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CannCon and Ashe in America finish Part 1 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the country-by-country bailout autopsy is relentless. Panama's canal gets handed to a dictator so his banks can collect interest. The Monetary Control Act of 1980 quietly authorizes the Federal Reserve to create money for any government on earth. Mexico defaults serially, gets currency swaps, debt swaps, and a $50 billion Clinton bailout bypassing Congress entirely. Brazil, Argentina, China, Poland, and Russia all run the same play. The Great Deception chapter argues the fall of communism was stage-managed for global convergence, not organic. And Griffin closes Part 1 with a direct challenge: this cannot be accidental. Intelligent people following a plan that fails every time are following a different plan. CannCon opens the show connecting the Iran deal to the same globalist infrastructure Griffin describes, and the whole episode lands with a viewer rant about being 38 years old with a twenty year old car, no house savings, and fifteen years of decent income. The book is doing its job.

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 4, the aftermath of Reyma's death. Quintus gets demoted, not for killing a Jew but for killing a Roman citizen in front of a crowd, because in Rome the offense was always optics. Gaius gets elevated to Praetor with a heart that has already been quietly converting for months, slapping the water every day without realizing what it was building toward. The hosts walk through how the showrunners present every character outside the Sanhedrin on a sliding moral scale and what that says about the difference between Roman morality, Jewish morality, and the new thing Jesus is introducing. Then it lands on the scene. Gaius kneeling before Jesus, confessing the illegitimate sick son he was too ashamed to bring before, and Jesus marveling that he has not found such faith in all of Israel. The hosts unpack why it is always the Gentiles in the show who push the envelope, why James and John picking that exact moment to ask for seats at the right and left hand makes Jesus look so tired, and why the Great Awakening is the slap, not the title.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with plenty to say about the people who are saying plenty. The MAGA hawk crowd that spent months cheerleading US military involvement in the Middle East is now loudly attacking Trump over the Iran deal, and Jon finds the shoe-on-the-other-foot energy deeply satisfying. JD Vance ran the White House press conference and delivered one of the most pointed defenses of Trump's Israel positioning Jon has heard from anyone in the administration. Tucker Carlson, who spent months calling Trump a slave to Netanyahu, is now posting clips calling the deal a betrayal, and Jon asks whether Tucker is running an op, just being inconsistent, or both. California's US attorney announced he expects election fraud charges while simultaneously explaining that proving outcome-determinative fraud requires charging thousands of voters, which Jon calls the real headline. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to limit the federal government's power to disarm marijuana users. The federal probe expanded to America Votes, a major NGO funding the Ohio voter mobilization network, and Jon is genuinely enthusiastic about going after the NGO money trail. Jon also casually reveals he built a fully functional AI news aggregator that posts automatically to Twitter and has some other projects coming soon.

Vice President JD Vance steps to the White House podium to deliver the first full briefing on the Iran MOU since its signing, opening with news that gas prices dropped below $4 for the first time since the conflict and 12.5 million barrels moved through the Strait overnight. Vance walks through the deal structure in detail: Iran gets nothing unless it performs, the US pays zero, and every sanction comes back on if they misbehave. He draws a sharp contrast with the Obama JCPOA, noting the deal was negotiated from a position of total military destruction rather than a position of trying to bribe a functioning nuclear program. The briefing closes with one of the sharpest lines of the week, directed at members of Netanyahu's cabinet who have been attacking Trump publicly, reminding them that two thirds of the weapons protecting Israel were built by American hands.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior dedicate most of the Thursday show to what may be the most consequential document signed during the Trump presidency. CannCon reads through every clause of the Iran memorandum of understanding live: Lebanon mentioned by name, Israel conspicuously absent as a signatory, $300 billion in reconstruction funded by the Gulf coalition and not American taxpayers, sanctions lifted, Strait of Hormuz toll-free for 60 days, and an executive monitoring mechanism that CannCon and Alpha immediately identify as the Board of Peace. Alpha walks through his preplanning theory using Russian ship movements from August 2025 to argue Trump and Putin knew this was coming long before the first strike. Iran's president Pozheshkian signing rather than the Ayatollah is analyzed as a deliberate signal about which faction of the Iranian government Trump is dealing with. Alpha maps out the neocon meltdown and explains why every Panikon prediction from January 20, 2025 forward is batting zero. The B-52 crash at Edwards gets a detailed flight data analysis: Alpha notes the aircraft was descending at ten times the normal rate and left almost no wreckage on the runway, and neither he nor CannCon can explain the physics. Trump snubs Zelensky multiple times at the G7. Moscow drone hysteria is dismissed as propaganda.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright break down the freshly signed US and Iran memorandum of understanding line by line, covering the naval blockade removal, troop withdrawals, the Strait of Hormuz reopening, the $300 billion reconstruction investment that is not a loan from American taxpayers, full sanctions termination, and the nuclear enrichment compromise that allows Iran a civilian program. Burning Bright pulls up his own June 2025 prediction that Trump would eventually allow enrichment, vindicated almost word for word a year later, and the guys walk through what that means for anyone who took Trump's no enrichment rhetoric at face value. They apply their long running inverted premise framework, asking whether Trump has actually been waging war with Israel against Iran rather than the reverse, and how that flips the entire reading of who won this deal. The DNI chaos gets its own segment: Jay Clayton's nomination abruptly canceled, Bill Pulte staying on as acting director, and the argument that Trump deliberately attached unpopular riders to tank both FISA 702 and the Save America Act. New reporting suggests the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board under Devin Nunez, not Tulsi Gabbard, may be the real source of the upcoming election declassification, possibly timed to Trump's June 24 DC rally.

