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Jon Herold and Burning Bright pick up the thread from the last two episodes, breaking down their reactions to the election fraud disclosure now that the dust has settled, and floating a theory that the intelligence community, not the election itself, might have been the real target all along. There's also a look back at the Saturday deep dive Herold did with Chris Paul going through the declassifi...

The House just passed a bill deepening US-Israel military ties, and Shipwreck is trying to sort fact from panic while also side-eyeing South Carolina's newest senator (hi, Lindsey Graham's sister). She revisits why she never needed Candace Owens to tell her something felt off about Charlie Kirk, reacts to the military's new testosterone policy backlash, and unpacks the marketing con behind protein...

Josh Reid joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast to push the "Tools for Truth" framework further, tackling one big idea: the universe itself is information, and if you can learn to structure it, you can out-think even AI. Josh brings a healthy dose of skepticism from last episode and asks the questions you're probably asking too, while Chris breaks down the "information operation n...

Trump heads to Marietta for a full victory lap rally that somehow covers the Trump savings accounts, drug pricing negotiations with Emmanuel Macron, a Dover Air Force Base tribute, and a very enthusiastic case against communism, all with the Atlanta Braves' CEO and Hall of Fame manager making a cameo. Expect a parade of Georgia candidates getting the full endorsement treatment, several families sh...

Jon Herold gets fired up for tonight's Power Hour while working through a batch of newly posted declassification documents Trump shared overnight, including Michigan's fraudulent voter registration numbers, non citizen voting data from a handful of states, and a CIA rundown of Chinese election influence tactics. He plays clips of Pete Hegseth defending a $1.5 trillion defense budget request and Tr...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior dig into a fast moving story out of New Jersey, where thousands of people who marked themselves as non citizens somehow still ended up registered to vote, and hundreds of them actually cast ballots. The hosts trace how this same software issue is popping up in state after state, turning a supposedly rare problem into something that looks a lot bigger than officials want t...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid go long this week, starting with a General Kane budget speech that turns into a masterclass on how modern warfare is changing. From there they dig into what a mountain fortress in Iran might mean for classified weapons, why China keeps showing up behind the scenes of every major flashpoint, and how energy, chips, and rare earth minerals fit into a much bigger global che...

Fresh off President Trump's big election speech, CannCon and Ashe in America bring on a heavy hitter: True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, one of the original voices in the election integrity world. She revisits the Georgia GBI saga, the Konnech story that sent her from FBI briefings to a stage in the Arizona desert telling a room to stop filming, and a $5 million check that raised more qu...

Ghost sits down with geopolitical analyst Firas Modad of the Lotus Eaters for a sprawling, two hour conversation that covers an enormous amount of ground. They dig into the stalemate in Iran, the shifting alliance between Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and why Israel keeps finding itself on the outside looking in. From there the discussion turns philosophical, touching on multipolarity,...

CannCon and Ashe open with a run of immigration stories, from a fiery ICE protest in Manhattan to a viral grandmother arrest story that looks far less sympathetic once the full record comes out, plus a controversial farm worker amnesty bill splitting the GOP. From there they dig into New York's mayor tangled up in an awkward Iran and Israel mixup while trying to leverage an international court aga...

Jon Herold fights through a frustrating stream glitch (audio fine, no video on Rumble) while covering a lighter Tuesday news day dominated by Iran war fallout. He digs into reporting that intelligence community leaks are undermining Trump's negotiating position, a Politico piece describing the conflict as a "quagmire" ahead of the midterms, and a personal anecdote about a normie conservative broth...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine hand the mic over to the listeners for a proper call in show, and the results are exactly as unpredictable as you'd hope. Callers phone in with everything from unexplainable personal experiences to full blown theories they've been sitting on for weeks, and Jon and Zak do their best to referee, question, and occasionally roast the submissions in real time. One caller opens...

Ghost welcomes War Hamster Brady back to the Badlands for a deep dive into a name most people have never heard but probably should: Yevgeny Primakov. Political mentor to both Putin and Lavrov, Primakov drafted a doctrine in the 1990s that Brady argues is basically the blueprint for everything unfolding on the world stage right now. The two trace it all back to the fall of the Soviet Union, that fa...

