#955 - "Bad Omens, Zohran's Powerful Ad, Soulless JD Vance, and Government Shutdown Strategy."

I Doubt It Podcast

Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Comedy

4.8 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jesse and Brittany discuss their recent encounters in DC which may signal a bad omen, listener emails and voicemails related to coping with the current political moment, Vice President JD Vance making the rounds in the media to defend Donald Trump's possible invoking of the Insurrection Act and the targeting of his political enemies, the sudden walking back of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth proclaiming that the US will host a Qatari Air Force facility in Idaho, the improved strategy from Democrats on the messaging related to the government shutdown and the devastating impacts on Americans' daily lives including on food banks, and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's powerful new ad in support of trans rights. Katelyn Burns' write-up on the Mamdani ad: https://www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-see-this-mamdani-ad/ Support Kat Abughazaleh: https://www.katforillinois.com/ Read Tracy Kidder on America's social safety net (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/america-safety-net.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s08.gNKG.zIMoNoX73ij2&smid=url-share ProPublica reporting: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: http://www.TeamDollemore.com NEW MERCH AVAILABLE AT: http://www.dollemore.info Send a text or voicemail of fewer than three minutes to (657) 464-7609 Show Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IDoubtPodcast Show Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social Jesse on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dollemore.com Brittany on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/brittanyepage.bsky.social Patreon: http://www.dollemore.com/patreon PayPal: http://www.dollemore.com/paypal Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following broadcast may contain free thinking and open-minded discussion, ideas, skepticism, and adult subject matter.
0:07.3	Topics will be discussed using adult language, sometimes gratuitously.
0:11.9	Get ready to move the conversation forward.
0:14.7	This ain't your granddad's news and comment show.
0:18.0	This is I Doubted Podcast with Brittany Page and Jesse Dallamore.
0:35.6	Episode 95 of Ida podcast.
0:38.8	I'm your host, Jesse Dallamore, joined today by the lovely talented and scholarly, pretty page, everyone.
0:46.1	You know, something that I am trying not to ruminate about is that we took sweepie for a walk yesterday.
0:55.8	A sweepie being our English bulldog in case there's people who are listening for the first time.
1:00.6	Just checking in.
1:02.0	And she, actually, no, it's not about her.
1:06.0	On this walk, we saw three different dead animals in the street. One was a little mouse. It wasn't a rat.
1:16.5	Well, maybe it was a baby rat. Maybe it was baby. Okay. It was small. It wasn't the normal size
1:23.3	rat that you see dead in the street. It was small mouse size. Well, here's the lie that I love, by the way, because we've talked to people here in D.C.
1:31.5	And they're like, well, why do you, why are you so...
1:34.1	Well, they make fun because we're a shoes off house.
1:36.2	Yeah, they're like, why are you so militant about the shoes coming off in the house?
1:39.6	And I say, well, how many times have you almost stepped on a rat since living in D.C.? And they'll say, oh, that's never happened to me.
1:45.7	Right.
1:46.1	And all that that means to me is these people are recklessly stomping on rats constantly, having no idea.
1:52.4	They have their face and their fucking phone walking around, not paying any attention to the dead rats that they walk upon.
1:58.9	Yeah, because it's not every time I go outside,
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