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By Badlands Media
4.7
120120 ratings
The podcast currently has 4,082 episodes available.
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Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off with midterm convention takeaways before Herold recaps some heated online fights he got into this week over the tariff dividend proposal. From there they dig into Joe DiGenova stepping away from the RICO grand conspiracy case in Florida, a development the guys clearly think deserves more attention than it's getting. There's also a stretch on the AI race and what they see as an operation forming around it, plus the usual mailbag style rundown of superchats and viewer comments covering everything from debt policy pushback to a North Dakota State football shoutout. An Aaron Rodgers clip closes things out if time allows, giving the episode a lighter final note after a fairly dense couple of hours.

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.

A rare crossover: Jon Herold, Chris Paul, and Burning Bright are all together live at Gart for this one, and the energy shows. They kick off with Trump's latest true social posts about a potential third term before getting into a genuinely strange story about AI supposedly nudging the country toward conflict with China, and the very convenient timing of the outlet that broke it getting banned from the White House the same day. The hosts pick apart just how many layers of fakeness might be stacked on top of each other here, joking about "fake intelligence" reporting on itself. Being together in person adds some extra banter and inside jokes to the usual mix, plus a personal clip revisit near the end. It's a lighter, more freewheeling episode than the usual remote setup, but the news still gets covered.

Frankie Val leans into the damp, mosquito bitten edge of the season with a full cryptid and haunted places special. Before the guest, he wades through the week's grimmer headlines and his running theory that the Internet now incubates characters and legends that start manifesting in real life, from the postpartum murder mom to that Cat in the Hat figure the show keeps tracking. Then the main event: New England Legends host and Ghost Adventures contributor Jeff Belanger, author of "The World's Most Haunted Places." They tour spots from Pennhurst State School to the RMS Queen Mary, the Paris catacombs, and a supposedly haunted Mount Fuji, and dig into why New England works as America's creepy attic. The Dover Demon, complete with pale skin and glowing orange eyes, opens the door. Expect talk of ghost towns, theories on what ghosts actually are, and audience submitted local lore no outsider would know. Raffle night as always.

Trump lands in North Carolina to make one very clear pitch: pretend I'm on the ballot, because Michael Whatley basically is. The rally leans hard into crime, walking through the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Irina Zaretska and Governor Roy Cooper's early release of 3,500 inmates, before comparing it to the infamous Willie Horton ad that sank Dukakis decades ago. From there it's a full sweep of economic bragging rights, record stock market highs, a proposed $5,000 "Trump dividend," no tax on tips and Social Security, plus a candid Iran update covering their sunken navy and a Strait of Hormuz blockade. Congressional candidates Laurie Buck and Jennifer Balcomb get their moment too, alongside plenty of Hurricane Helene recovery talk and some classic crowd banter, including a "front row Joes" shoutout. Heavy on crime and border messaging, with the signature mix of policy wins and unscripted riffing throughout.
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