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Jordan and Nate dive into one of Jordan's all time favorite subjects: medicinal mushrooms. Not the psychedelic kind, not the ones in your stir fry, but the powerhouse fungi that have been quietly ignored by Western medicine for centuries while Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions have leaned on them for thousands of years. The guys break down the heavy hitters: turkey tail, chaga, lion's mane, cordyce...

Most Americans have no idea there is a space race going on, and that's exactly how the other side wants it. Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast is joined by his longtime colleague and one of the sharpest strategic minds in the country, Dr. Peter Garretson, author of Scramble for the Skies, The Next Space Race, and Space Shock. The framing lands like a punch. If the United States shut down NASA tomorrow,...

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday on a slow news day that gets genuinely interesting when a chat member drops a link and Jon discovers 98,000 AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras mapped across the United States, run by a private company that shares data freely with law enforcement and ICE. He had never heard of them. Now he has feelings. Trump's cabinet meeting produced two notable moments: a detaile...

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a primary night that delivered. Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn by 25 points despite being outspent 9 to 1, and Ashe frames it as the clearest proof yet that voter intent is real even inside a broken system. Al Green is unseated in Houston by a younger challenger, another product of the redistricting wave. Tina Peters is days away from walking out, an...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with an unsettling pattern. Tulsi Gabbard's husband Abraham just got hit with a rare bone cancer, Pam Bondi has been quietly fighting thyroid cancer for months, and Alpha walks through the Judith Vary Baker SV40 history that suggests the deep state has had weaponized cancer biotech since the 1950s. His takeaway is direct. John Ratcliffe needs to go either way, and...

CannCon and Ashe in America bring on cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh and retired Col. Shawn Smith to break down the CISA GitHub credential leak, in which AWS GovCloud server access keys and workspace passwords were stored in plain text in a CSV file and left exposed for up to six months. Col. Smith explains why CISA has never had the cyber talent or leadership to secure critical infrastructure, a...

Ghost opens episode 108 with Tulsi Gabbard's resignation as DNI, her husband's rare bone cancer diagnosis, and a deep look at her military background in psychological operations that makes her one of the most uniquely positioned figures in the Trump administration. Ghost then maps out the Iran peace deal taking shape: Trump's Truth Social post quoting Iran's president saying they are not seeking n...

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a slow news day that gets more interesting as it goes. Tim Burchett posted a video referencing a podcast where someone asked him whether Jews have too much control in Washington, and Jon is pretty sure he knows which podcast Burchett is talking about. He watches it twice, compares it to the actual question he asked, and lands on a point that matters more than the dra...

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday fresh off Memorial Day with a show that does not waste a single minute. An Escondido army veteran who flew Trump flags outside his home dies from an unprovoked beating, and CannCon and Ghost frame it as the inevitable product of years of normalized political violence. Axios floats AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and Gavin Newsom for 2028 in the same breath it publishes a hit...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 186 on Memorial Day with Jon describing how he found a lone star tick crawling up his arm the night before, making the follow-up to last week's tick episode feel extremely personal. The full hour is dedicated to tracing the documented history of US government tick and insect bioweapons programs. Jon walks through Nazi scientist Dr. Eric Traub, brought to Ameri...

What if Roswell never happened? In this episode, Matt Ehret dismantles the foundational stone of the entire UFO disclosure movement piece by piece. From Lawrence Rockefeller personally lobbying the Clinton White House to release UFO files, to forged Majestic 12 documents typed on machines built decades after the supposed date, to a CIA director's memo describing UFOs as a psychological warfare too...

Ghost and Colonel Towner Watkins deliver a sweeping two-host examination of Henry Kissinger, the man at the center of nearly every major globalist operation of the twentieth century. From his OSS Ritchie Boy origins and his CIA-funded Harvard institute to his dual role as national security adviser and secretary of state, Kissinger operated as the connective tissue between the Rockefellers, the Fab...

Jon Herold comes in on Memorial Day a little lighter than usual, kids are in the backyard on the slip and slide, and the news is slow enough to get real about some things that need saying. The biggest one: everybody is getting very excited about the reports Tulsi Gabbard is expected to release before she leaves, covering Havana syndrome, COVID origins, and 2020 election fraud. Jon is asking the qu...

