Bourbon & Rum

Duration: 40:13 | Recorded on October 31, 2026 S3E41 - France's high-tax, high-service model, high-deductible health plans, and Medicare for all frame a debate over what Americans pay for healthcare, who's accountable when it fails, and whether government or the market spends it better. Kent and Kyle cover a Medicare buy-in, CBO single-payer modeling, insurer accountability, Sardinia's...

Duration: 51:21 | Recorded on October 25, 2026 S3E40 - Citizens United, dark money, and Elon Musk's election spending open a pre-election conversation about what actually drives American elections. Recorded two weeks before the 2026 midterms, Kent and Kyle debate whether independent PACs like Texas's Lone Star Rising are free speech or hidden influence, why the Ken Paxton–James Talarico Se...

Duration: 51:52 | Recorded on October 18, 2026 S3E39 - Marjorie Taylor Greene's candid interview about Congress, the federal budget, and K Street lobbyists opens an episode in which each brother turns on his own side before the 2026 midterms. Kyle, who has backed Trump, criticizes the Russia diesel deal, Trump's support for Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, and the administration's...

Duration: 48:31 | Recorded on October 3, 2026 [S3E38] - The U.S. munitions shortage opens this conversation. Kyle walks through a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analysis of why American stockpiles are low, and Kent asks who benefits from the alarm. From defense procurement and Ukraine's drone warfare to the Buffalo Trace bourbon glut, weapons sales in the Middle East, AI ver...

Duration: 24:37 | Recorded on October 3, 2026 S3E37 - Christa Pike's failed execution in Tennessee, where a lethal injection left her alive and she was rushed to a hospital, leads Kent and Kyle to a harder question: what is the death penalty for? Kyle accepts it in principle and Kent leans against it, yet both arrive at practical objections: cost, wrongful convictions, deterrence, and a state...

Duration: 51:33 | Recorded on September 27, 2026 S3E36 - The White House's removal of CNN and MS NOW from the press pool, and a federal judge's ruling against it, set off a running argument about who gets to question power. Kent calls the exclusion unconstitutional and cites Sherrill v. Knight. Kyle, a Trump voter, agrees viewpoint-based exclusion was the wrong move but argues legacy media...

Duration: 41:07 | Recorded on September 20, 2026 S3E35 - Elon Musk's claim that we are more likely than not living in a computer simulation sets up a conversation about AI, faith, and free will. Kent and Kyle ask whether a Creator could be a vastly evolved AI, whether life is fair or rigged, how a good God allows suffering, and what the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident suggests about where AI actu...

Duration: 56:28 | Recorded on September 3, 2026 S3E34 - While headline economic indicators and stock market highs look impressive on paper, the underlying financial foundation feels far less solid. Hosts Kent and Kyle analyze the global sell-off in bond markets, rising national debt, and the widening economic divide between 401(k) investors and mortgage seekers. Comparing current conditions to his...

Duration: 1:10:36 | Recorded on September 11, 2026 S3E33 — Recorded on the 25th anniversary of September 11, hosts Kent and Kyle reflect on their personal memories of the 2001 terrorist attacks, George W. Bush's crisis leadership, and the emotional challenge of parenting through historic trauma. Comparing the cultural responses of Toby Keith and Bruce Springsteen, they explore how shared sadne...

Duration: 43:18 | Recorded on August 22, 2026 S3E32 - The 2018 Farm Bill created two parallel cannabis markets in the United States, allowing federally legal hemp-derived Delta-9 THC to flourish in states where traditional marijuana remains prohibited. Hosts Kent and Kyle analyze the Senate's Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act co-introduced by Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker, alongside...

Duration: 38:46 | Recorded on August 9, 2026 S3E31 – Kent and Kyle dig into the AI data center boom reshaping Texas and the political fight over who pays for it. They debate the collision between Donald Trump's push for data center growth and Governor Greg Abbott's concerns over the Texas power grid, discovering a rare moment where AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Texas Republicans arrive at simil...

Duration: 44:25 | Recorded on August 16, 2026 S3E30 – This week, we take a look into the rapidly changing landscape of higher education. We analyze the financial instability of the collegiate model, starting with a student housing industry facing a major demographic cliff as birth rates continue to fall. The conversation shifts to the monumental collapse of amateurism in college sports, fueled by...

Duration: 1:07:00 | Recorded on August 9, 2026 S3E29 – Journalist and West Point grad Randy DeSoto (The Western Journal) joins Kent and Kyle to unpack We Hold These Truths covering the Declaration of Independence, God-given rights, the Civil War, WWII, Charlie Kirk, and America's next 80-year turning point. Featured Spirits   E.H. Taylor, Jr Brugal Rum Who Is Randy DeSoto?   Randy is a West Po...

