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President Trump rallies in Grand Island, Nebraska, a state he reminds the crowd he has carried three times, ahead of the November 3 midterms. The headline moment: he signs an executive order on stage waiving the off-road requirement so anyone can buy tax-free red dye diesel. He tells farmers about ending the estate tax, or death tax, on family farms, giving them the right to repair their own equipment and cutting the agricultural trade deficit, and touts a $2 billion critical mineral mine and Becton Dickinson's $3 billion medical manufacturing expansion in Nebraska. He promises a $5,000 payment to every adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate, says the war with Iran will end soon and send oil prices tumbling, and calls Obamacare a fraud. He brings up Senator Pete Ricketts, Governor Jim Pillen and Representatives Adrian Smith and Mike Flood, attacks Ricketts' independent challenger Dan Osborn over guns and the Supreme Court, and hears from a Grand Island mother who lost her daughter. He closes with voter ID, proof of citizenship and no men in women's sports.

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada get into toe fungus, health goals and keynote speaker, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the crew gets into Face ID, YouTube and Safari. Then it's on to toe fungus, with Brave, Gateway Pundit and Safari in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to cooked salmon, with ChatGPT and Claude in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to health goals, with Sam, Walmart and Alfredo in the mix. After that, the talk turns to zip code. Next, the crew gets into keynote speaker, with Rick, Carter and Let in the mix. Before the close, it's on to health happiness, with Brian in the mix. Also on the docket: Require Face ID, Sam Club, financial analysis and app interface. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

Jon is back in the spaceship studio after a weekend of fan boats, alligators and a surprise engagement party, and there is plenty to unpack. First up is Brazil, where Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round over Lula and heads to a runoff, and the online victory lap crediting the USAID cuts for a run of right-leaning wins across South America. Jon makes the case for keeping the same election standards whether your team wins or loses, and explains why the illusion of legitimacy matters more to the establishment than any single result. Then it's the leaked Ken Paxton audio, in which the Texas Senate candidate says his campaign is "all coming from DC," and what that might say about who is steering the race. The newest declassified memos follow: Jack Smith's team quietly met John Brennan in 2023 and the FBI agents left their notes blank, while the Plasmic Echo probe tracked calls on Susie Wiles' phone. Plus Trump on a third impeachment, a suspected plague case in Russia and the timing of the fear, and why every FBI interview should be recorded.

CannCon, Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior are back for Week 5. CannCon reports from the Packers game in Tampa, where a native Floridian learned what 92 degrees with no Gulf breeze feels like and Green Bay fans still drowned out the home crowd. Alpha's 49ers are 4-0, his fantasy teams rally late behind Chuba Hubbard, and the crew argues over whether it's fair to wish an ankle sprain on Atlanta's Drake London before Monday Night Football. Cam runs through a list of what every team needs to win the Super Bowl, from a new offensive line in Green Bay to Nick Foles unretiring in Philadelphia. Then it's Week 5 picks: $23 tickets for Bucs at Dallas, Bears at Packers, 49ers at Seattle, Ravens at Falcons and Bills at Rams. Jameis Winston's faith-filled postgame interview sparks a talk about God and football, and the show closes with a Barbie Jeep downhill race and real-life rescue stories, including CannCon pulling a mother and her baby from a flipped minivan on the Florida Turnpike.

CannCon is back from a sweltering weekend in Tampa with a Packers win and a full docket. It starts in Siberia, where a lab worker's death from a suspected plague has nearly 200 people under observation, and with why, after COVID, nobody trusts the officials telling us not to worry. His fix for gain-of-function research: give it its own island, far away from the rest of us. Then the Ninth Circuit pauses the reinstatement of a fired Seattle U.S. attorney, Justice Alito says he has a suspect in the Dobbs leak, and President Trump calls for mandatory prison time for fraudsters and for the officials who look away. Newly released Plasmic Echo memos show Jack Smith's team tracked Susie Wiles' calls with Trump's lawyers and with journalists, and FBI agents left their notes blank after meeting John Brennan. Plus a congressman's case that Nixon was pushed out, the DOJ taking a look at the Watergate prosecutors, Thomas Crooks' drone flights and a 12-year wait for his records, the DOJ demanding answers from ERIC over DMV data, and Mark Ruffalo, newly minted election skeptic.

JB opens the week with some perspective for Gator fans after the loss at Mizzou, plus a victory lap for the Jaguars, then gets down to what he calls a world of competing confusions. A lab accident and a researcher's death in Siberia set up "Poor, Poor Russia": why Russia is running China's old playbook, why geopolitics is never binary, and how rogue actors inside every nation-state, Russia's siloviki included, can push even Putin around. From there JB sings the praises of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, from sinking nine of ten threes with Air Force cadets to his "Send me" speech in Colorado Springs, and explains why the name Department of War matters. He reads a post from TheDebriefing17 on the war on terror Congress declared in 2001, which has never ended, and what that authority means for Trump's fight against the cartels. Plus Bolsonaro and Brazil, the UK and the Five Eyes, a restructured NATO, and why he thinks China has outsmarted the Europeans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.