This F*cking Guy: Tulsi Gabbard
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In our 37th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin and Alyssa dive deep into the past of the shady shapeshifter, Tulsi Gabbard. From her early days in the Science of Identity Foundation, to her flip-flopping LGBTQ stance, to announcing her departure from the Democratic party and joining the Trump administration, this may be one of our snakiest, two-faced guys yet.
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Tulsi Gabbard slams the Jan 6 hearings: It's 'political interest' (Fox News)
Jack Dorsey Maxed Out His Donation to Tulsi Gabbard After the First Debate (Vanity Fair)
Is Tulsi Gabbard the Jill Stein of 2020? (Vanity Fair)
What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To? (New York Times)
Tulsi Gabbard campaigns for election denier Kari Lake in Arizona (ABC News)
Senators Urged To Examine Gabbard’s ‘Deep and Intense’ Ties To Hawaiʻi Sect (Civil Beat)
Tulsi Gabbard’s Unorthodox Path to Trump’s Intelligence Team (New York Times)
Tulsi Gabbard Described as ‘Advanced Devotee’ in Alleged Cult (Newsweek)
As a Rising Political Star, Gabbard Paid to Mask Her Sect’s Ties to Alleged Scheme (Wall Street Journal)
Tulsi Gabbard’s journey to Donald Trump is an ominous sign of Putin’s power (Salon)
Ex-Aides Say Gabbard Regularly Consumed Russian State Media: Report (Rolling Stones)
America's spies say Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. Trump dismisses that assessment (PBS)
Inside the clashes between Trump and Gabbard (Politico)
To deliver intelligence to Trump, DNI Tulsi Gabbard eyes creative solutions (MS Now)
Intelligence watchdog shares whistleblower complaint involving Gabbard with Congress after monthslong delay (CBS)
Tulsi Gabbard’s whistleblower controversy comes into sharper focus (MS Now)
Tulsi Gabbard is a Threat to America’s National Security (Democrats)
Gabbard threatens Obama officials with criminal referral over 2016 election assessment (CNN)
Iran War Puts Tulsi Gabbard, Regime Change Critic, In An Awkward Spot (Civil Beat)
Gabbard pressed on omission of climate change from threat report (News Nation)
Even Republicans aren’t sure what to make of Tulsi Gabbard’s weird new video (MS Now)
Kathy Griffin Calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘Legit Crazy’ Over Ukraine Biolabs Claim (Newsweek)
Kinzinger knocks Gabbard for Pearl Harbor post: ‘This lady is crazy’ (The Hill)
Which U.S. Wars Were Justifiable? Tulsi Gabbard Names Only World War II (NPR)
Who is Mike Gabbard? (Honolulu Magazine)
What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe? (The New Yorker)
Tulsi Gabbard Through The Years: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been (Civil Beat)
Butler's Web: Krishna, Politics, and QNET's Global Money Laundering (Meanwhile in Hawai’i)
Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood (NY Mag)
Tulsi Gabbard Used Donor Money To Boost Sales Of Her Own Book (Forbes)
Krishna Cult Rumors Still Dog Tulsi Gabbard (Civil Beat)
U.S CONGRESSWOMAN MS.TULSI GABBARD'S JALADUTA YATRA MESSAGE (Mahakrsh Krshrath)
Tulsi Gabbard's Cult Tied to "Billion Dollar Drug Empire"-- Funded Taliban (Hawai´i Free Press)
Trump's intel pick Tulsi Gabbard, her surfer husband Abe Williams and their bizarre ties to Hare Krishna 'cult' (Daily Mail)
Making a Splash: Is Tulsi Gabbard the Next Democratic Party Star? (Vogue)
Tulsi Gabbard Is Not Your Friend (Jacobin)
Senator Mike Gabbard: "Relationships" - May 2, 2017 (Senator Mike Gabbard)
Tulsi Gabbard’s Run for Congress Carries with it Many Hindu Hearts (Indo American News)
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Tulsi Gabbard (The Atlantic)
Trump's intel pick Tulsi Gabbard, her surfer husband Abe Williams and their bizarre ties to Hare Krishna 'cult' (Daily Mail)
Butler's Web, Part 3: Grooming the Second Generation (Hawai´i Free Press)
All in the Family (Caravan)
Tulsi Gabbard’s Unorthodox Path to Trump’s Intelligence Team (New York Times)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of This Fucking Guy, the show that spotlights one fucking guy making America worse and explains why they suck. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Aaron Ryan, host of Crooked Media's Hysteria podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | And I'm Alyssa Mastromano, the other host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | Now, Alyssa, we've covered some shady characters before. |
| 0:16.9 | Justice Gargoyle Leonard Leo, wing woman to the pervert stars Gillen Maxwell, Silicon Valley |
| 0:23.8 | skin tag Peter Thiel. Most politicians at least pretend to be driven by something beyond |
| 0:28.5 | raw ambition. But director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has animorphed into something |
| 0:33.5 | new so many times that it's impossible to see her as anything better than a snake. |
| 0:37.9 | Oh, Alyssa, it gets crazier. This might be the craziest episode of this fucking guy we have ever |
| 0:45.0 | done. Alyssa, what if I told you that behind Tulsi Gabbard is a mysterious and secretive |
| 0:50.5 | group that some might call a Hawaiian yoga cult? Is this the next lifetime movie we will be producing? |
| 0:57.4 | I hope so. |
| 0:58.5 | So you see, in order to understand the context of who Tulsi Gabbard is, we have to rewind |
| 1:03.0 | to decades before she was even born, to the 1960s in Hawaii, 2,600 miles away from |
| 1:10.0 | Gabbard's roots in American Samoa. |
| 1:12.2 | There, a baseball player with dashed hopes to play in the majors named Chris Butler, |
| 1:17.1 | a tan, handsome surfer bro whose dad was a big-time communist, was getting real into Eastern religions. |
| 1:22.7 | Wouldn't be the first white guy to get weird in Hawaii. |
| 1:25.2 | More specifically, Butler, like a lot of white guys in the |
| 1:27.5 | 1960s, got really into yoga. That kind of spun into his involvement in the Herakrishna movement. |
| 1:33.3 | Hari-Kishnas are still around today. They shave their heads and wear orange robes and hang out |
| 1:37.7 | in Union Square Park in New York. The group is also known as the International Society for |
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