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Jonathan Drake takes listeners on a wild nine phase journey tracing how 1840s usury laws quietly evolved into the modern financial surveillance apparatus, arguing we are already living in something eerily close to a social credit system, just built slower and dressed up as consumer protection. From the Russell Sage Foundation's suspiciously self interested crusade against loan sharks, to the Federal Reserve, income tax, Social Security, and the Patriot Act, Jon connects a two century dot to dot showing how each reform designed to help the working man actually deepened centralized control. Along the way expect a sharp read of Spooner's no treason essay on consent and inherited obligation, a Lord of the Rings tease for next week's episode, and some genuinely funny AI generated beard shaving chaos courtesy of Green Star. Heavy material, but delivered with Jon's usual mix of conviction and dry humor.  

A rare crossover: Jon Herold, Chris Paul, and Burning Bright are all together live at Gart for this one, and the energy shows. They kick off with Trump's latest true social posts about a potential third term before getting into a genuinely strange story about AI supposedly nudging the country toward conflict with China, and the very convenient timing of the outlet that broke it getting banned from the White House the same day. The hosts pick apart just how many layers of fakeness might be stacked on top of each other here, joking about "fake intelligence" reporting on itself. Being together in person adds some extra banter and inside jokes to the usual mix, plus a personal clip revisit near the end. It's a lighter, more freewheeling episode than the usual remote setup, but the news still gets covered.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit this Terry Gilliam adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo classic, and it turns out this one is a genuine dividing line between the two hosts. Expect an honest reckoning with a movie that's aged into something stranger and more uncomfortable than either remembered, plus real talk about psychedelics, why fear is often what actually sends a trip sideways, and a thoughtful detour into whether humans are naturally ordered or chaotic beings. The conversation gets surprisingly reflective on drug culture, personal experience, and where the line sits between genuine insight and just disordering your own mind for the sake of it. There's also some practical Vegas trip chatter woven in given the timing. Stick around for the wrap up and next week's pick, a Shia LaBeouf surveillance state thriller that feels more relevant now than when it came out.  

Frankie Val leans into the damp, mosquito bitten edge of the season with a full cryptid and haunted places special. Before the guest, he wades through the week's grimmer headlines and his running theory that the Internet now incubates characters and legends that start manifesting in real life, from the postpartum murder mom to that Cat in the Hat figure the show keeps tracking. Then the main event: New England Legends host and Ghost Adventures contributor Jeff Belanger, author of "The World's Most Haunted Places." They tour spots from Pennhurst State School to the RMS Queen Mary, the Paris catacombs, and a supposedly haunted Mount Fuji, and dig into why New England works as America's creepy attic. The Dover Demon, complete with pale skin and glowing orange eyes, opens the door. Expect talk of ghost towns, theories on what ghosts actually are, and audience submitted local lore no outsider would know. Raffle night as always.

Trump welcomes hunters, fishers, and outdoorsmen to the newly renovated Rose Garden to sign two executive orders that sound almost too niche to matter, until you hear the numbers. One opens up millions more acres of federal land for hunting and fishing on top of 92 million acres already unlocked, while protecting traditional lead ammunition. The other tosses out a widely mocked 10 mile per hour boating speed limit and kills a push to mandate electric only boats, complete with a genuinely wild tangent about electrocution versus sharks. Bass Pro Shops' Johnny Morris, NRA's Doug Hamlin, NASCAR legend Richard Childress, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum all get their moment, alongside talk of restored statues, duck hunters, red snapper season, and a possible Great American Outdoors Act 2.0 on the horizon. Lighthearted, a little chaotic, and clearly a favorite crowd for Trump to work.  

CannCon and Ashe in America finish out Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, picking up with what the book calls the Transfusion Mechanism. This week covers how American taxpayers ended up quietly subsidizing Soviet Russia and its satellites long after Lend Lease officially ended, through below market trade deals, guaranteed loans, and bailouts routed through agencies like the IMF and World Bank. The hosts trace how that same pattern continued into the 1990s, with a long list of major American corporations and their CFR connected executives rushing into former Soviet territory once Yeltsin opened the door. Expect a frustrating but eye opening look at how consistent this playbook has been across decades, plus a quick preview of Chapter 15 coming next week.  

