Then, the mood turns darker. Threats against the president, local radio hosts, and conservative voices show just how ugly the political climate has become — and why the assassination of Charlie Kirk changed the conversation for a lot of people on the right.

Fingers also digs into a new study suggesting Gen X and Millennials may not outlive previous generations, which leads naturally — and dangerously — into dirty sodas, gas station diets, apple fritters before sunrise, and the eternal question: why does Reese’s keep inventing new ways to destroy us?

Plus, Fingers sits down with “Kate,” his ChatGPT AI assistant, for a conversation about artificial intelligence, jobs, medicine, data centers, surveillance, humanoid robots, and whether AI is just a digital politician telling us what we want to hear.

It gets weird. But useful weird.

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They kick things off with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award going to Jerome Powell and “the people of the Twin Cities,” which leads to a sharp conversation about immigration enforcement, media narratives, political branding, and how the word courage now gets stretched so far it could snap. From there, they get into Trump’s joke about Japan and Pearl Harbor, Congress debating a bill tied to harming law enforcement animals, Denmark allegedly preparing for a possible U.S. move on Greenland, and why the federal government needs to get its grubby lizard fingers out of the student loan business.

Then the show takes a turn from political absurdity to modern-life dread. Fingers and Sarah dig into the alarming rise in death rates among Gen X and elder millennials, which spins into a conversation about colorectal cancer, colonoscopies, processed food, fast food, stress, and whether a generation raised on pizza rolls and “just keep moving” is finally paying the bill. After that, they tackle a new experimental keto pill that promises the effects of dieting without giving up carbs, an AI-generated Val Kilmer appearing posthumously in a new film, and Tinder wanting deeper access to users’ photo libraries to build more “authentic” matches. In other words: health anxiety, artificial people, privacy collapse, and the future getting dumber by the minute.

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