August 30, 2025 • 22 mins
It’s Friday, and I’m back with another edition of A World Gone Mad. Some weeks the headlines just drift past…but this week, they hit with the force of a wrecking ball. What you’re about to hear isn’t spin, it’s reality colliding with power in ways that should make every one of us stop and pay attention.
I start with a story that goes beyond politics as usual. It’s about the last place Americans thought they could still find truth…and how that foundation has been ripped apart in a matter of days. People with decades of service and reputations built on science stood their ground, and they paid the price. That alone tells you how deep the rot runs.
Then I take you across the Atlantic, where a strike wasn’t just an attack on Ukraine. It was a carefully staged message aimed straight at Europe’s institutions. The death toll was brutal, but the symbolism was even louder. Europe has been put on notice…and the response is already moving from words to weapons.
These aren’t just “big stories.” They’re turning points. They’re the kind of moments that reveal what happens when truth is sidelined, when loyalty matters more than facts, and when the people in power bet that you won’t notice. My job is to make sure you do notice.
That’s what this podcast is about: stripping away the excuses and saying what too many others won’t. I’m not here to comfort the powerful. I’m here to hold up the mirror and ask if this is really the country we want to live in.
But Fridays are also for breathing room…because nobody can stare at chaos all week without needing a release valve. That’s why I bring you News from the Edge of Sanity: a chance to laugh, shake your head, and wonder how the world manages to outdo satire every single time.
From government shake-ups to the bizarre sideshows of everyday life, I’ll take you through it all. No filters, no sugar-coating, just the sharp edges and the absurd corners that define the week we just lived through.
So plug in, press play, and let’s close this week the way only A World Gone Mad can…with honesty, outrage, and just enough insanity to remind us we’re still standing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a world gone mad.
This is a world gone mad, mad,mad, mad, mad.
This is a world gone mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe.
Welcome to the Friday edition,the part of the week where I
bring you news from the edge ofsanity and try to lighten the
(00:20):
load a little before you headinto your long weekend.
Now, if you're listening to mypodcast, welcome to the club
nobody signed up for.
Let me see if I could describewhat you're probably already
feeling.
You've crawled through anotherweek in America where our
country is a gorilla-gluedbargain bin piñata on wobbly
(00:42):
legs staggering its way into abirthday party that's packed
with sugar-crazed children whoare swinging aluminum bats
wildly like it's the HungerGames.
But hey, maybe that's just mescreaming from inside the piñata
.
America is not divided.
It's a family reunion foodfight where half the relatives
(01:05):
brought potato salad, the otherhalf brought Molotov cocktails
and the tablecloth is already onfire.
The news Still cooked in themicrowave with the wrapper on,
the politicians Still auctioningoff democracy on Craigslist,
with the words heavily bruisedno returns written in the
(01:28):
description and the nationalmood hovering somewhere between
bad wi-fi rage and a hangover.
You didn't earn coasting onfumes, pretending the smoke
alarm going off in thebackground is just part of the
vibe.
Now you might be streaming thison your commute, catching it at
(01:49):
the gym or hiding out in Targetpretending you're still looking
for the toothpaste.
Doesn't matter where you showedup.
No-transcript, because whilethe headlines keep bouncing
(02:28):
around like squirrels onespresso, somebody's got to grab
the mic and say what everyoneelse is thinking.
That somebody is me.
So here we go.
The CDC just exploded.
Not with a virus, not with anoutbreak, with a political purge
(02:49):
.
So shameless it makes Watergatelook like amateur hour.
Think about that.
The one agency that is supposedto stand above politics, the
one place Americans still lookto for straight facts on health,
the one place Americans stilllook to for straight facts on
health, is now ground zero for apolitical demolition job.
(03:09):
They fired Susan Monteres, gonein less than a month.
Why?
Because she wouldn't bend theknee to Robert F Kennedy Jr's
crusade to roll back vaccinesand replace science with snake
oil.
That's it.
That was her crime.
She stood for science.
(03:30):
They threw her out, and thenTrump and RFK Jr lit the fuse.
Four of the agency's mostsenior doctors said Screw it,
we're out the door too.
These aren't interns, thesearen't mid-level staffers.
These are the top names inAmerican public health, people
(03:51):
with decades of experiencewalking away because they
refused to be props in a circus.
