This is the GART recap show, and Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada are still riding the high from Las Vegas, complete with an ongoing feud over whether it is Nevada or Nevada, and a running scoreboard that simply reads "Brian is still wrong."

The crew relives the weekend: Christy's early and elaborate Halloween decorating, a target trampoline that may or may not be rigged, and a genuinely great private tour of the Punk Rock Museum with a guide they kept accidentally calling the wrong name. Then things get spicy with Jon on the Streets on Fremont Street, featuring a memorable debate with some Brits about taxes and free healthcare, plus a woman who could only recite headlines.

There is casino luck, playground chaos, and a Game of Thrones style soft disclosure ad war between rival houses of lotion, tallow, and beard oil. Warm, chaotic, and very funny. Come for the recap, stay for the shenanigans.

Trump gathers a room full of governors, senators, and cabinet secretaries to announce what he calls the largest steel plant in American history, an $18 billion Mesabi Metallics complex in southeast Iowa, fed by the first new American iron ore mine in over 50 years. Between the ribbon cutting energy, expect a full breakdown of how 50% steel tariffs made the deal possible, a promise of 6,000 construction jobs and nearly 2,000 manufacturing jobs, and plenty of good natured jabs at Minnesota's governor along the way. The Q&A afterward wanders well past steel, touching Iran's crumbling nuclear ambitions, a tense Canada trade standoff over dairy and lumber tariffs, UK terror arrests, and a Congo Rwanda peace violation question. There's also a candid rundown of record setting stock market numbers and 401k gains. Heavy on economic bragging rights, with the usual mix of policy substance and unscripted riffing scattered throughout.

Big life news kicks this one off: Alpha is officially a grandpa and workshops his grandparent name in real time (Papa? Gampa? Big Head?) while plotting to out-spoil the other side of the family with race car beds and a friendly grandparent cold war. CannCon nearly dies racing his dog down the stairs first.

Then it is football, and the officiating gripes run deep. The guys relitigate the Broncos-Rams ending and a contested pass interference call, argue Fred Warner gets flagged for hitting too clean, and CannCon reprises his Packers-refs martyrdom. A quick political tangent breaks out over the Trump-branded ads airing during NFL games, with the crew disagreeing on what they even were.

CannCon savors Florida stomping Ole Miss 52-28 and games out a wild three-loss-SEC-playoff scenario, before the trio settles in for their Week 3 pick-em. Cameraman appreciation and the usual roasting included.

Jon Herold, fresh off a haircut and a Vikings win, debuts a new AI powered database project built with help from Chris Paul that tracks and scores political predictions made by dozens of accounts in the truth community since Trump's inauguration, revealing wildly high miss rates for the loudest "cheerleader" and "doomer" voices currently attacking Badlands. He walks through a new US China trade truce covering tariff cuts on 60 billion dollars in goods, Florida's AG seeking an injunction against OpenAI's development, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey's resignation, which Jon connects to a pattern of possible election related staffing shakeups. Other topics include a Trump Truth Social jab at Bill Maher, newly declassified Fauci diary entries on aerosolized Ebola research, the one year anniversary of Antifa's domestic terror designation, and the Senate's light pre midterm legislative agenda. Sponsor reads, some Twitter drama fallout, and a lively chat session round out a dense Monday show.

CannCon opens the solo Monday show with a recap of the American Martyrs premiere in West Palm Beach, then runs through a packed rundown. There is New York billing millions in improper Medicaid payments for incarcerated enrollees, a new federal AI portal being pitched as a one stop shop, and a geopolitics block covering Germany's foreign minister reading his own government's words back at him and the EU and Ukraine trade angle. The centerpiece is five British men arrested near a UK air base used by US forces, where the official story does not add up for CannCon, who sees serious Gladio energy in the details. He also covers former FBI employees seeking clarity on subpoenas in the Mar a Lago grand conspiracy probe, a reported order telling ICE to stop arresting non criminals, and a General Flynn clip on accountability.

Josh Reid rides solo again while Alpha Warrior celebrates becoming a grandpa to twins. He opens with a defense of friction as a feature, not a bug, using the messy, argumentative birth of the Constitution to make the case that a movement full of people who disagree beats an echo chamber. That leads into why a Q adjacent show is telling you to vote, not sit out, and a respectful airing of where he splits from fellow Badlands host Shipwreck.

The meat of the night is super intelligence as soft disclosure: Josh reads Trump's messaging, right before a White House dinner with the Anthropic CEO, as hinting the US has quietly won the AI race. He ties it to a Russia, China, US sovereign alliance frame, Scott Bessant's economic comments, and his own pre Q origin story. Expect big picture game theory and a monologue or two. Bring your patience for tangents.

Jonathan Drake wraps up Proposition 4 of Spooner's poverty essay with a thought experiment that turns 1840s dollars into numbers modern listeners can actually feel. Person A borrows at 6% and hires Person B, while Person B, locked out of credit, watches the profit walk away with someone else. Jon then asks why governments can't regulate religion but can regulate financial contracts, using an image of guards posted at your gate. Along the way expect a real world banking headache involving Bitcoin, a general contractor model that lets every tradesman keep the full fruits of his labor, and a candid pushback on rights free, emotion driven arguments about voting. Burning Bright is sidelined with the man flu, so Jon flies solo again, with sponsor breaks, chat banter, and a gutter cleaning success story thrown in.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with a genuinely fun tangent about the two new pandas gifted alongside Xi Jinping's visit, complete with jokes about renaming them and where to best display panda merch. The mood stays light before shifting into the actual state dinner and Xi's comments about US China competition, with both hosts noting how oddly aligned Trump and Xi seem to be on the same messaging lately.

That leads into a meatier theory: the idea that an announcement of true superintelligence being achieved could function as a kind of false flag moment, something the hosts trace across multiple shows using the same terminology around the same time. There's also a viewer mailbag segment full of Bitcoin tips, inside jokes, and a Black Panther history clip pulled from a fan submission. A fun, freewheeling episode with some real substance tucked inside.

Cam Cooksey returns for episode 67 (September 26th) after a few weeks off for GART Vegas, running loose and unstructured without his usual music setup, and leaning into a warm, reflective, community focused night rather than hard news.

The heart of the show is a meditation on embracing friction without turning on each other. Cam holds up Jon Herold's "refuses to bend the knee to the mob" defense as a model of disagreeing well, and suggests pairing it with the Roseanne Barr and Bill Maher interview as a study in contrasts. He recaps the beauty and pageantry of Las Vegas, teases the next event (GART 14 in St. Pete Beach this November), shares a few light X finds, and offers a "Dear Son" style reflection on staying close to God even when life is good.

He teases a few Truth Social posts and closes on a hopeful sunrise themed song. Come back for DPH.

The crew addresses some genuine internal drama head on, after a clipped and amplified "maybe we should all just stop voting" comment from within the Badlands family sparked accusations of being anti Trump, leading to a spirited defense of why showing up to vote still matters even when the system feels rigged. From there it's on to a genuinely fascinating tangent about using AI to track congressional stock trades, including one representative who has reportedly traded on nearly every possible trading day for a year straight, and a candid admission about a failed attempt at building an automated trading bot. The back half dives into midterm predictions, a Supreme Court ruling touching federal voting databases, and a wild theory connecting the Iran war, gas prices, and a certain someone getting "teleported" out of Venezuela. Sponsor reads and plenty of banter round out a packed one.