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      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo opens cold with the full Benjamin Fulford clip — the one where he says a former Japanese finance minister told him the country's financial system was handed over because Japan had been threatened with "an earthquake machine" — then spends the next three hours making the case that whether or not that particular story holds up, the ionospheric heater everyone laughed off in the '90s can do most of what the theory actually asks of it. MickeyBravo opens current events with China's new "wetware" data center — literal human neurons grafted to silicon, sixteen million of them, cheaper to run than a GPU cluster and reportedly already raising questions about whether the thing is aware — then pivots into an AI free-speech ruling that cuts a very different way than clean drinking water ever has, Nestlé's stance on whether water is a human right, and a war update where a Houthi advance out of Yemen may have turned on a single deepfaked stand-down order. Then it's twelve clips deep into Holes in Heaven?, HAARP's own 1998 rebuttal documentary — the Secretary of Defense who said the quiet part about earthquake weapons out loud in 1997, the international treaty that only exists because someone already had the technology to ban, and the five graphs, pulled straight off HAARP's own public data feed, showing a dead-steady 2.5 Hz signal for 55 hours before the Fukushima earthquake and nothing after. Along the way: a Navy radar platform nobody can place on March 11th, a Stuxnet infection found in Japan five months before the disaster, Germany reversing a decade of nuclear policy in 72 hours, and the same shape showing up again in Turkey in 2023 — a public earthquake prediction three days out, embassies closing days before, and a construction amnesty that handed the rebuild to the same five companies whose corner-cutting caused it. Two real power outages hit mid-recording, which the hosts blame, completely straight-faced, on HAARP.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo opens cold with the full Benjamin Fulford clip — the one where he says a former Japanese finance minister told him the country's financial system was handed over because Japan had been threatened with "an earthquake machine" — then spends the next three hours making the case that whether or not that particular story holds up, the ionospheric heater everyone laughed off in the '90s can do most of what the theory actually asks of it. MickeyBravo opens current events with China's new "wetware" data center — literal human neurons grafted to silicon, sixteen million of them, cheaper to run than a GPU cluster and reportedly already raising questions about whether the thing is aware — then pivots into an AI free-speech ruling that cuts a very different way than clean drinking water ever has, Nestlé's stance on whether water is a human right, and a war update where a Houthi advance out of Yemen may have turned on a single deepfaked stand-down order. Then it's twelve clips deep into Holes in Heaven?, HAARP's own 1998 rebuttal documentary — the Secretary of Defense who said the quiet part about earthquake weapons out loud in 1997, the international treaty that only exists because someone already had the technology to ban, and the five graphs, pulled straight off HAARP's own public data feed, showing a dead-steady 2.5 Hz signal for 55 hours before the Fukushima earthquake and nothing after. Along the way: a Navy radar platform nobody can place on March 11th, a Stuxnet infection found in Japan five months before the disaster, Germany reversing a decade of nuclear policy in 72 hours, and the same shape showing up again in Turkey in 2023 — a public earthquake prediction three days out, embassies closing days before, and a construction amnesty that handed the rebuild to the same five companies whose corner-cutting caused it. Two real power outages hit mid-recording, which the hosts blame, completely straight-faced, on HAARP.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
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      <title>Tyranny Through Technology</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo open on a New Mexico man named Jevon Martinez who spent a Wednesday driving around Albuquerque cutting down Flock license-plate cameras he calls "tyranny trees," livestreaming it, then dropping the $16,000 pile in the Bernalillo County Sheriff's parking lot under a vanity plate reading DIPLOMAT — arrested on the spot, even though the sheriff had already cancelled the contracts weeks earlier. From there the surveillance keeps compounding: DeFlock's crowd-map of 107,000 cameras, a live on-air check that debunks the "Flock leaves Jewish neighborhoods uncovered" claim, Walmart's new privacy notice admitting it may collect your face, iris, voice, and palm print, a real FTC study proving personalized "surveillance pricing" already exists at 250 retailers, and the 2003 Total Information Awareness program Congress once killed for proposing less. Then a California startup's autonomous drones seed 19 million gallons of rain over a town near Homer, Alaska without asking anyone — technically in line with the peer-reviewed science, technically not lying, entirely without consent. A protest weekend spanning Dover, Helsinki, and a Francoist salute in Madrid gets read as one coordinated destabilization program. And after the break, the whole back half is a two-hour "World War Three" field report: five theaters of war, three US carriers off Iran, an assassinated supreme leader, a Turkish warship sold to landlocked Romania, a Chinese intrusion set called Volt Typhoon that's been living in the US power grid for five years, and a 90-day forecast that ends with a grid-down timeline measured in millions of dead. The thesis underneath all of it: there is no real conflict, only a means to an end, and the end is programmable digital money inside a digitally defined cage. Wiirdo accidentally names the episode somewhere in the middle — "tyranny through technology" — then spends the last three minutes fumbling the donation pitch because it's 109 degrees and they've been recording since the harvest festival let out.