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Jordan and Nate spend most of this episode diving into RFK Jr.'s recent podcast dive into psychedelics, from his RNC speech on corporate regulatory capture to clips on ibogaine's ability to resolve opioid withdrawal and psilocybin's potential as fast acting depression treatment. Along the way they swap their own microdosing experiences and get refreshingly honest about which ceremonies actually wo...

Jon Herold marks the anniversary by walking through newly declassified 9/11 era presidential daily briefings, noting intelligence hints of hijacking related surveillance before the attacks and drawing loose parallels to pre October 7 Israeli intelligence failures without claiming certainty either way. He spends the bulk of the show unpacking a heated Twitter exchange over Trump's proposed $5,000 d...

Ashe in America and Ghost tackle Season 5, Episode 6 of The Chosen, "Reunions," and while they admit a few scenes feel like filler, there is still plenty to dig into. The hosts spend real time on the confrontation between Atticus and Kafni, unpacking a fascinating clash between Greek philosophy and rabbinic law, and a broader conversation about revenge as a driving force in both ancient and modern...

On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, DHS gathers at its St. Elizabeth's headquarters to dedicate Resilience Plaza, a new space built around genuine artifacts of that day, twisted World Trade Center steel, the iconic upright trident, and unbroken limestone recovered from the Pentagon. Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar opens with a deeply personal story of being stranded overseas that morning and lo...

Twenty five years to the hour, the nation returns to the Pentagon to remember the 184 lives lost there and the 2,977 taken across that single, unforgettable morning. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and General Dan Caine each offer deeply personal reflections on where they were that day and what it demanded of the country afterward, before President Tr...

CannCon and Chris Paul open the 25th anniversary of September 11th with personal reflections on where they were that morning, including a sobering account from Chris of how close he had been to the World Trade Center just days before. From there they turn to the fallout over President Trump's five thousand dollar tariff dividend and the meltdown it has caused, followed by an Indiana Supreme Court...

JB White marks the 25th anniversary of September 11th with a personal, emotional opening before diving into his usual mix of sports and politics. He previews the Gators facing Campbell, keeps needling LSU over their ongoing standoff with the SEC, and shares a candid health update on managing diabetes and a recent blood thinning procedure. On the politics side, he walks through a Peter Navarro thre...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on this 1998 thriller about a terror wave hitting New York and the martial law that follows, and the "predictive programming" alarm bells start ringing almost immediately. Expect a deep dive into how this movie preemptively defended Islam and demonized the military years before 9/11 gave that framing real cultural weight, plus a genuinely sharp breakdown of what...

Night two of the first ever midterm convention opens with a genuinely emotional VP Vance, marking one year since losing his friend Charlie Kirk while introducing his newborn son to the crowd and delivering a fiery defense of the nuclear family, complete with a live protester interruption he handles without missing a beat. From there Trump takes over, keeping things lighter after a two hour speech...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior push through a rough night, Alpha fighting off a family cold and CannCon wrangling in studio tech, before landing on the heart of the show. A viewer donation leads them into the story of a Green Beret who enlisted after losing his childhood best friend on 9 11, told through his wife's memoir of their short life together. It is one of the more emotional segments the show h...

Frankie Val and co-host Jay mark the eve of September 11 with the show's heaviest night of the year, a quarter century on. They open in the strange calm of September 10, 2001 (Michael Jordan teasing a comeback, a Westchester scandal, Frankie's mom at MSG for the Jackson 5) before the tone turns. The centerpiece is a walk through E.P. Heidner's 2008 "Collateral Damage" paper, tracing a money trail...

Trump visits the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington to sign the Herschel Woody Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act, and the whole event carries a rare, genuinely reverent tone. Fifteen living Medal of Honor recipients are in the room as Trump reflects on the almost unbelievable bravery behind their stories, including the late Woody Williams' harrowing flamethrower duty...

