Peasants Perspective
Peasants Perspective: A Voice from the Edge of Freedom
Join Taylor Johnatakis, a self-proclaimed “peasant” turned podcaster, on an unfiltered journey through family, faith, and the fight for American ideals. From the depths of DC Jail—where he recorded during a 14-month sentence tied to January 6—to his triumphant return home after a Trump clemency in 2025, Taylor delivers raw, heartfelt commentary for the common man. Expect a mix of gritty storytelling, reflections on liberty lost and reclaimed, and timeless lessons drawn from his life as a septic designer, father, and reluctant rebel. Whether he’s reading Dr. Seuss to his kids or dissecting the state of the republic, Peasants Perspective is a bold, unpolished call to stay grounded amidst chaos. Subscribe for a front-row seat to a story that’s as real as it gets—no filter, no apologies.
Episodes
285 episodes
Why “Trust The Experts” Fails In A Democracy
What if the biggest problem in our public life isn’t disagreement, but the demand that we “trust the experts” without ever seeing the work? We follow that thread across elections, media, courts, and culture—where complexity becomes a feature, n...
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Episode 254
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1:53:03
Bread And Circus Or Freedom
The stadium cameras cut. The headlines moved on. But the feeling that something didn’t add up lingered. We start with the Super Bowl and a halftime performance that split the room, then follow the thread through the machinery that turns distrac...
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Season 2
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Episode 253
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1:34:13
Humiliation Rituals, Media Hoaxes, And Who Holds The Mic
What if the chaos isn’t random—but strategy? We open by testing a hard claim: humiliation has become a governing tool, not a glitch. From there, we chart how media hoaxes, selective outrage, and swift value-flips train us to cling to tribes and...
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Episode 252
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1:25:03
Be The Change
Coffee smells great. Bureaucracy, not so much. We open with a simple truth that carries the whole show: when institutions stall, people can still change a life. A young man about to age out of the system gets a real heavy bag instead of a toy a...
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Season 2
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Episode 251
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2:05:55
Floor Time Or Fair Elections
What if the most valuable thing in the Senate isn’t the vote, but the minutes on the clock? We dig into the claim that “floor time” trumps the SAVE Act and ask a blunt question: should anything outrank securing the system that selects our leade...
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Episode 250
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1:14:00
Why Narratives Win When Facts Are Ignored
What if the system isn’t broken in one dramatic place, but in a thousand tiny seams where trust leaks out? We open with the feeling so many share—being treated like peasants while decisions get made in a distant castle—and then get specific abo...
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Season 2
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Episode 249
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1:25:43
Epstein won't die
Start with a laugh, stay for the discomfort: we open by skewering cable news spin with a Star Wars send-up, then follow the thread into the very real question of who controls the narrative and why so many voters feel like background extras in t...
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Episode 248
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1:45:59
They Took The Original Ballots, But Sure, Nothing To See Here
What if the story you hear matters more than the facts you don’t? We dig into the Fulton County ballot seizure and the media’s split-screen reaction to ask a harder question: who controls the first impression that becomes your belief? From a si...
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Episode 247
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1:20:50
Ballots And Backlash
The morning started with a messy soundcheck and ended with a seismic headline: FBI agents loading thousands of 2020 ballot boxes out of a Fulton County warehouse under a court-approved warrant. We walk you through the moment the story broke, th...
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Episode 246
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1:48:57
When Optics Beat Outrage: How Narratives Decide What We Believe
A week of subzero miles ended with the most unlikely classroom: a middle seat between two sharp Zoomers on a six-hour flight. A joke about tattoos cracked open a real conversation about immigration, kids’ safety, and why emotions keep outpacing...
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Episode 245
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1:17:45
From Sanctuary Cities To Copper Shortages: Power, Policy, And Survival
Power only matters if it changes your street. We open with the raw tension between immigration enforcement and city hall resistance, using a throwback clip to remind everyone how recently “common sense” meant cooperating with DHS. From there, w...
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Episode 244
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1:14:26
How Global Elites Lost The Script And Why Ordinary People Are Pushing Back
The ground is shifting under our feet, and not because a panel in Davos said so. We dig into why trust in institutions cratered, how “narratives” became a substitute for performance, and what it costs when policy is optimized for headlines inst...
