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Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 182 with a breakdown of the Cole Allen assassination attempt on Trump, the mysterious Henry Martinez Twitter account, and why time travel is the only theory that fully explains it (spoiler: it probably isn't). They also touch on DiGenova's withdrawn subpoenas and Grassley handing Clinton Foundation documents to the DOJ. Then the show goes deep. A scathing open letter from former CIA officer Sam Faddis dismantles John Brennan's public image as an intelligence elder statesman, revealing his entire career was built on a personal relationship with Bill Clinton. Jon walks through Operation Timber Sycamore, the illegal Stinger missile transfers to Al Qaeda proxies in Libya, the Chinook shootdown, and why Ambassador Chris Stevens had to die to keep the story buried. The episode closes with a detailed case that Obama's entire family, his mother, grandfather, grandmother, and even his alleged biological father Frank Marshall Davis, were all connected to CIA operations spanning decades across Asia and Africa.

Ashe goes solo for the first time on Culture of Change and wastes zero time. From the Tina Peters case getting another appeal to the SPLC indictment exposing a decade-long lawfare playbook, this episode is a masterclass in connecting the legal dots. Add in a suspicious scene at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, SCOTUS backing Texas redistricting, Colorado defying the Supreme Court on conversion therapy, and the DOJ bringing back the firing squad, and you've got a packed show that moves fast and pulls no punches. Buckle up.

In Chapter 50, Ghost walks through the actual war that erupted in Eastern Ukraine following the 2014 Maidan coup, covering the timeline from the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist declarations all the way through the Minsk Two agreement of 2015. He breaks down the MH17 shootdown, the competing narratives around who fired the missile, and why the Western media's version may not hold up. Ghost also examines why both Minsk agreements ultimately failed due to unresolvable sequencing disputes between Ukraine and the separatists and explains how seven years of frozen trench warfare laid the groundwork for Russia's full-scale 2022 invasion. A methodical, plainspoken deep dive into one of the most misrepresented conflicts of the modern era.

Who funds white supremacists? Apparently the Southern Poverty Law Center, to the tune of millions. Matt Ehret uses this jaw-dropping revelation as a launchpad into one of the most important recurring themes in modern history: the left/right dialectic as a top-down intelligence operation. From COINTELPRO and FBI-manufactured terror cells to the Scottish Rite networks that engineered the American Civil War, Ehret argues the game has never changed, only the costumes. He traces how British imperial interests used both abolitionists and confederates to destroy the union from within, and why figures like Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and MLK represent the rare cases of people successfully escaping the trap. He closes with a prescient warning: economic breakdown is the precondition for civil war, and someone is already running the playbook again.

The ladies are back with cough attacks, sun-peeling leprosy jokes, and a Michael Jackson biopic recap that somehow leads to a tutorial on stop, drop, and roll. Ashe takes the wheel for a packed This Week in U.S. History segment covering the Ludlow Massacre, Columbine, John Adams getting big mad about being VP, the Battle of San Jacinto, Apollo 16 (allegedly), the Oklahoma Land Run, the Easter Rising, and the ten-day John Wilkes Booth manhunt that ended in a tobacco barn. Along the way, the crew unpacks the post-mass-trauma push from both political sides to either disarm citizens or suspend civil liberties, and why both responses serve a globalist agenda. They dig into the AI dilemma and reality collapse, debunk a fake Melania video in real time, and revisit the wildly inaccurate 1970 Earth Day predictions about mass starvation by 1985. Christy closes things out with the idiom of the week, bottoms up, and the surprisingly shady Royal Navy recruiter origin story involving a shilling, a beer, and a one-way ticket to a saltwater subscription. Plus a birthday surprise, line dancing, and resting Brian face.

Alpha's out again (sick kid), so CannCon, Cam, and a fashionably late JB hold down the fort for a packed episode. The guys kick things off raving about the Michael Jackson biopic and debating whether MJ is the most famous human being who ever lived (spoiler: they think yes). From there it's a full NHL playoff bracket breakdown, a genuinely moving moment from the NFL Draft when a Navy sailor walks across the stage in Pittsburgh, and a survival tips segment where the guys get into desert urine hacks and why marines carry tampons in their first aid kits. Cam brings the chaos with wild sports clips including a one-armed MMA knockout, the Talladega big one, and the first ever sub-two-hour marathon. And CannCon delivers an absolutely devastating bit about why he resents his wife for organizing his belt. Boomers, belts, and breakdancing in the Olympics. It's all here.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt opens an unscheduled briefing days before her maternity leave to address the third assassination attempt on President Trump, which occurred Saturday at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. A shooter attempted to breach the security perimeter and was immediately neutralized. One Secret Service agent took a bullet to the chest and was saved by his vest. Leavitt directly links the attempt to years of heated anti-Trump rhetoric from Democrat officials and media figures, citing specific quotes, and calls out Congress for leaving DHS defunded for 73 consecutive days. She also briefly addresses Iran negotiations, the Strait of Hormuz mine clearing operation, and the status of Kevin Warsh's Fed chairmanship confirmation.

