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Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid had to actively look for things to be sad about this week and could not find any. Yesterday and today the White House went full blown Q in public for the first time. The "Q means Quantum" post hid a special character at line 48, which decodes to Q drop 48 about Q clearance and the Department of Energy. The fake Always Trust 47 post landed at 14:25 Eastern, which decodes to Q drop 1425 reading "given we have now undeniably on purpose verified ourselves to be an inside source." Then the War CTO posted at 9:18 matching Q drop 918 about coincidences becoming mathematically impossible. The guys break down every contextual reference frame in order. Pete Hegseth confirmed the first successful Golden Dome test using directed energy and the DDAD system to defeat drones and cruise missiles autonomously. Bill Pulte walks into his first day as acting DNI and fires more than fifty career intelligence officials, sending Andy McCabe into a televised meltdown. Plus Trump's new Air Force One with Q clearance comms, John Solomon and Devin Nunes both quietly moved to ODNI, MK Ultra hearings Tuesday, the Hillary Clinton planes on the tarmac admission, and the Great American State Fair kicking off America's 250th tomorrow.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a short show before heading to Deadwood and delivers two things worth staying for. First, a pointed and honest analysis of who is actually hyping the White House quantum computing posts as Q confirmation: Jon asked seven OG Anons who have no financial stake in being right, and all seven said it looks like a troll. The only people going all in are content creators trying to monetize. He asks why that is and lets the question sit. Then he plays the GART trailer, a mock news broadcast depicting a fictional future where Democrats flip the House in the midterms, Badlands Media gets indicted by a federal grand jury, and the community faces consequences for questioning elections. It is genuinely unsettling and clearly the setup for something bigger happening live in Deadwood this week. A federal judge also ordered Trump's SAVES voter verification database dismantled for violating federal privacy laws, Jon gives it a mixed read, and Rand Paul is subpoenaing Fauci again. No Daily Herold tomorrow. Whatever happens at GART, you will want a virtual ticket.

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 190 with a laugh at Zak's expense after a fake Q alert briefly fooled him live on air, followed by a genuine debate about what the White House Q meme actually signals and why the decoder community is not the same thing as the Q drops themselves. Then the show picks up where Episode 189 left off on the GATE program, and this week the audience showed up with receipts. Jon walks through a GATE curriculum binder from Monterey that instructed children to keep its contents secret from their parents, a New Jersey parent group's alarmed breakdown of a GATE syllabus teaching clairvoyance and psychokinesis to fourth graders, and a firsthand viewer account from someone invited into GATE at age 12 only after a criminal incident and a court-ordered psych eval. The episode closes with the Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync Focus 10 tapes, the CIA's Project Stargate remote viewing program, Uri Geller's role in it, and Jon's argument that Stargate was never truly shut down but simply reclassified once perfected.

Think Tesla was a persecuted genius who just wanted to give the world free energy? Matt Ehret would like a word. In Part 1 of this deep dive, he traces Tesla's closest friendship to George Sylvester Virek, Hitler's official Washington spokesman, Aleister Crowley disciple, and organizer of the 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi rally. Along the way Ehret documents Tesla's enthusiastic support for mandatory eugenics, his belief that humans are soulless automatons with no free will, his claim to have received radio signals from Martians, and his tele-automaton demos that turned out to be a guy behind a curtain with a remote control. The Wardenclyffe Tower? Blown up by US Naval Intelligence for transmitting secrets to Germany. The beloved persecuted visionary story starts looking considerably less heroic from here.

