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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

JB White opens a victory Monday with Florida's second straight win over Texas, breaking down his young quarterback's 4th and 12 strike in his first start, along with Tennessee over Alabama, Auburn over Georgia and the controversial finish to FSU and Miami. Then he turns to President Trump's letter endorsing Bibi Netanyahu for reelection and Netanyahu's video thank-you. JB argues the real pressure on Netanyahu comes from Israel's own left wing, revisits the Suez Crisis, and warns his audience not to fall for divide and conquer narratives he pins on the City of London. From there he reads Trump's Truth Social post on holding off on Russia sanctions and the diesel issue, and makes the case that Trump is trying to pull Russia away from China while still backing Ukraine, including through Starlink. He also gets into the reach of Indian civilization and the British Empire, the Minnesota fraud he expects to unravel, the UK grooming gangs, Zelensky through a Sun Tzu lens, and why he sees Fox News as controlled opposition. Plus the GART St. Pete Beach plug and plenty of time with the chat along the way.

Jon Herold opens the week with a Wall Street Journal report that Vladimir Putin floated a summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at next month's APEC meeting in Shenzhen to talk about ending the war in Ukraine, with Zelensky left out of the room. He ties it to Trump holding off on new Russia sanctions and the deal to buy Russian diesel, and asks whether the meeting will actually happen. From there he turns to Operation Protect the Vote, the federal probe into foreign nationals accused of registering and voting illegally in California, including the arrest of Alexander Munoz in Commerce. Jon's take: the arrests are great news, but they don't fix an election system built on machines and mail-in ballots, and you can't vote your way out of it. He also reacts to Matthew McConaughey's pitch to vote for independents, which he says misses how the uniparty works, and weighs Patrick Byrne's claim that Todd Blanche shut down the grand conspiracy investigation, which remains unconfirmed. He closes with Jeffrey Toobin conceding that even a Democrat Congress may not be able to stop Trump, and why Jon thinks that shows how little Congress matters now.

President Trump holds a executive order signing, covering the stories of the day. First up, he moves to Melania, White House and President Xi. Then the speech shifts to Health Division, Nicole Safar and Bobby. The full speech, start to finish.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a start-time glitch Alpha blames on Dark Matter, then get into the shows Josh keeps assigning him: The OA's lost season 3, The Truman Show and simulation theory. Josh walks through Yarvin, Nick Land and Dark Enlightenment theory, public-private partnerships, and why he sees this moment as the turbulence of transition. From there it's geopolitics: the AI race with China, Trump waiving the Graham sanctions bill, the Russian diesel deal, Ratcliffe's trip to Russia, the yen carry trade and Europe's migrant unrest. Alpha asks what the end state of Q looks like, Josh breaks down pre-Q, social Q, sub-Q and post-Q, and the two trade theories on timelines, free will and whether an engaged audience shapes what happens. They close on the next press secretary and chief of staff, Super Chats and Rumble Rants, Josh's son's football season, and a reminder to vote in the midterms and come see them at GART in St. Pete Beach.

Burning Bright welcomes Matt McDonagh of Life in the Singularity for his first visit to The Narrative, and the two dig into the Aipocalypse. Matt traces his path from Wall Street and a machine-learning hedge fund to Bitcoin and superintelligence, then they cover rigged inflation math, lizard brain politics, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, and the new Tesla Roadster demo as both a real event and a narrative, including the idea of a halo product. From there it's Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, The Atlantic's war on flying cars, the midterms as an unskippable cutscene, data center fears, the AI bubble versus the dot-com bubble, Nikola Tesla's papers and Trump's uncle at MIT, Bitcoin as proof of reality in a world of AI agents, local models versus the frontier labs, and a recursive renaissance that could leave middle managers sweating. BB closes on the Wall Street Journal report that Putin floated a summit with Trump and Xi on Ukraine, and previews next week's solo Sovereign Alliance show.

