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Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with the White House press secretary's rough week and whether a president who breaks his own news even needs one, plus Chris's post on what being a bar attorney really means.

Then it's on to Kristi Noem's move from Homeland Security to the Shield of the Americas, and why Jon says calling it a promotion is the kind of cheerleading that leaves people with the rug pulled out from under them.

Next, Jon plays a Patrick Byrne clip, with heavy caveats, on reports that Todd Blanche shut down the grand conspiracy investigation. That leads into the uniparty, the Republican establishment, and why so many people are tired of hearing "one more election cycle."

The back half covers Trump blaming John Cornyn and Karl Rove ahead of Ken Paxton's Texas Senate race, the Wagner Group's Hollywood-style propaganda, the second season of The Agency, the unrest in France, and Trump's praise for Jon Husted. They close with the chat and an AI music video Chris picked out.

Cam Cooksey goes solo for episode 70, fresh off a day of tearing out a bathroom, and spends most of the night working through a stack of Georgia campaign mailers.

He opens with a chat question about the end goal of the truth movement, then goes through the mail piling up at his house: Rick Jackson's comic book flyers, the Sharon Cooper and Michelle Schreiner fight over Trump's legal fees, Keisha Lance Bottoms and "high taxopoly," Mike Collins and Jon Ossoff, Senator Albers and Governor Kemp, and a voting report card from the Voter Participation Center. His point is that all of it keeps voters stuck inside the Hegelian dialectic.

Later, Todd Gurley joins President Trump on stage in Georgia, international companies land the I-285 toll lane deal, and Cam shares Mitch Hedberg, Eric Rice, C.S. Lewis and Psalm 23 before signing off. Plus a look ahead to GART 14 in St. Pete Beach.

President Trump rallies in Highland Heights, Kentucky, for Andy Barr in the U.S. Senate race and Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky's 4th District, with a push for Republicans on both sides of the river in Ohio and Kentucky.

He covers Jon Husted and his football days, Mexico paying for the wall, the Gulf of America, the border and the jails emptied into the country, Governor Cooper and Willie Horton, the 2020 election, the "dark age" turned golden age, record stocks and incomes, tariffs and the Ford plant, the military bonus and the $5,000 check, coal, drug prices, English as the official language, and his plans for the midterms.

Ed Gallrein and another congressional candidate speak briefly, and Trump recognizes Kentucky GOP chair Robert Benvenuti, Auditor Allison Ball, Treasurer Mark Metcalf and Tim Couch.

The Friday crew opens with a surprise: Meta wants Red Pill News on Facebook, years after the big purge. Then two horror stories from the shoe store days, a second-row report from Journey's final tour, and a fact check on Steve Perry's voice.

From there: California license plates and the voter rolls, the woman who called ICE on her roofing crew after the job was done, why new-build homes keep falling apart, hempcrete and the coming hemp ban, the flying Tesla, and a long argument about Nic Cage movies. And yes, GART 14 is headed to St. Pete Beach.

GMoney sits down with Tommy, artist in residence at BTC Inc. and curator of the Bitcoin Museum and Art Gallery in Nashville, to talk about nine years at Bitcoin Magazine, how a freelance graphic designer ended up building one of the deepest Bitcoin art collections around, and the 100-year-old downtown building that once printed scrip money.

They get into Ross Ulbricht's smuggled prison animation, Rare Pepes, Counterparty and Ordinals, voting and taxes as consent, sat-per-dollar parity, meme coins as a lesson in money, Jason Lowery's Softwar thesis, and a town where Lord Kek could be the currency. GMoney then runs through the strange signals of the week, from Trump's $5,000 check promise to Michael Saylor's strategy and the Coldcard and Ledger hacks, and closes with his new song, 315 Down the Rabbit Hole.

Matt calls this one an experiment in a looser, more personal style. After his pro-white moment on OnlyLands last week, his X feed filled up with clips from Soirée Canadienne, a Quebec TV show that bused whole villages into a Montreal studio from 1960 to 1983 for campfire-style sing-alongs.

