Fuck man, he wrecked my shirt.

Don't swear.

Oh my God, what game show have you ever seen that had swearing in it?

Oh yes.

Welcome back to posting through it.

I'm Jared.

And I'm Mike.

Thanks for people who have signed up for the Patreon.

We've got a few shout outs to give here.

A couple of them are a little delayed.

The holidays are crazy.

I had a work trip and all that, but we've got Jadles.

Shout out to Jadles Cal.

And then I need to correct the way I pronounced a name on an earlier episode, Renata Lee Sofsky.

It's a lovely name.

Renata Lee Sofsky, which is the Polish name that I mentioned on a previous episode.

I think as soon as I said it, I was like, I mispronounced this.

Almost certainly Renata reached out and said, in fact you did.

So we corrected that.

As always, if we ever do a shout out and it's you know, we're going off the name that it shows on Patreon.

We ever get it wrong or mispronounce it, just shoot us an e-mail and we'll correct it.

Also, our holiday recording schedule is a little bit uneven, so it's possible that there may be some people who have to wait for the next cycle that we miss.

But thanks for being there.

It's made a huge difference.

And as we close the year out, I thought it would be good to just kind of pause and, and think back on the year of posting through it.

It's, it's been really huge.

I mean, I had done the show previously solo, but since you came on and we started this year, I mean, especially in the last few months, it's really popped off.

I mean, we're getting shout outs and slate podcast mentioned in HuffPost.

I, I mean, it's kind of wild to see and wild to think that we've done this completely independently and even more so now that we're on Patreon.

We don't have to do ads or think about that kind of stuff.

I don't know, man, I'm, I'm, I'm proud of us, but also, you know, it wouldn't be possible if people weren't tuning in.

So thank you to.

Everyone, my magic mind willed it into being.

Oh no, Oh no.

So for this episode, Mike has been making a list and checking it twice and finding out who's naughty.

But it's only naughty.

It's only the naughty.

No, we love these takes actually.

Yeah, the 10 best takes of the year.

And we also reached out to all the people who have been on the show this year and some extra, you know, friends that we have, and invited them to submit New Year's toast for this episode.

And, and we're in the structure of this show, as far as I know, it is going to be slightly loose, loose atmosphere here.

We're in the holidays, we're getting ready.

It's New Year's time, people are drinking champagne and and and whiskey and whatever else, and I am going to be introducing my list to you for the first time.

You'll be hearing it as Trump said, you're telling me now for the first time and you will be telling me who's the toasts are for the first time.

So we're kind of like, it's like a sharing episode.

It's like AI don't know what the fuck.

I don't know what kind of New Year's tradition this is.

It's a surprise.

A friend.

I don't know.

Who knows?

But first, I wanted to start with a toast of my own.

I started podcasting in February 2018, and when I launched a show at that time, I called it Shit Post.

The audio quality was bad, I didn't know how to speak into a microphone, my thoughts were often mangled.

But as the years went on, it got better and the show developed a niche following.

But I was exhausted.

Hosting a podcast can be a very isolating experience.

You spend so much time producing, recording and editing these shows together, then you throw them out into the void and hope that someone, somewhere found what you did with all that time was valuable.

I could see that people were listening to the show, then every once in a while I'd hear from someone who liked an episode.

But over time, it wore me down, and I had to step away from the show in 2023 to kind of try to take care of myself a little better.

After Trump won the 2024 election and I started to see the world roll over out of fear, I started thinking that a show like Shit Boast, which I had already rebranded at that time as posting through it, needed to exist again.

Mike was finishing his book and wondering what was next, and I asked him if he wanted to bring the show back together.

He said yes.

And when we're done with this one, 66 episodes later, I think it's safe to say you're so fucking back, dude.

Yes.

The posting throughout you've been getting in your feeds this year is the best version of this show that's ever existed.

I'm so proud of what the show has become and that is because we have worked our asses off to make it that way.

I'm exhausted, but I couldn't be happier.

Thank you Mike for taking this on with me.

I couldn't do it without you, and you've added so much to the show.

I get to make something I love with one of my best friends, and I wouldn't trade that for any amount of Peter Thiel's venture capital cash.

But we really owe everything to our listeners.

There are 10s of thousands of you out there now, and so many of you come back each week just to hear what we have to say and to listen to the conversations we have with our guests.

I love that we have an audience of people with us that are wicked smart, but also kind and thoughtful.

A lot of you have signed up for that Patreon.

I mentioned hanging out with us on those premium episodes, and while it's great having some extra money to spend on the show and ourselves, what I've enjoyed most is having a place to chat and check in with our listeners.

You're the reason posting through it is the most trusted name in news.

And as I used to say in those early episodes of shit post, we'll stay logged on so you can try to log off every once in a while.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Happy New Year, and here's to another year of a music podcast that occasionally overlaps with right wing extremism.

Oh man, you like you made me tear up, which if you know me personally, like you know it's.

Very easy to do.

If you put on a movie that has like, like one string section in a scene, like I'll just start fucking crying for like half an hour.

But yeah, I don't want to add too much to your toast other than just say thank you, Jared, for that and thanks for the listeners.

2026 is our year.

I'm just, I'm just going to leave it at that.

I'm I'm so fucking ready.

Let's start playing some of these voicemails.

We got a lot of them in and we'll intersperse.

With the bet with the best takes of 20262025 whatever the fuck year top.

10 takes unmatched in their league.

But first, here's a voicemail.

Mike, you haven't heard this yet.

Let's go.

From an interview we did with someone I really enjoyed speaking to.

Hey, folks.

We'll stancil here live from Minneapolis.

I feel like that's just on your show.

But since then, ice has arrived here in Minnesota in a big way, thanks to Trump's fixation on Somalis.

I've been going to or been scheduled to go to trainings about how to respond to ice, how to resist them when they attempt to do these abductions.

And I'm really just waiting for the moment when I'm out there and, you know, the ICE agents have got their guns pointing at the crowd.

They're trying to grab some some poor Somali citizen.

They're shouting at everyone.

And one of them looks at me and he lowers his gun and he goes, wait a second.

Aren't you the main character on my favorite show?

Anyway, I've heard there's a fifth episode of the Will Stencil show coming a Christmas.

Episode.

But it is beset by some creative difficulties their their ambition may have exceeded their capacity this time.

So we'll see.

Maybe time you publish this, it'll be out.

But maybe this is the end of the whole thing.

Who knows?

As for me, I'm just, I've been running some holiday business promotions.

It's really the most mundane thing you can imagine.

I've got working through the neighborhood organization.

I've got 17 businesses signed up for a big holiday promotional project event that lasts the month of December.

We got a business passport program, we've got a bunch of declarations and I'm coordinating all of that.

It's really funny.