Trump lands in North Carolina to make one very clear pitch: pretend I'm on the ballot, because Michael Whatley basically is. The rally leans hard into crime, walking through the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Irina Zaretska and Governor Roy Cooper's early release of 3,500 inmates, before comparing it to the infamous Willie Horton ad that sank Dukakis decades ago. From there it's a full sweep of economic bragging rights, record stock market highs, a proposed $5,000 "Trump dividend," no tax on tips and Social Security, plus a candid Iran update covering their sunken navy and a Strait of Hormuz blockade. Congressional candidates Laurie Buck and Jennifer Balcomb get their moment too, alongside plenty of Hurricane Helene recovery talk and some classic crowd banter, including a "front row Joes" shoutout. Heavy on crime and border messaging, with the signature mix of policy wins and unscripted riffing throughout.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright pre record from the road this week and dive straight into a wild theory: that the AI safety story dominating headlines right now is timed suspiciously close to the midterms and might be less about safety and more about election interference. They play a clip of Todd Blanche calling the AI panic a hoax and posts from Trump comparing it to treason. Burning Bright lays out a longer running theory about Elon Musk functioning as a character or weapon in a broader disclosure operation, tracing it back to a 2022 Kash Patel clip about DOD contracts that first got him thinking differently about Musk's companies. There's talk of open source Chinese AI models undercutting the big players, a supposed real AI race happening outside public view, and plenty of Nikola Tesla adjacent theorizing along the way. Dense, speculative, and unmistakably devolution flavored.

Kwast and Chris Ponder mark Constitution Day with a deep dive into America's founding document, tracing its full timeline and showing how it stacks up against basically every other legal document in human history, including, in a genuinely fun aside, Claude's own 82 page constitution compared to America's tidy four pages. Chris breaks down his method for structuring any document, the Constitution, the Bible, the Magna Carta, into articles, clauses, sentences, and words, treating language itself like a natural law system that can be anchored and protected from distortion. The conversation moves through eight categories of inquiry designed to help people think critically, touches on privacy as an unresolved third rail issue, and closes with a genuinely moving reflection on duty, freedom, and what it means to be American. Constitutional nerds and truth seekers alike will find plenty here.

CannCon and Ashe record a special late night edition ahead of travel to Nevada, opening with the Supreme Court's mail in ballot decision and the blistering Alito and Thomas dissent that raises real questions about who actually gets to set election rules. Ashe is still fired up from a Why We Vote episode recorded moments earlier. The bulk of the show works through a series of Kash Patel clips from his Senate appearance, where he pushes back hard on senators feeding media narratives, defends his record on weaponization, and fields a line of questioning about FBI hiring standards that leaves both hosts genuinely speechless. They also revisit lingering questions about the Thomas Crooks rooftop and what the Bureau still has not explained. Expect candid opinions and a looser late night feel throughout.  

Josh Reid flies solo again this week and does not waste any time, diving straight into what he calls a coordinated AI doom narrative playing out across media, tech, and celebrity circles all at once. He walks through a supposed AI hack that may not be what it seemed, explains the concept of regulatory capture and why it matters for the future of open source AI, and connects a handful of recent headlines to a British NGO angle that most people have not been tracking. Expect plenty of pattern recognition, some pointed commentary on who benefits from slowing down American AI development, and a few solo host quirks since the usual co host setup is not quite in place. As always there is community banter, sponsor shoutouts, and Josh doing his best to hold down the fort on his own.  

No in-studio guest tonight, just CannCon and Ashe in America playing prosecutor as they roll the tape on David Becker's members-only town hall, the one Ashe tried to record and got 49 minutes of silence for her trouble, now recovered from the group's own YouTube. They pick apart his victory-lap framing that the DOJ is a perfect zero for 23 in voter-data cases, his turnout sleight of hand, and a candid admission that even the government's own analysis shows non-citizen voting almost never happens. Along the way they hit the ERIC-to-CEIR data handoff, the identity-theft "holy trinity," and why NGOs and China get the rolls but the administration cannot. Then it's part two: the Supreme Court's mail-in ballot order and a close read of Justice Alito's dissent, including a wrinkle that surprised even them. Plus a 9/11 Pentagon debate, meatball sliders, and guard week chaos.

