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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 · Guest Host Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.) · 9AM to 12PM ET
9:06 ET · Show Open and Monologue
Guest host Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt opens the show with a look at where America stands after the President’s Beijing visit. The question on the table: now where do we go? Iran, Europe, and the midterms.
- Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Holt as guest host and what to expect from this run.
- Themes and guests for the hour.
- Post Beijing visit: now where do we go on Iran, Europe, and the midterms.
More on Gen. Holt’s podcast: Dangerous Intellectuals
9:20 ET · Victoria Coates · Post Beijing, Iran, and Kharg Island
Victoria Coates, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa, and a key architect of the Maximum Pressure Campaign against Iran.
- The cease fire appears to be a cease fire in name only. Post Beijing visit, where are we headed.
- Solid indications that Iran is dumping hundreds of thousands of oil barrels into the straits, suggesting wells are stressed. Is it time to take Kharg Island.
- If the oil infrastructure in Iran looks set for destruction, how do we keep China on the sidelines.
9:35 ET · Tom Del Beccaro · Where Are We, and Navigating to November
Tom Del Beccaro, author of The Lessons of the American Civilization and The Divided Era. Host of Politics in Perspective. Opinion writer and commentator across major outlets.
- A historian and critical analyst in a world where the signal is hard to pick out of the noise. Where the heck are we.
- Trouble ahead for this administration. The GOP has done well in redistricting battles, but geopolitical storm clouds and the financial picture are not clearing in the short term.
- How would Del Beccaro advise the President to successfully navigate to November.
Site: tomdel.com · Vanguard: politicalvanguard.com
10:08 ET · EM Burlingame · Data Centers, What Are We Doing
America is becoming all too aware that data centers are being built at a blinding pace. These are not the cute little warehouse buildings of a few server racks and a few IT folks minding the store. These are leviathans, with the largest campus planned for Utah at no less than 62 square miles. With more than 4,000 already built or planned, the great AI race is underway and trillions are at stake. This is not about fancy AI pictures on a phone.
Concerns about this new national push range from resources consumed in power and water, to eminent domain fights like the ones in Georgia, to questions about end use. Are we potentially aiding and abetting a liberty-eliminating surveillance state.
EM Burlingame, a friend and true renaissance man with specialties in neuroscience, computational engineering, entrepreneurship, capital, Special Forces, and writing. Recent books include As Rome Burns and The Eternal War.
- Are Americans right to be concerned about these projects. What are the alternatives, and are there hidden elements to the resources required we cannot see.
- What would a sustainable model look like.
- The tools these systems will offer are staggering. Policy is not even close to keeping up. How do we advance our tech while respecting our constitution.
Substack: emburlingame.substack.com
10:33 ET · Lance Medlin · Red Post Energy
Lance Medlin, Founder and CEO of Red Post Energy, joins the show. Full disclosure: Jake is an advisor to this startup. Yes, we touch on data centers, but the bigger story is the American electric grid and the gaps that are widening fast. Lance is a U.S. Marine veteran with more than 25 years across oil and gas and power generation, having held CEO, COO, President, and Country Manager roles, and having developed capital project budgets from under $5 million to over $40 billion. He founded Red Post Energy on a mission-first mindset to move faster, build smarter, and secure America’s power, with disciplined execution, strategic public-private alignment, and large-scale infrastructure development.
- In the context of what team Red Post is doing, how can a crawl-walk-run strategy ease tensions between communities and the big centers going up.
- How do we turn American abundance in natural gas into a national competitive advantage.
- With John McDonough on board as President of Red Post Energy LLC and Dr. Justin Velez-Hagan as CIO, what does Red Post’s path from early-stage development to full-scale deployment look like.
- Listener questions from DIAL.
Company: redpostenergy.com · Recent leadership news: McDonough appointment
11:06 ET · Tom Luongo · Our Vulnerable Economy
Market crisis everywhere. Bonds, private banking, liquidity, inflation, employment, foreclosures, and more, against a brutal backdrop of wars and potential wars, great power competition, and globalists wanting to confiscate or control all we have. We need someone tracking all of it.
Tom Luongo joins us. Tom is a Newsmax newsletter author, host of the Gold, Goats n Guns podcast, and publisher of his subscriber newsletter.
- From a chemist’s root cause analysis background. Is this fundamentally a 5GW Sovereigntists versus Globalists war.
- Drilling into the global and U.S. economy. What are we seeing and how does this play out.
- Fed Chair Warsh. Is he here to keep patching the leaks, or are we following a path to a whole new system. What does that look like.
Site: tomluongo.me
11:50 ET · Salute the Troops
To every American in uniform, at home and forward deployed, thank you for your service.
11:55 ET · After-Logue
- Wrap the show. What did we learn today. Encourage the audience to go back and listen if they missed anything.
- Plug Dangerous Intellectuals Episode 36 and catching Gen. Holt on Newsmax every day.
- Tee up topics for next show and continuing our examination of the most pressing issues in the nation.
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