American Forked Podcast

Recorded 1/27/25. Jake hosted. Phil, and Jake were there, too. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Cavettes earned 3rd place at Regional 3 drill meet. Also received an academic award for having a majority of the team with a 3.75 GPA. Squiff!Utah: Utah man held victims hostage inside Riverton home. The victims didn’t seem to be in distress, despite being threatened by the culprit. The sword wielder was shot, but not killed.National: The inauguration came and went without a hitch. Trump thought, “It was the greatest inauguration, some say I was the best ever to be inaugurated in all of inaugurating. It was a terrific inauguration.” A lot of executive orders signed on day 1. Anchor babies are no longer a thing. The Musk Nazi salute seen around the world. Snoop went back on his word and basically roasted himself. Carrie Underwood nails it a cappella. TikTok left and came back so bigly. Fires in California. Joe Biden pardoned the J6 committee before he left.Main Topic: We discussed our most embarrassing moments. Trent was actually embarrassed once. Amber saw Jake nakey once. Jeff’s EARTHQUAKE moment with Devin!Tangent: What is the terminal velocity of a potato?Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift.

Recorded 1/20/25. Amber hosted. Phil, and Jake were there, too. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Cavettes earned 3rd place at Regional 3 drill meet. Also received an academic award for having a majority of the team with a 3.75 GPA. Squiff!Utah: Utah man held victims hostage inside Riverton home. The victims didn’t seem to be in distress, despite being threatened by the culprit. The sword wielder was shot, but not killed.National: The inauguration came and went without a hitch. Trump thought, “It was the greatest inauguration, some say I was the best ever to be inaugurated in all of inaugurating. It was a terrific inauguration.” A lot of executive orders signed on day 1. Anchor babies are no longer a thing. The Musk Nazi salute seen around the world. Snoop went back on his word and basically roasted himself. Carrie Underwood nails it a cappella. TikTok left and came back so bigly. Fires in California. Joe Biden pardoned the J6 committee before he left.Main Topic: We discussed our most embarrassing moments. Trent was actually embarrassed once. Amber saw Jake nakey once. Jeff’s EARTHQUAKE moment with Devin!Tangent: What is the terminal velocity of a potato?Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift.

Recorded 1/4/25. Jeff hosted. Phil, Amber, Jake and the Holy Spirit were there, too. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Steel Days netted $43K this year. This is up from last year. Good for @americanforkcity!Utah: Another family tragedy. 5 dead and 1 injured in a West Valley home in a murder suicide during the Christmas season. Also, another family murder in West Valley. Man on meth ends his parents’ lives. Don’t do drugs or kill your family. Speaking of meth, a hispanic man from Illinois arrested in Utah with 100 pounds of meth in his car.National: Cybertruck bomber #MatthewLivelsberger sent emails to high-profile news and podcast influencers, including @shawnryanshow and @joeroganexperience, just days before the incident, warning them of potential world war technology and military crime cover-ups. That China is poised to attack the east coast of the United States. FBI has yet to confirm the body inside the truck was Livelsberger. Two men found dead of exposure while looking for Big Foot @sasquatch.World: COVID repaired the hole in the ozone layer. Guess that’s what Fauci was going for. He should get the Pulitzer Prize.Galactic: Space isn’t real.Tangent: A beached whale was blown up into a million pieces in the 1980’s. Phil laughed a lot at that.Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift.

