We Need Space w. Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Erin and Alyssa check in on the latest Bravo-level drama from Trump’s wack job cabinet, two recent chilling tragedies in Virginia and Louisiana, Planned Parenthood’s foray into cosmetic offerings, Reese Witherspoon’s suspicious call for women to use more AI, and more. Then professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein drops by to talk about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time, what people are getting wrong about the Artemis II mission, and what Star Trek and Octavia Butler can tell us about our current political moment.
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The FBI Director Is MIA (The Atlantic 4/17)
FBI director Kash Patel files $250M defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic (CNN 4/20)
Labor Dept. Investigates Texts Among Secretary’s Family and Staff (NYT 4/15)
Feud between Mace and Mills flares as the Republicans trade barbs, expulsion threats (CNN 4/21)
Ex-Virginia deputy governor kills wife and himself, police say (BBC 4/17)
Haunted by ‘Dark Thoughts,’ Louisiana Father Kills 8 Children (NYT 4/19)
The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’ by Brittany Cooper (The Cut 4/20)
A Planned Parenthood Clinic, in a Pinch, Turns to Botox (NYT 3/11)
The Woman Who Knows Too Much: An Interview with Amanda Ungaro (Courier 4/18)
Reese Witherspoon Declares “It’s Time” For Women To Embrace AI: “Want To Learn With Me?” (Deadline 4/17)
We Need Space w. Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 0:09.7 | And I'm Alyssa, this week, our friend Tucker Carlson, I guess. |
| 0:15.2 | I guess we're on the same side of this war thing with him, some things, disliking |
| 0:20.1 | Lindsey Graham being against this war. |
| 0:23.0 | Tucker Carlson seemed kind of contrite when he talked about his former support for Donald Trump. |
| 0:28.3 | He is so incensed by the state of America in the world and the fact that we're at war and the Strait of Hormuz is still not open and we're no closer, |
| 0:38.7 | but it's not, but it is. He's sorry, though. He sounded like he was authentically |
| 0:44.3 | contrite. He is. I think he's authentic. He's been broken. His heart is broken, but he's being |
| 0:50.4 | honest about his role in bringing us to this point. A, Alyssa, I have two questions. |
| 0:54.8 | A, do you think he reads my substack? It's entirely possible. Because I did write about him. I'm like, okay, dude, you got to take some ownership over this thing that you're mad about. B, what penance do you think people who are now realizing that they got us into this mess but are sorry? What penance do they need to do before they can make money off of being |
| 1:13.1 | sorry? |
| 1:14.8 | Well, Aaron, it's like, they've been making money. |
| 1:18.7 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 1:19.3 | Right. |
| 1:19.7 | Do you think they should just donate stuff to like anti-war candidates? |
| 1:23.8 | I would like to see them donate. |
| 1:26.8 | I don't know, maybe, you know, they've been pretty bad to women. Like, he's still only mad because of the war. You know what I mean? He's not mad because of immigration. I mean, he was a little mad. He thought things went too far. But he's really just mad because Trump broke his heart about bombs. About the war. Not how he was even treating people in this country. So like, do we even care that he's |
| 1:46.6 | sorry about this one thing? I think that you don't get to be a thought leader after exhibiting |
| 1:52.7 | extremely poor judgment multiple times. So I think maybe lead with curiosity would just be my |
| 2:00.6 | love that. My tip. Lead with curiosity, not know-it-allism. Because, like, clearly you don't know what you're talking about. Right. The proof is in the pudding. Maybe he needs to go on a listening door. Maybe he goes... Yeah, he just shows up and just wearing tape over his mouth. And he's just like, come here and talk at me, guys. |
| 2:18.1 | I want to hear it. |
| 2:18.9 | Tell me what I've been missing. |
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