Jared and Mike speak with seasoned national security reporter Ken Klippenstein about the expansion of national surveillance programs targeting anti-ICE activists and community organizers, alongside others they consider threats to the MAGA political agenda. While DHS denies that the agency maintains databases of so-called "domestic terrorists," Ken's reporting revealed that to be plainly untrue.

Ken shares what he's learned about the watchlists and databases ICE uses, how advancements in technology them more threatening to civil liberties, and how they sit in America's history of secretive domestic surveillance programs. The guys also get Ken's take on Kash Patel's tenure as FBI director.

You'll want to fire up the Paramount+ and place that Uber Eats order for this one, but don't forget to look cool while doing it. After all, you never know who might be watching.

Links:

• ​Ken Klippenstein: Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans
• ​Ken Klippenstein: ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
• ​Ken Klippenstein: Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed

Transition Music: “Drawn to the Deep End” by D4RKSTAR

Minneapolis has changed America in ways we can’t even process yet, but in the short term it has sent the MAGA movement into a spiral of lying, propagandizing, and coping—the likes of which we haven’t quite seen before. 

Jared and Mike dip into some grim polling numbers for Trump and ICE before pivoting to the shit they’re currently selling: Antifa boogeymen, entirely nonexistent paid protesters, and whistles. Yes, whistles. 

A crew of MAGA’s “High IQ” posters have sought to form an equivalence between blowing a whistle and shooting a gun, and Curtis Yarvin wants to know whether whistles might even trigger a hardworking blogger to kill a man. The hosts round out the show with a look at Libby Emmons’ new podcast, which sounds like someone poured human words into a slop siphon.

Join us—and imagine if blogging was a job where your wife wasn’t sure you’d come home at night!

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Jared and Mike welcome media columnist and reporter Justin Baragona. They discuss the latest execution by ICE agents in Minneapolis and initial reactions from MAGA media before turning their focus to what's been going on at CBS News under the direction of its new ideologically driven leader: Bari Weiss. 

Since the network's owners hired Weiss to be its editor in chief in October 2025, she's been slowly remaking CBS News in her own image — unflinchingly pro-Israel, fervently anti-woke, and shamelessly sucking up to the rich and powerful. With newsroom morale flagging and ratings struggling, Justin explains how Weiss landed in this position and what we can expect from her tenure going forward.

Plug in your headphones, grab your gloves, and brace yourself for some snow shoveling. It's cold out there, but Tony Dokoupil's whiskey set is hotter.

Links for Justin

• ​Bluesky: @justinbaragona.bsky.social
• ​X: @justinbaragona
• ​The Independent: ‘60 Minutes’ broadcast with delayed ‘Inside CECOT’ report pulls in abysmal ratings against NFL playoffs
• ​The Independent: Bari Weiss ‘expressed significant frustration’ with ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent during private briefings with reporters
• ​The Independent: Cheek kisses between Bari Weiss and Donald Trump following ‘60 Minutes’ interview rankle CBS staff

Transition Music: "Five After Dark" by Diving Horse

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[Black metal voice] KRRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

It’s time for something cringe! No, it’s not wearing corpse paint. It’s far worse: Nick Fuentes, the Tate Brothers, Clavicular, Sneako, the ever insufferable Myron Gaines and a list of random orbiters infested a Miami Beach club to bang Ye’s pro-Hitler rap anthem. Jared and Mike talk about that bullshit, alongside Fuentes' alleged monster deal to hawk gold, and his new pivot to Jeffrey Epstein apologia. The hosts also talk about “Nick Sordid,” the new Andy Ngo in town and why he sounds palpably unhinged. And, finally, Mike presents to the class on the genre of black metal, with an emphasis on the Norwegian variation of it. Jared doesn’t like it but he learns something new. 

That has to be worth at least seven figures, don’t you think?

