The Jeff Dornik Show

My producer Robby joined me for what was supposed to be a casual free-for-all, which naturally turned into a conversation about deporting illegal immigrants, H-1B visas suppressing American wages, Trump 2.0 putting corporations ahead of individual Americans, whether the GOP deserves your vote simply because Democrats are worse, and Robby’s theory that wealthy pro-Israel donors gained enormous infl...

For thousands of years, Noah’s Ark has been treated either as biblical history or as one of those stories modern man is far too sophisticated to believe. Well, things may be getting awkward. Lauren Witzke, Director of Marketing and Fundraising for Noah’s Ark Scans, joins me to discuss the ongoing investigation of the massive boat-shaped Durupınar formation in eastern Turkey near Mount Ararat. We’l...

Why do psychopaths keep winding up in charge, and why do the rest of us keep handing them the keys? Dr. Joseph Sansone joins me to discuss his new book, Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul, and his argument that authoritarianism isn’t simply a bad political ideology. It’s driven by a recognizable psychological pathology. We’ll break down the Dark Tetrad of sadism, narcissism, Mach...

I joined Kristi Leigh on DC Dispatch on LindellTV to talk about the increasingly bizarre AI arms race, where the people building the technology are warning that things could get scary very quickly while Washington and Silicon Valley debate whether the proper response is caution or simply stepping harder on the gas. We get into the warnings coming from inside the AI industry, the pressure to beat C...

I joined Jayne Carroll on The Jayne Carroll Radio Show for a wide-ranging conversation about what artificial intelligence is doing to our kids, our ability to think, our families and ultimately our humanity. We talked about homeschooling, the collapse of critical thinking, parents surrendering more of their responsibility to institutions and technology, the race with China, and Silicon Valley’s vi...

OANN’s David Pollack joins The Jeff Dornik Show to break down the growing fracture inside MAGA, where some former Trump supporters say Trump 2.0 has abandoned key promises of the America First agenda, while Trump loyalists continue defending the direction of his administration. We dig into what is actually driving the divide, which issues have become the breaking point, whether the GOP can hold it...

I joined Shaun and Gina on Third Railify alongside Pickax Director of Creator Success Trevor Shipman for nearly four hours of social media, AI, censorship, creator monetization and absolute chaos. We get into why I built Pickax, why algorithm-driven platforms are designed to keep people angry and addicted, how creators are increasingly becoming training data for the AI systems that could eventuall...

Reason magazine Senior Editor Stephanie Slade joins me to discuss her new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue and the Future of the American Right, and one of the biggest philosophical fights happening inside American conservatism. Slade makes the case for fusionism, the marriage of individual liberty, limited government and free markets with the Judeo-Christian tradition of moral virtue, while exami...

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer returns to The Jeff Dornik Show for what should be a fascinating disagreement over AI data centers. Jovan believes much of the opposition to these massive projects is being fueled by Chinese propaganda designed to slow America down while China races ahead in artificial intelligence. I’m not convinced. China absolutely has every incentive to manipulate the debate, but that doe...

What happens when a tech CEO decides the goal of social media shouldn’t be keeping you addicted? I joined this X Spaces to talk about why I built Pickax around an idea that sounds almost revolutionary in 2026: human beings should actually be able to connect with other human beings without an algorithm deciding what they’re allowed to see. We get into bot farms, AI-generated slop, censorship, creat...

Vish Burra joins The Jeff Dornik Show LIVE exclusively on Rumble as we dig into a pretty basic question that somehow feels increasingly complicated: What exactly does the Republican Party stand for? With the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention wrapping up in Dallas, we’ll talk about what Republicans are actually asking voters to support in 2026, what happens to the party when Trump leaves office a...

I joined Bill Meyer on The Bill Meyer Show for a wide-ranging conversation about where the AI race is actually taking us, including massive data centers, quantum computing, the threat to encryption and privacy, bot farms manipulating online narratives, and Elon Musk’s vision of a future where AI and humanoid robots could replace much of the human workforce. We also dug into the growing fight over...

