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Jon Herold and Chris Paul open a looser Saturday show with the UFO file dump that landed with a thud, comparing it directly to the Epstein files as a manufactured mystery with nothing behind the door. The boys break down Trump's announcement of a three-day Russia/Ukraine ceasefire on Victory Day and why every mainstream headline about the "scaled down" parade missed the point entirely. The Presidential Emergency Action Documents resurface in a Daily Beast piece, and Jon walks through the full history of Democrat attempts to access or disclose them since 2020 and why it keeps coming back around election cycles. Trump's announcement that US troops may move from Germany to Poland gets the full treatment as a disentanglement operation, alongside Italy and Spain, framed as the steady unwinding of the US as global police force for the one-world regime. The show closes with a substantive discussion on data centers, the Oliver County, North Dakota community fight against one going in over public objection, the Project Bluebeam/evangelical pastor meeting, Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures, and the Matrix Reloaded parallel to devolution and whether Trump is playing them or playing us.

Alpha Warrior sits down with retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Paul Drury for a conversation that starts with an unexpected detour into a factory in Rust Belt Ohio and ends with a challenge coin that could save lives. Paul shares his 23-year journey through Aircraft Armament Systems, three combat tours with the Air Guard, and the F-16 Fini flight he earned the right to enjoy from the back seat. Spoiler: he did not bring a sick bag. The real heart of the episode is the Spartan Pledge. Born from the work of the late Boone Cutler, the pledge is a battle buddy commitment between veterans, a promise to call before crisis becomes catastrophe. Paul walks through how the coin came to be, the people who made it happen, and why the staggering veteran suicide numbers are not a story about weak men. He fought with these guys. They were warriors. Alpha and Paul also dig into the VA system, the loss of mission that hits service members the moment they take off the uniform, and why having something to wake up for matters more than any government program. This Week's Guest: Paul Drury USAF CMSgt (Ret) • https://x.com/PaulWDrury • https://x.com/boonecutler • https://www.givesendgo.com/spartan-pledge-challenge-coin • https://boonecutler.com • Share TSP: https://rumble.com/v79650u-boone-cutler-foundation-spartan-pledge-challenge-coin-fundraiser.html • Help the Boone family: https://www.givesendgo.com/boonecutler  

Episode 51 finds Cam Cooksey flying solo with a packed house. He walks through Trump's True Social posts: drones dropping like butterflies in the Strait of Hormuz, the Iran "excursion" clocking in at just six weeks against Afghanistan's 543, an EU trade ultimatum tied to America's 250th birthday, and the Lula da Silva meeting that has everyone capitulating to the golden age. Trump's UFO/UAP file release sparks Cam's take on interdimensional beings, government grain-of-salt warnings, and a teaser for his upcoming Space Revolution appearance with General Quast on May 20. The Victory Day for World War Two proclamation gets a deeper read: Cam believes it may be signaling a current victory, not just a 1945 commemoration. The Presidential Fitness Test comes back with Bryson DeChambeau on pull ups and 90-year-old Gary Player doing push ups at the White House. Bobby Cox, Atlanta Braves legend, is remembered. Jim Brewer's "central casting" clip lands hard. And John Hart, the Declaration signer who hid in barns and caves, is the American of the Week.

Happy Alien Disclosure Day, apparently. The crew greets the government's UAP file dump with the exact amount of enthusiasm you'd expect from people who have been lied to for decades: minimal. From there the conversation takes a genuinely fascinating turn into germ theory versus terrain theory, Lyme disease as a probable bioweapon, and whether viruses actually exist. BB shares a deeply personal story about his own Lyme diagnosis, the nerve damage that preceded it, and the terrifying night he almost did not make it out of the hospital. The debate over antibiotics, holistic medicine, and when to trust the system gets surprisingly nuanced. The second half is pure early internet archaeology, with the crew excavating Mark Gormley, classic College Humor prank wars, rapping for Jesus, and the biscuit song. BB also shares footage of his brother Drake's wingsuit flying, with a heartbreaking note on what happened after the camera stopped rolling.

It was quite a Friday. The US government dropped UAP files, a Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship went global, and host Matt Trump sat down to make sense of it all without losing his mind. In this episode, Matt walks through the history of Korean Hemorrhagic Fever from the 1950s to the Four Corners outbreak of 1993, building a rational framework for evaluating the current Andean virus scare. He draws a critical distinction between a virus and a disease that everyone should understand before the fear machine kicks into gear. He also previews Cardo, his new vibe-coded digital timeline app built with Claude Code, and connects some unusual dots between the cruise ship's departure port, Patagonia, and a historical plan for a Jewish homeland in South America. A calm, curious, and thoroughly grounded episode for a genuinely strange day.

RFK Jr.'s push to reduce antidepressant dependence is drawing fire from MSNBC and Reuters, and Jordan and Nate break down why. With 1 in 6 American adults on SSRIs and the global market generating $20 billion per year, the push for deprescribing pathways backed by a new CMS billing code is a genuine disruption to pharma revenue. RFK shares a personal account of a family member's SSRI withdrawal he describes as harder than heroin detox. The show then dismantles the hantavirus media cycle: 5 cases on a cruise ship, Moderna already codeveloping a vaccine, and Robert Malone reminding everyone that a lightning strike is statistically more likely. FDA Commissioner Makary's admission that the FDA deliberately misled the public on dietary fat for nearly two decades gets its moment, followed by a DOJ investigation into the Big Four meatpackers for antitrust violations and foreign ownership concerns. The episode closes with a discussion on statin overuse, CoQ10 depletion, thyroid health, iodine sources, and the structural problem of corporate consolidation across farming and food supply chains.

