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Episode 187 is a full call-in show, and the audience brings a lot. Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with the leaked Axios report claiming Trump called Netanyahu "fucking crazy" and told him he'd be in prison without him, plus a pointed takedown of Mark Levin's selective outrage about leaks only when they damage Israel. Max Southwest Patriot calls in with a tightly reasoned theory that the viral tick-box psyop was deliberately seeded to build demand for the Pfizer Lyme disease vaccine, walking through the week-by-week timeline from the first X post to Hannity to RFK Jr., and arguing NGOs are the laundering mechanism behind health scare operations. Rebelnator calls in to ask the question a lot of people are quietly thinking: have the Q drops and devolution framework made the MAGA movement dangerously passive? Jon and Zak give a layered, honest answer rather than a cheerleader response, including a frank acknowledgment that the movement must survive and outgrow Trump himself. Later callers dig into Art Bell's mysterious final broadcast in 2016, the NESARA grift, what the Founders would actually prescribe for fixing the republic, and a firsthand Brown Mountain Lights sighting from a Badlands cofounder who has footage.

Ghost and Alpha Warrior take the Tuesday show with CannCon out for a family emergency, and they do not waste a minute. Ghost opens by tracing a fake story about Iran's president resigning all the way back to a London-based Saudi British intelligence outlet called Volant Media, showing in real time how Fox News changed its headline when the story collapsed while keeping the original article live. Alpha connects it to Red Sea Ventures, the company that manages Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Bill O'Reilly, and a dozen other "independent" media voices and was purchased by Fox Corporation in February, raising pointed questions about what independence actually means. Ghost then dissects two Megyn Kelly clips: a 2025 Virginia Tech appearance where she told students to trust only her and Ben Shapiro, and a 2026 Sean Ryan interview where she called MAGA an Israeli-supporting pedophile lobby. Ghost frames it as a sophisticated gatekeeping operation. The big geopolitical story is Axios reporting Trump called Netanyahu crazy, told him he would be in prison without Trump's help, and blocked a Beirut strike, a story neither Trump nor Netanyahu denied. Mark Levin immediately melted down and demanded an FBI investigation. Ghost and Alpha break down every angle of the call and what it signals about where the Iran peace deal actually stands.

Hop on the back of a Yautja and come along as Lance, Owen, Cody and special guest, Alex Duchscher, discuss the 2025 film Predator: Badlands.If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and share!Follow us:Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/filmoscopypodFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/people/Filmoscopy-Podcast/100088099624743/

CannCon and Zak Paine open June with a Monday show full of big moments. Tina Peters walks out of a Colorado prison live on Steve Bannon's War Room, and CannCon and Zak play her full statement about lead in the water, a sugar-and-salt prison diet that destroyed her blood sugar, and violent offenders with 2050 exit dates sharing her facility. New Jersey's Delaney Hall ICE protests produce five out-of-state arrests from a single night, a truck driver's viral counter-speech that breaks Antifa's brain, an undercover infiltration of the protest camp revealing USAID-branded gas masks and tactical supplies, and Zak's framing that the entire occupation is a deliberate intelligence-gathering sting. A man who threatened to kill ICE officers and their families on camera is promptly arrested by the FBI, Todd Blanche confirming the DOJ is done tolerating it. The America 250 concert at the National Mall starts losing performers who claim they were misled about Trump's involvement, and Trump responds on Truth Social by offering to replace them all with himself and giving a rally instead. Muckrakers drops a seventeen-minute investigation tracking SNAP benefits purchased in Massachusetts onto boats to Santo Domingo and into Dominican Republic bodegas. Seattle's mayor refuses to investigate, citing community fear.

Jon Herold pulls back the curtain on one of the people actually keeping Badlands running. Jessica Storm has been behind the scenes for over two and a half years, building run sheets, scheduling shows, and making sure the whole operation looks good on the front end. But she has also been quietly building something of her own. All Good is a tallow based skincare line Jessica makes entirely in her kitchen, in small batches, from grass fed beef tallow sourced in bulk from a trusted supplier. No lab created shortcuts, no mystery ingredients, just clean product piped into glass jars and shipped frozen in the summer. She walks Jon through how she got into clean living after the 2020 wake up and her big vision to eventually expand All Good into laundry, condiments, and beyond. Consider this your formal introduction to someone you have probably never seen but whose work you have definitely benefited from.

