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Nobody was safe in Episode 445 — not Oreos, not Congress, not the mainstream media's talking points. John and the Duchess turned a story about South Carolina banning candy from food stamps into an all-out brawl over whether name-brand cookies are worth the extra buck, and the chat had a name for it before the segment even ended: The Great Cookie Wars.

But this is still Boomer Bunker, so the real world didn't ge...

Somebody started a hoax online claiming Texas Roadhouse servers were spitting in Black customers' food - no evidence, no proof, just a made-up post that blew up into a full-blown boycott before Texas Roadhouse's own investigation called it 100% fake. John and Kate break down how quickly a total fabrication turns into a movement when nobody bothers to check whether it's true, and it's not the only story this week where the narrative moves faster than the facts.

Trump made news again by renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," and Google updated its maps to reflect the change, while...

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We open this one heavy — Dolly Parton is gone, and John and the Duchess spend real time on what she actually built, not just what she wore: the Imagination Library, the Dollywood empire, and the fact that she stayed out of politics for 50 years and somehow ended up beloved by everybody anyway. President Trump ordered flags lowered nationwide in her honor, and the guys have thoughts on who actually deserves that versus who's just got a title. From there it's straight into the chaos: a Ta...

The Boomer Bunker kicks off with the Duchess fresh off seeing Rush live — no Neil Peart, a new female drummer named Anika, a still-got-it (mostly) Geddy Lee, and a $100+ concession bill for two baskets of chicken tenders and a couple of drinks. From there, John and the Duchess tear into the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, roasting the wave of "wine mom" true-crime detectives on TikTok who've decided — based on astrology charts and eclipse timing- that the husband did it. John also brings the receipts on a real screaming match he had with his AI research assistant Claudia over the Stop...

Harvard is paying $53 million after its own morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, got caught running a black-market body parts ring out of Harvard Medical School for years — heads, faces, skin, hands, stolen from donated cadavers and sold to buyers in three states. One buyer wanted skin tanned into a book. John and the Duchess dig into how an elite institution either missed or ignored a five-year operation happening inside its own building — and yeah, the episode title is exactly what you think it is.

Also tonight: the FBI seized former Congressman Eric Swalwell's phone and raided his DC home...

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Ryan Seacrest and iHeartRadio are hunting for the next "Top Host" — so the Duchess actually signed up, and John made her earn it live on air. He built a 10-show bracket out of real podcasts hosted by real friends of the show and made her crown a champion in real time, no do-overs, no mercy, guaranteed to hurt somebody's feelings. What she picked, who she had to eliminate, and what it says about her as a podcast ho...

John is making a stand with Lorenzo of the Church of Lorenzo Podcast! Spotify is torturing Lorenzo with copyright violations. And Spotify flagged four Boomer Bunker episodes to be pulled from Spotify. John Jamingo named it "Deletify," launched a hashtag, and is weighing whether to walk away from the platform entirely.

Also this episode: Friend of the show Daniel messaged John on how he tested China's GLM-4.6 AI and John gave Claudia, the Boomer Bunker AI, on the same political platform prompt. One gave straight answers. The other refused the premise. John picked a winner.

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John's iced tea got fingered. Literally. A trip to his regular Dunkin' Donuts turned into a full-blown sanitation crisis this episode when the Boomer Bunker crew found out the woman making John's order stuck her middle finger straight into his cup before filling it — earning her a new nickname on the show that's now the episode title. It's the kind of story you can't make up, and it kicks off an episode that only gets more chaotic from there.

But the real fireworks came later. A lighthearted segment on Bill Maher and Mike Rowe's "Real Ti...

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Tucker Carlson and MTG are floating a new party and claiming a 10-point platform that flat-out doesn't exist yet — John and Duchess aren't letting that slide, and neither should you. This episode doesn't pull punches: a Fort Dix prison guard sleeping with an inmate, a Comcast manager literally smashing pies in employees' faces as punishment, and a WNBA trans-athlete fight so upside-down that both the media left AND right are dogpiling Caitlin Clark for the exact same "shut up and dribble" answer they've fought over for years.

