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Ashe in America teams up with CannCon for a crossover episode built around a document Ashe stumbled on, a full playbook, framework, and communications guide aimed at shaping how Americans feel about democracy and elections. Together they dig into the so called "Democracy Audience Map," a tool built to sort voters into segments and craft messaging designed to move each group toward a specific set o...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine settle into their newly renovated studio for a deep dive that spans four decades of one very familiar face: Dr. Anthony Fauci. Starting with the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the guys trace Fauci's role in pushing AZT as the only approved treatment, question how the drug actually performed, and pull in archival footage that lines up uncomfortably well with his later han...

Ghost breaks his own show's no-news-cycle rule for this one, and he'll tell you exactly why. After watching Laura Loomer pivot from anti-Ukraine to interviewing Zelensky and, worse, framing Azov Battalion founder Andriy Biletsky as a hero, Ghost decided it was time to set the record straight. He walks through Biletsky's murky background: the 2011 imprisonment, the release after the 2014 Maidan cou...

Matthew Ehret takes the Fauci hearings and asks the question nobody in the room seems to want answered: what if the Wuhan lab leak story, however true, is still only half the picture? This episode digs into the sprawling network of over 300 opaque, largely unregulated Pentagon run biolabs scattered across the globe, from Ukraine to Georgia to South Korea, and traces how figures like former MI6 chi...

Ashe kicks things off with a wild weekend recap that has it all: a Rockies game interrupted by a sudden typhoon, footage good enough that AccuWeather asked to use it, and a lengthy political debate with a very Trump deranged stranger she refused to back down from. It somehow ends in a hug and an offer of free drinks, so make of that what you will. Christy and Jackie jump in with a deep dive into h...

Trump signs an executive order creating the first ever Presidential Military Spouse Commission, chaired by Jennifer Hegseth, and the ceremony turns into a genuinely touching series of stories from spouses who've spent decades supporting the military through moves, deployments, and everything in between. Then the press conference pivots hard, covering active back channel talks with Iran over the St...

Alpha Warrior is running on Cuban People Time again, so CannCon and Cam open the show riffing on tardiness, StreamYard's meltdown, and beard-maintenance logistics before the man of the hour finally strolls in from an Uber with no AirPods. The heart of this one is a full ESPN season preview for the crew's teams, and it gets brutal. Cam has to sit through the Falcons projected at roughly two wins, t...

Jon Herold opens birthday week with Trump's back and forth Truth Social posts on Iran, alternating between canceling a planned strike and blasting Tehran as duplicitous, while poking fun at how many times the administration has claimed victory in the conflict. He digs into a Michigan cyclospora outbreak, weighs in on the ongoing General Flynn controversy over foreign lobbying payments while urging...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with a hard look at trillions in wasted federal grant money, weaving in a debate about prison labor reform and why illegal immigrants so often end up first in line for programs like Habitat for Humanity while everyday Americans get left behind. The main event is a two part clip of RFK Jr going toe to toe with a CNN anchor, calmly dismantling her talking points in what th...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a warning: if last week annoyed you, tonight will too. The heart of the episode is a plea for critical thinking, the difference between questioning your government (encouraged) and subversion dressed up as concern, and why echoing someone else's take means you do not actually own the belief. From there they go big picture. Josh frames the culture war as engine...

Burning Bright welcomes back Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a conversation about Trump's relationship with time, mechanistic, esoteric, and everything in between. They open by questioning why so much commentary fixates on Iran and geopolitics when the real step change moves may be sitting in plain sight, in executive orders on energy, nuclear regulatory reform, and data center infrastructure....

Jonathan Drake wraps up Spooner's rights argument by taking direct aim at voting itself, arguing that if a right is truly exclusive, you cannot claim a right to override your neighbor's rights just by being part of a bigger group. Expect the "nine men voting on the tenth" thought experiment revisited, a dig into the actual Latin origin of the word "legislation," a surprising cameo from Cicero maki...