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No story has defined 2026 quite like the federal invasion of Minneapolis, which grows more alarming by the day. Fears are mounting that Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy 1,500 US Army troops from Alaska, who are specialized in cold weather operations, and make a scary situation even scarier. The hosts trace the cascading fallout from an ICE officer fatally shooting Renee Good, from MAGA's disturbing social media reactions to violence targeting random American citizens. They wrap up with a fresh take on boy wonder "journalist" Nick Shirley and his "Silver Daddy" co-creator, then close by meeting with "Gringus" in an attempt to "get their dang lips on that trumpet."

Stay safe out there, everyone.

Closing Track: "Blues to Lovely" by Eli Rector (a PTI listener!)

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Jared and Mike bid farewell to MAGA legend Scott Adams, who died of cancer at age 68 on January 13, 2026, with a special installment of their "Who the Hell?" biographical series.

Adams was one of the earliest breakout MAGA influencers, gaining attention for his early support of Donald Trump in 2015 and his pseudoscientific explanations of his cultural rise. The "Dilbert" comic strip creator remained true to form until the end, hawking self-help books and broadcasting his insecurities to the world.

This episode traces Adams' career arc as a successful cartoonist (to the best of their knowledge), paying special attention to his creepy comments about women, racial grievances, pseudo-intellectual ramblings, and crusade against "loserthink." Adams considered himself a great writer — "as luck would have it."

Adams wasn't stupid. He’s smarter than us!

Jared's album recommendation: Madison Cunningham, Ace, 2025

Jared and Mike bid farewell to MAGA legend Scott Adams, who died of cancer at age 68 on January 13, 2026, with a special installment of their "Who the Hell?" biographical series.

Adams was one of the earliest breakout MAGA influencers, gaining attention for his early support of Donald Trump in 2015 and his pseudoscientific explanations of his cultural rise. The "Dilbert" comic strip creator remained true to form until the end, hawking self-help books and broadcasting his insecurities to the world.

This episode traces Adams' career arc as a successful cartoonist (to the best of their knowledge), paying special attention to his creepy comments about women, racial grievances, pseudo-intellectual ramblings, and crusade against "loserthink." Adams considered himself a great writer — "as luck would have it."

Adams wasn't stupid. He’s smarter than us!

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On this two-part episode, Mike and Jared explore how Grok, the AI chatbot built into Elon Musk's platform X, generates and distributes child sex abuse material and revenge porn. They're joined by Kat Tenbarge, an independent journalist who covers tech. Kat explains the history of "deepfakes" and how Musk's platform fits into a pattern of men manipulating tech to exploit women. After that, the guys speak with former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair, who has a child with Musk. Ashley recounts how she and others have been victimized by Grok's nonconsensual generation of sexually explicit images.

Links:

• ​Spitfire News: How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
• ​Spitfire News: Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
• ​The Guardian: Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

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Transition Music: "Mystery" by Turnstile, BADBADNOTGOOD

It hasn’t been a pleasant start to the year. Jared and Mike scramble the jets to accommodate the horror in Minneapolis, coming to terms with the culture that makes opponents of MAGA expendable in the eyes of the regime and its propagandists. They pivot to another Minneapolis story, Nick Shirley and his age gap content co-creator, who recently started ringing doorbells looking for a place to drop off their “Little Joey.” The hosts also talk about Grok’s revenge porn update, Curtis Yarvin’s objectively weird rant about Hitler, and learn that a lathered up Stephen Miller really wants to go to war now. 

Come on in, the water's awful.

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Jared and Mike wish you all a Happy J6, as we... uh... "celebrate" the fifth anniversary of the US Capitol Riot. They're joined by award-winning British journalist James Ball to reflect on what's happened to the field of "anti-disinformation" research and journalism. Those efforts peaked around the 2020 election, then almost completely fell apart. What happened for things to go so wrong? And what, if anything, can be done to keep the spirit of those efforts alive?

Links for James:

The Verge: "The war on disinformation is a losing battle"

Bluesky: @jamesrball.com / X: @jamesrbuk

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Closing Track: "As Good As I Once Was" by Toby Keith (Editorial Note: Jared says he's sorry.)