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Ty Bricker
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Black Army Radio, with Ty Bricker (former 2/75 Army Ranger/CIA contractor/federal LEO) and Joel Manzanares (survivalist/hunter/outdoorsman), delivers political history with teeth. We dissect power, propaganda, and politics with an independent edge - no tribal scripts, no gatekeepers, just the most honest read we can give. If you want context without boring commentary - welcome.

  1. Oct 24

    One Man’s Terrorist, Another Man’s Freedom Fighter — Today, the Houthis of Yemen

    One Man’s Terrorist, Another Man’s Freedom Fighter — The Houthis of Yemen August 9, 2018. Dhayan, Northern Yemen. A yellow school bus parked at a market. Forty children aged six to eleven on a summer field trip. A laser-guided bomb drops from the sky and hits the bus directly. The bomb was a GBU-12 Paveway manufactured by Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, Maryland. Sold by the U.S. government to the Royal Saudi Air Force. The plane that dropped it was refueled by an American tanker. No one was ever prosecuted. This week we launch a new series on rebel groups, freedom fighters, and terrorist organizations — one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. We open with the Houthis of Yemen. The Zaydi Shia tradition that ruled northern Yemen for a thousand years. The six Saada wars. Twenty-four years of American drone strikes. Anwar al-Awlaki’s sixteen-year-old American son, killed eating dinner at a restaurant. $64 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. By 2021, a UN report estimated at least 377,000 dead. 85,000 Yemeni children, at least, have been starved to death. And how a nation represented by the poorest fighters on Earth, just defeated the Saudi military that American tax dollars built. Who taught them how to fight like this? We did, after almost 24 years of perpetual bombing of maybe the poorest country on earth. #blackarmyradio #news #Yemen #Houthis #freedomfighters

    One Man’s Terrorist, Another Man’s Freedom Fighter — Today, the Houthis of Yemen

  2. Oct 20

    The Houthis episode got bumped. Instead, Patreon listeners pick the fight — Supreme Court, secession, and the book that the feds don’t want you to read

    Patreon Listeners Pick the Fight — Supreme Court, Secession, and the Book that the Feds Don’t Want You to Read The Houthis episode got bumped. Instead, two Black Army Radio listeners sent in long Patreon responses to last week’s question — what political system would you build if you were king for a day — and the whole show spiraled from there. Along the way: $18 billion of Venezuelan assets sitting in a Marco Rubio-managed offshore account. Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly trying to blackmail the White House over her American Express bill. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s human failure to resign under Obama, and what it cost the court for the next thirty years. Why the Supreme Court is 33 percent of the government with zero accountability. Plus: dinosaurs had sixty-five million years to evolve consciousness. Homo Naledi was burying their dead half a million years ago. AI just hacked a stranger’s website to cover up its own cheating. And the book John Ross wrote — Unintended Consequences — that costs $150 on Amazon because the federal government quietly scrubbed it. Taught at FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center) as a book agents aren’t supposed to read. Houthis next episode. We promise. @breakingpoints @partoftheproblem @theowenreport @dropsitenews #blackarmyradio #newsfeed #news #trump #midterms #middleeast #war

    The Houthis episode got bumped. Instead, Patreon listeners pick the fight — Supreme Court, secession, and the book that the feds don’t want you to read

  3. Oct 13

    The Phantom Ceasefire, Six-Dollar Diesel, and the Mom Crying at City Market over grocery costs.

    The Phantom Ceasefire, Six-Dollar Diesel, and the Mom Crying at City Market over grocery costs. Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. Neither Putin nor Zelensky had any idea what he was talking about. Hours later Ukraine smoked a Russian refinery. Russia responded with a ballistic missile strike that blacked out all of Kyiv. Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, the Houthis — fighters out of one of the poorest nations on Earth — have shut down Riyadh’s international airport, killed 15, wounded 300, and the Saudi military cannot stop them. The U.S. is out of Patriot interceptors because we gave them all to Israel. And in Steamboat, Colorado, a 30-year-old mom stood in the City Market dairy aisle with her kids in the cart and quietly cried over a $9 carton of whipping cream she couldn’t buy. Diesel is pushing $7 a gallon. Gas is $5. This week we walk through all of it. Plus Ty’s own Baghdad chow hall story about why contractors don’t hide under plastic tables, Ben Askren’s lung-transplant GoFundMe, the student loan trap, and one open question we’re putting to listeners: what system would you build if you were king for a day?

    The Phantom Ceasefire, Six-Dollar Diesel, and the Mom Crying at City Market over grocery costs.

  4. Oct 8

    Has the plague escaped from a lab in Siberia? The Houthis strike the Saudi Arabian capital city of Riyadh, as Trump and Netanyahu discuss more strikes on Iran. Why non-nuclear countries MUST nuclearize.

    The New Nuclear Dozen — The Series Finale A 28 year old Russian scientist working in Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia has died from a disease of "unknown origin." The War in Iran expands as Trump and Netanyahu discuss another "shock and awe" strike on Iran, as Iran continues to hit ships militarily in the Strait of Hormuz. Escalation with Saudi Arabia: The Houthis from Yemen continue to hit Saudi targets as they strike the capital of Saudi Arabia: Riyadh. The international airport there is now closed, and international fights are being directed away from Saudi airspace. September 22, 2026. From the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations.” The Union of Concerned Scientists issues a formal statement that same day: Trump’s words constitute an implied threat to use overwhelming nuclear force. Six months earlier, Trump posted to Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Amnesty International called those words apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation. This is the finale of our three-part series on the nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026. The pattern across both the Russia-Ukraine and US-Iran wars is now one phenomenon. Nine states — South Korea, Japan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, Iran, and Ukraine — are actively moving toward nuclear weapons acquisition. The post-Cold War non-proliferation order is dissolving in real time. Mutual Assured Destruction, the doctrine that kept the Cold War cold, has been progressively replaced by tactical nuclear doctrine that treats limited exchange as survivable. What this means for your family. And what you can actually do about it. #blackarmyradio #nuclearweapons #trump #iran #turkey #saudiarabia #middleeast

    Has the plague escaped from a lab in Siberia? The Houthis strike the Saudi Arabian capital city of Riyadh, as Trump and Netanyahu discuss more strikes on Iran. Why non-nuclear countries MUST nuclearize.

