Grading the World

In our last show on WXOJ, we talk about George Costanza's tariffs and reflect on the last five years.

George Foreman's legacy, a WV couple gets hundreds of years in prison, the happiest and healthiest nations on earth, and some school closings.

A possible WNBA lockout, everyone isn't welcome in Meridian Idaho schools, and Europe changes its priorities as the U.S. bombs Yemen.

How Spain rescued its economy, a coffee shop bans work on the weekends, and our usual rundown of the ongoing dismantling of the U.S. government

Kendrick Lamar's halftime masterpiece, a few animal stories, and our weekly government disaster roundup.

A listener weighs in on creepy massage guys, Kanye and Bianca Censori make a scene at the Grammys, and UMass does right by a student. Plus government stuff.

A Tinder trap, a $2.1 billion mistake, another NFL player who doesn't understand what massages are for, and the destruction of the American government

Pardons handed out like gumdrops, a brave Tiawanese doctor, more money for Massachusetts teachers, and dogs in hospitals.

Bidding farewell to David Lynch and Bob Uecker, and hello again to President Poopshow.

Palling around at Jimmy Carter's funeral, Trump's non-sentencing, foreign investment in data centers, threats against Greenland and Canada, and a few streaming recommendations.

The Bourbon Street and Trump Tower attacks, Facebook goes full Cyberdine systems, and the Joe Biden Awards.

A listener letter, a Biden veto, the second Trump administration (gag) takes further shape, the UHC insider trading story, and a brutal NYC subway murder.

,After a quick primer on the history of Presidential pardons, we discuss the German market attack and Madison, WI school shooting before lightening things up with a $6 million banana and a Chewbacca breakup.

Matt somehow finds it in himself to stay calm while Joe advocates for killing the rich and powerful,  President Biden's mass pardons/extensions of clemency, the big drone mystery, and some streaming video recommendations.

Brian Thompson's murder and its media coverage, Hunter Biden's pardon, drones over New Jersey, and Springfield's Adult Court of Hope.

Some Trump stuff, a few international crime stories, a dangerous new Federal policy, and Oklahoma doubles down on making public schools into religious indoctrination centers.

A cruise line offers a way to escape Trump II's attempt to dismantle the federal government department by department, and Matt learns about Idiocracy.

President-elect Trump fills his cabinet with sewage, and a few extended takes on the election and its aftermath from around the globe

After Matt pays tribute to his family's dearly and newly departed Charlee, he and Joe dissect the results of the 2024 elections and what is in store for the nation if the electorate isn't presented with better Presidential choices in the future.

Joe reports on the floods in Valencia, a Polish radio station backtracks on AI, the WNBA's coaching purge, and election endorsements and vote-shaming.

Joe's Spanish big-city adventure, the LeBrons play together, a new CBA for the WNBA, Texas football fans' misbehavior, and the election's ripples abroad.

How not to behave in public, absentee ballot issues, troops in Israel, a couple of animal stories, the Menendez brothers docu-drama, and Pulp Fiction turns 30.

Joe's first Spanish Feast Day, buying a car in a foreign country, teachers drugging students in Spring, Texas, the NCAA's impending Superconference Superfiasco, and athletes abused on social media by degenerate loser gamblers

In Joe's first episode as a Spanish resident, los hombres discuss a few notable celebrity deaths, the flooding in and around Asheville NC, Joe's absentee vote in the 2024 election, and the WNBA's attendance record.

A tragedy with purpose, a tragedy averted thanks to Jon Bon Jovi, some AI nonsense, a squirrel and some idiots disrupt public transportation, and an old boat is found.

Tyreek Hill's arrest, Matt's horrific dream, Joe hates America, X gets in trouble, and a Norwood ice cream stand fiasco

Matt is busy with back to school stuff this week, so Joe chats with journalist and author A.J. Jacobs about his books "The Year of Living Biblically" and "The Year of Living Constitutionally"Unclean seats, stoning adulterers, AI James Madison, Election Cakes, and more!

RFK Jr's continued wildlife adventures, a DNC scam, a Denver Post columnist's feud with Coach Prime, and the NWSL dumps the draft.

A DNC wrapup, a few sports-adjacent stories, Disney being Disney, and RFK Jr. drops out.

Matt's at the beach this week so Joe sits down with Diggin' Oak Island host Dave McBride for a chat about the 230-year old mystery and the History Channel program "The Curse of Oak Island."

Triathletes in the Seine, Imane Khelif's tough win, RFK Jr's decade-old idiocy, and more

Matt's thoughts on the DNC's latest big move, a quick rundown on the Olympics, and JD Vance's inflammatory words.

Alec Baldwin's charges are dropped, nature is on a rampage, and Joe Biden steps aside.

Further analysis of the Trump shooting with help from a former Secret Service agent and Trump's choice for VP - JD Vance of Vance Refrigeration

Shark attacks near Cape Cod, a Springfield school security guard arrested on gun charges, ammunitino vending machines, Supreme Court impeachments, the Global Peace Index, and a quick report on the shooting at the Donald Trump rally in Butler, PA

Presidential immunity for "official acts," Joe Biden sticks it out, Project 2025, the WNBA All-Star voting, and the disappointing third season of The Bear 

Another state wants to obliterate the separation of church and state a Paris poop protest, the demonization of cell phones, and Reggie Jackson's stark honesty.

So long to the Say Hey Kid, An Idaho bar owner does a very Idaho thing, the Massachusetts 911 outage, and the Portland Pickles' concessionary innovation.

Joe is officially a Spanish resident, Caitlin Clark is left off the primary Olympic team roster, and Hunter Biden's conviction.

Chennedy Carter hip-checks Caitlin Clark and the rest of the world suddenly discovers  the WNBA, and some other stuff.

The death of Bill Walton, Donald Trump is guilty 34 times, massive cuts in the Enfield, CT school budget, John Kirby's foot-in-mouth day, Scottie Scheffler's charges are dropped, and MLB makes an empty gesture to the Negro Leagues

Quick follow-ups on orca attacks and the Butker backlash, campaign promotions, Scottie Scheffler, a Bluey fiasco, and Massachusetts raises $1.8 billion taxing millionaires.

Another orca attack, Aja WIlson and Caitlin Clark's statements on race and marketability, Harrison Butker's religious ignorance, and the new Netflix/NFL deal

Colleges respond positively to campus protests, the power of student journalism,  the WNBA gets charter flights, a worm eats RFK Jr.'s brain, and Baby Reindeer.

Training AI on creating art with Rhode Island School of Design professor Griffin Smith, plus an update on pro-Palestine protests on college campuses and administrative reactions to them

Women's basketball deepfakes, an interesting WNBA funding proposal, protests on college campuses across the nation, and TikTok and non-compete clauses are banned

The WNBA Draft, Tennessee teachers get guns, Maine takes a step toward sanity, and the Curb Your Enthusiasm Finale

OJ expires, the liberation of education, more charges in the Abby Zwerner shooting, and Yesterday

The NCAA Final Four and the Washington Post Kim Mulkey profile, Literally Anybody Else for President (literally), OpenAI's new voice cloning tool, and Danica Patrick is wrong again.

The Francis Scott Key bridge collapse, abuse of Arizona ESA funds, Caitlin Clark's $5 million offer from Ice Cube's Big 3, cat pics for library fines, and betting scandals in pro sports.