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Jon Herold spends most of Hump Day walking through newly declassified documents revealing a previously unknown FBI investigation, codenamed "Oxford comma," opened into Trump for allegedly acting as a Russian agent just seven days after he fired James Comey. He builds out a detailed timeline connecting Comey's leaked memos, the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and internal FBI texts s...

CannCon and Ashe dig into a growing chorus of Democratic voices, from Chuck Schumer on down, floating the idea of abolishing or reforming the Senate entirely, tying it back to the broader DSA takeover conversation from recent weeks. They play a stack of clips including Pete Buttigieg making the case against the Electoral College this week and connect the dots on why this messaging is suddenly ever...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid welcome Gabe from Good Bru for a rundown on gut health before diving into a packed news cycle. They break down a General Flynn post that got a surprising reply, unpack why the midterms may be the real hinge point for indictments and declassification, and lay out a theory on how the Epstein files saga has been playing out in phases behind the scenes. There is talk of a p...

Episode 182 opens with CannCon and Ashe in America riffing on boy bands before settling into the serious stuff, including a look at some very professional audience-manipulation research aimed at the 2026 midterms and a Fauci contempt theory involving the Fifth Amendment and the Supremacy Clause. Then New York's own Marly Hornik joins to tell her story, from New York Citizens Audit and Andrew Paque...

Jon Herold celebrates his 36th birthday with a lighthearted, slower newsday, opening with chat banter and sponsor shoutouts before digging into a striking story about retired American four star generals who allegedly ran a decades long back channel with a Chinese military intelligence front, some reportedly ending up on China's payroll. He also covers Trump's public frustration with DC's US Attorn...

CannCon flies solo again for the new Tuesday format and opens with a genuine legal deep dive, walking through why he has flipped his position on Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment and laying out a theory for why a preemptive pardon might actually force him to testify truthfully or face prison either way. From there he revisits an old NFL story, breaking down just how badly the sports media...

Ashe in America teams up with CannCon for a crossover episode built around a document Ashe stumbled on, a full playbook, framework, and communications guide aimed at shaping how Americans feel about democracy and elections. Together they dig into the so called "Democracy Audience Map," a tool built to sort voters into segments and craft messaging designed to move each group toward a specific set o...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine settle into their newly renovated studio for a deep dive that spans four decades of one very familiar face: Dr. Anthony Fauci. Starting with the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the guys trace Fauci's role in pushing AZT as the only approved treatment, question how the drug actually performed, and pull in archival footage that lines up uncomfortably well with his later han...

Ghost breaks his own show's no-news-cycle rule for this one, and he'll tell you exactly why. After watching Laura Loomer pivot from anti-Ukraine to interviewing Zelensky and, worse, framing Azov Battalion founder Andriy Biletsky as a hero, Ghost decided it was time to set the record straight. He walks through Biletsky's murky background: the 2011 imprisonment, the release after the 2014 Maidan cou...

Matthew Ehret takes the Fauci hearings and asks the question nobody in the room seems to want answered: what if the Wuhan lab leak story, however true, is still only half the picture? This episode digs into the sprawling network of over 300 opaque, largely unregulated Pentagon run biolabs scattered across the globe, from Ukraine to Georgia to South Korea, and traces how figures like former MI6 chi...

Ashe kicks things off with a wild weekend recap that has it all: a Rockies game interrupted by a sudden typhoon, footage good enough that AccuWeather asked to use it, and a lengthy political debate with a very Trump deranged stranger she refused to back down from. It somehow ends in a hug and an offer of free drinks, so make of that what you will. Christy and Jackie jump in with a deep dive into h...

Trump signs an executive order creating the first ever Presidential Military Spouse Commission, chaired by Jennifer Hegseth, and the ceremony turns into a genuinely touching series of stories from spouses who've spent decades supporting the military through moves, deployments, and everything in between. Then the press conference pivots hard, covering active back channel talks with Iran over the St...