Episode 59 finds Shipwreck once again accidentally enraging the bot army by pointing out that gas in Iowa is still $3.74. She breaks down the wave of suspiciously identical replies in her comment section, leans into the dead internet theory, and explains why she now views voting and political engagement as an energy harvesting ritual. She also revisits the Strait of Hormuz, asks why nobody talks about Israel's nuclear stockpile, and shares an algorithm video about a mother and daughter who started arguing about bears because their phones served them opposite content. Then a Miami mall conspiracy refresher, the unfinished alien disclosure timeline, and good news from a neighboring county that voted unanimously to ban data centers. She unpacks the nocebo effect with a former hospice nurse, shares the story of how she walked away from her own MS treatment, and refuses to get a mammogram on principle. The centerpiece is Crumble Cookie's new dirty soda, which packs 186 grams of sugar and 840 calories into a single cup. She rants about mukbang culture, body positivity backlash, and Ozempic. Plus a Karmelo Anthony case update, a Christian revival thought experiment, and the humiliation ritual of 2023.

Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Jonathan Drake back to ask the question Kepler and Maxwell never thought was strange: what are the heavens declaring? Spoiler. They are declaring the glory of God, in patterns precise enough to govern physics and beautiful enough to fold into a sunflower. Drake walks through his essay calling the ether the fingerprint of God, the toroidal Fibonacci pattern that shows up in magnetic fields, weather systems, and watersheds. The thread that pulls it all together is grounding. Source, radiation, return. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Lover, beloved, and the love between them. Why does water flow downhill, why does lightning fork, why do circuits need a ground? Because the Trinity itself grounds back to itself in perfect relationship. From there it gets wild and useful. Sin as short circuiting. Counter space and the dielectric as the missing language of physics. Tesla claiming no distance exists in the medium. Kwast's AI trained only on God's physics rather than human bullshit, and what that means for spotting lies in real time. They close with reading lists for the brave and Lord Kelvin's wager that science honestly pursued leads straight to God.

- [Live] President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Republic of India, Modi - [Replay] President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with the Arab Republic of Egypt - [Live] President Macron speaks at the end of the G7 summit in France - [Live] President Trump's G7 Press Conference President Trump opens with a warm meeting alongside Indian Prime Minister Modi before delivering the most detailed press conference yet on the Iran agreement from the G7 summit in France. He reaffirms that Iran will never produce, procure, or buy a nuclear weapon, explains the buried enriched uranium situation under Space Force surveillance, and repeats the now familiar contrast with Obama's JCPOA and its infamous cash filled Boeing aircraft. Trump details the economic fallout of the conflict, including oil prices plummeting and the stock market notching new records, then covers Ukraine peace efforts, the Ebola response in Africa, AI energy infrastructure, and a series of new G7 declarations on immigration and drug trafficking. He closes by floating the idea of sending JD Vance to the Friday signing ceremony instead of attending himself, reasoning that credit and blame can be assigned more conveniently from a distance.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a guest and a document to dig through. Tech investor Matthew McDonough joins to make the case that energy, not labor, is now the central lever controlling global power, framing the Strait of Hormuz blockade and the Iran conflict as moves in a larger energy dominance struggle against China. Jon then reads through the full leaked 14-point US-Iran memorandum of understanding line by line: the naval blockade lifts immediately, Iran gets its own frozen money back rather than new American cash, a $300 billion rehabilitation fund comes structured as financing rather than a gift, and Israel is conspicuously absent from the entire agreement. Trump's overnight Truth Social move gets its own breakdown: canceling Jay Clayton's DNI confirmation hearing in apparent retaliation after Democrats reneged on a FISA deal, which keeps Bill Pulte in place and ties FISA's fate to the Save America Act. Jon also shares word from a well-connected source that Tulsi Gabbard's promised 2020 election report is likely delayed past her departure, possibly surfacing around a rumored June 24 event. Gavin Newsom's lawyers sent Todd Blanche a letter calling the DOJ probe into him a fishing expedition.

Ashe in America and Ghost swap their usual roles for a Wednesday that starts absurd and only gets more interesting from there. California rolls out a state gay business certification program for utility contracts, and Ashe and Ghost spend a hilarious but pointed stretch walking through the certification criteria, landing on the serious underlying point that any government registry tracking sexual orientation is a tool that outlives the good intentions behind it. An FBI-foiled drone and sniper plot against Trump at the White House UFC event vanishes from the news cycle within eight hours of being reported, with two Riverside County men and a 19-year-old Ohio conspirator charged. The DOJ indicts 15 members of a Minneapolis Antifa-linked group with the unfortunate acronym DAMN, and a riot promptly breaks out at the detention center where they are held. The SPLC scandal deepens with reports that a senior staffer funneled 1.2 million dollars to her lover, an alleged undercover infiltrator in a neo-Nazi group, complete with a joint bank account. A federal judge recuses herself from a Georgia election case after the DOJ raises questions about a prior partisan event and an unrelated chambers incident. Plus, Trump invokes the Defense Production Act over Iran-related munitions shortages, and JD Vance faces off with The View over ICE detention conditions.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid catch their breath after one of the wildest weeks in years. Iran's civilian government just ended the war, the Strait of Hormuz reopened, sanctions are coming off, and Trump's approval rating in Israel went from positive twenty three to negative twenty three in seven days. Save Israel for last is happening in real time. Mark Levin is having a public meltdown, the APEC lobby is in panic mode, and the MOU to Israel was never released. The bombshell of the episode comes when the guys catch what Trump quietly admitted at the G7. He installed Jolani in Syria with Erdogan before he was even back in office. That confirms the takedown of Assad and the dismantling of the Iran to Hezbollah land bridge were Trump's moves, not Bibi's, and it completely shreds the controlled by Israel narrative. From there they unpack the Jay Clayton ODNI nomination and his SDNY history with Maduro, the Cartel de los Soles generals, Epstein, the Weiner laptop, and the Clinton Foundation. Plus the Tulsi report driving a national emergency on election integrity, the Hochul Medicaid fraud indictment, Newsom's California DOJ investigating his own wife, and the eight man B-52 crash at Edwards that has the Mossad telegram channels celebrating.

