Badlands Media

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...

Cam Cooksey steps in as a new co host alongside Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a scale bending episode that zooms out from your neighborhood block all the way to the edges of the observable universe, and back down to the quantum level. The trio maps how the "paragon" framework, the idea of the universe itself as one giant information system, can replace encryption with someth...

Trump gathers a genuine who's who of finance, crypto, and tech ahead of the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting, and the room reads like a highlight reel: Coinbase, Robinhood, Kraken, Ripple, Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Winklevoss twins all in one place. Expect a victory lap on firing Gary Gensler, launching the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and signing the Genius Act,...

Jon Herold welcomes back Ghost for a deep geopolitical breakdown, replaying an old clip of Ghost's David's Corridor prediction before diving into the Mecca Accords, a Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and Turkey defense pact he calls bigger than the Abraham Accords, and a web of new oil pipeline deals connecting Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Ghost also unpacks a reported Tulsi Gabbard back channel with I...

CannCon and Ashe kick off with a stunning DSA steering committee clip where a member openly says the group is famous for its hatred of the US Constitution, setting up a wider discussion about which political coalition, the DSA or America First, actually represents the bigger threat to the old guard establishment. They dig into Florida's primary results, where Alex Vindman suffers a genuinely shock...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid go big picture this week, laying out what they call the war of economic attrition and how the great reset, Trump's economic overhaul, and the quiet global power struggle are all colliding at once. Special guests Kurt and Cristin from Pet Club 247 join for a segment on cellular health and autophagy before the guys shift back into accountability talk, indictments, and whe...

A double-guest night for CannCon and Ashe in America. First up is Mark Mitchell, the honest pollster, who explains why you really cannot trust most of the polling industry, how everyone gets captured in different ways, and what the LA Times poll story and the Frank Luntz Midwest numbers actually reveal once you read the cross tabs. Then Michigan attorney Kevin Kijewski joins to detail his fresh la...

Jon Herold breaks down a newly declassified 2020 NSA memo showing a deputy director delayed a foreign election targeting report for over a year out of fear it would brand the agency as "deep state," then replays what he calls his favorite Trump clip on the weaponized intelligence community to tie it all together. He questions why these releases seem to route exclusively through journalist John Sol...

CannCon flies solo again on the now permanent Tuesday format and opens with a genuinely wild polling scandal, where a brand new firm openly admits to running what it calls a social experiment after getting caught pushing wildly inflated numbers for a socialist candidate that ended up losing by half a point. He connects that to Rasmussen quietly getting booted from a major polling aggregator despit...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine kick things off with fresh Fang Fang document drops, digging into some genuinely eyebrow raising details about a certain congressman's staff interviews and just how much got quietly swept under the rug when that whole scandal wrapped up. Then the guys settle in for the night's main event, a decades old theory claiming horror novelist Stephen King was secretly behind one of...

Ashe in America welcomes former Miss Colorado, Senate and House candidate Deborah Flora for a wide ranging conversation on what it actually means to be "post partisan" in a state where most voters are unaffiliated. The two dig into Colorado's caucus system, why it can both empower grassroots candidates and shut them out, and whether the two party structure still reflects how people actually vote....

Fresh off last week's fallout, Matthew Ehret dives straight into the deep end of internet conspiracy lore: the Khazarian empire. If you've ever heard someone blame the world's problems on "Khazarian mafia" bloodlines, this episode traces that idea back to its unlikely source, including a certain shape shifting lizard theorist from the late 90s, and asks how much of the popular Khazarian narrative...

Football season has arrived, and the crew wastes no time debating whose game day schedule reigns supreme (East Coast breakfast kickoffs versus West Coast five-beers-deep mornings) before diving into a coffee-warmer appreciation segment that somehow doubles as a good-brew sponsor read. The meat of this episode is ESPN's three-year future power rankings, and the guys tear into them team by team. Exp...

Ashe, Christy, and Jackie kick off with a genuinely fascinating history lesson on the origin of pass the buck, tracing it from a 19th century poker table all the way to Harry Truman's Oval Office desk sign. It is one of those rabbit holes you did not know you needed. Then the tone shifts as Ashe and a guest dig into the fresh reporting on Eric Swalwell and his relationship with alleged Chinese int...

Jon Herold digs deep into newly declassified FBI files on suspected Chinese operative Christine Fang, nicknamed "Rusty Thumbs" by investigators, and her years long relationship with Congressman Eric Swalwell, walking through the FBI's failed attempt to recruit her as a source before pivoting to a campaign corruption investigation that ultimately closed without charges. He builds out a detailed the...