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Welcome to Space Tomatoes, the podcast where we boldly go where no logic has gone before, armed with nothing but an unhealthy amount of enthusiasm and a profound lack of focus. Here, we discuss everything and nothing, jumping from topics like quantum physics to why pineapple is (or isn’t) a pizza topping—sometimes in the same sentence. Join us as we dive deep into the void of random musings, irrelevant trivia, and obscure pop culture references that are guaranteed to make you giggle, cringe, or wonder if we’ve lost touch with reality (spoiler: we have).

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    Collapse Aware Not Black Pilled Christian from Unshadowed-IAF on Food Water and Control

    "I'm willing to go to bat, let's save humanity. But when it starts hurting my children, maybe I've missed the boat somewhere." Christian Westbrook, the researcher and homesteader formerly known as Ice Age Farmer and now publishing as UNSHADOWED (unshadowed.org), sits down with Havok and LX for a campfire episode that starts with the real reasons behind his hiatus and ends with the deepest lever of control there is: food. The story you have not heard in full: a rebrand born from two collisions at once. A fluoroquinolone antibiotic (levofloxacin) left him with mitochondrial damage that a year of doctors, supplements, and willpower could not undo. And a broadcast that grew loud enough to attract "the wrong parties," locking him out of financial accounts and pulling his family into the fight. Both taught him the same lesson: you can never prep, broadcast, or save hard enough to force reality to conform. So he stopped. That is what Unshadowed is. Then the world cooperated with his return by validating all of it. The IEA rolled out energy crisis policy papers within weeks of the Strait closure. The FAO announced a food crisis tied to fertilizer, because most fertilizer is a byproduct of fuel refining and the majority of the world eats fertilized crops. The UN declared full "water bankruptcy" and recommended canceling water rights. Governments that usually say "we've got it under control" have started, two to three per day, telling citizens to stockpile. Meanwhile a historic PHP vulnerability wave just dubbed 40 to 70 percent of the internet instantly insecure, and yes, Europe's freezers (and apparently some Pentagon ones) got hacked. Christian's take: this is the perfect Halloween show, because nobody has to invent the ghosts. Havok brings the tinfoil hat and the systems thinking: pandemic scripts that fizzled, Ukraine and Russia as the breadbasket, Yemen choking the Bab el-Mandeb and fertilizer with it, and the Kissinger line as the punchline. If virus control got busted, maybe food scarcity is the new lever. Christian goes deeper still, to Mathias Desmet's argument that technocratic totalitarianism is the necessary endpoint of a materialist worldview, and to the one plant that explains his whole philosophy: the green shoot splitting two slabs of concrete. Collapse awareness without the black pill. Then it all lands where it always should, in the Ice Age Farmer solution groups, years of chicken-leg splints and canning wisdom, Havok's "daily white pill," amaranth that pops like popcorn, and the Asch conformity experiments: one person saying what they see frees everyone else to do the same. Key takeaways: The hiatus was two stories at once: a fluoroquinolone antibiotic causing mitochondrial injury (mtDNA damage that regenerates damaged), and broadcast friction that reached his family and finances. His two-part "Prescribed Poisons: Fluoroquinolones" series at unshadowed.org is the write-up. Fluoroquinolones earned their first black box warning for tendon damage. Reactions can surface 6 to 8 weeks later. No cure exists; management is constant antioxidant scrubbing (CBD, vitamin C, NAC, sunlight, red light; he is skeptical of methylene blue as a synthetic dye). Never autopilot a prescription. This year the food, water, energy takeover went from stated agenda to formal announcements: pre-written IEA policy papers, FAO food crisis via fertilizer, UN water bankruptcy recommending canceling water rights and tracking usage. Fertilizer is the canary, not transportation. Fuel byproduct, and most of the world is fed by it. You can take fertilizer off the tractor; you cannot take it off a field that has none. Governments telling citizens to stockpile is a script inversion. They usually say everything is fine because they want you to need them. The cyber layer: historic vulnerability wave, a PHP exploit touching an estimated 40 to 70 percent of the web, AI-assisted scanning swarms, hacked refrigerators in Europe and Pentagon confirmations. The control escalation logic: pandemic narratives no longer land, so food scarcity is the bigger lever. Kissinger said it out loud: control food, control people. Vaccine passports were the openly admitted test run. Christian's frame beyond conspiracy: archetypal evil, the Jungian collective shadow we refused to look at, now popping on cue. Mathias Desmet: technocratic totalitarianism is the endpoint of a materialist ontology that sees us as meat suits with electricity. The exit is not doom scrolling, it is the Asch experiments: one person speaking frees the room. Be that one person offline. And then dirt: amaranth that self-seeds and pops like nutty popcorn, Havok's mint that refuses to grow, LX's 30 Seminole-pumpkin-kissed butternuts on a quarter acre in Florida city country. https://unshadowed.org https://t.me/IAF_Resources

