The Dude Man Podcast

The Dudes open on Jeff Bezos’s moon plan. In his October 7 Fox News interview with Bret Baier, Bezos said the U.S. has to beat China and put humans on the moon by 2028 — not a visit-and-leave, but “a real sustainable lunar base.” He’s put $28 billion into Blue Origin. New Glenn targets a December return to flight. That turns into the older argument: if we can barely keep a trailer standing in a Ch...

The Dudes open on the concert ticket racket — dynamic pricing and the gap between face value and what a seat costs — that turns into John Mellencamp walking off stage in Toledo. Crowd wanted songs. He wanted etiquette and a political detour. He threatened to cut ten songs and left. Same tour he’s been using “Pink Houses” to call the Gulf of America rename a “stupid fucking idea.” Later, the fellas...

The Dudes open on Trump’s MAGA Inc. finally unloading the war chest. The super PAC and its affiliates have already spent over $200 million this cycle, with another wave reserved in the final weeks. Focus is on Senate holds in Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Michigan, and Texas, plus selective House races. No Going Back PAC is doing the heavy lifting. That turns into the theory that some of the same money, or...

The Dudes open on the Chicago buzz around the Bears–Packers rivalry that turned into a 31-7 Lambeau loss on Sunday.  Later, the fellas run the Ditka-era tape: Aliquippa to Pitt, the mustache, the temper, the clashes with McMahon and Buddy Ryan, Walter Payton, the Super Bowl Shuffle. From there they break down how legacy media handled the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack. Some outlet...

The Dudes open on Bob Dylan before he was Bob Dylan. Robert Allen Zimmerman, born May 24, 1941, in Duluth. Father Abe, mother Beatty. Grandparents out of Odessa on one side, Lithuania on the other. Bar mitzvah at Agudas Achim in Hibbing, summers at Herzl Camp. A Christian stretch, then back toward Chabad. That turns into Theo Von’s on-ramp: Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, 19, on MTV’s Road R...

The Dudes open on new music from Chuck Timely — which is Role Model, Tucker Pillsbury, in a time-traveling alter ego.  Later, the fellas dissect the Fort Dix report on Sean “Diddy” Combs. Inmate 37452-054, 50-month sentence, low-security New Jersey. Four men from his unit told NBC he pays thousands a month into other commissary accounts for cooks, laundry, a made bed, a cleaned shower, and Chinese...

The Dudes open on a Survey Center on American Life brief that Frank Luntz blasted out: 66 percent of Democratic women ages 18 to 29 say the problems women face are due “a great deal” to the behavior of men. Same question, Republican women that age: 18 percent. The gap shrinks with age and never closes. Daniel Cox at AEI calls the book Generation Uncoupled. That turns into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...

The Dudes open on Frank’s birthday week, which was supposed to end at Harland Williams. The comic was at Boulder Theater on October 2. Gametime had the seats confirmed. Then the app reneged — tickets that were bought, shown as locked, and gone before the lights went down. That turns into the larger question of who actually owns a ticket once a reseller says you’re in: Gametime, the venue, or the s...

The Dudes open on the neocon case for Ukraine’s dirt. Lithium, titanium, graphite, rare earths — Kyiv has claimed roughly 5 percent of the world’s critical raw materials, a chunk of it already under Russian control. Trump sold the U.S.–Ukraine minerals framework as payback for wartime aid and a reconstruction fund; the fellas ask who actually ends up holding the offtake. That turns into Greenland....

The Dudes open on streamflation: too many apps, too many thumbnails, nothing you actually finish. Households stacking 10-plus services, $70 a month, 39% of Americans canceled something in the last six months. Gen Z rewatches old shows to dodge the scroll. That turns into the darker question — when the feed is this loud, who plants the next story. The guys walk the rumor that a false flag is being...

The Dudes open on the real genesis of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” That turns into a larger conversation about how Mike Tyson put the song back in the bloodstream: The Hangover, 2009, air-drumming the fill in a Vegas suite. Rolling Stone called it the moment the fill went immortal.  Later, the fellas deep-dive a stack of half-forgotten Hollywood titles and land on Michael Douglas in Joel Sc...

The Dudes open on Macklemore announcing a Free Palestine Tour after getting cut from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour. MetLife, “Free Palestine,” “Hind’s Hall,” NFL stadiums blinking, openers walking, Sheeran blaming promoters. Ten days later: Dublin 3Arena Oct. 26, Paris Accor Arena the 29th, London’s OVO Arena Wembley the 30th, U.S. dates coming, tickets Sept. 30. Proceeds to Gaza Soup Kitchen, Anera, PCR...

