You ever watched that movie or TV show that you really didn't like but you can't stop watching? Do you perhaps watch right-wing racist YouTubers that do all that all the time for clicks and money? Travis and Tom break down all of this down as they talk about what a true hate-watch experience is and why the ones that seem to do it online all the time are frauds.

Clips Cited

⁃ The Room, directed/performance by Tommy Wiseau, Wiseau Films, 2003.

Movies/Shows Discussed

• The Acolyte (2024)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
• Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Digimon: The Movie (2000)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• Halo (2022-2024)
• The Last of Us (HBO, 2022-present)
• The Little Mermaid (2023)
• The Godfather trilogy (1973-1990)
• Justice League (2017)
• The Oscars (1929-present)
• Rise (2018)
• The Room (2003)
• Section 31 (2025)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2025)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
• Star Trek: Discovery (2017-2024)
• Star Trek: Picard (2020-2023)
• Uncharted (2022)
• We Live in Time (2024)

Tom & Travis react to perhaps the funniest blunder in US Presidential history - a bunch of dummies in the cabinet discussing a classified military operation in a vulnerable commercial group chat app and accidentally inviting a prominent journalist to eavesdrop on their plans and later write up an exposé on the matter the following week. Listen as Travis & Tom's egos get stroked so hard into thinking they can run the country better and how much smarter they are despite the fact that Travis can't even say the name "Hegseth" correctly.

Speaking of which, a clarifying addendum: Travis may have accidentally spread slander against our babyfaced Vice President J. D. Vance, saying he has a drinking problem. This was a mistake - he meant to say that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (or is it "Hesgeth"?) had the drinking problem, which is a well-known fact. Travis just misheard Tom and got them mixed up.

Articles Cited (w/Paywalls)

• Goldberg, Jeffrey and Shane Harris. “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal.” The Atlantic. 26 Mar. 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
• Goldberg, Jeffrey. “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” The Atlantic. 24 Mar. 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151

Articles Cited (w/o Paywalls)

• Beaumont, Peter. “White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist.” The Guardian 25 Mar. 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat
• Mastrangelo, Dominick. “Atlantic editor suggests he’s open to sharing Hegseth’s full war plans texts publicly.” The Hill. 25 Mar. 2025, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5212821-atlantic-editor-suggests-hes-open-to-sharing-hegseths-full-war-plans-texts-publicly/

Clips Cited

• “BREAKING NEWS: Pete Hegseth Attacks Atlantic Reporter After Group Chat About Yemen War Plans Leaks” YouTube, uploaded by Forbes Breaking News, March 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMqX0_ih9TU&ab_channel=ForbesBreakingNews
• “Trump says he knows “nothing” about defense officials texting war plans to journalist.” YouTube, uploaded by KHOU 11, March 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXSaEEpkwYQ&ab_channel=KHOU11

No one is safe from scams, not even you. Travis and Tom talk about all the times people have tried to scam them and their families - from fake calls from the government to emails about fake online security bills to creepy phone calls to grandparents pretending to be their grandkids. A fruitful discussion in what is our shortest episode yet!

NOTE: None of us here at GUTLC Productions are experts on this subject matter as Travis & Tom's advice is only based on their personal experiences. For the expert advice including some scams that we didn't think to mention, check out these resources from the Federal Trade Commission (at least before the Trump/Musk administration takes it down, probably):

https://consumer.ftc.gov/scams

Clips Cited

• Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, performance by R. Lee Ermey, Warner Bros., 1987.