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  Democratic Socialism Is Just Having Rich Parents | Satire Saturday 03.10.2026 10min

  Text the show! America, congratulations. You’ve been adopted. 🇺🇸💳 I finally figured out democratic socialism—and I owe the DSA an apology. It’s having rich parents. Rent? Dad. College? Dad. Healthcare? Dad. And if Daddy runs out of money, that’s okay. Daddy has a printing press. On this Satire Saturday edition of Common Sense with Chad Law, I take the Democratic Socialists of America’s “Workers Deserve More!” program to the family dinner table. Their vision of life without capitalism sounds ...
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  Europe’s Energy and Immigration Mistakes Are America’s Warning | Freedom Friday 02.10.2026 37min

  Text the show! Europe’s energy and immigration mistakes are America’s warning. From refinery closures and foreign fuel dependence to national identity and immigration without an integration plan, Europe has already shown us the consequences. America still has a choice. 🇺🇸 On this Freedom Friday, we’re asking a common-sense question: Can we learn from somebody else’s mistakes before we pay for them ourselves? We connect Europe’s energy decisions to California’s refinery closures, examine what...
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  The Worst GOP Congress Ever! They’ve Got Nobody Left to Blame. | Wacky Wednesday 30.09.2026 39min

  Text the show! Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. They’ve got every key to Washington—and nobody left to blame. So what did they actually deliver? 🇺🇸 Tonight on Common Sense with Chad Law, it’s Wacky Wednesday: the worst GOP Congress I’ve ever seen. We’re comparing what they promised at the podium with what they put on the docket. Daylight saving time. Local beef processing. Voter ID. Government savings. Housing affordability. Tax relief. Congressional stock tr...
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  They Block the Power. You Pay the Bill. | Tech Tuesday 29.09.2026 36min

  Text the show! We’re not out of power. We’re out of permission. America’s innovators are building solar farms, gas plants, batteries, and new ways to harness geothermal energy. Meanwhile, projects wait years to connect—and the companies sending your electric bill keep asking for higher rates. Tonight on Common Sense with Chad Law: the bureaucratic bottleneck behind America’s electricity debate, the monopoly hiding in the delivery charges, and why permission to raise your bill seems to come...
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  Washington Brought Back Wolves. Ranchers Got the Bill. | Monologue Monday 28.09.2026 30min

  Text the show! Washington wiped wolves out of the West. Then it brought them back and left ranchers to carry the cost. In Oregon, wolf losses look tiny in a statewide statistic. On the ranches where those losses land, the bill includes missing calves, stressed herds, lighter weights, extra fencing, and nights spent riding instead of sleeping. Colorado shows what happens when voters approve wolf reintroduction before the support system is ready. The answer isn’t to make the rancher or the w...
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  The Homelessness System Pays for Nights, Not Exits | Sequel Sunday 27.09.2026 39min

  Text the show! Portland can tow and crush a lived-in RV, then pay nearly $2,900 a month for its former occupant to sleep in a temporary shelter pod. Who gets paid when she stays—and who measures whether she ever gets out? Tonight on Sequel Sunday, we follow Methany, a composite, through the homelessness system’s own map. She starts with an RV she owns. Then come the tow truck, the shelter cot, the tiny-home clock, harm reduction, the wait for treatment, job requirements, and a health-insura...
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  Justice for Hee-Haw: Why Cops Keep Shooting Pets | Wacky Wednesday 23.09.2026 43min

  Text the show! A COP SHOT A MINIATURE DONKEY IN HIS OWN PASTURE. His name was Hee-Haw. He was bottle-raised and worked with children at petting zoos. When officers entered his pasture during a search for a missing child, he ran toward them. One officer shot him. Then I found the other stories. A K-9 handler shot his own dog. An LAPD officer shot a dog wearing a Knicks jersey during a welfare check. A Marine veteran called police for help—and an officer shot her service dog three times. Th...
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  Everything the Data Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know | Tech Tuesday 22.09.2026 42min

  Text the show! Your data doesn’t disappear after you click “I agree.” It enters an industry built to collect it, combine it, sell it, and increasingly use it to determine what you pay. I spent years on the buying side of this business. Tonight, I’m breaking down how the data industry actually works—from device IDs and real-time advertising auctions to data brokers, government purchases, Flock cameras, and surveillance pricing. The problem isn’t data collection. Collection powers services w...
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  The War on Beautiful Women Backfired | Monologue Monday 21.09.2026 37min

  Text the show! America didn’t run out of beautiful women. We stopped allowing them to become icons. For decades, every generation produced a bombshell America could recognize from a silhouette: Marilyn Monroe, Farrah Fawcett, Cindy Crawford, Pamela Anderson and Angelina Jolie. Today, Sydney Sweeney may be the only contender—and every time she uses her beauty, the cultural referees question whether she can still be taken “seriously.” The old beauty standard was too narrow. But instead of wide...
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  America Needs a Mom: The Case for Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Thursday Special 17.09.2026 39min

  Text the show! Republicans spent four days in Dallas asking who should inherit Donald Trump’s movement. They discussed JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz—but almost nobody mentioned Sarah Huckabee Sanders. That may be the biggest oversight in the Republican Party’s search for its next leader. In this Thursday Special, Chad Law makes the case that America doesn’t need another political heir. It needs a reset: someone who can preserve what worked, reduce the drama, fight when nec...
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  Flock Cameras, Fetterman and Firefighting Goats | Wacky Wednesday 16.09.2026 36min

