
The Bitchuation Room
A weekly caucus of progressive comics, activists and thinkers hosted by Francesca Fiorentini
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Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 8min
Boeing CEO Grilled, Workers Rise *Frantastic Friday 6/21*
Boeing CEO is destroyed in a Senate hearing by... a Republican? Meanwhile Boeing workers are negotiating for the first contract in 16 years. Capitalism is trying to kill us, the U.S. needs reparations, and Oklahoma could have done something right by the Tulsa massacre survivors.Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch. To see more bonus content and get access to the Wednesday Bonus Bish become a member on YouTube or a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.***Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC! Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wKW5Rf Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yN5fgp***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com*** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com

Jun 20, 2024 • 1h 41min
VERGOGNA! with Rhiannon Hamam & Walter Masterson (Ep 236)
Another cruel SCOTUS summer is underway, with decisions helping the bigots and the wealthy. Rhiannon Hamam of the 5-4 podcast joins to explain how endless corruption and secret recordings have lifted the veil of intelligence and impartiality off the otherwise prestigious justices. Then, Palestinians are facing imminent starvation in Gaza. So how much humanitarian aid is actually reaching Gaza and what are the many ways Israel is preventing it? And actor and comedian Walter Masterson explains how he handles doing content among MAGA diehards. Featuring: Walter Masterson, comedian and host of 'We Are Not Journalists' https://x.com/waltermasterson https://www.tiktok.com/@waltermasterson https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88xhQ-tUlW47VlSdnCwTovNzptkxhrpU Rhiannon Hamam, host of 5-4 podcast https://x.com/aywarhiannon https://www.fivefourpod.com/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuqPuQ7MGrynvePdwgIAf3vQR7hEhjPt ***Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC! Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wKW5Rf Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yN5fgp***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com*** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com

Jun 15, 2024 • 1h 5min
The Right Won't Love You, Biden *FRANTASTIC FRIDAY* June 14th 2024
Biden tries to win Trump voters by denying asylum to migrants in dire circumstances. AOC falls for antisemitism bait surrounding the propagandistic Nova festival exhibit. And the Supreme Court rules mifepristone is protected federally but states will continue to chip away at its access.**Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC! Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wKW5Rf Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yN5fgp**The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com*** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com

Jun 12, 2024 • 1h 42min
The Crime of Eric Adams with Olayemi Olurin (Ep 235)
Fearmongernig New Yorkers is the lifeblood of the Adams administration. That and campaign corruption. Commentator and public defender Olayemi Olurin joined Francesca to discuss her takedown of the mayor on The Breakfast Club program back in March. Then, Israel saves four lives by murdering 274. The math of genocide is chilling. And Trump surrogates think his felony conviction will endear him to Black voters like 50 Cent? Finally, a game of Worst Dad Ever for Father's Day.Featuring:Olayemi Olurin, Movement Lawyer & Creatorhttps://www.instagram.com/msolurin/https://www.youtube.com/@olurinatti**Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC! Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wKW5Rf Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yN5fgp**The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com***Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com

Jun 8, 2024 • 1h
Bannon Joins Navarro In Prison & Israelis' Sick Torture of Palestinians *FRANTASTIC FRIDAY 6/7*
Former Trump advisor and smoker's lung Steve Bannon has to report to prison for defying a Congressional subpoena on January 6th. What's the status of all of Trump's cases now that a stay has been issued in the Georgia electors scheme? Flag Day in Jerusalem turns brutalizing Palestinians into a game for Israeli settlers, and a NYTimes report exposes rampant torture and atrocities at an IDF-run detention center. **Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC! Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wKW5Rf Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yN5fgp**The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 55min
Corporate Crime Scene with Maximillian Alvarez & Will Weldon (Ep 234)
Cities are without drinking water, planes are coming apart and trains are derailing. If your community hasn't already been affected it is a corporate crime scene waiting to happen. Max Alvarez, editor at The Real News Network, joins Francesca to talk everything from East Palestine to Atlanta. Then, Trump is a convict according to New York law, and is now promising a second administration even more unhinged. And Biden proposes a ceasefire in Gaza but neither Israel nor Hamas have agreed to it, and finally good news from around the world in "You Love to See It". Featuring: Max Alvarez, Editor of The Real Newshttps://x.com/maximillian_alvhttps://therealnews.com/author/maximillian-alvarez Read: Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapsehttps://www.thenation.com/article/economy/echoes-of-east-palestine-in-the-key-bridge-collapse/Will Weldon, comedian I Hate Bill Maher Podcasthttps://www.instagram.com/oldmanweldon/**Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC! Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wKW5Rf Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yN5fgp**The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com