Shipwreck is fully checked out on voting this year, and she lays out exactly why, from gas prices to the same recycled promises no matter who wins. She digs into the online energy vampire theory, reacts to the Sydney Sweeney sports betting ad backlash and the double standard she sees in who gets outraged about what, and works through a wild Matrix inspired take on why everyone suddenly needs more data centers. There is a genuinely fascinating detour into a theory that we are living in Satan's little season rather than waiting on end times, plus billionaire bunker skepticism and her ongoing belief that some people simply do not have souls. She closes out on burnout culture, the rise of AI influencers flooding every platform, and her frustration with shrinking reach on X. Chaotic, funny, and unmistakably her.  

Jon Herold digs into the Supreme Court's decision leaving a lower court block on the USPS mail ballot integrity rule in place for the midterms, reading through Alito's sharp dissent and Kavanaugh's concurrence to argue election officials and courts, not Trump, caused the timing crunch that killed it. He builds a theory connecting the AI industry's sudden safety slowdown push to the midterms, digging up years of anti Trump statements and donations from Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei to question the motives behind the timing. There's also a detailed update on the Joe DiGenova resignation saga, including new court filings suggesting friction with Todd Blanche's DOJ leadership over a John Brennan grand jury subpoena, plus a Trump Truth Social post reacting to the SCOTUS ruling. Sponsor reads, Vegas conference logistics, and a lively chat session round out a dense, pre Gart travel Tuesday show.  

CannCon and Zak Paine christen the new Tuesday slot with the Supreme Court finally ending the Schrodinger executive order saga, declining to revive the President's mail in ballot requirements with ballots already going out. From there they cover John Brennan getting subpoenaed to testify in a federal conspiracy case, complete with a six year Q delta that lands the same morning, plus James Comer demanding the release of immigration evidence tied to a sitting congresswoman. Jim Jordan stepping back from the Judiciary Committee prompts an honest conversation about accountability that has not materialized. They close with a genuinely chilling Texas case where a police officer used the Flock camera database to track a woman 78 times, and the one admission buried in the reporting that CannCon says everyone should notice. Scheduling updates for Gart week are included up front.

Ashe in America brings back Deborah Flora, joined this time by her husband Jonathan Flora, to talk about their newly released 9/11 remembrance film. Deborah serves as executive producer, and Jonathan wrote and directed the project, which Ashe caught at a private screening the night before recording. Rather than retreading conspiracy angles, the film focuses on something Ashe felt strongly about, the humanity, unity, and heroism that emerged in the aftermath of that day, capturing what she calls the "spirit of 9/12." Expect stories about the making of the film, the sheer scale of the interviews and footage behind it, hopes of eventually bringing it into classrooms, and reflections on why remembering the day matters just as much as remembering the tragedy itself. Ashe also shares a personal, emotional memory of her own tied to that morning. A moving, reflective episode ahead of the anniversary.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with breaking news out of the Supreme Court, breaking down a ruling that blocks new USPS mail ballot rules from taking effect before the 2026 midterms, and what that means for election integrity heading into the fall. The back half of the show shifts into much darker territory as the guys examine an anonymous online post alleging decades of abuse inside a prominent Hollywood family, loosely tied to real headlines involving a troubled adult child of a famous director. Jon and Zak handle the material carefully, weighing how much of it could be genuine versus internet speculation running wild, while noting how disturbingly specific some of the claims are. It's a heavier stretch than usual, balanced out by the usual sponsor reads, event announcements for the upcoming Vegas tour, and the hosts' typical rapport.

Ghost jumps on for a surprise live show and finds a lot to unpack. He opens with Trump's off the cuff comments on Irish unification during his Ireland trip, which somehow snowballs into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland signing a joint pact toward independence from the UK, something Ghost frames as a genuine win for local sovereignty rather than the doom certain corners of the internet are selling. He also digs into the Falkland Islands controversy and a wave of Israeli influencer pressure campaigns, plus a Fox Business hypocrisy moment involving Macklemore and Robert Kraft. But the real story is MBS. Houthi forces have seized Saudi coastline, hit an oil pipeline and a refinery, and reportedly pushed MBS to call Trump twice asking for military strikes. Ghost walks through the reporting and lays out why he is skeptical of the narrative that MBS is quietly turning to Israel for help.

