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Jon Herold opens the week with a Wall Street Journal report that Vladimir Putin floated a summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at next month's APEC meeting in Shenzhen to talk about ending the war in Ukraine, with Zelensky left out of the room. He ties it to Trump holding off on new Russia sanctions and the deal to buy Russian diesel, and asks whether the meeting will actually happen. From ther...

President Trump holds a executive order signing, covering the stories of the day. First up, he moves to Melania, White House and President Xi. Then the speech shifts to Health Division, Nicole Safar and Bobby. The full speech, start to finish.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a start-time glitch Alpha blames on Dark Matter, then get into the shows Josh keeps assigning him: The OA's lost season 3, The Truman Show and simulation theory. Josh walks through Yarvin, Nick Land and Dark Enlightenment theory, public-private partnerships, and why he sees this moment as the turbulence of transition. From there it's geopolitics: the AI race w...

Burning Bright welcomes Matt McDonagh of Life in the Singularity for his first visit to The Narrative, and the two dig into the Aipocalypse. Matt traces his path from Wall Street and a machine-learning hedge fund to Bitcoin and superintelligence, then they cover rigged inflation math, lizard brain politics, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, and the new Tesla Roadster demo as both a real event and a n...

Jonathan Drake is back after a week off building sets for his daughters' homeschool production of Fiddler on the Roof, plus a look at the cedar patio furniture coming together in his shop. Then it's on to the finish of Proposition 5 in Lysander Spooner's poverty essay: why free banking would flood the market with credit and drive interest to the lowest possible rate, how self-employment would forc...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with the White House press secretary's rough week and whether a president who breaks his own news even needs one, plus Chris's post on what being a bar attorney really means. Then it's on to Kristi Noem's move from Homeland Security to the Shield of the Americas, and why Jon says calling it a promotion is the kind of cheerleading that leaves people with the rug pulle...

Cam Cooksey goes solo for episode 70, fresh off a day of tearing out a bathroom, and spends most of the night working through a stack of Georgia campaign mailers. He opens with a chat question about the end goal of the truth movement, then goes through the mail piling up at his house: Rick Jackson's comic book flyers, the Sharon Cooper and Michelle Schreiner fight over Trump's legal fees, Keisha L...

President Trump rallies in Highland Heights, Kentucky, for Andy Barr in the U.S. Senate race and Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky's 4th District, with a push for Republicans on both sides of the river in Ohio and Kentucky. He covers Jon Husted and his football days, Mexico paying for the wall, the Gulf of America, the border and the jails emptied into the country, Governor Cooper and Willie Horto...

The Friday crew opens with a surprise: Meta wants Red Pill News on Facebook, years after the big purge. Then two horror stories from the shoe store days, a second-row report from Journey's final tour, and a fact check on Steve Perry's voice. From there: California license plates and the voter rolls, the woman who called ICE on her roofing crew after the job was done, why new-build homes keep falli...

GMoney sits down with Tommy, artist in residence at BTC Inc. and curator of the Bitcoin Museum and Art Gallery in Nashville, to talk about nine years at Bitcoin Magazine, how a freelance graphic designer ended up building one of the deepest Bitcoin art collections around, and the 100-year-old downtown building that once printed scrip money. They get into Ross Ulbricht's smuggled prison animation,...

Matt calls this one an experiment in a looser, more personal style. After his pro-white moment on OnlyLands last week, his X feed filled up with clips from Soirée Canadienne, a Quebec TV show that bused whole villages into a Montreal studio from 1960 to 1983 for campfire-style sing-alongs. He plays the clips, including 15-year-old Serge Veilleux in 1981, and asks why they now draw respect and even...

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's full remarks from his rally in Dalton, Georgia, where he campaigned for Mike Collins for U.S. Senate and Rick Jackson for governor ahead of the November 3 midterms. Trump opens by urging Georgians to vote early, since early voting runs through October 30, and looks back at the 2017 special election against Jon Ossoff. He goes after Ossoff on open borders...

