Topic: I M A Teapot

A donation from Michael Mansell introduced the hosts to HTTP error code 418, also known as "I'm a teapot." This code was created as an IETF April Fool's joke in 1998 and is part of the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. The lore stems from early internet experiments involving webcams and remotely operated coffee machines at MIT.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin missed a congressional deadline to provide President Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The segment references the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal as the historical basis for congressional power to request tax information.

In the final segment, John Dean criticizes the "intellectual dishonesty" of modern conservatives and legal figures like John Yoo. He discusses the historical parallels between the Teapot Dome scandal and Watergate, and predicts that history will judge the Bush-Cheney administration harshly for its use of torture and the justification for the Iraq War.