{"podcast":{"title":"Badlands Media","slug":"badlands-media-5934327","podcast_index_feed_id":5934327,"rss_url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15577742/1_2tf2af.jpg","author":"Badlands Media","episode_count":100,"summary":"Badlands Media features the work of a dedicated group of Patriot citizen journalists who are changing the media landscape in America. Badlands Media shows are originally broadcast LIVE on Rumble.com/BadlandsMedia.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T06:18:32.299904+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327"},"episode":{"title":"Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 189: The GATE Program, CIA Child Training and a Butler Rally Theory","slug":"baseless-conspiracies-ep-189-the-gate-program-cia-child-training-and-a-butler-rally-theory","published_at":"2026-06-16T05:27:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327/baseless-conspiracies-ep-189-the-gate-program-cia-child-training-and-a-butler-rally-theory","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327","url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/baseless-conspiracies-ep-189-the-gate-program-cia-child-training-and-a-butler-rally-theory/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mtdm8m8zrgat6vgg/Baseless_Conspiracies_ep_189_1_a2lbd.mp3","summary":"Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 189 with a quick detour into a viral Sasquatch video (probably AI, possibly a guy in a suit) before tackling the newly released four-page ODNI report on global bioweapons labs and what it might mean for Anthony Fauci's accountability. A short segment pulled from Candace Owens covers a theory connecting the 2022 death of a man named Mark Liedy, who allegedly stole the explosive PETN from his job, his confidant Corey Comperatore (the firefighter killed at the Trump assassination attempt in Butler), and the Hezbollah pager bombing operation. Then the main event: the gifted and talented education program, known as GATE, and its possible ties to CIA mind development research. Jon walks through demographic and physical traits reported among former participants, binaural beats and Hemi-Sync training tracing back to the Monroe Institute's Gateway Program, code-breaking and Russian language worksheets given to grade schoolers, and the story of a friend who was approached by men claiming to be FBI agents decades after his own time in the program. The episode also covers Chase Brandon, who became a CIA officer at 18, spent decades undercover, and later became Hollywood's official CIA liaison.","meta_description":"Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 189 with a quick detour into a viral Sasquatch video (probably AI, possibly a guy in a suit) before tackling the new…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5901,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/badlands-media-5934327/episodes/baseless-conspiracies-ep-189-the-gate-program-cia-child-training-and-a-butler-rally-theory/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327/baseless-conspiracies-ep-189-the-gate-program-cia-child-training-and-a-butler-rally-theory.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}