Independent media that won't reinforce tribalism. We have one Planet; nobody's leaving, so let’s reason together!! Darrell McClain is a Military veteran with an abnormal interest in politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature. He's the author of Faith and the Ballot: A Christian's Guide to Voting, Unity, and Witness in Divided Times. Darrell is a certified Counselor. He focuses primarily on relationships, grief, addiction, and PTSD. He was born and raised in Jacksonvil ...
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Squaring The Circle Podcast is produced by Randall Carlson Media as a vehicle for Randall to explore and present unique, original and powerful content on a wide variety of subjects without limitation. If you're new to Randall's work, look him up on YouTube and watch any one of his eight appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast to get you started. For those of you familiar with Randall's work, you can expect this podcast to feature his extensive knowledge in all areas of his expertise, but that's ...
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#073 3I/ATLAS, Planetary Alignment, and a Spike in Solar Activity | ft. Stefan Burns
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Send us a text A single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that…
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Anna Kasparian Versus Bill Maher On Genocide, History, And Power
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2:06:29Send us a text Start with a boast and a blind spot: “The truth never makes me uncomfortable.” From that line, the debate ignites. We take you inside Anna Kasparian’s appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random, where calm receipts meet moving goalposts, and where big claims about Gaza, genocide, and history collide with facts on the record. We unpack th…
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From Family Tragedy To Campus Pressure And Ancient Hate
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37:53Send us a text The distance between us and harm feels like it’s vanished. We open with three shocks—a father slain by his son, a campus shooting at Brown, and an antisemitic attack in Austria—and follow the thread that ties them together: when formation collapses, pressure finds a way out. Family should be the last shelter, so language breaks when …
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Robert Reich On Civility, Trust, And The Rigged Economy
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1:02:04Send us a text What if our problem isn’t that we disagree—but that we’ve forgotten how? Robert Reich joins us at a 50th reunion event hosted by the Center on Civility and Democratic Engagement to map the terrain of modern incivility and show a clearer path forward. We explore why trust in institutions fell from a broad majority in the 1960s to a sm…
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Why Words Are Cheap: How Congress Avoids Ownership While The Executive Makes Policy
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51:17Send us a text Accountability costs more than a press conference, and that’s exactly why our politics keeps choosing words over work. We open with the Caribbean boat strikes and map the legal gray zone where overlapping agencies, temporary guidance, and classified memos substitute for clear law. When Congress refuses to define roles and rules of en…
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Anti-Zionism, Anti‑Semitism, And The Lines Between
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1:33:52Send us a text One sentence can change the temperature of a room: “Anti‑Zionism is anti‑Semitism.” We revisit a gripping 2019 Intelligence Squared debate featuring Melanie Phillips and Einat Wilf for the motion, and Ilan Pappé and Mehdi Hasan against it, to examine how history, identity, and power collide over those seven words. The case for the mo…
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Send us a text A listener asked a blunt question we couldn’t ignore: what happens if Congress lets the enhanced ACA subsidies expire—and how likely is it they’ll do nothing? We walk through what those subsidies actually did for real families, what vanishes when they lapse, and why “gridlock” isn’t a neutral accident but a choice with a body count. …
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#071 Breaking: New Evidence & Studies For Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis - Squaring The Circle: A Randall Carlson Podcast
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Send us a text A listener asks a sharp question: can a president really mail out $2,000 “tariff dividends”? We break the promise down to its bolts—tariffs as taxes that raise consumer prices, Congress’s exclusive power of the purse, and a pending Supreme Court ruling that could fence off unilateral tariff moves until mid-2026. The math looks simple…
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#070 3I/ATLAS Update: New Comet Just Appeared - Squaring the Circle: A Randall Carlson Podcast
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#69 EPIC! Randall & Sabin Howard, Master Sculptor Known As "The Michelangelo of America," talk WAR, PEACE, HISTORY and HUMANITY'S FUTURE!
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2:41:26Two highly intelligent, creative, compassionate and accomplished elders of our society— Randall Carlson and Master Sculptor Sabin Howard— enter into a deeply honest and important conversation about life, art, education, sociology, world history, personal history, war & peace, science, spirituality, religion, architecture and sacred geometry. They a…
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#68 Randall Carlson Arms You With Facts About the Younger Dryas and Its Relevance to Our Time!
