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Ashe in America brings her oldest son, Caleb, onto Culture of Change for the first time to settle a family argument: are we headed for a golden age or a dystopia? Caleb takes the doomer side, Ashe plays the realist. Ashe walks through McKinsey's 2026 technology outlook, from physical AI and dark factories to data centers outrunning the power grid, and asks what we trade away for convenience. Caleb...

President Trump speaks in Ohio, covering football player, inheritance tax and Trump dividend. First up, he turns to All-American football, with Jared Brown in the mix. Then he takes on inheritance tax, with Sophie Cunningham, USA and Springfield in the mix. From there, it's on to Dark age, with Palestine, Somalia and Vivek Ramaswamy in the mix. Later, he moves to country anywhere, with Apprentice...

Ashe in America gets into silence notifications, pig iron and scary skeletons, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the focus shifts to Colorado, Cabrini and Christopher Columbus. Then the talk turns to Columbus and Indigenous Peoples. From there, the crew gets into Bahamas, Americas and Leif Erikson. Later, it's on to Asia, Spain and Denise Ann. After that, the conversation moves to...

Jon Herold digs into press secretary, QAnon theory and Patel Patriot poke, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the talk turns to Ash sent, with RICO, Supreme Court and Thomas Clarence in the mix. Then the crew gets into Pizzagate conspiracy, with White House in the mix. From there, it's on to QAnon theory, with Zachariah and White House in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to S...

This time CannCon gets into diesel fuel, Russian oil and disclose confirm. First up, it's on to grade school, with Florida, Alabama and NBC in the mix. Then the conversation moves to older brothers, with Saudi Arabia, Kirill Dmitriev and Black Sea in the mix. From there, the focus shifts to Russian oil, with Vladimir Putin, Republican and Senate in the mix. Later, the talk turns to Credit Suisse r...

This time JB White digs into diesel fuel, gas industry and Trump administration. First up, the crew gets into football fans, with Ole Miss and Carolina in the mix. Then it's on to Germany, Carolina and Almighty. From there, the conversation moves to diesel fuel, with Marco, Maggie Keys and Zelensky in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to gas industry, with Ukraine, Russia and Maga Keys in the mix....

Burning Bright gets into global regime, Iran War series and middle powers. First up, the talk turns to Iran War series, with Top Gun Maverick and Multipolar Margin Call in the mix. Then the crew gets into energy prices, with Strait of Hormuz in the mix. From there, it's on to Iranian knot, with Iran War in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to Gulf states, with OPEC and Iran in the mix. After...

The crew get into press secretary, Flynn haters and truth disrupts, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the conversation moves to Flynn haters, with Kellogg and National Security Advisor in the mix. Then the focus shifts to truth disrupts, with RICO, Joe Biden and Giuliani in the mix. From there, the talk turns to antitrust investigation, with White House, China and DOJ in the mix....

Jon Herold and Chris Paul take on executive branch, diesel fuel and Ukrainian elections, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the crew gets into Blanche, Saved and Bell. Then it's on to Michael Ellis, Paul Sperry and Brennan. From there, the conversation moves to Kurt Olsen, Congress and Todd Blanche. Later, the focus shifts to Christian case, with FBI and Donald Trump in the mix. Af...

The crew get into Happy birthday, racist jokes and Florida cakes, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the crew gets into Tidhas, Dawgs and Rebellinator. Then it's on to Happy birthday, with Buzz Patterson and David Lee Roth in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to ground school, with Howdy Rowdy, Bill Gates and Bread Hour in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to safe space, w...

First up, the focus shifts to Diane Baker, Nobel Prize Roundup and Stockholm. Then the talk turns to cathode rays, with South Pole, Nobel Committee and Nobel Prizes in the mix. From there, the crew gets into tab instead, with South Pole, Antarctica and Halson in the mix. Later, it's on to Brownian motion, with Einstein, Norwegians and Swedes in the mix. After that, the conversation moves to Nobel...

The Friday crew take on Russian plague, German population and comic books, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the focus shifts to Greeks, Black and Celts. Then the talk turns to Trump administration, with ICC, Rwanda and Boardwalk Empire in the mix. From there, the crew gets into German population, with Hitler and Argentina in the mix. Later, it's on to comic books, with Green Lant...

