Jason Selvig & Shannon Bird
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Good Liars’ Jason Selvig stops by to talk about Tucker Carlson apologizing for his support of Trump. Former Colorado State Representative Shannon Bird joins us to discuss her run in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:13.2 | And Representative Sheila Scherfellis McCormick has resigned from Congress. |
| 0:17.0 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:18.8 | The Good Liars, Jason Selvig, stops by to talk about Tucker Carlson, apologizing for his support of Trump. |
| 0:26.5 | Well, sort of. |
| 0:27.3 | Then we'll talk to former Colorado State Representative Shannon Bird about her run for Colorado's eighth congressional district. |
| 0:36.4 | But first, the news. |
| 0:39.4 | Somalia, last night, recent guest of the podcast, The York Times, Teddy Schleifer, tweeted the Republican National Committee |
| 0:44.0 | entered April with 117 million on hand. The Democratic National Committee entered April with |
| 0:49.4 | negative 4.4 million on hand, inclusive of debts. And let's just say this caused a meltdown of epic |
| 0:56.9 | proportions among people who debate these things online. So welcome to the Ken Martin must |
| 1:02.4 | resign discourse. Ken Martin is the head of the DNC, this job because he was the Minnesota |
| 1:10.6 | state chair. And the DNC is voted on by state party chairs. So they all |
| 1:18.5 | knew him and they were like, this is our guy. He ran against a guy called Ben Wickler, who has been |
| 1:24.9 | on this pod. If you listen to this pod, you know who Ben Wickler is. |
| 1:28.4 | He is very beloved by both the donor class, which is the people you need to give you money |
| 1:36.0 | in order to raise the money that the DNC needs, and also by people who like us, who just, |
| 1:42.9 | you know, are in democratic world. But the people who vote for the |
| 1:47.0 | DNC chair are state party chairs just like Ken Martin. Ken Martin has had this job for about a year |
| 1:52.8 | and a half. He has really flailed at it. Every time he's given a public statement, it has been |
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