NYCC Conversations with Emily Beecham & Aramis Knight In this episode of Byte, Tony revisits Into the Badlands, AMC's visually stunning, genre‑defying martial‑arts saga that never got the mainstream recognition it deserved. Recorded live at New York Comic Con, Tony speaks with Emily Beecham (The Widow) and Aramis Knight (M.K.) Together, they reflect on the series' ambitious fight choreography, its bold world‑building, and the character journeys that made Into the Badlands a cult favorite.   SAVE 17% ON PLUS  

CannCon and Chris Paul close out May with a Friday that mixes epistemology, geopolitics, and fraud exposure in equal measure. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during a test fire at Cape Canaveral, and Chris Paul uses it to open a discussion on predictive programming, the feedback loop between Hollywood and government, and the fundamental epistemological question nobody asks: how do we actually know the things we are told are true? The Trump White House drops a troll page called whitehouse.gov/aliens using UFO language to describe 3.1 million illegal immigrant encounters, and the conversation about real disclosure follows naturally. Axios publishes another Iran deal framework that Chris Paul dismantles piece by piece, noting the media does not know who is negotiating on either side and has published multiple false frameworks already. The CSIS think tank, funded by the Gates Foundation, Open Societies, Rockefeller Brothers, and 16 foreign governments, warns that US weapons stockpiles are depleted after the Iran conflict, and CannCon identifies it as the military industrial complex demanding a rebuild. The national debt interest now consumes 19 cents of every federal tax dollar. A Fox News segment reveals North Carolina had an 11,000 percent increase in autism therapy Medicaid billing in four years, Minnesota 51,000 percent since 2018, and Todd Blanche confirms politicians including Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar are in the scope of accountability.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle David Ayer's 2014 World War II film Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Pena. Burning Bright picked it as a Memorial Day rewatch and argues it is one of the most underrated war films of the modern era, deserving way more credit than Saving Private Ryan style lionization tends to allow. The guys dig into the five very different spiritual approaches of the tank crew, the dehumanization of war daddy, bible, gordo, kunas, and the painfully innocent Norman, and why the infamous early execution scene is not the glorification it gets accused of being. They unpack the central biblical passage from First John chapter two, do not love the world or anything in the world, as the real moral spine of the film and the heart of all discernment. From there they go big picture, hitting Jevons paradox and how better military tech just means more efficient mass sacrifice, why World War II had the cleanest cartoon story of any modern war, the controlled opposition Nazi op being run on MAGA right now, narrative shielding through Donald Trump's hyper Zionist posture, and the fiery tank as a birth canal delivering Norman into a second chance.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday show with Alpha fresh off his son's high school graduation and the news fully loaded. The DOJ opens a criminal perjury investigation into E. Jean Carroll over her deposition lie about Reid Hoffman funding her lawsuit, and Alpha argues the Chicago venue choice signals prosecutors from the original New York case may themselves become targets. Former CIA senior officer David Rush is charged with stealing 300 gold bars worth $40 million from a storage unit near his office, along with $2 million cash and 35 Rolexes, after lying about his credentials on three applications over 20 years. Alpha connects it to Operation Gladio-style black ops funding and says this is a much bigger story than most people recognize. Retired General Neil McCasklin vanishes after a dinner where a witness says he was not himself, and Alpha argues his voluntary disappearance into protective custody makes more sense than a kidnapping given the missing scientists pattern and his documented UFO clearance. Jill Biden tells CBS she thought the debate was a stroke, then the same clip shows her cheering Joe on afterward. Biden sues the DOJ to block his 2017 ghostwriter audio tapes. Alpha and CannCon lay out the full timeline: auto pen pardon challenge before the midterms, big arrests after.

CannCon and Ashe in America hit Chapter 4 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the target this week is the Savings and Loan industry. Griffin walks through how government housing subsidies starting in the 1930s pulled real estate out of the free market, created perverse incentives for reckless lending, and ultimately produced a bailout that cost American taxpayers the equivalent of $1.5 trillion in today's dollars. The FSLIC collapses to 2/10ths of a penny per insured dollar. The Federal Reserve bypasses Congress entirely to bail out Lincoln Savings. Accounting gimmicks turn insolvent thrifts into paper-solvent zombies hemorrhaging millions per day. Then Griffin drops the junk bond chapter: the high-yield market was thriving, outperforming Fortune 500 bonds, and creating 18 million jobs until the government declared it junk and forced a fire sale that conveniently handed the market back to Wall Street. Congress? Silent. Because it wrote the laws that caused all of it.

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CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a primary night that delivered. Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn by 25 points despite being outspent 9 to 1, and Ashe frames it as the clearest proof yet that voter intent is real even inside a broken system. Al Green is unseated in Houston by a younger challenger, another product of the redistricting wave. Tina Peters is days away from walking out, and Ashe explains why the real story of Tina Peters is not the machines she copied but the material witness testimony she holds about the weaponization of government as treason. CannCon and Ashe debate the fake versus fraudulent election question with genuine intellectual honesty, discuss the sting operation theory for 2026, and compare the Paxton outcome to what happened to Massey. The DNC releases a post-2024 autopsy assessment, and PBS runs a segment where a Democratic strategist admits the party is being financially obliterated, with 12 million protest attendees apparently unable to find $5 to give the DNC. Ashe connects it directly to the dark money apparatus being cut off. The Colorado governor debate frames the real choice of the midterms: the system is sound versus the system must be transformed. CannCon and Ashe close with the post-partisan America argument and the Munk debate populism clip.

