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Jon Herold, pre recording ahead of a family trip, digs into what he calls the most interesting election security development of Trump's second term, a new Pete Hegseth memo directing the entire Defense Intelligence Enterprise, not just NSA and Cyber Command, to actively mobilize against foreign election interference, and walks through the history connecting it to Executive Order 13848 and the orig...

Matthew Ehret hands the mic over this week to researcher Rick Hines for a guest deep dive into one of history's favorite unsolved mysteries. Recorded while Ehret was touring occult sites in London, this episode tackles the Atlantis question head on, but skips the usual theosophical detours into Aryan super races and alien space operas. Instead, Hines builds his case straight from Plato's Critias d...

CannCon and Zak Paine open with a doctor's account of the pressure to stay quiet during the pandemic, which leads into a Just The News piece on the CDC now pushing COVID shots off label for healthy people and the MAHA frustration that has followed. They also look at what the new formulations actually contain. From there it is a Fox News report on Boston funding an immigrant activist program with t...

Tony Robbins kicks things off with philanthropic flair before handing it to Airbnb co founder turned Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, who unveils America.gov, a single new front door meant to replace roughly 29,000 clunky federal websites. Expect a genuinely slick product demo, complete with a name change walkthrough powered by AI, a parade of frustrated citizen testimonial clips, and some surpris...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with some election security talk, digging into a new memo from the Secretary of War and a wave of recent wins on the CISA and SAVE database front, before Jon reveals he's more excited than usual for tonight's main event. For the first time, the show tackles an actual proven conspiracy rather than a theory, walking through the bizarre and tragic real life case of a piz...

Ashe in America and Wednesday regular Brian Lupo tackle the AI conversation they have been promising for weeks, joined by Matt McDonagh for some genuine industry insight and a bit of referee duty. The big question on the table, is artificial intelligence steering us toward a golden age of abundance, or something closer to global imprisonment? Expect a lively back and forth on job displacement, fro...

This is the GART recap show, and Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada are still riding the high from Las Vegas, complete with an ongoing feud over whether it is Nevada or Nevada, and a running scoreboard that simply reads "Brian is still wrong." The crew relives the weekend: Christy's early and elaborate Halloween decorating, a target trampoline that may or may not be rigged, and a gen...

Trump gathers a room full of governors, senators, and cabinet secretaries to announce what he calls the largest steel plant in American history, an $18 billion Mesabi Metallics complex in southeast Iowa, fed by the first new American iron ore mine in over 50 years. Between the ribbon cutting energy, expect a full breakdown of how 50% steel tariffs made the deal possible, a promise of 6,000 constru...

Big life news kicks this one off: Alpha is officially a grandpa and workshops his grandparent name in real time (Papa? Gampa? Big Head?) while plotting to out-spoil the other side of the family with race car beds and a friendly grandparent cold war. CannCon nearly dies racing his dog down the stairs first. Then it is football, and the officiating gripes run deep. The guys relitigate the Broncos-Ra...

Jon Herold, fresh off a haircut and a Vikings win, debuts a new AI powered database project built with help from Chris Paul that tracks and scores political predictions made by dozens of accounts in the truth community since Trump's inauguration, revealing wildly high miss rates for the loudest "cheerleader" and "doomer" voices currently attacking Badlands. He walks through a new US China trade tr...

CannCon opens the solo Monday show with a recap of the American Martyrs premiere in West Palm Beach, then runs through a packed rundown. There is New York billing millions in improper Medicaid payments for incarcerated enrollees, a new federal AI portal being pitched as a one stop shop, and a geopolitics block covering Germany's foreign minister reading his own government's words back at him and t...

Josh Reid rides solo again while Alpha Warrior celebrates becoming a grandpa to twins. He opens with a defense of friction as a feature, not a bug, using the messy, argumentative birth of the Constitution to make the case that a movement full of people who disagree beats an echo chamber. That leads into why a Q adjacent show is telling you to vote, not sit out, and a respectful airing of where he...