Episode 105 opens with a deep dive into the DOJ's sweeping indictment of 30 people tied to a decade-long insider trading scheme operating through elite M&A law firms including Latham and Watkins and Goodwin Proctor. Ghost connects the indicted network to Trump's executive orders forcing those same firms into $600M of free pro bono work, suggesting Trump had leverage over them long before the arrests. One of the indicted traders, David Brotslovsky, gave a 2013 speech to Jewish business leaders about communal unity the same year the scheme allegedly launched. Ghost also covers Tulsi Gabbard's DNI investigation into intelligence agencies suppressing evidence of Chinese and Venezuelan 2020 election interference, the FBI raid on Virginia senate president Louise Lucas's office, and the DOJ probe of a Fairfax County prosecutor for shielding violent offenders. Trump's new counterterrorism strategy targeting cartels and hemispheric threats gets unpacked alongside the US review of all 53 Mexican consulates. The episode closes with the Iran ceasefire holding in name only, the USS Gerald Ford quietly departing the Middle East, and the EU moving toward sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlements.

Jon Herold comes in on a Friday ready to be amazed by the most anticipated document dump in history. The Trump administration released the first tranche of UAP and UFO files to the public, and Jon goes through them live: a grainy dot over Iraq, a slightly less grainy dot over Greece, a letter from a 1965 housewife in New Hampshire, and a document buried on page 53 that describes a directed energy mind control weapon used to induce fake UFO visions. Jon's verdict: same energy as the JFK files and the Epstein dump, with about the same amount of revelation. On more grounded news, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democrat-backed redistricting referendum that was going to hand them four House seats, which Jon calls a genuine win in a situation where wins are rare. The Federal Trade Court blocked Trump's global tariff plan, which is headed to SCOTUS. The FBI is now probing Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats for classified leaks after an NSA criminal referral connected to the Tulsi Gabbard Hezbollah smear. And Jon reads through the DOJ Brennan investigation story, calls it pre-indictment narrative positioning, and explains why weak charges getting brought before strong ones is still his biggest concern.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show that delivers one of the biggest election integrity wins of the year. Breaking during the broadcast, the Virginia Supreme Court strikes down the redistricting referendum in a 46-page opinion declaring the process null and void for violating constitutional procedural requirements, vindicating weeks of coverage by CannCon, Ash, and Ghost. Tennessee passes its 9-0 congressional redistricting map as Democrat lawmaker Justin Pearson melts down on the floor. The FBI's investigation of Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats heats up as Kash Patel discovers a buried NSA referral over classified leaks used to smear Tulsi Gabbard during her confirmation. A US trade court issues a narrow block of Trump's 10% global tariffs for two importers, and Trump immediately signals he is pivoting to a third legal authority. Three US Navy destroyers transit the Strait of Hormuz under fire, take out everything with lasers, and Trump calls it a love tap, signaling peace deal progress toward July 4. Wisconsin enters the election investigation queue. The first UFO file batch drops, and Chris Paul delivers a cold-water take on government narrative seeding through evangelical pastors.

JB White opens with Trump dressing down an ABC reporter at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and uses it to make a broader point about the deliberate destruction of beauty, standards, and journalism as a profession. He then reads Tom Luongo's sharp breakdown of why the Strait of Hormuz standoff is theater, not strength: Iran has no money, no hard power, and is manipulating oil futures because it has nothing else left. JB pivots to the emerging I2U2 alliance between India, Israel, the UAE, and the US, and explains why MBS has been quietly outmaneuvered by MBZ. The episode closes with a big one: Elon Musk folding xAI into SpaceX and leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic, with orbital AI data centers now a serious near-term engineering conversation. JB calls it what it is: confirmation of an unassailable American technological lead that no adversary can match.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle the much-maligned middle child of the Matrix trilogy, the 2003 Wachowski sequel starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving. Burning Bright admits he used to dismiss this one entirely, but a fresh rewatch reveals a film that is not dumb at all, just trying to wrestle with much harder ideas than the original. The guys dig into the philosophical bedrock the film sits on, including Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation and what it means to live in a hyperreality where signs replace the thing itself. They unpack why Zion is presented as such a hedonistic, animalistic place, and whether the Wachowskis really intended it to be the paradise worth saving. From there, they work through the Architect scene as a meditation on how systems build their own opposition into themselves, the Oracle as a mirror for the Q drops, the Merovingian as a possible fallen prior One and a Lucifer figure in the underworld of the matrix, and Neo's final choice to save Trinity as the only morally coherent rejection of the system.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior go head to head for nearly the entire show in one of the most heated SITREPs yet. The night opens with a rolling debate on whether Islam is purely a religion or a political ideology, sparked by Sammy the Squirrel's Substack and the Epic City development in Texas. Alpha argues for preemption and forced assimilation. CannCon stays planted on the constitution, demanding actual examples of laws being passed before force is used. The conversation rolls into foreign flags flying on US soil, with CannCon proposing twenty year sentences for Americans flying another nation's flag, and Alpha reminding him he claimed to be a free speech absolutist three hours earlier. Then the gloves come off on the Second Amendment. The guys break down the DOJ's lawsuit against Denver over an ordinance that turns a Glock 17 into an "assault weapon," walk through the Bruen test, and unpack why the NFA classifying a suppressor as a firearm is like calling a wheel a car. Plus California's 11% ammo tax as a backdoor penalty. They close defending Kyle Seraphin against a Just The News hit piece, deployment war stories, and a civilization jihad document read aloud.