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday fresh off Memorial Day with a show that does not waste a single minute. An Escondido army veteran who flew Trump flags outside his home dies from an unprovoked beating, and CannCon and Ghost frame it as the inevitable product of years of normalized political violence. Axios floats AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and Gavin Newsom for 2028 in the same breath it publishes a hit piece on Trump's "irreversible choices," and CannCon fact-checks every bullet point live. Ghost delivers his framework on why the Republican Party is not MAGA's party and never was, and CannCon plays the Cape Cod taxpayer speech that has been going viral as the model for what grassroots self-organization actually looks like. The GOP Senate civil war is front and center: Republican senators are threatening to tank the reconciliation bill over the anti-weaponization fund and the ballroom, both of which involve zero taxpayer money. Ghost plays Tim Burchett insisting AIPAC money is no big deal because Jews are only two percent of the population, then plays John Podhoretz saying out loud that Jewish money will be used to destroy any candidate perceived as antisemitic. Ghost then presents the Israeli government's own approved budget allocating $750 million to influence American politics through online influencers.

CannCon and Zak Paine open a packed Memorial Day Monday with a salute to fallen brothers and a show full of enormous developments. Trump skips Don Junior's wedding to stay at the White House, and instead of an Iran strike, he announces a broad peace memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain. Israel is conspicuously absent from the signatory list and receives only a separate phone call. The neocon wing explodes: Cruz, Graham, Pompeo, and Levin all melt down publicly, and White House spokesman Stephen Chung tells Pompeo on the record that he has no idea what he is talking about and should shut his mouth. Tulsi Gabbard resigns as DNI after her husband Abraham is diagnosed with a rare and fast-moving bone cancer. CannCon and Zak flag that her replacement is a 20-year CIA officer, arriving exactly as the CIA-versus-DNI battle reaches its peak. Catherine Herridge confirms the CIA was tracking every keystroke of Gabbard's DIG team, with an IT work order proving someone requested the surveillance deliberately. Republican senators screamed at Todd Blanche in a closed door meeting over the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund. J6 convictions are vacated. A federal judge dismisses human smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia calling them vindictive prosecution.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show that covers fearmongering, geopolitics, and a reconciliation bill meltdown. The Hantavirus narrative did not catch on, so Ebola is back: a passenger from the DRC accidentally boards a flight to Detroit, gets diverted to Montreal, and Marco Rubio confirms the US is funding 50 clinics in the DRC while keeping the disease out of the country. Chris Paul frames the whole sequence as a political pressure campaign designed to give impeachment-minded media another angle on Trump. CannCon continues watching the Venezuela playbook unfold in Cuba: Raul Castro indicted, Ratcliffe secretly in Havana, the Nimitz carrier group in the Caribbean, and Trump telling reporters the place is just falling apart and there is no need for military action. The DOJ's $1.76 billion anti-weaponization fund from Trump's personal IRS settlement sends Tom Tillis into a full meltdown on television, and CannCon and Chris Paul dismantle his framing piece by piece. Senate Republicans go home for Memorial Day instead of voting on the reconciliation bill, and the parliamentarian blocks the ballroom funding. CannCon also presents a canary trap theory: the J6 pardoned who do not apply for the fund may be exposing themselves as provocateurs.

Chris Paul is joined by his good friend Josh Capps, a literature professor and screenwriter from Louisiana, sitting in for Burning Bright. The two break down Warren Beatty's 1998 political satire Bulworth, which Beatty wrote, directed, and starred in opposite Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Isaiah Washington, and a nearly silent Sean Astin. Josh argues the film sits on a fascinating cultural crux point. He thinks 1998 was the pivot year when Hollywood shifted toward heavy programming, citing The Truman Show, Deep Impact, Armageddon, and The Siege all landing in the same window. The guys dig into Bulworth's opening confession that political assassinations are just a normal Tuesday for a senator with a fixer on speed dial, the eerie parallel between Bulworth dropping the mask once he had a hit out on himself and the way Trump later dispensed with the political pretense entirely, and Aaron Sorkin's fingerprints on the worst Halle Berry monologues about NAFTA and manufacturing. They also wander through the rise of West Coast rap as a marketing tool aimed at young kids, Public Enemy's 1994 song calling out a fake World Health Organization pandemic, the hierarchy of corporate political influence, and the difference between memory and story.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday show with election infrastructure and the machinery running underneath it front and center. Virginia Governor Spanberger announces an executive order on how state election workers should "deal with" federal agents at polling places, and Alpha immediately spots the legal trap she set for herself: by announcing a formal process to delay and obstruct, she documented intent to commit a federal crime. Chicago's city council passes the Jesse Jackson Fair Access to Democracy Ordinance 42-8 with a democracy zone framework and a taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote panel after an alderman reportedly tells colleagues there will be "a knife to your throat" if they vote no. Trump drops a Truth Social post calling for the removal of Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough, appointed by Harry Reid in 2009, as the SAVE America Act stalls in reconciliation. Alpha and CannCon map out why Trump is using the parliamentarian story to build public awareness ahead of a much bigger move. James O'Keefe updates the Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong case, revealing she told him off camera she has names of people committing worse election crimes and appears to be cooperating with the DOJ. Spencer Pratt's AI-generated "I'm not MAGA or anything" campaign ad earns the highest praise of the episode.

