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Badlands Media Special Coverage: 10/20/26 - Trump & Vance Launch Fraud Whistleblower Program
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Duration 01:07:29
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program from the Oval Office, joined by citizen journalist Nick Shirley and members of the White House fraud task force.
Trump credits Nick's reporting on the Minnesota daycare fraud and the infamous "Learing Center," then lays out the plan: anyone who reports fraud at fraud.gov gets a 1% commission on whatever is recovered, with no cap, and Trump himself will act as arbitrator when tips overlap. Vance, Andrew Ferguson, Dr. Oz, Colin McDonald and Stephen Miller walk through the task force's work, the Minnesota property seizure, $1.2 billion in deferred California Medicaid payments, and the Stop Nick Shirley Act.
In the press Q&A, Trump takes on France and Europe's immigration problem, Marine Le Pen, the Ukraine peace talks, the push to free Stephen Hubbard, Trump accounts, Ilhan Omar, Iran, gas prices and the midterms.
The full announcement and Q&A, start to finish.
The Daily Herold: 10/20/26 - Krasner Subpoenas, Slotkin’s Deterrence Talk & the Uniparty Illusion
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Duration 49:42
Jon Herold admits up front that it's a slow news day, so he hands the wheel to the chat and still finds plenty to chew on.
He starts with Chris Paul's new Illusion series, reading from "The Web of Infinite Wrongness" on the two-party illusion and the uniparty, and argues the movement keeps cheering for one side of a uniparty it says it doesn't believe in. When chat insists you need a solution before naming a problem, Jon answers with a basement-flooding plumbing metaphor he's pretty proud of.
Then it's a Washington Post story about anonymous national security officials quietly advising states on possible Trump interference in the midterms, which Jon reads as a narrative play built on unnamed sources. He also casts doubt on a viral Illinois voter's claim that her ballot screen discouraged conservative picks, and checks out North Korea's proof-of-life photos of Kim Jong-un.
Later he plays Elissa Slotkin's comments about deterring young people from working for Trump, covers the DOJ grand jury subpoenas to Larry Krasner's Philadelphia DA office, and asks what Trump really means by spending $400 million on the Republican Party.
CannCon and Zak Paine dig into blood clots, child sexual and Republican primary.
First up, the conversation moves to blood clots, with Jalen Hurts, Eagles and Ilhan Omar in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Somali fraud, with Rhode Island, Department of Education and Pell Grants in the mix. From there, the talk turns to child sexual, with Rhode Island in the mix. Later, the crew gets into China unless, with Constitution and California in the mix. After that, it's on to voter roll, with McCotter, California and DHS in the mix. Next, the conversation moves to Venezuela, Una Panuna and Hakuna Matata. Further on, the focus shifts to Muslim invaders, with Senate Republicans, GOP and President Trump in the mix. Then the talk turns to Republican primary, with JD Vance, Republican Party and Donald Trump in the mix. Then the crew gets into China, Ukraine and SPLC. Before the close, it's on to pipe bomber, with Alberta, Capitol and Bryan Kohl Jr in the mix.
You won't want to miss this one.
This time Jon Herold and Zak Paine dig into secret space, slot machine and black goo.
First up, the talk turns to Lieutenant Dan, Francis Scott Key Bridge and World Behind. Then the crew gets into COVID, Snake Eyes and France. From there, it's on to Simpsons, Lone Gunman and Cyrus. Later, the conversation moves to slot machine, with Hades, Donald Trump and Ned Campbell in the mix. After that, the focus shifts to white hats, with Hamburg, Thomas Crooks and Germany in the mix. Next, the talk turns to secret space, with Germany and France in the mix. Further on, the crew gets into black goo, with Max Spears, Michael Prince and Jodi Reynosa in the mix. Then it's on to Stanley Kubrick, Space Odyssey and East Palestine. Then the conversation moves to special government, with Data Republican, Civil War and Elon Musk in the mix. Before the close, the focus shifts to DVD, Bricks and Minifigs.
You won't want to miss this one.
Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 22: Beyond the Big Bang, Halton Arp & a Living Universe
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 • Duration 01:26:32
Matthew Ehret takes on the Big Bang. He argues that the standard picture of a closed universe exploding out of a single point rests on one reading of redshift, and that it carries a bleak view of nature, economics and the human mind.
Working through a slide deck, Matt explains the Doppler effect and how redshift became the yardstick for cosmic distance, looks at the projected collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda, and digs into Halton Arp's atlas of galaxies with very different redshifts that appear physically connected, including pairs of quasars ejected from Seyfert galaxies. He also points out that Edwin Hubble treated the expanding universe as only one hypothesis, and that the Big Bang model came from a Jesuit priest, Georges Lemaitre.
