311: Zohran Starts At Midnight and The People v. Brigitte Bardot & Chappell Roan
Without A Country
Corinne Fisher
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 176 minutes
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Summary
This week, Corinne Fisher discusses a pronunciation correction, some good animal news, and Chappell Roan getting grief for taking Mac money before diving into the biggest news of the week including the pipe bomber with political targets, a drone strike in Venezuella buy the CIA, Nick Shirleys investigation into Somalian Daycare places, an update on the conflict in Gaza, a look on what a year of RFK leading HHS has done for our healthcare system, Trump scaling back how much the US gives to the United Nations, tensions between China and Taiwan escalating and so much more!
Original Air Date: 12/31/25
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CORRECTION: Cartagena - CARTAHENNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvHf52qLRU8
(Google pronunciation is wrong)
WACO Mailbag
https://www.wxyz.com/news/dearborn-school-board-member-speaks-out-after-arrest-by-israeli-police
CUTIES CORNER WRAPPED
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/472764/good-news-animals-2025-wins
GUUUURL
Chappell Roan
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/09/chappell-roan-mac-global-ambassador-role/
Pipe Bomb
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/g-s1-103881/pipe-bomb-suspect-targeted-political-parties
Venezuela Drone Strike by CIA
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/cia-drone-strike-venezuela
Somali Daycare Saga continued
https://fortune.com/2025/12/30/did-minnesota-lose-federal-funding-youtube-somali-daycare-fraud/
Who Is Nick Shirley?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/media/nick-shirley-minnesota-somali-video
The Making of Mayor Mamdani
Israel/Palestine update:
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g-s1-103986/israel-gaza-aid-ngos
RFK redid healthcare, long Washington Post article. Summary in ChatGPT:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/30/rfk-jr-hhs-secretary-vaccines/
Adapt or Die - our prez
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/un-humanitarian-aid-us-funding
Could Be Worse (Iran):
China/Taiwan (root of this conflict explained in ChatGPT)
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| 0:00.0 | The Running from the man, yeah, the madman's coming, yeah, the man's cutting for me tonight. |
| 0:31.6 | I spent the last week running from the heat, but the peat beats coming alive. |
| 0:38.3 | Let's get lost tonight. |
| 0:43.3 | The road moves on my ride. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello, Wackos. Welcome to Without a Country. I'm Corinne Fisher. This is the final episode of 2025. |
| 1:00.5 | Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for being a listener all year since the beginning of the podcast. |
| 1:09.5 | Maybe you're a new listener. Maybe this is your first episode. |
| 1:12.9 | Uh, |
| 1:13.2 | in that case, |
| 1:13.9 | I look forward to spending lots of time with you in 2026. |
| 1:18.9 | Um, |
| 1:19.3 | and hopefully there, |
| 1:21.3 | it's a less, |
| 1:22.0 | um, |
| 1:22.3 | hateful show, |
| 1:23.2 | not because I make it hateful, |
| 1:26.1 | uh, |
| 1:26.4 | but because there are administrations around the world, |
| 1:29.4 | both in America and abroad, that have decided to lead with hate. |
| 1:35.2 | So hopefully that maybe goes away a little bit in 2026. |
| 1:41.3 | Although if we're talking from, and I know some of you are going to love this, an astrological |
| 1:45.8 | perspective, apparently 2025 was when we are sewing the seeds for things that happen in |
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