Season 7, Episode 26 - Bill Maher on capitalism & socialism, deprograming MAGA friends & family, church goers, Bill Maher on PBS & NPR, methane lake in Alaska, Minnesota welfare fraud, and much more!

In this week's Podcast, our quote of the week is a video clip from talk show host Bill Maher on the effects of capitalism & socialism on different countries' economies.In our Stupidest thing I’ve heard all week segment, we have a story from the Huffington Post that ran just before the Christmas holiday, advising liberals on how to “Deprogram their MAGA friends & family members. We’ll tell you about trends among the US population regarding the percentage of people who still claim a religious affiliation and the percentage who still attend church regularly. We’ll play another clip from Bill Maher explaining why he and his guest agree with President Trump that it is time to defund public broadcasting networks like PBS & NPR.We’ll share a story about a lake in Alaska that releases massive amounts of Methane into the atmosphere every day, and why that natural release makes some of the stringent environmental regulations imposed on oil & gas companies pointless. We’ll tell you about the proliferation of AI-generated racist videos and why you shouldn’t be so quick to share things on social media sites just because they support your confirmation bias. We’ll play a video clip documenting how absurd some of the massive Minnesota social welfare fraud schemes were, and ask why the State of Minnesota wasn’t able to uncover what this one social media blogger found so easily. We’ll tell you about the massive backlog of service dogs assisting those in need and what you can do to help. Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week is from Fowlerville, Michigan, where a woman’s estranged husband, who is armed with a gun, breaks into the home of her new boyfriend, and how that worked out for him.