    Collapse Aware Not Black Pilled Christian from Unshadowed-IAF on Food Water and Control

  2. Oct 31 ·  Video

    An Economist on Socialism, Bubbles, and Bailing Out - Dr. Doug Cardell

    An economist read the entire Democratic Socialists of America platform, and his verdict is blunt: it is not an economic policy, it is a wish list for a genie. Dr. Doug Cardell, author of Why Socialism Struggles and founder of evidentiary economics, returns to Space Tomatoes with Havok and LX to take apart the DSA's free housing, free education through a doctorate, 32 hour workweek, open borders, no police, no military wishlist, line by line, and then explain why a $40 trillion nation is the worst possible lab for the experiment. The through line of the whole conversation: the economy, the environment, and the human body are all complex, spontaneously ordered systems. They organize themselves. Government's job is guardian, not tinkerer. Bail the plane out and the pilot takes bigger risks. Suppress every fire and the forest builds a catastrophe. Print past production and your wheelbarrow buys a loaf of bread. Chapters: 00:00 Cold open: money printer go brrr and the bailout moral hazard 00:52 Welcome back, Dr. Doug Cardell 01:49 The economy right now: recoverable, but the election is the real risk 02:24 Inside the DSA platform, line by line 04:27 Free food, free housing, no police, no military, open borders 05:10 LX asks the forbidden question: how do you pay for it? 05:53 Capitalism flipped global poverty, 90 percent to 10 percent since 1800 06:35 Does socialism work at small scale? The Amish answer 08:02 Self-interest is not selfishness, and cancer makes the case 11:32 $40 trillion in debt, the PPI miss, junk bond AI paper 13:14 Aircraft carriers and speedboats: why capitalism turns on a dime 14:34 Let it fail: no such thing as too big to fail (Dow 30 proof) 15:25 3 percent reserves, the AI bubble, and the dot com parallel 16:57 Anatomy of a bubble: tulips, 1929, dot com, 2008, fundamentals vs technicals 19:59 The flip tax: day flips taxed to zero, 30 year holds tax free 21:56 Hands off your index fund: Buffett, S&P 500, and once a quarter 22:45 QE infinity and the politics of the printer 24:10 The economy as an environment: spontaneous order 26:39 Guardian, not tinkerer, and the government buying stock in 35 companies 28:49 Your body is spontaneously ordered too: keto, carnivore, and fast twitch 31:33 The stocky runner: one size fits nobody 32:41 California, the worm, and the fire suppression that made megafires 34:16 Cronyism is not capitalism: sometimes the forest has to burn 35:38 Rent control is fire suppression, played out step by step 38:06 The butterfly effect, and government interventions are T. rex 39:23 Inflation never goes backwards: the IRA's two decade hangover 40:18 Thelma and Louise economics and the $1.2 trillion stimulus fantasy 42:07 Inflationary spending vs real infrastructure 43:25 Fractional reserve banking and the 3 percent problem 44:38 Seatbelts, bailouts, and learning to drive recklessly 45:22 Supply and demand 101, and an education system that skipped class 47:17 Digging holes pays nothing: create value, then get paid 52:35 The real minimum wage is zero: Friedman's teaspoon builders 56:15 Delayed cause and effect: the three week dog treat, and the Sahara Desert quote 57:48 97 percent gone since 1913, 81 percent since 1971 59:12 Evidentiary economics vs agenda economics, the 96/4 professor split 01:00:06 MMT, wheelbarrow money: Weimar, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Argentina 01:01:18 Can't budget, can't roll a car loan: the financial literacy gap 01:02:13 Algebra, calculus, and the percent vs level con in headlines 01:04:06 Why every high school should require economics Dr. Cardell's site: https://dougcardell.com The Book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Struggles-Exposing-Undermine/dp/B0FMT74MJR/ref=sr_1_1 Want to be a guest on Space Tomatoes? Send us a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    An Economist on Socialism, Bubbles, and Bailing Out - Dr. Doug Cardell

