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Badlands Daily: 5/29/26 - Blue Origin Explosion, Autism Fraud Audit, Iran Deal Theater

CannCon and Chris Paul close out May with a Friday that mixes epistemology, geopolitics, and fraud exposure in equal measure. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during a test fire at Cape Canaveral, and Chris Paul uses it to open a discussion on predictive programming, the feedback loop between Hollywood and government, and the fundamental epistemological question nobody asks: how do we actually know the things we are told are true? The Trump White House drops a troll page called whitehouse.gov/aliens using UFO language to describe 3.1 million illegal immigrant encounters, and the conversation about real disclosure follows naturally. Axios publishes another Iran deal framework that Chris Paul dismantles piece by piece, noting the media does not know who is negotiating on either side and has published multiple false frameworks already. The CSIS think tank, funded by the Gates Foundation, Open Societies, Rockefeller Brothers, and 16 foreign governments, warns that US weapons stockpiles are depleted after the Iran conflict, and CannCon identifies it as the military industrial complex demanding a rebuild. The national debt interest now consumes 19 cents of every federal tax dollar. A Fox News segment reveals North Carolina had an 11,000 percent increase in autism therapy Medicaid billing in four years, Minnesota 51,000 percent since 2018, and Todd Blanche confirms politicians including Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar are in the scope of accountability.

Badlands Story Hour Ep. 169: Fury

Chris Paul and Burning Bright tackle David Ayer's 2014 World War II film Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Pena. Burning Bright picked it as a Memorial Day rewatch and argues it is one of the most underrated war films of the modern era, deserving way more credit than Saving Private Ryan style lionization tends to allow.
The guys dig into the five very different spiritual approaches of the tank crew, the dehumanization of war daddy, bible, gordo, kunas, and the painfully innocent Norman, and why the infamous early execution scene is not the glorification it gets accused of being. They unpack the central biblical passage from First John chapter two, do not love the world or anything in the world, as the real moral spine of the film and the heart of all discernment.
From there they go big picture, hitting Jevons paradox and how better military tech just means more efficient mass sacrifice, why World War II had the cleanest cartoon story of any modern war, the controlled opposition Nazi op being run on MAGA right now, narrative shielding through Donald Trump's hyper Zionist posture, and the fiery tank as a birth canal delivering Norman into a second chance.

SITREP Ep. 156: Aliens.gov Troll, Hand-Wrong Traffic Stop & Cop War Stories from the Field

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with the White House dropping aliens.gov, a page that reads like a Project Bluebeam reveal for the first three paragraphs before the punchline lands. Trump trolled the country into reading about illegal immigration like it was a Roswell disclosure. The guys then run the hypothetical every Badlander has been waiting for: if a little gray man rings your doorbell, what is the legal definition of homicide actually say? Spoiler, an alien is not a person.
From there the show takes a hard turn into Alpha's cop archive. The viral Palm Beach County deputy who said "right hand" and could not let it go. The Texas traffic stop with the blind driver and the paraplegic passenger. The professional cornhole player with no arms who shot his passenger. Alpha walks through the Cub Swanson stop, the Timothy Bradley four AM jog, why cops touch the trunk of your car, and the racist old Mexican man who tried to claim Alpha called him a slur until the recording dropped.
They close on CannCon weighing whether to give up on California, Flock cameras, and the letter vs. spirit of the law.

Quite Frankly Ep. 53: Isaac Weishaupt on the Spielberg Disclosure Movie, CCRU & Harambe at 10

Frank welcomes back occult researcher and Illuminati Watcher founder Isaac Weishaupt for the first time in two years to break down the most coordinated predictive programming rollout we have seen yet. The final trailer for Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure" just dropped, and Isaac argues Spielberg is the king of subconscious programming, hired specifically to walk the public into accepting the alien origin story right as the White House activates aliens.gov and the Department of War begins releasing files.
The conversation goes deep. Isaac shares his late nineties ghost hunting story that drove him into Orthodox Christianity and the conclusion that the phenomenon is angels and demons, not little gray men. They cover Jordy Rose summoning Lovecraftian entities through quantum computing, Rudolf Steiner's century-old prediction that vaccines would inoculate the soul, and the CCRU collective whose member Nick Land claims he made contact with entities from the future who use capitalism to manifest AI. From there it is Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and the 23andMe CIA Nordic bloodline hunt.
Then Frank closes with the White House Harambe tweet at ten years, meme magic in 2016, and a Robert Frost parody from John Ward to send everyone off.

Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 4

CannCon and Ashe in America hit Chapter 4 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the target this week is the Savings and Loan industry. Griffin walks through how government housing subsidies starting in the 1930s pulled real estate out of the free market, created perverse incentives for reckless lending, and ultimately produced a bailout that cost American taxpayers the equivalent of $1.5 trillion in today's dollars. The FSLIC collapses to 2/10ths of a penny per insured dollar. The Federal Reserve bypasses Congress entirely to bail out Lincoln Savings. Accounting gimmicks turn insolvent thrifts into paper-solvent zombies hemorrhaging millions per day. Then Griffin drops the junk bond chapter: the high-yield market was thriving, outperforming Fortune 500 bonds, and creating 18 million jobs until the government declared it junk and forced a fire sale that conveniently handed the market back to Wall Street. Congress? Silent. Because it wrote the laws that caused all of it.

