Speaker
Shawn Ryan
Appearances over time
5 episodes
Episodes
5
#319 Mike Rowe - What Happened to the American Dream?
#318 Candace Owens - The Most Sued Woman in American Media
#317 Johnnie Clark - Surviving One of the Deadliest Jobs During the Vietnam War
#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
#313 Eric Frohardt - DEVGRU Gold Squadron Sniper and Assaulter
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Polymarket gives only a 14% chance the US government will confirm alien life or technology before 2027, with $38 million in real money traded on the outcome.
Johnnie Clark was wounded three separate times in Vietnam — by a mortar, a grenade, and a gunshot — and was awarded three Purple Hearts.
Clark began training in martial arts in Okinawa as physical therapy for his combat wounds and has now practiced for over 50 years, earning 8th Dan Grandmaster in Taekwondo.
The Simons Observatory, Brian Keating's cosmology experiment in Chile's Atacama Desert, involves over 400 scientists from 40 institutions and has grown to a $200 million-plus project.
SBIR Advisors has helped small businesses win over $600 million in government contracts since 2020.
Shawn Ryan quit drinking four years ago, crediting ibogaine treatment, and has since become an advocate for psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans.
From the time Charlie Kirk signed with Turning Point USA, he had repeated vivid dreams that he would die young in a tragic way tied to the organization, and that his death would wake the world up to something. He told Owens this directly and she urged him to sleep more. Reading back those conversations after his death, she says, is haunting. She believes something spiritual is guiding her investigation.
Right before Candace Owens entered the public sphere, a toxic mold infection from an HVAC leak triggered systemic candidiasis, head-to-toe eczema, hair loss, and devastating cognitive fog. She spent a year mostly bedridden, unable to think or write. Recovery required starving the infection through an extreme no-sugar diet. The experience, she says, humbled her in ways that inoculated her against the vanity of politics.
Brian Harpole is suing Candace Owens for defamation, claiming she forced him to become a public figure by going on the Shawn Ryan Show to clear his name. The problem: Owens says she never mentioned Harpole once on her show before he did the interview. His lawsuit argues he couldn't respond to her texts because he didn't want her to 'get famous off of him' — which Owens calls the thrust of the entire case.
Charlie Kirk was shot at 12:23 PM on a Wednesday. By Sunday, the site was fully repaved — but first, 10 inches of soil were removed by a separate crew before the pavers arrived. That's not standard: normally one crew does both. Owens says paving instructions came from the governor of Utah and Kash Patel's office. The rapid destruction of potential forensic evidence is central to her theory that explosives were used.
On the day Charlie Kirk was shot, not a single family member or personal friend of Erica Kirk accompanied her to Utah. Every person holding her, photographing her, and recording intimate moments was a Turning Point USA employee — primarily Stacy Sheridan, the organization's chief fundraiser. The Vice President's office had offered to fly anyone she needed. Owens says no explanation makes that make sense.
Candace launched a Kickstarter called Social Autopsy to help kids avoid internet trouble. A woman named Zoe Quinn called to threaten her, and after hanging up, Candace was flooded with online attacks. The only media that reported her account fairly was Breitbart — an outlet she had dismissed as white supremacist. Shaken by how mainstream media lied about her, she began listening to Trump's speeches unfiltered and eventually discovered Thomas Sowell, completing her political transformation.
The Daily Wire fired Candace Owens via email, listing approximately 30 reasons. One was a cash register sound effect that played during a live podcast while she was discussing Ben Shapiro — which Jeremy Boring's team interpreted as deliberate antisemitism. She laughed reading the list. The firing was delivered as a theatrical production for all employees, with a presentation that Steven Crowder later released.
Owens says Trump personally blocked the investigation into his own assassination attempt at Butler, Pennsylvania. She cites Tucker Carlson's account of a conversation with Dan Bongino where Bongino confirmed Trump blocked it. Don Trump Jr. publicly said he is not satisfied with the investigation but would leave it there — an implicit acknowledgment of the directive. Owens: you can't make that make sense.
Owens built her theory of Kirk's death on three observations: his necklace broke before the impact, his white shirt had no blood, and the car used to transport him had what appeared to be shattered black ABS plastic — consistent with an exploded Rode Mic Pro. She argues a PETN-based shaped charge was concealed inside the microphone, which explains the trajectory, the soil removal, and why bomb dogs were not brought to the scene.
Owens describes a pattern she calls the Zionist mafia: you are either with them or against them, and dissent triggers coordinated reputational destruction, bot attacks, and financial pressure. She experienced it when she tweeted 'genocide is always wrong.' Michael Jackson and Kanye West went through it. Now it's Megyn Kelly's turn — being pressured to publicly condemn Owens despite never having platformed her — and refusing.
Owens claims the Michelle Fields / Corey Lewandowski incident that triggered the Breitbart exodus was manufactured by Ben Shapiro and Jamie Weinstein — Michelle Fields' husband — as a pretext to split from Breitbart and take subscribers to build The Daily Wire. That's why, Owens says, The Daily Wire accused her of secretly scheming with Tucker Carlson to do the exact same thing to them: they were projecting their own founding playbook.
While Candace was in Italy being confirmed as a Catholic by a Cardinal — a trip she had planned for a long time — Trump posted a manipulated Time magazine cover mocking her appearance. She turned off her phone, finished her confirmation, and addressed it only when she got home. The photo Trump used was one she had shared herself to discuss her battle with toxic mold illness.
Weeks before Charlie Kirk died, Bibi Netanyahu called during a dinner at Bill Ackman's home in the Hamptons. According to Andrew Colbett — and later confirmed to Owens by someone in his orbit — Netanyahu offered to take Turning Point USA 'to the next level.' Kirk refused. Colbett allegedly lost millions when Kirk said no. Kirk also refused to have Netanyahu on his show. Owens says this is the answer to how people couldn't see the Israel motive.
After Sallie Mae refused to fund her final year of college, Candace moved to New York with $100,000 in student debt and started nannying. She landed a job at a private equity firm on her second interview and climbed from second assistant to VP of administration in four years. Along the way, the firm sent her to Costa Rica for 8 weeks to learn Spanish — because she asked them to — and she traveled the world on their dime, including ending up with Snoop Dogg in Croatia.
Candace felt inexplicably pulled to go to the UK and booked flights on Charlie Kirk's card to force the trip. At a dinner in London, she met George Farmer and immediately told her assistant he was her husband. He had texted a friend the night before saying the same thing. He proposed 18 days later, before they had shared their first kiss — over the phone while he was in England. Seven years and five children later, she calls it the most obvious thing that ever happened.
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- Society & Culture 67%
- History 33%
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