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A 49-year-old Brazilian bricklayer sold everything he owned and rode a bus 1,200 miles to marry Farm Girl Jessica, who isn't real. On Boomer Bunker 458, John and the Duchess get into AI romance scams, AI "comedians" stealing real comics' bits, New Jersey's governor worrying about the soldiers on the Fort Hood shooter's firing squad, Elissa Slotkin's "deterrence message," and the Dancing with the Stars pro who got benched over one post. Who do John and the Duchess blame when the money's gone?

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Shane Gillis went on SNL, said women at the gym dress like whores, and the internet hasn't shut up since. John plays the backlash clip by clip: a TikToker who ties the joke to the Cornell 7, a former Chicago stand-up explaining why it "isn't a joke," a guy calling it a litmus test for men, and a woman who takes the fight to the men at the gym. Then there's a Jeff Dye bit from 2008 that had women clapping, Travis Kelce's like, and a rooftop full of Cornell 7 protesters screaming "shame." Then Kate reads Trump's marathon post begging Texas...

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Shane Gillis goes on Saturday Night Live and says women at the gym dress like whores now, and Dan Levy calls it misogyny. Then a man drops 12 feet into a tiger enclosure in England, federal agents search Ilhan Omar's D.C. home with no charges filed, John pays $107 to fill his truck, and the Eagles lose in England with 8 seconds and one kickoff call to go. Should gyms have a dress code, and did Nick Sirianni just cost them another one?

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- The Duchess's Mammoth March in Pittsburgh: 2,200...

John Jamingo turned 65, got his Medicare card, and spent his birthday insisting he watched the Concorde land in Philly during Live Aid. It never happened, not once, ever. The chat named it the Nutella Effect, and it stuck. Happy birthday, old man.

Then it got loud. A woman went viral claiming any guy who ghosts you after sex is a rapist, and the Duchess took her apart piece by piece. You regret it, fine. That's a bad night, not a crime, and calling it rape spits on real victims. Add the Cornell story that refuses to die...

The Cornell texts say "none of the sexual stuff was illegal" — two weeks later it was "90% not consensual," and now New York has handed the case to Tish James. John and Duchess read the receipts, then hit a Russian plague scare, Philly City Council boycotting Starbucks instead of fixing anything, a Dutch teen's approved death, and New York trying to turn moms into "gestating parents."

Plus: Duchess is in the running for Top Host, John's "Can't-Miss" NFL picks went 0-4-1, and Lillytino gets the full Bunker treatment.

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Tennessee pumped two rounds of execution drugs into Christa Pike and she's still alive, and the Bunker has no sympathy for a woman who carried a piece of her victim's skull around in her pocket. Episode 453 also takes on the Cornell fraternity case. John and the Duchess pick apart AOC's version of events and find themselves agreeing with Sunny Hostin for the first time ever.

There's also the flydubai cockpit stabbing over Saudi Arabia, NBC's report on Diddy living large at Fort Dix, a Texas teacher who got probation for sex with two 16-year-olds, and Kristi Noem...

Forget safe spaces—this episode takes you straight into the cultural trenches. Boomer Bunker is fed up and naming names: from the COVID-masked meltdown at an imploding lesbian bar to government stupidity in the face of potential terror in England, nobody gets a participation trophy here. If you’re tired of watching the news and feeling like it’s just “business as usual” while civilization unravels, John Jamingo and Duchess are calling it exactly how they see it—no filter, just fire.

Expect unapologetic rants on America’s slow-motion Western civilization demolition, the idiocy of homeowners’ associations (the true neighbo...

John Jamingo showed up gassy, nauseous, and convinced it's stomach cancer, and the Duchess wasn't buying it. Tonight's Boomer Bunker starts at Six Flags Magic Mountain, where more than 100 riders say the X2 roller coaster gave them brain injuries. Then it's down memory lane to New Jersey's legendary death trap, Action Park, a.k.a. "Class Action Park": the Grave Pool, the Alpine Slide, and a water slide that reportedly took a test dummy's head off. Plus Great Adventure stories: Free Fall, Cheap Trick, the karaoke booth, and the night the punks flipped the tram.

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Episode 450 got its title from a little on-air friction. During the Converse Chuck Taylor ad segment, the Duchess apologized to the audience before John could describe the video he was playing, and John was mildly annoyed. "I apologize to the audience" turned into the running joke of the night. It came back on a Steelers tangent, and again when the chat started throwing money at Kate to wear a latex Trump mask. She wouldn't do it at any price.

Behind the bit, it's a loaded Monday. Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House...

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I don't know when "I'm offended" became a full-time job, but episode 449 is basically a case study. We start with a hacker group tearing open a Flock surveillance camera and finding out it's been quietly logging your face — not just your plate — by the hundreds of thousands. Then it's the manufactured meltdown over Arch Manning laughing at an AI video, because apparently a 22-year-old having a sense of humor now counts as "promoting violence." Somewhere in there Robert Kraft tells Macklemore to take his "Free Palestine" routine somewhere else, and I go o...

Episode 448 of The Boomer Bunker Podcast opens with dueling Sunday disasters: co-host Kate ran a personal-best 5K through a flash flood warning in Pennsauken, NJ, while John Jamingo spent his Sunday in the emergency room after two black stools sent him in for bloodwork, a CT scan, and a very memorable exam — all while trying to keep tabs on the Steelers and Eagles games from a hospital bed.

From there, John and Kate turn to New Jersey politics, going after Governor Sherrill over her sanctuary state policies after an illegal immigrant fleeing an ICE stop crashed into a...

The tech gremlins were out in full force tonight — the episode kicks off with the intro music playing for John and nobody else. Just the cherry on top of a rough day. Buckle up: this one's a rant-filled episode.

The thing that really had John on the warpath? $4.49 a gallon for gas — he came two quarters short of putting a C-note in his tank. Republicans can throw all the midterm conventions they want; it's not going to make anyone forget how high prices have climbed and keep climbing. John and Duchess agree: if the Democrats take control afte...

John opens 446 by putting the nastiest family dinner-table hypothetical you've ever heard to a vote — and somehow that's not even the most unhinged thing this episode covers. From there it's a hard turn into an American Airlines passenger getting duct-taped and zip-tied to his seat after a racial-slur meltdown at 30,000 feet, then straight into the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, where John makes the case that a guy who lost his job over one bad night on a plane is getting torched harder in public opinion than a mother who strangled her three kids — and the Duchess isn't fully buying the comp...

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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.

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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...