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We got a gay Navy SEAL sheriff in Alabama now. The conspiracy theorists are trying to theorize a conspiracy that would explain last Tuesday’s results, to no avail. We take a look at surprise results around The South and try to figure what it all means.

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Trump accidentally buys Kim Jong-un some nukes with crypto money. Haley Stevens tries to unplug a video game months after losing. Then, the continuing meltdown over Alaska’s Dans Sullivi leads us to a ratf*cking roundup, that includes a gimmick congressional candidate who’s in federal prison for terrorist bombing threats running on a ticket with his mom, and a guy in Maine who’s having to campaign against his fake self.

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The biggest issue in America’s midterms is French people rioting very Frenchly, obviously. Then we get into all the lies, campaign screwups, and oppo research dumps making everyone dumber and fully insane with a week to go until election day. We’re talking false flag trans mailers, Catholic Latinas pushing Sharia Law, whether it’s woke to defund the Egyptian dictatorship’s secret police, and whether it’s useful to have a cat abuser call her then 12-year-old daughter a lying sl*t on television.

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A complaint about a bribe being stolen is how Trump’s lawyer found out her husband’s real age, somehow. Then, Ukraine chicanery. America seems to be abandoning Europe in favor of Russia, rendering our word worthless while accepting the word of Putin, whose ambitions seem and mental state seem very manageable. (Bent on global domination while forcing his advisors to join a cult that gets its powers from a magic ditch.)

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Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers have hilarious side effects. The D.O.D. announces a plan to make a snuff film. Then we get into the sea of scandals around Don Jr.’s ex-girlfriend, who as the ambassador to Greece has set herself up as a Mediterranean warlord of sorts and violated Zeus’s law. Kid Rock is involved again, this time through no fault of his own.

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Campaign desperation is leading to bizarre ex-wife testimonials and the dropping of large children, so that’s fun. Then we get into America’s attempt to rig the Brazilian presidential election for a weird pervert so our D-list movie stars can have jobs and we can have their diseased hamburger. It’s a story about how our foreign coups also hurt American industries, consumers, and food supply. Trae is being Hollywood on a movie set, so returning champ Travis Irvine is joining Mark for this one.

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Hospitals and insurance companies are in an A.I. scam war. Tommy Tuberville has a week-long crashout after imagining a pilot barking like a dog during sex. Then we check in on the Alaska senate race, which features an otherwise boring fishing enthusiast who curses like Eminem in 1998, and a guy who got criminally investigated by Trump’s FBI because his mom named him Dan.

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Ed Sheeran gets blowback for deciding to Mackle-less. Kash Patel rebrands his agency as the Federal Beastiality Institute. A new literal wedge issue appears, and it’s a reactionary jihad against Muslim-friendly cheese. Then, we have a new plan to avoid an A.I. apocalypse, and it’s a phone for the Chinese to avoid our calls on. 

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A Texas politician innovates in the field of football racism. Turns out a Kansas Senator has been taking it upon himself to bring back debtor’s prisons. Trump causes three different diplomatic rows with the U.K. in a week, including trying to resurrect the I.R.A. Then, the U.S. attempts to bring about the downfall of Saudi Arabia through a Rube Goldberg machine that hits everyone in the balls.

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The feds are defunding schools for not getting rid of trans athletes even when they don’t have any. A Georgia cop killed a petting zoo miniature donkey because it was coming right at him #JusticeForHeeHaw. Then, we get into the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy trial and all the mess around it, which filtered through the Culture War has become ‘Boys Rule, Girls Drool,’ or something.

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The feds appear to be trying to rig a union election, for dumber reasons than you think. There’s a slew of scandals rocking South America right now, implicating the U.S. in schemes involving sex, cocaine, and murder (the greatest hits). The insanely corrupt Venezuelan oil deal is just one of them, and that involves Rudy Giuliani getting free glasses at a money launderer’s Spanish castle. Lastly, one internet weirdo accidentally exposes herself as part of Pete Hegseth’s secret Pentagon army of posters.

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Canada tells us to French kiss their trou du cul (hole of butt, per Google Translate). Then we get into the business and political panic over everyone hating data centers, just because it’s fun to be psychic. Why won’t towns let criminals who got their seed capital from Epstein take over their towns. It’s perplexing, apparently.

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 Don Jr. can legally print his own money now. The administration says not to worry about all the sailors jumping off the USS Lincoln because they actually have less guys trying to kill themselves than our other aircraft carriers. So that’s nice. Then we get into the growing bipartisan consensus that Flock’s CEO should be [redacted] until he’s [redacted]. Unfortunately, local cops are having a lot of fun using the cameras to run lil’ COINTELPROs on people who are annoying at town council meetings.

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Looks like Dr. Phil is going to be Ernie Pyle of the Greenland invasion? Then, the anti-data center Butlerian Jihad has spread to Mark’s home county amidst the impending use of eminent domain to build transmission lines, which is important so the economy can support the vital AI-dogs-making-podcasts sector. After that, a lot of Republicans seem to be determined to lose very winnable elections just so Trump can declare them fraudulent.

