A WORLD GONE MAD
A Progressive Liberal News Podcast
Veteran Television, and Radio Broadcaster Jeff Alan Wolf offers his Observations on the issues (many issues) of the week with a fearless liberal bent. His solid delivery, and dry common sense approach sets him apart from other liberals that populate Talk and Commentary Podcasts”
Jeff Does NOT Pull Punches.
He does NOT Make comments that are “SAFE”.
He tells the Truth.
(He Tells It As He Sees It)
He Is Very OPINIONATED!
He says the things Out Loud YOU’RE
already thinking.
Jeff is Unfiltered, Unspun, A little Unhinged, but offers a lot of Common Sense.
This Podcast could make you MAD.
This Podcast could make you SMILE.
Regardless, it WILL make you THINK!
A WORLD GONE MAD
He Touched the Epstein Files Now They Want His Head
Some weeks feel like satire is just a transcription service. I sat down to record this episode and realized I wasn’t writing a show — I was taking notes on a meltdown.
There’s a moment when a political party turns inward, jaws wide open, and starts chewing its own. That moment isn’t just noise — it’s a warning siren dressed like a press release. And in this episode, I couldn’t ignore what it says about where we are… and where we’re headed.
I’m not recycling headlines or regurgitating takes you’ve already heard coming from other popular podcasts. I’m pulling at the threads no one wants to touch — the ones that reveal how performance has replaced principle, and how outrage is now a loyalty test with no answer key.
If you’re looking for a show that pretends everything is normal, this isn’t it. I’m not smoothing the edges or comforting anyone with platitudes. I’m following the chaos where it actually leads — into the rooms where decisions get made, undone, and set on fire before breakfast.
What happens when transparency becomes betrayal? When certain apps decide who gets heard and who vanishes? When a “fix” is just a rebrand of the same old scam? Yeah — I go there.
This episode is for anyone watching the headlines and thinking: “Wait… am I the only one seeing this?” No, you’re not. And no, you’re not crazy. You’re just living in a world gone mad.
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This is a world gone mad. This is a world gone mad, mad, mad, mad mad. It's Wednesday, the middle child of the week, too far from Friday to exhale. Too deep in the madness to fake optimism with a straight face. This is a world gone mad and I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe, your sleep-deprived observer of the America's Nervous Breakdown. If you're still here, still listening, you're either a glutton for punishment or someone who keeps yelling at your TV what the hell is happening? What the hell is happening. Either way, you're my kind of person. Either way, you're my kind of person Because, while most podcasts spend today recycling headlines like junk mail, I'm going after what they skip the stuff that's dull on purpose, complicated by design, dangerous if left in the dark. You deserve better than deja vu, news cycles and editorial nap time. So grab your fire extinguisher before the Republicans hold another hearing titled Oops, we Deregulated Everything. Now you'd think, after seizing the House, hijacking the courts and bending the truth into balloon animals, the MAGA machine would take a breath. But no, they've moved on to cannibalism and somehow Epstein's name is back in the mix.
Speaker 1:Speaker Mike Johnson just walked into a buzzsaw and Donald Trump already repackaging the wreckage and calling it leadership. Johnson, under pressure from moderates and terrified of a 2026 bloodbath, dared to touch the third rail, publicly endorsing the full release of Epstein-related documents. 24 hours later, the base was howling documents. 24 hours later, the base was howling. Marjorie Taylor Loonball Green started dry heaving Bible verses on X. Steve Bannon declared in an act of war against our side. So this episode I'm cracking open the screaming match behind closed doors, the Epstein file tug of war, and why even Trump loyalists are starting to flinch. Because when Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes your voice of reason, you know the universe has slipped a disc. Here's what just blew up between Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump and why it matters. So let's get this straight. Donald Trump, and why it matters, so let's get this straight.
Speaker 1:Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a man who looks like he was created in a lab to sell Bibles door to door while lobbying for fetal personhood laws, finally decides to do one thing vaguely resembling public transparency. Not health care, not climate, not campaign reform. Nope, jeffrey, freaking Epstein. He walks out, mike Johnson, chin up, spine stiff, and says let's release the full Epstein client list. Whoa, hold the phone. Someone in the GOP just did something that might accidentally benefit the public. That must have set off alarms. In Mar-a-Lago Sirens Smoke Bannon emerging from a tanning bed screaming. It's a trap. He's trying to kill us all Because within 24 hours, hours, the Republican base went from chanting where's the list? Where's the list? To burn the heretic.
