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Jon Herold and Chris Paul dig deep into the aftermath of Maduro's capture, walking through the Pentagon's newly secured stake in Venezuela's oil riches and how the deal has evolved from a broker relationship into a full investment position. They cover Chevron's long, complicated history operating in Venezuela through the Chavez and Maduro years, and play a clip from a ConocoPhillips executive meet...

Cam Cooksey opens episode 65 (August 29th) with a MyPillow ad that doubles as a plug for Mike Lindell's post campaign standing to expose Minnesota election issues, then settles into a relaxed, tangent heavy night of Truth Social. The theme is Trump the builder versus the dying legacy media. Cam walks through posts framing Trump as the most popular president in our lifetimes, a barrage of media roa...

Trump drops a genuinely wild Truth Social announcement mid show, a massive oil agreement handing the US majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves, and the crew spends a good chunk of the night picking apart whether Maduro is really finished, whether this counts as regime change or just a really good deal, and why "it's not stealing if nobody stops you" somehow becom...

Host Matt Trump (fighting a temperamental mic cord) turns his leftover map slides into a full episode on a provocative question: did the barbarians actually destroy Rome, or preserve it? Picking up from last week's Phantom Time detour, he leans on Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and the book Medieval Cities, bought decades ago as an Austin physics grad student, to argue a mainstream but revisionis...

Jordan and Nate dig into what they call a genuine media scandal this week: two supposedly measles related deaths in Pennsylvania that the county coroner and commissioner themselves say never happened, complete with a NBC infant death story that quietly admits the actual cause was a ruptured spleen. They connect the dots to what they believe is a deliberate push to pressure Amish communities in Pen...

Jon Herold marks the six month anniversary of the Iran conflict by ribbing early predictions it would wrap up in weeks, then covers the Treasury Department's first named sanctions target under "Operation Economic Outcast," a UAE bank accused of processing 1.8 billion dollars for Iranian shadow banking networks. He digs into a new report on hundreds of millions in tax deductible charity dollars all...

Ashe in America and Ghost call Season 5, Episode 4 of The Chosen, "The Same Coin," a real turning point, and they mean it. This episode zeroes in on two men chasing the same broken idea of righteousness from opposite sides, as Judas continues to unravel and Shmuel crosses a line of his own that changes everything for him. The hosts spend real time on the Last Supper dialogue between Jesus and Juda...

CannCon and Chris Paul kick off Friday with what CannCon dubs Schrodinger's case, as a federal judge blocks the President's mail in ballot executive order yet again, roughly a week before the first ballots go out, in a ruling everyone expects to be appealed within days. They walk through the dizzying timeline of injunctions and reversals stretching back to April. From there they cover a USAID repo...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on the 1997 Val Kilmer vehicle, and the verdict lands fast, this one is rough. Expect an entertaining teardown of a movie that was clearly built to launch a franchise and immediately fizzled, plus a genuine deep dive into Val Kilmer's eccentric career and the strange choices that pushed him away from Batman sequels and James Bond toward this instead. From there t...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior go dark, literally, kicking off in the shadows before diving into a stack of military videos and a healthy round of inter branch trash talk. They react to Javelin footage, boot camp chaos, and a Navy recruit graduation before landing on the real debate of the night, that viral video of a run down ship head that had the internet convinced sailors were suffering nine months...

Frankie Val builds the whole night around a question posed by a voice note from Kenny in Cleveland: is polite society already gone? Kenny describes a neighborhood that now feels like a GTA lobby, and a moment of hesitating to help a stranger for fear of being mistrusted, which Frankie treats as the real warning sign of breakdown. From there it sharpens. Frankie lays out his non negotiable line on...

CannCon and Ashe in America return to finish what they started, picking up the second half of Chapter 12 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and this time they actually get to the sinking of the Lusitania. The hosts walk through how the ship was quietly outfitted for war, the cargo controversy that followed it for decades, and the strange timeline of warnings and decisions tha...