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo open on a New Mexico man named Jevon Martinez who spent a Wednesday driving around Albuquerque cutting down Flock license-plate cameras he calls "tyranny trees," livestreaming it, then dropping the $16,000 pile in the Bernalillo County Sheriff's parking lot under a vanity plate reading DIPLOMAT — arrested on the spot, even though the sheriff had already cancelled the contracts weeks earlier. From there the surveillance keeps compounding: DeFlock's crowd-map of 107,000 cameras, a live on-air check that debunks the "Flock leaves Jewish neighborhoods uncovered" claim, Walmart's new privacy notice admitting it may collect your face, iris, voice, and palm print, a real FTC study proving personalized "surveillance pricing" already exists at 250 retailers, and the 2003 Total Information Awareness program Congress once killed for proposing less. Then a California startup's autonomous drones seed 19 million gallons of rain over a town near Homer, Alaska without asking anyone — technically in line with the peer-reviewed science, technically not lying, entirely without consent. A protest weekend spanning Dover, Helsinki, and a Francoist salute in Madrid gets read as one coordinated destabilization program. And after the break, the whole back half is a two-hour "World War Three" field report: five theaters of war, three US carriers off Iran, an assassinated supreme leader, a Turkish warship sold to landlocked Romania, a Chinese intrusion set called Volt Typhoon that's been living in the US power grid for five years, and a 90-day forecast that ends with a grid-down timeline measured in millions of dead. The thesis underneath all of it: there is no real conflict, only a means to an end, and the end is programmable digital money inside a digitally defined cage. Wiirdo accidentally names the episode somewhere in the middle — "tyranny through technology" — then spends the last three minutes fumbling the donation pitch because it's 109 degrees and they've been recording since the harvest festival let out.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo open on a glacier the size of a small city letting go on the Nepal-Tibet border — 680+ dead, 2,400 missing, and a $167 billion mega-dam and a hidden network of underground air bases sitting in the same blast radius China won't let a camera near — before the news cycle just keeps coming: a CIA director's unannounced trip to Moscow, Russia threatening to strike UK military targets, and Bill Gates himself warning that AI-enabled bioterrorism is now "about 50 times more scary" than a natural pandemic, a direct sequel to the AI-designed-virus story from two episodes back. Then the show pivots continents entirely into Peru and the Puma Punku problem: 1,250-plus megalithic sites worldwide, stone blocks cut to millimeter tolerances with tools that shouldn't be able to do it, a civilization with no writing system somehow running a continent-spanning administrative state on knotted string, and a real 1909 Grand Canyon "Egyptian cave" hoax the hosts almost took as confirmed suppression before the record gets set straight. Somewhere in the middle of explaining Spotify, Wiirdo accidentally invents the show's actual title live on air. Real dams, real Inca origin myths, a debunked DNA claim, and a giants theory neither host is backing down from.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo open on a glacier the size of a small city letting go on the Nepal-Tibet border — 680+ dead, 2,400 missing, and a $167 billion mega-dam and a hidden network of underground air bases sitting in the same blast radius China won't let a camera near — before the news cycle just keeps coming: a CIA director's unannounced trip to Moscow, Russia threatening to strike UK military targets, and Bill Gates himself warning that AI-enabled bioterrorism is now "about 50 times more scary" than a natural pandemic, a direct sequel to the AI-designed-virus story from two episodes back. Then the show pivots continents entirely into Peru and the Puma Punku problem: 1,250-plus megalithic sites worldwide, stone blocks cut to millimeter tolerances with tools that shouldn't be able to do it, a civilization with no writing system somehow running a continent-spanning administrative state on knotted string, and a real 1909 Grand Canyon "Egyptian cave" hoax the hosts almost took as confirmed suppression before the record gets set straight. Somewhere in the middle of explaining Spotify, Wiirdo accidentally invents the show's actual title live on air. Real dams, real Inca origin myths, a debunked DNA claim, and a giants theory neither host is backing down from.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo's weekly surveillance update involving FLOCK and Axon kicks things off, then Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dive into the real subject of the night: can you actually live forever? Physicist Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation says that under the right conditions, you never experience dying — you just keep waking up in the branch where you survived. From there it's straight into reincarnating bloodlines, Aleister Crowley's own claimed past lives, the real (and legitimately fascinating) Tibetan tulku tradition behind the Dalai Lama's lineage, and the Mandela Effect as maybe-evidence that some of us aren't remembering the same timeline. Then a full Black Mirror rundown — San Junipero, White Christmas, Black Museum, Bandersnatch, and the one about the AR visor that turns "undesirables" into monsters — as the pop-culture mirror for everything just discussed. It's a heavy episode with a light touch, and it ends, as always, off the rails.