Who doesn't love a great congressional hearing in the middle of the summer? The twisted testimony, the colonoscopic questioning, the semantic summersaults, the pretzel logic, oh no, you are actually going to love this...get comfortable and press play or play press, as you wish...we're gonna get truthy!

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If you enjoy graft, grift and gross, this is the episode for you...grab a slushy and gather round the pod to hear all about the Anti Weaponization Fund - recently put on ice, but you know it sure is a fun episode...you'll learn stuff, while mild nausea sets in. 

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Do you enjoy a little "action / adventure" with your White House Correspondents Dinner?  Well, have we got an episode for you!  

A special note to y'all from your amateur clinical pundit: Having completed the writing and recording of episode six, season five, I was overseas on vacation. This episode was to be a short history of The White House Correspondent's Dinner to be dropped just before the WHCD on April 25. This year's WHCD was to be the first that MOTUS would attend as president - as he refused his invite to the previous five. That said, we know our audience is getting a little tired of hearing MOTUS with his pompous public lying so we were not really focused on his appearance. Nonetheless, adult beverage in hand, I tuned into CSPAN at the appropriate time  and watched pompous arrival of the head table and then watched with incredulity while CSPAN decided that they would cover the entire dinner during while guests ate...there were no speeches, just a bunch of gowned and tuxedo'd folk munching. We could have been watching the real estate Annual Top Seller banquet for all it mattered.  I couldn't believe it and commented to my posse that this broadcast had to be the pinnacle of bad broadcasting, in itself not unusual for CSPAN, but here they outdid themselves...

Oh look here comes the salad course!  

Dull dull dull.  

Until it was the most exciting banquet dinner  I have ever seen on TV! 

You know the rest. 

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Hello my American Exceptionalists!  Could I ask you a private question?  In the quiet, dark moments, as you survey your crumpling democracy, do you wish you too could become a Canadian? Well, here it is...the newest, fastest, cheapest way to Canadian Citizenship.  Check your DNA, eh?

To check your Canadian Genealogy in Quebec:   www.banq.qc.ca/genealogie/

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Psssssst.  Can we interest you in a playful yet intellectually stimulating study of Republican lying from 2003 to 2026?  We know the relentless news cycle serves  your daily dose of Republican lies, albeit against your will. But kick back, relax and allow us to demystify right wing truthiness. Honestly. 

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Oh, this is a big one.  I guess you could say this is as big as a 'get' gets. An exclusive, one on one, on the record interview between our chief political correspondent, God and Donald J. Trump President and Commander in Chief of the United States. 

It's a thunderous interview, that frankly you can't afford to miss. 

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The fashion police have gone Federal and they are not happy with what we are wearing on airplanes. Yeah, well, this citizen is not happy with what the government is wearing...you fascist fashionista's!

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There's a housing crisis in Canada. 

Canada’s Official Residence, 24 Sussex Dr., the Prime Ministers Crib… has been condemned. 

Welcome to season five!

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We end season 4 with a lovely departure...a full length interview with author & broadcaster Carol Off. She is the former host of CBC's flagship show "As it Happens" where she interviewed 25,000 people in 16 years...Carol has the view of  a sage from 30,000 feet. Buckle up for take Off. 

This episode marks the end of season 4.  We've been renewed and will be back in January of 2026 with season 5...until next time! 

PS: In our interview with Carol Off we discuss the moments when the Bush (2) White House revealed that truth was optional.  As usual, American historian Heather Cox Richardson brings profound context to the backstory:

From Heather Cox Richardson :

Spin turned into a narrative that denigrated opponents as anti-American, and then into the attempt to construct a fictional world that they could make real so long as they could convince voters to believe in it. In 2004, a senior advisor to President George W. Bush told journalist Ron Suskind that people like him—Suskind—lived in “the reality-based community”: they believed people could find solutions based on their observations and careful study of discernable reality. But, the aide continued, such a worldview was obsolete.

“That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the aide said. “We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

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We thought we'd take the cruel, mean and hopelessly ignorant policies of the Trump administration up to the cottage to see if they felt any better from that perspective.  They didn't. But all the same, recording the pod on the porch was an experience not to be missed.  Until it wasn't.

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Thanks for listening. We hope you are enjoying your summer, despite the arrival of fast fascism.

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