Ballot with Patrick Gutfield - Where Politics Meets Pop Culture

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Secret Agent Trump? Johnson's FBI Bombshell about the Epstein Files Sep 08, 2025

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House Speaker Mike Johnson claims Trump was secretly working as an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein, while the administration focuses on revoking Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship and dealing with swollen ankle diplomacy. Plus: that time Navy SEALs killed shellfish divers in North Korea.
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RFK Jr. Faces the Senate, the Clippers Plant $28M Trees, and Epstein Files Heat Up Sep 05, 2025

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Patrick Gutfield dives into the Senate Finance Committee showdown where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to defend firing the CDC director and gutting vaccine funding — and somehow ended up nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, the NBA is investigating the Clippers for allegedly funneling $28 million to Kawhi Leonard through a tree-planting company, and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein demand the Trump administration release the long-buried Epstein files. Chaos, contradictions, and conspiracies — all in one episode.
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World Leaders Mock Trump While His Own Guy Spills Epstein Tea Sep 04, 2025

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Gavin Newsom claims foreign leaders are laughing behind Trump's back, and we've got the UN footage to prove it. Trump responded by staying up until 2 AM frantically Googling dirt on Governor Wes Moore because Moore called his memory "comical." But the real bombshell came when MAGA Congressman Mike Collins casually admitted Trump is probably in the Epstein files - then tried to spin it as Trump being the hero whistleblower. We break down the international mockery evidence, Trump's late-night revenge posting, and how his own supporters accidentally became his worst enemies.
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Trump's Wild Tuesday: He's Not Dead, Not Resigning, Moves Space Command, Drug Boats, and Mystery Garbage Sep 03, 2025

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Patrick Gutfield breaks down Trump's chaotic return to public life - from moving Space Command to Alabama because Colorado uses mail-in ballots, to casually mentioning shooting at Venezuelan drug boats, to contradicting his own staff about viral footage of trash bags being thrown from White House windows. Plus, the Epstein files finally dropped with 33,295 pages nobody's read yet. All this while Trump insists he's perfectly healthy and definitely not an AI-generated robot clone.
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Reading and Willing: JD Vance ready if, you know....PLUS Vance warns NFL about Taylor Swift Sep 02, 2025

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JD Vance says he's ready to be President after seven months of watching Trump work - that's less time than most people need to figure out their new job's healthcare benefits. Meanwhile, a TikTok physical therapist diagnosed Trump with six months to live through his phone screen, and Health Secretary RFK Jr. thinks he can spot children's mitochondrial problems just by people-watching at airports. We dive into Vance's NFL conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift rigging games for Travis Kelce, Trump's mysterious hand bruises covered with makeup, and why our government apparently runs on social media medical advice and supernatural airport diagnosis powers.
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Pam Bondi’s Superhero Worship, Blue Laws vs. Jeans, and Silent Whales Sep 01, 2025

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Patrick Gutfield skips the Labor Day chaos and dives into a different kind of American madness: Attorney General Pam Bondi calling Trump “President” like it’s his first name, New Jersey towns suing a mall for letting people buy pants on Sundays, and blue whales going silent because they’re starving. Also: Marco Rubio has four jobs now, Paramus wants your denim outlawed, and God’s fine with roller coasters but not sweaters. Oh, and whales—giant, starving, silent whales. This is Ballot.
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CDC Chaos: RFK Jr. Purges Vaccine Panel & Trump Plots Pre-Midterm Conventions Aug 29, 2025

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From mass resignations at the CDC to Trump’s bizarre idea of holding national party conventions before the midterms, things in D.C. are getting weird. Patrick Gutfield breaks down RFK Jr.’s attempt to fire CDC Director Susan Monarez, the total reshuffling of the vaccine advisory committee, and why doing things that are illegal and anti-science seem to be this administration’s favorite hobby. Plus: Jen Psaki warns Trump could rig the next election, thanks to the appointment of conspiracy theorist Heather Honey to Homeland Security. And yes, we’re just as concerned about her name as you are.
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Trump Posts 2AM Seth Meyers Rant, Takes Victory Lap Over Cracker Barrel Logo Aug 28, 2025

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Trump rage-posts about Seth Meyers at two AM like your weird uncle arguing about traffic lights on Facebook. Former SNL cast member Beck Bennett reveals Elon Musk was somehow worse to work with than Donald Trump - and that's saying something. Plus, Trump's team insists he's "inexhaustible" while photoshopping his swollen ankles out of official White House photos. And the President of the United States personally intervened to save Uncle Herschel from corporate rebranding hell at Cracker Barrel. Because apparently that's what passes for foreign policy these days.
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Swift Justice: Taylor's Engagement, Detention Center Branding, and Flesh-Eating Parasites Aug 27, 2025

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Patrick Gutfield breaks down Trump's surprising blessing of the Swift-Kelce engagement, the administration's catchy new names for detention centers (from "Alligator Alcatraz" to "Cornhusker Clink"), Vanity Fair's staff meltdown over a potential Melania cover, JD Vance's creative take on World War Two history, and America's first case of screwworm - because nothing says "welcome to Twenty Twenty Five" like flesh-eating parasites and government trolling.
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Marc Maron Torches Bill Maher on Pod Save America as Hot ICE 'Agent Dumptruck' Goes Viral and Trump Threatens ABC & NBC Aug 26, 2025

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Marc Maron took aim at Bill Maher on Pod Save America, calling him “desperate” and accusing him of chasing relevance at any cost. Meanwhile, ICE accidentally turned a routine arrest photo into the internet’s latest thirst trap, Donald Trump threatened to revoke ABC and NBC’s FCC licenses over “fake news,” and RFK Jr. is reportedly plotting a COVID-19 vaccine ban. All that and more with Patrick Gutfield.
Come for the sass, stay for the sanity—and blame the A.I. for the jokes that don’t land.
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