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Jon Herold sits down with his friend Jordan Sather of Conscious Strength for a wide open conversation that covers a lot of ground. From flunking out of Washington State University to building one of the more honest supplement brands in the alternative media space, Jordan doesn't sugarcoat his journey or his industry. He breaks down why big name supplement products are wildly overpriced, how corporate consolidation is quietly taking over natural health brands, and what his plans are for expanding Conscious Strength. But the conversation takes a serious turn when Jordan opens up about the death of David Wilcock, someone he knew personally for years. He pushes back on the wild conspiracy theories circulating online and shares what those who actually knew Wilcock understood about his mental and financial struggles. A candid, unfiltered conversation about media, supplements, grief, and the cost of online criticism. This Week's Guest: Jordan Sather from Conscious Strength https://BadlandsMedia.tv/Strength Promo Code: BADLANDS

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open an already packed Saturday show to breaking news: a gunman breached security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, setting off a chaotic media response. The guys break down the event in real time, analyzing the official story, the shooter's profile, the lax security setup, Trump's immediate press conference pivoting to the ballroom, and why the level of public skepticism this time appears noticeably higher than after Butler. From there, the conversation shifts to the coordinated influencer campaign manufacturing the illusion that everyone has turned on Trump, including a sharp breakdown of how algorithmic consensus and social reputation pressure drive that behavior. Chris Paul unpacks his "western town" controlled opposition metaphor, illustrating how Trump operates outside the circular firing squad entirely. Trump's True Social post tying the SPLC indictment directly to the 2020 election and calling for it to be wiped from the books gets its own segment. The show closes on a substantive exchange about black pilling, hopium, and what realistic expectations actually look like.

Cam Cooksey brings on special cohost Caleb Epp for a deep, no-holds-barred conversation. The two dig into Trump's True Social posts on Iran negotiations, the lingering blockade, and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extension. They wade into whether JD Vance is controlled by defense interests and what Peter Thiel's influence on the presidency could mean long term. A debated clip raises questions about Trump's faith. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation comes up as a striking example of government waste exposed. A wealth inequality video sparks talk of a Second Gilded Age and what it means for regular Americans. A live shooter incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner unfolds in real time in the chat. The show closes with a tribute to Abraham Clark, the Declaration signer who refused a deal to free his captive sons. A genuinely great episode with two guys who aren't afraid to ask hard questions.

What happens when a doctor follows the rules, saves lives during a pandemic, and gets indicted by his own government anyway? Alpha Warrior sits down with Dr. Ron Elfenbein, the Johns Hopkins-trained ER physician who built one of the country's first drive-up COVID testing operations, pioneered the "test to treat" monoclonal antibody model adopted nationwide, and was personally honored by Maryland's governor for his pandemic work. Then the Biden DOJ came knocking. Dr. Elfenbein walks through the federalization of monoclonal distribution, the mysterious "equity" rationing that left red states scrambling, and the four-month gap between his Fox News appearances warning people would die and his federal indictment. The "fraud"? A $250 billing dispute the government somehow translated into five felony counts and 50 years in prison. A jury convicted. A chief federal judge, an Obama appointee, then wrote a 93-page opinion essentially calling the case Stalinesque. The DOJ appealed anyway. This is a conversation about medicine, lawfare, and the personal cost of speaking up. Four years in, he is still fighting. Find him at dropthecase.com.

The crew is fully assembled this week, plus a guest appearance from Caleb, who kicks things off by casually mentioning he served legal papers to an unstable stalker at a GOP event for fifty bucks. Just a normal Thursday in Colorado. From there, the conversation takes a sharp turn into wealth, power, and money systems as the gang unpacks whether we are living through a Second Gilded Age, what Bitcoin actually is versus what people think it is, and whether Satoshi Nakamoto could be an intelligence agency. The Federal Reserve takes its usual beating. Meanwhile, a lengthy detour through Thailand's gold culture accidentally becomes one of the more interesting segments in recent memory. Caleb also gets brainstormed into potentially starting his own show, and the quartering gets publicly embarrassed by the entire internet. A chaotic, surprisingly substantive episode that proves the best conversations happen when nobody has an agenda.

