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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Iran Achieved One of Its Core Objectives, A Political Defeat for President Trump
The midterms didn’t just bruise Republicans, they humiliated them, and I think the clearest explanation isn’t a sudden national conversion to Democratic…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show WATCH PARTY: LIVE Election Coverage
Election night coverage is usually sold as a scoreboard, but we treat it like a stress test for the whole system. While results roll in, we argue about what a…
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Ep 090 “The German Colossus in Africa: Lettow-Vorbeck Victorious (Part One)””
In this episode, I sketch the life and exploits of one of my three Peak Guerrillas from the beginning of the 20th century, German GEN Paul Emil von…
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10/30/26 Emily Jashinsky on the Trump-Epstein Report and the Midterm Elections
Download Audio. Scott interviews Emily Jashinsky about the recent report detailing Trump’s activities with Jeffrey Epstein and his circles. They also talk…
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10/30/26 Kevin Gosztola on how Washington Uses the Espionage Act Against the American People
Download Audio. Journalist Kevin Gosztola returns to the show to discuss yet another story of the US government using the Espionage Act to protect its own…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski: Netanyahu Wants Trump to Attack Iran Immediately After Midterms
Preemptive pardons used to sound like a fringe fear. Now they’re getting floated like standard operating procedure, and we dig into what that says about the…
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10/30/26 Andrew Day on the Iran War, Eight Months In
Download Audio. Scott interviews Andrew Day from The American Conservative about what’s happening with the Iran war. They discuss whether Trump will restart…
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10/30/26 Daniel Davis on the Delusional Narrative that Ukraine is Winning
Download Audio. Scott brings Daniel Davis back on the show to dig into some of the claims western war hawks are making that the Ukrainians are actually…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Dave Benner: Will Americans Vote Against Israel on Tuesday?
War isn’t distant when it’s priced into every gallon of gas. Dave Benner from Liberty Vault joins us for a blunt end-of-week rundown on the war in Iran, the…
The Libertarian Institute - All PodcastsDHP Ep. 293: DHP Halloween Special 2026
Join CJ as he reads the following Halloween-y poems & short stories: “Halloween” by Madison Julius Cawein “The Erl-King” by Johann…
The Libertarian Institute - All PodcastsDHP Eps. 171 & 174 Reissue: DHP Heroes: John Carpeneter
(*This episode is mostly comprised of DHP Eps. 171 & 174, which were originally made & published back in 2018.) In this DHP Reissue Two-Fer, CJ-in-2018 turns…
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10/26/26 Patrick Pillow on the Nature and Consequences of the 2011 Regime Change in Egypt
Download Audio. Scott interviews Patrick Pillow about the series he just started publishing on the regime change in Egypt in 2011. Discussed on the show…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Does Netanyahu Need to Reignite the Iran War to Stay in Power?
Starlink sounds like a simple story about connectivity, until you ask one question: who gets to decide when a “civilian” network becomes a weapon? We start by…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest hosts Producer Chris & LtCOL. Karen Kwiatkowski: Could Voting Independent Change Washington Politics?
They’ve spent years telling you an independent vote is a wasted vote. We don’t buy it, and we walk through why the “safe” choice keeps delivering the same…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Kelley Vlahos: Does Trump Know the American People Are Done
A citywide Russia Ukraine ceasefire tied to a Melania Trump backchannel sounds absurd on its face, which is exactly why it’s worth taking seriously. We walk…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Ken Silva: Thomas Crooks, Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs & OKC
An inch is not a “near miss” in politics, it’s a different timeline. Ken Silva joins me to lay out what we actually know about the Butler, Pennsylvania Trump…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Karen Kwiatkowski: Why Did JD Vance Refuse to Endorse Netanyahu?
A president under pressure almost always looks for a villain, and today we’re asking a sharp question: is Zelensky becoming the White House’s favorite…
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Ordinary Men Chp 13-14 w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on Ordinary Men.