The battle of the sexes returns for round three, and this time it's a full crossover between Y-Chromes and Alphas Make Sandwiches. Ash, Christy, and Jackie face off against Brian and Cam (poor Alpha forfeits by absence) in an AI-generated, Jeopardy-style trivia gauntlet that starts civil with sports, music, and movies, then gets gleefully lopsided once the categories turn to Glow Up, Herstory, Man Cave, and Rom Com Roulette. Expect fantasy football trash talk, a courtroom-skit ad for a suspiciously edible lotion, and a genuine debate over whether Minecraft or Tetris deserves the title of best selling game. The score stays razor close down to the final question, and the losing team's punishment may or may not involve karaoke on the Vegas strip. Grab your buzzer and pick a side, because nobody in this friend group loses gracefully.

Jon Herold kicks off Vegas conference week digging into the fallout from Joe DiGenova's resignation from the Fort Pierce grand jury investigation, reporting new CNN details about an apparent clash with Todd Blanche over a denied secure facility request, and connecting it to his broader theory that Blanche may not be the white hat everyone assumes. He spends the back half of the show unpacking Trump's fiery response to AI leaders (including Anthropic's Dario Amodei) calling for stronger regulation, drawing a detailed parallel to COVID era institutional panic and floating a theory that AI companies might be slowing public facing development while pursuing it privately or for the military. Other topics include a viral 60 Minutes segment on alleged "pardon brokers," a major NSA restructuring effort, and Trump's latest defense of the proposed $5,000 dividend. Sponsor reads, fantasy football trash talk, and plenty of live chat banter round out a newsy Monday show.  

A short and sweet one, since the crew is doubling up before the Battle of the Sexes show. Alpha is out sick, which spawns a whole riff on how men become helpless ten-year-olds the moment they catch a fever while women like CannCon's wife power through food poisoning to go work a bar shift. Alpha earns the permanent nickname "Princess" for his trouble. The bulk of this one is a rapid Week 2 pick-em run through the full slate, from Detroit at Buffalo to the Giants-Rams Monday nighter, with the guys landing on the same picks more often than not. Before that, CannCon vents a lengthy, physics-lecture-grade breakdown of the officiating that helped Green Bay blow another game, complete with his standing "Fire LaFleur" grievance dating back to January. There is also NFL touchdown-record trivia, the running gag that Jacksonville "does not exist," and optimism about Florida's turnaround ahead of the Georgia game.

CannCon kicks off the new solo Monday format, with Zak Paine moving to Tuesdays, and a heads up that he is headed to Las Vegas for art week. The show opens with CBS finally catching up to a story CannCon has been covering for months, involving a foreign national quietly using American surrogates and imported fertilized embryos on a scale nobody is tracking, and why he sees it as the strongest argument yet for ending birth tourism. From there he unpacks fresh NBC reporting on Joe DiGenova's abrupt resignation from the Mar a Lago search probe, including what was left unsaid about who was sent in from DOJ headquarters. He also covers an AI deepfake tangent, a Kevin Hassett clip pushing back hard on inflation talking points, and a Don Bacon interview that does not go the way Bacon intended.

JB White is coming off a big weekend, with the Gators handling Campbell and his beloved Jaguars taking down Cleveland, and he brings that victory lap energy into a wide ranging Monday show. He digs into a closely watched Massachusetts criminal trial and the debate swirling around one holdout juror, then pivots into a candid, unfiltered discussion about language, reclaimed words and what he sees as selective outrage in how certain terms get treated in public life. Along the way there is talk of the silent majority within the Democratic Party, some thoughts on America's global standing versus old world powers, and a preview of an artificial intelligence discussion he plans for Wednesday before heading out to a Badlands Media event in Las Vegas. He closes things out with a classic love song. It is candid, personal and typically opinionated JB.

Josh Reid flies solo this Sunday, with Alpha Warrior home sick, and turns it into his first solo Badlands show. On the itinerary: the AI fear porn cycle and why the doom mongering matters for what comes next technologically, plus a Peter Thiel clip Josh reads as secretly on the right side of the argument. From there it is Trump against the globalists, framed as an unfolding fight with the old guard, the London bankers and the leftover institutions of the British Empire, freshly relevant after Trump's Ireland trip. Josh works the rumor mill on why Joe diGenova abruptly resigned from the Florida grand jury investigating Brennan, tying it back to that August meeting with Blanche and Cash Patel and what it signals about pending indictments. He closes on the midterms, Trump's $5,000 dividend check as incentive, and why he thinks an economic boom lands around 2027. Bring your gold bug curiosity.

