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Feb 12, 2024 · 31 min
Do Ill-Mannered Children of Diplomats Enjoy Immunity from Criminal Prosecution? . . . Should the Omaha Bugle Purchase the Nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)?
Send us Fan Mail Adam and Jeff delve into the vexing questions that arise when a spoiled diplomat's son who runs over a police officer directing traffic claims diplomatic immunity. Jeff offers a scintillating history of the concept of diplomatic immunity--pointing out that it was devised to enable representatives of warring nations to confer with each other without fear of death (most of the time). Adam points out that there is a sort of sliding scale of immunity from prosecution in the diplomatic world--ambassadors not only get to attend fancy parties but they are often immune from lawsuits or searches or even having their cars towed due to parking violations. Lower level staff members are not so fortunate and may risk prosecution for comparatively minor offenses. Snotty children of diplomats who intentionally run their motorcycles into police officers are apparently offered no immunity under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and may be prosecuted for such crimes or, at the very least, declared persona non grata, and tossed out of the United States. This discussion of diplomatic immunity causes Jeff and Adam to wonder how they might obtain diplomatic immunity due to their extensive travels around the world and their desire to avoid being prosecuted for "unfortunate incidents' that sometimes arise when they drink too much in a pub. Jeff points out that the Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust, which is always on the look out for projects that can help it become "too big to fail" in a short amount of time, might want to help by permitting Adam and Jeff to purchase a country such as Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) so that they could appoint themselves roving ambassadors and thereby avoid possible jail sentences in any countries in which the aforementioned "unfortunate incidents" occur.
Feb 8, 2024 · 37 min
Is the Quality of Decision-Making Inversely Related to the Number of Participants With Advanced Degrees? . . . How Might Bud Lite Have Reached A Wider Audience Without Setting Off a Nationwide Boycott?
Send us Fan Mail Due to the numerous mishaps that occur both in government and corporate America, Adam and Jeff wonder if the problem is due to the unbridled arrogance of many in the "credentialed class"--those individuals possessing advanced degrees from overpriced universities. Indeed, Jeff offers a proposition that the quality of the decision-making in any large organization is inversely related to the number of credentialed individuals participating in that process--which he is offering to the world of knowledge free of charge. Adam talks about the Bud Lite controversy in which a transgender spokesperson was hired to pitch Bud Lite to a younger, more inclusive audience due in large part to company concerns that its traditional blue collar customers were dying off. But Jeff and Adam wonder why Bud Lite, given its enormous marketing division, did not reach out to a much wider, more inclusive audience such as women in general. Although some women already drink Bud Lite, Adam thinks it would have made far more sense to have a prominent female such as Taylor Swift (up-and-coming singer-songwriter) or even Dr. Jill Biden (EdD University of Delaware at Newark. Topic: Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs) do commercials showing either one of them chugging a mug of Bud Lite. Adam then recounts a number of other corporate marketing boondoggles in the past before switching to one of the most famous marketing disasters of all time--the reformulation of Coca Cola as a sweeter Pepsi-like product known as New Coke. Not only did the Coca Cola Company alienate many of its diehard customers by removing its traditional Coca Cola product from grocery store shelves for several months but it suffered a significant drop in sales due to nationwide boycotts.
Jan 30, 2024 · 32 min
President Biden's Continuing Efforts to Enforce Borders Everywhere Else Except in the United States
Send us Fan Mail President Biden continues to set dubious records with the recent report that the Border Patrol nabbed more than 250,000 illegal migrants trying to enter the United States along the pretend southern border in December 2023 alone. Adam and Jeff talk about the so-called $100 billion proposal to link a new "border security" bill with continued funding for Ukraine and Israel; these funds were apparently found in a couch in the west wing of the White House by the cleaning crew and so should not cause any concern to the three people in Washington, D.C., who still think that federal budgets should be balanced. Unfortunately, the "border security" bill does little more than to simply authorize the flow of illegal migrants to the United States, giving visas to almost anyone who can breathe and continuing to provide tax-payer funded vacations across the United States to anyone who promises that they will show up for an asylum hearing in the next ten years or so. Adam and Jeff point out that they are not anti-immigration but are certainly opposed to unfettered mass migration. Instead they support a point system used by many other countries in which potential applicants are ranked in terms of educational and critical skills so that only the best and the brightest are permitted entry. They also applaud Governor Abbot of Texas who has taken it upon himself to do everything he can to defend Texas from this illegal invasion of millions of persons while fighting a federal government that seems to have no interest in protecting its own citizenry. Jeff points out that the Great Wall of China provides an example of the way in which a big border wall can also be a profitable tourist attraction and suggests that the funding could come from the ever-growing Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust.