And then came the moment youalmost never see in government,
and if you missed this, youmissed history Hundreds of
staffers staging a clap out.
Picture it.
(04:13):
The people who fight pandemicsfor a living, the people who
work insane hours to keep thepublic safe, lining the halls,
slow clapping, the very leaderswho just got shoved out the door
.
That wasn't a polite goodbye,that was a defiance in motion.
That was a scientific middlefinger in surround sound.
(04:34):
When government workers, thequiet ones, the ones who usually
keep their heads down stand uplike that, you know something is
rotten.
And Dimitri Daskalakis didn'tjust resign.
He detonated His letter, rippedTrump and RFK Jr to shreds.
He accused them of cooking thenumbers, gagging scientists,
(04:58):
endangering kids, pregnant womenand LGBTQ Americans.
He called the environmentuntenable Translation.
The CDC has been turned into apropaganda machine.
That letter from him wasspine-straining.
It was a kind of defiance wehaven't seen in public health in
decades, in a country where sofew people are willing to stand
(05:22):
up to Trump and his wreckingcrew.
Daskalakis did.
He put it on paper, he made itpublic.
And he made it crystal clearthis was not about policy
disagreements.
This was about betrayalBetrayal of science, betrayal of
medicine, betrayal of thepublic trust.
And who takes over in his place?
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Jim O'Neill, a biotech investor, which is a fancy way of saying
the guy's resume is cashing inon sick people, not curing them.
Putting him in charge of theCDC is like putting the Marlboro
man in charge of the AmericanLung Association.
This isn't an appointment, it'sa punchline, and it tells you
(06:07):
everything about where theadministration is headed Loyalty
over expertise, politics overscience, ideology over truth.
So let me be clear.
This isn't just a shakeupup.
This is an all-out hijacking.
The last guardrail of trust inpublic health is being ripped
(06:28):
out.
Once that goes, everythingcollapses from the flu shots to
food safety, from pandemicresponse to basic guidance you
thought you could trust.
And in a country alreadydrowning in lies, that collapse
could be lethal.
This is not science versuspolitics, it's truth versus
propaganda.
(06:48):
The propaganda is winning.
Kennedy and Trump are rippingout the voices of science and
replacing them with voices ofloyalty, voices of spin, voices
of control.
And if they succeed, publichealth in America will never
look the same.
The people who walked out, thepeople who slow clapped in the
hallways, the ones who riskedtheir careers to say enough.
(07:12):
They showed more spine in aweek than most of this country's
so-called leaders have shown inyears.
And that's what makes thismoment matter, because if those
doctors can stand up inside theCDC, then the rest of us damn
well better be ready to stand upoutside of it.
And standing up isn't justsomething we owe here at home,
(07:37):
it's something the world isbeing forced to do right now in
Ukraine.
Russia's latest strike on Kievwasn't just brutal, it was
deliberate theater 18 dead, fourof them children, 48 more
wounded.
And where did the missiles land?
Not only homes and streets, butthe British Council and the
(07:59):
European Union delegationoffices.
That's not random.
That's a message.
That's Putin saying I'm notjust at war with Ukraine, I'm
daring Europe to get off thesidelines.
And Europe heard it.
The UK and the EU immediatelyhauled in Russian diplomats.
Condemnations flew and Ukrainedemanded tougher sanctions.
(08:25):
The European Union for thefirst time announced it would
use profits from frozen Russianassets to bankroll Kiev's
defense Bravo and Germany.
Germany flipped the switch onthe largest ammunition factory
in all of Europe.
That's not diplomacy, that'spreparation.
So let's stop pretending.
(08:47):
This is just another chapter inUkraine's suffering.
This was a direct strike onEurope's institutions.
The line between Ukraine's warand our war is getting thinner
by the day, because whenmissiles hit the EU's own
offices, that's no longercollateral damage everyone,
that's a calling card.
(09:07):
And here's the deeper meaning.
Putin isn't pulling back, he'sescalating.
He's testing how much Europewill take before it fights back,
not just with sanctions, butwith real teeth.
And Europe, for the first time,is moving like it believes
Putin.
Frozen assets are turning intoweapons, ammunition plants are
roaring back to life.
(09:28):
The West is no longerwhispering support.
