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OnlyLands Ep. 56: Jailbreak in Colorado, Griswold Melts Down & This Is Sparta Sort Of

Ashe broke the story before the embargo lifted and she is not apologizing for it. Governor Jared Polis granted clemency to Tina Peters, cutting her sentence and making her eligible for parole June 1. The crew digs into exactly what that means, what she was actually convicted of versus what the media has claimed for years, and what she was acquitted on that nobody talks about. Ashe lays out the full picture of the Colorado elections cabal, from Jenna Griswold's puppet masters to Matt Crane's NGO control of election narrative, Wayne Williams and Runback Election Services, and how the Help America Vote Act handed the entire election system to private interests. Jared Polis gets the full political autopsy treatment. Plus the crew watches Jenna Griswold lose her mind on CNN, reviews the Elliot Page Odyssey meme collection, and Cam shares his three-hour Starlink roof saga. A substantive, sharp episode anchored by one of the most significant election integrity stories in years.

Spellbreakers Ep. 166: The Myth of the Middle Ages

Were the Middle Ages really a thousand years of ignorance, brutality, and superstition? Host Matt Trump, a physicist, says no and has the receipts. Drawing on Johan Huizinga's classic "The Autumn of the Middle Ages" and a revelatory 1982 essay by mathematician James Franklin, Matt makes the case that the Middle Ages were actually a period of extraordinary advancement in philosophy, science, architecture, and literature, and that the Renaissance was the gap, not the golden age. Gothic cathedrals, Thomas Aquinas, Nicole Oresme's pre-Galilean mechanics, the myth of prima nocta, chastity belts, flat earth belief, and the Black Death all get their moment. A rich, wide-ranging episode that will make you rethink everything your history class told you.

MAHA News [5.15] FDA Chief Resigns, CIA Whistleblower Outs Fauci, Hospice Fraud

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince break down a packed week in health news. Marty Makary is out as FDA chief under circumstances that remain murky, with Dr. Malone having previously claimed Makary was blocking COVID vaccine death data from going public. Interim replacement Kyle Diamantis is a food lawyer who represented CBD companies and quit a Planned Parenthood case over moral objections. Kennedy moves fast, announcing the FDA will now continuously review food chemicals already on the market, starting with BHT and ADA. A CIA whistleblower from Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI task force testifies before Congress about the intelligence community's COVID cover up, and Rand Paul drops a bombshell: Fauci allegedly bribed a scientist with a $9 million grant to flip his position on lab leak origins. Dr. Oz reveals 800 fraudulent Medicare providers were quietly removed and none of them called to dispute it. And farmed fish? Sedated. Vaccinated. By conveyor belt.

The Daily Herold: 5/15/26 - Trump's NVIDIA Trade, Chinese Students & Election Integrity Push

Jon Herold comes in Friday on a lighter show day. A post claims Trump purchased up to a million dollars of NVIDIA stock on January 6, one week before the commerce department approved NVIDIA chip sales to China. Jon pulls the disclosure live and confirms the purchase is real, then asks the harder question: if the stock did not actually go up right after the sale, is it even insider trading? He also plays Trump's comments from Beijing defending the 500,000 Chinese students in American universities on the grounds that the university system needs the money to survive, and Jon does not love it. The Trump-Xi summit produced trade and investment oversight boards, a Boeing commitment that could grow to 750 jets, and up to $50 billion in farm and energy purchases. The DOJ, DHS, and USPS are now in active interagency talks to expand federal voter verification and mail-in ballot rules under the March citizenship executive order, which Jon calls a good start while remaining cautious about the midterms. Ratcliffe just showed up in Cuba with reform demands and a $100 million aid offer that Jon finds immediately objectionable, and the Minnesota House released a report accusing the Walz administration of enabling billions in fraud. Jon also announces the fall GART: St. Pete Beach, Florida, November 12 to 15.

Badlands Daily: 5/15/26 - Trump in Beijing, Ratcliffe in Havana, Shapiro Empire Crumbles

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show built for the big picture. Trump wraps his China summit with Xi, and the White House readout makes no mention of Taiwan, which Chris Paul reads exactly as it should be: the Taiwan crisis is a media fairy tale being dismantled in real time. Xi pledges no weapons to Iran and expresses interest in buying American oil to reduce reliance on the Strait of Hormuz. While Trump is in Beijing, CIA director Ratcliffe quietly lands in Havana to meet with Cuban officials and Raul Castro's grandson, with CBS simultaneously reporting the US is moving to indict Raul Castro himself. CannCon maps the Venezuela and Iran regime change playbook onto Cuba and asks if 90-mile-away Cuba is next. The House Oversight Committee subpoenas Arabella Advisors' 1630 Fund over the Chorus Program, which paid social media influencers up to $8,000 a month to push Democrat talking points without disclosure. Chris Paul delivers a precise diagnosis of the Daily Wire's collapse, explaining how the Ben Shapiro network was never a product of real political analysis but of algorithm boosting and paid talking points. Chris then lays out his full theory of Trump's discombobulator strategy, explaining how Trump taking every position forces public opposition that resolves false narratives over time.