It's just kind of the most mundane neighborhood organization thing you can imagine.

And I don't think any of the people I'm working with, the volunteers, the business centers understand or know about this entire other side of my life, the ones that the one that everyone on the Internet knows about.

So it's been it's been kind of a kind of a relief, honestly, really looking forward to 2026.

Really feel like it's the year that maybe we crushed these MAGA scumbags into dust.

You can really feel Trump's support falling away.

It really feels like something is giving out finally.

So so here's hoping Happy holidays, happy New Year.

It was great talking to y'all hoping to talk to y'all soon.

Will Stancil like the the last guy would have expected to be leading off a year end thing when we started this.

But you know, I really hope that show making fun of him.

That was the reason we had him on and to begin with.

I hope that gets diminishing returns and he survives us and is able to give everybody the finger that did that because it was a bunch of fucking Nazi trash.

Hit me with a take, Mike.

OK, Jared for our for for number 10 coming in this year, I did.

This is a definitive list, everybody, this is more important than your pitchfork list or or or your your movie.

I don't where where people get their movies.

I don't care.

This is this is the most important list of 2025 #10 Top takes Jack Pasovic September 6th, 2025 quote the the title is the Phillies Karen and the death of American manhood.

Why we're losing our nation 1 surrender at a time.

Do you remember covering this on our premium?

Oh I do, I do.

This was after the Phillies Karen event where some woman with the prototypical, you know, may I speak to your manager?

Haircut refused to give a fly ball to a kid at a Phillies game.

Yes, well, here's what Jack had to say to say about that.

Today we've got fathers who, instead of defending their turf, accepted signed bats's, consolation prizes, participation trophies.

Like that's going to make up for the lesson in weakness they just imparted.

As I put it bluntly, he's putting his own tweet.

Phillies.

Karen got the little boys baseball and both of his father's.

She walked away with three balls that night, folks.

3 This isn't harmless, it's the slow poison killing America.

When men won't stand up to petty tyrants like this Karen at a baseball game of all places, how can we expect them to defend our borders, our families, our way of life?

Anyway, we can end it right there.

I think you know, someone said please send Jack our femdom T-shirt because that seems to be what is on his mind is a take.

Let's play another voicemail.

This one's from Bobby Silverman.

Hello, this.

Please excuse me, I got something in my throat.

So what the hell is that?

That's no good.

Anyway, OK, this is Bobby Silverman calling you from New York City, where I am the New York correspondent for the Posting Druid Show, and it's almost the end of the year.

Wow, this has been like a year where so much stuff happened with the Nazis who are running things.

So that's bad.

What did they do that's bad?

Aside from.

Turning the country into a police state and rounding up all of the brown people they don't like and invading good cities and ruining the economy and destroying our ability to fight the cancer.

And this is getting depressing.

I'm getting very depressed about that.

So it's going to be a new year, OK, It's it's and then things will maybe get better.

So I'm looking forward to things getting better for sure.

That's number one number.

2 is more episodes of posting through it and oh geez, this is I'm getting very depressed now.

I may need to go sit down because I can't think of other good things.

The Knicks are pretty good.

OK, Yeah.

That's a that's a good thing.

So, yeah, it's going to be a great year.

Happy New Year and happy holidays to all of the listeners from Bobby Silverman, New York City correspondent.

I'm going to play one more.

This one's from Hannah Case.

OK, hey, it's Hannah Gaze.

I just wanted to extend A wish of happy holidays to all of you posting through it, listeners out there and Jared.

I think there's.

That other guy, Mike, I don't know.

I don't know about him.

I was thinking about what to say as sort of a year in review, and I kept going back and forth between feeling like it's best to capture how depressing and difficult this year was for so many people, and also how there were just very brief moments of optimism in that darkness.

And I think I kind of settled a little bit on the optimism.

I live in DC, and one of the difficult, most difficult things about this year has been the federal incursion on DC and watching ICE terrorize communities, including where I live.

And it's been, it's been very hard to watch and very hard to experience and feels like there's no escape from it really.

But at the same time, every time I've walked by someone being harassed or someone being abducted, I always see my neighbors out there organizing people turning out to documented people, turning out to help contact people's families and provide support however they can.

And it's been one of the few things that, like, I think really shows the greatness of this country.

And it's been, it's a difficult moment and we shouldn't have to do this.

But it's hurting to see that people are doing what they can, when they can and however they can.

And whatever fresh horrors 2026 brings, I'm sure there will be some.

I hope people can continue to do what they're doing, which is standing up to this shit That, that went pretty hard.

I, I, I was at first I was going to make a joke and say, like, Hannah sounds like a sentient Joy Division CD as usual.

But then she brought so much heart into it that I was like, OK, all right.

She's so smart.

That's the thing.

I'm so proud of my friends.

Give me another take #9.

Sure, can you?

Can you queue up one of the the first of the two audio tracks I gave you?

The one from Bungler Bachia Sargon of Akkad.

Oh yeah.

I would say that like this is a good example of like, you know, following somebody with, with, with Hannah's emotional depth with with this is is almost unfair.

It's like tough.

But this is a good take to, to, to put at #9 for the year.

And it was only a few days ago.

Everyone.

December 21st.

Common theme of it all is dignity.

Dignity restored to the forgotten men and women of the heartland.

That's what Trump's entire year has been about, from the economic policy to the immigration policy to the foreign policy.

How does deporting day labourers and landscapers bring dignity to the working class?

Aren't they just doing jobs Americans won't do?

Well, no.

Contrary to the myth promulgated by the left, there isn't a single industry in America that's dominated by illegals.

Not one has more than a 30% share of illegal labor.

Migrants aren't doing jobs Americans won't do.

They're doing jobs Americans do.

OK, so I don't know if you knew this, Jared, but Trump is restoring dignity to the homeland and heartland of the United States right now.

That's what he's doing.

I didn't know that.

And that that's reporting people sending them out on planes and flying them to countries they've never been to.

Yeah.

But the economy is going so great.

Yeah, that's why everything is so affordable right now.

Anyway, she got by the way, if anybody wants to know whether like to which direction, if you believe in the whole left right bullshit, you know to which direction this country tilts like the fact that Bhatia Ungar Sargon of Akkad has a has a newscaster job from like from being like an A deputy opinion editor of Newsweek before on News Nation tells you all that you need to know.

She'll be on Fox next, I'm sure.

We've got another voicemail.

This one's from Michelangelo Signorelli, who had hit us on his SiriusXM show.

Remember when we did that earlier this year?

I do, barely.

I I love Michelangelo.

He is just the sweetest dude with the biggest heart and he's fun to listen to on the radio.

So here's what he sent us.

I'm Michelangelo Seniorelli, host of the Michelangelo Seniorelli show on SiriusXM Progress 127.

