The Dangerous Ones

JD Vance has a message for voters ahead of the midterms: give Republicans another chance and another couple of years. Jim and Nick listen to Vance make the case, ask what exactly he thinks deserves a second chance, and work through the very strange comedy ecosystem developing around the vice president, from campaign-rally awkwardness to his apparently permanent inability to escape couch jokes. The...

Lauren Boebert is denying new allegations involving congressional staffers, and Jim and Nick have arrived with jokes and an urgent recommendation: somebody call HR. The allegations remain unproven. Our lack of professional restraint is extensively documented. The Dangerous Ones takes on Boebert's public moralizing, debuts a musical salute to MAGA hypocrisy, and counts down five signs your congress...

Political parody songs take on Donald Trump, MAGA, artificial intelligence, Jeffrey Epstein and one legendary Bill O'Reilly meltdown. Jim, Tiffany and Nick react to a Trump-inspired "9 to 5," an AI apocalypse version of "American Pie," a hilariously accurate Trump performance of "The Black Parade," and a dramatic musical reinvention of "We'll do it live." Then "Blue's Clues" receives a Jeffrey Eps...

Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate after three months away, and the internet immediately turned his comeback into a savage political-comedy roast. The Dangerous Ones react to McConnell's return footage, the exploding memes, Satan's message, a deeply suspicious medical update, and the question everyone is asking: should he still be casting Senate votes? McConnell's 92-day absence generated seri...

It is Time For Meme Wars! The hosts break down the latest viral political memes mocking Trump and Biden. We are taking a look at the most brutal content circulating online right now, specifically focusing on the recent political memes that have everyone talking. From the latest jabs at Donald Trump to reactions surrounding Joe Biden at the 9/11 memorial, we provide the full context on what is happ...

The Dangerous Ones break down the latest ProPublica report on the Donald Trump Jr wedding and the memes following it. We examine the news headlines surrounding the recent investigation into the event. The hosts analyze the details from the ProPublica report to give you the full context on what happened behind the scenes. The show also highlights the brutal political memes circulating online right...

Donald Trump appeared to nod off during a 9/11 memorial ceremony, giving the man behind "Sleepy Joe" a brand-new nickname. Jim, Tiffany, and Nick discuss the hypocrisy, Trump's age, Melania's thousand-yard stare, and whether America needs a mandatory retirement age for presidents. Then the conversation turns to Trump's promise of a $5,000 "dividend" if Republicans win the midterms. Who would pay f...

TDO on Really American: This week, America somehow became a conversation about Mitch McConnell's hospital update, surveillance cameras that feel like they belong in a dystopian sitcom, and a proposal to rename New Mexico "New America." Jim, Tiffany, and Nick are trying to keep up, but mostly they are trying to laugh before the next completely insane headline hits. They also talk privacy, instituti...

The people building AI are supposed to understand it better than the rest of us. So when one of them quits and warns that humanity could be in danger, "have you tried turning it off and back on?" suddenly feels inadequate. Nick Knudsen takes a serious look at former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warning, his exchange with Anderson Cooper, and Evan Hubinger's concerns about future s...

AI video is getting alarmingly good, which means political satire is entering a completely new and deeply weird era. Nick digs into a batch of Trump-focused AI parodies, from Space Force absurdity to Lake America, and asks the question we are all asking: how the hell is this stuff already this convincing? It is funny, unsettling, and a reminder that reality now has to compete with people who can m...

Donald Trump built himself a giant midterm convention in Dallas. Small problem: some of the Republicans who actually need to win elections have somewhere else to be. Jim, Tiffany and the crew count down the Top 10 excuses Republicans might use to avoid Trumpapalooza, while digging into the real political story underneath the jokes. Vulnerable candidates are trying to survive competitive races, Tru...

Donald Trump changed his hair. Unfortunately, that was not the change America was hoping for. Jim, Tiffany and Nick spend another week trying to maintain their sanity inside America's longest and most exhausting bad relationship. They get into Trump, MAGA, Epstein, the economy, Mitch McConnell and why living through this administration increasingly feels like secretly saving money until you can fi...