Solo show, take three. Burning Bright opens Episode 82 fighting a dying microphone and cheerfully choosing between two audio disasters until he can fix his setup after Vegas. This is the every-other-week format he is experimenting with: not a polished presentation but his version of a live dig, a "cognitive cascade" that stitches seemingly disconnected headlines together in real time. He warns you it may not make sense, because he genuinely does not know where it is going yet. The macro theme is American Outcast. Drawing on his background as a fiction writer, he argues that headlines are not reality but narrative deployments engineered to guide the collective mind toward a manufactured emotional catharsis. Expect a fiery detour into 9/11-anniversary "debunker" pieces, including one from a well-known outlet, and why even earnest truth-community reactions can play right into the enemy playbook. Weird, freewheeling, self-aware, and exactly the cocktail he is going for.

Jonathan Drake opens up about quitting his job before diving into Proposition 3 and the meaty Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay, where the real target becomes usury laws. His case is that capping interest rates does not protect borrowers, it locks the very people who need capital most out of the market entirely, funneling wealth into fewer hands and trapping everyone else in generational wage labor. Expect a memorable HOA bedtime analogy, a neighborhood lawnmower rental thought experiment, and a sharp distinction between legitimate risk pricing and third party price fixing. Jon also connects Spooner's 1846 argument to a modern surveillance state rabbit hole he went down with AI research, teasing a deeper history of usury laws and personal finance next week. Along the way there is grief, gratitude, some Philippians 2 reflection, and Soft Disclosure's finest courtroom themed ad yet.

The first repeat guests in the series are back. Kurt and Cristin of Pet Club 24/7 return to talk mushrooms, immune systems, and why a company with "Pet" in its name spends a lot of time talking about people too. They open with the origin story: a partner's mother, sent home from Sloan Kettering with a grim outlook, who credits a proprietary mushroom extract with turning things around and sparking the first U.S. clinical study on it. From there Kurt and Cristin explain their guiding idea, that the mushroom does not cure, mitigate, or prevent anything but instead helps the immune system work optimally, for pets and humans alike. Expect stories of aging animals well past their expected years and a pitch built around one simple mantra: every person, every pet, every single day. Take the health claims as enthusiasm rather than medical advice. Jon clearly believes in what they do, and there is a Vegas meetup and a Badlands link waiting at the end.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with midterm convention takeaways before Herold recaps some heated online fights he got into this week over the tariff dividend proposal. From there they dig into Joe DiGenova stepping away from the RICO grand conspiracy case in Florida, a development the guys clearly think deserves more attention than it's getting. There's also a stretch on the AI race and what they see as an operation forming around it, plus the usual mailbag style rundown of superchats and viewer comments covering everything from debt policy pushback to a North Dakota State football shoutout. An Aaron Rodgers clip closes things out if time allows, giving the episode a lighter final note after a fairly dense couple of hours.

The crew dives into a genuinely wild story about a green card holder who worked his way into a Customs and Border Protection job at a major crossing, only to get arrested for allegedly swapping out government hardware for compromised parts. That kicks off a broader, sometimes contentious debate about immigration enforcement, detention camps, and a recent court decision limiting how long ICE can hold detainees without a warrant. On the lighter side, there's a genuinely funny catch: a Massachusetts senate campaign ad that appears to lift its closing line almost word for word from a Scorsese movie, seemingly without anyone on the campaign noticing. The back half turns to courtroom drama with reactions to the Lindsay Clancy verdict and some pointed questions about jury composition. Sponsor breaks, tangents, and the usual banter round things out.

Recording on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, host Matt Trump opens with a haunting cover of "Mad World" and admits he dreaded this anniversary, then found he had more to say than expected. Rather than re-litigate what happened that day, he sits with the harder question: what exactly did the country lose, and why does 25 years feel like an emotional watershed. As a former New Yorker who lived on Staten Island, he gets personal, honoring the Rescue 5 firefighters from his old neighborhood. Then comes the clever pivot promised in the title. Exactly 250 years earlier, on September 11, 1776, Staten Island's Conference House hosted a doomed peace conference where Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge met Lord Howe. Trump ties the Revolution's uncertain early days to today's fight for the country. Expect reflection, history, Building 7 skepticism, and one very persistent chat troll.