CannCon and Ashe in America close out Chapter 3 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the hits keep coming. Continental Illinois triggers the world's first electronic bank run, and the FDIC quietly covers 96% of uninsured deposits while small banks down the street get shut down the same week. The chapter then jumps to 2008: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, TARP, the auto bailouts, and the Merrill Lynch forced merger. Henry Paulson engineers the demolition of his Goldman Sachs rivals while protecting his alma mater. Banks announce they "repaid" loans using other government money, and the whole thing gets called a success. By the end, the government quietly owns 56% of GMAC and 80% of AIG, but nobody calls it nationalization. CannCon and Ashe also compare the third and fifth editions of the book, finding key sections merged and updated. Griffin's second reason to abolish the Fed lands hard: it is not a protector of the public. It is a cartel operating against it.

The conversation covers the disnification of the Predator franchise, the use of practical effects and CGI, the reception and audience response to the film, and a humorous discussion about the Disneyfication of horror franchises. The conversation delves into the portrayal of characters in movies, highlighting the impact of video games on character development and the influence of video game dynamics on movie characters. It also explores the significance of character performances and the challenges of portraying dual roles within a single movie. The conversation methodically reviewed and ranked the Predator movie franchise, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each film. The themes of the franchise were explored, including the evolution of the Predator character and the impact of corporate influence on the franchise. The conversation covers the creation of a new franchise, specifically an Alien Invasion franchise, and discusses the challenges and excitement of building a movie franchise. It also delves into the exploration of various movie franchises and the anticipation of upcoming movies.TakeawaysFranchise DisnificationPG-13 Success Character portrayal in moviesInfluence of video games on movie characters Franchise RankingPredator MoviesFranchise Themes Franchise CreationAlien InvasionMovie FranchisesChapters00:00 Predator Badlands: Disnification14:01 Disneyfication of Horror Franchises22:46 Character Portrayal in Movies40:50 Influence of Video Games on Movie Characters53:57 Franchise Ranking01:03:00 Next Franchise Reveal

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a show packed with Georgia and Kentucky primary fallout. Brad Raffensperger, Gabriel Sterling, and Chris Carr all fail to make the runoff in the Georgia governor's race, which Ashe frames as three people who are going to need the time back to prepare their criminal defense. Ed Galleran defeats Thomas Massey in Kentucky with $15 million from AIPAC and a victory party of roughly 30 people. CannCon reads Massey's full legislative record dating back to Trump's inauguration and challenges anyone to explain which bill on that list they disagree with. Ashe makes the principled point that emotional investment in any of these races is exactly how people get rug-pulled. Multiple primaries going to runoffs are already producing calls for ranked choice voting from both DSA and libertarian factions, and Ashe breaks down why it is the next layer of election opacity being added to an already unverifiable system. The Maritime Cybersecurity Act would bar Chinese components from ports and grid infrastructure, which CannCon and Ashe point out explicitly does not include voting machines despite election systems being defined as critical infrastructure. Trump endorses Ken Paxton for Texas Senate and primaries Cornyn. South Carolina passes a new 7-0 congressional map.

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CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with Ghost fresh off a Caribbean wedding where he discovered Epstein Island is visible from a crowded ferry. DOJ announces the plea deal of Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, a 20-year veteran of registering homeless people on Skid Row with cigarettes and cash, exposed by James O'Keefe. CannCon connects her voter roll padding directly to Maryland's mail-in ballot crisis, where Trump posts that 500,000 illegal ballots were sent out and demands a DOJ investigation of Governor Wes Moore. Stacey Abrams confirms what CannCon said three weeks ago: the Louisiana v. Calais redistricting decision threatens not just congressional seats but up to 191 state legislative districts, and with them every city council, county commission, and school board in the South. Ghost previews the Western Kentucky AIPAC versus Massey primary as a guaranteed lose-lose for the establishment GOP: either outcome blows up the coalition. Linda McMahon reveals the FAFSA fraud crackdown is stopping ghost students, bots, and dead people from collecting federal loans. The San Diego Islamic Center shooting unfolds with fog of war caution. And a Minnesota ICE officer is charged in a shooting CannCon says deserves a trial regardless of politics.

CannCon and Zak Paine open Monday with a show packed with election accountability developments. Tina Peters is getting out after Colorado Governor Polis halves her sentence, and CannCon and Zak break down her statement of contrition, the Jenna Griswold CNN meltdown that says the quiet part out loud, and the Sonia Jaquez Lewis comparison that makes the double standard impossible to explain away. Breaking during prep: unsealed testimony confirms Georgia investigators killed the 2020 election probe at Governor Kemp's personal request, a story CannCon broke at Badlands in February. Acting AG Todd Blanche goes on Maria Bartiromo and confirms there is a ton of evidence the 2020 election was rigged, multiple active investigations in Arizona and Fulton County, and a RICO grand conspiracy case in the Southern District of Florida with hundreds of subpoenas and witnesses. CannCon plays Comey telling embedded FBI employees to "hang on for two and a half years," and Brennan telling CIA and DOJ holdouts that good people are still in place, framing both as dog whistles that are simultaneously generating subpoenable evidence. Kamala Harris floats a "no bad ideas" agenda including abolishing the electoral college and expanding the Supreme Court. Bill Cassidy loses his Senate primary. Tom Kean is still missing.

