Guest hosts John and Gordy tackle the tumultuous state of American democracy, touching on topics from Trump’s authoritarian ambitions, including potential federal control over D.C. in the wake of a vicious attack on MAGA's Big Balls, to RFK Jr.'s controversial vaccine views. They listen back to that one famous clip from Newsroom of Jeff Daniels saying America isn't the greatest country in the world and compare it to him speaking without music. The duo discusses the cutting of mRNA research funding, stressing the dangers it poses to public health innovations. And to top it all off, they listen to a compilation of Rachel Maddow's warning that the United States is already operating under a dictatorship.

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