Jonathan Drake is back after a week off building sets for his daughters' homeschool production of Fiddler on the Roof, plus a look at the cedar patio furniture coming together in his shop. Then it's on to the finish of Proposition 5 in Lysander Spooner's poverty essay: why free banking would flood the market with credit and drive interest to the lowest possible rate, how self-employment would force employers to compete for workers, and why monopolies only survive with the state building barriers to entry. From there, Drake works through Spooner's three reasons bank credit beats store credit, including what buying at cash prices really means, and asks whether money needs a central standard at all or whether Bitcoin could serve as both the store and the measure of value. He closes on the modern tax burden, what Americans could build with double their take-home pay, why you can't vote your way out of a system you never voted in, and AI as a human extender. Next week: Proposition 6.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with the White House press secretary's rough week and whether a president who breaks his own news even needs one, plus Chris's post on what being a bar attorney really means. Then it's on to Kristi Noem's move from Homeland Security to the Shield of the Americas, and why Jon says calling it a promotion is the kind of cheerleading that leaves people with the rug pulled out from under them. Next, Jon plays a Patrick Byrne clip, with heavy caveats, on reports that Todd Blanche shut down the grand conspiracy investigation. That leads into the uniparty, the Republican establishment, and why so many people are tired of hearing "one more election cycle." The back half covers Trump blaming John Cornyn and Karl Rove ahead of Ken Paxton's Texas Senate race, the Wagner Group's Hollywood-style propaganda, the second season of The Agency, the unrest in France, and Trump's praise for Jon Husted. They close with the chat and an AI music video Chris picked out.

Cam Cooksey goes solo for episode 70, fresh off a day of tearing out a bathroom, and spends most of the night working through a stack of Georgia campaign mailers. He opens with a chat question about the end goal of the truth movement, then goes through the mail piling up at his house: Rick Jackson's comic book flyers, the Sharon Cooper and Michelle Schreiner fight over Trump's legal fees, Keisha Lance Bottoms and "high taxopoly," Mike Collins and Jon Ossoff, Senator Albers and Governor Kemp, and a voting report card from the Voter Participation Center. His point is that all of it keeps voters stuck inside the Hegelian dialectic. Later, Todd Gurley joins President Trump on stage in Georgia, international companies land the I-285 toll lane deal, and Cam shares Mitch Hedberg, Eric Rice, C.S. Lewis and Psalm 23 before signing off. Plus a look ahead to GART 14 in St. Pete Beach.

President Trump rallies in Highland Heights, Kentucky, for Andy Barr in the U.S. Senate race and Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky's 4th District, with a push for Republicans on both sides of the river in Ohio and Kentucky. He covers Jon Husted and his football days, Mexico paying for the wall, the Gulf of America, the border and the jails emptied into the country, Governor Cooper and Willie Horton, the 2020 election, the "dark age" turned golden age, record stocks and incomes, tariffs and the Ford plant, the military bonus and the $5,000 check, coal, drug prices, English as the official language, and his plans for the midterms. Ed Gallrein and another congressional candidate speak briefly, and Trump recognizes Kentucky GOP chair Robert Benvenuti, Auditor Allison Ball, Treasurer Mark Metcalf and Tim Couch.

The Friday crew opens with a surprise: Meta wants Red Pill News on Facebook, years after the big purge. Then two horror stories from the shoe store days, a second-row report from Journey's final tour, and a fact check on Steve Perry's voice. From there: California license plates and the voter rolls, the woman who called ICE on her roofing crew after the job was done, why new-build homes keep falling apart, hempcrete and the coming hemp ban, the flying Tesla, and a long argument about Nic Cage movies. And yes, GART 14 is headed to St. Pete Beach.

GMoney sits down with Tommy, artist in residence at BTC Inc. and curator of the Bitcoin Museum and Art Gallery in Nashville, to talk about nine years at Bitcoin Magazine, how a freelance graphic designer ended up building one of the deepest Bitcoin art collections around, and the 100-year-old downtown building that once printed scrip money. They get into Ross Ulbricht's smuggled prison animation, Rare Pepes, Counterparty and Ordinals, voting and taxes as consent, sat-per-dollar parity, meme coins as a lesson in money, Jason Lowery's Softwar thesis, and a town where Lord Kek could be the currency. GMoney then runs through the strange signals of the week, from Trump's $5,000 check promise to Michael Saylor's strategy and the Coldcard and Ledger hacks, and closes with his new song, 315 Down the Rabbit Hole.

