The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 271: Performative Piety

Ansley Hutchinson, Tess Menzies, and Gabe Sanchez, from the Boredwalk content team reunite to discuss all the most recent salacious scandals marring the U.S. political landscape (and distracting from the FULL, UN-REDACTED RELEASE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES), including:

• The very cozy public embraces between very married (and very "Christian") Vice President J.D. Vance and very recently widowed (and very "Christian") trad-wife Erika Kirk, and Second Lady Usha Vance's apparently sanguine acceptance of being publicly cuckqueaned

• The state of the U.S. economy heading into the busiest shopping season of the year (spoiler alert: it's suboptimal!)

• Mass layoffs in the private sector and the ongoing shutdown of the federal government impacting spending power and consumer confidence

• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's ongoing refusal to swear in recently-elected U.S. Representative Adelita Grijalva in a thinly-veiled attempt to keep the aforementioned Epstein Files from being released

• Trump's shoulder shrugging over his own supporters losing access to SNAP benefits and facing the specter of exploding health insurance costs come January 1st 2026 as a result of the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies that the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill does not renew

• The gross inhumanity of wealthier members of the MAGA movement celebrating and mocking other people — including fellow MAGA voters — who can no longer afford groceries due to the frozen SNAP benefits

We then check in with the latest dispatch from Troll-sylvania, which features Kenny Murdoch's hilarious "insult" wherein he accuses us of making "AI" content because our teeth are "too perfect," because he simply cannot fathom a world in which regular dental visits, braces, Invisalign, and basic oral hygiene are a thing that exist.

Not only do we have impeccable dental situations, we also design and sell high-quality vinyl stickers, per a recent customer review. Nice!

In an effort to take things out on a high note, our hosts wrap up the episode by trading answers to questions pulled from our Delve Deck conversation card sets! This week we answer the questions "what two foods are people always putting together that ruin them for you?", "what was the least useful class you ever took in school?", and "what is your favorite local spot in town?"

Thanks for stopping by to hang out, commiserate, and (hopefully) laugh with us!

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