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Matt Ehret keeps the Tesla file open, and this week the guest of honor is Sir William Crookes, the mentor most Tesla fans have somehow never heard of. Expect a deep dive into spirit photography, levitating mediums, and a scientist who somehow found time to run the British Royal Society and preside over the Ghost Club simultaneously. Ehret traces how the "invisible college" of 19th century spiritua...

This week Alphas Make Sandwiches goes big with a five-person crew, as Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada welcome guests Michelle from Tamarack Garden and Cristina (Mrs. Rise Attire) for a genuinely packed episode. Jackie debuts a new segment, Logging Into the Mainframe, teaching phone hacks your grandkids usually handle. Michelle delivers a heartfelt pep talk on taking risks, killing...

Two Y-Chromes are better than none, and this week CannCon and Alpha Warrior hold down the fort solo (the third chromosome is off "kissing the wall" somewhere) for a freewheeling, unsupervised session of male nonsense. Expect boundary-testing hypotheticals that put the chat on the spot, a spirited defense of Dos Equis, and a running Marine Corps versus everyone-else rivalry that somehow ties back t...

Jon Herold opens a quieter Monday with the weekend's biggest shock, Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death, and works through Trump's on camera tributes alongside the swirl of conspiracy chatter, replacement speculation for South Carolina's seat, and how the loss squeezes an already razor thin GOP Senate majority. He also revisits the ongoing Mitch McConnell health mystery and a widely shared "host...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with the shock news that Senator Lindsey Graham has died, walking through the medical examiner's initial cause of death and the wave of conspiracy chatter already swirling around it, plus a couple of throwback clips reminding everyone why Graham was such a polarizing figure. From there they dig into a stunning State Department statement pressuring Colombia over its dispu...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid pull up chairs for a Sunday night that refused to stay quiet. Top of the docket: the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham, and whether a 71 year old warhawk simply ran out of runway or became a very convenient message. The guys walk through timelines, aortic dissections, drone facilities, and a Cash Patel late night White House summons, weighing the boring explanation...

Burning Bright sits down with Jon Herold for round two of Devolution Evolution, timed to the five year anniversary of the original Devolution series. They go back to the source material and revisit the core theory in light of everything that has happened since, from the second Trump term to the upcoming midterms and the SAVE Act. Expect a real retrospective here, not just a highlight reel: they di...

Jonathan Drake returns fresh off a conversation about teleporting airplanes, Ashton Forbes, and the Ether before circling back to Lysander Spooner's Section Four. This week's target is Justice Joseph Story, the man who apparently thinks the average American is too "prejudiced, passionate, and capricious" to know right from wrong, despite owing his entire career to those same supposedly clueless pe...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show with a livestreamer guest who sat through the entire Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing, breaking down the evidence, the courtroom optics, and why the "case closed" narrative circulating online doesn't hold up the way people think. They dig into the shaky video evidence, draw uncomfortable parallels to a past politically charged trial everyone remem...

Cam Cooksey dusts off the cobwebs and returns to Flow after a short break, and he's in a reflective, patriotic mood. This one is less breaking news and more a warm celebration of America turning 250, the golden age of national beautification, and why building beautiful things matters even when the world tries to take them. Expect Cam's signature ridiculous humor (yes, there is a "no pants hour" di...

The crew settles in for another Friday night with the usual tech hiccups (cameras that won't turn on, the classic "unplug it and plug it back in") before diving into a full slate of news. There's a real conversation about shaky financial markets nobody wants to admit are shaky, a recap of a NATO summit where a foreign leader handed out loaded pistols to some very startled European delegates, and a...

Host Matt Trump returns from a break (a Fourth of July in the Arizona pines, plus a whirlwind Gart conference) with a story about his old physics-grad-school friend Jacques, a laid-back Frenchman who claimed he wouldn't visit America until "the orange dude" is gone. Matt assumed the worst, then discovered he'd read the whole thing wrong, and admits the episode title is technically a lie. What foll...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince kick off a slower newsweek by trading MAHA wins (fasting, ankle rehab, and other Friday flexes) before diving into RFK Jr.'s push for a formal COVID vaccine injury table and what it could mean for Americans still waiting on compensation. They break down HHS's new Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge, wonder aloud why hospital cafeterias so often resemble a sad Applebee...

