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Ashe in America and CannCon continue The Creature From Jekyll Island with Chapter 19, Greenbacks and Other Crimes. G. Edward Griffin argues the Civil War was driven by economic and political interests more than the question of slavery, and walks through how both the Union and the Confederacy paid for the war with fiat money. The crew covers Lincoln's greenbacks and why the bankers hated them, Conf...

The Department of Justice and FBI Director Kash Patel announce a newly unsealed RICO indictment against Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas, along with relatives and associates accused of cashing in on legislation, access and influence. The First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia lays out the charges: an alleged criminal enterprise operating in plain sight, narcotics and...

Jon Herold breaks down the federal racketeering and money laundering case against Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas, 82, charged along with her daughters over a cannabis business. Jon reads the indictment, from a police chief warning her to stop selling marijuana to claims she used her office to push legislation that benefited the family enterprise, and asks why the case predates the Trump ad...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior team up for the Thursday Badlands Daily, after a rocky start with Alpha's audio cutting out. First up is the Treasury memo on the Biden investigation and the Blue Star Strategies Ukraine story, then the Social Security Administration database and how it is being used to check voter rolls. From there the hosts cover Liz Harris and the Maricopa canvass, Judge Carter and the...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright dig into industrial complex, decode industrial and Ukraine war. First up, the talk turns to red line, with State Department, Canada and Donald Trump in the mix. Then the crew gets into longer trusts, with Democrats, Donald Trump and Atlantic in the mix. From there, it's on to mouth open, with Polymarket and Data Republican in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to...

Shipwreck opens the night with a Halloween baking update, the struggle of royal icing, half-finished witch hat cookies, and a Sam's Club membership tip. Then it's into the week's online drama: a researcher's unaired Sean Ryan Show interview, Sean Ryan's explanation of why he shelved it, and why Shipwreck still values sources who show their work even when she doesn't agree with them. Next up is a p...

Steve Kwast, joined by co-hosts Mindy and Ashe in America, opens a new series on Space Revolution about the most important preparation for the future: understanding human nature, human purpose and our interior life before new technology reshapes the world. Mindy frames the big questions. How do we build a society grounded in love, service, relationships and meaningful effort? How do we use technol...

President Trump heads to Pendleton, South Carolina, to rally for Darlene Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, 13 days out from the election. Trump praises Lindsey and his respect for Darlene, then goes after her opponent Annie Andrews on transgender policy, guns, the Supreme Court and policing. He urges the crowd to vote early, shouts out Evander Holyfield in the crowd, and stops mor...

President Trump hosts a White House roundtable on the federal push against scam centers, cybercrime and the fraud rings that target American families, especially senior citizens. The President opens by laying out how foreign scam networks have drained savings from Americans for years, and says his administration is closer than anyone has ever been to shutting them down. Sean Cairncross, Todd, Mark...

Jon Herold breaks down part two of the Democracy Files on The Daily Herold for 10/21/26. The hour centers on a group of about 200 former USAID officials and their United Democracy Alliance. They talk openly about a moment when the federal government is declared illegitimate, a set of red lines they are refining into indicators and metrics, and a plan for authority to fall to friendly governors whe...

CannCon and Ashe in America open the Wednesday Badlands Daily, StreamYard gremlins and all. First up is the back-and-forth with Newsom's office and why the crew is bullish on the 2026 midterms, starting with lifelong Jewish Democrats in Michigan who are rethinking their votes. Then they cover Republicans distancing themselves from Trump, the push to expand Trump accounts to adults, and a fresh rou...

JB White is back with the RattlerGator Report for 10/21/26. JB tells the audience that Trump's endorsement of Netanyahu is a chess move, not a collapse of the strategy, and asks whether Russia is really open to the deal. He takes on the Russian Orthodox Church's Third Rome claim, the DC, Vatican City and City of London power centers, and the latest Data Republican exposures. Then he defends the El...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down a packed Tuesday night of news on DEFCON ZERQ. The show opens on Lindsey Graham's Ukraine bill and claims that cartel money is tied to the war. Then the crew digs into the multibillion dollar fraud stories and what Trump's new bounties and rewards could shake loose. From there, the focus turns to the midterms: paper ballots, the No Kings protests and whether...

