Best Foot Forward | 414

Best Foot Forward | 414

From Boomer Bunker by John Jamingo and The Duchess

May 15, 2026 · 1h 46m · Episode 413

About this episode

Episode 414 discusses California's funding of tablets for death row inmates and various political absurdities with humor and outrage.

California gave $189 million in taxpayer-funded tablets to death row inmates — and apparently nobody thought that might go badly. Episode 414 of the Boomer Bunker is a full assault on your common sense, starting with Gavin Newsom handing a $20 million diaper contract to a nonprofit co-run by his own wife, wrapping through Spencer Pratt's mayoral campaign ads driving Karen Bass absolutely insane, and landing on a 21-year-old British woman whose legs are literally bent the wrong direction — a story that generated both genuine sympathy and the episode title, care of the chat. John and the Duchess break down the week's political circus with their usual mix of actual outrage and barely-contained laughter. Kate reads a Trump Truth Social post about President Xi calling the U.S. a "declining nation," along with Trump's ten-paragraph, no-punctuation rebuttal. John walks through how Democrats spent years screaming about fighting in the streets — and are now horrified that Spencer Pratt is using video imagery in his campaign. And somewhere in between all that, a Seattle special education teacher accused of bruising an autistic third grader was elected union president with 58% of the vote…

People in this episode

Hosts: John Jamingo, The Duchess

Topics covered

  • political commentary
  • outrage
  • comedy
  • current events
  • social issues
  • media criticism

Keywords

  • California
  • Gavin Newsom
  • Spencer Pratt
  • Trump
  • politics
  • outrage
  • comedy
  • social issues

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: nonprofit

Places: California, America, Seattle

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