{"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":"Tue Episode #2253: Meta, Apple, Palantir, Lockheed — They're Not Donating to a Bunker, They're Buying Political Power","slug":"tue-episode-2253-meta-apple-palantir-lockheed-they-re-not-donating-to-a-bunker-they-re-buying-political-power","published_at":"2026-04-28T19:50:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/tue-episode-2253-meta-apple-palantir-lockheed-they-re-not-donating-to-a-bunker-they-re-buying-political-power","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tue-episode-2253-meta-apple-palantir-lockheed-they-re-not-donating-to-a-bunker-they-re-buying-political-power--71714447","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71714447/dks_fs_04_28_2026.mp3","summary":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:52] Trump Wants to Rename ICE to \"NICE\" — Knight: Soviet-Style Propaganda, Not Satire Trump endorsed changing ICE to National Immigration Customs Enforcement so media would say \"NICE agents\" — Knight: Soviet-style propaganda, a substitute for achievements while the police state is built around us. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:23:25] CS Lewis Invented the Acronym \"NICE\" in 1945 for His Totalitarian Villain Organization In That Hideous Strength, NICE stood for the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments — a front for dark supernatural forces dehumanizing people through technocratic means. Knight: somebody in the Trump orbit read CS Lewis. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:34:21] 37 Corporate Donors Funding the $400M White House Bunker — Meta, Apple, Palantir, Lockheed Martin Among Them Fortune published the full list of 37 donors — nation's largest tech companies and defense contractors, all with pending business before the Trump administration. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:36:29] AI-Generated Alex Karp Monologue: \"We Aren't Here to Protect Privacy — We Are Here to Enforce Supremacy\" Knight plays an AI rendering of Karp's manifesto: \"Your civil liberties are a liability. We are the ledger. Every tax return, every license plate — your president signed it.\" Knight: a perfect summary of what they are building. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:00:44] Leaving Neverland Director: Jackson Was Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein — The Film Was Legally Buried Director Dan Reed says Jackson was a serial child predator worse than Epstein — the HBO documentary was pulled after the Jackson estate invoked a 1992 non-disparagement clause in perpetuity. ──────────────────────────────────…","meta_description":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:52] Trump Wants to Rename ICE to \"NICE\" — Knight: Soviet-Style Propaganda, Not Satire Trump endorsed chang…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7417,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-david-knight-show-1060966/episodes/tue-episode-2253-meta-apple-palantir-lockheed-they-re-not-donating-to-a-bunker-they-re-buying-political-power/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/tue-episode-2253-meta-apple-palantir-lockheed-they-re-not-donating-to-a-bunker-they-re-buying-political-power.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}