Jan 29, 2024 · 29 min
Kyte Baby Company Shows How Not to Treat An Employee. . . . Bud Lite's Search for the Non-Existent Customer
Send us Fan Mail Noted baby care experts Adam and Jeff weigh in on the Kyte Baby controversy in which an employee with a 22-week-old baby in NICU sought to work remotely in order to care for her baby but was told that her services would no longer be needed by the CEO. The CEO offered two apologies on Tik Tok after news of the firing went viral and, in the process, managed to anger mothers of young children throughout the country who called for a boycott of the company's products. Adam and Jeff point out that consumer boycotts have become powerful weapons that disaffected consumers can use to change corporate policies as shown by the Bud Lite fiasco in which a transgender individual was hired as a spokesperson to market Bud Lite to a younger, hipper audience that indulges in wine spritzers and hard ciders. In short, Bud Lite essentially ignored its traditional older blue collar consumers. This ham-fisted marketing approach also prompted a nationwide boycott and forced Bud Lite to cancel its marketing program altogether after the value of the parent company dropped by some $40 billion. Instead Bud Lite hurriedly roll out ads featuring lots of men carrying guns and driving fast cars (none of whom was shown taking a bubble bath while drinking a beer), prompting Adam and Jeff to volunteer to advise any company (for a hefty fee) about any future marketing campaigns beforehand so these companies can avoid shooting themselves in the foot.
Jan 22, 2024 · 23 min
Will Taylor Swift be the New Face of the Pentagon? . . . The Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust Considers New and Exciting Ventures
Send us Fan Mail Although still waiting for their nomination for the Nobel Prize in Economics to be announced, Adam and Jeff dismiss reports that the Pentagon has hired Taylor Swift to serve as a covert political operative. Aside from the fact that the story came from arch-rival Fox News which continues to flail away in a jealous rage at the ascending Omaha Bugle, neither Adam nor Jeff can understand why anyone with the personal wealth and sterling brand of an entertainer like Taylor Swift would become involved in a grubby political operation. Adam and Jeff also discuss whether she or anyone else can speak with credibility on any issue across the board because everyone has their own areas of expertise. Once you decide to venture outside of your area of knowledge, then your statements do not carry much weight and your voice ceases to be authentic--even though Adam and Jeff have never let that concern get in the way of their podcasts. Even so, a good illustration of this limitation occurs when celebrities endorse products about which they have no actual understanding such as cryptocurrencies. Jeff also provides an update as to some of the new applicants seeking loans from the rapidly-growing Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust, one of the most interest ing of which is an interactive zoo in which visitors enjoy unprecedented "hands-on" experiences with dangerous animals. Hence, this new kind of zoo will feature exhibits that will allow tourists draped in bloody cuts of meat to swim with man-eating sharks or enable visitors to pet venomous snakes or even to wrestle grizzly bears.
