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0:34so we're supposed to start the podcast ready one two three patriots gay triots they triots black triots brown triots and the people who don't support them can fuck off oh that's a good one poms yeah well that clap was pedestrian the clap was a little lackluster a little limp dickish But, you know, at your advanced age, we're just happy I could get two hands together over my head. Pumps, what's been going on? What have you had it with? Okay, what I've had it with, it's two things. One's really serious and one is just me being stupid. I've had it with the Supreme Court because as an attorney, that is where, you know, they are above reproach.

1:22They are the most ethical, the most concerned about policy. And I feel betrayed, like on a personal level, which is stupid, but I've had it with them allowing our democracy to die and rubber stamping everything for Donald Trump. I've had it with that. It makes me really sad, like ridiculously sad, like a foreboding, we're losing the United States of American democracy. Yes. But then on a personal level, I just feel kind of hurt about it, which is kind of stupid. On a personal level for me, I'm just so shocked that people that have devoted that much of their time to having their heads in books can get radicalized by Fox News.

2:05True. You know what I mean? True. Valid. Like you study and you do all of these things to have intellectual autonomy. And then you start watching Fox and then you just you end up just being a dipshit like everybody else. There's nothing exceptional about you other than you fall prey to conspiracy and wanting to control other people, which is just so toxic and codependent. Instead of progressing forward, it's this regressive court that is taking us backwards because they're religious and psycho and trafficking conspiracy theories. Misery loves company, so they're going to make us all go down with them.

2:42And it's just so disappointing that at some point they capitulated their intellectual autonomy to just such low-hanging fruit. Yeah, and a whole branch of government. I mean, they've taken down a whole branch. One of the checks on the executive branch and the legislative branch was the judiciary. And they have completely said, fuck it, we're just going to rubber stamp whatever the executive does. It's really disheartening. My other had it is I've had it with myself buying shit off Instagram. I've had it. I wrote down and put a note by my bed where my phone charges that says, do not buy anything off Instagram because everything I fall prey to on Instagram, I instantly regret.

3:31It's never as advertised. And I'm just, this continues to be a problem for me. So I'm really going to try to stop doing it because I just, I just fall head over heels every time with the stupid shit. so the note that you that you put next to your bed do you have exclamation points or is it a cap lock um no it's just it's all in caps but all caps i generally write in all caps yeah it just says do not buy anything off instagram and the note that you put there is is that because you think you might forget i always forget this is not the first time i've fallen prey to an instagram bullshit. This is, you know, I was really, here's what happened.

4:13I had this false sense of security because there was that lotion or oil they were advertising. And it was like this woman that makes me look like young and fresh skin wise. And then she used this oil and then they show another picture of her and she looks completely differently. So I Google it and I think that cannot be true. Like it just cannot be true. So I Google it and it says, in fact, it's AI. So I just thought, you figured out how to get away from the scam on Instagram. You've made it. You've overcome this. If there were a product that could do what that, those images showed, it would be a scientific discovery that would be breaking news.

4:59That's what I thought. That's what I was like. If you can change. You cracked the case. I cracked the case because I was like, if this looks so good, every single person on planet Earth would know about it and be using it. So I've had it with myself. I've made a note. I'll keep everybody updated on my progress. Hopefully it won't be like the vaping, stopping the vaping, which has failed miserably. Okay. Let me, I have to pull out my notes on this. So let me tell you what I've had it with. I've had it with people that wear shirts with words that make an extraordinary claim. And let me give you an example.

5:33This past weekend, my husband and I drove to Norman, Oklahoma to take our son who was in law school. What they're studying now with the rule of law upside down is beyond me, but I digress. So we take he and his girlfriend to this pasta shop in Norman, Oklahoma, near the university of Oklahoma. And we're sitting there and this family of four walks in. Okay. I just want to note just so y 'all can visualize the wife was about four inches taller than the husband. No disrespect to couples that have a taller broad than dude. I'm all for that. And then they had two little kids, probably late elementary school age.

6:09And the dad's shirt said, husband, daddy, protector, hero. So I immediately alert my fellow diners, which is my husband and Dylan and his girlfriend, Sydney. And I'm like, okay, let me just, this shirt claims husband can verify. Daddy can verify. Protector, that's a claim. Hero. That is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. So I'm at the stage in Trump 2.0 where I kind of want to go up to the table, just kind of tap his finger and say, hey, how you doing? The hero part of your shirt, like, what did you save? Right. Who did you stand up for? Did you stand up to a bully? What's going on with the hero?

