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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...

Jon Herold digs into toilet paper, foreign intelligence and trade deficit, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the talk turns to Bible and CeCe. Then the crew gets into toilet paper, with Russia, Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court in the mix. From there, it's on to President Donald, Trump and Republican Party. Later, the conversation moves to smaller venues, with Trump and Republican...

CannCon and Zak Paine take on Reuters article, logical explanation and red diesel. First up, the crew gets into pneumonic plague, with COVID, Nicholas Holscher and Los Angeles in the mix. Then it's on to Guinea flatworms, with Mexico and YouTube in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to Brennan, CIA and Congress. Later, the focus shifts to Reuters article, with Wiles in the mix. After that...

Zak Paine and Jon Herold dig into sleep paralysis, adoption agency and Ouija board, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the focus shifts to botched execution, with Florida in the mix. Then the talk turns to North Carolina, Appalachian Mountains and Gatlinburg Mountains. From there, the crew gets into ghost story, with Gatlinburg Mountains, Georgia and Appalachian in the mix. Later,...

This time Ashe in America digs into prophetic words, case study and Spirit within. First up, it's on to case study, with Trump and Cyrus in the mix. Then the conversation moves to Saul, Jonah and Peru. From there, the focus shifts to Israel's history, with Abraham and Testament in the mix. Later, the talk turns to Joy, Nick Vujicic and Substack. After that, the crew gets into Christian nation, wit...

President Trump rallies in Grand Island, Nebraska, a state he reminds the crowd he has carried three times, ahead of the November 3 midterms. The headline moment: he signs an executive order on stage waiving the off-road requirement so anyone can buy tax-free red dye diesel. He tells farmers about ending the estate tax, or death tax, on family farms, giving them the right to repair their own equip...

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada get into toe fungus, health goals and keynote speaker, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the crew gets into Face ID, YouTube and Safari. Then it's on to toe fungus, with Brave, Gateway Pundit and Safari in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to cooked salmon, with ChatGPT and Claude in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to heal...

Jon is back in the spaceship studio after a weekend of fan boats, alligators and a surprise engagement party, and there is plenty to unpack. First up is Brazil, where Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round over Lula and heads to a runoff, and the online victory lap crediting the USAID cuts for a run of right-leaning wins across South America. Jon makes the case for keeping the same election standard...

CannCon, Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior are back for Week 5. CannCon reports from the Packers game in Tampa, where a native Floridian learned what 92 degrees with no Gulf breeze feels like and Green Bay fans still drowned out the home crowd. Alpha's 49ers are 4-0, his fantasy teams rally late behind Chuba Hubbard, and the crew argues over whether it's fair to wish an ankle sprain on Atlanta's Drake...

CannCon is back from a sweltering weekend in Tampa with a Packers win and a full docket. It starts in Siberia, where a lab worker's death from a suspected plague has nearly 200 people under observation, and with why, after COVID, nobody trusts the officials telling us not to worry. His fix for gain-of-function research: give it its own island, far away from the rest of us. Then the Ninth Circuit p...

JB opens the week with some perspective for Gator fans after the loss at Mizzou, plus a victory lap for the Jaguars, then gets down to what he calls a world of competing confusions. A lab accident and a researcher's death in Siberia set up "Poor, Poor Russia": why Russia is running China's old playbook, why geopolitics is never binary, and how rogue actors inside every nation-state, Russia's silov...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down October Surprise and Admiral Rogers, Hillary, Comey and pre-Q levels and Josh on Flynn, Bongino and Mockingbird fights, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: SAVE Act and Supreme Court predicates. You won't want to miss this one.

Burning Bright and Jonathan Drake break down Burning Bright opens with GoT and Narrative branding, Burning Bright teases the MAGA King and Tolkien and Overton windows and excommunication, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Drake and BB introduce Aragorn as MAGA king analog. You won't want to miss this one.

Jonathan Drake digs into Fractional reserve and Bitcoin teaser, Credit based on productive value and Free banking versus modern finance, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Centralization and parallel systems. You won't want to miss this one.

With Jon out tonight, Chris Paul is joined by Burning Bright for the Saturday Power Hour. They open on why they would rather spoil the movie than pretend it isn't scripted, casting Trump as a Dungeon Master who sets the boundaries of the game, and why the midterms matter less than the mass psychological shift underneath them. From there: Trump as Deadpool, speaking to several audiences at once as...

Jon Herold gets into Nathanael Madden on his father, a health crisis and his brother, Nathanael on Emerald Med's origin and hemp's 1930s economy and on why lobbyists pushed the hemp ban in the CR, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Nathanael Madden on Emerald Med's hemp oil, balm and gummies. Grab a coffee and settle in.

The crew dig into Cam Cooksey and Jackie Espada on consuming too much news, Cam Cooksey on the Soft Disclosure ad and GART 14 cameos and Cam Cooksey on Trump at Georgia-Alabama, artificial news, with plenty of commentary along the way. You won't want to miss this one.

With the midterms a month out, Matt admits that for the first time in his life he can't read the mood of the country. The polls point every which way, his old bellwether friends have hardened into partisans, and his Facebook feed of burned-out liberals offers more fatigue than fury, which he takes as a good sign for Republicans. To make sense of it all, he time-travels to 1966, the year of his fir...

The Friday crew tries to work out who Steve Hilton's mail-in ballot campaign ad was actually made for, then revisits the proposed Palm Springs AIDS memorial whose design drew some very unfortunate comparisons, along with a reported half-million-dollar price tag. From there: doubts about a dramatic airliner plunge, the creepy movies of 1999, Fight Club's Chinese ending, Tennessee's failed execution...

Jordan Sather digs into Coca-Cola's SNAP revenue and the HHS-EPA glyphosate review and Vitamin D and K, winter sleep and chopping firewood, with plenty of commentary along the way. Grab a coffee and settle in.

Jon Herold digs deep into a lengthy Atlantic article on Kash Patel's election integrity investigations, picking it apart for bias while still finding the underlying questions about October surprise timing genuinely worth discussing ahead of the midterms. He walks through the escalating public feud between Dan Bongino and General Flynn, playing old December 2025 Alex Jones footage where Flynn predi...

CannCon and Chris Paul close the week by workshopping a new Friday segment idea before diving into a Politico story on a judge ruling Trump unlawfully removed a US Attorney, and what that says about who actually holds appointment power. The meat of the show is the release of Brian Cole's confession transcripts in the January 5th pipe bomb case, where the hosts walk through the interrogation dynami...

Running on no sleep after a late night honoring his wife at a community event in Jacksonville, JB White still shows up with a lesson in media literacy. He walks through how to use tools built into X to spot satirical or manufactured stories before they spread, using a viral post as a live example, and pushes back on some of his own community's conspiracy theorizing. He replays Pete Hegseth's speec...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit Matt Reeves's 2022 take on the Caped Crusader, and both come away more impressed than they expected to be. Expect a thoughtful dive into the film's central theme of vengeance versus justice, what it means to be harmed by a system versus harmed by people, and how that tension plays out through Bruce Wayne's arc. There's a genuinely funny personal theater horror...

CannCon welcomes new grandpa Alpha Warrior back from a very busy week before handing the floor over to guest Nathan Madden of Emerald Med. Nathan dives deep into the hemp plant, breaking down what actually separates CBD from THC, why hemp has way more compound diversity than marijuana, and why the industry keeps getting strangled by lobbying dollars from pharma, alcohol, and big oil. The conversat...