Badlands Media special coverage of President Trump's rally at Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville, North Carolina on October 20, 2026. After a walk-on video and music, Trump thanks the crowd in a state he says he won all three times and makes his case for Michael Whatley for U.S. Senate against former Governor Roy Cooper. He hammers Cooper over the release of inmates during COVID, a deadly train...

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program from the Oval Office, joined by citizen journalist Nick Shirley and members of the White House fraud task force. Trump credits Nick's reporting on the Minnesota daycare fraud and the infamous "Learing Center," then lays out the plan: anyone who reports fraud at fraud.gov gets a 1% commission on whatever...

Jon Herold admits up front that it's a slow news day, so he hands the wheel to the chat and still finds plenty to chew on. He starts with Chris Paul's new Illusion series, reading from "The Web of Infinite Wrongness" on the two-party illusion and the uniparty, and argues the movement keeps cheering for one side of a uniparty it says it doesn't believe in. When chat insists you need a solution befo...

CannCon and Zak Paine dig into blood clots, child sexual and Republican primary. First up, the conversation moves to blood clots, with Jalen Hurts, Eagles and Ilhan Omar in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Somali fraud, with Rhode Island, Department of Education and Pell Grants in the mix. From there, the talk turns to child sexual, with Rhode Island in the mix. Later, the crew gets into China un...

This time Jon Herold and Zak Paine dig into secret space, slot machine and black goo. First up, the talk turns to Lieutenant Dan, Francis Scott Key Bridge and World Behind. Then the crew gets into COVID, Snake Eyes and France. From there, it's on to Simpsons, Lone Gunman and Cyrus. Later, the conversation moves to slot machine, with Hades, Donald Trump and Ned Campbell in the mix. After that, the...

Matthew Ehret takes on the Big Bang. He argues that the standard picture of a closed universe exploding out of a single point rests on one reading of redshift, and that it carries a bleak view of nature, economics and the human mind. Working through a slide deck, Matt explains the Doppler effect and how redshift became the yardstick for cosmic distance, looks at the projected collision of the Milk...

President Trump rallies in Park City, Kansas for Senator Roger Marshall, 15 days out from the midterms. The night opens with Senator Marshall taking on Democrat Adam Hamilton, followed by Ted Nugent firing up the crowd. Trump then walks on to God Bless the USA and makes the case for Marshall and Ty Masterson for governor, warns about Europe's migration crisis, and swipes at paid protesters and the...

Ashe in America sits down with Badlands' own Jonathan Drake for an episode called What Are You Building? They dig into the Supreme Court taking up the federal ban on home distilleries, Justice Gorsuch and the administrative state, and why regulation keeps getting in the way of small business. Drake talks about leaving the steady paycheck to build his own custom woodworking business, from Gandalf p...

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada open Monday's Alphas Make Sandwiches with Christy's idiom segment on "for the birds." She traces the phrase to World War II slang, a 1943 Stars and Stripes example and the theory about birds picking grain out of droppings, and a side trip into the movie Rio leads to Anne Hathaway's busy film year. Jackie then walks through three iPhone tips: setting...

CannCon is joined by Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior for Y-Chromes Ep. 96. CannCon opens with a big weekend as a Florida fan: the Panthers' back-to-back natural hat tricks, Brady Tkachuk's first goals in a Florida uniform, the Gators' win in Texas, the Packers' Sunday night win over Dallas and the Hurricanes moving to number one. The guys then dig into the officiating, from the taunting and roughing...

CannCon hosts a solo Monday edition of Badlands Daily, opening with a football recap before turning to the news. He covers the fatal Alamodome rappelling accident and the deadly fire at a Canadian military base in Alberta, then the Burisma and Blue Star proposal to train Ukrainian prosecutors through the McCain Institute. The main block looks at the midterms: the LA Times report on ICE raids and t...

JB White opens a victory Monday with Florida's second straight win over Texas, breaking down his young quarterback's 4th and 12 strike in his first start, along with Tennessee over Alabama, Auburn over Georgia and the controversial finish to FSU and Miami. Then he turns to President Trump's letter endorsing Bibi Netanyahu for reelection and Netanyahu's video thank-you. JB argues the real pressure...