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The No Treason Podcast Ep. 47: Usury Laws and the Surveillance State Sep 21, 2026 5914 Jonathan Drake takes listeners on a wild nine phase journey tracing how 1840s usury laws quietly evolved into the modern financial surveillance apparatus, arguing we are already living in something eerily close to a social credit system, just built slower and dressed up as consumer protection. From the Russell Sage Foundation's suspiciously self interested crusade against loan sharks, to the Feder

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 494: LIVE from GART 13 in Las Vegas Sep 20, 2026 6292 A rare crossover: Jon Herold, Chris Paul, and Burning Bright are all together live at Gart for this one, and the energy shows. They kick off with Trump's latest true social posts about a potential third term before getting into a genuinely strange story about AI supposedly nudging the country toward conflict with China, and the very convenient timing of the outlet that broke it getting banned from

Badlands Story Hour Ep. 185: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Sep 18, 2026 5307 Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit this Terry Gilliam adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo classic, and it turns out this one is a genuine dividing line between the two hosts. Expect an honest reckoning with a movie that's aged into something stranger and more uncomfortable than either remembered, plus real talk about psychedelics, why fear is often what actually sends a trip sideways, and

Quite Frankly Ep. 67: Cryptids, Haunted Places & the Dover Demon with Jeff Belanger Sep 17, 2026 7111 Frankie Val leans into the damp, mosquito bitten edge of the season with a full cryptid and haunted places special. Before the guest, he wades through the week's grimmer headlines and his running theory that the Internet now incubates characters and legends that start manifesting in real life, from the postpartum murder mom to that Cat in the Hat figure the show keeps tracking. Then the main event

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/17/26 - Trump Signs Executive Orders for Hunters and Anglers Sep 17, 2026 1299 Trump welcomes hunters, fishers, and outdoorsmen to the newly renovated Rose Garden to sign two executive orders that sound almost too niche to matter, until you hear the numbers. One opens up millions more acres of federal land for hunting and fishing on top of 92 million acres already unlocked, while protecting traditional lead ammunition. The other tosses out a widely mocked 10 mile per hour bo

Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 14 Part 2 Sep 17, 2026 2802 CannCon and Ashe in America finish out Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, picking up with what the book calls the Transfusion Mechanism. This week covers how American taxpayers ended up quietly subsidizing Soviet Russia and its satellites long after Lend Lease officially ended, through below market trade deals, guaranteed loans, and bailouts routed through agencies

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/16/26 - Trump Rallies North Carolina for Michael Whatley Sep 17, 2026 3766 Trump lands in North Carolina to make one very clear pitch: pretend I'm on the ballot, because Michael Whatley basically is. The rally leans hard into crime, walking through the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Irina Zaretska and Governor Roy Cooper's early release of 3,500 inmates, before comparing it to the infamous Willie Horton ad that sank Dukakis decades ago. From there it's a full sweep o

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 493: The Real AI Race, Elon as Weapon Sep 17, 2026 5201 Jon Herold and Burning Bright pre record from the road this week and dive straight into a wild theory: that the AI safety story dominating headlines right now is timed suspiciously close to the midterms and might be less about safety and more about election interference. They play a clip of Todd Blanche calling the AI panic a hoax and posts from Trump comparing it to treason. Burning Bright lays o

Space Revolution Ep. 36: Forming a More Perfect Union Sep 17, 2026 4339 Kwast and Chris Ponder mark Constitution Day with a deep dive into America's founding document, tracing its full timeline and showing how it stacks up against basically every other legal document in human history, including, in a genuinely fun aside, Claude's own 82 page constitution compared to America's tidy four pages. Chris breaks down his method for structuring any document, the Constitution,

Badlands Daily: 9/16/26 - Kash Patel's Senate Grilling, Alito's Blistering Dissent & FBI Hiring Flap Sep 16, 2026 4632 CannCon and Ashe record a special late night edition ahead of travel to Nevada, opening with the Supreme Court's mail in ballot decision and the blistering Alito and Thomas dissent that raises real questions about who actually gets to set election rules. Ashe is still fired up from a Why We Vote episode recorded moments earlier. The bulk of the show works through a series of Kash Patel clips from

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 061: The AI Doom Psyop and Who Is Behind It Sep 16, 2026 5008 Josh Reid flies solo again this week and does not waste any time, diving straight into what he calls a coordinated AI doom narrative playing out across media, tech, and celebrity circles all at once. He walks through a supposed AI hack that may not be what it seemed, explains the concept of regulatory capture and why it matters for the future of open source AI, and connects a handful of recent hea

