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- Today1h 38m
The No Treason Podcast Ep. 47: Usury Laws and the Surveillance State
Jonathan Drake takes listeners on a wild nine phase journey tracing how 1840s usury laws quietly evolved into the modern financial surveillance apparatus, arguing we are already living in something eerily close to a social credit system, just built slower and dressed up as consumer protection. From the Russell Sage Foundation's suspiciously self interested crusade against loan sharks, to the Federal Reserve, income tax, Social Security, and the Patriot Act, Jon connects a two century dot to dot showing how each reform designed to help the working man actually deepened centralized control. Along the way expect a sharp read of Spooner's no treason essay on consent and inherited obligation, a Lord of the Rings tease for next week's episode, and some genuinely funny AI generated beard shaving chaos courtesy of Green Star. Heavy material, but delivered with Jon's usual mix of conviction and dry humor.
- Yesterday1h 44m
Devolution Power Hour Ep. 494: LIVE from GART 13 in Las Vegas
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.
- 3 days ago1h 28m
Badlands Story Hour Ep. 185: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Chris Paul and Burning Bright revisit this Terry Gilliam adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo classic, and it turns out this one is a genuine dividing line between the two hosts. Expect an honest reckoning with a movie that's aged into something stranger and more uncomfortable than either remembered, plus real talk about psychedelics, why fear is often what actually sends a trip sideways, and a thoughtful detour into whether humans are naturally ordered or chaotic beings. The conversation gets surprisingly reflective on drug culture, personal experience, and where the line sits between genuine insight and just disordering your own mind for the sake of it. There's also some practical Vegas trip chatter woven in given the timing. Stick around for the wrap up and next week's pick, a Shia LaBeouf surveillance state thriller that feels more relevant now than when it came out.
- 3 days ago1h 58m
Quite Frankly Ep. 67: Cryptids, Haunted Places & the Dover Demon with Jeff Belanger
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.
- 3 days ago21 min
Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/17/26 - Trump Signs Executive Orders for Hunters and Anglers
Trump welcomes hunters, fishers, and outdoorsmen to the newly renovated Rose Garden to sign two executive orders that sound almost too niche to matter, until you hear the numbers. One opens up millions more acres of federal land for hunting and fishing on top of 92 million acres already unlocked, while protecting traditional lead ammunition. The other tosses out a widely mocked 10 mile per hour boating speed limit and kills a push to mandate electric only boats, complete with a genuinely wild tangent about electrocution versus sharks. Bass Pro Shops' Johnny Morris, NRA's Doug Hamlin, NASCAR legend Richard Childress, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum all get their moment, alongside talk of restored statues, duck hunters, red snapper season, and a possible Great American Outdoors Act 2.0 on the horizon. Lighthearted, a little chaotic, and clearly a favorite crowd for Trump to work.
- 3 days ago46 min
Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 14 Part 2
CannCon and Ashe in America finish out Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, picking up with what the book calls the Transfusion Mechanism. This week covers how American taxpayers ended up quietly subsidizing Soviet Russia and its satellites long after Lend Lease officially ended, through below market trade deals, guaranteed loans, and bailouts routed through agencies like the IMF and World Bank. The hosts trace how that same pattern continued into the 1990s, with a long list of major American corporations and their CFR connected executives rushing into former Soviet territory once Yeltsin opened the door. Expect a frustrating but eye opening look at how consistent this playbook has been across decades, plus a quick preview of Chapter 15 coming next week.
- 4 days ago1h 2m
Badlands Media Special Coverage: 9/16/26 - Trump Rallies North Carolina for Michael Whatley
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.
- 4 days ago1h 26m
Devolution Power Hour Ep. 493: The Real AI Race, Elon as Weapon
Jon Herold and Burning Bright pre record from the road this week and dive straight into a wild theory: that the AI safety story dominating headlines right now is timed suspiciously close to the midterms and might be less about safety and more about election interference. They play a clip of Todd Blanche calling the AI panic a hoax and posts from Trump comparing it to treason. Burning Bright lays out a longer running theory about Elon Musk functioning as a character or weapon in a broader disclosure operation, tracing it back to a 2022 Kash Patel clip about DOD contracts that first got him thinking differently about Musk's companies. There's talk of open source Chinese AI models undercutting the big players, a supposed real AI race happening outside public view, and plenty of Nikola Tesla adjacent theorizing along the way. Dense, speculative, and unmistakably devolution flavored.
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