Jon Herold comes in Monday one day from Deadwood and GART, which means the show is lighter on prep and heavier on honesty. Reuters confirmed what Jon's source already told him: the White House has been sitting on the ODNI voting machine vulnerability report for months over concerns it could undermine voter confidence, and Jon asks the obvious question about what a limited hangout looks like if the report just says the machines need a software update. His source still says the election declass is on track for Wednesday. The White House and Department of War CTO both posted quantum computing content that the decoder community immediately lost its mind over, and Jon delivers a calm and mildly exasperated explanation of why a social media intern trolling is not a Q signal. Iran negotiations are in their now-familiar pattern: JD Vance says Iran agreed to UN nuclear inspectors and the US issued a 60-day oil waiver, Iran immediately denied making new commitments, and Jon sees both sides possibly contradicting each other on purpose to keep everyone confused. DHS is tying federal grants to election reforms including paper ballots and mandatory audits. The Biden audio tapes have been cleared for release. Keir Starmer resigned as UK prime minister. Colombia's president is claiming Israeli election software stole his election. Jon is not packed yet.

Burning Bright brings Ashe in America on for Father's Day and the eve of GART Deadwood for a wide-ranging episode that earns its title. The two map out why Trump's second term has been more frictional than most truthers anticipated, why that friction is a feature, and why the Republican establishment quietly emerging from its cave right now is exactly what a counter striker wants. Ashe breaks down the GOP's legitimacy problem through the lens of her transformation program framework, while Burning Bright closes with a fight nerd segment applying GSP's neural fatigue, Gaethje's half beats, and Jon Jones' miraging directly to Trump's fifth gen narrative strategy. The war is a story. The story is a war.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show by finally finding the tape: CannCon saying, on video, that the gas price national average would hit $2.40 by July 4. Then things get serious. Tulsi Gabbard's final declassification releases get a full assessment and neither host is impressed. Russia collusion debunked again, Fauci lied to Congress again, Ukraine biolabs confirmed again. Chris Paul makes the case that officializing things people have known for five years is not disclosure. It is a limited hangout by definition. From there, the Save America Act gets the full treatment: Trump's attachment of transgender surgery language and women's sports to legislation that has nothing to do with either makes it impossible to pass for anyone, and Jon and Chris argue that is entirely the point. Kimberly Strassel's Wall Street Journal piece calling this the "die on this hill" presidency becomes a case study in how institutional media cannot see what is in plain sight. Mark Levin's on-air meltdown and Ben Shapiro's freak out over the Iran MOU round out the geopolitics. The show closes on a live dig into a mysterious Trump True Social post and the leaked Wired exposé on Peter Thiel's secret Dialogue society, which ranks its members by wealth and fame using an algorithm.

Phil Scarborough dropped a new AI-generated OnlyLands intro that the crew watched three times and still could not fully process. That set the tone. From there it is wall-to-wall World Cup energy: Cam fresh off the Czechia vs. South Africa match in Atlanta, viral videos of Europeans discovering Bass Pro Shops and Waffle House, a US team winning odds debate that got personal, and the pride jersey question nobody can agree on. Then the show grinds to a loving halt over CannCon's gas price prediction from weeks ago, a chat jury poll, three rounds of clip evidence, and a legal argument about whether national average was implied. Biden wandered the stage at the Obama library looking for his granddaughter. The 2026 Patriot Games got announced. South Korea achieved thermonuclear fusion for a full minute. Jon built a fully automated news aggregator using Claude in about an hour. And Zak learned that the actual vote for independence happened on July 2nd, not the 4th, which John Adams predicted would be celebrated forever. It was not.

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back in a pre-recorded episode packed with substance. Nearly two thirds of American men are overweight or obese, but for the first time in 50 years obesity rates have ticked down. Is it MAHA, peptides, or just economic stress cutting back the Cheez-It budget? RFK sends a formal letter demanding answers from a medical journal that quietly removed a study linking vaccines to SIDS, and Big Pharma's media allies are furious that someone had the audacity to ask why. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul keep pressing on COVID shot injuries while legacy media stays conspicuously silent. Nineteen medical schools just signed a nutrition education pledge requiring 40 hours of training as a graduation standard. The US lost 140,000 farms and 20 million acres between 2017 and 2022, and Jordan has thoughts about developers, HOA lawns, and the slow death of the American farmer. And finally, a new full body imaging machine using ultrasonic waves scans you head to toe in 60 seconds with no radiation. Imagine a $30 full body scan. Jordan is already imagining it.

