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The Bill Walton Show
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In-depth and thought-provoking conversations with leaders, thinkers, artists, entrepreneurs and activists. Smart, original and interesting people…lovers of freedom and the American idea.
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What Happens When America Goes Dark? The First 21 Days of NO POWER | GRID DOWN Part 3
The lights going out is only the beginning. What happens when food deliveries, gas pumps, running water, and communications stop working? In the final installment of GRID DOWN, Bill Walton welcomes Tommy Waller and Jonathan Hollerman to examine the potential consequences of a prolonged power grid...
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Could America Go Dark? EMPs, Solar Storms & Power Grid Failure | Jonathan Hollerman & Tommy Waller
What could cause America’s power grid to fail—and why is protecting it so difficult? Bill Walton joins Tommy Waller of the Center for Security Policy and Jonathan Hollerman of Grid Down Consulting to examine threats to America’s electrical infrastructure, the potential consequences of a major...
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9 Out of 10 Americans Would Die If this INFRASTRUCTURE Went Down | Tommy Waller & Jonathan Hollerman
What would happen if America’s electrical grid went down—and stayed down? On Part 1 of GRID DOWN, Bill Walton welcomes Lt. Col. Tommy Waller, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, and Jonathan Hollerman, former Air Force SERE instructor and bestselling author of Grid Down: Death of…
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They’re Already Inside: The Threat America Can’t Ignore | Inside the Wire- Wade Miller w/Bill Walton
What if America’s greatest threat has already crossed the perimeter? Wade Miller joins Bill Walton for the final installment of “Inside the Wire,” a three-part series examining America’s institutions, national security, and the future of Western civilization. In “Already Inside,” Walton and…
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Are Republicans Fighting the Wrong War? Wade Miller on the Battle for American Culture with Bill Walton
Are Republicans fighting the wrong war? In Part 2 of INSIDE THE WIRE, Bill Walton sits down with Wade Miller of the Center for Renewing America to examine why conservative political victories have not always translated into cultural victories—and why the real battle for America may be happening…
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Inside the Wire: The Crisis Nobody Will Name | Wade Miller on The Bill Walton Show | Part 1 of 3
The Crisis Nobody Will Name — Wade Miller | Inside the Wire, Pt. 1 A Marine with three combat deployments explains why the war at home worries him more than Iraq ever did. In this explosive first part of Inside the Wire, Bill Walton sits down with Wade Miller, Marine combat veteran and president…
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Episode 291 : The Ministry of Green Truth: Mark Mills Exposes America's $6 Trillion Energy Fantasy
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell On The Bill Walton Show, Mark Mills strips away the Newspeak surrounding the innocuously named "Inflation Reduction Act" (IRA) to reveal it as perhaps the most audacious experiment in government-directed...
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Episode 290: Fifth Generation Warfare: Where Hypersonic Missiles Meet the Healthcare State
What if modern warfare has evolved beyond anything history's great strategists could have imagined? While Metternich orchestrated the balance of power through diplomatic summits and Machiavelli counseled princes on maintaining state authority, today's battles for sovereignty unfold in unlikely...
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Episode 285: A Game Changing Russian Missile?
In this unsettling episode of The Bill Walton Show, national security expert Stephen Bryen returns to cut through the fog about Russia's game-changing hypersonic missile and what it means for U.S. security. As Joe Biden requests another $24 billion for Ukraine, Bryen reveals how Russia has…
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Episode 284: The CIA and FBI are Beyond Repair
When former CIA station chiefs admit that only 50 out of 1,500 clandestine service officers are truly effective, you know something's deeply wrong with our intelligence agencies. In this explosive conversation, Mike Waller, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and author of "Big Intel:...
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Episode 283: A Global War on Freedom: How the US Corporate Transparency Act and the EU Digital Services Act Threaten Liberty
In a riveting conversation with Peter Mcilvenna of the UK's Hearts of Oak, we describe what may be the most aggressive US domestic surveillance program since the Patriot Act – and its disturbing connection to a global censorship agenda. The story that emerges isn't just about US regulation; it's...