Trump kicks off with an 81st stock market record and a shoutout to a South Carolina Senate win before getting to the real headline: signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, following the same playbook as the Gulf of Mexico rename, with a hint that an ocean might be next. The Q&A that follows is a genuine grab bag, a blunt breakdown of trade grievances with Canada, tari...

Jon Herold digs into a fresh batch of White House transparency documents on election machine supply chain vulnerabilities, walking through claims that voting machine vendors rely on Chinese made parts, but flags what he thinks is a bigger discovery: what appears to be the previously unknown title of a classified national security memorandum buried in the document citations. He also breaks down Tru...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with a DHS statement on crime rates that Alpha is very pleased about, tying the drop back to deportation numbers and a broader debate over what actually drives the trend. From there they cover a wave of Democrat officials being charged over pandemic relief fraud, including a Massachusetts state representative facing eleven counts, plus a separate case involving posta...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with the escalating US Canada trade dispute, breaking down a clip from US Trade Representative Jameson Greer disputing the media narrative around a last minute tariff postponement gone sideways. There's real skepticism here about who actually backed out of the deal and why the coverage seems tilted. From there it's a stretch of speculation around the CIA director...

Cam and Chris Ponder rejoin Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for round two of the truth triangulation series, picking up where last week's 16 steps left off. Cam offers a genuinely great mental exercise for the audience: imagine zooming into history the way you'd zoom into a map app, down to the exact building, the exact timestamp, even Thomas Jefferson's pen moving across the Declaration of Indepe...

Former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin joins Shipwreck for a wide ranging, no filter conversation that starts with home defense, go bags, and a legendary prank story from his academy days, then gets serious fast. He walks through his ongoing lawsuit fallout tied to calling out Cash Patel's inner circle, the strange background research he has done on a certain country singer connected to Patel, and why he...

Jon Herold works to untangle public confusion over a recent SCOTUS ruling on mail in voting, explaining that it only unfroze one of two active cases challenging Trump's postal executive order while the League of Women Voters case is still blocking key provisions. He covers the DOJ and FBI seizing Chinese state sponsored hacking tools that targeted NASA, the Fed, and other agencies, a Secret Servic...

CannCon and Ashe open with the CIA director making an unannounced trip to Moscow and speculate on what business would justify a visit nobody was supposed to know about. From there they dig into three Secret Service communications officials being suspended and stripped of clearances in a leak probe that appears tied to the Air Force One plane swap story, with both the FBI and CIA involved. The midd...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid kick things off with the mystery of John Ratcliffe making an unannounced trip to Moscow, walking through why the usual explanations do not add up and what kind of message might actually be getting delivered behind closed doors. They also sit down with Nelson McIlveen from Sentry H2O for a segment on water filtration and why what is actually in your tap water matters mor...

This is the guest the audience kept demanding, and Zak Paine pushed CannCon to book. Clint Curtis, now Registrar of Voters in Shasta County, California, is the programmer who, back around 2000 in Florida, was asked to write software that could flip an election, and did, in 24 lines of code. CannCon and Ashe in America walk him through that origin story, the congressional testimony every mainstream...

Jon Herold digs into the unfolding Data Republican controversy, walking through how the prominent conservative data analyst faced backlash after admitting she's a paid special government employee at the Department of War, despite previously framing a State Department document handoff as an entrapment attempt. He argues the real issue isn't her politics but the lack of disclosure, and plays a clip...

CannCon flies solo for Tuesday with Ghost calling in for a meaty geopolitics segment on the Mecca agreement, an Article 5 style defense pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey that has now reportedly extended invitations to Iran and Syria. Ghost walks through Turkey's rising role inside NATO, US troops leaving Iraq, and a genuinely surprising revelation about who was actually serving as the...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine bring back Mandela effect subject matter expert Josh Reid for round two, picking up a thread they didn't have time to finish last time. Josh steps into the role of true believer while Jon plays skeptic in chief, and the two go back and forth all night with genuine friction and mutual respect. Expect a deep cut Philip K. Dick speech that gets treated as something close to p...