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  Flow Ep. 68: Cam Cooksey & Jackie Espada on Consuming Too Much News 04.10.2026 1Std. 36Min.

  The crew dig into Cam Cooksey and Jackie Espada on consuming too much news, Cam Cooksey on the Soft Disclosure ad and GART 14 cameos and Cam Cooksey on Trump at Georgia-Alabama, artificial news, with plenty of commentary along the way. You won't want to miss this one.
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  Spellbreakers Ep. 183: Where is the Mood of the Country Heading? 03.10.2026 1Std. 21Min.

  With the midterms a month out, Matt admits that for the first time in his life he can't read the mood of the country. The polls point every which way, his old bellwether friends have hardened into partisans, and his Facebook feed of burned-out liberals offers more fatigue than fury, which he takes as a good sign for Republicans. To make sense of it all, he time-travels to 1966, the year of his first memories and another midterm: Swinging London, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Reagan's first run for governor and peak Nelson Rockefeller, campaign ads included.
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  OnlyLands Ep. 74: Steve Hilton’s Baffling Ad, Palm Springs’ AIDS Memorial & a Botched Execution 03.10.2026 2Std.

  The Friday crew tries to work out who Steve Hilton's mail-in ballot campaign ad was actually made for, then revisits the proposed Palm Springs AIDS memorial whose design drew some very unfortunate comparisons, along with a reported half-million-dollar price tag. From there: doubts about a dramatic airliner plunge, the creepy movies of 1999, Fight Club's Chinese ending, Tennessee's failed execution and whether a robot should flip the switch, and Grok's reply when asked to remove the "fake gods" from a picture. And yes, GART 14 is headed to St. Pete Beach.
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  MAHA News [10.2] Coca-Cola’s SNAP revenue, the HHS-EPA glyphosate review, Vitamin D & K 03.10.2026 1Std. 6Min.

  Jordan Sather digs into Coca-Cola's SNAP revenue and the HHS-EPA glyphosate review and Vitamin D and K, winter sleep and chopping firewood, with plenty of commentary along the way. Grab a coffee and settle in.
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  The Daily Herold: 10/2/26 - The Atlantic's Kash Patel Hit Piece and the Bongino vs Flynn Feud 02.10.2026 56Min.

  Jon Herold digs deep into a lengthy Atlantic article on Kash Patel's election integrity investigations, picking it apart for bias while still finding the underlying questions about October surprise timing genuinely worth discussing ahead of the midterms. He walks through the escalating public feud between Dan Bongino and General Flynn, playing old December 2025 Alex Jones footage where Flynn predicted Bongino would eventually turn on him, and digs into reports of Flynn's $100,000 a month foreign lobbying contract with Republic Srpska. Other topics include Europe releasing stockpiled diesel oil ahead of the midterms, Putin's nuclear weapons warning over Kaliningrad, Georgia's push to ban Dominion QR code voting machines, and a report on Voice of America quietly being rebuilt after DOGE dismantled it. Sponsor reads, a prayer request for an injured community member, and a lively chat session round out a newsy Friday show ahead of tonight's Power Hour with Chris Paul.  
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  Badlands Daily: 10/2/26 - Pipe Bomber Confession, Miami Judge Ruling & Fake Fridays Debut 02.10.2026 1Std. 53Min.

  CannCon and Chris Paul close the week by workshopping a new Friday segment idea before diving into a Politico story on a judge ruling Trump unlawfully removed a US Attorney, and what that says about who actually holds appointment power. The meat of the show is the release of Brian Cole's confession transcripts in the January 5th pipe bomb case, where the hosts walk through the interrogation dynamics and why the reaction online has been so wildly off base. From there it is a Georgia election board leader requesting federal intervention, a Miami judge holding that Congress cannot ban non citizens from voting, and a dual national arrested over the Fairford air base incident. They close with two genuinely bizarre crime stories, a Steve Hilton campaign ad, and a remarkable medical recovery.  
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  RattlerGator Report: 10/2/26 - Spotting Fakery, Hegseth's Speech and AI Takes 02.10.2026 58Min.