It's putting its money and itsmuscle on the table.
18 people died in Kiev, four ofthem were children.
That's the human cost.
But the political cost is thatPutin may have just crossed a
line, a line where the war inUkraine stops being over there
(09:51):
and starts becoming a full-blownconfrontation between Russia
and Europe, the kind ofconfrontation history books call
by one word conflagration.
I truly hope I'm wrong.
Let's be honest this never hadto get this far.
Donald Trump could stop kissingPutin's ass to get this far.
(10:17):
Donald Trump could stop kissingPutin's ass and stand with
Ukraine and Europe.
He could shut this downtomorrow by joining the free
world instead of enabling a thug.
But Donny boy won't, becauseweakness dressed up as bravado
has always been his specialty.
Donald the delusional isspineless and after these two
news stories, wolfpack listeners, you deserve a break for your
(10:41):
long, hopefully fun Labor Dayweekend.
It's time for news from the edgeof sanity, where the stories
are still insane, but at leastyou don't need a stiff drink to
get through them.
Okay, so everyone stay with me.
Focus on this Picture.
This A prestigious New YorkCity law firm, marble lobby,
(11:02):
polished mahogany desks, thekind of place you know, where
you expect whispered deals andoverpriced coffee.
And suddenly it turns into theWalking Dead Summer Associate
Edition.
Because, yes, an intern bit,multiple co-workers.
Not a typo, not a metaphor.
(11:24):
We're talking actual teeth.
An intern bit, multiple co.
-workers.
Forget mergers and acquisitions.
This was molars and mastication.
Somewhere in Manhattan there's alaw partner right now
explaining to HR why riskmanagement suddenly includes
rabies shots.
And think about the poorvictims here.
(11:46):
You didn't go to Columbia Lawto rack up $200,000 in student
debt just to get gnawed on byChad.
The intern you're billing$1,500 an hour.
Now you're googling.
Does a human bite requireantibiotics?
That's not in the law firm'shandbook.
Let's keep it real.
(12:07):
Interns already strike fear inlaw firms.
They're caffeinated, over,eager, desperate to impress and
biting to the resume.
And suddenly you've got youknow ad.
Biting to the resume, you gotHannibal Esquire, you know.
Someone in the office said thisis why we can't hire from Zoom
(12:29):
interviews anymore.
Here's the kicker.
In a profession built onprecedent, this sets a hell of
one.
Next time a partner says thiscontract has teeth, everybody's
ducking under the conferencetable.
So yes, wall Street has bullsand bears, midtown apparently
(12:50):
has biters.
Welcome to corporate America in2025.
The economy's shaky,democracy's hanging by a thread,
and now the interns areliterally eating each other
alive.
Okay, wolfpack, next stop.
Follow me as we zoom in onFlorida.
So Florida, never one todisappoint, has now combined two
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of its favorite hobbies baddecisions and illegal substances
.
Police say a drone carryingbags of drugs literally crashed.
That's right, high tech crime,low IQ execution.
I mean this is supposed to bethe future, right?
Drones delivering packages,maybe even your groceries, but
(13:36):
in Florida it's just AmazonPrime for cocaine.
Except, instead of arrivestomorrow, it's arrives in the
evidence locker.
Think about the planning here.
You're smuggling drugs with adrone, cutting-edge technology,
and it still manages to nosedivelike a frat boy on spring break
(13:58):
.
You can picture the cartel techteam standing there, remote
control in hand from the drone,watching their brilliant plan go
down and thinking well, I guesswe should have sprung for the
extended warranty.
And the cops didn't even haveto investigate the drugs
literally delivered themselves.
(14:19):
Forget stakeouts, forgetwiretaps, all the evidence just
plopped onto the pavement with alittle bow on top.
Florida law enforcement isprobably thinking can every
crime solve itself like this?
Maybe tomorrow stolen car willjust drive itself back to the
station.
But the real kicker somewherein Florida there's a dealer
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right now trying to explain tohis boss how the new delivery
system wasn't foolproof.
Yeah, boss, the drone crashed,but don't worry, boss, we still
got great Yelp reviews.
So there you go.
In most of America, drones aredelivering packages.
In Florida they're justdelivering indictments.
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Okay, this time we travel toFlorida again.
