Richard Ryan
Richard Ryan takes you inside the surveillance economy — how Big Tech tracks your behavior, monetizes your attention, and shapes your decisions without your informed consent. Hosted by bestselling author Richard Ryan — whose book The Warrior's Garden won Grand Prize at the 2025 San Francisco Book Festival — this show gives you the insider's view of the algorithms, incentives, and design tactics driving the modern internet, and the practical tools to take back control.Richard isn't a critic looking in from the outside. He's a software developer, media executive, and tech industry veteran with more than twenty years inside the machine. He built a YouT...
Why They Spent Millions to Stop Brandon Herrera
Brandon Herrera built the AK-50. Now he’s running for Congress. I wanted to know what made him trade the gun shop for politics, and what he plans to do if he wins.
We also got into the data broker loophole, surveillance, data centers, and the issues he thinks Washington is ignoring.
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How $400 Smart Glasses Can See Through Your Walls — Bilawal Sidhu
This amazing conversation with Bilawal went in a lot of different directions! We got into how he created X-ray vision with $400 smart glasses, how Wi-Fi can track people inside their homes, satellite surveillance, AI slop, and his “God’s Eye View” project. Some of this technology is incredible. A lot of it is deeply concerning.
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Newsletter & Community: WarriorsGarden.comMy Book: The Warrio...Your Own Home Is Quietly Spying on You - Benn Jordan
Benn Jordan is a musician, filmmaker, and security researcher who has uncovered serious vulnerabilities in the surveillance systems operating around us. We get into Flock cameras, the possibility of a “digital 9/11,” AI data centers, robot dogs, and the staggering amount of information our homes and cars collect about us. We also talk about the Fourth Amendment, how these systems can be abused, and what ordinary people can actually do about it. Some of it is fascinating. A lot of it is deeply concerning.
Im excited to announce the title of my next book Surveillance! I woul...
You Have Nothing to Hide? - Naomi Brockwell
In an age where AI-driven surveillance and data brokers index our daily lives, is the "I have nothing to hide" defense still a valid argument? In this episode, I sit down with privacy educator and tech advocate Naomi Brockwell to unpack the startling reality of the modern surveillance state and provide actionable steps to reclaim your digital autonomy. Naomi is the President and Founder of the Ludlow Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing freedom through technology, and the creator of NBTV, a privacy education channel.
We break down how everyday tech from smart appliances and vehicles to...
You Will Own Nothing w/ Louis Rossman
In this episode, I sit down with consumer rights activist, Right to Repair advocate, and tech sovereignty leader Louis Rossmann (@rossmanngroup). We dive deep into the fight against corporate overreach, digital ownership, tech centralization, and why true independence requires both digital awareness and physical preparedness.
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📌 IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER: • The growing fight for consumer righ...
