🎙️ No better start to a Friday than the fallout from the church disruption in Minnesota, and for once, we actually get the kind of consequences we hoped for. We talk through the arrests, the perp walks, and the sheer audacity of watching people try to rewrite what happened in Minneapolis. However, there is a continued refusal to bring charges against Don Lemon. We go through what it says about Minnesota’s political rot, what it says about activist media, and why this whole “I’m just reporting” act falls apart when the so-called journalist is obviously part of the operation.

🫏 We saved this for your Friday: Krysten Sinema getting dragged into a divorce filing that reads like a political thriller written by a horny screenwriter. We get into the alleged affair, the weird trips, the gifts, the encrypted messaging, the drugs, and the “this can’t be real” details that somehow keep piling up. It’s messy, it’s ridiculous, and it’s exactly the kind of story that makes you wonder how anyone in Washington functions in public at all.️

🏠 Then, we sit down with HUD Secretary Scott Turner to discuss housing, homelessness, and disaster recovery. He tells Ashbrook that HUD uncovered $1.9 billion in misplaced funds and moved to return those dollars to the Treasury. Turner also explains why they cut contracts, including $4 million in DEI-related contracts.

00:00 - Crime, punishment, and chaos

04:10 - It’s perp walk season

05:58 - Activist goes on CNN and tries to rewrite the story

10:07 - Another perp walk: “Da Woke Farmer” gets arrested

15:47 - Activists + media collusion

19:44 - Krysten Sinema scandal is totally wild

28:15 - Divorce filing details: affair allegations and power dynamics

37:30 - MDMA, “boring” missionary talk, and peak absurdity

47:33 - Variety with a great pic and taking a whale ride

57:49 - HUD Secretary Scott Turner

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🎙️ Once again the left has given the American people a bait-and-switch with the promise of “moderate Democrats” in VA and NJ. We walk through how that brand gets sold, why it keeps working in purple places, and what happens the minute governing power shows up. Virginia Governor Spanberberger shows how a “most bipartisan” claim turns into a very different set of priorities once the ink is dry.

🐘 Border Czar Tom Homan explains how the same enforcement tools that were treated as normal for decades are now used as a political weapon. He walks us through how the rhetoric shifted, why “enforce the law” became controversial, and why he thinks so much of the outrage is less about policy and more about denying wins—no matter what it costs in public safety.

🌽 Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins discusses a year of governing and the White House efforts on warp-speed execution. Namely: trade, prices, inputs, exports, and making sure America stays the breadbasket for ourselves and the rest of the world. Then Rollins lays out why the administration wants real food back on plates, why whole milk is returning to schools, and how the old low-fat dogma flipped incentives in the worst direction.

00:00 - Dems reveal their moderates were a bait-and-switch

04:02 - Spanberger drops her moderate face

07:15 - The campaign ad pitch vs the record

15:40 - Mikie Sherrill rhetoric ramps up

20:06 - Eric Swalwell on ICE and law enforcement

25:57 - Border Czar Tom Homan

42:41 - Davos, Greenland talk, and Macron’s sunglasses

51:21 - King of the Hill: Steve Schmidt vs Rick Wilson

59:34 - Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins

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🎙️ We break down the left’s overt hatred of religion in America - on display Sunday in Minneapolis. More than unhinged, it’s dangerous. Then we get into Don Lemon showing up on the scene and trying to dress the whole thing up as “First Amendment” theater, while the fellas call out what’s really happening: organized chaos with a media camera crew conveniently on-site. We dig into the growing sense that the activist left is operating with zero fear of consequences, and why the DOJ is actually stepping in.

⚡The political hypocrisy tour continues with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro confirming what everyone already knew: Kamala Harris’s team was obsessively paranoid about Israel and anti-Semitism politics during the VP vetting process. We react to the insane details, including the question that basically asks if Shapiro was some kind of undercover operative, and we connect it back to a broader pattern of the modern Democratic coalition’s hatred of religion.️

💥 Virginia Democrats are openly gunning for a 10–1 map and Republicans in places like Indiana are refusing to play hardball when it matters in the redistricting fight. We talk through why this stuff is never polite, never clean, and why pretending the other side won’t do it to you has become a political death wish heading into the midterms.

⛷️ Variety with ski jumpers “ehancing” suit measurements, Bears fans painting their nails during a playoff run, and airlines quietly celebrating Ozempic.