Because, of course, this timeit's not a drone, not an
alligator, not even meth on aRoomba.
No, this time it's a man in afull jester costume pulling a
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dagger on a landscaper.
Imagine mowing a lawn sweatingin the Florida sun, when
suddenly you look up and there'sa medieval court jester
brandishing steel, like it'sopen mic night at the
Renaissance Fair.
That's not yard work, that'syard warfare.
The landscapers, to his eternal,eternal credit, did what any
reasonable human being would do.
He grabbed his lawnmower andused it as a shield.
(15:54):
That's right.
Home depot meets game ofthrones.
Forget john snow.
This guy was john deere.
And think about the absurdity.
Here.
Jesters are supposed to juggle,tell bad jokes, wear bells on
their hats, not attemptaggravated assault with a blade
Somewhere in Shakespeare's grave.
(16:15):
He's rolling over thinking evenI didn't write something this
dumb.
And what exactly was the plan?
Did this guy wake up and think,yes, the costume of comedy plus
a deadly weapon equals fear?
And he really did guaranteehimself the world's dumbest
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mugshot.
That's all he did.
The world's dumbest mugshot.
A clown suit, a dagger and arap sheet.
The landscaper wins this one.
The mower held the line andFlorida once again proves it's
the only place where you cansurvive an armed attack by
cutting the grass.
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Okay, wolfpack, let's go clearacross the other end of America
or to the top of America andback to New York where we
started.
So the Yankees and Red Soxbaseball teams are locked in
another rivalry game and out ofnowhere, a squirrel bolts across
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the field.
Not a streaker, not a rogue fan, a squirrel.
The Bronx crowd goes wildbecause apparently this little
rodent had more hustle than halfthe Yankees baseball team.
Now picture it Professionalathletes who train year-round
bench press like superheroes,live on protein shakes and the
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loudest cheer of the night goesto a squirrel sprinting the base
path like he's stealing home.
Sprinting the base path likehe's stealing home and somewhere
Babe Ruth is rolling in hisgrave thinking really, I hit 714
home runs for this.
And you know baseball.
It already worships the weirdrally monkeys, curse-breaking
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goats, mascots that look likenightmares in fuzzy costumes.
But this squirrel, he stole theshow.
He became the Bronx's furrylittle MVP.
And here's where it goes fromfunny to insane.
Topps, the actual trading cardcompany Topps, is giving the
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squirrel his own baseball card.
That's right In between rookiestars and all-stars established.
You can now collect a rodent.
Forget Derek Jeter.
The hottest new collectible inbaseball is Rocky the outfield
squirrel.
So yes, america's pastime isofficially America's punchline
(18:46):
when the most memorable momentof Yankees Red Sox is a squirrel
.
So yes, america's pastime isofficially America's punchline
when the most memorable momentof Yankees Red Sox is a squirrel
and that squirrel gets moremerch than some rookies.
And then when that happens, youknow it's been a long baseball
season.
That was your news from the Edgeof Sanity, now a regular
segment on Fridays, a friendlyreminder that while the
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headlines are terrifying, thesidelines are completely
unhinged.
I'm not saying the world'sunwell, but it just walked into
a glass door, apologized to thedoor and then walked into it
again and again and yet again.
Wolfpack listeners, if you'vegot thoughts, unload them.
(19:29):
Maybe it's a rant about why youalways get the shopping cart
with a bad wheel and therattling metal, or why you need
assistance more times atself-checkout than you ever do
in an actual checkout line.
I want to hear it.
Or skip the rant.
Just tell me the last time youaccidentally waved at someone
(19:50):
who wasn't waving at you andthen committed to the wave
anyway, because that's who weare now.
Either way, this is your space.
Send me your weird, your petty,your over-caffeinated brain
dumps, because, trust me,they'll fit right in here.
Caffeinated brain dumps,because, trust me, they'll fit
right in here.
Email me anytime wolfpacktalksat gmailcom.
(20:17):
W-o-l-f-p-a-c-k-t-a-l-k atgmail.
Or email me the dumbest thingyou've ever seen someone try to
return at a store, the one thatmade you stop and think there's
no way they're getting a refundfor that.
Or email me the most crazything you've seen in a parking
lot this month Bonus points ifit involved a shopping cart with
a bad wheel.