CannCon and Zak Paine open a packed Memorial Day Monday with a salute to fallen brothers and a show full of enormous developments. Trump skips Don Junior's wedding to stay at the White House, and instead of an Iran strike, he announces a broad peace memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain. Israel is conspicuously absent from the signator...

Jon Herold sits down with Jeanine Garcia of A Bit of Whimsy, a boutique tucked into a 100 year old building in Iron River, Michigan, right in the heart of the Upper Peninsula. What started as a whispered phrase during a quiet moment staring across the street at a building for sale became a faith driven leap into small town retail. Jeanine walks Jon through the two and a half year renovation, the g...

Episode 53 of Flow drops on Memorial Day weekend with Cam Cooksey navigating a live breaking news situation and tying it all back to God's frequency. A shooter identified as William Sexton, a trans-Democrat activist angry about the US-Iran peace deal, fires on a White House checkpoint and is neutralized by Secret Service. Cam reads the unfolding reports live and lands on a false flag theory with M...

Part 6 of the ether series is where the rubber meets the road, or more accurately, where the light meets the wire. Jonathan Drake and Polymath revisit the Divided Line, the Golden Gnomon, and the water molecule before introducing two new concepts that reframe everything. First: the so-called speed of light is not a speed at all. It is the hysteresis rate of the ether, the rate at which the medium...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open on yet another Saturday shooting outside the White House, this time involving Nazir Best of Maryland, and spend the first segment dissecting why the total evidence for the event is a sound on a video and a reporter ducking. Chris Paul pivots into the history of the Secret Service, tracing its origins to Lincoln's 1865 national currency centralization project, its fun...

GMoney emerges from the Coffey Bunker after a month off to deliver a Bitcoin Pizza Day episode stacked with cypherpunk history and clown world updates. The main event is a conversation with Paul Rosenberg, the cypherpunk pioneer, longtime author, and builder of the Crypto Hippie VPN whose anonymously published novel A Lodging of Wayfaring Men reads like a prequel to the Bitcoin white paper. Paul w...

Jaytriot is back, and the crew is glad to have him. He opens with a raw, honest account of his father's stroke, broken hip, UTI-induced hospital delirium, and the full-contact advocacy battle required just to keep an 87-year-old man from being discharged too early by a system turning over beds faster than bodies can heal. The episode pivots to Tulsi Gabbard leaving the DNI role after her husband A...

Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap in his meeting with Trump, and host Matt Trump has thoughts. Lots of them. In this episode, Matt traces the concept from its single-line origin in ancient Greek history through its revival by Harvard academic Graham Allison in 2012, where it became a sophisticated-sounding argument for American defeatism and Chinese inevitability. The problem? Allison's histo...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince dig into a week that felt like a nature documentary gone wrong. Ticks are surging across the Northeast and Midwest, alpha gal syndrome is quietly making red meat allergies a real and growing problem, and a peer reviewed bioethics paper from Western Michigan University actually argues scientists are morally obligated to gene-edit lone star ticks to spread alpha gal and...

Jon Herold comes in Friday expecting a relatively calm show and discovers live on air that Tulsi Gabbard has just resigned as DNI. Her husband Abraham has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, her last day is June 30, and Erin Lucas, a CIA operations officer and former Grinnell chief of staff, will serve as acting director. Jon reads Trump's statement, looks up Lucas's background live, a...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show that covers fearmongering, geopolitics, and a reconciliation bill meltdown. The Hantavirus narrative did not catch on, so Ebola is back: a passenger from the DRC accidentally boards a flight to Detroit, gets diverted to Montreal, and Marco Rubio confirms the US is funding 50 clinics in the DRC while keeping the disease out of the country...

Chris Paul is joined by his good friend Josh Capps, a literature professor and screenwriter from Louisiana, sitting in for Burning Bright. The two break down Warren Beatty's 1998 political satire Bulworth, which Beatty wrote, directed, and starred in opposite Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Isaiah Washington, and a nearly silent Sean Astin. Josh argues the film sits on a fascinating cultur...