Minnesota Fraud Explodes, LA & Australian terror + US Labor Sec Lori Chavez-DeRemer & OPM Director Scott Kupor
🎙️ The fellas discuss how billions in COVID-era funding vanished through fraud in Minnesota. We walk through how the slush funds were set up, why there was almost no oversight, and how state leadership dodged responsibility while taxpayers got fleeced. We also break down the absurd defenses that Tim Walz continues to offer up. This was not some paperwork error—it was an invitation to steal.
💪 Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is cleaning up unemployment insurance fraud, cracking down on abuse of worker programs, and restoring trust in systems that are supposed to help people. We also get into her work to create apprenticeships and trade skills for Americans. Plus her thoughts on why the American worker is being boxed out by policies that reward shortcuts instead of effort.
🐘 Another major announcement from the Office of Personnel Management on a new effort to bring early-career technical talent into government. We talk with Scott Kupor about merit-based hiring, ditching credential gatekeeping, and why rebuilding state capacity starts with trusting people who can actually do the work.
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00:00 — Why emergency slush funds created a fraud playground
05:52 — Tim Walz refuses to protest his citizens
10:15 — What real oversight would have caught immediately
12:23 — US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer
17:07 — Apprenticeships, trade skills, and rebuilding worker pride
22:46 — Protecting American labor
33:30 — AI, workforce training, and staying competitive
52:14 — FBI stops a far-left terror plot before New Year’s Eve
58:00 — Overseas attacks and the cost of ignoring extremism
1:08:01 — OPM Director Scott Kupor
1:25:23 — Variety
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The Grand Delusions of the Democrat Party
🎙️ Gavin Newsom is spinning his Palisades Fire “hair on fire” story, so we go back to the actual clip and walk through how the hero tale falls apart. Then, Tim Walz now claims Republicans fear him because he can fix a truck. We revisit his shifting image from the campaign till now. Kamala is also declaring herself a “historic figure,” and talking about her future marble bust in the halls of Congress.
🫏 And the great hope of Texas Democrats, Jasmine Crockett, isn’t even allowed to speak in her own senate launch ad. The fellas dig down on what we can learn from Jazzy Crockett in Texas and we review the song and dance she’s choreographing. Plus, we review AOC and her Puerto Rico spending spree.
⚡️Then the return of Dem or Journo where the fellas see if they can detect the subtle difference given some blind statements from Ashbrook. Variety with Michigan football’s implosion and Ashbrook defends incoming strays all about Ohio.
00:00 - Gavin Newsom’s Palisades Fire “hair on fire” story
07:09 - Tim Walz on “toxic masculinity,” trucks, hunting, and what he says scares Republicans
10:03 - Kamala Harris calls herself a “historic figure.”
17:31 - Jasmine Crockett launches ad built on Trump
34:27 - Venezuela drug boats, tanker raid video, and the risk of regime projects
40:02 - AOC’s Puerto Rico spending
45:00 - We play Dem or Journo
59:00 - Michigan coaching scandal, flag world record jump, dirt-bike arrest, and the Big Boy statue graveyard
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The Truth About the Economy + Mike Rogers for Michigan
🎙️ The same people who pushed trillions in spending now act confused that prices climbed. We lay out how democrats got us here on inflation, and the size of the hole that Trump is trying to climb out of.
💵 Then, we look at the actual data — wage growth under Trump’s second term, the collapse of real wages under Biden, and the painful gap between rising prices and falling purchasing power. We talked through why the free-market fixes we’ve supported for years are still the right path, and why handing more control to Washington will only make families’ expenses worse.
🐘 Michigan hasn’t sent a Republican to this Senate seat in roughly three decades, but former congressman Mike Rogers thinks that streak is about to end. Rogers walks through what a real change election looks like in a 50–50, working-class state that actually builds things. ️
00:00 — Cold Open
01:41 — How Biden Broke the Economy
04:36 — Andy Beshear’s “economy of tomorrow” talking point loop
08:23 — Prices, wages, workers: the real affordability gap
14:16 — Why Obamacare was built to break the system
25:37 — Real wage growth explained
34:03 — Comparing conservative affordability to socialist “solutions”
42:06 — King of the Hill
54:37 — Mike Rogers on the future of Michigan
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Why the Democrat Establishment is Collapsing + MKH Joins the Progrum
🔥 Democratic Party CHAOS: The Radical Left Takes Over & Chuck Schumer’s Days Are NUMBERED! + Mary Katharine Ham joins for the lightning round ⚡
The Democratic establishment is COLLAPSING before our eyes.
From Jasmine Crockett scaring off “moderate” challengers in Texas to the progressive lunatics running in primaries nationwide, the party of AOC and “The Squad” is now fully in charge.
Chuck Schumer? Done. Finished. His grip on power is slipping faster than a drunk guy on a cruise ship with 33 beers… which, yes, we also cover in this absolute banger of an episode. 🤯🎯
What You’ll Hear:
Why Colin Allred bailed on the Texas Senate race the second Jasmine Crockett jumped in. 🔥
The radical left’s “win at all costs” strategy and how they’re purging anyone remotely normal.
Jasmine Crockett’s wild Jeffrey Epstein smear meltdown on the House floor.
😳The INSANE story of a cruise passenger who drank 33 beers, got pepper-sprayed twice, sedated… and it didn't end well. 🍻⚓
The greatest animal fight clip of all time: Chinese zookeepers vs. angry black bear armed with a basketball hoop, a chair, a stick, and… a PARROT?! 🐻🪑🦜 (You have to see this)
This is Democratic Fight Club — and the first rule is there are no rules left.
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Timestamps:
01:12 Democratic Party Civil War Begins
07:00 Jasmine Crockett Torches Texas Senate Race
11:28 Jasmine’s Jeffrey Epstein Meltdown Clip
1:09:50 The 33-Beer Cruise Ship Pepper Spray Incident 🍺🚢
1:17:28 Greatest Zoo Fight Ever Recorded 🐻🦜
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Another Dem Hoax Unravels + Rep. Steve Scalise Joins the Progrum
🎙️ The latest democrat hoax has fallen apart. The drug boat ‘scandal’ seems to be a big nothingburger. Democrats instantly shifted into defending traffickers once the hoax fell apart. After that, we break down the even stranger week on MSNBC, where Morning Joe skipped town for so long that even their audience noticed. As we looked around for them, it felt like half the media went into witness-protection mode the second their earlier narratives started blowing up.
⚡Then, a Joe and Mika super cut and another Biden disaster. USPS was ordered to buy thousands of EVs no matter how unready the technology was. Plus, Olivia Nuzzi finally sits down with a podcast to break down on camera.️ It was VERY theatrical.
🐘 House Majority Leader Steve Scalise joins the Progrum to talk through the early days of the new congressional session, what Republicans are preparing in 2026, and why the Biden administration’s regulatory spree is already forcing Congress into crisis-mode oversight. We talk message discipline, the border, and spending fights. It’s a sharp conversation and a great preview of the midterms.
00:00 – The Media’s Drug-boat Hoax Collapses
06:40 – Democrats shift into defending smugglers again
09:15 – Morning Joe vanishes for almost a full week
12:58 – USPS forced EV disaster unfolds across the fleet
26:44 – Olivia Nuzzi returns and media blowback
31:58 – House Majority Leader Steve Scalise joins the Progrum
38:20 – Scalise on 2025 agenda, oversight, and early fights
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