Why We Vote Ep. 188: David Becker's Town Hall & Alito's Mail-In Ballot Dissent Sep 16, 2026 5718 No in-studio guest tonight, just CannCon and Ashe in America playing prosecutor as they roll the tape on David Becker's members-only town hall, the one Ashe tried to record and got 49 minutes of silence for her trouble, now recovered from the group's own YouTube. They pick apart his victory-lap framing that the DOJ is a perfect zero for 23 in voter-data cases, his turnout sleight of hand, and a ca

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 72: Voting Apathy, Sydney Sweeney Backlash, and Soulless People Sep 16, 2026 4034 Shipwreck is fully checked out on voting this year, and she lays out exactly why, from gas prices to the same recycled promises no matter who wins. She digs into the online energy vampire theory, reacts to the Sydney Sweeney sports betting ad backlash and the double standard she sees in who gets outraged about what, and works through a wild Matrix inspired take on why everyone suddenly needs more

The Daily Herold: 9/15/26 - Anthropic Founders' Anti-Trump History and the USPS Ballot Ruling Fallout Sep 15, 2026 4048 Jon Herold digs into the Supreme Court's decision leaving a lower court block on the USPS mail ballot integrity rule in place for the midterms, reading through Alito's sharp dissent and Kavanaugh's concurrence to argue election officials and courts, not Trump, caused the timing crunch that killed it. He builds a theory connecting the AI industry's sudden safety slowdown push to the midterms, diggi

Badlands Daily: 9/15/26 - SCOTUS Kills Mail Ballot Order, Brennan Subpoenaed & Flock Stalking Case Sep 15, 2026 4370 CannCon and Zak Paine christen the new Tuesday slot with the Supreme Court finally ending the Schrodinger executive order saga, declining to revive the President's mail in ballot requirements with ballots already going out. From there they cover John Brennan getting subpoenaed to testify in a federal conspiracy case, complete with a six year Q delta that lands the same morning, plus James Comer de

Culture of Change Ep. 163: 9/11 Remembered with Jonathan & Deborah Flora Sep 15, 2026 4951 Ashe in America brings back Deborah Flora, joined this time by her husband Jonathan Flora, to talk about their newly released 9/11 remembrance film. Deborah serves as executive producer, and Jonathan wrote and directed the project, which Ashe caught at a private screening the night before recording. Rather than retreading conspiracy angles, the film focuses on something Ashe felt strongly about, t

Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 202: USPS Ballot Ruling and a Hollywood Abuse Conspiracy Sep 15, 2026 5469 Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with breaking news out of the Supreme Court, breaking down a ruling that blocks new USPS mail ballot rules from taking effect before the 2026 midterms, and what that means for election integrity heading into the fall. The back half of the show shifts into much darker territory as the guys examine an anonymous online post alleging decades of abuse inside a prominent Ho

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 126: MBS Under Siege, Houthis Threaten Saudi Oil, UK's Slow Breakup - 9/14/26 Sep 14, 2026 5634 Ghost jumps on for a surprise live show and finds a lot to unpack. He opens with Trump's off the cuff comments on Irish unification during his Ireland trip, which somehow snowballs into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland signing a joint pact toward independence from the UK, something Ghost frames as a genuine win for local sovereignty rather than the doom certain corners of the internet are sell

Battle of the Sexes Part 3: Y-Chromes vs. Alphas Make Sandwiches Trivia Showdown Sep 14, 2026 5782 The battle of the sexes returns for round three, and this time it's a full crossover between Y-Chromes and Alphas Make Sandwiches. Ash, Christy, and Jackie face off against Brian and Cam (poor Alpha forfeits by absence) in an AI-generated, Jeopardy-style trivia gauntlet that starts civil with sports, music, and movies, then gets gleefully lopsided once the categories turn to Glow Up, Herstory, Man

The Daily Herold: 9/14/26 - Anthropic's AI Dooming Warning and the DiGenova Skiff Standoff Sep 14, 2026 3558 Jon Herold kicks off Vegas conference week digging into the fallout from Joe DiGenova's resignation from the Fort Pierce grand jury investigation, reporting new CNN details about an apparent clash with Todd Blanche over a denied secure facility request, and connecting it to his broader theory that Blanche may not be the white hat everyone assumes. He spends the back half of the show unpacking Trum