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There’s an attack on women’s sports. It’s not the one all over your TV, and it’s about every normal person’s main concern: getting teen pregnancy numbers back up. Then we discuss the recent developments between Spain and Morocco, and perhaps the most clumsily executed evil conspiracy since, well, the last one.

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There’s been a (diaper?) rash of people peeing and pooping themselves at concerts all summer, climaxing naturally at a Morgan Wallen show. Why is this happening? We have theories. Then, a hilarious pilot program to have sex-adjacent robots teach kids in a small district is on hold. Not for long, though, as the company and the government would very much like to take it national. There’s lots of fun perverts involved, plus a crypto scam.

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It’s a hot diarrhea summer, and Taco Bell has been framed! We will not stand for it. Then we break down Trump’s big speech from Thursday night which said very little even though some people heard a lot.

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Obtaining pardons for people is good business at present. Even better? Pretending to, because it’s less work. It’s a pretty funny case involving Boosie Badazz. Then, the life and death of Lindsey Graham, and the fallout from our gerontocracy and how an old man can’t even croak anymore without a boom in conspiracy theories.

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America celebrated 250! 250 what? A lot of people don’t know. A MAHA Mom might be getting the death penalty, but not for what you think. And then we get into the somewhat over-the-top reactions to the Supreme Court keeping citizenship the same as it’s always been, and reflections upon birthright after two-and-a-half centuries of rockin’ and rollin’.

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This week Mark is regrettably absent, and it just so happens to be America’s 250th birthday week. Coincidence? Yes, yes it is a coincidence. He’s fine and will return next week but in the meantime the one and only Cho joins Trae to opine on the state of things in this husk of an empire. 

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 The Supreme Court has ruled that because Thomas Jefferson liked to party we can all get high and still have guns. The stupid Reflecting Pool saga has reached a late-stage Stalin level of Soviet farce, with show trials and a total war mobilization to destroy some algae. Then, Trump officials are now saying thoughts about Israel’s government that left-wing protesters got beaten half-to-death for expressing, so things must be going well in the Middle East.

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We recap a fun sports weekend in America, which included brawls on the White House lawn and beautiful game shenanigans. Then, we break down all the angles to the screwworm outbreak that will decimate ranchers and turn hamburger into a collectible item. Some greatest generation patriots had originally fixed this in the 60’s by being big fans of watching flies bone. Just another thing we have to get used to: Re-learning how to solve problems we already solved half a century ago.

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It would obviously take a conspiracy to make Spencer Pratt, a well-known failure, fail. We get to the bottom of it. Then, Congress has it’s own CIA? And they’re mostly watching your posts about data centers. Before all that we get to Pete Hegseth declaring Mormonism a cult, which has gone over great in Utah.

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Nigeria has the rare political scandal that would make a fun Disney movie where a candidate turned out to be a literal child. An immature congressman? Can’t have that. Then, we get into the Texas campaign for the U.S. Senate and the tens of millions of dollars worth of mud about to be slung at James Talarico, which so far amounts to “It’s communist to eat meat veganly” and “He has a girlfriend, but queerly.” Trae has an actual job at an office for one week, so Mark is joined by Drew Morgan this week. Come hang.

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Good news, your fourth-grader is now free from the federal tyranny that barred them from mango-flavored vapes. We check in on a few primaries and discuss a gubernatorial’s winning gambit of ‘wearing tall socks,’ and an aspiring congresswoman in Texas who had way to much caffeine then talked about Israel. Then, we discuss our seemingly inevitable military action against Cuba for several pretexts we’re in the middle of making up.

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Kash Patel continues living like a ten-year-old who found a winning lottery ticket. Trump’s supporters debate the strict meaning of “worship” with regards to the golden statue of him they built to take pilgrimages to. Then, we get into Mr. Wonderful’s planet-eating Death Star of a data center project in Utah, the fight against it, and his ability to sniff out all the Chinese A.I. saboteurs who’ve, uh, lived in Box Elder County, Utah, their whole lives.

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The government (barely) disclosed (very little) stuff about aliens and you’ll never guess, no one is satisfied. The root cause of all of this does seem to be a government disinformation campaign that no one seems to remember why they did it for. It’s pretty funny. Then, we talk about the practical death of the Voting Rights Act and the mad rush all over the South to gerrymander every state into a sloppy segregationist mess.

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The War in Iran has hit a new phase with dolphin troops. Dolphin troops? Support the dolphin troops. Primary season’s in full swing, so let’s talk about Graham Platner becoming the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, the Reddit post controversies, and the shaken state of Dem moderates. Also,   Because the definition feels very specific, and not what you might think.

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Today we talk about a guy in Colorado who’s trapped in a time loop movie of unwarranted traffic stops because of Big Computer. It’s a silly anecdote connected to the growing privacy and law enforcement nightmare that is Flock Safety, and how cities and counties across the U.S. have helped set up “Netflix for Stalkers.” Do you want to livestream a child’s gymnastics class in Georgia? Flock is the service for you.