Was Amy Eskridge killed because of what she knew about antigravity? Host Matt Trump, a physicist, actually watched her lecture to find out. What he found was a talented, balanced science communicator who probably wasn't doing cutting-edge classified research, but whose story opens a fascinating window into decades of gravity modification experiments, disappeared researchers, and suppressed science. From the Mansfield Amendment to Ning Li's vanishing act to the Podkletnov effect, Matt walks through the serious and the speculative with equal parts rigor and curiosity. A tribute to a young woman who loved a strange subject, and a reminder that even in fringe science, the questions matter more than the answers.

CannCon and Ashe in America kick off their last Friday night edition before moving to Tuesdays with a packed election integrity rundown. First, a Maricopa County court delivers a big win for recorder Justin Heap, stripping the board of supervisors of the election authorities Steven Richer quietly handed over before leaving office. Then, Virginia's "Restore Fairness" redistricting amendment passes 51-49, but six legal strikes from a circuit court judge could unwind the whole thing before it's ever certified. The show shifts to FBI Director Kash Patel's bombshell Fox News appearance, where he announces arrests are coming over 2020 election interference. The bulk of the episode digs into the newly declassified National Intelligence Council memo from January 2020, which assessed that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all had the capability to compromise US election infrastructure and that centralized databases were the most vulnerable entry point. The conclusion? The machines should never have been trusted. They were never safe.

Ghost opens episode 101 with a deep rabbit hole: the theory that US radar bases in Qatar and UAE functioned as weather modification systems deliberately draining Iraq, Syria, and Iran of rainfall for years. Ghost walks through the historic drought data in the Tigris Euphrates River Basin, the 2024 Dubai floods and cloud seeding admissions, and whether destroying the Qatar radar station triggered a sudden rainfall recovery across the region. From there, Ghost connects the dots to the $2 trillion "Syria File," revealed by Qatar's former defense minister, detailing how the US, Israel, Gulf States, Turkey, and NATO funded the Syrian civil war. The back half covers the Hajjaz Railway revival, MBS as the real architect of the Lebanon ceasefire Trump announced, Smotrich calling for redrawn Israeli borders, Israel Katz waiting for a US green light to resume the Iran war, and Trump telling reporters a nuclear strike would be a stupid idea.

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back, and yes, they're talking about drugs. The good kind. Trump signed an executive order to fast-track psychedelic treatments for veterans and mental health, with ibogaine and psilocybin leading the charge. Meanwhile, marijuana has officially been rescheduled from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3, opening the door for actual research and giving CBD entrepreneurs a reason to cautiously celebrate. Then things get serious: RFK Jr. faces the Senate and delivers a clinic in citing CDC's own studies against their narrative, while Senator Ron Johnson drops data showing the FDA actively masked vaccine safety signals, including over 20,000 reported deaths in 2021. Plus, Pete Hegseth scraps mandatory military flu shots. Jordan's internet, however, was not rescheduled to a better tier. It had a rough day.

It is a slow Friday, so Jon Herold opens the phones and the conversation gets real fast. Trump posted a middle-of-the-night Truth Social calling for the 2020 presidential election to be permanently wiped from the books with no further force or effect, and Jon unpacks why that kind of rhetoric matters even if nobody knows exactly what it means yet. Then the callers come in hot: a wide-ranging discussion on blackpilling, burnout, hopium addiction, and why Chris Paul keeps getting misrepresented by people who cannot sit still long enough to hear a full sentence. A special forces soldier just got arrested for betting on his own Maduro operation on Polymarket, and Jon finds it hard to be outraged when Congress has been doing the same thing forever and walking free. The DOJ also quietly dropped its criminal probe of Jerome Powell, which Jon finds very Tillis-shaped. Plus: the firing squad is officially back as a federal execution method, Todd Blanche made a significant speech at the NRA on embedding second amendment protections into regulatory infrastructure, and Wickoff is heading to Pakistan for Iran talks without Vance, which is apparently a thing now.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday that hits on every front. Trump drops a Truth Social post calling the SPLC indictment another Democrat hoax tied to ActBlue and says the 2020 election should be wiped from the books entirely. Chris unpacks why that statement is a deeper level of disclosure than the autopen story and what it signals about where this is all heading. The Virginia redistricting saga continues with Wall Street Journal hand-wringing from Republicans and CNN legal analysis confirming the referendum has real procedural problems, while CannCon lays out the full redistricting math and what it means for the midterms. New Jersey Republican Tom Kean has been missing for over a month with no proof of life and five seats now vacant in the House. The Brian Cole Jr. J6 pipe bomb case gets a terrorism enhancement and WMD charges but his defense team shocks the courtroom by demanding a trial date. CannCon plays his 2022 interview with Bridget Thorne revealing ACLU clerks had personal laptop access to Georgia's entire voter database on election night. Plus, the IRS moves to require nonprofit fiscal sponsorship disclosure, closing a major dark money loophole.