Or call my 24-7 voicemail line833-399-9653.
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It's toll free.
When you call, give me yourbest impression of Donald Trump
giving his next executive order.
The more absurd, the better.
And please leave a review onApple or Spotify, because
without your stars, I'll end updressed as the Statue of Liberty
, standing on the side of thehighway spinning a cardboard
(21:03):
sign that says Will podcast forsnacks, while commuters throw
half-eaten egg McMuffins at me.
This has been a World Gone Mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe.
I'll be back Monday becausesomeone has to say the shit that
no one else will, andapparently that job's mine and
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please enjoy your long Labor Dayweekend.
Have fun Until then.
Wolfpack listeners, stayskeptical, stay focused and,
most of all, stay hopeful.
Stand up and preserve ourdemocracy.
This is a world gone mad.
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This is a world gone mad.
This is a world gone mad.
This is a world gone mad, mad,mad, mad, mad.
This is a world gone mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe.
Welcome to the Friday edition,the part of the week where I
bring you news from the edge ofsanity and try to lighten the
(00:20):
load a little before you headinto your long weekend.
Now, if you're listening to mypodcast, welcome to the club
nobody signed up for.
Let me see if I could describewhat you're probably already
feeling.
You've crawled through anotherweek in America where our
country is a gorilla-gluedbargain bin piñata on wobbly
(00:42):
legs staggering its way into abirthday party that's packed
with sugar-crazed children whoare swinging aluminum bats
wildly like it's the HungerGames.
But hey, maybe that's just mescreaming from inside the piñata
.
America is not divided.
It's a family reunion foodfight where half the relatives
(01:05):
brought potato salad, the otherhalf brought Molotov cocktails
and the tablecloth is already onfire.
The news Still cooked in themicrowave with the wrapper on,
the politicians Still auctioningoff democracy on Craigslist,
with the words heavily bruisedno returns written in the
(01:28):
description and the nationalmood hovering somewhere between
bad wi-fi rage and a hangover.
You didn't earn coasting onfumes, pretending the smoke
alarm going off in thebackground is just part of the
vibe.
Now you might be streaming thison your commute, catching it at
(01:49):
the gym or hiding out in Targetpretending you're still looking
for the toothpaste.
Doesn't matter where you showedup.
No-transcript, because whilethe headlines keep bouncing
(02:28):
around like squirrels onespresso, somebody's got to grab
the mic and say what everyoneelse is thinking.
That somebody is me.
So here we go.
The CDC just exploded.
Not with a virus, not with anoutbreak, with a political purge
(02:49):
.
So shameless it makes Watergatelook like amateur hour.
Think about that.
The one agency that is supposedto stand above politics, the
one place Americans still lookto for straight facts on health,
the one place Americans stilllook to for straight facts on
health, is now ground zero for apolitical demolition job.
(03:09):
They fired Susan Monteres, gonein less than a month.
Why?
Because she wouldn't bend theknee to Robert F Kennedy Jr's
crusade to roll back vaccinesand replace science with snake
oil.
That's it.
That was her crime.
She stood for science.
(03:30):
They threw her out, and thenTrump and RFK Jr lit the fuse.
Four of the agency's mostsenior doctors said Screw it,
we're out the door too.
These aren't interns, thesearen't mid-level staffers.
These are the top names inAmerican public health, people
(03:51):
with decades of experiencewalking away because they
refused to be props in a circus.
And then came the moment youalmost never see in government,
and if you missed this, youmissed history Hundreds of
staffers staging a clap out.
Picture it.
(04:13):
The people who fight pandemicsfor a living, the people who
work insane hours to keep thepublic safe, lining the halls,
slow clapping, the very leaderswho just got shoved out the door
.
That wasn't a polite goodbye,that was a defiance in motion.
That was a scientific middlefinger in surround sound.
(04:34):
When government workers, thequiet ones, the ones who usually
keep their heads down stand uplike that, you know something is
rotten.
And Dimitri Daskalakis didn'tjust resign.
He detonated His letter, rippedTrump and RFK Jr to shreds.
He accused them of cooking thenumbers, gagging scientists,
(04:58):
endangering kids, pregnant womenand LGBTQ Americans.
He called the environmentuntenable Translation.
