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Trump & Friends started a war [AGAIN] that's creating a global energy crisis that threatens to destabilize the world economy and make our lives worse. And yet doesn't it feel like everyone's pretending that these things aren't happening??? Tom & Travis touch base on global crises again as they wrap their heads on what feels like gaslighting on a massive scale.

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Originally recorded April 26, 2026.

Supposedly, you can get to know a person best with a list of questions curated by CBS's departing Late Night host, Stephen Colbert. Tom & Travis give their own answers to such questions.

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Travis & Tom get very heady this week talking to a legit philosopher! No, really! Dude's got a doctorate and everything! He's even got a wicked idea on what happens after death, so get ready to think a little.

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Originally Recorded May 2, 2026.

Comic book legend Gerry Conway passed away this year, leaving behind a legacy of remarkable characters like the Punisher... a character whose symbol has been tarnished by cops, military servicemen, and fascists.

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Our longest video yet is about... movies! Tom & Travis recap six movies released in 2026 - Backrooms, Hoppers, Supergirl, Toy Story 5, and We Bury the Dead! And then some rants about the state of Hollywood or whatever.

The stupid video Tom made Travis to watch: https://youtu.be/Kg5iz4NFTxo

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Did you know that the latest season of 'The Pitt' takes place on 4th of July? Travis & Tom take the opportunity in this episode to reflect on the state of America and its people using [*checks notes*] a popular TV show about working in a hospital.

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A Father’s Day Baseball tale from Travis leads into a bigger discussion with Tom on the usage of smartphones and social media over the past 20 years. Somehow, early 2000s reality TV makes it into the convo to and is related.

Financial Times video on smartphones & birthrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFXmDk-tps

The video Tom forced Travis to watch in the end: https://youtu.be/YcxGlLmtRyA

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In this episode, Travis is the one that gets drunk. How could he not after a wild week of good sports, bad sports, increasing economic uncertainty, cops killing dogs and babies, and a stupid war that America started that is about to end (hopefully) in a very stupid way?

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What were the best selling toys of each year of Tom & Travis's lives? And what does this tell us about the world today? Hint: It ALL goes back to gambling....

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The Chicago Pope just declared a Holy War on AI? Or did he? Could you use religion to get OUT of using AI at work? Will this make Tom & Travis go back to church and take communion again? Listen to find out more!

[And no, we won’t actually tell you how Game 2 ended.]

Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Jacobin’s Take: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-ai-economy

NCR’s Take: https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-calls-disarm-ai-major-document-warns-technologic-threats-humanity

Business Insider’s article on AI religious exemptions: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/she-won-religious-exemption-using-094001949.html

Rowan J. Coleman’s “This is How We Beat AI”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rdSl3CpiCg

The apparent theme song for the holy war against AI: https://open.spotify.com/track/0bUgTRe5st6TMbRCEjKezX?si=5a55298c7968404e

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