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Peasants Perspective

Taylor Johnatakis

Peasants Perspective: A Voice from the Edge of Freedom Join Taylor Johnatakis, a self-proclaimed “peasant” turned podcaster, on an unfiltered journey through family, faith, and the fight for American ideals. From the depths of DC Jail—where he recorded during a 14-month sentence tied to January 6—to his triumphant return home after a Trump clemency in 2025, Taylor delivers raw, heartfelt commentary for the common man. Expect a mix of gritty storytelling, reflections on liberty lost and reclaimed,

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52:30

From DC Shooting To The Mayflower: Gratitude, Risk,...

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2025/11/27

Send us a text The night before Thanksgiving should be quiet. Instead, we woke to a grim alert from D.C.: two West Virginia Guardsmen shot while on patrol. That shock shaped our conversation—not to wallow in fear, but to ask what actually holds a country together when uncertainty hits. We walk through what’s known, what’s still unresolved, and how fast‑moving claims can outrun facts. Then we widen the lens to the holiday itself and the unlikely chain of choices that turned a brutal winter int...

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61:38

What Happens When Work Becomes Optional But Purpose...

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2025/11/26

Send us a text A cloudy D.C. morning sets the stage for a storm of questions: can AI really automate half of America’s work hours, and what happens to purpose if “optional work” arrives before a safety net for meaning does? We walk through the numbers behind automation risk and the roles most exposed, then collide that with a cooler inflation print that seems like good news—until you weigh it against consolidation, layoffs, and the uneasy truth that productivity and stability don’t always mov...

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95:32

Who Really Drives The Agenda: Planners, Platforms,...

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2025/11/25

Send us a text Ever notice how policy only feels real when it jams your commute or spikes your rent? We open with Seattle’s bus lane plan and the candid logic behind “side friction”—a deliberate slowing of car traffic framed as safety—then follow the ripple effects from clogged roads to frayed trust. That same pattern plays out online, where X’s country-of-origin labels spotlight foreign-run botnets posing as hyper-partisan U.S. voices. They aren’t persuading; they’re dividing. Yet when a loc...

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86:52

From Bot Farms To Ballot Laws: A Hard Look Elections...

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2025/11/24

Send us a text If you’ve felt like the headlines were screaming while the ground quietly shifted under your feet, this one’s for you. We pull apart the weekend’s loudest claims—then follow the trail into the quieter levers that actually move power: courts, capital, and code. The result isn’t a rage scroll; it’s a roadmap. We start with Trump’s rapid-fire Truth Social stream—insurrection talk, election fraud focus, and meme warfare—and dig into what’s substantive beneath the spectacle. That l...

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84:23

Buses Will Be Free

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2025/11/22

Send us a text The fuse was already lit before we hit record: explosive posts about sedition, calls for arrests, and a capital city on edge. We stepped back and asked what any of this means for people who still have to budget for groceries, pay the mortgage, and share a street with neighbors who vote differently. That’s our lens: if it doesn’t touch everyday life, it’s theater. If it does, we follow the money and the rules. We untangle the “free buses” fight as a symbol of a bigger battle: w...

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127:23

Russia Peace Talks, Epstein Files, And Fallout

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2025/11/20

Send us a text The news cycle feels loud and aimless—until you connect the threads. We start with quiet reports of a 28‑point Russia–Ukraine peace framework and a very loud Saudi visit in DC, two signals that global pressure may be shifting while domestic cracks widen. From there we dive into a political whiplash moment: the Epstein files bill that promised bombshells but ricocheted onto unexpected Democrats, and an eye‑opening indictment of a sitting House member over alleged FEMA funds laun...

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82:15

Pipe Bombs, Pedos, And Politicians Walk Into Congress

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2025/11/19

Send us a text A trillion-dollar promise meets a political powder keg. While the Saudi crown prince visits Washington with headlines about massive investment, Congress lights a fuse under the Epstein files and the Senate sprints toward a searchable public database. We connect the dots others keep separate: how a foreign investment win collides with a transparency fight that could scorch power brokers across parties, and why timing this dramatic invites more questions than answers. We unpack ...

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76:18

Cheaper Without Insurance? Only In America

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2025/11/18

Send us a text A glitchy morning across X and other platforms becomes the spark for a bigger question: who decides what we see and believe? We kick off by unpacking a viral claim about the Department of Education’s furloughs during a shutdown, then test the premise against the quieter, less visible federal roles that never trend but still matter. From there, we zoom out to media bubbles and how “I never saw that” isn’t proof that nothing happened—just proof of what your feed allows in. The c...

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89:06

Local Wins, National Fights, And The Cost Of Corruption

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2025/11/17

Send us a text Power concentrates when no one pushes back, and the bill always comes due. We start on the ground with local wins—mayor seats, council shifts, and the myths people believe about what city government can fix—then scale up to the hard truth: incentives at every level reward shortcuts, silence, and spectacle. From a council member allegedly stuffing ballots to ethics clouds at the Fed, we map the system that makes people feel like peasants while insiders play a different game. We...

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80:40

What Happens When Government Forgets Civics And...

