Topic: Funding Cycle

The New Year's Day vehicle attack in the New Orleans French Quarter is analyzed as a potential "six-week cycle" event used by the FBI to secure agency funding. Evidence including coolers containing explosives and an ISIS flag are noted as typical elements of such operations. Observations of the suspect's driving on Bourbon Street suggest he may not have been intentionally targeting pedestrians despite the resulting fatalities.

Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund claims new methane rules will make storms less ferocious over the next decade. The hosts counter this by discussing 11-year solar cycles and sunspots, suggesting that natural cooling trends will be falsely credited to climate policies.