Jan 15, 2024 · 45 min
The Omaha Bugle Interviews Dr. Fuxian Xi About the Collapse of China's Population
Send us Fan Mail In an unusual departure from the usual format of Shakespearean prose and grade-school humor, Adam and Jeff talk with Dr. Fuxian Yi about his predictions that China will not be able to overtake the United States as the leading economic global power due to its rapidly ageing population. Having polished up his command of the English language with 4 lessons from a computerized language course, Jeff reads Dr. Xi's written responses to Jeff's previously submitted questions about China's future. In short, Dr. Xi predicts that China's population will decline from almost 1.4 billion now to less than 400 million by the year 2100--thus calling into question how China can double or triple its GDP over the next few decades when there will be increasingly fewer people to work in its factories or purchase homes, appliances, cars and the complete works of the Omaha Bugle. As a result, Dr. Xi predicts that China will go the way of Japan and see its GDP and its population steadily fall. Over time, China will likely cease to be the ascendant superpower that it has so desperately sought to be for the past four decades and instead be relegated to the middle ranks of world powers. Dr. Xi also points out that few efforts to encourage Chinese couples to have more children have been successful--due in large part to the fact that any government incentives such as subsidized child-care amount to little more than a drop in the bucket when compared to the costs of raising a child to adulthood.
Jan 6, 2024 · 49 min
The Omaha Bugle Tours the World of Architecture With Noted Architectural Designer Richard Forbes
Send us Fan Mail Adam and Jeff infuse a little culture into the Omaha Bugle by talking with Virginia-based architect Richard Forbes, well-known designer to the stars. In their usual hard-hitting style that has endeared them to millions of listeners, Adam and Jeff ask Richard if he is related to the publisher Steve Forbes. They also talk about the ways in which architects are trained and how they differ from engineers, pointing out that both carry a heavy burden because one miscalculation can mean the difference between a building that stands for hundreds of years and one that collapses the following weekend and results in all of the underlings not related to the CEO being fired. Richard recalls some of his more interesting jobs for his wealthier (and, sometimes, more eccentric) clients. Richard also talks about the clients who ask about restoring colonial-era properties to their original grandeur, unaware of the fact that this means living in candle-lit homes lacking electricity or plumbing which can burn down in a matter of minutes. Richard does provide an update on the Leaning Tower of Pisa which has apparently been stabilized, pointing out that the engineers on that job never intended to straighten the Tower up because that would have ruined the Pisa tourist trade. Richard also offers his views as to why homes are so expensive and possible ways that costs for new home-buyers can be cut--aside from moving back in with Mom and Dad. Finally, Jeff asks Richard to discuss how medieval builders managed to construct the Cathedral of Notre Dame, given the absence of cranes or mechanized equipment of any kind. He also asks Richard's advice as to how best to proceed in building a full-scale replica of the Cathedral of Notre Dame on his front lawn--due to his concerns about the bossy homeowners' association even though there is nothing in the documents that prohibits the construction of a gothic cathedral.
Dec 30, 2023 · 25 min
Extrapolations and Projections and Delusions About China's Economic Growth. . . . How Can China's Economy Continue to Grow While Its Population Continues to Shrink?
Send us Fan Mail In preparing for their annual reverse New Year's Eve party at the Omaha Bugle in which the consumption of champagne begins three days before the ball drops in Times Square and ends exactly at midnight on New Year's Eve with a traditional stomach pumping at the local hospital, Adam and Jeff consider the boasts of the Chinese Communist Party that it will soon bury the United States based upon China's long-term double-digit economic growth rate. They point out that China, which has enjoyed an average 10 percent annual growth rate in GDP for more than three decades, has stumbled in recent years with its published growth rate barely above 2 to 3 percent per year. Leaving aside whether these government statistics are even accurate, Jeff criticizes the so-called "declinists" who have almost gleefully projected that China's GDP would continue to grow at double digit-rates for the foreseeable future, thus setting it up to displace the United States as (to use the language embedded in today's political science scholarly literature) the "numero uno bandito" in the global economic system. He characterizes the analysis of the declinists--who are among the most dour people you could ever meet--as being inadequate at best because their projections are nothng more than straight-lines extending outward for decades. Unfortunately, the declinists (who would make misery expert Robert Malthus, by comparison, appear as enthusiastic as a cruise ship activities director) fail to take into account the fact that the Chinese population is projected to drop by at least half and perhaps as much as two-thirds by the end of the century--thus cutting severely both the number of workers available to produce all of this stuff and the number of consumers able to buy all of this stuff. In short, these projections are delusional fantasies and China's economy will likely contract severely over the next several decades because there will not be enough people around to buy all the goods that it would need to make in order to overtake the economy of the United States.