Frank is flying solo for the first hour and dragging Mike Baldwin into the second, and the whole show feels like a Friday because tomorrow is somebody else's problem. He opens on the freshly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein "suicide note," which reads like it was ghostwritten by James Brown, then walks through the timeline that nobody seems willing to explain: the prior strangulation attempt, the missing count slips, the 38 minute head start on 4chan, and the unsigned trip van. From there it's Spencer Pratt running for LA mayor, AOC's knitting circle podcast declaring billionaires literally cannot exist, and the supposed "final boss of wokeness" Met Gala model. Then comes the heart of the show: Frankleyville. If we bought a ghost town and built our own M. Night Shyamalan village, what would you put in it? Callers weigh in. The hantavirus cruise ship gets the X-Files treatment, complete with a 1998 Martin Landau monologue, a 1992 Army patent, and Gene Hackman's wife. A time traveler from 2050 calls in to confirm God wins. Mike Baldwin closes things out with a brand new baby on the way.

CannCon and Ashe in America dig into Chapter 2 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the game has a name: Bailout. The crew breaks down how the Federal Reserve system allows banks to create money from nothing, loan it recklessly to corporations and foreign governments, and then use a series of plays, debt rollover, upping the ante, rescheduling, and the protect-the-public maneuver, to shift every inevitable loss onto the backs of American taxpayers. The FDIC gets exposed not as insurance but as a moral hazard machine that actually incentivizes reckless lending. Inflation gets called what it is: a hidden tax paid by the public to cover losses they never agreed to absorb. The 2008 mortgage crisis gets name-checked as a textbook example. The parallels to elections, campaign finance smurfing in Colorado, and consent to be governed round out a chapter that will leave you educated and furious in equal measure.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday fired up about a document, which means it is a good day. Trump's new National Counterterrorism Strategy names the intelligence community itself as a domestic threat actor, calling it out for being weaponized against Catholics, school board parents, members of Congress, and Trump's own administration. Jon calls it a Badlands boop and encourages everyone to watch last night's Devolution Power Hour for the full breakdown. He also flags that John Solomon appeared on Bannon today with nearly the exact same election interference story he ran two months ago, and wonders out loud whether Solomon has been cut off from new source material. A federal judge ruled the DOJ gets to keep all 600 boxes of Fulton County 2020 election records, which Jon cautiously calls a good sign. Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note was just unsealed, and Jon has questions about why it took this long and which suicide attempt it is actually from. Spencer Pratt is running for LA mayor with viral campaign ads, the national debt just crossed 100% of GDP with almost no coverage, and the DOJ is asking the Supreme Court to pause the $83 million E. Jean Carroll verdict using the Westfall Act.

Ghost and Ashe in America kick off the season three finale by tracing the slow-burn arc between Gaius and Simon across episodes four through seven. A broken cistern, a few tied knots, a bad piece of marriage advice, and one drunken stumble into the Roman quarter later, you've got two men from opposite sides of a wall doing the work of building a bridge. The hosts dig into what makes this dynamic land: shared manual labor, real disagreement, and the slow conversion of the heart that happens when Gaius finally confesses to Simon about his illegitimate son and a sick little boy he can no longer pretend isn't his. Along the way: why the disciples can't stop tying themselves into knots when Jesus steps out of the room, why Judas is the only one who never gets his ego death scene (and why that makes the betrayal hit harder), Atticus humiliating the Pharisees in the temple courtyard, and Caesarea Philippi foreshadowing. Plus a bracing detour into the difference between the People of the Book and the People of the Way, and why a Colorado governor candidate could not answer what Tina Peters was actually convicted of.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday energy with a show that covers elections, fraud, and the deep state infrastructure being dismantled in real time. Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI releases memos showing CIA officers attempted to alter evidence of China's interference in the 2020 election and actively kept the information from Trump and Congress, with 12 to 18 state voter registration databases confirmed accessed. CannCon and Alpha debate whether the Venezuela election fraud narrative is the real story or a CIA scapegoat protecting London-based globalists. The DOJ signals blue state gerrymandering laws are now in its crosshairs, with 10 states having written racial preferences into their own voting rights acts. The FBI wins its fight to keep the Fulton County seized documents, with the judge denying Norm Eisen and Abbe Lowell's motion to quash. The Daily Wire drops a bombshell exposing 288 Medicaid-billing businesses in one Columbus, Ohio building that charged taxpayers a quarter billion dollars, and the FBI simultaneously raids Virginia Senate leader Eloise Lucas, who runs a disability services company out of her political office. Alpha connects the $10 million MacArthur Park fentanyl bust to the dismantling of the deep state's dark money infrastructure in Los Angeles. Plus, Asheville receives $225M for Hurricane Helene recovery and plans to build eight houses.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright spend most of this Wednesday episode reading through Trump's newly released National Counterterrorism Strategy live, and the document delivers far more than expected. Beyond Antifa designations and cartel operations, the strategy explicitly names the US intelligence community as a weaponized political threat, calls the CIA's counterterrorism powers an instrument of persecution against Americans, and dedicates an entire section to calling European governments willful incubators of terrorism against their own people. Jon and Burning Bright connect every section to the broader devolution framework, the Russiagate accountability timeline, NSPM 35 and 36, and the Sovereign Alliance multipolar realignment. The Mexico and Sinaloa governor indictment gets its own breakdown alongside Scheinbaum's impossible position as the DOJ names more governors. The show closes on Trump's perfect endorsement record in Indiana and Ohio versus the synchronized ConInc narrative that MAGA support is collapsing, the Epstein suicide note, and what Trump's Iran True Social post signals when his own negotiators are publicly denying a deal exists.