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Episode 281: Are We Passing the Israel Test
In this compelling and wide ranging episode of The Bill Walton Show, host Bill Walton engages with the great economic, technology and futurist thinker George Gilder to talk about his provocative book, The Israel Test. In The Israel Test George provides much needed context for today's war in the...
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Episode 280: How to Conduct an Honest Election
It won't be news to anyone that this upcoming election is fraught with many potential problems. Based on a new study by Just Facts, 10% to 27% of "non-citizen" adults in the U.S. are estimated to be illegally registered to vote. Aggressive attempts to debunk the study have completely failed. With...
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Episode 279: The Case for Trump
In this easy to listen to, charming, and informative episode of "The Bill Walton Show," host Bill Walton engages with Mercedes Schlapp and Matt Schlapp in a dynamic discussion about the pressing issues facing America today. Together, and with humor, they dig into the upcoming elections, economic...
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Episode 278: Stop trying to "Reform" Schools, Start Fresh with New Ways to Teach Our Kids
Public K12 education in the United States has become the largest government-controlled monopoly in the world, (other than the CCP controlled monopolies in China), spending nearing $1 trillion per year. And for all the money spent, it's been a failure. In international tests, American eighth…
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Episode 277: "NATO Taunts Russia" with Stephen Bryen and Brandon Weichert
"He who tries to defend everything defends nothing." ~ Frederick the Great of Prussia This episode examines the three explosive national security crises the United States and world are embroiled in today, any one of which could escalate into igniting a World War III. Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Hamas...
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Episode 276: Is Technology a Force for Good or Evil?
For the last 200 years, innovation and technology have produced dramatic increases in living standards and our quality of life. Yet today there is a widespread and growing belief that technology has become the root of all evils with all sorts of claims being made that it destroys privacy, spreads...
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Episode 275: We won the Cold War and lost the peace : A Tour de Force with Erik Prince and Stephen Bryen
Former Navy U.S. Seal and founder of the private military company Blackwater Erik Prince says that "We are fighting wars the wrong way." Stephen Bryen is known as the "Yoda" of the Arms Trade. Time Magazine comments, "He knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril." He…
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Episode 274: Behind the Curtain: Unveiling the Arabella Network's Vast Influence on U.S. Politics
In this episode of The Bill Walton Show, Bill wades into the murky waters of the Left's "dark money" manipulation of American politics with Scott Walter and Kristen Eastlick with the Capital Research Center. We often use the phrase follow the money. Scott and Kristen are among the best at doing...
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Episode 273: Investing in a Polarized America: Federalism and Entrepreneurship with Jim Pinkerton
In this lively episode of the Bill Walton Show, Bill talks with Jim Pinkerton in a thought-provoking discussion about investing in the turbulent waters of today's toxic political climate. With a focus on the stark Red-Blue divide in America, Jim offers a contrarian view that it's fertile ground…
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Episode 272:The Art of the Flail: Expert Takes on US National Security Blunders with Stephen Bryen and Brandon Weichert
This episode of The Bill Walton Show is a riveting discussion with two astute geopolitical analysts, Dr. Steven Bryen and Brandon Weichert. Together they dissect the exploding tensions in the Middle East, specifically the dramatic escalation by Iran's air attack on Israel. And the big questions:...
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Episode 271: Modern Dilemmas: Regulatory Capture, Global Governance, and the Surveillance State with Dr. Robert W. Malone
In this episode Bill Walton is joined by Dr. Robert Malone in a wide ranging and engaging discussion about modern societal and financial control mechanisms. Their great concern is the relentless and growing overreach of both governments and corporations into personal freedoms through the guise of...
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Episode 270: Voices in the Supreme Court: Protecting Our Free Speech with Aaron Kheriaty and Jenin Younes
On March 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Murthy v. Missouri challenging whether the government can induce social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to censor constitutionally protected free speech. A sinister web of federal agencies, the White House, social media...
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Episode 269: How the United States' Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed Fueled China's Rise with Jim Fanell and Brad Thayer
After achieving victory in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, US political leadership, starting with the Clinton Administration, has made a continuing string of strategic blunders that have brought the United States to the point where - after building China up for decades - we face an enemy...