  Running on no sleep after a late night honoring his wife at a community event in Jacksonville, JB White still shows up with a lesson in media literacy. He walks through how to use tools built into X to spot satirical or manufactured stories before they spread, using a viral post as a live example, and pushes back on some of his own community's conspiracy theorizing. He replays Pete Hegseth's speech on faith within the military, breaks down President Trump's recent remarks on artificial intelligence and the push to brand it super intelligence, and previews a deeper discussion he wants to have soon comparing different takes on who is really pulling strings behind the scenes. There is also a reminder about the upcoming GART 14 event in St Petersburg Beach and a few sponsor reads, including the fan favorite beard care spot. It is tired, candid and still unmistakably JB.  
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  Badlands Story Hour Ep. 187: The Batman 02.10.2026 1Std. 31Min.

  Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit Matt Reeves's 2022 take on the Caped Crusader, and both come away more impressed than they expected to be. Expect a thoughtful dive into the film's central theme of vengeance versus justice, what it means to be harmed by a system versus harmed by people, and how that tension plays out through Bruce Wayne's arc. There's a genuinely funny personal theater horror story woven into the discussion, plenty of comic book fan perspective comparing this take to Nolan's trilogy, and a sharp pivot into real world parallels about political lying, informed consent, and what it actually means to "wake up" versus just acting like the Riddler online. Stick around for the closing thoughts on vengeance and justice, plus next week's pick, a 2017 dark comedy about the chaotic power scramble following a Soviet dictator's death.  
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  SITREP Ep. 169: The Hemp Psyop, CBD Science, and a Congress Petition 02.10.2026 1Std. 39Min.

  CannCon welcomes new grandpa Alpha Warrior back from a very busy week before handing the floor over to guest Nathan Madden of Emerald Med. Nathan dives deep into the hemp plant, breaking down what actually separates CBD from THC, why hemp has way more compound diversity than marijuana, and why the industry keeps getting strangled by lobbying dollars from pharma, alcohol, and big oil. The conversation turns into a full takedown of what the guys call the psyop around hemp, including a case made for hemp based products replacing everything from plastics to car seats, and a push to sign a petition urging Congress to loosen outdated restrictions. Alpha gets genuinely fired up about the environmental angle, and CannCon does not hide his excitement either. It is part science lesson, part call to action, with plenty of personality mixed in.  
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  Quite Frankly Ep. 69: A Botched Execution, MK Ultra & a Grab Bag Solo Night 02.10.2026 2Std. 2Min.

  Frankie Val is flying solo tonight after guest Adam Davies (the Bigfoot conference man) had to bump to Monday, so what was meant to be an interview becomes a thrown together grab bag, which Frankie insists is somehow more like the real him anyway. He opens on a grim headline: Tennessee's failed execution of death row inmate Krista Pike, who survived two lethal injection doses, and uses it to question the strange ceremony and bureaucracy around capital punishment. A caller who actually knew Pike in school calls in with a haunting account of her childhood. From there the night stretches into Frankie's bigger themes: MK Ultra, mass formation, and media mind war, the weaponizing of early childhood development, and his cynical read on how public shame can be rewritten into a monetized victimhood narrative. Expect videos to riff on, open phone lines, and plenty of calls. Note: the raffle and keto brains winner move to Monday, so the whole weekend stays open for Super Chats.
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  The Daily Herold: 10/1/26 - Project Meridian, Auto WarCom, and a Ted Kaczynski Deep Dive 02.10.2026 47Min.

  Jon Herold, still traveling in Florida, digs into an underreported moment in Trump's new Time magazine interview where he declines to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms, arguing the interviewer let a genuinely newsworthy comment slide without follow up. He covers a handful of real election fraud prosecutions, including a wild California city council case involving ballots mailed from Pakistan, then breaks down Pete Hegseth's announcements of Project Meridian (a future warfare council featuring Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich) and the new Autonomous Warfare Command. That leads into a lengthy, thoughtful read through passages of Ted Kaczynski's 1995 manifesto on humanity's growing dependence on machines, which Jon uses to explore genuine concerns about AI, concentrated power, and where personal freedom fits into an increasingly automated future. Sponsor reads and chat banter round out a shorter, travel day Thursday show.  
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  Life in the Singularity Ep. 1: From Turing to Superintelligence, AI as a Decentralization Engine 02.10.2026 1Std.