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The Correspondents Dinner assassin that wasn’t, a Washington press freakout over hearing gunshots vaguely in the distance, and whether there’s anyone left in America who hasn’t tried to kill a president. Then we get into the paper thin federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the effort to protect the real victim of racism: Donald Trump’s reputation. Also, the funny reactions of Nazis, who want to be very clear: the SPLC are dumb nerds who don’t tell them what to do.

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Live Nation's predatory grip on live music is finally cracking — and a homegrown, hyper-local music scene is rising up to take its place. Matt sits down with longtime music publicist and industry expert Devon Léger to talk festival season, why the corporate giants are getting pinched, and how Live Nation's monopoly playbook (own the venues, the artists, the tickets, then jack up prices) is running into real backlash. They get into the surprising forces reshaping the industry — from Gen Z drinking less to indie festivals outlasting the Coachellas of the world — plus how house concerts, co-op venues, and immigra...

RFK Jr. “Yeah yeah, we’ll get to the measles outbreaks, but first what’s up with raccoon penis bones?” The FBI director apparently cries at work, but don’t worry, it’s only because he’s blackout drunk. Trump considers giving himself an Iran War medal. Then, we get into the insane goings on with influencers on the right, where the real ones are self-immolating at the same time they’re being replaced by A.I.

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There’s a chimpanzee war. Sound dumb? You’ll never guess. Then we get into JD Vance’s global catastrophe of a week, starting with failed low-effort negotiations with Iran while the Secretary of State got drunk in Miami. Then, we talk about the election results in Hungary, where the people basically voted for JD and the rest of the MAGA Dweeb Wing to go eat rocks. It was a campaign with an insane amount of propaganda, meddling, and a pretty weird sex abuse scandal involving the new Prime Minister’s ex-wife. Join us.

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 Matt sits down again with Joe Sudbay, host of State of the States on SiriusXM, to check in on what's actually happening in American politics right now — and why you have to look at the state and local level to see it clearly. Since the beginning of 2025, Democrats have flipped 30 Republican state legislative seats while Republicans haven't picked up a single Democratic one. Joe breaks down the pattern of overperformance showing up in special elections from Iowa to Florida to Georgia, why state legislative candidates are connecting with voters in ways that DC politicians can't, and how all of that loc...

JD Vance has a new book about his journey through forty-eleven religions before he arrived at the correct one, Catholicism-Where-You-Hate-the-Pope. Then Mark and Trae talk about the president threatening war crimes in internet posts where he sarcastically converts to Islam. Then, a fun discussion with scientist, small business owner, and Congressional candidate Dr. Michaela Barnett about running for office because you’re mad as hell and no one else is doing it.

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The White House has horny pun fun with sex-working farmers. Marco Rubio wants you to know he listens to rap music while various prediction market fiascos continue to surround the non-war with Iran. Also, Iran hacked the FBI director’s emails and we learned that he pays for porn? Yeah, Kash Patel pays for porn. Then we get into the overlords’ obsession with replacing teachers with A.I. ,which somehow led to the first lady having to hang out with a Roomba with feet.

Congressional retirements are hitting a modern record heading into the 2026 midterms, and author, political scientist, and professor Dr. Tom Schaller joins Matt to break down what it all means. More Republicans are fleeing the House than at any point in the last century — tied with Trump's own first midterm in 2018 — and historically, that's a very bad sign for the party in power. Tom and Matt dig into what the retirement wave means for Speaker Johnson's razor-thin majority, which races to watch, and why the fundamentals of 2026 look increasingly like a Democratic wave election. Plus, they get into the cracks form...

We’ve got a new FEMA chief who believes he has telekinetic powers. In other DHS news, the likely new secretary has been stealing Delta Force valor but you can’t catch him on it because the truth is too classified, and Trump is sending ICE to be the new TSA. Then we get into the latest stupid war news. An aircraft carrier is out of commission because of a laundry fire and overflowing toilets and it’s not nearly the biggest waste going on.

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The White House July 4th UFC bash is coming together great, provided someone remembers to start building a stadium back in 2022. Cops in Ohio are suing the rapper Afroman (remember Afroman?) for negatively impacting their self-esteem. Then we get into the ridiculous verdict in an “antifa” case where part of the evidence for a terrorist conspiracy was possession of a feminist movie review. Trae’s on Spring Break so Corey and Drew are filling in for a WellRed crossover ep. This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW  now. You'll get 15% off your first order when yo...

Our solution to the Hormuz crisis is for some guys in boat captain hats to do Pickett’s Charge. All of this is very necessary, according to an A.I. George Washington, I told to say that. We did the Vietnam Airlift to with one private jet to rescue a TikTok dogwalker. Then we get into all the unforeseeable (very foreseeable) impacts the war is having, including that we’re kinda paying Russia to help Iran.

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