Matt calls this one an experiment in a looser, more personal style. After his pro-white moment on OnlyLands last week, his X feed filled up with clips from Soirée Canadienne, a Quebec TV show that bused whole villages into a Montreal studio from 1960 to 1983 for campfire-style sing-alongs. He plays the clips, including 15-year-old Serge Veilleux in 1981, and asks why they now draw respect and even envy from English Canada. Along the way: why Quebec never went through the French Revolution, France as its top source of immigrants, Elon Musk and Quebec independence, and Indian immigration.

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's full remarks from his rally in Dalton, Georgia, where he campaigned for Mike Collins for U.S. Senate and Rick Jackson for governor ahead of the November 3 midterms. Trump opens by urging Georgians to vote early, since early voting runs through October 30, and looks back at the 2017 special election against Jon Ossoff. He goes after Ossoff on open borders, sanctuary cities and the killing of Laken Riley, talks about the Fulton County ballots, the strikes on Iran and the Tren de Aragua gang, and praises the woman in the yellow cape who handled a pair of protesters in the crowd. From there he walks through the economy: record income, low poverty, the stock market, tariffs, and his pledge of $5,000 for every adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate. He also covers the Gulf of America and Lake America renamings, the end of the death tax and drug prices. Mike Collins and Rick Jackson each join him on stage, and he recognizes Georgia's congressional delegation, Kelly Loeffler, Ralph Reed, Herschel Walker and other Georgia football greats before closing with his agenda for the next Congress. Here are the full remarks.

Jon Herold takes on press secretary, Blue Star Strategies sat and Trump allies, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the conversation moves to press secretary, with Tesla Roadster in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Minority Report movie, with Roadster and Tesla in the mix. From there, the talk turns to compressed air, with Florida, Ron DeSantis and Tesla in the mix. Later, the crew gets into Trump administration, with Roadster and Zachariah in the mix. After that, it's on to Trump's press. Next, the conversation moves to bar exam, with Donald Trump in the mix. Further on, the focus shifts to Brennan, Zachariah and Donald Trump. Then the talk turns to Blue Star Strategies sat, with Burisma and Hunter Biden in the mix. Then the crew gets into Glenn Beck, Data Republican and Truth Social. Before the close, it's on to Trump allies, with White House, Venezuela and Richard Grenell in the mix. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