Tonight's episode goes off the rails in the most honest way possible. We're digging into the rise of massive data centers in Utah and what that means for energy, control, and the future of infrastructure. Then it gets personal—grocery stores experimenting with pricing based on facial recognition and purchase history. Yeah… that's where we're at. From there, we talk about the bigger shift: people are burnt out, checked out, and increasingly just don't care anymore—and maybe that's exactly the problem. We also touch on: – Spirit Airlines making moves – The idea that miracles don't happen anymore (or do they?) – And yes… the conversations people are having about underground alien bases and conflicts most of us never hear about It's a mix of real headlines, cultural exhaustion, and the strange territory we're all navigating right now. Because whether it's tech, faith, or the state of the world—something feels off. And tonight, we're talking about it.

Jordan and Nate finally tackle the buzzword everyone's been throwing around: peptides. From Ozempic and Gila monster spit to copper creams and hairy butt cheeks (yes, really), the guys break down what peptides actually are, why they suddenly went viral, and whether the hype is justified. They cover the basics in plain English with a fun letters-words-sentences analogy, dig into RFK Jr.'s deregulation of compounding pharmacy peptides, and walk through the most popular ones on the market today. BPC-157 for injury repair, GHK-Cu for skin and hair, Semax for cognition, Melanotan for tanning, Tesamorelin, Tirzepatide, MOTS-c, PT-141, and a few that had the guys laughing about where exactly you're supposed to inject them. Along the way, they discuss peptides hiding in your food (eggs, bone broth, sauerkraut, mushrooms), why aspartame is technically a peptide too, and the difference between supporting your body's natural processes versus messing with gene therapy. As always, the message is the same: tools are tools. Don't reach for the magic injection when whole food and a real lifestyle would do the trick.

Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast was supposed to share the mic with cohost Matt Trump this week, but traffic had other plans. So buckle up for a solo ride through one of the meatiest history-meets-tech episodes yet, built around the recommended read The Autumn of the Middle Ages. The thesis: every great technological leap in human history, from medieval to Renaissance to industrial to today's network age, has been transformative and brutally violent. Kwast argues we are standing at the next hinge point and we have a choice. Race ahead with American values planted firmly on the high ground of space, or let an adversary plant theirs. He breaks down why energy in space is the whole ballgame, why Trump's executive order to put a nuclear plant in orbit by 2028 and on the moon by 2030 is the strategic one two punch that pairs with the 2019 creation of the Space Force, and why the Pancho Villa moment looking up at an airplane is exactly what we want our adversaries feeling. He also explains why Trump is wisely refusing to tear down old institutions until better ones are built. Build first, exit second.

Jon Herold is skeptical today, and he has a list. Kash Patel confirmed the FBI delivered its first tranche of UFO documents to Congress, pastors are allegedly being briefed to prepare their congregations, and Jon is already dreading the clickbait tsunami that follows. He has real questions: why is every government on earth keeping this secret simultaneously, and is this disclosure a genuine revelation or the latest thing to pull a burned-out audience back in? On the Iran front, the White House says it is closer to a breakthrough than ever, with a one-page memorandum of understanding being drafted and Tehran expected to respond within 48 hours. Jon notes we have been on the verge of a breakthrough several times before. Trump's endorsements swept Indiana and Ohio primaries, and Jon raises the question nobody wants to sit with: what does winning endorsements mean when the man endorsing also says the elections are rigged? Trump also posted that the White House ballroom has doubled in size and cost, and Jon still wants to know what is going underneath it. Plus: the DOJ predicts the Supreme Court will declare AR-15s legal nationwide, the FBI raided a Virginia Democratic senator's office in a cannabis corruption probe, and Ted Turner has died.

CannCon and Ashe in America bring another Ash Wednesday packed with election integrity, COVID accountability, and geopolitics. The DOJ serves grand jury subpoenas for every 2020 Fulton County election worker, seeking names, addresses, and phone numbers for everyone from mail-in ballot reviewers to risk-limiting audit volunteers. Ash makes the case this is the first formal investigation into what actually happened in Georgia. In Indiana, Trump's primary revenge tour goes five for six as long-serving incumbents who blocked redistricting get sent home. Ash drops a story about Colorado GOP governor candidate Victor Marx raising $1.6 million through WinRed with zero grassroots energy, flagging it as a potential smurfing operation on the Republican side, and calls on electionwatch.info as the tool to check. NIH virologist Vincent Munster was caught at the airport smuggling undeclared pathogen samples from the DRC, the FBI is investigating, and his connection to the DEFUSE blueprint for COVID and Ralph Baric's concurrent removal from NIH grants sends the COVID accountability thread into overdrive. Rand Paul's Fauci criminal referral deadline is one week out. Plus, DC police leadership faces termination for manipulating crime data, Trump doubles the ballroom, and the Iran nuclear deal is one page away from being signed.

JB White opens with an $8.6 billion arms sale to four Gulf and Middle Eastern allies in 48 hours and asks a simple question: does that look like chaos or dominance? He then walks through the world of competing confusions, spotlighting Candace Owens' 2016 doxxing database as an early red flag of an operator working against the people she claimed to represent. From there he makes a sharp case that January 6 was a fedsurrection, noting that the only two people caught on video urging the crowd forward faced no serious charges. He closes with a ground-level dispatch from John Conrad about a small-town auto parts store as a quiet but real sign of the Trumpian reset taking hold. JB also gets personal on the manufactured war between Black men and Black women, white feminism's role in dismantling the Black nuclear family, and his own family history tied to Andersonville, Georgia.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come in fired up after a Sunday show that hurt some feelings, and they are not slowing down. The duo opens with the David Morens indictment, the two unnamed coconspirators that almost certainly point to Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric, and the six day perjury statute clock ticking on Fauci. The DOJ said today they will not charge Fauci with perjury, which the guys read as a tell that the actual charge will be something much bigger. From there they roll into Kash Patel's Hannity sit down where Patel openly used the words grand conspiracy, talked about a hidden room of unburned burn bags inside the FBI, and credited rank and file good guys for leaving breadcrumbs. Alpha and Josh argue this was military intelligence preservation all along, finally being entered legally into evidence. Then the receipts. They reconstruct exactly how 2020 was stolen, walking from Soros funded 2018 secretary of state races to COVID timing to mail in ballot rule changes that state supreme courts later ruled unconstitutional. Plus the Strait of Malacca confirmation from Glenn Beck, the IRGC missile incident in UAE, and why the church may be next.

