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Welcome to the Singularity, where the future arrives faster than your software updates. In this live debut, Matt McDonagh, a tech investor with 15 years in machine learning, explains how we got here. He starts with Alan Turing's famous test and the AI winters, then moves through Deep Blue, AlphaGo, the transformer breakthrough and the ChatGPT moment. Next, Matt explains why AI isn't only a compute...

CannCon and Ashe in America dive into Chapter 16 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Creature Comes to America, and the central bank saga finally lands on home soil. This week covers the Bank of North America, the nation's very first central bank, chartered before the Constitution was even drafted, along with the First Bank of the United States that followed in 1791...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open on a somber note with the passing of Georgia election integrity researcher Joe Rossi, and CannCon walks through Rossi's Fulton County work in detail, including how ballots were pulled from the middle of batches and rerun through different scanners on different days, a four thousand vote swing representing a third of the state's margin. From there it is Todd Blanche o...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright kick off with a genuinely funny bit about having to rename "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" following Trump's executive order, joking about domain squatting and whether OpenAI needs to rebrand itself entirely. From there it's into heavier territory, including lingering doubts about whether real accountability is coming for certain high profile figures...

Ghost catches up after a stretch away, and he's got a lot to say. He opens on a genuine white pill: the Nippon Steel golden share deal is quietly rebuilding America's steel industry, with new mills opening or under construction from Colorado to West Virginia, and Ghost draws on his own day job in construction to explain why the current steel shortage actually signals good things ahead. From there...

This episode features guests Nik (Mr. Fitnick) and Conservativewilky (Colton Wilson), co-hosts of the Nik and Colton Show, discussing local government and school funding disputes in Ocean County, New Jersey, centered on the town of Lakewood. The guests make a series of unverified claims about the local Jewish community, including allegations of coordinated political control, misuse of public funds...

Trump gathers senators, governors, and a lineup of energy CEOs to announce one of the largest infrastructure packages of his presidency, nearly $200 billion from South Korea funding eight new nuclear plants, a massive Texas gas facility, and the long promised Alaska LNG pipeline, a project politicians have talked about for five decades. Expect genuine excitement from Alaska's delegation, some spir...

Jordan Sather joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a two part conversation that starts deep in theoretical physics and ends in health truth. Jordan pushes on whether the information system can evaluate theoretical models like general relativity or the multiverse, and Chris explains the crucial distinction: this tool doesn't explore theory, it entangles what is observably true...

Jon Herold, broadcasting from a Florida guest room, pushes back on a wave of online attacks accusing Badlands of paying hosts to tell people not to vote, sharing a viral (and satirical) post defending the network's diversity of opinion. He digs into the Senate blocking a congressional stock trading ban after Democrats called it a toothless election year gimmick, an odd Gallup poll showing Republic...

CannCon and Ashe kick off Ash Wednesday joking that they have spent more time together this week than with anyone else, then dive into a college athletics fight that turns into a real discussion about federal overreach and the Commerce Clause. From there it is a genuinely fun segment on the State Department rolling out an at home passport application, complete with Rubio demoing the process and a...

JB White opens with a fun Gators moment straight from the Oval Office before shifting into heavier territory. He walks through the dramatic story of an attempted hijacking on a Fly Dubai flight and the passengers who stopped it, then pushes back on some of the conspiracy talk that followed. He previews the next Badlands Media GART event coming to St Petersburg Beach in November, replays a historia...

CannCon and Ashe in America welcome back Colonel Shawn Smith for a genuinely wonky, connect-the-dots hour. The thread starts in Puerto Rico, where the government called in the feds over its Dominion machines, and quickly widens into a study of Mojave, the AI outfit that shows up in a string of Reuters stories. Colonel Smith walks through the reporting he says conveniently never names the intellige...

Alpha Warrior kicks things off with the biggest news of his week, becoming a grandfather to healthy twins, before he and Josh Reid dive back into the political grind. They break down fresh CNN polling on Trump approval and midterm turnout numbers, argue that the math actually favors Republicans no matter how the numbers get spun, and revisit a theory about Democrats sitting on Epstein files levera...