Mike and Frank open the show on why losing weight in Chicago feels impossible — deep-dish, late nights, and a city that treats “just walk more” like a personality. That turns into a bigger rant on groceries sealed in plastic, microplastics, and whether the packaging is doing as much damage as the food. Later, licensed Chicago plumber Mike walks through the chaos Indian restaurants inflict on pipes...

The Dudes open the show on the sudden lack of chemtrails over Tel Aviv — empty skies that don’t match the usual spray pattern — and that kicks off a larger conversation about Tom Cruise’s American Made, the Barry Seal story Hollywood sold as a wild caper. The real thread is the CIA pipeline: guns south to the Contras, cocaine north from the Medellín cartel, Mena, Arkansas as the hub, and Iran-Cont...

The Dudes kick things off with Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s growing stack of AI drone bets — Powerus, Unusual Machines, XTEND — and how those companies keep lining up next to Pentagon contracts. That turns into a larger conversation about Ukraine’s record drone swarm on Moscow: hundreds of aircraft, the Kapotnya oil refinery on fire, two dead in the Moscow region, and why long-range cheap dro...

The Dudes open the show on what it actually costs to see live music in Colorado—Ticketmaster fees, Ball Arena get-in prices, and whether a night out still makes sense. Later, the fellas break down the Loop Tour blowup. Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium (Sept. 4–5), yelled “Free Palestine,” and played “Hind’s Hall.” Patriots owner Robert Kraft barred him from Gillette Stadium, cit...

Jake Tapper is suddenly talking like a 9/11 commission on COVID would be a good idea — after years of the same media machine treating lockdowns, school closures, and “overreaction” talk as fringe. The Dudes kick things off with Tapper’s fly-fishing softball with Gavin Newsom, the hindsight tour on beaches, Purell & schools and why a CNN anchor calling for accountability now still sounds a lot...

The Dudes kick things off with Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster in Thor: Ragnarok—the gold robe, the Sakaar chaos, and why that performance still lives rent-free—then the conversation slams into President Trump’s Friday announcement of a U.S.–Denmark–Greenland Arctic security deal. Trump is calling it “permanent control” over Greenland’s security and “all other needs,” with a ban on adversary bases and...

The Dudes kick it off with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani smiling and hugging it out at the 25th anniversary 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — while families were still reading the names. Was it a greeting, a laugh, or just another four-second clip the internet turned into a national argument? Mike and Frank walk through the footage, the 110,000-signature petition tel...

Mike and Frank open the show on the fallout from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial in Plymouth, Massachusetts — the Massachusetts nurse accused of strangling her three children, the postpartum-psychosis defense, seven days of deadlock, and the one holdout juror who would not fold. The Dudes walk through what that jury room reportedly looked like: pressure on the lone standout, the judge’s Churchill spee...

The Dudes kick things off with Frank’s trip home to Chicago and the eternal flyer argument: is Midway Airport actually easier than O’Hare? That Chicago airport rant rolls straight into a blow-by-blow on encountering racist TSA workers at Midway. Later, the fellas dissect AI CEOs suddenly calling for safety measures to dodge a potential AI apocalypse — the same industry building the thing now askin...

Mike and Frank open on Peter Jackson’s runtime problem: how the Fellowship, Two Towers, and Return of the King trilogy turned movie night into a three-hour commitment and why that still matters when a political meeting treats procedure like scripture. From there they walk through the Chicago DSA / Socialism 2026 gathering — Hasan Piker on the bill, hotel-worker protests outside the Hyatt, mask man...

The Dudes open the show on the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University — the “Freedom Built to Last” memorial, campus shutdown, protests and lookalike stunts — and that conversation opens a wider lane into the Oklahoma City bombing, official stories and what anniversaries do to a country’s memory. Later, the fellas dissect the fights around the 25th anniversa...

The Dudes open the show on the lack of diversity on Denver’s highways — what Frank actually sees on I-25 and I-70 — and that conversation rolls straight into Mike’s hard-earned lesson for young men: how to buy a used truck without getting smoked on price, rust, miles or a lemon with a fresh wax job.  Later, the fellas dissect Kamala Harris’s political rise and the DEI-hiring argument that still fo...

Mike and Frank open the show on the campaign to pull women out of political power — a conversation that slams into the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Nicole Brown Simpson and the media’s favorite charge of White Male Supremacy. Later, the fellas dissect what President Trump’s immigration crackdown is actually doing to Home Depot parking lots and day-labor corners, then break down the long tail of Joe...