Matthew Ehret closes out his five week Occult Tesla series with the big finale: Tesla versus Einstein, and it is not the underdog story you were told in school. Using Tesla's own poem mocking Einstein as "a long haired crank," Ehret unpacks why Tesla clung to a flat, Newtonian universe while Planck, Einstein, and Riemann were busy proving space itself curves. From there the show pulls back the cur...

Ashe, Christy, and Jackie roll in running on almost no sleep and a lot of caffeine, but they still bring the goods. After a quick sponsor run and a brisket cook video that will make you hungry before lunch, the ladies log into the mainframe for a genuinely useful iPhone trick worth stealing. Then things get weird in the best way. Fresh off a record breaking Badlander meetup, Ashe recaps a deep div...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a debrief from the Denver airport meetup, then dive into the mechanics of who actually controls America's communications. Cue a General Flynn clip on the FCC, ham radio, and the government's standing plan to take over telecom networks in a national emergency, which the guys connect to Trump meeting the FCC chief and their long running case that an election int...

The X Chromes have once again left the Y Chromes unsupervised, and CannCon fills in for a no-show to join the crew for a session that opens with a genuinely unhinged detour into frat-house medical trivia before anyone finds their footing. CannCon then shares the tragic saga of his $230 sneakers, popped on a gravel shortcut to the movies, which spirals into a running bit about whether federal agenc...

Jon Herold opens a quiet Monday by connecting the newly declassified China election documents to older intelligence community history, walking through 2016 era presidential daily briefings on Russia to argue the same pattern of suppression and fabrication runs through every major hoax of the Trump era. He digs into a batch of Trump Truth Social posts, including a firm defense of Netanyahu against...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with the Monday morning after President Trump's election speech, sifting through weekend meltdowns from DC insiders and giving credit where due to Senator Mark Warner for handing them a stack of instantly fact checked soundbites. From there they dig deep into a wild Michigan case involving a voter registration company caught fabricating thousands of applications for gift...

Burning Bright brings on Matt Ehret for a deep dive into a topic he admits he is still untangling himself, the City of London and its recurring role in narratives circulating across the truth community. The two work through last week's Trump address on election fraud and the Department of Justice's fresh disclosures, then pivot into where the real threads of interference may lead, from Anglo Venet...

Jonathan Drake picks up right where the outrage over Justice Joseph Story left off, then zooms out to a bigger question: is justice actually real, or just a comforting story we tell ourselves? Using Spooner's chapter two "if then" logic (plus a detour through gravity, unicorns, C.S. Lewis, and the Godhead), Jon makes the case that justice is as natural as light or tides, not something invented by...

Is the economy good or bad? Dr. Peter C. Earle, PhD economist and senior director of research at the American Institute for Economic Research, has a better question: good for whom? In this episode, Jon Herold sits down with Earle to unpack why a single headline never captures how millions of households actually experience the same economy. They dig into the indicators worth watching (inflation, Tr...

The disclosure finally happened, and Jon Herold and Chris Paul spend the first Saturday show since it dropped combing through Tulsi Gabbard's newly declassified election documents. They walk through the actual findings, not just the speech that previewed them, arguing the presentation undersold what's really in the paperwork. Expect a mix of graphics, substack article references, and plenty of rec...

Cam Cooksey is back from a month of travels (Deadwood, the Lupos for the 4th, then Clearwater Beach) and still on island time, sunburned and peeling, but ready for a good time. He kicks off with a fun first: paying for a Steak 'n Shake 1776 meal with Bitcoin Lightning, then eases into a warm, patriotic celebration of America's 250th. Expect Cam's signature positive spin on the news. He covers Trum...

Friday night kicks off with the usual audio gremlins (wrong microphones, apologies all around) before the crew digs into the week's biggest story: President Trump's speech touching on election fraud, a possible national emergency declaration on election integrity, and why he name checked China and Venezuela while notably skipping other suspects. Expect a deep dive into competing theories about who...