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The Friday crew take on Russian plague, German population and comic books, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the focus shifts to Greeks, Black and Celts. Then the talk turns to Trump administration, with ICC, Rwanda and Boardwalk Empire in the mix. From there, the crew gets into German population, with Hitler and Argentina in the mix. Later, it's on to comic books, with Green Lant...

President Trump speaks in New York, covering Trump dividend, drug prices and Republican state. First up, he turns to Letitia James, York Stock Exchange and Texas Stock Exchange. Then he takes on clean beautiful, with China, California and MVP in the mix. From there, it's on to gas stoves, with East Coast, Kathy Hochul and Texas in the mix. Later, he moves to favorite word, with Canada and Republic...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince get into vaccine injuries, power lines and oregano oil. First up, it's on to vaccine injuries, with CDC, NIH and HHS in the mix. Then the conversation moves to power lines, with RFK, EMF and Wi-Fi in the mix. From there, the focus shifts to pneumonic plague, with Florida in the mix. Later, the talk turns to oregano oil, with Annie Jacobson and Russia in the mix. After...

President Trump celebrates Columbus Day with Italian American leaders and guests, opening with tenor Christopher Macchio singing the national anthem and a chat about Luciano Pavarotti, whom Trump calls a friend. Trump says he has "resurrected" Christopher Columbus and points to the statue he put up outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. He describes invoking a federal monuments law to s...

Jon Herold digs into Trump administration, service members and Biden administration. First up, the talk turns to York, Daily Herold and Rico Grande. Then the crew gets into Trump's decision, with Todd Blanche and Justice Department in the mix. From there, it's on to Russia collusion, with Brennan and Kurt Olsen in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to Governor Cook, Federal Reserve Governor Li...

CannCon and Chris Paul work through a packed Friday, starting with a new HHS clinic for patients with health problems after vaccination, where CannCon argues the government absorbs the liability for vaccine injuries, a Just the News report on USAID being dismantled without Congress, and the Blair and LaCivita story about an election abroad that used voting machines. Later they cover a report that...

JB White flies solo on Friday morning after a dinner with a friend who is a clinical psychologist and FAMU professor, for a string of quick hit-and-run stops. His main focus is previewing Project D-Weaponization, his planned series on the N-word. In JB's view the goal is to take away the word's power and end what he calls the infantilization around it. He acknowledges an internal debate in Black A...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci's 2017 satire of the power struggle that followed Stalin's death, with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale as Beria and Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov. Chris admits he turned it off years ago without getting what it was doing, and now calls it a brilliant takedown of the collectivist administrative state. The two...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open SITREP 170 after a cold open honoring the troops, and the first stretch is pure deployment nostalgia: CannCon's recipe for gourmet ramen, how Marines in Iraq got water hot enough in a canteen cup, and EOD stories about what they used to heat it. CannCon then shows off gear, including an FRT trigger, a Mossberg 940 Pro and a custom-camo "apocalypse rifle," and vents a...

Frankie Val is joined by his cousin Sherry for a loose Thursday night, opening with the Yankees' exit, Halloween bobbing for apples, plans for next year's Jamboree and an update on Frank's 1987 Bronco. Frank and Sherry talk over the riots in France, comparing them with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, then turn to voter fatigue, local New York politics and Joe Rogan's Spotify deal. The c...

Matt McDonagh returns for episode two of Life in the Singularity with a deep dive on superintelligence. Matt opens by arguing that "AI" is the wrong name for what we're living through: in his view it isn't artificial at all, but the pooled natural intelligence of all of us, pushed forward by the data, hardware and software curves he laid out in episode one. He covers the gap between AGI and ASI, t...

Ashe and CannCon settle in for Chapter 17 of The Creature from Jekyll Island, "Den of Vipers," and it does not lighten the mood. The chapter walks through the fight over the Second Bank of the United States: who held the power to emit bills, how Nicholas Biddle ran the bank like a private government, and why Andrew Jackson treated it as a threat to the republic. They follow the money into Congress...

President Trump headlines the New Golden Age Summit and presents the National Medals of Science and of Technology and Innovation to six tech leaders. Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratzios opens with the administration's goal of "a new golden age of scientific progress." Trump then recalls his uncle, Dr. John Trump, who he says spent 52 years at MIT, worked on radar during World W...

