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.

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?

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.

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.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday a little bruised from the Wild's overtime collapse and ready to sort out what actually happened with yesterday's viral story. Half of the infowar space spent Wednesday sharing breaking news that the CIA raided Tulsi Gabbard's office and seized JFK and MK Ultra files. Jon traces the story back to its actual source in the CIA whistleblower testimony, explains how the word "raid" got invented along the way, and names the people who fell for it hard including General Flynn, Jesse Watters, and Anna Paulina Luna, who then tried to walk it back without admitting she used the story for clicks. The real news from the whistleblower is that Fauci allegedly pressured the CIA to flip its lab leak assessment between August 12 and August 17, 2021, which Jon points out is genuinely significant and already being buried under the clickbait. The Trump-Xi summit produced real results: China commits to not arming Iran, agrees the Strait of Hormuz must stay open, and commits to 200 Boeing jets and major energy purchases. The DOD wants $1.5 trillion next year and is calling it an investment, which Jon finds personally offensive as a matter of vocabulary. The DOJ is also suing the DC Bar to protect Jeff Clark from politically weaponized attorney discipline.

Ghost and Ashe in America close out season three by walking through the Decapolis arc all the way to Simon stepping out of the boat. The hosts unpack why Andrew and Philip's parable of the great banquet sparked a literal street brawl, why Judas is the only apostle in the room who instantly grasps everyone's offense (because his ego is still fully intact), and what it means that Jesus heals a deaf-mute Greek before he's even had a chance to introduce himself.

The conversation widens into Socrates dying for "corrupting the youth" the same way Jesus would, the Nabateans of Petra, the Haskalah and why Orthodox versus secular Jews are headed for a civil war in present-day Israel, and what the chosen people actually got chosen for (hint: Deuteronomy 28, and it isn't a status upgrade). Then it lands on the feeding of the five thousand and Simon's brutally honest, cynical kind of faith. He believes Jesus can do it. He's just afraid Jesus will choose them.

It ends where every storyline this season has been pointing. Keep your eyes on me. The mercies are new because we need them new.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday energy with a show that is almost entirely CIA. Senate Homeland Security Committee holds an open hearing with CIA whistleblower James Erdman, and not a single Democrat shows up. Erdman confirms that Fauci personally injected himself into the intelligence community's COVID origin review, that CIA analysts concluded lab leak was the most likely explanation as of August 12, 2021, and that the conclusion reversed five days later for reasons the CIA refuses to document. The single most alarming admission from the hearing: the CIA illegally monitored the computers and phone calls of ODNI's DIG investigators while they were executing work explicitly authorized by President Trump, and fired a contractor the day after he met with DIG. Alpha and CannCon lay out why the public hearing is preparation for a Fauci indictment and why the auto pen pardon is the central legal battlefield ahead. Anna Paulina Luna reports the CIA removed 40 boxes of JFK and MKULTRA files from ODNI while the DIG was being wound down. CNN drops an exclusive that the CIA has been conducting targeted assassinations of Sinaloa cartel operatives inside Mexico using car bombs, and CannCon and Alpha question whether the CIA is clearing the field for a competing cartel.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with live footage from Trump's bilateral summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Burning Bright unpacks his multipolar margin call theory: the entire US/China trade war was a coordinated squeeze on the global billionaire class, and the summit is Trump and Xi standing at the head of the table telling those 30 top CEOs exactly who controls the future of their companies. From there the show pivots to The Atlantic's rebuttal of Trump's National Counterterrorism Strategy, which the guys frame as the media confirming exactly what the strategy says about them, that they are instruments of fifth-generation psychological warfare. Seb Gorka's clip calling for the mapping and identification of Americans for their speech draws sharp criticism, including his dual citizenship and what that should disqualify him from holding. The fake CIA raid on Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI office gets a thorough debunking alongside a breakdown of Anna Paulina Luna's pattern of attaching herself to viral MAGA narratives. Trump's Iran quote gets a fair but honest assessment, and Robert Kagan's neocon warning article is read as an unintentional confirmation of Burning Bright's disentanglement thesis. The show closes on Operation Epic Fury potentially being renamed Sledgehammer to dodge the War Powers Act

Tonight on The Shipwreck Show, we go deep into some of the strangest theories, stories, and moments shaping the modern conversation around reality itself.

And more. Tonight’s episode isn’t about telling you what to believe. It’s about asking why so many people feel like reality itself is changing.

Cohost Matt Trump finally makes it on the mic after last week's traffic detour, and the wait was worth it. He brings a giant lens: humanity over millennia, with Johan Huizenga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages as the anchor. Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast riffs alongside him.

The framing is unforgettable. Matt calls our current moment the return of the future. In the 1960s, with Apollo and Star Trek, humanity was thinking in millennia. Then we pulled in the sails. Under Trump and Musk, we are unfurling them again. The deep-dive walks through the Portuguese caravel breakthrough that opened the New World, why it took a century of violence and printing presses and reformations before things matured, and why our space era follows the same pattern at vastly higher speed.

Along the way: why globalism became a Pandora's box, why nations and families are the structures we cannot skip past, why Ming dynasty politics destroyed their own 600 year naval head start, and why young engineers raised on the internet are turning hundred year timelines into hundred day ones. Build with the right moral compass, then full speed ahead.