President Trump speaks in New York, covering Trump dividend, drug prices and Republican state. First up, he turns to Letitia James, York Stock Exchange and Texas Stock Exchange. Then he takes on clean beautiful, with China, California and MVP in the mix. From there, it's on to gas stoves, with East Coast, Kathy Hochul and Texas in the mix. Later, he moves to favorite word, with Canada and Republic...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince get into vaccine injuries, power lines and oregano oil. First up, it's on to vaccine injuries, with CDC, NIH and HHS in the mix. Then the conversation moves to power lines, with RFK, EMF and Wi-Fi in the mix. From there, the focus shifts to pneumonic plague, with Florida in the mix. Later, the talk turns to oregano oil, with Annie Jacobson and Russia in the mix. After...

President Trump celebrates Columbus Day with Italian American leaders and guests, opening with tenor Christopher Macchio singing the national anthem and a chat about Luciano Pavarotti, whom Trump calls a friend. Trump says he has "resurrected" Christopher Columbus and points to the statue he put up outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. He describes invoking a federal monuments law to s...

Jon Herold digs into Trump administration, service members and Biden administration. First up, the talk turns to York, Daily Herold and Rico Grande. Then the crew gets into Trump's decision, with Todd Blanche and Justice Department in the mix. From there, it's on to Russia collusion, with Brennan and Kurt Olsen in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to Governor Cook, Federal Reserve Governor Li...

CannCon and Chris Paul work through a packed Friday, starting with a new HHS clinic for patients with health problems after vaccination, where CannCon argues the government absorbs the liability for vaccine injuries, a Just the News report on USAID being dismantled without Congress, and the Blair and LaCivita story about an election abroad that used voting machines. Later they cover a report that...

JB White flies solo on Friday morning after a dinner with a friend who is a clinical psychologist and FAMU professor, for a string of quick hit-and-run stops. His main focus is previewing Project D-Weaponization, his planned series on the N-word. In JB's view the goal is to take away the word's power and end what he calls the infantilization around it. He acknowledges an internal debate in Black A...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci's 2017 satire of the power struggle that followed Stalin's death, with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale as Beria and Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov. Chris admits he turned it off years ago without getting what it was doing, and now calls it a brilliant takedown of the collectivist administrative state. The two...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open SITREP 170 after a cold open honoring the troops, and the first stretch is pure deployment nostalgia: CannCon's recipe for gourmet ramen, how Marines in Iraq got water hot enough in a canteen cup, and EOD stories about what they used to heat it. CannCon then shows off gear, including an FRT trigger, a Mossberg 940 Pro and a custom-camo "apocalypse rifle," and vents a...

Frankie Val is joined by his cousin Sherry for a loose Thursday night, opening with the Yankees' exit, Halloween bobbing for apples, plans for next year's Jamboree and an update on Frank's 1987 Bronco. Frank and Sherry talk over the riots in France, comparing them with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, then turn to voter fatigue, local New York politics and Joe Rogan's Spotify deal. The c...

Matt McDonagh returns for episode two of Life in the Singularity with a deep dive on superintelligence. Matt opens by arguing that "AI" is the wrong name for what we're living through: in his view it isn't artificial at all, but the pooled natural intelligence of all of us, pushed forward by the data, hardware and software curves he laid out in episode one. He covers the gap between AGI and ASI, t...

Ashe and CannCon settle in for Chapter 17 of The Creature from Jekyll Island, "Den of Vipers," and it does not lighten the mood. The chapter walks through the fight over the Second Bank of the United States: who held the power to emit bills, how Nicholas Biddle ran the bank like a private government, and why Andrew Jackson treated it as a threat to the republic. They follow the money into Congress...

President Trump headlines the New Golden Age Summit and presents the National Medals of Science and of Technology and Innovation to six tech leaders. Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratzios opens with the administration's goal of "a new golden age of scientific progress." Trump then recalls his uncle, Dr. John Trump, who he says spent 52 years at MIT, worked on radar during World W...

Jon Herold goes solo on Thursday's Daily Herold, opening with a laugh at a White House post that pushes "superintelligence" over "artificial intelligence," then playing Trump's statement that the U.S. will not attack Iran before the midterms, a denial Jon predicted on the Power Hour. He covers RFK Jr.'s new NIH initiative to study vaccine injuries, new Fauci diary entries disparaging Trump, and th...