Jun 1, 2024 • 1h 1min
RIGHT WING COPE AS TRUMP FOUND GUILTY *FRANTASTIC FRIDAY* May 31
The podcast discusses Trump's guilty verdict for financial crimes, political accountability in white-collar crimes, misconceptions about college entry, and listener gratitude. It also explores the political fallout of Trump's conviction, comparisons to third-world politics, and reflections on leaders and podcast events.

May 29, 2024 • 1h 40min
Tents with Blakeley, Paige Oamek & Rohan Montgomery (Ep 233)
From Rafah to Oregon, people living in tents are being targeted. In Gaza it's missiles and in Grants Pass it's laws that criminalize the homeless. Francesca is joined by content creator and Michael Rappaport troller Blakeley to talk about Israel's mass murder of displaced families who were sleeping in so-called safe zone and Nikki Haley signing American-made IDF missiles because the bloodlust is real. Then, producer and journalist Paige Oamek and co-writer Rohan Montgomery join to talk about Kentucky allowing residents to shoot the unhoused, and what an upcoming Supreme Court case Grants Pass v. Johnson is telling us about how conservatives want to strip away rights from the homeless. Finally, we play a "game" where we try and guess which brands aren't owned by private equity firms. It's tricky!Featuring: Blakeleyhttps://www.tiktok.com/@iamblakeleyPaige Oamek, producer and journalisthttps://x.com/paigehtmlRohan Montgomeryhttps://x.com/RohanMontroro Read Paige and Rohan's work:Kentucky Is About to Pass the Cruelest Criminal-Justice Bill in Americahttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/kentucky-crime-bill/How Urban Alchemy Turns Homelessness Into Goldhttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-urban-alchemy/***Francesca and Matt Lieb Are In Chicago for the DNC!Monday 8/19 LIVE Bitchuation Room X Bad Hasbara Podcast. Tickets here.Tuesday 8/20 LIVE Stand Up: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb Co-Headline. Tickets here***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com

May 25, 2024 • 1h 51min
Cuban Journalist On Mendendez & Talking Trans Athletes on Piers Morgan *FRANTASTIC FRIDAY 5/24*
Why hasn't Biden reversed Trump's policies on Cuba? It's thanks in part to one Senator Bob Menendez, a guy currently on trial for corruption. Journalist with @BellyofTheBeastCuba Liz Oliva Fernandez joins Francesca to talk about her new documentaries "Hardliner on the Hudson" and "Uphill on the Hill". Watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfRTNTWkPgY Then, Francesca breaks down her appearance on Piers "Why Can't We Have Biscuits" Morgan, and the "debate" over trans athletes. Ultimately are we supposed to celebrate booing a teenager who won her race? Where is our real humanity here? Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch and listen. To see more bonus content and get access to the Wednesday Bonus Bish become a member on YouTube or a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.

May 22, 2024 • 1h 43min
Where Are Your Eyes? with Megan Gailey & Robin DG Kelley (Ep 232)
At UCLA, Zionist counter-protesters brutally attacked the Palestine encampment and now the chancellor is being hauled before Congress for all the wrong reasons. Robin DG Kelley, professor of History at UCLA joins Francesca to discuss the right-wing attack on universities and colleges vis-à-vis false claims of anti-semitism. Then comedian Megan Gailey joins to break down the ICC ruling and the pro-Israel mob bullying YouTube children's creator and every family's personal savior, Ms. Rachel. Finally, a break and take down of Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's sexist psycho commencement speech. Featuring:Robin D.G. Kelley, Historian & authorRead his latest: UCLA’s Unholy Alliance https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/uclas-unholy-alliance/Megan Gailey, comedianhttps://www.instagram.com/bettermegangailey/**The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoomGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com**Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com **Make life easy when it comes to meal planning. Give Factor Meals a try and get 50% of your order with code bitchuation50: https://www.factor75.com/