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FUD stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and Burning Bright has a theory about why everybody has been kind of a doomer lately. To illustrate it, he went digging through Badlands to find the single most incessant black piller he could think of, then invited him on so the chat can lovingly lift him up and beg him to stop destroying the movement. Enter tonight's guest, doomer extraordinaire Zak Paine, who plays along like a good sport. With the midterms a couple of months out, the two poke at the thing we are all told we must...

Jonathan Drake dives into Spooner's first two economic propositions, starting with the deceptively simple idea that every man should keep the full fruits of his own labor. From there Jon works through why Spooner sees the employer employee relationship as a subtle drag toward poverty, and why he thinks a nation of entrepreneurs beats a nation of wage earners every time. Expect a genuinely fair minded wrestling match with the capitalist rebuttal to that claim, a clear line drawn between Spooner's thinking and actual Marxism (spoiler, they only sound similar on the surface), and some candid personal reflections on...

Jon Herold sits down for a first-time chat with Gabe of Good Brew, and fair warning, Gabe is a talker. What starts as a friendly get-to-know-you (Outer Banks roots, a detour into why so many businesses incorporate in Wyoming) quickly becomes an enthusiastic deep dive into gut health. Gabe's pitch is that Good Brew took the opposite road from the probiotic boom: instead of forcing colonizing microbes through the stomach where most of them die, the idea is to tend the gut like a garden and support the foundation. He walks through spore-forming probiotics, metabolites, and glutathione production, all...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with a Netflix documentary tangent about decoy planes and disguised operatives before shifting into one of the more philosophical episodes in recent memory. The centerpiece is a metaphor about a wall everyone secretly knows is black but publicly agrees is white, used to explain how Trump operates inside a collectively accepted false consensus and slowly walks people back toward what's actually true. From there the conversation goes deep into logos, divine order, and the idea that inversion, presenting things as their opposite, is the core mechanism of deception at every...

Cam Cooksey opens episode 66 (September 5th) in a deliberately loose, laid back mood, promising a less structured, more conversational night as the final Flow before GarVegas. There's Hooks and Harmony recap, a Scales ad that sparks a childhood tangent, and plenty of chat love. The meat is a media integrity deep dive. Cam walks through the permanent removal of Maria Bartiromo from Fox News and the reporting around Peter Navarro's claim that a top anchor and executive Susan Scott were shielding China and shaping coverage. He uses it to make his central point: every corporate outlet, Fox...

Host Matt Trump (pre-recording on a Thursday after a soundless first take) declares this a costume-changing romp through Burning Man, which is happening in the Black Rock Desert as he speaks. Drawing on his own three-year run (2012 to 2014), he plays internet footage from the festival's 40th year and cheerfully warns you it looks basically unchanged: same bicycles, same lights, same beautiful chaos. Expect an affectionate, warts-and-all tour: how to survive the desert, the sacred art of the decorated night bike, why finding a "tribe" is everything, and the surprising mix of Bay Area billionaires, Aspen ski bums...

A genuinely heated debate breaks out over whether the anti data center pushback happening across the country is a legitimate concern or just a Chinese psyop, spiraling into a bigger argument about executive orders, farmland ownership, and whether the government could legally seize land tied to alleged foreign election interference. On the legal front, there's a rundown of jury selection concerns heading into the Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson trial, and some sharp questions about a media apparatus accused of setting up another "fake election" narrative weeks out. There's also a China threat argument that gets surprisingly candid about...

Jordan and Nate are back live this week, kicking off with genuinely useful talk about mobility work, self experimentation, and using AI to plug in your own blood work and genetics for a targeted health plan. From there it is a stacked news day: Trump's fresh executive order cracking down on meat packing monopolies and opening up direct to consumer sales for small ranchers, plus Trump publicly defending unvaccinated Amish communities amid Pennsylvania's ongoing measles controversy. They dig into a genuinely wild story about a researcher behind a major vaccine autism study pleading guilty to fraud, the FDA cracking...

Ashe in America and Ghost say Season 5, Episode 5 of The Chosen, "Because of Me," picks up the pace in a big way, and they are not exaggerating. This is the episode where Judas's betrayal finally becomes undeniable, and the hosts walk through a tense Last Supper sequence full of suspicion around the table as the disciples try to figure out who among them could possibly turn on Jesus. Meanwhile on the Roman side, Pilate is under pressure, Atticus is forced into an uncomfortable posture, and Claudia is unraveling in her own way, giving the political side of the story...