I first want to thank Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden and all of the listeners of Posting through it for helping us to get through all of this madness and making sure we are heard.

And it's so amazing looking back now at this year, because it started out so bleak, so frightening, so scary, so dark.

And I think a lot of us didn't know whether we were going to make it to the next week, let alone the next month.

And then things really started to change.

People came together, people organized, people got out there and protested.

They did lots of.

Creative things, they did it in new ways and we saw elections that really showed how people are not going to take this crap and they're going to fight back.

And I feel so much better now at the end of the year and going into.

2026 So thank you again and happy New Year to everyone.

One of the reasons I said I barely remember being on the show is because it was right in the middle of the Charlie Kirk stuff that we were doing.

Like we felt like we were doing everything all the time at once.

But I've been on on Michelangelo's show for so long, and he honestly does a tremendous service for people.

He's one of the few people I know who has like a prominent perch on radio who is always focused on combating the fascist threat.

So let's hear it #8 what do we got?

Number eight of our worst takes, our best takes of 2026.

Hey, Mike.

Best Takes Best Takes January 22nd, 2025.

You will recall the weather was very, very cold outside and a an opinion writer, I guess you would call her Libby Emmons, friend of Jack Pozobic at Human Events.

Jared, can you tell us what this one was about?

Do you remember it?

Yeah, I think this was our third episode.

We covered the inauguration in DC.

You were there hanging with Hannah, and on the sidelines there was a party hosted by Passage Press, which Jason Wilson's done some great coverage of them in the Guardian of Far Right publishing house.

Basically, that's trying to, you know, really trying to make itself like the cultural vanguard of the MAGA movement.

I haven't heard much from them lately, but Libby Emmons went to a party they hosted and wrote this.

And here we are.

Trump was cancelled and he has ascended to the throne of global power.

The memesters and net artist do not reveal their public names, but their authorship of the movement has transformed the political and cultural landscape.

And for myself now, having attended the Coronation Ball when only eight years ago I was ensconced with the Pussy Hat wearers on the National Mall, then cancelled over Trans just one year later.

How many all I get cancelled over trans?

I got cancelled for trans.

I'm now serving as the writer of right wing cultural influence.

I can attest to that fact.

My guess is that next time, anyone will be able to buy a Gadsden flag dress off the rack and we'll be able to go out into the world with the face of our own avatars.

Really, actually, even though it's #8 I think it is, you know, purely in terms of writing the worst, it is the, it is the absolute worst.

But the Gadsden dress that is the like, Don't tread on me flag.

And the idea is that, like, somebody was so cool at this thing and wore that in dress form.

And her prediction was at the start of the year that likes not long from now, people will be wearing those dresses everywhere.

And but the biggest, I think faux pas, the biggest wrong in her take was of course, that she was a, a, a writer of any kind of cultural importance.

All right, let's do a couple more voicemails.

I've got 2 from people with the last name Higgins got Owen Higgins and Elliot Higgins.

I'll play Owens first.

Hey guys, this is Owen Higgins guest on The Who the Hell is Matt Taibbi episode as well as one related to my book Owen How tech billionaires on the right by the loudest voices on the left that if you are listening to this and you have not got it, you should get it.

Anyway, it's been a pretty good year.

Published my book.

Looking forward next year to reading Mike's book, enjoy my appearances with you guys, and look, you know, as far as next year goes, who knows?

Who knows what's coming down the line.

I'd like to say that things can't get much worse, but we all know that that's not true.

Anyway, I'd like to end just by recommending some music for those fans of yours who like electronic music.

Hell yeah.

I've been listening to this drum and bass DJ from the UK called Harriet Jackson.

Her stuff is really, really good.

So check her out if you haven't had time.

All right, guys, see you in 2026.

Bye.

The the the music podcast part of it is is holding Jared.

This is holding it's, it's we've memed it into a thing.

Yeah, here's Elliot Pickens.

Hey gang, this is Elliot Higgins from Balencat.

It's been an interesting 2025 and I hope everyone has a good new year.

One thing I've been thinking about a lot as as as we're moving towards the first year of Trump's term, I'm wondering how many of his hanger.

ONS.

Who he's put into positions of power are going to embarrass themselves or get bored enough to leave.

And who's going to replace them?

Who's waiting in the wings of Trump world?

Because I feel they've probably already scraped the bottom of the competency barrel and I can only imagine what the next barrel looks like, probably full of rotten fish and other terrible things.

I'd love to hear what you guys think could, could be the next, I don't know, Deputy director of the FBI, Secretary of State, Secretary of War.

I don't know, but I hope they're not British.

I hope.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

No, we, we, we can make fun of the British, even though I, I, I, I really love him.

What I was going to say was that like, is there something Mr.

Higgins beyond Kash Patel?

And for people who haven't listened to our premium episode from the last one, I would urge you to go back and listen to him talk about his favorite TV shows for 5 minutes and try to find somebody.

I mean, quite literally, you could just find someone on the street and make them the FBI director and they would be more engaged and more into it than than he is.

So I mean, in some ways, these kind of stooges that he's referring to are a gift in disguise in some ways because they're just, their incompetency is so salient.

All right, let's get back to the takes #7 best take of 2025.

What do you have for me?

Niall Ferguson in Times UK January 3rd, 2025 So he did he he he kicked this off before Trump took power, which is rare as the only one on the list like that.

And he he has a the the piece was titled I was wrong to call Donald Trump a would be tyrant, And I'll just read from it.

Ferguson, 60, who divides his time between the UK and the US, where he has positions at both Harvard and Stanford, was a was at Mar a Lago to attend a fundraiser for a conservative education charity.

Four years ago, he was deeply critical of Trump's role in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol.

Oh, that's nice of him.

I'm glad he did that.

Writing for Bloomberg, he said that Trump violated his oath to preserve the Constitution, was a demagogue and would be tyrant.

How can we be sure Trump won't try to be won't now try to be a tyrant?

Quote.

I'm convinced that whatever impulses he has or has had in the past, the system can system can contain them as it was designed to, he says.

I also think that the American electorate was collectively smarter than I was was in seeing that January 6th was not quite the earth shattering event and was presented on television.

My assumption in January 2021 was that it was a career ending mistake by Trump and I was wrong in that.

So wow, thanks man.

You got a real courage over your convictions man.

I'm I, I, I look forward to more Niall Ferguson takes.

Oh my God, what a Ding Dong.

Anyway, here's someone really smart.

Kelly Jensen.

Hi, Jared and Mike.

This is Kelly Jensen.

I am.

Really honored that I got to be on the show this year and have been thinking about what kind of message I would.

Leave for your listeners and I guess.

My biggest message as we go into the new year is that I hope people take advantage of the public libraries that they have access to.

And if they don't have access to a Public Library, they find a way to get access, whether to a regional library or they pony up a little bit of cash to pay into another local district.

