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Full CoHost Experience | 433
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- Boomer Bunker
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- Jul 24, 2026
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Summary
Leave a Voicemail Boomer Bob steps in for Duchess this week and somehow survives the full co-host gauntlet — technical hiccups, off-mic chaos, a StreamYard meltdown mid-show, and a sign-off bit that'll make you miss the Duchess by minute two (turns out even the software agrees nothing works right when she's gone). From there it's peak Boomer Bunker sprawl: a half-serious pitch for a podcaster's union, war stories about the podcast networks that flamed out a decade ago, and John griping about what AI is doing to audio editing. Then the news gets real. New Jersey's DMV somehow registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote — yes, even after they said "no" on the citizenship question — and the state and its software vendor are now publicly blaming each other while DOJ's Harmeet Dhillon opens an investigation. We say goodbye to podcasting pioneer John C. Dvorak, co-host of No Agenda for nearly two decades. Trump just handed Saudi Arabia the ability to enrich its own uranium, which is either fine or a five-alarm fire depending who you ask. And on the crime beat: Amy Fisher's son allegedly microwaving his cat alive, an Orlando family's $300 dine-and-dash that turned them into main characters on social media, and one Florida case so disturbing — a man's real-life obsession with elderly women landing him life without parole — that it might be the darkest thing we've covered. Topics Covered: Boomer Bob Fills In for Duchess — Bob takes over full co-host duties for the night; the crew immediately hits technical issues with StreamYard locking up mid-show, which they blame on "The Curse of the Duchess." Podcaster's Union Pitch — A half-joking brainstorm on what it would take to unionize podcasters, and why it'd probably never work. Podcast Network War Stories — John and Bob reminisce about…