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Ghost breaks out the maps for a deep dive on the revival of the long dormant Kirkuk to Banias oil pipeline running from Iraq to Syria, tracing its roots all the way back to 1952 and explaining why it makes far more strategic sense than Netanyahu's old dream of piping oil straight to Israel. From there the show pivots to some genuinely juicy palace intrigue: why Netanyahu has spent two weeks trying...

Ashe in America and Ghost dig into Season 4, Episode 7 of The Chosen, "The Last Sign," and it might be the most emotionally loaded hour of the season. Jesus finally performs the miracle the whole season has been building toward, and the hosts explore why the writers chose to center this episode on pain rather than triumph. Expect commentary on the raising of Lazarus, the significance of the Bible'...

Jon Herold spends "Post Disclosure Day" digging through the freshly declassified documents behind Trump's primetime speech, arguing the paperwork itself is far more damning than how Trump actually described it on stage. He walks through claims that China stole 220 million voter files, worked with Venezuela style tactics to manipulate machines, produced fraudulent driver's licenses for ineligible v...

CannCon and Chris Paul dive straight into the morning after Trump's primetime election speech, breaking down which pre show rumors actually panned out and which turned out to be red herrings. The bulk of the show walks through the declassified documents at the center of it all, from claims that China compromised well over 200 million voter registration records to renewed questions about Venezuela,...

CannCon and Ashe in America kick off the night with an hour of pure pregame chaos, a homemade election bingo card, a themed cocktail menu (yes, there's a shot named after a voting system testing lab), and some very cagey teasing about what Trump is about to announce. Then the speech itself hits, and it is a big one: declassified documents, a claimed 220 million compromised voter files, allegations...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright dive into David Fincher's 1997 mind bender, and it turns out one of them had somehow dodged this one entirely until now. They trace the eerie line from The Game to The Truman Show to The Matrix, unpacking why the late 90s were absolutely dripping with existential dread, and how a movie about total control over one man's reality hits very differently with "post info wa...

Frankie Val marks a grim anniversary: 30 years since TWA Flight 800 went down off Long Island. Forget the official spark-in-the-fuel-tank story. Frankie walks through Jack Cashill's reporting, a whistleblower's account, and the Crick vs. Raytheon lawsuit that quietly got shuttered in early 2026. Along the way, expect a tour of the government's greatest "we would never do that, would they?" hits, f...

The White House press room covers a LOT of ground today, from a teased primetime address on election integrity to a staffer allegedly betting on the president's own speeches (yes, really), all before lunch. The press secretary fields questions on inflation dropping to a six year low, the newly launched Trump savings accounts for kids, border numbers, and a Strait of Hormuz blockade involving over...

Jon Herold calls it "E Day" as Washington braces for Trump's primetime election disclosure speech, and he spends much of the show digging through old intelligence community reports and executive order 13848 to argue that China's 2020 election interference was known and suppressed years ago while Russia's role got amplified. He walks through Paul Sperry's reporting on alleged Chinese hacking of vot...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with Josh Hawley's fiery account of Jack Smith allegedly surveilling his texts, calls, and location, part of a wider revelation about dozens of senators and congressmen swept up in the same dragnet. From there they break down the House quietly passing a national security bill with the Save America Act tucked inside, just hours before President Trump's much anticipate...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright gear up for what they're calling election fraud disclosure Eve, the night before a much hyped presser that could either deliver game changing revelations or turn into another rug pull. Spoiler: they're managing expectations either way, and they walk through their own poll numbers to prove it. From there it's a deep dive into JD Vance's recent comments on Joe Rogan abo...

Trump heads to the Army War College in Pennsylvania for Senator Dave McCormick's defense summit, and somehow turns an infrastructure announcement into a masterclass on aircraft carrier catapults. Nearly $10 billion in new defense investment gets unveiled on the spot, submarines, shipyards, missile components, robotics hubs, and a passionate, extended rant about why magnets do not belong on Navy el...

Is Mitch McConnell alive, dead, or something in between? Shipwreck dives into the wildest proof of life saga of the year, then pivots to Lindsey Graham's sudden passing and the baffling decision to hand his Senate seat to a sister nobody has ever heard of. She keeps circling back to the Charlie Kirk fallout too, questioning why anyone needed Candace Owens to tell them something felt off. There is...