Gloria Steinem changed America, but the fight she helped lead is nowhere near finished. We remember the feminist icon by confronting how women's rights, misogyny and the modern manosphere collide today. Jim, Tiffany and Nick celebrate Steinem's extraordinary legacy through political comedy, deeply personal stories and one painfully revealing trip through the internet's gender-war pipeline. From wo...

Donald Trump tried to rename Lake Ontario and somehow gave MapQuest the comeback story of the year. Yes, MapQuest. The website that once gave your parents 14 printed pages of directions to Applebee's. Jim, Tiffany, and Nick unpack how the forgotten navigation company refused to follow Google and Apple, developed an unexpectedly savage personality, and became an accidental resistance hero. Then the...

See if your SSN is for sale right now. My sponsor Cloaked will tell you for free in 2 seconds here: https://cloaked.com/dangerousones Donald Trump tried to troll Canada, and the internet responded with an absolutely ridiculous wave of political comedy. After Trump's latest fight with Canada and his push to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America," Jim, Tiffany and Nick dive into the memes, armed geese,...

A San Diego activist tried making reasoned arguments. City Hall barely blinked. So Anthony Ralphs put on a Darth Vader helmet and calmly explained why the Empire loves Flock surveillance cameras. Suddenly, millions of people were listening. Jim, Tiffany, and Nick play Ralphs' testimony and dig into the serious issue beneath the comedy: automated license plate readers, government surveillance, priv...

A California man drove across the country with a homemade guillotine in his pickup truck, parked near the U.S. Capitol, and told the world it was "strictly for self-defense." That sentence alone should tell you how well America is doing. Jim, Tiffany, and Nick unpack Philan-Tam-Duy Le's extraordinary political protest, his arrest by Capitol Police, and the explanation that somehow makes everything...

Trump managed to cram Canada, Iran, rising prices, Epstein, Natalie Harp and Stephen Miller into one spectacularly exhausting political week. So naturally, Jim, Tiffany and Nick cope the healthy American way: jokes. This episode moves through the chaos surrounding Trump and MAGA, the escalating fight with Canada, the political anxiety heading toward the midterms, and why the internet remains one o...

After years of telling Democrats not to get comfortable, Nick has a deeply unfamiliar message today: you are allowed to feel a little optimistic. Harry Enten's latest analysis puts a Democratic sweep of the House and Senate as the single most likely individual midterm scenario, while traditionally Republican territory like Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Alaska has become increasingly competitive. Nick brea...

The news is depressing as hell, so Nick did the sensible thing: he stopped reading it and started watching comedians roast MAGA. This week, stand-up comics tackle Trump worship, Christian nationalism, climate-change denial, billionaire AI panic, Gen Z and the bizarre political contradictions that somehow qualify as everyday life in America. Drew Dunn wonders what would happen if Jesus talked like...

Donald Trump's relationship with aide Natalie Harp has somehow become stranger than anything a soap-opera writer could pitch with a straight face. Jim, Tiffany and Nick dig into Harp's intensely personal letters to Trump, her role as his infamous "human printer," and why the whole thing has transformed into political daytime television. We also dive into the exploding world of one-minute microdram...

Natalie Harp has gone from an aide most Americans have never heard of to one of the strangest stories surrounding Donald Trump's second presidency. Jim, Tiffany and Nick dig into who Harp is, how she became one of Trump's closest assistants, why she is known as the "human printer," the unusually personal letters she reportedly wrote him, and why one passing remark from Sen. Jon Ossoff sent Trump's...

At some point, "political disagreement" stops adequately describing what the hell we are watching. Jim, Tiffany and Nick dig into MAGA loyalty, gullibility and the increasingly strange culture surrounding Trump-era politics. Trump supporters struggle with basic follow-up questions, the conversation turns to Andrew Tate and the young men who idolize him, Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Vi...

Republicans running for office have a new campaign problem: the internet has jokes, and apparently nobody is supervising it. Jim, Tiffany and Nick dig into Sean Duffy's 26-year-old son-in-law Michael Alfonso winning the Republican primary in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District, the nepotism conversation surrounding his run, and some absolutely savage reactions from the comment section. Then it'...