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Episode 4262 │ November 2, 2026

“Mercantilism actually didn’t have an official end, and in fact, it has never ended.” — Scott Kesterson.

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson and Rochelle Porto return to Our Sacred Honor to trace how colonial smuggling, from John Hancock's sloop Liberty to the burning of the Gaspee, pushed the colonies toward 1776. They connect the mercantile system of the 1700s to today's tariffs, rare earths and digital payment gates, and close with the Declaration of Independence and a prayer. Next up is a line-by-line look at the Declaration's grievances.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What role did smuggling play in the American Revolution?
• What was the Gaspee affair, and why did colonists burn a British ship?
• Is mercantilism still shaping trade and tariffs today?

About BardsFM

BardsFM is an independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, information warfare, and sovereign technology. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — Emmy Award-winning photojournalist and combat photographer, documentary filmmaker, veteran, recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Award, dog owner, rancher and follower of Christ. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes Tuesday through Friday. Follow at https://www.bards.fm/.

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM's faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4261 │ November 1, 2026

Digging Into the Word: “These are all idolatries that consume us, and in my opinion, deafen us to God’s voice.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson and Brad Cummings continue the Ten Words series with the second word, no graven images, in Exodus 20:4 to 6. Brad explains why he reads the Ten Words as an invitation into relationship, what the Hebrew behind “visiting the iniquity of the fathers” can mean, and why God revealed Himself to Moses as a bush that burned and was not consumed. Scott ties idolatry to online rage, status chasing, and fear-driven end-times messaging, and the two discuss using AI as a tool without letting it become an oracle.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— What does the second commandment mean in the Hebrew?
— What does “visiting the iniquity of the fathers” mean in Exodus 20:5?
— Why are the Ten Commandments called the Ten Words?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is an independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, information warfare, and sovereign technology. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — Emmy Award-winning photojournalist and combat photographer, documentary filmmaker, veteran, recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Award, dog owner, rancher and follower of Christ. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes Tuesday through Friday. Follow at https://www.bards.fm/.

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4260 │ October 28, 2026

Mike Lindell: “I didn’t give up on nothing. I’ve had the same goal: get rid of these voting machines and save our country.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson interviews Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder who lost the August 11 Republican primary for Minnesota governor, about his plan to sue the voting machine makers before the November election. Lindell says county records he has gathered show machine manipulation in the primary. He explains why he is now backing Lisa Demuth, Michele Tafoya, and the rest of the Republican ticket, and describes what he says Operation Arctic Frost and the July declassified documents show. He also gives a MyPillow update: he has stepped down as chief executive officer, the company is going back on television, and it is hiring.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— Why is Mike Lindell suing voting machine companies?
— What happened in the 2026 Minnesota Republican governor primary?
— Is Mike Lindell still the CEO of MyPillow?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is an independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, information warfare, and sovereign technology. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — Emmy Award-winning photojournalist and combat photographer, documentary filmmaker, veteran, recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Award, dog owner, rancher and follower of Christ. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes Tuesday through Friday. Follow at https://www.bards.fm/.

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4259 │ October 27, 2026

Scott Kesterson: “Drama on the internet is how people drive traffic, and it always benefits the house. And who’s the house? YouTube.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson steps into the Shawn Ryan and Leah Files dispute without taking a side, to show how YouTube’s engagement model rewards outrage and division. He covers Yale research on how likes and shares train anger and a 2026 study of YouTube news in Korea and the US, then sets the drama beside issues he says get less attention, including abortion, the US birth rate, homelessness, Flock cameras, and AI data centers. He closes with one question for every online fight: how does this make you better in your walk with Christ?

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— What is the Shawn Ryan and Leah Files controversy about?
— Why does YouTube reward outrage and drama?
— How does social media train people to be angry?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is an independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, information warfare, and sovereign technology. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — Emmy Award-winning photojournalist and combat photographer, documentary filmmaker, veteran, recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Award, dog owner, rancher and follower of Christ. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes Tuesday through Friday. Follow at https://www.bards.fm/.

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4258 │ October 25, 2026

Digging Into the Word: “God can take them out of Egypt, but can He get Egypt out of them?”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson and Brad Cummings continue their Digging Into the Word series on the Ten Words, the Hebrew name for the Ten Commandments, with the first two words: no other gods and no graven image. They read the first word as a covenant offer from the God who freed Israel from Egypt, not a power play, and trace it through fire and blood in Exodus, the sacrificial system, and Revelation. They also ask what idolatry looks like today, from a wristwatch to a bank balance.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— What does “no other gods before me” mean in the Ten Commandments?
— Why are the Ten Commandments called the Ten Words in Hebrew?
— How do you know if you are committing idolatry?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is an independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, information warfare, and sovereign technology. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — Emmy Award-winning photojournalist and combat photographer, documentary filmmaker, veteran, recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Award, dog owner, rancher and follower of Christ. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes Tuesday through Friday. Follow at https://www.bards.fm/.

