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  The Secret Deal That Ended Red Waves and Blue Waves | Satire Saturday 10.10.2026 10мин

  Text the show! 🌊 WHERE DID ALL THE RED WAVES AND BLUE WAVES GO? The New York Times says Democrats may have found the recipe for flipping red-state Senate seats. Chad Law has another theory: the political consultants found the recipe for billing all the way through November. Welcome to Satire Saturday on Common Sense with Chad Law, where our entirely fictional investigative team uncovers the secret bipartisan agreement that changed American politics forever. The deal? No more landslides. No m...
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  The Primary Trap: Why America Keeps Getting Bad Candidates | Freedom Friday 09.10.2026 49мин

  Text the show! America keeps asking why we end up with such terrible choices in November. But what if the problem isn't the candidates? What if it's the system that picks them? On this Freedom Friday, Chad Law takes on America's broken primary system — the closed-door process that excludes independent voters, rewards ideological purity, burns through campaign money, and produces candidates who spend the spring dividing voters before begging those same voters to unite in November. The primary...
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  Close Governor Races: What Does a Real Builder Look Like? | Thursday Specia 08.10.2026 47мин

  Text the show! Oregon’s governor race between Tina Kotek and Christine Drazan raises a bigger question: What does a real builder look like in politics? And why do we keep hiring politicians based on who we like instead of what they've actually accomplished? After hundreds of thousands watched Chad Law's original breakdown of Oregon's governor race, one question kept coming back: If neither candidate is a builder, what exactly is one? Tonight on Common Sense with Chad Law, we're answering it....
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  🇺🇸 IS THIS REALLY THE BEST REPUBLICANS CAN DO? | WACKY WEDNESDAY 07.10.2026 45мин

  Text the show! 🎪 BAD CANDIDATES. BAD CAMPAIGNS. 🇺🇸 America, have you watched the campaign ads this fall and wondered, is this really the best they could do? Because I have. And this time, I'm asking about my own side. From California and Oregon to Ohio, Texas, and Iowa, voters are frustrated with the people running their states. They're looking for something different. The political marketplace is practically begging for a better product. And somehow, candidates keep finding ways to oversell...
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  The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty | Monologue Monday 06.10.2026 42мин

  Text the show! I supported the death penalty for most of my life. Then I started asking what we were buying—and whether it was working. The Christa Pike case in Tennessee brings that question into focus. But this conversation goes beyond one inmate or one execution. It’s about capital punishment, government accountability, innocent lives, victims’ families, taxpayer dollars, and a life sentence that actually means life. If conservatives believe government is wasteful, fallible, and too pow...
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  The Convenience Economy Is Making You Poorer | Sequel Sunday 05.10.2026 34мин

  Text the show! Too Much Month at the End of the Money: How the Convenience Economy Is Draining Your Paycheck Are you tired of having too much month left at the end of the money? You're not imagining it. Housing, insurance and groceries really are more expensive, and those are real structural problems. But that's not what you feel every day. What you feel every day is your money disappearing faster than it used to, through thousands of little fees, price hikes, markups and subscriptions that ...
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  Democratic Socialism Is Just Having Rich Parents | Satire Saturday 03.10.2026 10мин

  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 37мин

  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 39мин

  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 36мин

  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 30мин

  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 39мин

  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 43мин

  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 42мин

  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 37мин

  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 39мин

  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 36мин

  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 37мин

  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 44мин

  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 6мин

  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...