ICE vs. Wine Moms, Rogan on Fauci's Crimes, and the Star Wars Prequels

A delightfully chaotic episode of Freed Up where the hosts discuss how Minnesota wine moms have taken to the streets and the Star Wars prequels somehow end up on trial—again

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ICE vs. Wine Moms, Rogan on Fauci's Crimes, and the Star Wars Prequels

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down how the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis have changed over time and what that says about broader political tensions. They then shift to Sen. Rand Paul's (R–Ky.) appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, where Paul and Rogan discussed the idea of challenging Anthony Fauci's pardon. To wrap things up, Robby and Christian dive into a lively debate on the Star Wars prequels—finally addressing what many listeners have been waiting to hear.

0:00—The wine moms have become radicalized.

9:13—Joe Rogan is the American swing voter.

12:01—Press secretary Karoline Leavitt attacked Niall Stanage.

15:46—Speaking of Pakistan

24:30—Are people more depressed?

28:43—The Star Wars prequels

45:35—Rand Paul's side quest on Rogan's podcast

1:01:32—Taxing OnlyFans?

1:07:45—Bringing back colorblindness

1:23:23—We love geography bees and Wordle

• Video editor: Cody Huff

Comments

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Instead of focusing on quantity with another YouTube show. How about focusing on quality to get more listeners?

[Social Justice is neither]

That would require terminating the entire staff and starting over. Look at their hires over recent years and get back with the odds of them finding any quality but Marxist shit.

[MollyGodiva]

The Star Wars prequels were complete crap. Same thing for the post 2008 Star Trek movies. And Discovery.

[Eeyore]

Discovery started out with promise - then all of a sudden everyone was gay or trans. COVID happened and it went from queer cringe to some of the worst writing the show has ever seen.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

I am tired of hearing about ICE maniacs. The Good incident could have been handled better, and he probably shouldn't have been put back on the street after his prior incident. But Good God! No mention of the incendiary rabble rousing by Tim Walz and other politicians who knew exactly what they were doing. No mention of how stupid it is to cosplay innocent protester in a two ton SUV, or her stupid wife telling her to "Drive, baby, drive" when there's an armed cop right in front of her SUV. No mention of mayors telling police to engage in armed combat with ICE cops.

Sorry Good died. But she was the one who drove toward a cop. Her wife egged her on. Someone is funding all these protesters. Politicians are telling porkies to angrify the populace. They told us elections have consequences when their guys won and let tens of millions of illegal immigrants into the country regardless of criminal background and put them on welfare; did they really think people were just going to put up with that? Consequences have elections too, and those elections have consequences.

And Reason blames the ICE cop.

[Rick James]

I am tired of hearing about ICE maniacs.

It's the Priscilla Villarreal of 2026.

[Rick James]

"Not to validate everything that right wing people complain about"

I guess this is Reason's version of "It's all true, but I'm keeping my mask on because I don't want to look like a Republican."

[Social Justice is neither]

If they cannot provide validation/confirmation when the Right is right they're not worth listening to when they believe the Right is wrong.