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Ashe in America brings back Deborah Flora, joined this time by her husband Jonathan Flora, to talk about their newly released 9/11 remembrance film. Deborah serves as executive producer, and Jonathan wrote and directed the project, which Ashe caught at a private screening the night before recording. Rather than retreading conspiracy angles, the film focuses on something Ashe felt strongly about, the humanity, unity, and heroism that emerged in the aftermath of that day, capturing what she calls the "spirit of 9/12." Expect stories about the making of the film, the sheer scale of the interviews and footage behind it, hopes of eventually bringing it into classrooms, and reflections on why remembering the day matters just as much as remembering the tragedy itself. Ashe also shares a personal, emotional memory of her own tied to that morning. A moving, reflective episode ahead of the anniversary.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with breaking news out of the Supreme Court, breaking down a ruling that blocks new USPS mail ballot rules from taking effect before the 2026 midterms, and what that means for election integrity heading into the fall. The back half of the show shifts into much darker territory as the guys examine an anonymous online post alleging decades of abuse inside a prominent Hollywood family, loosely tied to real headlines involving a troubled adult child of a famous director. Jon and Zak handle the material carefully, weighing how much of it could be genuine versus internet speculation running wild, while noting how disturbingly specific some of the claims are. It's a heavier stretch than usual, balanced out by the usual sponsor reads, event announcements for the upcoming Vegas tour, and the hosts' typical rapport.

Ghost jumps on for a surprise live show and finds a lot to unpack. He opens with Trump's off the cuff comments on Irish unification during his Ireland trip, which somehow snowballs into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland signing a joint pact toward independence from the UK, something Ghost frames as a genuine win for local sovereignty rather than the doom certain corners of the internet are selling. He also digs into the Falkland Islands controversy and a wave of Israeli influencer pressure campaigns, plus a Fox Business hypocrisy moment involving Macklemore and Robert Kraft. But the real story is MBS. Houthi forces have seized Saudi coastline, hit an oil pipeline and a refinery, and reportedly pushed MBS to call Trump twice asking for military strikes. Ghost walks through the reporting and lays out why he is skeptical of the narrative that MBS is quietly turning to Israel for help.

The battle of the sexes returns for round three, and this time it's a full crossover between Y-Chromes and Alphas Make Sandwiches. Ash, Christy, and Jackie face off against Brian and Cam (poor Alpha forfeits by absence) in an AI-generated, Jeopardy-style trivia gauntlet that starts civil with sports, music, and movies, then gets gleefully lopsided once the categories turn to Glow Up, Herstory, Man Cave, and Rom Com Roulette. Expect fantasy football trash talk, a courtroom-skit ad for a suspiciously edible lotion, and a genuine debate over whether Minecraft or Tetris deserves the title of best selling game. The score stays razor close down to the final question, and the losing team's punishment may or may not involve karaoke on the Vegas strip. Grab your buzzer and pick a side, because nobody in this friend group loses gracefully.

Jon Herold kicks off Vegas conference week digging into the fallout from Joe DiGenova's resignation from the Fort Pierce grand jury investigation, reporting new CNN details about an apparent clash with Todd Blanche over a denied secure facility request, and connecting it to his broader theory that Blanche may not be the white hat everyone assumes. He spends the back half of the show unpacking Trump's fiery response to AI leaders (including Anthropic's Dario Amodei) calling for stronger regulation, drawing a detailed parallel to COVID era institutional panic and floating a theory that AI companies might be slowing public facing development while pursuing it privately or for the military. Other topics include a viral 60 Minutes segment on alleged "pardon brokers," a major NSA restructuring effort, and Trump's latest defense of the proposed $5,000 dividend. Sponsor reads, fantasy football trash talk, and plenty of live chat banter round out a newsy Monday show.

A short and sweet one, since the crew is doubling up before the Battle of the Sexes show. Alpha is out sick, which spawns a whole riff on how men become helpless ten-year-olds the moment they catch a fever while women like CannCon's wife power through food poisoning to go work a bar shift. Alpha earns the permanent nickname "Princess" for his trouble. The bulk of this one is a rapid Week 2 pick-em run through the full slate, from Detroit at Buffalo to the Giants-Rams Monday nighter, with the guys landing on the same picks more often than not. Before that, CannCon vents a lengthy, physics-lecture-grade breakdown of the officiating that helped Green Bay blow another game, complete with his standing "Fire LaFleur" grievance dating back to January. There is also NFL touchdown-record trivia, the running gag that Jacksonville "does not exist," and optimism about Florida's turnaround ahead of the Georgia game.

CannCon kicks off the new solo Monday format, with Zak Paine moving to Tuesdays, and a heads up that he is headed to Las Vegas for art week. The show opens with CBS finally catching up to a story CannCon has been covering for months, involving a foreign national quietly using American surrogates and imported fertilized embryos on a scale nobody is tracking, and why he sees it as the strongest argument yet for ending birth tourism. From there he unpacks fresh NBC reporting on Joe DiGenova's abrupt resignation from the Mar a Lago search probe, including what was left unsaid about who was sent in from DOJ headquarters. He also covers an AI deepfake tangent, a Kevin Hassett clip pushing back hard on inflation talking points, and a Don Bacon interview that does not go the way Bacon intended.

