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Ray Kump

Ray Kump makes comedy and chaos out of current events and culture.

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S1 · E272
Yesterday · 1 hr 5 min
Ep. 272 DOWN BAD ECONOMICS
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray discusses AI desperation pricing, making friends as an adult, and field trips to data centers.
S1 · E271
October 6 · 1 hr
Ep. 271 YOUR OPTIONS ARE LIMITED
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray explores the remaining career options for your children as AI threatens to make the traditional paths to success obsolete.
S1 · E270
September 21 · 1 hr 6 min
Ep. 270 WHY YOU CAN'T WIN
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray welcomes the Paul brothers to the military high command, questions Trump’s plans to rebrand artificial intelligence, and examines the outrage over Sydney Sweeney’s gambling ad.
S1 · E269
September 14 · 1 hr 4 min
Ep. 269 WE LOST THE WAR
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray questions the AI doomsday narrative being pushed by Silicon Valley, speculates about their ulterior motives, and contemplates how to sell out humanity and side with the machines.
S1 · E268
September 7 · 1 hr 3 min
Ep. 268 NEVER FORGET WHAT'S COMING
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray celebrates Labor Day with plane crashes, 25 years of never forgetting, and the promise of being replaced by AI. Plus, Mamdani’s 9/11 controversy, LEGO, Macaroni Salad, and much more.
S1 · E267
August 24 · 1 hr 1 min
Ep. 267 PRINCE HARRY’S COUP D’ÉTAT
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are returning to Britain after six years in California, and Ray analyzes the possibility that Harry is secretly planning a coup to seize the throne.
S1 · E266
August 17 · 58 min
Ep. 266 Trump's War Slaves
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. President Trump says the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record deployment was “not nearly long enough,” as sailors’ families report supply problems, broken toilets and serious mental-health concerns. Ray examines what the crisis reveals about the Iran war, military logistics and treating American troops as disposable.
S1 · E265
August 10 · 1 hr 1 min
Ep. 265 We Had One Job
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. America spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on its military, and somehow the Pentagon is warning that critical weapons stockpiles are running dangerously low. Ray investigates where the missiles went, why StarCraft should run the military, and much more.
S1 · E264
July 27 · 48 min
Ep. 264 GO BIG OR GO HOME
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray discusses Iranian reports of an oil tanker explosion in the Strait of Hormuz, the war with Iran, the U.S.-Saudi nuclear agreement, Zohran Mamdani and Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Tate brothers’ extradition case. He also talks about the cost of the war, masculinity, charity, housing and community.
S1 · E263
July 20 · 53 min
Ep. 263 Trump Sells Wall Street Direct Access
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about Trump Media selling Wall Street firms faster access to Truth Social posts, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taco Bell lettuce, nationwide protests against AI data centers, and new betting markets for clinical trials and FDA decisions.
S1 · E262
July 13 · 54 min
Ep. 262 WHO KILLED LINDSEY GRAHAM?
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Trump threatens to destroy Iran if he’s assassinated, Lindsey Graham dies after touring a Ukrainian drone factory, and Mitch McConnell finally provides proof of life. Ray also talks about the war restarting in Hormuz, America’s dwindling supply of political talent, and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
S1 · E261
July 6 · 52 min
Ep. 261 Trump Fixed The World Cup
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray covers the deadly New York heat dome, the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding at Madison Square Garden, Paul McCartney as elite wedding entertainment, Trump intervening in the World Cup red-card scandal, America’s 250th birthday, Europe breaking from U.S. influence, the return of communism as a political boogeyman, Trump’s money machine, AI job panic, and why corruption might be the last real American thrill.
S1 · E260
June 29 · 50 min
Ep. 260 The Cost of Memory
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. AI was supposed to make life easier, but now it’s driving up the price of memory, computers, gaming gear, and everything else with a chip in it. Ray looks at Apple’s price hikes, the AI memory boom, Micron, data centers, smart products, America’s failing infrastructure, nuclear panic, Wimbledon, and why the machines may eventually charge you to remember your own life.
S1 · E259
June 22 · 54 min
Ep. 259 The Catholic Bomb
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about the start of summer, the Strait of Hormuz, gas prices, the Washington Reflecting Pool, a strange Saddam Hussein book order, Pope Leo’s warnings about AI, Catholic power politics, He-Man, the World Cup, grilling, summer projects, giant ant movies, and The Butterfly Effect.
S1 · E258
June 15 · 1 hr
Ep. 258 Build Your Own Prison
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray watches America build its own cage: UFC on the White House lawn, World Cup buses burning after the Knicks win, Trump reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, FISA warrant theater, digital prisons, sports riots, and whatever dignity is left.
S1 · E257
June 8 · 56 min
Ep. 257 YOU WON'T OWN YOUR LIFE
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about Trump’s UFC event, New York’s manhole mystery, the push to make you rent forever, SpaceX, Scott Pelley, data center tombs, and much more.
S1 · E256
June 1 · 59 min
Ep. 256 AMERICA IS PIVOTING
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray talks about Peter Thiel relocating his family to Argentina, the Freedom 250 concert pivoting to an “America Is Back” rally, the Kennedy Center fight, a proposed $250 Trump bill, Nancy Mace on property taxes for senior homeowners, Mike Pence criticizing Trump, the Iran deal that always seems three days away, Pam Bondi’s Epstein files testimony, Palantir, AI war, and billionaire escape plans.
S1 · E255
May 25 · 1 hr 4 min
Ep. 255 PRICED OUT OF LIVING
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week. Ray reacts to Kevin O’Leary’s viral $28 lunch advice, the rise of financial scold content from Caleb Hammer and Dave Ramsey, 61% of Americans cutting back on groceries, Trump’s Iran/Hormuz deal drama, rising Treasury yields, AI job destruction, and the emerging future where the only thing America can still produce is shame.
S1 · E254
May 18 · 52 min
Ep. 254 China Can Have It
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week Ray covers Trump’s trip to China, the closed Strait of Hormuz, rising inflation, AI chips, Taiwan, fake data centers, LinkedIn layoffs, IRL streamers, and the future of war.
S1 · E253
May 11 · 1 hr 2 min
Ep. 253 This Doesn't Make Sense
https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week In this episode, Ray breaks down the cruise ship viral outbreak, the disappointing Pentagon UFO document dump, and the rising geopolitical tension between Donald Trump and the Pope. Plus, a look at the U.S. revoking passports for unpaid child support, the absurdity of gerrymandered voting maps, and the reality of congressional insider trading. Nothing works here, but at least we still have Taco Bell and pills.

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