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Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with live footage from Trump's bilateral summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Burning Bright unpacks his multipolar margin call theory: the entire US/China trade war was a coordinated squeeze on the global billionaire class, and the summit is Trump and Xi standing at the head of the table telling those 30 top CEOs exactly who controls the future of their companies. From there the show pivots to The Atlantic's rebuttal of Trump's National Counterterrorism Strategy, which the guys frame as the media confirming exactly what the strategy says about them, that they are instruments of fifth-generation psychological warfare. Seb Gorka's clip calling for the mapping and identification of Americans for their speech draws sharp criticism, including his dual citizenship and what that should disqualify him from holding. The fake CIA raid on Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI office gets a thorough debunking alongside a breakdown of Anna Paulina Luna's pattern of attaching herself to viral MAGA narratives. Trump's Iran quote gets a fair but honest assessment, and Robert Kagan's neocon warning article is read as an unintentional confirmation of Burning Bright's disentanglement thesis. The show closes on Operation Epic Fury potentially being renamed Sledgehammer to dodge the War Powers Act

Tonight on The Shipwreck Show, we go deep into some of the strangest theories, stories, and moments shaping the modern conversation around reality itself. We’re talking: Operation Fishbowl and the theories surrounding it, Claims of people living in “two timelines” side by side, The viral roast of Kevin Hart, The mysterious “Lazarus” story and questions about life, death, and resurrection The so-called “Great Shift” of 2021 And more. Tonight’s episode isn’t about telling you what to believe. It’s about asking why so many people feel like reality itself is changing.

Cohost Matt Trump finally makes it on the mic after last week's traffic detour, and the wait was worth it. He brings a giant lens: humanity over millennia, with Johan Huizenga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages as the anchor. Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast riffs alongside him. The framing is unforgettable. Matt calls our current moment the return of the future. In the 1960s, with Apollo and Star Trek, humanity was thinking in millennia. Then we pulled in the sails. Under Trump and Musk, we are unfurling them again. The deep-dive walks through the Portuguese caravel breakthrough that opened the New World, why it took a century of violence and printing presses and reformations before things matured, and why our space era follows the same pattern at vastly higher speed. Along the way: why globalism became a Pandora's box, why nations and families are the structures we cannot skip past, why Ming dynasty politics destroyed their own 600 year naval head start, and why young engineers raised on the internet are turning hundred year timelines into hundred day ones. Build with the right moral compass, then full speed ahead.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a full show and a story that has him reaching for the electoral college map. The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation into Wisconsin's 2020 election, and Jon walks through the math live: flip Georgia, flip Wisconsin, flip one more state, and the "not enough fraud to change the outcome" argument collapses entirely. The Arctic Frost memos reveal that Biden's FBI secretly preserved all Trump prosecution evidence until 2030, explicitly leaving the door open to revive charges the moment a Democrat takes the White House again. Trump is in Beijing with a delegation of A-list CEOs for the Xi summit, and Jon breaks down why Bill O'Reilly's source claiming a Taiwan-for-Iran deal is in play actually makes strategic sense regardless of whether you like Bill O'Reilly. Inflation is getting worse with the producer price index up 6% over the past year, Operation Epic Fury just got renamed Operation Sledgehammer, and Jon explains why that name change is a War Powers Resolution technicality designed to reset the congressional authorization clock. He also plays his own tax accountability compilation clip and explains why asking your elected representatives to justify taxation is not a radical act.

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.

