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Frank and Jay Goulard are back, and this one starts in underwear and ends somewhere near the grassy knoll. They open with Virginia's "temporarily restore fairness" redistricting referendum, a piece of ballot wording so predatory it sounds like Emperor Palpatine wrote it over lunch. From there it's a deep dive into why 435 people cannot represent 300 million, why Republicans seem genuinely bummed o...

Adel Nero is joined by Zak Paine and Frankie Val for a wide-ranging conversation that swings from the cosmic to the criminal. The guys open up about the passing of David Wilcock, the isolating grind of independent media, and why suppression is as much a psychological weapon as an algorithmic one. Frankie delivers his signature wrecking ball vs. scalpel analogy, arguing the Trump-era bulldozer must...

President Trump gathers in the Oval Office to announce a landmark Most Favored Nation drug pricing deal with Regeneron, the 17th and final pharmaceutical company to sign on, representing 86% of the branded drug market. The announcement includes a gene therapy that restored hearing to two year old Travis Smith, offered free to all eligible American children. Trump also confirms medical marijuana is...

Jon Herold is sleep-deprived, mildly cranky, and working with a slow news cycle today, which means you get the unfiltered version. The Navy Secretary was just fired over clashes with Trump on shipbuilding and fleet deployment, and Jon tries to make sense of why that name keeps showing up everywhere this week. He also digs into a quiet but potentially significant Department of Defense directive tha...

Ghost and Ashe in America return to The Chosen Season 3, Episode 5 for a heavy, emotional ride through Clean Part 2. This week, they unpack the parallel arcs of Jairus racing to save his dying daughter, Veronica's twelve years of suffering and the moment she reaches for the hem of the garment, and Eden's quiet crisis of faith after a devastating miscarriage. It's all one big conversation about wha...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the energy on Thursday with a high-octane show that connects a lot of dots. Alpha breaks down why the biggest RICO case in American history is still being built from the ground up and why the lack of arrests is actually the sign of a sophisticated, airtight operation. Ilhan Omar's winery collapses one year after she reported it was worth up to $5 million, and a Minn...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright break down a week loaded with actual movement. A newly declassified DNI memo from January 2020 quietly confirms what many already suspected: US election infrastructure was vulnerable enough to be manipulated at scale. Then the SPLC gets hit with a sweeping federal grand jury indictment for wire fraud, money laundering, and secretly funding the very extremist groups it...

Tonight on The Shipwreck Show… we’re asking the questions you're probably not supposed to ask. • What is gravity… really? And what was Operation Dominic? • Do vegetables actually exist… or is that just something we've all accepted without thinking? • Flat Earth — crazy conspiracy… or uncomfortable questions? • TPUSA staged questions? Let's talk about it. • And here's a wild one — you may already h...

What if the biggest obstacle to humanity's next great frontier isn't the technology, but us? Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast sits down with cohost Jonathan Drake to kick off a new series of first-principles conversations tackling the question no rocket scientist can answer: is natural law universal? They trade the jet fuel for moral fuel, digging into what the founders actually meant by natural law...

Jon Herold comes in hot today with what might be the most satisfying indictment in recent memory. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with wire fraud, false statements, and money laundering after secretly funneling millions of donated dollars to KKK members, Aryan Nation organizers, and even a paid informant who helped plan the 2017 Charlottesville rally. Jon breaks down the indictmen...

Matt Ehret and Ghost return to unpack a world that feels increasingly like a chessboard with too many players. They open with Matt's running map of "control scarcity," the quiet wave of refinery shutdowns and sabotage hitting Texas, Australia, Colorado, India, and Russia, and what that means for global energy and food supplies. From there, the conversation swings into the strange theater around Ma...

CannCon and Ashe in America come in hot on Wednesday with a show that delivers. The Virginia gerrymandering amendment passed 51/49, and Ash breaks down the multiple constitutional violations the Virginia Supreme Court allowed to stand, setting up a messy legal fight ahead. A newly declassified intel memo confirms US intelligence secretly warned in early 2020 that foreign adversaries had the capabi...