Speaker 1:And here's the part where reality snaps like a rubber band across your face. Donald Trump, a man who once said Epstein was a terrific guy and whose name might show up on one of those blacked out flight logs, allegedly, allegedly shut up legal department, immediately starts rebranding Johnson's move as a deep state ploy. The same Johnson who thought marriage meant a man, a woman and a Chick-fil-A drive-thru on Sunday, which, ironically, is closed. And somehow he becomes the villain in MAGA World. Why? Because he touched the Epstein files. Because somewhere deep in the festering belly of this party, the new rule is thou shalt not expose the secrets. That keep the donors nervous. And now Marjorie Taylor, loonball Green, who's basically a Facebook comment section wrapped in CrossFit gear, is quoting scripture like she's casting out demons.
Speaker 1:And Steve Bannon? Steve Bannon called it a betrayal of the movement. Hey, buddy, you were just praising Victor Orban for outlawing press freedom. What exactly is the movement anymore? Because if the bar is lower than maybe let's see who trafficked kids. I'm not sure you're leading a movement. You're curating a crime spree.
Speaker 1:Let's be clear this isn't about Epstein, it's about control. It's about protecting the carefully curated illusion that everyone outside the cult is a pedophile and everyone inside is a patriot. And if you actually open the files, the illusion crumbles Suddenly. It's not just Bill Clinton and the liberal cabal, it's hedge fund guys, it's billionaires, it's a few golf buddies, it's maybe one or two family friends, and God forbid that narrative collapse right before midterms. So now we've got Speaker Johnson publicly flogged by his own party because he tried to give the American people the very transparency they've been screaming about for years. And Trump, trump, is already shaping it into a loyalty test. You're either with me or out in the daylight squinting and pretending you're not lost, when a party can't even agree that releasing the names of people who flew on a pedophile's jet might be a good thing.
Speaker 1:We've gone beyond dysfunction thing. We've gone beyond dysfunction. We've entered the phase of circular fire squad governance, where truth is treason and basic decency is a liberal plot. Meanwhile, matt Gaetz is suddenly tweeting about witch hunts and Lauren Bobblehead Bobbert is hosting a Save the Secrets fundraiser at a Bass Pro Shop, because this isn't politics anymore, it's professional gaslighting, wrapped in a flag, sold with a promo code and sealed with a kiss from the Florida Swamp. Welcome to the Cannibal Buffet, where the only rule is eat before you're eaten. So guess what time it is? That's right. It's time for another round of. Let's pretend we're fixing the student loan crisis while quietly screwing everyone again, because nothing says bold reform like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and handing the bill to people already struggling to stay afloat.
Speaker 1:This week, the administration rolled out a shiny new student loan overhaul, and on paper, sure, it looks like progress more income driven repayment plans, some forgiveness tweaks, fewer people getting set on fire by interest rate but in reality, the system is still a flaming vending machine that eats your paycheck, spits out a diploma and then tells you to apply for a second job at Arby's. And let's not forget, we've got an entire generation paying $700 a month for the privilege of working remote jobs that don't come with health insurance, just a sticker that says you're doing great. But sure, go ahead and drop another acronym-filled program that requires a calculator, a spreadsheet and a minor in tax law to understand. The financial squeeze is real, the relief still theoretical. So my question is who actually wins in this new student loan overhaul and why it still feels less like help and more like the same old pile of crap, just reheated. So here's the deal Eight million borrowers.