7:08I can see the other part. Protector. I'm, you know, subjective. But the hero part, that needs to be objectively true. To call yourself a hero, put it on a shirt, put the shirt on, and then go out in public. This is fraud. This is hero abuse. This is why there are no heroes. Right. Because this man who's five inches shorter than his wife is strolling in, claiming that he's a hero. And I want evidence. On the back of the shirt, maybe we add receipts to it. Okay. You know? Like saved house fire. Yeah. Yeah. Climbed up a tree and saved a kitten. brought it back down, nursed it on my very own teat.

7:49You know, I need the receipts to this. And I'm just like, is this what we're doing now in Trump's America? He says, you know, we're in the golden age and America was a dead country. Now it's the hottest country in the world. Everybody's saying that. So you can just make extraordinary claims. Joe Rogan and all of them are now claiming climate change isn't real and vaccines don't work. And so then this trickle down pathological lying is now in Norman, Oklahoma. And we've got some dude willfully choosing to parade around town in public with a shirt that claims that he's a hero. I'm calling bullshit on it.

8:28This is hero fraud. I guarantee you that this, I guarantee you, and I'm not a fighter, like physical fighter, more of a verbal fighter. But if I were to fight this guy, I guarantee you I could have kicked his ass. You think you could take him? I do. I kind of think I could take him. I kind of think I could get scrappy with it. We know that if he's got hero and protector on his shirt, he's probably a pussy. I mean, that seems like a complete red flag. Hey, I'm a pussy. And then to spare my feelings, they had to get me this shirt. I want to talk about this too. How do we jump from, the shirt's insinuating that this is like a perfect chronological progression as to what happens.

9:12If you're a husband, then you're a daddy. And then if you're a daddy, then you're a protector. And then if you're a protector, you're a hero. And I just disagree with the premise entirely. And we sat around and talked about it for five or 10 minutes. And Josh was like, I agree. I think we need more information about if you're going to parade around on a Sunday night in a pasta shop in Norman, Oklahoma, claiming that you're a hero, here's the mic big boy let's talk about it what'd you do what have you done that's heroic yeah no i think that's a great point and i love that's where we are in trump's 2.0 that you said i've gotten here now we're this is trump 2.0 i'm just gonna go ask and i think that's where everybody is i mean we're just lied to constantly so it's like i need some facts to back this up i want to know what he has done that is heroic and i'm gonna say this One heroic act doesn't equate to wearing a hero T-shirt.

10:14I think you have to have more than one heroic act. I think you have to be a consistent hero to wear hero on a T-shirt. Okay, so you're saying you can't do one hero move in isolation. It has to be a pattern of hero. And then be a hero for life. You have to be a stan hero. It has to be consistent, heroic action to wear that on a shirt and for the public, for me to believe this clear pathological grandstanding lie. I need evidence and it can't just be one isolated incident that one day, you know, there was a little old lady and she couldn't get her groceries in the house. And so you went and carried them all in and unpacked them for and then left.

10:59That's not I'm not going with that. Okay, that's an interesting point because then you have to, when you qualify, you could say hero saved a cat from a tree. Right. And that's just, that's one. That's one. And I would just say that's being a person. I don't know that that goes to. That's what I'm saying. So then you qualify. Is it a hero to help an old lady in with her grocery or is that the right thing to do? That's what I'm talking about. I feel for me like heroes are, they save your life. Firefighters, they pull you out. For me, a hero is like Pedro Pascual. Absolutely. He is so heroic all day, every day, because the lowest hanging fruit that MAGA goes after are trans people.

11:43And he consistently and constantly stands up and doesn't give a fuck what anybody thinks about it. And he goes hard in the paint for them. And to me, he's consistently heroic. Yeah. But interestingly, I don't believe that Pedro Pasquale would wear or Pasquale, Pasquale, I don't know. I don't I don't believe that he would wear a shirt where he self-identified is a hero. I don't know that these two things live together. their pumps. I think you're 100 % right. So this is something that we need to add to the permanent record and we need to add to the agenda of all of the patriots, gay-triots, they-triots, black-triots, and brown-triots is this hero abuse.