  Text the show! A Senate candidate shoots a Flock surveillance camera for a campaign ad. John Fetterman spends the weekend at Rupert Murdoch’s Montana retreat. Diesel reaches a record $6.27 per gallon. Twenty-two states sue over a new green-card rule. And the government finally discovers that goats are surprisingly good at fighting wildfires. Welcome to Wacky Wednesday, where Chad Law digs through the week’s strangest headlines, finds the part everyone else walked past, and delivers the final...
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  The People Warning You About AI Are Already Using It | Tech Tuesday 15.09.2026 37min

  Text the show! Who told Americans to be afraid of artificial intelligence—and what are those people protecting? Washington, Hollywood, and the news media publicly warn Americans about AI while quietly using it themselves. Congressional offices use it to summarize legislation. Movie studios are hiring AI specialists. Journalists increasingly use it for news gathering. The people selling the fear have already decided the technology is useful enough for them. In this episode, Chad examines: &nb...
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  You Don't Hate Capitalism. You Hate This. | Monologue Monday 14.09.2026 44min

  Text the show! Americans still overwhelmingly like free enterprise. So why are they rapidly souring on capitalism? Chad argues that the anger behind America's “cost of life” crisis is real — but we're giving it the wrong name. Housing, healthcare, insurance, prescriptions and utilities consume enormous portions of American household budgets, yet many of these markets fail a basic test of competition: Can you walk away? Can you switch? Can a new competitor enter? And does losing your business...
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  Make America Gay Again: Grindr Goes Down at the RNC | Satire Saturday 12.09.2026 6min

  Text the show! Grindr goes down. The Republican convention comes to town. Coincidence? Dallas is hosting the Republican convention, and reports of problems with Grindr put the city at the top of Downdetector’s map. But Dallas isn’t the first convention city to generate headlines about Grindr activity. Cleveland. Milwaukee. Now Dallas. Ten years. Three cities. One very awkward pattern. Chad has spent years attending conservative conventions as The Last Gay Conservative, carrying a pocket Cons...
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  What the Hell Happened to Jelly Roll? | Satire Saturday 12.09.2026 8min

  Text the show! Country star Jelly Roll lost nearly 300 pounds. Then came the divorce, the Jimmy Kimmel guest-hosting gig, the Trump jokes, the fan backlash—and now the skin-removal surgery. So Chad has a theory: somewhere along the way, somebody accidentally removed part of his soul. The lawsuit isn't real. Everything else in this episode is—and that's the problem. On this Satire Saturday edition of Common Sense with Chad Law, Chad takes on the incredible shrinking Jelly Roll: what happened ...
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  Conservatives Are Wrong About Marijuana | Freedom Friday 11.09.2026 40min

  Text the show! Should conservatives support banning marijuana — or regulate it the same way we regulate alcohol? In this Freedom Friday episode of Common Sense, Chad takes the strongest arguments against marijuana seriously: today's dramatically higher THC potency, addiction and daily use, risks to young people, and the consequences of legalization. Then he asks the question the prohibition argument has trouble answering: If alcohol and tobacco remain legal despite enormous documented harms,...
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  FENTANYL IS DOWN. SO WHY DOES THE DRUG CRISIS FEEL WORSE? | Thursday Special 10.09.2026 40min

  Text the show! 📉 Fentanyl deaths are falling. That's not spin. That's good news. But if America is finally "winning" the fight against fentanyl, why does the drug crisis Americans experience in their neighborhoods still look so familiar? Tonight, Chad introduces THE MONDAY MORNING TEST. Imagine every gram of fentanyl in America disappears at midnight. Nobody ever dies from it again. Now walk outside Monday morning. What's still there? Methamphetamine. Addiction. Encampments. Theft. Public di...
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  THIS WEEK IN ATTENTION-SEEKING: Politics, Protests & the WNBA | Wacky Wednesday 09.09.2026 48min

  Text the show! 🎙️ Somewhere along the way, America started rewarding people for CAUSING THE BIGGEST SCENE instead of accomplishing the mission. This week’s pile of Wacky Wednesday stories proves it. Chad runs eight stories through one simple test: 🎯 DID IT WORK? A 13-year-old inventor turns discarded orange peels into biodegradable seed pods. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed spoofs Love Island to sell his campaign. A father walking with his six-year-old daughter is accused of traffic...
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  The Lindsay Clancy Trial Exposed a Mental Health Problem Nobody Is Talking About | Monologue Monday 07.09.2026 47min

  Text the show! The Lindsay Clancy trial reignited America's argument over postpartum mental health and access to psychiatric care. Chad thinks we're arguing about the wrong thing. During cross-examination, Clancy's psychiatrist was questioned about testing she did not use—including pharmacogenomic, or PGx, testing. That testimony raises a much larger question: What happens after a patient gets access to mental health care? Because access and quality are not the same thing. In this Monologue ...
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  The Polls Aren’t Wrong. The People Reading Them Are. | Freedom Friday 04.09.2026 47min

  Text the show! 📊 There’s no such thing as a wrong poll. Yeah, I know. Stay with me. A poll is a measurement. It records what a group of people said at a particular moment. A prediction is something else entirely. So when an election doesn't turn out the way television forecasters expected, why do we blame the measuring instrument instead of the people who turned that measurement into a prediction? This Freedom Friday, Chad goes back through the polling “disasters” Americans think they rememb...