Hard Factor

Elizabeth Warren releases DNA tests that prove she maybe had a Native American ancestor 6-10 generations back. Jeff Bezos talks about his plans for his company “Blue Origin” to help 1 trillion humans populate the entire solar system (watch how here). A cam girl/used panty saleswoman in Wyoming is running for City Council; and other headlines including, Trump's beef with Mattis, RIP Paul Allen, Khashoggi update, Stormy Daniels dismissed, and Sears bankruptcy.   

The death of a journalist in Turkey has sparked tension between the US and Saudi Arabia. Kanye West had lunch with President Trump, got mocked by SNL, flew to Uganda, and released a PSA about social media/mass mind control, all in one weekend. A Detroit mortician got busted for hiding old bodies in the ceiling, and other headlines including googly eyes on a statue in Georgia, Pete Davidson/Ariana Grande break-up, and a failed Himalayan exploration.   

Ted Cruz pulls out of his debate with Beto O'Rourke, giving Beto an hour to himself on TV. Michael Avenatti challenges Donald Trump Jr. to an MMA fight for charity (and attention). A woman tried to board a Frontier Airlines flight with an emotional support squirrel; and other headlines, including Hurricane Michael, Vern Troyer, Joe Guidice, National Coming Out Day, and a paranoid white lady in Georgia.   

Nikki Haley resigned as the Ambassador to the UN. A couple outside Mexico City was arrested with body parts in their stroller, more at home, and turns out they killed as many as 20 women. Two inmates in Louisville, KY escaped jail in trash cans, but got caught a couple days later; and other headlines, including Anthony Weiner getting out early, potential Mar-a-Lago summit, hurricanes, and ethanol fuel.   

A new segment, “What the hell, China??” goes over the mysterious bribery charges to former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, the North Korean denuclearization process, and stock market woes. Taylor Swift finally let the world know where she stands on politics (thank God, we NEEDED to know). Thirty lucky men will be able to pay $6,000 to go on an all inclusive trip to Sex Island in December, and other headlines including, natty light anniversary, all girl Boy Scout troops, Clinton dinner, Hurricane Michael, and SpaceX rocket landing.   

Brett Kavanaugh got confirmed to the Supreme Court over the weekend, and the protests continued to roll on. Robbie Fox joins to discuss the crazy fights, in and out of the cage, at UFC 229; and other headlines about Stormy Daniels, NBC, Banksy and more.   

Executive Vice President of Football Operations for Hard Factor, PFTCommenter, joins the show. We go over the new updates in the Kavanaugh saga, including the FBI background investigation, Mark Judge's book making money, Yale classmates, Michael Avenatti, and more. A high school cheerleader got caught exchanging pot brownies for homecoming queen votes (Hard Factor would have voted for her). We take a look at the new Amazon employee payment changes, and a new lunar lander in the segment Being Bezos; and cover other headlines including, an opioid bill, ricin guy in a mini soft corner, Fan Bingbing, and Theresa May.   

TRUMPDATE: President Trump has a YUGE day talking Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford, getting investigated for tax fraud, and lining up national group text for himself. A border patrol agent in Arizona made the biggest mistake of his life at the gender reveal party of his unborn child by accidentally starting a giant wildfire. An Australian Royal Caribbean cruise ship got commandeered by an Indian tobacco company and ended up having to refund a ton of passengers for dealing with the ruckus; and other headlines including, the 2019 Putin calendar, the first woman in 55 years won the Nobel Prize for Physics, US/China flexing in the sea, lost Missouri sex offenders, and ricin envelopes.   

The US, Mexico and Canada came to a new trade agreement called the US, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA). We tossed a soccer mom in the Soft Corner for suing her son's high school after he didn't make the varsity soccer team as a junior. Finally, a Lightning Round of other headlines, including Beto O'Rourke's bad day, Kavanaugh updates, a Reno woman drunkenly drove her car into her own house, the skull-shaped “Death Comet” is passing earth, PA police used a helicopter to shut down a tailgate, and the wildest meth user on earth goes full zombie during her arrest.   

Full updates on the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation, including the Senate committee ruling and the pending FBI background investigation. Another giant earthquake hit Indonesia and has already killed more than 800 people. Elon Musk and Tesla settled a lawsuit with the SEC that requires them to pay a large fine and remove Musk as Chairman of the Board; and other headlines, including net neutrality, Sarah Pailn's son “Track,” and Kanye West.   

Michael Avenatti brings forward a new Kavanaugh sexual assault accuser, Julie Swetnick, and President Trump holds a loopy press conference to address the Kavanaugh hearings. The Federal Reserve hikes interest rates from 2% to 2.25%. Americans are doing A LOT more meth this year than last year. Other headlines including, homeless murders in LA, Ford Motors not loving the new tariffs, the owner of the LA Times thinks social media is the “cancer of our time,” Pete Davidson doesn't like Chevy Chase, and Lil Xan hospitalized himself with Hot Cheetos.   

Bill Cosby got sentenced to 3-10 years in a Pennsylvania federal penitentiary. Ted Cruz and his wife got shouted out of a restaurant by protestors, and bugged by the media all week. University of Texas students conducted in-depth experiments to prove that weed killer hurts bees, and other headlines including: Kavanaugh updates, Jon Jones is a USADA snitch, and an unintentional joke at the United Nations.   

An Indonesian boy named Aldi survived adrift at sea on a wooden raft for 49 days. An Italian talk show stepped in to defend Asia Argento from her statutory rape accuser, Jimmy Bennett. Elon's World: SpaceX said that it plans to start a colony on Mars by 2028, and other headlines.   

Christine Blasey Ford will testify at the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and terrifying details about Kavanaugh continue to emerge like him being the treasurer of the “Keg City” club in high school. A wild argument over a mattress in a dumpster ended up in a fatal shooting in Texas. $18 Million dollars of cocaine was discovered inside Colombian bananas, again, and other headlines.   

Grant William Robicheaux, an orthopedic surgeon, and his girlfriend, Cerissa Laura Riley, may have drugged and raped as many as 1,000 women together. Cody Wilson, inventor of the Liberator 3D printed gun, got caught paying a 16 year-old girl for sex after meeting her on SugarDaddyMeet.com. A solar observatory in New Mexico was shut down by the FBI for almost two weeks, and they called in Blackhawk Helicopters, for a reported child porn obsessed janitor.