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Jon Herold rolls into hump day with a lighter mood, opening with a shoutout to a fan painted portrait of his cat before diving into the noise around Trump's Air Force One travel plans and the speculation over why he's flying home the old fashioned way. He plays a few clips from the president's press gaggle, including some candid comments on assassination odds and the ongoing Iran conflict, then br...

Fresh off a NATO summit in Turkey, Trump holds court with the press pool and, true to form, covers roughly nine topics in the time it takes most people to answer one question. Expect a victory lap on defense spending hitting the 5% benchmark, some pointed words for Iran's leadership and their now very much sunken navy, a Toyota plant relocating to Texas thanks to tariffs, and a spirited defense of...

CannCon and Ashe dig into day two of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing, walking through a stack of courtroom clips that raise more questions than answers: mystery body cam footage, a curiously unsecured bullet, and DNA testimony that gets more technical than convincing. From there they pivot to the increasingly bizarre saga of Mitch McConnell's health, with dueling claims about brain death, h...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a Fourth of July high, then dive straight into the deep end. Expect talk of a RICO case getting broken into smaller, more manageable prosecutions, possible August indictments, and why the phrase continuing conspiracy keeps coming up. They connect the CIA freedom quilts posted by the agency director to a Morse code puzzle, walk through a presidential sports boo...

Ghost dives into a jam-packed NATO summit in Ankara, where Trump shows up dressed like he's attending NATO's funeral (his words, basically) and proceeds to cozy up to Erdogan over F35 jets, lifted sanctions, and some very pointed remarks about allies who didn't show up when it mattered. Meanwhile Netanyahu is not thrilled, Macron can't seem to take his sunglasses off after a bombing in Damascus, a...

Jon Herold kicks off a quieter Tuesday by admitting the news cycle feels stuck in neutral, with Iran, Ukraine, and the economy all in a holding pattern. He gets it out of his system on Team USA's early soccer exit before turning to the swirl of speculation around Mitch McConnell's health and whether Scott Jennings' account of their phone call adds up. There's a quick check-in on the Tyler Robinson...

CannCon and Ghost open with a spirited breakdown of Team USA's rough World Cup exit, turning a soccer flop into a broader riff on masculinity, culture, and why Europe just can't stop flopping (literally). From there the guys pivot through sponsor shoutouts before diving into the Platner scandal roiling Democrat primaries, a fresh batch of midterm polling that has both parties spinning their own na...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine are back for Monday night, and things get weird fast. After a brief detour into USMNT soccer heartbreak (the goalie deserves his own investigation), the guys dig into the increasingly strange case of a Senate leader who hasn't been seen in public for weeks. Hospital statements, a very specific 911 call, a spouse's oddly timed overseas meetings, and a family that has gone c...

Ashe in America is back after a "GART week" with a fired up episode built around one big idea: the fight for the country isn't happening in DC, it's happening in your HOA meeting, your county assembly, and your group chat. Joining her is Corey from Break the Chains Media, a fellow Colorado troublemaker she first met years ago handing out stickers at a protest. The two dig into why the two party sy...

Matthew Ehret is back with roughly 50 slides and zero patience for the AI doom cult, whether they're pitching machines as gods or demons. This episode zooms out from last week's Tesla debate to ask a bigger question: is technological progress really a trade for personal freedom, like the transhumanists insist, or is that just repackaged Malthus with better marketing? Expect a wild tour through mec...

  The ladies are back from GART and still riding the high of a week that blended straight into Independence Day weekend. Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada open with the aftermath of convention season: half packed suitcases, golf carts, VIP dinners, and a costume moment involving Bit of Whimsy that earns its own shout out. A photo challenge walks through the group's favorite GART and...

CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey celebrate America's 250th birthday weekend with stories from a massive Fourth of July party, fireworks, barbecue, and reflections on what makes the United States unique. The conversation shifts to World Cup soccer, including controversial officiating decisions, Team USA's appeal victory, and standout tournament moments. The hosts also dive into viral reactio...