Then it turns serious. John an...

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RFK Jr. went twenty-one rounds with CNN's Dana Bash over COVID, Fauci, and the measles outbreak — and on tonight's Boomer Bunker, John says Bash looked like "a deer in the headlights" by the end of it. Then Sophie Cunningham takes an elbow straight to the face defending her stance that the WNBA should stay biological women only — and somehow SHE gets called for the foul. John and the Duchess break down why both sides are turning her into a political pawn, whether Trump gets fairly blamed for...

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The Duchess is back behind the microphone after a week in Michigan, and they waste no time getting into it. Starting with a genuinely wild story about her hotel room getting interrupted by sheriff's deputies investigating a hit-and-run next door.

From there, John and the Duchess spend a solid chunk of the show on the internet's newest self-inflicted political circus: 19-year-old Miami influencer Savanna Cannon, whose Instagram takedown of Rep. Ilhan Omar sparked backlash not from the left, but from fellow conservatives who couldn't get past how she was sitting for the...

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This couldn't wait until tomorrow night! John does an out of the ordinary bonus episode. Anthony Fauci sat in front of the Senate today and pled the Fifth over a hundred times — despite having a full, unconditional pardon from Joe Biden covering everything he did going back to 2014. John's take: only a guilty man pleads the Fifth that many times, and this hearing laid the case out in full — illegal grants, Wuhan funding, and a cover-up John says the receipts now prove beyond argument. Rand Paul's opening statement, Josh Hawley asking Fauci to name the...

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If you thought Trump bombing at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was bad, wait until you hear the meltdown from liberals who took his “I’m running for a third term” joke as a constitutional crisis. Yes, you heard that right - cue the national panic, YouTube rants, and a parade of clueless hot takes. The Boomer Bunker doesn’t just cover the fallout; they roast it, barbecue it, and serve it up with extra sarcasm. This episode is pure gold for anyone sick of media stupidity, political theater, and manufactured outrage.

But it’s n...

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Boomer Bob steps in for Duchess this week and somehow survives the full co-host gauntlet — technical hiccups, off-mic chaos, a StreamYard meltdown mid-show, and a sign-off bit that'll make you miss the Duchess by minute two (turns out even the software agrees nothing works right when she's gone). From there it's peak Boomer Bunker sprawl: a half-serious pitch for a podcaster's union, war stories about the podcast networks that flamed out a decade ago, and John griping about what AI is doing to audio editing.

Then the news gets real. New Jersey's DM...

John and Kate open the episode with some cross-promotion catch-up, ribbing each other about Kate's guest spot on The Savage Unfiltered Show and her own solo project, Duchess After Dark.

From there, the show slides into a loose, freewheeling middle stretch that covers John's ongoing health-and-supplement saga with his AI assistant "Claudette," including getting flagged for a total Taco Bell ban, his confession that he no longer watches TV and instead doom-scrolls short-form video for hours, and a real news item about a New York school piloting a humanoid robot teacher named Sally. That leads into Shane...

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This episode has a Canadian tourist getting hauled off to ICE detention over a slap fight on a Jersey Shore boardwalk, a suspected murderer who thought fleeing to Jordan was a clean getaway, and John and the Duchess going full audio-engineer at the end of the show trying to figure out why the intro music is too loud — spoiler, it's still too loud.

From there, it's a proper Howard Stern eulogy dressed up as commentary — is he still relevant, is that really his hair, does Sirius even release subscriber numbers — before pivoting into t...

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Tonight's Boomer Bunker kicked off with the biggest story of the week — the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham at 71. John and Duchess dug into the preliminary cause of death, Trump's account of his final phone call with Graham, and the wave of ugly online reactions that followed within hours of the news breaking. From there, the show detoured hard into a heated, extended debate over New Jersey's new e-bike laws — registration fees, insurance requirements, and age restrictions for teen riders — with John coming down firmly against the overreach and Duchess arguing the safety case f...