Y-Chromes Ep. 92: Week 2 Picks, Fire LaFleur & Alpha the Sick-Day Princess Sep 14, 2026 1829 A short and sweet one, since the crew is doubling up before the Battle of the Sexes show. Alpha is out sick, which spawns a whole riff on how men become helpless ten-year-olds the moment they catch a fever while women like CannCon's wife power through food poisoning to go work a bar shift. Alpha earns the permanent nickname "Princess" for his trouble. The bulk of this one is a rapid Week 2 pick-em

Badlands Daily: 9/14/26 - Surrogacy Industry Exposed, DiGenova's Exit & Hassett's Polling Clash Sep 14, 2026 6486 CannCon kicks off the new solo Monday format, with Zak Paine moving to Tuesdays, and a heads up that he is headed to Las Vegas for art week. The show opens with CBS finally catching up to a story CannCon has been covering for months, involving a foreign national quietly using American surrogates and imported fertilized embryos on a scale nobody is tracking, and why he sees it as the strongest argu

RattlerGator Report: 9/14/26 - Gameday Wins, a Jury Duty Debate and Word Warfare Sep 14, 2026 3826 JB White is coming off a big weekend, with the Gators handling Campbell and his beloved Jaguars taking down Cleveland, and he brings that victory lap energy into a wide ranging Monday show. He digs into a closely watched Massachusetts criminal trial and the debate swirling around one holdout juror, then pivots into a candid, unfiltered discussion about language, reclaimed words and what he sees as

Q After Hours Ep. 36: AI Fear Porn, the Old Guard, and diGenova's Exit Sep 14, 2026 7079 Josh Reid flies solo this Sunday, with Alpha Warrior home sick, and turns it into his first solo Badlands show. On the itinerary: the AI fear porn cycle and why the doom mongering matters for what comes next technologically, plus a Peter Thiel clip Josh reads as secretly on the right side of the argument. From there it is Trump against the globalists, framed as an unfolding fight with the old guar

The Narrative Ep. 82: American Outcast Sep 14, 2026 8565 Solo show, take three. Burning Bright opens Episode 82 fighting a dying microphone and cheerfully choosing between two audio disasters until he can fix his setup after Vegas. This is the every-other-week format he is experimenting with: not a polished presentation but his version of a live dig, a "cognitive cascade" that stitches seemingly disconnected headlines together in real time. He warns you

The No Treason Podcast Ep. 46: Usury Laws and Institutional Poverty Sep 14, 2026 4133 Jonathan Drake opens up about quitting his job before diving into Proposition 3 and the meaty Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay, where the real target becomes usury laws. His case is that capping interest rates does not protect borrowers, it locks the very people who need capital most out of the market entirely, funneling wealth into fewer hands and trapping everyone else in generational wa

America First Stories Ep. 17: Kurt and Cristin Ludlow Sep 14, 2026 1410 The first repeat guests in the series are back. Kurt and Cristin of Pet Club 24/7 return to talk mushrooms, immune systems, and why a company with "Pet" in its name spends a lot of time talking about people too. They open with the origin story: a partner's mother, sent home from Sloan Kettering with a grim outlook, who credits a proprietary mushroom extract with turning things around and sparking

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 492: DiGenova Exit, Dividend Fights, AI Race Sep 13, 2026 7572 Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with midterm convention takeaways before Herold recaps some heated online fights he got into this week over the tariff dividend proposal. From there they dig into Joe DiGenova stepping away from the RICO grand conspiracy case in Florida, a development the guys clearly think deserves more attention than it's getting. There's also a stretch on the AI race and what

OnlyLands Ep. 72: A CBP Hardware Hack, Camps Debate & an Ed Markey Ad Gaffe Sep 12, 2026 7924 The crew dives into a genuinely wild story about a green card holder who worked his way into a Customs and Border Protection job at a major crossing, only to get arrested for allegedly swapping out government hardware for compromised parts. That kicks off a broader, sometimes contentious debate about immigration enforcement, detention camps, and a recent court decision limiting how long ICE can ho

Spellbreakers Ep. 181: 250 Years Since September 11, 1776 Sep 12, 2026 4894 Recording on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, host Matt Trump opens with a haunting cover of "Mad World" and admits he dreaded this anniversary, then found he had more to say than expected. Rather than re-litigate what happened that day, he sits with the harder question: what exactly did the country lose, and why does 25 years feel like an emotional watershed. As a former New Yorker who lived on Stat

