Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
We begin this episode with President Donald Trump’s pledge, issued in Dallas last week at the GOP midterm convention, to give adult citizen of the United States $5,000, should the Republicans keep…
Claire PotterHost
Neil YoungHost
I didn't, but I've, of course, seen, you know, the clips that have gone viral here and there.
Well, since since I'm trying to sort of clean up my own language, I'm not going to say the word of what they were talking about.
But apparently the FBI has removed certain kinds of, shall we say, poison pills from an agent's application, one of which is.
And apparently, people who have been involved with this are now eligible to become FBI agents.
Yeah, I mean, this is the clip that I was seeing over and over again, as one can imagine.
And his... justification for this was really i mean he kept sort of tying it to folks who had been potentially human trafficked and i guess would have been forced into this type of act was that was the logic behind it or that he was putting forward but i mean is that really something that's affecting so many people that would be applicants to the fbi what's what's the bigger story going on here claire
Well, I think the bigger story is trying to distract us from all kinds of other things, which is the collapse of the FBI.
I mean, I was sitting there watching it and thinking, OK, I didn't know that being in porn was an affirmative action category in the Trump administration now.
What I thought John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, his response was hilarious.
I couldn't figure out whether he was trying to be funny or whether he was just confused.
Because he wanted to know if the animals themselves, who had perhaps also been trafficked, would be eligible to be part of FBI training programs.
Funny and confused a lot of the time, but he seemed to actually be using that to... really just, you know, put a finger on it and make Kash Patel really sort of clarify the position.
This is about distraction and about a sort of broader, I don't know, I think it ties into a lot of the themes we want to get into of this corrupt administration, although this is a sort of different example of it.
And what happens when you actually aren't doing anything that government is supposed to do? And I think conservatives of a certain stripe have always believed that if government just sort of got shut down, somehow the world would come back into alignment in some magical way.
I didn't, but I've, of course, seen, you know, the clips that have gone viral here and there.
Well, since since I'm trying to sort of clean up my own language, I'm not going to say the word of what they were talking about.
But apparently the FBI has removed certain kinds of, shall we say, poison pills from an agent's application, one of which is.
And apparently, people who have been involved with this are now eligible to become FBI agents.
Yeah, I mean, this is the clip that I was seeing over and over again, as one can imagine.
And his... justification for this was really i mean he kept sort of tying it to folks who had been potentially human trafficked and i guess would have been forced into this type of act was that was the logic behind it or that he was putting forward but i mean is that really something that's affecting so many people that would be applicants to the fbi what's what's the bigger story going on here claire
Well, I think the bigger story is trying to distract us from all kinds of other things, which is the collapse of the FBI.
I mean, I was sitting there watching it and thinking, OK, I didn't know that being in porn was an affirmative action category in the Trump administration now.
What I thought John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, his response was hilarious.
I couldn't figure out whether he was trying to be funny or whether he was just confused.
Because he wanted to know if the animals themselves, who had perhaps also been trafficked, would be eligible to be part of FBI training programs.
Funny and confused a lot of the time, but he seemed to actually be using that to... really just, you know, put a finger on it and make Kash Patel really sort of clarify the position.
This is about distraction and about a sort of broader, I don't know, I think it ties into a lot of the themes we want to get into of this corrupt administration, although this is a sort of different example of it.
And what happens when you actually aren't doing anything that government is supposed to do? And I think conservatives of a certain stripe have always believed that if government just sort of got shut down, somehow the world would come back into alignment in some magical way.
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