Did the President Sh*t His Pants? A Wait a Second... Investigation. Plus: NATO Spy Scandal and eBay Stalking With Bryan Curtis

August 6, 2026

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Did the President Sh*t His Pants? A Wait a Second... Investigation

In the early summer of 1893, Grover Cleveland had cancer in his mouth. The country was in a financial panic—more than a hundred banks had closed in June alone, unemployment would soon reach nearly one in five working men—and Cleveland believed that panics are made of nerves. If the public learned the president had a tumor in his head, the whole system could burn down. So he boarded a friend's yacht on the East River, six physicians and dentists put him under ether, and they removed the tumor and a portion of his upper jaw working entirely from inside his mouth so nothing would show on his face. A dentist fitted him with vulcanized rubber where the bone used to be. A reporter got the story and published it. The White House denied it. His doctors denied it. His private secretary denied it. It worked. The reporter was labeled a liar, the Silver Act was repealed, and the economy stayed afloat.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:08) **The Grover Cleveland Cover-Up** - The cold open sets the stakes: a president with a secret cancer surgery in 1893 to prevent a financial panic.
2 (03:29) **The Investigation Begins: Did the President Sh*t His Pants?** - The hosts and guest Bryan Curtis introduce the central rumor: that the current president is incontinent.
3 (08:09) **A History of Presidential Health Lies** - A rapid-fire tour of presidential deceptions about their own medical conditions, from Washington to Biden.
4 (14:48) **The Key Knock: Why Isn't This in the Book?** - The strongest counterargument to the incontinence rumor is its absence from the definitive Trump tell-all.
5 (21:10) **"Pooper the Field": Analyzing the Video Evidence** - The hosts begin a systematic review of four alleged incidents, asking: could it be incontinence, or literally anything else?
6 (22:23) **Incident 1: December 11, 2025 – Kennedy Center Honors** - The first alleged incident: a woman (Ace Frehley's daughter) makes a sour face during a ceremony.
7 (25:08) **Incident 2: January 29, 2026 – Executive Order Signing** - An audible sound is heard, and a woman (Katherine Bergum) appears to react with distress.

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Show Notes

Jason and Tyler welcome back co-host of ‘The Press Box’, Bryan Curtis to review to tape and answer the question on the nation’s collective mind: does President Trump keep pooping himself?

In this episode:

(00:00) Intro

(6:25) Presidential health lies

(19:37) Poop or the field?

(44:19) Doomscroll: An AI slowdown?

(52:47) Alleged NATO spy

(54:39) eBay stalking scandal

(58:11) Ancient Amazonian city found

Hosts: Jason Concepcion and Tyler Parker

Guest: Bryan Curtis

Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Justin Sayles

Art direction: David Shoemaker

Motion graphics and animations: Chris Calleton

Engineering: Sarah Reddy

Set design: Hannah Leiken and Jonathan Ratliff

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