12:26Does a true hero wear a t-shirt wherein they identify as a hero and just masquerade around town with it on? I think the answer to that is no. I think that if you're having to, I think it goes along with everything else we always say. If you have to tell me on Instagram how much you love your spouse and how great your relationship is. I immediately know you're fucking around, she's fucking around, and the relationship is in the toilet. That's what that tells me. If you're running around in a hero shirt, that tells me you're a piece of shit. And a pussy. And a pussy. So this is what I think, because I really got a gander at him.

13:02He got him into the restroom and I did it. I mean, a classic Jennifer Welch. I mean, up, down, back up and down, the whole thing. And here's where my brain took me, okay, that I could probably walk up to him and take my finger and go, I think this hero stuff is bullshit. I think you're a liar. I don't think he would have stood up for himself. I don't. I don't think he would have defended the premise of the shirt. Those are the vibes I got from him. Of course, all of this was the fantasy stuff you think about. Of course, I would never do it. He wants to wear hero shirts, free country. But I just – For now.

13:39For now. But I just think that this is a part, a symptom of this hyper-masculinity. I agree. That these men are trying to prove that they're so butch and they're so masculine that now we're wearing... Furthermore, I just want to go to this. Like calling yourself daddy and then two slots down from that hero is kind of gay. You think? the daddy thing kylie isn't that gay daddy's very gay yeah why not father why doesn't it say father father versus daddy well because i think it's all the maga coded stuff i mean i'm 100 he's a trumper for sure i think it's that i think you nailed it when you said it's the hyper masculine i'm such a big boy i'm a protector and a hero when really if you're not standing up for bullied people and you're demeaning women and you think that you have to protect women you're fucking as beta as What if I came in here with a shirt on that said, wife, mommy, protector, heroin?

14:45I mean, it's just, it's so fucking stupid. It's so stupid. And you see these shirts with words at their worst in the United States of America, particularly in the Bible Belt. They just get really crazy. And don't even get me started on mama bear. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We've browbeat mama bear a lot. All right. Welcome to I've Had It. Not all heroes wear capes. Not all pussies are heroes. I'm Jennifer. I'm Angie, HBIC. Kylie, what do you think about that? I think there's hero abuse and fraud going on. I think it's abusive and fraudulent. Jennifer, we live in a timeline where Rudy Giuliani is receiving the presidential medal of honor.

15:30I think at this point you're literally asking for the moon. Right. You're asking for basic core principles and we can't even. Stolen valor is just the norm. Trump is posting himself in, you know, army gear every day. Yeah. So hero has lost all its meaning. There's just, and a lot of this fraud, a lot of this fraudulent activity seems to be going on with men. They're the ones who seem to really be, when I'm in the airport and that's where I'm around the most people at one time when I'm traveling. And I see the men that have to wear these shirts that define their patriotic level, their militaristic inclinations, their love of the American flag and bald eagles and lions and all this other weird shit.

16:20It's the men. I rarely see women that have on like the patriot shit going on or claiming that they're heroes. I mean, because that's an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence and no disrespect to short men. I mean none. But this guy was five foot four inches. You could have taken him for sure. You know what? You know what I mean? It's just like. But don't you think that's probably part of the reason why he had on the hero shirt? Somebody had to tell him he was a hero because he's Napoleon. Yeah. All right. Um, Kylie, what, what's going on besides this? That just really had me riled up.

17:00Oh my gosh. I'm riled up just thinking about it. Yeah. Keep an eye out for it. I have not seen anything like that. Yeah. Are you going to tell them about the story at the pack and chip we just had? Oh my God. Okay. So listener, y 'all know we have this other podcast called I hip news that comes out two to three times a day, 10 to 15 minute news hits, wherever you get your podcasts, like and subscribe. So we film those. And then Pumps and I like to go to an early lunch. And when I say early, I'm saying like 10 a.m. So we go eat because we start filming really early. And we're waiting for the restaurant to open.

17:37So we're trying to think of errands we need to run. So we have to go to the pack and ship because Pumps has to mail back the aforementioned Instagram detrimental purchase. Right. So I wait in the car and she runs in and I'm kind of looking at my phone. And all of a sudden I hear this scream and I look over and there's a car parked next to Pumpsis car. And she is trying to get in this car and there's a person in the driver's seat. And she's just like barreling into the car. And there is a pregnant woman sitting there that has this crazy woman trying to barrel in. And this car that she's trying to get into is two times the size of Pumpsis cars.

