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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...

After eight weeks of vortexes, ferrocells, and the occasional theological mic drop, Jonathan Drake flies solo this week and pivots from physics to political philosophy, though the underlying framework holds up surprisingly well. The new series digs into Lysander Spooner's 1882 essay "Natural Law, or the Science of Justice," a short but dense treatise with one of the more delightfully blunt subtitl...

Jon Herold sits down with Steve and Terry of Loaded Gun Coffee for an episode that starts with bourbon pecan and ends somewhere much deeper. What began as a tribute project to honor family members who served turned into a discovery of just how deep their military roots run, including a great uncle still listed as MIA from World War II and a great uncle KIA in Korea at just 19. Steve shares his own...

Episode 56 of Flow hands the reins over to Cristina and Adrian from Rise Attire for the debut of Cristina's first solo film, Dauntless Tales: The Crystal Veil. The conversation breaks down the thirteen minute AI made short, the crystal veil as a metaphor for the screens that keep everyone glued and disconnected, and a faceless villain that represents the cabal nobody can quite see. There is a lot...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show with Tulsi Gabbard's bio lab declassification, which both hosts dismiss as a limited hangout repeating information that has been public since 2021 and 2022. They float a more interesting possibility: that the real declassification work may be coming from the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board under Devin Nunez rather than the DNI's office at a...

Jon Herold is mysteriously absent (definitely just watching the World Cup), so the crew rolls deep with Zak Paine, Matt Trump, Jaytriot, and Jordan Sather. The night kicks off with World Cup mania, a German tourist's culture shock tour through Buc-ee's and Waffle House, and a deep dive into Michigan camping lore that somehow lands on ancient Phoenician and Roman copper trade theories involving Isl...

Forget the "well, actually" crowd. Yes, the Germans were central to the space race, and host Matt Trump is leaning all the way into it. In Part I of this new series, Matt traces humanity's first object to ever cross into outer space back to a test launch from Peenemunde on June 20, 1944, two weeks after D-Day, and the weapon it became, the V2. But the real story starts decades earlier with Jules V...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince tackle a rumor mill moment first: Robert Malone claims RFK Jr. is set to resign as HHS Secretary in July, and HHS immediately fires back calling it fake news. Jordan, who has tracked Malone's track record before, is skeptical but keeping receipts. Then things get heavy fast. Senator Ron Johnson calls the COVID vaccine cover up a scandal bigger than Watergate, and a po...

Episode 113 opens with Ghost's "cyclone" theory in full motion: Trump occupies both sides of the Iran narrative at once, threatening to bomb Tehran while announcing a deal is two or three days away. Ghost breaks down the Apache helicopter incident, Trump telling the Wall Street Journal it "wasn't a big deal," and the Oval Office gaggle where Trump casually reveals he has been working directly with...

Jon Herold comes in Friday with the most material he has had all week, starting with Tulsi Gabbard's first round of declassification on US-funded biolabs. The release is four pages confirming what Russia disclosed back in 2022 and what the community has been saying for years while getting called conspiracy theorists for it. Jon uses the moment for some honest self-reflection: if this is true now,...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a show that whiplashes in real time right alongside the news itself. Trump tells Fox News in the morning that bombing Iran will continue and be bigger than ever, then hours later announces on Truth Social that strikes are canceled and a memorandum of understanding has been signed with eleven countries including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. In the...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 sequel The Godfather Part II, considered by many to be the greatest film of all time and certainly the greatest sequel. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and John Cazale as the unforgettable Fredo, this is one of the rare second installments that completely flips the tone of the original and absolutely...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior unpack one of the most disorienting twenty four hour stretches of Trump's second term. At sunrise the President posts that the US will be hitting Iran very hard tonight and seizing Karg Island and Iran's oil markets the way it did with Venezuela. Four hours later he cancels the strikes after saying a deal was approved by Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan,...

Frank and Jay reconvene a week after the Spring Fling to debrief the prime rib, the perfectly timed thunderstorm, and the InBody machine that exposed Frank's visceral fat number. Jay walks through why subcutaneous fat is largely cosmetic, why visceral fat is the real metabolic concern, and why intermittent fasting plus protein pacing beats simple caloric restriction. Then the brain section gets we...

This is the penultimate Taking it Back, and Adel Nero and Zak Paine make the most of it with Frank Val on vacation. The bulk of the hour is a long unflinching breakdown of the Carmelo Anthony conviction for stabbing Austin Metcalf, with both guys arguing the disproportional response to a shoulder push has nothing to do with self defense and everything to do with a victim mentality that has been en...

CannCon and Ashe in America wrap Chapter 5 and charge straight into Chapter 6 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, and the bailout game goes fully global. The World Bank's humanitarian branding evaporates completely as Griffin walks through country after country: Tanzania, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, all self-sufficient before the loans arrived, all economically wrecked after. Ch...

Jon Herold comes in Thursday on a slow news day that gets spectacularly un-slow mid-show. Trump posts a detailed plan to bomb Iran and take Kharg Island, Jon raises a Sun Tzu objection, and then within the hour Trump posts again canceling everything because a peace deal has been approved by every party in the region. Chris Paul had predicted the reversal in the Badlands private Telegram chat befor...

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 3 of The Chosen, which opens on David grieving his and Bathsheba's dying child and closes on Thomas screaming at Jesus to heal Reyma as she bleeds out in his arms. The hosts unpack the showrunners' bold choice to bookend the episode this way, even though the David death was prophesied punishment for adultery and the Reyma death looks senseles...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday show with the ActBlue CEO finally in front of congress and doing exactly what everyone expected. Debra Wallace Jones pleads the Fifth on every single question, including how many foreign contributions ActBlue accepted, how much came from Russia, and whether the 38 million flagged donations her own board chairman acknowledged were fraudulent. CannCon exp...