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On this week's episode, we’ll record a little too early to discuss the events in Pennsylvania. Missed it by just a little bit. Such a shame. That we recorded too early.

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On this week's episode: The Tory party will have some bad luck at the bookies ... Boeing will take aircraft failure to new heights ... And the New York Times editorial board wants to take Joe Biden to a farm upstate.

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Headline Sources:

Biden vs Trump debate: https://apnews.com/live/presidential-debate-2024-updates#00000190-5cdc-dd31-aff9-fefed7f50000

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/538-ipsos-june-2024-presidential-debate-poll

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/politics/debate-poll-cnn-trump-biden/index.html

Sunak aide admits placing bet on general election: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722eyxxknro

Nigel Farage claims "We provoked war in Ukraine": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c8vv3vgngd0o   

Reform UK defends candidates as more comments emerge: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx77lvd6e73o.amp 

Boeing astronauts still stuck in space: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/27/why-are-two-boeing-astronauts-stuck-in-space

On this week's episode: Rishi Sunak shows us what the Normandy landing looked like in reverse ... Donald Trump tries his luck with word-saying again ... And a bombshell revelation in the world of cylindrical food contract law ROCKS the community.

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Headline Sources:

Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/politics/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-abortion-pill-mifepristone/index.html

PM apologises for leaving D-Day commemorations early: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722zv2myjro

Reform UK candidate apologizes over Hitler neutrality comments: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko

US ran anti-vax campaign under Trump: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Champion hot dog eater excluded from Coney Island contest over veggie franks:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/champion-hot-dog-eater-excluded-coney-island-contest-over-veggie-franks-2024-06-12/

Joey Chestnut to face rival Takeru Kobayashi in hot dog eating contest on Netflix: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5559677/2024/06/12/joey-chestnut-takeru-kobayashi-hot-dog-contest-netflix/

Gove’s replacement caught out on claim he moved to Surrey Heath as home found on Airbnb: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-general-election-surrey-heath-michael-gove-b2559359.html 

Voters Laugh At Esther McVey After She Says 'Tories Always Get The Country Back On Its Feet': https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/voters-laugh-at-esther-mcvey-after-she-says-tories-always-get-the-country-back-on-its-feet_uk_66669940e4b0a01ba85b4df2

Trump’s teleprompter goes out again, leads to rant about sharks and electric boats: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/11/trump-electric-boats-sharks/

On this week's episode: Eric Adams turns Manhattan into an empty refuge for cyborg billionaires ... Alvin Bragg finds a witch ... And Rudy Giuliani gets served a witch indictment while hiding behind his broomstick.

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Headline Sources:

Trump convicted on 34 counts: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/31/hush-money-next-for-trump

Congestion pricing in NYC: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/congestion-pricing-in-nyc-everything-you-need-to-know-including-start-date-exemptions-and-map-030124

Sunak has to call for election amid abject failure and the announcement is an abject failure: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/uk-general-election-what-you-need-to-know-4-july

Google AI experiment goes not great: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24164119/google-ai-overview-mistakes-search-race-openai

Florida civics training links "cancel culture" to mass murder: https://popular.info/p/florida-civics-training-links-cancel

Nothing is going well for Rudy Giuliani:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/two-hours-mocking-arizonas-attorney-general-rudy-giuliani-served-birth-rcna152905

https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-ruby-freeman-bankruptcy-new-york-florida-debtors-rudy-coffee-1905811

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/31/rudy-giuliani-disbarment-dc/

On this week's episode, the Tories will lose more seats than a Boeing jetliner, Justice Alito plans for his new job as inquisitor supreme a LITTLE too early, and we’ll debate the debates about the pre-debate debates.

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Headline Sources:

Biden and Trump agree to two presidential debates: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/biden-trump-debates.html

Justice alito flies his flag upside down in a nod to stop the steal

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

The Observer view on the London mayoral video: dog-whistles and lies show Tories will stop at nothing to win

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/31/the-observer-view-on-london-mayoral-campaign-video-dog-whistles-and-lies 

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68947834 

Nick Fuentes accidentally streams gay porn: https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-801627

Scottie Scheffler, hours after arrest, tees off in PGA Championship second round

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5500927/2024/05/17/scottie-scheffler-arrest-pga-championship/

Tory MP loses whip after claims he used party funds to pay ‘bad people’ 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/17/tory-mp-loses-whip-after-claims-he-used-party-funds-to-pay-bad-people 

On this week's episode: MTG swears revenge on things for happening ... The other side is literally killing their dogs now ... And we talk about the best worst campaign ad of all time.

