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Grading the World

Joe Capraro and Matt Baker

LIsten to hear us give out letter grades for the week"s most interesting stories and people.

news news commentary

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113 • A Farewell to Ohms

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2025/04/08

In our last show on WXOJ, we talk about George Costanza's tariffs and reflect on the last five years.

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112 • Stagger On

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2025/03/27

George Foreman's legacy, a WV couple gets hundreds of years in prison, the happiest and healthiest nations on earth, and some school closings.

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111 • Paranoid Fantasy Land

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2025/03/22

A possible WNBA lockout, everyone isn't welcome in Meridian Idaho schools, and Europe changes its priorities as the U.S. bombs Yemen.

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110 • Puppy dogs and Spring days

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2025/02/27

How Spain rescued its economy, a coffee shop bans work on the weekends, and our usual rundown of the ongoing dismantling of the U.S. government

58:02

109 • Mouth of the Whale

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2025/02/20

Kendrick Lamar's halftime masterpiece, a few animal stories, and our weekly government disaster roundup.

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108 • Idiotic Nonsense

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2025/02/12

A listener weighs in on creepy massage guys, Kanye and Bianca Censori make a scene at the Grammys, and UMass does right by a student. Plus government stuff.

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107 • A Whole lot of Dumb

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2025/02/05

A Tinder trap, a $2.1 billion mistake, another NFL player who doesn't understand what massages are for, and the destruction of the American government

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106 • Pardon the Mess

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2025/01/30

Pardons handed out like gumdrops, a brave Tiawanese doctor, more money for Massachusetts teachers, and dogs in hospitals.

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105 • The Least Wonderful Week of the Year

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2025/01/21

Bidding farewell to David Lynch and Bob Uecker, and hello again to President Poopshow.

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104 • Two Scoops from the same toilet

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2025/01/16

Palling around at Jimmy Carter's funeral, Trump's non-sentencing, foreign investment in data centers, threats against Greenland and Canada, and a few streaming recommendations.

58:03

103 • All out of whack

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2025/01/08

The Bourbon Street and Trump Tower attacks, Facebook goes full Cyberdine systems, and the Joe Biden Awards.

57:59

102 • Do as we say, not as we do

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2025/01/03

A listener letter, a Biden veto, the second Trump administration (gag) takes further shape, the UHC insider trading story, and a brutal NYC subway murder.

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101 • A Fearful Race of Beasts

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2024/12/25

,After a quick primer on the history of Presidential pardons, we discuss the German market attack and Madison, WI school shooting before lightening things up with a $6 million banana and a Chewbacca breakup.

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100 • Everybody's an Idiot

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2024/12/18

Matt somehow finds it in himself to stay calm while Joe advocates for killing the rich and powerful, President Biden's mass pardons/extensions of clemency, the big drone mystery, and some streaming video recommendations.

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99 • Rooting for chaos

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2024/12/10

Brian Thompson's murder and its media coverage, Hunter Biden's pardon, drones over New Jersey, and Springfield's Adult Court of Hope.

58:07

98 • Irony week

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2024/12/05

Some Trump stuff, a few international crime stories, a dangerous new Federal policy, and Oklahoma doubles down on making public schools into religious indoctrination centers.

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97 • Cruising away from it all

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2024/11/25

A cruise line offers a way to escape Trump II's attempt to dismantle the federal government department by department, and Matt learns about Idiocracy.

59:36

96 • Scumbags and wackos

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2024/11/18

President-elect Trump fills his cabinet with sewage, and a few extended takes on the election and its aftermath from around the globe

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95 • RIP USA

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2024/11/12

After Matt pays tribute to his family's dearly and newly departed Charlee, he and Joe dissect the results of the 2024 elections and what is in store for the nation if the electorate isn't presented with better Presidential choices in the future.

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94 • Poking the Bear

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2024/11/11

Joe reports on the floods in Valencia, a Polish radio station backtracks on AI, the WNBA's coaching purge, and election endorsements and vote-shaming.

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