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Episode 243
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1:39:48
One Year After Prison, We Trace How Double Standards, Weak Boundaries, And Weaponized Institutions Push America To A Breaking Point
Coffee jokes fade fast when the stakes turn real. We mark a personal Liberation Day and dive straight into the messy intersection of street protests, election rules, and institutional power—asking whether America still has one standard of law o...
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Episode 242
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1:17:56
What If The Next Revolution Starts On A Quiet Corner?
The coffee smells great—then reality hits. We open with a hard look at the microplastics panic and a contrarian finding that fat combustion can mimic polymer signatures, raising tough questions about how risk got measured, repeated, and sold. T...
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Episode 241
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1:19:43
New World Order: A Citizen’s Field Guide
They say history is written by the winners, but lately it feels like the story is written by whoever controls the mic. We dig into how power is packaged and sold to everyday people — from a “Board of Peace” for Gaza that sounds tidy but echoes ...
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Episode 240
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1:25:53
From Whole Milk To Whole Mess: Immigration, Fraud, And Power
A simple question about whole milk turns into a guided tour through immigration crackdowns, alleged fraud fronts, courtroom pivots, and the way trust fractures when institutions speak in slogans instead of facts. We kick off with a light touch—...
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Episode 239
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1:34:03
Who Owns Power: Courts, Cities, Or The Crowd
A glitchy cold open gave way to a gut-punch: a farewell to Scott Adams and a promise to keep his “simultaneous sip” alive. From there we sprinted into a week that felt like a decade—RFK praising Trump’s improbable health, a Ford factory visit d...
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Episode 238
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1:34:07
Voters Want Action, Not Talk, And They’re Demanding It Now
Tired of being told to ignore what’s in plain sight? We trace a straight line from a Washington ballot forgery case to a sprawling Minnesota fraud ecosystem—daycares, transport, interpreters—and ask the hard question: who benefits when accounta...
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Episode 237
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1:26:14
You Want Open Borders, But Not On Your Lawn
Power hides in plain sight, and we pull the lens back to see the whole field. We start with Portland’s contentious traffic stop and the way narratives shift once gang and trafficking details surface, then track that frustration to Ilhan Omar’s ...
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Episode 236
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1:39:33
When Data Defies Dogma And Streets Test The State
The numbers shouldn’t look like this—and yet they do. A projected trade deficit gets sliced nearly in half, imports fall, exports rise, and we’re left asking whether tariffs and domestic substitution are quietly reshaping the real economy. We t...
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Episode 235
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1:38:25
We Flipped The Food Pyramid And Somehow Set Minnesota On Fire
What happens when ideology fuses with identity? We dig into the steep cost of that merger—how it breeds bubbles, moralizes disagreement, and turns truth into a jersey color. From there, the story runs through the week’s biggest pivots: the food...
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Episode 234
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1:47:13
So We’re Taking Greenland Now?
Start with a story and you can move a nation—pair it with money and timing, and you can redraw the map. We dig into how the new J6 website and sweeping pardons try to lock a narrative that facts alone never secured, then follow the consequences...
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Episode 233
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1:32:10
From McRib Myths To Venezuela’s Realpolitik
A rib-shaped patty, a glossy daycare with an empty lot, and a president who reads like a cartel boss—different stories, same thread. We dig into how power dresses itself up as something palatable, why the little guys keep paying, and what it ta...
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Episode 232
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1:37:23
Venezuela’s Power Flip
A fortress door half-closed, a city’s radar gone dark, and a head of state in cuffs by midday. That’s how our Monday began—and from there, the real story started: not boots on the ground, but hands on the oil valve. We walk through the covert c...
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Season 2
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Episode 231
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1:42:53
Why Killing The Filibuster Might Be The Only Way To Pass Immigration, Election, And Welfare Reforms
What happens when the only way to fix broken systems is to break a few norms? We wade into the fight over the Senate filibuster and ask whether conservatives should narrow or nuke it to pass immigration, election, and welfare reforms while they...
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Episode 230
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1:25:44