While everyone was watching the NBA Finals, a former CDC director went on national TV and used the word "pandemic" — about Ebola.

The 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the 17th in that country alone. It started only five months after the last one ended. It's already spread to Uganda. And the twist that makes this one genuinely different from everything before it: the strain driving this outbreak is Bundibugyo — and there is no approved vaccine, no approved treatment, and until recently the test kits couldn't even detect it.

Jamie and Chris break down what Ebola actually is, why this outbreak is unlike anything we've seen, how it slipped past surveillance systems for weeks, and what Robert Redfield actually meant when he said "pandemic."

What's covered:

• What Ebola is and how it spreads (and what it doesn't do)

• The 2026 DRC outbreak: case numbers, deaths, and what we know

• The Bundibugyo strain: why the vaccine and the tests both failed

• Five reasons the outbreak spread undetected for over a month

• Hospitals being attacked, staff evacuated at gunpoint

• WHO's Public Health Emergency declaration — and why they stopped short of "pandemic"

• U.S. travel restrictions and CDC screening measures

• The World Cup risk factor

• Ebola's history: from 1976 to the catastrophic 2014 West Africa outbreak

Should you be worried? We'll give you a straight answer.

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Forget Harry Potter. Real invisibility technology exists right now — and in January 2026, the U.S. government just licensed it to a Texas company.

In this episode, Jamie and Chris break down how metamaterials and negative refraction make true cloaking possible, which prototypes actually work today, and why the military implications might be the most important — and terrifying — technology story no one is talking about.

What's covered:

• How light actually bends (and how engineers exploit that)

• Negative refraction: bending light the "wrong" way to make objects disappear

• Metamaterials — the engineered materials that don't exist in nature

• Real prototypes: the Rochester Cloak, HyperStealth Quantum Stealth, and invisible surgical gloves

• Civilian applications: giving cities their sunlight back, earthquake-proofing buildings

• Sound invisibility and phononic crystals

• Cloaked drone swarms — and whether the Geneva Convention can handle invisible soldiers

• How close we really are to full human-scale invisibility

And yes — we ask the question everyone actually wants answered: what would you do if you were invisible?

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Society stopped caring about people, and people stopped caring about their responsibilities.

Jamie and Chris break down the entitlement epidemic, quiet quitting culture, and why your

employer doesn't owe you anything for just showing up.

In this episode:

• Why customer service was engineered to defeat you

• Social media algorithms = outrage machines, not connection tools

• The "employer owes me" mindset destroying modern workplaces

• Quiet quitting: boundary-setting or just bad faith?

• The participation trophy hangover now hitting the workforce

• Why politicians NEED you to feel like a victim

• Rights vs. entitlements: we've blurred the line

• What mutual obligation means and why society abandoned it

If you're tired of hearing that everyone deserves everything and equally tired of systems,

that treat people like data points this one is for you.

No filter. No fluff. Just the truth.

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