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Join Ken Thompson for The Mad Moderate Podcast (aka The Mad Mod Pod), where he offers a unique and fresh take on the absolute insanity happening in the United States and around the world right now.

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The Mad Mod Pod - Episode 4, Part 2 - The Iran War has exposed how far behind we are on drone tech. 17.06.2026 1:21:19

Today on Part 2 of the fourth episode of The Mad Mod Pod with Ken Thompson, we cover how much we ARE NOT properly updating our military stance, and the Iran War just gave us a great display of how far behind we are. We discuss how Ukraine has changed the nature of warfare against Russia with millions of drones, despite having a small fraction of our resources, yet we have done very little to match...

The Mad Mod Pod - Episode 4, Part 1 (Trump caused the Iran war and he can't spin his way out of it.) 20.05.2026 51:51

Today on the fourth episode of The Mad Mod Pod with Ken Thompson, we cover how Trump got us into another Middle Eastern war, how Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a quagmire of Trump's own making, and how we have been depleting our munitions for a war we didn't even plan to fight. A Ken Thompson Media Production. All rights reserved.

The Mad Mod Pod - Episode 3 (America's immigration system is broken because MAGA Republicans want it to be broken.) 16.03.2026 1:15:28

Today on the third episode of The Mad Mod Pod with Ken Thompson, we cover how inevitable it was that the campaign promise of mass deportations carried out under a second Trump term would be unlawful in practice and fascist in its enforcement, along with Trump's other fascist desires like trying to nationalize and corrupt our democratic elections in order to avoid facing any accountability. We...

The Mad Mod Pod - Episode 2 (The government shutdown and saving ignorant voters from themselves.) 03.11.2025 1:22:46

Today on the second episode of The Mad Mod Pod with Ken Thompson, we cover some of what makes the issue of affordable healthcare and the ACA tax subsidies a worthy and useful fight for Democrats, all as Republicans and Russell Vought try to gut the Executive Branch during the shutdown. We also discuss why any real attempt to negotiate with today's MAGA Republicans is a fool's errand, becau...

The Mad Mod Pod - Episode 1 11.10.2025 48:04

Today on the debut episode of The Mad Mod Pod, we cover a recap of Trump's last 3 months of his first time, why it matters as it relates to where we are now, and the prosecutions that have started against Trump's perceived enemies. The DOJ’s own IG Report on January 6thhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a5025b1-65c8-4bd6-a869-f7f5a612fc79.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_2 A Ken Thompson M...