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MAHA Living Ep. 11: Medicinal Mushrooms

Jordan and Nate dive into one of Jordan's all time favorite subjects: medicinal mushrooms. Not the psychedelic kind, not the ones in your stir fry, but the powerhouse fungi that have been quietly ignored by Western medicine for centuries while Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions have leaned on them for thousands of years.
The guys break down the heavy hitters: turkey tail, chaga, lion's mane, cordyceps, and reishi. They cover why you can't just toss a lion's mane into an omelet and expect results, why you need heat or alcohol extraction to actually unlock the bioactive compounds, and the wild fact that humans share up to 50 percent of our DNA with fungi.
You'll hear Paul Stamets' story about putting his stage four mother on turkey tail capsules, why cordyceps may have helped the Chinese women's running team smash world records in 1993, how lion's mane can stimulate nerve regrowth where Western medicine throws up its hands, and why chaga has Jordan whispering about pineal glands and third eyes.
They wrap with the three main ways to take them: tinctures, capsules, and powders. Get them in your body somehow.

Space Revolution Ep. 20: The Secret Race to Space

Most Americans have no idea there is a space race going on, and that's exactly how the other side wants it. Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast is joined by his longtime colleague and one of the sharpest strategic minds in the country, Dr. Peter Garretson, author of Scramble for the Skies, The Next Space Race, and Space Shock.
The framing lands like a punch. If the United States shut down NASA tomorrow, China would not even slow down. Their crawl, walk, run plan for solar system dominance runs independent of us. And the prize is staggering: a million times more material than Earth, a billion times more energy, an industrial base that would make the arsenal of democracy look quaint.
Garretson and Kwast walk through asteroid mining, lunar space elevators, mass drivers, solar power satellites, and Gerald O'Neill's Island 3 habitats that could host ten trillion humans. They also bury the Club of Rome scarcity myth, explain why frontier closure made America pessimistic, and close with a charge: get these books into the hands of every young person under thirty. The door to the future is open. We just have to walk through it.

The Daily Herold: 5/27/26 - Iran on Fumes, Flock Cameras & Paxton Wins Texas

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday on a slow news day that gets genuinely interesting when a chat member drops a link and Jon discovers 98,000 AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras mapped across the United States, run by a private company that shares data freely with law enforcement and ICE. He had never heard of them. Now he has feelings. Trump's cabinet meeting produced two notable moments: a detailed fraud task force update from JD Vance with Steven Miller claiming that stopping government fraud entirely could balance the federal budget, and Trump's tribute to outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard, which Jon uses as another reminder to temper expectations about her upcoming reports. On Iran, Trump said the country is negotiating on fumes with 250% inflation and an economy in free fall, and added that he does not care about the midterms, which Jon connects directly to the hibernation theory. Ken Paxton crushed John Cornyn in the Texas senate primary, making Cornyn the first Republican senator from Texas ever to lose his own party's nomination. SpaceX just received a $2.29 billion contract to build a military satellite network and Jon plays a 2022 Kash Patel clip that makes the whole thing feel less surprising. Joe Biden is suing the DOJ to stop the Robert Hur audio recordings from dropping on June 15.

Badlands Daily: 5/27/26 - Paxton Crushes Cornyn, Tina Peters Release, DNC Implodes

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a primary night that delivered. Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn by 25 points despite being outspent 9 to 1, and Ashe frames it as the clearest proof yet that voter intent is real even inside a broken system. Al Green is unseated in Houston by a younger challenger, another product of the redistricting wave. Tina Peters is days away from walking out, and Ashe explains why the real story of Tina Peters is not the machines she copied but the material witness testimony she holds about the weaponization of government as treason. CannCon and Ashe debate the fake versus fraudulent election question with genuine intellectual honesty, discuss the sting operation theory for 2026, and compare the Paxton outcome to what happened to Massey. The DNC releases a post-2024 autopsy assessment, and PBS runs a segment where a Democratic strategist admits the party is being financially obliterated, with 12 million protest attendees apparently unable to find $5 to give the DNC. Ashe connects it directly to the dark money apparatus being cut off. The Colorado governor debate frames the real choice of the midterms: the system is sound versus the system must be transformed. CannCon and Ashe close with the post-partisan America argument and the Munk debate populism clip.

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 045: Bondi's Cancer, Paxton's Blowout & The Q+ Comms Light Up

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with an unsettling pattern. Tulsi Gabbard's husband Abraham just got hit with a rare bone cancer, Pam Bondi has been quietly fighting thyroid cancer for months, and Alpha walks through the Judith Vary Baker SV40 history that suggests the deep state has had weaponized cancer biotech since the 1950s. His takeaway is direct. John Ratcliffe needs to go either way, and the intelligence community needs to be consolidated down to one or two agencies.
From there, the boys celebrate. Ken Paxton crushed John Cornyn sixty four to thirty six in Texas, Trump's endorsement record in 2026 just hit one hundred seventeen and zero, and the RNC is sitting on a hundred twenty four million dollars in cash while the Democrat party is actually negative three million in the hole. ActBlue and USAID drying up has consequences.
Plus the Camp David fake out as a tickle the wire baited operation, Trump's Q plus retruth and the War CTO timestamps, Stephen Miller saying fraud alone would balance the federal budget, the Tucker Carlson Qatar investigation, the Save America Act setup, and Alpha's Epstein DNA harvesting deep dive into Regina Dugan, New Albany Company, 23andMe, and the final Q post about the war for your DNA.