The Daily Herold: 5/28/26 - Carroll Perjury Probe, Jill Biden's Book & Newsom's Tax Grab

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with a show that touches his own legal situation more than usual. The DOJ just opened a criminal perjury investigation into E. Jean Carroll after revelations that she denied receiving outside funding while Reid Hoffman was secretly covering her legal fees. Jon sees it as a template for what should happen when people fabricate cases for money and attention, and notes he has a slam dunk case of his own he is now likely to pursue. Jill Biden's Atlantic book tour produced a gem: she claims she never saw Joe like that before or since the debate, floats the possibility he accidentally took codeine, and reveals his own advisers blocked a cognitive test. Jon connects it directly to Biden suing the DOJ to stop the Robert Hur audio from dropping on June 15. John Solomon dropped a clip predicting Tulsi Gabbard will release extraordinary 2020 election interference evidence before she leaves, and Jon gives it cautious credit while asking the same timing question he has been asking for two weeks. Trump's mail-in voting executive order got through a federal judge the same day Gavin Newsom signed a law blocking law enforcement from touching ballots, then threatened to tax Carroll fund recipients at 100%. Former CIA officer David Rush was charged after the FBI found 300 gold bars and $40 million in cash in his Virginia home.

The Choice (S4E1): Season 4 Opens, John the Baptist's Beginning and End

Ghost and Ashe in America kick off season four of The Chosen with the gut-wrenching first episode, which bookends John the Baptist's entire life in a single hour. The hosts open with a hard look at why elections are fake, why the Republican Party is the actual enemy, and why John in Herod's court is a warning about what happens when you let government distract you from the man you were supposed to be walking with. Then they walk through the whole arc: Mary's visit to Elizabeth, the baby leaping in the womb, the dance training of Salome, Herodias using her own daughter to stay comfortable in her sin, and John laughing on the way to his beheading because he is on his way to a wedding banquet.
Along the way: Wesley Huff debating Billy Carson, Eric Larson's slivers and glances method applied to how the showrunners present Herod, the laundry scene as a metaphor for sin, Judas wanting to take up a collection and how that becomes the modern 501(c)(3) church, and a renewed appreciation for the Catholic church holding its ground while the Protestants crumble.

Badlands Daily: 5/28/26 - Carroll DOJ Probe, CIA Gold Bars, Biden Tapes Fight

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday show with Alpha fresh off his son's high school graduation and the news fully loaded. The DOJ opens a criminal perjury investigation into E. Jean Carroll over her deposition lie about Reid Hoffman funding her lawsuit, and Alpha argues the Chicago venue choice signals prosecutors from the original New York case may themselves become targets. Former CIA senior officer David Rush is charged with stealing 300 gold bars worth $40 million from a storage unit near his office, along with $2 million cash and 35 Rolexes, after lying about his credentials on three applications over 20 years. Alpha connects it to Operation Gladio-style black ops funding and says this is a much bigger story than most people recognize. Retired General Neil McCasklin vanishes after a dinner where a witness says he was not himself, and Alpha argues his voluntary disappearance into protective custody makes more sense than a kidnapping given the missing scientists pattern and his documented UFO clearance. Jill Biden tells CBS she thought the debate was a stroke, then the same clip shows her cheering Joe on afterward. Biden sues the DOJ to block his 2017 ghostwriter audio tapes. Alpha and CannCon lay out the full timeline: auto pen pardon challenge before the midterms, big arrests after.

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 461: Carroll Indicted, Piker Subpoenaed, and Midterms Don't Matter

Jon Herold and Burning Bright are back together for the Wednesday show with a week's worth of movement to unpack. The DOJ launches a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll for perjury, and Burning Bright connects it to the SPLC indictment as part of a broader pattern: not just targeting individual liars, but exposing the funded NGO infrastructure that manufactured political narratives against Trump for a decade. Hassan Piker and Code Pink's Medea Benjamin both get subpoenaed for FARA violations tied to their Cuba trip, and Piker accidentally names billionaire Roy Singham, who lives in China, as one of their key funders on a live stream. Trump's "I don't care about the midterms" clip drops, and the guys explore what it means if the story the media tells about who wins in November is simply what Trump decides it will be. John Solomon's "hypersonic clarity" prediction from April 16 gets a timeline audit: missed by weeks and counting. Jill Biden surfaces claiming she had never seen Joe Biden like that at the debate, the same week he sued to block the Hur audio tapes. The Iran deal cycle continues, now sourced to CNN citing Iran's semi-official agency citing someone who heard explosions. Gavin Newsom threatens a 100% tax on anti-weaponization fund payouts to California residents.

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 56: Timeline Jumps, Paula White's Tiny Church & Pivoting Away From Politics

Shipwreck is officially over it, and she is not pretending otherwise. Episode 56 opens with a TikTok-fueled deep dive into Mandela effects and timeline jumping (was Ed McMahon ever actually at Publishers Clearing House?), before pivoting into the existential mood of the moment: everything is fake, elections are fake, money is fake, and maybe the answer is just Diet Coke, Jesus, and minding your own business. She unpacks the apocalypse tracker that monitors billionaire jets, muses on whether AI might actually expose the elites instead of enslave us, and gently roasts the people still trying to manifest hope out of the current administration.
Then comes the receipts. Paula White's mega-ministry turns out to be a 200-person metal shed in Apopka, Florida, and Shipwreck has thoughts. There is also a calorie-counting glow up, a confession about hitting the neighbor's fence post, an HOA reform candidate worth voting for, and petrified fish from Noah's flood. Plus a heartfelt note about pivoting the show toward food, faith, and culture rather than rage bait. Come for the conspiracies, stay for the rhubarb bars.