For your upcoming stories, please consider a refreshing new current events podcast that critically analyzes today’s issues through the lens of warfare and geopolitical thought: “Come On, Don’t Bullshit Me!”. An unusual, yet painfully obvious way of looking at ongoing events, the podcast tackles today’s hotly debated issues, including immigration, healthcare, trade, law enforcement, and the national budget. Host Henri de Saint-Simon, a US Air Force veteran who worked as a military scientist, intelligence, and NATO officer focuses on the issues that divide us in the name of political theatre, dismantled by asking cutting questions that lead to the heart of the issues that society struggles with.
In this show by applying the critical thinking principles of military philosophy to current events, Henri cuts to the crux of the real issues including burning questions like:
-Why do citizens consistently vote on policies that hurt them?
-Why is having businessmen in politics harmful for a country?
-Why is it easier for a policeman to kill than it is for a soldier?
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“The finality of war has a keen ability to strip away the bullshit,” says the show host, “You cannot afford to be fooled in war; you have to sniff out bullshit quickly and discriminate against it with prejudice, because your life depends on it. A majority of people today, being so far removed from the ills of war, no longer have this life-or-death need to think critically and strip away bullshit. Thus, people end up confused and deceived much easier than they used to in the past (religious and educational aspects aside).”
About the host
Henri de Saint-Simon is a US Airforce veteran, who now lives in Europe as a private consultant working on strengthening trans-Atlantic commercial partnerships. Henri provides his unique scientific-military perspective on events with the sole purpose of stripping away the bullshit and talking about the real underlying issues.
Schedule
“Come On, Don’t Bullshit Me!” airs twice a month. While episodes are frequently connected to recent events, the message within them does not age. As talking heads continuously spin up new controversies, “Come On, Don’t Bullshit Me!” keeps us grounded and reminds us that “it’s all shit from the same animal”.
Here is an overview of the aired episodes:
Episode 1: The Border “Crisis” addresses the topic of Immigration, busting the whole notion of it being a problem. As the host puts it, “nobody complained when Nazi scientists came to America.” Immigration is not monolithic, and each type of immigration requires its own approach.
The episode also entertains some “popular” measures, such “draconian” methods of border control, taking the Wall with Mexico as an example. As of that particular measure: not only was it not addressing the real issue, but it also got the geography wrong, even if it was.
Episode 2: Cattle, and Sharks, and COVID, Oh My!
Legend has it, an external threat would unite the people of planet Earth. At least, this is what many movies, taking “Independence Day” as an example, have us believe. The reality turned out to be quite different: viruses are an external threat that does not differentiate people based on their color, religion, or political views, COVID became politicized to the extent of being divisive.
This episode looks at why and how it happened and points out some trends, tying those up with broader issues that are taking over the world in our day.
Episode 3: The Business of Killing a Country raises a profound topic of efficiency and optimization, where to optimize the whole one needs to sub-optimize the parts. Likewise, blindly applying business concepts to the government can have devastating consequences for a state. Henri uses the example of the Billionaire Tax to demonstrate how centralization—a key concept to a successful business—would affect a country with citizens from the frame of “employees”.
A shrewd diplomatic win for America quickly turned into a startling diplomatic crisis as France recalled her ambassadors for the first time in American history over the loss of an Australian submarine contract. On the surface, the public saw it as standard business: Australia and France had a deal, then the US offered something better, and Australia took it – so why is France so upset? But the story is much more complex and insidious with consequences that will play out for decades to come.
To fully explain what happened and why it matters, Henri explains in detail the technical and strategic decisions that go into submarine procurement as well as how international alliances, trade, and nuclear regulations all play a part. With all this, he paints a full picture of what went wrong and what it truly means to be “America First”.