About this podcast
The Boomer Bunker is an independent, irreverent news, politics, and pop-culture podcast hosted by John Jamingo and The Duchess. From a Gen X and Baby Boomer perspective, we talk about whatever is happening in the world and affecting the people around us: politics, breaking news, social media, AI and technology, entertainment, sports, and the cultural controversies that make us laugh, shake our heads, or wonder what the hell happened. Generational experience, historical perspective, humor, sarcasm, and independent opinions. No predetermined subject matter. No corporate talking points. It's the terrible that makes it great.
Live every Monday and Thursday at 6:30 PM Eastern on YouTube, Rumble, and Twitch, with the full episode on every podcast app. Join the conversation in our Discord, call the voicemail line, and tell us what you think.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 495 episodes
- Great Wall of Shoes: Sophia Franklyn’s Vocal Fry, Daddy Issues, and Newscasters are not Influencers · 1 h 36 min · Episode 466When one ex-podcast star’s new book hits 4.8 stars across hundreds of Audible reviews, John can’t resist playing the audio—despite Duchess’s protests, it’s making IQ points bleed…
- Oppression Suppression: Cancel Culture Collides with Free Speech · 1 h 45 min · Episode 465Two podcasters laugh on air at "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again," Chewy and other sponsors walk, and John does something nobody in the Bunker saw coming: he…
- AI Naggers | 463 · 1 h 26 min · Episode 464Kate's computer quits before the first segment; she comes back on a phone propped on a Great Value tissue box, factory-resets her Vocaster live, and about 45 minutes in she shuts…
- Michigan Mutiny | 462 · 1 h 43 min · Episode 463A 19-year-old UTSA student reads a "Kirk-iversary" poem about Charlie Kirk's murder at an open mic, then turns up in an apology video to Erika Kirk and Christian Collins. Her…
- Only Grams | 461 · 1 h 55 min · Episode 462Vote for Duchess A 72-year-old great-grandmother of eight says OnlyFans is her retirement plan; Lily Phillips is selling a $9.99-a-month AI copy of herself; and John is making…
- The Perfect Human Isn’t Human: Character.AI, AI Girlfriends, and Why We’re Lonelier | 460 · 1 h 35 min · Episode 461Character.AI is going bankrupt; about 12 million users could lose their AI companions, and John has a theory about chatbots, $20,000 humanoid robots, and the future of dating…
- John “The Body” Jamingo | 459 · 1 h 32 min · Episode 460Jesse "The Body" Ventura went on Garage Logic and said he'd move the Statue of Liberty to the Smithsonian; he won't vote for a Republican, and he loved Fidel Castro. On Boomer…
- Ball Room Dancing | 458 · 1 h 35 min · Episode 459A 49-year-old Brazilian bricklayer sold everything he owned and rode a bus 1,200 miles to marry Farm Girl Jessica, who isn't real. On Boomer Bunker 458, John and the Duchess get…
- Whatchu Talkin Bout Gillis | 457 · 1 h 26 min · Episode 458Shane Gillis went on SNL, said women at the gym dress like whores, and the internet hasn't shut up since. John plays the backlash clip by clip: a TikToker who ties the joke to…
- Chat a Boos | 456 · 1 h 33 min · Episode 457Vote for Duchess Shane Gillis goes on Saturday Night Live and says women at the gym dress like whores now, and Dan Levy calls it misogyny. Then a man drops 12 feet into a tiger…
- Nutella Effect | 455 · 1 h 23 min · Episode 456John Jamingo turned 65, got his Medicare card, and spent his birthday insisting he watched the Concorde land in Philly during Live Aid. It never happened, not once, ever. The…
- Whorey Daze | 454 · 1 h 35 min · Episode 455The Cornell texts say "none of the sexual stuff was illegal" — two weeks later it was "90% not consensual," and now New York has handed the case to Tish James. John and Duchess…
- Consent Regret | 453 · 1 h 23 min · Episode 454Tennessee pumped two rounds of execution drugs into Christa Pike and she's still alive, and the Bunker has no sympathy for a woman who carried a piece of her victim's skull…
- Woke Going Broke | 452 · 1 h 33 min · Episode 453Forget safe spaces—this episode takes you straight into the cultural trenches. Boomer Bunker is fed up and naming names: from the COVID-masked meltdown at an imploding lesbian…