The CDC has been turned into apropaganda machine.
That letter from him wasspine-straining.
It was a kind of defiance wehaven't seen in public health in
decades, in a country where sofew people are willing to stand
(05:22):
up to Trump and his wreckingcrew.
Daskalakis did.
He put it on paper, he made itpublic.
And he made it crystal clearthis was not about policy
disagreements.
This was about betrayalBetrayal of science, betrayal of
medicine, betrayal of thepublic trust.
And who takes over in his place?
(05:44):
Jim O'Neill, a biotech investor, which is a fancy way of saying
the guy's resume is cashing inon sick people, not curing them.
Putting him in charge of theCDC is like putting the Marlboro
man in charge of the AmericanLung Association.
This isn't an appointment, it'sa punchline, and it tells you
(06:07):
everything about where theadministration is headed Loyalty
over expertise, politics overscience, ideology over truth.
So let me be clear.
This isn't just a shakeupup.
This is an all-out hijacking.
The last guardrail of trust inpublic health is being ripped
(06:28):
out.
Once that goes, everythingcollapses from the flu shots to
food safety, from pandemicresponse to basic guidance you
thought you could trust.
And in a country alreadydrowning in lies, that collapse
could be lethal.
This is not science versuspolitics, it's truth versus
propaganda.
(06:48):
The propaganda is winning.
Kennedy and Trump are rippingout the voices of science and
replacing them with voices ofloyalty, voices of spin, voices
of control.
And if they succeed, publichealth in America will never
look the same.
The people who walked out, thepeople who slow clapped in the
hallways, the ones who riskedtheir careers to say enough.
(07:12):
They showed more spine in aweek than most of this country's
so-called leaders have shown inyears.
And that's what makes thismoment matter, because if those
doctors can stand up inside theCDC, then the rest of us damn
well better be ready to stand upoutside of it.
And standing up isn't justsomething we owe here at home,
(07:37):
it's something the world isbeing forced to do right now in
Ukraine.
Russia's latest strike on Kievwasn't just brutal, it was
deliberate theater 18 dead, fourof them children, 48 more
wounded.
And where did the missiles land?
Not only homes and streets, butthe British Council and the
(07:59):
European Union delegationoffices.
That's not random.
That's a message.
That's Putin saying I'm notjust at war with Ukraine, I'm
daring Europe to get off thesidelines.
And Europe heard it.
The UK and the EU immediatelyhauled in Russian diplomats.
Condemnations flew and Ukrainedemanded tougher sanctions.
(08:25):
The European Union for thefirst time announced it would
use profits from frozen Russianassets to bankroll Kiev's
defense Bravo and Germany.
Germany flipped the switch onthe largest ammunition factory
in all of Europe.
That's not diplomacy, that'spreparation.
So let's stop pretending.
(08:47):
This is just another chapter inUkraine's suffering.
This was a direct strike onEurope's institutions.
The line between Ukraine's warand our war is getting thinner
by the day, because whenmissiles hit the EU's own
offices, that's no longercollateral damage everyone,
that's a calling card.
(09:07):
And here's the deeper meaning.
Putin isn't pulling back, he'sescalating.
He's testing how much Europewill take before it fights back,
not just with sanctions, butwith real teeth.
And Europe, for the first time,is moving like it believes
Putin.
Frozen assets are turning intoweapons, ammunition plants are
roaring back to life.
(09:28):
The West is no longerwhispering support.
It's putting its money and itsmuscle on the table.
18 people died in Kiev, four ofthem were children.
That's the human cost.
But the political cost is thatPutin may have just crossed a
line, a line where the war inUkraine stops being over there
(09:51):
and starts becoming a full-blownconfrontation between Russia
and Europe, the kind ofconfrontation history books call
by one word conflagration.
I truly hope I'm wrong.
Let's be honest this never hadto get this far.
Donald Trump could stop kissingPutin's ass to get this far.
(10:17):
Donald Trump could stop kissingPutin's ass and stand with
Ukraine and Europe.
He could shut this downtomorrow by joining the free
world instead of enabling a thug.
But Donny boy won't, becauseweakness dressed up as bravado
has always been his specialty.
Donald the delusional isspineless and after these two
news stories, wolfpack listeners, you deserve a break for your
(10:41):
long, hopefully fun Labor Dayweekend.
