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Why We Vote Ep. 176: Spencer Pratt Steal, California Legal Fraud & Lindsey Graham

CannCon and Ashe in America return after a week off to a packed episode led by the California primary circus. Lindsey Graham wins South Carolina by 10 points, Nancy Mace finishes fifth in North Carolina, and the hosts are not pretending either outcome reflects real voter choice. The bulk of the episode covers the LA mayoral race, where Spencer Pratt led on election night only to be overtaken by mail ballots arriving days later at a statistical improbability the hosts describe as finding the same grain of sand 12 consecutive times. They break down California's election law architecture piece by piece: universal mail-in balloting sent to everyone regardless of request, a handwritten backdate option that counts as a valid postmark, happy-face signatures accepted under a legal presumption of validity, and a ballot tracking website that went offline for maintenance in the middle of counting. The US attorney for the Central District of California tells Glenn Beck that election fraud charges are coming within one to two months and is actively seeking witnesses. CannCon and Ashe close on Trump's Miranda Devine interview, the Kristen Welker exchange, the limits of the SAVE Act, and why Kalshi asked paid influencers to delete posts questioning the LA results.

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 112: Trump Threatens Bibi, Levin Melts Down & SCO Sabotage - 6/9/26

Episode 112 opens with the bombshell buried inside a Barak Ravid Axios piece: Trump told Netanyahu "BB, you better be careful or you will be on your own very soon." Ghost walks through the full timeline of how Israel struck Beirut without telling the White House, only alerting CENTCOM, Iran retaliated, five countries called Trump begging him to press Netanyahu, and Trump told the Financial Times he calls all the shots, Netanyahu calls none. Mark Levin's Sunday night Fox meltdown gets the full Ghost treatment: calling Trump desperate, activating the Hasbara influencer network, and signaling that the diaspora now sees the rug being pulled. Ghost then delivers his most complete retrospective yet on why Trump had to inflate Israel's ego first, tracing it back to the 2020 Abraham Accords standoff and Netanyahu congratulating Biden on election night. Pakistan's prime minister and army chief co-sign a sealed letter delivered directly to the Iranian Ayatollah, bypassing every normal diplomatic channel. France bans Smotrich, Italy investigates Ben Gavir, and nine countries have now barred one or both Israeli ministers. A gas pipeline explosion in Dagestan sits precisely on the SCO North South Transport Corridor, and Ghost calls it plainly: Ukraine, CIA, and Mossad sabotage.

The Daily Herold: 6/9/26 - Apache Helicopter Down, Blanche in Trouble & EBS Debunked

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on primary day with a show that keeps arriving at the same uncomfortable destination. Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz last night and Trump posted the US must respond, which Jon notes creates an interesting tension with his earlier request that Israel not respond to Iranian attacks. Nithya Raman has officially bumped Spencer Pratt from the LA runoff, and Jon asks the audience directly: how many of you actually believe any of the ongoing California investigations are going to produce outcome-altering accountability rather than one arrested ballot harvester? Todd Blanche's DOJ nomination is in genuine trouble with Tom Tillis as the pivotal vote, and Jon has been saying Blanche was not getting confirmed since the day it was announced. He also spends time debunking the viral EBS color decode from the UFC White House event setup, demonstrates that every jumbotron in history displays those same colors during calibration, and finds 2015 UFC examples to prove it. Trump called for Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian, and Jon says the real problem is Thune. India just deployed nuclear warheads for the first time. The Lindsey Graham primary in South Carolina is today and Jon does not love the situation regardless of who wins.

Badlands Daily: 6/9/26 - Pratt Officially Out, Pentagon Flags Israel Spying, Colby Profiled

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with the AP officially calling the LA mayoral race for Nithya Raman over Spencer Pratt, with Jesse Watters accidentally calling it the "next selection" live on Fox News. The LA absentee verification website goes down for maintenance in the middle of the ballot curing period while Pratt voters report their ballots are not showing as counted, and CannCon notes this is the EIP and Stanford Internet Observatory's Venezuela-Smartmatic psyop being deployed again on cue. Ghost drives the geopolitics segment with a story that has been building since early in the first Trump term: the Pentagon has raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," with the DIA issuing a formal assessment that Israeli intelligence installed surveillance software on US defense personnel's phones in Israel. The three named surveillance targets are Witkoff, Elbridge Colby, and Michael DiMino, and Ghost delivers a full profile of all three, showing their appointment was a deliberate signal that Trump was never doing what the neocons and the Israeli lobby claimed he was doing. Ghost connects it back to his June 2023 first Badlands appearance predicting the entire Israeli-Iran operation, and explains why Iran's hypersonic missile program is what actually keeps Israel up at night.

Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 188: Brown Mountain Lights, Marfa and Hunter Biden's Comeback Op

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 188 with a breakdown of Hunter Biden's social media return, arguing the whole thing is a calculated PR rehabilitation op. He's calling himself the MAGA whisperer, doing right-leaning podcast tours, and claiming there was no Ukraine corruption, while ghosting anyone who posts a documented timeline proving otherwise. Jon makes the case that without his father's power, Hunter has no income, no platform legitimacy, and no actual skills, making every one of his moves a hustle rather than a genuine conversion.
Then the show pivots to one of the more genuinely mysterious conspiracies in recent memory: the Brown Mountain Lights. These are unexplained glowing orbs seen in the Linville Gorge area of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, documented as far back as Cherokee oral history in the 1200s and in a Charlotte newspaper in 1913. A USGS survey in 1922 blamed train lights and car headlights, which is impressive given there are no train tracks. Badlands cofounder CG Riley joins to share her own firsthand video footage of the lights responding to her voice, changing colors, and moving without her camera moving. Jon also covers the comparable Marfa Lights phenomenon in Texas and the leading scientific theory that quartz and magnetite geology may be generating plasma fields that nobody has managed to define yet.

