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CannCon and Alpha Warrior dig into the full fallout from Anthony Fauci's congressional hearing, replaying his repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment on everything from funding conflicts to a pointed line of questioning about Bill Gates and NIAID's overseas partnerships. They also revisit Senator Ron Johnson's methodical breakdown of pandemic era studies that were buried at the time, and a shar...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with a bit that pokes fun at how fast rumors spin out of control online (spoiler: Fauci was not, in fact, killed at Gitmo), before getting into what actually happened: Anthony Fauci testifying and invoking the Fifth Amendment over and over again. The guys play clip after clip, breaking down just how many times he did it, what it legally does and doesn't protect h...

Chris Paul joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for what turns into a lively cross examination, with Chris Paul playing the role of skeptic in chief and asking the ground level questions everyone's been thinking. What is this tool actually for, and how do you define truth in the first place? Chris Ponder introduces the "Paragon," his model for understanding the information enviro...

Jon Herold breaks down Fauci's much anticipated congressional testimony, where he pled the Fifth Amendment repeatedly, including on questions as basic as what day of the week it was, and shares the viral moment where Senator Bernie Moreno dropped an F bomb demanding an apology. He walks through Kathryn Herridge's reporting on the legal strategies that could still challenge Fauci's Biden era pardon...

Senator Rand Paul opens with a blistering, documented case against Anthony Fauci on gain of function funding, the Wuhan lab, and years of shifting public versus private statements, and from there it only gets more intense. Fauci, appearing under subpoena and armed with a sweeping presidential pardon, invokes the Fifth Amendment to nearly every question asked, including some that have nothing to do...

CannCon and Ashe cover a genuinely wild congressional hearing day as Anthony Fauci shows up citing advice of counsel and looking to plead the fifth, his own attorney gets physically removed from the chamber for refusing to sit where instructed, and RFK Jr faces questions about a pardon that may not hold up to legal scrutiny. They also dig back into Fauci's diary entries for a look at how obsessed...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open on a somber but wild note, digging into the death of Lindsey Graham and picking apart funeral details, timelines, and a theory or two that even they admit is pure speculation. From there they pivot into a preview of a coming wave of UFO related documents, a strange White House video turning Chuck Schumer into an AI alien robot, and why the guys think the psychologi...

No guest this week, just CannCon and Ashe in America turning the heat all the way up. They start with that newly declassified CIA note on Venezuela and lay out why it reads less like a bombshell about Maduro and more like a blueprint for what happened at home. From there, things get spicy. The two dig into a certain must-read election book (now referred to strictly as Voldemort) and why wrong tech...

A rare Tuesday night edition since vacation packing took over the usual schedule, but Shipwreck still shows up ready to go. She kicks off by metaphorically burying Lindsey Graham and reacting to Trump's latest Netanyahu comments, then dives into a heated online debate she started this week over the Palm Beach Pete and Jeffrey Epstein lookalike saga, plus a religious back and forth that spiraled ou...

Jon Herold covers a busy Tuesday with Zelensky and Netanyahu both visiting the White House at the same time, plus fresh Biden ghostwriter tapes catching him warning his own material might be classified. He digs into newly surfaced Fauci diary entries showing a private death rate estimate far lower than what he told Congress under oath ahead of his Wednesday testimony, and runs an informal poll ask...

CannCon goes solo for the first time as Ghost steps back to daily appearances, testing out a new once a week format and asking the audience to weigh in. He starts with a wild batch of Joe Biden clips from years back showing early signs of cognitive decline, including a primetime address moment that somehow made it onto the official White House YouTube page uncut. From there it's a deep dive into A...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine welcome guest Tim S (Burn Notice) for one of the more sprawling episodes of the show, tracing what the guest calls "Prussiagate," a decades spanning theory that a Prussian aristocratic bloodline has been quietly steering global power since the 1800s. Ambassadors, banking collapses, the Federal Reserve, Operation Paperclip, and the rise of modern China all get pulled into t...

Ashe in America welcomes back Matt Thayer, co-founder of Spiro Pictures and the filmmaker behind "Selection Code," for a two part conversation. First up, a new documentary featuring one of Charlie Kirk's final interviews, premiering exclusively on Salem Now September 10th, exploring whether God still speaks and whether anyone is still listening. Matt talks about the making of the film and what it...

