It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36

The gang discuss the government shutdown, War Department plans to deploy troops to US cities, ICE raids in Chicago, new border wall construction, and a National Security Presidential Memo targeting political violence indicators like “anti-capitalism, anti-christianity, and extremism on migration, race, and gender.”

Sources:

https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 

​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 

https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 

https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 

https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 

https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Ben Versus the Sun, Humans Visit Savannah, Matt Airs Hot Takes On The Future

Happy Rutabaga Day. In this week's listener mail segment, Ben, Matt and Dylan learn about the plans to finally take the sun down a notch. Insight on Savannah, Georgia. All this and more as the gang hurtles toward the end of the year.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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Native America Calling - Thursday, October 2, 2025 – Bracing for the federal government shutdown grind

Payments to tribes for federal contracts, BIA law enforcement, food distribution to schools, and health care access could all be affected by the federal government shutdown. It also has a significant effect on the 30,000 Native American federal employees and members of the military who may not be furloughed, but will not receive paychecks until the shutdown is over. This is the second government shutdown in the past decade; the previous one was the longest on record. We’ll get the Native perspective on what’s potentially in store as the shutdown progresses.

GUESTS

Aaron Payment (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), tribal councilman and former chairperson for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

A.C. Locklear (Lumbee), CEO of the National Indian Health Board

Mike Stopp (Cherokee and Muscogee), president and CEO of SevenStar Holdings, LLC

Sue Parton (Kiowa), President of the Federation of Indian Service Employees

 

Break 1 Music: Intertribal (song) Blackfoot Confederacy (artist) Confederacy Style (album)

Break 2 Music: Fancy Dance (Song) Yellow Hammer (artist) Yellow Hammer (album)

It Could Happen Here - What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?

James introduces a rebroadcast of Final Straw Radio in which Mo speaks with Bursts about the implications of recent Executive Orders and Memoranda for free speech and the First Amendment.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Snuff Films: Fact and Fiction

The "snuff film" is a profoundly disturbing urban legend: the idea that a shadowy group (or groups) manufacture real-life acts of torture, defilement and murder for the express purpose of commercial gain. For decades, fact checkers and researchers argued that snuff films didn't actually exist. Yet, as Ben, Matt and Noel discover in tonight's episode... that may no longer be the case.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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Native America Calling - Wednesday, October 1, 2025 – Rewriting the historical context for Native Americans

Culture keepers and historians are closely watching President Donald Trump’s review of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and other institutions to eliminate what he calls derisive or partisan narratives. It’s among eight museums that receive federal funding are that are currently under review. NMAI’s exhibits include Native American perspectives on historical documents and events that include treaties, Indian Boarding Schools, the Termination Era, the American Indian Movement, and the Indian Child Welfare Act, among many others. Those watching are concerned Trump’s directive could permanently alter how those topics are presented to the public. NMAI also develops educational curricula that counters incomplete instruction on historical events, like Thanksgiving. We’ll hear from those who were instrumental in NMAI’s founding, as well as get perspective on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement that soldiers that took part in the Wounded Knee Massacre would retain their Medals of Honor.

GUESTS

Dr. Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), president of the Morning Star Institute, a founding trustee of NMAI, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Rick West Jr. (Cheyenne and Arapaho), CEO emeritus of the Autry Museum of the American West and founding director of NMAI

OJ Semans Sr. (Rosebud Sioux), co-executive director of Four Directions Vote

 

Break 1 Music: War Dance Song 1 (song) Burton Fisher, George Fisher, Charles Little Oldman, & Clifford Bighead (artist) 12 Northern Cheyenne Songs (album)

Break 2 Music: Fancy Dance (Song) Yellow Hammer (artist) Yellow Hammer (album)

Ologies with Alie Ward - Serpopsychology (WHAT’S CREEPY?) with Frank McAndrew

Are you creepy? How would you know? What’s “creepy” as opposed to scary or eerie? We talk to the pioneer of this research, Serpopsychologist, Dr. Frank McAndrew, a professor emeritus at Knox College. We chat: dates that give you the willies, Weary Willie the Clown, haunted dolls, college goths, dark alleyways, evolutionary neurobiology, what NOT to get Oprah, the line between horror and comedy, the phobia of balloons, dating tips, and why you should re-evaluate your bathmat. Welcome to Spooktober 2025. We have more waiting in the wings for you this month.

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It Could Happen Here - Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?

James is joined by Dr. Tyler Black and Dr. Kaveh Hoda to discuss the MAHA claim that the medication Tylenol is increasing the incidence of autism. 

Sources:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

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Native America Calling - Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – Native in the Spotlight: Tina Kuckkahn

For more than three decades, Tina Kuckkahn‘s work has centered on supporting Native culture and the arts. The Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe citizen is the new head of the Native artist non-profit organization, the First Peoples Fund. She previously directed s’gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ: House of Welcome (The Evergreen State College Longhouse) and most recently helped build NDN Collective’s philanthropic infrastructure and grantmaking programs. She is in the process of organizing a canoe journey through the Great Lakes, retracing her ancestors’ historic migration. Tina Kuckkahn joins us as this month’s Native in the Spotlight to talk about the state of Native art, Ojibwe culture, and motorcycles.

Ernie Stevens (Photo: courtesy the Indian Gaming Association)

We’ll also look back at the life of Indian Gaming Association chairman Ernie Stevens Jr., who just walked on.

GUESTS

Tina Kuckkahn (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), president and CEO of the First Peoples Fund

Jason Giles (Muscogee), executive director of the Indian Gaming Association

Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), publisher and editor of Native News Online and Tribal Business News

 

Break 1 Music: ABE (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album)

Break 2 Music: Fancy Dance (Song) Yellow Hammer (artist) Yellow Hammer (album)