Black Army Radio

Black Army Radio, with Ty Bricker (former 2/75 Army Ranger/CIA contractor/federal LEO) and Joel Manzanares (survivalist/hunter/outdoorsman), delivers political history with teeth. We dissect power, propaganda, and politics with an independent edge - no tribal scripts, no gatekeepers, just the most honest read we can give. If you want context without boring commentary - welcome.

Black Army Radio is a news podcast hosted by Ty Bricker, with 44 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ty Bricker hosts Black Army Radio, a news show with 44 episodes published.

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  Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran.

  Oct 2, 20262 hour

  Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran. Pre-dawn, February 28, 2026. American and Israeli missiles strike Tehran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in his compound. So is his 14-month-old granddaughter. So is most of his family. All 19 US intelligence agencies had assessed Iran was not building a bomb. Netanyahu told Trump otherwise in an hour-long Situation Room presentation on February 11. US envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly misrepresented Iran's offer to suspend uranium enrichment for several years — an offer that could have prevented the war. Seven months in: 1,700+ Iranian civilians killed by documented count. 168 killed in a single Tomahawk strike on a school in Minab, mostly children, little girls. The US Navy Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain damaged. The Houthis seize Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline. Diesel at $6 a gallon. And Iran is still functioning. Khamenei's son Mojtaba now leads. Iran's parliament has introduced legislation to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Every country that has ever withdrawn from the NPT has acquired nuclear weapons. This week: how we got here, what Iran is learning, and what every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning with them. #blackarmyradio #news #iran #nuclearweapons #middleeast #trump #hamas #lebanon #hezbollah #gaza #iraq @davesmith @breakingpoints @piersmorgan @owenshoyer @saagarenjeti @krystalball @dropsitenews @theowenreport

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  The nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026. What every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning.

  Sep 30, 20261h 33m

  Two Million Casualties — The Budapest Betrayal and the Nuclear Age's New Corner, December 5, 1994. Budapest, Hungary. Ukraine surrenders the third-largest nuclear arsenal on Earth — 1,900 warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles — in exchange for security guarantees signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation. Twenty years later, one of those guarantors invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Eight years after that, the same guarantor launched a full-scale war intended to destroy Ukrainian statehood. Three and a half years in, the combined casualty count on both sides has surpassed 2 million, per the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Russia has suffered up to 450,000 dead — the highest battlefield death toll for any major power since World War II. And Russia is losing. In 2025, Russia suffered 200 casualties for each square mile taken. In the first five months of 2026, 9,600 casualties per square mile. Its casualty ratio has collapsed to nearly 8-to-1 against it. Its recruitment cannot keep pace with its losses. Which is why Putin has formally lowered the threshold for nuclear weapons use. This week we open a new series on the nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026. What every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning. #blackarmyradio #russia #ukraine #nuclear #news

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  The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku (12,800 feet above sea level), and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake

  Sep 25, 20261h 53m

  The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku, and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake 12,800 feet above sea level. The Bolivian Altiplano. Near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca sits a platform called Puma Punku. Its builders quarried 131-ton red sandstone blocks 10 kilometers away and hauled them uphill by muscle power alone. They quarried 130-ton andesite blocks — one of the hardest stones on Earth — from a peninsula 40 kilometers away, across a lake, and cut them to tolerances measured today at hundredths of a millimeter. They bound the blocks with molten copper clamps in a technique that appears elsewhere in the ancient world only in Egypt and Mesopotamia. This week we walk through the engineering. The Berkeley experimental archaeology showing how it was achieved. And why the knowledge of how to do it at scale was lost when Tiwanaku collapsed and has never been recovered. Plus Viracocha — the bearded creator god who emerged from Lake Titicaca, destroyed a first race of giants in a flood, taught humanity civilization, and walked west across the Pacific promising to return. The same story we found in Sumer. In Egypt. In Mesoamerica. On every continent. Different vocabulary. Same phenomenon.

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  Six Dollar Diesel — The Iran War Comes Home to Every American Kitchen Table

  Sep 22, 20261h 33m

  Six Dollar Diesel — The Iran War Comes Home to Every American Kitchen Table On September 11, 2026, diesel hit $6.05 per gallon nationwide — the highest price in American history, per AAA. Up from $3.76 before the U.S.-Israel war on Iran began on February 28. Gasoline is at $4.15, up from $2.98. Brent crude at $95-108 per barrel, up from $70. Every trucker, rancher, farmer, and small business owner in America is now paying the war tax at the pump. A full tractor-trailer fill now costs $1,452 — five hundred and fifty dollars more than six months ago. This week we walk through what actually happened. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis, in a lightning offensive between September 6 and 14, seized Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline including Mokha, Perim Island, and the Hanish Islands — giving Iran's regional axis operational control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as well. The Saudi Crown Prince personally called President Trump twice on September 11 begging for U.S. military intervention. Trump declined. Iran has now issued seven conditions to the United States for ending the war. And every American is paying for it every day. #blackarmyradio #gasprices #deisel #economy #iran #news

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  Ten Days Before October 7, Netanyahu received a call from the UAE president warning that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation. Nothing was done about this warning....why?

  Sep 16, 20261h 29m

  Special Episode — The Ten Days Before October 7 On September 9, 2026, Haaretz — Israel's oldest daily newspaper — published a bombshell investigation. The claim: roughly ten days before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed personally warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a 45-minute phone call that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation. According to the reporting, Netanyahu did not brief the Shin Bet, Mossad, or the IDF. Within 24 hours, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett went on Israeli radio and said, in his own words, "I knew for a fact the report is true." Haaretz also reported a second warning from Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel around the same period. Leaked recordings released by Israeli Channel 12 show former IDF Intelligence chief Aharon Haliva describing how Netanyahu had reduced his weekly intelligence briefings to twice a year. Netanyahu denies the report and is threatening a libel suit. Haaretz stands by its reporting. This week we walk through every source, every corroboration, every denial. Plus Netanyahu's own on-record statements about what he wanted the war to accomplish. The question the evidence now forces.

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