Jon Herold kicks off Friday with a quick look at OpenAI's new ARC AGI 3 benchmark results before digging into a newly posted DHS letter from Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen to AG Todd Blanche, walking through referrals on QR code voting machines and the ERIC voter data sharing controversy in detail. Ghost joins midway through for a wide ranging geopolitical breakdown, mapping out a theory that Israel is quietly building alliances with Greece and Ukraine as a possible path to open a new front against Turkey, tied into a $3.5 billion Israeli air defense deal in the Aegean. Ghost also digs...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a report claiming Fox fired Maria Bartiromo over leaked internal texts about the network's coverage of election fraud claims, then turn to a pair of contradictory court rulings that show just how uneven election law has become. Missouri's Supreme Court blocks a new congressional map after the primary already happened, while Justice Kavanaugh declines to put a citizens only voting amendment on Michigan's ballot despite organizers collecting a quarter million more signatures than required. The middle of the show digs into what CannCon sees as a coordinated push to drum...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick off with a mic malfunction confession before diving into one of the most heated debates the show has seen in a while. Alpha argues the military and intelligence community are already operating outside the Constitution when it comes to psyops and information warfare against Americans, and that it is a price worth paying to win the bigger fight against the deep state and China. CannCon pushes back hard, questioning where the legal line actually sits between federal law and constitutional violation, and whether ends can really justify unconstitutional means. It gets personal, it gets...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright dig into this 2012 Prohibition era drama with a genuinely stacked cast, and both come away pleasantly surprised by how well it holds up. The pick came from a random YouTube rabbit hole that somehow led straight to Tom Hardy, which feels about right for how these episodes usually go. Expect a solid breakdown of the film's bootlegger versus corrupt lawman setup and why that particular flavor of systems versus sovereigns storytelling keeps resurfacing depending on where the culture happens to be. There's a real conversation about trust in institutions, narrative fatigue, and a pointed...

Frankie Val themes the night around things that just do not add up, and invites viewers to bring their own top picks of the week. First comes the strange news tour, from a maybe rabid fisher cat terrorizing the Northeast (the media can't decide if it's a weasel, a fox, or a squirrel) to the improbable comeback of the CD, which sends Frankie fishing for everyone's embarrassing first album. The centerpiece is a roughly twenty minute sit down with Dr. Andrew Paquette, the analyst behind the New York Citizens Audit. He walks through clone voter rolls, retroactively...

CannCon and Ashe in America move on to Chapter 13 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and this one takes a hard turn into geopolitics. This week's theme is Masquerade in Moscow, unpacking the secret society founded by Cecil Rhodes, its American offshoot known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and the surprising role outside financiers played in funding the Russian Revolution. The hosts challenge the popular narrative that the Bolshevik uprising was purely a grassroots rebellion, tracing the money and influence back to bankers in Germany, Britain, and the United States, with the Rothschild formula...

JD Vance takes over the podium in his first solo White House briefing since the departure of the press secretary, and it is a marathon. He opens with fraud task force wins, over 2,000 shut down fraudulent trucking licenses, and a new 65 billion barrel oil reserve born out of the Venezuela deal, before fielding a genuinely sprawling round of questions. Expect a candid breakdown of the ongoing Strait of Hormuz shipping standoff with Iran, a defense of why gas hasn't hit $3 yet, some surprisingly personal banter about weight loss and sauerkraut, and a firm but friendly response to questions about...

Jon Herold walks through a detailed timeline theory that Trump may be quietly resetting the War Powers Act clock on Iran for a second time to keep Congress out of the loop, tracing notification dates back to February and July and predicting another possible reset is coming this weekend. He also fact checks Alex Jones' viral debate claims about NDAA Section 219 line by line, reading the actual bill text to show the "co equal to the Secretary of Defense" language Jones cited simply is not there. Other topics include Howard Lutnick's awkward military casualty gaffe and Trump's fiery follow...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior dig into the DOJ expanding its beef pricing investigation from the big four meat packers to eight of the largest grocery retailers in the country, unpacking how a handful of companies came to control most of what ends up on your plate and just how far prices have climbed over the past decade. From there they cover Democrats blocking a proposed constitutional amendment to lock the Supreme Court at nine justices, and debate whether the whole thing is a setup or a genuine effort. The back half includes a DOJ opinion clarifying that states taking...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with some personal banter (mystery health scares, homeschooling law rabbit holes) before landing on the real meat of the episode: Russia getting invited back to the G20 for the first time since the Ukraine war started. The guys walk through why that timing lines up suspiciously well with CIA Director Ratcliffe's recent trip to Moscow, and what it might signal about where the Ukraine conflict is actually headed. There's a deep dive into the mixed messaging coming out of the administration, sanctions talk that doesn't quite match the rhetoric, and speculation...

Shipwreck kicks off with her new obsession, fiber maxing, and how a fiber heavy routine has quietly fixed years of health issues, before pivoting into a rant about surveillance cameras popping up in towns too small to need them. She connects that to a data center fight near her home, complete with a mysterious pro data center billboard nobody will claim credit for. There is a bit on subscription based car features, a fun tangent on whether AI could already be running things, and a detour into philosophical zombies and inner monologues. The back half gets personal: turning down...