A Father’s Day Baseball tale from Travis leads into a bigger discussion with Tom on the usage of smartphones and social media over the past 20 years. Somehow, early 2000s reality TV makes it into the convo to and is related.

Financial Times video on smartphones & birthrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFXmDk-tps

The video Tom forced Travis to watch in the end: https://youtu.be/YcxGlLmtRyA

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In this episode, Travis is the one that gets drunk. How could he not after a wild week of good sports, bad sports, increasing economic uncertainty, cops killing dogs and babies, and a stupid war that America started that is about to end (hopefully) in a very stupid way?

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What were the best selling toys of each year of Tom & Travis's lives? And what does this tell us about the world today? Hint: It ALL goes back to gambling....

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The Chicago Pope just declared a Holy War on AI? Or did he? Could you use religion to get OUT of using AI at work? Will this make Tom & Travis go back to church and take communion again? Listen to find out more!

[And no, we won’t actually tell you how Game 2 ended.]

Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Jacobin’s Take: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-ai-economy

NCR’s Take: https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-calls-disarm-ai-major-document-warns-technologic-threats-humanity

Business Insider’s article on AI religious exemptions: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/she-won-religious-exemption-using-094001949.html

Rowan J. Coleman’s “This is How We Beat AI”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rdSl3CpiCg

The apparent theme song for the holy war against AI: https://open.spotify.com/track/0bUgTRe5st6TMbRCEjKezX?si=5a55298c7968404e

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Wanna know why Tom & Travis couldn't make a new episode last week? It's cause we were worried Tom would get evacuated due to a toxic chemical tank possibly exploding! In this episode, Tom & Travis recaps the bizarre story that made national headlines about a little town close to our home called Garden Grove and all the little anecdotes we heard along the way.

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[This episode was recorded in 2025.]

Just as they did with movies and music, Tom & Travis take another stroll through memory lane - this time with video games. Join us as we relive the 90s Nintendo domination, the absurd hype for Halo 3, and neverending juggernauts of Call of Duty and Madden!

CORRECTION:

• 22:10 - GameCube was released in North America in November 2001. But close enough.
• 28:14 - Tom of course meant to say “2005”.
• 32:19 - Chopin’s “Raindrop Prelude” is in D-flat major.
• 1:15:42 - It was Pat Summerall made those jokes, John Madden's longtime play-by-play commentator.

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Clips Cited

• CoD: Modern Warfare 2, directed by Jason West, performance by Craig Fairbrass, Activision, 2009.
• “Chris Berman’s..." YouTube, uploaded by firshad, 9/21/2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXqI7nrV40&ab_channel=firshad.
• “HALO 3 - “Museum of Humanity”....” YouTube, uploaded by USNCDFspartan, 8/14/2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDkradNKaZ4.
• “"his buttcheek is inbounds"...” YouTube, uploaded by Cleveland Browns, 6/24/2024, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uroj1j5X-BU.
• “Kevin Harlan..." YouTube, uploaded by Trending Daily Sports Videos, 12/29/2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxkOG-WeLVo.
• “NFL Funniest Penalties” YouTube, uploaded by Highlight Heaven, 10/20/2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53V6IPtrqE.
• “the funniest penalty in football” YouTube, uploaded by NFL, 1/20/2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ro5XuSLj0.

Music Cited

• “At Doom’s Gate” by Mick Gordon (Doom, Bethesda Softworks, 2016)
• “Deference for Darkness” by Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori (Halo 3: ODST, Microsoft Game Studios, 2009)
• “Finish the Fight” by Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori (Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, 2007)
• “Heavy Action” by Johnny Pearson (ABC/ESPN Monday Night Football, ABC/ESPN, 1970-present)
• “The Last Spartan” by Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori (Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, 2004)
• “Madden Theme” by Aubrey Hodges (Madden NFL mid-200s, EA Sports)
• “MLB on Fox Theme” by NJJ Music (MLB on Fox, 1996-present, Fox/FS1)
• “NFL on Fox Theme” by Scott Schreer (NFL on Fox, 1994-present, Fox)
• “Overture” by Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori (Halo: Reach, Microsoft Game Studios, 2010)
• “Posthumous Zone” by E.S. Posthumous (NFL on CBS, 2003-present, CBS).
• “Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 (Raindrop)” by Frederic Chopin, 1839.
• “Roundball Rock” by John Tesh (NBA on NBC, 1990-present, NBC/Peacock).

Gavin Newsom will be saying "Sayonara!" soon, so we gotta find his replacement. There are a lot of choices. Are any of them good? Well....

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Someone tried to shoot President Trump... AGAIN! And everyone just nodded off it feels like. Travis & Tom talk about why people either don't care or are conspiratorial about it.

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