Culture of Change Ep. 150: The Aether is the Fingerprint of God

Jonathan Drake is back, and this time he brought magnets. In what might be the most mind-bending episode in Culture of Change history, Ashe and Drake dive into the ancient debate between atomism and the ether, what it means that nature always seeks ground, and why the triadic nature of every magnetic field is a living picture of the Trinity. Drake even breaks out a Ferrocell to show you what a field in the ether actually looks like. Spoiler: it is a donut. This is not a science show. This is a theology show that happens to involve physics. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 9: The Present Danger of Hitler Revivalism

Hitler is being rehabilitated. Not quietly, not fringe, but by influencers with tens of millions of followers calling him a cool Christian nationalist who only wanted peace. In this episode, Matt Ehret previews his new documentary "Black Sun Rising" and systematically dismantles that narrative using Hitler's own words. Hitler despised Christianity, rewrote the Bible with Aryan commandments, and was initiated into the occult by the founder of the Thule Society. Ehret traces the unbroken lineage from Madame Blavatsky's race theory through Nazi SS rituals, Aleister Crowley's network, and into today's Silicon Valley transhumanist circles, where Oswald Mosley's grandson now runs Palantir UK. The point is not history for its own sake. The same formula that weaponized a broken post-WWI Germany is being run again, and the same people who missed it last time are being lined up to miss it again.

Alphas Make Sandwiches Ep. 71: Mad as a Hatter, Smartmatic in LA & The Crystal Veil

It is Ashe's golden age birthday (47, an even MAGA number) and the ladies open with the most on brand baroque dinosaur and clown birthday card from Archangel Michael, leaf photo challenge submissions that look professionally lit, and a coffee photo challenge fail that Ashe is fully embracing. Ashe then digs into the history of her own birthday: James Madison introducing the Bill of Rights in 1789 (the part she would never let them change), George Orwell's 1984 published in 1949 with a passage about lack of understanding keeping people sane, and the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty. Christy takes the professor chair for mad as a hatter, which turns out to come from actual mercury poisoning in seventeenth century French hat makers and not Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Ashe walks through CannCon's research on Smartmatic and how its Venezuelan code lives on inside Dominion and Sequoia, the LA Spencer Pratt election circus, and Trump walking off Kristen Welker's barn set after she demanded evidence the media already knows exists. Cristina from Rise Attire joins to debut The Crystal Veil, her first short film and the start of Dauntless Tales, a stylized AI fantasy series in the spirit of Dark Crystal and Legend, with a Guy Fawkes knight, an allegory for a different psyop in every episode, and a reminder that our kids need to see good guys win.

Y Chromes Ep. 83: Hat Tricks, Carjackers, and Good Nuts

Happy birthday Ashe in America, and welcome to episode 83. CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick things off with a wild Stanley Cup Finals breakdown: Mitch Marner's hat trick, Carolina's insane four-goal third period comeback, and an overtime winner that literally bounced off the back of the net and the goalie's own skate. Then the guys go deep on the marine veteran who disarmed a teenage carjacker with his bare hands, with Alpha dropping genuine gang expert knowledge on why talking to police actually protects you more than staying silent. CannCon walks through a full home defense firearms training regimen, and Alpha breaks down what a marine kill house actually looks like. The show closes in full Pride Month debauchery mode with Rob Schneider's veterans-versus-gay-month bit, an AI simulating the first woman president, and the crew absolutely losing it over Tom Brady launching a coconut water brand called Good Nut. Men unsupervised. Happy Pride.

The Daily Herold: 6/8/26 - California Fraud Deepens, Pulte Kills FISA & Nuclear Milestone

Jon Herold comes in Monday on a show that keeps circling back to the same unresolved problem: the people who benefit from election fraud are not going to fix election fraud, and nobody on the side that wants to fix it has an answer for how to make that happen anyway. Spencer Pratt is being slowly bumped from the LA mayoral runoff, a former CIA officer's thread explains exactly how it is done and why it leaves no fingerprints, and Jon asks the question that has no clean answer: what do you actually do when you can prove the fraud but the system has no mechanism to correct itself? Trump's appointment of Pulte as acting DNI inadvertently killed the FISA 702 reauthorization, and Jon reads that as entirely intentional. NSPM 11 on AI and national security dropped over the weekend, and buried in it is confirmation of two classified NSPMs numbered 9 and 10 that nobody knew existed. The Antares micro reactor hit first criticality under Trump's 2025 nuclear executive order, becoming the first privately developed non-light water reactor to reach the milestone in 40 years. The Iran-Israel missile exchange is described as behind us for now, DOGE.gov is back up with still no savings counter update, and Jon has strong feelings about the Department of War maintaining an official list of approved religions.