This can look like getting a library card, but it could also look like using that library card to check things out, or requesting any sort of title that you're interested in from the library.

If they don't have it on shelf, ask them if they can get it.

If you have kids, bring them to the children's events at libraries.

Bring them to story time.

As an adult, you can attend all kinds of programs yourself.

Take advantage of these gems that are in our community and be a part of continuing to advocate on their behalf and ensure that the entire community is being represented in the library and not just.

Those with a vested interest.

In the sorts of materials and ideas that can be available in the library.

I have no good jokes.

I have some good book recommendations.

You know, my my biggest thing is that I like to tell folks is if you don't like what you're reading, put it down.

Pick something else up.

There's no award for finishing something you don't love.

Instead, keep looking for those things that you do love and keep enjoying them.

Thanks so much.

Have a great new year.

That's good guidance for life.

I, I'm, I'm very happy.

I'm very happy with that.

I was going to make a nerd joke there, but then I'm like, actually, yeah.

Like, no, it's good that we're we're we're hyping libraries on the show.

Yeah.

So that was really smart.

Give me some I I want the stupid shit again.

Mike, number six.

All right, welcome to back to what the fuck we're doing here.

Yeah.

So number six.

OK, Jared, I got AI got a star on here.

I have a * You ready?

This is a this is a posting through its star.

We like star makers, you know star discovery.

We helped make this star here.

Oh God, I already know who this is.

Yeah, yeah, this is.

I thought I got to tell you.

I thought that she would be #1 like I thought you'd be #1 but then I really looked at the takes and I started to break it down.

That person is.

Yeah, yeah.

Catherine Night Train D that's hers pseudonym real names like Katya Ungar, whatever.

But like, you know, no matter how bad Catherine D's takes were, she still advanced her career because she got a New York Times op-ed after this.

It wasn't it wasn't about the radical right or anything like that.

That was too offensive.

It was sort of like, you know, why is the Internet like in in like some sort of magical forest dream parade.

And like it was the type of like nothing blabber about the Internet that sometimes gets published.

And that's what she wrote.

Well, for this one, Jared and I'll, I'll let you read some of it.

I'll just say that she first came to us in a premium episode.

It was an October 13th article called Nick Fuentes is Winning, Winning Over Women on the Left, which I have retitled.

In my mind, women are gooning over Nick Fuentes because that was one of the lines in it.

Her evidence was very sparse.

I think she probably could have, you know, cracked the top ten maybe, but sometimes you got to push things down.

You know how these lists go.

Well, it's interesting that that got the most amount of attention online.

People were really angry about it because the worst one came out afterwards.

Jared, if you recall it was for Politico on October 19th and it was about the Nazi leaning messages that were leaked from Republican group chats.

Will you read some of this?

My intuition is that if more of these exchanges took place face to face, some of the ugliness might soften.

It is one thing to type a slur into a void and another to hear your own voice saying it to a person standing a few feet away.

That's true.

I once interviewed a white supremacist, a self identified Nazi, who told me he had never actually said the N word out loud until our interview.

When he finally heard himself say it, he was disgusted.

We spoke twice more after that and over time he completely renounced white supremacist.

Just put Catherine D in front of all these guys.

He had been, in his own view, Internet poison and having to explain his beliefs to somebody outside of that world in a sense de radicalized him.

This is an exceptional situation specific to this particular individual circumstances.

But there's also a lesson there when we can extrapolate to much less extreme situations, especially with all we know about the Internet and disinhibition.

If people had to look others in the eye while saying vile things, if they had to hear their own voices speaking hatred aloud, much of this rhetoric wouldn't exist.

Screens create distance, and distance changes moral calculus.

Yes, go on, speak on it.

The Internet changes our sense of who we're speaking to and how our words land.

Until we come front that ship directly, we will keep circling the same argument about whether people really, quote mean it.

The question misses the point.

Meaning itself has become unstable because the medium blurs in tension and consequence.

The Young Republicans Telegram archive is a mirror of that instability.

Its participants knew what they were saying was dangerous and certainly difficult to justify to outsiders.

Yet they didn't stop.

Their downfall was predictable, perhaps inevitable.

In today's political environment, there's always someone waiting in the wings to weaponize words, screenshot orders, archivists of discontent.

Maybe the real solution is to move these chats offline period, and watch them disappear.

She's got the answers.

That's how.

That's it.

It just, they didn't mean to say the Nazi stuff, Jared.

They didn't mean to.

It was just they were, they were just online.

And if they had just kind of gotten offline, they would have been like, hey, guys, let's stop saying Hitler is good.

The key for fixing online racism is to go let those people be racist in the real world.

Also the most important point that you made at the time, which is also they, they were taking these chats off like they were, they were not like on social media, they were, but they were trying to be private and those these were their private thoughts anyway.

Catherine D Catherine D, for people who don't know, wrote a whole bunch of articles in right wing publications and then was all of a sudden sort of pushed forward as a kind of an expert and seer on on Nazis.

Yeah, because they know if they call me or Mike for comments in the New York Times, we're going to be like, fuck you, fuck you, fuck this guy.

Your story's ridiculous, you shouldn't write it.

But then, you know, she can get in there and do the like.

Wow, isn't the Internet a weird little magic box?

That's so weird.

Yeah.

And that's it.

It's like 4000 word essays.

Also, I I can't let this go.

We need to keep moving.

We said we were going to keep moving on this one job, but I can't let this go.

She never identifies the white supremacist that she radicalized just by looking into his eyes.

Anyway, it it doesn't, maybe you didn't have to, but you don't even she didn't put any descriptor around him, right?

It wasn't like, how did she meet him?

It's like, you know, Anyway, it doesn't fucking matter.

Last thing I'll say about Catherine D probably the most mad anyone's ever gotten at us for talking about them on this show.

She subscribed to the Patreon just to hear the episode where we talked about her GQ article about gooning to Nick Fuentes, and then sent us both very angry messages that that didn't make a lot of sense.

Anyway, here's Madeline Peltz.

What's up?

Posting through it, listeners, It's your girl Madeline Peltz, AKA Maddie Bat Mitzvah AKADJ Samuel Taylor Suit, AKA Chicago's youngest retiree.

And I'm calling to say Merry Christmas because we are saying Merry Christmas again in the new golden era.

This year, I wrote a book and produced a documentary, and I want to take a moment to reflect on the things that I learned in 2025.

Number one, if you want to succeed as a woman in media, the most important thing is what you look like.

Always speak in a baby voice, keep your IQ at a comfortable room temperature, and do not hesitate to compare your affair with RFK Junior to the LA wildfires that displaced 200,000.

People #2 always post through it.

Bill Ackman did nothing wrong.

Elon Musk did nothing wrong.