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10/23/26 Bill Buppert on Iran, Ukraine and Modern Militarism
Download Audio. Scott interviews Bill Buppert about Iran, the defense industry, the geopolitical delusions of the West, how evolving weapons technology will…
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Ordinary Men Chp 11-12 w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on Ordinary Men
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: Mother of All Duds?! Can Trump Destroy Pickaxe Mountain?
A rumored Putin Trump Xi summit sounds like diplomatic fireworks, but the bigger story is what it reveals about power and leverage as Ukraine’s position…
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10/16/26 Larry Johnson on Iran, Lebanon and Yemen
Download Audio. Scott brings Larry Johnson back on the show to talk about all the Middle East news they couldn’t get to last week. They discuss the Iran war…
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10/16/26 Robert Wright on the Threats Posed by AI
Download Audio. Scott interviews Robert Wright, author of the book The God Test, about how AI will impact our future. They discuss the threats AI poses to…
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10/16/26 Joseph Solis-Mullen on the Concerning Collapse of Ethiopia
Download Audio. Scott interviews Libertarian Institute Fellow Joseph Solis-Mullen about what’s happening in Ethiopia. Solis-Mullen gives us the historical…
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The Police Explorers Program Sexual Abuse
Nationwide there has been an epidemic of police officers sexually abusing teens they are meant to mentor through Learning For Life’s Police Explorers Program.
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Episode 089 “The CG Mailbag: Question Time [Fall 2026]”
It’s been quite some time since I have responded to “mail” so I have curated these questions to address:. Why the future of warfare is not clone wars? The Fall…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Connor Echols: Trump Turns on Zelensky as Iran War Threat Grows
Trump is turning up the heat on Ukraine and Zelensky, and the timing is impossible to ignore: voters feel foreign policy in their wallets through gas prices…
The Libertarian Institute - All PodcastsDHP Ep. 292: Fµ©!≤ “Sunshine Protection!”: DST as a Revolt Against Nature
The midterms are fast approaching, as is the “fall back” to Standard Time: that blissful-but-all-too-brief 4-month period in which our clocks & schedules align…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Bombs, Backroom Deals & Blowback, Trump’s Iran Gamble and Kushner’s Private Diplomacy
The fastest way to misread a war is to believe one leader can simply declare it over. We dig into President Trump’s claim that the Iran war will end “very…
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Sandra Birchmore and Fishing Pleasure Island at Dawn
I went fishing, and many of y’all had suggested I livestream while fishing. During the stream I discuss Sandra Birchmore.
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Dave DeCamp: Will Trump Restart the War Against Iran Before the Midterm Elections?
The fastest way a “regional conflict” becomes a global problem is through chokepoints, and we spend this conversation mapping the ones that matter. Dave DeCamp…
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10/9/26 Larry Johnson: Sanctioning Russia Won’t Work
Download Audio. Scott interviews Larry Johnson about the status of Washington’s campaign to weaken the current Russian regime. Discussed on the show…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: Is Trump Done With Zelensky?
If you feel like the headlines about Ukraine, Russia, and “energy deals” never add up, you’re not imagining it. We sit down with Larry Johnson to separate…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Nolan Denaro | Are We Becoming What We Condemn?
A single debate clip can reveal an entire foreign policy reality: we demand ritual condemnation of October 7, then treat any mention of Gaza’s devastation as…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Lt. Col. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Will Iran Build a NUCLEAR WEAPON?!
A promise not to attack Iran before the US midterm elections sounds calming until you ask the uncomfortable question: who benefits from the world believing it?…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Will Trump Sacrifice the Midterms So Netanyahu Can Win Reelection?
Something big hides inside a simple question: if the US and Israel are thinking about striking Iran, why would the timing cluster around elections? We pull…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest ANDREW DAY: ‘Let Iran Take Them Out’
“Let them take out Los Angeles” is the kind of line that explodes online, but the real story is what comes after the clip: how an unpopular Iran war gets sold…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest LARRY JOHNSON: Super Power Suicide
The fastest way to sell a war is to blame the same villain for everything, and right now that villain is Iran. We walk through Donald Trump’s comments on the…
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10/5/26 Ian Proud on Getting Detained by the UK Government
a Download Audio. Scott interviews Ian Proud about how he recently traveled to Russia to hear a speech from Putin, only to be detained by his own government…
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Myth and Douglas Carter w/Kyle Matovcik and John Weeks
We react to the new Down, listen to Church of Misery, and discuss Douglas Carter getting released from prison after 41 years on death row.