- HypoJohndriac | 451 · 1 h 50 min · Episode 452John Jamingo showed up gassy, nauseous, and convinced it's stomach cancer, and the Duchess wasn't buying it. Tonight's Boomer Bunker starts at Six Flags Magic Mountain, where…
- I Apologize to the Audience | 450 · 1 h 34 min · Episode 451Episode 450 got its title from a little on-air friction. During the Converse Chuck Taylor ad segment, the Duchess apologized to the audience before John could describe the video…
- NoGig | 449 · 1 h 43 min · Episode 450Artwork by Boomer Bob (Blame him) I don't know when "I'm offended" became a full-time job, but episode 449 is basically a case study. We start with a hacker group tearing open a…
- Barnabus Bob | 448 · 1 h 42 min · Episode 449Episode 448 of The Boomer Bunker Podcast opens with dueling Sunday disasters: co-host Kate ran a personal-best 5K through a flash flood warning in Pennsauken, NJ, while John…
- Claudia Please Save Us! | 447 · 1 h 39 min · Episode 448The tech gremlins were out in full force tonight — the episode kicks off with the intro music playing for John and nobody else. Just the cherry on top of a rough day. Buckle up…
- Have Your Cake and Eat it Too | 446 · 1 h 41 min · Episode 447John opens 446 by putting the nastiest family dinner-table hypothetical you've ever heard to a vote — and somehow that's not even the most unhinged thing this episode covers…
- The Great Cookie War | 445 · 1 h 43 min · Episode 446Got a voicemail as unhinged as Bud Vugger's comeback? Leave your own: https://boomerbunker.com/voicemessage Episode Art Provided by Boomer Bob Nobody was safe in Episode 445 —…
- Park in the Back! | 444 · 1 h 43 min · Episode 445Somebody started a hoax online claiming Texas Roadhouse servers were spitting in Black customers' food - no evidence, no proof, just a made-up post that blew up into a full-blown…
- Granola Moms | 443 · 1 h 54 min · Episode 444Got something to say? Leave us a voicemail: https://boomerbunker.com/voicemail We open this one heavy — Dolly Parton is gone, and John and the Duchess spend real time on what she…
- Boxed Wine | 442 · 1 h 34 min · Episode 443The Boomer Bunker kicks off with the Duchess fresh off seeing Rush live — no Neil Peart, a new female drummer named Anika, a still-got-it (mostly) Geddy Lee, and a $100+…
- Jamingo's Body Junk Yard | 441 · 1 h 35 min · Episode 442Harvard is paying $53 million after its own morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, got caught running a black-market body parts ring out of Harvard Medical School for years — heads…
- Duchess Decides: Who's The Best Podcast? | 440 · 1 h 41 min · Episode 441Got something to say? Leave us a voicemail: https://boomerbunker.com/voicemail Episode Art Provided by Producer Cody Ryan Seacrest and iHeartRadio are hunting for the next "Top…
- Deletify | 439 · 1 h 43 min · Episode 440John is making a stand with Lorenzo of the Church of Lorenzo Podcast! Spotify is torturing Lorenzo with copyright violations. And Spotify flagged four Boomer Bunker episodes to…
- Dirty Bean Flicker | 438 · 1 h 48 min · Episode 439John's iced tea got fingered. Literally. A trip to his regular Dunkin' Donuts turned into a full-blown sanitation crisis this episode when the Boomer Bunker crew found out the…
- Here Goes Nothing | 437 · 2 h 1 min · Episode 438Leave a Voicemail Tucker Carlson and MTG are floating a new party and claiming a 10-point platform that flat-out doesn't exist yet — John and Duchess aren't letting that slide…
- Drones of Steel | 436 · 2 h 8 min · Episode 437Leave a Voicemail Episode Art Provided by Boomer Bob RFK Jr. went twenty-one rounds with CNN's Dana Bash over COVID, Fauci, and the measles outbreak — and on tonight's Boomer…
- Camel Toe Conservative | 435 · 1 h 22 min · Episode 436Leave a Voicemail The Duchess is back behind the microphone after a week in Michigan, and they waste no time getting into it. Starting with a genuinely wild story about her hotel…
- God Doesn't Care About the Fifth Amendment · 1 h 19 min · Episode 435Leave a Voicemail This couldn't wait until tomorrow night! John does an out of the ordinary bonus episode. Anthony Fauci sat in front of the Senate today and pled the Fifth over…