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1:14:13You have likely heard the term "The Younger Dryas," but if someone asked you to define the phrase, could you do it? Could you explain its historical significance, its contemporary relevance and the important sociological and political implications it carries into our time? If not, you're not alone, yet the global debate on the "climate crises" rage…
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Send us a text Think missing Miranda warnings make cases vanish? Let’s test that belief against the law, the courtroom, and the consequences the public rarely sees. We break down what Miranda actually protects, why custody and interrogation are the hinge, and how a judge thinks about suppression versus dismissal. From the first contact to the first…
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Send us a text A headline said the quiet part wrong: a former Navy combat pilot and astronaut under investigation for “serious misconduct” because he affirmed the most basic military truth—refuse unlawful orders. We zoom out from the hot takes and lay down the actual hierarchy every recruit learns: Constitution, law, mission, order. When number fou…
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Big Club Meets Big Yikes: Epstein Files Force A Truth Hangover
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46:04Send us a text A microphone at the Capitol, survivors at the front, and a rare bipartisan agreement to force sunlight on a scandal many believed would stay buried. We walk through the House push to advance the Epstein Transparency Act, unpack the tactics that made a discharge petition work, and spotlight the survivors whose persistence moved Congre…
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When Politics Becomes Theater, Who Writes The Bill For Real People?
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Who Gets Protected When No One Can Defend Themselves?
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1:10:19Send us a text Some rules sound perfect until they meet real life. Zero tolerance promises order and fairness at work, but what happens when a punch lands, security is minutes away, and your kids still need you home tonight? We pull this apart with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and military veteran whose day job straddles IT, investigations, and…
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Send us a text The ground shifted under America’s political feet, and you can feel the rumble from City Hall to Capitol Square. New York—long the altar of finance—just elected a socialist mayor on a platform of affordability, transit access, and universal childcare. Virginia flipped every top office behind a former CIA officer who campaigned on pay…
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Send us a text Sirens, hymns, and a hard choice at the curb outside a detention center: that’s where our story begins. We trace the line from candlelit vigils at “Alligator Alcatraz” to pulpits blessing immigration raids, and ask what Christian faith actually demands when families are torn apart at 2 a.m. Some clergy call ICE agents to repentance a…
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Send us a text A farm-town promise met a ledger full of losses. We open with the hard math of tariffs and trade wars: higher equipment costs for growers, soybean sales to China evaporating overnight, and a puzzling turn to importing Argentinian beef just as America’s cattle herd hits historic lows. Add four packers controlling most of the beef mark…
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Send us a text A mayoral debate that felt like a prize fight. A White House wing torn down for a 9,000-square-foot ballroom. Sanctions that squeeze Russia’s oil lifeline while summits dissolve overnight. And a healthcare shock that sends families scrambling to schedule surgery before premiums explode. We pull these threads together to show how spec…
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#067 3I/ATLAS Converges with the Sun, Solar Flares, and Earthquakes - Squaring the Circle
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If Mercy Is Transactional, What Happens To Truth?
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38:28Send us a text A seven-year sentence becomes 84 days, and the country learns a lesson it won’t soon forget: when loyalty becomes currency, justice gets priced. We break down George Santos’s commutation, why it happened, and what it signals about how power is exercised and rewarded. The receipts are not in dispute—wire fraud, identity theft, donor d…
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Randall Reads Your Comments and Provides In-Depth Answers
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Shutdown Standoff And Health Care Stakes
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Send us a text A hawk who preached secrecy now stands accused of mishandling it. We open with the Bolton indictment—18 counts, thousands of pages, and a century-old Espionage Act stretched to fit modern data—and ask a hard question: can selective prosecution and real accountability coexist? We walk through the legal thresholds, the political optics…
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From Myth to Man: Elon Musk’s Rise, Reverence, and Reckoning
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Send us a text Cameras love a finish line. Real peace rarely offers one. We open with a bold victory lap and press on the brakes, examining what a signed deal in Gaza can and can’t do while weapons remain, hostages return in tears and coffins, and leaders pull in opposite directions. I walk through Netanyahu’s conspicuous absence, Abbas’s calculate…
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When Rhetoric Burns: Virginia’s Debate and a Fire That Shouldn’t Exist
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47:19Send us a text One line lit the fuse: leaked texts from a statewide nominee invoked “three people, two bullets,” forcing Virginia’s race into a referendum on responsibility, tone, and what leaders are willing to condemn—and what they’re not. We walk you into the Norfolk clash where Abigail Spanberger stayed steady and Winsome Earle-Sears swung for …
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Is accountability possible in a system built for spectacle?