JB White records this one at night for the first time ever, and somehow delivers one of his more loaded episodes. He walks through two sharp posts on Trump's China visit: Rob Cunningham's framing of the industry CEO delegation as a negotiation over the global financial operating system, and AJ Inapi's systematic breakdown of every pillar of Chinese global leverage that the Trump administration has already dismantled. JB then reads Mark Dubowitz's staggering 13-point summary of what has been done to Iran since the conflict began: nuclear program in ruins, missile production near zero, regime decapitated, proxy network shattered, economy in freefall. He also covers Tennessee Democrats stripped of committee assignments after setting fires in the statehouse, Gene Robinson's blunt truth about Democratic plantation politics and black independent thought, and teases the full Bitcoin Wizard Petro Bitcoin walkthrough for Friday.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with the Thomas Massie scandal that broke today, an alleged relationship with Anessa West, a South Africa trip with corroborating photos, and a hush money offer from something called a cow money fund. Pair that with Marjorie Taylor Greene quietly relocating to a five million dollar house in Costa Rica, which conveniently does not extradite to The United States, and the dynamic of the so called America first dissenters starts to make a lot more sense. From there they widen the scope. UAE and Saudi Arabia are now bombing Iran while Trump backs off kinetically and the federal gas tax disappears. Trump heads to China with seventeen CEOs and the NVIDIA chief, John Brennan goes on television to brag that a legion of deep state operatives still resists from inside the DOJ and CIA, and James O'Keefe drops video of Susie Wiles allegedly running the White House around Trump. Plus the State Department's admission that the UN ran a migration pipeline through the Darien Gap, Tulsi Gabbard's task force on a hundred twenty four biolabs in fifty six countries, the Wisconsin FBI investigation, SCOTUS outlawing gerrymandering, and Alpha's six to nine month test for whether Comey is cooperating.

CannCon and Ashe in America welcome Dr. Andrew Paquette, known online as Zark Files, research director for New York Citizens Audit and one of the most technically rigorous voices in election integrity work. Dr. Paquette walks through five years of voter roll analysis across more than a dozen states, explaining how he reverse engineered four distinct algorithms embedded in New York's voter registration ID number system, discovered 1.5 million cloned records, and obtained photographically identical duplicate signatures from counties that should not have had any clones at all. He explains why the system is structurally designed to prevent anyone from linking a ballot to the fake voter who generated it, and why that means the question of how many races were affected may be permanently unanswerable. The conversation moves to Bexar County, Texas, where Dr. Paquette analyzed a check-in list showing over 4,000 fake voter check-ins injected after polls closed through a third-party cloud system called EPulse, which serves 29 states. He closes on the Save America Act, the limits of legislative fixes, and why he believes the entire election infrastructure needs to be scrapped and rebuilt.

Ghost opens episode 106 with the Senate hearing where Lindsey Graham attacks Pakistan as mediator, then cuts to Trump defending Pakistan's field marshal and prime minister in real time. Two landmark op-eds frame the hour: Robert Kagan's Atlantic piece declaring the Iran confrontation a strategic defeat for US-led hegemony, and Prince Turki al-Faisal's Arab News essay crediting MBS with quietly pulling the rug out from under the war's advocates. Ghost walks through reports of secret UAE and Saudi strikes on Iran, calling them psyops aimed at fracturing Muslim world unity. Israel's Starlink de-anonymizing tool surfaces as confirmation of Ghost's theory about Russian intelligence helping Iran identify Mossad and CIA protest operators. At home in Israel, the Haredi factions move to dissolve the Knesset after Netanyahu fails to deliver the Yeshiva draft exemption, with the IDF chief warning the military will collapse without 12,000 new recruits immediately. Smotrich says publicly the war must end with expanded Israeli borders. The World Jewish Congress governing board meeting closes the episode with Ronald Lauder calling for more aggressive hate speech prosecution and the Axel Springer CEO declaring Europe must become more Jewish.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday energized and with receipts. The FBI is now actively interviewing CIA officials as part of the Brennan investigation into the 2017 Russian intelligence assessment, and Jon plays a recent Brennan clip where the man openly admits to knowing about a "legion" of professionals inside the government still working against Trump. Jon flags it as potential RICO furtherance on tape. The DOJ also officially warned reporters they should expect subpoenas in the classified Iran war leaks investigation, with the Wall Street Journal already having received them. Jon reads newly released Senate committee documents showing Hunter Biden Mann Act evidence including text messages, goes live down a rabbit hole when he notices the name "Robert" in one exchange, and arrives somewhere interesting. Kari Lake is being sent to Jamaica as ambassador and Doug Mastriano to the Slovak Republic, and Jon sees a familiar template: Trump takes big election integrity figures, parks them in ambassadorships, and they disappear from the conversation. Also: the California mayor who just pleaded guilty to being a Chinese spy is named Wang, Stacey Abrams has been subpoenaed in Georgia, ODNI is reviewing 120 US-funded foreign biolabs, and Trump wants Wall Street banned from buying houses.