Dec 20, 2023 · 27 min
Hurray! The United States is No. 1 in Global Debt. . . . Is the Golden Debt Bubble About to Burst?
Send us Fan Mail Having both dug themselves out of various piles of consumer debt over the years, credit experts Adam and Jeff turn their attention to the massive $97 trillion in debt weighing down the global economy. Adam points out that even though the United States has 1/3 of the world's debt totaling $33 trillion, it has accumulated most of this debt over the past four decades. Jeff believes that our policymakers are suffering from "dissonance" in that they cannot comprehend the scope of the debt burdening the country and so they are unable to do anything to rein it in. Jeff's alternative theory is that those very same policymakers are utter morons who do not seem to care when this spiraling debt loop is going to end. Adam points out that the world's top three economies--the United States, China and Japan--are collectively responsible for nearly two-thirds of all global debt whereas there are many economic powerhouses such as Peru and Denmark that have no debt at all (even though Denmark makes very tasty sugar cookies in bullet proof tins). Jeff believes that the United States blew a golden opportunity to pay down its debt during the previous decade when financing costs were near zero percent. Unfortunately, our overlords saw the low interest rates as a wonderful opportunity to shift the government printing presses into a higher gear. The fact that the U.S. dollar is the global reserve currency has given the United States an unlimited checkbook whereby it can spend itself into oblivion. Indeed, the annual debt service of the U.S. debt is projected to exceed $1 trillion per year by 2030--an amount that exceeds even the value of Jeff's private collection of tasteful oil paintings featuring nude portraits on black velvet backgrounds.
Dec 20, 2023 · 27 min
Rudy G’s Terrible Day in Georgia Court. . . . Keeping the Ukraine War Effort Afloat. . . . More Innovative Banking programs With the OBNBT
Send us Fan Mail Adam and Jeff marvel about how a Georgia jury managed to come up with a $148 million defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani for exercising his right of free speech because the jury employed an innovative method of piling on duplicative damage awards over and over again in order to show that they do not like him very much. Jeff wants to hire that jury to sit in on the numerous defamation suits that he and Adam are typically subjected to on an ongoing basis. In turning to the Ukraine War, Jeff wonders if the goal of policy makers is merely to bleed Russia to death, as opposed to trying to secure a victory that drives Russian forces out of Ukraine for good. They also wonder about how much longer our own hollowed out defense industries can continue to supply the Ukrainian military with arms. Adam and Jeff also offer an update on the exploding popularity of the newly chartered Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust, which is paying people not to bank with the bank in order to further augment the bottom line and build a bank that is too big to fail in record time. This popularity is also been aided by the fact that the Bank of Lithuania handles all check processing matters for depositor at the OBNB&T which means that it can take months for the checks to clear, thus enabling depositors to live a lavish lifestyle for months on end until their checks are finally processed.
Dec 12, 2023 · 32 min
Inflation, CPI, and the Decline of the Purchasing Power of the Dollar
Send us Fan Mail Although the Nobel Committee once again inadvertently omitted them from the list of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics, Adam and Jeff persevere in their efforts to educate and entertain the general public about all things financial. They consider the inflation that has been experienced by the United States over the past two years. They also discuss how all administrations try to spin any news about rising prices in the most positive way for their own political purposes. Adam cannot understand how the Consumer Price Index (CPI) can only be 4.1% as proclaimed by the Biden Administration's lackeys when nearly every component of CPI has doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in the past two years. Adam and Jeff note that inflation can be eliminated immediately if one drops such things as food, rent and utilities from the CPI and instead substitutes items that have not changed greatly in value such as construction sand and brussel sprouts. Adam complains about recent increases in his home electricity bill but Jeff points out that Adam is probably receiving premium electricity and not low-grade ethanol electricity as one possible explanation. They also consider a recent article by David Stockman which claims that the purchasing power of the dollar has fallen by 45% since the year 2000 due to the printing of money; a phenomenon that is reflected in exploding prices for everything from housing to cars to the food that tastes good (but not brussel sprouts).
