10/2/26: "BIG MISS" Jobs Report Spells Disaster For Trump, Anthropic BEGS Pope To Declare AI 'Personhood', Narco Rubio
October 2, 2026
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5 min readA Weak Jobs Report, a President in His Safe Space, and the Strange Religion of AI
The September jobs report landed with a thud this morning: 29,000 new jobs against expectations of 90,000, with the prior two months revised down by a combined 60,000. The three-month average hiring rate now sits at 51,000, a number that would have been considered a crisis in any recent administration. But on Wall Street, the reaction was perversely positive — Dow futures opened up more than 300 points. As Saagar put it, "We live in this kind of sick economy where suffering is actually good for capital because it means the Fed is going to respond by giving capital easier access to money."
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- 1 (00:08) **Show Open & Ryan Grimm's Travel Plans** - Ryan Grimm is heading to San Francisco for a Bernie rally and a Muslim Council banquet, and teases a major story about a Bolivian narco scandal linked to a Trump ally.
- 2 (03:15) **Trump's Oklahoma Rally: A Safe Space or a Sign of Weakness?** - Trump holds a rally in Oklahoma, a state he's won three times, and the panel debates whether this shows strength or that he's avoiding competitive races.
- 3 (07:23) **Trump's Iran War Rant: Bombs, B-2s, and a Depleted Arsenal** - Trump brags about the Iran bombing campaign, but the panel highlights that the US has exhausted its missile defenses and air superiority, making his "finish the job" rhetoric hollow.
- 4 (11:32) **"BIG MISS" Jobs Report: 29,000 Jobs Added, Market Celebrates Suffering** - The September jobs report comes in at just 29,000, a massive miss from the 90,000 expected, causing markets to rally on the expectation of easier Fed policy.
- 5 (15:11) **Trump's Crypto Dinner: Pay-to-Access Scandal for the Midterms** - Trump is hosting a dinner for top buyers of his meme coin, offering access for up to $1 million, highlighting his shameless corruption even as the public grows angry about the economy.
- 6 (24:12) **Anthropic Begs Pope for AI 'Personhood': Confession Bots and Soul Docs** - Anthropic is consulting religious scholars and the Vatican to argue that its AI, Claude, might be conscious and should be treated as a person, even proposing it participate in Catholic confession.
- 7 (39:56) **Narco Rubio: Bolivian AG Arrested for Prosecuting Trump Ally's Partner** - Marco Rubio defends the arrest of Bolivia's Attorney General, who was prosecuting a drug-trafficking business partner of Brad Parscale, exposing the Trump administration's protection of narco allies.
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Ryan, Emily, and Griffin look at Trump rallying in Oklahoma and the newest bleak jobs report being called a "Big Miss". Then we dig into Anthropic's leaders meeting with religious scholars about their belief that Claude has 'personhood' and feels pain, as well as a botched meeting between Anthropic and the Pope. Ryan breaks down the latest drama surrounding an attempted assassination linked to former senior Trump advisor Brad Parscale. And finally Griffin and Emily answer some AMA questions and discuss the latest Daily Wire movie, Run Hide Fight Infidels.
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