Sydney Sweeney 'good genes' Controversy

🎙️ We review the year that was 2025, counting down the greatest media failures of last year. To top the list, Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad. A basic pun about “genes” turns into a prime-time lecture about eugenics and white supremacy, and watching a major network try to make that argument out loud is the kind of thing you still can’t believe is real. Then over to CBS, where John Dickerson tries to compare modern immigration enforcement to Irish discrimination and deportation crackdowns in the 1800s.

📺 Other favorites included in our countdown: Jim Acosta interviewing AI, Taylor Lorenz romanticizing Luigi and Jim Cramer dropping a giant F-bomb on live TV. Plus Olivia Nuzzi’s chaos, Bill Belichick’s off-camera relationship, and Anderson Cooper snaps at Chris Sununu.

🐘 We recap our favorite moments from just a few of our best interviews, like, JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Senator Kennedy, Majority Leader Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson. Looking forward to a great 2026 on The Progrum!

00:00 — 2025 media fails

01:11 — Sydney Sweeney “great genes” becomes a national freakout

06:09 — CBS Saint Patrick’s Day: Irish deportations vs ICE

11:15 — Jim Acosta interviews an AI recreation of a murdered child

13:05 — Taylor Lorenz praises an alleged assassin as “morally good”

15:44 — CNN and the defense-fund moment

19:26 — Jim Cramer drops an F-bomb

20:30 — Olivia Nuzzi interview spiral and her accountability problem

25:24 — Bill Belichick + Jordan Hudson shuts down a standard question

27:56 — Anderson Cooper snaps at Chris Sununu on-air

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