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Jon Herold kicks off Vegas conference week digging into the fallout from Joe DiGenova's resignation from the Fort Pierce grand jury investigation, reporting new CNN details about an apparent clash with Todd Blanche over a denied secure facility request, and connecting it to his broader theory that Blanche may not be the white hat everyone assumes. He spends the back half of the show unpacking Trum...

A short and sweet one, since the crew is doubling up before the Battle of the Sexes show. Alpha is out sick, which spawns a whole riff on how men become helpless ten-year-olds the moment they catch a fever while women like CannCon's wife power through food poisoning to go work a bar shift. Alpha earns the permanent nickname "Princess" for his trouble. The bulk of this one is a rapid Week 2 pick-em...

CannCon kicks off the new solo Monday format, with Zak Paine moving to Tuesdays, and a heads up that he is headed to Las Vegas for art week. The show opens with CBS finally catching up to a story CannCon has been covering for months, involving a foreign national quietly using American surrogates and imported fertilized embryos on a scale nobody is tracking, and why he sees it as the strongest argu...

JB White is coming off a big weekend, with the Gators handling Campbell and his beloved Jaguars taking down Cleveland, and he brings that victory lap energy into a wide ranging Monday show. He digs into a closely watched Massachusetts criminal trial and the debate swirling around one holdout juror, then pivots into a candid, unfiltered discussion about language, reclaimed words and what he sees as...

Josh Reid flies solo this Sunday, with Alpha Warrior home sick, and turns it into his first solo Badlands show. On the itinerary: the AI fear porn cycle and why the doom mongering matters for what comes next technologically, plus a Peter Thiel clip Josh reads as secretly on the right side of the argument. From there it is Trump against the globalists, framed as an unfolding fight with the old guar...

Solo show, take three. Burning Bright opens Episode 82 fighting a dying microphone and cheerfully choosing between two audio disasters until he can fix his setup after Vegas. This is the every-other-week format he is experimenting with: not a polished presentation but his version of a live dig, a "cognitive cascade" that stitches seemingly disconnected headlines together in real time. He warns you...

Jonathan Drake opens up about quitting his job before diving into Proposition 3 and the meaty Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay, where the real target becomes usury laws. His case is that capping interest rates does not protect borrowers, it locks the very people who need capital most out of the market entirely, funneling wealth into fewer hands and trapping everyone else in generational wa...

The first repeat guests in the series are back. Kurt and Cristin of Pet Club 24/7 return to talk mushrooms, immune systems, and why a company with "Pet" in its name spends a lot of time talking about people too. They open with the origin story: a partner's mother, sent home from Sloan Kettering with a grim outlook, who credits a proprietary mushroom extract with turning things around and sparking...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with midterm convention takeaways before Herold recaps some heated online fights he got into this week over the tariff dividend proposal. From there they dig into Joe DiGenova stepping away from the RICO grand conspiracy case in Florida, a development the guys clearly think deserves more attention than it's getting. There's also a stretch on the AI race and what...

The crew dives into a genuinely wild story about a green card holder who worked his way into a Customs and Border Protection job at a major crossing, only to get arrested for allegedly swapping out government hardware for compromised parts. That kicks off a broader, sometimes contentious debate about immigration enforcement, detention camps, and a recent court decision limiting how long ICE can ho...

Recording on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, host Matt Trump opens with a haunting cover of "Mad World" and admits he dreaded this anniversary, then found he had more to say than expected. Rather than re-litigate what happened that day, he sits with the harder question: what exactly did the country lose, and why does 25 years feel like an emotional watershed. As a former New Yorker who lived on Stat...

Jordan and Nate spend most of this episode diving into RFK Jr.'s recent podcast dive into psychedelics, from his RNC speech on corporate regulatory capture to clips on ibogaine's ability to resolve opioid withdrawal and psilocybin's potential as fast acting depression treatment. Along the way they swap their own microdosing experiences and get refreshingly honest about which ceremonies actually wo...