CannCon and Ashe in America pack a full show without a guest. The DOJ charges four non-citizen resident aliens with illegal voting in New Jersey, and DHS confirms an active investigation into illegal alien voters in Franklin County, Ohio, raising bigger questions about how they got registered in the first place. In Fulton County, Georgia, citizen investigator Jason Fraser exposes 10,000-plus duplicate voter registrations, while a nine-year poll veteran details how unsworn ACLU clerks used personal computers to clear voter records from the eNET system during the 2020 election. Brad Raffensperger refuses to say he made a mistake certifying 2020 in a gubernatorial debate, and then looks down. The Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS decision effectively kills the expansive use of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as a racial gerrymandering tool, and the court expedites its remand instead of waiting the typical 32 days, a significant signal heading into the 2026 midterms. The show closes on the DOJ grand jury subpoena demanding personal contact information for every Fulton County 2020 election worker, and Norm Eisen and Abby Lowell's motion to quash it.

Episode 104 opens with the global energy crisis coming into sharp focus. Kuwait exported zero barrels of oil in April for the first time since 1991, global inventories are heading toward all-time lows, and market analysts are projecting oil prices well above $150 a barrel within weeks. Ghost plays a newly surfaced Soleimani lecture from the 1990s where the IRGC commander taught officers the exact asymmetric warfare strategy now playing out in the Strait of Hormuz, and connects it to Trump's understanding of the Iranian playbook. The ceasefire holds in name only as the US launches Project Freedom convoy operations, Iran attacks the UAE for two consecutive days including a strike on the Fujairah oil port, and Iran releases an expanded maritime control map. Ghost then tracks the UAE banking crisis, capital flight, and Trump's currency swap discussion alongside the Sharjah independence rumors circulating widely on social media. The episode closes with Israel's political opposition consolidating against Netanyahu, the ex-Shin Bet chief calling him dangerous, and Smotrich publicly attacking the Bennett/Lapid coalition.

Jon Herold is doing his best to stay optimistic today and the DOJ is making it easier than usual. A federal grand jury subpoena dated April 17 demands the names, addresses, and personal phone numbers of every single person who worked in Fulton County during the 2020 election, and Jon thinks that is a very good sign. Trump also reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test that Obama killed in 2013, Jon reads the benchmarks out loud, and immediately commits to earning the award on camera. The UAE just withdrew from OPEC after 58 years, and Jon breaks down what that means for oil prices post-Iran war, including the possibility of $2 gasoline if the cartel collapses entirely. Trump went on record saying Democrats have to cheat because their policies are too unpopular to win any other way, and Jon asks the logical follow-up question nobody wants to answer: so what does it mean if the midterms happen without fixing the cheating? Also: Elon Musk paid a $1.7 million SEC settlement that is genuinely peanuts to him, the DOJ is going after the ABA's law school accreditation monopoly, and a Michigan judge dismissed felony charges against a 2020 election clerk in a case that mirrors Tina Peters almost exactly.

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with a show that moves fast and hits hard. The Supreme Court waives its standard thirty-two day hold and immediately remands the Louisiana redistricting case back to the lower courts, clearing the path for maps to be redrawn before the midterms while the ACLU files an emergency motion using arguments that directly contradict what their own attorneys argued in Virginia. Georgia's Brian Kemp continues to refuse compliance, and Ghost unpacks exactly what that signals about his ambitions. The Democrat Party's structural collapse is mapped out in detail: funding drying up, 24-plus House seats in redistricting jeopardy, and Maine's incumbent governor dropping out for lack of money. A federal magistrate judge apologizes on the record to Cole Allen, the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter, while comparing his conditions favorably to J6 defendants. CannCon and Ghost dismantle the double standard in real time and ask why Jocelyn Ballantyne, who prosecuted Flynn and the Proud Boys, is still at DOJ. Plus, the DOJ indicts 10 current and former Mexican government officials for Sinaloa cartel ties, Mexico's president refuses extradition, and Ghost explains the UAE's OPEC exit and why oil prices are about to drop.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 183 by debunking a viral fake Obama housekeeper death story making the rounds on X, using it as a springboard to talk about clickbait disinfo accounts and the broken incentive structures that make them profitable. Then Jon takes the show deep into one of the stranger corners of the Pizzagate universe: Cheesy Bay. It starts with a 2016 Reddit post from a thong-sandal-wearing Hawaiian distillery worker who discovered 30 constantly rotating Wi-Fi signals coming from an underground concrete pad, strange heat sources, and buckets of dissolved organic matter on his employer's farm in Oahu. That employer, a man named Dave Flintstone, was linked to an eBay account called "Cheesy Bay" selling broken hard drives, and to hacked emails connecting him directly to the Comet Ping Pong booker and Obama's EPA Director Lisa P. Jackson, who was operating under a fake government alias. Jackson also sat on the Clinton Foundation board. The episode closes with the bombshell that in 2025, a man named David Flintstone was arrested in Medellin for sexual exploitation of a minor and later escaped from prison.

What if the single most important check on government power was quietly dismantled in the 1830s, and nobody told you? Ashe sits down with Jonathan Drake of the No Treason podcast to break down Lysander Spooner's case for trial by jury, what it actually meant at the founding, and how it became the hollow shell we have today. From jury nullification to the legal priestly class to why getting jury duty might be the most powerful civic act you can take, this is the kind of conversation that rewires how you think about justice, liberty, and who is actually in charge. Spoiler: it is not you. Yet.

