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The Overlap
The Overlap is a podcast brought to you by the Friends of the Future Foundation. We believe that the majority of folks wish for the best future for themselves and future generations, we want to gather that majority, help them identify each other, coordinate together, educate, and equip them to ensure the best future for ourselves and future generations.
Episodes
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The Industrialization of Disappointment 😥
Something in your laundry room has been lying to you since 2014, and the company put the confession in writing. This week we find out why your cake mix, your…
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Japan Ruined America: We Can Fix It!
Joshua went to Japan for his 10th anniversary and came home with a lot to say. It starts at a basement gate at LAX. From there it goes places you won’t see…
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Private Jets for Jesus: The Tax-Free Gospel
Bonnie Parker gave Kenneth Copeland’s ministry tens of thousands of dollars, possibly hundreds of thousands, hoping to be healed. She died believing she hadn’t…
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Digital Qualified Immunity: When Software Decides and Nobody Answers
When the government hands a decision about your life to software, who answers for it — and how does anyone check its work? Joshua and Will borrow a real legal…
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The Bootstrap Con: How "You're On Your Own" Was Sold to Keep Us Apart
The Bootstrap Con In 1834, a labor paper made fun of a man who could supposedly lift himself over a fence by his own bootstraps. It was a joke, because nobody…
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AI Data Centers on Public Land
ederal agencies are quietly turning tens of thousands of acres of western public lands into expedited, cheap real estate for AI data centers. Between amended…
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Killer Robots: The UN Autonomous Weapons Non-Treaty
Twelve years, one dead human rights lawyer’s warning, and the UN just produced a document with all the teeth of a permission slip. The US and Russia agreed on…
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Space Force Guardians: Wardrobe Malfunction?
An AI-generated Space Force uniform posted on Truth Social explicitly credits Starship Troopers as design inspiration. We trace the high-cost absurdity…
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It's Working: Flooding The Zone
Joshua sat down Monday to pick this week’s episode, opened 3 tabs, and closed all 3 without picking anything. In his defense there were about 40. 🗂️ In 1984 a…
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Deep Into 2027: Iran War Leak
Christopher Lloyd (no relation) bought a flatbed in 2024 for $187,000. In 2026 he stopped washing it. A truck wash is $130, which is nothing, and it’s the most…
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We are all Flocked...
Illinois wrote the strongest license plate reader law in the country in 2023. By 2025, Texas cops had searched its cameras hunting a woman over an abortion…
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The Number Nobody Pays: How Phantom Rent Runs the Economy
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released July’s Consumer Price Index. Headline inflation came in at 3.4% year over year. Core CPI, excluding food…
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Cut Here: The Socialism Episode You Can Share With Your Dad
This week is not an episode. It is a tool. There are two versions of this in the feed. This one has an intro on the front. The other one does not. Listen to…
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30 Year Republican: What the Mainstream Media Isn't Telling You
Forty hours at a warehouse job. Here is the paycheck, every line of it, and what is left at the bottom. Then a definition nobody has ever bothered to give you…
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The FBI Is Building an AI to Find "Radicals": You're next!
The State Department recently published a report naming progressive politicians, journalists, and Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls as agents of foreign…
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ICE: Accountable to No One
In this gripping episode of The Overlap, Joshua dives into the sobering details of ICE-caused deaths—how a tourist, caught in an agency’s deadly machine, was…
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AI: What They're Not Really Saying
This week on The Overlap, we are measuring the massive gap between corporate AI promises and actual reality. Silicon Valley is dumping hundreds of billions of…
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Trump Regime is Dying: The Pain Will Continue
The regime is cracking, but before they pack up their gaudy Home Depot gold Oval Office decor, they are handing you the bill. This week, we compare today’s…
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Enshittification: Everthing's an Upcharge!
