A minor surge in Gay Obama Panic on the right leads us to investigate reformed human trafficker Larry Sinclair’s claim that he performed fellatio on then-Senator Barack Obama in Gurnee, Illinois.

We talk about the Ebola outbreak at Burning Man, and the trickster, the tricks, and the tricked.

We welcome Dr. Orisamni Burton to the show to talk through the history of American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.

Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978 

New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners 

We’re joined by Professor Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism, to talk about libertarian exit, high adventure in the West Pacific, soldier of fortune Mitch WerBell III, and anarcho-capitalist Caribbean coups. 

In this spiritual followup to our previous episode on Charter Cities, we get a glimpse at Galt’s Gulch Chile. We investigate how a farming community built on Ayn Rand’s principles fell into a freaky web of lawsuits, arrests, freaks, pencil mustaches, and a shooting at a Chilean protest by an American YouTube economist in a yellow vest.

Show Brace is in on 8/29 in NYC 

We put on the balaclavas, chamber a round, and head to the cockpit to talk about the beautiful period in world history where hijacking airplanes was hot. A spiritual successor to our previous airplane episode.