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Tim Walz Called Out After Rampant Welfare Fraud

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi bring you the debut episode of Freed Up—technically not the first they’ve recorded, just the first our editors would let us publish.

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi | 12.5.2025 5:00 AM

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Tim Walz Called Out After Rampant Welfare Fraud

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi bring you the debut episode of Freed Up—technically not the first they've recorded, just the first our editors would let us publish. Tune in every Friday as they unpack the week's most ridiculous news and dust off the cultural references you didn't even know you remembered.

0:00—Fraud in Minnesota

13:01—Facebook, social justice warriors, and censorship

21:08—Robby is seduced by nostalgia

28:00—Eddington is the best COVID movie

39:16—Catholicism is on the rise

56:06—Hatred for two-factor authentication

1:06:20—So many First Amendment cases, so many

1:11:50—Artificial intelligence made a Pikachu poem

1:15:38—College students can't write good essays

1:25:13—First strike, second strike, what?

NEXT: Why Science Lost Its Way

Robby Soave is a senior editor at Reason.

Christian Britschgi is a reporter at Reason.

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