The modern economy has been systematically reengineered to strip away included services and sell them back to you as premium up-charges. Through deliberate…
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1 Million, Millions: Elon Musk and One Question
Elon Musk is worth $1 Trillion USD… The Overlap discusses how this happened, and what you should know about how it happened… It’s all part of the “trickle-down…
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Controlling the Checkbook: Science Under Attack
In this episode of The Overlap, host Joshua exposes a major 2026 regulatory power grab buried inside a 412-page Washington document: Docket OMB-2026-0034! 🚨 By…
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The Moat Around the Whitehouse: Democracy at Risk
This week, we’re looking at the White House going full Baghdad “Green Zone”. FDR built a 1942 bunker so the Republic would outlive the man; today, they are…
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One Big, Fugly Son of a Bill: OBBBA & Your Healthcare
There’s a recording from 1971. Two men in a room. One of them becomes a felon. The other becomes the president. What they agreed to that afternoon is the…
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1776: The Fund is the Foundation
The pardons were the headline. The $1.776 billion is the foundation. This week DOJ stood up an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” — paid from the Treasury, never passed…
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Class Action Nation: The Lawsuit is the Last Remaining Public Square
The picket line is gone and the regulators are captured. That leaves the class action as the last room where collective harm gets a name. ⚖️ From the 190°…
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Add Water to the Tea: The Fine Art of Selling Empty Bags
From the 1929 utility pyramids of Samuel Insull to the 2026 hype cycles of Silicon Valley, the names change but the math remains the same. This week, Joshua…
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The Base Breaks: When the War Machine Loses Its Fans
The American war machine is losing its base. In this episode of The Overlap, Joshua explores why loyalty is running out as a new conflict in Iran looms. From…
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MAGA Built a War Machine and Now It's Pointing in the Wrong Direction
This week on The Overlap, we’re exploring the ultimate “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” moment in American politics. Join Joshua and Will as they…
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People For Rent: America has always treated foreign workers as a resource, not as people.
Will’s got his 90s voice ready and Joshua’s got the receipts on a 70-year-old architecture that treats students like Cold War chips. We’re talking about the…
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When Loyalty Becomes Currency: The New Architecture of Governance
On January 20th, 2025, the revolving door didn’t just keep spinning. It lost its hinges. For 64 years we’ve watched the same pattern repeat: warning, scandal…
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Interview with a PD: Funding, Systemic Flaws, and What Needs to Change
Want to know what it’s really like behind the badge for public defenders? Spoiler: It’s a mix of heartbreak, hustle, and systemic dysfunction that’s costing…
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The Pay-to-Play Gavel: Why the DOJ is Killing Public Defense
Mixing it up… a little debate-style… We look at the systematic dismantling of legal aid for the poor, turning the American courtroom into a VIP lounge where…
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Spring Break - Takin' a Break This Week
We are exhausted from doing all of those chores and spring cleaning around the house in addition to having full lives, so thanks for being patient with us this…
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How Building MacGyver-Style Mental Toolboxes Can Close the Generation Gap
In this episode, Will explores the generational differences in understanding and using technology. It delves into how each generation, from Baby Boomers to Gen…
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Silver Tidalwave - Boomer Autopsy (Part 2)
Wrapping up the 2nd part of last episode titled Silver Tidalwave, your co-host Joshua delivers a blistering “generational autopsy” of the Boomer legacy…
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Silver Tidalwave: Boomer Autopsy - Part 1
The “Silver Tsunami” isn’t a wave; it’s a ransom note. With the oldest Boomers turning 80 this year and 78% of them refusing to budge from their 4-bedroom…
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Guerrilla Infrastructure in the Age of the Electrostate
I am currently holding a used Dell Optiplex with the same reverence usually reserved for religious icons, and quite frankly, I have every right to. This week…
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Autopoiesis: The Machine That Creates Itself
Ever wonder why your houseplants seem to have a better survival strategy than most political movements? 🌱 Dive into this episode where we unravel the secret…
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The Greying Wolf: The Twilight of Fascism
Ever wondered how a regime falls apart? Not with a bang, but a wheeze! Join us as we dive into the hilarious chaos of a fictional dictatorship led by the…
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The Suburban Ponzi Scheme
Your lawn is a lie. That quiet cul-de-sac isn’t the American Dream—it’s a financial time bomb. 💣 In this episode, we uncover the “Suburban Ponzi Scheme”…
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Dream Hacking, Beer Ads, and the CIA’s Leftovers
Will is still off-grid (probably wise), leaving Joshua to tackle the lighthearted topic of mind control. We discuss how corporations are literally…
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The A Word: No, the OTHER A Word!
