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- Yesterday37 min
The Strait of Hormuz Chaos Comes to the Pump
Adam and Dick record on backup equipment at Plan B Studios and cover a lot of ground. The episode opens with the Project Taurus town hall, where supporters and a bipartisan group of opponents spoke and City Council voted to delay its decision until a week after the next election instead of adopting a moratorium. Adam, who spoke at the meeting, and Dick, who has built data centers, dig into the military and classified-data sales pitch, the noise claims, and the push for an April moratorium ballot measure. From there: Rep. Thomas Massey's articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and whether Speaker Johnson sent the House home to avoid them, Mitch McConnell's return to the Senate, Libertarian Party yard signs and why the movement struggles to function as a party, and the Hormuz watch, covering diesel over $6 a gallon, fuel shortages abroad, reports of damage to U.S. bases, and Vice President Vance's back channel calls with generals. Next week's episode is live on Sunday afternoon, starting around 4:55.
- 1 weeks ago33 min
Boot-Licking Diplomacy and Bribing the Midterms
Hormuz and the Red Sea heat up as tankers burn and a Saudi pipeline goes dark. Witkoff and Kushner cozy up to Putin in Moscow. The GOP's midterm convention delivers culture-war theater and Trump's out-of-nowhere $5,000 bribe. Plus: the reflecting pool scandal nobody saw coming.
- 2 weeks ago32 min
Institutional Knowledge Under Fire: The Leadership Purge Continues
Adam and Dick break down a rough stretch for military leadership and election security. The Secretary of the Army just resigned amid friction with Pete Hegseth, following the ousting of the Army Chief of Staff and roughly 80 general officers pushed out or sidelined — more than half of them women or people of color. They talk through what that institutional knowledge loss actually costs, and where AI-driven weapons systems are already outpacing the ethical debate around them. Then: the Supreme Court's ruling letting the Postal Service restrict mail-in ballot delivery in states that haven't handed over voter rolls, why that looks like a direct federal intrusion on a state-run process, and what it could mean in a state like Colorado where the vast majority of ballots go through the mail. They close with an update on CD5VC's veteran outreach training for candidates and staff, and a preview of the September 27th "Our Voice, Our Future" podcast marathon, including a segment on veteran suicide with the team behind the documentary In Country: The Battle at Home.
- 3 weeks ago38 min
Kid Rock gets General Fired?
Left Face returns with hosts Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson digging into the ouster of the Army's chief of staff following an inquiry into a costly helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's property, then turn to a rare competitive debate in Colorado's 5th District between Rep. Jeff Crank and challenger Jessica Killen — covering inflation, tariffs, and each candidate's attempt to distance themselves from their party's edges (Bernie Sanders on one side, Thomas Massie on the other). The hosts dig into tensions between the Democratic Socialists of America and the party's moderate wing, a local data-center moratorium petition effort, the ongoing Hormuz shipping standoff, new "economic D-Day" tariffs on Canada, and the Kennedy Center's contested ballroom/bunker expansion. Veteran perspective, unfiltered commentary, Pike's Peak Region.
- 4 weeks ago33 min
Economic D-Day, Air Force One Decoys, and a Major's Last Stand
After a few weeks off, Left Face is back with a "Russian roulette" grab-bag episode covering the fallout from the Strait of Hormuz standoff — including new casualty numbers, extended ship deployments, and reports of a mental health crisis aboard a carrier still in theater. We break down Trump's Air Force One decoy maneuver leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, an Air Force major's court-martial-bound protest, and a full political roundup: Jon Ossoff's viral shot at the White House, Lindsey Graham's sister stumbling through a Senate debate, and the FBI raid tied to Rep. Eric Swalwell's past ties to a convicted Chinese spy. Veteran perspective, unfiltered commentary, Pike's Peak Region.
- Aug 2, 202635 min
Pleading the Fifth, Missing the Point
Dick and Adam cover Fauci's contempt-of-Congress hearing before Rand Paul's committee, the fallout from Lindsey Graham's death and his sister's appointment to his seat, and the ongoing "where's Mitch McConnell" saga. They dig into Trump's request to the Supreme Court to restrict mail-in voting without an underlying case, the SAVE Act, and what mechanisms — if any — exist to check the 60-day War Powers cycle on Iran. Also: the Hormuz Strait closure, Saudi's muted role in the escalation, and the Doge-cuts-to-food-safety thread connecting a wave of measles cases and blueberry recalls back to the broader budget fight. Plus, a first look at the upcoming live all-day 809 Podcast Collective event downtown.
- Jul 19, 202627 min
A Convenient Simmer
Adam and Dick track the widening Iran conflict as Trump's war notification clock resets past 60 days, unpack Hegseth's testosterone screening order alongside his beard-waiver crackdown, and dig into a rough week for ICE — shootings in Maine, Houston, and Aurora tied to unqualified personnel and no accountability footage. Adam also reports from inside El Paso County's election audit (spoiler: it checked out, again) before closing on the DSA-backed Maine Senate campaign that torched itself over a Nazi tattoo and a vetting firm's failure.
- Jul 12, 202642 min
America at 250: A Veteran's Reckoning
This week Dick and Adam sit down with Pablo for a change of pace: no headlines, just three veterans reflecting on why they joined and where America stands 250 years in. Each guest walks through their enlistment story, from Adam's post-9/11 decision to Pablo's path through the Sea Cadets to naval aviation to Dick's Army enlistment at 17 with a baby on the way. From there the conversation turns to whether the country is really at its lowest point right now, with Pablo laying out a case that backlash after racial progress (Reconstruction, the 1920s Klan resurgence, the post-Obama years) follows a recognizable pattern going back to before the Civil War. They close on what comes next: America's ability to recover on the world stage, and why veterans in particular need to vote and organize around their values instead of assuming their service already covered the debt.
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