(preview) Swal-unwell

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We chat about prestige TV and Anders' recent disruption with Climate Defiance of a Rahm Emanuel event. Then, in light of the revelations about now former Congressman and Gubernatorial candidate, Eric Swalwell, we dive into his sus as hell career. Sub to our bonus feed for the full episode at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0	He is like, oh shit, I was born in Iowa.
0:02.8	No one else here can say that.
0:04.3	I'm like destined to be president.
0:07.0	I hate this.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:08.8	So he moves back to Dublin, California, becomes a lawyer and is elected to Dublin City Council in 2010.
0:17.6	And very quickly, has a reputation as ambitious
0:21.5	as well as corrupt.
0:25.2	So much so.
0:26.5	You know what they say about people that were born in Iowa?
0:30.1	Really devious, those people that were born in,
0:33.4	not even from Iowa, just born in Iowa.
0:35.6	Happen to be born in Iowa.
0:36.8	Terrible.
0:38.5	But there is, he's so corrupt that there is a recall campaign launched against him before he's
0:44.7	even finished his first term.
0:47.3	He has gotten 85% of his money from what's called the Lynn Family Syndicate,
0:55.0	which is a group of a family of real estate developers,
1:00.1	who he is totally in the pocket of.
1:03.8	He was on the planning commission for a while,
1:05.7	and he was publicly praising this really shitty developer called Discovery Homes, which is part of the
1:15.6	casino construction company.
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