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Chapter 1: What are the hosts tired of in their daily lives?
Ready? One, two, three. Patriots, gay-triots, they-triots. It's Big Pumps in the big city. We are in New York City. We have a very special guest that we're meeting here later. Fun guest. Very fun. Very important. Yes. Very important. Which almost pseudo makes us important. Kinda. A little bit. Kinda. Important adjacent. Oh. We are important adjacent. All right, Pumps, what have you had it with?
Chapter 2: Why are uncomfortable shoes a common grievance?
Okay, what I've had it with, and it's twofold, but it's mostly at myself. But my overall had it is I've had it with the cutest shoes being uncomfortable. And then I've had it with myself for continuing to buy the uncomfortable shoes, knowing that I'll wear them for about an hour and just be like, I can't do it. I I can't do it. So it's like this never ending.
You want your shoes to be cute, but if they're comfortable, they're just awful. They look like corrective shoes. If they're, if they're cute, you can't wear them because at my advanced age, everything on your body hurts after about an hour. So I've just, I've had it with the whole thing. I think I'm just going to go to my house shoes, back to my house shoes and flip flops 24 seven.
Have I ever told you that my mother thought I was pigeon-toed when I was a child and I had to wear corrective shoes briefly? And then she enrolled me in ballet because she thought it would turn my feet out. I did not know you were a corrective shoe wearer. I wore corrective shoes. I think it was maybe a year, but I remember they were so ugly. They weren't very cute, but my mother is very vain.
Right. So that was hard on her. Yeah. And I don't really think I was like pigeon toed. I bet they just went in slightly. We need to talk to Linda. We need to get to the bottom of that. But here's the thing. Aren't you glad she did it when you were younger and you didn't have to correct it as an adult? Yes. So thank you, Linda, at the end of the day. Yes. Yes, definitely.
But no, I'm with you on the shoes. I see these fantastic shoes and I'm like, God, I love those. Those look great. Put them on 45 minutes later. I am miserable. And listen up, kids. As you get older, gravity is not kind to your feet. No. And I mean, and pumps can report from like the future future. And she's saying near death, it's even worse. Near death. Yeah, exactly. All right.
Let me tell you what I've had it with. And I love the person I'm about to throw under the bus, but I have to. It's been building and building and building, and I just have to get it out. Okay, what? Who? So at the office, listener, downstairs is my interior design business. Upstairs is the podcast studio. And so a girl that works for my interior design business oftentimes brings her lunch to
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Chapter 3: What are the office etiquette rules regarding food?
to work and heats it up in the work microwave and several times it's been fished oh and she's perfect in all other regards i've had it with people using a shared microwave to heat up food that stinks yeah there's nothing you can do about it it permeates It's awful. The secondhand smell, if you're not the eater of that food, if you're not the consumer of that food, is so horrible.
So the other day she did it, and I had been out of the office for a tennis lesson, of course, on my lunch hour. And then I walked back in. I'm, like, still gasping for air. My heart rate's still high. I'm kind of behind the eight ball, running a little late, getting back to the office. And I walk in, and it is the worst thing. rotten fish smell smacks me in the face and I am dying.
D Y I N G. So I light a candle and I put it right under my nose on the desk as I'm typing. Couldn't even penetrate this fish smell. Really? So I got up and I opened up the front door and I put a plant to keep it open and I opened up the back door so we could get flow going in and out. And I turned on the fan on the HVAC and
And, I mean, it took about an hour and a half before I didn't smell this overtly heinous fish smell. But I do not think that should be allowed. I agree. I don't think that's right. And I just, I said, who heat up the fish? She said, I did. And I was like... Adriana, it's a good thing you don't listen to my podcast because this is going right to the top of my grievances.
She just kind of laughed and goes on with her business as only Adriana would do. It was horrific. You know, I have friends that have worked in really big companies before, and there is a mandate that you cannot cook fish in the microwave because it permeates the whole office. And at first they thought it was like,
oh, that's kind of rude, da-da-da, and then somebody broke the rule and everybody agreed. It's one of those social contract situations. If we're all going to eat here, if we're all going to work here, if we're all going to share the same space, you cannot put fish in the microwave. No, you just can't. You cannot do it. It is not acceptable.
