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CannCon and Alpha Warrior dig into the DOJ expanding its beef pricing investigation from the big four meat packers to eight of the largest grocery retailers in the country, unpacking how a handful of companies came to control most of what ends up on your plate and just how far prices have climbed over the past decade. From there they cover Democrats blocking a proposed constitutional amendment to...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with some personal banter (mystery health scares, homeschooling law rabbit holes) before landing on the real meat of the episode: Russia getting invited back to the G20 for the first time since the Ukraine war started. The guys walk through why that timing lines up suspiciously well with CIA Director Ratcliffe's recent trip to Moscow, and what it might signal abo...

Shipwreck kicks off with her new obsession, fiber maxing, and how a fiber heavy routine has quietly fixed years of health issues, before pivoting into a rant about surveillance cameras popping up in towns too small to need them. She connects that to a data center fight near her home, complete with a mysterious pro data center billboard nobody will claim credit for. There is a bit on subscription b...

Jonathan Drake joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast this week to dig into natural law, the idea that God built physical rules for the universe and equally binding rules for human relationships, and why ignoring either one tends to end badly. Jonathan brings a research background on pattern and structure that pairs surprisingly well with Chris's information framework, and the conv...

Jon Herold leans on chat interaction for a genuinely slow Wednesday, working through a Hill piece framing a third Trump impeachment as inevitable given midterm polling, and pushing back hard on the idea that any political "consensus" can be trusted when he believes the outcome is already being engineered. He covers Trump welcoming Russia back into the G20 despite Moscow's continued support for Ira...

CannCon and Ashe open with a Missouri Deputy Attorney General surviving five days lost in the Wyoming wilderness before turning to Congress, where a ballooning lame duck agenda has lawmakers punting government funding, Iran war money, and surveillance authority extensions until after the election. They dig into the House voting to condemn socialism in all its forms with eight Democrats crossing ov...

JB White returns for the Wednesday edition with another beautiful musical tribute to Dolly Parton, then dives straight into the geopolitical deep end. He unpacks the G20 fallout after Russia's surprise invite, why China dissenting on the closing communique matters, and how he reads the ongoing economic sparring between Washington, Beijing and Moscow. Expect strong opinions on discernment among con...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down a wild day at the G20 summit in North Carolina, where a surprise Russian delegation stirred up plenty of European anger and a well timed Trump post seemed to say more than it let on. They dig into comments from Scott Bessent about tracking Iranian regime money hidden in offshore accounts, connect the dots to old London banking networks, and lay out a theory a...

CannCon and Ashe in America finally land a guest CannCon has chased for years, and it's personal, since Tim Canova is a law professor at CannCon's alma mater and once ran for Congress in his district. A lifelong Kennedy Democrat turned establishment thorn, Tim recounts his against-all-odds 2016 primary run at DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, built on 12,000 door knocks a week, a surprise Bernie...

Jon Herold digs into a new USPS whistleblower report claiming the mail ballot verification system is rushed and vulnerable, then traces the whistleblower's legal support back to the same nonprofit involved in the 2019 Ukraine impeachment complaint, arguing the parallel structure gives away the operation. He also covers an update on the effort to secure Fulton County's Dominion voting machines for...

CannCon flies solo for a packed Tuesday as election season officially kicks off with ballots going out in a matter of days. He opens with the Supreme Court allowing the White House ballroom construction to proceed even as the Chief Justice calls the project likely unlawful, then turns to a CNN exclusive on DHS launching an unprecedented surge of investigators into voter fraud cases across select s...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine hit a genuine milestone tonight, and Jon celebrates the 200th episode the only way he knows how, with an incredibly deep dive into a man most people have never heard of. Otis T. Carr claimed to have built and patented a working flying saucer back in the 1950s, and with the help of his self described "plucky" assistant Ralph Ring, he spent years chasing government approval,...

Ashe in America welcomes back Jonathan Drake for a two part conversation, starting with a fun behind the scenes recap of their live jury trial experience at Deadwood, complete with an unforgettable "my son is innocent" courtroom moment and a preview of what is coming at the Great American Restoration Tour stop in Las Vegas. The two also swap notes on show intros, badlands community swords, and a b...