  Welcome to the Singularity, where the future arrives faster than your software updates. In this live debut, Matt McDonagh, a tech investor with 15 years in machine learning, explains how we got here. He starts with Alan Turing's famous test and the AI winters, then moves through Deep Blue, AlphaGo, the transformer breakthrough and the ChatGPT moment. Next, Matt explains why AI isn't only a computer story. He calls it an all of economy story, powered by electricity, nuclear, rare earths, copper and a lot of very busy nerds. He takes on job loss fears and the data center psyop. He also explains why he sees AI as a weapon of mass decentralization for everyday people ready to learn, experiment, build and evolve. Along the way: recursive self improvement, synthetic data, simulation theory, AGI versus ASI, and a helpful little AI fox named Ember Fang. New episodes every Thursday at 8pm Eastern.
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  Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 16 02.10.2026 59Min.

  CannCon and Ashe in America dive into Chapter 16 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Creature Comes to America, and the central bank saga finally lands on home soil. This week covers the Bank of North America, the nation's very first central bank, chartered before the Constitution was even drafted, along with the First Bank of the United States that followed in 1791. The hosts walk through how both institutions were modeled after the Bank of England, how fractional reserve tricks snuck their way into the new nation almost immediately, and the genuinely wild story of how the first bank's own funding was partly embezzled by its own founder. Expect some real disbelief at how early these patterns started, a little Founding Father frustration, and the usual mix of history and humor along the way.  
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  Badlands Daily: 10/1/26 - Remembering Joe Rossi, Fulton County Batch Swaps & Israeli Flight Incident 02.10.2026 1Std. 54Min.

  CannCon and Alpha Warrior open on a somber note with the passing of Georgia election integrity researcher Joe Rossi, and CannCon walks through Rossi's Fulton County work in detail, including how ballots were pulled from the middle of batches and rerun through different scanners on different days, a four thousand vote swing representing a third of the state's margin. From there it is Todd Blanche on more arrests, a Tennessee governor ordering an investigation into a failed execution, and a 54 billion dollar Alaska natural gas project tied to a tight Senate race. The back half covers a hijack attempt on a Dubai to Israel flight where one pilot allegedly stabbed the other, with Ghost calling in from the chat to give his read. Expect real grief, real anger, and the usual Marine banter.  
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  Devolution Power Hour Ep. 497: Super Intelligence Rebrand, 2026 Election Watch 01.10.2026 1Std. 54Min.

  Jon Herold and Burning Bright kick off with a genuinely funny bit about having to rename "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" following Trump's executive order, joking about domain squatting and whether OpenAI needs to rebrand itself entirely. From there it's into heavier territory, including lingering doubts about whether real accountability is coming for certain high profile figures, with the hosts bracing listeners for the possibility that the "rug" never actually gets pulled. Election security takes center stage in the back half, with a Secretary of War memo about protecting the 2026 midterms from foreign interference getting a full read through, plus a Todd Blanche clip and a broader conversation about what narratives are being deployed around elections this cycle. As always, there's a mix of serious policy digging and the two hosts riffing off each other, including a viewer submitted clip near the end.
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  Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 127: Steel Boom, Dennis Rodman's Return, Iran's Letter to America 01.10.2026 1Std. 50Min.