JB White flies solo on this RattlerGator Report, and it's a "beautiful, beautiful" kind of Football Friday. He previews the Gators at Texas and the Jaguars against the Texans, then pulls up footage of the new Tesla Roadster flipping upside down, firing air thrusters and landing on its wheels. Elon Musk says flying cars are real, and JB walks through the Peter Thiel line that started it all. From there he makes the case for a Global North of America, Russia and China, linked by a tunnel under the Bering Strait, with the U.S. in the lead. He reads a long thread on Antonio Gramsci and the long march through the institutions, and why that grip is cracking in Latin America as Flávio Bolsonaro finishes first against Lula. Next come posts from a Frenchman named Breville: a warning that France already tried everything progressive politicians promise, a look at Hollywood's gatekeepers, and a call for the West to treat abundance as an engineering problem instead of regulating itself into stagnation. JB closes on the Shield of the Americas taking on the cartels and on President Trump's leadership.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week on Badlands Daily with a packed Friday show. They open with a chat about AI music and what new creative tools mean for artists, then dig into fresh reporting on impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch, Burisma and Hunter Biden, and what it says about the case that launched the first impeachment. The guys argue the lesson is simple: the witnesses were never as credible as the press claimed. From there they play the Ed Markey debate clip out of Massachusetts, talk about the war in Ukraine winding down and ask where the intelligence feeding it actually comes from, and run through a set of press secretary clips. Later they cover Jeff Clark and the courts, a Supreme Court clip from Elena Kagan, Jake Tapper and the Biden years, and how much of the news still leans on so-called authoritative sources. Before the close they look at early race numbers and California driver licenses, then preview the weekend lineup across Badlands Media. Grab a coffee and settle in.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi's 2011 adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story, with Matt Damon as senatorial hopeful David Norris, Emily Blunt as Elise, and Anthony Mackie and John Slattery as the men in hats keeping him on plan. Chris points out how many real politicians and pundits play themselves in the opening campaign montage, and Burning Bright explains why Damon's Obama-era politics make that blend of fiction and reality hard to watch now. The two dig into The Daily Show and Jon Stewart's famous Crossfire appearance as a case study in controlled opposition, with Burning Bright borrowing the wrestling idea of the jobber to explain who was set up to lose. From there they read the Bureau as handlers nudging a candidate along a map of nodes and inflection points, why the system works best when most players don't know the plan, and how love can become leverage. They close on the movie's last line, that free will is a gift you won't know how to use until you fight for it, and pick 2001: A Space Odyssey for next week.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior keep it loose on a Thursday night, opening with Alpha's flat-pack table build and CannCon wrestling with his suppressor live on air after their last episode came down from YouTube over firearm talk. They get into Florida's bump stock law and the FRT trigger, the SBR gray area now that the Form 4 tax stamp is gone, and Jim Caviezel's new movie Ghost Soldier. Alpha reads a Fox News headline warning that the next war could reach U.S. soil, ties it to troops at the border, the cartel terrorist designation and the Golden Dome, and lays out his theory that a staged galactic war will unite humanity once the Deep State is gone. CannCon tells the story of talking with Boone's wife at an event without realizing who she was, and the chat weighs in on whether he remembers fans at GART. Later they cover Lance Cpl. Winder Perez surviving a live RPG round lodged in his leg, a corporal's ribbonless dress blues, the USS Abraham Lincoln's homecoming, and Alpha's memory of General Mattis sending two CH-53s full of mail to his unit in Iraq in 2003.

Frankie Val is joined by Jay Gulinello for a Thursday night in Studio A, opening with Lauren's pregnancy countdown (37 weeks tomorrow), next year's Jamboree on October 22, 2027, and a Brewers-Dodgers World Series rundown before Frank admits he has spent three days in mortal combat with ChatGPT over livestream thumbnails. That leads into Anthropic's new rules on "abusive" behavior toward Claude, and why the models keep stamping the whole show title onto the art. The center of the show is a Social Security debate: Frank walks through Cato Institute polling on boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z, the drop from 16 workers per beneficiary to about 2.7, and whether younger viewers will ever see a return. Callers and chat weigh in, including Cloud Nine on European safety nets. Later the room goes full October with Chucky one-liners, a neighbor's year-round Chucky window display, and Frank's dad in the movie Spookies, plus a Blockbuster nostalgia detour. They close with Super Chats, raffle prizes, a nod to Badlands viewers hanging out on the affiliate, promo code FRANKLY at quitefrankly.tv, and a Ripple Effect clip on nuns and Europe's population crisis before the flip side.

Matt McDonagh is back for episode three of Life in the Singularity, and this week the focus is digital twins and the leverage superintelligence hands to anyone willing to learn. Matt argues that AI has torn down the old wall of syntax mastery, so curiosity now matters more than credentials, and he explains why he thinks large language models will one day look like 8-tracks: a stepping stone, not the destination. From there he covers running models locally and offline, using AI to pressure-test a business idea before you spend a dime, and why being "incalculable" is the best defense in a world that already knows everything about you. A long Bitcoin segment takes on the quantum computing scare and Satoshi's coins, then turns to deflation, housing, money printing and fractional reserve banking. The back half plays a short video on digital twins, live virtual models of factories, energy grids and desalination plants where an intelligence can experiment without real-world cost. Matt shares how he uses his own digital twin, walks through the OODA loop and a build, measure, iterate mindset, and previews graph and recurrent neural networks for next week.