CannCon and Ashe in America take apart a Deseret News profile that positions Steven Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder behind the infamous "Drawer 3" ballot scandal, as the trusted Republican voice on why California's elections are secure. They walk through his claims about audits, fraud detection, and mail-in deadlines, pointing out that the very system he defends prioritizes ballot access over ballot accuracy. A philosophy clip on the structural impossibility of proving election fraud sparks a deeper conversation about why the design of the system, not any single data point, is the real evidence of intent. The bulk of the episode is dedicated to a detailed reaction to an interview with Nathan Taylor, cofounder of the Election Truth Alliance, where CannCon and Ashe scrutinize his heat map methodology comparing US elections to Russian vote-rigging patterns, question his claimed cybersecurity credentials, and point out that the interviewer never asked a single hard question. They close by noting that despite years of public invitations, groups like ETA still refuse to appear on the show, a pattern they argue reveals selective, partisan motives rather than genuine election truth seeking.

Episode 114 opens with a War Room clash: Rabbi Wallachie acknowledges that US and Israeli interests are diverging, but Ghost steps in to correct his claim that Hezbollah is simply the Iranian army, walking through its actual origins as a resistance movement. From there, Ghost breaks down a heated Bannon segment where Wallachie denies any Greater Israel expansion plan, a claim Ghost dismantles using Ben Gavir's own statements about expelling Lebanese civilians. At the G7 in France, Trump publicly criticizes Israel's conduct in Lebanon, suggests Syria's Jelani take over the Hezbollah fight, and reveals he was angry about the Beirut strike hours before the Iran deal was finalized. Ghost digs into the Strait of Hormuz numbers discrepancy between CENTCOM's leaked count and Bloomberg's tracker data, and explains why Trump is withholding the full 14 point memorandum until Friday. Putin and Trump's hour long birthday call gets coverage alongside Lukashenko's bombshell claim that the Vatican and Naftali Bennett deceived Putin into pulling back from Kyiv in 2022. The episode closes with Israel's political fallout: Lapid calling Netanyahu's handling an absolute failure, Smotrich and Katz refusing to be bound by the deal, and American Jewish leaders demanding the text be made public.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a hectic kid-shuttling day with a story that immediately raises questions. The FBI says it disrupted a terror plot involving explosive drones and a staged sniper attack targeting last weekend's UFC Freedom 250 event, with five suspects in custody and 23 more identified, but Jon notes none of them were arrested in Washington DC and wonders how surveillance happened just days after FISA 702 expired. Ghost joins for an extended breakdown of the Middle East endgame: Trump's strategy of simultaneously escalating and deescalating to box Israel into a corner, the bombshell that Naftali Bennett sabotaged the 2022 Russia-Ukraine peace deal while serving as mediator, and the prediction that Arab nations will drift toward Iran while Israel becomes politically isolated. JD Vance pushed back hard on claims Iran gets American money in the new deal, insisting not a single taxpayer dollar moves. Gavin Newsom announced he and his family are under DOJ investigation and called it political, though Jon suspects the real story runs through his wife's finances. The Supreme Court also rejected Carter Page's surveillance lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds, and Jon has thoughts about who that rule actually protects.

President Trump holds a joint press conference with an Iranian leader who thanks him directly for ending the six week war, then walks through the terms of the new memorandum: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, the Strait of Hormuz opens permanently and toll free, and the US pays nothing. Trump promises to release the full document and read it word for word at an upcoming press conference, contrasting it sharply with what he calls the disastrous Obama JCPOA. He addresses the buried enriched uranium stockpile, confirming space based surveillance and a plan to eventually destroy it with no rush involved. Trump also responds to Senator Lindsey Graham's skepticism by floating sending the deal to Congress, mentions a White House UFC event from the previous night, and previews a Versailles dinner invitation from the French president before closing with an update on falling oil prices and record stock market highs.

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with somber news first: a B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base claims all eight servicemen aboard, the latest in a string of unexplained military aircraft losses. From there the show pivots into a packed lineup. Trump's latest Save America Act post adds two new conditions, and CannCon and Ghost debate whether the bill's failure to pass is actually a deliberate gatekeeping move to avoid a "fortified elections, case closed" narrative that would leave the black box voting machines untouched. ICE quietly starts pulling local voter files in Texas, the FBI raids Ohio's leading voter registration nonprofit with 125 agents, and Trump appoints James McDonald, one of the two attorneys who investigated FTX's collapse, as the new US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, days after Sam Bankman-Fried's pardon request and appeal loss. Norm Eisen's States United nonprofit comes under House Oversight scrutiny for deputizing private lawyers to prosecute Trump-aligned alternate electors in Arizona and Minnesota. Gavin Newsom announces he is under DOJ investigation and casts himself as Trump's next political target, while CannCon breaks down how his wife's nonprofit funnels donor and state money into her own for-profit film company through a school licensing scheme.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 189 with a quick detour into a viral Sasquatch video (probably AI, possibly a guy in a suit) before tackling the newly released four-page ODNI report on global bioweapons labs and what it might mean for Anthony Fauci's accountability. A short segment pulled from Candace Owens covers a theory connecting the 2022 death of a man named Mark Liedy, who allegedly stole the explosive PETN from his job, his confidant Corey Comperatore (the firefighter killed at the Trump assassination attempt in Butler), and the Hezbollah pager bombing operation. Then the main event: the gifted and talented education program, known as GATE, and its possible ties to CIA mind development research. Jon walks through demographic and physical traits reported among former participants, binaural beats and Hemi-Sync training tracing back to the Monroe Institute's Gateway Program, code-breaking and Russian language worksheets given to grade schoolers, and the story of a friend who was approached by men claiming to be FBI agents decades after his own time in the program. The episode also covers Chase Brandon, who became a CIA officer at 18, spent decades undercover, and later became Hollywood's official CIA liaison.

