Gold Goats 'n Guns Podcast

Marty Bent, Bitcoin entrepreneur, investor, and TFTC founder, joins the conversation on Bitcoin’s next growing pains. They explore wallet vulnerabilities, multisignature custody, institutional risks, and Bitcoin’s role as pristine collateral. The discussion also turns to AI agents, machine-speed finance, automated treasury management, and whether Bitcoin could become the reserve asset of an autonomous economy.

Brent Johnson, founder and CIO of Santiago Capital and creator of the Dollar Milkshake Theory, returns for a provocative look at history’s political ratchet and pendulum. He explores the Fed-Treasury power struggle, stablecoins, dollar dominance, rising rates, and America’s strategic competition with China, Russia, and Europe. The conversation also considers a fading Fed independence and the possibility of gold’s return to monetary prominence.

Author and geopolitical commentator E.M. Burlingame joins retired U.S. general and strategist Blaine Holt of Dangerous Intellectuals for a wide-ranging discussion on Ukraine, Russia’s attrition strategy, Europe’s escalation, and the dangers of proxy war. They also explore financial warfare, Treasury intervention, AI and bond-market politics, covert operations, private satellite surveillance, and shifting global power.

Matt Dines, a financial markets analyst and independent journalist with Mine Print Hash, shares observations from the G20 in Asheville. They explore the summit’s power struggles, the sidelining of major media, and the rise of independent financial voices. The conversation also examines America’s industrial strategy, Japan’s yen and credit policy, the dollar’s changing role, and the transition beyond the quantitative easing era.

Chris Sullivan, CEO and portfolio manager at Hyperion Decimus with deep crypto, commodities, and tokenization experience. He breaks down US regulatory choke points and how incumbents capture ETF and custody flows. They explore stablecoin mechanics and Treasury-backed alternatives. The conversation covers tokenization trends, BIS settlement rails, and geopolitical plays reshaping on-chain demand.

Dexter White, Florida politics analyst who breaks down state primaries and national ripple effects. He explains why Florida is both a bellwether and sui generis. Conversations cover Byron Donalds' primary showing, DeSantis-Wiles power plays, Angie Nixon’s Senate win, NPAs and regional voting geography, youth shifts on the right, and how media and info warfare shape modern campaigns.

Peter St. Onge, an Austrian economist and market commentator, gives a calm, pragmatic look at markets, monetary policy, and political realignment. He discusses social media’s role in populism, the Democrats’ internal shift, Fed policy’s blind spots, global liquidity mechanics like the yen carry trade, and how bailouts and yield-curve control reshape finance.

Larry Lepard, author and hard-money advocate behind The Big Print, outlines why rising debt and interest may force central banks back into massive balance-sheet expansion. They trace monetary regime shifts, argue gold’s role as ultimate collateral, and explore the politics and painful paths toward a monetary reset. Practical allocation talk rounds out the conversation.

Dexter White, commentator known for analysis of media ecosystems and narrative manipulation, returns to discuss information silos and fragmented realities. They cover algorithms and echo chambers. They debate conspiracy versus stochastic forces, bot-driven manipulation, generational perception gaps, and how polarization blocks dealmaking. The conversation urges rebuilding cross-perspective dialogue and resisting nihilism.

Host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast and Ret. Brig. General Blaine Holt joins me to do and up to the minute look at the situation with the state of US foreign policy objectives, how that ties into the larger war in process, and who really controls the pace and timing of those decisions.  Show Notes:Blaine on XDangerous Intellectuals PodcastTom on XGGnG on Patreon