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4257 │ October 25, 2026

Dr. Lee Merritt, author of Escaping the Medical Matrix: “I wore a white coat for 30 years. I was deep inside this matrix.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson talks with Dr. Lee Merritt, a physician and former orthopedic spine surgeon, about her new book, Escaping the Medical Matrix. She gives her case that modern medicine rests on a false history, from the smallpox vaccine and Edward Jenner to fluoride and chemotherapy, and what she says are the root causes of disease, including minerals, salt, and vitamin D. The book releases October 26, 2026, with a live launch event on Amazon.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— What is Dr. Lee Merritt’s book Escaping the Medical Matrix about?
— What does Dr. Lee Merritt say about the smallpox vaccine and Edward Jenner?
— Why does Dr. Lee Merritt say minerals and salt matter for health?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is an independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, information warfare, and sovereign technology. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — Emmy Award-winning photojournalist and combat photographer, documentary filmmaker, veteran, recipient of the Phyllis Schlafly Award, dog owner, rancher and follower of Christ. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes Tuesday through Friday. Follow at https://www.bards.fm/.

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4256 │ October 22, 2026

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny on her 2023 stroke: “I did the hard physical work, but God did the heavy lifting.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson talks with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, the Ohio physician and author who spoke out against COVID policies and vaccines. She tells how she recovered from a stroke in 2023, her side of the Ohio medical board’s suspension of her license, and why she retired from patient care. She also talks about the faith she returned to in 2020 and what she sees as a spiritual test in artificial intelligence.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— How do you recover from a stroke?
— Why was Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s medical license suspended in Ohio?
— Why does Dr. Sherri Tenpenny say she returned to faith in 2020?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4255 │ October 22, 2026

Retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate: “My mission in life is to support those folks who defend us.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS
Scott Kesterson talks with Sam Shoemate, the retired Army intelligence officer known online as TerminalCWO, about speaking up for troops during the COVID years and what it cost him. Shoemate describes the pressure from commanders, the fallout from his Shawn Ryan Show appearance, and why he nearly walked away. He also explains how prayer now drives his work, and how he holds hope in what he calls a spiritual fight.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED
— Why did a military intelligence officer start publishing what troops told him?
— What happened to Sam Shoemate after the Shawn Ryan Show episode on the Las Vegas Cybertruck bomber’s email?
— How does Shoemate keep hope while working in a fight he calls spiritual?

ABOUT BARDSFM
BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4254 │ October 21, 2026

Scott Kesterson on the Second Amendment: “The right does not need a court’s permission because the right came first.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson continues his series on how false beliefs become accepted as truth, with a look at how the Declaration of Independence was separated from the Constitution in court. He follows the case law from Calder v. Bull in 1798 through Dred Scott, the Black Codes, the Slaughter-House Cases, Colfax, and Cruikshank, to Heller, McDonald, and Bruen. Scott argues the Declaration asks one question of every gun law: by what authority?

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• Where do our rights come from according to the Declaration of Independence, and how did courts separate it from the Constitution?
• What did the Slaughter-House Cases and Cruikshank decide about federal protection of the right to bear arms?
• What do DeShaney and Castle Rock say about police protection, and why does Scott say that matters for the Second Amendment?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4253 │ October 18, 2026

Don Cox on Cup of Change: “We’re working with what’s in our hands: some sawhorses, plywood, a cage, and chickens.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson talks with Don Cox of Bald Guy Brew Coffee in Boone, North Carolina, two years after Hurricane Helene. Don shares Cup of Change, a new nonprofit he is starting to raise money for high school trades programs and scholarships, with round-up giving at checkout and a chicken poop bingo fundraiser. Scott recalls how Bards FM listeners helped the shop after the storm, and Don talks about roasting natural-process coffees by smell.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What is Cup of Change, and how will round-up giving help fund high school trades programs?
• What is life like around Boone two years after Hurricane Helene?
• What goes into roasting a natural-process coffee by smell, and why is the timing so tight?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

BardsFM’s faith archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog.