The swamp wasn't hiding in darkness. It was hiding in volume. JB White breaks down Elon Musk's explanation of the NGO money laundering pipeline and why AI is the first tool in history capable of mapping the entire corrupt architecture at once. He then walks through Brian Cates' breakdown of Pam Bondi's real job at DOJ and what comes next: thousands of civil lawsuits, a massive victim fund, and the systematic bankruptcy of the people who lorded over ordinary Americans for decades. JB also lays out his read on the Middle East triangle between Trump, Netanyahu, and MBS, and teases a coming show on what he sees as the transition from petrodollar to Petro Bitcoin. Fully recovered, fully fired up, and not pulling a single punch.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright settle into a new Thursday night 10:30 PM ET time slot with a deep dive into David Cronenberg's 2007 crime drama Eastern Promises, written by Steven Knight and starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The guys unpack why this stoic, brutal character study is more than a mob movie. It's a meditation on moral relativism, the weapons of the enemy, and the blurry line between systems and sovereigns. Along the way, they argue that stories (not facts) are the real terrain of the info war, using Nikolai's undercover FSB operation as a lens for understanding narrative warfare, controlled opposition, and what it really means when you can't verify any of the "real" stories being fed through your screen. They also wander into the Russian Vory code, the Ukrainian oligarch pipeline, Putin's strange bureaucratic war on the criminal underworld, the Donbas trafficking pipeline, and why Nikolai's tattoo ceremony is really a ritual of dehumanization. Plus, a sneak peek at next week's pick: No Country for Old Men.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior are joined by Chad Caton for a blistering hour and a half that swings from Marine Corps locker-room chaos to some of the sharpest political talk of the week. They dig into the SPLC indictment and the web of NGOs propping up Antifa at ICE standoffs and Cop City, including the green-helmeted "legal observers" Chad has squared off with in Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis. From there, the guys tear into Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the five senators pushing to remove him, and why grassroots pressure is the only real leverage left. Chad lays out the reality of unseating Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, breaks down the Cornyn vs. Paxton primary in Texas, and explains why Greg Bovino got yanked from Minneapolis far too early. They also cover Scott Bessett's Capitol encounter, Trump's tariff and energy chess match, and the Oval Office moment where Cali Means told the President SSRIs do not work. Chad closes with a rallying cry: learn the game, play it better, then kick their ass. Plus: Seabees stealing a commander's whites, pineapple on pizza, and a tomato classification crisis.

Frank and Jay Goulard are back, and this one starts in underwear and ends somewhere near the grassy knoll. They open with Virginia's "temporarily restore fairness" redistricting referendum, a piece of ballot wording so predatory it sounds like Emperor Palpatine wrote it over lunch. From there it's a deep dive into why 435 people cannot represent 300 million, why Republicans seem genuinely bummed out whenever they win, and why localism died a quiet death decades ago. Then the crown jewel: a Wired journalist's three minute video in which he attempts RFK Jr.'s high protein guidelines by eating Nutter Butter whey powder mixed with water, something called "man cereal," and Chipotle "boy kibble." Jay has thoughts. Many thoughts. The guys also unpack Mark Hyman's supermarket manipulation thread, Howard Moskowitz and the engineering of the Bliss Point, why processed food hijacks satiety, and how raising Aurora on real food changed her palate. They close on JFK: Anna Paulina Luna's teased NBC footage, the Altgens photo, Beverly Oliver's lost film, and why moving JFK's body out of Dallas was technically illegal.