MAHA News [9.11]: RFK Gets Into Psychedelics, Smokin' Tobacco, Big Health Fraud Busts Sep 11, 2026 4836 Jordan and Nate spend most of this episode diving into RFK Jr.'s recent podcast dive into psychedelics, from his RNC speech on corporate regulatory capture to clips on ibogaine's ability to resolve opioid withdrawal and psilocybin's potential as fast acting depression treatment. Along the way they swap their own microdosing experiences and get refreshingly honest about which ceremonies actually wo

The Daily Herold: 9/11/26 - Fresh 9/11 Documents and the $5,000 Dividend Cheerleading Fight Sep 11, 2026 4514 Jon Herold marks the anniversary by walking through newly declassified 9/11 era presidential daily briefings, noting intelligence hints of hijacking related surveillance before the attacks and drawing loose parallels to pre October 7 Israeli intelligence failures without claiming certainty either way. He spends the bulk of the show unpacking a heated Twitter exchange over Trump's proposed $5,000 d

The Choice S5E6: Reunions Sep 11, 2026 7374 Ashe in America and Ghost tackle Season 5, Episode 6 of The Chosen, "Reunions," and while they admit a few scenes feel like filler, there is still plenty to dig into. The hosts spend real time on the confrontation between Atticus and Kafni, unpacking a fascinating clash between Greek philosophy and rabbinic law, and a broader conversation about revenge as a driving force in both ancient and modern

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/11/26 - DHS Dedicates Resilience Plaza on 9/11 Anniversary Sep 11, 2026 1915 On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, DHS gathers at its St. Elizabeth's headquarters to dedicate Resilience Plaza, a new space built around genuine artifacts of that day, twisted World Trade Center steel, the iconic upright trident, and unbroken limestone recovered from the Pentagon. Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar opens with a deeply personal story of being stranded overseas that morning and lo

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/11/26 - Pentagon Marks 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks Sep 11, 2026 3523 Twenty five years to the hour, the nation returns to the Pentagon to remember the 184 lives lost there and the 2,977 taken across that single, unforgettable morning. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and General Dan Caine each offer deeply personal reflections on where they were that day and what it demanded of the country afterward, before President Tr

Badlands Daily: 9/11/26 - 25 Years After 9/11, Indiana Recount Fight & 4th Circuit Detention Ruling Sep 11, 2026 7068 CannCon and Chris Paul open the 25th anniversary of September 11th with personal reflections on where they were that morning, including a sobering account from Chris of how close he had been to the World Trade Center just days before. From there they turn to the fallout over President Trump's five thousand dollar tariff dividend and the meltdown it has caused, followed by an Indiana Supreme Court

RattlerGator Report: 9/11/26 - 9/11 Reflections, Fox News Fallout and SEC Drama Sep 11, 2026 3494 JB White marks the 25th anniversary of September 11th with a personal, emotional opening before diving into his usual mix of sports and politics. He previews the Gators facing Campbell, keeps needling LSU over their ongoing standoff with the SEC, and shares a candid health update on managing diabetes and a recent blood thinning procedure. On the politics side, he walks through a Peter Navarro thre

Badlands Story Hour Ep. 184: The Siege Sep 11, 2026 5629 Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on this 1998 thriller about a terror wave hitting New York and the martial law that follows, and the "predictive programming" alarm bells start ringing almost immediately. Expect a deep dive into how this movie preemptively defended Islam and demonized the military years before 9/11 gave that framing real cultural weight, plus a genuinely sharp breakdown of what

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/10/26 - JD Vance and Trump Rally the RNC Midterm Convention Sep 11, 2026 4882 Night two of the first ever midterm convention opens with a genuinely emotional VP Vance, marking one year since losing his friend Charlie Kirk while introducing his newborn son to the crowd and delivering a fiery defense of the nuclear family, complete with a live protester interruption he handles without missing a beat. From there Trump takes over, keeping things lighter after a two hour speech

SITREP Ep. 168: A Green Beret's Story, Cop Tales, and a Close Call Sep 11, 2026 5158 CannCon and Alpha Warrior push through a rough night, Alpha fighting off a family cold and CannCon wrangling in studio tech, before landing on the heart of the show. A viewer donation leads them into the story of a Green Beret who enlisted after losing his childhood best friend on 9 11, told through his wife's memoir of their short life together. It is one of the more emotional segments the show h