Trump makes history as the first sitting president to visit General Motors' famous Milford Proving Ground, and turns it into equal parts economic victory lap and full throttle campaign rally. Expect tariff talk on foreign cars and trucks, a nostalgic detour into his father's love of Cadillacs, and genuine enthusiasm over Escalades, Silverados, and a mysterious new class of tiny cars now cleared fo...

Welcome to a full-blown technical difficulty day, as Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada battle echoing mics and a crashing computer while somehow delivering a great show. Ashe opens with the freshly declassified Anthony Fauci journals released by Rand Paul, walking through a supercut of media figures showering Fauci with praise and making the case that the pandemic numbers were manip...

Jon Herold kicks off the week digging into newly released Fauci diary entries ahead of his expected Wednesday congressional testimony, highlighting private notes that seem to contradict his public statements on COVID origins, asymptomatic spread, and the "gain of function" debate. He weighs in on James Comey's motion to dismiss his indictment on First Amendment grounds, a new tariff blitz targetin...

CannCon and Zak Paine dig into a fascinating side door into the New Jersey non citizen voter story: jury duty summons. It turns out a full 20 percent of the roughly one million people summoned each year report they do not meet eligibility requirements, mostly over citizenship, and those same lists overlap heavily with voter rolls pulled straight from the DMV and tax records. They also play a surpr...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come in a little late and a lot fired up for a "panic in DC" special. The centerpiece is a Trump truth posting frenzy, from time travel memes to a JFK mashup to the words "panic in DC," landing at the same moment DNI Bill Pulte drops a fresh round of declassified files on China's election interference and a fourth wave of intelligence community layoffs. The guys read th...

Burning Bright brings in Jonathan Drake to break down a term he stumbled across in the propaganda terrain a few weeks back, the dirty break. They open by unpacking what the concept actually means, then test drive it against the widening rift on the political left, from the DSA and AOC's rising influence to how far establishment Democrats have drifted from their own positions a decade ago. From the...

Jonathan Drake continues Spooner's chapter two "if then" gauntlet, this time zeroing in on rights: what they actually are, where they come from, and why the Constitution didn't hand you a single one. Expect a full teardown of the "voting is a right" argument (spoiler: Jon isn't buying it), a Declaration of Independence versus Constitution showdown, and a candid detour into autism, self diagnosis,...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul call this a slow news week and then spend the next few hours proving otherwise. They kick off with Trump's best clips from the White House Correspondents' Dinner and his various media rounds, then dig into a newly surfaced Cuba report that Chris actually read this time. There's a stretch dedicated to Steve Bannon's War Room appearances and a somewhat confusing back and fo...

Cam Cooksey is running on low energy and coffee (with Good Brew stirred in) after a week of manual labor, but the good vibes build as the show goes. The big personal moment: Cam and Jackie saw President Trump in person in Marietta, Georgia, at a rally for Georgia Republican candidates, and Cam shares what that was like from the floor. From there it's his usual walk through Trump's Truth Social, wi...

The crew tackles a genuinely interesting theory this week: that Sam Altman and other AI lab heads are quietly begging governments for regulation while China's open weight models keep blowing up their plans, essentially forcing an AI arms race nobody asked for. There's also a dive into why NATO officials seem baffled by JD Vance's silence on the Iran war, some spicy speculation about the Adelson fa...

Host Matt Trump invites you to grab your passport for a summer abroad, trading the just-finished World Cup for a walking tour of one of the most talked-about square miles on Earth: the City of London. Styling himself as the Rick Steves of Badlands and armed with a guidebook he bought in London back in 2000 (and is only now actually reading), he drops you off at Bank Station and strolls past Mansio...

Ghost comes in hot off his third recording of the day for a whiplash inducing news cycle. The big story is the US Saudi civilian nuclear deal, signed one day and seemingly upended by Trump the next with a surprise Abraham Accords condition. Ghost walks through the CNN and Zero Hedge reporting, then spends serious time explaining why he thinks the whole "confusion" narrative is theater aimed at a v...