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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.
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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.
 

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.

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.
 

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.

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.