Ghost tackles the week's biggest headline first: reports that Israel warned the US of a fresh Iranian plot to kill Trump, and why Ghost thinks that story deserves a heavy dose of skepticism (and maybe a raised eyebrow at who actually benefits). From there it's a full lap around the map. Ukraine strikes a Turkish-linked gas pipeline, Trump pulls Syria off the state sponsor of terrorism list, and NA...

Jon Herold digs into Trump firing the remaining Election Assistance Commission leadership and traces the history of the agency, from its role distributing COVID era election funds to its Dominion voting system certification timeline, connecting it to his long running election integrity coverage. He also unpacks reports that Israel shared intelligence about an Iranian assassination plot against Tru...

CannCon and Chris Paul open by unpacking Trump's move to fire the remaining Election Assistance Commissioners ahead of the midterms, tracing it back to years of documented problems with voting machine certification. From there they dive into a genuinely strange Axios report about a State Department official accused of going rogue on Venezuela policy, tangled up with exiled opposition figure Machad...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright drop into the water for a look at Spielberg's 1975 classic, and yes, the animatronic shark holds up better than you'd think. The guys dig into why practical tension still beats modern CGI, trade theories on whether Jaws would scare anyone who first saw it as an adult, and take a hard swing at Spielberg's recent output along the way. Expect real talk about shark encoun...

Grab your coffee (or bourbon pecan, your call), because CannCon and Alpha Warrior trade the news desk for the hangar this week. They sit down with Vietnam War veteran and Huey pilot Warrant Officer Rick McAninch, who flew assault helicopter missions with the 334th and trained alongside the 317th Air Cav. Rick walks through what it actually took to fly troops into hot LZs with no night vision, why...

CannCon and Ashe in America crack open Chapter 8 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and things get spicy fast. This week's theme: Fool's Gold, the story of how paper money without any real backing became the norm, and how fractional reserve banking let banks issue more gold receipts than gold they actually had. They trace fiat money all the way back to Marco Polo's account of...

Ashe in America and Ghost are back to unpack Season 4, Episode 6 of The Chosen, "Dedication," and this one is doing a lot at once. Expect a surprisingly deep detour into Alexander the Great and how his conquests reshaped the world Jesus and the disciples actually lived in, plus a spirited debate about which Bible verses tend to get conveniently trimmed by preachers who like half a promise more tha...

Jon Herold works through a New York Times deep dive on the many ways Trump is using federal power to try to shape the 2026 midterms, walking through nationalization efforts, redistricting battles, election security cuts, and ongoing fights over voter rolls in states like Georgia and Minnesota. He shares some skepticism about whether these efforts have produced any real world results yet and invite...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick off with a Chuck Grassley bombshell claiming Jack Smith's own office mishandled classified material while prosecuting Trump, then dig into what that could mean for the special counsel himself. From there the two go head to head, genuinely head to head, over the unraveling Graham Platner scandal in Maine and whether a similar controversy around his would be replacemen...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright are back for a Wednesday session that opens with bathroom demolition chaos before diving into the real construction project: tearing apart the DOGE narrative. Was it a genuine cost cutting crusade or a "narrative delivery vehicle" for waking people up to government waste? The guys hash out both sides after a rough reaction to a poll about it. From there it's straight...

Shipwreck is back after a wild news week, wading through the Charlie Kirk trial fallout, the Candace Owens versus Turning Point USA divide, and a fresh round of Mitch McConnell conspiracy talk (yes, the collagen ad makes a comeback too). She digs into the Christian Zionism debate, questions why curiosity gets treated like a crime online, and reacts live to a stack of viral clips on segregation, th...

Ever wonder why a bunch of satellites floating in the sky matters so much to your daily reality? Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast sits down with Chris Ponder to lay the groundwork for their new "Tools for Truth" series, starting with a crash course in orbital mechanics that's part physics lecture, part treasure map. They break down the difference between low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, and geo...