RattlerGator Report: 5/15/26 - Beijing Summit Verdict, $1.5T War Budget, and the Sovereign Alliance Lie

JB White's last show before a long summer break, and he is not going quietly. He opens with his read on the Beijing summit: Trump brought the entire American economy into Xi Jinping's room, combined it with the secretary of war and the combatant commands, and the result was China walking away from Iran and committing to large American purchases. He walks through Thomas Whitaker's sharp breakdown of what 30 CEOs on Air Force One actually signals, plays Pete Hegseth's $1.5 trillion defense budget video, and adds his own commentary on why private sector plus public sector power is a combination no adversary can match. He also delivers his clearest and most direct takedown yet of the sovereign alliance narrative, calling America, Russia, China alignment utopian nonsense and a discernment test. Kevin Walsh replacing Jerome Powell closes the loop on Bitcoin. Later gators.

Badlands Story Hour Ep. 167: Assassin's Creed

Chris Paul and Burning Bright dig into the 2016 Justin Kurzel film Assassin's Creed, based on the long-running Ubisoft video game series and starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Charlotte Rampling. Both guys agree the movie underdelivers on its concept but is way better than the brutal reviews it received at the time, and the conceptual material gives them plenty to chew on.
The conversation winds through how open world game engines build only what the player can see (a great metaphor for our own constructed reality), the eerie 2013 trailer for Ubisoft's The Division that predicted COVID with unsettling accuracy, and how Xbox lobbies and 4chan were quietly red-pilling young men years before MAGA existed. From there they dig into the philosophical heart of the film: the Templars chasing the Apple of Eden to eliminate free will, the assassins as imperfect guardians of human sovereignty, and whether a secret society fighting for the people can ever really be on the people's side.
They close with the surveillance state as a counterfeit god, JFK's warning about secrecy, and why morality has to be inherent rather than coded by law.

SITREP Ep. 154: Lt. Col. Davis Younts on the COVID Military Purge, Hegseth & Duty to Disobey

CannCon and Alpha Warrior welcome retired Air Force Lt. Col. R. Davis Younts, a former JAG officer who almost got separated at nineteen and a half years for refusing the COVID shot, saved only by the Doster injunction. Younts now represents the service members fighting to get their careers, records, and back pay restored.
The conversation opens with the trailer for the new documentary "Duty to Disobey," then moves into Pete Hegseth's announcement establishing the COVID-19 Reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force. Younts breaks down what is actually good about the directive, where the Pentagon bureaucracy is still slow walking it, and why he estimates only about 5% of forced-out troops will return after what they and their families went through.
The guys dig into the Army War College integrity study, the risk-averse mindset that makes officers manage their careers instead of leading, and why Stuart Scheller is the modern Billy Mitchell. Younts ends with a simple prescription: fire the general officers, hold real war games, and rebuild from there.
Plus: US has 750 overseas bases. China has one. Russia has under 30. So what is $1.5 trillion buying?

Quite Frankly Ep. 52: Leo Zagami on MK Ultra, the Vatican's UFO Files & Cyber Satan

Frank welcomes back the prolific Leo Zagami, author of the Confessions of an Illuminati series, for his 2026 debut on the show. They open on the not-quite-a-raid at Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI office, the year-long CIA standoff over MK Ultra and COVID-era documents, and whether next month's hearing will actually pry anything loose.
From there it's straight into Leo's lane. His upcoming book, The Vatican's Top Secret Alien Agenda, sits at the center of the conversation, and he previews quite a bit: a 1933 UFO retrieval in Italy, Mussolini, Guglielmo Marconi's suppressed death ray, Jesuit astronomers as the real movers of UFO disclosure, and his claim that popes have had encounters of the second and third kind. He also walks through gatekeepers in the modern UFO movement and why interdimensional is the wrong word for what Timothy Alberino calls extradimensional.
Then it gets darker: cyber Satan, the Order of Nine Angles, the corruption of the right of exorcism after Vatican II, Father Amorth, and King Charles announcing digital ID from the throne. Frank closes solo with thoughts on tech bros, the meek inheriting the earth, and a baby coconut on the way.

Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 3

CannCon and Ashe in America tackle Chapter 3 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, where the theoretical bailout playbook from Chapter 2 gets applied to real history. Penn Central, Lockheed, New York City, Chrysler, Commonwealth Bank of Detroit, First Pennsylvania Bank, and Continental Illinois all get walked through the same script: reckless loans, emotional blackmail to Congress, taxpayers absorb the losses, and the banks walk away whole. The FDIC gets exposed as a tiered system that quietly hands large banks a free ride on uninsured deposits paid for by smaller banks and the public. The duo also uncover significant content missing from the fifth edition compared to the third, including entire sections on the FDIC mechanics and the Unity Bank bailout, and ask the question everyone should be asking: why was it removed? Plus, CannCon drops the news that an interview with author G. Edward Griffin himself may be on the horizon.