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Jon Herold comes in Thursday with plenty to say about the people who are saying plenty. The MAGA hawk crowd that spent months cheerleading US military involvement in the Middle East is now loudly attacking Trump over the Iran deal, and Jon finds the shoe-on-the-other-foot energy deeply satisfying. JD Vance ran the White House press conference and delivered one of the most pointed defenses of Trump...

Vice President JD Vance steps to the White House podium to deliver the first full briefing on the Iran MOU since its signing, opening with news that gas prices dropped below $4 for the first time since the conflict and 12.5 million barrels moved through the Strait overnight. Vance walks through the deal structure in detail: Iran gets nothing unless it performs, the US pays zero, and every sanction...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior dedicate most of the Thursday show to what may be the most consequential document signed during the Trump presidency. CannCon reads through every clause of the Iran memorandum of understanding live: Lebanon mentioned by name, Israel conspicuously absent as a signatory, $300 billion in reconstruction funded by the Gulf coalition and not American taxpayers, sanctions lifted...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright break down the freshly signed US and Iran memorandum of understanding line by line, covering the naval blockade removal, troop withdrawals, the Strait of Hormuz reopening, the $300 billion reconstruction investment that is not a loan from American taxpayers, full sanctions termination, and the nuclear enrichment compromise that allows Iran a civilian program. Burning...

Episode 59 finds Shipwreck once again accidentally enraging the bot army by pointing out that gas in Iowa is still $3.74. She breaks down the wave of suspiciously identical replies in her comment section, leans into the dead internet theory, and explains why she now views voting and political engagement as an energy harvesting ritual. She also revisits the Strait of Hormuz, asks why nobody talks a...

Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Jonathan Drake back to ask the question Kepler and Maxwell never thought was strange: what are the heavens declaring? Spoiler. They are declaring the glory of God, in patterns precise enough to govern physics and beautiful enough to fold into a sunflower. Drake walks through his essay calling the ether the fingerprint of God, the toroidal Fibonacci pattern th...

- [Live] President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Republic of India, Modi - [Replay] President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with the Arab Republic of Egypt - [Live] President Macron speaks at the end of the G7 summit in France - [Live] President Trump's G7 Press Conference President Trump opens with a warm meeting alongside Indian Prime Minister Modi before delivering the most d...

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a guest and a document to dig through. Tech investor Matthew McDonagh joins to make the case that energy, not labor, is now the central lever controlling global power, framing the Strait of Hormuz blockade and the Iran conflict as moves in a larger energy dominance struggle against China. Jon then reads through the full leaked 14-point US-Iran memorandum of under...

Ashe in America and Ghost swap their usual roles for a Wednesday that starts absurd and only gets more interesting from there. California rolls out a state gay business certification program for utility contracts, and Ashe and Ghost spend a hilarious but pointed stretch walking through the certification criteria, landing on the serious underlying point that any government registry tracking sexual...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid catch their breath after one of the wildest weeks in years. Iran's civilian government just ended the war, the Strait of Hormuz reopened, sanctions are coming off, and Trump's approval rating in Israel went from positive twenty three to negative twenty three in seven days. Save Israel for last is happening in real time. Mark Levin is having a public meltdown, the APEC l...

CannCon and Ashe in America take apart a Deseret News profile that positions Steven Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder behind the infamous "Drawer 3" ballot scandal, as the trusted Republican voice on why California's elections are secure. They walk through his claims about audits, fraud detection, and mail-in deadlines, pointing out that the very system he defends prioritizes ballot acce...

Episode 114 opens with a War Room clash: Rabbi Wallachie acknowledges that US and Israeli interests are diverging, but Ghost steps in to correct his claim that Hezbollah is simply the Iranian army, walking through its actual origins as a resistance movement. From there, Ghost breaks down a heated Bannon segment where Wallachie denies any Greater Israel expansion plan, a claim Ghost dismantles usin...

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a hectic kid-shuttling day with a story that immediately raises questions. The FBI says it disrupted a terror plot involving explosive drones and a staged sniper attack targeting last weekend's UFC Freedom 250 event, with five suspects in custody and 23 more identified, but Jon notes none of them were arrested in Washington DC and wonders how surveillance happened ju...