Jon Herold comes in calm on a Monday that is anything but. There was an alleged assassination attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner over the weekend, and Jon is less interested in whether it was real than in watching what it does to the online truth community in real time. Spoiler: it is not pretty. Camps are forming, influencers are having emotional meltdowns, and the Q community is eating itself alive on Twitter while Jon watches with a bowl of popcorn and mild personal satisfaction. He also demonstrates just how terrifyingly good AI voice cloning has gotten by playing a fabricated Matt Walsh clip that is nearly impossible to identify as fake. Trump's 60 Minutes interview gets a brief but pointed review, Melania is calling for Jimmy Kimmel's firing over a pre-recorded "expectant widow" joke, and the Supreme Court just approved Texas's congressional redistricting, raising questions about what happens next in Virginia. Iran also floated a new Strait deal after Trump canceled the Pakistan envoy trip, and Jon has one recurring request: please stop going on 60 Minutes and call Badlands instead.

CannCon and Zak Paine open the week with a deep, wide-ranging breakdown of the White House Correspondents' Dinner assassination attempt. Cole Allen, a California teacher with ties to far-left groups No Kings and The Wide Awakes, rushed a magnetometer at the Washington Hilton with a pistol and shotgun and fired before being stopped by Secret Service. The guys go through his full manifesto, which reads as part dog whistle and part reconnaissance report, noting his postscript mocking the complete absence of security and how nobody considered someone checking in the night before. Multiple attendees including Carrie Lake and NRB director Bethany Miller confirm no bag checks, no ID verification, and essentially no screening to enter the hotel. CannCon and Zak also flag Allen's 2014 internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which puts him in the same building as several recently deceased scientists. A mysterious Twitter account posted only the name "Cole Allen" in December 2023, and the account's banner appears to contain an image predictive of the Butler shooting. Trump's cool-as-a-cucumber response and his sharp 60 Minutes rebuke round out the coverage.

JB White is back to full strength and not wasting it. He opens with a pointed look at the White House Correspondents' Dinner incident, praising Pete Hegseth's instincts while raising sharp questions about Secret Service response and pre-event vetting. He also digs into the gunman's profile, framing him as a textbook educated fool, and takes on Barack Obama's claim of ignorance about the attacker's motives. Mike Davis called it, and JB agrees, this man has to be dealt with. He revisits why Trump's long game on civil and criminal accountability is working, why Russia is increasingly a vassal state of China, and why doomerism about the midterms is itself a weapon being used against the MAGA movement. Florida Gators NFL Draft history rounds it out.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid pull no punches in Episode 24. Alpha uses his law enforcement background to break down the third assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents dinner, the Secret Service response, and why calling it staged is flat-out disrespectful to the people who actually stopped it. Then the guys pivot to the SPLC indictment, Tim Cook's resignation, and the controlled fracturing of MAGA through major influencers. Todd Blanche is making moves, indictments may be imminent, and Rep. Burleson is dropping UFO bombs fresh out of Area 51. Oh, and Russia is apparently working on anti-aging tech. Just another quiet Sunday night on Q After Hours.

Burning Bright and Ghost take the term "New World Order" and flip it on its head. In the first half, they map out the sovereign alliance's multipolar reconstruction: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, and Iran quietly building rail corridors and new security architectures while NATO and the EU are the ones actually freaking out. Ghost brings a stunning theory about Iranian missile strikes destroying alleged weather-control radar towers in the Gulf, potentially ending a decades-long manufactured drought. In the second half, Hulk Hogan enters the chat. Through the lens of the new Netflix documentary, they draw a direct line from WrestleMania's feedback loop storytelling to Trump's political persona and how narrative creates reality. The NWO the globalists warned you about? That's the sovereign alliance. And Donald Trump is playing the character.

Episode 27 told you WHY to question consensus physics. Episode 28 actually starts doing it. Jonathan Drake and Polymath, a formally trained engineer who had his physics worldview shattered on 9/11, dive into the oldest unresolved debate in science: is reality made of particles or a medium? They break down atomism versus ether theory in terms any curious person can follow, and introduce a deceptively simple test for evaluating any scientific framework: can it explain, or can it only predict? From quantum mechanics' ever-expanding cast of fictional particles to magnets doing things no particle theory can account for, to lightning, river watersheds, and Lichtenberg burns all drawing the same picture, this episode lays the actual groundwork for a series that promises to go deep. Spoiler: if your best defense of your theory is that nobody can understand it, that is not a defense.

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.