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Ashe in America is joined by regular Wednesday cohost Burning Bright for part two of their "Weapons of the Enemy" conversation, picking up from a discussion that started the night before on "The Narrative." This round digs into what MAGA actually is at this point, whether it can be co opted, and why it has become nearly impossible for pollsters to measure. From there the two turn to political part...

Back to school season gets the full White House treatment, complete with a heliport and ballroom construction update squeezed in for good measure. Trump runs through a sweeping education agenda: ending critical race theory and "transgender ideology" in schools, expanding school choice through the Education Freedom Tax Credit, doubling 529 savings caps, and rolling out Trump savings accounts for ne...

Ashe, Christy, and Jackie are back with sponsors, laughs, and one of the most unhinged mom group chat sagas you will hear all year. It starts with a simple lunchbox complaint about Oreos and somehow spirals into accusations, escalations to the school, and a five year old accused of running the whole operation. The ladies cannot stop laughing at how far it goes. From there, Christy shares a viral v...

CannCon kicks things off with a genuinely sweet detour, sharing his 17th anniversary and the tribute video his wife made, before the guys steer hard back into manly territory with talk of keeping your nuts warm in a fifty dollar coffee mug. Football is nearly here, so the crew serves up a tightly curated highlight reel: Harrison Butker launching a 69-yard field goal with room to spare, a debate ov...

Jon Herold calls it a boring Monday news cycle but still digs into Trump's newly announced 50 percent tariffs on Canadian autos, parts, and steel starting in 2027, reading through the Truth Social post accusing Canada of running up a 60 billion dollar trade deficit. He plays clips from Treasury Secretary Bessent's rollout of "Operation Economic Outcast," a sweeping sanctions campaign aimed at cutt...

CannCon and Zak Paine open Monday with highlights from the Freedom 250 race in DC before digging into a measles outbreak story where the actual death numbers do not match the panic, with a detour into obesity and food policy nobody seems to want to talk about. From there they cover Brandon Gill making the case for testing the legality of auto pen pardons in court, and why the Fauci prosecution mig...

Burning Bright welcomes Ashe in America, whom he cheekily introduces as the perfect guest for this topic since she is a "sometimes enemy" who knows a lot about the weapons of the enemy. First order of business: an executive decision to stay on YouTube tonight, because Burning Bright refuses to besmirch "our Lord and savior, JRR Tolkien" by skipping his Lord of the Rings clips. The core question is...

This Week's Guest: Colton Kelley from Unicity https://BadlandsHealth.com Jon Herold is so sold on unimate that he shows up to this interview clutching his branded water bottle. In this episode of the sponsor spotlight series, he sits down with Colton Kelley of Unicity, the company behind the yerba mate extract Jon swears replaced his coffee habit. Colton traces Unicity's roots back to a century-ol...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with the usual banter (t-shirts, a broken ice maker) before getting into the mainstream media's sudden admission that election polls might be, in fact, fake, which segues nicely into growing chatter about a possible second Trump impeachment attempt. From there the conversation lands on the actual centerpiece of the episode: the new White House ballroom constructi...

Cam Cooksey splits episode 64 into two halves: an hour of Trump Truth Social posts on YouTube, then an hour off platform digging into a Cam Newton and Steve Smith conversation about triggers and mental health (don't worry, he promises it's not sports talk). The first hour is Trump in his bag. Cam covers the Supreme Court greenlighting the White House ballroom complex (which he suspects was quietly...

The night opens with an honest to goodness live decoding session: a former CIA officer's cryptic social media post about a redacted book epilogue, worked out letter by letter on air (spoiler, it's a little anticlimactic but still fun to watch unfold). From there the crew geeks out on a chip that reportedly pulls usable power straight from quantum vacuum fluctuations, with a healthy dose of skeptic...

Host Matt Trump wraps his London walking tour series and turns to a topic he calls preposterous, seductive, and genuinely fun: the Phantom Time Hypothesis, the claim that roughly 300 fabricated years were inserted into the Western calendar. He traces the idea back to his 1990s medieval-history hobby, credits the theory to Heribert Illig, and lays out its wild premise, that Holy Roman Emperor Otto...

