Ep. 272 DOWN BAD ECONOMICS

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray discusses crematoriums heating swimming pools, Pope Leo voting in the midterms, tech parents keeping their kids away from screens, and Hershey’s concerns about Halloween candy sales.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray discusses AI desperation pricing, making friends as an adult, and field trips to data centers.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray explores the remaining career options for your children as AI threatens to make the traditional paths to success obsolete.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray welcomes the Paul brothers to the military high command, questions Trump’s plans to rebrand artificial intelligence, and examines the outrage over Sydney Sweeney’s gambling ad.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray questions the AI doomsday narrative being pushed by Silicon Valley, speculates about their ulterior motives, and contemplates how to sell out humanity and side with the machines.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray celebrates Labor Day with plane crashes, 25 years of never forgetting, and the promise of being replaced by AI. Plus, Mamdani’s 9/11 controversy, LEGO, Macaroni Salad, and much more.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are returning to Britain after six years in California, and Ray analyzes the possibility that Harry is secretly planning a coup to seize the throne.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.President Trump says the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record deployment was “not nearly long enough,” as sailors’ families report supply problems, broken toilets and serious mental-health concerns. Ray examines what the crisis reveals about the Iran war, military logistics and treating American troops as disposable.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.America spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on its military, and somehow the Pentagon is warning that critical weapons stockpiles are running dangerously low. Ray investigates where the missiles went, why StarCraft should run the military, and much more.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.Ray discusses Iranian reports of an oil tanker explosion in the Strait of Hormuz, the war with Iran, the U.S.-Saudi nuclear agreement, Zohran Mamdani and Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Tate brothers’ extradition case. He also talks about the cost of the war, masculinity, charity, housing and community.