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By Badlands Media
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Jon Herold and Zak Paine bring back Mandela effect subject matter expert Josh Reid for round two, picking up a thread they didn't have time to finish last time. Josh steps into the role of true believer while Jon plays skeptic in chief, and the two go back and forth all night with genuine friction and mutual respect. Expect a deep cut Philip K. Dick speech that gets treated as something close to prophecy, a Terence McKenna clip about "novelty theory" that has aged strangely well, and a fresh batch of reality glitches that longtime viewers of the effect will want to weigh in on. It's a smorgasbord of misremembered logos, altered history, and the kind of confident reasoning that makes you second guess your own memory by the end of the hour, all wrapped in the usual studio banter and sponsor breaks.

Jon Herold and Burning Bright work through the news of Trump floating a five thousand dollar per adult tariff dividend tied to Republicans keeping the House, and dig into the interview clips defending it against the obvious bankrupting the country criticisms. They also chase down a chapter eleven reference from a viewer that turns into a bit of a scavenger hunt through the clip archive. There's a mix of lighter material too, including a photo ID mix up joke involving two cabinet officials and an Elon Musk clip revisited for context, before things circle back to bigger picture debt and deficit numbers and what thirty years of compounding debt actually looks like on paper. As always, the hosts bounce between playing clips, cracking jokes, and genuinely trying to work out whether the economic case being made actually holds up.

Josh Reid takes the lead solo for the opening stretch this week, walking through why he believes the Ukraine Russia war and the Iran conflict could both wind down before the midterms and what that would mean for Republicans at the polls. He breaks down a fresh executive order reauthorization tied to election security, new declassified information teased for the following day, and a striking clip of John Solomon using the word steal to describe the 2020 election. Once Alpha Warrior joins back in, the two dig deeper into old guard British financial systems, how Iran and China fit into the bigger picture, and what a national emergency declaration could actually look like compared to business as usual. Expect plenty of prediction talk, sourced reporting, and the usual community energy along the way.

CannCon and Ashe in America open on a somber note, asking for prayers for Professor David Clements after a serious heart attack, before wading into the competing election narratives of the week. The main event is David Becker, whose Center for Election Innovation and Research just caught a DHS referral, and whose group hosted a call Ashe tried to record only to end up with 49 minutes of deliberate silence. From there they dissect the ERIC machine: how citizenship data gets stripped out and handed back to states to "guess," why Colorado ended up with nearly 30,000 questionable registrations, and the Georgia legislature testimony where Becker's board ties got very carefully worded. They also demystify Trump's EO 13848 renewal, the CISA and EI-ISAC censorship apparatus, and the mal-information playbook. Sharp, wonky, and a little exasperated. Plus moist nicotine pouches, weeds you can eat, and a friendly Alpha versus CannCon constitutional feud.

Jordan and Nate are back live this week, kicking off with genuinely useful talk about mobility work, self experimentation, and using AI to plug in your own blood work and genetics for a targeted health plan. From there it is a stacked news day: Trump's fresh executive order cracking down on meat packing monopolies and opening up direct to consumer sales for small ranchers, plus Trump publicly defending unvaccinated Amish communities amid Pennsylvania's ongoing measles controversy. They dig into a genuinely wild story about a researcher behind a major vaccine autism study pleading guilty to fraud, the FDA cracking down on overseas peptide vendors while Eli Lilly quietly sues the same market it helped create, and a hopeful stat on soda sales dropping after SNAP reform. The show wraps with a candid, occasionally hilarious conversation about screen addiction in kids and what actually gets them back outside. Equal parts hard news and honest banter.
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