{"podcast":{"title":"Badlands Media","slug":"badlands-media-6674661","podcast_index_feed_id":6674661,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/badlandsmedia/feed.xml","website_url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15577742/1_2tf2af.jpg","author":"Badlands Media","episode_count":100,"summary":"Badlands Media features the work of a dedicated group of Patriot citizen journalists who are changing the media landscape in America. Badlands Media shows are originally broadcast LIVE on Rumble.com/BadlandsMedia.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T14:22:00.344386+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661"},"episode":{"title":"Devolution Power Hour Ep. 493: The Real AI Race, Elon as Weapon","slug":"devolution-power-hour-ep-493-the-real-ai-race-elon-as-weapon","published_at":"2026-09-17T05:29:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661/devolution-power-hour-ep-493-the-real-ai-race-elon-as-weapon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661","url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/devolution-power-hour-ep-493-the-real-ai-race-elon-as-weapon/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/sheufxyv8x7u7fdd/Devolution_Power_Hour_ep_493604rm.mp3","summary":"Jon Herold and Burning Bright pre record from the road this week and dive straight into a wild theory: that the AI safety story dominating headlines right now is timed suspiciously close to the midterms and might be less about safety and more about election interference. They play a clip of Todd Blanche calling the AI panic a hoax and posts from Trump comparing it to treason. Burning Bright lays out a longer running theory about Elon Musk functioning as a character or weapon in a broader disclosure operation, tracing it back to a 2022 Kash Patel clip about DOD contracts that first got him thinking differently about Musk's companies. There's talk of open source Chinese AI models undercutting the big players, a supposed real AI race happening outside public view, and plenty of Nikola Tesla adjacent theorizing along the way. Dense, speculative, and unmistakably devolution flavored.","meta_description":"Jon Herold and Burning Bright pre record from the road this week and dive straight into a wild theory: that the AI safety story dominating headlines right…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5201,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/badlands-media-6674661/episodes/devolution-power-hour-ep-493-the-real-ai-race-elon-as-weapon/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661/devolution-power-hour-ep-493-the-real-ai-race-elon-as-weapon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}