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Episode 268: Conspiracy: Why FDR's White House Ignored a Chance to Change History with Chris Farrell and Shea Bradley-Farrell
"What if in 1943 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his White House advisors had acted on an offer from high-ranking German officials that they were prepared to kidnap Adolf Hitler and all of his top cronies. They would then turn Hitler over to the United States and sign an armistice ending...
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Episode 267: CO2: The Miracle Molecules with Dr Will Happer and Greg Wrightstone
Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is portrayed as the worst villain in climate alarmism's pantheon of satanic gases. The claim is that increasing levels of greenhouse gases are purportedly driving atmospheric warming to dangerous and unprecedented levels which is said to be leading to ever increasing…
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Episode 266: It's Time to Leave the WHO with Reggie Littlejohn and Meryl Nass
At a meeting of the World Health Assembly at the end of May, less than three months from now, the World Health Organization (WHO) will be voting to amend its International Health Regulations agreement and to create a brand new Pandemic Agreement. Until now the World Health Organization has been...
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Episode 265: Ukraine: Has the US Lost Yet Another Proxy War? with Stephen Bryen
While Americans have become preoccupied with other things - the election, the border, the economy - events in Ukraine are spinning out of control. People have been talking hopefully about a ceasefire and a truce. Instead, with a couple of more blunders we could be heading for a World War III. To...
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Episode 263: Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness with Carrie Sheffield
In this episode Bill follows up from his last conversation with Carrie Sheffield to talk about her extraordinary memoir, which is being published this week: Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness. As you'll learn, the book is much more than her riveting and heartwrenching...
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Episode 262: Are you on a CIA or FBI list? with J. Michael Waller
Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America's criminals at home and enemies abroad. Now, at our great loss, they've become captured by the ideology and agenda of cultural Marxism. Moreover, as Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Mike Benz revealed, the national security state has...
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Episode 261: Last Warning to the West with Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell
Hungary is a small country with less than 10 million people, landlocked in the middle of Europe. Seemingly irrelevant, it is hated by the woke globalists and it's the focus of angry smear campaigns against it and its president, Viktor Orbán. Yet at the same time, it's praised as a global leader…
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Episode 260: How do we know what we think we know is true? with Jim Agresti
In this age of fake news, disinformation, shadow banning and government agencies like CISA aiming to manipulate what it calls our "cognitive infrastructure" it is hard to answer this question. To explore how we can go about finding what's true and what is not, Jim Agresti, the founder of Just...
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Episode 259: The Virtues and Beauties of Freedom with Jeffrey Tucker
When Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina in November, Argentinians empowered the first self-proclaimed "anarcho capitalist" as a head of state in modern history. It's a wild, even dangerous sounding term and almost no one knows what it means. So in this episode, Jeffrey Tucker and I…
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Episode 258: Natural Asset Companies: A Scheme to Profit From the "Degrowth" Agenda with Margaret Byfield
On September 27, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange and the Intrinsic Exchange Group submitted a proposal to the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a new type of company called a "Natural Asset Company", or "NAC" whose primary purpose would be to manage and grow so-called "ecosystem...
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Episode 257: Biden's Foreign Policy Team Staggers into 2024 with Brandon Wiechert
Is 2024 going to be the year that determines whether the United States remains as the global superpower or whether it truly becomes a declining power surrounded by rising powers, especially China? Lots of strong views in this episode as Brandon Weichert again joins The Bill Walton Show to discuss...
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Episode 256: The Sins of Arrogance and Stupidity are now Visited Upon the Children with Jennifer Sey
World-class gymnast, author, filmmaker, and next-in-line to become CEO of Levi Strauss, Jennifer Sey talks pandemic-era school lockdowns and the backlash she received for speaking out against the school shutdowns with Bill Walton. Jennifer was a seven-time member of the U.S. Women's National...
