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A rare Tuesday night edition since vacation packing took over the usual schedule, but Shipwreck still shows up ready to go. She kicks off by metaphorically burying Lindsey Graham and reacting to Trump's latest Netanyahu comments, then dives into a heated online debate she started this week over the Palm Beach Pete and Jeffrey Epstein lookalike saga, plus a religious back and forth that spiraled ou...

Jon Herold covers a busy Tuesday with Zelensky and Netanyahu both visiting the White House at the same time, plus fresh Biden ghostwriter tapes catching him warning his own material might be classified. He digs into newly surfaced Fauci diary entries showing a private death rate estimate far lower than what he told Congress under oath ahead of his Wednesday testimony, and runs an informal poll ask...

CannCon goes solo for the first time as Ghost steps back to daily appearances, testing out a new once a week format and asking the audience to weigh in. He starts with a wild batch of Joe Biden clips from years back showing early signs of cognitive decline, including a primetime address moment that somehow made it onto the official White House YouTube page uncut. From there it's a deep dive into A...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine welcome guest Tim S (Burn Notice) for one of the more sprawling episodes of the show, tracing what the guest calls "Prussiagate," a decades spanning theory that a Prussian aristocratic bloodline has been quietly steering global power since the 1800s. Ambassadors, banking collapses, the Federal Reserve, Operation Paperclip, and the rise of modern China all get pulled into t...

Ashe in America welcomes back Matt Thayer, co-founder of Spiro Pictures and the filmmaker behind "Selection Code," for a two part conversation. First up, a new documentary featuring one of Charlie Kirk's final interviews, premiering exclusively on Salem Now September 10th, exploring whether God still speaks and whether anyone is still listening. Matt talks about the making of the film and what it...

Trump makes history as the first sitting president to visit General Motors' famous Milford Proving Ground, and turns it into equal parts economic victory lap and full throttle campaign rally. Expect tariff talk on foreign cars and trucks, a nostalgic detour into his father's love of Cadillacs, and genuine enthusiasm over Escalades, Silverados, and a mysterious new class of tiny cars now cleared fo...

Welcome to a full-blown technical difficulty day, as Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada battle echoing mics and a crashing computer while somehow delivering a great show. Ashe opens with the freshly declassified Anthony Fauci journals released by Rand Paul, walking through a supercut of media figures showering Fauci with praise and making the case that the pandemic numbers were manip...

Jon Herold kicks off the week digging into newly released Fauci diary entries ahead of his expected Wednesday congressional testimony, highlighting private notes that seem to contradict his public statements on COVID origins, asymptomatic spread, and the "gain of function" debate. He weighs in on James Comey's motion to dismiss his indictment on First Amendment grounds, a new tariff blitz targetin...

CannCon and Zak Paine dig into a fascinating side door into the New Jersey non citizen voter story: jury duty summons. It turns out a full 20 percent of the roughly one million people summoned each year report they do not meet eligibility requirements, mostly over citizenship, and those same lists overlap heavily with voter rolls pulled straight from the DMV and tax records. They also play a surpr...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come in a little late and a lot fired up for a "panic in DC" special. The centerpiece is a Trump truth posting frenzy, from time travel memes to a JFK mashup to the words "panic in DC," landing at the same moment DNI Bill Pulte drops a fresh round of declassified files on China's election interference and a fourth wave of intelligence community layoffs. The guys read th...

Burning Bright brings in Jonathan Drake to break down a term he stumbled across in the propaganda terrain a few weeks back, the dirty break. They open by unpacking what the concept actually means, then test drive it against the widening rift on the political left, from the DSA and AOC's rising influence to how far establishment Democrats have drifted from their own positions a decade ago. From the...

Jonathan Drake continues Spooner's chapter two "if then" gauntlet, this time zeroing in on rights: what they actually are, where they come from, and why the Constitution didn't hand you a single one. Expect a full teardown of the "voting is a right" argument (spoiler: Jon isn't buying it), a Declaration of Independence versus Constitution showdown, and a candid detour into autism, self diagnosis,...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul call this a slow news week and then spend the next few hours proving otherwise. They kick off with Trump's best clips from the White House Correspondents' Dinner and his various media rounds, then dig into a newly surfaced Cuba report that Chris actually read this time. There's a stretch dedicated to Steve Bannon's War Room appearances and a somewhat confusing back and fo...