Speaker 1:On August 1st they start bleeding interest again, the save plan, toast Hope Optional, and the government's basically handing student loan borrowers a bill. You had dreams That'll be $3,500 extra per year. Thanks, this isn't a policy shift. This is a financial mugging in broad daylight, and the guy pulling the ski mask off is President Trump, smiling, waving and calling it a beautiful fix. You now get to choose between the standard plan, which is like being slowly waterboarded with your own tears, or the brand new repayment assistant plan, rap, which is ironic because the only beats you're hearing are the ones pounding in your head, as you realize. Wait, my loan goes for 30 years. And guess what? If you're broke tough, the minimum is $10 a month, even if you're surviving on ramen and rage. And oh, deferments for unemployment Gone. Deferments for unemployment Gone. Hardship programs Gone. You have to be not just drowning but legally dead for them to pause interest now.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, trump's people are calling this simplification, which is rich, coming from a party that thinks empathy is Marxist. It's like they looked at the broken machine and said let's give it fewer buttons, make each button cost more, and then set the whole damn thing on fire. And behind the scenes, even Republicans are quietly sweating because nobody wants to run for re-election. On, we turned the Department of Education into a call center that's closed on Mondays. So yeah, this isn't just bad policy. It's cruelty dressed in a cap and gown, marketed as efficiency, and while the people it's supposed to help are buried in impossible debt, ridiculous deadlines, vanishing hope and the kind of stress that shows up early, stays late and eats at a student's brain cells one synapse at a time. If you got student loans, august 1st is coming and it's not fucking around.
Speaker 1:Next up, the Trump administration just fired over a dozen immigration judges. Why? Because they weren't conservative enough. Forget the backlog, forget due process. This is a political purge in robes and the message is clear Get in line or get out of the court. Hope you like chaos. Because immigration just got even more broken 17 immigration judges fired. Not because they broke the law, not because they screwed up a ruling, not because they showed up drunk with a mariachi band and a bottle of mezcal. They were fired because they didn't kiss his ring, they didn't pledge allegiance to a political movement in black robes. This is happening during the worst backlog in US immigration court history 3.5 million cases. They could have hired more judges. They were funded to hire more judges. Instead, they fired the ones already doing the job because they weren't in alignment.
Speaker 1:You know what that is. That's not reform. That's a purge. It's the judicial version of you're either with us or you're gone, bye bye. You want due process. Get in line behind ideology. You want fair courts. Better check your politics at the door or you're next to go. This isn't about making the system better. It's about making it obedient. They're not interested in immigration justice. They're interested in immigration control political, permanent and personal. You want to talk about law and order? Fine, start with the people in power firing judges for not being loyal enough. That's not immigration reform. That's how fascism grows, one policy at a time.
Speaker 1:Let me talk about TikTok. Tiktok, the app that knows what you want before you do and then shoves something else down your throat anyway. Some voices get pushed, some disappear, and the choice was never yours. It's not social media anymore. It's a propaganda machine with no rules, no editors, no accountability, but 100% bias. So let's talk about TikTok, because apparently we now live in a country where the most powerful media force on earth is a scrollable dopamine drip run by a black box algorithm. Written by who exactly? Engineers, governments, an underpaid intern with a God complex? No one knows. And that's the point.
Speaker 1:Tiktok isn't a platform, it's an unregulated influence weapon disguised as a toy, marketed as a vibe and downloaded like crack on prom night. And the worst part, it's not just addictive, it's biased as hell, shadow banning certain political views I know, I've been shadow banned promoting others, throttling dissent, all without explanation, transparency or consent. You could be watching a video on climate change, for an example, and suddenly you're three swipes deep into some guy screaming that libraries are Marxist Psyops. Creators are being buried because their content didn't perform. Which is code for didn't align, didn't align with what? Doesn't matter, you'll never know. The algorithm doesn't leave receipts, it just edits reality in real time.
Speaker 1:And here's the punchline this app is shaping elections. Tiktok shaping elections. It's manufacturing identity. It's feeding curated rage directly into the bloodstream of a generation raised to believe facts are a vibe and truth is whatever came with the most likes. You want to know who's winning 2026? Check TikTok's back end, because it's not about the candidate, it's about who the algorithm decides is engaging enough to exist. This isn't freedom of speech. This is freedom of reach On a leash held by someone who will never show their face. So, yeah, call it what it is A propaganda machine with emoji filters. So you think you're choosing what you want on tick tock. That's so adorable. The algorithm decided three swipes ago. Welcome to the feed. Hope you brought your own thoughts.
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Speaker 1:You can reach me at mad world talk at gmailcom. It's my new, improved, short email address to make things easier. A lot of people said their emails weren't getting through and the email was too long. So it's mad, mad world. W? O r l d talk t a l? K can't get any simpler. Bad world. Talk at gmail. I'll be back again Friday, of course, unless the world ends before then. I'm Jeff Alan wolf. This is a world gone mad. Stay sharp, stay vocal, stay sane, but most of all, stay hopeful. This is a world gone mad. This is a world gone mad.
