This weekend I joined ($5/month) his Locals channel and binged on Barnes’ “Hush Hush” series (my wife was on a business trip). Barnes loves the style of James Ellroy, and his LA Confidential, hence Hush Hush, the name of the magazine in this novel that is based on the scandal sheet Confidential magazine.
These episodes are a tour de force of what seems to be extemporaneous exposition on topics that usually lead to the machinations of the deep state. Barnes is a real showman. First he briefly describes the institutional narrative and then gives his alternative narrative on historical and current topics. It is important to understand that Barnes is giving a closing argument as he would try to convince a jury for an alternative narrative; thus it is not documented and he admits that he does not necessarily believe in it himself.