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Headline Sources:

David Pecker's testimony at Trump hush money trial: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trial-takeaways-key-moments-david-pecker-testimony-1235011613/

Trump's teleprompter turns sideways and he has a meltdown: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-teleprompter-meltdown/

MTG moves to oust Mike Johnson for doing a thing: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/01/house-gop-mike-johnson-speaker-mtg-vacancy/73261761007/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-democrats

Kristi Noem brags about puppy murder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/03/kristi-noem-just-wont-stop-talking-about-killing-her-dog/

Alleged Ex-GOP evil CEO convicted felon Don Blankenship puts out INSANE campaign ads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship

https://www.facebook.com/DonLBlankenship

TikTok ban: https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-divestment-ban-what-you-need-to-know-5e1ff786e89da10a1b799241ae025406

Ted Cruz tries to rebrand as bipartisan: https://www.alternet.org/ted-cruz-allred-democrats/

On this week's episode: People are DYING for loans in Brazil ... We finally break our silence on history’s most fuckable popcorn bucket ... And Donald Trump is losing bigly at everything...except for national polling somehow.

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Headline Sources:

Bipartisan coalition in the House pass aid for Ukraine and Israel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/20/house-vote-ukraine-israel-aid-johnson/

AMC Exec: "We wouldn't have made the Dune popcorn if we knew you'd be sickos about it": https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-popcorn-bucket-amc-regrets-wormussy-1851397128

Truth Social is a giant failure: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/truth-social-drama-donald-trump-lawsuits-ipo-1234999198/

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-social-media-stock-2667811934/

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/trump-media-is-the-most-expensive-us-stock-to-short-by-far.html

High speed rail line between LA and Vegas breaks ground this week: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04/20/high-speed-rail-construction-california-las-vegas/

Lady takes her dead uncle to the bank for a loan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/brazil-woman-corpse-bank-fraud

Judge reads roasty memes from prospective jurors and Trump has to sit there quietly: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-jury-selection-hush-money-case-social-media-rcna148168

On this week's episode: The world finds a new way to BUG Noah Lugeons ... We reveal Rishi Sunak’s cunning plan to bankrupt every wealthy Tory racist ... And it might be the end times because of a shadow.

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Headline Sources:

Eclipse conspiracy theories: 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/conspiracy-theory-eclipse-illinois

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/conspiracies-orbit-the-upcoming-april-8-2024-solar-eclipse

Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/biggest-tory-donor-looking-diane-abbott-hate-all-black-women

Rishi Sunak says he won't return money from donor Frank Hester who is accused of racism: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68554476

Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon: https://apnews.com/article/periodical-cicada-invasion-bugs-everywhere-locusts-evolution-e57f708cdcf144a20fe8f694e95b5d44

SCOTUS to weigh in on interpreting a very clear law that was broken on January 6th: https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/3/25/24108640/supreme-court-january-6-insurrection-fischer-united-states-obstruct

Boat Race rowers told not to enter Thames due to high levels of E. coli: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68674088 

Raw sewage spills into England rivers and seas doubles in 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68665335

Children race to collect marshmallows dropped from a helicopter at a Detroit-area park: https://apnews.com/article/marshmallow-helicopter-children-park-spring-ebc354cd8c8203ad835e4908158df63a

MP William Wragg tells paper he is sorry for sharing private phone numbers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68731683

On this week's episode: We’ll follow up on the hilarious antics of those wacky British royals ... Donald Trump realizes he should’ve been making his coffee at home ... And the chemtrail mind control grid might soon be missing a little strip in the shape of Tennessee.

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Headline Sources:

Trump faces cash crunch in court and on the campaign trail: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/trump-claims-to-have-about-500m-cash-as-he-fights-fraud-appeal-bond.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/politics/trump-biden-campaign-finance.html

Catherine, Princess of Wales, Reveals She Has Cancer: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/22/world/princess-kate-middleton-cancer

Tennessee passes a bill banning chemtrails: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/

https://www.wonkette.com/p/tennessee-senate-takes-bold-stance

Republican rats abandoning ship: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/republican-house-majority-mike-gallagher

AI-powered robot can serve you food, stack the dishes, and have a conversation with you: https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/ai-powered-humanoid-robot-figure-01-can-serve-you-food-stack-the-dishes-and-have-a-conversation-with-you

RFK Jr. says his running mate shortlist includes Aaron Rodgers: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/aaron-rodgers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-rodgers-strangest-unique-health-hacks-2023-9

On this week's episode: Joe Biden tries to find a united state ... New York tries to make itself safer by adding more guns ... And the UK once again shows it cannot be trusted with a Princess of Wales.

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Headline Sources:

Katie Britt delivers insane rebuttal to the State of the Union: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/katie-britt-sotu-reaction

National Guard and State Police Will Patrol the Subways and Check Bags: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html

Palace breaks silence on Kate Middleton health conspiracy theories on social media: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/kate-middleton-health-rumours-abdominal-surgery-b2508431.html 

Pentagon releases yet another stupid “UFO” report: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/pentagon-ufo-report-says-most-sightings-ordinary-objects-phenomena-2024-03-08/

An iconic WWII photo showing a non consensual kiss was almost banned from display. It didn’t last long: https://apnews.com/article/times-square-kiss-photo-veterans-affairs-memo-b24d5dba6930be867e9ac1be6dff16e5

Rochdale by-election - Landslide win for George Galloway: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68443430