083: How MAGA Laid the Blueprint for Attacking Elections in 2018 [Preview]

Yeah, Mike joins us from the dead. Almost. MM has been in the hospital last couple days with some stomach issues. He's doing it's right now. It's my. Birthday, by the way, it's my birthday, guys. Yeah, right now it won't be when you listen to this, but. It's your birthday. And I spent it in the hospital. Just got out of the hospital and I told Mike, you know, I can do this one solo if you need me to. And he said, no, no, no, I want

to record. And I I suspect that part of that had to do with the dozens of messages we received over the week, blinking us to videos, to stories, to news reports about our boy. You know who it is, Kash Patel celebrating with the USA Olympic Hockey team after they defeated Canada and took home a gold medal. Yeah, I I just love the exuberance on Cash's face in that room. Like this is pure Long Island

hockey bro exuberance. As he throws that beer down, He he think The thing is he thinks that he contributed to a win. You can tell you like things. He's like, he's like, yeah. I'm here, man. I'm here dude. That's. Why? He's going like 10 times. Maybe he's right. He's going like 10 times harder than any of the hockey players are. They're like, oh OK man, it's a little early in the day for all the woah, OK, another beard.

All of them are just standing. All of them are just standing by. I mean, they're happy. They're adrenaline's going, but they're just like watching Kosh Patel crush a beard. I'm sure in the back of their heads they're just like. Damn, that's. That's the director of the FBI. Not like wet he, he's like a dog with a hose, you know? He's just like, so fucking happy to be consuming the beer. But you know, Kosh is now like, we don't know if he's in trouble now.

I just want to say like up top on this because I've done some thinking about it. Is it possible, Jared, that Kosh will never get fired because he knows what's in the Epstein files Unrejected? Oh, I hadn't thought about that. Yeah, I was thinking about that because I was like, well, I mean, you, you know, IA few people are like messaged me because they they know how fascinated I am with this, with this gentleman. And they're like, he's he's going to get fired. This is it.

This is the end of the road. The joke's over, guys. And I'm like thinking, am I going to have maybe, but maybe, maybe they don't want, you know, he knows where the bodies are. He, like Trump's name, is redacted how many times in those documents? Yeah, I mean, you've got news outlets reporting in the last couple days that the FBI is still sitting on a huge trove of documents because they mentioned Trump. That's right. The counter argument to that is that Trump let Dan Bongino quit.

Right. So. You know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't let Dan Bongino dust a radiator. So maybe he didn't have any access to anything. I don't know. Yeah, the The thing is, I wouldn't like, I mean, well. I mean, Dan Bongino didn't seem terribly excited about, you know, at the prospect of doing the job either. To be fair. You know, where Kosh Patel, where Kosh Patel's just like balling out and being like, I'm the director bitch. Like Dan Bongino got like sad about it.

He's like, this is hard, guys. Stop being mean to me. I this is this is fucked up. Dude. I made so much more money. By the way, Bongino's podcast audience has imploded according to most metrics. But one thing I would say is if Kosh decides to or, or decides to pick up podcasting after he's fired and, and like I said, we have no reason to believe he will yet could. But we we don't, we don't know he like it.

It will be a sad for a moment, but then we think about all the content we inherit when he gets a podcast like in front of him now. Dude, I, yeah, this, this is where I'll say I did something that could be potentially regrettable, which is I sent a e-mail to the FBI press office and was like, hi, we would love to talk to Kosh Patel. So if if this podcast has found its way onto a watch list somewhere, which, hey, we won't tell anyone. We know they don't. We know they don't exist.

Wink, wink. We want to talk to your boss. Help us out. Well, well, well, based upon the way they've been snitching about him to the press, I think they're going to be having a, you know, a little laugh at his expense. So Mr. Jake Durbin is the first name Dick? Yeah, it is. It's not Richard, is it Richard Durbin? I don't know. It's Dick Durbin. Anyway, Dick Durbin did a, you know, revealed that there's a new whistleblower who, OK, let me back that up chart.

There had obviously has been a bit of scandal around Kosh Patel using the plane to go to the Olympics, to watch the team and to like to chug beers and get himself nice and wet and sloppy. Apparently it's a crime to support your girlfriend and meet for your team now. So Dick Durbin is saying there's a whistleblower has come forward suggesting that precious time

was lost in at least 2 investigations. 1 was in the Brown University shooting that took place in December 2025, which I think we both agreed that we had completely memory holds because so much shit is going on. And the other one would be the assassination of 1C Kirk. And it looks, it sounds like, gosh, really kind of might have used the plane and a day was lost in that investigation.

So he could go do whatever, go hunting and like boondoggle ranch or whatever it is he was doing at the time. Yeah. Dude, Speaking of, Speaking of, you sent this to me. Actually, there's a sequel to the Charlie Kirk We are Charlie Kirk's on. Oh yes, we are Charlie Kirk too. It's not as good. It's a little funkier, you know what I mean?

They're like they put a bit of a group behind it and I, I think that like the, the, the, the, you know, fake passion of the AI singer was, was was really what carried the first one, But this one is not bad anyway. I you know, what I have to say about that is if you, if you'll just imagine with me a different version of this in which he says. Charlie. I will. See you in Valhalla and I as soon as I'm done with the plane. I will see you in. Valhalla we've got, we got a

nice big screen TV running. The FBI tech agents has had it running. I I'm going to be right there in Valhalla with you. Charlie I, I ordered Uber Eats to the tarmac. I was surprised. I was surprised. They'll bring five guys out to the tarmac and you can just step, you know, you can just open the door of the plane and grab it. It's it's pretty cool. I got. I got. Reruns on the NHL Network. I got I got land man on on Paramount Plus.

Charlie and I will see you in fall as soon as I get there. We're going to be there in just a minute. And yeah, on that note, you know who wasn't at the State of the Union? Kaj Patel. Yeah, I was looking for him. I mean, I, I was, I was sad. Which, you know, it's, I don't know, I maybe we can infer some things from those clips of him in the locker room in Italy, you know, where the hockey team showed up. Akash Patel, I don't know, man. Maybe he's still nursing the

hangover. He's like, I, I gotta, I need some Gatorade, man. I can't do, I can't do this. It's gonna be the same State of the Union basically every time. You know how it is. He might. Yeah dude, he's he's paying $17.00 for DoorDash to bring him fucking Sprite.