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Jon Herold comes into Friday with a full show and a guest. Cybersecurity expert Skip Holt joins to break down two massive data breaches: the Medtronic ransomware hack locking down 9 million patient records and the Conduent breach now affecting 100 million Americans. Jon then connects those stories to something nobody is discussing: the US Election Security Group has not been activated for the midt...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle the 2007 Coen Brothers masterpiece No Country for Old Men, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Woody Harrelson. The guys agree it's a modern American classic, and dig into why a film with such a stripped-down setting and plot manages to carry such enormous philosophical weight. The conversation move...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday discussion show that earns its runtime. Louisiana delays its house primaries after the Calais decision while Rep. Cleo Fields cries that "people have already voted," which is hilarious given the Virginia Democrats argued the opposite in their own Supreme Court hearing. CannCon and Chris dig into the downstream constitutional implications of u...

JB White closes out the Alexander Muse deep dive on Scott Bessent's dollar swap line doctrine and delivers the five-point grand strategy summary that ties the whole thing together: patient, profitable, protective of the American taxpayer, requiring no troops, and built to make alternative payment systems structurally irrelevant. He also shares an Indian geopolitical chart framing America as the cl...

Adel Nero is back with Zak Paine and Frankie Val for a packed Thursday hangout, and the news cycle did not disappoint. The guys open on Todd Blanche hitting the ground running at DOJ, the Minnesota raids, and Dan Bongino's cryptic Hannity comments about everything he set in motion before he left. From there, Zak makes the case that Pam Bondi was never the wrong pick. She was the easy confirmation...

CannCon and Ashe in America kick off G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and hit the ground running. Chapter one pulls back the curtain on the secret 1910 Jekyll Island meeting where six of the most powerful bankers in the world quietly drafted what would become the Federal Reserve System. The crew breaks down how the Fed was never designed to protect the public but was structured...

Ghost and Ashe in America break down Season 3, Episode 6 of The Chosen, a packed hour where Pontius Pilate finally walks on screen, John the Baptist sends a question that surprises everyone, and Z gets cornered by his old order with a dagger to his throat. The hosts trace the surprisingly nuanced Roman storyline (Pilate just wants peace, Quintus is paranoid, Atticus is, against all odds, telling t...

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with plenty to chew on and no shortage of opinions. He doubles down on his Comey skepticism after Trump himself posts confirming 86 is a mob term for kill, which Jon says actually makes the legal case harder, not easier, since it removes the noncriminal interpretation that the First Amendment requires. The House quietly passed a three-year renewal of FISA Section 702 w...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior close out April with a Thursday packed with courts, consequences, and a genuinely entertaining disagreement. The Supreme Court hears arguments on ending TPS for 330,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians, and the law could not be clearer: no judicial review of TPS terminations, full stop. Justice Alito spends a solid portion of the hearing making the plaintiff's attorney look lik...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with a live breakdown of the SCOTUS Louisiana redistricting ruling alongside guest Ash, who walks through Justice Alito's 42-page opinion striking down race-based congressional district drawing under section two of the Voting Rights Act, a question courts have been kicking down the road for forty years. From there, the guys turn to newly declassified Grassley doc...

Tonight’s episode dives into some unsettling questions and uncomfortable patterns. From Amy Eskridge’s claims about aliens possibly being humans from the future, to resurfacing questions around Jeffrey Epstein following 60 Minutes Australia, we explore what’s being said—and what isn’t. We’ll also look at why millionaires are investing in underground bunkers, and how corporate power continues tight...

On April 14, President Trump signed an executive order telling the Department of War and NASA to put a nuclear power plant in low Earth orbit by 2028 and one on the lunar surface by 2030. Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast unpacks why that is not the start of weaponized space, but the catch up move America cannot afford to skip. Kwast walks through the case calmly and clearly. We already have a nuclear...

Jon Herold is not celebrating the Comey indictment, and he wants to explain why. While everyone else is popping champagne over a seashell Instagram post, Jon is asking the harder questions: is a charge this weak actually good for the accountability movement, or does it hand the media exactly the political persecution narrative they need to muddy the waters before treason charges arrive? Judge Napo...