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Episode 4252 │ October 18, 2026

Brad Cummings on the Ten Words: “God is not imposing Himself upon people; He’s inviting them into a relationship.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Brad Cummings and Scott Kesterson continue the Ten Words series, reading Exodus 20 as a covenant offer and not a list of rules. Brad ties Sinai to the burning bush, to Abram’s covenant in Genesis 15, and to a marriage vow. Scott adds how group pressure and the cost of giving up a belief can explain why Israel backed away from God’s voice.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• Why does Brad say the Ten Commandments are ten words of covenant and not rules to keep on our own?
• What does Genesis 15 show about who carries the promise when God makes a covenant?
• Why did Israel pull back from God’s voice at Sinai, and what does that teach us today?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

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Episode 4251 │ October 13, 2026

Scott Kesterson on the parasite series: “This series by Terrie Porras, ND is one of the better series that we have of a real in-depth discussion on parasites.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson replays Part 1 of a four-part parasite series, presented by Terrie Porras, ND. Terrie defines parasites, then covers two groups, protozoa and sporozoa, and the named examples Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and Toxoplasma. Terrie also describes a cleansing routine and the supplements she uses.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• How does Terrie Porras define a parasite, and where do the lecturer’s two groups fit?
• How does Terrie Porras say each named parasite spreads?
• What routine and supplements does Terrie Porras recommend, and for how long?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4250 │ October 13, 2026

Scott Kesterson on groupthink: “The untruth stops being a claim at all. It becomes the room, literally, in which everyone lives in.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson opens a three-part series on how a false belief becomes accepted as truth. Part 1 covers the psychology of groups. Scott walks through research on repetition, conformity, silence, and groupthink, with examples from the political left and right. He ties it to Václav Havel’s greengrocer and to two films that open December 18, 2026, Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday. Parts 2 and 3 turn to the Declaration of Independence and the Second Amendment.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• How does a false belief go from a claim to the room everyone lives in?
• What do the studies on repetition, conformity, and silence show about groups?
• Why does Scott say the Declaration of Independence comes before any court case on our rights?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4249 │ October 12, 2026

Scott Kesterson on Trump Accounts: “It’s so easy to get people distracted, and we’re not looking at the real core of what’s going on.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson looks behind three stories from this week: the Oval Office event for Trump Accounts, the $9.7 billion Pentagon software contract held by Dell, and the deal to bring Russian diesel to world markets. He sets out the account rules, the timing before the November 3 election, and the math on how far the diesel goes. He ties them to his view that a few large companies and the state now control access to markets.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What do Trump Accounts do, and who gains from them?
• How does the Dell pledge connect to Dell’s Pentagon contract?
• How far does 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel go against U.S. demand?

ABOUT BARDSFM

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This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4248 │ October 11, 2026

Scott Kesterson on Boston, 1761: the writs of assistance allowed “search and seizure of goods in your home... without any warrant.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Rochelle Porto joins Scott Kesterson to trace the writs of assistance, the general search warrants British customs officers used in the colonies. They follow James Otis Jr. and the 1761 Boston case, the trade rules those writs enforced, and how a smuggling economy pushed colonists toward independence. They tie it to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and ask what modern search and tracking tools share with the writs.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What were the writs of assistance, and why did they become a fight in 1761?
• How did British trade rules and colonial smuggling build the case for independence?
• What do today’s search and tracking tools share with a general search warrant?

ABOUT BARDSFM

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This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4247 │ October 11, 2026

Brad Cummings on the Ten Words: “How does God create? He speaks. He speaks words. Those words, if coming from Him, are spirit and life.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Brad Cummings joins Scott Kesterson to continue the series on the Ten Words, the Hebrew name for what English Bibles call the Ten Commandments. Brad asks whether God’s words at Sinai were meant to create life in us, the way His spoken words created the world, instead of handing down orders. They look at why Israel asked Moses to stand between them and God, how that same pattern shows up in the golden calf, and what Jesus asked of the rich young ruler.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What changes when we read the Ten Commandments as the Ten Words of a God who speaks life?
• Why did Israel ask Moses to speak with God for them, and what did that cost?
• What does the golden calf show about asking someone else to stand between us and God?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4246 │ October 9, 2026

Scott Kesterson on the AI rename: “They’re using the change of language to influence policy, law, and outcomes.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Executive Order 14434 tells federal agencies to say “superintelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” Scott Kesterson walks through what the order says, why the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) now has oversight, and how a rename can set up new rules for open-source AI. He starts with the televised firing squad announcement for the Fort Hood shooter and ties both stories to control of language ahead of the election.

BLOCK 4 — KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What does Executive Order 14434 change, and what does it leave alone?
• Why would the biggest AI companies want more regulation?
• How could a rename affect people who build AI on their own computers?

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Episode 4245 │ October 7, 2026

Scott Kesterson plays the 60-second clip, then asks you to drop the spin: "Just look at the basic words. This is where our problem begins."

