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Ashe sits down with filmmaker Matt Thayer for a wide ranging conversation about telling stories that matter in a culture that desperately needs them. From "The Trump I Know" to the upcoming theatrical release "No Limbs, No Limits," the story of Nick Vujicic, this episode is part film conversation, part theology, and part election accountability. What does authentic Christian faith look like when t...

Ghost and Jordan Sather team up to trace the most consequential dynasty in American history: the Rockefellers. From John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly and JPMorgan's steel consolidation to the invention of the holding company by the law firm that later became the CIA, the dots connect in ways that still reverberate in 2026. Jordan breaks down how the Rockefellers engineered the modern pharmaceutic...

Aliens are coming. Or so they want you to believe. In this episode, Matt Ehret traces the UFO disclosure movement from its origins in 1947 CIA memos to today's Pentagon whistleblowers, and finds the same occult networks running the show at every stage. From Allen Dulles using Carl Jung's archetype theory as a psychological warfare handbook, to the Rockefeller-funded promotion of LSD through Time a...

It's episode 69, hey hey, and the ladies are not going to mention it. Jackie shares the pet photo challenge submissions including her bird who tried to drink her reflection water, and Ashe tells the proper version of Caleb's eighth birthday in Manhattan involving the Intrepid, Spider-Man dropping web from the rafters, Dylan's Candy Bar, and one harrowing taxi near miss. Christy unpacks the British...

Caleb Epp fills in for JB, and CannCon, Alpha Warrior, Cam Cooksey, and Caleb get right into it. CannCon coins the new show slogan, "Men Unsupervised," before diving into Mother's Day recaps and NHL playoff predictions with Caleb backing the Avs over the Sabres in six. Alpha brings a full breakdown of the Savannah Bananas and all 11 rules of Banana Ball that somehow makes the strongest case yet fo...

Jon Herold comes in Monday on a slow news day and makes it work. Today is apparently the last possible day to charge Anthony Fauci under the standard statute of limitations, and Jon marks the occasion with the appropriate level of fanfare before explaining why the grand conspiracy angle might make the whole conversation moot. Trump announced a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax, and Jon i...

CannCon and Zak Paine open the Monday show fresh off a massive Friday ruling and ready to connect all the dots. The Hantavirus narrative is in full swing with CNN, the New York Post, and the WHO doing their best to spin a Dutch ornithologist's South American landfill trip into the next pandemic, and CannCon maps out the election year fear playbook with every example going back to 2006. Trump refus...

JB White opens with Marco Rubio standing in front of a map of Cuba with SOUTHCOM's commanding general and makes the point that this image alone tells you more about Trump's second term agenda than most analysts have figured out. He then reads Michael Massey's sharp piece on Trump as a pragmatist rather than a liberal or a conservative, and explains why that framing is exactly right. The centerpiec...

Burning Bright sits down with Ashe in America for a methodical and surprisingly optimistic look at where the Patriot plan actually stands. Ashe brings her twenty-year background in corporate change management to map the Trump era onto a formal transformation program, arguing that the second administration is deep in the implementation and execution phase. The two dissect how the same change manage...

Part 4 of the ether series is where things start getting visual. Jonathan Drake and Polymath move from philosophical groundwork into the actual mechanics of the medium, beginning with the dielectric, a term coined by Michael Faraday to describe the medium through which electrostatic force acts. From the ancient Greeks rubbing amber to Faraday proving that charge lives in the medium between capacit...

Jon Herold sits down with Brian Tyson of Luv Litters for a surprisingly fascinating deep dive into one of the more unique Badlands sponsors. What do poultry litter, a retired Army colonel, and southern yellow pine have in common? The origin story of a cat litter company that's been running since 1994. Brian walks Jon through how his father's failed poultry integration business accidentally turned...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open a looser Saturday show with the UFO file dump that landed with a thud, comparing it directly to the Epstein files as a manufactured mystery with nothing behind the door. The boys break down Trump's announcement of a three-day Russia/Ukraine ceasefire on Victory Day and why every mainstream headline about the "scaled down" parade missed the point entirely. The Preside...