Jordan and Nate pre record this one but still pack in plenty, starting with RFK's ongoing Real Food Show and a genuinely fascinating podcast episode with a very deaf Lou Ferrigno on ditching diet culture for good. From there they dig into Trump's pick for FDA commissioner, Dr. Heidi Overton, and why her ties to the recent childhood vaccine executive order have some old guard MAHA voices nervous. T...

Ashe in America and Ghost dig into Season 5, Episode 3 of The Chosen, "Woes," an episode Ashe says she watched three times before recording. This is the second half of the now iconic temple confrontation, and it lands harder than the first, as Jesus turns his full attention to the Sanhedrin with some of the most direct language in the entire series. The hosts walk through his string of rebukes to...

Jon Herold leans into a slow Friday with a mostly chat driven show, tackling former NSA Robert O'Brien's Fox News op ed arguing courts blocking White House ballroom construction endangers presidential security, and connecting it to his own theories about continuity of government bunkers. He plays a clip of Steve Bannon calling DOGE "fake and ghey" and questioning Bannon's push for a national emerg...

CannCon and Chris Paul kick off Friday with a jaw dropping Michael Cohen and President Trump interview that has to be heard to be believed, complete with polling talk, a recantation, and a level of chumminess that raises real questions about the entire Manhattan case. From there they cover growing frustration with the Senate over stalled appointments heading into the midterms, plus a Mike Lindell...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright finally tackle this 2005 political thriller about oil, intelligence, and Middle East power games, and both admit they went in with basically no expectations. Turns out the title has nothing to do with Syria despite the timing lining up with plenty of real world headlines. Expect a real dig into the film's tangled web of characters, from an oil executive's family trage...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior dig into a story that has them both rattled, a report on veterans' medical data reportedly flowing to Chinese research firms, and they walk through why that should worry anyone who has ever filed a VA claim. From there the conversation shifts into full debate mode over whether Americans should still bother voting given the state of the machines, with the guys taking oppos...

Frankie Val settles in for a rainy Thursday with cousin Sherry riding shotgun in the studio. The opening stretch dissects the endlessly re-aired Candace Owens versus Andrew Wilson debate, why Frankie lands somewhere near "Candace proximity" without joining a tribe, and how the whole spectacle folds back into the year long Charlie Kirk case and what he calls true crime psychosis. From there the sho...

The Rose Garden gets a very unexpected guest of honor this time: an actual IndyCar, gorgeous, roaring, and parked right next to the podium ahead of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. The event centers on First Lady Melania Trump's Fostering the Future initiative, which just added Indiana University and Purdue to its growing list of 26 partner schools offering foster youth a path to college and career. Ro...

CannCon and Ashe in America continue through The New Alchemy section of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, landing on Chapter 12: Sink the Lusitania. This week the hosts dig into JP Morgan's role financing England and France during World War I, and the far less patriotic reasons America may have ended up in that war at all. They trace the origin story most of us learned in schoo...

Jon Herold deals with a wave of fraudulent charges on his own bank card while running a genuinely slow Thursday show, leaning heavily on chat interaction. He covers the national debt officially crossing 40 trillion dollars, plays a Scott Bessent clip on whether the deficit has peaked, and digs into reports that the FBI seized former Congressman Eric Swalwell's electronics amid a sexual misconduct...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with a spirited debate over the national debt, the Federal Reserve, and whether the president can actually fix an economy that constitutionally belongs to Congress, sparked by a rant from the chat and a batch of new Trump comments on Bitcoin and interest rates. They also work through a chat claim about Bitcoin's origins that does not survive contact with the numbers....

Shipwreck is fired up this week, unloading on Nancy Mace's new YouTube channel and the wider grievance politics swirling around Congress, immigration, grocery prices, and Chuck Grassley. She works through a Gnostic breakdown of the hylic archetype and how it shapes her view of people who seem checked out from anything deeper than politics, sports, or the weather. There is real vulnerability too, a...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with a mystery eye injury bit before pivoting to celebrate, ironically, the country officially crossing forty trillion dollars in debt. From there it's a full rundown of the week's declassifications, including an Eric Swalwell related document that's more interesting for how it got declassified than what's actually in it, plus new filings in the James Comey case...