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo's weekly surveillance update involving FLOCK and Axon kicks things off, then Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dive into the real subject of the night: can you actually live forever? Physicist Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation says that under the right conditions, you never experience dying — you just keep waking up in the branch where you survived. From there it's straight into reincarnating bloodlines, Aleister Crowley's own claimed past lives, the real (and legitimately fascinating) Tibetan tulku tradition behind the Dalai Lama's lineage, and the Mandela Effect as maybe-evidence that some of us aren't remembering the same timeline. Then a full Black Mirror rundown — San Junipero, White Christmas, Black Museum, Bandersnatch, and the one about the AR visor that turns "undesirables" into monsters — as the pop-culture mirror for everything just discussed. It's a heavy episode with a light touch, and it ends, as always, off the rails.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo open with a FLOCK-camera countermeasure — a car wrap that took 31 million adversarial tests to build and now blinds license-plate-reading AI without hiding the car itself — before diving into the real story: Stanford and the Arc Institute's Evo model just designed sixteen fully functional, never-before-existing viruses from scratch, published in Science, sitting open-source on GitHub with 88,000 downloads. From there the show doesn't stay on script for a single minute: a real research paper has postmortem human brain tissue controlling a robot arm on 20 watts, Eon Systems uploaded a fruit fly's actual brain connectome into a walking simulated body, cloning is now a $10-billion industry Tom Brady used on his dead dog, and a man was caught trafficking live human fetuses out of Northern Cyprus toward Mexico. We fact-check the AI-virus hype against the real guardrails — and the real holes already found in DNA-synthesis screening — separate what Neuralink actually does from what Elon says it does, and grade Ray Kurzweil's singularity predictions against an independent audit that cuts his self-graded accuracy in half. AI, biology, and the singularity, colliding in real time.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo open with a FLOCK-camera countermeasure — a car wrap that took 31 million adversarial tests to build and now blinds license-plate-reading AI without hiding the car itself — before diving into the real story: Stanford and the Arc Institute's Evo model just designed sixteen fully functional, never-before-existing viruses from scratch, published in Science, sitting open-source on GitHub with 88,000 downloads. From there the show doesn't stay on script for a single minute: a real research paper has postmortem human brain tissue controlling a robot arm on 20 watts, Eon Systems uploaded a fruit fly's actual brain connectome into a walking simulated body, cloning is now a $10-billion industry Tom Brady used on his dead dog, and a man was caught trafficking live human fetuses out of Northern Cyprus toward Mexico. We fact-check the AI-virus hype against the real guardrails — and the real holes already found in DNA-synthesis screening — separate what Neuralink actually does from what Elon says it does, and grade Ray Kurzweil's singularity predictions against an independent audit that cuts his self-graded accuracy in half. AI, biology, and the singularity, colliding in real time.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A looser, more free-wheeling episode than usual — no single research topic carries the show, so we just talk. A Flock Safety follow-up to Episode 003 (a Wisconsin woman held at gunpoint twice over the same cleared police alert nobody removed from the system) leads into a brand new deep dive on the 2027 federal car surveillance mandate and just how much data your car is already selling about you. Then we dig into the death of Joe Felz — a van-life-turned-digital-archivist who died days before releasing a scanned library of rare Bibles and Masonic texts — separating the confirmed facts (an official suicide ruling, his family's public rejection of the conspiracy, the archive that got released anyway) from what's actually interesting: what a Masonic Bible really is, the documented 1826 decision that pulled the Apocrypha out of Protestant Bibles, the well-established textual scholarship behind "missing verses," and the recurring "old maps say Palestine, not Israel" claim traced back to a Roman rename from 135 CE — plus a genuinely speculative detour into Mockingbird, the Anunnaki, and the Satanic Temple's Seven Tenets. Second half: Kansas bans the Bradford pear, a school-myths deep dive by graduation year (MMR, IQ tests, Planet X, Einstein, the marshmallow test, and more), and a Tupac/Keefe D murder trial update.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A looser, more free-wheeling episode than usual — no single research topic carries the show, so we just talk. A Flock Safety follow-up to Episode 003 (a Wisconsin woman held at gunpoint twice over the same cleared police alert nobody removed from the system) leads into a brand new deep dive on the 2027 federal car surveillance mandate and just how much data your car is already selling about you. Then we dig into the death of Joe Felz — a van-life-turned-digital-archivist who died days before releasing a scanned library of rare Bibles and Masonic texts — separating the confirmed facts (an official suicide ruling, his family's public rejection of the conspiracy, the archive that got released anyway) from what's actually interesting: what a Masonic Bible really is, the documented 1826 decision that pulled the Apocrypha out of Protestant Bibles, the well-established textual scholarship behind "missing verses," and the recurring "old maps say Palestine, not Israel" claim traced back to a Roman rename from 135 CE — plus a genuinely speculative detour into Mockingbird, the Anunnaki, and the Satanic Temple's Seven Tenets. Second half: Kansas bans the Bradford pear, a school-myths deep dive by graduation year (MMR, IQ tests, Planet X, Einstein, the marshmallow test, and more), and a Tupac/Keefe D murder trial update.