Badlands Media

Episodes

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  Q After Hours Ep. 38: October Surprise 05.10.2026 2h 2m

  Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down October Surprise and Admiral Rogers, Hillary, Comey and pre-Q levels and Josh on Flynn, Bongino and Mockingbird fights, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: SAVE Act and Supreme Court predicates. You won't want to miss this one.
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  The Narrative Ep. 83: The MAGA King 05.10.2026 2h 36m

  Burning Bright and Jonathan Drake break down Burning Bright opens with GoT and Narrative branding, Burning Bright teases the MAGA King and Tolkien and Overton windows and excommunication, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Drake and BB introduce Aragorn as MAGA king analog. You won't want to miss this one.
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  The No Treason Podcast Ep. 49: Fractional Reserve, Bitcoin Teaser & Credit Based on Productive Value 05.10.2026 58m

  Jonathan Drake digs into Fractional reserve and Bitcoin teaser, Credit based on productive value and Free banking versus modern finance, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Centralization and parallel systems. You won't want to miss this one.
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  Devolution Power Hour Ep. 498: Trump as Dungeon Master & Deadpool, TIME’s Interview & the Uniparty 04.10.2026 2h 11m

  With Jon out tonight, Chris Paul is joined by Burning Bright for the Saturday Power Hour. They open on why they would rather spoil the movie than pretend it isn't scripted, casting Trump as a Dungeon Master who sets the boundaries of the game, and why the midterms matter less than the mass psychological shift underneath them. From there: Trump as Deadpool, speaking to several audiences at once as he seeds a counter-narrative around Bibi's plane story; Trump's jab at Tom Cotton over permanent daylight saving time, and how it puts Congress and the uniparty on the spot; and a close read of TIME's "What Trump Has Built" interview and its "cascade of crises." Plus: "the whole country is based on fake stuff," fear of the unknown through Dune, "bipartisan" as uniparty code, and an AI video that is hard to tell from the real thing.
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  America First Stories Ep. 18: Nathanael Madden 04.10.2026 34m

  Jon Herold gets into Nathanael Madden on his father, a health crisis and his brother, Nathanael on Emerald Med's origin and hemp's 1930s economy and on why lobbyists pushed the hemp ban in the CR, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Nathanael Madden on Emerald Med's hemp oil, balm and gummies. Grab a coffee and settle in.
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  Flow Ep. 68: Cam Cooksey & Jackie Espada on Consuming Too Much News 04.10.2026 1h 36m

  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 1h 21m

  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 2h

  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 1h 6m

  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 56m

  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 1h 53m

  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 58m

  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 1h 31m

  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 1h 39m

  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 2h 2m

  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 47m

  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 1h

  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 59m

  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 1h 54m

  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 1h 54m

  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.