Jon Herold takes on press secretary, Blue Star Strategies sat and Trump allies, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the conversation moves to press secretary, with Tesla Roadster in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Minority Report movie, with Roadster and Tesla in the mix. From there, the talk turns to compressed air, with Florida, Ron DeSantis and Tesla in the mix. Later, the crew...

JB White flies solo on this RattlerGator Report, and it's a "beautiful, beautiful" kind of Football Friday. He previews the Gators at Texas and the Jaguars against the Texans, then pulls up footage of the new Tesla Roadster flipping upside down, firing air thrusters and landing on its wheels. Elon Musk says flying cars are real, and JB walks through the Peter Thiel line that started it all. From t...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week on Badlands Daily with a packed Friday show. They open with a chat about AI music and what new creative tools mean for artists, then dig into fresh reporting on impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch, Burisma and Hunter Biden, and what it says about the case that launched the first impeachment. The guys argue the lesson is simple: the witnesses were never a...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi's 2011 adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story, with Matt Damon as senatorial hopeful David Norris, Emily Blunt as Elise, and Anthony Mackie and John Slattery as the men in hats keeping him on plan. Chris points out how many real politicians and pundits play themselves in the opening campaign montage, and Burning Bright explain...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior keep it loose on a Thursday night, opening with Alpha's flat-pack table build and CannCon wrestling with his suppressor live on air after their last episode came down from YouTube over firearm talk. They get into Florida's bump stock law and the FRT trigger, the SBR gray area now that the Form 4 tax stamp is gone, and Jim Caviezel's new movie Ghost Soldier. Alpha reads a...

Frankie Val is joined by Jay Gulinello for a Thursday night in Studio A, opening with Lauren's pregnancy countdown (37 weeks tomorrow), next year's Jamboree on October 22, 2027, and a Brewers-Dodgers World Series rundown before Frank admits he has spent three days in mortal combat with ChatGPT over livestream thumbnails. That leads into Anthropic's new rules on "abusive" behavior toward Claude, an...

Matt McDonagh is back for episode three of Life in the Singularity, and this week the focus is digital twins and the leverage superintelligence hands to anyone willing to learn. Matt argues that AI has torn down the old wall of syntax mastery, so curiosity now matters more than credentials, and he explains why he thinks large language models will one day look like 8-tracks: a stepping stone, not t...

Ashe in America and CannCon settle in for Chapter 18 of The Creature from Jekyll Island, picking up right after Jackson's war on the Second Bank. The Bank is dead, but banking is very much alive, and the chapter walks through the failed fixes that followed. They cover the push to kill small banknotes and force everyday trade back onto gold and silver, then how checkbook money and demand deposits m...

The Department of Justice holds a press conference in St. Louis to announce the results of Operation Show Me Justice, an ATF-led surge against violent crime that ends today after two months. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter reports 435 arrests, including 412 on outstanding warrants, along with 80 kilos of drugs, 166 illegal firearms, six machine gun conversion devices and over $1 mill...

Jon Herold opens late after his daughter's birthday lunch, then digs into the Nidal Hasan execution plan: the firing squad is still on, but the stream was pulled after pushback, and families of the victims can still watch in person. The story that caught him most is the Justice Department's 48-hour deadline to California to segregate suspected noncitizen midterm mail ballots or face emergency reli...

CannCon and Ashe in America, swapping in for Alpha Warrior this week, dig into Ilhan Omar's citizenship story, from her ties to Feeding Our Future to her age, her father's naturalization and her amended financial disclosures, plus news that federal agents seized a member of Congress's phone. Next they revisit Jack Smith's investigation, including Grassley's finding that the special counsel gathere...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with a very Russia-heavy week, from Trump's and the Kremlin's tiger posting to Burning Bright's own summer training around Siberian tigers. Then it's on to the new White House press secretary's rough first briefing and the bar exam question. The hosts argue it's fine to be critical without stretching the plan to explain every story, and play Trump's March comment...

President Trump takes questions from the press on his way to Kalispell, Montana, then holds a rally for the state's Republican candidates. In the gaggle, he says Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and backs Mike Rogers, explains why he is campaigning in a state he won easily, sends his best wishes to Pope Leo after his cancer diagnosis, and says inflation is low...