Part two of Ashe's conversation with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast picks up where Space Revolution Ep. 22 left off, and this time they go further out. Literally. From China's 30-year plan to dominate the space economy to SpaceX's Earth-to-Earth rocket that can get you from LA to Singapore in under 20 minutes, this episode is equal parts geopolitical reality check and genuine wonder. Kwast explains why China is building battleships while America builds better buoys, what a livable space habitat actually looks like, and why Elon Musk's "future of human consciousness" comment still bothers Ashe. The answer, as always, is not a technology problem. It is a moral one.

Ghost sits down with Clay Parikh, a Marine artillery veteran who was actually there, for the most personal episode of The Book of Trump yet. Clay walked through the same BLT headquarters building that was destroyed, donated blood to Palestinian civilians after IDF cluster bombing, and was days away from being the unit relieving the marines who died when Operation Urgent Fury redirected his ship to Grenada. Ghost and Clay trace the full arc: the PLO evacuation, the IDF's 18-year occupation and the birth of Hezbollah, the crippling rules of engagement that left sentries unable to chamber a round, and the mechanics of the truck bomb itself. The gut punch comes at the end when Ghost presents the LA Times piece confirming Mossad had foreknowledge and chose not to warn the US. Raw, emotional, and deeply relevant to everything unfolding in the Middle East today.

Palantir was not born in a garage. It was commissioned by the CIA director who oversaw 9/11, brokered by the neoconservative architect of the Iraq War, and handed to Peter Thiel and Alex Karp as a private commercial replacement for the Total Information Awareness Office after Congress shut it down in 2003. In this episode, Matt Ehret walks through what Palantir actually is, who built it, who it serves, and why a company that named itself after the all-seeing eye of Sauron now manages the intelligence, policing, banking, and military systems of most of the Western world. He also examines Thiel's Straussian philosophy, his belief that freedom and democracy are incompatible, his obsession with the antichrist he claims to fear but appears to be building, and the fact that his Palantir UK CEO got the job after the interviewer stood up and recited an Oswald Mosley speech from memory. From the inside, it looks like a tech company. From the outside, it looks like something else entirely.

GART is less than two weeks out and Ashe has a dedicated laundry basket for Deadwood outfits because Brian wants her to think about the weight of her suitcase. The ladies kick things off recapping UFC at the White House, the dripping with corporate sponsorships narrative swap the left tried after the taxpayer dollars argument fell apart, fighters walking out of the Oval Office down the Hall Of Presidents and giving glory to God, and Ashe's bicentennial memories of 1976 making the case that this is what the run up to 250 should feel like. Adriana takes the floor for a forty minute college lecture on the Salem witch trials, including the wildly underappreciated detail that it started with an illness, the catch 22 of confess and walk or deny and hang, ergot fungus on rye as a likely LSD precursor poisoning, and how the whole thing reads exactly like a 1692 mass formation psychosis. Christy closes out with saved by the bell, which has both a fun safety coffin origin (Victorian anxiety did not believe in doing anything halfway) and a boring boxing origin, plus the small detail that no safety coffin ever saved anyone. Photo challenge submissions, GART golf cart plans, and a battle of the sexes event teaser for next week.

CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick off a jam-packed post-Father's Day episode with a full World Cup breakdown, including Team USA's win over Paraguay and a historic Haiti versus Scotland match that ended decades-long World Cup droughts for both nations. From there the crew dives into a stacked UFC card, with Josh Hogan's knockout of Derrick Lewis, Cyril Gane's dominant heavyweight title win over Alex Pereira, and an instant classic war between Topuria and Gaethje that the guys call some of the best fight content in years. Rattlesnake Meats sponsors a real conversation about big ag, raw milk, and why steak sauce is a crutch. The guys react to San Francisco Pride Night players quoting scripture instead of wearing rainbow gear, and Mookie Betts breaks hearts by costing Yamamoto a perfect game and a no-hitter in the same outing. Alpha shares a genuinely harrowing roadside fight story, and the show closes with a brutal "things you should not say to your wife" segment and a shotgun quad-load challenge. Men unsupervised.

Jon Herold comes in Monday still processing the fallout from a post he made last night, and he wants to talk about it. After UFC 250 wrapped, a wave of decoder accounts had spent the week hyping the event's EBS color test as a sign something bigger was coming. Jon posted a good faith question asking what happens now that nothing did, and the response was less about the substance and more about attacking him personally. He walks through the replies, makes the case that this is cognitive dissonance in action, and explains why he keeps bringing up this specific behavior even though it gets him called names. On the news side, Trump posted that the Iran deal is complete, authorizing the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and removal of the naval blockade ahead of Friday's signing. Trump also posted criticism of Israel's strike on Beirut as jeopardizing the peace process, which did not sit well with Mark Levin. FISA 702 has now fully expired with no replacement, and Jon makes his now-familiar point about the intelligence community continuing surveillance regardless. JD Vance pushed back on claims Iran is getting $24 billion in new cash, clarifying the difference between unfreezing assets and new money.

President Trump joins French President Macron in Evian for the G7 summit, where the two leaders announce a signed peace deal with Iran that fully prohibits nuclear weapons under strong policing powers. The Strait of Hormuz is already partially open with mine clearing underway and full reopening expected by Friday. Trump contrasts the new deal with Obama's JCPOA, recalling the infamous 1.7 billion dollar cash transfer to Iran loaded onto a Boeing aircraft, calling it a road to a nuclear weapon rather than away from one. Oil prices are plummeting and the stock market is hitting record highs in response. Macron also previews G7 discussions on Ukraine, with Zelensky set to arrive the next day, and ties the summit's location to the 1783 Paris Treaty ahead of America's 250th anniversary. Trump closes by congratulating a French heavyweight boxer who won at a White House event the night before.

