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It is Ashe's golden age birthday (47, an even MAGA number) and the ladies open with the most on brand baroque dinosaur and clown birthday card from Archangel Michael, leaf photo challenge submissions that look professionally lit, and a coffee photo challenge fail that Ashe is fully embracing. Ashe then digs into the history of her own birthday: James Madison introducing the Bill of Rights in 1789...

Happy birthday Ashe in America, and welcome to episode 83. CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick things off with a wild Stanley Cup Finals breakdown: Mitch Marner's hat trick, Carolina's insane four-goal third period comeback, and an overtime winner that literally bounced off the back of the net and the goalie's own skate. Then the guys go deep on the marine veteran who disarmed a teenage c...

Jon Herold comes in Monday on a show that keeps circling back to the same unresolved problem: the people who benefit from election fraud are not going to fix election fraud, and nobody on the side that wants to fix it has an answer for how to make that happen anyway. Spencer Pratt is being slowly bumped from the LA mayoral runoff, a former CIA officer's thread explains exactly how it is done and w...

CannCon and Zak Paine open the Monday show with California's election count turning into a full display of the machine in operation. Spencer Pratt held a lead of over 20,000 votes on election night in the LA mayoral race, then batch after batch of late mail-in ballots arrived giving Nithya Raman 40% while she had been polling at 23% all week. The statistical probability of that shift is compared t...

Burning Bright brings Chris Paul back to the Narrative for a rare and candid state of the union on the truth community itself. The central question: is it possible that a community defined by escaping one matrix has accidentally built another? The two trace the epistemological failure at the root of accidental awakenings, q normies, and the grift incentive structure rewarding certainty over honest...

Part 8 and the finale of the introductory ether series goes out with a bang. Jonathan Drake and Polymath return together to close out eight weeks of reality-dismantling physics with their most ambitious move yet: tying the whole thing together theologically. But first, eddy currents, gyroscopes that weigh less while spinning, Newton confessing gravity made no sense to him, Einstein admitting logic...

Jon Herold sits down with Matt Wooster of Rattlesnake Meats for a conversation that covers a lot more ground than beef. Matt grew up in Northwest Georgia with no farming background, got an animal science degree from UGA, spent nine years managing a university research herd, took a detour into financial services, and eventually landed in South Central Kansas running a regenerative meat operation wi...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show with the Los Angeles mayoral election slowly being stolen in plain sight, breaking down the New York Post video that tries to explain away helicopter ballot deliveries, six-day postal delays within the same state, and centralized ballot processing as mere quirky California inefficiency. Chris Paul dismantles the "incompetence not malevolence" framin...

Episode 55 of Flow falls on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day and Cam Cooksey delivers something worthy of the occasion. He walks through Eisenhower's pre-invasion letter read by Pete Hegseth, General Flynn's deeply personal D-Day reflection, and a clip of a WWII veteran returning to Omaha Beach in 2026. John Rich's tribute song closes out the first half. Trump True Social posts bring the signal: the...

Within three minutes of the show starting, the crew is arguing about civil war, scratch lines, and whether the domesticated American public could actually fight anyone. The combat theory rabbit hole goes deep, touching on trained versus untrained fighters, six armed hunters getting thrown 15 feet by a grizzly, and the mechanics of being eaten alive. Meanwhile, the SpaceX IPO gets a thorough stress...

The New Glenn rocket just blew up on the launch pad, and host Matt Trump, a physicist who grew up watching every Apollo mission, has been waiting his whole life to give this talk. In this episode, Matt walks through the full arc of American spaceflight from Project Mercury through Apollo 17, Skylab, and the slow cancellation of missions that left astronauts reading the want ads. He traces America'...

President Trump takes the stage at Custer Farms in Wisconsin to deliver a wide ranging address to American farmers, opening with the May jobs report smashing expectations at 172,000 jobs created during an active military conflict. Trump walks through the full slate of agricultural wins from the One Big Beautiful Bill: death tax eliminated, 100% bonus depreciation, 19 new trade deals, farm income u...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back after a week off and hitting the ground running. RFK signed a PREP Act declaration for hantavirus that had the internet in full meltdown mode for 48 hours until people actually read it: no vaccines, no mandates, just a two-month window for one antiviral drug. Alpha gal syndrome is up 10,000% in a decade and RFK is publicly alarmed, citing cases on Martha's Vi...