Ce 18 mai, au rayon des incontournables de Pop-Rock Station, Marjorie Hache convoque Dire Straits, Placebo, Janis Joplin, Cat Power ou encore System of a Down. L'animatrice rend deux poignants hommages à des légendes du rock disparues à cette même date : Chris Cornell avec "Black Hole Sun" de Soundgarden, et Ian Curtis avec le titre "Dead Souls" de Joy Division. S'ajoutent à cette belle sélection The Runaways, Dropkick Murphys, Jeff Buckley et Supergrass. En matière de nouveautés, Massive Attack et Tom Waits ouvrent la marche sur "Boots On The Ground". Jack White dévoile "G.O.D and the Broken Ribs", tandis que The Strokes, l'Australienne Courtney Barnett et les Lambrini Girls complètent le tableau. Le groupe londonien Fat Dog s'illustre également avec l'irrévérencieux "Go Fuck Urself". La primeur de la soirée met en lumière le trio francilien Gurl, qui offre la pépite indépendante "Forecast". L'album de la semaine se penche sur le huitième disque de l'Américain Kevin Morby, "Little Wide Open", dont on découvre aujourd'hui l'extrait "Badlands" inspiré par les vastes paysages du Midwest. Enfin, la reprise du jour s'annonce envoûtante : l'artiste électro-folk islandais Ásgeir s'approprie la célèbre chanson "Heart-Shaped Box" de Nirvana. Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots On The Ground Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Joy Division - Dead Souls Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye The Runaways - Cherry Bomb The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night Cat Power - Peace And Love Kevin Morby - Badlands Dire Straits - Love Over Gold Dropkick Murphys - Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann The Strokes - Going Shopping Asgeir - Heart Shaped Box System Of A Down - Lonely Day Courtney Barnett - Wonder Depeche Mode - Policy Of Truth Interpol - Lights Lambrini Girls - Cult Of Celebrity Them - Gloria Jeff Buckley - So Real Gurl - Forecast Janis Joplin - Cry Baby Supergrass - Strange Ones Babylon Zoo - Spaceman Fat Dog - Go Fuck Urself Iron Maiden - Fear Of The DarkHébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Rich Embury is back again with another flashback to the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s rock and metal scene! Rock History, and Classics from Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / Poison / The Black Crowes / Badlands / KISS / Nine Inch Nails / Prong / The Northern Pikes / The Jimi Hendrix Experience / The Cult / Kenny Rogers and the First Edition! This edition of Rich Embury's Power Hour aired initially LIVE on The Blitz 100.1 FM, KRFK Radio, Metal Crash Radio, Bulldogs Radio, Tripl3 Troubl3 Radio, Veckans Band Metal Radio, Rock On The Rise Radio, MetalRadioGR, NAR-Metal, Radio Infernale, Bloodstream Radio, Rock Nation, RockStar-Radio Underground, Earth Rock Radio, Whatever 68 Radio, KDUB Radio, CIA-Rock Radio, Rogue Rock Radio, Vibe Tunes Radio, LaFamilia-Radio, Morning Wood Radio, Pirate Radio, Radio X (AU), Dark Haven Radio, Coming Home Well Radio (United By Service), Doc Rock's Metal Shop 101 Radio, CGCM Rock Radio, Stay Vintage Radio, RetroRock Radio, Northland Radio and Insane Realm Radio, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026. Secondary airings on Heavy Metal Radio, Castle Blakk Radio, Digital Revolution Radio, Radio Metal Kultur, Freekshow Radio, Ragebreed Radio, Metal World Web Radio, Radio Heavy Metal and more throughout the rest of the week. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll Poison – (Flash & Blood) Sacrifice The Black Crowes – Sting Me Badlands – Healer KISS – Heart Of Chrome Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug Prong – Rude Awakening The Northern Pikes – She Ain’t Pretty (radio edit) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Fire The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary Kenny Rogers and the First Edition – Just dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) Poison – Look What The Cat Dragged In ——————————————————————————— SPONSORED BY FCK.FM MAGAZINE. A bi-monthly, FREE online magazine! Features rock & heavy metal, FCKgirls, gaming, horror, interviews, artist spotlights, and much more! Visit and share now: https://fck.fm/magazine ——————————————————————————— Also available to subscribe, download, and listen at the following major podcast sites & apps (and more):Apple Podcasts / Amazon Music / Audible / Mixcloud / iHeart Radio / TuneIn Radio / Player FM / Podchaser / Jiosaavn / Deezer / Podbean / Castbox / Radio Public / Pocket Cast / Podcast Addict / Castro / Overcast / Getme.radio / PodcastRepublic / Podcast.app / PodcastGuru / Pandora / Podcast Index Please leave a review on your favourite podcast site above.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show built for the big picture. Trump wraps his China summit with Xi, and the White House readout makes no mention of Taiwan, which Chris Paul reads exactly as it should be: the Taiwan crisis is a media fairy tale being dismantled in real time. Xi pledges no weapons to Iran and expresses interest in buying American oil to reduce reliance on the Strait of Hormuz. While Trump is in Beijing, CIA director Ratcliffe quietly lands in Havana to meet with Cuban officials and Raul Castro's grandson, with CBS simultaneously reporting the US is moving to indict Raul Castro himself. CannCon maps the Venezuela and Iran regime change playbook onto Cuba and asks if 90-mile-away Cuba is next. The House Oversight Committee subpoenas Arabella Advisors' 1630 Fund over the Chorus Program, which paid social media influencers up to $8,000 a month to push Democrat talking points without disclosure. Chris Paul delivers a precise diagnosis of the Daily Wire's collapse, explaining how the Ben Shapiro network was never a product of real political analysis but of algorithm boosting and paid talking points. Chris then lays out his full theory of Trump's discombobulator strategy, explaining how Trump taking every position forces public opposition that resolves false narratives over time.