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.

Episode 184 is a call-in show, and the audience delivers. Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with a reaction to Christopher Nolan's Odyssey trailer, breaking down the DEI casting choices that put Elliot Page as Achilles and Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, and the Oscar diversity requirements that made it happen. From there, the conversation covers the UFO file releases and Jon's concern that the slow rollout is setting up a future "alien creation story" op designed to replace God with extraterrestrials. A caller shares a strange experience with Fitbit's AI repeatedly telling her to "plug in" using language that sounded less like health advice and more like machine self-description. Later callers bring up weather modification, cloud seeding, and the NEXRAD radar connections, prompting Jon and Zak to discuss Iran now getting rain after radar facilities were reportedly destroyed. The show closes with Jon's argument that Trump's Iran operation is as much about removing Israel's pretext for regional war as it is about Iran, and what Netanyahu's stated plan to wean off US aid actually signals.

Ashe sits down with filmmaker Matt Thayer for a wide ranging conversation about telling stories that matter in a culture that desperately needs them. From "The Trump I Know" to the upcoming theatrical release "No Limbs, No Limits," the story of Nick Vujicic, this episode is part film conversation, part theology, and part election accountability. What does authentic Christian faith look like when the camera is rolling? What does a fair election actually require? And what does it mean that Trump is now naming names on Truth Social? Ashe ties it all together with a breakdown of the 22 principles driving America's transformation program. Buckle up.

Ghost and Jordan Sather team up to trace the most consequential dynasty in American history: the Rockefellers. From John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly and JPMorgan's steel consolidation to the invention of the holding company by the law firm that later became the CIA, the dots connect in ways that still reverberate in 2026. Jordan breaks down how the Rockefellers engineered the modern pharmaceutical industrial complex through the Flexner Report, dismantling natural medicine in favor of petroleum-based drugs. Ghost adds how the same family funded the standardized education system, ran a reverse-psychology psyop to create the Federal Reserve, planted Henry Kissinger at Harvard, and ultimately gave birth to the World Economic Forum and the Trilateral Commission. A two-host deep dive into the blueprint of the system Trump is currently dismantling.

Aliens are coming. Or so they want you to believe. In this episode, Matt Ehret traces the UFO disclosure movement from its origins in 1947 CIA memos to today's Pentagon whistleblowers, and finds the same occult networks running the show at every stage. From Allen Dulles using Carl Jung's archetype theory as a psychological warfare handbook, to the Rockefeller-funded promotion of LSD through Time and Life magazines, to Scientology-linked figures founding Project Stargate, Ehret builds the case that UFO disclosure is not a truth movement. It is a multigenerational magic trick designed to dismantle Christianity, manufacture a new synthetic spirituality, and unite a frightened population under a one world framework. The aliens were never the point. The spiritual reset always was.

It's episode 69, hey hey, and the ladies are not going to mention it. Jackie shares the pet photo challenge submissions including her bird who tried to drink her reflection water, and Ashe tells the proper version of Caleb's eighth birthday in Manhattan involving the Intrepid, Spider-Man dropping web from the rafters, Dylan's Candy Bar, and one harrowing taxi near miss. Christy unpacks the British idiom getting the sack, complete with a 1525 Zach spelling and the mental image of a Victorian raccoon hauling its belongings out the door. Ashe walks through a packed week in history covering Alan Shepard going to suborbital space (allegedly), Bobby Sands and the idea that everyone has a part to play, the Roger Bannister sub-four-minute mile, the Channel Tunnel, the Chinese Exclusion Act and its modern TPS parallels, the Lusitania, VE Day, Coca-Cola's first glass at Jacobs Pharmacy, Olympic boycotts as psyop fuel, Ben Franklin's Join or Die cartoon as the first political meme, the end of the Civil War, the Schuman Declaration as the birth of globalism, the transcontinental railroad golden spike, and Deep Blue defeating Kasparov as the original AI fear porn rerun we are still being sold today. Plus Gart updates and why all roads lead to Mark Elias being upset.