Jon Herold goes solo on Thursday's Daily Herold, opening with a laugh at a White House post that pushes "superintelligence" over "artificial intelligence," then playing Trump's statement that the U.S. will not attack Iran before the midterms, a denial Jon predicted on the Power Hour. He covers RFK Jr.'s new NIH initiative to study vaccine injuries, new Fauci diary entries disparaging Trump, and th...

CannCon opens Thursday's Badlands Daily solo with a USAID watchdog report on a new round of debarments, from a contracting officer an inspector general found misusing government equipment to two men convicted of defrauding taxpayers through a Project HOPE program. He then reads The New York Times on a military judge throwing out "clean team" confessions in a Guantanamo 9/11 case, comparing the acc...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open Devolution Power Hour by living in the word "fake." Jon walks through how often Trump calls elections and other stories fake, and why critics who treat that word as dangerous put themselves in a pickle: either Trump is telling the truth, or they have to say he is lying when he speaks. From there they sit with Benjamin Franklin on printers: if nothing that might o...

This time Shipwreck gets into foreign interests, Hollywood screenwriter and typhoid fever. First up, the crew gets into political ads, with Massie, Jon and Trump in the mix. Then it's on to Satan and Bible. From there, the conversation moves to foreign interests, with Democrats, Israel and Trump in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to Muslim and English. After that, the talk turns to Russian plague...

Steve Kwast, Alpha Warrior and Chris Ponder take on the problem of privacy in a world where the internet, AI and sensors leave almost nothing hidden. Kwast argues that you can't use the tools that created the problem to solve it, and makes the case for a new, trustless information system like the one Ponder has been building, which Kwast says entangles each piece of information so it can't be alte...

President Trump announces at the White House that every eligible child in America has now been automatically enrolled in a Trump Account, the tax-free investment accounts created under last summer's tax bill. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls it the beginning of an "ownership society," and Senator Ted Cruz explains the $1,000 deposit for newborns and the app and QR codes families can use to c...

This time Jon Herold gets into Flynn interview, gold bars and elections fake. First up, the conversation moves to Flynn interview, with Vikings and Kwass in the mix. Then the focus shifts to gold bars, with Rush, Trump and CIA in the mix. From there, the talk turns to Flynn interview, with Django and Trump in the mix. Later, the crew gets into elections fake, with Ben Franklin, Trump and Democrats...

JB White opens with the death penalty. He walks through President Trump's January 20, 2025 executive order restoring capital punishment, Pam Bondi's April 2025 comments on seeking it, and the September 2025 memorandum on enforcing death penalty laws in Washington, D.C., as proof the administration hit the ground running. He argues Bondi was used strategically, says he doesn't believe her exit was...

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday's Badlands Daily with an NAACP lawsuit, flagged by Mark Elias, seeking records on the Justice Department's plan to send about 1,000 federal personnel to polling places for the midterms. They question why ICE or the National Guard near the polls would worry eligible voters, and Ashe argues that watching polling places won't catch election fraud. They also...

DEFCON ZERQ, with Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid, welcomes Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for a roughly 90-minute interview about the fight ahead of the midterms. Flynn uses Joshua Chamberlain's bayonet charge at Little Round Top as a metaphor for Americans who are tired of being attacked, and explains how he uses social media as information operations. He says he believes people around President Trump are k...

Ashe in America and CannCon open with Media Matters' list of "key election denial activists," which leaves them off, and shout out those who made it, like Mark Cook, Kevin Moncla and Clay Parikh. Then it's Runbeck: the vendor says 3,126 Maricopa County vote-by-mail packets reached the Postal Service six days early by mistake, and the hosts weigh that alongside a ballot error in Colorado and a vend...

President Trump speaks in Baltimore to launch Arsenal II, Anduril's new $3.7 billion shipyard at Sparrows Point, the largest U.S. yard project since World War II. With Pete Hegseth and Naval Academy midshipmen looking on, he credits sailors on the USS Billings for Caribbean cartel work and for delivering aid and oil from Venezuela, and he congratulates Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and the Navy te...