This episode kicks off with the segment that gave tonight its name, the "Parade of Dunces" quiz game, where the Duchess tries to guess how badly a viral street-interview subject butchers basic trivia (spoiler: Idaho is apparently a language, and the Great Wall of China might be in Japan). It rolls straight into a socialist street-interview reel that's just as painful, before John and the Duchess pivot to Trump finally losing patience with Iran after a round of ship attacks.

From there it's a full news gauntlet: Graham Platner's campaign implodes under rape allegations and a pile...

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Monday's Boomer Bunker kicked off with the usual internet gremlins and John complaining about the Heat Dome all weekend. John was also complaining about how ESPN isn't making it easy to watch the WSOP Main Event. But belt sander drag racing on ESPN, he can find. From there, it was straight into the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce wedding, which Kate declared boring before spending ten minutes on the details anyway.

The back half went full chaos: Richard Dreyfuss's ex-wife wanting a robot boyfriend spiraled into a deep, deep dive on Bluetooth-controlled sex...

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Taylor Swift is dropping up to $20 million to get married at Madison Square Garden, on the Fourth of July, no less, and John and the Duchess are doing the math on what that actually costs per day of marriage. Then a masked couple free-climbs the Empire State Building's antenna, gets engaged mid-descent, and gets arrested for their trouble. It turns out they're professional daredevils with a Netflix documentary already made about them. John also goes off on the pile-on aimed at "World Cup Freddy," the German tourist who got dragged online for...

A guy got SHOT at a wedding because someone called him out for eating meatballs with his dirt dick beaters. John and the Duchess kick things off with a genuine controversy: McDonald's apple pie temperature inconsistency, which somehow leads to the Duchess eating two pies in one sitting. Then the news gets heavy fast. A New Jersey cop used law enforcement databases to stalk teenage girls. An Alabama man died of a heart attack while literally in the middle of dumping his girlfriend's body. A French asylum case so disturbing it speaks for itself — no commentary needed. And a Su...

It started as a debate about snack cakes and ended with fetishes, felonies, and a feeder mansion in Las Vegas. John and the Duchess locked in a full-blown snack war, TastyKake vs. Hostess, and nobody walked away without taking damage. John's a TastyKake loyalist, butterscotch krimpets and all. The Duchess called them ghetto cakes and went to bat for Hostess. The chat picked sides. It got ugly. And somehow, this led to a conversation about McDonald's bringing back the fried apple pie, DIY McRibs.

A Las Vegas mansion called Pearadise that was sold to women as a...

A sitting New Jersey town councilman with six murders on his record just got arrested for loansharking — and the media barely flinched. The NJ Attorney General says he never left the life behind. A UK prison killing that's making people question what justice actually looks like, and a whole block of international news the mainstream press is spinning as hard as it can. Trump feuding with allied leaders. The hosts also dissect Trump's $16 million Reflecting Pool renovation, which the mainstream press is using to mock the administration while ignoring that Obama tried and failed to fix the same pool fo...

The British government spent decades covering up the systematic rape of at least 250,000 young girls — and a privately funded inquiry just named the politicians responsible by name. 219 pages. 149 districts. MPs who tipped off perpetrators. Social workers who handed out condoms instead of making arrests. Keir Starmer's record as Director of Public Prosecutions under direct scrutiny. This is the report the British establishment tried to bury. We covered it anyway.

JD Vance walked into The View and walked out standing — calling himself an Epstein conspiracy theorist and watching Whoopi Goldberg come up empty when he asked her to name...

The Boomer Bunker crew returns to Twitch and dives into a lively, no-holds-barred conversation on everything from culinary crimes at Wawa to breaking news about immigration and sanctuary states. John Jamingo celebrates a rare victory in "Shitty Song of the Week," while Duchess helps listeners navigate the many ways to connect with the show. The hosts discuss bungee jumping gone very wrong, take a hard stance on US immigration policy, and sparsely agree on the state of American and international cuisine. There's plenty of witty banter, audience interaction, and a touch of friendly (and not-so-friendly) debate about who gets...