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38:19Send us a text The cameras were hot, the questions were sharp, and the answers—when they came—raised more doubts than certainty. We walk you through the pivotal moments of a combative Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, from the still-murky $50,000 cash handoff to the whiplash over an “Epstein client list.” Beyond the viral…
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Send us a text The curtain rises on a familiar stage: a high-profile indictment, a hungry news cycle, and a country eager to assign heroes and villains. We walk through the case against James Comey—two counts linked to testimony on the Russia probe and the Clinton Foundation—and the claim that he denied authorizing press contacts. Then we pull back…
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Congratulations, America: You’ve Perfected the Art of Tripping Over Your Own Government
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When politicians stage courage, citizens pay the bill
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#065 Where Did 3I Atlas Come From, Cometary History, and Zodiacal Lights - Squaring The Circle
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Jane Goodall’s Reckoning: Hope, Hypocrisy, and the Work Left to Us
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11:29Send us a text The headlines arrived first, tidy and late, but the weight beneath them is harder to hold: Jane Goodall is gone, and so is a voice that made science feel like conscience. We sit with the loss and the indictment it delivers—how institutions that once ignored her now rush to borrow her moral light, how applause became a habit while for…
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When justice bends, nature calls, and government stalls, what do we do to keep trust alive?
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46:38Send us a text A courtroom trembles, a forest goes quiet, and a Capitol locks its doors and somehow they all tell the same story about trust. We start with the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and examine what happens when the Justice Department looks like an instrument of revenge rather than a referee. We weigh the evidence, the repor…
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#064 3I/ATLAS & the Comet Surge: What's Happening in Our Solar System?
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1:46:50Save 40% on Randall's Vantage Plan and view your news clearly with: https://www.groundnews.com/trc RANDALL'S VIEWERS GET FREE SHIPPING FOR LIFE: 🌿 Use Code-- RCSHIPSFREE https://cbdfromthegods.com Shippo: https://try.shippo.com/Randall In this episode, we dive deep into 3I/ATLAS, the latest confirmed interstellar object, and explore the recent surg…
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Saving The Bees and Healing The Planet!
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1:13:27BREAKTHROUGH: The commercial application of electromagnetic energy & quantum engineering combined with sacred geometry has arrived! This very special episode of the STC Podcast features the scientific breakthroughs of Brent Knudsen of PUREWAVE™ who is actively, successfully using neodymium magnets, combined with ancient sacred geometry, to bring he…
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Bullets Don't Ask Who You Voted For
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1:07:22Send us a text Charlie Kirk’s assassination has shaken America. A 31 year old conservative commentator gunned down while addressing students in Utah now joins the tragic roster of public figures lost to violence. But what may be just as troubling is our divided response, with some mourning, some weaponizing, and some celebrating. This episode refle…
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What Happens When We Stop Seeing Each Other as Neighbors?
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49:34Send us a text The dividing lines in America have never been more dangerous than when we stop seeing each other as neighbors. In this powerful exploration of our fracturing society, we dive into Virginia's contentious governor race between Abigail Spanberger and Winsome Sears – a microcosm of America's broader political divisions where competence b…
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The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk: Violence in American Politics
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34:13Send us a text The assassination of Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through America, forcing us to confront the alarming normalization of political violence in our society. Charlie, just 31 years old and father to two young children, was gunned down while speaking at a Utah campus event - a place meant for the free exchange of ideas, transformed i…
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MEGA Tsunamis and the formation of our World ft. Dr. Dallas Abbot
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Children Under Fire: The Minneapolis School Shooting
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38:31Send us a text A horrific act of violence shattered the peace of what should have been a joyful back-to-school celebration at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. As children gathered for Mass, a gunman positioned himself outside and fired through the stained glass windows, killing two elementary school students and injuring seventeen other…
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#060 The Truth About Extraterrestrial Impacts, What 'Science' Still Dismisses
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1:31:42Go to https://expressvpn.com/Randall and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! Shortly after the Firestone Paper was published, rebuttals were published, only months after Firestone. What did these papers have to say? We'll explore Chevrons, Proxies, and more today on Squaring the Circle. Save 40% on Randall's Vantage Plan and view …
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The Machine That Cannot Love: AI's Role in Teen Suicide
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49:37Send us a text Digital connection has given us unprecedented access to information and relationships, but what happens when that connection replaces genuine human empathy, especially for our most vulnerable? Today's episode explores the growing crisis of teenagers turning to AI chatbots for emotional support and mental health guidance—with potentia…
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#059 We Have Another Interstellar Visitor: What Is 3I/Atlas? - Squaring the Circle: A Randall Carlson Podcast
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Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Crisis: A World at the Breaking Point
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35:16Send us a text The stark divide between diplomatic theater and human suffering takes center stage in this powerful episode of The Darrell Mcclain Show. As global leaders exchange handshakes and pose for photographs, we pull back the curtain on what these performances truly reveal about power, principles, and moral responsibility in our fractured wo…
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The Cost of Education: Teachers Sue Over Surprise Healthcare Hikes
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23:16Send us a text American hypocrisy takes center stage as Virginia Beach teachers sue their own school system over a shocking healthcare bait-and-switch that threatens both current educators and retirees. After signing their contracts and beginning the school year, teachers were blindsided with premium increases reaching $211 per paycheck, while some…
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