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This time Jon Herold breaks down deez nuts, Trump administration and ground beef.

First up, the conversation moves to deez nuts, with North Dakota, Republicans and California in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Democrats sweep, with Senate in the mix. From there, the talk turns to Trump administration, with Supreme Court, York and Leticia James in the mix. Later, the crew gets into largest election, with Justice Department, Florida and DOJ in the mix. After that, it's on to mail-in ballots, with SAVE Act, Democrats and Trump in the mix. Next, the conversation moves to Eastchester Tuckahoe, Bronxville and CannCon. Further on, the focus shifts to ground beef, with Ash and Hobby Lobby in the mix. Before the close, the talk turns to Rec basketball, with Vote and Parks in the mix.

Also on the docket: Congress, judge panel, CannCon, election coverage and Republican sweep. Grab a coffee and settle in.

On Election Day, CannCon and Zak Paine plan a shorter show so they can get out and vote, but first they run through the morning's chaos. They open with the newly identified victims of the Palm Beach Learjet crash, Zak walks through the icing warning on that model, and CannCon explains why the missile theories don't hold up. From there it's the Monterey County Jail lockdown during an ICE operation, Nick Shirley's report on migrant children who vanished after being handed to sponsors, and NGOs registering illegal voters in Arizona.

The guys dig into the Supreme Court's unsigned order rejecting Trump's bid over disputed California ballots, Nevada's attestation-only voter registration compared with a gun background check, and Stephen Miller on Democrat states refusing to check their voter rolls. CannCon shows the Broward County flooding as polling places move in Florida and Arizona, then covers an unattended voting trailer in Union City, New Jersey, scanner failures in Westchester County, Kevin Kieski's win over Michigan's record-deletion rule, the key races to watch, and Trump on preemptive pardons and the soft war with Iran, before rants.

On midterm eve, after a quick word on the Palm Beach plane crash, Jon and Zak turn to something Zak says is not a conspiracy at all. Mo Benson, a Nebraska beekeeper and one of Badlands' longest-running sponsors, joins for the first time to tell the story of her near-death experience.

Mo walks through nearly three months in hospitals: an emergency room that missed her twisted intestine, checking herself out to fly to California, four surgeries, sepsis from a bacteria no one recognized, and the moment in the ICU when she heard her late Uncle Tiny tell her to take a deep breath and felt a love she still can't put into words.

Back home, meditation for chronic pain opened the door to visits from her grandmother and her husband's grandfather, who showed her a hat, a lighter case and a game of dice that his daughter later confirmed. Mo and Zak also get into heart chakra language, the Book of Enoch, Saul seeking out a medium, CIA remote viewing programs, practicing remote viewing with Grok, fallen angels and sky people, and a Q post about protecting your DNA, before live chat rants.

Ashe in America gets into search warrant, electoral authorities and ballot boxes.

First up, it's on to electoral authorities, with Eric Olsen, Prince William County and DOJ in the mix. Then the conversation moves to ballots fake, with Scott Bottoms, Greg Lopez and Ken Buck in the mix. From there, the focus shifts to federal judge, with Justice Department, California and NGOs in the mix. Later, the talk turns to immigrants rights, with United States Department of Justice, Maryland and Boasberg in the mix. After that, the crew gets into election materials, with Tammany Hall in the mix. Next, it's on to ballot boxes, with National Guard, Gwinnett County and ICE in the mix. Further on, the conversation moves to rail district, with Mississippi Free Press and Secretary of State in the mix. Then the focus shifts to decision rights, with League, Voters and Colorado Supreme Court in the mix. Then the talk turns to settlement decree, with Judicial Watch, NGOs and Colorado in the mix.

Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

Back in Canada after a trip to Istanbul, the host opens with the story behind his new Constantinople videos: why two Egyptian obelisks and the serpent tripod from Delphi ended up beside the Hagia Sophia on Constantine's orders.

