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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Written by guest Renn Pfieffer<\/p>\n<p>Part 2, and my last post about my Shawn Ryan Show episode.<\/p>\n<p>Last I heard, it had been edited. Then Shawn went on Diary of a CEO and described a woman whose interview he\u2019d never release. That woman wasn\u2019t me, unless he was lying.<\/p>\n<p>But I never expected it to air, and here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<p>I spent weeks prepping with Shawn\u2019s team. I was booked to follow the money on TPUSA and the surveillance state, and naming names is what I do. I\u2019m meticulous, and I never say anything I can\u2019t prove. Then, right before we started filming, I was told I couldn\u2019t name names. When I brought up who funds Flock Safety, the license plate cameras now in thousands of American towns, I was told not to say Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. You can\u2019t follow the money without showing where the money flows. That\u2019s when I realized this episode would never air, before we had even started.<\/p>\n<p>So when I got home, I did what I do. I followed the money. And, turns out Shawn Ryan is invested in companies backed by the exact people I was told not to name, plus Israel.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Anduril Industries: Ryan has been an investor since October 2025. Anduril started with surveillance towers and now builds drones and autonomous weapons. Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund led its June 2025 round, and Andreessen Horowitz co-led its $5 billion round in May 2026. Those are the two names I was told to leave out. In February 2026, Anduril\u2019s founder, Palmer Luckey, made an undisclosed trip to Israel and met with Netanyahu and senior defense officials. By June, Anduril was setting up an Israel operation to sell to Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defense. Shawn had Palmer on his show in February 2025 and invested eight months later.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Shield AI: Ryan has been an investor since November 2025. It builds AI-piloted drones and fighter jets. Andreessen Horowitz led its first major round and has kept investing ever since. Shawn had its co-founder on the show the same season he invested.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Sesh: Ryan has been an investor since August 2025. Its $40 million round was led by 8VC, the venture firm of Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel. Lonsdale was a guest on Shawn\u2019s show on May 7, 2026, less than three months before I taped. Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defense in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>And Flock Safety, the company I came to talk about, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which led two of its rounds, and by Founders Fund, Peter Thiel\u2019s fund.<\/p>\n<p>So I was booked to expose who funds the surveillance state. I was told not to name Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. And the host has money in companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, by Thiel\u2019s fund, and by Thiel\u2019s Palantir co-founder, including one that is building its business in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the rest of it. Sarah Adams, his former network host, was messaging his team to keep me off (see Part 1 if you missed it). An IDF settlement contractor tagged the two of them together. Pro-Israel groups passed around her clip from his show as proof that Israel didn\u2019t drive the war. And after his Diary of a CEO interview, accounts from the same network that spent the summer smearing me told everyone his \u201cCIA woman\u201d was me, citing \u201csources.\u201d It wasn\u2019t me. I never discussed a polygraph with Shawn Ryan, and it was never why I went on. So either he was talking about someone else, or somebody turned his story into a weapon against me.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don\u2019t want the episode to air, and I told them so right after we taped, because it was a watered-down version of my work. How it all happened was a tough lesson learned for me in this industry. Now you know what was going on behind the scenes. If this episode doesn\u2019t air, I can assure you it\u2019s not because I\u2019m a fraud. 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