I've Had It – "Poor Performance Patriots" (September 23, 2025)

Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan

Special Guest/Producer: Kylie

Episode Overview

In this episode of "I've Had It," Jennifer and Angie riff with their trademark mix of biting wit and irreverence about a breadth of modern American issues—ranging from hero-worship and manufactured masculinity, to Supreme Court disappointments, Instagram scams, generational failings, political parties, and the social climate for women in today's polarized landscape. Sprinkled with listener calls and mail, the banter skewers performative patriotism, fraudulent self-branding, and fake alpha male energy, reflecting on how these threads tie into larger political and social changes, especially in “Trump 2.0” America.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Angie’s Supreme Court Disillusionment & Instagram Shopping Struggles

• Supreme Court Loss of Credibility
  • Angie, as an attorney, laments the Supreme Court's perceived abandonment of ethical and democratic standards:

    "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." (02:23)

  • Jennifer is aghast intellectual elites could be radicalized:

    "...so shocked that people that have devoted that much of their time to having their heads in books can get radicalized by Fox News." (03:08)

• Relatable Instagram Scams
  • Angie admits being repeatedly duped by Instagram ads, so much so she’s put a note by her bed:

    "Everything I fall prey to on Instagram I instantly regret. It's never as advertised." (04:13)

2. Performative Masculinity: The "Hero" T-Shirt Rant

• Jennifer’s Restaurant Encounter
  • Jennifer is triggered by a man’s loud t-shirt:

    "Husband. Daddy. Protector. Hero." (06:33)

• Mocking False Heroism
  • Jennifer:

    "'Hero' is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence...This is hero abuse. This is why there are no heroes." (07:47-08:57)

  • Angie & Jennifer agree: if you have to announce it, you probably aren't it.
  • Kylie calls current hero-talk “abusive and fraudulent.”

    "We live in a timeline where Rudy Giuliani is receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor. I think at this point, you're literally asking for the moon." (16:39)

3. Shirts with "Extraordinary Claims" & Other Branding Nonsense

• Pathological Self-Branding
  • The practice of self-labeling as "hero, protector, daddy" and its roots in insecure masculinity and MAGA-coded culture is gleefully torn apart.
  • Jennifer:

    "This is hero fraud...If you're running around in a hero shirt, that tells me you're a piece of..." (13:48)

  • Angie:

    "If you have to tell me on Instagram how much you love your spouse...the relationship is in the toilet." (13:48)

4. Generational Failings & Fake Alpha Males

• Gen X & Patriarchal Hypocrisy
  • Lamenting how Gen X has disappointed as a cohort, despite a rebel youth and inheriting freedoms fought for by boomers (50:13).
  • White men’s performance of “big boy” patriotism is seen as desperate and inauthentic.

    "The problem is not with masculinity. The problem is people don’t like bullies." (30:32)

5. Shifting Political & Gender Dynamics

• Dating Red Flags and Gender Divides

  • Jennifer breaks down poll results:

    • 76% of women see identifying as MAGA as a turnoff (28:29)
    • 55% say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag (28:29)
    • A notable political gender divide: more women are “making a life for themselves,” increasingly rejecting traditional relationship and party roles (29:30)

  • Men’s embrace of performative “[patriot] hero” branding is interpreted as compensatory for dwindling old-school masculine authority.

• Trump Supporter Backlash

  • Reading of a listener review by a former Trump-supporting fan shows a late awakening that the podcast is unashamedly anti-Trump (27:07).

• Democratic Party Critique

  • Jennifer and Angie vent about Democratic conservatives being out of step with their progressive base, decrying party loyalty over true progress (36:09):

    "The status quo Democratic Party is trying to conserve, conserve. It's like a conservative movement that will not move forward..." (33:24+)

6. Listener Calls & Petty Grievances

• Male Cheerleaders, Hypocrisy, and Sex

  • Olivia (voicemail): Drags “straights” who object to male NFL cheerleaders while ignoring the homoeroticism of football. Jennifer:

    "Male cheerleaders—you're scared of. My God. There's no question that they are searching for masculinity in all the wrong places." (47:45)

  • The hosts lampoon MAGA outrage around mermaids, Santa Claus, and public displays of blackness or non-English speaking.

• Modern Dating Woes

  • Adriana (voicemail): "I've had it with dating Republican men...they're so triggered when you actually tell them..." (56:52)
  • Women’s dating challenges reflect the political divide: men lie about politics to get laid, and afterward it can't be taken back.
  • Angie:

    “Once you fuck a Trumper, you can’t unfuck that Trumper.” (58:52)

7. Miscellaneous: Instagram Purchases, Car Mix-up, and More

• Car Mix-Up Story: Angie nearly enters a stranger’s car (19:00), leading to an encounter with a fan—reminding both women of better, more hopeful times at the 2016 DNC.
• Rise in Witchcraft/Etsy Spells
  • People pay witches on Etsy to feel agency in a chaotic political landscape:

    "This is how desperate people are to exist in Trump’s America—that they’re going onto Etsy and having a witch cast a spell." (41:21)

• New EU Laws: Kids Suing Parents Over Photos (32:11)
• Listener Segment: Bobby's "Intrusive Thought"
  • The imagined perspective of a D.C. hotel clerk the day after January 6th:

    “I think we need a docu series about the hospitality industry on January 7.” (55:54)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Supreme Court decline:

  "They have completely said, fuck it, we’re just going to rubber stamp whatever the executive does." – Angie (04:07)

• On t-shirt heroics:

  "I 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." – Jennifer (11:16)

• On MAGA masculinity:

  "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 it gets." – Angie (15:29)

• On Gen X disappointment:

  "Gen X gets off the hook all the time. You know, everybody browbeats the boomers...But there's also a lot of really cool boomers. Gen X needs more hate." – Jennifer (51:09)

• On male cheerleader outrage:

  "You mean to tell me you've got a whole fantasy football team...and that's not gay?" – Olivia (47:39)

• On dating Trumpers:

  “Once you fuck a Trumper, you can’t unfuck that Trumper.” – Jennifer (58:52)

• On progressive vs. party loyalty:

  "More Democrats see themselves as progressives than party loyalists...I see this current Democratic establishment as being...conservative." – Jennifer (33:24+)

Important Timestamps

• 02:18 – Angie’s Supreme Court rant
• 04:13 – Instagram shopping regrets
• 06:33 – 10:40 – Hero t-shirt saga
• 13:09 – Consistent heroes vs. self-proclaimed
• 15:25 – Debate over “Daddy” vs. “Father” on shirts and MAGA implications
• 18:06 – Height, insecurity, and hero shirts
• 19:00 – Angie’s car mix-up story & fan encounter
• 28:29 – Red flag poll for women in dating
• 32:11 – Legal news: Teens suing parents for old photos
• 36:05 – Critique of centrist Democrats
• 41:20 – Rise in Etsy witch spell purchases
• 47:45 – Olivia’s call and male cheerleader rage
• 55:21 – Bobby’s January 7th hotel clerk musing
• 56:52 – Adriana’s real talk on dating Republican men
• 58:52 – "You can’t unfuck a Trumper" monologue

Tone and Style

Sharp, sardonic, and woman-centric, Jennifer and Angie hack away at cultural nonsense, embracing gallows humor and blunt honesty but always circling back to values of inclusion, conviction, and standing up against hypocrisy and regression.

For New Listeners

If you haven’t heard this episode, expect a raucous deconstruction of modern American absurdities—hero fraud, MAGA insecurity, and performative masculinity—paired with real, lived frustrations about political and social backsliding. It's a cathartic, if laugh-out-loud, evisceration of nonsense and a celebration of collective grievances.

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