Late Stage Financial Literacy with Chelsea Fagan & John Hastings (Ep 279)

The Bitchuation Room

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News Commentary, News, Comedy, Government

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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The Trump effect crushes another right-wing candidacy, this time in Australia. Canadian comic John Hastings joins to make sense of it all and to talk about the imminent re-opening of Alcatraz likely based on Trump's late-night PBS (?!) viewing. Then creator of The Financial Diet, Chelsea Fagan joins us to talk practical and macroeconomic look at what Trump's pigheaded tariffs regime means for our lives. John Hastings, comedian: https://www.thejohnhastings.com/, https://x.com/thejohnhastings Chelsea Fagan, CEO and Co-Founder of The Financial Diet: https://thefinancialdiet.com/, https://www.tiktok.com/@faganchelsea *** LIVE SHOWS SAN FRANCISCO- May 7th - Francesca and Matt Lieb are coming to Cobb’s Comedy Club San Francisco. Get your tickets here: https://tr.ee/ImZ_W42k_U PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom. *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com.

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0:00.0	everything is so fucking 80s.
0:02.6	You know, it's so lifestyles of the rich and famous.
0:05.1	And I just, I'm like, even while I was living it as a child, I thought it was corny.
0:10.5	I don't need to live it as an adult.
0:12.5	Yeah.
0:13.4	I want us to do like, I want us to do the fun 80s.
0:16.2	You know what I mean?
0:16.6	Like the talking heads and everyone has bowl cuts and we all have really good loft spaces
0:21.2	and weird parts of LA that make no sense.
0:31.6	What is going on everybody?
0:33.2	Welcome to the Bituation Room.
0:35.3	I'm your host, Francesca Fiorentini, coming to you in the sort of like
0:40.7	90s hostage tape situation as I have made my way to the Bay Area. I have made my way because
0:51.4	tomorrow night I will be live with Matt Lieb at Cobb's Comedy.
0:56.7	We've brought our child.
0:57.9	She's going to be doing a hot three.
1:01.1	There's some like real cringe stuff.
1:03.2	And there's just like kind of, you know, first year comics in there.
1:07.5	So very excited to see everybody in San Francisco tomorrow, 7.30 p.m. Cobbs comedy, get your
1:12.6	tickets. Also, it's a hostage video because my microphone has been duct taped to the stand.
1:18.9	So I want you to sort of, like this is the level of my mental state is that also the sort of
1:27.0	state of the country, but that's my mental state right now. the sort of state of the country but that's my mental
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