Spoiler: it's not China. Matt Ehret traces North America's drug crisis from the British Empire's original opium wars through the CIA's Air America heroin pipeline, Afghan poppy fields guarded by Western troops, and the Sackler family's OxyContin empire. He shows how Afghan opium production exploded the moment US forces arrived in 2001 and collapsed again the moment the Taliban returned in 2023, a fact the Pentagon's trillion-dollar budget apparently could not replicate. He also names the actual players fueling today's fentanyl crisis: Khalistani organized crime networks in British Columbia, money-laundering banks including TD Bank and a bank belonging to the British Royal Family, and a pharmaceutical company that paid a fine smaller than its profits. If China were really running a reverse opium war, they're doing a terrible job. Everyone else in this story seems far more competent.

The ladies kick things off with $5,000 sterling silver mint juleps, a full jar of fucks, and a pet photo challenge featuring a baby bird whose mother is auditioning for grounded mom of the year. Ashe takes us through a weird week in history covering the Kontiki voyage, the liberation of Dachau, the fall of Saigon, George Washington begging not to be president, Thomas Jefferson rationalizing the Louisiana Purchase, CERN releasing the worldwide web (and the eternal reminder that if it's free, you're the product), the Empire State Building, Bush's mission accomplished disaster, the King James Bible, Gone With The Wind, Kent State, and the Haymarket Affair. Christy explains why a blue moon used to mean something absurd or impossible centuries before astronomers got involved, and somehow that means Ashe owes everyone dinner on May 31. Then Michelle takes the wheel for a whole segment on intentional dressing, why we hide behind clothes, finding your three power pieces, dressing for your body shape, and the radical idea that anxiety lives in the waiting and confidence shows up after you take the step. Plus: Brian rage quitting over the spelling of Grogu, and a wiener dog t-shirt origin story.

Alpha Warrior is back after a month and a half away, and he brought news: it's twins, one boy and one girl. The full crew is finally reunited on May the 4th, and the show wastes no time. CannCon walks through a real world emergency preparedness story from the 2024 RNC cyber outage, where he was stranded in Denver and had to prep Christine for a potential grid down scenario. That kicks off a serious conversation about home defense shotgun loads, buckshot versus slugs, and the eternal Glock versus Sig debate. Then the wheels come off in the best possible way as the crew debates the Black Panther movie, JB drops some pointed takes on Hollywood's portrayal of African American men, and everyone ends up arguing about LeBron versus Kobe versus Jordan. Savannah Bananas highlights, NHL playoff updates, and a Star Wars Day clip round things out. Welcome home, Alpha.

Jon Herold comes into Monday a little roughed up from the Wild giving up nine goals, but he has receipts. Trump's latest Truth Social post says elections conducted unconstitutionally simply cannot stand, and Jon thinks that combined with praising Louisiana for suspending primaries, that is as close to a midterm cancellation signal as anyone has put on the record. Project Freedom kicked off over the weekend with the US Navy escorting stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran fired on vessels anyway, and the ceasefire Jon was told was over is apparently still being tested. Jon also plays back his own April 24 prediction that the Jerome Powell probe would reopen the moment Kevin Warsh is confirmed, because Jeanine Pirro just said the exact same thing on Fox. The DOJ announced an antitrust settlement with the Big Four meat packers controlling 85% of US beef processing, with more protein pricing settlements coming this week. Rudy Giuliani is in critical condition in the hospital, Ukraine is still being funded despite what social media is saying, the Tucker for president op is in full swing, and Jon explains in about thirty seconds why it is the same playbook as DeSantis 2023.

CannCon and Zak Paine open the week with prayers for three warriors: Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition, and both Hoff brothers from Gateway Pundit hospitalized simultaneously, with CannCon making the case that lawfare is as lethal as any weapon. A cruise ship off Cape Verde loses three passengers to a suspected Hantavirus outbreak with possible human-to-human transmission, and the Stanford biosecurity expert who caught an AI chatbot designing a bioweapon and maximizing casualties stays silent under NDA. Spirit Airlines collapses overnight, stranding hundreds of thousands, with the irony being that Elizabeth Warren's antitrust block of the JetBlue merger is the direct reason there is now zero competition. USCIS launches a denaturalization strike force with no statute of limitations on immigration fraud, and a UC Berkeley law professor lays out why Minnesota state officials who knew fraud money went to Somalia could face material support to terrorism charges. Tampa arrests a thousand child sex offenders in four months, mostly foreign nationals who should have been deported years ago. ATF rolls back 30-plus regulations and moves toward removing suppressors and SBRs from the NFA. Louisiana redistricting chaos: Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina call special sessions while ACLU argues the opposite of what its lawyers argued in Virginia.

JB White had a rough show day technically, but not intellectually. He opens with a milestone salute to Clarence Thomas before getting to the real business: James Thorne's sharp analysis of why China's tough talk on sanctions is all swagger and no structure. Beijing refuses to float the yuan or open its capital account, which means it is building a walled-off subsystem, not a dollar replacement. JB adds his own commentary framing Trump as the architect of a new monetary order where America is no longer a junior partner to British and European systems. He then takes direct aim at Emmanuel Macron's claim that the US, Russia, and China are aligned against Europe, and at Tom Luongo's agreement with that framing, calling it proof that Trump has successfully fooled people who should know better. JB also names the groupthink problem inside Badlands Media plainly and without apology.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come in hot on Episode 25 with a week full of major moves. Putin's special envoy just publicly validated Q and Anons on the world stage. Fauci's senior adviser Morens has been indicted, Daszak is next, and Fauci himself may be days away from a statute of limitations deadline. The Epstein Zoro Ranch is being probed for bodies. The Rothschild banking dynasty is reportedly imploding over Epstein file exposure. A US Navy admiral just confirmed Atlantis is real and may have identified its location on the ocean floor. Oh, and peer reviewed studies are showing ivermectin and fenbendazole are producing complete cancer remissions. Just a typical Sunday night with Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid.