Why We Vote Ep. 175: Col. Shawn Smith and Clay Parikh

CannCon and Ashe in America bring on cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh and retired Col. Shawn Smith to break down the CISA GitHub credential leak, in which AWS GovCloud server access keys and workspace passwords were stored in plain text in a CSV file and left exposed for up to six months. Col. Smith explains why CISA has never had the cyber talent or leadership to secure critical infrastructure, and why the damage from a breach like this is almost certainly unknowable and irreversible without burning the systems entirely. Clay Parikh walks through how credential exposure at the cloud level branches into full network access, compares the failure to the Colorado BIOS password scandal, and explains why Jenna Griswold's office violated CISA's own remediation guidelines after that breach. The conversation expands to Albert Sensors, the CIS public-private partnership backdoor, and how local election officials are given infrastructure far beyond their ability to secure or audit. Parikh also responds to The Atlantic hit piece targeting him, noting that his technical claims have never been technically refuted and that the pressure campaign against him escalated precisely as federal election investigations intensified.

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 108: Tulsi Resigns, Iran Deal Nears & Bibi's Sabotage - 5/26/26

Ghost opens episode 108 with Tulsi Gabbard's resignation as DNI, her husband's rare bone cancer diagnosis, and a deep look at her military background in psychological operations that makes her one of the most uniquely positioned figures in the Trump administration. Ghost then maps out the Iran peace deal taking shape: Trump's Truth Social post quoting Iran's president saying they are not seeking nuclear weapons, Mark Levin and Ted Cruz in full panic, and Rob Malley confirming Israel refuses to stop attacking Lebanon as part of any deal. Saudi Arabia repeats its firm red line: no normalization without a Palestinian state, no matter what Zionist media claims. Netanyahu responds to Trump's peace push by launching Operation Arrows of Fury into Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, and Ghost maps Israel's advancing yellow line toward Beirut. Israel's economy shrank 3.3% in Q1 2026, and a former Netanyahu ally publicly calls for a military coup. Raul Castro is indicted by the Miami DOJ, a former US attorney is charged for stealing Mar-a-Lago documents, Trump meets Xi in China on Kissinger's Grand Triangle framework, and the US slashes NATO contributions. Ghost closes with a full breakdown of the geopolitical chess theory: why Trump keeps his enemies playing the game instead of flipping the table.

The Daily Herold: 5/26/26 - Burchett Fires Back, Iran Strikes & Comey Delay

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a slow news day that gets more interesting as it goes. Tim Burchett posted a video referencing a podcast where someone asked him whether Jews have too much control in Washington, and Jon is pretty sure he knows which podcast Burchett is talking about. He watches it twice, compares it to the actual question he asked, and lands on a point that matters more than the drama: if AIPAC money runs to Congress in the tens of millions while nobody asks tough questions, that is a foreign influence problem regardless of which country it comes from. The Iran ceasefire is wobbling after the US military conducted self-defense strikes on IRGC launch sites and boats around the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is threatening retaliation, and the deal is stalled over nuclear language and sanctions. James Comey's trial just got pushed from July to October 21, with the defense planning constitutional dismissal motions in July, and Jon is not surprised. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn are finishing the most expensive senate race in history, Jon puts zero stock in Kalshi's predictions, and a new internal DOJ email story about the Mar-a-Lago raid turns out to be a probable rerun of something John Solomon wrote two years ago.

Badlands Daily: 5/26/26 - GOP Civil War Escalates, Cape Cod Goes Viral, AIPAC Receipts

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday fresh off Memorial Day with a show that does not waste a single minute. An Escondido army veteran who flew Trump flags outside his home dies from an unprovoked beating, and CannCon and Ghost frame it as the inevitable product of years of normalized political violence. Axios floats AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and Gavin Newsom for 2028 in the same breath it publishes a hit piece on Trump's "irreversible choices," and CannCon fact-checks every bullet point live. Ghost delivers his framework on why the Republican Party is not MAGA's party and never was, and CannCon plays the Cape Cod taxpayer speech that has been going viral as the model for what grassroots self-organization actually looks like. The GOP Senate civil war is front and center: Republican senators are threatening to tank the reconciliation bill over the anti-weaponization fund and the ballroom, both of which involve zero taxpayer money. Ghost plays Tim Burchett insisting AIPAC money is no big deal because Jews are only two percent of the population, then plays John Podhoretz saying out loud that Jewish money will be used to destroy any candidate perceived as antisemitic. Ghost then presents the Israeli government's own approved budget allocating $750 million to influence American politics through online influencers.

Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 186: Plum Island, Operation Paperclip and the Lyme Disease Confession

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 186 on Memorial Day with Jon describing how he found a lone star tick crawling up his arm the night before, making the follow-up to last week's tick episode feel extremely personal.
The full hour is dedicated to tracing the documented history of US government tick and insect bioweapons programs. Jon walks through Nazi scientist Dr. Eric Traub, brought to America under Operation Paperclip in 1945, who set up the Plum Island research facility nine miles from Lyme, Connecticut. USDA National Archives files bearing Traub's name and labeled "tick research" were found empty.
Jon then walks through a series of declassified programs: Operation Sea Spray spraying bacteria over San Francisco Bay civilians in 1950, bacteria-filled light bulbs smashed in the New York City subway in 1962, plague and flea drops over Cuba, and 282,800 radioactive lone star ticks released across Virginia between 1966 and 1969 that reached Long Island by 1970.
The episode closes with the most damning piece: a 2013 filmed interview in which Dr. Willie Bergdorfer, the scientist who officially "discovered" Lyme disease, admitted on camera that the Borrelia pathogen causing modern Lyme disease was the same one he had created as a US military bioweapons agent in 1952.