It's time for news from the edgeof sanity, where the stories
are still insane, but at leastyou don't need a stiff drink to
get through them.
Okay, so everyone stay with me.
Focus on this Picture.
This A prestigious New YorkCity law firm, marble lobby,
(11:02):
polished mahogany desks, thekind of place you know, where
you expect whispered deals andoverpriced coffee.
And suddenly it turns into theWalking Dead Summer Associate
Edition.
Because, yes, an intern bit,multiple co-workers.
Not a typo, not a metaphor.
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We're talking actual teeth.
An intern bit, multiple co.
-workers.
Forget mergers and acquisitions.
This was molars and mastication.
Somewhere in Manhattan there's alaw partner right now
explaining to HR why riskmanagement suddenly includes
rabies shots.
And think about the poorvictims here.
(11:46):
You didn't go to Columbia Lawto rack up $200,000 in student
debt just to get gnawed on byChad.
The intern you're billing$1,500 an hour.
Now you're googling.
Does a human bite requireantibiotics?
That's not in the law firm'shandbook.
Let's keep it real.
(12:07):
Interns already strike fear inlaw firms.
They're caffeinated, over,eager, desperate to impress and
biting to the resume.
And suddenly you've got youknow ad.
Biting to the resume, you gotHannibal Esquire, you know.
Someone in the office said thisis why we can't hire from Zoom
(12:29):
interviews anymore.
Here's the kicker.
In a profession built onprecedent, this sets a hell of
one.
Next time a partner says thiscontract has teeth, everybody's
ducking under the conferencetable.
So yes, wall Street has bullsand bears, midtown apparently
(12:50):
has biters.
Welcome to corporate America in2025.
The economy's shaky,democracy's hanging by a thread,
and now the interns areliterally eating each other
alive.
Okay, wolfpack, next stop.
Follow me as we zoom in onFlorida.
So Florida, never one todisappoint, has now combined two
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of its favorite hobbies baddecisions and illegal substances
.
Police say a drone carryingbags of drugs literally crashed.
That's right, high tech crime,low IQ execution.
I mean this is supposed to bethe future, right?
Drones delivering packages,maybe even your groceries, but
(13:36):
in Florida it's just AmazonPrime for cocaine.
Except, instead of arrivestomorrow, it's arrives in the
evidence locker.
Think about the planning here.
You're smuggling drugs with adrone, cutting-edge technology,
and it still manages to nosedivelike a frat boy on spring break
(13:58):
.
You can picture the cartel techteam standing there, remote
control in hand from the drone,watching their brilliant plan go
down and thinking well, I guesswe should have sprung for the
extended warranty.
And the cops didn't even haveto investigate the drugs
literally delivered themselves.
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Forget stakeouts, forgetwiretaps, all the evidence just
plopped onto the pavement with alittle bow on top.
Florida law enforcement isprobably thinking can every
crime solve itself like this?
Maybe tomorrow stolen car willjust drive itself back to the
station.
But the real kicker somewherein Florida there's a dealer
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right now trying to explain tohis boss how the new delivery
system wasn't foolproof.
Yeah, boss, the drone crashed,but don't worry, boss, we still
got great Yelp reviews.
So there you go.
In most of America, drones aredelivering packages.
In Florida they're justdelivering indictments.
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Okay, this time we travel toFlorida again.
Because, of course, this timeit's not a drone, not an
alligator, not even meth on aRoomba.
No, this time it's a man in afull jester costume pulling a
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dagger on a landscaper.
Imagine mowing a lawn sweatingin the Florida sun, when
suddenly you look up and there'sa medieval court jester
brandishing steel, like it'sopen mic night at the
Renaissance Fair.
That's not yard work, that'syard warfare.
The landscapers, to his eternal,eternal credit, did what any
reasonable human being would do.
He grabbed his lawnmower andused it as a shield.
(15:54):
That's right.
Home depot meets game ofthrones.
Forget john snow.
This guy was john deere.
And think about the absurdity.
Here.
Jesters are supposed to juggle,tell bad jokes, wear bells on
their hats, not attemptaggravated assault with a blade
Somewhere in Shakespeare's grave.
(16:15):
He's rolling over thinking evenI didn't write something this
dumb.
