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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.

The Daily Herold: 6/2/26 - Pulte Named Acting DNI, Iran Still Happening & Spencer Pratt Day

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a chaotic summer schedule and immediately starts doing homework on a name nobody was floating. Trump just named Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting DNI, and Jon pulls his background live: no intelligence experience, but a track record of going after Leticia James, Eric Swalwell, and Adam Schiff, a role in the Fulton County files raid, and a management style so disruptive that Scott Bessent allegedly threatened to punch him at a dinner. Jon does not know if this is a great pick and says so out loud, which puts him in roughly the same honest position as everyone else. Trump also posted that Iran talks have been happening every single day this week regardless of what the media is reporting, Rubio told the Senate the war is over, and Jon notes this is approximately the seventeenth time someone has declared it over. Spencer Pratt's LA mayoral primary is happening today and Jon does not expect him to win, but is watching closely to see whether a stolen race finally gets mainstream people in California asking the question the rest of the country has been asking for years. The Trump-Netanyahu story from Axios is almost certainly planted narrative warfare and Jon explains why.

Badlands Daily: 6/2/26 - Trump Blasts Netanyahu, Fake Iran News Exposed, Megyn Kelly Unmasked

Ghost and Alpha Warrior take the Tuesday show with CannCon out for a family emergency, and they do not waste a minute. Ghost opens by tracing a fake story about Iran's president resigning all the way back to a London-based Saudi British intelligence outlet called Volant Media, showing in real time how Fox News changed its headline when the story collapsed while keeping the original article live. Alpha connects it to Red Sea Ventures, the company that manages Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Bill O'Reilly, and a dozen other "independent" media voices and was purchased by Fox Corporation in February, raising pointed questions about what independence actually means. Ghost then dissects two Megyn Kelly clips: a 2025 Virginia Tech appearance where she told students to trust only her and Ben Shapiro, and a 2026 Sean Ryan interview where she called MAGA an Israeli-supporting pedophile lobby. Ghost frames it as a sophisticated gatekeeping operation. The big geopolitical story is Axios reporting Trump called Netanyahu crazy, told him he would be in prison without Trump's help, and blocked a Beirut strike, a story neither Trump nor Netanyahu denied. Mark Levin immediately melted down and demanded an FBI investigation. Ghost and Alpha break down every angle of the call and what it signals about where the Iran peace deal actually stands.

Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 187: Call-In Show, Tick Psyop Theory and Trump vs. Netanyahu

Episode 187 is a full call-in show, and the audience brings a lot. Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with the leaked Axios report claiming Trump called Netanyahu "fucking crazy" and told him he'd be in prison without him, plus a pointed takedown of Mark Levin's selective outrage about leaks only when they damage Israel.
Max Southwest Patriot calls in with a tightly reasoned theory that the viral tick-box psyop was deliberately seeded to build demand for the Pfizer Lyme disease vaccine, walking through the week-by-week timeline from the first X post to Hannity to RFK Jr., and arguing NGOs are the laundering mechanism behind health scare operations.
Rebelnator calls in to ask the question a lot of people are quietly thinking: have the Q drops and devolution framework made the MAGA movement dangerously passive? Jon and Zak give a layered, honest answer rather than a cheerleader response, including a frank acknowledgment that the movement must survive and outgrow Trump himself.
Later callers dig into Art Bell's mysterious final broadcast in 2016, the NESARA grift, what the Founders would actually prescribe for fixing the republic, and a firsthand Brown Mountain Lights sighting from a Badlands cofounder who has footage.

Culture of Change Ep. 149: Tina Peters Is Out and Democrats Are Losing It

She wanted a steak. She got one. After 606 days behind bars, Tina Peters is out, and the Colorado political machine is absolutely melting down about it. Ashe plays Tina's first interview with Steve Bannon and breaks it down with three of the people who know this case better than anyone: election analyst Seth Keshel, cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh, and Mesa County Report author Mark Cook. From Jenna Griswold's 600 exposed BIOS passwords to disabled database change tracking to a DOJ statement that may have spooked Jared Polis into acting, this is the most comprehensive breakdown of the Peters case you will find anywhere. And Tina's already talking about prison reform. Because of course she is.

Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 8: The Strange Case of Elon Musk

"In Musk We Trust." That was actually on billboards across America. In this episode, Matt Ehret asks whether the world's richest man is a self-made genius or a carefully curated brand built to fulfill a very old agenda. He traces Musk's family tree to grandfather Joshua Haldeman, a leading figure in Technocracy Incorporated, a 1930s movement that called for abolishing elected governments, replacing currency with energy credits, and managing all of North America under an elite priesthood of engineers. Ehret argues that Technocracy's blueprint, including universal basic income, AI automation replacing workers, and a single digital everything app, maps precisely onto what Musk is building today. Add in Grimes, May Musk, Baphomet Halloween costumes, a baby named Romulus, and Peter Thiel reading Peter Thiel, and the picture that emerges is something considerably stranger than a tech billionaire.

Y-Chromes Ep. 82: Aliens, Armless Anglers, and the Stanley Cup

CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick off episode 82 on June 1st with the Stanley Cup Finals officially set: Carolina Hurricanes versus Vegas Golden Knights. Poor Caleb's Avs got swept, which explains why he is nowhere to be found. From there the show takes a hard left into alien disclosure territory as the crew debates Nordics, reptilians, insectoids, the COVID vaccine as covert alien warfare, and whether humans are actually the extraterrestrials. Cam brings the Florida content with a debate on Google's 32 million mosquito release, lovebug lore, and a world record 15 foot gator. A deployed soldier catching his girlfriend cheating through home cameras leads into a genuine conversation about power of attorney and military relationships. Then Cam drops Casey, the armless outdoorsman who fishes, fries fish, and mows his lawn with zero arms and zero excuses. The show closes with Alpha showing off his Daniel Defense build and a spirited debate about California gun laws. Men unsupervised. Happy Pride Month, California.

The Daily Herold: 6/1/26 - Tina Peters Free, Iran Ceasefire Brokered & Laptop Letter Exposed

Jon Herold comes in Monday light on prep and heavy on chat, which is exactly how a slow Monday should go. Tina Peters walked out of prison today after 606 days, and Jon gives it the credit it deserves while flagging that her clemency comes with probation conditions, not a pardon, and he wants to watch how the op around her story unfolds before getting too comfortable. The Iran situation spent most of the show in a confusing standoff: Iran claiming talks are fully suspended because of Israel's attacks on Lebanon and Hezbollah, and Trump posting mid-show that all troops heading to Beirut have been turned back and a fresh Hezbollah ceasefire is already in place. Jon notes the contradiction and lets the audience sit with it. A former Obama-era intel official submitted a memo calling the 51 intel officials' Hunter Biden laptop letter a coordinated deception operation, which Jon acknowledges is correct and calls five years overdue. California's primary is drowning in undisclosed AI slop and paid influencer campaigns, and Jon makes a clean argument for full public disclosure on both sides of political ad spending. Spencer Pratt is probably losing tomorrow. And Jon would like one straight white guy month.

Badlands Daily: 6/1/26 - Tina Peters Free, Delaney Hall Sting, America 250 Sabotage

CannCon and Zak Paine open June with a Monday show full of big moments. Tina Peters walks out of a Colorado prison live on Steve Bannon's War Room, and CannCon and Zak play her full statement about lead in the water, a sugar-and-salt prison diet that destroyed her blood sugar, and violent offenders with 2050 exit dates sharing her facility. New Jersey's Delaney Hall ICE protests produce five out-of-state arrests from a single night, a truck driver's viral counter-speech that breaks Antifa's brain, an undercover infiltration of the protest camp revealing USAID-branded gas masks and tactical supplies, and Zak's framing that the entire occupation is a deliberate intelligence-gathering sting. A man who threatened to kill ICE officers and their families on camera is promptly arrested by the FBI, Todd Blanche confirming the DOJ is done tolerating it. The America 250 concert at the National Mall starts losing performers who claim they were misled about Trump's involvement, and Trump responds on Truth Social by offering to replace them all with himself and giving a rally instead. Muckrakers drops a seventeen-minute investigation tracking SNAP benefits purchased in Massachusetts onto boats to Santo Domingo and into Dominican Republic bodegas. Seattle's mayor refuses to investigate, citing community fear.