  3. Oct 23 ·  Video

    22 Million Kids a Year - A Marine's 5-Page Fix for Family Courts

    Keith Barton spent 16 years and a lot of dollars in lawyers inside America's family court system. When he stopped hiring lawyers, he won his own appeal pro se. Then he wrote the fix in 5 pages, and now he is running for Congress in Texas to make states fund fathers instead of custody wars. The math behind the mission: 22 million kids flow through family court every year, and studies he cites put 70 to 85 percent of violent crime behind people raised by a single parent. Equal parenting means higher earnings, less abuse, less welfare, less crime. His fix: judge checklists, written rulings, and federal incentives that respect the 10th Amendment. Then we nerd out on the Proximal War series. Real Marine Corps air ground tactics 5,000 years in the future. What actually happens when humanity meets a Type II civilization. Liquid-born silicon aliens with triple helix DNA, Dyson rings built from dismantled moons, warp corridors that fold space like paper, and zero hand-waving (he did the orbital mechanics himself). Plus Huey war stories only a naval aviator can tell: under the Golden Gate Bridge, inside Mount Pinatubo, low over DC, a Huey with no hydraulic fluid on the floor is a Huey you get out of, 15 mission sets to the C-130's 9, and call signs you earn by messing up (his: Krusty, with a K). Author of the Proximal War series, the Joey America children's books, and the travel read series. 20 year Marine Corps veteran, Huey pilot, congressional candidate, family court reform advocate. Chapters 0:00 Cold open: are helicopters really deadlier? 0:44 Meet Keith Barton: Marine, Huey pilot, author, candidate 1:36 I earned that damn title twice: enlisted to officer 2:09 Lost at 8.5 percent, announced again the next day 3:35 Lean Six Sigma vs family court: the 5 page fix 4:18 States get paid federally to break up families 6:08 The crime stat that made him run (70 to 85 percent) 7:38 You do not get to respond: inside the black box 9:13 Criminal and civil courts already have the fix 11:08 16 years, $500K in lawyers, then he won pro se 14:50 Grunt, recon, flight school, Huey, Afghanistan 15:29 No combat until he became the logistics officer 17:11 Under the Golden Gate, around Pinatubo, low over DC 18:10 No hydraulic fluid on the floor? Get out 19:00 15 mission sets and flying laser for Hellfires 20:30 Call signs are earned by messing up (Krusty, with a K) 22:19 Proximal War: real MAGTF tactics, 5,000 years out 23:17 The one question: meeting a Type II civilization 23:46 Liquid-born aliens, triple helix DNA, Dyson rings 25:22 The aging probe and the near extinction of humanity 27:00 Weapons physics allows: kinetic and plasma only 29:18 Saturn's rings and sealed suits: death by physics 34:31 Warp corridors: fold the paper, do not cross it 36:55 Centurions: rule of three and omni-directional orbs 40:14 Fighter class vs breeder class: his Game of Thrones moment 43:20 UAP videos and the AI that saves the day 44:49 Joey America and travel reads with real vocabulary 49:08 Writing fast, writing brutal, pinnacle of grunt-ness 51:36 Lt. Col. Max Hunter and Gunny Derek Keith Barton's site; https://www.bartonfortexas.com/ Havok and LX host The Space Tomatoes Podcast. Full episode, guest Bio, and blog at spacetomatoes.net. Want to be a guest on Space Tomatoes? Send us a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    22 Million Kids a Year - A Marine's 5-Page Fix for Family Courts