  Ghost catches up after a stretch away, and he's got a lot to say. He opens on a genuine white pill: the Nippon Steel golden share deal is quietly rebuilding America's steel industry, with new mills opening or under construction from Colorado to West Virginia, and Ghost draws on his own day job in construction to explain why the current steel shortage actually signals good things ahead. From there he pivots to Dennis Rodman, newly back in Trump's orbit as a possible bridge to another Kim Jong Un summit, and tells the wild story of how that friendship began in 2013. The back half gets heavier. Ghost walks through a 26 page open letter an IRGC general addressed to the American people, explaining why he thinks the mainstream coverage of it badly misrepresents what it actually says, including some surprising lines about Jesus.  
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  The Shipwreck Show Ep. 74: Nik and Conservativewilky on Lakewood, New Jersey Politics 01.10.2026 1Std. 21Min.

  This episode features guests Nik (Mr. Fitnick) and Conservativewilky (Colton Wilson), co-hosts of the Nik and Colton Show, discussing local government and school funding disputes in Ocean County, New Jersey, centered on the town of Lakewood. The guests make a series of unverified claims about the local Jewish community, including allegations of coordinated political control, misuse of public funds, and fraud, framed as findings from their own on the ground reporting. They also describe facing legal cease and desist letters after making public accusations against named individuals and discuss the Anti-Defamation League's complaint process. Listener note: this episode centers on claims that are conspiratorial and antisemitic in nature and are presented here as a factual description of the episode's content, not as verified reporting or an endorsement of those claims.  
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  Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/30/26 - Trump Unveils $200B Alaska LNG and Energy Deal 01.10.2026 1Std.

  Trump gathers senators, governors, and a lineup of energy CEOs to announce one of the largest infrastructure packages of his presidency, nearly $200 billion from South Korea funding eight new nuclear plants, a massive Texas gas facility, and the long promised Alaska LNG pipeline, a project politicians have talked about for five decades. Expect genuine excitement from Alaska's delegation, some spirited jabs at a decoy Senate candidate sharing Dan Sullivan's name, and plenty of credit passed around between cabinet secretaries. The Q&A afterward goes everywhere: a wild, almost unbelievable story about a plumber who allegedly saved a hijacked flight, Iran's crumbling military, the Supreme Court's deportation ruling, a rebrand of "artificial intelligence" to "Super Intelligence," and a pointed take on a suspicious Los Angeles mayoral race. Dense on policy, loose on tangents, this one covers an enormous amount of ground even by Trump press conference standards.  
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  Space Revolution Ep. 38: Information, Health and the Esoteric Physics of the Universe 01.10.2026 1Std. 6Min.

  Jordan Sather joins Chris Ponder and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast for a two part conversation that starts deep in theoretical physics and ends in health truth. Jordan pushes on whether the information system can evaluate theoretical models like general relativity or the multiverse, and Chris explains the crucial distinction: this tool doesn't explore theory, it entangles what is observably true into the structure of the universe itself, flagging incongruence rather than guessing at possibility. The conversation then pivots into health, privacy, and the open source nature of a system built on an immutable ledger rather than encryption. Expect genuinely challenging questions, a thoughtful back and forth on where science assumptions might be flawed, and a preview of next week's deep dive into privacy with a new guest joining the mix.  
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  The Daily Herold: 9/30/26 - Media Attacks, the Superintelligence Rebrand, and Iraq Troop Withdrawal 30.09.2026 57Min.

  Jon Herold, broadcasting from a Florida guest room, pushes back on a wave of online attacks accusing Badlands of paying hosts to tell people not to vote, sharing a viral (and satirical) post defending the network's diversity of opinion. He digs into the Senate blocking a congressional stock trading ban after Democrats called it a toothless election year gimmick, an odd Gallup poll showing Republican trust in mainstream media rebounding sharply this year, and Trump's new executive order rebranding "artificial intelligence" as "superintelligence" alongside a voluntary safety accord signed by major tech CEOs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei. Other topics include a bizarre mid air incident where an El Al pilot allegedly tried to stab a colleague, a suspicious open letter from Iran's IRGC urging Americans to vote out Trump, and a Truth Social announcement of the last American troops leaving Iraq. Sponsor reads, a live attempt at buying a domain name, and plenty of chat banter round out a busy Wednesday show ahead of tonight's Power Hour with Burning Bright.