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JB White flies solo on this RattlerGator Report, and it's a "beautiful, beautiful" kind of Football Friday. He previews the Gators at Texas and the Jaguars against the Texans, then pulls up footage of the new Tesla Roadster flipping upside down, firing air thrusters and landing on its wheels. Elon Musk says flying cars are real, and JB walks through the Peter Thiel line that started it all. From t...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week on Badlands Daily with a packed Friday show. They open with a chat about AI music and what new creative tools mean for artists, then dig into fresh reporting on impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch, Burisma and Hunter Biden, and what it says about the case that launched the first impeachment. The guys argue the lesson is simple: the witnesses were never a...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi's 2011 adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story, with Matt Damon as senatorial hopeful David Norris, Emily Blunt as Elise, and Anthony Mackie and John Slattery as the men in hats keeping him on plan. Chris points out how many real politicians and pundits play themselves in the opening campaign montage, and Burning Bright explain...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior keep it loose on a Thursday night, opening with Alpha's flat-pack table build and CannCon wrestling with his suppressor live on air after their last episode came down from YouTube over firearm talk. They get into Florida's bump stock law and the FRT trigger, the SBR gray area now that the Form 4 tax stamp is gone, and Jim Caviezel's new movie Ghost Soldier. Alpha reads a...

Frankie Val is joined by Jay Gulinello for a Thursday night in Studio A, opening with Lauren's pregnancy countdown (37 weeks tomorrow), next year's Jamboree on October 22, 2027, and a Brewers-Dodgers World Series rundown before Frank admits he has spent three days in mortal combat with ChatGPT over livestream thumbnails. That leads into Anthropic's new rules on "abusive" behavior toward Claude, an...

Matt McDonagh is back for episode three of Life in the Singularity, and this week the focus is digital twins and the leverage superintelligence hands to anyone willing to learn. Matt argues that AI has torn down the old wall of syntax mastery, so curiosity now matters more than credentials, and he explains why he thinks large language models will one day look like 8-tracks: a stepping stone, not t...

Ashe in America and CannCon settle in for Chapter 18 of The Creature from Jekyll Island, picking up right after Jackson's war on the Second Bank. The Bank is dead, but banking is very much alive, and the chapter walks through the failed fixes that followed. They cover the push to kill small banknotes and force everyday trade back onto gold and silver, then how checkbook money and demand deposits m...

The Department of Justice holds a press conference in St. Louis to announce the results of Operation Show Me Justice, an ATF-led surge against violent crime that ends today after two months. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter reports 435 arrests, including 412 on outstanding warrants, along with 80 kilos of drugs, 166 illegal firearms, six machine gun conversion devices and over $1 mill...

Jon Herold opens late after his daughter's birthday lunch, then digs into the Nidal Hasan execution plan: the firing squad is still on, but the stream was pulled after pushback, and families of the victims can still watch in person. The story that caught him most is the Justice Department's 48-hour deadline to California to segregate suspected noncitizen midterm mail ballots or face emergency reli...

CannCon and Ashe in America, swapping in for Alpha Warrior this week, dig into Ilhan Omar's citizenship story, from her ties to Feeding Our Future to her age, her father's naturalization and her amended financial disclosures, plus news that federal agents seized a member of Congress's phone. Next they revisit Jack Smith's investigation, including Grassley's finding that the special counsel gathere...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with a very Russia-heavy week, from Trump's and the Kremlin's tiger posting to Burning Bright's own summer training around Siberian tigers. Then it's on to the new White House press secretary's rough first briefing and the bar exam question. The hosts argue it's fine to be critical without stretching the plan to explain every story, and play Trump's March comment...

President Trump takes questions from the press on his way to Kalispell, Montana, then holds a rally for the state's Republican candidates. In the gaggle, he says Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and backs Mike Rogers, explains why he is campaigning in a state he won easily, sends his best wishes to Pope Leo after his cancer diagnosis, and says inflation is low...

Shipwreck opens solo with the "Great Citizen Award" that showed up in her mailbox, explains the one local race she will vote in this year, and vents about Iowa's Senate choices, the flood of political ads and mail, and why she can't bring herself to write in Chuck Grassley. From there she gets into the Noahide laws, then wonders whether the data center boom is really about AI bot farms built to st...

