330: SAM ALTMAN v. ELON MUSK & SPENCER PRATT MIGHT BE MAYOR OF LA
Without A Country
Corinne Fisher
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Without a Country, where Corinne Fisher breaks down the biggest stories in politics, culture, and the internet without the usual filter.
This episode covers a wide range of topics, starting with an update on the total cost of the war with Iran before giving her thoughts on Netflix's Kevin Hart roast over the weekend, from the backlash to the dais itself Corinne gives her thoughts on one of the biggest night s in comedy this year.
Corinne then talks about the Enemy Of The State, a congressman from Ohio accused of DV against his ex-wife and the daughter of a prominent senator.
Corinne also covers the biggest news stories of the week including the recently unsealed Epstein note, Elon Musk and Sam Altman taking the stand as the pair argue over Open AI's conversion from a non-profit to a for profit industry and what it means for the future of AI labs, the horrific violence against women in Sudan and the Seattle tourist who got beaten up for messing with a seal.
Later in the episode, Corinne talks about Spencer Pratt dominating the first mayoral debate in LA, why it now seems like he's the front runner in the race and what Angelinos can do before it's too late.
The episode wraps up with some Trump updates including his summit in China, his love of corruption, going to war over trans admissions to Smith college plus Putin's millitary parade in Moscow and so much more!
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Enemy of the State: Ohio Rep Max Miller
NZ Woman Held In ICE Detention Center
MAIN STORY
Open AI Trial
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https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-s1-5811730/openai-sam-altman-testimony-elon-musk-trial
COULD BE WORSE
Sudan
CUTIES CORNER
MUNICIPAL
Spencer Pratt
MUNICIPAL - Los Angeles Mayor’s Race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/13/spencer-pratt-is-shaking-up-la-mayor-race/
https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-news/spencer-pratts-living-in-a-bel-air-hotel-not-a-trailer/
California Mayor Working for China
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/arcadia-california-mayor-chinese-agent.html
GUUUURL
Hantavirus
HANTAVIRUS cruise passengers currently in quarantine
https://time.com/article/2026/05/11/hantavirus-andes-cruise-ship-passengers-quarantine-nebraska/
Trump’s Golden Statue
US-China Summit
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-trump-xi-summit-1a0b28a9a7b9078d736ba94bf3b4d6e2
Trump Cuba
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5873176-senate-republicans-caution-trump-cuba/
Trump Loves A Lil Corruption
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/g-s1-121485/trump-pardons-public-corruption-justice
Trans Admissions at Smith College
https://19thnews.org/2026/05/smith-college-federal-investigation-transgender-admissions/
Putin Testing His Missiles
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/europe/putin-test-powerful-russian-nuclear-missile-intl
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | 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 beep beats coming alive. |
| 0:41.3 | Let's be lost tonight The Lord who's on my ride Hello. Hello, Wackos, welcome to Without a Country. |
| 1:18.6 | I am Corinne Fisher, and this is Without a Country. |
| 1:23.6 | We go and look at the most pressing stories from America, from abroad, from domestic |
| 1:30.9 | violence, from animal welfare every single week from the perspective of the extreme left and |
| 1:36.0 | the extreme right. And we find some sense in the middle. The cost of war in Iran has now reached |
| 1:42.7 | $29 billion. Today we are talking about the open AI trial, Spencer |
| 1:49.2 | Pratt for mayor, lots of Trump stuff, and a little bit of the Kevin Hart roast. Welcome to Without |
| 1:57.7 | a Country. Mike, I can hear all your fiddling going on over there. All right. I have things everywhere on my computer screen. Mike is back from Los Angeles. So he is on the other side. We'll hear from him in a bit. A lot of people were talking online over the past couple days about the Kevin Hart roast that |
| 2:19.0 | happened on Sunday. I really do not want to spend too much time talking about it. I think, |
| 2:24.7 | you know, having long dissertations about multimillionaires, multi-millionaires roasting each other |
| 2:32.0 | in a gala space is kind of why the left is in the |
| 2:38.0 | situation we're in right now. I feel like it's a very online conversation. I don't think that, |
| 2:43.3 | you know, families of four in suburbia were deeply affected or affected in any way, quite frankly, |
| 2:50.0 | by the roast of Kevin Hart. |
| 2:53.9 | And if you were, you know, had my algorithm and were online the past 24 hours the way I am, |
| 3:01.2 | you know, you would think that this is a new amendment to the Constitution, the jokes that |
| 3:06.7 | happened there. I'm going to go over |
| 3:08.8 | briefly just because I feel like as a stand-up comedian, it is actually something that I am |
| 3:13.4 | more than qualified to talk about. I talked about it a bit on my Instagram stories. A lot of them |
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