JB White is coming off a big weekend, with the Gators handling Campbell and his beloved Jaguars taking down Cleveland, and he brings that victory lap energy into a wide ranging Monday show. He digs into a closely watched Massachusetts criminal trial and the debate swirling around one holdout juror, then pivots into a candid, unfiltered discussion about language, reclaimed words and what he sees as selective outrage in how certain terms get treated in public life. Along the way there is talk of the silent majority within the Democratic Party, some thoughts on America's global standing versus old world powers, and a preview of an artificial intelligence discussion he plans for Wednesday before heading out to a Badlands Media event in Las Vegas. He closes things out with a classic love song. It is candid, personal and typically opinionated JB.

Josh Reid flies solo this Sunday, with Alpha Warrior home sick, and turns it into his first solo Badlands show. On the itinerary: the AI fear porn cycle and why the doom mongering matters for what comes next technologically, plus a Peter Thiel clip Josh reads as secretly on the right side of the argument. From there it is Trump against the globalists, framed as an unfolding fight with the old guard, the London bankers and the leftover institutions of the British Empire, freshly relevant after Trump's Ireland trip. Josh works the rumor mill on why Joe diGenova abruptly resigned from the Florida grand jury investigating Brennan, tying it back to that August meeting with Blanche and Cash Patel and what it signals about pending indictments. He closes on the midterms, Trump's $5,000 dividend check as incentive, and why he thinks an economic boom lands around 2027. Bring your gold bug curiosity.

Solo show, take three. Burning Bright opens Episode 82 fighting a dying microphone and cheerfully choosing between two audio disasters until he can fix his setup after Vegas. This is the every-other-week format he is experimenting with: not a polished presentation but his version of a live dig, a "cognitive cascade" that stitches seemingly disconnected headlines together in real time. He warns you it may not make sense, because he genuinely does not know where it is going yet. The macro theme is American Outcast. Drawing on his background as a fiction writer, he argues that headlines are not reality but narrative deployments engineered to guide the collective mind toward a manufactured emotional catharsis. Expect a fiery detour into 9/11-anniversary "debunker" pieces, including one from a well-known outlet, and why even earnest truth-community reactions can play right into the enemy playbook. Weird, freewheeling, self-aware, and exactly the cocktail he is going for.

Jonathan Drake opens up about quitting his job before diving into Proposition 3 and the meaty Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay, where the real target becomes usury laws. His case is that capping interest rates does not protect borrowers, it locks the very people who need capital most out of the market entirely, funneling wealth into fewer hands and trapping everyone else in generational wage labor. Expect a memorable HOA bedtime analogy, a neighborhood lawnmower rental thought experiment, and a sharp distinction between legitimate risk pricing and third party price fixing. Jon also connects Spooner's 1846 argument to a modern surveillance state rabbit hole he went down with AI research, teasing a deeper history of usury laws and personal finance next week. Along the way there is grief, gratitude, some Philippians 2 reflection, and Soft Disclosure's finest courtroom themed ad yet.

The first repeat guests in the series are back. Kurt and Cristin of Pet Club 24/7 return to talk mushrooms, immune systems, and why a company with "Pet" in its name spends a lot of time talking about people too. They open with the origin story: a partner's mother, sent home from Sloan Kettering with a grim outlook, who credits a proprietary mushroom extract with turning things around and sparking the first U.S. clinical study on it. From there Kurt and Cristin explain their guiding idea, that the mushroom does not cure, mitigate, or prevent anything but instead helps the immune system work optimally, for pets and humans alike. Expect stories of aging animals well past their expected years and a pitch built around one simple mantra: every person, every pet, every single day. Take the health claims as enthusiasm rather than medical advice. Jon clearly believes in what they do, and there is a Vegas meetup and a Badlands link waiting at the end.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with midterm convention takeaways before Herold recaps some heated online fights he got into this week over the tariff dividend proposal. From there they dig into Joe DiGenova stepping away from the RICO grand conspiracy case in Florida, a development the guys clearly think deserves more attention than it's getting. There's also a stretch on the AI race and what they see as an operation forming around it, plus the usual mailbag style rundown of superchats and viewer comments covering everything from debt policy pushback to a North Dakota State football shoutout. An Aaron Rodgers clip closes things out if time allows, giving the episode a lighter final note after a fairly dense couple of hours.

The crew dives into a genuinely wild story about a green card holder who worked his way into a Customs and Border Protection job at a major crossing, only to get arrested for allegedly swapping out government hardware for compromised parts. That kicks off a broader, sometimes contentious debate about immigration enforcement, detention camps, and a recent court decision limiting how long ICE can hold detainees without a warrant. On the lighter side, there's a genuinely funny catch: a Massachusetts senate campaign ad that appears to lift its closing line almost word for word from a Scorsese movie, seemingly without anyone on the campaign noticing. The back half turns to courtroom drama with reactions to the Lindsay Clancy verdict and some pointed questions about jury composition. Sponsor breaks, tangents, and the usual banter round things out.