CannCon and Ashe in America bring Wednesday's Ash with a show full of enormous stories and even bigger principles. Holly Kessler of Georgia joins to expose a Fulton County Democrat primary ballot containing questions that directly defame Bridget Thorne and Republican board members, calling them "election conspiracy theorists" to seed narratives ahead of expected FBI indictments. The Virginia Supre...

Scott Bessent walked into a Senate hearing and quietly announced the most consequential shift in American monetary policy since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. JB White breaks down the full strategic picture from analyst Alexander Muse's deep dive: what dollar swap lines actually are, why the UAE and Gulf states are the battlefield, how China spent a decade building a parallel financial syst...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open the show in an unapologetically good mood, because the FAGA crowd insisting nothing was ever going to happen had a rough day at the office. Comey was indicted. Fauci's right hand man David Morens was indicted. The Southern Poverty Law Center got hit. Eric Swalwell's career imploded. ActBlue is being unwound. And Todd Blanche, the guy everyone was suspicious of two...

CannCon and Ashe in America are back in their new Tuesday time slot with a loaded show. First up, a full Tina Peters case update: Judge Barrett refuses to disqualify himself, a renewed bond motion is pending, the habeas petition is in the Tenth Circuit, and presidential pardon arguments are heading to SCOTUS. Then the show moves to Texas' mid-decade redistricting maps, upheld by the Supreme Court...

Ghost opens episode 102 with a striking observation: mainstream outlets are now describing Iran's post-war power structure in terms that amount to an admission of devolution without ever using the word. With Khamenei dead and his son Mashtaba serving as a figurehead, real authority has consolidated inside the IRGC and the Supreme National Security Council. Ghost breaks down what this means for ong...

In a historic first, King Charles III becomes the first reigning British monarch to address a joint session of the United States Congress, arriving during the state visit marking America's 250th anniversary of independence. President Trump opens with warm remarks on the White House lawn, tracing the shared Anglo Saxon heritage that shaped American liberty before the king takes the Capitol. Charles...

Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Attorney Ellis Boyle, and FBI Director Kash Patel take the podium in the Eastern District of North Carolina to announce that a grand jury has returned a two count felony indictment against former FBI Director James Comey for threatening the life of President Trump in a May 2025 Instagram post. Each count carries a maximum of ten years in prison. Patel confirms Comey...

Jon Herold is excited today and has the documents to back it up. Newly declassified FBI records released by Senator Grassley lay out the Clinton Foundation investigation in detail, and Jon finds the timeline revelation that has him reaching for his mind map. The FBI opened the Clinton Foundation investigation in January 2016, and then on August 1, the very day after Crossfire Hurricane was opened...

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with a show that spans elections, geopolitics, and five centuries of empire. The Virginia Supreme Court holds its hearing on the redistricting referendum, and Ghost, who livestreamed it, gives his read: the justices were picking up on every constitutional violation he had flagged, and he expects a 5-2 or 6-1 overturn. Trump posts the Save America Act demanding voter...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 182 with a breakdown of the Cole Allen assassination attempt on Trump, the mysterious Henry Martinez Twitter account, and why time travel is the only theory that fully explains it (spoiler: it probably isn't). They also touch on DiGenova's withdrawn subpoenas and Grassley handing Clinton Foundation documents to the DOJ. Then the show goes deep. A scathing open...

Ashe goes solo for the first time on Culture of Change and wastes zero time. From the Tina Peters case getting another appeal to the SPLC indictment exposing a decade-long lawfare playbook, this episode is a masterclass in connecting the legal dots. Add in a suspicious scene at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, SCOTUS backing Texas redistricting, Colorado defying the Supreme Court on convers...

In Chapter 50, Ghost walks through the actual war that erupted in Eastern Ukraine following the 2014 Maidan coup, covering the timeline from the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist declarations all the way through the Minsk Two agreement of 2015. He breaks down the MH17 shootdown, the competing narratives around who fired the missile, and why the Western media's version may not hold up. Ghost also exam...