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The Muckrake Political Podcast

JD Vance Is Turning Pointless

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman open with brisket talk, then carve into a darker holiday menu. First up, CBS pulls a reported 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s CECOT prison after Barry Weiss rides in to “center” the narrative. Then it’s over to TPUSA’s AmericaFest, where Vice President J.D. Vance serves up a white grievance stocking stuffer as conservative influencers snipe at each other for clicks and control. Finally, they wade through the latest Epstein document dump, where the redactions are doing more heavy lifting than the DOJ, and close on why Democratic incumbents already fear 2026 primaries. No Weekender this Friday for the holiday, the year-end show returns next week. Support the show by signing up to our Patreon and get access to the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:02.6

Welcome to a holiday edition of my great podcast. I'm Jerry D. Saksden. I'm here with my friend, my co-conspirator, Nick Hausman. How you doing, bud? I'm good. Happy holidays. How's Hanukkah going? Hanukkah is over. It was great. It's Hanukkah? Oh, my God. I feel terrible. Hanuk is over. We had a big one, big thing last night.

0:23.4

I think it was the eighth, seventh, whatever it is, you know, eight nights. Nonetheless, terrific brisket that I cooked. I'm using my old school recipe, which is I'm lucky that the immigrants were allowed into the country at the time to then bring these recipes with them. That's lovely. I'm so happy that you got.

0:38.7

I was just saying before we started recording, I've heard so much about this brisket for so long.

0:46.5

It's not.

0:47.3

And be careful, because if you come from a certain part of the country, your version of

0:50.7

brisket ain't anything like what I'm talking about.

0:53.5

Briscuits all over the place, but I welcome all of them.

0:57.6

And we welcome you to this edition.

0:59.8

I hope wherever you are, whatever you're doing, whatever holiday you're celebrating, that it is wonderful.

1:05.4

I want to say thank you to everybody.

1:07.6

It has been a weird year.

1:14.8

It has been a tough first year of the second Trump administration. All of you are so, so appreciated. We are going to take Christmas off,

1:21.3

so there will not be a weekender on Friday. We will be back with the year-end edition of the McGrigg podcast next week.

1:29.6

In the meantime, head over to patreon.com slash McCrigg podcast and order to support the show.

1:34.8

Keep us ad-free, editorially independent and continuing to grow.

1:38.0

Also, you gain access to the Weekender episodes that we do have, specials, live shows,

1:43.0

the Discord community, all that good stuff.

1:45.5

Nick, there's a lot to talk about before we take our holiday break.

1:50.5

We are recording this on Monday, December 22nd.

1:54.1

Yesterday, Sunday, December 21st, 60 minutes aired a...

1:59.0

How do I put this?

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