And what exactly was the plan?
Did this guy wake up and think,yes, the costume of comedy plus
a deadly weapon equals fear?
And he really did guaranteehimself the world's dumbest
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mugshot.
That's all he did.
The world's dumbest mugshot.
A clown suit, a dagger and arap sheet.
The landscaper wins this one.
The mower held the line andFlorida once again proves it's
the only place where you cansurvive an armed attack by
cutting the grass.
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Okay, wolfpack, let's go clearacross the other end of America
or to the top of America andback to New York where we
started.
So the Yankees and Red Soxbaseball teams are locked in
another rivalry game and out ofnowhere, a squirrel bolts across
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the field.
Not a streaker, not a rogue fan, a squirrel.
The Bronx crowd goes wildbecause apparently this little
rodent had more hustle than halfthe Yankees baseball team.
Now picture it Professionalathletes who train year-round
bench press like superheroes,live on protein shakes and the
(17:40):
loudest cheer of the night goesto a squirrel sprinting the base
path like he's stealing home.
Sprinting the base path likehe's stealing home and somewhere
Babe Ruth is rolling in hisgrave thinking really, I hit 714
home runs for this.
And you know baseball.
It already worships the weirdrally monkeys, curse-breaking
(18:02):
goats, mascots that look likenightmares in fuzzy costumes.
But this squirrel, he stole theshow.
He became the Bronx's furrylittle MVP.
And here's where it goes fromfunny to insane.
Topps, the actual trading cardcompany Topps, is giving the
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squirrel his own baseball card.
That's right In between rookiestars and all-stars established.
You can now collect a rodent.
Forget Derek Jeter.
The hottest new collectible inbaseball is Rocky the outfield
squirrel.
So yes, america's pastime isofficially America's punchline
(18:46):
when the most memorable momentof Yankees Red Sox is a squirrel
.
So yes, america's pastime isofficially America's punchline
when the most memorable momentof Yankees Red Sox is a squirrel
and that squirrel gets moremerch than some rookies.
And then when that happens, youknow it's been a long baseball
season.
That was your news from the Edgeof Sanity, now a regular
segment on Fridays, a friendlyreminder that while the
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headlines are terrifying, thesidelines are completely
unhinged.
I'm not saying the world'sunwell, but it just walked into
a glass door, apologized to thedoor and then walked into it
again and again and yet again.
Wolfpack listeners, if you'vegot thoughts, unload them.
(19:29):
Maybe it's a rant about why youalways get the shopping cart
with a bad wheel and therattling metal, or why you need
assistance more times atself-checkout than you ever do
in an actual checkout line.
I want to hear it.
Or skip the rant.
Just tell me the last time youaccidentally waved at someone
(19:50):
who wasn't waving at you andthen committed to the wave
anyway, because that's who weare now.
Either way, this is your space.
Send me your weird, your petty,your over-caffeinated brain
dumps, because, trust me,they'll fit right in here.
Caffeinated brain dumps,because, trust me, they'll fit
right in here.
Email me anytime wolfpacktalksat gmailcom.
(20:17):
W-o-l-f-p-a-c-k-t-a-l-k atgmail.
Or email me the dumbest thingyou've ever seen someone try to
return at a store, the one thatmade you stop and think there's
no way they're getting a refundfor that.
Or email me the most crazything you've seen in a parking
lot this month Bonus points ifit involved a shopping cart with
a bad wheel.
Or call my 24-7 voicemail line833-399-9653.
(20:41):
It's toll free.
When you call, give me yourbest impression of Donald Trump
giving his next executive order.
The more absurd, the better.
And please leave a review onApple or Spotify, because
without your stars, I'll end updressed as the Statue of Liberty
, standing on the side of thehighway spinning a cardboard
(21:03):
sign that says Will podcast forsnacks, while commuters throw
half-eaten egg McMuffins at me.
This has been a World Gone Mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe.
I'll be back Monday becausesomeone has to say the shit that
no one else will, andapparently that job's mine and
(21:23):
please enjoy your long Labor Dayweekend.
Have fun Until then.
Wolfpack listeners, stayskeptical, stay focused and,
most of all, stay hopeful.
Stand up and preserve ourdemocracy.
This is a world gone mad.
(21:57):
This is a world gone mad.
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