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Badlands Daily for Monday, November 2, the day before the midterms. The show opens on the weekend Learjet crash in Palm Beach County. It plays the air traffic control audio as the pilots of N722BD report ice and turbulence before declaring an emergency, and walks through the dash cam stills, the flight path and the plane's past trips near Mar-a-Lago. Next comes a run of election-integrity stories:...

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's rally in Salina, Kansas, the final stop of his midterm campaign swing, two days before the election. After the God Made Trump video and God Bless the USA, the President thanks Kansas and asks voters to reelect Senator Roger Marshall and elect Ty Masterson as governor, with Republicans up and down the ticket. He covers the border and seventeen months of z...

Badlands Media Special Coverage of President Trump's November 1 stop in Dubuque, Iowa, two days before the midterms. The episode opens with Trump taking reporters' questions, praising Haley Stevens for endorsing Mike Rogers in Michigan and saying El-Sayed would destroy the country. He talks about the Keystone Pipeline and Canada, trade and tariffs, and says he has spoken at 29 rallies in 32 days t...

Two days out from the midterms, the crew digs into early voting numbers, with nearly 50 million ballots already cast, and why the polls showing Democrats ahead don't match what the turnout is saying. They walk through the races to watch, including Minnesota and Alaska, and the lawfare network working behind the scenes. From there they war game what could happen after election day if the House and...

Burning Bright welcomes Chris Paul two days before the midterm elections for a structured walk through Chris's Substack series arguing that elections are fake, and why so many people argue against positions they assume he holds without ever reading them. The two talk about how emotion crowds out first principles, the habit of assigning intent to an argument instead of answering it, and the false d...

This week the show finishes Lysander Spooner's Proposition 6, the idea that all credit should be based on what a man has and not on what he has not. First up, a recap of Spooner's view of the legal and moral obligation of debt: a debtor owes only what he is able to pay when the debt becomes due, as long as he acted in good faith. Framing a loan as a transaction, with ownership and possession separ...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul dig into election results, Trump hater and loan sharks. First up, the conversation moves to Scott processor, with Hampshire and Sununu in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Trump hater, with Turning, USA and Hampshire in the mix. From there, the talk turns to Supreme Court, California and Turning. Later, the crew gets into TMZ, Jim Clyburn and Abdul El-Sayed. After that, i...

Can digs into sweet tooth, Ichabod crane and deputy director. First up, the focus shifts to sweet tooth, with Pope Pius, Pope Gregory and Pope Ralph in the mix. Then the talk turns to Ichabod crane, with Mount Rushmore and Vanderbilt in the mix. From there, the crew gets into Eastern Europe, Hershey and Congress. Later, it's on to side quest, with Mary Shelley, Martin Luther and Jane Austin in the...

Matt Trump closes out the two-part Spellbreakers Halloween special with a tour of 1970s horror through the original trailers. The night runs from Hammer Studios and The Dunwich Horror to The Wicker Man, Let's Scare Jessica to Death and Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes, then on to The Exorcist, The Omen, The Stepford Wives, Blacula, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Texas Chain Saw Ma...

The Friday OnlyLands crew winds down the week with a mock trial, road-trip stories and a long fight over voting. The night opens with a tongue-in-cheek trial over defying Madame Margie's decree, then wanders through weather and electromagnetic theories, travel tales from Arizona, Utah and the Grand Canyon, and a few music breaks. The back half turns into a full struggle session on whether voting s...

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, four days before the election. Byron Donalds opens the night, taking aim at David Jolly, property taxes and Amendment 3, school choice, law enforcement and Florida's space industry, with Ashley Moody on hand for the Senate race. President Trump then takes the stage to talk up Florida's Republican ticket and the midterm tu...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince close out Breast Cancer Awareness Month with herbalist Michelle of Tamarac Garden on women's health. They start with the history of the awareness campaign, the chemical and pharmaceutical companies behind it and the pink ribbon sponsors selling products linked to the problem. Michelle shares what she is seeing with clients, from diet and the alkaline approach to liver...