Alpha Warrior is running on Cuban People Time again, so CannCon and Cam open the show riffing on tardiness, StreamYard's meltdown, and beard-maintenance logistics before the man of the hour finally strolls in from an Uber with no AirPods. The heart of this one is a full ESPN season preview for the crew's teams, and it gets brutal. Cam has to sit through the Falcons projected at roughly two wins, t...

Jon Herold opens birthday week with Trump's back and forth Truth Social posts on Iran, alternating between canceling a planned strike and blasting Tehran as duplicitous, while poking fun at how many times the administration has claimed victory in the conflict. He digs into a Michigan cyclospora outbreak, weighs in on the ongoing General Flynn controversy over foreign lobbying payments while urging...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with a hard look at trillions in wasted federal grant money, weaving in a debate about prison labor reform and why illegal immigrants so often end up first in line for programs like Habitat for Humanity while everyday Americans get left behind. The main event is a two part clip of RFK Jr going toe to toe with a CNN anchor, calmly dismantling her talking points in what th...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a warning: if last week annoyed you, tonight will too. The heart of the episode is a plea for critical thinking, the difference between questioning your government (encouraged) and subversion dressed up as concern, and why echoing someone else's take means you do not actually own the belief. From there they go big picture. Josh frames the culture war as engine...

Burning Bright welcomes back Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a conversation about Trump's relationship with time, mechanistic, esoteric, and everything in between. They open by questioning why so much commentary fixates on Iran and geopolitics when the real step change moves may be sitting in plain sight, in executive orders on energy, nuclear regulatory reform, and data center infrastructure....

Jonathan Drake wraps up Spooner's rights argument by taking direct aim at voting itself, arguing that if a right is truly exclusive, you cannot claim a right to override your neighbor's rights just by being part of a bigger group. Expect the "nine men voting on the tenth" thought experiment revisited, a dig into the actual Latin origin of the word "legislation," a surprising cameo from Cicero maki...

Recording one more before starting a new job Monday, Ghost packs this episode with a full week's worth of chaos. It opens with a Bannon War Room clip on the migrant surge into Ceuta, the tiny Spanish enclave in Morocco, and how Italy's Giorgia Meloni is now threatening to suspend Spain from the Schengen zone over it. Ghost digs into why Spain has historically been less loyal to Israel than the res...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick things off with a genuinely wild moment: Joe Rogan using the actual term "devolution" on his own podcast, which the guys treat as a mainstream milestone years in the making. They play the clip, react in real time, and debate what it means that a concept once confined to niche corners of the internet is now getting airtime from one of the biggest podcasters alive. Fro...

Cam Cooksey opens episode 61 sorting out his sound (Jackie was "spreading misinformation," of course) before settling into a warm, upbeat walk through the week's Truth Social posts. His signature optimism carries throughout, with plenty of tangents, chat love, and a would-you-rather game to close things out. The heavier material comes early. Cam shares his long held theory that Operation Warp Spee...

The crew works through a fresh batch of Hunter Biden emails this week, tracing a paper trail that ties Ukraine consulting work, a Burisma related investigation, and a very convenient billion dollar aid decision together in ways that raise more than a few eyebrows. From there it's on to Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment well over a hundred times despite holding a sweeping pardon, and a gen...

Host Matt Trump continues his "summer abroad" as the self-described Rick Steves of Badlands, picking up the walking tour right where last week's City of London stroll left off. After recapping how a "digital" City of London projects financial power through shipping, insurance, and choke points, he leads you south from Bank Station down King William Street, past the Monument to the Great Fire, the...

Jordan and Nate (fighting some seriously spotty internet) kick things off with RFK Jr.'s new Real Food Show, a surprisingly wholesome cooking series tackling seed oil myths and omega balance one budget friendly recipe at a time. From there it gets spicier: word is Trump is pushing RFK to go harder on childhood vaccines and the autism investigation, midterm optics be damned. The guys dig into Fauci...

Jon Herold spends Friday breaking down what he sees as a suspicious media push around footage of migrants overwhelming Spain's Moroccan border enclave, questioning the timing alongside a recently pinned Trump post praising Morocco's king. He also digs into the tense Todd Blanche confirmation saga with Senators Cornyn and Tillis, plays a few clips from Trump's televised Camp David meeting covering...