Recording one more before starting a new job Monday, Ghost packs this episode with a full week's worth of chaos. It opens with a Bannon War Room clip on the migrant surge into Ceuta, the tiny Spanish enclave in Morocco, and how Italy's Giorgia Meloni is now threatening to suspend Spain from the Schengen zone over it. Ghost digs into why Spain has historically been less loyal to Israel than the res...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick things off with a genuinely wild moment: Joe Rogan using the actual term "devolution" on his own podcast, which the guys treat as a mainstream milestone years in the making. They play the clip, react in real time, and debate what it means that a concept once confined to niche corners of the internet is now getting airtime from one of the biggest podcasters alive. Fro...

Cam Cooksey opens episode 61 sorting out his sound (Jackie was "spreading misinformation," of course) before settling into a warm, upbeat walk through the week's Truth Social posts. His signature optimism carries throughout, with plenty of tangents, chat love, and a would-you-rather game to close things out. The heavier material comes early. Cam shares his long held theory that Operation Warp Spee...

The crew works through a fresh batch of Hunter Biden emails this week, tracing a paper trail that ties Ukraine consulting work, a Burisma related investigation, and a very convenient billion dollar aid decision together in ways that raise more than a few eyebrows. From there it's on to Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment well over a hundred times despite holding a sweeping pardon, and a gen...

Host Matt Trump continues his "summer abroad" as the self-described Rick Steves of Badlands, picking up the walking tour right where last week's City of London stroll left off. After recapping how a "digital" City of London projects financial power through shipping, insurance, and choke points, he leads you south from Bank Station down King William Street, past the Monument to the Great Fire, the...

Jordan and Nate (fighting some seriously spotty internet) kick things off with RFK Jr.'s new Real Food Show, a surprisingly wholesome cooking series tackling seed oil myths and omega balance one budget friendly recipe at a time. From there it gets spicier: word is Trump is pushing RFK to go harder on childhood vaccines and the autism investigation, midterm optics be damned. The guys dig into Fauci...

Jon Herold spends Friday breaking down what he sees as a suspicious media push around footage of migrants overwhelming Spain's Moroccan border enclave, questioning the timing alongside a recently pinned Trump post praising Morocco's king. He also digs into the tense Todd Blanche confirmation saga with Senators Cornyn and Tillis, plays a few clips from Trump's televised Camp David meeting covering...

Trump opens up Camp David for a cabinet meeting, a first in modern presidential history, and RFK Jr. gets a genuinely moving moment reminiscing about his uncle's visits there six decades ago. From there it's a full lap around the administration's wins: record stock market highs, Trump savings accounts topping 7 million sign ups, prescription drug prices dropping through the favored nation policy,...

CannCon and Chris Paul dig into a brewing Senate standoff over the Attorney General nomination, with President Trump publicly torching two Republican senators for blocking his pick and a wild theory floating around about why the Senate might be sticking around for recess longer than usual. They also unpack a clever Bannon idea for forcing the Senate's hand using a Cabinet reshuffle, plus a genuine...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on this year's Amazon original about a near future AI dystopia, and yes, they clock the irony of Amazon making a movie about the machine while being a very large piece of the machine themselves. They dig into how the film handles its "will the AI save us or enslave us" premise without tipping too hard in either direction, trade notes on director Timur Bekmambetov...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick back for a looser, laid off the news desk kind of night, and it shows. Alpha opens with an update on his one man trolling campaign of a neighborhood app politics forum, then the guys trade Marine and Army deployment stories side by side, comparing wide open Afghanistan firefights to close quarters Iraq combat. Along the way they react to a stack of combat footage, fr...

Description: Frankie Val and co-host Jay open by reflecting on nearly 20 years of Thursday broadcasts, then get into a night billed as psyop central. First up: Anthony Fauci's newly surfaced pandemic diary, where the running theme is not global health but how many magazine profiles, cupcakes, and bobbleheads featured him. Frankie reads the entries, Jay talks about doing biochemistry grad work whil...

CannCon and Ashe in America crack open Chapter 10 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and this time the Fed is fully in the crosshairs. This week is all about the Mandrake Mechanism, named after a comic strip magician who could conjure things out of thin air, which turns out to be an uncomfortably accurate description of how the Federal Reserve actually creates money. The host...