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Jon Herold digs deep into a lengthy Atlantic article on Kash Patel's election integrity investigations, picking it apart for bias while still finding the underlying questions about October surprise timing genuinely worth discussing ahead of the midterms. He walks through the escalating public feud between Dan Bongino and General Flynn, playing old December 2025 Alex Jones footage where Flynn predicted Bongino would eve...

CannCon and Chris Paul close the week by workshopping a new Friday segment idea before diving into a Politico story on a judge ruling Trump unlawfully removed a US Attorney, and what that says about who actually holds appointment power. The meat of the show is the release of Brian Cole's confession transcripts in the January 5th pipe bomb case, where the hosts walk through the interrogation dynamics and why the reactio...

Running on no sleep after a late night honoring his wife at a community event in Jacksonville, JB White still shows up with a lesson in media literacy. He walks through how to use tools built into X to spot satirical or manufactured stories before they spread, using a viral post as a live example, and pushes back on some of his own community's conspiracy theorizing. He replays Pete Hegseth's speech on faith within the ...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit Matt Reeves's 2022 take on the Caped Crusader, and both come away more impressed than they expected to be. Expect a thoughtful dive into the film's central theme of vengeance versus justice, what it means to be harmed by a system versus harmed by people, and how that tension plays out through Bruce Wayne's arc. There's a genuinely funny personal theater horror story woven into the ...

CannCon welcomes new grandpa Alpha Warrior back from a very busy week before handing the floor over to guest Nathan Madden of Emerald Med. Nathan dives deep into the hemp plant, breaking down what actually separates CBD from THC, why hemp has way more compound diversity than marijuana, and why the industry keeps getting strangled by lobbying dollars from pharma, alcohol, and big oil. The conversation turns into a full ...

Frankie Val is flying solo tonight after guest Adam Davies (the Bigfoot conference man) had to bump to Monday, so what was meant to be an interview becomes a thrown together grab bag, which Frankie insists is somehow more like the real him anyway.

He opens on a grim headline: Tennessee's failed execution of death row inmate Krista Pike, who survived two lethal injection doses, and uses it to question the s...

Jon Herold, still traveling in Florida, digs into an underreported moment in Trump's new Time magazine interview where he declines to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms, arguing the interviewer let a genuinely newsworthy comment slide without follow up. He covers a handful of real election fraud prosecutions, including a wild California city council case involving ballots mailed from Pakistan, t...

Welcome to the Singularity, where the future arrives faster than your software updates. In this live debut, Matt McDonagh, a tech investor with 15 years in machine learning, explains how we got here. He starts with Alan Turing's famous test and the AI winters, then moves through Deep Blue, AlphaGo, the transformer breakthrough and the ChatGPT moment.

Next, Matt explains why AI isn't only a computer story. ...

CannCon and Ashe in America dive into Chapter 16 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Creature Comes to America, and the central bank saga finally lands on home soil. This week covers the Bank of North America, the nation's very first central bank, chartered before the Constitution was even drafted, along with the First Bank of the United States that followed in 1791. The hosts walk throu...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open on a somber note with the passing of Georgia election integrity researcher Joe Rossi, and CannCon walks through Rossi's Fulton County work in detail, including how ballots were pulled from the middle of batches and rerun through different scanners on different days, a four thousand vote swing representing a third of the state's margin. From there it is Todd Blanche on more arrests, a Tenn...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright kick off with a genuinely funny bit about having to rename "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" following Trump's executive order, joking about domain squatting and whether OpenAI needs to rebrand itself entirely. From there it's into heavier territory, including lingering doubts about whether real accountability is coming for certain high profile figures, with the hosts braci...

Ghost catches up after a stretch away, and he's got a lot to say. He opens on a genuine white pill: the Nippon Steel golden share deal is quietly rebuilding America's steel industry, with new mills opening or under construction from Colorado to West Virginia, and Ghost draws on his own day job in construction to explain why the current steel shortage actually signals good things ahead. From there he pivots to Dennis Ro...

This episode features guests Nik (Mr. Fitnick) and Conservativewilky (Colton Wilson), co-hosts of the Nik and Colton Show, discussing local government and school funding disputes in Ocean County, New Jersey, centered on the town of Lakewood. The guests make a series of unverified claims about the local Jewish community, including allegations of coordinated political control, misuse of public funds, and fraud, framed as...

Trump gathers senators, governors, and a lineup of energy CEOs to announce one of the largest infrastructure packages of his presidency, nearly $200 billion from South Korea funding eight new nuclear plants, a massive Texas gas facility, and the long promised Alaska LNG pipeline, a project politicians have talked about for five decades. Expect genuine excitement from Alaska's delegation, some spirited jabs at a decoy S...

Jordan Sather joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a two part conversation that starts deep in theoretical physics and ends in health truth. Jordan pushes on whether the information system can evaluate theoretical models like general relativity or the multiverse, and Chris explains the crucial distinction: this tool doesn't explore theory, it entangles what is observably true into the structure of...

Jon Herold, broadcasting from a Florida guest room, pushes back on a wave of online attacks accusing Badlands of paying hosts to tell people not to vote, sharing a viral (and satirical) post defending the network's diversity of opinion. He digs into the Senate blocking a congressional stock trading ban after Democrats called it a toothless election year gimmick, an odd Gallup poll showing Republican trust in mainstream...

CannCon and Ashe kick off Ash Wednesday joking that they have spent more time together this week than with anyone else, then dive into a college athletics fight that turns into a real discussion about federal overreach and the Commerce Clause. From there it is a genuinely fun segment on the State Department rolling out an at home passport application, complete with Rubio demoing the process and a new gold box that Cann...

JB White opens with a fun Gators moment straight from the Oval Office before shifting into heavier territory. He walks through the dramatic story of an attempted hijacking on a Fly Dubai flight and the passengers who stopped it, then pushes back on some of the conspiracy talk that followed. He previews the next Badlands Media GART event coming to St Petersburg Beach in November, replays a historian's breakdown of the R...

CannCon and Ashe in America welcome back Colonel Shawn Smith for a genuinely wonky, connect-the-dots hour. The thread starts in Puerto Rico, where the government called in the feds over its Dominion machines, and quickly widens into a study of Mojave, the AI outfit that shows up in a string of Reuters stories. Colonel Smith walks through the reporting he says conveniently never names the intelligence-community heavywei...