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Jonathan Drake wraps up Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay with a thought experiment that turns 1840s dollars into numbers modern listeners can actually feel. Person A borrows at 6% and hires Person B, while Person B, locked out of credit, watches the profit walk away with someone else. Jon then asks why governments can't regulate religion but can regulate financial contracts, using an image...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with a genuinely fun tangent about the two new pandas gifted alongside Xi Jinping's visit, complete with jokes about renaming them and where to best display panda merch. The mood stays light before shifting into the actual state dinner and Xi's comments about US China competition, with both hosts noting how oddly aligned Trump and Xi seem to be on the same messaging...

Cam Cooksey returns for episode 67 (September 26th) after a few weeks off for GART Vegas, running loose and unstructured without his usual music setup, and leaning into a warm, reflective, community focused night rather than hard news. The heart of the show is a meditation on embracing friction without turning on each other. Cam holds up Jon Herold's "refuses to bend the knee to the mob" defense a...

The crew addresses some genuine internal drama head on, after a clipped and amplified "maybe we should all just stop voting" comment from within the Badlands family sparked accusations of being anti Trump, leading to a spirited defense of why showing up to vote still matters even when the system feels rigged. From there it's on to a genuinely fascinating tangent about using AI to track congression...

After a two-week hiatus (and an accidental Lloyd's of London movie trailer), host Matt Trump devotes his fun Friday-night show to Jev, the AI everyone in tech suddenly cannot stop talking about since it dropped around September 15th. He spent the week learning it so you don't have to, and the verdict is right there in the title: he's mostly bullish. Expect an accessible, tangent-friendly explainer...

GMoney sits down with Austrian Bitcoiner and author Robin Seyr, a man who spent three solid years trying to prove Bitcoin was a scam before the evidence mugged him in a dark alley and orange-pilled him for good. It is a genuinely good redemption arc: a young Warren Buffett cash-flow guy who hated gold, ignored Austrian economics while literally studying economics in Austria, and eventually discove...

Jordan and Nate open with a genuinely stunning admission from RFK Jr: HHS is formally investigating chemtrails and electromagnetic frequency exposure, complete with a federal request for public input. They debate whether AI can actually "cure" disease or just deliver smarter treatments, cheer a new FDA rule cutting mandatory animal testing, and cover fresh executive orders opening federal land to...

Jon Herold brings back cybersecurity expert Skip from Patriot Protect to break down a massive breach exposing front and back photos of driver's licenses used for age verification at places like Hertz and Target, plus a chilling rundown of AI voice cloning scams targeting families. Jon then delivers what he hopes is his final word on the ongoing Twitter pile on accusing Badlands of being anti Trump...

Ashe in America and Ghost close out Season 5 of The Chosen with the season finale, episode eight, and it is a big one, covering the Upper Room, the Last Supper, and the walk into Gethsemane. The hosts spend a lot of time on Thaddeus, an apostle they admit they never gave much thought to before, tracing his quiet, almost overlooked calling and why the show frames him as an example of faith without...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Sixth Circuit ruling on Ohio requiring proof of citizenship at the BMV, and a genuinely good discussion about whether asking someone to prove eligibility counts as the minimum information necessary or an undue burden. From there it is a long look at California's Supreme Court siding against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in his ballot seizure...

JB White kicks off football Friday with a GART 14 announcement, the next Badlands Media event landing in St Pete Beach in November, before wading into a heated internal debate playing out among Badlands content creators over voting and the midterms. He walks through posts from fellow hosts, pushes back hard on the idea that sitting out elections helps anyone, and lays out his own framework for cut...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit this 2008 Shia LaBeouf thriller, and both agree the movie itself is far from great even as its central concept lands eerily well from 2026. Expect a genuine appreciation for the film's prediction of an all powerful centralized AI system that manipulates the world through digitized objects, some pointed complaints about the shaky cam action filmmaking era it ca...

