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The Great Cookie War | 445

Episode 446 Published 8 hours ago

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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 get ignored. A Times Square stabbing ended in a police shooting that even NYC's own mayor had to praise. A Los Angeles podcaster got indicted for allegedly threatening to assassinate the president. And a father whose daughter was left disabled by an undocumented driver stood in front of Congress and told Democratic lawmakers exactly what he thought of their sympathy — on camera, no apology. Canada's Prime Minister, meanwhile, is refusing to talk trade until "the memes stop." You can't make this stuff up, and we're not going to pretend it's normal.

John and the Duchess also didn't hold back on the Gloria Steinem news, the fight over trans athletes in women's sports it turned into, or a certain 24-hour Bushwick "sex camp" story that had to be heard to be believed. Come hang with people who say what they actually think, not what a network tells them to.

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