Jon Herold, pre recording ahead of a family trip, digs into what he calls the most interesting election security development of Trump's second term, a new Pete Hegseth memo directing the entire Defense Intelligence Enterprise, not just NSA and Cyber Command, to actively mobilize against foreign election interference, and walks through the history connecting it to Executive Order 13848 and the orig...

Matthew Ehret hands the mic over this week to researcher Rick Hines for a guest deep dive into one of history's favorite unsolved mysteries. Recorded while Ehret was touring occult sites in London, this episode tackles the Atlantis question head on, but skips the usual theosophical detours into Aryan super races and alien space operas. Instead, Hines builds his case straight from Plato's Critias d...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with a doctor's account of the pressure to stay quiet during the pandemic, which leads into a Just The News piece on the CDC now pushing COVID shots off label for healthy people and the MAHA frustration that has followed. They also look at what the new formulations actually contain. From there it is a Fox News report on Boston funding an immigrant activist program with t...

Tony Robbins kicks things off with philanthropic flair before handing it to Airbnb co founder turned Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, who unveils America.gov, a single new front door meant to replace roughly 29,000 clunky federal websites. Expect a genuinely slick product demo, complete with a name change walkthrough powered by AI, a parade of frustrated citizen testimonial clips, and some surpris...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with some election security talk, digging into a new memo from the Secretary of War and a wave of recent wins on the CISA and SAVE database front, before Jon reveals he's more excited than usual for tonight's main event. For the first time, the show tackles an actual proven conspiracy rather than a theory, walking through the bizarre and tragic real life case of a piz...

Ashe in America and Wednesday regular Brian Lupo tackle the AI conversation they have been promising for weeks, joined by Matt McDonagh for some genuine industry insight and a bit of referee duty. The big question on the table, is artificial intelligence steering us toward a golden age of abundance, or something closer to global imprisonment? Expect a lively back and forth on job displacement, fro...

This is the GART recap show, and Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada are still riding the high from Las Vegas, complete with an ongoing feud over whether it is Nevada or Nevada, and a running scoreboard that simply reads "Brian is still wrong." The crew relives the weekend: Christy's early and elaborate Halloween decorating, a target trampoline that may or may not be rigged, and a gen...

Trump gathers a room full of governors, senators, and cabinet secretaries to announce what he calls the largest steel plant in American history, an $18 billion Mesabi Metallics complex in southeast Iowa, fed by the first new American iron ore mine in over 50 years. Between the ribbon cutting energy, expect a full breakdown of how 50% steel tariffs made the deal possible, a promise of 6,000 constru...

Big life news kicks this one off: Alpha is officially a grandpa and workshops his grandparent name in real time (Papa? Gampa? Big Head?) while plotting to out-spoil the other side of the family with race car beds and a friendly grandparent cold war. CannCon nearly dies racing his dog down the stairs first. Then it is football, and the officiating gripes run deep. The guys relitigate the Broncos-Ra...

Jon Herold, fresh off a haircut and a Vikings win, debuts a new AI powered database project built with help from Chris Paul that tracks and scores political predictions made by dozens of accounts in the truth community since Trump's inauguration, revealing wildly high miss rates for the loudest "cheerleader" and "doomer" voices currently attacking Badlands. He walks through a new US China trade tr...

CannCon opens the solo Monday show with a recap of the American Martyrs premiere in West Palm Beach, then runs through a packed rundown. There is New York billing millions in improper Medicaid payments for incarcerated enrollees, a new federal AI portal being pitched as a one stop shop, and a geopolitics block covering Germany's foreign minister reading his own government's words back at him and t...

Josh Reid rides solo again while Alpha Warrior celebrates becoming a grandpa to twins. He opens with a defense of friction as a feature, not a bug, using the messy, argumentative birth of the Constitution to make the case that a movement full of people who disagree beats an echo chamber. That leads into why a Q adjacent show is telling you to vote, not sit out, and a respectful airing of where he...