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dig into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network — 100,000+ cameras across 6,000+ municipalities, and the private-company loophole that lets it sidestep the Fourth Amendment protections a government-run version would trigger. We cover what the cameras actually pick up (and what they don't), the abortion-search case that guts the "nothing to hide" argument, Flock Nova's aggregated "dark data" search fields, and the drone fleet that can now be over your house in 83 seconds. From there the show goes where the week's headlines pointed: Fauci back in the news, and reports of a Chinese robot army — riffed on live, full notes to follow.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dig into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network — 100,000+ cameras across 6,000+ municipalities, and the private-company loophole that lets it sidestep the Fourth Amendment protections a government-run version would trigger. We cover what the cameras actually pick up (and what they don't), the abortion-search case that guts the "nothing to hide" argument, Flock Nova's aggregated "dark data" search fields, and the drone fleet that can now be over your house in 83 seconds. From there the show goes where the week's headlines pointed: Fauci back in the news, and reports of a Chinese robot army — riffed on live, full notes to follow.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
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      <title>Money Over Fishes</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dig into Catherine Austin Fitts — the former Assistant Secretary of HUD under George H.W. Bush turned Solari Report publisher — and her claim, backed by Michigan State economist Mark Skidmore's academic study, that $21 trillion in "unsupported" DoD/HUD transactions vanished between 1998 and 2015. Fitts says the money built something: an estimated 170 underground bases and a connecting tunnel network, funded by a black budget outside any public accounting. We separate the documented parts (Skidmore's real study, the real declassified Cold War bunkers like Cheyenne Mountain and the Greenbrier, the real 1980s Air Force disinformation campaign that manufactured the Dulce alien-base myth) from the parts that are pure guesswork (Fitts admits "170" is a guess; the aliens were fed to a civilian by military intelligence to cover something else). Then we bring it into the present: in 2026 the Army and Air Force are leasing base land at Fort Bliss, Dugway Proving Ground, and three Alaska installations to private equity firms — Carlyle, CyrusOne, KKR, BlackRock — to build hyperscale AI data centers, the first of their kind on Pentagon land, using more power than entire cities and drawing almost no public scrutiny. Nobody's connected these two stories yet. We do.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo dig into Catherine Austin Fitts — the former Assistant Secretary of HUD under George H.W. Bush turned Solari Report publisher — and her claim, backed by Michigan State economist Mark Skidmore's academic study, that $21 trillion in "unsupported" DoD/HUD transactions vanished between 1998 and 2015. Fitts says the money built something: an estimated 170 underground bases and a connecting tunnel network, funded by a black budget outside any public accounting. We separate the documented parts (Skidmore's real study, the real declassified Cold War bunkers like Cheyenne Mountain and the Greenbrier, the real 1980s Air Force disinformation campaign that manufactured the Dulce alien-base myth) from the parts that are pure guesswork (Fitts admits "170" is a guess; the aliens were fed to a civilian by military intelligence to cover something else). Then we bring it into the present: in 2026 the Army and Air Force are leasing base land at Fort Bliss, Dugway Proving Ground, and three Alaska installations to private equity firms — Carlyle, CyrusOne, KKR, BlackRock — to build hyperscale AI data centers, the first of their kind on Pentagon land, using more power than entire cities and drawing almost no public scrutiny. Nobody's connected these two stories yet. We do.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wiirdo and MickeyBravo introduce themselves and the show, then share what's going on in their world before diving into current events. The main story: vaccine-injured Dutch citizens have taken Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and former NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to court in Amsterdam. The April 9 ruling rejected the appeal on procedural grounds — but the case is far from over. A five-hour main hearing is scheduled for October 22, 2026 in Leeuwarden with the same 17 defendants. We break down what happened in the courtroom, why you haven't heard about it, and what to watch for. Then it's the first part of Forbidden Places — real, documented spots on Earth you legally or physically can't go, from a Brazilian island overrun with lethal snakes to a Norwegian doomsday seed vault to the secretive North Korean bureau bankrolling the regime's nukes. Part two comes next episode.]]></description>
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