The Political Reporter That Slept With Her Subjects | Episode 97
The Brett Cooper Show
Brett Cooper
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, I'm sorry, but it has to be done. |
| 0:02.0 | We have to talk about the woman who sexted RFK Jr. |
| 0:09.0 | All right, I know that that was an absolutely insane introduction, but that is in fact what we have to do today. |
| 0:14.5 | We need to talk about Olivia Nuzzi. |
| 0:16.8 | Now, if you're sitting at home and you're like, God, I feel like I've heard of that name. |
| 0:20.6 | Yes, you definitely have. So if you were following at home and you're like, God, I feel like I've heard of that name. Yes, you definitely have. |
| 0:22.5 | So if you were following the Trump campaign back in 2024, 2023, you probably heard of Olivia |
| 0:27.2 | Nuzzi. |
| 0:27.8 | She is a political journalist, was, is, I guess still is political journalist. |
| 0:32.3 | And she basically broke the political airwaves when it came out that she had an alleged affair while covering the campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Now, that was the first time that I had ever heard of Libyanese. Like, I'm in the media world. I, you know, pitter-patter with the journalists. I, you know, talk with them. I do their interviews. But I am not in, like, the journalism world. And so she was not a figure that I was very acquainted with. And let me just tell you that after the last 24 hours, I am far too acquainted with this woman and after this episode, you will be as well. And 24 hours ago, I really didn't care about Olivia and Ozzie. I didn't really care about that story. I knew that it had happened. I knew that she had like, you know, been fired or not been fired. She had left her job. She had escaped to the West Coast to, you know, put the pieces of her life back together. I knew that she was writing a book about the entire thing. But like that was not something that I was focusing on. That was until yesterday, when I read a sub-stack article from her ex-fiance, absolutely dragging her name through the mud. |
| 1:30.5 | I texted my team jokingly two days ago and said, oh, wicked ladies' reaction or dramatic |
| 1:34.7 | reading of Olivia Nuzzi's ex hanging her out to dry. |
| 1:37.4 | Now yesterday, as you guys know, based on the episode, I was far more interested in |
| 1:41.1 | Ariana and Cynthia Arevo's lesbian affair, not lesbian, but you know what I'm |
| 1:44.8 | saying. Hence what I did. But now things have changed because I continue to go down the rabbit |
| 1:50.0 | hole. I went so deep into the rabbit hole that this was me last night in the car with Alex. This |
| 1:55.3 | woman said explaining the nuzzie Lizza drama to my normal boyfriend who has no idea who |
| 1:59.2 | these people are. We had like a 45 minute drive into town last night and I mean I held him captive. I was like you need to know |
| 2:05.8 | exactly what is going on. And now that's going to be me attempting to break down all of this for you guys |
| 2:10.7 | as we also dive into why this story is so relevant considering our fractured media landscape. |
| 2:15.3 | Because this does feel like very niche content, even though it's a bit more mainstream now, it does feel niche, which is why I opted against covering the story earlier in the week, but it just keeps growing and it is now so viral that I actually think it is becoming mainstream, but the cast of characters and their background, their lore, is still a lot to take in, so I'm going to try to break it down. So again, Olivia Nuzzi, |
| 2:35.0 | political journalists. It all came out last year. There was some affair between her and RFK Jr. But it seems like allegedly it was a bit more one-sided like she was sexting, he wasn't really responding, but still it broke politics last year. And then this year, she announced her tell-all book, And it is coming out at the beginning of December. |
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