  4. Oct 17 ·  Video

    No Guests Just Chaos | Space Tomatoes S3-EP16

    Havok and LX go full host-only chaos no guests, no script, just two homesteaders talking about the weird, practical, and mildly unhinged side of running a podcast in 2026. From cold calling experts (and feeling like a used car salesman with nothing to sell) to building a local AI agent that drafts clips, schedules posts, and writes show notes while Havok still hand edits every video, they cover the real workflow behind Space Tomatoes. They also dive into Instagram and TikTok confusion, why smart fridges and digital price tags are a hard no, the RAM price spike from AI data centers, LX’s new eGym habit, cats that still hunt for sport, and the eternal debate on cutting filler words. Plus the reverse OnlyFans idea, tar and feathering as public shaming, and why neither of them is selling out to subscriptions anytime soon. This is the unscripted, zero filter version of the show, tangents, farm talk, and real talk about tools that actually help without replacing the humans. Chapters 0:00 Welcome back host only episode 1:45 Cold calling guests and the used car sales pitch 3:20 Instagram, TikTok, and string can social media idea 6:00 Local AI agent: clips, scheduling, and approval gates 15:20 Transparency on AI use (thumbnails, clips, publishing not editing) 19:30 Privacy, smart appliances, and “why does my oven need Wi-Fi?” 25:40 Digital price tags, surge pricing, and artificial discounts 28:30 AI data centers, RAM prices, and iPad inflation 29:30 LX’s eGym experiment and the lactic acid tax 34:50 Cats, lizards, rats in the chicken coop, and birds of prey 40:20 Filler words: keep them or cut them? 43:00 Guest booking realities and no shows 49:30 Seinfeld, envelopes, concert ticket prices, and subscription fatigue 1:08:00 Tar and feathering, public shaming, and wrapping up Listen on Fountain, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts, also on YouTube, X, Instagram, and Telegram. spacetomatoes.net | Want to be a guest? PodMatch: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    No Guests Just Chaos | Space Tomatoes S3-EP16

  5. Oct 9 ·  Video

    Life in Woke America with Author Joel Rakow, Secret Labs, and the Liberty Scorecard S3-EP15

    Havok and LX sit down with Joel Rakow, author of Life in Woke America, for an unscripted pass at the novel that started as a full story he woke up already knowing. An orphan coming of age in the COVID years, with billion-dollar sports, robots, and an America more woke than usual. Joel walks the real Reedley, California lab (congressional report, vials labeled Ebola, HIV, hepatitis, COVID, the “one mouse is not a bioweapon” argument), the fictional forward base in Amarillo, and why the pursuit of truth went missing from the coverage. They detour through his Texas ranch and horses that always create outsiders, a printer that dropped the word “Woke” off the cover, a near-miss drive toward January 6, Quiet Skies lists, and the Liberty Scorecard app he built with his grandson so anyone can search a public official and get a constitutional alignment score in under a minute. The book, ranch, and the middle-class test that used to measure whether government was working. Chapters 0:00 Welcome, Joel Rakow and the title that doesn’t clear the blue-haired army 2:16 What “woke” actually meant, and the shift from middle class to fringe 6:24 Mares, geldings, and the horse that got cut out of the herd 6:52 Reedley Lab: real event, Chinese operators, and the congressional photos 12:09 Why they called it a bio lab instead of a bioweapon lab 15:01 The Amarillo forward base and info-war takedown (fiction) 17:44 Online mentor, robot prototypes, and the Panhandle home-repair upgrade 19:05 Military hero for a few days, then the watch list 23:18 Ambiguous ethnicity as the book’s poke at identity politics 26:01 Death by a thousand cuts: printing, bans, and the missing word 30:16 Ranch minerals, the Biden-era debanking start, and the J6 near miss 33:37 Flu shot on Monday, flu by afternoon 40:18 Half California, half Texas, and the racism that didn’t match the script 45:38 Policing a ranch bigger than living memory, cattle at $3,000 a head 52:02 Shout-out to Earl Trotman, little-league coach and fire captain 54:23 Liberty Scorecard: point, score, share 59:00 lifeinwokeamerica.com, Amazon, and where to find Joel https://www.amazon.com/Life-Woke-America-Familys-Betrayal-ebook/dp/B0H5NQKHXZ Want to be a guest on Space Tomatoes? Send us a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    Life in Woke America with Author Joel Rakow, Secret Labs, and the Liberty Scorecard S3-EP15