Ashe in America and CannCon settle in for Chapter 18 of The Creature from Jekyll Island, picking up right after Jackson's war on the Second Bank. The Bank is dead, but banking is very much alive, and the chapter walks through the failed fixes that followed. They cover the push to kill small banknotes and force everyday trade back onto gold and silver, then how checkbook money and demand deposits made those limits pointless. Next come the safety-fund schemes, money backed by government securities (the Red Dog and Wildcat era that foreshadowed the Fed), and the mirage of "free banking" that still ran on state favors and gold-box tricks. From there the book turns to the Union in jeopardy: tariffs, legal plunder, Lincoln, and why the Civil War looks like an economic war as much as a moral one, with Mexico and the Monroe Doctrine in the mix. Ashe and CannCon keep pulling the thread to today, including how the 1830s money fights rhyme with current trade and industrial policy. No sponsor interview in this cut. Dense history, clear parallels, and a lot of "we're just describing the present."

The Department of Justice holds a press conference in St. Louis to announce the results of Operation Show Me Justice, an ATF-led surge against violent crime that ends today after two months. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter reports 435 arrests, including 412 on outstanding warrants, along with 80 kilos of drugs, 166 illegal firearms, six machine gun conversion devices and over $1 million in currency seized. He credits the ATF, Marshals Service, DEA, FBI, Homeland Security and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and invites mayors and police chiefs across the country to partner with the department. Senator Eric Schmitt says more than 500 of the region's most violent criminals are now off the streets. The ATF director announces a new Crime Gun Intelligence Center for St. Louis starting in January 2027, and the Marshals Service director and Police Commissioner Robert Tracy describe how the federal, state and local partnership worked with the community. In the questions, the officials explain the charges, compare this surge to the D.C. and Memphis task forces, and note homicides down about 50 percent from last year. Schmitt also talks about defense jobs, a new airport and ICE in Missouri. The full press conference.

Jon Herold opens late after his daughter's birthday lunch, then digs into the Nidal Hasan execution plan: the firing squad is still on, but the stream was pulled after pushback, and families of the victims can still watch in person. The story that caught him most is the Justice Department's 48-hour deadline to California to segregate suspected noncitizen midterm mail ballots or face emergency relief, including the Trent McCotter letter to Shirley Weber and Dean Logan. From there he hits the Tesla Roadster unveil hype, midterm polling hedges and the authenticity fight over voting advice, then Ukraine: Trump reversing on Patriot interceptor production licenses, scarce interceptors, and how Starlink and US intel keep Kyiv dependent. He closes with a messenger app sponsor read and a quick note on Kimberly Guilfoyle after her resignation.

CannCon and Ashe in America, swapping in for Alpha Warrior this week, dig into Ilhan Omar's citizenship story, from her ties to Feeding Our Future to her age, her father's naturalization and her amended financial disclosures, plus news that federal agents seized a member of Congress's phone. Next they revisit Jack Smith's investigation, including Grassley's finding that the special counsel gathered names and donor data from Trump campaign circles. Then it's Maricopa County, where observers caught a worker making changes to the Novus ballot duplication system at night after logic and accuracy testing, and the hosts walk through why electronic adjudication and small-county audits leave room for fraud. On the world stage, Ukraine accuses SpaceX of limiting Starlink as it takes Russian missile strikes, and the crew asks why Kash Patel is heading to Russia. They close with the military's treatment of a service member held before trial, the coming execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and whether it should be public, and AI ads that put words in CannCon's mouth.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with a very Russia-heavy week, from Trump's and the Kremlin's tiger posting to Burning Bright's own summer training around Siberian tigers. Then it's on to the new White House press secretary's rough first briefing and the bar exam question. The hosts argue it's fine to be critical without stretching the plan to explain every story, and play Trump's March comments on Kimberly Guilfoyle to make the point. Next up is the raid on Ilhan Omar's home and the Justice Department investigation: the allegations about her records, why a cover-up could matter more than the original charge, and the tie back to the Minnesota fraud stories. They also get into Trump's fight with the White House press pool, the midterm predictions, and Trump governing in spite of Congress and the courts. The back half turns to Russia and Ukraine, with Trump's diesel deal with Putin as more signal than supply, the push for a Zelensky election, oil prices, and Elon Musk on Ukraine's Starshield service. They close with recent right-wing wins in Latin America and Boris Johnson and Brexit as a warning that a red win isn't always an anti-establishment win.

