Ep. 2357 - NEW TAPE: Pretti’s Not-So-Nonviolent ICE Protest Past

January 29, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Solo monologue-style political commentary podcast with news analysis, sponsor plugs, a short guest interview, and a new audio mailbag segment.
The Key Players:
- Ben Shapiro: Fast-talking conservative host delivering sharp critiques of left-wing narratives, media hypocrisy, and policy.
- Guest - Isabel Brown: Young conservative commentator who attended the White House event on Trump Accounts, providing insider details.
The Vibe: Intense and educational with sarcastic humor, rapid-fire facts, and anti-woke banter—feels like a fiery rally against media spin.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode dissects immigration enforcement clashes, media distortions, foreign policy hearings, and a pro-capitalism economic initiative amid cultural shifts.

Topic 1: Alex Pready Shooting & Left-Wing Narratives. New video shows Pready (ICU nurse turned agitator) kicking ICE vehicles, resisting arrest days before Border Patrol shot him. Shapiro argues reality is messy: Pready obstructed feds, carried a gun, but left paints him as a saint (e.g., Ana Navarro calls him "perfect guy to date your daughter") to demonize ICE as Nazis worse than Gestapo (Stephen Colbert). Right over-simplifies too; calls for nuance.
Topic 2: ICE Tensions in Sanctuary Cities. Tom Homan brokers deals in Minneapolis

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Alex Preddy Shooting and New Footage**
2 (08:50) **Left's Need for Binary Narratives on ICE**
3 (09:50) **Stephen Colbert: ICE Worse Than Nazis**
4 (13:50) **Bruce Springsteen's Anti-ICE Song**
5 (15:41) **Giancarlo Esposito Calls for Revolution**
6 (18:32) **Tom Homan Brokers Deals in Minneapolis**
7 (22:18) **Trump vs. Mayor Jacob Frey on Sanctuary Policies**

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Show Notes

New tape emerges of Alex Pretti two weeks before his death…and it’s ugly; Senator Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate on Venezuela and humiliates Democrats; and the Trump administration lays out savings accounts for American children as Nicki Minaj joins the party.

Ep. 2357

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