{"podcast":{"title":"The David Knight Show","slug":"the-david-knight-show-1060966","podcast_index_feed_id":1060966,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2653468/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://thedavidknightshow.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/870cf2904cf34b2ea31d2b094bf63e30.jpg","author":"David Knight","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Join the journey with David Knight, a true veteran in the realm of news and analysis, and become part of a community that values historical context, critical think, and spiritual insight in navigating the challenges of our era. LIVE every weekday morning at 9am Eastern where you'll find an honest, fresh perspective, not partisan cheerleading. WIth a background as an electrical engineer, David is focused on the interplay of technology & liberty from a Christian perspective. David has had decades of experience in the trenches of politics as an activist, organizer, candidate, reporter, analyst, and news anchor Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T08:17:49.505243+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966"},"episode":{"title":"Thu Episode #2293:  — The Military Industrial Complex Now Runs Every Part of America","slug":"thu-episode-2293-the-military-industrial-complex-now-runs-every-part-of-america","published_at":"2026-06-25T17:01:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/thu-episode-2293-the-military-industrial-complex-now-runs-every-part-of-america","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/thu-episode-2293-the-military-industrial-complex-now-runs-every-part-of-america--72691572","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72691572/dks_fs_06_25_2026.mp3","summary":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:09] Trump Commandeers Ford and GM to Make Missiles — Same Defense Production Act Used for Ventilators Amid depleted stockpiles, Trump issued an emergency order pulling automakers into weapons production; Knight: at least missiles are understood to be for killing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:09:14] Hegseth Says Under-Investment Is America's Greatest Threat — Knight: The Pentagon Budget Is the Threat Hegseth demands Congress pass a 1.5 trillion dollar defense budget; Knight: the military-industrial complex pushing wars for profit is the real danger. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:14:48] Factory Layoffs Hit Pandemic Levels — Trump's Tariffs Destroyed the Manufacturing He Promised to Save Employment fell for the second straight month; raw material and energy costs are the driver; Knight: we never recovered from what Trump did in 2020. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:06] Trump Signs Quantum Computing Orders — Family Positioned to Profit Through 1789 Capital Two orders direct agencies to build a quantum computer by 2028 and crack current encryption; Trump Jr.'s firm is already invested in nine of the targeted quantum companies. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:25:09] Musk Compares SpaceX to Union Pacific — The Original Was a Corrupt Government Monopoly That Bribed Congress Union Pacific pocketed $1.2B before the 1872 scandal; Stanford historian called it a mess of self-dealing; Knight: that is the Trump regime in total. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:56:33] NSA's Stellar Wind Was Illegal From Day One — Section 702 Was Passed to Retroactively Legalize It Hayden committed a felony on September 12, 2001; the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 was Congress's effort t…","meta_description":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:09] Trump Commandeers Ford and GM to Make Missiles — Same Defense Production Act Used for Ventilators Amid…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8463,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-david-knight-show-1060966/episodes/thu-episode-2293-the-military-industrial-complex-now-runs-every-part-of-america/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/thu-episode-2293-the-military-industrial-complex-now-runs-every-part-of-america.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}