Did Karoline Leavitt Just Get REVENGE On Natalie Harp?
Erin Ryan and Melissa Murray (@strictscrutinypodcast) dive into the multi-state legal battle over custody of a child born via surrogacy and the firestorm of politics swirling around it, and Natalie Harp’s creepy relationship with Donald Trump. Then Kate Glavan (Seamossgirlies) stops by to talk about Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop’s partnership with Big Tech. They wrap up in the sanity corner with a toast to the late great Dolly Parton and rant about Oreogate.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
4:50 – Surrogacy case
27:12 – Ad break
30:36 – Natalie Harp
50:26 – Ad break
53:08 – Kate Glavan interview
1:12:54 – Ad break
1:16:18 – Sani/Petty
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@doceanblue
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Honestly I do love hysteria and the research you do, but I cringe so hard when you start going on and on about astrology like it was a real thing. It's 2026 guys: no, the stars do not interfere with how humans behave.
@cynthiaestrada8318
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Yes I like the name of your podcast: Hysteria
@s871-c1q
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
friendly reminder that astrology isn't real
@reedybloke
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Yeh. Make work based comms not work 5-9.
@ThatLadyDer60
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
7:06 West should be sued. She has no rights and in essence has kidnapped a child.
@ThatLadyDer60
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
4:10 Neither of the Dolly versions liked him. And at the same time DJTurd said fly flags at half-mast, the gov't cut funding to her book program!!!
@ThatLadyDer60
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
1:31 Only Jane Austen? 💖💖💖😂😂😂
@stufffstufffington
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
I'm annoyed that they are spreading nonsense like pet psychics and acupuncture on this podcast. Please stick to supporting evidence based medicine.
@anitapoltawsky4671
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Trump said pinky Herman!
@anitapoltawsky4671
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Trump stopped giving donations from the govt to her library program after she died!
@Stand4ROL
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Awesome reporting🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@tristanmendoza4628
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
At about 26:40 the idea of "Senator Kennedy talking about pregnant body"- is funny as hell. I can imagine him with that absurd drawl in his voice saying "uterus" and I wanna crack up laughing. At about 36:35 or 40 "dad-ification " hahahaha. And yes to Virgo power- I am the 23rd so it is mixed with Leo so that should scare the crap out of anyone wanting to mess with me (I'll throw a hex on your a55) At 46:30 The scene from Sean Duffy's show made me think "yeah, if you go to a liberal school like Harvard it will make the frogs gay!" (LOL)
@dorpth
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
I used to work at Harvard, answering the main phone line. Got about 3 calls a day from southerners yelling how we brainwash and indoctrinate kids.
One of them asked if we allowed married people on campus or if we banned them, because "I heard y'all have some of them 'atheist' professors there."
@matthewcook8580
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Dolly..Has never said ANYTHING, derogatory against Oppression, and Poverty.. She was a REAL HUMAN BEING, that happens to be an American YT(Where Justice and YT Racial Supremacy, seems to be the historical norm) .. That's why she will be REMEMBERED.. By all Humans, of different cultures.. A True Champion, for Real Humans😎
@dudetheplant
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Hume would argue that there’s no such thing as altruism.
@Shannon_FC
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
I love Melissa Murray. Fun, smart, and gorgeous. Great episode.
@journalistedisoncarter
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
When a woman says "I'd like to speak to your manager"? Just quit and say "I just can't deal with Karens. My life means something and i can't take these crazy white ladies"
@AiTheBetterToSeeYouWith
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
So… astrology is bullshit that unserious people believe in. You're undermining yourselves when you talk about it.
@Julie-w4s
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
I was pregnant in Berkeley too! The funniest comment I got was to make sure to avoid bee stings….like, who doesn't? lol
@AidanKelly-m7g
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
My cat is only 18. Idk why people keep calling him old
@Jamie63P
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Karoline L. 🤣born August 24, which makes her a Virgo. Well done !! 😁🤣
@michellemuse12
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
We were all good until you brought in that elephant. Go Sparks! West Coast best coast.
@veganbadass
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
I am Virgo…….. we are not vengeful at all in fact the polar opposite. Loving, caring and patient, perceptive and organized. Eventually we might fight back after taking heat for a long time. Virgo is an Earth sign. The Earth puts up with humans for centuries and finally in recent decades is fighting back and for good reason. But not "vengeful". Trump is vengeful.
@Martha-cc3uc
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
As a Virgo, I’m offended. One of the major tenets of Virgodom is HONESTY. Yeah, we can be picky and bitchy, but we’re not shameless liars. Karoline is a lying sack of falsehoods
@erinthesystem9608
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Thank you for mentioning mental health treatment, including SSRIs. RFK, Jr has already made statements that dietary changes can actually "cure"(his word) conditions as serious as schizophrenia.
Due to hysteria over over-medicated children, I suffered needlessly for years, when psychotropic medication would eventually change everything. These medications have side effects and nobody would be taking them if a simple supplement or more antioxidants could do the same thing.
I think the plan is for "inferior" people- the poor and the sick- to die off, and the rest will be used as laborers. RFK, Jr and this cadre of nightmarish people (Trump, Thiel, all of those f*cking guys) are a bunch of eugenicists. It never seems to occur to them that they will be just as expendable, or that poverty and illness are conditions of life, not the essence of the people who experience them.
@Mlaprades
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
0:03 Wait a minute who's a Virgo I'm I'm ashamed
@AdaptorLive
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
What is it with this channel and astrology?
@Ab-hh2fd
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Feel like everyone should hear this episode
@Lfg904
September 2, 2026 at 9:26 am
Always substantive (and humorous, too). Heavy, complex topic.