How to Take Down the Creeps of Capitol Hill, with Mrs. Frazzled

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Let’s be real: Capitol Hill has a creep crisis. In this episode, Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with creator Arielle Fodor—better known as Mrs. Frazzled—to unpack how a small group of women publicized the alleged sexual misconduct of former congressman and California gubernatorial hopeful Eric Swalwell. They get into the power of the whisper network, and why Democrats stay quiet when The Accused is one of their own. Plus, group chat bestie Dr. David Johns joins Brittany to break down this week’s UNtrending news—from Hungary to New Jersey. To subscribe to The Meteor: wearethemeteor.com/newsletters

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0:00.0	Hey y'all. Well, it's been a week of Out with the Old and hopefully we can help usher in the new.
0:11.2	And when I'm talking about Out with the Old and with the New, I'm not talking about this good Robert that I have if you are watching along on YouTube.
0:17.4	You all know my hair might be different next week, but this week, we in a cute bob.
0:21.1	I am talking about the fact that we have two members of Congress who announced their
0:26.8	resignations this week. First, we've got Texas Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez,
0:31.7	who resigned amid misconduct allegations, sparking a special election to fill his seat. And more famously and more
0:40.0	recently, California gubernatorial candidate Democrat Eric Swalwell announced his resignation and
0:46.9	canceled his gubernatorial bid amid multiple accusations of sexual misconduct. Now look, there were plenty of folks online who were doing some seriously wild things this week.
1:00.4	Some people were like, but Eric Swalwell is a good Democrat, so can't we just look the other way?
1:05.7	Because there's a whole sexual assater in the Oval Office.
1:08.7	And I don't understand why y'all think we can't walk and
1:13.3	punch rapists at the same time. Like we're capable of doing a whole lot of things at once.
1:19.2	We contain multitudes, you know what I'm saying? Don't actually punch rapists. But, you know,
1:24.8	I think that it's about time that we stop acting like holding one person accountable
1:28.5	means we can't hold another person accountable the other thing some of y'all did online though
1:33.0	was say we don't believe all women because remember emmett till y'all there is no world
1:40.6	no universe no galaxy in any of our vision or the next, in which Eric Swalwell is the same
1:50.1	as young, innocent, black child Emmett Till. Y'all need to stop it. Go get some help, at least some
1:59.0	therapy, or maybe a history book. Anyway, this
2:01.8	story broke in the news and content creators online helped to keep up the drum view. Y'all,
2:07.8	what's done in the dark is always going to come to light. But why are there still powerful
2:12.0	figures out here who seem to have, I don't know, like wildly speculated histories of misconduct
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