Then the main lecture asks whether Charles Darwin's theory was honest science or a political project. It starts with Richard Dawkins and The Selfish Gene, then sets Henry C. Carey, Lincoln's economic advisor, and William Gilpin's Cosmopolitan Railway and Bering Strait tunnel against Thomas Huxley's X Club and Herbert Spencer. Darwin's own autobiography credits Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, and the episode walks through Darwin's view of the weak members of civilized society, the Trojan horse axioms of gradualism, selfishness, scarcity and diminishing returns, and the false choice between literal creationism and Darwinism. Alternative thinkers such as Karl Ernst von Baer on the harmony of nature, and Carey's Unity of Law, round out the presentation. In the Q and A, H.G. Wells and Julian Huxley's evolutionary synthesis, the Church of Gaia and bogs, and a plug for the book Science Unshackled close the show.

President Trump speaks at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on November 2, the day before Election Day, to announce the official opening of the restored Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

He says the pool had never worked since 1922 and was leaking 40,000 gallons a day, then walks through the repairs: new pipes, resurfaced granite, a soft dark blue finish, new grass and the cleanup of graffiti and vandalism around the Mall, including an 8647 tag. He thanks Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the National Park Service, the Park Police and the National Guard, and points to falling crime in Washington, Memphis and New Orleans. Trump previews a Triumphal Arch near Arlington Bridge, a white stone promenade and a renovated public golf course on the Potomac, and turns to the midterms, the economy, energy prices, Iran and Greenland. Secretary Burgum then speaks about the restoration and the national park sites before the President returns to close the event. Here are the full remarks.

Happy Glitchmas Eve and merry midterms from the Alphas.

Michelle from Tamarack Garden joins the crew to walk through a batch of new herbal tinctures going online Friday: the Bugs Out parasite cleanse, the Viral Shield oregano antiviral, Brain Wrangler with saffron and holy basil, Fertile Myrtle for hormonal support, Red Rescue for nosebleeds, the Garden Fresh internal deodorant, and a balm for dry, cracked hands, with a Black Friday tincture sale on the way. Then Jackie logs into the mainframe with iPhone texting tricks, from unsending and editing a message to Send Later, screen effects and invisible ink. Next is the idiom of the week, a dime a dozen, traced from British pennies to the first American dimes. The show closes with a This Week in U.S. History quiz: John Adams moving into the White House, Lord Dunmore's proclamation, Nixon's morning-after line, a political capital victory speech, and founders like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush on why the right to vote protects every other right.

CannCon breaks down world feminism, Allen key and official marriage, with plenty of commentary along the way.

First up, the conversation moves to Air Bud, Shadow and Red Fern Grows. Then the focus shifts to medical redshirt, with Freddie Peralta and World Series in the mix. From there, the talk turns to Tyler Allgeier, Jacksonville and Joe Burrow. Later, the crew gets into Minnesota, Detroit and Malik Willis. After that, it's on to Rams, Orleans and Denver. Next, the conversation moves to Seattle, Chicago and Tampa. Further on, the focus shifts to Allen key. Then the talk turns to James Reese, John Wick and Terminal List. Then the crew gets into official marriage, with Ash in the mix. Before the close, it's on to world feminism.

Also on the docket: Miami, Lucas, Giants, Falcons and Asian. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.

The Daily Herold for Monday, November 2, the last episode before the midterms.

Jon Herold opens with the weekend plane crash in Florida. He isn't digging into the crash itself so much as the reaction to it: the decodes calling it a bomb or a white hat operation, and why not everything is a conspiracy. Then he reads Tucker Carlson's claim that the administration is days away from a nuclear strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain under pressure from Netanyahu, plays the clip of Trump saying he wouldn't use a nuke, and asks why the story landed right before the election. Next, a magistrate judge dismisses the case against former FBI officials Nikki Flores and Bradley Benavidez, and the DOJ asks the Supreme Court to set aside ballots cast by 20,000 California voters. Jon then walks through a list of 15 Trump election security actions, from 200 noncitizen voter prosecutions to the SAVE system, and argues they fall well short. The show wraps with Polymarket's midterm odds, a football parlay gone wrong and plans for election night coverage.

Badlands Daily for Monday, November 2, the day before the midterms.