It's Duchess's birthday week, which means she's wearing the tiara, working the weekend anyway, and demanding overtime. But before the celebrations could get too warm and fuzzy, John and Kate dragged the whole episode through the Carmelo Anthony verdict fallout — a case where a kid got stabbed in the heart at a track meet and somehow half the country decided the real problem was the jury's racial composition. Jasmine Crockett showed up to race-bait, Chris Cuomo stumbled through his hot takes, and two Black women on video said what a lot of people were thinking. It got loud. It go...

The Boomer Bunker crew is celebrating Juneteenth the only way they know how: by dragging every corporation that tried to celebrate it into the middle of the floor. A New Jersey school district's Sodexo vendor slapped a watermelon graphic on the Juneteenth lunch menu. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis sold a "Juneteenth Watermelon Salad" at their Juneteenth Jamboree. And Kroger put "Free At Last" on a cookie cake. John's verdict? White people, just stop trying. Also on deck: Trump walks out of his Kristen Welker Meet the Press interview after she won't let him finish a sentence, and the...

Scott Pelley walked into a staff meeting on new CBS exec producer Nick Bilton's first day, publicly ambushed him in front of the entire newsroom, and got himself fired on the spot. John and the Duchess break down the CBS News meltdown — Bari Weiss, the Pelley termination letter, and why Stephen Colbert losing $40 million a year explains everything.

Also on deck: a South Carolina detective pulled his service weapon on a coworker for microwaving fish (John is largely sympathetic), a New Jersey man beat his wife to death with a barbell after 40 years of "long, simmering hatred," an...

It's Pride Month, and the Bunker is celebrating the only way it knows how — by not caring. John, the Duchess, and Producer Mike kick off Episode 418 with a full rundown on the Delaney Hall ICE detention center disaster in Newark, where New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill spent a week pouring gasoline on a fire she started, then had the nerve to ask everyone to calm down. The NJ State Police eventually showed up and did what the governor couldn't — they ran in with shields, cornered the crowd like a fishing net, and zip-tied their way through the whole mess. It w...

The Boomer Bunker goes full-throttle out of the gate with John and the Duchess diving headfirst into everything from pickleball debuts to political circus acts. John breaks down his first crack at the sport and makes a solid case for why it's the new racquetball — which, by the way, used to require a fistfight just to get a court. From there, the conversation rolls through celebrity wealth, divorce paydays, Jeff Bezos laying off Washington Post staff and defending it as a businessman should, and a deep dive into whether Elon Musk owes the world anything just for being rich. Sp...

It's a Memorial Day episode, and the Bunker crew isn't taking the day off, because apparently taking holidays is a Gen Z thing, and Gen Z is already exhausted from the five whole years they've been in the workforce. John and the Duchess fire up a packed show covering the gender debate from every angle: Women getting banned from Planet Fitness for complaining about men in the locker room, a female NASCAR driver who quit mid-race over her mistakes, transgender TikToker insisting they belong in women's bathrooms, and a kindergarten teacher who can't figure out whether America should be...

What’s wilder: a NASCAR driver dying unexpectedly and everyone immediately placing bets on who’ll marry his “smoke show” widow, or two listeners leaving voicemails with the exact same dark joke in one night? Either way, you missed out if you weren’t live-trolling in the comments. If you think you’ve seen a Facebook flame war, wait till you hear the opinions in here about NASCAR, libertarians, and who gets to vote in LA (spoiler: apparently people think black folks don’t have IDs... and the room didn’t let that go).

