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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.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about Trump Media selling Wall Street firms faster access to Truth Social posts, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taco Bell lettuce, nationwide protests against AI data centers, and new betting markets for clinical trials and FDA decisions.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Trump threatens to destroy Iran if he’s assassinated, Lindsey Graham dies after touring a Ukrainian drone factory, and Mitch McConnell finally provides proof of life. Ray also talks about the war restarting in Hormuz, America’s dwindling supply of political talent, and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray covers the deadly New York heat dome, the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding at Madison Square Garden, Paul McCartney as elite wedding entertainment, Trump intervening in the World Cup red-card scandal, America’s 250th birthday, Europe breaking from U.S. influence, the return of communism as a political boogeyman, Trump’s money machine, AI job panic, and why corruption might be the last real American thrill.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. AI was supposed to make life easier, but now it’s driving up the price of memory, computers, gaming gear, and everything else with a chip in it. Ray looks at Apple’s price hikes, the AI memory boom, Micron, data centers, smart products, America’s failing infrastructure, nuclear panic, Wimbledon, and why the machines may eventually charge you to remember your own life.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about the start of summer, the Strait of Hormuz, gas prices, the Washington Reflecting Pool, a strange Saddam Hussein book order, Pope Leo’s warnings about AI, Catholic power politics, He-Man, the World Cup, grilling, summer projects, giant ant movies, and The Butterfly Effect.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray watches America build its own cage: UFC on the White House lawn, World Cup buses burning after the Knicks win, Trump reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, FISA warrant theater, digital prisons, sports riots, and whatever dignity is left.

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about Trump’s UFC event, New York’s manhole mystery, the push to make you rent forever, SpaceX, Scott Pelley, data center tombs, and much more.