He plays the clips, including 15-year-old Serge Veilleux in 1981, and asks why they now draw respect and even envy from English Canada. Along the way: why Quebec never went through the French Revolution, France as its top source of immigrants, Elon Musk and Quebec independence, and Indian immigration.

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's full remarks from his rally in Dalton, Georgia, where he campaigned for Mike Collins for U.S. Senate and Rick Jackson for governor ahead of the November 3 midterms.

Trump opens by urging Georgians to vote early, since early voting runs through October 30, and looks back at the 2017 special election against Jon Ossoff. He goes after Ossoff on open borders, sanctuary cities and the killing of Laken Riley, talks about the Fulton County ballots, the strikes on Iran and the Tren de Aragua gang, and praises the woman in the yellow cape who handled a pair of protesters in the crowd.

From there he walks through the economy: record income, low poverty, the stock market, tariffs, and his pledge of $5,000 for every adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate. He also covers the Gulf of America and Lake America renamings, the end of the death tax and drug prices. Mike Collins and Rick Jackson each join him on stage, and he recognizes Georgia's congressional delegation, Kelly Loeffler, Ralph Reed, Herschel Walker and other Georgia football greats before closing with his agenda for the next Congress.

Here are the full remarks.

Jon Herold takes on press secretary, Blue Star Strategies sat and Trump allies, with plenty of commentary along the way.

First up, the conversation moves to press secretary, with Tesla Roadster in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Minority Report movie, with Roadster and Tesla in the mix. From there, the talk turns to compressed air, with Florida, Ron DeSantis and Tesla in the mix. Later, the crew gets into Trump administration, with Roadster and Zachariah in the mix. After that, it's on to Trump's press. Next, the conversation moves to bar exam, with Donald Trump in the mix. Further on, the focus shifts to Brennan, Zachariah and Donald Trump. Then the talk turns to Blue Star Strategies sat, with Burisma and Hunter Biden in the mix. Then the crew gets into Glenn Beck, Data Republican and Truth Social. Before the close, it's on to Trump allies, with White House, Venezuela and Richard Grenell in the mix.

Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

JB White flies solo on this RattlerGator Report, and it's a "beautiful, beautiful" kind of Football Friday.

He previews the Gators at Texas and the Jaguars against the Texans, then pulls up footage of the new Tesla Roadster flipping upside down, firing air thrusters and landing on its wheels. Elon Musk says flying cars are real, and JB walks through the Peter Thiel line that started it all.

From there he makes the case for a Global North of America, Russia and China, linked by a tunnel under the Bering Strait, with the U.S. in the lead. He reads a long thread on Antonio Gramsci and the long march through the institutions, and why that grip is cracking in Latin America as Flávio Bolsonaro finishes first against Lula.

Next come posts from a Frenchman named Breville: a warning that France already tried everything progressive politicians promise, a look at Hollywood's gatekeepers, and a call for the West to treat abundance as an engineering problem instead of regulating itself into stagnation. JB closes on the Shield of the Americas taking on the cartels and on President Trump's leadership.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week on Badlands Daily with a packed Friday show.

They open with a chat about AI music and what new creative tools mean for artists, then dig into fresh reporting on impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch, Burisma and Hunter Biden, and what it says about the case that launched the first impeachment. The guys argue the lesson is simple: the witnesses were never as credible as the press claimed.

From there they play the Ed Markey debate clip out of Massachusetts, talk about the war in Ukraine winding down and ask where the intelligence feeding it actually comes from, and run through a set of press secretary clips. Later they cover Jeff Clark and the courts, a Supreme Court clip from Elena Kagan, Jake Tapper and the Biden years, and how much of the news still leans on so-called authoritative sources. Before the close they look at early race numbers and California driver licenses, then preview the weekend lineup across Badlands Media.

Grab a coffee and settle in.