#949 - "Birthday Week!, Political Violence, Growing Threat of Fascism, and Fighting Back!"

I Doubt It Podcast

Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page

Society & Culture, News, Politics, Comedy

4.8 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jesse and Brittany discuss their birthday week, an interactive quiz on how easy it is to lose access to essential government benefits, a listener voicemail about cops, the 10th anniversary of Donald Trump's official entrance to politics, an expert on violent extremism and her take on the political assassination and attempted assassinations in Minnesota, Republicans' conspiratorial and dangerous responses to political violence, the growing authoritarianism of the Trump Administration as elected officials continue to be assaulted and arrested, and Donald Trump's admission that he is "hunting."

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:34.4	The following broadcast may contain free thinking and open-minded discussion, ideas,
0:36.5	skepticism, and adult subject matter.
0:41.2	Topics will be discussed using adult language, sometimes gratuitously.
0:44.0	Get ready to move the conversation forward.
0:47.1	This ain't your granddad's news and comment show.
0:54.4	This is I Doubted Podcast with Brittany Page and Jesse Dallamore.
1:10.6	Thanks for being here with us for this 949th episode of I Doubted Podcast. I'm your host, Jesse Dallimore, joined by
1:13.4	the lovely, talented, and scholarly, Brinny Page. And I thought you were going to talk about
1:20.8	maybe how I'm flinching to get away from the flies in the studio, and also it's my birthday. I was
1:26.4	waiting to get to the birthday thing.
1:28.6	I thought you would be embarrassed by the terror that ensues when you see a housefly.
1:36.8	No, because it's...
1:38.0	And not for fear of being bitten, but for fear of their grossness and germ-ridden nature.
1:44.2	Yeah, it almost landed on my face.
1:45.9	I don't want it to land on my face.
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