Caleb Epp fills in for JB, and CannCon, Alpha Warrior, Cam Cooksey, and Caleb get right into it. CannCon coins the new show slogan, "Men Unsupervised," before diving into Mother's Day recaps and NHL playoff predictions with Caleb backing the Avs over the Sabres in six. Alpha brings a full breakdown of the Savannah Bananas and all 11 rules of Banana Ball that somehow makes the strongest case yet for it being the most entertaining sport in America. Cam keeps the chaos going with a trained Florida alligator clip, a Georgia Bulldogs stadium roast, and the Uncle Otis Hennessy birthday cake that the whole crew cannot explain. The show closes on a live audience poll after watching a husband catfish his own wife headed to a Tinder date, with the chat splitting dead fifty-fifty on whether it was real. Men unsupervised. Episode 80.

Jon Herold comes in Monday on a slow news day and makes it work. Today is apparently the last possible day to charge Anthony Fauci under the standard statute of limitations, and Jon marks the occasion with the appropriate level of fanfare before explaining why the grand conspiracy angle might make the whole conversation moot. Trump announced a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax, and Jon immediately asks the obvious follow-up: once you take it away, how do you put it back? The Trump-Xi summit is set for Thursday and Friday this week, with a delegation that reads like a Forbes 400 reunion, and Iran is calling the current ceasefire proposal unacceptable while Trump calls it a very stupid response. Jon also dismisses the hantavirus hysteria in under sixty seconds, connects Hakim Jeffries calling for Supreme Court age limits directly to the Virginia redistricting loss, and reads a Trump Truth Social post tying Fox News to election failures that Jon has been saying for years. The second half of the show turns into an open chat discussion on election reform, redistricting, money in politics, and Jon's genuinely interesting draft lottery idea for congressional representatives.

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.

JB White opens with Marco Rubio standing in front of a map of Cuba with SOUTHCOM's commanding general and makes the point that this image alone tells you more about Trump's second term agenda than most analysts have figured out. He then reads Michael Massey's sharp piece on Trump as a pragmatist rather than a liberal or a conservative, and explains why that framing is exactly right. The centerpiece of the show is JB's Grok-assisted argument that Ukraine has already been America's 21st century Lend-Lease program: Starlink, Palantir, Andoril, and CIA groundwork laid during Trump's first term have equipped Ukraine to hold off Russia and build a sustainable defense industry. He closes with a Bitcoin price update, a tease of the coming Petro Bitcoin segment, and a personal announcement that he is moving to Warner Robins, Georgia and going off the air after Wednesday for several weeks.

Burning Bright sits down with Ashe in America for a methodical and surprisingly optimistic look at where the Patriot plan actually stands. Ashe brings her twenty-year background in corporate change management to map the Trump era onto a formal transformation program, arguing that the second administration is deep in the implementation and execution phase. The two dissect how the same change management frameworks used to subjugate, through the nuclear fear narrative, sustainable development goals, and Hollywood humiliation rituals, are now being reverse engineered toward accountability and justice. From Chevron deference to redistricting cases, from the RICO umbrella swallowing Russiagate, election fraud, and COVID, to Trump's narrative shielding on Supreme Court picks, this episode makes the case that winning is a process and the process is ahead of schedule.

Part 4 of the ether series is where things start getting visual. Jonathan Drake and Polymath move from philosophical groundwork into the actual mechanics of the medium, beginning with the dielectric, a term coined by Michael Faraday to describe the medium through which electrostatic force acts. From the ancient Greeks rubbing amber to Faraday proving that charge lives in the medium between capacitor plates rather than on them, to a live clamp meter demonstration showing that electrical current radiates outside the wire, the evidence stacks up. The episode also introduces incommensurability, why dielectricity and magnetism are fundamentally different things that work as an inseparable pair, and gives a first look at the Ferrocell, a device that makes magnetic field geometry visible. Vortex shapes, toroidal fields, and the plane of inertia: it is a lot. But as Jonathan puts it, understanding how God actually built the universe does not reduce the mystery. It deepens it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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