Quite Frankly Ep. 66: The 9/11 Eve Show, the Black Eagle Trust & an AI Whistleblower Sep 10, 2026 7677 Frankie Val and co-host Jay mark the eve of September 11 with the show's heaviest night of the year, a quarter century on. They open in the strange calm of September 10, 2001 (Michael Jordan teasing a comeback, a Westchester scandal, Frankie's mom at MSG for the Jackson 5) before the tone turns. The centerpiece is a walk through E.P. Heidner's 2008 "Collateral Damage" paper, tracing a money trail

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/10/26 - Trump Signs Medal of Honor Monument Act in Texas Sep 10, 2026 2131 Trump visits the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington to sign the Herschel Woody Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act, and the whole event carries a rare, genuinely reverent tone. Fifteen living Medal of Honor recipients are in the room as Trump reflects on the almost unbelievable bravery behind their stories, including the late Woody Williams' harrowing flamethrower duty

Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 14 Sep 10, 2026 3660 CannCon and Ashe in America press into Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the story gets darker fast. This week covers the actual coup that brought the Bolshevik minority to power in Russia, the New York financiers hiding behind Red Cross credentials, and the gap between the official humanitarian story and what really happen

The Daily Herold: 9/10/26 - Is the $5,000 Trump Dividend a Bribe? Plus Aaron Rodgers Goes Off Sep 10, 2026 4033 Jon Herold spends a big chunk of Thursday's show wrestling honestly with Trump's viral midterm convention promise of a $5,000 dividend to every adult if Republicans keep the House, playing multiple clips of the speech and JD Vance's follow up defense, then pulls up an old Charlie Kirk clip calling Biden's student loan forgiveness "naked bribery" to press the question of consistency. He walks throu

Badlands Daily: 9/10/26 - Trump's 5K Dividend, Elaine Chao's CCP Ties & Missouri Map Showdown Sep 10, 2026 7247 CannCon and Alpha Warrior break down the most talked about moment from last night's convention, President Trump's proposed five thousand dollar tariff dividend for every adult, with a very specific catch about where you are allowed to spend it. That sparks a genuinely spirited disagreement between the hosts about dividends versus entitlements that runs longer than either of them planned. From ther

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 491: The $5,000 Tariff Dividend Pitch Sep 10, 2026 7487 Jon Herold and Burning Bright work through the news of Trump floating a five thousand dollar per adult tariff dividend tied to Republicans keeping the House, and dig into the interview clips defending it against the obvious bankrupting the country criticisms. They also chase down a chapter eleven reference from a viewer that turns into a bit of a scavenger hunt through the clip archive. There's a

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/9/26 - Trump Headlines First Ever Midterm Convention in Texas Sep 10, 2026 6526 Trump kicks off the first ever midterm convention in American history from Texas, and true to form, turns a 90 minute speech into a genuine tour through everything: record breaking foreign investment, a proposed $5,000 "Trump dividend" for every adult if Republicans win, renamed lakes and states, and a truly memorable rant about a certain NBA trade. There's the expected roll call of endorsements,

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 71: Booster Club Chaos, Lindsay Clancy Theories, and AI Fears Sep 9, 2026 3647 Shipwreck opens with real life updates: a birthday, a new booster club role, and big Halloween plans for her town, before pivoting into politics. She is unimpressed with GOP midterm messaging and increasingly checked out on voting altogether, then digs into the Lindsay Clancy trial and online theories suggesting the case was engineered to drive a wedge between men and women right as trad values we

Space Revolution Ep. 35: The Big Picture of What is Coming Sep 9, 2026 3777 It's just Kwast and Chris Ponder this week for a genuine 50,000 foot view, zooming out from the technical framework to tackle the "why" behind the whole Space Revolution project. Kwast traces 250 years of American history, natural law, constitutional first principles, and the slow creep of power away from families and communities toward central governments, then connects it all to today's informat

The Daily Herold: 9/9/26 - Anthropic Whistleblowers Warn of AI Extinction Risk Sep 9, 2026 3764 Jon Herold covers a fresh batch of declassified handwritten FBI notes revealing discrepancies between what agents actually wrote during Michael Flynn's 2017 interview and the official report used to prosecute him, plus a John Solomon and Steve Bannon clip teasing another major document release timed to this week's GOP midterm convention. He spends a good chunk of the show digging into a striking s

Badlands Daily: 9/9/26 - Midterm Narrative Deployments, Stay At Home Parent Fight & CNN's War Take Sep 9, 2026 7345 CannCon and Ashe dig into a busy morning of coordinated midterm narrative seeding, starting with an Axios scoop on the Republican convention speaker lineup and the anxiety around who is showing up and who is quietly staying home. From there they cover a Hill piece on Trump leaning into trolling his critics, followed by the growing conservative split over a proposal to pay stay at home parents, a d

