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Potentium – Episode 458 (12/5/24)

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SNL & the “Saturday Night” movie

Hannah Kobayashi (5:50)

Australia bans social media for kids under sixteen (15:00)

Elon musk trying to save Infowars (25:15)

Trump – Hegseth & Patel (30:00)

Biden pardons his son Hunter (44:35)

Surprise story – Two Canadian Hindu truckers busted with $40 million dollars worth of cocaine 15 miles down the interstate from my house (58:15)

Thanksgiving weekend football mayhem – The bad news Bears/Chiefs & Raiders/Azeez Al Shaair/Josh Allen/Ohio State & Michigan fight & flag planting/Notre Dame & USC (1:00:10)

Territory/Yellowstone/Cross/Star Wars Skeleton Crew/Hell’s Kitchen (1:12:10)

Breaking: Gunman with silencer kills United Healthcare CEO in NYC (1:21:22)

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Potentium – Episode 300 (10/28/21)

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CA family’s mysterious death attributed to hyperthermia (6:15)

Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots two people on set after given a hot gun (10:40)

Another MI town’s lead laden water (20:20)

The Facebook Papers (26:40)

Jim Acosta gives Marjorie Taylor Greene the Marjorie Taylor Greene treatment/Jordan Klepper at Des Moines Trump rally (37:15)

Jim Jordan vs. Jim Jordan on his conversations with Trump on Jan. 6th/Rolling Stone report details top GOP leaders met with Capitol insurrectionists (57:05)

ND/Brady rips Bears apart/Hawks GM resigns over sexual assault investigation into former team videographer (1:14:00)

Happy Halloween folks!

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Potentium – Episode 196 (10/17/19)

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TX police officer charged with murder for “welfare check” shooting (3:30)

Racism – PA teacher hurls the N word at black man after febder bender (7:40)

GSU book burning (15:55)

WI jury awards Sandy Hook parent $450,000 against conspiracy theorist James Fetzer (20:20)

Trump cultist Emily Travis supposedly calling in (23:30)

Cuba Gooding Jr. accused of more sexual assaults (27:15)

UK children, meditation & mental health (30:40)

Serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman arrested again (36:20)

Trump cultist Emily Travis wimps out (39:05)

Trump – Marie Yovanovitch/Count Giuliani/Impeachment inquiry/Fiona Hill/Hunter Biden/Trump nepotism/The Kurds, Turkey & Syria/Meeting meltdown/Gordon Sondland/Reality show antics with Harry Dunn’s parents/Trump shooting massacre video/G7 & Doral/Mick Mulvaney & “quid pro quo” (46:15)

Shepard Smith leaves fox “news” (1:32:40)

Elijah Cummings dies (1:37:50)

Robert Forster dies (1:39:45)

Four year anniversary…Thanks for listening!

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Potentium – Episode 195 (10/10/19)

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(Technical difficulties with the intro)

Serial killer Samuel Little (5:05)

FL Surprise birthday shooting (10:15)

FL Judge sentences 21 yr. old to ten days in jail for accidentally missing jury duty (13:30)

GA redneck at McDonald’s admits he’s a racist (18:00)

MT Grizzly attacks three hunters in one day (22:05)

Matt Lauer accused of rape (25:25)

Woman catches fiancé sexually assaulting a bridesmaid two days before her wedding…She marries him anyway (30:35)

Ellen DeGeneris & pal George W. Bush (35:10)

Michael Knowles & Greta Thunberg (41:25)

SCOTUS takes on gender discrimination case (49:45)

Trump – Impeachment/The joker/Kurt Volker/The stunning hypocrisy of Trey Gowdy, Lindsey Graham & Mike Pompeo/GOP cries “Kangaroo court”/Mike Pence/Syria, Turkey & the Kurds (55:20)

Bill Maher & James Corden on fat shaming (1:26:05)

ND/Bears

Ginger Baker of Cream dies

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Potentium – Episode 194 (10/3/19)

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Amber Guyger – Sentenced to 10 years in prison (3:15)

Video released of Galveston Mounted Police leading mentally ill black man through the streets, tied with a rope (9:20)

GA Teen accidentally kills friend while hunting (12:05)

AZ Father drowns son in hot water during “exorcism” (14:35)

“Room clearing” in schools (16:55)

Woman nears mote, taunts lion at the Bronx Zoo (23:05)

UT Couple gored separately by bison…Same place, different days (27:05)

Concerns around the showings of “Joker” (30:45)

Riots in Hong Kong/First protester shot by police (34:00)

Bernie Sanders hospitalized/“Dirty Bernie” calls in (37:50)

Trump – Whistleblower/Impeachment/Ukraine/Rudy Giuliani/Former Ukrainian Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko/Mike Pompeo/Australia/China/Kurt Volker/ (49:00)

Bill Maher – “Catch 23” (1:19:25)

CA passes Fair Pay to Play Act/ND/Bears/Khalil Mack (1:27:10)

AHS 1984

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Potentium – Episode 149 (11/24/18)

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NC chicken pox outbreak/Vaccinations & religion

Religious nut job goes to island of natives to “convert” them to Christianity and hilarity ensues (6:00)

Racism – “Diner Diana” in Arizona prefers to sit next to whites in public (10:45)

Pfizer to raise prescription drug prices by 5% (14:30)

Elevator plunges 84 floors in Chicago’s Hancock Building (18:50)

CO “father” Chris Watts sentenced to life in prison for killing his family (22:08)

Moron Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence (30:55)

Laura Ingraham’s gay brother speaks about his fucked up sister (35:05)

Trump – Fake news media/Midterms/Admiral McRaven/Saudi Arabia/Mueller investigation/James Comey/Jerome Corsi/Trump is thankful for himself on Thanksgiving (40:45)

How the country “suffered” under President Obama (1:18:15)

Notre Dame/Bears