Ghost and Chris Ponder join Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a genuinely fun one, recorded live from Madison Square Garden, where the trio starts unveiling a "rule set" designed to help ordinary people triangulate truth without needing a physics degree. Think of it like a calculator: you don't need to understand the circuitry to trust the math. Chris walks everyone through a diagram built from...

Jon Herold spends Hump Day bracing for Thursday's big election announcement, sharing poll results on audience expectations and urging people to prepare for a possible letdown rather than get their hopes too high. He plays clips from Amy Coney Barrett's testimony about threats to her family and her push for more Supreme Court security, offering some pointed pushback on her reasoning, then turns to...

CannCon and Ashe count down to tonight's much hyped presidential speech, teasing what might come out about weaponized government agencies and dropping a genuinely wild claim about a prominent Lincoln Project figure admitting intelligence community ties. They dust off a decades old Dan Rather segment on voting machine rollouts that is so copyright locked it could not even air on YouTube last night,...

Ghost spends serious time with Trump's Oval Office meeting alongside Iraq's brand new prime minister, a 41-year-old banker turned political outsider making his very first foreign trip. Between the jokes about being "young and handsome," there's real substance: oil pipeline deals, militia disarmament deadlines, and Trump's abrupt about face on charging a fee to protect the Strait of Hormuz after a...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come in hot, calling out a Senate vote that stalled a massive defense bill and a fresh Fort Knox gold audit before turning to the real fireworks in the Middle East. Expect a breakdown of Trump not taking certain phone calls, days of strikes tied to Iran, and why Lindsey Graham keeps popping up in the story. They also get into new documents on Jack Smith that suggest ser...

Something big is brewing in Michigan, and it arrived by U-Haul. This episode, CannCon and Ashe in America sit down with Gateway Pundit investigative journalist Patty McMurray to unpack a jaw-dropping investigation into Detroit's 2020 election. Picture nearly a million FOIA'd documents, 155,000 absentee envelopes sorted by an army of 100 volunteers, and a final number that will raise eyebrows. Patt...

Jon Herold spends Taco Tuesday weighing in on Trump's teased primetime address this Thursday, which insiders suggest may reveal declassified election intelligence and voting machine vulnerabilities, while journalist John Solomon urges caution about the swirling leaks. Jon walks through Trump's own comments ruling out foul play in Lindsey Graham's death, the appointment of Graham's sister to fill h...

An unscheduled lunch, a genuinely warm Oval Office welcome, and a press conference that somehow covers Iraq, Iran, oil straits, OPEC, inflation, and a mysteriously cryptic teaser about Thursday's election integrity announcement, all in one sitting. Trump hosts Iraq's newly elected Prime Minister at the White House, praising the U.S. troop drawdown, a wave of American oil partnerships, and what bot...

CannCon and Ghost kick things off with some meta commentary on media tribalism after a mainstream host's fact-check of Brian's own reporting went viral, then pivot into the real headline: President Trump's mysterious Thursday night address, widely rumored to focus on election integrity. They dig into a leaked story about a new White House task force digging through classified documents, debate whe...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with a very serious marital dispute over an extra candy bar (spoiler: it's pettier than it sounds), then pivot into a packed call in style episode. The Mitch McConnell saga gets a fresh update, complete with a fall, pneumonia, a suspiciously polished statement, and a new round of "is it really him" memes. From there the guys dig into the sudden death of Senator Lindse...

Ashe in America kicks things off with a genuinely wild find: a joint statement from the "Shield of the Americas" on the Colombian elections that reads suspiciously like something written by John Drake (and maybe an AI). From there, Ashe and John dig into the heavier stuff, what actually separates power from authority, where a government's legitimacy really comes from, and why "decision rights" mig...

Ghost and CannCon pull up a chair in the Badlands for chapter 54, and this one is a doozy. We're back in the neon-soaked 1980s and 90s, when a young, Wharton-fresh Donald Trump muscled into Atlantic City with three casinos, a suspiciously fast gambling license, and a knack for never quite getting his hands dirty. The guys dig into the concrete cartel, the Gambino and Genovese crews, Roy Cohn's men...