Alpha Warrior sits down with retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Paul Drury for a conversation that starts with an unexpected detour into a factory in Rust Belt Ohio and ends with a challenge coin that could save lives. Paul shares his 23-year journey through Aircraft Armament Systems, three combat tours with the Air Guard, and the F-16 Fini flight he earned the right to enjoy from the back se...

Episode 51 finds Cam Cooksey flying solo with a packed house. He walks through Trump's True Social posts: drones dropping like butterflies in the Strait of Hormuz, the Iran "excursion" clocking in at just six weeks against Afghanistan's 543, an EU trade ultimatum tied to America's 250th birthday, and the Lula da Silva meeting that has everyone capitulating to the golden age. Trump's UFO/UAP file r...

Happy Alien Disclosure Day, apparently. The crew greets the government's UAP file dump with the exact amount of enthusiasm you'd expect from people who have been lied to for decades: minimal. From there the conversation takes a genuinely fascinating turn into germ theory versus terrain theory, Lyme disease as a probable bioweapon, and whether viruses actually exist. BB shares a deeply personal sto...

It was quite a Friday. The US government dropped UAP files, a Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship went global, and host Matt Trump sat down to make sense of it all without losing his mind. In this episode, Matt walks through the history of Korean Hemorrhagic Fever from the 1950s to the Four Corners outbreak of 1993, building a rational framework for evaluating the current Andean virus scare. He d...

RFK Jr.'s push to reduce antidepressant dependence is drawing fire from MSNBC and Reuters, and Jordan and Nate break down why. With 1 in 6 American adults on SSRIs and the global market generating $20 billion per year, the push for deprescribing pathways backed by a new CMS billing code is a genuine disruption to pharma revenue. RFK shares a personal account of a family member's SSRI withdrawal he...

Episode 105 opens with a deep dive into the DOJ's sweeping indictment of 30 people tied to a decade-long insider trading scheme operating through elite M&A law firms including Latham and Watkins and Goodwin Proctor. Ghost connects the indicted network to Trump's executive orders forcing those same firms into $600M of free pro bono work, suggesting Trump had leverage over them long before the a...

Jon Herold comes in on a Friday ready to be amazed by the most anticipated document dump in history. The Trump administration released the first tranche of UAP and UFO files to the public, and Jon goes through them live: a grainy dot over Iraq, a slightly less grainy dot over Greece, a letter from a 1965 housewife in New Hampshire, and a document buried on page 53 that describes a directed energy...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show that delivers one of the biggest election integrity wins of the year. Breaking during the broadcast, the Virginia Supreme Court strikes down the redistricting referendum in a 46-page opinion declaring the process null and void for violating constitutional procedural requirements, vindicating weeks of coverage by CannCon, Ash, and Ghost....

JB White opens with Trump dressing down an ABC reporter at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and uses it to make a broader point about the deliberate destruction of beauty, standards, and journalism as a profession. He then reads Tom Luongo's sharp breakdown of why the Strait of Hormuz standoff is theater, not strength: Iran has no money, no hard power, and is manipulating oil futures because i...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle the much-maligned middle child of the Matrix trilogy, the 2003 Wachowski sequel starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving. Burning Bright admits he used to dismiss this one entirely, but a fresh rewatch reveals a film that is not dumb at all, just trying to wrestle with much harder ideas than the original. The guys dig into t...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior go head to head for nearly the entire show in one of the most heated SITREPs yet. The night opens with a rolling debate on whether Islam is purely a religion or a political ideology, sparked by Sammy the Squirrel's Substack and the Epic City development in Texas. Alpha argues for preemption and forced assimilation. CannCon stays planted on the constitution, demanding actu...

Frank is flying solo for the first hour and dragging Mike Baldwin into the second, and the whole show feels like a Friday because tomorrow is somebody else's problem. He opens on the freshly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein "suicide note," which reads like it was ghostwritten by James Brown, then walks through the timeline that nobody seems willing to explain: the prior strangulation attempt, the missing...

CannCon and Ashe in America dig into Chapter 2 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the game has a name: Bailout. The crew breaks down how the Federal Reserve system allows banks to create money from nothing, loan it recklessly to corporations and foreign governments, and then use a series of plays, debt rollover, upping the ante, rescheduling, and the protect-the-public mane...