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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 articulate decision in this whole episode. 🛢️ Working out why took us to 1987, to 1973, and into a $12.1 billion quarter that a CEO called “disciplined investment.” Somewhere in there is one number that tells you exactly how long this war runs. Analysts already know it. They’re saying “deep into 2027.” 🚛 https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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, and CBP was inside through a pilot Flock’s own leadership says it didn’t know about. A guy in Georgia filed a records request and found 400 agencies sharing one suburb’s data, railroad police included. 🚂 Will and Joshua on why this can’t be reformed, only ended. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 and energy, hit 2.5%. Markets moved. The Federal Reserve was watching. That’s the whole story, if you stop reading here. Joshua and Will don’t stop there. They start pulling on the one line in the report that barely got mentioned: nearly two thirds of that monthly increase came from a single category. Not gas. Not groceries. Shelter. And shelter, it turns out, isn’t measured the way anyone actually pays for shelter. It’s measured with som
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 this one. Send the other one. The first ten minutes explain who it is for, how to use it, and the thing I almost did before I thought better of it. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 straight. Not an argument and not a pitch. Every number in this is public and I say where each one is from. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
The State Department recently published a report naming progressive politicians, journalists, and Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls as agents of foreign subversion. At the exact same time, the FBI is spending over a quarter of a billion dollars on defense contracts to build a predictive AI surveillance machine that analyzes your associations and data without a warrant. The FBI previously used secret watchlists to target the civil rights movement, send a suicide letter to Martin Luther King, and assist local police in shooting Fred Hampton. Now, the government is automating that identical
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 killed while running from agents at dawn in Florida. What was supposed to be a simple visit to the ocean turned into a fatal encounter that the government refuses to explain or confirm. Why do the agencies tasked with ‘enforcing’ immigration laws operate with such impunity? How is the system designed to hide its mistakes and silence the victims’ families? And what does all this say about the true purpose of agencies like ICE? https://fof.
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 dollars into a hype machine, but we are checking the receipts. We look at what really happens when expert developers are handed the best AI tools on the market. The actual math completely contradicts the marketing. We explore the quiet catastrophe that followed a major fintech company loudly replacing its human workforce with a chatbot. We uncover how a government agency is using a secret algorithm to deny Medicaid care to sick people wh
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 economy to 1928, because who does not love a good prequel? Discover how 83,000 jobs vanished while guys in expensive coats tell you to suffer for the market. Skip the Walmart ground beef and let’s dive into why the guy in Toledo is still gonna hurt. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
The modern economy has been systematically reengineered to strip away included services and sell them back to you as premium up-charges. Through deliberate market consolidation and a process known as enshittification, corporations have eliminated competition to trap consumers in a cycle of endless wealth extraction. Learn how this architecture of manufactured scarcity operates and discover the coordinated actions required to permanently dismantle it. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 check valve” https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 converting federal grant guidance into binding law, political appointees could veto scientific research and cancel active studies based on political loyalty rather than evidence. 🤯 Connecting modern bureaucracy to the tragic history of Soviet botany, the episode reveals how your boredom is weaponized to dismantle scientific autonomy. 🦠🌾🔍📈💸 https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 pouring concrete for a $400 million ballroom “shed” over a secret military complex to make sure the man outlives the institution. Bypassing courts and a $1B budget hike—stay close to the house, it’s still yours. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 reason your insurance just denied your claim. Nobody talks about this tape. We’re going to talk about this tape. Solo episode. Will’s off doing something more fun than healthcare policy. Guardrails off. Twenty-six days ago, a woman named Shmeeka Simpson — who works three jobs, none of which offer health insurance — became one of the first Americans subject to a new rule that decides whether she gets to keep seeing a doctor. She’s terrified. S
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 by Congress — and won’t rule out cutting checks to the people convicted of attacking the Capitol. Joshua goes solo to trace the mechanism: how a government reclassifies the people who attacked it as victims, then pays them, while purging the prosecutors who built the cases. We’ve run this play before — after the Civil War. Sources and full transcript below. The fund itself — announcement, mechanics, $1.776B / Judgment Fund / Dec. 2028 s
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° McDonald’s coffee to the internal Sackler emails, we’re diving into why the “greedy lawyer” framing is a corporate shield—and why the courthouse is the last public square left. Resources & Action Items Public Citizen: Visit citizen.org to find resources on fighting forced arbitration. Constitutional Accountability Center: Read their analysis on the Chamber of Commerce’s 70% win rate at the Supreme Court at theusconstitution.org. State Level
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 and William trace the “boring” pipeline of share dilution—a legal mechanism that consistently transfers risk from those in the room to those standing at the end of the line. We explore how “going public” became the actual product, why your disclosure forms are written in Greek, and how a single New Jersey deli ended up with a $100 million market cap. Before you buy the next big AI IPO, join us to learn why the “exit” was planned long befor
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 the 1971 veterans throwing medals to the 2026 recruitment crisis, the pattern remains: the institution protects itself while families absorb the cost. This is a structural collapse of trust. Failures like the Pat Tillman cover-up and the denial of burn pit claims reveal a machine that chooses reputation over the people who serve. Today, the VA faces budget cuts while the $1.7 trillion F-35 program remains fully funded. Recruitment is holl
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 trace how a decade of “independent expenditures” and manufactured outrage built a shiny new political highway, only for a real estate developer and some very aggressive email marketers to steal the keys and drive it straight into a ditch of their own making. We dive into the high-octane engineering of WinRed’s “accidental” recurring donations—where your grandma’s twenty bucks became a hundred-million-dollar refund error—and the psychologi
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 $40 billion revenue model that charges you to watch you, and what happens when the ‘raw material’ starts writing op-eds. It’s a labor story, not an immigration debate, and no, it’s not a conspiracy—it’s a line item. Touch grass, then listen. #OverlapPodcast #HigherEd #LaborRights #SEVIS https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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, regulation, scandal, repeat. But what happens when someone removes the friction entirely? When loyalty becomes the only credential that matters? This week we’re walking the documented architecture of how people move between government and industry, who profits, and what it costs everyone else. We’ll trace the paper trail from Eisenhower’s warning to today. And we’ll show you what Pam Bondi’s exit tells us about power in 2025. https://fof
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 taxpayers billions—and justice. Today, we’re diving into the trenches with Seth Minetta-Dillon, a Travis County public defender, who spills the tea on underfunding, overwork, the myth of the “lesser” defender, and the systemic forces shaping the criminal justice landscape in Texas. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 “equal justice” is a luxury service most citizens can no longer afford. https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
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 week as we brush of the dust and take a respite. Please enjoy the Overlap Theme Music, created by Will specifically for our show! https://fof.foundation theoverlap@fof.foundation
In this episode, Will explores the generational differences in understanding and using technology. It delves into how each generation, from Baby Boomers to Gen Z, has developed unique “conceptual toolboxes” based on their formative experiences with technology. The episode highlights the challenges and misunderstandings that arise when these toolboxes collide, offering insights into bridging these gaps with empathy and curiosity. Join Will as he encourages you to embrace a mindset of continuous learning and adaptability in a rapidly changing technological landscape. https://fof.foundation theov