CannCon and Ashe in America tackle Chapter 3 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, where the theoretical bailout playbook from Chapter 2 gets applied to real history. Penn Central, Lockheed, New York City, Chrysler, Commonwealth Bank of Detroit, First Pennsylvania Bank, and Continental Illinois all get walked through the same script: reckless loans, emotional blackmail to Congress, taxpayers absorb the losses, and the banks walk away whole. The FDIC gets exposed as a tiered system that quietly hands large banks a free ride on uninsured deposits paid for by smaller banks and the public. The duo also uncover significant content missing from the fifth edition compared to the third, including entire sections on the FDIC mechanics and the Unity Bank bailout, and ask the question everyone should be asking: why was it removed? Plus, CannCon drops the news that an interview with author G. Edward Griffin himself may be on the horizon.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright dig into the 2016 Justin Kurzel film Assassin's Creed, based on the long-running Ubisoft video game series and starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling. Both guys agree the movie underdelivers on its concept but is way better than the brutal reviews it received at the time, and the conceptual material gives them plenty to chew on. The conversation winds through how open world game engines build only what the player can see (a great metaphor for our own constructed reality), the eerie 2013 trailer for Ubisoft's The Division that predicted COVID with unsettling accuracy, and how Xbox lobbies and 4chan were quietly red-pilling young men years before MAGA existed. From there they dig into the philosophical heart of the film: the Templars chasing the Apple of Eden to eliminate free will, the assassins as imperfect guardians of human sovereignty, and whether a secret society fighting for the people can ever really be on the people's side. They close with the surveillance state as a counterfeit god, JFK's warning about secrecy, and why morality has to be inherent rather than coded by law.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday energy with a show that is almost entirely CIA. Senate Homeland Security Committee holds an open hearing with CIA whistleblower James Erdman, and not a single Democrat shows up. Erdman confirms that Fauci personally injected himself into the intelligence community's COVID origin review, that CIA analysts concluded lab leak was the most likely explanation as of August 12, 2021, and that the conclusion reversed five days later for reasons the CIA refuses to document. The single most alarming admission from the hearing: the CIA illegally monitored the computers and phone calls of ODNI's DIG investigators while they were executing work explicitly authorized by President Trump, and fired a contractor the day after he met with DIG. Alpha and CannCon lay out why the public hearing is preparation for a Fauci indictment and why the auto pen pardon is the central legal battlefield ahead. Anna Paulina Luna reports the CIA removed 40 boxes of JFK and MKULTRA files from ODNI while the DIG was being wound down. CNN drops an exclusive that the CIA has been conducting targeted assassinations of Sinaloa cartel operatives inside Mexico using car bombs, and CannCon and Alpha question whether the CIA is clearing the field for a competing cartel.

