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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Unf**k America Tour founder Z Cohen-Sanchez and Washington Examiner contributor Jesse Adams join for a tour through Trump’s waning immigration support, the public broadcasting defunding that will hurt the next generation of Jesse Adamses, and why even Epstein truthers may be losing the thread. They debate whether GOP border hawks want actual deportations or just spicy cable-news optics, and whether NPR got PBS defunded by sheer association. Meanwhile, the Democrats try to square "abolish ICE" with NYC’s obsession with safety—somehow still winning.
Plus, Goat Grinders include denied entrance at Charlie Kirk events, the tyranny of the word “unhoused,” and the tragic combustion of Jeff Maurer’s own anti-sawdust screed.
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Production Coordinator Ashley Khan
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0:00.0 | It's Thursday, July 24th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
0:07.8 | It's the gist. |
0:08.5 | I'm Mike Peska. |
0:09.9 | And it ran wild. |
0:11.6 | Scientists and epidemiologists peg its beginnings to the 80s. |
0:16.7 | But it has now been silenced. |
0:18.9 | I speak, of course, of Hulkomania. |
0:21.8 | Everybody knows that Hulkomania is the strongest force in this universe. |
0:26.2 | And with so many conditions said to be eradicated, it could come back. |
0:30.6 | You'd have to ask our current HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who also, like the now |
0:37.2 | late, Hulk Hogan, spoke at the Republican |
0:39.8 | convention, but Hulkomania and the Hulkomaniacs mourn. |
0:46.2 | Hulk Hogan, 80s icon, 90s heel, aughts scourge of Gawker, and for a while, they're lover of Mrs. the Love Sponge. |
0:57.8 | As I said, R&C speaker has died. |
1:02.0 | Let us all rend our garments from the front, tearing them away, exposing very well-developed |
1:08.5 | pecks in a moment of appreciation. Okay, that moment now done. Mark |
1:13.3 | Ramondi, who wrote a book called Say Hello to the Bad Guys, will be on the show on Monday. |
1:19.8 | And one of the bad guys was Hulk Hogan. As I said, he turned heel for a breakaway rival to the WWWE, first F, then E. |
1:29.0 | So we get into wrestling and how wrestling informs politics. |
1:32.3 | You've heard about this, but I'm going to teach you some phrases like a shoot that turns into a work. |
1:38.1 | You'll know what that means. |
1:39.2 | So today on this show, it's a not even mad day. |
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