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 worked for them (spoiler: not all of them). From there they pivot to healthcare fraud, breaking down Dr. Oz's staggering figures on stolen taxpayer dollars and a memorable rant about the "legal fraud" hiding in plain sight, like the true cost of a hospital saline bag. The back half is a genuinely funny, wide ranging conversation about tobacco and nicotine culture, Big Pharma's quiet takeover of the pouch market, and why moderation and self awareness might matter more than any strict health routine. They close with practical talk on journaling, intuitive eating, and training by feel.

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 dividend, playing an old Charlie Kirk clip blasting similar COVID era stimulus checks as "naked bribery" and methodically breaking down why he thinks the math behind the dividend claim does not add up. Jon also covers Joe DiGenova's surprise resignation from the Fort Pierce grand jury investigation and what conflicting statements from DiGenova and John Solomon might mean, framing much of the show around pushing back on blind "trust the plan" cheerleading in the truth community. Sponsor reads and a lively chat session round out a long, opinionated Friday show.

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 history. They also cover a quiet, powerful scene between Nicodemus and Yusef that both hosts call one of the best in the episode. On the political side, a mysterious Roman offer is made to Kafni that sounds a lot like a deal with the devil, and a familiar face from earlier in the season finally gets a name that longtime fans will recognize. The hosts close with some fun tangents, a touching listener testimony, and a look ahead at what is left before Season 5 wraps and Season 6 arrives in November. A meaty episode with a lot to chew on.

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 losing a close friend aboard one of the hijacked flights, before Secretary Mullen delivers a raw, emotional address on the department's mission, the terrorists arrested under the current administration, and a pointed message about sanctuary cities and national unity. Under Secretary Kavanaugh closes out the ceremony explaining the symbolism behind each artifact, followed by prayers, a moment of silence, and a formal dedication. This one is reflective and mission focused, less political theater and more a genuine look at how the department born from tragedy sees its purpose 25 years later.

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 Trump closes with individual stories of passengers, first responders, and families who turned unimaginable grief into decades of service and resilience. Expect a somber, reflective tone throughout, chaplains' prayers, a recounting of Flight 93's final moments, and the raising of the original flag hung at the Pentagon in the attack's immediate aftermath. This one leans fully into remembrance rather than politics, honoring both the fallen and the first responders who ran toward danger, with a clear thread tying that day's sacrifice to the vigilance still required today.

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 decision settling a razor thin primary decided by a handful of ballots and a question about clerk signatures nobody seems able to answer consistently. They also unpack a ProPublica piece on Postal Service ballot handling that CannCon calls pure narrative deployment, the Missouri map heading to the general with different districts than the primary, and a Fourth Circuit ruling on mandatory detention with a judge comparison the hosts find genuinely absurd. They close with two clips to send you into the weekend.

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 thread alleging Fox News quietly muzzles pro Trump coverage, replays a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speech on leaving the Democratic Party, and keeps building his case for why America's real strength rests on the alliance with Japan rather than any so called alliance with Russia and China. There is also an update on next week's Badlands Media event in Las Vegas and a few sponsor reads along the way. It is reflective, opinionated and unmistakably JB heading into a busy stretch.

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 one host calls the Patriot Pendulum, the idea that controlled opposition gets fed right back into the next paradigm. There's a wide ranging conversation about cultural programming, the Bush to Obama pipeline, and a funny closing bit about a recent Atlantic headline that accidentally proves their point. Stick around for chat shoutouts, sub gifts, and next week's pick, a Terry Gilliam classic with a scene this community has plenty of theories about.

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 the night before, mixing economic victory laps and a repeated pitch for a $5,000 "Trump dividend" with some classic crowd banter about packed arenas and empty seats. The night closes out with a genuinely unexpected turn: opera. Trump brings out tenor Christopher Macchio for a full musical finale, reminiscing about his friendship with Pavarotti along the way. Equal parts political rally, tribute, and variety show, this one runs the emotional gamut in under two hours.

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 has done. From there they shift into lighter territory, swapping cop stories, boot camp memories, and reacting to a Gateway Pundit piece on a prosecutor's parting shot at administration officials over evidence standards. Alpha also drops a candid, almost eulogy style reflection on his own close calls that has CannCon telling him to clip it. It is tribute, banter, and a little bit of gallows humor, all wrapped into one SITREP.