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00:00 — The left’s “religious tolerance” problem

06:06 — Consequences, law enforcement, and why this can’t keep sliding

09:04 — Don Lemon shows up and hides behind the First Amendment

18:33 — The organizers post the whole op on Facebook

23:55 — Why Shapiro mattered for the Harris ticket

46:02 — Redistricting fight: Texas, California, Indiana, and Virginia

58:56 — Ski jumping suit scandal goes nuclear

01:06:12 — Bears fans embrace matcha and mannies

01:08:37 — Ozempic saving airlines millions

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🎙️ Watching SCOTUS this week, it’s obvious that the left’s entire legal theory collapses once someone asks simple questions. We talk about why this case isn’t just about sports, and why the arguments we’re hearing put far more than one issue at risk. Serious question, though, is Ketanji Brown Jackson the dumbest current justice, or the dumbest justice ever? I bet she doesn’t understand.

👩🏻‍⚖️ Then, we break down why this thinking from left-wing justices collapses under even mild pressure. It also exposes years of sloppy logic, and why watching actual litigators respond to it is both painful and deeply satisfying. This reveals the broader pattern we’ve seen for years: vibes over facts.

🏀 Bruce Pearl joins us for a deep conversation on leadership, college basketball, NIL disorder, and the cost of speaking freely. He explains why accountability matters in sports and politics, reflects on coaching at the highest levels, addresses campus anti-Semitism, and makes the case for courage, clarity, and responsibility in public life.

00:00 - Supreme Court arguments and the definition problem

03:30 - Why laws collapse without clear definitions

06:30 - The Alito moment and unintended consequences

09:18 - Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s “I don’t understand” problem

12:40 - Lawyers dunking on the bench

15:34 - Language games

19:58 - MAGATKO

23:02 - Why the mob never expects pushback

25:16 - Tim Walz audio and unforced errors

35:30 - Dem or Journo returns

45:24 - What the media used to brag about

46:01 - Coach Bruce Pearl joins the Progrum

55:32 - NIL, college sports, and leadership

01:03:09 - Speaking freely and paying the price

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🎙️ Why does it feel like we’re bouncing from one high-stakes fight to the next without ever forcing the real public debate? Because liberals and the media use this as a tactic. The fellas explain how narratives and process drama help the bigger questions get ignored: like why federal law enforcement is in Minneapolis in the first place, and what elected leaders did to set the whole mess in motion.

⚡️ Then, we get into the sanctuary city pressure campaign and the Feb 1 payment cutoff that Trump has planned. Then, how the loudest voices on the left treat “oppose Trump” as a full personality. How do libs expect that if laws are on the books, that it won’t be enforced? We explain how these fights get reframed into “Gestapo” language, and why that reframing is the point.

👑 It’s Thursday, so we play our signature game: King of the Hill. It’s a truly deranged week featuring Joe Scarborough and champion Steve Schmidt. ️

🐘 Montana AG Austin Knudsen on how foreign influence and dark money can end up behind pressure campaigns and litigation. He walks us through how funding trails get buried through layers of orgs and intermediaries. Knudsen also explained how climate lawsuits can be used to choke an energy state one permit at a time. Then: China-linked consumer platforms, Second Amendment fights, and what it takes to keep states from getting steamrolled by activist-law tactics.

00:00 - Why the real debate gets dodged

02:02 - Rapid-fire fights and the missing public case

05:33 - Minnesota confrontation narrative shifts

07:06 - Process arguments vs the underlying problem

09:52 - “Gestapo” framing and the sanctuary-state contrast

13:51 - Trump announces Feb 1 sanctuary-city payment cutoff

16:03 - Progressive push to block immigration enforcement funding

18:56 - Lawsuits to block federal enforcement inside states

22:13 - Trump and Eric Adams have deuling f-bombs

25:42 - The media fever dream

31:42 - King of the Hill: Joe Scarborough vs champion Steve Schmidt

37:41 - Montana AG Austin Knudsen joins the Progrum

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🎙️ There is a new internet sickness: AI-generated rage bait dressed up as “real life.” We walk through the fake priest clips, the Italian deli “Basta” performance art, and the comment sections that somehow make the videos look subtle. We explain why this stuff works, who it’s really built for, and how the left treats the internet like an indoctrination machine—because if they can’t find enough real people to sell the outrage, they’ll just manufacture them.

🫏 After that, we shift to the sudden Democratic heel turn on Hamas. We react to the Queens rally chant (“we support Hamas here”), then watch the rapid-fire flood of identical condemnations roll out from the usual suspects. We also get into the broader pattern: how narratives get laundered, how “authoritarian” comparisons get deployed on command, and why the party’s selective outrage always seems to arrive right when it’s politically useful.️

🐘 West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is leading the case headed to the Supreme Court on women’s rights. He explains how West Virginia passed a straightforward law in 2021, how the ACLU sued almost immediately, and why this ends up at the Court, even though most Americans think the answer is obvious. We also talk through why states regulating athletics matters and why he thinks this lands as a wide-margin win.