Ghost opens episode 111 with Trump's Air Force One gaggle, walking through Trump confirming the Netanyahu F-bomb call, comparing AI wealth sharing for Americans to Chavez's oil nationalization, and delivering the line of the week on the Strait of Hormuz: oil is flowing at $97 a barrel and it should have been $300. The biggest shift comes when Trump tells reporters he would be honored to meet the n...

Jon Herold comes in Friday on a show that starts with a funeral. DOGE.gov has been taken down after five months of no updates, and Jon is in genuine mourning over the loss of his reliable eight-second daily segment. Then things get more serious: Spencer Pratt is being slowly and obviously bumped from the LA mayoral runoff by late-arriving ballots while everyone watches, federal prosecutors confirm...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday that ranges from California vote counting to the Ukraine end game. Spencer Pratt's 25,000 vote lead over Karen Bass is evaporating in late mail-in counting, and Chris Paul maps the epistemological trap: the same people who watched this happen in 2022 are going to accept the outcome because by the time it is announced, attention has moved on....

Chris Paul and Burning Bright finally sit down with Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 masterpiece The Godfather, based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton. Both guys came to it fresh, with Burning Bright admitting he had never even watched it before this episode, and walked away convinced it absolutely lives up to its legendary reput...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with the Rick Chow not guilty verdict out of Columbia, South Carolina, where the gas station owner was acquitted in the 2023 shooting death of fourteen year old Cyrus Carmack Belton. Alpha walks through use of force science, why shooting someone in the back is not automatic murder, and why the sheriff's public statement about the suspect not pointing the gun was poli...

It's the 22nd anniversary of Marvin Heemeyer's killdozer rampage through Granby, Colorado, and Frank welcomes back Jay to walk the timeline. Two acres at auction, a concrete plant blocking his access, a check stamped "cowards," and a year of secret welding inside a Komatsu D355A. The episode threads George Bernard Shaw, John Adams on studying war, and JFK on peaceful revolution into a single quest...

President Trump opens with the big reveal: the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is finished, filled, and flowing after a century of leaks. From there it is a full throttle press event covering the $700 million clean, beautiful coal investment invoking the Defense Production Act to protect 14 plants, 42 mines, and build two new plants. Trump also announces the Lincoln Memorial Promenade and the Gre...

This is a special one. Adel Nero opens by announcing that June will be the final month of Taking it Back on Thursdays, closing out a show that has been on the air since 2019. From there, he and Zak Paine dive into a news mix that swings from the absurd to the strategically consequential. They open with the New York Democrats officially replacing the words mother and father in custody law with gest...

CannCon and Ashe in America open Chapter 5 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the bailout game goes global. The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference gets a full autopsy: the IMF and World Bank were designed by Fabian socialists and a communist spy, Harry Dexter White, to eliminate gold from international finance and build world socialism one loan at a time. The Federal Reserve is...

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with a healthy amount of righteous indignation and Phil Scarborough's best news in years. Anna Paulina Luna filed assault charges after a Code Pink activist tapped her arm in a Capitol hallway, and Jon plays the video, compares it to Savannah Hernandez's actual assault, and asks the obvious question: what does calling that an assault do to people who have been genuinel...

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through season four episode two of The Chosen, which opens with John the Baptist appearing to Jesus in a dream with broken chains and ends with Matthew finally apologizing to Peter at the altar of Pan. In between, the disciples sit Shiva on the open road, Andrew discovers he is no longer the anxious one, and Jesus drags everyone to Caesarea Philippi where the pagans...

CannCon returns after saying goodbye to his stepdad, and Alpha Warrior shows up to carry the weight alongside him. The show opens with grace and moves into one of the biggest news days in weeks. John Bolton reaches a plea deal on classified document charges during the broadcast, and Alpha immediately explains what it means: he cooperated. Alpha had predicted on this show that an early plea is a 10...