Adel Nero is joined by Zak Paine and Frankie Val for a wide-ranging conversation that swings from the cosmic to the criminal. The guys open up about the passing of David Wilcock, the isolating grind of independent media, and why suppression is as much a psychological weapon as an algorithmic one. Frankie delivers his signature wrecking ball vs. scalpel analogy, arguing the Trump-era bulldozer must give way to surgical restoration, even as shrinking attention spans make that job almost impossible. From there, Zak digs into the bombshell SPLC indictment, unpacking how the organization allegedly funded the very hate groups it fundraised against, from the KKK to Unite the Right. The crew also debates whether Pam Bondi was a roadblock or a quiet foundation builder setting the stage for the real prosecutions to come. It's a heavier episode with sharp takes, a little grief, and a lot of clarity on where we are in this media revolution.

President Trump gathers in the Oval Office to announce a landmark Most Favored Nation drug pricing deal with Regeneron, the 17th and final pharmaceutical company to sign on, representing 86% of the branded drug market. The announcement includes a gene therapy that restored hearing to two year old Travis Smith, offered free to all eligible American children. Trump also confirms medical marijuana is being rescheduled to Schedule III. The press conference pivots quickly to updates on the Iran military operation, where Trump insists Iran's navy is at the bottom of the sea and the Strait of Hormuz stays closed until a deal is signed. He closes with a detailed and somehow charming tangent about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool getting a $1.5 million renovation instead of the previously planned $301 million overhaul.

Jon Herold is sleep-deprived, mildly cranky, and working with a slow news cycle today, which means you get the unfiltered version. The Navy Secretary was just fired over clashes with Trump on shipbuilding and fleet deployment, and Jon tries to make sense of why that name keeps showing up everywhere this week. He also digs into a quiet but potentially significant Department of Defense directive that rescinds a key surveillance designation from the DCSA, asking whether the timing, right in the middle of the FISA reauthorization fight, is a coincidence. Jon reads through a piece on Joe DiGenova as the new Russiagate czar and gives an honest take on whether this time actually feels different or if it is just another iteration of the same stop-start accountability cycle. Trump's Truth Social posts on Iran continue to escalate, with orders to shoot at boats placing mines and a full Strait of Hormuz lockdown. Plus the DOJ watchdog is now reviewing Epstein document compliance, SOUTHCOM just stood up a new autonomous warfare command, and Trump settled with Carter Page. Jon also has feelings about NHL officiating.

Ghost and Ashe in America return to The Chosen Season 3, Episode 5 for a heavy, emotional ride through Clean Part 2. This week, they unpack the parallel arcs of Jairus racing to save his dying daughter, Veronica's twelve years of suffering and the moment she reaches for the hem of the garment, and Eden's quiet crisis of faith after a devastating miscarriage. It's all one big conversation about what Jesus actually honors: not polish, not permission, not ritual cleanliness, but certainty. Faith without resistance. Along the way, the hosts take a few very Ghost and Ashe detours. The origins of Kabbalistic mysticism and why Jesus told everyone to keep their mouths shut about raising the dead. Why Mike Huckabee is, diplomatically speaking, a slimy politician. How the Western church outsourced charity to the federal government and lost the plot. And a surprisingly moving tour through De Tocqueville, Thomas Paine, and why Americans used to say "I'm a Virginian" instead of "I'm an American." It's biblical, it's political, it's occasionally ironic, and it lands exactly where it should. Your faith is the point. Everything else is commentary.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the energy on Thursday with a high-octane show that connects a lot of dots. Alpha breaks down why the biggest RICO case in American history is still being built from the ground up and why the lack of arrests is actually the sign of a sophisticated, airtight operation. Ilhan Omar's winery collapses one year after she reported it was worth up to $5 million, and a Minnesota hearing into her Feeding Our Future connections gets ignored by both Omar and AG Keith Ellison. The Virginia gerrymandering referendum passed 51/49 but a circuit court judge immediately blocked certification as unconstitutional, setting up a legal firestorm. The guys trace the SPLC indictment timing to the Virginia vote and draw the connecting tissue between the SPLC, Lincoln Project, ACLU, and Sedition Hunters. Florida fires back with its own redistricting special session. Plus, Massey introduces a bill to repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, the Ninth Circuit permanently blocks California's anti-ICE mask law, and a convicted murderer is arrested for threatening the ICE director.