RattlerGator Report: 9/9/26 - LSU's SEC Showdown and a Deep Dive on American Power Sep 9, 2026 3647 JB White is back in the saddle, tech hiccups and all, with a show that swings from college football politics to grand geopolitical theory. He breaks down the LSU versus SEC standoff over roster rules and institutional control, weighs in on a chaotic opening weekend of games, and shares family travel stories from a Miami road trip. From there he plays a lengthy excerpt from historian Walter Russell

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 060: John Solomon's Bombshell and the Midterm Endgame Sep 9, 2026 5178 Josh Reid takes the lead solo for the opening stretch this week, walking through why he believes the Ukraine Russia war and the Iran conflict could both wind down before the midterms and what that would mean for Republicans at the polls. He breaks down a fresh executive order reauthorization tied to election security, new declassified information teased for the following day, and a striking clip o

Why We Vote Ep. 187: David Becker's DHS Referral, ERIC & the Voter Roll Wars Sep 9, 2026 4821 CannCon and Ashe in America open on a somber note, asking for prayers for Professor David Clements after a serious heart attack, before wading into the competing election narratives of the week. The main event is David Becker, whose Center for Election Innovation and Research just caught a DHS referral, and whose group hosted a call Ashe tried to record only to end up with 49 minutes of deliberate

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/8/26 - Trump Honors 9/11 Heroes at Tunnel to Towers Ceremony Sep 8, 2026 2120 Twenty five years later, Trump stands on the Ellipse with a piece of World Trade Center steel behind him, and delivers what is easily one of the more personal, reflective speeches of his presidency. He recounts being there himself in the days after, being pulled to safety by firefighters as a nearby building creaked, and shares Howard Lutnick's gutting story of surviving 9/11 for one specific reas

The Daily Herold: 9/8/26 - Michael Knowles' Stay at Home Mom Flip Flop and the DOGE Savings Reality Check Sep 8, 2026 4077 Jon Herold digs into the growing conservative debate over a proposed entitlement style program for stay at home parents, playing old clips of Michael Knowles blasting nearly identical welfare style family leave proposals back in 2019 and 2022 to highlight what he sees as a glaring contradiction now that JD Vance is championing it. He connects this to a new GAO report confirming his long held skept

Badlands Daily: 9/8/26 - Brian Terry's Journal Resurfaces, Border Lasers & GOP Convention Jitters Sep 8, 2026 6527 CannCon flies solo for a slower news Tuesday and opens with a candid story about debating a Trump derangement afflicted family member over holiday weekend drinks, plus a programming note about a schedule shuffle coming next week. The news kicks off with a resurfaced Just The News exclusive on border agent Brian Terry's personal journal, which suggests he was tracking AK47 shipments weeks before hi

Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 201: Call In Show, Socialist Subsidies and Bad Movie Talk Sep 8, 2026 6193 Jon Herold and Zak Paine kick off Labor Day with a scheduling shakeup announcement before opening the phone lines for a full call in show. First up is a genuinely spicy debate over a proposed stay at home parent subsidy plan, with Jon arguing it's just another layer of government dependency dressed up as a conservative win, and Zak pushing back with a more sympathetic read on the policy. From ther

Culture of Change Ep. 162: ICE Out Protest, Assaulted On Camera Sep 8, 2026 5410 Ashe in America welcomes back Corey from Break the Chains Media, joined partway through by George, cameraman for Wayne's Word podcast, for a firsthand account of a chaotic day at a Colorado student ICE out protest. Corey went in planning respectful "man on the street" style interviews, but things escalated fast once he approached one of the more radical booths, sparking a mob of high schoolers tha

Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 20: Jack the Ripper and Solomon's Temple Sep 8, 2026 4886 Matthew Ehret pairs up two subjects you'd never expect to share a slide deck: a 19th century Whitechapel serial killer and the modern push to rebuild Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. He takes on the popular royal conspiracy theory behind the Ripper murders, the one made famous by a certain Johnny Depp movie, and argues the real story runs deeper into Templar revivalist networks, Freemasonic ritual s