CannCon and Zak Paine open the week still buzzing from one of the most stacked weekends in recent memory. Trump's 80th birthday coincided with America's 250th UFC event on the White House lawn, complete with a bald eagle flyover, dirt bikes, and a walkout moment that had even a protester stopping to admire the flyover. Pitcher John Hocket stole the night with an unscripted Michelle Obama joke that sent the left into a frenzy, while two Christian San Francisco Giants pitchers made their own statement on Pride Night with a Genesis verse on their cap. Sports dominated the weekend: Team USA beat Paraguay 2 to 0 in the World Cup with a Trump phone call to the coach and captain, the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup, and the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship since 1973, with predictable chaos following in the streets of New York. Trump announced the US Southern Command killed Tren de Aragua leader Nino Guerrero. The biggest story of all: on his birthday, Trump announced the Iran deal is complete, the Strait of Hormuz is fully open, the naval blockade is lifted, and a signing ceremony is set for Friday. Obama criticized the deal, and Trump fired back point by point on Truth Social.

Episode 28 lands on Trump's 80th birthday, Flag Day, and the same day the United States and Iran officially announce an end to their conflict, though nobody bothered to tell Netanyahu. Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down the leaked audio between Trump and Bibi, explain why Israel is getting cut loose exactly on schedule with the old Q post about saving Israel for last, and walk through how Iran's civilian government just made history by signing peace while telling the IRGC hardliners to stand down. Tulsi Gabbard drops an early bombshell on overseas bio labs, and the guys tie it straight back to COVID origins and Fauci. There is also a deep dive into a wild Q post about showing the public the truth instead of telling them, plus some thoughts on who Q actually was and why it might not even matter. Oh, and UFC 250 happened on the White House lawn, and Michelle Obama got called out on live television in front of the president. The storm before July 4th is officially rolling in.

After eight weeks of vortexes, ferrocells, and the occasional theological mic drop, Jonathan Drake flies solo this week and pivots from physics to political philosophy, though the underlying framework holds up surprisingly well. The new series digs into Lysander Spooner's 1882 essay "Natural Law, or the Science of Justice," a short but dense treatise with one of the more delightfully blunt subtitles in nineteenth century literature. Jonathan walks through Spooner's biography, from his abolitionist convictions to the short lived mail company that nearly put the US Postal Service out of business, before diving into the essay itself. The central claim: living honestly is the entire foundation of justice, and consent means the authority to say no, not merely the power to. Jonathan also connects the dots back to the ether series, arguing that peace is grounding and war is a short circuit. If that sentence alone doesn't make you want to watch, nothing will.

Jon Herold sits down with Steve and Terry of Loaded Gun Coffee for an episode that starts with bourbon pecan and ends somewhere much deeper. What began as a tribute project to honor family members who served turned into a discovery of just how deep their military roots run, including a great uncle still listed as MIA from World War II and a great uncle KIA in Korea at just 19. Steve shares his own six years in the Army during the Cold War, including two years lobbing artillery toward the Czech border in West Germany, and what he later realized that mission was really about. They also break down why they work exclusively with a small batch roaster, what makes their coffee stand out from the big guys, and how they juggle the coffee business alongside Steve's HVAC contracting work and Terry's nursing career. Plus, a Father's Day promo code you will want to grab before it is gone.

Episode 56 of Flow hands the reins over to Cristina and Adrian from Rise Attire for the debut of Cristina's first solo film, Dauntless Tales: The Crystal Veil. The conversation breaks down the thirteen minute AI made short, the crystal veil as a metaphor for the screens that keep everyone glued and disconnected, and a faceless villain that represents the cabal nobody can quite see. There is a lot of love for AI as a tool, or even a weapon, for telling stories the old guard cannot touch. Cam takes a victory lap on Team USA's commanding 4 to 1 World Cup opener over Paraguay, including the national anthem moment with Dan and Shay and Tom Cruise standing tall. Trump's True Social posts cover birthright citizenship, an Iran deal that looks closer than ever, a pointed jab at Jamie Raskin and Mark Levin, and the Lincoln Memorial's regilded Arts of War sculpture, which Cam reads as a not so subtle nod to Sun Tzu. The full Flag Day proclamation gets a complete read aloud. American of the Week is James Smith, the Irish born signer who read the Declaration to his hometown.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show with Tulsi Gabbard's bio lab declassification, which both hosts dismiss as a limited hangout repeating information that has been public since 2021 and 2022. They float a more interesting possibility: that the real declassification work may be coming from the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board under Devin Nunez rather than the DNI's office at all. The Iran situation gets its full theater treatment, with Trump's True Social posts about a peace deal timed to his birthday, an Apache helicopter shoot down, and the familiar self defense strikes framing, alongside the coordinated takeout of a Tren de Aragua leader in Venezuela. Spencer Pratt's concession video gets dissected for what it reveals about the LA mayoral race, paired with Steve Hilton's bizarre campaign ad and the voter ID ballot measure backed by Palmer Luckey, the Winklevoss twins, and Nicole Shanahan. The new NSPM 12 cybersecurity directive gets connected to last week's AI memo and the breaking news that the Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's new Fable model over jailbreak concerns. The show closes with a New York Times excerpt detailing the White House's yearlong Situation Room scramble over the Epstein files.

Jon Herold is mysteriously absent (definitely just watching the World Cup), so the crew rolls deep with Zak Paine, Matt Trump, Jaytriot, and Jordan Sather. The night kicks off with World Cup mania, a German tourist's culture shock tour through Buc-ee's and Waffle House, and a deep dive into Michigan camping lore that somehow lands on ancient Phoenician and Roman copper trade theories involving Isle Royale. Then Pride Month gets the full treatment, from Dodger Stadium's surprisingly subdued vibe this year to a decade-old story that still haunts one host's father, all wrapped around a classic Norm MacDonald bit connecting Stonewall to the moon landing. The real fireworks come from Spencer Pratt's scorched-earth post-election video, which the crew breaks down as either a brilliant exposure campaign or a path back into the LA mayoral race, tied to ballot harvesting, homeless voting schemes, and Trump's postal service order. As always, GART Deadwood gets a shoutout before the crew wraps with a tangent into Oak Island and moon landing footage.

