It’s been 51 years, and I still know for certain that Happy Days aired Tuesday nights at 8pm.

How messed up is that? MS shrinks my brain, keeping me from finding words regularly, and yet, that piece of useless information is still in there somewhere. That’s because before the Internet, VCRs, DVRs, and Streaming, the only way to catch your favorite show was to have your ass in front of a TV when the network decided to televise it. (So you tended to remember when your shows were on.)

I have a lot of great memories watching the Cunninghams and Arthur Fonzerelli, but a fantastic takeaway from the series is how it remains in the Zeitgeist to this day. You see, back in 1977, the writers decided it would make sense for Fonzie to water ski while wearing his leather jacket and jump over a shark. Since then, the phrase “Jumping the shark” has come to represent a desperate, absurd publicity stunt that signifies the peak and subsequent decline of a show’s quality. 

Call me crazy but it feels as though the United States of America has officially jumped the shark! We are nothing more than an absurd publicity stunt gone wrong, signifying the peak and subsequent decline of this country’s quality.

Today’s version of American Exceptionalism includes federal agents killing Americans in broad daylight, while the Health and Human Services Department toys with allowing polio and measles to make a comeback. Meanwhile, our malignant narcissist President, Felon 47, who’s clearly in cognitive decline, stays up all night posting nonsense when he isn’t taunting world leaders on an international stage, of course.

This week’s pod is a hodgepodge discussion of the insanity that is our country right now. There was so much to talk about:

• Trump’s Davos Word Salad
• Denmark & Greenland
• Our WHO exit
• America’s Original Sin of Slavery
• Ashley Parker’s, The Atlantic article
• Difficult Conversations
• Legal Competency vs Cognitive Decline
• Climate Deniers vs Climate Insurrectionists vs Climate Change vs Global Warming

So much went down this week that between recording it and airing it, we never got around to the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE and how the GOP is now the anti-Second Amendment party.

We’ve jumped the shark, alright. Feel free to have a listen. If we make it to the midterms, maybe some new writers will be hired. Not going to lie, I’m not feeling real hopeful about our chances of winning an Emmy this year.