Dec 12, 2023 · 30 min
Part Two: Introducing the Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust (OBNBT)
Send us Fan Mail Noted non-banking experts Adam and Jeff continue describing the steps they will take to build up a bank that is too big to fail. They regard their lack of banking experience as a solid plus and believe that through innovative contrarian actions, they can build up a bank that will be so huge that the federal government will be too terrified to let it go under in the next economic downturn lest it pull down the entire banking system. New programs designed to fatten the bottom line include a never ending debit card that enables customers to avoid the unfortunate stigma that can occur when they are standing in line at Walmart and are unable to get their debit cards to work. Another innovative program is one in which the bank pays its customers $25 for each bounced check. The bank also offers a revolutionary "lifestyle enhancement" program due to it having hired the Bank of Lithuania to process each of its customer's checks by hand, resulting in a delay in presentment of the checks that can go on for months or even years. This nearly endless float enables those with even the most modest of incomes to live like kings because their checks--regardless of the amounts--will not be presented for payment for a very long time. Jeff also describes the highly successful program in which numerous advertisers have paid a premium so that they will not be mentioned in any way on the Omaha Bugle Global News Network. This has inspired the even more ambitious program of paying people not to bank with the OBNBT which is only serving to compound the extraordinary rate of growth that the bank is now experiencing. Jeff and Adam are somewhat concerned that their lack of experience running banks into the ground will put them at a disadvantage relative to the hotshots that have managed to run the country's largest banks into the ground over and over again but they view themselves as quick learners and expect to enjoy great success in their new banking endeavor.
Dec 5, 2023 · 32 min
How to Make Inflation Disappear. . . . Bidenomics and the Disappearing Dollar
Send us Fan Mail Adam and Jeff talk about the views on inflation espoused by their pretend friend, David Stockman, the budget director for the Reagan Administration. Like the brain trust of the Omaha Bugle, Stockman is not particularly enthusiastic about the way in which "Bidenomics" has caused inflation to spike throughout the economy, pushing prices up on almost everything at a rate not seen since the late 1970s. Adam and Jeff are also puzzled how the official CPI rate as announced by Biden's Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, has remained at 4.1% when nearly every component of the CPI has doubled, tripled or even quadrupled since that triumphant day on which Joe Biden was wheeled into office. Jeff points out that the CPI depends on the types of constituent goods in the index as well as the time period being considered and can, of course, be easily manipulated by government minions who are always trying to paint even the most failed economic policies in a bright shining light. Jeff and Adam agree that the CPI can be reconstituted to show virtually no inflation overnight by dumping such luxury items as food, rent, and utility costs and substituting in their place other essential items such as steel bars and playground sand. Although they acknowledge that it is difficult to live on playground sand, one can always buy some seeds and make a nice vegetable garden. The bigger issue, of course, is that inflation is always the result of too much money chasing too few goods: Stockman points out that the purchasing power of the dollar has declined 45% since 2000 due to an average annual increase of 13%+ in the money supply over the past two decades. Unfortunately, no one in the Washington bubble seems to understand that massive inflation is bad and ultimately harms the most vulnerable members of society including those broadcasters at the Omaha Bugle would would like to make friends with David Stockman.
