Aug. 12, 2025

Trump Sends National Guard to DC, Newsom Trolls With Taco Meme, and the Epstein Files Stay Buried

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When the President takes over a city’s police force, feuds with California’s governor over tacos, and still won’t release the Epstein files, you know it’s going to be a weird week. Plus, Harvard scientists officially ruin french fries.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, d C, which was just

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invaded by Washington d C. This is valid, that's right.

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The White House says this federal takeover is subject to change.

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That's the same thing my X said about our relationship.

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Let's hit this, hi, I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Donald Trump

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decided to take over Washington DC's police department and deploy

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the National Guard to the nation's capital. You know, most

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presidents worry about foreign enemies at the gates. Trump is

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worried about the gate itself. Asking for his id, Trump

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released a presidential memorandum titled Restoring Law and Order in

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the District of Columbia because nothing restores law and order

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quite like a man who's been indicted more times than

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a mob boss at a Rico trial. The memo claims

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DC has lost control of public order and safety, which

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is rich coming from someone whose own rallies require metal

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detectors and liability waivers. Trump wrote that Washington, d C.

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Has a violent crime rate higher than some of the

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most dangerous places in the world. One wonders if it's

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even more dangerous than Epstein Island, but we may never

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know because some coward won't release the files. Meanwhile, California

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Governor Gavin Newsom is having the time of his life

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on social media. He's tweeting at Trump like a divorce

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at dad. Subtweeting his ex wife's new boyfriend. Newsom posted,

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he will gaslight his way into militarizing any city he

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wants in America. This is what dictators do. And then

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Newsom's social media team really went off the rails. They

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posted a taco meme about Trump's tariffs. Trump always chickens out.

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They even questioned whether Attorney General Pam Bondi, who couldn't

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find the Epstein files, should head the DC police Department.

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That's not fair. Maybe she found them. Maybe she just

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filed them under e for extremely buried. The best part,

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Newsom's team fire off a Trump style all caps message

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threatening to redistrict California. All caps tweets the official language

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of mature political discourse. So now we have the National

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Guard patrolling DC while the President of the United States

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and the governor of California are having a Twitter fight.

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This is like watching your parents argue through passive aggressive

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Facebook posts, except your parents have nuclear weapons and the

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ability to declare martial law. A federal judge denied the

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government's request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts. The

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judge said doing so casually or promiscuously would damage future testimony.

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Casually or promiscuously, judge clearly doesn't know Epstein's business model.

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Trump's been pushing for these transcripts to quiet conspiracy theories

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from his own supporters. The president has to prove to

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his base he's not covering up evidence about a dead

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pedophile that's not in the job description. Epstein died six

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years ago, officially a suicide. Trump supporters think Democrats murder him, right,

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because Democrats can't organize a bake sale, but somehow they're

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running prison assassinations. These people think Hillary runs a pizza

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basement but can't figure out emails. So here we are,

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no lists, no evidence, no smoking guns. I guess nobody

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did nothing. Scientists have discovered what the rest of us

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figured out in kindergarten. French fries aren't health food. This

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comes from Harvard researchers who studied over two hundred thousand

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people for nearly four decades and their groundbreaking conclusion eating

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French fries three times a week increases your diabetes risk

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by twenty percent compared to eating them less than once

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a week. Now, I love how they had to clarify

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this wasn't about all potatoes, just the fried ones. Regular potatoes, baked, boiled, mashed,

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those are fine. Even potato chips didn't increase diabetes risk

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in this study. So apparently the problem isn't the potato,

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it's what we do to it, which is very relatable.

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I'm perfectly fine until you put me in a hot

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oil bath too. The researchers say potatoes have gotten unfair

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bad press over the years. One nutrition professor called them

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basically healthy foods that have been long associated with poor health.

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Poor potatoes. They're out there trying to provide vitamin C

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and fiber, and we're dunking them in oil and calling

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them vegetables. Here's what makes French fries particularly dangerous. First,

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most aren't even fresh potatoes anymore. They are potato products,

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which sounds like something you'd find in a chemistry set.

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These frozen fries contain flour, oils, additives, and color. One

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expert noted that rarely do you see someone slicing potatoes

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into wedges and putting them into a fryer. Most of

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the time, your fries have been through more processing than

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a tax return. Then there's the cooking method. High heat

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plus lots of oil cre creates unhealthy compounds in the food.

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The study notes that during their research period, restaurants switched

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from beef tallow in the nineteen eighties to trans fat

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oils in the early nineties, which were eventually banned in

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twenty eighteen. So for decades we were eating fries cooked

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and stuff that was literally illegal food. But the real

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problem might be portion control. Ast As one dietician put it,

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when you're eating a baked potato, you're usually eating a

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baked potato, But with French fries, it's hard to quantify

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what you take. In translation, nobody orders six fries, they

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order the bucket. The experts say, you don't have to

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eliminate potatoes entirely, just eat them wisely, cook them at home,

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where you control the oil and salt, keep the skin on,

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that's where the nutrition lives. And remember that potatoes should

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be about one quarter of your plate, not the entire landscape.

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One researcher even suggested letting your potatoes cool down before

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eating them, which creates something called resistant starf arch that's

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better for your blood sugar. So now we're supposed to

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wait for our food to get cold before we eat it.

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What's next? Are they going to tell us ice cream

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is healthier if we let it melt. First portions of

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today's show were made with the help of fries with

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extra salt, fries with gravy, fries with AI, and of course,

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the Epstein Files release them. You cowered,