Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

The Bullshit Filter

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A weekly examination of fake news.

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Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

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Oct 27, 2026

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Episodes

The Black Hole - BS Filter #152 (Free Preview) 27.10.2026

Today we pick apart Brzezinski's 1990s blueprint for Russia - The Black Hole - and what it tells us about everything the Western media still gets wrong about Ukraine, NATO, and Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Hole - BS Filter #152 27.10.2026

Today we pick apart Brzezinski's 1990s blueprint for Russia - The Black Hole - and what it tells us about everything the Western media still gets wrong about Ukraine, NATO, and Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Chessboard: Who's Really Running Europe? - BS Filter #151 (Free Preview) 22.09.2026

Today we pick apart Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard - episode three of our miniseries - and cut through 30 years of NATO spin to see whose agenda is actually running Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Chessboard: Who's Really Running Europe? - BS Filter #151 22.09.2026

Today we pick apart Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard - episode three of our miniseries - and cut through 30 years of NATO spin to see whose agenda is actually running Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Chessboard: America's Playbook for World Domination - BS Filter #150 (Free Preview) 03.09.2026

Today we pick apart Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 geopolitical playbook - The Grand Chessboard - and how America's blueprint for world domination is currently falling apart in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Chessboard: America's Playbook for World Domination - BS Filter #150 03.09.2026

Today we pick apart Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 geopolitical playbook - The Grand Chessboard - and how America's blueprint for world domination is currently falling apart in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Chessboard: America's Playbook for World Domination - BS Filter #149 (Free Preview) 24.07.2026

Today we crack open Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 playbook - The Grand Chessboard - and find out it basically predicted every war the US has picked since, and why that was always the point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grand Chessboard: America's Playbook for World Domination - BS Filter #149 24.07.2026

Today we crack open Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 playbook - The Grand Chessboard - and find out it basically predicted every war the US has picked since, and why that was always the point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Havel's Power of the Powerless - BS Filter #148 (Free Preview) 10.07.2026

Today we pick apart Václav Havel's "Power of the Powerless" - with guest Michael Romahn - and why going along to get along is exactly how every rotten system keeps itself alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Havel's Power of the Powerless - BS Filter #148 10.07.2026

Today we pick apart Václav Havel's "Power of the Powerless" - with guest Michael Romahn - and why going along to get along is exactly how every rotten system keeps itself alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Precariat Trap: Why America Can't Rise Up - BS Filter #147 (Free Preview) 29.06.2026

Today we pick apart America's slow-motion slide into fascism - the Precariat Trap - and why the 99% can't afford to pick up a pitchfork even when they probably should. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Precariat Trap: Why America Can't Rise Up - BS Filter #147 29.06.2026

Today we pick apart America's slow-motion slide into fascism - the Precariat Trap - and why the 99% can't afford to pick up a pitchfork even when they probably should. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Grievances, One Con Man - BS Filter #146 (Free Preview) 08.06.2026

Today we cut through the spin on why people actually support Trump - nine real grievances, zero good excuses for picking the worst possible guy to fix them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Grievances, One Con Man - BS Filter #146 08.06.2026

Today we cut through the spin on why people actually support Trump - nine real grievances, zero good excuses for picking the worst possible guy to fix them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iran, Lies, and the Pentagon Slush Fund - BS Filter 145 (Free Preview) 14.05.2026

Today we dig deep into the US-Israel attack on Iran - Operation Epic Fury - and what's actually going on beneath the spin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BS 145 — Iran, Lies, and the Pentagon Slush Fund 14.05.2026

Today we dig deep into the US-Israel attack on Iran - Operation Epic Fury - and what's actually going on beneath the spin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharks with Laser Beams - BS Filter 144 (teaser edition) 01.03.2026

In this episode of *The Bullshit Filter*, Cameron and Ray dissect a world seemingly gone mad under the pressure of the Trump administration’s "maximum pressure" foreign policy. The duo explores the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Cuba, where a modern fuel blockade has pushed the island’s socialist experiment to the brink of collapse and triggered a "mini Bay of Pigs" skirmish. Beyond the Caribb...

Sharks with Laser Beams - BS Filter 144 01.03.2026

In this episode of *The Bullshit Filter*, Cameron and Ray dissect a world seemingly gone mad under the pressure of the Trump administration’s "maximum pressure" foreign policy. The duo explores the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Cuba, where a modern fuel blockade has pushed the island’s socialist experiment to the brink of collapse and triggered a "mini Bay of Pigs" skirmish. Beyond the Caribb...

The Rupture - BS Filter 143 31.01.2026

In this episode of *The Bullshit Filter*, Cameron and Ray navigate a global landscape defined by "ruptures" rather than transitions. The duo begins with a sobering look at Australia’s first mass shooting in 30 years and the subsequent rapid-fire passage of controversial anti-hate and migration legislation. The conversation then shifts to the world stage, dissecting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Car...

Fascism Goes Corporate - Fascism 6, BS 142 27.11.2025

In this final instalment of the Fascism miniseries, Cameron and Ray trace how fascism didn’t die after 1945 but simply changed its wardrobe. Once openly discredited, fascist ideology went underground, hiding behind anti-communism, Catholic conservatism, Cold War geopolitics, and the language of “law and order.” The pair outline how the same structural anxieties that fuelled Mussolini and Hitler fo...

Franco: The Fascist Who Lived Long Enough to Become a Western Ally - Fascism 5 (BS 141) 18.11.2025

This episode dives into the rise of Spanish fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and the long shadow of Francisco Franco. We unravel how Spain’s brand of authoritarianism differed from its Italian and German cousins, how the Civil War became a proxy fight between democracy and fascism, and why Spain’s dictatorship endured for decades after WWII while the Axis regimes collapsed. We dig into the murky po...

How Germany Went MAGA - Bullshit Filter, Fascism P4 03.11.2025

In this episode of *The Bullshit Filter*, Cameron and Ray trace the evolution of fascism from Mussolini’s Italy to Hitler’s Germany, drawing unsettling parallels to the modern American political climate. They unpack how post–World War I trauma, economic collapse, and fear of socialism created the perfect storm for extremism to flourish. The conversation moves through Hitler’s infiltration of the G...

Make Italy Great Again: The Birth of Fascism (preview) 14.10.2025

In this preview episode of The Bullshit Filter, Cameron and Ray continue their deep dive into the history of fascism — tracing its emergence from the ashes of World War I to Mussolini’s rise in Italy. They unpack how the trauma of the war radicalised millions, creating fertile ground for authoritarian movements that promised strength, unity, and a return to national glory. Through sharp wit and hi...

Make Italy Great Again: The Birth of Fascism - (Fascism #3, BS #139) 14.10.2025

In this episode of The Bullshit Filter, Cameron and Ray continue their deep dive into the history of fascism — tracing its emergence from the ashes of World War I to Mussolini’s rise in Italy. They unpack how the trauma of the war radicalised millions, creating fertile ground for authoritarian movements that promised strength, unity, and a return to national glory. Through sharp wit and historical...

Preview - Fascism: The Remix of History’s Worst Ideas (Bullshit Filter 138, Fascism part 2) 01.10.2025

In this second episode of our fascism series, Cameron and Ray trace the roots of fascism from the French Revolution through the 19th century and into the early 20th century. They explore how nationalism, the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, industrial upheaval, social Darwinism, Nietzsche’s philosophy, Bismarck’s realpolitik, futurism, and mass psychology all fed into the eventual rise of...

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