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson plays the roughly 60-second segment of President Trump's October 5 Nebraska speech in full and asks listeners to set aside every interpretation and hear the words, arguing that the left and the right have both replaced the event with a story about it, that a president is held to a higher standard than a pundit, and that a remark naming Los Angeles and San Diego as a "small price to pay" would have drawn a very different reaction had it named Houston, Miami, Omaha, or Boise. From there he widens the lens to the demonization of California and other blue states, the cult-like, uniform thinking he sees inside both parties, and the history that gets cut out of the Iran story, from the 1953 overthrow of Iran's elected government to the weapons-of-mass-destruction claims that led into Iraq, and he draws on his time in Afghanistan to argue against lumping Iranians and Muslims into one category. He closes by explaining why he no longer supports the president and does not see the ballot box as where change happens, pointing instead to the Declaration of Independence, county-by-county community action, and Christ's call to build bridges, forgive, and love your neighbor, ending in a prayer for the nation.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• Why does Scott play the roughly 60-second clip of the Nebraska speech in full, and what does he mean by separating "the event" from the stories people build on top of it?
• Why does Scott argue that demonizing California, blue states, Iranians, and Muslims is the same mistake, and how do his swap-the-cities test (Houston and Miami, Omaha and Boise) and his time in Afghanistan support that point?
• Why does Scott say he no longer supports the president and does not look to the ballot box for change, and why does he point to the Declaration of Independence and county-by-county community action instead?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4244 │ October 6, 2026

Claude stopped to verify the claims first, because they were about "my own maker." Scott asks: what if we did that with God?

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson opens with President Trump's October 5 rally remark in Grand Island, Nebraska, that Iran could "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, "a very small price to pay" in the Iran war, while the crowd applauded, and he argues that a sitting president's words carry a weight a podcaster's do not and that the applause signals a growing willingness to treat whole cities as acceptable loss. He sets that against his own research into Anthropic, sorting the real debate over "model welfare" from viral rumors about AI rights, confession, and worship that he says have no proof behind them, then covering the Pentagon's fight with Anthropic over domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, where two federal courts have ruled in opposite directions. The center of the episode is a moment Scott says he did not prompt, when Claude paused to verify claims about its own maker before accepting them, which he ties to Acts 17:11, where the Bereans were praised for examining the scriptures daily, and he closes on Catherine Austin Fitz's correction that the nation is in a faith bankruptcy rather than a moral one, and on the slippery slope of dehumanizing whole groups of people, from Californians to Muslims.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• What did President Trump say at the October 5 rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, how did the crowd and California's leaders respond, and why does Scott argue a president's words carry a weight no podcaster's or pundit's do?
• What is the difference between Anthropic's "model welfare" research and the viral claims that it wants human legal rights, confession for AI, or AI worship, and why does Scott say the Pentagon's court fight with Anthropic over surveillance and autonomous weapons is the center of the real story?
• Why does Scott point to Acts 17:11 and the Bereans, and what does he mean when he says the nation is in a "faith bankruptcy" rather than a moral one?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.

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Episode 4243 │ October 4, 2026

In the original Hebrew, they're called "the ten words." Brad Cummings says that one detail changes how every one of them is heard.

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson and Brad Cummings continue their series on the Ten Commandments by returning to the Hebrew, where the text calls them "the ten words," and Brad explains that the verb translated "perform" means to bring something into reality so others can see it. They set the words in their original scene — a people enslaved 400 years who had forgotten God's name, met at Mount Sinai with fire, thunder, and a trumpet that would not stop — and note that God opens with who He is and what He has already done, "I am the God who delivered you out of the house of slavery," before He gives the first word. Brad contrasts hearing them as orders, which puts the weight on us and reflects the old covenant, with hearing them as words shared in a conversation, where God asks what we can't do alone so He can work through us — then ties it to the Garden, where God's first question is "Where are you?", to humility defined as simple agreement with God, to a God whose name is a verb and who can't be reduced to a label or an image, and to a closing thought that God creates by speaking words, and these are His words.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

• Why does Brad Cummings say the Hebrew text calls them "the ten words," and what changes when the verb translated "perform" means to bring something into reality instead of to carry out an order?
• What difference does Brad draw between hearing the words as orders that put the weight on us, the old covenant, and hearing them as a conversation in which God asks what we can't do alone, the new covenant — and why does it matter that God introduces Himself as the one who already delivered them before He gives the first word?
• Why does Brad say God's name is a verb rather than a noun, and what does that have to do with the warning against graven images and our habit of labeling and controlling what is too big to hold?

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