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest HARRISON BERGER: Did Trump Consult AI Before Going to War?
“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: After 23 Years, Is the Iraq War Finally Over?
The Iraq War has been a “still going” story for so long that it barely feels real when someone says it might finally be ending. We sit down with Col. Lawrence…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Prepares for a MORE War With Iran
“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest LARRY JOHNSON: Trump’s Iran War Threat Reaches the Brink
A lot of foreign policy talk collapses into slogans until you ask one simple question: if things are going fine, why are oil prices still telling a different…
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10/2/26 Gordon Hahn on the Rise of Azov and Other Obstacles to Peace in Ukraine
Download Audio. Gordon Hahn returns to the show to talk about the notable rise of Azov’s Andriy Biletsky. He and Scott also discuss the obstacles to peace…
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10/1/26 Ted Snider on Why the War in Ukraine Isn’t Ending
Download Audio. Scott interviews Ted Snider about Ukraine. After years of Western journalists acting like Ukraine had just started turning the tide toward…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Showdown at the UN as the US and Iran Escalate Tensions
Trump takes the UN stage and talks about Iran the way politicians talk when they want options to expand a war without owning the cost. I walk through what he…
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Shoddy Investigative Practices
I watched the Caleb Flynn trial and was shocked by how little physical evidence there was. Although I think the jurors got it right, could innocent people be…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Joe Terwilliger: Tensions Flare in East Asia as North Korea Tests Hypersonic Missiles!
A single phrase can change the whole global chessboard: nuclear first use. We start by reacting to speculation about a US nuclear strike in Iran and lay out…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest BILL BUPPERT: Are the Houthis a Real Threat to Saudi Arabia and the American Empire?
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen has dragged on for years, but one detail should stop you in your tracks: the New York Times reports Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
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9/25/26 Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick on the State of Israel’s Lobby in 2026
Download Audio. Scott interviews the Quincy Institute’s Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick about their new book Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign…
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9/25/26 Rich Baris on the Most Under-Appreciated Trends in American Politics
Download Audio. Scott interviews Rich Baris about his new book and the broader political trends he’s uncovered through his work as a pollster. Baris shares…
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9/19/26 Ben Aris: A Deep Dive on the State of the War in Ukraine
Download Audio. Scott interviews Ben Aris about the war in Ukraine. Aris uses his deep expertise of Russian society and the ongoing war to give us a window…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Lt. Col. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Rescued Pilot Finally Surfaces, Hegseth Goes on Tour
A miracle survival story can be true and still be used as propaganda, and that tension is exactly what we can’t ignore. We bring back Lt.Col. Karen Kwiatkowski…
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Impeachment, Empty Arsenals and a War Without End
Sixty thousand bombs is not a headline you just scroll past, especially when the bill is picked up by U.S. taxpayers. We start by unpacking reports that…
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9/18/26 Charles Goyette on the Economic Mess the Government Has Gotten Us In
Download Audio. Charles Goyette returns to the show to talk about the terrible, unsustainable and outright destructive economic situation the US government…
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9/18/26 Brian McGlinchey on the Deadliness of Washington’s Sanction Regime
Download Audio. Scott interviews Brian McGlinchey about an article he wrote recently telling the story of Ameneh Abbasi, a 23-year-old Iranian woman who died…
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9/18/26 Kyle Anzalone on the Houthi Escalation
Download Audio. Scott interviews Kyle Anzalone about the latest news in foreign policy. They discuss the escalation between the Houthis and Saudis, the…
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9/14/26 Elfadil Ibrahim on How the Iran War is Impacting Iraq
Download Audio. Scott interviews writer and analyst Elfadil Ibrahim about the current state of Iraqi politics. The US-backed Iraqi government sits in a…
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Ordinary Men Chp 9-10 w/John Weeks
We continue reading and commentary of Ordinary Men.