Despite it being Friday, a typically joyous day, John despairs over his coming down with shingles. He and Gordy and Sam talk our other collective medical ailments before getting into the National Day Calendar and Today in History with Sam. Later in the Idiocracy, we dive into Trump's tariff plan, and how it would essentially be a set of quid pro quos, grifts to get him even richer. The discussion turns to a failed Oregon ballot measure to provide a UBI, and another in California that would have outlawed forced labor in prisons. Closing out, our spirits get a lift with a clip from the Daily Show, mocking the election of Trump.

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