Benny Johnson did nothing wrong.

If you are the power hungry son of Jewish refugees and have the personality of a boiled egg that has been swallowed whole by an off leash Labradoodle, only to be puked up moments later and you find yourself at the top.

Of the most.

Corrupt White House in American history there is no upper limit to how much people want to hear from you #3 always be kind, especially to your.

Sister.

She may annoy you when you get over simulated at a children's pumpkin patch, but she is also your ride.

Home.

All right, that's all for me.

Go bears.

Subscribe to my sub stack.

Love you.

Bye.

Amazing.

All right.

I don't really have much to add to that, but thank you.

I'm going to play.

I'm going to play the one we got from the other Chicagoan, Jeff Tishauser.

Hey, it's Jeff Tishauser here, vice mayor of Chicago.

Blue sky.

I'm going into.

This holiday season, thankful, thankful for y'all's podcast.

And I'm not just saying this.

I swear I'm not just saying this because I want to be back as a guest.

All right?

I, I am very much a fan of your show and your show is helping me stay sane.

So thank you.

I hope you're both enjoying your holidays.

And you know, what am I thinking going into 2026?

I think it's more of a mood that I'm going to try to bring.

I got 2 middle fingers raised to the sky screaming fuck Greg Bovino, fuck Ice, and fuck everybody who wants this shit, who wants to destroy families and to terrorize people.

You know what gives me strength though?

In 2025?

I saw my neighbors stand the fuck up.

I saw so many fucking young people stand the fuck up.

We got, we got pushed down, we got pepper sprayed, we got shot with rubber bullets aimed at our heads.

We stood right the fuck back up.

Chicago is US.

Chicago is our home.

Chicago, we run these streets.

These are our neighbors and family members they're terrorizing and we're not going anywhere.

That's all I'm trying to say.

So, you know, happy holidays, everyone, except Greg Bovino.

Jeff has that dog in him, you know.

Yeah.

He's but he's the perfect guy.

Like he, you know, he was on to do Patriot front with us and he's just the perfect guy for that stuff because you see the way he goes, he just goes in and you need and you need that.

You need that.

It's like a, you know, not a lot of people who cover the far right have that type of energy and you need you because when you get face to face with some of these guys, you get CTE, man.

It like has you have to be you have to you have to be like more like intense than they are sometimes.

And he's for Patriot Front.

There's no better fit.

I always appreciate Jeff because you know, I've, I've been becoming a fair weather fan of the Chicago Bears since living here since they're having a good season.

But I don't watch all the games, but I know when they win because Jeff gets in the Jeff gets in our fantasy football group chat and just post the bears, the bears, the bears, the bears.

And that's how I that's how I know the Bears won that day.

All right, well, you ready for #5?

#5 let's do it.

I just want to say to the listeners, we had like some night, you know, you know what?

You know what 10 through 6 is like?

I'm on a list like this.

They're like, those are good, but you think you want to get to the real, We're going to get the real elite shit, the real elite takes, and I'm going to give you one that we haven't even covered yet.

Can you believe that?

What do we got?

This is one we haven't even covered yet, but we we couldn't leave it off thanks to the news cycle that helps make it even more interesting than it was before, which is David Brooks of the New York Times.

November, November 21, title, the Epstein story question mark.

Count me out, Cher.

Would you like to read that?

If I were a Democratic politician, this role-playing is kind of fun.

I'd add that America can't get itself back on track if the culture is awash and distrust, cynicism, catastrophizing, lies, and conspiracy mongering.

No governing majority will ever form if we're locked in a permanent class war.

I try to recognize that no political moment is forever.

Right now, the dark passions are ascendant.

But after one cultural moment, voters tend to hunger for its opposite, which in this case means leaders who protect and leaders who project integrity, unity, honesty and hope.

How many y'all like the Dark Passions by the way?

The smart play, I'd say is to rebut conspiracy mongering, not abet it.

When the giant issues like AI and Chinese dominance come crashing down on us, we will look back on the Epstein moment and ask what the hell were we thinking?

And from USA TODAY just a week or two ago.

The New York Times columnist David Brooks appeared in a Thursday, December 18th phototrop, eating a meal and sipping a drink.

The photos line up with a 2011 billionaires dinner that included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk, among others.

So basically this guy is like, hey, I don't know why the Democrats are so worked up about this Epstein stuff.

Maybe we should just forget it.

Can we just like, can we stop here with the with the leaks of stuff?

I think we can just like do that, right?

Why don't we stop that then of course we've got pictures of him.

They've.

Been taken by Jeffrey Epstein, Yeah.

We don't know what he did or whatever.

All I know is I ain't I I ain't show up at any fucking dinner with Jeffrey Epstein.

I know that.

If we did, we'd have to disavow, disavow you on the podcast.

But I don't know, we're good friends.

I'd keep you around.

But everything OK, let's let's play a voicemail.

This is Juliet Jeske of Decoding Fox.

News The one woman.

Podcast slash media project on Sub stack.

I watch all the Fox News.

You'd never want to.

Let me tell you, it's not always fun.

I wanted to congratulate my friends Michael Edison Hayden and Jared Holt for all of their success with posting through it in 2025, and I wish them the best and continued success in 2026.

They're both highly entertaining, brilliant men.

They have great rapport with each other.

We will all be quite busy covering the manchild deranged lunatic who is diminishing by the day in the White House.

I wanted to do a quick bit that I sometimes do for my podcast.

Judge Jeanine Pirro is no longer with Fox News, but she still shows up on the network from time to time.

And she has a quick message for Jared and Michael.

Here we go.

I'm Judge Jeanine, if you want to watch listen to a podcast, two researchers who know a lot about the far right and other topics, check out posting through it.

I'm not going to listen to it because I love Donald J Trump as much as I love my dogs Red Ted, Stella and Doodle and you know, I like a York Peppermint Patty and throwing pens.

Stay away from Christine Om though, because she will shoot a puppy in the face.

I'm Judge Jeanine, thanks for listening, posting through it.

Give it a shot.

Can we get her on to do that?

Like can we?

Can we have an interview with like a full interview interview with Judge Jeanine?

Just never break the bit.

Yeah, just don't break the bed.

It's she's really good.

She's.

Good at it, yeah.

Wasn't she like she she has like a theatre background.

She used to do and and so does Bob and like you can tell like when they do their voices and performances that they're they they have a lot of practice and performance.

That was really funny and I haven't seen her in a minute.

And that make makes me want to amend that.

I'd like to say hi.

Yeah, we first, I think.

I had, yeah, drinks maybe like it must have been like four or five years ago.

I haven't seen her since I.

I I love Julia she's she's amazing she's awesome.

So cool.

Let's go back to that Doo Doo brain shit #4.