Ghost is back live for the first time in a while, kids tucked in, wife out of town, and a full month of news to catch up on. He starts with the fallout from the Mecca agreement, the Saudi Turkey Pakistan defense pact he had been mapping out since February, and why he thinks Egypt, Iran and Syria will all eventually join. From there he digs into a resurfaced 1962 interview where Israel's first prim...

Matthew Ehret picks up right where last week's Khazaria episode left off, tracing the idea of "Greater Israel" back through some unexpected company: Roman mystery cults, the Templars, and a 1935 rabbi whose writings on holy war and world conflagration set the stage for a lot of what follows. Expect a sprawling map through ancient Mithraic and Sibel Atis rituals, the Havara Agreement between Zionis...

Nine more pharmaceutical giants join the fold, bringing the total to 26 companies covering 90% of the domestic drug market, and Trump calls it the biggest medical announcement of his presidency, maybe of any presidency. RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick each take turns explaining how "Most Favored Nation" pricing flips America from paying the highest drug prices in the world t...

Ashe, Christy, and Jackie open with a rundown of sponsors and a quick preview of Badlands Media's upcoming Las Vegas trip, complete with a callback to the legendary photo that started it all. Then the history segment turns reflective with a tribute to Dolly Parton, sparking an honest conversation about a beloved icon and the complicated feelings around her Covid era advocacy. Things lighten right...

Football is finally back, and so is the crew's favorite ritual: predicting every Week 1 matchup before a single meaningful snap. CannCon opens solo again, working through StreamYard chaos and a mystery about whether Alpha is secretly having a rough week (blame the chat member who spilled it) before Alpha strolls in with a printed pick sheet he plans to track all season long. The heart of this one...

A rare solo outing. Burning Bright kicks off Episode 80 by taking full credit for its title, one of the cleverest plays on words you have probably heard in the last few minutes, if not your entire life. No guest was lost. He simply wanted to get the ideas out of his head before they pile up like bad cache in a CPU. Only his second solo stream ever, this one doubles as practice and as a table sette...

Jon Herold digs into a Washington Post report alleging the Pentagon secretly installed conservative military influencers, including Kurt Schlichter and the anonymous "Cynical Publius," into civilian roles to amplify Pete Hegseth's messaging without disclosure, and makes the case that undisclosed paid cheerleading is just as troubling coming from allies as it is from opponents. He also breaks down...

CannCon and Zak Paine open Monday with a genuinely explosive whistleblower email from inside the New York Attorney General's office, where a prosecutor accuses his own bureau chief of directing him to target President Trump and affiliated organizations without credible cause, an email that was scrubbed from more than two thousand inboxes almost immediately. From there they cover a Florida represen...

JB White is back from his summer break, and he eases into it with a little bit of everything. There's a heartfelt musical tribute to Dolly Parton, a rundown of his cross state move and the ongoing effort to hold onto his family's historic land in Georgia, and plenty of early season Gator football talk, including the quarterback situation heading into the fall. Expect candid reflections on the evol...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid tackle the question that runs under everything: in a war of perception versus truth, who are the actual good guys? They start from the messy present, the special government employee reveals around Data Republican and Nick Sortor, the "are they on a payroll" arguments, and the Department of War's rumored 60,000 strong ghost army, then reach back to a single Q post that n...

Jonathan Drake kicks off a brand new series, tackling Spooner's dense essay "Poverty, Its Illegal Cause and Legal Cure." Born out of Spooner's own brutal experience losing everything in the Panic of 1837, this essay argues poverty isn't natural scarcity, it's an artificial deprivation created when contracts get manipulated by a judiciary that either misunderstands natural law or willingly ignores...

In this sponsor spotlight, Jon Herold welcomes Nelson McIlveen, the injection molder turned water evangelist behind Century H2O. Nelson's origin story is a wild one. He spent decades running factories and building plastic parts for Boeing, Airbus, fighter jets, and yes, the palm-leaf covers on Southwest cell towers, then made a fortune assembling reverse osmosis systems before deciding the water t...