From Assassination Fears To Gas Price Games

Send us Fan MailEP 60 A shooting story breaks and somehow the loudest question becomes “Was it real?” We start there, because that knee-jerk doubt says a lot about where politics and media have pushed us. We talk presidential security, how threats keep getting too close, and how the nonstop cycle of outrage and distraction makes people feel like they’re being played, even when the stakes are deadly serious. Then we swing hard into real-life economics with “gas gambling” in Canada. We unpack the excise tax talk, why pump prices seem to move together across stations, and why a promised drop can feel like a head fake when costs climb again days later. From there it’s classic news-whiplash: Calgary setting a Guinness World Record with hundreds of dinosaur costumes, and an Ottawa online marijuana distribution bust that shows how sloppy logistics can bring a whole operation down. The wildest stop is the Enhanced Games, basically an “all drug Olympics” that openly allows performance-enhancing drugs, claims athlete health screening, and offers massive prize money for record-breaking performances. We dig into incentives, risk, and the uncomfortable truth that elite sports and doping history have been tangled for decades. We close out with NBA playoffs talk, OKC’s dominance, the Lakers narrative machine, Skip Bayless-style hot takes, foul baiting, tanking and draft lottery suspicion, plus one of our biggest rants: TV graphics that spoil the score of the game you’re recording. If you like fast, honest conversations that bounce between political culture, sports media, and the weird stuff everyone’s talking about, hit subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What’s the one topic you want us to go deeper on next time?Support the show  You Wood Think? Bobby and Mikey D