Recorded 12/14/24. Phil hosted. Jeff, Amber and Bella were there, too. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: The house explosion in AF earlier this year was preventable, due to a gas leak from a valve left open by a worker earlier.Utah: Utah woman pardoned by President Biden of federal wrongdoings. Stevoni Wells Doyle, 47, was unconditionally pardoned of federal felony charges. Doyle was once addicted to methamphetamine and served two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug possession and check forging charges.National: Supreme Court hears case on trans kids. According to scotusblog.com,“During almost two-and-a-half hours of debate on Wednesday, nearly all of the court’s conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teenagers. Three transgender teens, their families, and a Memphis physician, along with the Biden administration, contend that the law violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and should be examined with the higher degree of legal scrutiny required in such cases. But Tennessee counters that it is simply exercising its power to regulate the practice of medicine for all youth and is not distinguishing based on a patient’s sex.” Should the federal government allow minors to be able to decide to get surgery to assist in changing their gender? Are we doing the gay community a dis-service by looping them in with the trans community? Also, Jay-Z caught up in the Diddy situation. Any surprise there? Is this just a case of ‘guilty by association’?World: Defense fund established by supporters of suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione tops $100K. Is CEO Brian Thompson a martyr? Or, is Mangione correct? Are insurance companies to blame for his crime? Also, #drones drones drones. What are they? Is it the government?Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627. We'll play your voicemail on our next episode.

Recorded 12/4/24. Jake hosted. Jeff, Phil, Amber and Trent were there, too. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Maven Cinemas is flirting with a resurrection. Go to their GoFundMe page to help them bring it back. Also, two young boys from American Fork who went missing years ago were found in Arizona and returned to their mom.Utah: What happens in Vegas crash lands in Utah. I small private plane emergency landed on I-15 in Payson. Small car accident resulted, killing one person.National: On the hunt for immunity. @JoeBiden pardons his son Hunter for any legal wrongdoings dating back to 2014. Is this a move to cover any illegal associations the President may have with Hunter’s legal issues? Also, one man’s groceries is another girl’s tantrum. Little girl in a Walmart throws a tantrum while confused onlookers don’t know what to do. What was wrong? Should people intervene on things like this? Was she separated from her parents? Also, the United Health CEO gunned down in New York. As of the time of recording of this episode, the shooter was still at large.World: Bitcoin hits 100k. That is crazy! Jake is gonna get rich.Tangent: #JonBenetRamsey. Do you agree with putting filters on films? @MeganFox. #Moana. #diddy #babyoil. #DenzelWashington.Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627. We'll play your voicemail on our next episode.

Recorded 11/15/24. Jeff hosted. Jake, Phil and Amber were there, too. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Now that Halloween is over, Murder is in the air. Of course we're going to talk about it. How do you hire a hitman, anyway? We're so ignorant.Utah: Kroger is paying their dues. They are paying out a $1.37B to settle a lawsuit against them for contributing to opioid deaths. They are the largest supplier of the dangerously addictive drugs that lead to the huge number of deaths in Utah. Now that's a lot of fentanyl!National: #Politics #Trump #Election. Nothing will change. Who is surprised he won? Kamala Harris spent over $1B on her campaign and is now in debt. That's kinda funny. #Immigration #Statesovereighty #JFK.World: World's Oldest alligator died in Queensland, Australia at 110 years old. 18 feet long. Zion's National Park's first wild California Condor died of lead poisoning.Galatic: NASA astronaut remains in the hospital after returning from space on a SpaceX rocket. NASA is now lecturing SpaceX on safety. Do they have the highground to do that? Is anyone else getting annoyed by seeing so much stuff about Elon Musk? Martha Stewart became friends with Snoop when she got second-hand high.Tangent: Jeff started out hating Jake. But, he changed his mind. Also, there are portals to other planets on Mars.Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627. We'll play your voicemail on our next episode.

Recorded 10/23/24. Phil hosted. Jake, Jeff and Amber were there, too. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together. To celebrate your Halloween right, we begin by reading a script created by ChatGPT of a scary tale that takes place in American Fork.American Fork: The election is just around the corner. Several voting districts have a new proposition to split Alpine School District. Vote NO on Prop 11. We want to keep American Fork in Alpine SD.Utah: Google searches for information on judges in Utah have increased 58%. It’s good to see people are becoming more interested in our elected officials. Also, the LDS church has announced new sleeveless garments. What’s the next change they’ll announce?National: We discussed the four candidates running to replace Mitt Romney as Utah’s Senator, and the candidates for Utah’s governor and Presidential races. If Jesus himself ran for President, would he win? Do we put too much emphasis on lawyers becoming political candidates?World: SpaceX rocket lands back on earth being caught in mid air by the launch pad. Discussed different alien and UFO encounters around the world throughout history. Do they exist?Tangent: Devin had his baby! Congratulations! Phil went camping in Southern Utah and was kept awake by lightning and thunder. Jeff saw an owl on his neighbor’s roof. We tackled the pronunciation of hard scary words. Why is our health insurance system so messed up?Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627. We'll play your voicemail on our next episode.

