There's a lot of conversation about the end of the world, the end of civilization, and the end times at the moment, and this conversation, even amongst non-Christians is shaped by Christian eschatology that has seeped into out culture. C.R. Wiley joins us to break down three historical views of a future apocalypse that have a big impact on how people think about current affairs, foreign policy, and future events.

The UK has cracked down on anti-immigration protests and "armchair thugs," which is newspeak for people who post memes on the internet. The Police Chief of the London Met has even threatened to extradite American memers who have violated UK hate speech laws so that they can face the crown's judgement. 

Meanwhile, in the free-speech-loving USA, the legacy media has created a Kamala Harris presidential campaign out of whole cloth, and have shut Donald Trump out of almost any coverage. When millions of people listened to him having an unscripted conversation with Elon Musk on X last night, journalists and news outlets panicked that he was making an end-run around the "appropriate channels" to speak directly to citizens. 

According to Open Source Defense yesterday, "Tyranny is here, it's just not evenly distributed."

If you look at recent American History, you can see some amazing technical successes, some incredible economic achievements, but also an unmistakable trend of cultural decline in some institutions. Have our academic bulwarks, entertainment studios, and political entities gotten this bad by accident? Or on purpose? Let's have a look at a single institution that is being infiltrated in real-time: the American church.

The book that we are discussing is "Shepherds for Sale" by Megan Basham, which documents how liberal think-tanks and NGOs have been funneling money into conservative seminaries and denominations, and what they are getting for their money.

Shepherds for Sale on Amazon

We talk about the crusades and the past and present trends of historical revisionism with our guests, the Kings Hall Podcast.

https://www.kingshall.org/

Big government systems and systemic incompetence has been in the news a lot this week, but how does that work in the DoD? We reach out to an anonymous source with years of experience in Big Navy and NATO to peek behind the curtain.

This episode of T.Rex Talk was recorded on July 13th of 2024, just an hour before an attempted assassination of Donald Trump. And yet, it's almost exactly the the content that we would have released in response to the assassination attempt.

If you are interested in targeted radio communication, you already know who TheTechPrepper is. In this episode he explains how he got into long-range decentralized communications, how his tool development process has changed, and why he is interested in other projects such as multi-spectral camouflage and wide band RF awareness.

"Slaying Leviathan" was written by Dr. Glenn Sunshine in 2020, and it is a fantastic introduction to western political thought, and the different outcomes of different theories and experiments. 

After talking to Hoffman Tactical about their firearm projects, and doing some design work on a future fighting pistol ourselves, we wanted to dive a little bit deeper into firearm development. We review David S. Findlay's Firearm Anatomy series, talk about the different ways that physical constraints and political constraints affect how guns get designed and built, and do some Q&A with the comments on the last T-Rex Labs video.

Tim Hoffman of Hoffman Tactical joins us to discuss how he got involved in 3D printed guns, the death of the maker space and the need for more tinkerers, builders and open source projects.