18:18But it's black. It was the same color. I was black, so I wasn't paying attention, and I just barreled right in, and it scared the shit out of me. We both go, ah! Like, I was so surprised. I screamed. I mean, I was scared. My heart raced for like five minutes after work. I thought somebody was getting abducted or ice was coming or something. I mean, it was a big scream. So this poor woman, I had to apologize. Of course, she was gracious and sweet and said she liked iHip News, which we know she's cool now. Yeah, she rolled down the window because I bend over dying laughing. I'm in the passenger seat right next to her driver's seat.

18:50And so I bend over and I'm like banging my head on the dashboard. I'm laughing so hard at Pumps doing this. And she's like rolling down the window and she's like, by the way, I love your podcast. I got my mother in Argentina listening to it. Keep fighting the good fight. She was cool. And she had seen us on a flight to Chicago when we went to the DNC back when it was somewhat hopeful being an American before all the hero fraud. I think about how really hopeful and optimistic I was then. Yeah, it was really fun, Pumps. It was. We had such a good time at the DNC. Oh, we had such a great time. You guys, we thought we were just, we were at the DNC.

19:26We would like be walking. We'd be like, oh my God, there's this person. There's that person. It was so fun. It was so fun. It was so positive. You felt good about America. Boy, pissed in our cereal. This episode of I've Had It is brought to you by Booking.com. Booking.yeah. From vacation rentals to hotels across the U.S., Booking.com has the ideal summer stay for absolutely anyone, even those who might seem impossible to please. Whether you're booking for yourself, your partner, your picky teens, or your sleep light early rise mom, you can find exactly what you're booking for on booking.com. I personally just booked a trip for my sons and I to go to New York City and I found the perfect hotel in the perfect location and we were able to tackle the city with enthusiasm and convenience and i just absolutely love this site if our family can find their perfect stay on booking.com anyone can find exactly what you're booking for booking.com booking.yeah book today on the site or in the app okay i've got some reviews okay i'm going to start with a five star for the beaver from MCaddy and she says brava ladies but this one's for the beave our stories are strikingly similar and I'm so glad we both escaped our marriages and magical thinking I have had it with friends and family staying in horrible marriages because of money and not wanting to affect their waspy lifestyle perhaps we become pied pipers and lure more beavers into a better life and true happiness what could be better than all the asexual beavers coming together Oh, my gosh.

21:10I love this. It's a great idea. And you think your story, people can't relate. So it makes me feel good that somebody can relate and has the exact same thing. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Pumps and I were just talking about this at lunch right after she tried to carjack the pregnant woman. We were talking about it that tell what you said, like this is the first time in your life you've been able to kind of like be you. Yeah. I mean, it's just because there was always a certain expectation and I always lived up to that expectation. And I just - What others wanted you to be. Right. The expectation, it started with my mother.

21:52Then I would say it probably went in societally and all of that. But now I'm at the point in my life that I don't have to pretend and I don't have to reconcile what somebody else thinks is best for me with what I think is best for me and that I can take what I want out of a situation and leave it. And just, I don't feel like the expectations that was a script for my life. I don't have to follow that. I love that for you. Yeah, I do. Okay. Kylie next. Okay. I've got a one star title. We love Trump from A. Hirsch and they write, used to be funny, but as a Trump supporter, I will no longer listen.

22:30Get over it. he is your president. Okay. So here's my thing. We've been bashing Trump. Next month is our three-year anniversary. I think it started pretty early in the podcast. Is this person saying they just now caught on that we're anti-Trump? And that said Wednesday? They just left that? Kylie, is the timeline correct there? Yes. That's why it stood out to me.

23:02I wish I could respond to some reviews. Oh, I know. You were still here this whole time. You just Wednesday. I guess for some people, it takes a while. Like maybe just the willful denial. No, these ladies with these, you know, with this normie looking affect and Southern accents live in a red state, a Bible belt state. That can't be right. So they just keep signing up for more and more. I misunderstood. I have some things I'd like to report on. This I found really fascinating. I think pumps will think this is too. All right. The majority of women find it's a turn off if partner listens to Joe Rogan podcast.