  6. Oct 3 ·  Video

    The War That Didn't Happen Herman Forwood on Twilight of Democracy and the Empathy Cliff S3-EP14

    What if the war stopped in 1939, after Kristallnacht and the invasion of Poland, and the world still had to live with what it almost did? Author, podcaster, and history student Herman Forwood joins Havok and LX on The Space Tomatoes Podcast to walk through Twilight of Democracy: World's Descent into Darkness, the alternate-1950 historical fantasy he started in 2022. Not baby-Hitler fan fiction. A second-chance world, Anne Frank at 21, a weakened Soviet Union that never got the Nazi scientists, Japan left as a Pacific superpower, and an America that annexes Greenland. He wrote that last bit before the headlines caught up. Then the thought experiment turns around and points at now. Vietnam’s “hearts and minds,” both Desert Storms, Gaza, Iran’s 90 million, and why empathy falls off a cliff about 20 miles from your driveway. Social-media posts versus letters to actual politicians. Votes that feel like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why a free election is not a template you can mail to Palestine or Tehran. Why sanctions mostly punish the people, not the fat cats. And why the bar has dropped from “lift someone’s life” to “please don’t kill me, and let me have the Tylenol.” Detours include The Man in the High Castle, Plot Against America, Operation Paperclip, a pizza treaty, cauliflower crust, HOA flower-bed tribunals, and the preorder for Secrets and Murders, his gated-community murder mystery aimed at spring 2027. Guest: Herman Forwood, author of Twilight of Democracy and Echoes of the Ancients. Based in California. Grew up in the Middle East through high school. Site: https://www.hermanforwood.com Show: https://spacetomatoes.net Want to be a guest on Space Tomatoes? Send us a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    The War That Didn't Happen Herman Forwood on Twilight of Democracy and the Empathy Cliff S3-EP14

  7. Sep 25 ·  Video

    Dead Stages George Fontes on Surviving the Shutdown and Changes S3-EP13

    They shut down the weddings, the concerts, the corporate blowouts, and the paychecks. George Fontes (World Ablaze Podcast) ran a 27-year live events and production company with 32 people on payroll when COVID hit. The entire industry went dark. Remote Zoom galas, government-funded church LED walls, tour riders that demand a half-million-dollar console, and the slow realization that once clients buy the gear they stop renting it. Havok and LX sit down with George for an unscripted ride through the wreckage: how installs kept the lights on, why monitor mixing is the real high-wire act, what happens when artists bring 20 channels of backing tracks, the difference between Charlie Daniels and Auto-Tune country, meeting Dio (actually cool), Jerry remembering his name at NAMM, and why the hardest part wasn’t the shutdown it was the years after when budgets collapsed and the economy finally caught up. Then it gets bigger. Crowd psychology, Bernays, the herd, data-center water fights, the AI war, and why thorium keeps getting ignored. No scripts. No sacred cows. Just a guy who’s still mixing. World Ablaze with George Fontes https://worldablazepodcast.com Chapters 00:00 Welcome George Fontes / World Ablaze 00:50 27 years in events, COVID shutdown, remote corporate “concerts” 03:25 Payroll of 32, hustle mode, 1099s, church LED wall installs that saved the company 07:00 Tour riders, Martin Vipers vs what you actually own, millions in gear 11:30 Why a keynote now has a rider, coverage patterns, line arrays, SMART, and actual physics 14:34 Motörhead walls, Jerry Only’s custom bass, and turning it up to 11 16:21 The real hangover: 2025–2026 budgets, canceled festivals, businesses getting bought 18:33 Groceries, gas, SD cards, and the stock market vs real life 23:38 California venue cards, picking your battles, keeping the crew working 26:35 What the shutdown actually revealed 28:16 The 20% who said no, Fauci, and lost accountability 31:20 Masks in pockets, grocery-store arrows, and emergency use 36:00 Le Bon, Bernays, Goebbels, predictive programming, and the slow drip 42:26 Data centers, evaporative cooling, droughts, closed-loop systems, and the AI war 53:10 Meeting the heroes: Dio, Jerry Only at NAMM, Ron Jeremy crashing the Peavey booth 1:02:00 Backing tracks, worship-band laptops, and the Auto-Tune country crime 1:04:06 Charlie Daniels, Oak Ridge Boys, and old-school musicians who could actually play 1:05:47 Why monitors are harder than FOH, RF coordination, and being a drummer helps 1:08:51 Favorite gigs, Tech N9ne, Cash Cash, Michael McDonald effortless 1:17:54 Shoutouts: Miss Manti and Dad 1:19:50 World Ablaze politics, geopolitics, no rage-bait 1:22:06 Where to find Space Tomatoes (YouTube, X, Nostr, everywhere) Want to be a guest on Space Tomatoes? Send us a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    Dead Stages George Fontes on Surviving the Shutdown and Changes S3-EP13