Peasants Perspective ·

2025/11/17

Send us a text Forget the weather. The real storm is a slow balkanization that’s reshaping where we live, how we vote, and what we believe government can still fix. We start with people packing up for new political homes, then dig into why basic civics—naming branches, knowing rights, understanding process—matters more than ever. When civics erodes, trust follows, and once trust is gone, narratives fill the gap. That’s how city hall gets away with platitudes while small shops board up after a...

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92:17

From Pipe Bomb Allegations To Epstein Files: Power,...

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2025/11/13

Send us a text Prices were loud, but power was louder. We opened with a sprint through silver’s surge and Bitcoin’s clean six-figure psychology, then turned hard into a deeper question: what counts as evidence when AI can synthesize logs, repopulate timelines, and manufacture messages that look “real”? If device data tied to the January 6 pipe-bomb case can be labeled “corrupted,” how should anyone weigh headlines, screenshots, or curated drops? From there, we walked through the whistleblowe...

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63:58

When Healthcare, Elections, And Security Ops...

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2025/11/12

Send us a text A quiet market check turns into a hard pivot: what if the most explosive element of January 6 wasn’t explosive at all? We trace new reporting that uses gait analysis to identify a possible pipe bomber, weigh the odds of a 94% match, and press into the central dilemma—if the devices were real, why was the response so casual; if they were inert, who staged them and why. That single question pulls in agency silence, whistleblower briefs headed to Congress, and the ways media editi...

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107:44

How Inflation, Digital Dollars, And Election Trust...

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2025/11/11

Send us a text Start with the price of money and the rest comes into focus. We open on Bitcoin and silver not as fanfare, but as a blunt read of inflation’s grip on daily life, then follow the incentives into places headlines won’t: J6 pipe bomb claims and official silence, the odd career moves around Capitol security, and why unresolved investigations create permanent emergency powers. From there, we dig into Wisconsin 2020 affidavits, late counts, and machine doubts that have crossed partis...

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93:13

Pipe Bombs, And Power Shifts

Peasants Perspective ·

2025/11/10

Send us a text Start with the headline, then pull the thread. We move from alien “thrusters” around the sun to the harder-to-look-at reality of empty downtowns, broken incentives, and a January 6 pipe bomber allegation that puts institutional credibility on trial. The big question isn’t just what happened—it’s who is allowed to define what happened, and why so many red flags die in committee while the story keeps rolling. We contrast viral space speculation with a political trailer promising...

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61:03

What If The J6 Pipe Bomber Was “One Of Us” And The...

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2025/11/06

Send us a text A single image sets the tone: tilt your view and the same object casts a circle or a square. That’s how today’s ride unfolds as we track a teased Blaze Media revelation on the January 6 pipe bomber—complete with gait analysis, insider reactions, and the claim that the lead suspect sits at the highest levels of government. We connect that to new reporting on early police use of munitions at the Capitol, how sentencing leaned on lesser counts, and the quiet bureaucratic signals a...

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100:26

How Blowback, Fake News, And AI Collide To Reshape Power

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2025/11/05

Send us a text Start with a plane crash, end with gold overtaking Treasuries, and thread everything with one idea: blowback. We trace how choices in healthcare, media, crime policy, elections, and monetary strategy boomerang back—sometimes years later—with consequences no press release can contain. We dig into a startling case where a listener used consumer AI to slash a $195,000 hospital bill to $33,000 by catching duplicate codes and rule violations. That win isn’t just personal; it’s a si...

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101:41

From Sausages To Subpoenas: We’re Not In Mayberry

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2025/11/03

Send us a text Start with a live scramble and a joke about sausages, then step straight into the kind of story that reshapes trust: a sweeping federal sweep in the Mississippi Delta where 20 current and former officers are accused of taking bribes to protect drug trafficking routes. From there we widen the lens—whistleblowers ignored, prison contraband economies, and a blunt question many avoid: what happens to the rule of law when institutions won’t police themselves? We push into national ...

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119:49

From Climate Panic To Pardons: How Influence,...

Peasants Perspective ·

2025/10/29

Send us a text Start with the question no one wants to touch: who profits when fear becomes policy? We kick off with Bill Gates’ pivot from climate alarm to a “balance human welfare” stance and ask what years of doomer rhetoric did to public trust, mental health, and priorities like poverty and disease. From there, we trace the modern power toolkit—autopen signatures, committee reports, and media narratives—asking whether the person entrusted with constitutional authority actually made the de...

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109:27

Patriots, Power, And The Rule Of Law

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2025/10/28

Send us a text Fear sells, but it also blinds. We unpack how “democracy at stake” messaging, lawfare accusations, and cable-news combat have turned politics into a permanent emergency—and what that does to the rule of law, due process, and everyday people caught in the crossfire. We start with New York’s surging mayoral race and the magnetism of big-ticket promises—rent freezes, fare-free buses, universal childcare—asking whether intensity wins elections but budgets set the bill. Then we step...

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119:29

From Prison Grays To Power Plays

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2025/10/27

Send us a text A midnight release, a Walmart hoodie, and the first awkward steps back into ordinary life set the stage for a whirlwind tour through power, media, and trust. We start human and stay human, even as we zoom out to claimed peace deals in Southeast Asia, the fragility of the global order, and why contracts, currency, and sea lanes matter more to your grocery bill than most headlines ever admit. From there, we interrogate the stories we’re told to swallow: viral rants that turn pol...

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