The show opens on the weekend Learjet crash in Palm Beach County. It plays the air traffic control audio as the pilots of N722BD report ice and turbulence before declaring an emergency, and walks through the dash cam stills, the flight path and the plane's past trips near Mar-a-Lago. Next comes a run of election-integrity stories: DOJ prosecutions of non-citizen voters, USCIS flagging tens of thousands of suspected foreign voters, the SAVE system, and the DOJ warning election officials that they can face jail for destroying records. The host makes a long case that the secret ballot should go. Then a judge throws out the Trump administration's Alaska suit over the second Dan Sullivan, nicknamed Decoy Dan; Kris Kobach sends a cease and desist in Kansas; and Jim Himes blames Elon Musk in advance for unrest. The show closes on Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers, Trump calling Rogers "apple pie" in Iowa, and the Polk County sheriff's sting arrests.

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's rally in Salina, Kansas, the final stop of his midterm campaign swing, two days before the election. After the God Made Trump video and God Bless the USA, the President thanks Kansas and asks voters to reelect Senator Roger Marshall and elect Ty Masterson as governor, with Republicans up and down the ticket.

He covers the border and seventeen months of zero illegal crossings, no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security, crime and the Democrats' agenda, and the new Air Force One. He talks about farmers and ranchers, diesel relief and the Rangeland Health Initiative, with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum joining him on stage. He also covers the Strait of Hormuz, Venezuela and Maduro, Iran and the JCPOA, drug price cuts, the proposed Trump dividend, and English as the official language. Marco Rubio stops by to say hello before the President closes with a call to vote Republican on November 3rd and make America great again.

Badlands Media Special Coverage of President Trump's November 1 stop in Dubuque, Iowa, two days before the midterms.

The episode opens with Trump taking reporters' questions, praising Haley Stevens for endorsing Mike Rogers in Michigan and saying El-Sayed would destroy the country. He talks about the Keystone Pipeline and Canada, trade and tariffs, and says he has spoken at 29 rallies in 32 days to keep Congress from flipping.

At the rally, the crowd chants "two months later" as he takes the stage. He tells Iowa it keeps its first-in-the-nation status if Republicans win, and he plays a video of Democratic candidates in their own words. He calls Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers "apple pie" and contrasts him with the jihadists and the Muslim Brotherhood. He also covers the border, Somali fraud in Minnesota, drug prices and most-favored-nation deals, farms and the estate tax, the stock market, and Greenland and Denmark. He closes by urging Iowans to vote and make sure their votes are counted. The full remarks, start to finish.

Two days out from the midterms, the crew digs into early voting numbers, with nearly 50 million ballots already cast, and why the polls showing Democrats ahead don't match what the turnout is saying. They walk through the races to watch, including Minnesota and Alaska, and the lawfare network working behind the scenes.

From there they war game what could happen after election day if the House and Senate both go red, and how the left might respond.

The second half turns to the Learjet that came down at extreme speed on its way from Austin toward the Bahamas, the new air defense systems at Mar-a-Lago, and the theories about what really happened. The crew also covers reports about Iran's nuclear site at Pickaxe Mountain, the risk of a false flag, and a Gavin Newsom clip that shows why so many liberal Democrats are walking away from their party.

They close with practical advice on keeping two to three weeks of food, water and supplies on hand, plus live super chats and plans for election night coverage.

Burning Bright welcomes Chris Paul two days before the midterm elections for a structured walk through Chris's Substack series arguing that elections are fake, and why so many people argue against positions they assume he holds without ever reading them.

The two talk about how emotion crowds out first principles, the habit of assigning intent to an argument instead of answering it, and the false decorum of implying a point without ever asserting it. Chris lays out the conscientious objector comparison for abstaining from voting, why voting confers legitimacy on decades of Uniparty officeholders, and why he sees Donald Trump as an American maximalist invested in the American mythology. They ask who the deep state finds more threatening, the people pressuring others to vote or the people calling the whole ritual fraudulent, and dig into law versus divine order, the Old and New Testament, and the founders' writings on where the state's power comes from.

Plus listener support shout-outs, birthday wishes for Chris, and a preview of Thursday's Seven Days in May episode.

This week the show finishes Lysander Spooner's Proposition 6, the idea that all credit should be based on what a man has and not on what he has not.

