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The Choice (S4E2): Confessions

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through season four episode two of The Chosen, which opens with John the Baptist appearing to Jesus in a dream with broken chains and ends with Matthew finally apologizing to Peter at the altar of Pan. In between, the disciples sit Shiva on the open road, Andrew discovers he is no longer the anxious one, and Jesus drags everyone to Caesarea Philippi where the pagans are bringing goats into the temple for purposes that are not sacrifice. The hosts unpack why he brought them to the gates of hell to give Peter his new name and why "on this rock I will build my church" comes with "get behind me, Satan" three verses later.
Then the conversation gets personal. Matthew confronting Peter on the road. The principle that you apologize to repent, not to be forgiven. Turning harmony into an idol and how false decorum has gutted the Western church. The 501(c)(3) trap. Seventy times seven and how cycles of revenge end. And Ashe sharing the story of her brother's killer being released from prison this past February and the choice she has been working through ever since.

Badlands Daily: 6/4/26 - Bolton Flips, Pulte DNI Theory, Blanche Confirmed

CannCon returns after saying goodbye to his stepdad, and Alpha Warrior shows up to carry the weight alongside him. The show opens with grace and moves into one of the biggest news days in weeks. John Bolton reaches a plea deal on classified document charges during the broadcast, and Alpha immediately explains what it means: he cooperated. Alpha had predicted on this show that an early plea is a 100% indicator of cooperation, first witness gets the best deal, and Comey is next. Trump officially nominates Todd Blanche as permanent Attorney General and the Senate advances reconciliation after dropping the anti-weaponization fund. Trump immediately signals it is not fully off the table. Bill Pulte's appointment as acting DNI while keeping his FHFA role triggers a GOP meltdown, and Tom Tillis accidentally says the quiet part out loud by calling Ratcliffe the tallest pole in the intelligence tent, confirming the CIA considers itself above DNI. CannCon and Alpha map out why Pulte's mortgage fraud visibility from FHFA combined with DNI authority is a devastating combination for the Sinaloa cartel laundering operation in Arizona, Tennessee, and Georgia. Trump signs an executive order shutting down illegal immigrant bank accounts. California produces a governor runoff between Steve Hilton and a Newsom chief of staff with a pending guilty plea in her own campaign.

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 463: APL Smacked, Blanche Permanent, and the Congress Problem

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open the Wednesday show with Anna Paulina Luna's assault press conference, complete with video of the tap on the arm that launched a thousand charges, and use it to make the principled argument the community keeps refusing to hear: if APL is actually a white hat, that should worry you more than it reassures you. From there, breaking news drops mid-episode: Trump announces Todd Blanche moves from acting to permanent Attorney General, and the guys connect it to Kurt Olsen quietly joining the Southern District of Florida under Joe DeGenova for the grand conspiracy Rico probe. Bill Pulte as acting DNI gets the Last Refuge treatment: he is a placeholder while the real target for the role is Rick Crawford, and the intel community itself admits that Ratcliffe is the one actually running Trump's intelligence agenda. Trump's Miranda Devine interview confirms on camera that the 2020 election was rigged 100% and that 2024 had rigging too, and Burning Bright reads Trump's deliberate silence on accountability as the most encouraging signal of the week. The House War Powers Resolution passing with four Republicans leads to the show's sharpest argument: Trump is not working through congress, he is working around it, and anyone still pinning the movement's hopes on midterm seats has misread what Trump is actually doing.

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 57: Iowa Upset, Killer Ticks, Hunter Biden Theory & Peter Thiel's Exit

Shipwreck returns for episode 57 with a Lone Star tick warning, an Iowa political upset, and a Hunter Biden theory that fully reels her back into the discourse she swore off last week. She opens with the unexpected primary win of Zach Lane over the heavily funded Randy Feenster, weighs in on Iowa's alarming cancer rates, and shares why she long ago lost faith in Chuck Grassley after a town hall encounter. Then it gets weirder. She unpacks the lone star tick's link to alpha gal meat allergy, CIA experiments at Plum Island, and why Google releasing bioengineered mosquitoes might be the least strange thing this week.
There is a fed up rant about ads in every app, subscriptions for headphones you already own, and the gas pump that now plays commercials. She breaks down billionaire tax loopholes, asks why IRS workers don't simply quit, and walks through Peter Thiel's Argentina move and his Honduras private city lawsuit. Then comes a long, animated Hunter Biden theory about the laptop, Ashley's diary, and what really happened to Joe's first wife. Plus zinc for warts, a crow army defending chickens, and a bicyclist roast.

Space Revolution Ep. 21: Technology in History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but it Sure Does Rhyme - Pt 3

Part three of the technology-and-history series picks up where Matt Trump and Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast left off, and this time the theme is precision. Specifically, how a single mental leap, the demand for precise observation and measurement, built the bridge from medieval thought to the scientific revolution and eventually to a Saturn V on a launchpad.
Matt walks through Project Mercury and Gemini, the Volta do Mar as a sailing rhyme for the Artemis 2 free return trajectory, and the surprisingly underrated Ptolemaic system that ran the cosmos for 1,400 years. Then comes the trifecta that broke it open: the fall of Constantinople pushing Greek manuscripts west, the printing press giving everyone the same numbers, and Tycho Brahe building giant naked-eye instruments that took measurement accuracy from ten arc minutes down to one. Mars was suddenly eight arc minutes out of place, Kepler reached for ellipses, and the modern world was born.
Along the way, Kwast and Matt land an unforgettable humility lesson. Hold your pinky up at arm's length. The moon is half that size. Now imagine how much else our senses are wrong about.