Burning Bright brings on GMoney for a conversation that starts with Iran and ends somewhere near the future of civilization. The two map out how Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are running a controlled demolition of the globalist financial cartel, using operation economic fury to suffocate the shadow banking networks that have controlled nations for decades. GMoney makes the case that Bitcoin is not just an investment but a weapons network and tool of sovereign power, a thesis now being confirmed in real time by four-star Admiral Papparo and Defense Secretary Hegseth in congressional testimony. From California gas prices to Michael Saylor's reverse vampire strategy, from Trump's Nashville Bitcoin speech to Eric Trump calling crypto "dead serious" national security infrastructure, this episode builds a coherent picture of why American power in 2026 is being used to seed power back to the individual.

Part three of the ether series gets its hands dirty. Jonathan Drake and Polymath tear into the Michelson-Morley experiment, the so-called "nail in the coffin" for ether theory, and demonstrate that the experiment was built on a pile of unexamined assumptions that did the heavy lifting before a single beam of light was split. Then, they introduce one of the most foundational concepts of the series: principle and attribute. A wave is not a thing. It is what something does. A shadow has no properties of its own. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. The episode closes with a live recreation of the double slit experiment using a laser pointer and a single strand of Jonathan's daughter's hair, producing a textbook wave interference pattern on the wall and, arguably, the most low-budget proof in physics history that something in this universe is most definitely waving.

Jon Herold sits down with Adrian and Cristina of Rise Attire for one of the most unexpectedly moving episodes yet. What started as a desperate prayer into the internet void during the chaos of 2020 turned into a business, a marriage, and a movement. Adrian and Cristina share how they met across state lines, got deplatformed by both Shopify and GoFundMe in back to back gut punches, and turned a live DJ dance party on Pilled into a surprise on camera proposal and a crowdfunded comeback. They dig into the real cost of staying made in America, the advertising blackout that censors their brand across every major platform, and their expansion through Rise INTL. Plus, they share jaw dropping family histories rooted in surviving Soviet camps, Nazi concentration camps, and the Spanish Civil War, and two new film projects that are pushing the info war into a new creative frontier. This is the love story nobody expected.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with a week-later review of the WHCA Dinner shooting, including new video, conflicting stories between the DOJ, Secret Service, and the DC US Attorney, and a federal judge privately admonishing prosecutors for grandstanding in a session that somehow ended up on CNN anyway. From there the show covers the coordinated Ron DeSantis media rehabilitation push and what it signals about the 2028 positioning race. Then comes a sharp breakdown of the revelation that the NSA and Cyber Command's election security group has not been activated heading into the 2026 midterms, which the guys connect to Jon's Devolution Part 9 research and the broader question of whether the midterms are even going to happen. Trump's True Social posts on the filibuster, cognitive exams and "three terms," and the UNO wildcards card get analyzed as potential DevoComms. The show closes on a substantive conversation about Tucker Carlson's antichrist comments, Trump's weaponized reverse psychology communication strategy, and the dead Internet theory and how manufactured online engagement shapes reality.

Episode 50 of Flow hits the half century mark with Cam Cooksey in full stride. He breaks down a batch of Trump True Social posts including the "three terms" devolution signal buried in a cognitive exam post, Trump's sharp rebuke of Fox News for platforming Bill Maher, tariffs on EU autos, the Iraq new PM congratulations, and the King Charles visit as a power move. Cam also unpacks the question of which "lunatic" nuclear nation Trump was really referencing in a Villages speech. The faith segment goes deep: a morning prayer post from Eric Rice, Tim Tebow on trusting God over circumstances, Jeremy Doku on Jesus filling emptiness, and Jackie's Bread of Life Rumble short spark Cam's extended personal testimony about a broken leg at 17, a kidney stone in New Zealand, and his full surrender to God at 30. RFK Jr.'s former White House health adviser publicly confesses to blocking a vaccine safety commission in 2017. American of the Week is Philip Livingston, the elite who traded comfort for revolution.

Jordan Sather opens with a refreshingly honest rant on self-inflicted health crises, the difference between ignorance and nescience, and why leading by example is the most powerful tool in your health arsenal. Then the news gets spicy. Fauci's senior NIAID adviser David Moranz has been indicted for obstructing COVID investigations, Peter Daszak is all but confirmed as a coconspirator, and Fauci himself faces a May 11 statute of limitations deadline. Purdue Pharma gets dissolved and hit with a $5 billion penalty. The farm bill strips pesticide liability protections from Big Ag, and Thomas Massey's PRIME Act opens the door for local farmers to sell directly to consumers. Trump nominates Dr. Nicole Safier for Surgeon General, drawing cautious optimism. And Ron Johnson keeps the pressure on with new VAERS data and evidence the CDC hid the myocarditis signal entirely.

Happy birthday to the Mother Road, and to the entire US numbered highway system, all turning 100 in 2026. Host Matt Trump takes a loving, historically grounded tour through the soul of American freedom: the open road. From the first cross-country drive in a 1903 Winton motorcar to the Lincoln Highway to the birth of Route 66 from the Federal Highway Act of 1926, Matt traces how America built its road culture from the ground up, literally by private citizens with paper maps and guts. He also sounds the alarm on the NHTSA vehicle kill switch mandate, a Biden-era law pushing real-time AI surveillance of drivers, and what it means for the future of American freedom behind the wheel. A celebration, a history lesson, and a quiet warning.

