Cam Cooksey opens episode 66 (September 5th) in a deliberately loose, laid back mood, promising a less structured, more conversational night as the final Flow before GarVegas. There's Hooks and Harmony recap, a Scales ad that sparks a childhood tangent, and plenty of chat love.

The meat is a media integrity deep dive. Cam walks through the permanent removal of Maria Bartiromo from Fox News and the reporting around Peter Navarro's claim that a top anchor and executive Susan Scott were shielding China and shaping coverage. He uses it to make his central point: every corporate outlet, Fox and CNN alike, serves money first, while Badlands exists to spread truth whether the money comes or not.

He closes lighter with a nearly five minute video of America good naturedly trolling Mark Carney over Canada trade drama. Come back for DPH with Chris Paul and Jon Herold. God wins.

Host Matt Trump (pre-recording on a Thursday after a soundless first take) declares this a costume-changing romp through Burning Man, which is happening in the Black Rock Desert as he speaks. Drawing on his own three-year run (2012 to 2014), he plays internet footage from the festival's 40th year and cheerfully warns you it looks basically unchanged: same bicycles, same lights, same beautiful chaos.

Expect an affectionate, warts-and-all tour: how to survive the desert, the sacred art of the decorated night bike, why finding a "tribe" is everything, and the surprising mix of Bay Area billionaires, Aspen ski bums, and salt-of-the-earth Nevada locals all sharing an open bar. He gets into the ritual burning of the Man and the Temple, the world-class art installations, Elon sightings on the art cars, and the festival's tense relationship with Christianity. Part travelogue, part confession from a self-described "stealth Christian." Have a great burn.

A genuinely heated debate breaks out over whether the anti data center pushback happening across the country is a legitimate concern or just a Chinese psyop, spiraling into a bigger argument about executive orders, farmland ownership, and whether the government could legally seize land tied to alleged foreign election interference. On the legal front, there's a rundown of jury selection concerns heading into the Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson trial, and some sharp questions about a media apparatus accused of setting up another "fake election" narrative weeks out. There's also a China threat argument that gets surprisingly candid about constitutional tradeoffs, a Pentagon polygraph sweep aimed at leakers, and a lighter detour into old Iranian and Russian frozen funds getting quietly unfrozen over the years. A dense, occasionally contentious episode with plenty to chew on.

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.

Ashe in America and Ghost say Season 5, Episode 5 of The Chosen, "Because of Me," picks up the pace in a big way, and they are not exaggerating. This is the episode where Judas's betrayal finally becomes undeniable, and the hosts walk through a tense Last Supper sequence full of suspicion around the table as the disciples try to figure out who among them could possibly turn on Jesus. Meanwhile on the Roman side, Pilate is under pressure, Atticus is forced into an uncomfortable posture, and Claudia is unraveling in her own way, giving the political side of the story just as much weight as the spiritual one. The hosts dig into the fig tree symbolism that closes out the episode and what it signals about where things go from here. There is also a genuinely moving listener testimony they read near the end that both hosts say makes doing the whole show worth it. A jam packed, emotional episode as the season heads toward its final stretch.

Jon Herold kicks off Friday with a quick look at OpenAI's new ARC AGI 3 benchmark results before digging into a newly posted DHS letter from Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen to AG Todd Blanche, walking through referrals on QR code voting machines and the ERIC voter data sharing controversy in detail. Ghost joins midway through for a wide ranging geopolitical breakdown, mapping out a theory that Israel is quietly building alliances with Greece and Ukraine as a possible path to open a new front against Turkey, tied into a $3.5 billion Israeli air defense deal in the Aegean. Ghost also digs into the upcoming Israeli election and a controversial Satmar Hasidic community story. Jon rounds out the show with Trump's election map fight in Missouri, strong August jobs numbers, and a Guardian opinion piece arguing Trump may be secretly sabotaging his own party's midterm chances. Sponsor reads, Vegas conference details, and a lighthearted "decode" bit round out a newsy Friday show.

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a report claiming Fox fired Maria Bartiromo over leaked internal texts about the network's coverage of election fraud claims, then turn to a pair of contradictory court rulings that show just how uneven election law has become. Missouri's Supreme Court blocks a new congressional map after the primary already happened, while Justice Kavanaugh declines to put a citizens only voting amendment on Michigan's ballot despite organizers collecting a quarter million more signatures than required. The middle of the show digs into what CannCon sees as a coordinated push to drum up World War Three narratives, including Trump asking Europe to repay the US for Ukraine munitions. They wrap with a Columbia Journalism Review piece on New York's mayor paying friendly influencers to carry his messaging. Plenty of Friday banter throughout.

CannCon and Alpha Warrior kick off with a mic malfunction confession before diving into one of the most heated debates the show has seen in a while. Alpha argues the military and intelligence community are already operating outside the Constitution when it comes to psyops and information warfare against Americans, and that it is a price worth paying to win the bigger fight against the deep state and China. CannCon pushes back hard, questioning where the legal line actually sits between federal law and constitutional violation, and whether ends can really justify unconstitutional means. It gets personal, it gets loud, and it circles back to the rights we are told we have versus the ones the government actually lets us keep. Expect real disagreement between two guys who respect each other but are not backing down, plus a prediction about an upcoming decision that has them bracing for round two.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright dig into this 2012 Prohibition era drama with a genuinely stacked cast, and both come away pleasantly surprised by how well it holds up. The pick came from a random YouTube rabbit hole that somehow led straight to Tom Hardy, which feels about right for how these episodes usually go. Expect a solid breakdown of the film's bootlegger versus corrupt lawman setup and why that particular flavor of systems versus sovereigns storytelling keeps resurfacing depending on where the culture happens to be. There's a real conversation about trust in institutions, narrative fatigue, and a pointed detour into who actually benefits from convincing people that human nature is fundamentally bad. Expect some sharp opinions on that one. Stick around for listener boosts and next week's pick, a late 90s thriller about martial law that feels a little too familiar these days.

Frankie Val themes the night around things that just do not add up, and invites viewers to bring their own top picks of the week. First comes the strange news tour, from a maybe rabid fisher cat terrorizing the Northeast (the media can't decide if it's a weasel, a fox, or a squirrel) to the improbable comeback of the CD, which sends Frankie fishing for everyone's embarrassing first album.

The centerpiece is a roughly twenty minute sit down with Dr. Andrew Paquette, the analyst behind the New York Citizens Audit. He walks through clone voter rolls, retroactively deleted records, and what he calls the spiral algorithm, a hidden numbering scheme he says took two years to crack and can restore half a million missing records. His blunt takeaway: the rolls can't answer the basic questions elections depend on.

With midterms two months out, Frankie ties it back to his usual uni party skepticism. Raffle night rounds it out.