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Episode 255: Surprising Facts About CO2 with Dr William Happer and Gregory Wrightstone
We're inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and "experts" saying that our climate is changing for the worse, and that it is our fault because of man-made CO2 emissions. But despite apocalyptic predictions about climate, our earth, the planet is improving. Why? And why…
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Episode 254: A Global Reality Check with Stephen Bryen
In this candid and insightful episode of the "Bill Walton Show," Stephen Bryen, a seasoned expert with over half a century of experience in national security and arms trade, shares his incisive views on the current state of global geopolitics. Stephen Bryen's been called the Yoda of the arms…
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Episode 253: Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet w/Marian Tupy
You can't fix what is wrong in the world if you don't know what's actually happening. Polls show that most smart people tend to believe that the state of the world is getting worse. In the United States, almost 3/4 of Americans believe the world is getting worse and only 6% think it's getting...
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Episode 252: Confronting Brute Force Economics with Rob Atkinson
The Chinese Communist Party sees technology innovation as the main battlefield of its industrial policy - and its ultimate weapon for achieving global dominance. The United States and the Biden Administration needs to confront the reality of what has been called China's "brute force economics"…
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Episode 251: A Conversation with the Extraordinary Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and became the first lieutenant governor of Virginia who is a woman, the first naturalized female citizen, the first female veteran elected to statewide...
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Episode 250: The Terrifying Truth About China's Grip on America | A New Cold War Unveiled - Frank Gaffney and Bradley Thayer
China is the single most formidable strategic threat the United States has ever faced. It alone has the potential to replace the United States as the world's hegemon. China is not a typical foreign adversary on another shore, gathering behind its army, aggressive, thinking about land warfare…
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Episode 249: You Can't Win the Culture War Without Making Movies -Michael and Thomas Pack
In the United States just four networks: Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and HBOMax spend almost $75 billion every year on film, TV and streaming content. And most of this spending goes toward woke, progressive-themed entertainment. The progressive Left has come to dominate our institutions and…
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Episode 248: "The Golden Gate: Power, Sex, Class and Justice in 1940s California" with Amy Chua
In this episode of the Bill Walton Show, my conversation is with Amy Chua, a provocative and original thinker about culture, world politics, and political tribes. Our main topic is her latest book, The Golden Gate, is a novel set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1930s and 1940s. Best known…
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Episode 247: "You Can Prevent a Stroke" with Dr Joshua Yamamoto
Our guest on this episode of Backstage with Bill Walton is Bill's cardiologist Dr. Joshua Yamamoto who has some startling and optimistic things to say about our heart health. "There is almost no such thing as heart disease: it's just natural aging and you can manage it," declares Josh. "We now…
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Episode 246: "What Really Happens at Burning Man: An Insider's Story" with Kenny Reff
nce a year, roughly 70,000 "Burners" gather two hours north of Reno in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary city "dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance." Burners declare that Burning Man isn't a "festival." Rather, "it's a city wherein almost...
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Episode 245: "Climate Catastrophe, or Simply the Weather?" with Jay Richards
In this episode I'm joined by Jay W. Richards, Ph.D. to talk about "climate change." We are both skeptical about the claims that man is causing abnormal changes in the climate, mainly by adding CO₂ to the atmosphere, and that we need a political solution - fast! - to somehow arrest the spread of...
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Episode 244: How Financial Regulators Have Become a (Progressive) Law Unto Themselves" with Todd Zywicki
In this episode I'm talking with Todd Zywicki, the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law in the Antonin Scalia Law School and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. He is also one of the most engaging and clear thinkers about the vast and complicated world of...
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Episode 243: "Capitalism's Promise: Essentially Infinite Resources and Human Flourishing" with George Gilder and John Tamny
I'm talking in this episode with the upbeat and visionary George Gilder, one of America's leading economic and technological thinkers, and the author of the groundbreaking books, Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money and now: Life after Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth…
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Episode 242: "The Surgeon General Now Wants To Cure Your Loneliness: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" with Stella Morabito and Mark Tapscott
In one of our most talked about episodes, Stella Morabito came on the show in May to talk about her book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. We talked about a new kind tyranny creeping into American lives. Government, social...
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