Gold Goats 'n Guns Podcast

Bitcoin Entrepreneur and host of TFTC Marty Bent completes the 'home and home' podcast conversation. I was recently on Marty's show to discuss the bigger political and financial picture (link below). Marty joins me for a talk about the 2026 growing pains of Bitcoin and its role in a rapidly changing financial system at a time where security,trust and speed are colliding.

Show Notes
Our chat on TFTC (10/10/26)
Marty on X
TFTC

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Santiago Capital's Brent Johnson returns to the podcast for a forward-looking chat about where we are in the flow of economic and politcal history on the eve of the mid-term elections in the US. Brent's got an insightful take on the tug of war going on between the Fed and the US Treasury that is just one angle on the broader political shifts occurring in the world today.

Show Notes:
Santiago Capital
Brent on X

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Ret. General and host of Dangerous Intellectuals Blaine Holt joins author EM Burlingame me for a open forum discussion on the current state of play as we head into the end of September and the eve of the escalatory season for the US mid-terms.

Note: this episode was recorded on the road with us doing our best standing around Blaine's microphone. So, forgive any audio weirdness

Show Notes:
Blaine on X
Dangerous Intellectuals on YT

EM on X
EM on Substack

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Matt Dines of Mine Print Hash returns to the podcast fresh from his inaugural outing as a financial 'journalist' to giive us his observations and thoughts about what went on at the G-20 conference in Asheville, NC this past week.

Show Notes
Matt on X
Mine Print Hash

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Hyperion Decimus CEO Chris Sullivan returns to the podcast for a talk about what's goinng on in capital markets as it pertains to digital assets and where the US is moving the needle to change the rules of the old game.

Show Notes:
Brent Johnson - "He Knows Something"
Hyperion Decimus
Contact Chris

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Dexter White is back to give his detailed account of Florida's primaries and what they portend for both the mid-terms and beyond for not just Trump but the GOP. We work through what these primaries both uncover for the national political situation and dispel some of the myths being capitalized on.

Show Notes:
Dexter on X
Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Austrian economist, pragmatist, and market commentator Peter St. Onge returns to the podcast to do a wide ranging talk about the state of markets, the economy and their relationship to the upcoming mid-term elections here in the US.

We cover the civil war within the Democrats, the current mixed signals coming from the US economy on labor and inflation, and who is using that to derive political advantage over the US's political future.

Show Notes:
Peter on X
Peter's Website, videos and Newsletter

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Author, financial commentator and hard money advocate Larry Lepard joins the podcast for the first time for a meeting of the minds on the paths forward for the global monetary system and what options lie in front of not just our leadership but we as investors and people as well.

Larry outlines the thesis for his book The Big Print while we work through the challenges facing the monetary system.

Show Notes:
Larry on X
The Big Print on Amazon

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Dexter White returns to the podcast for a chat about information silos, separations of facts from fiction, and why we really need to put on our big boy pants and remember what living in a plurality of perspectives looks like.

Show Notes:
Dexter on X

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast and Ret. Brig. General Blaine Holt joins me to do and up to the minute look at the situation with the state of US foreign policy objectives, how that ties into the larger war in process, and who really controls the pace and timing of those decisions.

Show Notes:
Blaine on X
Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Bond trader and publisher of Mine, Print, Hash Matt Dines joins me for a technical discussion of how the movements in money and bond markets are giving us definitive signs of where central bank policy around the world meets with the actions of the Trump administration to rewire the flow of global capital.

Matt has a unique take on why Trump's next target in America's latest battle for independence from the old colonial powers of Europe may be closer to home than anyone was considering.

Show Notes
Matt on X
Mine Print Hash on Substack

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Raconteur, trader and now author of the new book As Good as Gold: The Return of Real Money Vince Lanci rejoins the podcast after a lengthy hiatus on my part to kick start the second half of 2026.

We discuss who the book is for, why it exists, and how it slots into the current geopolitical landscape.

Show Notes:
GoldFix on Substack
Vince on X
Buy the Book on Amazon

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Brent Johnson from Santiago Capital returns to the podcast so we can compare notes on what's happening in the US's quest to redollarize the world while Donald Trump remakes the map of the Middle East and rewires global trade.

I asked Brent to come in and do an overview of the coming US stablecoin system and what that means for both the Fed and global central banking.

Show Notes:
Brent on X
Santiago Capital

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Promethean Action's Susan Kokinda returns to the podcast after too long a break to do a strategy session on what Trump has to do from here to secure the mid-terms and beyond. We cover everything from his upcoming trip to China to her time during the Reagan years to how to fix the automotive industry's quality problem. All with the eye of improving the lives of ordinary people.

Show Notes:
Susan on X
Promethan Action

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Vince Lanci is back in the house as we try to unpack the strategic play President Trump is making with his bombing Iran and the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.

Show Notes;
Goldfix on Substack
Vince on X

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Fmr. Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt is in the house to discuss the state of strategic play concerning Iran. We recorded this on March 5th, but it doesn't matter. It's all still very relevant today. Given how fast the world is changing, that's saying something.

Show Notes:
Blaine on Substack
Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast
Blaine on X

Tom on X
GGnG Patreon

Economist Peter St. Onge comes back to the show to discuss the recent spate of encouraging economic numbers coming out of the US and what they mean in the context of Trump's attempt to turn the US economy around in the face of titanic political opposition.

Show Notes:
Peter on X
Peter's Website

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Promethean Action's Susan Kokinda returns to the podcast to give a lively chat about the journey through another side of the American political experience from the decidedly anti-British Empire perspective.

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Susan on X
Promethean Action

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Caitlin Long returns to the podcast to flip the format on its head as she is want to do (and I'm happy to oblige) and quiz me as to where things stand. We recorded on January 14th, before Trump's visit to Davos.

Show Notes
Caitlin on X
Caitling Long - Episode #213: The Financial Crisis That Wasn't

Tom on X
GGnG on Patreon

Xoaquin Flores returns to the podcast to discuss the ins and outs of Donald Trump's recent moves in Venezuela and Iran. We try to unpack what Trump's agenda really is and go over the mechanisms for how he advances it. Given Trump's mercurial but hyper-rational behavior, it's no small task.

Show Notes
Xoaquin’s New Resistance
Xoaquin’s Patreon

Tom on X
GGnG Patreon