OK #4 this one, it's going to be tough to laugh like at this one because it's so fucking horrible.

But it has to be in, you know, it had to be in the top 2025.

This was we, we have to be consistent with the takes.

And this was the number four worst take of 2025.

This is Olivia Rheingold of the Free Press, who ran basically a propaganda campaign through the Free Press.

They they they will call it journalism that is essentially tried to minimize the horrific, just so bleak and so painful starvation and famine that happened in Gaza this year.

Kids were sick, but not just with malnutrition.

In every instance, they were suffering with other conditions or illnesses like cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy and even traumatic head injuries.

A few weeks ago, I started to notice that the same kids were appearing over and over again in coverage about Gaza, and they were being photographed by different photographers, which suggests some element of coordination.

And then the New York Times had to issue an editor's note about this viral image.

And that made me wonder, what else weren't they telling us about these photos?

This, that, that's conspiracy brain shit.

Oh, the same, the same kids are getting photographed and it's like, yeah, maybe maybe it's because they're close to like a central location or they're like in a one of the big refugee camps that the photographers all go to and said and said they're like some degree of coordination here.

Plus, the UN formally label labeled as a famine, and everyone knows that it's a famine.

And everybody knows that they were blocking aid from getting into Gaza and in fact, shooting people who were going to starving people who were going to get aid.

That's what's not a very fun take to go through.

But we still have three more.

Here's Luke Savage Hey there fellas.

Luke Savage of the acclaimed sub stack Luke W savage.com also Luke W savage on the artist formerly known as Twitter Co host the Michael and us podcast coming to you from north of the 49th parallel in the free city of Toronto.

What can I say this year has been kind of a whirlwind.

I think I've recorded something like 100 episodes of my own podcast, and I'm looking forward to a few weeks respite from that, which I should hopefully be in the midst of by the time this drops.

And Speaking of podcasts, I had been known to go on other people's as well, and without any exaggeration or hyperbole, I did just want to say that recording with you guys this year back in September was some of the most fun I've had doing that in quite a while.

A real pleasure to talk all things Iglesias, though it is a shame we did so before he published his epically titled rebuttal to my piece.

I I've been right about some things, I think it was called.

Anyway.

So much fun to sit in on the show and just unbelievably cathartic to talk pundits and media guys with you both.

Looking forward to hopefully doing that again sometime in 2026.

For now, I'm planning to leave the content minds for just a little bit.

Read, relax, engage in some other non posting related activities.

But shout out to you guys and to all your listeners, a happy New year, Happy holidays.

Wishing you good health and as we say up here in Canada, keep your sticks on the ice.

Cheers.

Cash Patel would like to hear that.

Yeah, our boy.

Yeah, man.

Keep the keep, keep the stick on the ice.

I'm out here right now.

I'm watching land man, I'm Paramount Plus.

Everybody, you guys need to listen to that premium episode if you haven't yet, but I'm going to be doing my Cash Patel impression for the next throughout 2026.

Take #3.

What do we got, Mike?

All right, so we're done with the the, you know, right, top three.

That's your real, like, come on, you, you, you're listening to it like Casey Kasem, like the top hits or whatever.

You're like, you want to know the top three, right?

You want to know the top 3.

So #3 Jared, this is a guy.

I, I, I, I have to tell you, I, I wasn't even able to get through reading this one on the premium episode.

We covered it because it was just too good.

It is by Jeffrey Ingersoll, editor at large at the Daily Caller, who whose bio says writer, drinker and that and the the headline for this everybody is enough is enough.

Ellipses.

I choose violence.

All caps I I think we need to read.

We need to read this full section.

Everybody needs.

This.

Yeah, but before we do just know that he published this and then they affixed an editor's note at the top that's like, hey, listen, I know this guy sounds fucking insane, but we publish a diversity of opinions and the piece, the piece doesn't actually call for violence.

Yeah.

There's all kinds of.

You know, it's only a self-defense situation.

The New York Times covered it.

They got in some hot water.

I mean, it was the first time the Daily Caller had been in the press for anything in a while.

And and this happened like start us out.

Choose violence.

We all know the government is not going to help you in your time of need, especially a Soros sponsored government.

Time out.

I don't even remember this from the first time.

Like like the Trump administration.

OK, nevermind.

This is a Soros sponsored government.

Conservative conservatives looking to peacefully assemble and publicly debate need to be realistic.

Nobody's going to help you.

In fact, they're going to encourage violence.

They're going to excuse, justify, and encourage it.

Encourage it.

We saw as much with Charlie Kirk.

They were practically begging someone to go after him and when someone did, they quickly justified it.

Well, I think now that we know the extent of it, the time to go as lambs to the slaughter is over.

All caps.

In real terms this means bringing security with you.

That's dying to dole out drubbins.

I'm sure a fair amount of ex cons who found Jesus loved Charlie Kirk.

Maybe they need work?

Well, first of all, before I'm sorry, I just need to interject something real quick.

Even though we've done this before, what are these ex cons sitting around and be like, yeah, I like that guy.

I like that Kirk guy.

He's he's.

You know what I'd love to do, man?

You know what I'd love to do is just beat the shit out of someone, Polly.

Walnuts, Polly Walnuts.

Be put some respect on Charlie Kirk's name.

Listen, the boss told you, whatever works, we need to reinstitute the cost.

So some activist takes the sign next to your table at a public debate like what happened here.

She gets instantly closed lined.

I don't care if police are present, do it anyway.

In fact, be wildly disproportionate.

Which is, which is awesome, because that's just assault.

You can't.

You can't beat the shit out of somebody because they took your property.

That's not how the law works.

Oh man, imagine how good two in one are if this is the third one.

A fat black lady assaults your on camera talent.

Of course.

Thank.

Way to go, Jeffrey.

Fat black lady, right?

Like yeah, he just pulls that one out of his ass.

Book the kind of security that has no qualms hospitalizing her and people like her.

OK, I don't really, can we drill down on this?

We're saying, I know we're not doing an episode on this anymore, but I, I, I, I, I think I was laughing too hard to actually look at it.

Book the kind of security that has no qualms hospitalizing her.

Described as a fat black lady and people like her.

Right.

So just like book like what are you talking about?

Like book like, you know, Dylan Roof, like what are you talking about?

Like, just like insane white supremacist basically.

But Mike, the editor's note said that this one didn't actually endorse violence.

It's a fucking this is insane.

I was like, this is insane for the Daily Caller.

Dudes, rope up your car and start vandalizing it.

Bros.

Dismounting with cudgels?

We'll fix that real quick.

Turn it into an instant brawl.

Break bones, force corrupt police to intervene.

I want blood in the streets.

OK, I think that's enough of Jeffrey Ingersoll.

Back to the fucking doors, buddy.

Writer, drinker Jeffrey Ingersoll.

