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Potentium – Episode 185 (8/2/19)

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Guest co-host Susi from Germany

The Pink Lady Bandit arrested (9:15)

$30 million dollar Brazilian airport gold heist (15:30)

Dallas police kill mentally ill man who called 911 for help (20:50)

SC officers shoot homeowner through window in his home (30:50)

Two SF teens go to Italy & kill an Italian police officer (38:20)

Racism – Ole Miss students deface Emmett Till monument/TSA and gorillas in nooses/Ronald Reagan and African “monkeys” talking to President Nixon (43:40)

Trump – Elijah Cummings & Baltimore (1:08:05)

Democratic debates (1:20:55)

Bianna health update

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Potentium – Episode 184 (7/26/19)

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Gwen Shamblin – god vs. food

PA school district threatens Foster care for kids who’s parents have outstanding lunch tabs (14:10)

Oregon school district to implement mental health days (17:55)

Canadian teen killers (23:15)

MI teens who killed a motorist by throwing a rock off of an overpass to be tried as adults (27:00)

Big Pharma emails regarding the opioid crisis show a complete lack of humanity (30:30)

Facebook fined $5 billion dollars (38:50)

9-11 1st Responders Bill passes (41:25)

Iran, North Korea & nukes (43:30)

Boris Johnson elected Prime Minister of The United Kingdom (48:35)

Trump – Mueller testimony/Chris Cuomo/Trump stands in front of fake & insulting Presidential Seal (52:15)

Bianna health update

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Potentium – Episode 183 (7/19/19)

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Maynard James Keenan vs. The Biebers (4:15)

Madden ’20 ratings come out & slap the Bears in the face (16:40)

No federal charges for NYPD officer who choked Eric Garner to death (21:35)

Rand Paul objects to 1st responders funding bill (28:15)

Trump – Barr & Ross in contempt of Congress/“The Squad” racism & an America we don’t recognize/Lindsey Graham/Mitch McConnell/“Send her back!”/Chuck Schumer (40:40)

Startling, indisputable similarities between Hitler, Trump, and his cult (1:27:50)

Bianna’s health update (1:45:30)

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Potentium – Episode 182 (7/12/19)

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The Blue Bell ice cream licking scumbags identified (3:00)

Racism – “Callbox Chris” (9:50)

Man kills teen because he was “threatened” by his rap music (22:10)

First US baby born from uterine transplant by deceased organ donor (26:00)

Death by shit transplant (29:15)

Jeffrey Epstein arrested/Alex Acosta resigns (32:35)

Ross Perot dies/SNL & Dana Carvey (42:25)

MS gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster won’t be interviewed by female reporters without a man present (51:00)

Amy McGrath – The Letter (54:25)

US Women’s Soccer Team wins another World Cup/Megan Rapinoe/fox “news” & “Fuck Trump!” Live on the air (1:00:20)

Trump – Twitter Tantrum #10,996 – Attacking fox “news”/Bullshit “cleanest air & water” claims/S.E. Cupp’s great take on Trump’s “patriotism”/“Social media Summit”/Drug prices on the rise/ICE raids/Administration backs down on census question (1:06:40)

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Potentium – Episode 181 (7/5/19)

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The Fourth of July & how ignorant Americans are (3:45)

“Manly” Force Factor pills & commercials (20:20)

Nike, Betsy Ross & Colin Kaepernick (30:10)

Judge James Troiano (NJ) says teen rapist should be shown leniency because he comes from a good family & is an Eagle Scout (41:20)

California introduces common sense ammunition law (51:00)

Georgia using Jim Crow tactics to keep native Puerto Ricans from getting driver’s licenses (54:45)

Racist Border Patrol Agents & their secret Facebook group (57:40)

Trump – Joking with Putin/N. Korean photo op/Donald Trump Jr’s “birther” type Tweet about Kamala Harris/Homelessness started two years ago/Tech companies/Salute to America (1:05:50)

Bianna’s health update

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Potentium – Episode 180 (6/28/19)

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Rednecks – Talibama car dealership giving away an American flag, a Bible & a 12 gauge shotgun with every car

FL Domestic violence victim arrested for stealing and turning over violent husband’s guns to police (12:35)

AL Pregnant woman shot in the stomach charged with manslaughter after miscarriage (21:40)

Baby girl found in Georgia woods in a plastic bag (26:25)

FL Asshole who killed Bush Gardens flamingo hit and killed by a truck (29:10)

New Jersey bully beats the mother of the kid he bullied in school (38:45)

Republicans in Oregon flee the state rather than lose a vote on climate change (46:10)

SCOTUS comes through on census issue/Fucks America on gerrymandering (56:25)

Trump – Iran/Rape accusation/Mueller to testify/John Sanders resigns/Migrant child detention & the conditions (1:06:50)

Democratic debates (1:13:25)

Update on Bianna’s cancer (1:43:00)

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Potentium – Episode 179 (6/21/19)

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American deaths in the Dominican Republic (3:40)

NC shark attacks (7:55)

Chinese tourist stomps on sea turtle nest in Miami (12:55)

Bear euthanized because people kept feeding it to get selfies (16:20)

School district levies fines against parents of bullies (19:05)

People asleep at the wheel on highways by rigging Tesla auto pilot feature (24:20)

OJ has “a lotta getting even to do” (29:20)

Sandy Hook parents win lawsuit over conspiracy theorist’s book/Alex Jones & child porn (36:15)

Maniacal Phoenix pigs/72 cops pulled off duty in Philly (44:35)

Slavery reparations, Joe Biden’s comments & the explanation of systemic racism (58:45)

Trump – Iran/Health care/Polls & the firing of pollsters/Hope Hicks/The Central Park Five/Orlando rally (1:15:25)

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Potentium – Episode 176 (5/30/19)

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Bianna’s divorce is final/Relationships

Mt. Everest deaths (8:15)

FDA approves drug that costs 2.1 million dollars (15:25)

The monumental hypocrisy of Mitch McConnell (23:40)

Trump – (31:55)

Nancy pelosi

Kim Jong Un & Trump rip Biden

Investigating the investigators

Robert Mueller’s statement

Trump’s ballistic, impromptu press conference

USS John McCain Memorial Day controversy

William Barr interview on CBS This Morning

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Potentium – Episode 175 (5/24/19)

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All in the Family/The Jeffersons live remake

Game of Thrones finale (18:35)

Great white shark spotted off the Long Island Sound for the first time (28:05)

High school Hope Squads (32:35)

RV chase & F-16 crash in California (40:55)

Anarchist Julian Assange faces more charges (52:50)

Trump – Iran/Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg/Congressional subpoenas/Justin Amash/Nancy pelosi/Infrastructure/Trump again floats the idea of staying past two terms/Trump on abortion and being pro choice (57:40)

Bill Maher – The sexual repression of Catholics (1:36:05)

Tool – “Invincible”

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Potentium – Episode 174 (5/17/19)

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Boeing 737 Max Jet controversy (4:30)

RIDICULOUS amount of FDA recalls (8:30)

Monsanto & Round Up (13:55)

Racist “promposals” (20:20)

Puritanical Alabama abortion law (40:35)

Maine wants to give all Electoral votes to the popular vote winner in 2020 (54:35)

Trump – Giuliani & the Ukraine/Donald Trump Jr. agrees to testify/China & tariffs/Iran (1:06:20)

The final episode of The Big Bang Theory/Game of Thrones (1:28:50)

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