This week, James and Will are joined by ex-road pro turned gravel ace, Rob Britton. Born in Saskatchewan in Canada in 1984, Rob turned pro in 2010 with American team Bissell Pro Cycling and for the next 12 seasons raced at Continental level, arguably enjoying his best years with Rally Cycling (not that Raleigh, although he did race for that Raleigh in 2013), where he won the Tour of Utah, his second Tour of Gila in New Mexico and the Canadian National Time-Trial title. Given such strong showings in such hot, long and multi-day races, Rob was a safe bet when he – like lots of his road colleagues – moved into gravel. At first riding as a privateer – sponsored with a bit of kit but essentially riding team-less – Rob finished 6th in his first big gravel race, Unbound, in 2022, then the following year won Badlands – all 800km and 16,000 vertical metres of it. 2023 saw an incredible result at Traka, where he finished second behind fellow ex-road pro Pete Stetina, however arguably his best result so far came when the then 40-year-old beat Lachlan Morton at Unbound XL, finishing the 578km course at an astonishing average speed of 32.4kmh, smashing the course record by 12 minutes in the process.Such rides have seen Rob become part of the OVRLND adventure team, with backing from Easton Cycling, Castelli and Factor bikes, who's radical aero suspension gravel bike, the Sarana, Rob rode at this year's Traka 560.Whatever bike Rob rides he manages to make gruelling long-distance look easy, but as we chat about in this episode, his journey in cycling has been anything but, fraught with the difficulties of racing for smaller teams, the US's ever dwindling race calendar, and having to reinvent himself as a gravel racer, from canvassing for sponsors to looking after his own bikes. We caught up with Rob in Italy ahead of racing at The Hills Gravel Race in Treviso in March.Chat begins at 6.54-----------------This episode is brought to you by the Hammerhead Karoo GPS bike computer. Visit hammerhead.io and use the code CYCLIST to get a free HR strap with every purchase (just be sure to add the strap to your cart then apply the code at checkout)This episode is also brought to you by the Maserati Grecale SUV car. For more information, go to maserati.com------------------Did you know Cyclist is also stunning monthly print magazine?Subscribe now at store.cyclist.co.uk/cycpod and get every issue for less than in the shops, delivered straight to your doorWe're also a really lovely website about everything road cycling and gravel. Check us out at cyclist.co.uk, plus over the next few months we're running our very own Cyclist Track Days and Cycling Electric Demo days, where you can test ride the best bikes around purpose-built, closed-circuit tracks. For a full list of dates and venues across May and June, check out Cyclist Track Days and Cycling Electric Demo Days Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the outlaw poetry of Badlands to the cosmic spirituality of The Tree of Life, this week's Archive episode has Adam and Josh counting down the five most indelible moments from one of cinema's most elusive auteurs. Expect plenty of hushed voiceovers and magic-hour cinematography. Unlock the full archive, Filmspotting Discord, ad‑free + bonus episodes, and more when you ⁠join the Filmspotting Family⁠.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CannCon and Ashe bring Ash Wednesday with a show that ranges from the absurd to the consequential. Missouri's Supreme Court upholds redrawn congressional maps that effectively eliminate the only Democrat seat, and Mississippi sets a special session to redraw Bennie Thompson's district. Ashe and CannCon use the redistricting wave to make the deeper argument: the real problem is not who draws the districts but the 1929 cap at 435 representatives that makes political manipulation structurally inevitable. A Brooklyn Democrat assembly candidate has 90% of her 5,258 nominating signatures thrown out, including two from voters who have been dead for over a decade. Dr. Andrew Paquette's Why We Vote appearance the night before revealed 1.5 million cloned voter registrations in New York alone in 2020, and CannCon and Ashe show that US registered voter turnout hit 94.1% in 2020, higher than countries with compulsory voting. Kevin Warsh clears his Senate hurdle 51-45. Kash Patel eviscerates Senator Van Hollen live in committee. An undercover video catches a White House budget official calling Trump a madman. Trump calls out Mitch McConnell's Democratic-aligned handler Robert Karim by name.

Episode 417 takes you back to the Predator franchise. “Predator: Badlands” (2025) isn't what you might expect. It gives you family drama and backstories (yes, pertaining to the Predators) and some Tarzan tropes. No, seriously. So, get a bucket of popcorn and join your hosts. Find us on Instagram where we are @chewingthescenery or easily find us on Facebook. CTS can be found on Soundcloud, Apple Music and anywhere fine podcasts can be found. Please rate, review, subscribe- it really does help new listeners find us! #horror #horrormovies #horrornerd #horroraddict #horrorjunkie #monsterkid #bmovie #scary movies #monstermovie #podcast #chewingthescenery #zombies #zombie #VHS #predator #predatorbadlands

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday's geopolitics-heavy show with Ghost leading the charge. John Brennan goes on MSNBC and openly tells embedded bureaucrats to hold the line, and James Comey follows with the same message minutes later, giving CannCon two dog whistles in one segment to unpack. Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants to zero out the $3.8 billion in annual US military aid within a decade, and CannCon catches that he skipped the 2020 Trump meeting entirely in his timeline of conversations about Iran. Meanwhile, Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich says the war must end with Israel changing its borders to include Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank. Ghost breaks down the Knesset dissolution threat and why Netanyahu's only card left is reigniting the Iran war. The UAE is secretly attacking Iran while simultaneously begging Trump for a currency swap, as its banks hemorrhage hundreds of billions. Venezuela's oil is back at 2018 levels, global reserves are draining at a record pace from the Strait of Hormuz blockade, and Alaskan oil leases hit $163 million at auction. Ghost connects Trump's tariff history from McKinley through 1912 to today. Finnish president Stubb is profiled as a Western-groomed globalist, and a French presidential candidate calls for France to leave NATO.

Jon Herold sits down with Brian Tyson of Luv Litters for a surprisingly fascinating deep dive into one of the more unique Badlands sponsors. What do poultry litter, a retired Army colonel, and southern yellow pine have in common? The origin story of a cat litter company that's been running since 1994. Brian walks Jon through how his father's failed poultry integration business accidentally turned into a feed mill operation, which accidentally turned into wood pellet cat litter, which turns out to neutralize cat urine odor thanks to the natural chemistry of southern yellow pine. Brian also shares life on his Northeast Georgia farm with 300 head of cattle, four chicken houses, and a son finishing his freshman year at UGA who may one day take the whole thing over. Low key, genuine, and genuinely interesting. If you have a cat and a litter box you dread walking past, this one's for you.