I can't wish him a happy new Year, actually, but thank you for giving us the take.

He won't hear you anyways.

Blackout.

Here's Nikki.

Hi, Jared.

Hi, Mike.

Hi, posting Threat listeners, this is Nikki McCann Ramirez from Rolling Stone Magazine.

And this year was a lot.

This year was a lot.

And being on posting through it, listening to the podcast, watching it grow has been a delight and a pleasure.

I don't think I need to recap all of the horrors that we experienced in this first year of the Trump administration.

You guys did a really good job of that.

But what I will say is what I thought would be an ending to a really bleak and abysmal year.

I am, weirdly enough, feeling kind of hopeful because I think over the past couple weeks, particularly, we've seen weeks and months, weeks and months.

We've seen the Trump administration, the Republican coalition, the MAGA base develop some fractures that for the first time really feel like they could be permanent and really feel like they could be widening and really feel like they could split the hold that Trump and macro Republicanism have had on the conservative movement for the last decade.

I'm talking about people like Marjorie Taylor Green breaking with the president.

The reality that Republican lawmakers across the country are realizing that the president's policies over the last year have been incredibly unpopular, and neither are choosing not to run or bracing for catastrophic loss losses.

I'm going to restate that or bracing for catastrophic losses in the midterm elections in 2026.

And so this year was really hard.

A lot of people were put through absolute torture and brutality by the administration, everything from ICE raids and communities to deportations, to foreign torture, prisons to, you know, the shutdown and families being deprived of their health care and access to food.

And it, I, I never like thinking in this framing, but if there is something that gives me hope, it's that all of those things, all of those actions are clearly alienating Americans.

And hopefully we'll see, we'll see Republicans pay for their mistakes in the coming year.

Happy holidays to all y'all, love y'all.

So basically TVUSA has Nicki Minaj and we have that Nicki and I'm I, I think it's like way better personally.

We have the better Nicki way.

Better.

It's not.

It's not even a.

There's not even a question.

It's not even a thing.

#2 Mike, what do you have?

We're getting close.

All right, I think a lot of people would have thought this might have been #1 but it just couldn't quite cut the top one #2 and it's a real honorable mention here.

There's a lot of factors into what move these takes higher or lower the the perch, right?

When you have something coming through with the New York Times, that's a big, that's a big, that's a big megaphone right there, right?

We're going to agree with that.

That's the number one place to to drop a take pretty much.

Then you have the next thing is the timing, right?

That's a huge factor too.

It's sort of like, hey, like, you know, you know the joke when or when people make a joke and people say afterwards like too soon, right, about something, right?

Timing is a factor, timing.

And to get like a take like this, you got to come through.

You have to have a level of belief in yourself, right, that you're like, I can just fucking drop this.

I can just drop this in.

I got the I got, I've got everything going for me.

I got this abundance fucking thing that I don't I that Mike Hayden doesn't understand what it is.

There's like, you know, I've got a podcast that, that where I sound worried every time I say something, you know, I'm, I'm a big fucking deal.

I'm a big fucking deal.

I'm not, I'm not like some guy who's, you know, drawers are filled with Silly Putty.

I'm I'm actually.

I'm a, I got big balls to drop a take and that guy is Ezra.

Ezra Klein, big guy.

Yeah, Ezra Klein with a, with a huge hit.

And I know he's going to be disappointed not being #1 on this list.

But number 2 is no, I mean, he he over I, I think he was bigger than Ingersoll just because of those other factors.

I know that Ingersoll did everything he could in the Daily Caller, but this was great here.

September 11th, 2025.

This is the new 911.

You already know what this one.

Is we all?

We all remember where we were when this take dropped.

Yeah, top chart charting take of the year.

Klein absolutely flexing on this track.

Let's hear the flow, Jared.

You can dislike much of what Charlie Kirk believed, and the following statement is still true.

Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way.

He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him.

He was one of the era's most effective practitioners of persuasion.

When the left thought it's hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it slowly.

Then, all at once, he did.

College age voters shifted sharply right in 2024 elections.

This was not all Kirk's doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it.

I did not know Kirk, obviously, and I am not the right person to eulogize him, but I envied what he built.

Now, that's the key part of this, by the way.

That's why I made sure that was in there.

Yeah, that's the that's the most important thing.

A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy.

Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness.

In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Governor Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk admitting that his son was a huge fan.

What a testament.

Just Kirk's project Mike.

If I remember correctly it was actually this take which is why we scrambled The Jets and did a like emergency broadcast style.

Who the hell was Charlie Kirk episode?

Yeah, it is actually, yeah.

We, we felt like we had to urgently and it really changed the trajectory of this show.

I think in many ways.

I think, you know, I don't know.

I think it was like just shortly after we had gone to premium and it got like it, it racked up the most, I mean just like downloads through the roof when we did it, it was the.

Most pop It was the most popular episode we had this year.

Yeah, and and I think like largely because people were like, wait a second, isn't there more to this story than we're getting?

And I just want to just harp on one thing rather than congratulating ourselves for doing a podcast.

The this guy is out there like imagining himself like, you know, I'm going to entertain some questions from some conservative young people about abundance, Abundance.

It's like, would you like to hear more about abundance?

So don't shoot me.

Have you heard the good news about housing developments?

Anyway, all right, Anyway, yeah, it was.

It was what it would.

Look, there's still there.

There is another, as they would say in Star Wars.

There is the greatest take of 2025.

We've got two more more voicemails to cram in before we get there.

First one's from Matt Redacted, who joined us for The Who the Hell is Kumia Anthony Kumia episode.

And then we've got Talia Jane.

Hi Jared and Mike, Matt here from the Kumi episode.

It's a pleasure seeing a show grow and of course it was a huge pleasure talking Anthony Kumia with you.

One thing that I didn't mention is that Kumia fans lurk on YouTube.

That's where all the Opie and Anthony is.

That's where Ants Compound Media and AM shows live.

And when I saw you had APTI YouTube profile, I checked out the episode and seems to be doing well.

A lot of engagement and here are some of my favorite.

Comments.

Let me.

See STD 88 writes.

Your soy latte is ready at the counter.

His name is STD amped up, EVCT writes.

Anthony is a comedy legend.

Sorry he offends your delicate sensibilities.

Mitch Connor dash R6I writes real shit.

People who have a problem with Cumia are soft.

D under score C under score 5 six O 4 writes it's 3 beta white male feminists calling Anthony all the phobes and ists Promark 53.

17 just writes.

Gay.

So I'm not.

Totally sure that we've captured the hearts and minds of the Kumiya fans, but it was really fun to be on the pod.

And I have a prediction, by the way, I think that Kumiya becomes a Christian in 2026.

He's had a couple heart attacks and I think it would help with his new AM radio listeners.

I think it's a good.