The second half turns to life itself: the vitalist and mechanist debate between Hans Driesch and Wilhelm Roux, Alexander Gurwitsch's onion root experiment, Fritz-Albert Popp's work on biophotons, Luc Montagnier's DNA and water memory experiments, and the Schumann resonance. Matt closes with his book Science Unshackled, now out in Spanish as La Ciencia Liberada, and a likely next topic: Charles Darwin.
Badlands Media Special Coverage: 10/19/26 - Trump in Park City, KS: Roger Marshall & $5,000 Checks
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 • Duration 01:41:51
President Trump rallies in Park City, Kansas for Senator Roger Marshall, 15 days out from the midterms.
The night opens with Senator Marshall taking on Democrat Adam Hamilton, followed by Ted Nugent firing up the crowd. Trump then walks on to God Bless the USA and makes the case for Marshall and Ty Masterson for governor, warns about Europe's migration crisis, and swipes at paid protesters and the fake news.
He touts record incomes, jobs and exports, Venezuela and Iran, a $5,000 tariff dividend if Republicans hold Congress, year-round E15 and tax-free red dye diesel for Kansas farmers, and Melania's new women's health order. He closes with the full Make America Great Again finish.
The full rally, start to finish.
Culture of Change Ep. 166: What Are You Building? Home Distilling, AI & Small Business
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 • Duration 01:28:29
Ashe in America sits down with Badlands' own Jonathan Drake for an episode called What Are You Building?
They dig into the Supreme Court taking up the federal ban on home distilleries, Justice Gorsuch and the administrative state, and why regulation keeps getting in the way of small business. Drake talks about leaving the steady paycheck to build his own custom woodworking business, from Gandalf pipes to theater props like a spinning bed for Fiddler on the Roof and a Mary Poppins umbrella.
From there they get into AI as a creative tool, centralization versus decentralization, building your own income instead of climbing the ladder, decentralized peer-to-peer tools, and the upcoming GART stop in St. Pete Beach. Ashe also previews her Supreme Court series America's High Court, coming out Wednesday.
Alphas Make Sandwiches Ep. 86: For the Birds, Emergency Bypass & America 250 History Quiz
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 • Duration 01:12:43
Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada open Monday's Alphas Make Sandwiches with Christy's idiom segment on "for the birds." She traces the phrase to World War II slang, a 1943 Stars and Stripes example and the theory about birds picking grain out of droppings, and a side trip into the movie Rio leads to Anne Hathaway's busy film year.
Jackie then walks through three iPhone tips: setting Emergency Bypass so chosen contacts' calls and texts ring through on silent, screening unknown callers by asking the reason for calling, and Hold Assist, which waits on hold for you and lets you know when a real person picks up. The hosts compare how they use these features and ask chat for ideas on where the segment goes next.
Ashe brings back her America 250 history segment in quiz form, built from her daily history updates. Christy, Jackie and chat compete across categories like Invention and Innovation, War on Every Front and Land and Liberty, with questions on Thomas Edison, Cornwallis at Yorktown, the Saturday Night Massacre, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the USS Constitution. Christy takes the win with 5,100 points.
CannCon is joined by Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior for Y-Chromes Ep. 96. CannCon opens with a big weekend as a Florida fan: the Panthers' back-to-back natural hat tricks, Brady Tkachuk's first goals in a Florida uniform, the Gators' win in Texas, the Packers' Sunday night win over Dallas and the Hurricanes moving to number one.
The guys then dig into the officiating, from the taunting and roughing the passer calls in Green Bay's win over Dallas to the Alabama-Georgia pass interference no-call. From there, CannCon, Cam and Alpha make their weekly picks game by game, from Thursday's Patriots at Bears to Monday's Cowboys at Eagles, while Alpha chases the standings and watches the 49ers' perfect start.
Later the hosts swap videos and stories, including a look at the Matthews football family and how short the average NFL career is, a VR fishing clip, a Shane Gillis Saturday Night Live monologue, a comedy bit about the first Trump debate, and what it would take for a Badlands host to run for office.
CannCon hosts a solo Monday edition of Badlands Daily, opening with a football recap before turning to the news. He covers the fatal Alamodome rappelling accident and the deadly fire at a Canadian military base in Alberta, then the Burisma and Blue Star proposal to train Ukrainian prosecutors through the McCain Institute.
The main block looks at the midterms: the LA Times report on ICE raids and the California group CHIRLA, its state funding, the DOJ lawsuit over California voter rolls, a Michigan jury duty story, and the Maricopa County controversy over election workers and USB drives, with CannCon asking for logs and authorization forms.
From there he plays Harry Enten's polling analysis, reads Barack Obama's reaction to the Ilhan Omar investigation along with the latest reporting on the case, and checks a Council of Economic Advisers report on border enforcement, including a live ChatGPT check of the $49 trillion figure. He closes with Katie Zachariah's Hannity interview, the unrest in Paris and President Trump's letter endorsing Netanyahu.