Jon Herold returns after the Fourth of July weekend with a candid discussion about the official end of DOGE and the intense reactions surrounding it. Using government spending data and DOGE's own published numbers, he questions whether the initiative lived up to the expectations set by its supporters while exploring why factual criticism is often labeled as "black pilling" within the truth communi...

CannCon and Zak Paine celebrate America's 250th birthday before diving into the stories shaping the country's future. They examine media coverage of Patriot Front, escalating Teen Takeover incidents, and the growing debate over free speech, public order, and cultural decline. The conversation shifts to America's Christian foundations, the SAVE Act, election integrity, and concerns surrounding Demo...

Burning Bright kicks off a fresh chapter of the show with Zak Paine, and things go big picture fast, think Rome's staying power versus America's 251st year, and whether this moment finally feels different. They trade theories on why 2025 and 2026 haven't unfolded the way many expected, why getting dragged into the reactive "micro" can cloud the bigger "macro" view, and what Trump's approach to the...

Jonathan Drake is back from Deadwood, hair growing long and spirits high after a GART weekend full of trial by jury shenanigans, whip mishaps, and a courtroom drama that left at least one Canadian juror bribed with citizenship. But once the recap wraps, it's back to business with Lysander Spooner. This week Jon dives into Section Three, unpacking why a hung jury should actually mean acquittal, how...

Lightning delays, a crowd that shrank from 375,000 to a very dedicated 150,000, and a president determined to give his speech anyway, welcome to America's 250th birthday party. Badlands Media brings you the full Salute to America broadcast from the National Mall, where Trump walks through two and a half centuries of flags, founders, and fireworks with a rotating cast of genuine American legends on...

Happy 250th!. Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off Independence Day weekend with fireworks (literal and rhetorical), breaking down Trump's Mount Rushmore anniversary speech and his stop at the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library. They dig into the "communism is a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor" line, unpack what "third term" chatter actually means once you filter out the media panic, and get into...

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, Badlands Media brings you full coverage from the base of Mount Rushmore, where South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and President Trump take the stage under the granite gaze of four presidents to talk about, well, everything that makes this country tick. Expect soaring rhetoric about the Declaration, some genuinely moving famil...

It's the eve of Independence Day, and the OnlyLands crew is celebrating a little early with fireworks mishaps, hot dog eating contest predictions, and a cacao sponsor read that somehow works in the Aztecs. Things turn more substantive once President Trump's live Mount Rushmore address plays, sparking a genuinely spirited debate among the hosts over Israel's place in America's problems, whether art...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back from GART and not wasting any time. A parasite called cyclosporiasis is ripping through Michigan and beyond, and Jordan reads the New York Post's most colorful victim profile of the year. A Michigan couple faces second degree murder charges after their 7-year-old son died at 255 pounds, prompting a raw conversation about parenting, dopamine addiction, and per...

Jon Herold comes in on July 4th Eve light on prep and heavy on chat energy, which turns out to be exactly right for a holiday Friday. Bill Pulte fired dozens of ODNI intelligence officials this week for allegedly withholding information from leadership, and Jon floats the theory that Ratcliffe may be the one directing the firings while Pulte provides cover. The New York Times reported that the US...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week and the runup to America's 250th with a discussion-heavy Friday. The New York Post reveals the FBI had Democrat insider Alexis Podesta wearing a wire inside Gavin Newsom's inner circle since June 2024, and CannCon connects it back to Alpha's "tickling the wire" prediction, noting the huge implications for both Newsom's presidential hopes and the California...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright do a Fourth of July revisit of Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, and Harry Connick Jr. Both guys expected to have fun with a summer classic. Instead they arrive at the same brutal verdict. This is one o...

Two days before America turns 250, CannCon opens the show watching the Portugal Croatia game go to a heart stopping VAR review, which promptly triggers a chat troll named Barry into a full patriotic meltdown. What follows is one of the most chaotic first hours in SITREP history. Barry accuses CannCon of un-Americanism for watching soccer, the guys extend olive branches three times, Barry brings up...