The studio felt like a courtroom with Christmas music playing in the hallway. The case was simple: when transparency gets treated like a threat, corruption starts to wear a suit and call itself “normal.”   Bob Nelson walked us back to November 22, 1963, where a president died in public while a Senate corruption trail went strangely quiet. His uncle, whistleblower Don B. “Buck” Reynolds, handed over documents on LBJ and learned what every truth-teller eventually learns: paper can disappear faster than people admit, and history gets edited by whoever controls the filing cabinet.   Then Stefan Padfield of the Free Enterprise Project brought it into the present: ESG, DEI, shareholder activism, and regulators who want speech managed like inventory. If Europe can fine companies into silence, do not assume the pressure stops at the border.   Between segments, callers put flesh on the facts. Kevin said people are afraid to speak plainly in the city. Gary said the media keeps the public on a leash. Mike pressed the difference between loving people and surrendering to ideologies. Lorraine, 88 years seasoned, reminded us that local control is not a slogan, it is a survival skill.   The hour ends with one demand: no more engineered fog. Full transparency, or the future gets stolen in broad daylight.