- Globalize the Empanada | 434 · 1 h 11 min · Episode 434Leave a Voicemail If you thought Trump bombing at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was bad, wait until you hear the meltdown from liberals who took his “I’m running for a…
- Full CoHost Experience | 433 · 1 h 9 min · Episode 433Leave a Voicemail Boomer Bob steps in for Duchess this week and somehow survives the full co-host gauntlet — technical hiccups, off-mic chaos, a StreamYard meltdown mid-show, and…
- No Crunchwrap For You | 432 · 1 h 29 min · Episode 432John and Kate open the episode with some cross-promotion catch-up, ribbing each other about Kate's guest spot on The Savage Unfiltered Show and her own solo project, Duchess…
- Shop White | 431 · 1 h 21 min · Episode 431Leave a Voicemail This episode has a Canadian tourist getting hauled off to ICE detention over a slap fight on a Jersey Shore boardwalk, a suspected murderer who thought fleeing…
- Petty Pedaling | 430 · 1 h 33 min · Episode 430Leave a Voicemail Tonight's Boomer Bunker kicked off with the biggest story of the week — the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham at 71. John and Duchess dug into the…
- Parade of Dunces | 429 · 1 h 44 min · Episode 429This episode kicks off with the segment that gave tonight its name, the "Parade of Dunces" quiz game, where the Duchess tries to guess how badly a viral street-interview subject…
- Boomer Bunker Bean Buzzer 3000 | 428 · 1 h 28 min · Episode 428Leave a Voicemail Monday's Boomer Bunker kicked off with the usual internet gremlins and John complaining about the Heat Dome all weekend. John was also complaining about how…
- It's the Unhealthy That Makes It Great | 427 · 1 h 41 min · Episode 427Leave a Voicemail Taylor Swift is dropping up to $20 million to get married at Madison Square Garden, on the Fourth of July, no less, and John and the Duchess are doing the math…
- Vapor Locked | 426 · 1 h 39 min · Episode 426A guy got SHOT at a wedding because someone called him out for eating meatballs with his dirt dick beaters. John and the Duchess kick things off with a genuine controversy…
- Snack Wars | 425 · 1 h 45 min · Episode 425It started as a debate about snack cakes and ended with fetishes, felonies, and a feeder mansion in Las Vegas. John and the Duchess locked in a full-blown snack war, TastyKake…
- Upper Decker Danger | 424 · 1 h 13 min · Episode 424A sitting New Jersey town councilman with six murders on his record just got arrested for loansharking — and the media barely flinched. The NJ Attorney General says he never left…
- ChatOBCT | 423 · 1 h 44 min · Episode 423The British government spent decades covering up the systematic rape of at least 250,000 young girls — and a privately funded inquiry just named the politicians responsible by…
- Deceleration Trama | 422 · 1 h 50 min · Episode 422The Boomer Bunker crew returns to Twitch and dives into a lively, no-holds-barred conversation on everything from culinary crimes at Wawa to breaking news about immigration and…
- Happy Birthday Duchess 2026 | 421 · 1 h 22 min · Episode 421It's Duchess's birthday week, which means she's wearing the tiara, working the weekend anyway, and demanding overtime. But before the celebrations could get too warm and fuzzy…
- Happy Juneteenth | 420 · 1 h 46 min · Episode 420The Boomer Bunker crew is celebrating Juneteenth the only way they know how: by dragging every corporation that tried to celebrate it into the middle of the floor. A New Jersey…
- Money Us | 419 · 1 h 34 min · Episode 419Scott Pelley walked into a staff meeting on new CBS exec producer Nick Bilton's first day, publicly ambushed him in front of the entire newsroom, and got himself fired on the…
- Boomer Pride | 418 · 1 h 36 min · Episode 418It's Pride Month, and the Bunker is celebrating the only way it knows how — by not caring. John, the Duchess, and Producer Mike kick off Episode 418 with a full rundown on the…
- MVP of Life | 417 · 1 h 49 min · Episode 417The Boomer Bunker goes full-throttle out of the gate with John and the Duchess diving headfirst into everything from pickleball debuts to political circus acts. John breaks down…