  8. Sep 18 ·  Video

    From Bronze Star to Plot Armor Matt Hasty on Orders, Anarchy & Charleston Stages S3-EP12

    Bronze Star. Retired Army chief warrant officer. Congressional candidate who outpolled Kanye in Louisiana’s 5th. Now he’s acting, directing, teaching camera work in Charleston, and writing screenplays because he “really thinks he’s the only person in the world that can write good movies.” Havok and LX sit down with Matt Hasty for an unscripted brawl that starts with artistic outlets after politics dies and ends somewhere between posse comitatus, propane-tank pigs, Punisher Max, and whether the average American lives better than Genghis Khan. They argue illegal orders vs. sedition, “shall not be infringed” vs. well-regulated militia, FEMA comms in Puerto Rico, why Hollywood turns nasty the second money shows up, and why Matt can tell a million-dollar paycheck to pound sand. VA retirement bought him the one thing most actors never get: the freedom to say no. He still might go to the party. Just don’t touch him. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome Matt Hasty — Bronze Star, Congress, Actor 00:02 Artistic Outlets After the Campaign Fizzles 00:07 Charleston Film Scene, Gemstones, and Propane-Tank Pigs 00:11 Hollywood Nastiness, Diddy Jokes & VA Freedom 00:15 FEMA After Katrina and the Walmart Camp Question 00:22 Stupid Orders and the Hurricane Nobody Wanted to Call 00:26 Illegal Orders, Brainwashing, and Sedition Videos 00:32 Constitutional Knife Fight: SCOTUS, 2A, Standing Armies 00:48 Too Late to Save America? Spooner, the Fed, and Voting Theater 00:50 DoorDash Royalty vs Anarchy — Do We Need Rulers? 01:03 Punisher Max, Nightcrawler & Batman’s Plot Armor 01:08 Running for Congress on Retirement Pay (and Beating Kanye) 01:17 Grace, Jesus, and What Form the Tyranny Takes 01:20 The Good That Shows Up When Disaster Hits 01:23 Shoutout to Jesus & Where to Find Matt (Matt.Hasty378) Want to be a guest? PodMatch: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/spacetomatoes

    From Bronze Star to Plot Armor Matt Hasty on Orders, Anarchy & Charleston Stages S3-EP12
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Welcome to Space Tomatoes, the podcast where we boldly go where no logic has gone before, armed with nothing but an unhealthy amount of enthusiasm and a profound lack of focus. Here, we discuss everything and nothing, jumping from topics like quantum physics to why pineapple is (or isn’t) a pizza topping—sometimes in the same sentence. Join us as we dive deep into the void of random musings, irrelevant trivia, and obscure pop culture references that are guaranteed to make you giggle, cringe, or wonder if we’ve lost touch with reality (spoiler: we have).

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  • Creator
    SpaceTomatoes-podcast
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    78
  • Rating
    Explicit
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