🏒 The greatest hockey game ever played was on a Friday in Hershey, PA. The fella’s review the largest, longest and greatest hockey fight on record… with 6 year olds. Enjoy a great laugh with us to cap off a great episode.

00:00 — Minneapolis liberals scramble to change the subject

09:23 — The rise of liberal AI rage bait

18:26 — Viral propaganda imagery and how it reverses the facts

28:52 — Democrats’ Hamas posture pivot

48:19 — Youth hockey intermission brawl

52:35 — JB McCuskey joins the Progrum

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🎙️ We break down how Democrats, activist groups, and legacy media work together to turn massive government fraud into street unrest and false narratives. We walk through the ICE enforcement at the center of the controversy, the viral clips being deliberately misrepresented online, and the way language like “legal observer” is used to confuse the public and protect bad actors.

⚡ From there, we examine how the media and Democratic politicians rushed to create a parallel narrative. Instead of discussing stolen funds, systemic failures, or enforcement responsibilities, the focus shifted to emotionally charged language, selectively edited clips, and invented roles like “legal observers” meant to recast agitators as victims. The manipulation of language isn’t accidental—it’s designed to short-circuit rational discussion and replace facts with moral panic.

🪨 We close with some variety, like a Disney employee taking one to the face, and for what? To impress adult and overweight Diney Adults? And the Colts are in bad shape. If you need it explained, just watch their owner’s last press conference of the season.

00:00 — Why the left always needs a lie first

03:21 — The pepper spray clip the media lied about

05:35 — Why ICE is actually in Minnesota

08:44 — Criminals protected, enforcement demonized

10:29 — “Hands up, don’t shoot” all over again

12:52 — When protests jump the rails

15:11 — Foreign money and coordinated chaos

19:21 — Minnesota schools, unions, and shutdowns

27:08 — Media blaming YouTube instead of fraud

32:12 — The invented term “legal observer”

36:52 — Democrats openly attacking ICE

40:26 — The SUV lie and the use-of-force reality

43:50 — Why this all traces back to fraud

49:31 — When Democrats admit they want blood

53:36 — The IRS finally shows up

59:27 — How big is the fraud really

01:15:45 — Indiana Jones boulder dominates

01:19:41 — The Colts are a total mess

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🎙️ We dig into the Minneapolis ICE shooting video that’s lighting up social media, focusing on what the footage shows: officers identify themselves, a “get out of the car” command, the vehicle surging forward, and shots fired as an officer is put in immediate danger. We talk about how the clips are getting spun into a partisan Rorschach test—and why Minnesota’s leadership jumps straight to blaming the feds instead of dealing with the events that brought federal agents into the state in the first place.

⚡ From there, we connect the flashpoint to the bigger story: massive fraud allegations in Minnesota and the claim that officials looked the other way until it blew up. We react to legislative testimony about whistleblowers facing retaliation and intimidation, and we walkthrough audit findings that allege sloppy oversight and even backdated paperwork meant to cover tracks. Then we hit the Keith Ellison audio that sounds like politics and protection money getting way too close for comfort.

👑 King of the Hill returns with reigning champion Steve Schmidt facing off against congressional candidate George Conway, in a battle of pure derangement.️

00:00- Minneapolis ICE shooting sets the week on fire

01:55 - Why Minnesota leadership keeps humiliating itself

03:29 - Fraud pipeline through programs and the state looking away

05:44 - Agitators, street pressure, and why the story doesn’t stay local

16:01 - Video angle one

17:19 - Video angle two

19:42 - Walz rhetoric heats up the confrontation

27:05 - House testimony: whistleblowers and intimidation claims

37:48 - Ellison tape revelations

39:32 -Backdated docs and covering tracks

51:30 - Dem counter: “look at white men” instead of the spreadsheet

01:03:09 - King of the Hill: Schmidt vs Conway

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🎙️ We walk through the Maduro capture and why it matters that the U.S. can go in, grab the guy, and get out—clean. We talk through the stakes in the region, the role of adversaries in propping up a failed-state mess, and why the oil angle is less about “needing it” and more about who gets to control it in our own hemisphere.

🫏 Then, the democrats trip over themselves to pretend they never spent years saying Maduro had to go, only to suddenly act shocked that anyone actually did something. We run through the Sunday-show spin, the fake confusion routine, and the weird scramble to frame an obvious win as a scandal. Their only reflex is to oppose whatever Trump does, even when it’s something they demanded yesterday.