That's a good guess and I actually do create stuff and I would love to plug my actual actual work, but I don't want to get doxed.

And Anthony Cumia is famous for doing that, so probably.

Skip what I do.

But anyway, again, love the show.

It's a great music podcast.

Happy 2026.

Long live posting through it.

He gets it.

Hell yeah.

My Man Music Music Podcast of the Century is posting through it.

That's right.

We talk about other stuff too, sometimes.

All right, here's Talia Che, and I think this is the last one we have.

It's Talia Jane.

I'm here with my little baby, thinking about the difference between niceness and kindness and how this year we've seen decorum and appeals to it weaponized to force compliance with awful, cruel things.

Appeals to decorum to keep people silent, to get them snitching on their neighbors.

And thinking about how moving into the new year, hopefully more people realize that decorum is a tool of the fascist machine, and that if they want to fight back, they have to abandon any sense of politeness and throw down and throw sand in the face of bullies.

And my baby wants you to know that niceness is not the same as kindness, and that sometimes the nicest thing you can do is be a little bit of an asshole to terrible people.

Preach.

That's the intro to my new hardcore album, yeah.

I love that.

That was so sweet.

They got me pumped up.

Yeah, but I like, but I like holding the kid.

But she's like, it's like she was still ice cold, you know what I mean?

She's like, fuck this.

I'm just, I'm dropped.

I'm spitting.

We have some.

We have some good, we have some good friends on the show.

I got to tell you.

Like these, these toasts are like so nice.

Everybody's not nice like that, but they're nicely done.

Like, they're really thoughtfully done.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, they put as much thought into this as I put into the top 10 takes of 2025.

And ladies and gentlemen like Casey Kasem, we are counting you down to the number one take, the number one take of 2025.

For this one, I'm going to tell you a story first.

It's about a civil rights group nominally, and they got themselves into a little bit of hot water.

This is a group that focuses ostensibly a lot on anti-Semitism.

And on this day, a very the most arguably one of the most famous people in the world, number one most famous person in the world, did what looked like a Roman salute, which is also known as a Hitler salute.

And when they did they at 5:52 PM on that day, January 20th, that was Elon Musk, by the way, we're talking about.

They took to social media and could not wait and even a few more seconds to rethink the following statement, which is not the top take of the year.

This is just the context that gets us to the top take of the year.

Everyone go ahead.

Jared, if you could just read this social media statement that is not the number one take of the year, but sets up the number one take of the year.

Yeah, so yeah, richest man on the planet does Nazi salute, or at least something that looks.

A.

Whole lot like a Nazi.

Salute.

All right.

Yeah, it looks like for sure.

This is a delicate moment.

It's a new day and yet so many are on edge.

Our politics are inflamed.

It's like how I would describe my stomach after a bad meal.

And social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that at Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.

Not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In a moment of enthusiasm.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath.

This is a new beginning.

Let's hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

Very sweet actually towards Elon Musk who threw his arm up in a very angular motion.

You know, Jared, a lot of people were saying when that happened, hey, you don't seem to express the same kind of grace or or offers of grace towards college students.

Do you remember that?

Remember a lot of people saying to this group, this is group is called the Anti Defamation League by the way, everybody and a lot of people were saying, hey, you were saying like show some grace for this guy who just threw his arm up like that.

He's got a lot of power and a lot of money, but you kind of like, don't do that about just random college kids.

It's kind of weird that you don't do that well.

Coming in, the ADL will hear like a college kid join a chant.

It's like, you know, globalize the Infantata or whatever and just be like that college student is basically a member of Hamas.

Right.

Yes, if you could, I would like you to read for me.

It was March 9th, it was a Sunday when the ADL dropped the number one take of 2025, and I would like you to read that for me in your most serious Jonathan Greenblatt voice, please.

We believe there should be swift and severe consequences for those who provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, incite violence in support of terrorist activities, or conceal their identities in order to harass and intimidate Jewish individuals in institutions with impunity.

We appreciate the Trump administration's broad, bold set of efforts to counter campus anti-Semitism, and this action further illustrates that resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions.

Obviously, any deportation or revocation of a green card or visa must be undertaken in alignment with required due process protections.

We also hope this action serves as a deterrent to others who might consider breaking the law on college campuses or anywhere.

And this was, of course, their statement when ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil, basically imprisoning him on completely false, fabricated terms, silencing his free speech rights, taking him away from his family and this civil rights organization said.

So this was an encouraging development in so many words.

They gave the game up when they're like, we hope this will be a deterrent for people.

This is the line that makes it the number one take of 2025.

We appreciate the Trump administration's broad, bold set of efforts, whatever that might be, to counter campus anti-Semitism, right so.

Which this year amounted in near totality to using DHS Secretary of State's office to pick out Middle Eastern exchange students or or students here on visas who criticized the Israeli government and trying to process them for deportation.

That was the effort.

So that's the side of history that ADL wanted to be on in March.

And then you know what happened in June?

Because the case was completely bogus and everyone could see that from jump, that no matter how hard they wanted to bend the rules towards illegality, they couldn't even do it.

Yeah, their whole argument in court was like, but we're the government, we can do whatever we want.

And the court was like.

Well, Mahmoud Khalil is free, of course.

And I've written some stuff in the document that I won't say out loud, Jared, but you, you know what I'm thinking.

All I have to say about that is he's smiling, but he's not saying anything.

Yeah.

Well, what to say about this is if you are a civil rights organization, why don't you try comporting yourself like a civil rights organization?

And that is my final thought on the top 10 takes of 2025.

I hope I don't see you guys around here next year.

Don't come around and be repeat offenders.

Hope everybody learns their lessons.

Mike, thanks for putting that together and thanks to everybody who sent in a voicemail.

What a way to end the year.

Closing out the 66th episode of posting through it this year.

My God was what a journey it's been dude.

And I cannot sell this enough.

If you haven't got a chance to listen to the last Patreon episode, you need to listen to Kash Patel talk about television.

We're excited to show you what's in store next year.

There may or may not be some in person things.

Maybe that's early.

I that's all I'll say.

The Femdom shirts should be shipping in the new year.

Please send us the photos if you ordered one.

Send us photos wearing your Femdom shirt anywhere but especially if you wear it to the club and get bottle service or some kind of like if you if you ball out in that shirt, I want to know.

The the real trick with Jared would be to wear the Femdom shirt in the studio audience of Real Time with Bill Maher.

All right, well, that is a wrap on this year and to play us out, I made a very sloppy little shitty rendition of one of the only holidays long as I like, which is all playing sign.

Thanks for hanging this year.

We're excited to show you what's next.

And here's that I I learned from a friend that if you record something and it sounds kind of shitty, you can call it lo fi.

So good riddance to 2025, by the way.

Fuck that year.

Music.