President Trump holds a joint press conference with an Iranian leader who thanks him directly for ending the six week war, then walks through the terms of the new memorandum: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, the Strait of Hormuz opens permanently and toll free, and the US pays nothing. Trump promises to release the full document and read it word for word at an upcoming press conference, cont...

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with somber news first: a B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base claims all eight servicemen aboard, the latest in a string of unexplained military aircraft losses. From there the show pivots into a packed lineup. Trump's latest Save America Act post adds two new conditions, and CannCon and Ghost debate whether the bill's failure to pass is actually a deliberate gateke...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 189 with a quick detour into a viral Sasquatch video (probably AI, possibly a guy in a suit) before tackling the newly released four-page ODNI report on global bioweapons labs and what it might mean for Anthony Fauci's accountability. A short segment pulled from Candace Owens covers a theory connecting the 2022 death of a man named Mark Liedy, who allegedly st...

Part two of Ashe's conversation with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast picks up where Space Revolution Ep. 22 left off, and this time they go further out. Literally. From China's 30-year plan to dominate the space economy to SpaceX's Earth-to-Earth rocket that can get you from LA to Singapore in under 20 minutes, this episode is equal parts geopolitical reality check and genuine wonder. Kwast explai...

Ghost sits down with Clay Parikh, a Marine artillery veteran who was actually there, for the most personal episode of The Book of Trump yet. Clay walked through the same BLT headquarters building that was destroyed, donated blood to Palestinian civilians after IDF cluster bombing, and was days away from being the unit relieving the marines who died when Operation Urgent Fury redirected his ship to...

Palantir was not born in a garage. It was commissioned by the CIA director who oversaw 9/11, brokered by the neoconservative architect of the Iraq War, and handed to Peter Thiel and Alex Karp as a private commercial replacement for the Total Information Awareness Office after Congress shut it down in 2003. In this episode, Matt Ehret walks through what Palantir actually is, who built it, who it se...

GART is less than two weeks out and Ashe has a dedicated laundry basket for Deadwood outfits because Brian wants her to think about the weight of her suitcase. The ladies kick things off recapping UFC at the White House, the dripping with corporate sponsorships narrative swap the left tried after the taxpayer dollars argument fell apart, fighters walking out of the Oval Office down the Hall Of Pre...

CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick off a jam-packed post-Father's Day episode with a full World Cup breakdown, including Team USA's win over Paraguay and a historic Haiti versus Scotland match that ended decades-long World Cup droughts for both nations. From there the crew dives into a stacked UFC card, with Josh Hogan's knockout of Derrick Lewis, Cyril Gane's dominant heavyweight title...

Jon Herold comes in Monday still processing the fallout from a post he made last night, and he wants to talk about it. After UFC 250 wrapped, a wave of decoder accounts had spent the week hyping the event's EBS color test as a sign something bigger was coming. Jon posted a good faith question asking what happens now that nothing did, and the response was less about the substance and more about att...

President Trump joins French President Macron in Evian for the G7 summit, where the two leaders announce a signed peace deal with Iran that fully prohibits nuclear weapons under strong policing powers. The Strait of Hormuz is already partially open with mine clearing underway and full reopening expected by Friday. Trump contrasts the new deal with Obama's JCPOA, recalling the infamous 1.7 billion...

CannCon and Zak Paine open the week still buzzing from one of the most stacked weekends in recent memory. Trump's 80th birthday coincided with America's 250th UFC event on the White House lawn, complete with a bald eagle flyover, dirt bikes, and a walkout moment that had even a protester stopping to admire the flyover. Pitcher John Hocket stole the night with an unscripted Michelle Obama joke that...

Episode 28 lands on Trump's 80th birthday, Flag Day, and the same day the United States and Iran officially announce an end to their conflict, though nobody bothered to tell Netanyahu. Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down the leaked audio between Trump and Bibi, explain why Israel is getting cut loose exactly on schedule with the old Q post about saving Israel for last, and walk through how Iran...