Episode 103 opens with the White House declaring the Iran war terminated as the War Powers Resolution deadline hits. Ghost walks through Joe Kent's "declare victory and leave" framework, parallels to the Iraq mission accomplished moment, and why Trump's posture toward Iran looks increasingly like Reagan's 1984 Lebanon exit. Trump simultaneously threatens troop withdrawals from Spain, Italy, and Germany and hits the EU with a 25% auto tariff, accelerating what Ghost calls the inevitable dismantling of NATO. Iraq gets a new prime minister designate with a complex banking past tied to sanctioned money laundering networks, while Bloomberg reports two competing Gulf alliances forming around the UAE/Israel axis versus a Saudi Arabia/Turkey/Pakistan/Egypt bloc. Israel's internal fractures deepen: the former Mossad chief calls settler violence an existential threat, IDF generals use the phrase Jewish terrorism, and Bennett and Lapid merge parties ahead of October elections. The episode closes with the sweeping US indictment of Sinaloa's sitting governor and nine other Mexican officials, and Ghost ties it back to Colombian president Petro's long standing warnings about cartel banking networks.

Election season has Ashe in a full spiral and honestly, same. The crew digs into Colorado's election year circus, Trump's True Social praise for Louisiana canceling its primaries, and whether the whole corrupt machine should just be shut down entirely. Then things get geologically weird: 17 earthquakes in one day near Area 51 send the gang down a live map overlay rabbit hole that somehow ends in alien defense strategy. From underground secrets to aboveground disasters, the Oklahoma oil well story lands hard: a family's home destroyed by a long-forgotten uncapped well from 1947, insurance denial, contaminated water tables, and zero accountability. Somehow there is also a wildly fake JPMorgan sexual harassment lawsuit, a precognition story involving credit card scammers, and Ashe confirming she is visiting Tina Peters in prison. A show that starts with electoral theory and ends with sheep detectives is exactly the kind of week it has been.

Jon Herold comes into Friday with a full show and a guest. Cybersecurity expert Skip Holt joins to break down two massive data breaches: the Medtronic ransomware hack locking down 9 million patient records and the Conduent breach now affecting 100 million Americans. Jon then connects those stories to something nobody is discussing: the US Election Security Group has not been activated for the midterms, and Jon thinks that silence might be telling. Louisiana just suspended its House primaries after the SCOTUS redistricting ruling, Trump called it tremendous vision and leadership, and Jon is connecting the dots to a potential nationwide midterm cancellation template. The DOJ is now weighing a second Comey indictment over the classified Daniel Richmond documents that John Durham mysteriously declined to prosecute years ago. Trump is also trying to reset the 60-day War Powers clock by arguing the ceasefire paused hostilities, which Jon finds legally creative. Oil prices stubbornly refuse to spike the way analysts predicted despite the biggest supply disruption in history, and Jon thinks that story reveals something important about Trump's economic strategy. Plus the national debt hits $39 trillion and Jon does math that nobody wants to hear.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle the 2007 Coen Brothers masterpiece No Country for Old Men, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Woody Harrelson. The guys agree it's a modern American classic, and dig into why a film with such a stripped-down setting and plot manages to carry such enormous philosophical weight. The conversation moves through Sheriff Ed Tom Bell's opening monologue about not wanting to "put his soul at hazard" against an evil he doesn't understand, the nature of psychopathy and whether inherent evil exists, and Anton Chigurh's coin-flipping determinism versus Carla Jean's stark refusal to play his game. They unpack Carson Wells as a coward who depends on the rules of the system, the off-screen death of Llewelyn Moss as a deliberate breaking of storytelling rules, and why Chigurh, not Bell or Moss, is arguably the true protagonist whose arc actually changes. From there they zoom out to the dark night of the soul, systemic evil, why the enemy lost its mandate after World War II, the gas pump sticker meme, and how moral relativism quietly leads good people into advocating for monsters.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday discussion show that earns its runtime. Louisiana delays its house primaries after the Calais decision while Rep. Cleo Fields cries that "people have already voted," which is hilarious given the Virginia Democrats argued the opposite in their own Supreme Court hearing. CannCon and Chris dig into the downstream constitutional implications of ungerrymandering, including whether a GOP-dominant state legislature landscape creates the runway to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, restore state election of senators, and drain money from senate races by taking away the celebrity glamour of running statewide. Trump's whiskey tariff deal with Scotland on behalf of Kentucky opens a conversation about pre-constitutional state sovereignty and whether Trump is optically separating from the British imperial relationship or quietly reasserting it. The fourteenth amendment, the Federal Reserve, and the Creature from Jekyll Island tie it all together. Then CannCon plays the Rosa DeLauro versus Lee Zeldin appropriations hearing where DeLauro claims Zeldin made up Loper Bright, West Virginia v. EPA, and the major questions doctrine. Chris breaks down why this is exactly what institutional delegitimization looks like in real time.

JB White closes out the Alexander Muse deep dive on Scott Bessent's dollar swap line doctrine and delivers the five-point grand strategy summary that ties the whole thing together: patient, profitable, protective of the American taxpayer, requiring no troops, and built to make alternative payment systems structurally irrelevant. He also shares an Indian geopolitical chart framing America as the clear dominant power, China as an aspiring power in decline, and argues the UAE has quietly outmaneuvered MBS with a smarter regional alliance. The Supreme Court's race-based redistricting ruling gets a sharp breakdown through John Tillman's lens: sixty years of guaranteed seats in the safest minority Democratic districts produced the worst schools, the highest murder rates, and zero competitive accountability. JB also floats a Trumpian theory about King Charles and Parliament that nobody else is talking about.