I Doubt It Podcast · Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page

#970 - "Riley Is Back, Melania/Epstein, Eric Swalwell Needs to Go, & No Coalition Building with Nazis!"

April 11, 2026·1 hr·5 clips

Jesse and Brittany recount spotting Department of War spokesperson Riley Podoletsky working on propaganda during their flight to Japan.

The clip starts in ad land. MassGolf and Whoop bring listeners into the show, while M&T Bank and sportsbook copy wrap around the political segment on the way out. Then the mood shifts. The hosts turn to a Fox News segment about California Congressman Eric Swalwell facing accusations of rape and sexual misconduct from multiple women. The details are grim, including claims involving intoxication, sexual contact, and a hotel-room memory gap. Swalwell denies the accusations. The Fox clip includes his statement that the sexual assault allegations are false, along with an apology to his wife and constituents for mistakes in judgment. That apology sits awkwardly in the middle of it all. Brittany and Jesse do not wave away the Swalwell story. Their bigger question is why Fox can find moral urgency here, but not when Donald Trump is the one under scrutiny. They bring up Trump's misconduct allegations, the Access Hollywood tape, and his public comments about Ivanka as the comparison point. The tone is pure receipts: one host walks through the record, the other hits the reaction hard. Nobody gets cleaned up here. The hosts want accountability to work the same way no matter which party benefits, and they treat partisan memory loss as part of the scandal. Even with limited transcript, the shape is clear: ad clutter, host comparison, Fox clip, allegation details, denial, and a demand that powerful men get the same scrutiny regardless of team jersey.

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A sharp politics episode that uses Fox's double standard to make its point clearly.

Episode 970 is strongest when Brittany Page and Jesse Dollimore set Fox News' Eric Swalwell coverage against the far less even-handed treatment Donald Trump gets there.

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Want a furious, source-heavy takedown of the Eric Swalwell media double standard?

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