First up, a recap of Spooner's view of the legal and moral obligation of debt: a debtor owes only what he is able to pay when the debt becomes due, as long as he acted in good faith. Framing a loan as a transaction, with ownership and possession separated by time, makes the radical idea easier to grasp. Then the episode walks through Spooner's six reasons his rule carries no greater risk for creditors than the present system, from shorter loans and the 30-year mortgage that funnels people into wage labor to trial by jury as the check on dishonest debtors.

From there, it's on to the history of debtors' prison, insolvency laws and modern bankruptcy, and how they reward reckless borrowing and moral hazard. The close ties it all together: government creating problems and then "solving" them with new ones. Proposition 7 is up next week.

Jon Herold and Chris Paul dig into election results, Trump hater and loan sharks.

First up, the conversation moves to Scott processor, with Hampshire and Sununu in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Trump hater, with Turning, USA and Hampshire in the mix. From there, the talk turns to Supreme Court, California and Turning. Later, the crew gets into TMZ, Jim Clyburn and Abdul El-Sayed. After that, it's on to power grids, with Pentagon and Jennifer in the mix. Next, the conversation moves to YouTube, Alina Haba and Abdul El-Sayed. Further on, the focus shifts to affordability crisis, with Donald Trump, Pizzagate and Alina Haba in the mix. Then the talk turns to Bannon, Paxton and Tower Rico. Then the crew gets into Chargers, Rams and Los Angeles. Before the close, it's on to loan sharks, with Jensen, Larry and Pete in the mix.

Also on the docket: New Hampshire, Turning Point USA and Supreme Court. Grab a coffee and settle in.

Can digs into sweet tooth, Ichabod crane and deputy director.

First up, the focus shifts to sweet tooth, with Pope Pius, Pope Gregory and Pope Ralph in the mix. Then the talk turns to Ichabod crane, with Mount Rushmore and Vanderbilt in the mix. From there, the crew gets into Eastern Europe, Hershey and Congress. Later, it's on to side quest, with Mary Shelley, Martin Luther and Jane Austin in the mix. After that, the conversation moves to shark life, with Snickers, Frankenstein and Prometheus in the mix. Next, the focus shifts to Cowboys fan, with Harry Houdini and Illinois in the mix. Further on, the talk turns to raw shark, with John Keats, Final Jeopardy and Percy Shelley in the mix. Then the crew gets into equity jeopardy, with DD Novellis, Samuel and Baytheater Dave in the mix. Then it's on to deputy director, with Dan Sullivan, Patrick Stewart and RIDE in the mix. Before the close, the conversation moves to engine light, with Rocco, African and Amazon in the mix.

Also on the docket: Dan Sullivan, Mount Rushmore and Eastern Europe. Grab a coffee and settle in.

Matt Trump closes out the two-part Spellbreakers Halloween special with a tour of 1970s horror through the original trailers.

The night runs from Hammer Studios and The Dunwich Horror to The Wicker Man, Let's Scare Jessica to Death and Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes, then on to The Exorcist, The Omen, The Stepford Wives, Blacula, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Along the way: the horror tropes that keep coming back, and how the decade set up the 1980s.

The Friday OnlyLands crew winds down the week with a mock trial, road-trip stories and a long fight over voting.

The night opens with a tongue-in-cheek trial over defying Madame Margie's decree, then wanders through weather and electromagnetic theories, travel tales from Arizona, Utah and the Grand Canyon, and a few music breaks. The back half turns into a full struggle session on whether voting still matters, the uniparty, midterm turnout and Trump, before the panel tries to get back to an enjoyable Friday night.

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, four days before the election. Byron Donalds opens the night, taking aim at David Jolly, property taxes and Amendment 3, school choice, law enforcement and Florida's space industry, with Ashley Moody on hand for the Senate race.

President Trump then takes the stage to talk up Florida's Republican ticket and the midterm turnout. He covers the border and illegal immigration, crime and defunding the police, Ilhan Omar, tariffs and the economy, apprenticeships and the proposed $5,000 Trump dividend, Iran and General Soleimani, and record crowds from Butler, Pennsylvania to the Panhandle. He closes with a call to vote Republican up and down the ballot and make America great again.