Marjorie's Apologies and Hegseth's Fragility w/ John Hastings & Jasper Craven (Ep 308)

The Bitchuation Room

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Comedy, News, Government, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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What makes an unrepentant misogynist? This is the question we dig into with reporter Jasper Craven as we go down the rabbit hole of Pete Hegseth’s twisted military mind and the coming ‘Forever War’ in Venezuela. Then the House votes to release the Epstein files, which includes wild text messages from Epstein to a Democratic lawmaker that show how much he was working to undermine Trump. Trump off’ed him! Come on! We unpack the latest from the Epstein saga with comedian John Hastings, and MTG's “Sorry For Being Trash” apology tour and what she really wants out of all of this. Plus, why can’t politicians from either side of the pond speak to immigration in a way that humanizes immigrants!? Then, Francesca interviews journalist Jasper Craven about his writing about Pete Hegseth's lore and what his story tells us about American masculinity and the military. Plus, just how many wars are we getting into? Featuring: John Hastings, comedian (04:48) Watch his special here A SOMEWHAT SPECIAL AT THE MALL https://youtu.be/l1g6r7OXwt8?si=rRyOFofPKrA-vS-5 Jasper Craven, reporter (1:01:10) https://x.com/Jasper_Craven Read Jasper's breakdown of Pete Hegseth here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/battle-of-the-sexes-craven Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com *** Tip the show: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Get your union-made TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Thanks to Brent Godin, Paige Oamek, & Andy Vasoyan *** Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitchuationroom.bsky.social Check Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast on: iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuation Google Music: http://bit.ly/GoogleBitchuation Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stitcherbitchuation Spotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Find Francesca On: Substack: franifio.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifio YouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Franifio Insta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The military culture is so much about compliance and hierarchy and following orders.
0:06.0	And so what really needs to happen in addition to support all of these like grassroots veterans organizations that are trying to save their VA healthcare and, you know, prevent calamity overseas or on American streets, like these top level guys need to like stand up and speak out and
0:24.1	actually do more than just like write an op-ed and like fully like put some skin in the game.
0:33.6	What is happening? Good people. Welcome to the bituation room on a Tuesday, November 18th. I am your host, Francesca Fiorentini. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for pressing play. Thank you for deciding you're not going to be alone with your thoughts. Mm-mm, not today.
0:54.8	You want a little bit of bitching.
0:57.9	You want commiseration.
0:59.9	You want someone to accompany you down this road into the sunken place that we all live in,
1:06.5	although maybe a little bit less sunken today.
1:09.9	Because, you know, the cabal is being taken down.
1:15.4	That is right.
1:16.4	The House just voted overwhelmingly to release all of the Epstein files.
1:21.2	So you get what you wish for, people.
1:24.9	Do we really want to know?
1:27.2	Do you really want to know how the
1:29.9	orgy with Stephen Hawking's went down? Because that's probably in the files. Comedian John
1:37.7	Hastings is going to be joining me in just a little bit. I'm very excited to have him back on the show.
1:43.0	Also, a little bit later, reporter Jasper Craven, who covers the military and veterans issues for Baffler, Harper's, and a lot of other places has a book coming out soon called God forgives, Brothers Don't, and has been doing a little bit of a deep dive into our secretary of war.
2:02.6	So I want to talk to him about Pete Heggzith or Pete Kegzith or Rapy Pete or whatever you call him.
2:10.6	And especially now this latest push into Venezuela.
2:16.6	So stay tuned for all of that. And if you're here, you know what to do.
2:21.3	You're palming the keypad. You like the stream. You share the stream if you're live.
2:26.3	You give this podcast five stars. You subscribe if you're not subscribed. What are you doing on YouTube?
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