Football is finally back, and so is the crew's favorite ritual: predicting every Week 1 matchup before a single meaningful snap. CannCon opens solo again, working through StreamYard chaos and a mystery about whether Alpha is secretly having a rough week (blame the chat member who spilled it) before Alpha strolls in with a printed pick sheet he plans to track all season long.

The heart of this one is a game-by-game Week 1 draft where all three lock in picks, from the Patriots-Seahawks Wednesday opener to the 49ers-Rams clash in Melbourne that sparks a genuinely confused group attempt at time-zone math. Along the way they debate the Josh Jacobs suspension, mourn the departure of JB from the show, and cook up increasingly cruel end-of-season loser punishments involving karaoke, half-and-half jerseys, and forced hangouts.

Expect hot takes on Malik Willis, Bengals faith, and a Pete Rose tangent. Pure football banter with the usual brotherhood roasting underneath.

A rare solo outing. Burning Bright kicks off Episode 80 by taking full credit for its title, one of the cleverest plays on words you have probably heard in the last few minutes, if not your entire life. No guest was lost. He simply wanted to get the ideas out of his head before they pile up like bad cache in a CPU.

Only his second solo stream ever, this one doubles as practice and as a table setter. Starting into September he plans to alternate solo weeks with guest weeks, pending audience reaction.

The substance is a State of the War address. Expect a run through his eight pieces of the Iran War thesis, the Strait of Hormuz as "Schrodinger's Strait," global energy and the oil cartel angle, and how the same template maps onto the Taiwan situation so you can keep a level head when the narrative arrives.

Pure pattern recognition, delivered with his usual dry confidence.

Jon Herold digs into a Washington Post report alleging the Pentagon secretly installed conservative military influencers, including Kurt Schlichter and the anonymous "Cynical Publius," into civilian roles to amplify Pete Hegseth's messaging without disclosure, and makes the case that undisclosed paid cheerleading is just as troubling coming from allies as it is from opponents. He also breaks down newly released Fauci memos showing repeated instructions to delete emails and steer intelligence agencies toward the natural origins theory during COVID, plus a New York Times report on roughly a billion dollars in untraceable dark money already flowing into the 2026 midterms. Other topics include Trump's Venezuela oil deal timeline, a New York prosecutor's claim that Letitia James' office directed him to target Trump, and a jaw dropping 65 billion dollar Obamacare fraud report. Sponsor reads, personal weekend stories, and a lively chat session round out a newsy Monday show.

CannCon and Zak Paine open Monday with a genuinely explosive whistleblower email from inside the New York Attorney General's office, where a prosecutor accuses his own bureau chief of directing him to target President Trump and affiliated organizations without credible cause, an email that was scrubbed from more than two thousand inboxes almost immediately. From there they cover a Florida representative's whiplash reversal on the massive Venezuela oil deal and what over two hundred billion in projected tax revenue could mean for the country. The centerpiece is a three and a half minute Pennsylvania press conference on the measles outbreak that CannCon calls pure gold, paired with the county coroner's own account that complicates the official narrative. They wrap with fresh Fauci documents on a deleted gain of function email and a look at the continuing resolution fight tied to the Save America Act.

JB White is back from his summer break, and he eases into it with a little bit of everything. There's a heartfelt musical tribute to Dolly Parton, a rundown of his cross state move and the ongoing effort to hold onto his family's historic land in Georgia, and plenty of early season Gator football talk, including the quarterback situation heading into the fall. Expect candid reflections on the evolution of country and R&B music, a few personal stories about family, faith and real estate headaches, and JB's read on the broader geopolitical landscape, including why he thinks a sovereign alliance without military muscle behind it does not hold up. It's part homecoming, part therapy session, and part scouting report for the season ahead. Grab a glass of something and settle in for a wide ranging, unscripted return to the show.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid tackle the question that runs under everything: in a war of perception versus truth, who are the actual good guys? They start from the messy present, the special government employee reveals around Data Republican and Nick Sortor, the "are they on a payroll" arguments, and the Department of War's rumored 60,000 strong ghost army, then reach back to a single Q post that names Black Hats to build out a hats framework of white, gray, and black.

Josh and Alpha wrestle with the uncomfortable premise that good guys sometimes have to do questionable things behind plausible deniability, and that disinformation can be a necessary wartime tool aimed at the enemy rather than the audience. Expect board readings, a detour through Trump's Hegseth and Gabbard picks, and a lot of "perception is not truth." No neat bow, just a sharper lens. Bring an open mind.

Jonathan Drake kicks off a brand new series, tackling Spooner's dense essay "Poverty, Its Illegal Cause and Legal Cure." Born out of Spooner's own brutal experience losing everything in the Panic of 1837, this essay argues poverty isn't natural scarcity, it's an artificial deprivation created when contracts get manipulated by a judiciary that either misunderstands natural law or willingly ignores it. Expect a deep dive into freedom in banking, the true nature of debt, and why "equal distribution of wealth" here has nothing to do with Marxism despite how it might sound on the surface. Jon also lays groundwork for a genuinely compelling Bitcoin connection, framing proof of work versus proof of stake as a real world natural law versus artificial barrier showdown. Sprinkled throughout are stories about roly polys, a butterfly named after a Spartan admiral, and a spirited debate about whether chartreuse has always been green.

In this sponsor spotlight, Jon Herold welcomes Nelson McIlveen, the injection molder turned water evangelist behind Century H2O. Nelson's origin story is a wild one. He spent decades running factories and building plastic parts for Boeing, Airbus, fighter jets, and yes, the palm-leaf covers on Southwest cell towers, then made a fortune assembling reverse osmosis systems before deciding the water they produced was, in his words, poison. From there he pivots to oxygen, industrial scale management, and a personal health story involving climbing PSA levels that he credits his own filtration system with reversing. It is part manufacturing memoir, part water science pitch, and part Badlands sponsor rundown, complete with a claim that even your cat will notice the difference. Take the health talk with a grain of salt, but Nelson's enthusiasm is hard to miss. Jon just had the system installed and promises to report back. Where to buy and the promo code get covered at the end.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul dig deep into the aftermath of Maduro's capture, walking through the Pentagon's newly secured stake in Venezuela's oil riches and how the deal has evolved from a broker relationship into a full investment position. They cover Chevron's long, complicated history operating in Venezuela through the Chavez and Maduro years, and play a clip from a ConocoPhillips executive meeting that lines up suspiciously well with the timeline of events.

The conversation broadens into what this could mean for the region's energy future and whether the sovereign alliance framework they've discussed for years fits what's unfolding here. There's also a Tucker Carlson clip worth a listen, plus some banter about AI tools that can now auto clip and post your podcast content for you, which one host finds genuinely useful and the other finds a little unsettling.

Cam Cooksey opens episode 65 (August 29th) with a MyPillow ad that doubles as a plug for Mike Lindell's post campaign standing to expose Minnesota election issues, then settles into a relaxed, tangent heavy night of Truth Social.

The theme is Trump the builder versus the dying legacy media. Cam walks through posts framing Trump as the most popular president in our lifetimes, a barrage of media roasts, and the striking "CNN is in a death spiral but can be turned around" post, which he reads as classic Trump: demo the corrupt structure, then rebuild it. He mixes in tariff talk, a candidate endorsement, Kathy Hochul jabs, the playful "Lake of America" renaming, an Amish and electricity rabbit hole, and an AI data center chat.

He closes on Venezuela and a New York Post piece arguing Trump is winning the Iran war through economic pressure. Cut off the funding, defeat the proxy.