Forget the "well, actually" crowd. Yes, the Germans were central to the space race, and host Matt Trump is leaning all the way into it. In Part I of this new series, Matt traces humanity's first object to ever cross into outer space back to a test launch from Peenemunde on June 20, 1944, two weeks after D-Day, and the weapon it became, the V2. But the real story starts decades earlier with Jules Verne, whose 1865 novel "From the Earth to the Moon" predicted Apollo and Artemis with eerie accuracy, and inspired a young Transylvanian Saxon named Hermann Oberth to turn science fiction into the actual rocket equation. Matt also dives into the strange, tangled connections between Oberth, Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, and the silent film "Metropolis," and what that film really reveals about how the Nazis saw themselves. Next week, the warriors arrive: Wernher von Braun.

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince tackle a rumor mill moment first: Robert Malone claims RFK Jr. is set to resign as HHS Secretary in July, and HHS immediately fires back calling it fake news. Jordan, who has tracked Malone's track record before, is skeptical but keeping receipts. Then things get heavy fast. Senator Ron Johnson calls the COVID vaccine cover up a scandal bigger than Watergate, and a powerful clip from a Children's Health Defense event captures the moment people realized the system was lying to them. On a lighter note, RFK and Ben Greenfield talk biohacking basics: sunlight, breathwork, and why you do not need fifty bottles of skincare products. The FDA approves a new sunscreen ingredient after 25 years, and Jordan explains why most drugstore sunscreens are trash. Plus, ivermectin shows real promise in cancer treatment, screwworm creeps back into Texas, and a new study links ultra processed food to a 60 percent higher dementia risk. Coke and Hershey are apparently on board with MAHA now. Sure.

Episode 113 opens with Ghost's "cyclone" theory in full motion: Trump occupies both sides of the Iran narrative at once, threatening to bomb Tehran while announcing a deal is two or three days away. Ghost breaks down the Apache helicopter incident, Trump telling the Wall Street Journal it "wasn't a big deal," and the Oval Office gaggle where Trump casually reveals he has been working directly with Iran for months. Trump questions whether Netanyahu should even run for reelection while Netanyahu's own cabinet discusses fighting Iran alone in total isolation. The Strait of Hormuz bombshell follows: Trump claims the US secretly moved oil through it for months without Iran knowing, and a congressional hearing exposes the contradictions. Then comes the deal itself: 49 Tomahawks, a leaked 14-point memorandum, and Trump's furious denial of the leaked terms. Mark Levin spirals from celebrating bombing to demanding the text of the deal, while Israel confirms it is not party to the agreement. Erdogan and Netanyahu trade threats, and Ghost maps a possible Greece-Israel-Ukraine alliance against Turkey. The episode closes with Tulsi Gabbard's declassification of 120 US-funded bio labs across 30 countries.

Jon Herold comes in Friday with the most material he has had all week, starting with Tulsi Gabbard's first round of declassification on US-funded biolabs. The release is four pages confirming what Russia disclosed back in 2022 and what the community has been saying for years while getting called conspiracy theorists for it. Jon uses the moment for some honest self-reflection: if this is true now, was it not equally true four years ago, and what does that say about how these stories tend to play out? Buried in the documents is a repeated mention of Black and Veatch, which Jon traces directly to Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca investments in Metabiota, adding a fresh wrinkle to Hunter's current media tour. The Iran deal saga continues its now-familiar whiplash: bombing threats, then cancellation, then Trump calling the leaked terms completely fake while JD Vance pushes back on the reporting. FISA 702 failed in the House with real Republican defections that Mike Johnson conveniently left out of his floor speech. The FBI raided an Ohio voter registration group, and Jon's live dig into their tax filings turns up a board stacked with Jim Mattis, John Kerry, and Dave McCormick paying themselves enormous consulting fees. Also, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire and Jon is still working on it.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a show that whiplashes in real time right alongside the news itself. Trump tells Fox News in the morning that bombing Iran will continue and be bigger than ever, then hours later announces on Truth Social that strikes are canceled and a memorandum of understanding has been signed with eleven countries including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. In the Oval Office, Trump reveals the Strait of Hormuz has secretly been open the entire time, with hundreds of millions of barrels of oil quietly moved out at night while radar was jammed, directly undercutting the media narrative that blamed gas prices on a closed strait. Within the hour, Trump posts again accusing Iran of lying about the deal terms and says the war may be back on. Chris Paul makes the case that the discombobulation itself may be the point, an invitation to step back and simply observe rather than form beliefs from contradictory information. CannCon and Chris also dig into the Hill's reporting on a growing GOP civil war, with Massey, MTG, and Ro Khanna appearing together in ways that suggest either organic coalition building or a scripted third party operation. JD Vance heads to Europe to finalize the deal before a View appearance back home.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 sequel The Godfather Part II, considered by many to be the greatest film of all time and certainly the greatest sequel. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and John Cazale as the unforgettable Fredo, this is one of the rare second installments that completely flips the tone of the original and absolutely earns it. The conversation circles the dual storylines of young Vito building an empire from immigrant nothing in New York and Michael unraveling the same empire from inside his Tahoe compound. Burning Bright argues that De Niro's Vito chases power because he saw what power does to people, while Michael only knows how to hold onto power he was handed, making him a pale shadow of his father even as he ascends to greater heights. They unpack the Fanucci scene as a perfect lesson in how abstract power collapses the moment someone calls the bluff, the Hyman Roth and Meyer Lansky parallel with Cuba in 1958 as a preview of what may be coming again, the Joker analog for Michael's endgame of just winning, and Kay's spite abortion as a stunning window into how openly anti family the 1970s really were.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior unpack one of the most disorienting twenty four hour stretches of Trump's second term. At sunrise the President posts that the US will be hitting Iran very hard tonight and seizing Karg Island and Iran's oil markets the way it did with Venezuela. Four hours later he cancels the strikes after saying a deal was approved by Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Egypt. The guys replay the old Ghost in the Machine psyop videos to frame what they are watching and read straight from the Fifth Generation Warfare book on Target Audience analysis. Alpha makes the central argument of the show. The roller coaster is not aimed at us. The red pilled are not the target. The normies are. Trump is balancing global power to a reset point while breaking decades of conditioning about who our allies and enemies are. The second half digs into Jay Clayton being named the permanent DNI. UPenn, Sullivan and Cromwell, the firm of John Foster and Allen Dulles, Bear Stearns, Alibaba, the Tren de Aragua RICO case, and his CNBC appearance hours before the announcement.

