Fun Magician extended universe lore - this was the podcast that broke my liberal brain and pushed me towards communism.
From Wikipedia:
Mueller, She Wrote is a political podcast hosted by Allison Gill, a military veteran who worked at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. It mixes comedy, legal commentary and political analysis, from a liberal perspective, and centers on the Mueller investigation. The original co-hosts were San Diego comedians Jordan Coburn and Jaleesa Johnson; the latter has since left the show due to a pay dispute.
I remember feeling lost after trump got elected and hoped that something would come of the Mueller report. It’s wild to think I believed an FBI investigation run by a Republican would to anything to shake up the system, but there were plenty of people who believed it.
These hosts would give updates on the investigation and other bits of news, but it started feeling hollow around the third ‘this time he’s really in trouble!’ story.
The simping for Mueller like he was going to solve things felt hollower and hollower until I stopped listening altogether.
I read up on them a few years later and saw them vote shaming people who were considering withholding their vote for healthcare and student debt forgiveness. I also found out they benefited from PPP loans they didn’t have to reimburse. Hypocrisy exposed is an empty victory, but it felt vindicating to know leaving that whole bubble was a good decision.
Finally, I hate the logo so much. Like they were doing investigative journalism or something by collecting headlines from news websites.
I dunno. I just wanted to air out my vitriol while it was fresh.
Did anybody else follow it or similar podcasts before moving left?
I didn’t listen to that pod specifically but I did listen to Pod Save America and was following Seth Abramson on twitter. The Mueller report is actually kind of a turning point in my life. Not because of the report, it was just that coincidentally at that exact time the report came out, I found the cth podcast and the old sub. Binged some episodes, spent hours every day on the sub, and in less than a week I renounced my lib ways and considered myself a socialist (before then I probably would have called myself a socdem, I thought Bernie and Warren were equally good choices. Yeesh.)