Jon Herold comes in on Juneteenth in surprisingly good spirits and with a lot to sort through. Tulsi Gabbard released her COVID declass video on her final day as DNI, and Jon's take is the same as it always has been: Fauci directing the intelligence community to suppress the lab leak was already true in 2021 and her saying it now does not make it more true, though it might finally convince the people who needed an authoritative figure to say so before they believed it. Jon also shares a rumor from a well-connected source that the election declass is delayed to around June 24 and is coming from the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board rather than the DNI. John Solomon just announced he is stepping aside as editor in chief to serve as an unpaid government employee identifying classified documents, and Jon finds the timing interesting. Israel bombed Hezbollah immediately after the MOU was signed, JD Vance publicly criticized Netanyahu, and Jon sees it as the clean exit ramp he has been hoping for. CJ Pearson turns out to be a registered foreign agent taking $20,000 a month from the Bahamas, and Jon wants the whole influencer ecosystem audited. Also: Jon tracked down the screenshot evidence on CannCon's gas price bet and played the tape.

Chris Paul and Burning Bright close out the trilogy with Francis Ford Coppola's much maligned 1990 finale The Godfather Part III, now known as The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Starring Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Diane Keaton, and George Hamilton, the film tracks Michael's failed attempt to leave the criminal world by going legitimate through a foundation and a Vatican real estate deal, while his nephew Vincent (Sonny's bastard son) rises as the next generational vessel for the family's worldly pursuits. The guys argue this one gets a bad rap and is actually a fitting close to the saga's core thesis, which is that you cannot reform a system from inside the system. They dig into the Vatican as a higher mafia than even Capitol Hill, foundations and philanthropy as the next evolution of the illusion of legitimacy, the Sicilian vendetta as an example of how honor cultures decay into rule sets when the original meaning is forgotten, and Michael's spiritual confusion when he confesses to Cardinal Lamberto and still believes worldly steps can undo damnation. From there they go big picture on systems as self perpetuating organisms, the bag man problem and why this many people can't be in on it is a nonsense argument, NGOs as criminal shielding structures, and whether bringing back a monarchy with a real value bloodline would actually be more honest than the bureaucratic illusion we live under.

Frank welcomes Logan from Luminary Lighthouse for his debut on the show, and the topic is the lost age of the rigid airship. The Hindenburg is the spine of the conversation: a luxury hotel in the sky that could circumnavigate the globe without refueling, that carried tens of thousands of passengers without a single injury before May 1937, and that died in a few televised minutes in Lakehurst. Why did one disaster end an entire industry every major country had invested in? Whose timeline got rewritten that day? From there it goes deeper. The Empire State Building topped with what was clearly designed as a Zeppelin mooring mast. The Waldorf Astoria built in three years and torn down after thirty two. Frank pushes back on some of Logan's old world theories while running toward others, and they land on world's fairs as previews of timelines we were never permitted to reach. In the second hour Frank watches a fresh deep dive on NEOM, the Saudi Arabian Line that has quietly scaled back from 170 kilometers to 2.4, with tens of thousands of workers living in unmarked desert camps. Lost futures, and the futures we got instead.

President Trump hosts a Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony for three recipients spanning Vietnam, the Easter Offensive of 1972, and Afghanistan. Marine Corps Major James Capers Jr. receives the honor he was recommended for in 1967, delayed nearly six decades after his commanding officer was killed before the paperwork could be signed. Colonel John W. Ripley is honored posthumously for single-handedly destroying a bridge to stop 30,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and 200 tanks over five straight hours under direct fire. Army Major Nicholas Dockery receives the award for a 2012 Afghanistan ambush where he rescued two teammates, administered CPR to a soldier who had stopped breathing, and signaled enemy positions from an exposed rooftop to bring in American gunships. Trump opens with a brief aside that the stock market just hit another all-time high and oil is dropping, then gets back to the business of honoring people who actually deserve medals.