Topic: Undercover Agents

The discussion turns to Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, and her role in the "Panther 21" trial. She successfully defended herself against charges of plotting to bomb department stores. It was revealed that undercover police officers had actually driven the plots. The hosts draw parallels between this history of government infiltration and modern political hoaxes.

The history of James Wormley Jones, the first African-American FBI special agent hired in 1919, is explored. Jones worked exclusively in an undercover capacity under J. Edgar Hoover to monitor influential black Americans, setting a precedent for the Bureau's use of black agents to surveil their own communities.