JB White is still sick, still showing up, and still not pulling punches. This episode digs deep into Palantir's Alex Karp and Jeff Park's "The Technological Republic," walking through all 22 points of their framework for what America must become to survive the AI age. JB agrees with most of it, pushes back hard on one, and ties it all together with his take on national identity, hollow pluralism,...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid sit down with Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee for a conversation that was supposed to be fifteen minutes and turned into forty five. Nobody complained. The trio covers the congressman's long standing push for UAP transparency, the skiffs where officials get shown things specifically so they cannot discuss them, and why Burchett believes the real issue is not littl...

CannCon, Ashe in America, and Colonel Towner Watkins wrap up Ralph Pizzullo's Stolen Elections and they are not holding back. The crew digs into the book's most explosive update yet: CIA collusion in election theft, Chinese components baked into voting machines, and a fake ID scheme tied to mail-in ballot fraud. Virginia's sneaky redistricting ballot language gets called out for the psychological...

Episode 100 of Geopolitics with Ghost lands on a milestone moment. Ghost opens with an IDF soldier destroying a Jesus statue in Southern Lebanon, calling it a symbol of the Greater Israel project made visible. From there, Ghost breaks down Netanyahu's incentive structure, his Kahanist cabinet, and why he cannot afford peace. The IDF's new forward defense zone in Lebanon gets mapped out, with Mount...

Jon Herold is feeling good today, and for once it is because of actual documents. A newly declassified intelligence memo from 2020 confirms that US agencies warned the president about foreign adversary capabilities to manipulate voting infrastructure, including the bombshell admission that results could be manipulated across enough states to influence a presidential election. Jon breaks down what...

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution convenes to examine Operation Arctic Frost, the Biden-era FBI investigation that Republicans argue was a politically motivated dragnet targeting the entire Republican political apparatus. Jeffrey Clark testifies about his home raid, Georgia indictment, years of bar proceedings, and millions in legal fees stemming from writing an internal DOJ me...

CannCon and Ghost bring the Geopolitics Tuesday energy and waste no time. Ghost voted that morning in Virginia's special election on a constitutional amendment that uses the phrase "restore fairness" to push a map that would flip an almost-even state to a 10-to-1 Democrat congressional delegation. The guys break down the naked power grab, CIA-backed governor Abigail Spanberger, and what it all sig...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine kick off Episode 181 with a debate over whether Joe DeGenova's DOJ hire signals real progress or is just a PR move, while unpacking Pam Bondi's alleged role in blocking him from the start. Cash Patel's Maria Bartiromo interview, his apparent slip about indicting "former director Comey," and his $250M lawsuit against The Atlantic all get put under the microscope. Then the s...

The Bible is "problematic," a bishop wants a Third Testament, an IDF soldier smashed a crucifix in Lebanon, and the Grand RICO is finally closing in. No big deal. Just another Monday night with Ashe and Ghost unpacking how spiritual warfare and political warfare are the same battlefield. From the Noahide Laws to Kash Patel's arrest promises, this episode connects dots that most people are still af...

Who funds a neo-Nazi militia? Apparently, Jewish oligarchs do. Ghost breaks down one of modern history's most paradoxical military units: the Azov Battalion. From its roots in Ukrainian soccer hooliganism to becoming a formalized regiment in Ukraine's National Guard, Ghost traces how a far-right militia bankrolled by billionaire Igor Kolomoisky became central to the 2014 Donbas conflict and beyond...

Think the Cold War started because Russia was scary? Think again. In this episode, Matt Ehret walks us through the Guzenko Affair of 1946, a coordinated British intelligence operation that used a low-level Russian cipher clerk with a bag over his head to terrify the Western world into submission. Along the way, Ehret covers eugenics in American universities, Churchill's admiration for Mussolini, H...

Alpha's out playing grandpa-in-training (twins, congrats!), so Caleb Epp steps in as the honorary fourth Y Chromosome. The guys dive deep into NHL playoff predictions with Caleb leading the charge as the resident hockey expert, debate whether an elephant or a rhino wins in a fight (spoiler: tusks beat horns), and roast Buffalo fans for their very enthusiastic pre-game rituals. Then things get genu...

It is Monday, which means Jon Herold is caffeinated, mildly sleep-deprived, and ready to sort through the week's most consequential news with the skepticism it deserves. Kash Patel went on Maria Bartiromo and dropped a bold promise: stay tuned this week, arrests are coming. Jon unpacks what that actually means, and why it sounds a little too familiar. The Brennan grand jury probe got a major shake...