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 125: Kushner and Witkoff in Moscow, Germany's Iron Dome, Ukraine Leak - 9/7/26 Sep 8, 2026 6967 Recording from his in laws house on Labor Day, Ghost breaks down the biggest diplomatic weekend in months. Kushner and Witkoff spent three hours with Putin in Moscow, then flew straight to Kyiv to meet Zelensky, and Ghost walks through what a former Austrian foreign minister and a former Bush and Clinton trade advisor both made of it. He also unpacks Scott Bessent's awkward sideline meeting with R

The Daily Herold: 9/7/26 - Matt McDonagh on AGI, ASI, and the Universal Basic Wealth Debate Sep 7, 2026 3567 Jon Herold, fresh off a whirlwind Labor Day road trip (and a recent engagement announcement), brings back Matt McDonagh for a deep dive on the ARC AGI 3 benchmark results and what they actually mean for artificial general intelligence. Matt breaks down the difference between AGI and ASI, argues America's biggest AI edge is energy and compute rather than algorithms, and makes the case that decentra

Badlands Daily: 9/7/26 - ERIC Under DOJ Probe, DSA Student Protests & Huckabee's Settler Rebuke Sep 7, 2026 7483 Ashe in America and Zak Paine fill in on Labor Day while CannCon is off at a veterans event, opening with an honest and slightly spicy defense of civil disagreement between hosts after some chat pushback over Friday's show. The centerpiece is a major development in the election space, as DHS asks the DOJ to investigate ERIC over motor vehicle data that allegedly flowed to a Zuckerberg funded nonpr

The Narrative Ep. 81: The Great MAGA FUD Sep 6, 2026 7674 FUD stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and Burning Bright has a theory about why everybody has been kind of a doomer lately. To illustrate it, he went digging through Badlands to find the single most incessant black piller he could think of, then invited him on so the chat can lovingly lift him up and beg him to stop destroying the movement. Enter tonight's guest, doomer extraordinaire Zak P

The No Treason Podcast Ep. 45: Keeping the Fruits of Your Labor Sep 6, 2026 3829 Jonathan Drake dives into Spooner's first two economic propositions, starting with the deceptively simple idea that every man should keep the full fruits of his own labor. From there Jon works through why Spooner sees the employer employee relationship as a subtle drag toward poverty, and why he thinks a nation of entrepreneurs beats a nation of wage earners every time. Expect a genuinely fair min

America First Stories Ep. 16: Gabe Dough Sep 6, 2026 1838 Jon Herold sits down for a first-time chat with Gabe of Good Brew, and fair warning, Gabe is a talker. What starts as a friendly get-to-know-you (Outer Banks roots, a detour into why so many businesses incorporate in Wyoming) quickly becomes an enthusiastic deep dive into gut health. Gabe's pitch is that Good Brew took the opposite road from the probiotic boom: instead of forcing colonizing microb

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 490: The Black Wall Metaphor and Reality Prime Sep 6, 2026 7133 Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with a Netflix documentary tangent about decoy planes and disguised operatives before shifting into one of the more philosophical episodes in recent memory. The centerpiece is a metaphor about a wall everyone secretly knows is black but publicly agrees is white, used to explain how Trump operates inside a collectively accepted false consensus and slowly walks peo

Flow Ep. 66: Bartiromo Ousted at Fox, Navarro's Censorship Claim & Trolling Carney Sep 6, 2026 8988 Cam Cooksey opens episode 66 (September 5th) in a deliberately loose, laid back mood, promising a less structured, more conversational night as the final Flow before GarVegas. There's Hooks and Harmony recap, a Scales ad that sparks a childhood tangent, and plenty of chat love. The meat is a media integrity deep dive. Cam walks through the permanent removal of Maria Bartiromo from Fox News and the

Spellbreakers Ep. 180: Let's Check Out Burning Man! Sep 5, 2026 3704 Host Matt Trump (pre-recording on a Thursday after a soundless first take) declares this a costume-changing romp through Burning Man, which is happening in the Black Rock Desert as he speaks. Drawing on his own three-year run (2012 to 2014), he plays internet footage from the festival's 40th year and cheerfully warns you it looks basically unchanged: same bicycles, same lights, same beautiful chao

OnlyLands Ep. 71: China Data Centers, the Kirk-Robinson Trial & Seizing Foreign Land Sep 5, 2026 7410 A genuinely heated debate breaks out over whether the anti data center pushback happening across the country is a legitimate concern or just a Chinese psyop, spiraling into a bigger argument about executive orders, farmland ownership, and whether the government could legally seize land tied to alleged foreign election interference. On the legal front, there's a rundown of jury selection concerns h