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Welcome to the most chaotic pit stop in podcasting: It’s a crash-out, tear-down, laugh-at-the-mess bonanza where no sacred cow (or ex-racecar driver) is left unroasted. This episode fires out of the gate with Jamingo wrestling with technical issues and hypochondria — seriously, don’t let him watch medical dramas — before smashing into the wildest stuff on TV, politics, and pop culture. If you want to hear Yellowstone and Dutton Ranch get side-swiped by brutally honest recaps, or learn why Annette Bening’s face made Jamingo confront old age and existential dread, buckle the hell up.

But the real speed...

California gave $189 million in taxpayer-funded tablets to death row inmates — and apparently nobody thought that might go badly. Episode 414 of the Boomer Bunker is a full assault on your common sense, starting with Gavin Newsom handing a $20 million diaper contract to a nonprofit co-run by his own wife, wrapping through Spencer Pratt's mayoral campaign ads driving Karen Bass absolutely insane, and landing on a 21-year-old British woman whose legs are literally bent the wrong direction — a story that generated both genuine sympathy and the episode title, care of the chat.

John and the Duchess break down the week...

AI is coming for your grandma—or at least her kitchen table—and we’re not talking about a cute digital picture frame. In this episode, Boomer Bunker rips into New York’s taxpayer-funded deployment of “Elliq,” an AI companion lamp that’s supposed to keep the elderly company (and maybe quietly rob their will to live). John Jamingo and Duchess ask the real questions: Is a robot really better than a call from your ungrateful kids? And how long before some hacker turns the thing into a scammer's wet dream? If you thought giving Amazon your voice print for convenienc...

Nothing screams “Boomer Bunker” like opening with frozen tomato sauce suppositories and finishing with a full-throttle evisceration of California politics, and that's not even the weirdest part. This episode, "Pizza Roll Pez Dispenser," is a buffet of unfiltered takes, from John Jamingo eating a day-old Whopper just to get fan engagement, to giving the Kentucky Derby its due shade, to melting down over LA's burning homes and the parade of grifters cashing in on Medicare fraud in Ohio. If you thought your Monday was wild, wait ‘til you see Duchess ask why anyone wants to fake a period by shovin...

What kind of man stares death in the face and takes a bite? A Whopper of a man — literally. In this unfiltered episode of Boomer Bunker, titled “Jamingo: Whopper of a Man,” John Jamingo rants and raves while gleefully eating a 24-hour-old Burger King Whopper he left festering in his truck. Nutritionists would have a stroke, and even Duchess can barely keep her disgust under wraps as the studio is taken on a culinary journey straight through the valley of food poisoning. Who needs fresh food when you have pure preservatives and a disregard for common sense?

But th...

John Jamingo and Duchess come out swinging after the White House Correspondents Dinner debacle and the latest attempt to take out President Trump, holding nothing back over the endless stream of leftist hypocrisy, “violent” rhetoric, and media gaslighting. Caroline Levitt gets more real at a podium than any Fox News anchor, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (81 years old and still raging) out-Boomers the Boomers, and Jimmy Kimmel catches well-deserved flak for “jokes” about Melania that make even the Duchess cringe.

Oh, and it wouldn’t be Boomer Bunker without a parade of internet psychos wishing for Trump’s assassinatio...

We're a day early and completely off the rails. Episode 408 opens with Duchess on a Meals on Wheels ride-along that gets unexpectedly heavy — and closes with a man who lost everything below his belly button and still found something worth living for. In between: an indicted civil rights organization, a fake MAGA influencer built by a guy in India, a DHS official whose sugar daddy went scorched earth, and whatever is still happening in the Strait of Hormuz. It's a full show.

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It's 4/20, Twitch blocked the original episode title "White Trash Night," Iran is on the ropes, and somewhere in the Discord, a six-limbed drag moose in high heels exists because of a CNN clip. That's basically the episode. John and the Duchess cover the Iran war, Cory Booker's unhinged pep rally, a surgeon who genuinely cannot tell a liver from a spleen, a 14-year-old DUI mom, and a principal from Oklahoma who deserves every award this country has. Producer Mike is troubleshooting an Ethernet cable. God bless him.