The Daily Herold: 6/3/26 - SPLC Superseding, Anti-Weaponization Fund Dead & Pratt in Runoff

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday frazzled from summer kid logistics and ready to make sense of a busy primary night. Spencer Pratt made the LA mayoral runoff against Karen Bass, California's results are still trickling in as expected, and Jon is not confident November goes any better in a system he considers terminally compromised. Trump confirmed on camera that he did call Netanyahu crazy and curse at him for bombing Lebanon, calling himself a wartime president in the same breath, and Jon finds the wartime president framing notably worth paying attention to. The SPLC got a superseding indictment adding detail on $4.1 million paid to informants who participated in cross burnings and KKK activities, and Jon wants to know if anyone in the truth community is on that payroll. Kurt Olsen just joined the DOJ grand conspiracy probe under DiGenova, and Jon has a mixed reaction he is saving for an upcoming Ash conversation because she has reservations he respects. Todd Blanche told the Senate the anti-weaponization fund is simply not moving forward, period, and Jon makes the principled argument he has been making all along: taxpayer-funded payouts without personal accountability for the people who committed the crimes does not fix anything. Trump's Iowa endorsement also just lost.

Badlands Daily: 6/3/26 - Trump Confirms Netanyahu Call, CA Primary Results, Principles vs. Personalities

Ashe in America steps into the host chair and Ghost brings the geopolitics on a lighter news day that turns into one of the most substantive discussions of the month. Trump confirms the expletive-laden Netanyahu phone call in a morning interview, says he would like to meet the Ayatollah in person, and does not walk back a word of the Axios reporting. Ghost maps out why Netanyahu has no choice but to keep pressing forward in Lebanon: ultra-orthodox coalition partners demanding Greater Israel have bayonets at his back, his political opponents are now calling him weak for yielding to Trump, and the minute he leaves office he faces three felonies. Ghost argues the Republican establishment is about to ride into the same suicide mission with Netanyahu. California primary results show Spencer Pratt leading Karen Bass by 25,000 votes with mail-in ballots still outstanding, and Steve Hilton advances in the governor race. The second half of the show becomes a sharp, wide-ranging conversation about personality worship versus principled thinking: why the truth community is more captured by personalities than the normies Ghost met on his Caribbean trip, why progressivism lives in both parties, and why the Republican Party forwarding Mark Elias election reform talking points is the clearest sign of a movement that has lost its principles. Lindsey Graham gets booed off stage again.

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 046: Trump Lights Up Bibi, Pulte's Double Hat & The Q Comms Cascade

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid finally get to take a victory lap. The leaked Trump and Netanyahu phone call dropped this week, the one where Trump reportedly told Bibi he would be in jail if it weren't for him, and even Mark Levin confirmed the leak was real. Josh argues the White House leaked it themselves as a strategic move, and the entire save Israel for last thesis Alpha and Josh have been pushing for over a year just got vindicated in public.
From there the guys unpack Chevron's grip on Israeli oil infrastructure, why Trump fired Rick Grenell for trying to renegotiate the Chevron deal in Venezuela, the Israel to Gaza pipeline play, the six hundred billion dollar defense pacts that make Gaza essentially untouchable, and why Megyn Kelly went on Sean Ryan in full doom mode this week. The deep state operatives got caught flat footed and the unified messaging took hours to spin up.
Plus Bill Pulte rug pulling Tom Cotton for DNI and the genius double hat strategy that gives Pulte mortgage fraud and intelligence community access simultaneously, the Iranian decentralized ELF command structure, the Q plus comms cascade with double posted patriots are in control memes, and Scavino's every journey has an end tied to Ender's Game.

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 110: Trump Screams at Bibi, Beaufort Castle & Ebola Surge - 6/2/26

Ghost opens episode 110 with the bombshell Axios report that Trump called Netanyahu "effing crazy" and told him "you'd be in prison if not for me" during a Monday night call that stopped a planned Israeli assault on Beirut. Ghost breaks down the game theory of why Trump chose this exact moment, maps Israel's capture of Beaufort Castle north of the Litani River as the signal that triggered the intervention, and covers both Ben Gavir and Eisenkot attacking Netanyahu for capitulating. The Iran/US ceasefire holds in name while US forces shoot down Iranian ballistic missiles targeting Kuwait, Trump tells the world to "sit back and relax," and both sides quietly agree to stop talking publicly about the war. Ghost then unveils his AI-built 3D topographic geopolitical map, walking through the Caucasus corridor, the North South Transport Corridor missing link between Astara and Rasht, and Kazakhstan's role as the key logistics hub connecting the Middle East, Russia, and China. Putin's visit to Kazakhstan and SPIEF reveals $30 billion in Russian infrastructure investment and a joint space launch complex. Russia strikes Zelensky-linked drone company Firepoint, originally a film scouting agency. The DRC Ebola outbreak is now the fastest-spreading in recorded history, with Kenya blocking the US quarantine facility.

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 6/2/26 - WH Press Briefing: Dr. Oz on Drug Prices, Fraud & Ebola

Dr. Mehmet Oz steps to the podium as CMS Administrator to deliver a wide ranging health policy briefing. TrumpRx.gov just added 160 more drugs, now covering 4 out of 5 prescriptions, with $500 million in estimated savings in just two weeks. Starting July 1, Medicare beneficiaries can get GLP-1 weight loss drugs for $50 a month, down from over $1,000. Oz then pivots to the fraud crackdown, naming organized criminal syndicates behind a surge in California hospice fraud, Minnesota autism billing schemes, and $2 billion in Medicaid payments to illegal immigrants. He also covers new Medicaid work requirements, Obamacare ghost enrollees, Ebola preparedness ahead of the World Cup, and dodges every Bill Pulte question with the enthusiasm of a man who really just wants to talk about cholesterol.