23:44Surprises me as you write. So here's the list right here. Red flags and a partner. And so the people who took the poll were asked the following, do you consider each of the following behaviors of traits, a green, beige or red flag and a partner? women 76 percent say that men that identify as MAGA Republicans is a turnoff 66 percent of men that have no hobbies it's a turnoff 60 percent of men that say all lives matter women don't like that men that say there are only two genders 58 percent of women want no part of men that say they are so unbothered. They never ask for details. 58 % men that identify as a communist, 55 % don't like that.

24:34And then 55 % of women think it's a turnoff if a man listens to Joe Rogan, a few more, a couple more. 54 % of women don't like it if men identify as a conservative. And then half of the women are turned off if men say they don't care about politics. So this gender divide, you guys, is getting more and more and more massive. And at the same time that women are making a lie for themselves, even women your age are saying, I was told that I had to be a certain way and I'm not doing it anymore. The liberation at any age that a woman can experience because of the good fight that the women before us put up, the suffragettes, the civil rights movement, et cetera, other female politicians that have really fought this fight.

25:30And they're not liking men as much. Yeah. And men can't control them. And then the data is just showing that. And this is why you have a political party where their surrogates talk about there only being one vote per household and the man doing that. Yes. And why men are crying around and wearing a hero on their shirt. Because they feel the inadequacy and it has to be a female's fault. Has to be. Can't be their fault. They have to put their gun, whatever, their MAGA-coated merch on and be a patriot. But you hear all the time, you know, we have a masculinity problem. The problem is not with masculinity.

26:10The problem is people don't like bullies. People like people that include everybody. They're not so divisive. And white men particularly have thought, it's my world. Everybody else is just living in it. And now they're at a point where that is no longer the case and they don't like it. Yeah. And I think it's like, I don't like fake alpha males. It's just you can smell it a mile away. And so the indicators that this person struggles with their masculinity are the things mentioned here. Yeah. Listening to Joe Rogan, wearing big boy shirts, you know, identifying as a conservative, etc. Because a true alpha male is back to like Pedro Pascual, who's like, I'm going to fight for everybody because it's all fun and games, white ladies.

26:59You can sit here and judge other people's kids and all of this stuff, but until your kid or your grandchild has an issue that is judged and targeted by this movement, you'll be grateful for the people that had moral clarity in this moment and that were truly heroic in voting outside of their economic interest for the betterment of society. I completely agree. All right, next up. Teenagers can now sue parents over childhood photos once they turn 14. In Germany and Austria, new legal frameworks are giving teenagers more control over their digital identities. Once they turn 14, minors in both countries can now legally sue their parents for publishing childhood photos without their consent.

27:46These laws are based on the principle of image rights and personal data protection under the EU privacy regulations. so i think what this is going after obviously like if you have a good healthy relationship with your parents and your mom puts up you know you're five merry christmas or happy birthday to my little shit and then the kid turns 14 he's like i wish you would take that down that embarrasses me a normal parent maybe yes i'll take it down i think what they're talking about here are these family influencers that are putting their kids to work at a very young age to you know popping out eight counts.

28:24Yeah. Twerking with their kids on these accounts. That's what I think this is probably targeting, don't you? Yes. And their parenting style and all that, like they're making the trad wives, the trad wives, they're making a ton of money off the Instagram and the kids. So that's what I thought it was too. All right. This is a very important article. More Democrats see themselves as progressives than party loyalists per the new poll. A new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows that a majority of Democrats identify more with the progressive movement than with the Democratic Party itself. The survey conducted with Survey Monkey between August 13th and September 1st, 2025, asked Democrats whether they considered themselves more supportive of the progressive movement or the Democratic Party.

29:1054 % said they were in line with the progressive movement, while 46 % said they lean more towards supporting the party. So this is what I wish the Democratic establishment would get into their head. The way I view them right now, and I was always a toe of the party line kind of girl. Like I voted for Hillary. I voted for Joe Biden. I voted for Kamala, Obama twice before that, John Kerry and on and on. And I understood that the people like when Obama first ran, he was not outwardly for gay marriage, but I was. But I understood that you had to build build coalitions in order to get what you wanted what i see this current democratic establishment as being pumps is conservative they are trying to preserve and conserve the policies where we lost in 2016 and 2024 to a fucking idiot they are still trotting out the same shit.