CannCon and Ashe in America press into Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the story gets darker fast. This week covers the actual coup that brought the Bolshevik minority to power in Russia, the New York financiers hiding behind Red Cross credentials, and the gap between the official humanitarian story and what really happen...

Jon Herold spends a big chunk of Thursday's show wrestling honestly with Trump's viral midterm convention promise of a $5,000 dividend to every adult if Republicans keep the House, playing multiple clips of the speech and JD Vance's follow up defense, then pulls up an old Charlie Kirk clip calling Biden's student loan forgiveness "naked bribery" to press the question of consistency. He walks throu...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior break down the most talked about moment from last night's convention, President Trump's proposed five thousand dollar tariff dividend for every adult, with a very specific catch about where you are allowed to spend it. That sparks a genuinely spirited disagreement between the hosts about dividends versus entitlements that runs longer than either of them planned. From ther...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright work through the news of Trump floating a five thousand dollar per adult tariff dividend tied to Republicans keeping the House, and dig into the interview clips defending it against the obvious bankrupting the country criticisms. They also chase down a chapter eleven reference from a viewer that turns into a bit of a scavenger hunt through the clip archive. There's a...

Trump kicks off the first ever midterm convention in American history from Texas, and true to form, turns a 90 minute speech into a genuine tour through everything: record breaking foreign investment, a proposed $5,000 "Trump dividend" for every adult if Republicans win, renamed lakes and states, and a truly memorable rant about a certain NBA trade. There's the expected roll call of endorsements,...

Shipwreck opens with real life updates: a birthday, a new booster club role, and big Halloween plans for her town, before pivoting into politics. She is unimpressed with GOP midterm messaging and increasingly checked out on voting altogether, then digs into the Lindsay Clancy trial and online theories suggesting the case was engineered to drive a wedge between men and women right as trad values we...

It's just Kwast and Chris Ponder this week for a genuine 50,000 foot view, zooming out from the technical framework to tackle the "why" behind the whole Space Revolution project. Kwast traces 250 years of American history, natural law, constitutional first principles, and the slow creep of power away from families and communities toward central governments, then connects it all to today's informat...

Jon Herold covers a fresh batch of declassified handwritten FBI notes revealing discrepancies between what agents actually wrote during Michael Flynn's 2017 interview and the official report used to prosecute him, plus a John Solomon and Steve Bannon clip teasing another major document release timed to this week's GOP midterm convention. He spends a good chunk of the show digging into a striking s...

CannCon and Ashe dig into a busy morning of coordinated midterm narrative seeding, starting with an Axios scoop on the Republican convention speaker lineup and the anxiety around who is showing up and who is quietly staying home. From there they cover a Hill piece on Trump leaning into trolling his critics, followed by the growing conservative split over a proposal to pay stay at home parents, a d...

JB White is back in the saddle, tech hiccups and all, with a show that swings from college football politics to grand geopolitical theory. He breaks down the LSU versus SEC standoff over roster rules and institutional control, weighs in on a chaotic opening weekend of games, and shares family travel stories from a Miami road trip. From there he plays a lengthy excerpt from historian Walter Russell...

Josh Reid takes the lead solo for the opening stretch this week, walking through why he believes the Ukraine Russia war and the Iran conflict could both wind down before the midterms and what that would mean for Republicans at the polls. He breaks down a fresh executive order reauthorization tied to election security, new declassified information teased for the following day, and a striking clip o...

CannCon and Ashe in America open on a somber note, asking for prayers for Professor David Clements after a serious heart attack, before wading into the competing election narratives of the week. The main event is David Becker, whose Center for Election Innovation and Research just caught a DHS referral, and whose group hosted a call Ashe tried to record only to end up with 49 minutes of deliberate...

Twenty five years later, Trump stands on the Ellipse with a piece of World Trade Center steel behind him, and delivers what is easily one of the more personal, reflective speeches of his presidency. He recounts being there himself in the days after, being pulled to safety by firefighters as a nearby building creaked, and shares Howard Lutnick's gutting story of surviving 9/11 for one specific reas...