The pageantry continues into the evening as Trump hosts President Xi and Madame Peng for a formal state dinner, complete with history lessons, a genuine gift exchange, and an unscheduled detour to show off the new White House ballroom construction, described by Trump as something 150 years of presidents have wanted built. His toast traces two centuries of U.S. China relations, from the first Chine...

Frankie Val goes solo for a self described grab bag night, just him and what he calls the molten core of his audience. He opens on Rumble landing WWE Main Event and turns it into a lament for what social media used to be, back when authenticity and consistency beat paying to boost a post into an algorithm that no longer serves the creators who built real bonds. From there it wanders happily. A vir...

CannCon and Ashe in America step back into early American history with Chapter 15 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Lost Treasure Map. This week covers the colonies' painful experience with fiat paper money, the resolve of the Founding Fathers to keep the new nation off of unbacked currency, and how that resolve shaped the drafting of the Constitution itself. The...

Jon Herold opens with the lighter news of China sending two pandas to the Atlanta Zoo before digging into a federal judge's overnight ruling that Trump's White House press ban on CNN, MSNBC, and Politico was likely unconstitutional, questioning whether a judge should be able to override a president's national security determination at all. He also does a live deep dive into CISA's newly released 2...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with Alpha settling into a brand new studio and a bit of nostalgia about how far both hosts have come from laptops and YETI mics. The news starts with a Trump appointed federal judge temporarily blocking the White House press credential ban, and the hosts take real issue with the constitutional reasoning behind it. That pairs with an Iowa judge tossing the President'...

President Xi Jinping becomes the first Chinese leader ever to make a second formal state visit to America, and the White House pulls out all the stops for it, national anthems, full honor guard, and a genuinely warm arrival ceremony. Trump reflects on his years long friendship with Xi, the new Board of Trade created during his Beijing visit, and a shared World War II history that gave the Marines...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright compare notes on being under the weather before getting into the week's main event: Xi Jinping's upcoming visit and what it means in the context of Herold's older theory called Overton's Goalpost, the idea that Trump, Putin, and Xi are converging in ways the mainstream media can't quite make sense of. They break down the split media coverage, half framing it as Trump...

Shipwreck opens with a sponsored chat with Gabe from Good Bru, digging into gut health, prebiotic fiber, and how a simple supplement has helped her own wellness journey and 40 pound weight loss. Once the interview wraps, she pivots hard into the fallout from a video she posted this week announcing she will not be voting in the midterms or presidential elections going forward, only locally. It spar...

Kwast and Chris Ponder pick up the framework built since "Ghost in the Garden," expanding it into what they're calling the Sol Information System, a way of organizing information around the sun and planets, complete with each planet assigned its own function, communication, commerce, and more. Chris compares it to mining Bitcoin, the more you contribute, the more value you build, while Kwast frame...

Jon Herold spends most of hump day addressing what he sees as a recurring pattern of election season "struggle sessions," where some in the Q community accuse Badlands hosts, and shipwreck in particular, of being traitors for questioning whether voting fixes a system they believe is fraudulent. He reads his own viral morning post in full, walks through a pointed rebuttal from a critic line by line...

CannCon and Ashe open Ash Wednesday with a Senator Chris Murphy clip arguing that regulating the Internet and fixing loneliness is the way to inoculate voters against Donald Trump, which the hosts find both revealing and a little rich given what Badlands events do every year. That leads into a candid exchange about whether elections are really the mechanism of consent. The bulk of the show works t...

JB White is riding high off a Gators win over Auburn and a whirlwind trip to the Badlands Media GART 13 event in Las Vegas, despite a rough travel day getting home. He recaps a heated panel discussion from the conference, shares a personal health update on major progress reversing his diabetes numbers, and dives back into his ongoing commentary on a closely watched Massachusetts criminal trial and...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid are back together after a busy week apart, and they have a lot to unpack. They start with a string of odd weekend occurrences, from air traffic control outages to unusual reports in the skies, before shifting into a big discussion about Trump TV and why the guys think that move was far more significant than most people realize. They also break down the United Nations ta...