CannCon and Zak Paine open the Monday show fresh off a massive Friday ruling and ready to connect all the dots. The Hantavirus narrative is in full swing with CNN, the New York Post, and the WHO doing their best to spin a Dutch ornithologist's South American landfill trip into the next pandemic, and CannCon maps out the election year fear playbook with every example going back to 2006. Trump refuses to rejoin the WHO. Susie Wiles drops a quiet bombshell at an award ceremony, saying she thinks Trump will be found to have won the states he appears to have lost in 2020, and CannCon unpacks why that statement from a former perceived gatekeeper is enormous. America First Legal exposes Minnesota's vouching system, which allowed more than 12,000 new voter registrations with no ID verification across three election cycles. Pete Hegseth launches a Department of War COVID vaccine reinstatement task force promising back pay and discharge upgrades to service members pushed out for refusing the mandate. The DOJ plans to release 70 hours of Biden's 2017 ghostwriter audio, and Biden's lawyers are racing to stop it. Plus, a former NFL player gets 196 months for $200M Medicare fraud and a Minnesota nonprofit diverts millions meant for violence prevention to Vegas trips and liquor stores.

The Jake E. Lee driven band, Badlands from the 80's only ended up with mild success and 3 albums to their credit. In many peoples opinion they are a hidden gem of a band from that era. For this episode we put together a board of directors that consisted of 5 Badlands fans and asked them to rank all the Badlands songs from their catalog and we are sharing the top 12 results to help put together a "Greatest Hits" package. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It's quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Leave Us A Five Star Review in one of the following places: Apple Podcast Podchaser Spotify Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin' Up Rock Loud Minority Facebook Group Do You Spotify? Then Follow us and Give Our Playlist a listen. We update it regularly with kick ass rock n roll Spotify Playlist Buy and Support Music From The Artist We Discuss On This Episode Growin' Up Rock Amazon Store Pantheon Podcast Network Music in this Episode Provided by the Following: Badlands and Eric Singer Project (ESP) Crank It Up New Music Spotlight The Pretty Reckless - “For I Am Death” If you dig what you are hearing, go pick up the album or some merch., and support these artists. A Special THANK YOU to Restrayned for the Killer Show Intro and transition music!! Restrayned Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The hunt continues… and this time, we go all in.In Part 2 of Should You Watch This with The Popcorn Priest, Chris and Dr. Dare break down Predator: Badlands (2025) with full spoilers — diving deep into the film's lore, effects, and what it means for the future of the franchise.We cover:

In 1910, a former president stood at the Sorbonne and delivered what would become one of the most quoted passages in American history. But Theodore Roosevelt wasn't a polished motivational speaker that day. He was a man who had buried his wife and mother on the same day, disappeared into the Badlands for two years, and rebuilt himself from nothing. That's the man behind "The Man in the Arena" — and that context changes everything. In this solo episode of The Upgraded Man, Chris Anderson reads Roosevelt's full passage and breaks it down into six movements every man needs to hear. This isn't a coffee mug quote anymore. This is a roadmap for the man who's tired of keeping a tally of his shortcomings and quietly wondering if he's built for any of this. In this episode, Chris unpacks: The real story behind Roosevelt's 1910 Sorbonne speech and why context changes the meaning Why the loudest critic in your life isn't on the internet — he's between your ears The difference between wanting the credit and being willing to take the bruises Why the polished man is the suspicious one, and what dust, sweat, and blood actually prove A direct word for the man keeping a running ledger of every place he's fallen short The critical difference between being exhausted and being spent — and why the cure isn't more rest Why neutrality, not failure, is the real opposite of being in the arena A three-part challenge: name the arena, text it to a brother, do one thing this week that risks failure If you've been circling something for months — a hard conversation, a decision at work, a prayer, a confession — this episode is the nudge to step in. The Upgraded Man Podcast is hosted by Chris Anderson and focuses on men's personal development across five life pillars. Recently rebranded after 500 episodes from The Elevate Media Podcast, the show is built for men who are done coasting and ready to do the work. Subscribe, share this episode with a brother who needs it, and come back in 30 days to see what changed. This episode may or may not be sponsored. Some product links are affiliate links, meaning we'll receive a small commission if you buy something.===========================⚡️ PODCAST: Subscribe and listen on all major platforms⚡️ Want to be a guest on The Upgraded Man? Apply here ➡ https://upgraded-man.com/guest⚡️ For support or business inquiries, email us ➡ chris@upgraded-man.com Our mission at The Upgraded Man is simple — help men upgrade every area of their life through real conversations, honest stories, and actionable insight from men who have done the work.The content on The Upgraded Man is for informational and entertainment purposes only. The views expressed by the host and guests are their own and do not constitute professional legal, financial, medical, or therapeutic advice. Always consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on information discussed on this podcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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.

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.