You're not taking into account the senses of your coworkers. There's a lack of self-awareness about it. And I like fish. I eat fish. You're not a big fish eater, but I am. But after that, I thought, I'm not going to be able to eat fish for a while. Right, because it was so traumatic. It was. The smell was just awful. And so, listener, do not heat up stinky food in your shared microwave.
Take into account the senses of your coworkers, even those that you hate, because you wouldn't wish this on your worst enemy. You know, this might be a good idea we could give our next guest on what he should do to torture his colleagues. Oh, that might be good. That's a good idea. That might be a great idea. Okay, welcome to I've Had It. I'm Jennifer. I'm Angie. She's the star of the show.
She's big tits in the big city. Yeah, I mean, they're just, I look 100 in this life. I mean, like literally I sat down and I said, I look 550 years old. Then I looked down just now and I have my boobs hanging out. The dragons are trying to get out. And I thought there is just nothing grosser than a 500-year-old woman trying to show their boobs off. It's gross.
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Chapter 4: What funny travel story do the hosts share?
Yeah, I only really take it off on super long flights. All right, listen up. We have a fantastic guest today. We are gravely concerned. about January 20th. Plus. We vacillate from like, are we going to die to we're going to be fine. We're going to be arrested. Yeah. Are we going to be arrested? Are we still going to have the First Amendment? Right. Yeah.
So anyway, we everybody knows we love politics. And this is a congressman that I have loved forever because he says what's on his mind. He has conviction. He has principles and he fights the good fight. So let's welcome to I've had it in New York City, Congressman Eric Swalwell.
Listener, this may come as a total shock to you, but pumps and I have not always been this pulled together and rock solid. In fact, we used to be rather screwed up when you say pumps. I would say damn near psychotic. Totally. And we have written a cell phone expose. One could even say it's a manifesto. And the book title is Life is a Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches.
In all sincerity, we share a lot of our struggles that led us to this grand stage where we can talk about petty grievances. You can click the link below in the show notes to pre-order your copy now. Okay. Welcome, Congressman Eric Swalwell.
Thanks for having me.
Yes. Thank you so much. We're in New York City, everybody. We're so excited. I do. I was looking at your Twitter.
Yes.
And there was a tweet that I found concerning, and I want to see what you have to say about it. It was tweeted November 10th, 2024, by Rep. Swalwell, verified account, and it says, Night Night at OKC Thunder. How dare you?
And I like to say no KC sometimes.
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Chapter 5: What is Congressman Swalwell's perspective on Congress?
If my kid is in a ball pit with four other kids for longer than five minutes, a new fucking group chat is created. I'm like, I don't need to be in a group chat for every organization that my kid is a part of. And they become like completely unmanageable. And it's to the point where I'm like responding into the wrong group chat and I'm volunteering for things.
And people are like, I don't think your kid's like in this group chat anymore. And by the way, my wife, Brittany, I mean, she actually... monitors and tracks all these group chats. But I think we have overdone it on the parent group chats. It's just, it's become too much.
I have bad news for you. I have a senior in high school, one that's in college, one that's a senior in high school. And I thought for sure I would be done with all of this by then. And they continue. And I just refuse. Yeah. I refuse to engage.
And I had a lady who got kind of riled up with me last year, and she side messaged me like, hey, you didn't respond to XYZ in the group chat about homecoming dance tickets. And I just responded to her, this is a Roman problem. Like he's 17 at the time he was 17. Like I am not raising a titty baby. Like he needs to get his own tickets. Why am I doing this?
Like I've already done all the major stuff right now. I'm just at like, you know, making sure he gets home on time and everything else. He's kind of on his own. It gets worse. We did a whole episode. Apparently there is a college parent group. I have never been a part of any of this at Syracuse. I would never, but yeah.