Jon Herold marks the anniversary by walking through newly declassified 9/11 era presidential daily briefings, noting intelligence hints of hijacking related surveillance before the attacks and drawing loose parallels to pre October 7 Israeli intelligence failures without claiming certainty either way. He spends the bulk of the show unpacking a heated Twitter exchange over Trump's proposed $5,000 d...

Ashe in America and Ghost tackle Season 5, Episode 6 of The Chosen, "Reunions," and while they admit a few scenes feel like filler, there is still plenty to dig into. The hosts spend real time on the confrontation between Atticus and Kafni, unpacking a fascinating clash between Greek philosophy and rabbinic law, and a broader conversation about revenge as a driving force in both ancient and modern...

On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, DHS gathers at its St. Elizabeth's headquarters to dedicate Resilience Plaza, a new space built around genuine artifacts of that day, twisted World Trade Center steel, the iconic upright trident, and unbroken limestone recovered from the Pentagon. Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar opens with a deeply personal story of being stranded overseas that morning and lo...

Twenty five years to the hour, the nation returns to the Pentagon to remember the 184 lives lost there and the 2,977 taken across that single, unforgettable morning. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and General Dan Caine each offer deeply personal reflections on where they were that day and what it demanded of the country afterward, before President Tr...

CannCon and Chris Paul open the 25th anniversary of September 11th with personal reflections on where they were that morning, including a sobering account from Chris of how close he had been to the World Trade Center just days before. From there they turn to the fallout over President Trump's five thousand dollar tariff dividend and the meltdown it has caused, followed by an Indiana Supreme Court...

JB White marks the 25th anniversary of September 11th with a personal, emotional opening before diving into his usual mix of sports and politics. He previews the Gators facing Campbell, keeps needling LSU over their ongoing standoff with the SEC, and shares a candid health update on managing diabetes and a recent blood thinning procedure. On the politics side, he walks through a Peter Navarro thre...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on this 1998 thriller about a terror wave hitting New York and the martial law that follows, and the "predictive programming" alarm bells start ringing almost immediately. Expect a deep dive into how this movie preemptively defended Islam and demonized the military years before 9/11 gave that framing real cultural weight, plus a genuinely sharp breakdown of what...

Night two of the first ever midterm convention opens with a genuinely emotional VP Vance, marking one year since losing his friend Charlie Kirk while introducing his newborn son to the crowd and delivering a fiery defense of the nuclear family, complete with a live protester interruption he handles without missing a beat. From there Trump takes over, keeping things lighter after a two hour speech...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior push through a rough night, Alpha fighting off a family cold and CannCon wrangling in studio tech, before landing on the heart of the show. A viewer donation leads them into the story of a Green Beret who enlisted after losing his childhood best friend on 9 11, told through his wife's memoir of their short life together. It is one of the more emotional segments the show h...

Frankie Val and co-host Jay mark the eve of September 11 with the show's heaviest night of the year, a quarter century on. They open in the strange calm of September 10, 2001 (Michael Jordan teasing a comeback, a Westchester scandal, Frankie's mom at MSG for the Jackson 5) before the tone turns. The centerpiece is a walk through E.P. Heidner's 2008 "Collateral Damage" paper, tracing a money trail...

Trump visits the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington to sign the Herschel Woody Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act, and the whole event carries a rare, genuinely reverent tone. Fifteen living Medal of Honor recipients are in the room as Trump reflects on the almost unbelievable bravery behind their stories, including the late Woody Williams' harrowing flamethrower duty...

CannCon and Ashe in America press into Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the story gets darker fast. This week covers the actual coup that brought the Bolshevik minority to power in Russia, the New York financiers hiding behind Red Cross credentials, and the gap between the official humanitarian story and what really happen...

Jon Herold spends a big chunk of Thursday's show wrestling honestly with Trump's viral midterm convention promise of a $5,000 dividend to every adult if Republicans keep the House, playing multiple clips of the speech and JD Vance's follow up defense, then pulls up an old Charlie Kirk clip calling Biden's student loan forgiveness "naked bribery" to press the question of consistency. He walks throu...