Jonathan Drake wraps up Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay with a thought experiment that turns 1840s dollars into numbers modern listeners can actually feel. Person A borrows at 6% and hires Person B, while Person B, locked out of credit, watches the profit walk away with someone else. Jon then asks why governments can't regulate religion but can regulate financial contracts, using an image...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with a genuinely fun tangent about the two new pandas gifted alongside Xi Jinping's visit, complete with jokes about renaming them and where to best display panda merch. The mood stays light before shifting into the actual state dinner and Xi's comments about US China competition, with both hosts noting how oddly aligned Trump and Xi seem to be on the same messaging...

Cam Cooksey returns for episode 67 (September 26th) after a few weeks off for GART Vegas, running loose and unstructured without his usual music setup, and leaning into a warm, reflective, community focused night rather than hard news. The heart of the show is a meditation on embracing friction without turning on each other. Cam holds up Jon Herold's "refuses to bend the knee to the mob" defense a...

The crew addresses some genuine internal drama head on, after a clipped and amplified "maybe we should all just stop voting" comment from within the Badlands family sparked accusations of being anti Trump, leading to a spirited defense of why showing up to vote still matters even when the system feels rigged. From there it's on to a genuinely fascinating tangent about using AI to track congression...

After a two-week hiatus (and an accidental Lloyd's of London movie trailer), host Matt Trump devotes his fun Friday-night show to Jev, the AI everyone in tech suddenly cannot stop talking about since it dropped around September 15th. He spent the week learning it so you don't have to, and the verdict is right there in the title: he's mostly bullish. Expect an accessible, tangent-friendly explainer...

GMoney sits down with Austrian Bitcoiner and author Robin Seyr, a man who spent three solid years trying to prove Bitcoin was a scam before the evidence mugged him in a dark alley and orange-pilled him for good. It is a genuinely good redemption arc: a young Warren Buffett cash-flow guy who hated gold, ignored Austrian economics while literally studying economics in Austria, and eventually discove...

Jordan and Nate open with a genuinely stunning admission from RFK Jr: HHS is formally investigating chemtrails and electromagnetic frequency exposure, complete with a federal request for public input. They debate whether AI can actually "cure" disease or just deliver smarter treatments, cheer a new FDA rule cutting mandatory animal testing, and cover fresh executive orders opening federal land to...

Jon Herold brings back cybersecurity expert Skip from Patriot Protect to break down a massive breach exposing front and back photos of driver's licenses used for age verification at places like Hertz and Target, plus a chilling rundown of AI voice cloning scams targeting families. Jon then delivers what he hopes is his final word on the ongoing Twitter pile on accusing Badlands of being anti Trump...

Ashe in America and Ghost close out Season 5 of The Chosen with the season finale, episode eight, and it is a big one, covering the Upper Room, the Last Supper, and the walk into Gethsemane. The hosts spend a lot of time on Thaddeus, an apostle they admit they never gave much thought to before, tracing his quiet, almost overlooked calling and why the show frames him as an example of faith without...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Sixth Circuit ruling on Ohio requiring proof of citizenship at the BMV, and a genuinely good discussion about whether asking someone to prove eligibility counts as the minimum information necessary or an undue burden. From there it is a long look at California's Supreme Court siding against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in his ballot seizure...

JB White kicks off football Friday with a GART 14 announcement, the next Badlands Media event landing in St Pete Beach in November, before wading into a heated internal debate playing out among Badlands content creators over voting and the midterms. He walks through posts from fellow hosts, pushes back hard on the idea that sitting out elections helps anyone, and lays out his own framework for cut...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit this 2008 Shia LaBeouf thriller, and both agree the movie itself is far from great even as its central concept lands eerily well from 2026. Expect a genuine appreciation for the film's prediction of an all powerful centralized AI system that manipulates the world through digitized objects, some pointed complaints about the shaky cam action filmmaking era it ca...

The pageantry continues into the evening as Trump hosts President Xi and Madame Peng for a formal state dinner, complete with history lessons, a genuine gift exchange, and an unscheduled detour to show off the new White House ballroom construction, described by Trump as something 150 years of presidents have wanted built. His toast traces two centuries of U.S. China relations, from the first Chine...