President Trump takes questions from the press on his way to Kalispell, Montana, then holds a rally for the state's Republican candidates. In the gaggle, he says Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and backs Mike Rogers, explains why he is campaigning in a state he won easily, sends his best wishes to Pope Leo after his cancer diagnosis, and says inflation is low and the Iran war will be over very shortly. In Kalispell, Trump asks Montana to "pretend I'm running," backs his candidates for the U.S. Senate and Aaron Flint for Congress, and warns that the Democrats will take your guns away. He promises $5,000 for every adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate, talks up red dye diesel for farmers and ranchers, lower drug prices and zero illegal crossings at the border, and announces a new Department of War super range in Montana for testing advanced weapons. He closes with his plans on taxes, health care, cash bail, voter ID and the Save America Act. Here are the full remarks.

Shipwreck opens solo with the "Great Citizen Award" that showed up in her mailbox, explains the one local race she will vote in this year, and vents about Iowa's Senate choices, the flood of political ads and mail, and why she can't bring herself to write in Chuck Grassley. From there she gets into the Noahide laws, then wonders whether the data center boom is really about AI bot farms built to steer your feed before the elections, with a media literacy check on spotting them. Along the way she reminisces about the '90s, Marlboro Reds and smoking during COVID, and this week's Beetlejuice rewatch. Later she plays a breakdown of the differences between Christian, Jewish and Muslim beliefs and talks about Mary Magdalene's writings. She closes on gas prices, the master-trolling excuses, the still-missing Epstein files and a new White House human trafficking appointment.

President Trump rallies Bullhead City, Arizona, 20 days out from the midterms, walking on to "God Bless the USA" and opening with Air Force One and life on the road. He goes after Governor Katie Hobbs again and again, from the border and the cartels to the cognitive test he says she couldn't pass, and makes the case for Andy Biggs. He touts the tax cuts, no tax on tips, falling car insurance premiums, Social Security and the drop in violent crime, and talks about tariffs, China, Canada, TSMC's Arizona plant, TikTok, Iran and oil moving through the Strait again. Along the way he revisits the 2020 election and broken machines, the new White House ballroom, the Congressional Medal of Honor for a 104-year-old veteran and a call to win one for Charlie Kirk, before closing with the "make America great again" refrain and a "YMCA" walk-off.

Steve Kwast and co-host Chris Ponder pre-recorded this one while Steve was in Italy for a family wedding. Steve opens with an update on President Trump's space initiatives: micro nuclear reactors in orbit, solar collection in space, and beaming power down to Earth by laser and microwave. Then they wrap up their 16-episode series on building an information system that can triangulate truth in an age when AI and quantum tools make it hard to believe anything you see, hear or read. Chris walks through hydrocompression and puts eight components on the board: life, logic, space, spectrum, form, force, ledger and capability. He ties them to quantum information, the fundamental unification force and what he calls quantum harmony. Steve explains how his company, SpaceBuilt, plans to put that neural network in space and turn it into an app that checks a piece of information against a universal body of evidence. The next series will show how to use it. Until then, his advice is to be a critical thinker and not a victim of information warfare.

Jon Herold brings CannCon on to break down the Maricopa County video that Jordan Conradson released this week. It shows a worker at the MTEC center plugging a USB drive into a certified election terminal after hours, with the port blocker removed. They go through what Shelby Robinson laid out on Why We Vote, why the county's "routine update" explanation doesn't hold up, and what Recorder Justin Heap can and can't reach. After the guys sign off, Jon runs the headlines: Trump's energy moves in Alaska, the subpoena for Ilhan Omar's sister and its ties to Feeding Our Future, and the record $1.2 billion Treasury penalty on Bank of America, complete with 17s. He also covers the judge restoring White House access for Politico, CNN and MSNBC, a hotter inflation number next to a Social Security raise, Kevin Droegemeier's return to the White House, and a polling narrative that has the GOP on the brink.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick off Alpha Wednesday with the report that Pope Leo has been diagnosed with lung cancer, then dig into the Justice Department subpoenas in the Ilhan Omar investigation, including her sister's ties to the Minnesota fraud scandal and the net worth that went from $30 million to $100,000. Alpha draws on his law enforcement background to walk through how search warrants and piggyback warrants work, after a clip from Jeanine Pirro. The guys revisit Joe Arpaio's Obama birth certificate investigation and Dennis Montgomery, then break down the $1.2 billion penalty Bank of America took for money laundering failures and why individual executives still walk away. Later they cover candidate health disclosure, GOP super PAC spending, an ad buyer who sent Susan Collins money to Portland, Oregon, New England's lopsided congressional delegation, after-hours footage from Maricopa County's election center, and listener questions on dual citizenship.