Jon Herold takes on a slow Friday news cycle dominated by the midterms, starting with the viral stockpile warnings. He walks through the Glenn Beck posts and Fox News report on the Pentagon's new continuity plan for a global war that knocks out power grids and supply chains, and asks what kind of election result would actually trigger that scenario. From there Jon covers gold, silver, Bitcoin, gas...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week heading into Election Day. They open on the map of nations urging people to stockpile food, with France issuing warnings, and talk preparedness, king tides and how dependent we are on fragile infrastructure. Then it's the federal student aid fraud cases, money flowing to Kenya, and why the college loan model is breaking down. A Department of Labor rule on...

Ashe in America and CannCon start Chapter 20 of The Creature From Jekyll Island, The London Connection, and get through Part 1 this week. G. Edward Griffin picks up after the National Banking Acts and follows the booms and busts that came next, from Jay Cooke's pamphlet calling the national debt a national blessing to the panics of 1873, 1884, 1893 and 1907. The crew covers the rise of the House o...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright break down Ready or Not (2019), the horror comedy starring Samara Weaving and Adam Brody about a bride forced to play a deadly game of hide and seek with her new husband's wealthy family on her wedding night. They talk about how Hollywood launches actresses through horror, the rules of the Le Domas family's game, and what the film says about elites and the grievance t...

JB White keeps the show going from a packed-up setup after a morning power outage, on Florida-Georgia week. First up is Haiti: Jeff Childress's piece on how Bukele's three conditions (UN authorization, a cooperating government and outside financing) came together, with the Gang Suppression Force, the Shield of the Americas and 450 Salvadoran special forces landing on an American C-130. JB argues i...

Matt McDonagh walks through where AI and superintelligence are heading, and why he sees it as an opportunity rather than something to fear. He covers how the big labs are moving into making their own chips, AI agents that will one day buy and sell on their own, how reinforcement learning scores good and bad moves to build better models, and why information alone cannot replace real expertise. He a...

President Trump rallies in Rock Hill, South Carolina, for Senator Darlene Graham ahead of Election Day. The event opens with Attorney General Allen Wilson, the Republican nominee for governor, followed by Senator Darlene Graham, who thanks supporters for their prayers after the loss of her brother, Lindsey Graham, and makes her case against Democrat Annie Andrews on borders, gun rights, policing a...

Jon Herold flies solo on a lighter prep day, starting with The Atlantic's three-part Pizzagate anniversary series and why decode culture isn't waking up normies. Then it's Hegseth firing Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia over alleged leaks to the press, why the case went to the DOJ instead of a court-martial, and the 1984 Justice and Defense memorandum of understanding behind that kind of referral. Jon also w...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior break down the felony charges against James O'Keefe in Minnesota, the Democrats' scheme to put a second Dan Sullivan on Alaska's ballot, and Netanyahu's claim that Israel's election was stolen. First up, Judge Alvin Hellerstein's death puts the Maduro case in front of a new judge, and the crew reacts to a program bragging that it has taken 10% of active federal judges on...

The Justice Department announces the first results of Operation Ghostbusters, a nationwide crackdown on ghost student fraud that uses stolen identities to enroll fake students and drain federal student aid. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the new National Fraud Enforcement Division lays out how the scheme works, from stolen identities and AI-written coursework to stand-ins attending o...

President Trump holds a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio, six days before Election Day, campaigning for Senator Jon Husted and governor nominee Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump opens with the crowds along the ride in from the airport and a story about Husted's football career, then pushes early voting, which ends Sunday, November 1st, and Ohio's voter ID ballot amendment. He goes after Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton...

Ghost is back after a month away with a Halloween episode, the day after Israel's election left everyone claiming victory. First, Ghost walks through the new Russia and Iran sanctions act and the waiver power that lets Trump lift sanctions and tariffs on his own. Then the Israeli results: Netanyahu's bloc, the Bennett, Lapid and Gadi Eisenkot alliance, Avigdor Lieberman, the ultra-Orthodox draft f...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright are back for the Wednesday edition, one week out from the midterms, and neither of them is losing sleep over it. First up, the DOJ charges James Comey over disclosing national defense information, filed by criminal information on the very last day before the 10-year statute of limitations ran out, and the guys ask what that says about the long-promised grand conspirac...