🗽Did we miss a memo? Is the New York City mayor a global military commander? Plus, Tim Walz is stepping aside, Klobuchar is hovering, and a fraud fiasco that’s about power more than accountability.️

📦 We close with a USPS driver in Florida allegedly trying to run down a ten-year-old over a misdelivered package, and a loose monkey in Tennessee that apparently wants to “shop local” by wrecking a music store.

00:00 - Maduro captured: why it matters and why it’s funny

03:47 - The failed state next door

05:35 - Rubio crushes the Sunday shows

07:19 - How the mission works and why defenses don’t matter

08:05 - The oil question and why our adversaries care

12:04 - Iran/Russia/China/Cuba ties and the pipeline logic

15:58 - Tactical details and the message it sends abroad

23:44 - Democrats flip to “illegal” and “unconstitutional”

31:10 - Chris Murphy then and now

39:44 - “Epsteinzuela?”

45:16 - Mamdani was “briefed” is pure comedy

50:53 - Minnesota fraud fallout

56:49 - Electability over accountability

01:05:10 - USPS driver vs. kid’s scooter in Florida

01:10:37 - Tennessee monkey hits the music store

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🎙️ We review the year that was 2025, counting down the greatest media failures of last year. To top the list, Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad. A basic pun about “genes” turns into a prime-time lecture about eugenics and white supremacy, and watching a major network try to make that argument out loud is the kind of thing you still can’t believe is real. Then over to CBS, where John Dickerson tries to compare modern immigration enforcement to Irish discrimination and deportation crackdowns in the 1800s.

📺 Other favorites included in our countdown: Jim Acosta interviewing AI, Taylor Lorenz romanticizing Luigi and Jim Cramer dropping a giant F-bomb on live TV. Plus Olivia Nuzzi’s chaos, Bill Belichick’s off-camera relationship, and Anderson Cooper snaps at Chris Sununu.

🐘 We recap our favorite moments from just a few of our best interviews, like, JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Senator Kennedy, Majority Leader Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson. Looking forward to a great 2026 on The Progrum!

00:00 — 2025 media fails

01:11 — Sydney Sweeney “great genes” becomes a national freakout

06:09 — CBS Saint Patrick’s Day: Irish deportations vs ICE

11:15 — Jim Acosta interviews an AI recreation of a murdered child

13:05 — Taylor Lorenz praises an alleged assassin as “morally good”

15:44 — CNN and the defense-fund moment

19:26 — Jim Cramer drops an F-bomb

20:30 — Olivia Nuzzi interview spiral and her accountability problem

25:24 — Bill Belichick + Jordan Hudson shuts down a standard question

27:56 — Anderson Cooper snaps at Chris Sununu on-air

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🎙️ We start by trading stories about the funniest reactions our wives have had to the Progrum, including the moment it dawned on them that this thing might actually be real. From late-night editing side-eyes to the infamous “so you have groupies now?” Uber ride, the fellas compare notes on how humility is enforced at home, no matter how big the show gets.

⚡ We continue to rip through your questions, like what it actually takes to jump into a House or Senate race, why federal campaigns have zero margin for error, and why real groundwork matters more than ambition. The fellas get blunt about grassroots work, campaign mechanics, consultant traps, and why door knocking teaches you more than any consultant memo ever will. We also tackle questions about journalistic giants, what’s actually changed since the Fox deal, and whether Democrats would ever come on the Progrum to face tough questions. ️

💥 Then, Andrew Bremberg on health care costs, price transparency, and why throwing more taxpayer money at a broken system keeps failing. Plus, a recap of some of the best moments from our favorite variety segments from 2025. We still love the New Yorker shoot of famous democrats and a drunk SC democrat - enjoy!

00:00 — Funniest reactions to the Progrum from our wives

07:29 — When the in-laws realize it’s a real show

08:20 — Getting involved in politics after Trump

15:05 — Why voters humble everyone

16:27 — GOP realignment and progressive policies on the chopping block

23:21 — Skyline Chili: how to try it

27:34 — Journalistic giants and what real reporting looks like

35:04 — What actually changed after the Fox deal

36:42 — Why Democrats won’t come on the Progrum

39:35 — Andrew Bremberg discusses controlling health care costs

44:18 — Price transparency and why it matters in health care

53:55 — Best of variety: notable New Yorkers exposed

01:12:00 — Best of variety: South Carolina Democrat cop car meltdown

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