WTF Government with Sharon McMahon
Absolutely Not
Dear Media
4.9 • 14K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Heather welcomes America’s government teacher, Sharon McMahon. They chat about their shared last name, lake life in Minnesota, and of course WTF is going on with our country and government. Sharon breaks Heather’s questions down in a way that anyone with extreme ADHD can understand.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to the Absolutely Not podcast, where we do the most and the least at this same damn time. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of the |
| 0:32.3 | Absolutely Not podcast. I am so incredibly honored and thrilled to have a very special |
| 0:37.3 | guest in the studio today. You know, this year I am so incredibly honored and thrilled to have a very special guest in the studio today. |
| 0:39.0 | You know, this year, I am absolutely trying to educate myself more, understand things, and ride that |
| 0:44.0 | wave of what the hell is going on in this world. And there is a gal that I have been following on |
| 0:49.7 | the interwebs for, God, since the pandemic. And I'm just absolutely obsessed with her. We've had a wonderful private conversation in the DMs. I said, honey, you've got to bring this online and come to the Absolutely Not podcast so you can explain to us more of what the hell is going on. If you don't know who she is, you are going to be absolutely obsessed with her after today's episode. It is my honor and my dearest pleasure to have the incredible Sharon McMahon here in the |
| 1:11.6 | studio today. |
| 1:12.6 | So please welcome her to the Absolutely Not podcast. |
| 1:16.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, okay, we're just going to hop right into it. |
| 1:19.1 | This is so exciting. |
| 1:20.1 | I am here with sister from another mister, possibly my cousin, but maybe not my cousin. |
| 1:25.8 | We've been friends online for a couple years. I go to you |
| 1:28.6 | for clarity, for understanding, for a moment of Zen in these wild trying times. She's a government |
| 1:36.0 | queen. She's an icon of education. And again, we may be related. Please welcome to the Absinot |
| 1:41.8 | podcast. Sharon McMahon, how are you? |
| 1:44.5 | I couldn't be better. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm so happy to be with you. |
| 1:46.7 | No, I'm so happy to be with you as well. |
| 1:48.4 | I found you, you were like a beacon of light, I think, may have been during the pandemic. |
| 1:53.0 | And you were really breaking things down online for, for, I don't want to say the common folk, |
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