I joined Dan Ball on Real America on OANN to talk about the growing fight over AI data centers, and there’s a little more nuance here than “build everything immediately or China wins.” Yes, America needs to win the AI and quantum computing race. But that doesn’t mean Big Tech gets a blank check to jack up your electric bill, drain local water supplies, replace American jobs and call every legitima...

Apparently “America First” now comes with a terms-of-service agreement. Ann Vandersteel joins me on The Jeff Dornik Show for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when political loyalty replaces actual principles, Republicans become afraid to criticize their own side and Americans are kept fighting over personalities while the donor class, intelligence apparatus and technocrats keep accum...

Chad Caton joins The Jeff Dornik Show to break down Darline Graham Nordone’s victory in the South Carolina Republican Senate primary after receiving Donald Trump’s endorsement. Yes, Lindsey Graham’s sister is now the GOP nominee, because apparently South Carolina politics decided we needed a sequel. But the bigger issue is what conservatives do when Trump throws his weight behind an establishment...

Apparently 200 Chinese bot accounts are enough to explain away Americans’ concerns about AI data centers, so naturally the next logical step is World War III. I joined The Alan Nathan Show to break down the hysteria over foreign bot farms, the bizarre double standard over when online propaganda suddenly becomes an “act of war,” and why legitimate concerns about AI data centers don’t magically disa...

I joined VapinGamers and This Is The Ray on Tools of the Trade for a wide-ranging conversation about why social media stopped being social, how algorithms train creators to make content for computers, why fake engagement and bot-inflated metrics have poisoned the creator economy, and what we’re building with Pickax to get back to real human connection. We got into censorship, my own history of get...

I joined Newsmax to talk about the fight over AI data centers, China’s influence campaigns and the very real concerns Americans have about what this massive infrastructure buildout means for their communities. China absolutely has an incentive to flood our information ecosystem with fear about American AI development while racing ahead with its own, but that does not magically make every criticism...

AI data centers are popping up across America, draining massive amounts of electricity and water while communities are being told it’s all necessary so we can beat China in the artificial intelligence arms race. I joined The Matt Gaetz Show to break down what’s actually true, what’s being exaggerated, and why two things can be true at the same time: China has every incentive to influence the debat...

Big Brother used to need binoculars. Now apparently he has AI. I joined Corey and Alan Hunsberger on Talk Truth to break down the growing surveillance infrastructure behind Flock cameras, AI-powered tracking, Big Tech algorithms, data collection and the wonderfully reassuring promise that it’s all “for your safety.” We get into how technology built to catch criminals can become infrastructure for...

I joined SGT Report to dig into the growing list of questions surrounding the official story of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the strange parallels with the assassination attempts on Donald Trump, and the media’s increasingly desperate version of “stop thinking and trust the experts.” We get into Candace Owens, Kash Patel, the FBI, Israel, censorship, X turning “free speech” into something with rather in...

I joined The Whiskey Capitalist Podcast to talk about what happens when social media platforms forget the creators who actually built their audiences. Pickax had just started paying its first group of creators when X announced cuts to its revenue-share program, while creators were also complaining about weaker payouts elsewhere. We broke down why Pickax is built to help creators make money, why Ru...

I joined the guys from the Spin State Podcast for nearly three hours of social media heresy: why algorithms have turned “social” media into outrage machines, why creators keep getting jerked around by platforms they helped build, how bots and AI are making the internet progressively less human, and why I built Pickax to go in the opposite direction. We get into censorship, creator monetization, Ru...

Senator Ron Johnson joins me to discuss the Senate’s move to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after Fauci refused to comply with the committee’s COVID investigation and declined to answer questions at its hearing. Johnson has been digging into the government’s pandemic response for six years, from the suppression of early treatment and the treatment of Dr. Pierre Kory’s ivermectin te...

How much surveillance is too much? On The Dr. Sky Experience on 77 WABC, Jeff Dornik dives into the growing use of Flock cameras, the blurry line between public safety and government surveillance, and what happens when technology gives government the ability to track ordinary Americans everywhere they go. Jeff also shares the story behind his media career and Pickax, while bringing the conversatio...