Bright Army!
The Narrative is back with a brand new episode all about the Golden Age Transition, and from a perspective I don’t think you get very often.
Lt. General Steve Kwast, himself an expert in Game Theory, Fifth-Generation Warfare and a mix of the very technologies we focus on in this episode joins me for a focused discussion on Donald Trump’s Golden Age Transition.
Rather than solely focusing on the Narrative or the esoteric side of said transition, the General and I get into the nuts and bolts, discussing both the energy and autonomy side of said transition, how Trump’s 2025 executive orders have paved the way for it and just how quickly the fruits of that labor will start showing up in American life.
Please note there were some audio feedback issues for the first few minutes of this episode due to General Kwast not being in his usual setup, but we managed to sort them out for the most part, and I hope you can overlook some audio balancing issues on your replay.
The Week That Was …
FOUR. STRAIGHT. WEEKS.
Of the returned Bright Brief.
If you missed anything from the week that was, we covered the final exposure arc of the remaining Proxy Princes on the game board, Donald Trump’s narrative war against the Republicans (yes, NOT just the Democrats,) and the very Brief that provided the inspiration for this episode of The Narrative.
I also managed to get a slightly longer-than-Brief out that acts as a follow-up to one of my 2025 table-setters, as Reality Wars is now a series, apparently.
In this one, I run down what I think is really going on with the Trump admin’s latest financial moves, why Kevin Warsh is driving markets insane by doing a highly-planned and coordinated bit of … absolutely nothing, and where the cracks in the System may start to show next.
Reality Wars - Part 2
(Apologies in advance if this feature on Donald Trump’s unwinding of global financial markets is a little denser than what you guys are used to, but I’ve been ‘sperging out in this particular theater for a couple of years now, and if any of these templates or terms seem foreign to you, just run them through your favorite AI module and have a conversatio…
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Listened live, as it were, last night. Was very late here…and fell asleep during. Caught up this morning…extremely interesting for sure. Recommended listening for BB subbers. As BB says…move on passed the echoes…echoes…echoes shiz. Well done lad and the ret General. 👍🏻❤️❤️
I’m not someone who listens to 3 hr long interviews…but I did catch the first hour and found it fascinating!
Loved the insight about Trump’s “cultural sensitivity “ - reminds me of accounts I’ve read about Trump’s gift for really listening to people.
One part that wowed me, because I had never heard it before, is Elon Musk’s idea of sending our spent uranium rods into the sun, the perfect incinerator to render those rods harmless!
Sure hope you put the highlights from the whole 3 hrs into your substack, BB.