Recording on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, host Matt Trump opens with a haunting cover of "Mad World" and admits he dreaded this anniversary, then found he had more to say than expected. Rather than re-litigate what happened that day, he sits with the harder question: what exactly did the country lose, and why does 25 years feel like an emotional watershed. As a former New Yorker who lived on Staten Island, he gets personal, honoring the Rescue 5 firefighters from his old neighborhood. Then comes the clever pivot promised in the title. Exactly 250 years earlier, on September 11, 1776, Staten Island's Conference House hosted a doomed peace conference where Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge met Lord Howe. Trump ties the Revolution's uncertain early days to today's fight for the country. Expect reflection, history, Building 7 skepticism, and one very persistent chat troll.

Jordan and Nate spend most of this episode diving into RFK Jr.'s recent podcast dive into psychedelics, from his RNC speech on corporate regulatory capture to clips on ibogaine's ability to resolve opioid withdrawal and psilocybin's potential as fast acting depression treatment. Along the way they swap their own microdosing experiences and get refreshingly honest about which ceremonies actually worked for them (spoiler: not all of them). From there they pivot to healthcare fraud, breaking down Dr. Oz's staggering figures on stolen taxpayer dollars and a memorable rant about the "legal fraud" hiding in plain sight, like the true cost of a hospital saline bag. The back half is a genuinely funny, wide ranging conversation about tobacco and nicotine culture, Big Pharma's quiet takeover of the pouch market, and why moderation and self awareness might matter more than any strict health routine. They close with practical talk on journaling, intuitive eating, and training by feel.

Jon Herold marks the anniversary by walking through newly declassified 9/11 era presidential daily briefings, noting intelligence hints of hijacking related surveillance before the attacks and drawing loose parallels to pre October 7 Israeli intelligence failures without claiming certainty either way. He spends the bulk of the show unpacking a heated Twitter exchange over Trump's proposed $5,000 dividend, playing an old Charlie Kirk clip blasting similar COVID era stimulus checks as "naked bribery" and methodically breaking down why he thinks the math behind the dividend claim does not add up. Jon also covers Joe DiGenova's surprise resignation from the Fort Pierce grand jury investigation and what conflicting statements from DiGenova and John Solomon might mean, framing much of the show around pushing back on blind "trust the plan" cheerleading in the truth community. Sponsor reads and a lively chat session round out a long, opinionated Friday show.

Ashe in America and Ghost tackle Season 5, Episode 6 of The Chosen, "Reunions," and while they admit a few scenes feel like filler, there is still plenty to dig into. The hosts spend real time on the confrontation between Atticus and Kafni, unpacking a fascinating clash between Greek philosophy and rabbinic law, and a broader conversation about revenge as a driving force in both ancient and modern history. They also cover a quiet, powerful scene between Nicodemus and Yusef that both hosts call one of the best in the episode. On the political side, a mysterious Roman offer is made to Kafni that sounds a lot like a deal with the devil, and a familiar face from earlier in the season finally gets a name that longtime fans will recognize. The hosts close with some fun tangents, a touching listener testimony, and a look ahead at what is left before Season 5 wraps and Season 6 arrives in November. A meaty episode with a lot to chew on.

On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, DHS gathers at its St. Elizabeth's headquarters to dedicate Resilience Plaza, a new space built around genuine artifacts of that day, twisted World Trade Center steel, the iconic upright trident, and unbroken limestone recovered from the Pentagon. Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar opens with a deeply personal story of being stranded overseas that morning and losing a close friend aboard one of the hijacked flights, before Secretary Mullen delivers a raw, emotional address on the department's mission, the terrorists arrested under the current administration, and a pointed message about sanctuary cities and national unity. Under Secretary Kavanaugh closes out the ceremony explaining the symbolism behind each artifact, followed by prayers, a moment of silence, and a formal dedication. This one is reflective and mission focused, less political theater and more a genuine look at how the department born from tragedy sees its purpose 25 years later.

Twenty five years to the hour, the nation returns to the Pentagon to remember the 184 lives lost there and the 2,977 taken across that single, unforgettable morning. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and General Dan Caine each offer deeply personal reflections on where they were that day and what it demanded of the country afterward, before President Trump closes with individual stories of passengers, first responders, and families who turned unimaginable grief into decades of service and resilience. Expect a somber, reflective tone throughout, chaplains' prayers, a recounting of Flight 93's final moments, and the raising of the original flag hung at the Pentagon in the attack's immediate aftermath. This one leans fully into remembrance rather than politics, honoring both the fallen and the first responders who ran toward danger, with a clear thread tying that day's sacrifice to the vigilance still required today.