Duration: 56:45 | Recorded on July 25, 2026 S3E28 – Kyle returns from a trip abroad in this forward-looking episode and the hosts dive into the future of work and identity as we stand on the precipice of a world dominated by AI. The conversation moves from the survival of the American workforce to the psychological impact of living to 200, and explores the shifting cultural norms of Gen Z and Gen...

Duration: 45:36 | Recorded on July 19, 2026 S3E27 – A trans-Atlantic episode finds Kyle in a 150-square-foot London hotel room while Kent prepares for a medical procedure with a non-rum cocktail of polyethylene glycol. We bridge the gap between the staggering wealth of Mayfair and the tactical realities of the ongoing Iran war, debating whether the U.S. should pursue a draft, ground troops, or a s...

Duration: 1:1:43 | Recorded on July 12, 2026 S3E26 – After wrestling with 1 Timothy 2 and the roles of women in church leadership, Kent and Kyle pivot to Graham Platner, King Cyrus, and whether Donald Trump's flaws are the price of getting things done. Closes on Mitch McConnell, the death of Lindsey Graham, and why nobody in Washington wants to retire. Featured Spirits W.L. Weller Special Rese...

Duration: 48:14 | Recorded on July 5, 2026 S3E25 – Difference isn't the threat to this country. It's the design. On the day after America's 250th, Kent and Kyle build that argument through seemingly unconnected stories, starting with flag protocols, a theology of connection via the Holy Spirit, the future of rights for humans, humanoids and AI, Kent's turn as foreperson on a 2001 murder trial, and...

Duration: 1:05:46 | Recorded on July 2, 2026 S3E24 – An analysis of the shifting goalposts within the Democratic Party following socialist upsets in Colorado and the rise of Zohran Mamdani in New York. We debate the merits of city-owned grocery stores and free transit against the backdrop of national "tip fatigue" and the 250th anniversary of the American experiment. The episode conclude...

Duration: 1:18:35 | Recorded on June 14, 2026 S3E23 – Kent and Kyle detour from politics into Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition, sparked by Craig Fehrman's new book, This Vast Enterprise , then trace threads through the Louisiana Purchase's economics, slavery and reparations, British West Indies emancipation, and the ethics of SpaceX, Elon Musk, and trillionaire wealth, c...

Duration: 50:38 | Recorded on June 17, 2026 S3E22 – What does it take to spend nearly a decade reading the news your side doesn't want to read? Howard Polskin has been doing exactly that since 2017. In this episode, Kent and Kyle interview Howard Polskin, the founder and editor of TheRighting, a newsletter designed to help mainstream and progressive audiences understand the landscape of conser...

Duration: 54:25 | Recorded on June 7, 2026 S3E21 – A rigorous geopolitical and economic analysis of technological surveillance and fiscal health. We explore the implementation of a national GLP-1 mandate, the use of Anthropic's Claude for real-time bank auditing, and the looming threat of financial social credit scores in the West. The episode concludes with a debate on capturing AI-driven pro...

Duration: 41:02 | Recorded on June 1, 2026 Summary S3E20 – The episode starts with a breakdown of Mike Pence’s Wall Street Journal op-ed and the widening chasm between Reagan-era conservatism and the modern MAGA movement. We debate the controversial proposal for a $250 Trump mugshot bill, Hakeem Jeffries’ SCOTUS expansion gambit, and the realignment of American political parties. The conversation...

Duration: 1:12:09 | Recorded on May 24, 2026 S3E19 – A geopolitical deep dive into Eric Weinstein’s Unified Theory linking Jeffrey Epstein, non-human technology, and clandestine weapons research. We debate the feasibility of maintaining Manhattan Project levels of secrecy in an age of democratized journalism and analyze the controversial settlement of Trump’s IRS lawsuit, the permanent audit-free...

Duration: 48:29 | Recorded on May 16, 2026 S3E18 – A deep dive into the ethics of AI safety and the concentration of power in Silicon Valley. We discuss Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the existential warnings of Geoffrey Hinton, and whether taxing compute power is the only way to fund Universal Basic Income in a post-labor world. Featured Spirits Old Kirk Review – Is this Willett Purple Top, o...

Duration: 58:26 | Recorded on May 9, 2026 S3E17 – An analytical breakdown of the massive Friday UFO file dump and the suspicious media blackout following the release. We examine the reported secret gathering of evangelical pastors in Tennessee, the recent whistleblower claims by David Grusch and Luis Elizondo, and Tim Burchett's appearance on Joe Rogan. The conversation transitions into a deba...