Frank and Jay reconvene a week after the Spring Fling to debrief the prime rib, the perfectly timed thunderstorm, and the InBody machine that exposed Frank's visceral fat number. Jay walks through why subcutaneous fat is largely cosmetic, why visceral fat is the real metabolic concern, and why intermittent fasting plus protein pacing beats simple caloric restriction. Then the brain section gets weird. Listener emails arrive about Foreign Accent Syndrome: a 70 year old American who started speaking with a Norwegian accent before dying of a brain tumor, a Massachusetts stroke patient who woke up sounding like she was from Oslo. Frank pulls up Cotard's, the walking corpse syndrome where the sufferer is unshakably convinced they are dead and putrefying, and Capgras, where loved ones become identical imposters. A coma survivor writes in about six weeks of demons in his peripheral vision after a ten day medically induced blackout. The second hour pivots to the America 250 concert collapse. Brett Michaels, Martina McBride, Milli Vanilli, and the Commodores pulled out, so Frank and Jay reopen the lines and book a better lineup live on air, decade by decade, with the help of callers.

This is the penultimate Taking it Back, and Adel Nero and Zak Paine make the most of it with Frank Val on vacation. The bulk of the hour is a long unflinching breakdown of the Carmelo Anthony conviction for stabbing Austin Metcalf, with both guys arguing the disproportional response to a shoulder push has nothing to do with self defense and everything to do with a victim mentality that has been engineered into a generation of young people. They walk through the OJ Simpson juror parallels, the Jasmine Crockett "it was only a four inch blade" defense, and the new trend of black assailants in Tampa and Jacksonville assaulting random white strangers and claiming they were on the jury. From there, the conversation pivots to what the guys see as the cultural roots of the problem: fatherless homes, gangster glorification, and self imposed segregation in universities. They close on the California primary, where Spencer Pratt's voters are reportedly receiving mass signature rejection letters while Q's "watch California" drop hangs over the whole election fraud reveal everyone has been waiting for. Heavy hour, sharp commentary.

CannCon and Ashe in America wrap Chapter 5 and charge straight into Chapter 6 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, and the bailout game goes fully global. The World Bank's humanitarian branding evaporates completely as Griffin walks through country after country: Tanzania, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, all self-sufficient before the loans arrived, all economically wrecked after. Chapter 6 then lays out the international bailout game in four clean rules and names it what it is: a mechanism to perpetuate debt forever until nations surrender their monetary sovereignty to a world central bank. The Council on Foreign Relations gets formally introduced as the brain trust behind all of it, with members on record calling for the deliberate erosion of American wealth, sovereignty, and living standards. NAFTA, GATT, the EU, and the WTO get exposed as architecture for world government, not trade. And a Reagan cabinet meeting confirms what everyone suspected: nobody believed the loans would ever be repaid. The only thing that mattered was protecting the banks.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday on a slow news day that gets spectacularly un-slow mid-show. Trump posts a detailed plan to bomb Iran and take Kharg Island, Jon raises a Sun Tzu objection, and then within the hour Trump posts again canceling everything because a peace deal has been approved by every party in the region. Chris Paul had predicted the reversal in the Badlands private Telegram chat before it happened, and Jon finds that deeply satisfying. Jon also spends significant time on the New York Times Epstein book video and arrives at the opposite conclusion the Times intends: the entire narrative confirms the Epstein story was a coordinated op against Trump, not evidence of a coverup. MTG going on CNN to call Trump a traitor over the files does not help his read on her. Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo in a criminal political debanking investigation, and Jon says expand it immediately to PayPal, YouTube, Instagram, and every platform that kicked people off for political speech. The USPS just proposed new ballot tracking standards tied directly to Trump's election integrity order, and Jon connects it to the USPS blockchain voting patent that has been sitting quietly for years. Senate Democrats are apparently wargaming how to stop Trump from stealing the midterms, and Jon calls it the most telling projection he has seen in months.

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 3 of The Chosen, which opens on David grieving his and Bathsheba's dying child and closes on Thomas screaming at Jesus to heal Reyma as she bleeds out in his arms. The hosts unpack the showrunners' bold choice to bookend the episode this way, even though the David death was prophesied punishment for adultery and the Reyma death looks senseless. The point lands either way. God saves some and does not save others, and faith is trusting him in both directions. In between: Jesus blistering the Pharisees with the "woe to you" speech from Luke 11 about cleaning the outside of the cup while greed festers on the inside, Quintus losing his grip and micromanaging the streets because his tax revenue is in the red, Atticus speaking on behalf of Rome, Gaius refusing the order to arrest Jesus, and Peter actually leading. Plus the modern parallel that no one wanted to bring up but did anyway, the abortion question. If God knit the child together in the womb, who is anyone to decide it is not the right time.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday show with the ActBlue CEO finally in front of congress and doing exactly what everyone expected. Debra Wallace Jones pleads the Fifth on every single question, including how many foreign contributions ActBlue accepted, how much came from Russia, and whether the 38 million flagged donations her own board chairman acknowledged were fraudulent. CannCon explains the full scope of what the hearing is building toward: criminal charges, not just public theater, with laundering of taxpayer dollars through overseas venues back into US campaigns as the core of the eventual indictment. Alpha updates his Bolton cooperation theory after CannCon pushes back with the Petraeus and Berger comparison: Alpha argues the defining indicator is not the fine size but the timing of the plea, and six to nine months is absolute confirmation of cooperation because no one with resources pleads that fast without a deal. Trump signs the Secure America Act funding DHS through the end of his term, and Alpha's border patrol contacts say the danger level agents are operating under is higher than anything publicly reported. The Knicks pull off the biggest NBA Finals comeback in history, and Hakim Jeffries walks directly into a 1994 Madison Square Garden clip of Trump courtside with Marla after telling reporters Trump does not know who the Knicks are.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open the Wednesday show with Trump's True Social feed doing most of the heavy lifting: an Apache helicopter gets shot down over the Strait, Trump announces Iran's military is "completely defeated," and then discloses mid-interview that the US secretly extracted 100 million barrels of Iranian oil through the supposedly closed Strait over the past month. Burning Bright unpacks why that disclosure confirms what financial media had already noticed: oil prices never moved the way they should have if the blockade was real, because it was never real. The Strait has been a narrative operation against the global energy cartel, not Iran. Trump's $1.5 trillion Recon 3 defense budget post lands with the SAVE Act attached, and McConnell and Collins immediately say it won't pass. Burning Bright's war economy switch theory frames the whole thing not as a weapons bill but as a translation layer for funding a domestic technology and manufacturing overhaul modeled on the post-WWII fifties boom. Trump's clip calling out how Steve Hilton got "approved quickly" once heat was applied gets a full breakdown alongside a resurfaced Tim Pool 2021 clip calling election fraud talk "voter suppression." Bill Pulte takes over DNI on June 19 and Trump asks for a FISA 702 extension, while Burning Bright argues Intel is simply being siloed and put in a closet while the real operation runs elsewhere.