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 from Operation Paperclip and the Nazi Black Eagle Trust to looted Pacific gold and the covert finance angle of that day. Frankie stresses it is all sourced and linked on the blog, and treats it as a summary rather than gospel. The back half pivots to a suspiciously astroturfed AI whistleblower warning the world will end by decade's end, which Frankie and Jay read through the familiar problem, reaction, solution lens, comparing it to the Patriot Act sitting ready in 2001. Callers, reflection, and raffle round it out.

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 on Iwo Jima, before signing legislation that clears the way for a brand new monument near the National Mall. There's a lighthearted detour into economic numbers, tariffs, and a jab or two at political rivals, but the heart of this one is the tribute itself, honoring the museum's founders, the Williams family, and the handful of living legends seated in the crowd. Trump also picks up an honorary title of his own before wrapping things up. Less rally, more remembrance, with genuine warmth running through it.

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 happened. The hosts unpack the two separate revolutions of 1917, why Lenin and Trotsky were not even in Russia when the first one occurred, and how a well funded minority faction ended up controlling an entire nation almost overnight. They also open the door into a side trip through World War II and the financing of both sides of that conflict, though the chapter is not finished this week. Expect uncomfortable parallels to modern events and plenty of genuine disbelief from the hosts.

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 through the math on where the money would actually come from, argues it functions as future taxation either way, and challenges his audience not to become hypocrites just because it is their own team making the promise. Later he plays a wide ranging Aaron Rodgers interview clip covering political disillusionment and COVID era grievances that Jon finds surprisingly aligned with his own worldview. Other stories include DOJ letters warning states not to destroy 2024 election records, a Supreme Court order blocking Missouri's new congressional map, and fresh Florida grand jury subpoenas tied to the Russia collusion investigation. Sponsor reads and a lively chat session round out a dense Thursday show.

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 there it is a Daily Caller report on Mitch McConnell's wife holding appointments from CCP linked organizations while serving in the Cabinet, followed by geopolitics on a Trump and Putin call about ending the Ukraine war, new construction at Iran's Pickaxe Mountain site, and a David Petraeus clip that both Marines find deeply distasteful. They close with the Missouri congressional map fight heading to the Supreme Court. Expect real friction and plenty of ribbing.

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 mix of lighter material too, including a photo ID mix up joke involving two cabinet officials and an Elon Musk clip revisited for context, before things circle back to bigger picture debt and deficit numbers and what thirty years of compounding debt actually looks like on paper. As always, the hosts bounce between playing clips, cracking jokes, and genuinely trying to work out whether the economic case being made actually holds up.

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, Ken Paxton, Michael Whatley, and some pointed, colorful jabs at their opponents, plus a serious, sobering stretch honoring Charlie Kirk on the anniversary of his death and remembering victims of violent crime. Between the applause lines on drug pricing, tariffs, and Iran's dwindling nuclear ambitions, there's classic Trump riffing on everything from Babe Ruth trades to correspondents dinner reporters. It's part rally, part roast, part policy rundown, with a closing call to action that sounds less like campaign season and more like a battle cry.

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 were trending again. There is a useful segment on AI generated influencers and how easily fake content can slip past you, plus a thoughtful look at what constant connectivity is doing to relationships. She also touches on a concerning AI legislation gap, shares a story about a bad former boss, and reacts to a troubling local news story out of Iowa involving a teacher and a minor. It closes on faith, free will, and why she is leaning out of politics.

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 information landscape. The core argument: the internet was built to be open, which means it can never truly be made private or secure, so an entirely new kind of information system is needed, one grounded in truth rather than encryption. Expect a sweeping historical case, an ocean navigation analogy for why space matters so much, and a closing call about speed, strategy, and staying on the right side of history. Big ideas, bigger stakes, and a reminder that timing might matter more than we think.

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 story where several Anthropic AI researchers publicly warned that out of control AI could pose an extinction level risk within the decade, contrasting it with old Elon Musk interview clips swinging between casual fatalism about AI risk and optimism about AI solving human longevity. Other topics include record high diesel prices, a Missouri congressional map ruling, a $6 billion Treasury debt buyback operation, and some fun commentary on Apple's new foldable iPhone. Sponsor reads and a lively chat session round out a dense hump day show.

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 debate that gets into questions of populism, government intervention, and who actually decides how families raise their kids. CannCon also gets to prove he was right about daycare pricing after yesterday's solo show. The back half tackles a CNN article on presidential war powers that the hosts find hilariously self unaware. Prayers are also sent out for a friend of the show recovering from a heart attack.