Recorded 10/8/24. Jake hosted. Jeff and Phil were there, too. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Not much going on. But, AF did beat PG in high school football.Utah: Mexican Coke kicked off Fentanyl Tour after frontman reportedly fights with audience members. This one was funny. Also, a road rage incident ended in a shooting. 50-year old man shot multiple times and killed. What's going on? Is Utah turning into Chicago? Maybe we should be more like Boston. Let's just use that passing lane correctly. And, don't shoot people. What is the Utah Hockey Club's new name going to be?National: Wait, he didnt just kill himself Diddy? Baby oil? Really? Why is that such a big deal? Jake predicts the Diddy debacle gets worse and may end like the Jeffrey Epstein story. Did Diddy kill 2Pac? We'll see how it turns out.World: Joe Biden doesn't care about black people. Was the government's latest hurricane relief sufficient?Tangent: #headgames @willsmith #kramer @michael.richards. All of Phil's pet peeves came out on the episode. Don't fly Spirit Airlines. Who actually wants augmented reality to be the new way of life? Is Mark Zuckerberg even in touch with reality? Is AI actually intelligent? Or, is it just a more sophisticated algorithm-- a version of an online search of already existing data? Have we ruined the term Artificial Intelligence? Isn't it supposed to be able to think on it's own?Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627. We'll play your voicemail on our next episode.

Recorded 9/10/24. Phil hosted. Jeff, Jake and the Holy Spirit were there, too. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.Provo: OBGYN from Provo accused of sexual assault by many women. He's in big trouble. Phil likes to go to his wife's OB exams. Is it okay if the doctor makes jokes during an exam?Utah: The state of Utah is ranked #4 in production of toxic chemicals. Thanks to the Kennecott Copper Mine, we ranked so high. Of course we talked about meth. That's a lot of meth.National: Boeing's profit in 2023 was $7.72B, a 118% increase over the previous year. Green Peace is preparing for bankruptcy, because of a lawsuit claiming they intentionally sabotaged the Dakota Access Pipeline, causing a major environmental hazard. The US deficited in my face! Is the debt problem on the federal level even an important issue?Backpacking: Now you can see photos from our backpacking trips on our website.Tangent: Phil's son was indeed baptized and Jeff almost got the Camero he doesn't own impounded. That was funny.Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627.

Recorded 9/18/24. Jeff hosted. Phil, Jake and Amber were there, too. Special guest Rob York, Director of Curst of Crom: The Legend of Halloween. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Mrs. Wolf’s daughter is the new band director at American Fork Jr. High. If you went to that school 20+ years ago, you may know both of them.Utah: Utah has rezoned the area where the SWAP meet property sits in West Valley. Looks like new apartments are coming. Big surprise.National: Cats and dogs. Eat the cat. Eat, eat the cat. Phil is okay with illegal immigrants eating people’s pets.World: Remains of the Titan Sub found on the sea floor, revealing how poorly the submarine was designed. Don’t ignore the warnings of professionals who say “don’t go in that thing.”Galactic: Down in Front! It is believed that Starlink Satellites are going to interfere with radio telescopes. Is this going to prevent us from seeing the aliens coming to invade?Main Topic: Rob York, Director of Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween. It was filmed in American Fork. From quality acting to practical affects, this movie is a great flick to watch with your kids. A lot of comic relief and spooky spooks. Donate to their Kickstarter to help fund Curse of Crom 2: Crom's Fury. Campaign ends on Sept. 28.Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627.