Episode 58 starts with Shipwreck reluctantly addressing Lindsey Graham's re-election, after a commenter forced her to learn the actual origin story of his ladybug nickname. From there she breaks down the Karmelo Anthony guilty verdict in the Austin Metcalf stabbing case, her frustration at people defending the convicted teen, and why she changed her voter registration to independent after one too many Trump campaign texts. Then comes the centerpiece: a Bobby Sauce roast of Dan Bongino's claim that AI data centers are the only thing that can save Social Security and Medicare. Spoiler, the Wall Street Journal opinion piece he cited came from a $35 billion AI company. Shipwreck also calls out the people raging against data centers on Facebook while posting their ChatGPT created birthday invites, and shares her own theory that nuclear power and AI are about to reshape everything. Then her Wi-Fi crashes mid-show thanks to squirrels chewing the coax cable, so she pivots to a phone stream of late night Instagram videos that crack her up, including a Bill Gates rant, a lightning strike fake accent, and Limp Bizkit grandma. Plus a fence post update, abortion thoughts, and why GART still scares her.

Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Ashe in America to a conversation he calls the culture of space, and it earns the title. Technology is the last thing downstream. Upstream sit policies, values, beliefs, and ultimately worldview. Get those wrong and the most beautiful technology becomes the cruelest weapon. Ashe brings twenty years of corporate change management to the mic, asking the questions other people are afraid to. Are the ethics of Neuralink an afterthought, the same way Dolly the sheep just quietly went into the shadows? Can a nation as big and diverse as ours actually share a moral foundation? Why did the federal government just claim sole authority over AI regulation? Kwast answers from his Geography of Innovation study, which found no correlation between where invention happens and the moral climate around it. The takeaway: free markets and good people will figure out useful applications, but only if our interior life is in order. Along the way they unpack progressives as the true opposites of conservatives, USEIP as a model of free association, and why the most exciting thing about the coming age is that evil can no longer hide in the dark like a cockroach.

President Trump signs the Secure America Act, fully funding DHS through the end of his term with $38 billion for ICE and $26 billion for Border Patrol after more than 100 days of Democrat obstruction. He confirms bombing of Iran has resumed following the shooting down of a US helicopter and announces for the first time that the US military has been covertly extracting millions of barrels of Iranian oil nightly, which is why oil sits at $85 a barrel instead of the predicted $250. Trump also drops the 74th all-time stock market high, touts the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool opening, confirms Washington DC is at its lowest crime rate in 58 years, and signals he may not renew USMCA when it comes up July 2. The World Cup starts tomorrow, and someone should probably tell Iran.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday on a lighter news day and makes the most of the material he has. Trump himself just debunked the June 30 Tulsi decode by announcing Pulte takes over on June 19, and Jon asks the obvious question: do any of the people who built entire posts around that date plan to retract them? Trump also signed the Secure America Act and made live comments claiming the reason Steve Hilton got approved quickly in California while Spencer Pratt got bumped is because he put enough heat on them. Jon reads that as an interesting but incomplete theory about how the fraud system responds to pressure. FISA 702 is expiring this week, Trump is posting that it must pass for World Cup and America 250 safety, and Jon's read is simple: the intelligence community does not need a law to surveil people and will continue doing so regardless. Jon also plays a Tim Pool 2021 clip where Pool calls election fraud talk voter suppression and warns it could get him demonetized on YouTube, then looks at Pool's current viral California fraud posts and has some thoughts about the consistency. The Save America Act hit 50 votes on a Mike Lee amendment with Susan Collins, SpaceX goes public Friday, and LA County voters are allegedly voting to raise their own taxes.

CannCon and Ashe in America open the Wednesday show in a fighting mood, and it only intensifies. John Thune tells the country on camera that the SAVE America Act cannot pass the senate and the solution is to go vote harder in the next election, prompting Ashe to read directly from the Declaration of Independence and make the case that two hundred fifty years of American history have brought us to exactly the long train of abuses Jefferson described. CannCon and Ashe dismantle Thune's argument with the precise point Badlands has been making for years: the filibuster is an arbitrary senate rule the majority can change at any time, not a constitutional constraint. California wraps its primary coverage with new viral evidence of the fraud: a street interview of a woman saying she voted for Karen Bass because they told her to, combined with CannCon's report that illegal alien voters in California have no legal liability for casting a ballot because the state sends it to them. Ashe notes they watched the SPLC hearing before the show and she was already well past composed before they went live. The intelligence community's infiltration of congressional staff gets a pointed discussion, and both CannCon and Ashe agree that the people running congress are not the elected ones.