.

00:00 Start

05:15 VA Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ dream map

30:05 FBI raids offices and businesses of Senator Louise Lucas

01:32:00 Fulton County fails to stop DOJ from reviewing 2020 election records

01:42:40 DOJ has ANOTHER special counsel working on 2020 election probe and he has sent subpoenas to Fulton County for employee and volunteer records related to 2020 election

01:51:30 WHCA Dinner Shooter Cole Allen indicted, adds new charge

01:59:15 Don’t fall for the Magistrate Judge Faruqui rage bait

02:07:00 Allen gets a new judge

02:10:00 Allen files motion to disqualify DC prosecutor.

02:22:00 DOJ responds to the SPLC’s motions for grand jury disclosures and false statements accusations.

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In this episode, I go over updates in the criminal case against the SPLC, including their motions for disclosure of grand jury transcripts and restrictions on statements by the DOJ; provide insight into Cole Tomas Allen’s status and hearing before Magistrate Judge Faruqui (and review a couple J6 cases to help neutralize the REEEEEEEEacting so many people are engaging in); and give an update on the case of defense contractor Aurelio Perez-Lugones, who stole classified intelligence related to Venezuela and gave it to WaPo’s Hannah Natanson.

Grab coffee and a snack for this one.

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