JB White had planned a show on the death penalty, but after President Trump posted 24 videos overnight, he tore up the plan and walked through the whole storm, one video at a time. Along the way he plays "God Made Trump," Trump's post on Greenland and why America isn't walking away from NATO, the "Lion Has to Show the Jackals" clip, the warning to Maduro and the record low border crossings. He explains why he thinks Kimberly Guilfoyle was taken out by adversaries inside the ranks, reads a Rudyard Kipling poem about manliness, and weighs in on the Shane Gillis fight over modesty at the gym. He closes on the "revolution of common sense," the one big beautiful bill, and why 2020 still has to be addressed, no matter how many people want to call it history. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down ballistic missile, predictive analytics and Jews saxophone. First up, the crew gets into articulate minority, with Fight Club and YouTube in the mix. Then it's on to press secretary, with Pam Bondi, Zakaria and Katie in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to press secretary, with Elon Omar, Alaska and Ilhan Omar in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to Minnesota, Judge Jeanine Pirro and Tom Homan. After that, the talk turns to anonymous sources, with White House and Democrats in the mix. Next, the crew gets into European countries, with Zelensky and Russia in the mix. Further on, it's on to ballistic missile, with NATO, Russia and Ukraine in the mix. Then the conversation moves to predictive analytics, with White House and President Trump in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Trump app, with Dollar, Secretary of War and Emerald Dragon in the mix. Before the close, the talk turns to Jews saxophone, with Wings and Rock Cook in the mix. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

Ashe in America and CannCon finally get Shelby Robinson of We The People USA Alliance on the show after years of citing her Maricopa County work. Shelby explains how her group came together around voting machines, from the 230-page report on their history and funding that went to Congress, to the Runbeck case and the push for a "Logan Law" so election vendors face the same transparency Cyber Ninjas did. The guys ask about the Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh trials and why courts never looked. Then Shelby walks through what her team caught on the county's cameras after certification: staff inserting flash drives into a terminal that feeds the whole secure room, port blockers opened with no key log, and an employee with a history in the EMS server room. She asks why the updates came after logic and accuracy testing instead of before, and why the cameras can only be watched four at once. After Shelby signs off, the guys dig into chain of custody and certified updates, and close on the Justice Department letter to Georgia State Election Board executive director James Mills about Fulton County. Grab a coffee and settle in.

President Trump stops to take questions from the press, then heads to Wasilla, Alaska, for a rally for Senator Dan Sullivan. In the gaggle, he says Kimberly Guilfoyle won't be staying on after what he read about her, that the U.S. is still sharing intelligence with Ukraine while he works with both sides to end the war, and that the diesel deal with Russia is meant for the world market, not for us. He also takes questions on the ICE arrest of Oscar Delgado, striking the Houthis, asking Turkey's President Erdogan for help in Yemen, and Iran. In Wasilla, Trump tells the crowd he'd never cancel on Alaska, even for an eight-hour flight, and makes the case for "the real Dan Sullivan" and Nick Begich. He urges a yes vote to repeal ranked choice voting, talks up Alaska energy and the South Korean investment headed to the state, brings Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick up on stage, and goes after Mary Peltola. He closes with prices, the $1,776 Trump dividend for the military, a promised $5,000 for every adult citizen, voter ID and the Save America Act. Here are the full remarks.