MAHA News [9.4] Meat Packing Monopoly, Trump Defends Unvaxxed Amish, HHS Tackles Screen Addiction, Foreign Peptides Sep 4, 2026 3705 Jordan and Nate are back live this week, kicking off with genuinely useful talk about mobility work, self experimentation, and using AI to plug in your own blood work and genetics for a targeted health plan. From there it is a stacked news day: Trump's fresh executive order cracking down on meat packing monopolies and opening up direct to consumer sales for small ranchers, plus Trump publicly defe

The Choice S5E5: Because of Me Sep 4, 2026 6750 Ashe in America and Ghost say Season 5, Episode 5 of The Chosen, "Because of Me," picks up the pace in a big way, and they are not exaggerating. This is the episode where Judas's betrayal finally becomes undeniable, and the hosts walk through a tense Last Supper sequence full of suspicion around the table as the disciples try to figure out who among them could possibly turn on Jesus. Meanwhile on

The Daily Herold: 9/4/26 - Ghost Maps Out an Israel-Greece-Turkey Flashpoint Sep 4, 2026 3892 Jon Herold kicks off Friday with a quick look at OpenAI's new ARC AGI 3 benchmark results before digging into a newly posted DHS letter from Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen to AG Todd Blanche, walking through referrals on QR code voting machines and the ERIC voter data sharing controversy in detail. Ghost joins midway through for a wide ranging geopolitical breakdown, mapping out a theory that Israel

Badlands Daily: 9/4/26 - Bartiromo Firing Fallout, WWIII Narratives & Michigan Petition Denied Sep 4, 2026 7574 CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a report claiming Fox fired Maria Bartiromo over leaked internal texts about the network's coverage of election fraud claims, then turn to a pair of contradictory court rulings that show just how uneven election law has become. Missouri's Supreme Court blocks a new congressional map after the primary already happened, while Justice Kavanaugh declines

SITREP Ep. 167: Psyops, the Constitution, and a Heated Rights Debate Sep 4, 2026 6233 CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick off with a mic malfunction confession before diving into one of the most heated debates the show has seen in a while. Alpha argues the military and intelligence community are already operating outside the Constitution when it comes to psyops and information warfare against Americans, and that it is a price worth paying to win the bigger fight against the deep state a

Badlands Story Hour Ep. 183: Lawless Sep 4, 2026 6252 Chris Paul and Burning Bright dig into this 2012 Prohibition era drama with a genuinely stacked cast, and both come away pleasantly surprised by how well it holds up. The pick came from a random YouTube rabbit hole that somehow led straight to Tom Hardy, which feels about right for how these episodes usually go. Expect a solid breakdown of the film's bootlegger versus corrupt lawman setup and why

Quite Frankly Ep. 65: If Things Don't Add Up, Rabid Weasels & the NY Voter Roll Audit Sep 4, 2026 7141 Frankie Val themes the night around things that just do not add up, and invites viewers to bring their own top picks of the week. First comes the strange news tour, from a maybe rabid fisher cat terrorizing the Northeast (the media can't decide if it's a weasel, a fox, or a squirrel) to the improbable comeback of the CD, which sends Frankie fishing for everyone's embarrassing first album. The cent

Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 13 Sep 3, 2026 4110 CannCon and Ashe in America move on to Chapter 13 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and this one takes a hard turn into geopolitics. This week's theme is Masquerade in Moscow, unpacking the secret society founded by Cecil Rhodes, its American offshoot known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and the surprising role outside financiers played in funding the Russian Revolutio

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/3/26 - VP Vance Briefs Press on Iran, Fraud, and Midterms Sep 3, 2026 3467 JD Vance takes over the podium in his first solo White House briefing since the departure of the press secretary, and it is a marathon. He opens with fraud task force wins, over 2,000 shut down fraudulent trucking licenses, and a new 65 billion barrel oil reserve born out of the Venezuela deal, before fielding a genuinely sprawling round of questions. Expect a candid breakdown of the ongoing Strai

The Daily Herold: 9/3/26 - Trump's War Powers Clock Reset Theory and the Alex Jones NDAA Debate Debunk Sep 3, 2026 3577 Jon Herold walks through a detailed timeline theory that Trump may be quietly resetting the War Powers Act clock on Iran for a second time to keep Congress out of the loop, tracing notification dates back to February and July and predicting another possible reset is coming this weekend. He also fact checks Alex Jones' viral debate claims about NDAA Section 219 line by line, reading the actual bill

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