Dec 4, 2023 · 31 min
Part One: Introducing the Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust (OBNBT)
Send us Fan Mail The Omaha Bugle's senior correspondents, Jeff and Adam, announce that the Omaha Bugle Global News Network is establishing a new kind of bank that will ultimately take a very unorthodox path to grow very big very quickly and thus become "too big to fail." Once the Omaha Bugle National Bank & Trust or OBNBT (pronounced ob . neb . ta) opens its doors, it will offer CD and savings accounts rates that are far above its competitors while throwing in gifts to new depositors such as toasters, flat screen TVs, and thirsty cotton robes monogrammed with "OBNBT", making it that perfect Valentine's Day gift. As the goal is to build the bank to a collossal size in a very brief time and thus ensure that it will be subsidized by the federal government forever, the OBNBT will also seek to acquire other banks--but only those banks that are spiraling into bankruptcy. As such, the OBNBT will be a contrarian financial institution with the goal of becoming the black hole of the American financial system and thus so important that the government will never let it go out of business but instead subsidize it to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. For example, Adam points out that the bank will utilize "blue-lining", an innovative technique whereby blue lines are drawn on maps around communities that boast well-to-do-consumers who are likely to pay their loans back. However, the bank will avoid those areas like the plague and seek borrowers who are not interested in making monthly payments at all but who consider loan defaults to be a badge of honor. Moreover, Adam states that borrowers will be evaluated based upon a proprietary inverse credit score standard; the lower the score, the better your chance for approval. Because many banks have failed with career bankers at the helm, Adam and Jeff, who have absolutely no banking experience at all, will guide the fortunes of the OBNBT but will make sure that they get their performance bonuses paid in cash (not bank stock) ahead of time--just in case things go sideways with the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Nov 24, 2023 · 30 min
Demographics is Destiny But Not in the Way You Think. . . . The End of the Chinese Miracle?
Send us Fan Mail Noted experts about everything, Jeff and Adam, consider the factors that caused several would-be challengers to America's global preeminence to ultimately fail. The Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, and China in the 2000s and 2010s, all burst onto the scene with supercharged economic growth rates coupled with increasing populations. From there, it was only a matter of time before the "declinists" (the Debby Downers of the American political and media establishment) decided that they could extrapolate the growth rates of each of these prospective rivals out 20 or 30 or even 40 years to conclude that the American economy would be lapped by two or three times and ultimately sink to the status of a second-tier power. Unfortunately, the real world, as Adam and Jeff are quick to point out, invariably gets in the way of these neat projections and the ambitions of the newest bully on the block (most recently, China) invariably run aground. Jeff points out that you can project any country's growth rate out to infinity so that even tiny tourist hotspots such as Liechtenstein could eventually overtake the United States's economy if it continued to grow at a faster rate for enough centuries.
Nov 18, 2023 · 36 min
Part One: Interview with Chris Eddy, Candidate for Florida's 25th Congressional District
Send us Fan Mail The Omaha Bugle continues its efforts to carry the torch of Western civilization by sitting down with retired Brigadier General Chris Eddy, who is running for Congress against incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz--well known for her innovative hair styles and her inability to keep up with her laptop. Chris states that he is running on a fiscal responsibility plank because the growing national debt is now increasing by nearly $2 trillion per year. Chris believes that the biggest issues are the lack of leadership and trust in government which stems from the inept mismanagement of the economy by our Washington D.C., overlords. Jeff asks Chris about how we can get more weapons for the same dollars and rebuild our Navy before it gets eclipsed by the principality of Liechtenstein. They also talk about the fact that the massive shipments of weapons to Ukraine have left American weapon stocks dangerously low--which President Joe Biden was happy to point out to all of our potential adversaries. Chris also criticizes costly open-ended government mandates such as unrealistic appliance efficiency ratings which are little more than blatant power grabs by all-knowing, heavily-credentialed federal bureaucrats. Because the interest on the federal debt is now threatening to exceed the annual defense budget, Chris believes that the United States must get its fiscal house in order if it hopes to continue being able to project power across the globe. Otherwise, it will soon find itself unable to respond to the aggressive actions of nasty adversaries such as China and Russia. Chris also politely declines Jeff's request to be made emperor of Florida if Chris gets elected to Congress--which probably means that Chris will not be visiting the studios of the Omaha Bugle anytime soon.
Nov 13, 2023 · 25 min
Market Manias: How People Go Cuckoo for Coco Puffs (or Tulips or Beanie Babies or Crypto or Whatever) . . . Do Extra Low Interest Rates Really Help the Economy?