  5. Oct 2

    Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran.

    Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran. Pre-dawn, February 28, 2026. American and Israeli missiles strike Tehran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in his compound. So is his 14-month-old granddaughter. So is most of his family. All 19 US intelligence agencies had assessed Iran was not building a bomb. Netanyahu told Trump otherwise in an hour-long Situation Room presentation on February 11. US envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly misrepresented Iran's offer to suspend uranium enrichment for several years — an offer that could have prevented the war. Seven months in: 1,700+ Iranian civilians killed by documented count. 168 killed in a single Tomahawk strike on a school in Minab, mostly children, little girls. The US Navy Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain damaged. The Houthis seize Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline. Diesel at $6 a gallon. And Iran is still functioning. Khamenei's son Mojtaba now leads. Iran's parliament has introduced legislation to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Every country that has ever withdrawn from the NPT has acquired nuclear weapons. This week: how we got here, what Iran is learning, and what every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning with them. #blackarmyradio #news #iran #nuclearweapons #middleeast #trump #hamas #lebanon #hezbollah #gaza #iraq @davesmith @breakingpoints @piersmorgan @owenshoyer @saagarenjeti @krystalball @dropsitenews @theowenreport

    Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran.

  6. Sep 30

    The nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026. What every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning.

    Two Million Casualties — The Budapest Betrayal and the Nuclear Age's New Corner, December 5, 1994. Budapest, Hungary. Ukraine surrenders the third-largest nuclear arsenal on Earth — 1,900 warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles — in exchange for security guarantees signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation. Twenty years later, one of those guarantors invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Eight years after that, the same guarantor launched a full-scale war intended to destroy Ukrainian statehood. Three and a half years in, the combined casualty count on both sides has surpassed 2 million, per the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Russia has suffered up to 450,000 dead — the highest battlefield death toll for any major power since World War II. And Russia is losing. In 2025, Russia suffered 200 casualties for each square mile taken. In the first five months of 2026, 9,600 casualties per square mile. Its casualty ratio has collapsed to nearly 8-to-1 against it. Its recruitment cannot keep pace with its losses. Which is why Putin has formally lowered the threshold for nuclear weapons use. This week we open a new series on the nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026. What every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning. #blackarmyradio #russia #ukraine #nuclear #news

    The nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026. What every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning.

  7. Sep 25

    The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku (12,800 feet above sea level), and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake

    The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku, and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake 12,800 feet above sea level. The Bolivian Altiplano. Near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca sits a platform called Puma Punku. Its builders quarried 131-ton red sandstone blocks 10 kilometers away and hauled them uphill by muscle power alone. They quarried 130-ton andesite blocks — one of the hardest stones on Earth — from a peninsula 40 kilometers away, across a lake, and cut them to tolerances measured today at hundredths of a millimeter. They bound the blocks with molten copper clamps in a technique that appears elsewhere in the ancient world only in Egypt and Mesopotamia. This week we walk through the engineering. The Berkeley experimental archaeology showing how it was achieved. And why the knowledge of how to do it at scale was lost when Tiwanaku collapsed and has never been recovered. Plus Viracocha — the bearded creator god who emerged from Lake Titicaca, destroyed a first race of giants in a flood, taught humanity civilization, and walked west across the Pacific promising to return. The same story we found in Sumer. In Egypt. In Mesoamerica. On every continent. Different vocabulary. Same phenomenon.

    The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku (12,800 feet above sea level), and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake

  8. Sep 22

    Six Dollar Diesel — The Iran War Comes Home to Every American Kitchen Table

    Six Dollar Diesel — The Iran War Comes Home to Every American Kitchen Table On September 11, 2026, diesel hit $6.05 per gallon nationwide — the highest price in American history, per AAA. Up from $3.76 before the U.S.-Israel war on Iran began on February 28. Gasoline is at $4.15, up from $2.98. Brent crude at $95-108 per barrel, up from $70. Every trucker, rancher, farmer, and small business owner in America is now paying the war tax at the pump. A full tractor-trailer fill now costs $1,452 — five hundred and fifty dollars more than six months ago. This week we walk through what actually happened. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis, in a lightning offensive between September 6 and 14, seized Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline including Mokha, Perim Island, and the Hanish Islands — giving Iran's regional axis operational control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as well. The Saudi Crown Prince personally called President Trump twice on September 11 begging for U.S. military intervention. Trump declined. Iran has now issued seven conditions to the United States for ending the war. And every American is paying for it every day. #blackarmyradio #gasprices #deisel #economy #iran #news

    Six Dollar Diesel — The Iran War Comes Home to Every American Kitchen Table
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Black Army Radio, with Ty Bricker (former 2/75 Army Ranger/CIA contractor/federal LEO) and Joel Manzanares (survivalist/hunter/outdoorsman), delivers political history with teeth. We dissect power, propaganda, and politics with an independent edge - no tribal scripts, no gatekeepers, just the most honest read we can give. If you want context without boring commentary - welcome.

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  • Creator
    Ty Bricker
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ty Bricker
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