It's midterm time. You know what that means? SO! MANY! EMBARRASSING! COMMERCIALS! Travis provides Tom with a sample of them from the boring to the bizarre!

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Bombing American cities? Live-streamed executions? Halloween monsters giving saving accounts to children? Boy it has been a strange week! At least for Travis, the Dodgers are in the NLCS again.

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Vince McMahon's wife has decided that your college major isn't worth receiving loan money... and she can decide that for some reason.

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The law doesn't matter. The rich always get their way. And Hollywood is about to get even smaller. The Paramount/Warner Bros. Skydance merger is going to happen after all and Travis is crashing out about it.

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An Ivy League school has a most heinous scandal involving a most heinous crime... and now it's a culture war topic because that's America today. In a world that seems designed to sympathize with sex criminals, Tom & Travis choose to instead ask why sex criminals choose to not be better people.

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Originally recorded December 25, 2025.

Tom is a fan of a lot of sports teams who have been bad lately - something a Dodger fan like Travis has difficulty relating to. What is that like?

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This is what happens to our show when we need a vacation - a directionless drone on whatever is happening. Is this one of our worst episodes? Maybe. Don't worry, we're taking the month off. Hopefully, we're get it together afterwords.

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So many food recalls. So many food-borne illnesses. Travis and Tom talk about how maybe having an anti-vax, alternative medicine wacko who once had a worm in his brain run the government's department that oversees food safety isn't the best idea.

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