Send us Fan Mail Always on the cutting edge of all important cultural trends, Adam and Jeff talk about the recurring tendencies of otherwise intelligent people to become caught up in manias in which they will pay almost any price to purchase an item that a 5-year old child would think is worthless. Jeff points out that humans have an infinite capacity to rationalize incredibly stupid decisions whether they involve investing in absurdly overpriced assets or implementing government policies that have failed repeatedly in the past while hoping for a different outcome. Adam suggests that the Federal Reserve's repeated flooding of the economy with essentially worthless dollars has not contributed to any meaningful increase in physical output but instead made everyone a little wealthier on paper but probably resulted in a lower standard of living. Peter Drucker is quoted for his insight that when businesses run out of ideas, they try to merge with other businesses--most of whom have also run out of ideas so that everyone can go down the tubes together.
Nov 13, 2023 · 40 min
Part Two: Adam Von Romer Offers Additional Policy Positions and a Few Veiled Threats for His Benevolent Dictatorship
Send us Fan Mail In the hopes of saving the United States from the clutches of the highly-degreed overlords who know very little about actual governance and appear to be completely devoid of common sense, Adam offers additional policy positions for his benevolent dictatorship. In short, Adam explains how he would end our dependence on foreign oil, pursue a foreign policy that avoids costly nation-building in places where nations do not exist, modernize our national infrastructure, and limit graft and corruption in government to a few of his closest advisors. Jeff points out that if Adam is inclined to dole out a few states to his allies, then Jeff would like to have either Montana or Wyoming since those are the states the house America's land-based ICBMs. That way, Jeff can deal with any problems created by those ornery Canadians before they become unmanageable.
Nov 13, 2023 · 49 min
Part Two: Interview with Chris Eddy, Candidate for Florida's 25th Congressional District
Send us Fan Mail In the interest of helping to elect candidates who should not be locked up in rubber-walled rooms, Adam and Jeff continue their interview with Chris Eddy, Republican candidate for Florida's 25th Congressional district. They talk about the need to secure the southern border with Jeff pointing out that borders can be easily secured as shown by East Germany. Of course it is easier to deter would-be border crossers if you shoot them but Jeff and Adam and Chris agree that actual physical barriers coupled with economic disincentives to illegal entrants could solve the border issue very quickly. They also talk about the so-called "green theology" that seems to have infected the brains of many Washington politicians where taking economically idiotic measures such as mandating impossible efficiency standards on household appliances is the goal regardless of how many people are harmed by these policies. Chris reveals that people in his district are extremely frustrated by and distrustful of the government and its mismanagement of the economy. In particular, many voters are sick of the two-tiered system of justice in which conservatives are targeted for harassment and, in some cases, legal warfare.
Nov 1, 2023 · 27 min
The Incredible Shrinking American Navy . . . Is Freedom of the Seas Dependent on American Naval Power?
Send us Fan Mail Distinguished maritime strategists and self-mutilation hobbyists, Adam and Jeff, consider the alarming 50-year trend in which the United States Navy has shrunk from nearly 1,000 ships to less than 300 ships today. Jeff points out that the freedom of the seas that we take for granted and which permits enormous quantities of commodities and goods to be shipped around the world is really a recent post-World War II phenomena. Indeed, the high seas have historically been infested by pirates and other bad actors who have plundered ships from all nations. Nowadays, nations such as China have become the new "pirates" of the seas, threatening their neighbors and laying claim to vast swaths of the high seas in violation of international law. China has the world's largest navy by ship count but no one knows how good it would perform in wartime. Drawing on his vast experience as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve in college, Jeff suggests that it might be better for the U.S. Navy to focus on building larger numbers of smaller ships and not tie up so much money with its carrier groups--which may be increasingly vulnerable to massive drone attacks. Adam and Jeff also consider whether the Omaha Bugle could acquire a bunch of armed drones and extort millions of dollars from competing media companies such as CNN and CBS.