President Trump rallies Bullhead City, Arizona, 20 days out from the midterms, walking on to "God Bless the USA" and opening with Air Force One and life on the road. He goes after Governor Katie Hobbs again and again, from the border and the cartels to the cognitive test he says she couldn't pass, and makes the case for Andy Biggs. He touts the tax cuts, no tax on tips, falling car insurance premi...

Steve Kwast and co-host Chris Ponder pre-recorded this one while Steve was in Italy for a family wedding. Steve opens with an update on President Trump's space initiatives: micro nuclear reactors in orbit, solar collection in space, and beaming power down to Earth by laser and microwave. Then they wrap up their 16-episode series on building an information system that can triangulate truth in an ag...

Jon Herold brings CannCon on to break down the Maricopa County video that Jordan Conradson released this week. It shows a worker at the MTEC center plugging a USB drive into a certified election terminal after hours, with the port blocker removed. They go through what Shelby Robinson laid out on Why We Vote, why the county's "routine update" explanation doesn't hold up, and what Recorder Justin He...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick off Alpha Wednesday with the report that Pope Leo has been diagnosed with lung cancer, then dig into the Justice Department subpoenas in the Ilhan Omar investigation, including her sister's ties to the Minnesota fraud scandal and the net worth that went from $30 million to $100,000. Alpha draws on his law enforcement background to walk through how search warrants and...

JB White had planned a show on the death penalty, but after President Trump posted 24 videos overnight, he tore up the plan and walked through the whole storm, one video at a time. Along the way he plays "God Made Trump," Trump's post on Greenland and why America isn't walking away from NATO, the "Lion Has to Show the Jackals" clip, the warning to Maduro and the record low border crossings. He exp...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down ballistic missile, predictive analytics and Jews saxophone. First up, the crew gets into articulate minority, with Fight Club and YouTube in the mix. Then it's on to press secretary, with Pam Bondi, Zakaria and Katie in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to press secretary, with Elon Omar, Alaska and Ilhan Omar in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to...

Ashe in America and CannCon finally get Shelby Robinson of We The People USA Alliance on the show after years of citing her Maricopa County work. Shelby explains how her group came together around voting machines, from the 230-page report on their history and funding that went to Congress, to the Runbeck case and the push for a "Logan Law" so election vendors face the same transparency Cyber Ninja...

President Trump stops to take questions from the press, then heads to Wasilla, Alaska, for a rally for Senator Dan Sullivan. In the gaggle, he says Kimberly Guilfoyle won't be staying on after what he read about her, that the U.S. is still sharing intelligence with Ukraine while he works with both sides to end the war, and that the diesel deal with Russia is meant for the world market, not for us....

Jon Herold opens with Katie Zacharia's first White House press briefing, and it was a rough one. Jon plays clips from her opening statement and the questions that followed, including the moment she mixed up her president and her husband, and the awkward exchange when a reporter asked where she passed the bar exam. He compares her to Karoline Leavitt and Kayleigh McEnany, floats a theory about why...

Katie Zacharia steps up to the podium for her first briefing as the new White House Press Secretary. She opens by thanking President Trump and the American people, then walks through the midterm blitz: last night's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, the new Navy submarine component repair center coming to Cleveland, and upcoming stops in Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Georgia, Kentucky and Florida. From there...

This time CannCon and Zak Paine dig into the first White House press briefing from new press secretary Katie Zacharia. First up, it's SBRs, suppressors and the ATF's case against Jeremy Brown. Then it's on to Ilhan Omar, the Feeding Our Future scam and the Somali fraud network in Minnesota, with Keith Ellison and Tim Walz called before a grand jury, and John Nagel, the retired Minnesota State Troo...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine start with the news: the Ilhan Omar investigation and the naturalization record nobody can find, the Somali communities in Minnesota, Maine and Ohio, the Supreme Court petition in Trump's RICO lawsuit, and how a "national emergency" story can be run up the chain through Peter Ticktin. Jon also has a few words for a writer who mischaracterized his devolution research. Then...