Cam Cooksey is running on low energy and coffee (with Good Brew stirred in) after a week of manual labor, but the good vibes build as the show goes. The big personal moment: Cam and Jackie saw President Trump in person in Marietta, Georgia, at a rally for Georgia Republican candidates, and Cam shares what that was like from the floor. From there it's his usual walk through Trump's Truth Social, wi...

The crew tackles a genuinely interesting theory this week: that Sam Altman and other AI lab heads are quietly begging governments for regulation while China's open weight models keep blowing up their plans, essentially forcing an AI arms race nobody asked for. There's also a dive into why NATO officials seem baffled by JD Vance's silence on the Iran war, some spicy speculation about the Adelson fa...

Host Matt Trump invites you to grab your passport for a summer abroad, trading the just-finished World Cup for a walking tour of one of the most talked-about square miles on Earth: the City of London. Styling himself as the Rick Steves of Badlands and armed with a guidebook he bought in London back in 2000 (and is only now actually reading), he drops you off at Bank Station and strolls past Mansio...

Ghost comes in hot off his third recording of the day for a whiplash inducing news cycle. The big story is the US Saudi civilian nuclear deal, signed one day and seemingly upended by Trump the next with a surprise Abraham Accords condition. Ghost walks through the CNN and Zero Hedge reporting, then spends serious time explaining why he thinks the whole "confusion" narrative is theater aimed at a v...

Four companies just did something nobody's pulled off in over fifty years, and Trump is here to celebrate every second of it. This one kicks off with a genuine nuclear power milestone, private reactors going critical for the first time in decades, before sliding into a sprawling press Q&A that somehow covers the Saudi nuclear deal fallout, a blunt assessment of Iran's crumbling military, and a...

Jon Herold wraps up the week digging into the newly passed 1.5 trillion dollar NDAA, flagging a notable change that swaps "Military Information Support Operations" back to psychological and cognitive warfare language, plus a new brain performance enhancement program for Special Operations Forces. He weighs in on Politico polling showing Americans think gas prices are worse than they actually are,...

CannCon and Chris Paul open with California's Attorney General quietly rewording a voter ID ballot measure to sound far more restrictive than it actually is, and dig into why the polling on this issue is so lopsided in the first place. From there they play a clip of Elon Musk pushing back hard on a European interviewer's framing of mainstream border and spending policies as far right extremism. Th...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright pull the trigger on Tarantino's 1992 debut, and it turns into one of those episodes that wanders in the best possible way before it even gets to the movie. Expect detours into AI generated political speeches quoting Scorsese films, a deep dive on Grok's credibility problem, and a genuinely wild story about an AI detection tool that can be fooled just by rearranging a...

Frankie Val scrapped the whole show at 3:45pm and went solo, which somehow makes for one of the more freewheeling nights in a while. Up top: Russian warlocks charging desperate motorists $210 to lift hexes off their fuel tanks, because alchemy beats a mechanic. Then things sober up with the $1.15 trillion NDAA, Section 219, and a bipartisan revolt over deeper US and Israel defense tech integration...

CannCon and Ashe in America dive into Chapter 9 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, tracing the origin story of fractional reserve banking itself. This week the hosts follow the money from ancient Greece and Egypt through the banking hubs of Damascus, Barcelona, and Venice, where things get interesting fast. They walk through the rise and fall of early banks that tried to stay...

Trump heads to the EPA to expand his Ratepayer Protection Pledge, the plan that has tech giants footing the bill for the data centers powering the AI race instead of everyday electricity customers. Expect a parade of governors and utility CEOs getting shoutouts for freezing rates, eliminating property taxes, and handing out surprise bonuses to school teachers, all while Trump makes the case that A...

A special bonus episode, and a personal one. Ghost opens with some real life news of his own (nothing dramatic, just change on the horizon) before diving into Trump's Oval Office meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. They cover the new US Lebanon framework aimed at ending hostilities with Israel, why Ghost thinks the real standoff is between Trump and Netanyahu rather than Lebanon and Hezbo...