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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | After threatening Americans with raising their taxes by 68%, |
0:09.0 | ooh! |
0:11.0 | President Trump managed to strong-arm Republicans in Congress into passing his big burglary bill. |
0:18.0 | A sweeping economic and policy package that slashes health care funding, shuts |
0:24.2 | down hospitals, inflates ICE's budget to be larger than the Marines, opens concentration |
0:31.0 | camps in Florida, adds $3.4 trillion to the national deficit, and gives billionaires even more tax breaks than ever before. |
0:41.3 | So why didn't people try to stop it? |
0:43.3 | Today, comedian Dan Cass joins us to break down the nightmare that is the big burglary bill, |
0:49.3 | and the swampy new detention centers dubbed Alligator Auschwitz, |
0:53.3 | where Trump advisor, Lara Loomer |
0:55.6 | openly called for feeding all 65 million Latin Americans living in the U.S. to alligators in Florida. |
1:02.6 | Plus, how Republicans use tactics like flooding the zone to make people give up. |
1:08.4 | How to figure out which news media you can trust. And Dan Cass opens up about |
1:13.4 | being neurodivergent in the comedy world of Chicago. I'm Fausta Furnos. I'm Mark Fillion. |
1:19.9 | And this is Feast of Fun. Can you dig it? When the world feels like it's falling apart, it may be because somebody wants you to believe |
1:32.2 | that's what's happening so they can crush your world. |
1:36.0 | This week, Trump is flooding the zone by threatening Americans with raising their taxes |
1:42.2 | 68% not 69% if his big bullshit bill does not pass. |
1:49.0 | Joining us again to reflect on the terrible crisis of politics in the United States is experimental dance theater enthusiast and Chicago comedian Dan Cass, |
2:03.1 | who spent considerable time in Russia studying Russian experimental theater. |
2:08.6 | You always say dance. |
2:09.7 | It's so funny. |
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