The helicopter mothering, y'all should see if you can do something about this in Congress. Right.
Ban them.
Yes. Group chats, banned. Yes, group chats. Okay. I want to talk a little bit about the Speaker of the House.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How do political figures handle public perception?
Chapter 7: What insights does Swalwell offer about the Freedom Caucus?
But what really concerns me, though, is this push, and I say this as a Christian, this push toward Christian nationalism, and that's the only religion that's acceptable in our country, to the exclusion of non-theists, who are very important, to the exclusion of Jewish people, Muslims. That part Really concerns me. I joined the Free Thought Caucus. So this is a caucus of non-theists.
As I said, I'm a Christian, but I do believe a lot of their concerns about what is going to happen. And this is led by Jared Huffman, who, by the way, I think is really interesting on this topic. But there is this real concern about like this... radical fundamentalist approach that is starting to like really creep into our politics and our governance.
And then again, into your bedrooms and your kids classrooms. And that's really concerning. And yes, it's just sounds weird.
Well, we live in this. Yeah, we live. So they're already trying, even during Biden's term, they've already started trying all of these hardcore right, Project 2025, Heritage Foundation stuff in red states. You know, they're trying them out in Texas and Oklahoma. And we have now the superintendent who's mandated that the Bible be be taught as a historical document in all public schools.
Ten Commandments be on the walls. Women have lost the right to abortions. OBGYNs are fleeing the state. And you see, like, if you look at the states that are doing this, we're ranked 49th or 50th in education. So these MAGA policies have always failed. The trickle-down economics is the biggest myth. And it's so difficult to see like this start to become mainstream.
I knew in like deep Bible belt states that this was happening, but you're starting to see it kind of get mainstreamed where people think this should be okay. And I hope that the Democrats have a plan to really- fight for secularism. Because that really is one of the founding principles is that we have a secular government. And the 1950s is when all of this got injected.
And it's really troubling because there's a saying in the Bible Belt for those of us that aren't Bible thumpers. And it is, there is no love like Christian hate. And it's true because there's a real cruelty to there's a punitive nature of the laws that they want to make. And it's about taking rights away from people or judging gay people and getting into people's bedrooms.
OK, but let's move on from that. I want to ask one quick question. OK, on the Mike Johnson thing, this is what fascinates me more than anything. Here he is. He holds his Bible every minute. God told him he was Moses. He and his wife have a covenant marriage.
Yet he is that weird app.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of mental health in leadership?
That's right. They really do. They do. We saw that, obviously, with the oil and gas companies. We saw that with tobacco and even with firearms, that they can.
Okay, now we're going to play a game with you called Pat It.
Yeah, that's why I came on the show. Pat It or Hit It.
Oh, my God. Welcome to Pat It or Hit It. I would hit it. Pat It. Pat It. I hit it every day, sometimes twice a day. All right, Pat It or Hit It. Gulf of America.
had it. And I say this because I mean, are we going to name New Mexico, New America? Like, it's absurd. But I will say as Democrats, we should just say, you know what, that's great, Donald, that you want to go rename all this stuff. But what are you doing about the cost of eggs? I agree.
That's that's where I mean, just don't because he is so insecure about his own ability to actually deliver on what he promised. That's why he's doing this nonsense.
I agree. I agree with that. And I also think there's a grift opportunity for him. Right. Because, you know, he basically has a flea market now, an online flea market, where he's a member. And we have to remember, he ran because he said, look, I'm rich. I'm a billionaire. Nobody can buy or own me because I'm so rich.
And now he is the most bought and paid for man this world has ever seen, which is so weak. Okay. Had it or hid it, Republican parents...
Had it. Let me just tell you, when I send my kids to school, I don't want to pick the fucking curriculum. I don't want to be anywhere near it. I was not trained in this. I don't know anything. I mean, I can help my kids with their homework, but like the day to day curricula that like our kids are learning. Why do I want to be involved in something else?
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