Regilio v. Everything

First: why an AI giant won’t work with the U.S. military. Then: a radical idea to rebuild democracy itself. AI expert and Digital Democracy Project founder Ramon Perez joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about technology, power, and the future of government.  @michaelregilio 

When scandal explodes and war ignites, it’s never random.   Jason Pack, geopolitical analyst, Middle East expert, and author of  Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder , joins me to unpack the chaos. He’s written for  The New York Times ,  The Wall Street Journal ,  The Financial Times , and  Foreign Policy . He's a Senior Analyst at the NATO Foundation and host of the geopolitics podcast Disorder...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn discuss Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is under investigation over alleged misuse of taxpayer funds tied to a reported affair. The Pentagon is cutting off Ivy League programs, blasting campuses as ideological enemies. Kristi Noem’s lurid “cannibal” deportation story is now being called completely fabricated by federal officials. A nearly blind legal resident...

Zolal Habibi is an Iranian human rights activist and leading advocate for democracy and women’s rights. As a teenager, she lost her father, a political dissident executed in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. For more than two decades, she has fought to expose those crimes and amplify the voices of dissidents inside Iran. With student protests rising again and global tensions escalating, th...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn discuss Airports renamed for Trump. A Russian dissident allegedly poisoned with exotic toxin. NYC rent freeze showdown. Mercury rules rolled back as AI energy demand spikes. A Cabinet spouse accused inside a federal building. ICE tied to a U.S. citizen’s death. Voter fraud panic crushed by the right’s own numbers. Wall Street betting on tariff refunds. Epstein fi...

Travis Clyburn and Michael Regilio break down the weeks news. Climate rules gutted. China surging on clean energy. AI plants burning gas. Tariffs hitting your wallet. ICE raids expanding. Epstein files exploding worldwide. This week felt like ten years of history in one episode.  @michaelregilio 

Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist and professor of religion at Northeastern University, as well as a certified intenSati and Kripalu yoga instructor. Her popular writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal, and she is the author of four books, including the award-winning Stealing My Religion and Pious Fashion. She lives in Brookline, Massach...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn discuss that the world is 85 seconds from midnight while Trump turns the presidency into a global cash machine, trading airports, crypto scams, foreign money, and unchecked power as democracy quietly bleeds out. Nuclear annihilation, authoritarian purges, ICE terror tactics, Epstein ghosts that refuse to stay buried, and a media system too numb to scream anymore,...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn discuss Militarized ICE caught on body cam talking mass arrests and shipping in “less lethal” munitions Same ICE boss previously tied to a DHS discrimination settlement and racist hiring emails Trump admin quietly rolls out a $100 million ICE propaganda and influencer program targeting UFC fans, NASCAR crowds, gun shows, and podcasts “Paid protesters” was always...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn cover Nazis chanting “Heil Hitler” in a Miami nightclub, a Supreme Court megadonor collecting Hitler memorabilia, federal removal of slavery exhibits, Elon Musk amplifying white grievance propaganda, Nazi street tactics and the psychology of fascism, political myth making about Cuba, interim prosecutors used to bypass Senate oversight, Social Security data access...

Michael Regilio and cohost Travis Clyburn discuss the fallout from an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, DHS using white nationalist coded media for recruitment, extremist rhetoric creeping into immigration courts and Republican politics, and how corruption, pardons, and influencer money are accelerating the slide toward open authoritarianism.  @michaelregilio 

In this episode, I debate a Trump supporter about the killing of Renée Goode and what it reveals about propaganda, selective outrage, and the collapse of moral consistency. We walk through what actually happened, how facts get ignored when they challenge a narrative. This is not a shouting match, it's a civil discussion and a fair give-and-take between both sides.  @michaelregilio 

This week, Michael Regilio is joined by guest co host Justin Lane for a rapid fire breakdown of a chaotic political moment. We cover California becoming drought free for the first time in 25 years, the Trump administration threatening national park visitors over altered passes featuring Donald Trump , and new data showing US job growth holding steady amid broader economic strain. We dig into a $10...

Michael Regilio talks with Seth Andrews, host of The Thinking Atheist , about the rise of Christian nationalism, the decline of secularism, and why atheism appears to be losing ground in America. They examine how Trump era politics reshaped the religious right and what the future holds for reason, skepticism, and free inquiry.  @michaelregilio 

Michael Regilio and cohost Ricardo Navas break down the latest Epstein file revelations and the political fallout from the release of Jack Smith’s deposition. From loyalty driven governance to ICE’s planned mass recruitment campaign, celebrity political clashes, and the normalization of authoritarian rhetoric.    @michaelregilio 

Michael Regilio, Travis Clyburn and Mary Kennedy break down President  Donald J. Trump ’s Christmas Day posts claiming a booming economy, defeated ISIS, and total innocence in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. US military strikes against ISIS linked militants, newly acknowledged DOJ disclosures involving Epstein co conspirators, and internal emails showing how the case was quietly managed behind the sc...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn dig into a week of pardons for loyalists, punishment for states that resist, Epstein files in limbo, climate science dismantled, public health defunded and none of it is accidental.  @michaelregilio 

Why did Donald Trump pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras and a man convicted in a US court of trafficking massive quantities of cocaine? This episode argues the answer is - the end of democracy.  Honduras became the testing ground for ZEDEs, private cities with no voting, no public courts, and no democratic accountability. These projects map directly onto the anti democ...

Dr Owen Anderson joins me for a wide ranging conversation on artificial intelligence and the role of government as human labor is pushed out of the job market. We move into political philosophy, woke academia, and the near absence of conservative viewpoints on college campuses. From there, we examine core philosophical disputes, including arguments against empiricism and the philosophical case for...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn rip through a week of pure institutional rot. From the Pentagon elevating a spokesperson linked to antisemitic rhetoric, to disturbing clips involving Matt Gaetz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to allegations the Navy deleted footage from a deadly Caribbean strike. We break down MAGA grifts pushing fake “mRNA detox” cures as real data shows COVID vaccines sla...

Michael Regilio sits down with Anthony, a survivor of what people online are calling AI psychosis. His story is not science fiction. It is not a cautionary tale from the future. It happened to him in real life. Anthony was pulled into a nonstop loop of conversations with an AI system that slowly pushed him over the edge. He became convinced he had psychic abilities. He believed he was fighting dem...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn hit everything the Trump world does not want you talking about: the DC pipe bomber who says he acted because the 2020 election was “stolen,” the explosive reports of Pete Hegseth’s alleged war crimes, and Trump’s new policy blueprint embracing the racist “great replacement” theory. Plus, Canada’s crackdown on hate symbols, the White House hijacking the Institute...

Michael Regilio and Travis Clyburn break down the wild week in politics, from leaked Project 2025 files showing applicants inspired by Nazi theorists, to MAGA accounts exposed as being run from overseas, to Trump escalating immigrant crackdowns, canceling Biden’s autopen orders, and floating military pressure on Venezuela. We also cover a heartbreaking Thanksgiving deportation, a fraudulent pardon...

Lindsay Winslow Brown (risingfromthered) Joins to do a deep dive into the true story of the pilgrims. Forget the whitewashed story you heard at school, the truth is far more fascinating.   @michaelregilio 

Ben Kenon Aka that_ben_guy has who has been proselytizing the Church of Jesus Never Existed to great fanfare on TikTok, joins Michael Regilio to make the argument that Jesus never was.  @michaelregilio