Ep. 50: Recorded Live In Front Of A Substack Audience!

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway!On a whim, because I am full of whimsy, I decided to set up this week’s recording as a livestream and it was awesome to have, in effect, a studio audience for our shenanigans! Shannon and I had so much fun that we’re going to keep doing it going forward so come join us every week as we do it live (and then edit out the really messy, chaotic bits for public consumption).The last 15 minutes had some technical difficulties. Shannon gets really loud and I get really quiet and then we lose Shannon completely but that’s what happens when you do it live!Ogre Nation News Update!3:00 - 11:10 Joe Biden has cancer and the right (and alt-left) couldn’t resist being lowlife scumbags about it. Also, Scott Adams may or may not have the same cancer. I have my doubts.11:11 - 19:47 The GOP is pushing through the largest deficit increase in history, risking a financial meltdown. Meanwhile, the legacy press is still pretending to be shocked that the “fiscally responsible Republican Party” is being irresponsible as it always is.19:48 -23:56 Ashli Babbitt was a terrorist who got exactly what she deserved. Her family doesn’t deserve a fucking penny.23:57 - 44:00 This Week In Vomit-Inducing Racism44:01 - 1:00:00 Headlines For Short Attention Spans1:00:01 - 1:04:45 How We’re Staying Sane This WeekThings We Discuss In the ShowHow treatable is prostate cancer? A doctor reacts to Biden's diagnosis'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he's dying of 'the same cancer that Joe Biden has'House passes Trump's deficit-swelling tax bill, with big Medicaid changesUS government bonds drop as worries over Trump’s tax bill flare upTrump Admin Reaches $5M Settlement With Ashli Babbitt's FamilyNetanyahu: Offensive to take full security control of all of GazaTwo Israeli Embassy staffers shot and killed outside Jewish Museum in DCWNBA probes alleged racist fan remarks during Indiana Fever's home win over Chicago SkyTrump Displays DRC Visual As Proof Of South African 'Genocide'‘You’re still saying generally’: Amy Coney Barrett enrages MAGA for skewering Trump lawyer during birthright citizenship argumentsUS Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protections for 350,000 VenezuelansSupreme Court blocks Trump from restarting Alien Enemies Act deportationsCentrist Dan wins Romanian presidency over hard-right pro-Trump rival Get full access to The Opinionated Ogre at opinionatedogre.substack.com/subscribe