Jon Herold opens with Katie Zacharia's first White House press briefing, and it was a rough one. Jon plays clips from her opening statement and the questions that followed, including the moment she mixed up her president and her husband, and the awkward exchange when a reporter asked where she passed the bar exam. He compares her to Karoline Leavitt and Kayleigh McEnany, floats a theory about why someone with her history of Q and devolution posts would be put front and center, and says the real test is whether her next briefing gets any better. Then it's on to Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation after the Wall Street Journal story on her Signal messages, and Trump's post on the Houthis and Iran. From there, Jon gets into how the headlines frame Trump's diesel deal with Russia, the UN's political declaration on pandemic prevention, voter ID and the midterms, and why he expects the Democrats to try to impeach Trump again. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

Katie Zacharia steps up to the podium for her first briefing as the new White House Press Secretary. She opens by thanking President Trump and the American people, then walks through the midterm blitz: last night's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, the new Navy submarine component repair center coming to Cleveland, and upcoming stops in Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Georgia, Kentucky and Florida. From there she covers real wages, prescription drug prices, manufacturing jobs, energy dominance and the Venezuela oil deal, trillions in new investment including a $15 billion steel complex in Iowa and a South Korea energy package, the administration's fraud recoveries, Greenland and the fight against fentanyl. Then she takes questions. Nick Gilbertson of Breitbart asks about the new media seat Karoline Leavitt opened up, and Katie says it stays and will expand. Peter Doocy asks about her role heading into the midterms and about intel sharing with Ukraine. Alina Shirazi asks about Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle, who the White House has asked to resign, and how Katie will balance the job with her four kids. Here's the full briefing.

This time CannCon and Zak Paine dig into the first White House press briefing from new press secretary Katie Zacharia. First up, it's SBRs, suppressors and the ATF's case against Jeremy Brown. Then it's on to Ilhan Omar, the Feeding Our Future scam and the Somali fraud network in Minnesota, with Keith Ellison and Tim Walz called before a grand jury, and John Nagel, the retired Minnesota State Trooper running against Omar in November. From there, the focus shifts to the briefing itself. Katie took three questions, starting with Breitbart and Peter Doocy, and the press has already dug up her posts on Pizzagate and devolution. CannCon and Zak think she seems pretty based and are willing to give her a shot, and she confirmed the White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign. Later, the talk turns to Trump, Russia and diesel fuel for farmers and ranchers, Massachusetts letting SNAP fraudsters keep 97 cents of every dollar, Diddy, and Garrett Archer coming out to stump for a candidate. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine start with the news: the Ilhan Omar investigation and the naturalization record nobody can find, the Somali communities in Minnesota, Maine and Ohio, the Supreme Court petition in Trump's RICO lawsuit, and how a "national emergency" story can be run up the chain through Peter Ticktin. Jon also has a few words for a writer who mischaracterized his devolution research. Then it's off to Wyoming. Jon walks Zak through the 1970s cattle mutilations, carcasses with clean surgical cuts and no blood, and the story of rancher Pat McGuire, who watched craft land on his property, was told to fly an Israeli flag, and ended up in hypnotic regression with Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Next comes Carl Higdon, the elk hunter whose bullet stopped in midair, who met a being called Asa One, rode in a windowless cube alongside five elk, and woke up in a two-wheel-drive truck parked miles from anywhere it could have driven.

Ashe in America brings her oldest son, Caleb, onto Culture of Change for the first time to settle a family argument: are we headed for a golden age or a dystopia? Caleb takes the doomer side, Ashe plays the realist. Ashe walks through McKinsey's 2026 technology outlook, from physical AI and dark factories to data centers outrunning the power grid, and asks what we trade away for convenience. Caleb counters that the top of the pyramid still owns the tools, and explains how all those CAPTCHAs quietly trained self-driving cars. Then it's WALL-E: the lost Buy n Large ads, a corporation that bought out the opposition and ran the planet, An Inconvenient Truth landing two years earlier, and the Soylent Green theory about what the Axiom passengers are drinking. Ashe wonders if she traumatized her kid with this movie, and the two land on the way out: honesty, intention and coming back to God. Pharaoh the cat makes a cameo.