Will is still on hiatus (presumably bartering podcast gear for freeze-dried stroganoff in the Ozarks), so the guardrails are off. In this solo episode, Joshua…
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Luxury Bones, $39 Hugs, and "Subsequent Jet Engine Encounters": Why American Healthcare is a Scam
With Will out for the holidays, Joshua flies solo to dismantle the world’s most expensive practical joke: the American Healthcare System. From dental plans…
The OverlapThe Holiday Psyop: Autopsying the Christmas Industrial Complex
Does holiday stress feel like a feature, not a bug? On The Overlap, Joshua autopsies the Christmas Industrial Complex. From Santa as a surveillance asset to…
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Pattern Recognition: Your Brain's Favorite Drug
Welcome to the wild ride of “The Overlap,” where Joshua takes the mic solo, and the guardrails are off! With co-host Will allegedly at the dentist (or is he?)…
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You Own Nothing: The Rise of Techno-Feudalism
Joshua flies solo to dismantle the biggest lie of the modern world: that you actually own your devices. From John Deere tractors that require Ukrainian hacker…
The OverlapCan This Civilization Be Saved? - Part 2
Forget the myths. The Maya didn’t disappear, and Easter Island didn’t starve. Collapse is never simple. In Part 2, we ditch the simplistic cautionary tales and…
The OverlapThe Big Squeeze: Longest Shutdown Ever
This week on The Overlap, Joshua goes solo to navigate the “hellscape” of the 2025 government shutdown. This isn’t a story about closed national parks or…
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Can this Civilization be Saved? - Part 1
We all feel it: a sense that things are both progressing and decaying at the exact same time. This feeling of ‘overlap’ is a classic sign of a civilization in…
The OverlapThe Grim Reaper of the US Government: Russ Vought - Part 2
In Part 2, Joshua and Will unpack the terrifying execution of Russ Vought’s master plan. This is no longer just theory; this is the playbook. We explore…
The OverlapThe Grim Reaper of the US Government: Russ Vought - Part 1
The Grim Reaper of the American Government (Part 1) Who is Russ Vought? He’s been called the “shadow president” and the “Grim Reaper” of the U.S. government…
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Make Germany Great Again: Nazism - Part 2
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of wartime sexual assault and mass suicide. What happens after a nation trades freedom for the promise of…
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Make Germany Great Again: Nazism - Part 1
TRIGGER WARNING: NAZI REGIME It didn’t start with a bang. Nazism rose through a series of “legal” steps that ordinary Germans accepted. Join Joshua and Will as…
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Make Italy Great Again: Fascism - Part 2
This is a continuation from our podcast titled Make Italy Great Again: Facism - Part 1, the second episode of our Facism series. Joshua and Will continue where…
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Make Italy Great Again: Fascism - Part 1
The word ‘fascist’ gets thrown around like a political hand grenade, but what does it actually mean? We’re starting our new series by going back to the source…
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The Powell Memo: A Blueprint for a Class War - Part 2
Part 2: The Blueprint and Its Legacy A deep dive into the Powell Memo itself and its four-front strategy to combat what Powell saw as an “attack on the…
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The Powell Memo: A Blueprint for a Class War - Part 1
Join us as we explore the Powell Memo, a secret blueprint for corporate power. Uncover the history of how a 1971 memo from a lawyer for the tobacco industry…
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Silicon and Sparks: How AI and Crypto Are Remaking the Grid (Part 2 of 2)
Welcome back for Part 2! If you’re just joining us, be sure to listen to last week’s episode first. This week on The Overlap, we’re diving deeper into the…
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Silicon & Sparks: The Energy Cost of Crypto & AI (Part 1 of 2)
Welcome back, folks. This week, we’re plunging headfirst into the digital abyss. We’re exploring two of the most powerful and perplexing technologies of our…
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Reform or Revolution: A Breakdown of How Complex Systems Change
In this episode of The Overlap, we conduct a detailed analysis of how radical transformation happens within institutions. We tackle the central question: is it…