JD Vance’s LAME Plan Encourages Working Mothers to Get Married & Stay at Home
Still Counting host Clare Malone joins Erin to break down what we know about a potential stay-at-home parent subsidy, a rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths, Sydney Sweeney’s horny sports gambling ad, and Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian oligarch-funded wedding. Then Alexis Nikole Nelson (@Blackforager) joins to talk about foraging, seasonal eating, and her new book Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!
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CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
2:48 – Still Counting preview
6:43 – Trump’s exploitation of parents
16:15 – Women in the employment pool
27:24 – Ectopic pregnancies
37:28 – Ad break
41:40 – Don Jr.’s wedding
50:58 – Reacting to Sydney Sweeney’s sports ad
58:39 – Ad break
1:02:50 – Alexis Nikole Nelson
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@RebeccaOliver-c5t
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
We must make lemonade – Speak out, support candidates, and Vote! 🎉
@aericks3000
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Paying married moms to stay home also will add more precarity to leaving a bad or abusive marriage. You'd lose your meager "pay."
@craftingrubydreams
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
A. Love Alexis’ videos. B. I COMPLETELY agree with her about pawpaws. C. I adore the fact that she named her dog Colonel Mustard!! 😍
@splutt
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
What doesn’t help is the news when a daycare closes down for abuse and shit. There was one near me that closed down when the kids were getting fed Benadryl and melatonin gummies and shit. There was another involving molestation and shit. It’s the same effect the church had on people when news came out about some of them. It makes it hard to trust a stranger with my kid especially before they can tell me that some weird shit is happening to them.
@karmeleonmusic5654
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Just discovered FURIOUS! Never heard of it, and it’s EXCELLENT!!
@galleryofrogues
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
s p o r n t s . 😎
@af2313
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
1:27:24 I endorse this recommendation! I am very pro calendar reminder 😂
@staceface_sbk
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
I wish they would say it even more clearly, "we do not value anyone who isn't a married male/female couple where the man has freedom and the woman plays the role of mother, period. And we are going to make sure that anyone else suffers." They know it would make people mad, but they don't grasp that it's because they're psychotic and selfish and Anti-America.
@thomasarmstrong9327
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
On the sports ad: While not naming the company, because they don't need the publicity from here, I couldn't help but think that their name implies "absence of vigorish." How an online betting outfit can be profitable without the vig puzzles me, but I'm not a betting man or a finance whiz.
@lynnesenzek562
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
We were beaten over the head with Hunter’s laptop, and ties to Ukraine, now the grifter Trump family is accepting crazy gifts, an airplane, a wedding party, wth???
@lynnesenzek562
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
This is such BS, I was a stay at home mom, we had a mortgage, car payments, we could only take long trips to see family, we drove, or would fly later, because it was expensive. It took a shift to have any money in savings. The republicans are delusional. We made more money, so we couldn’t qualify for and child tax credits. Now we are getting hit with higher gas prices, food is more. Frump offering a bribe to vote GOP. Now buying a house is a crazy expense. The republicans ignore how hard it is to save money, to eat out. Our eating out was a lot of Subway. Now that 6 inch sandwich is almost $10. I don’t know how low wage workers can survive or even have a luxury like good WiFi? Retirement will be harder. It’s coming up in a few months.
@stella-gx8ne
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
OMG. Hadn’t seen this just heard about it. That’s disgusting. What a shame for women’s sports
@dorpth
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
The Saved by the Pill/Bell laptop sticker.
@NoSacredCowFla
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Donald Trump is a felon. The Bahamas doesn't allow felons entry. Seems intentional. 😉
@NoSacredCowFla
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
OBGYNs have the highest malpractice insurance rates too.
@mechengr1731
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Jasmine, why? Ugh, democrats love to disappoint us
@erinkane6307
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
The economic reliance on products that are made to be addictive and have fried men's brains is an interesting take, Erin. I sm stunned by the number of men I work with who dress and behave like boys in many ways. 40-year-old men who wear sports team swag to work, play video games, and brag about gambling have me worried for the state of manhood.
@robynrains7252
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Apparently Sweeney is an investor in the company she’s hawking 🤷♀️
@QuicksilverSG
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Not even Joe Rogan was willing to play second banana to JD Vance.
@WilliamSmith-ko6cw
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Any atrocity to cover up the TRUMPSTIEN FILES !
… and make blind to emotions snd thinking !
@pkg24
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
It's not "nightwolves" it's "werewolf MC" the leader "president" is a Ukrainian who loves Putin & wants Russia to conquer Ukraine. Like an Irish catholic who loves king Charles or a Palestinian who thinks Netanyahu is 100% right. Vice did a show on them, it's on YouTube. Unless they took it down, idk go find it.
@BS-detector
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Women should be given $10MM irrevocable, non-transferable trust funds for all the abuse and suffering they've endured. Freedom is money and money is freedom in this country. Then men will be outed for being the real gold-diggers, but too bad for them…killing your wife won't get you paid. The trust fund goes back to the general fund for the next 18 year old female.
@cheecheroni
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Alexis is amazing, I really admire her and her incredible plant encyclopedic mind. That interview was an exciting bonus for this episode.
@yonathanmengistu731
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Fullest disclosure ever, I work at a Black owned bookstore in DC by Howard and I’d absolutely love to have Alexis over for a book talk if she’s in town. This time of year is super busy but I’m gonna do some homework. Great stuff sis, congrats on the book and thanks for puttin’ me on Erin. 🔥
Edit: We love you back ❤
@unicoroner88
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Oh my dog, I'm so pumped that I stuck around for black forager! I love her content and will be buying that book so I dont die!
@jamesbunt6846
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Fun fact – Clint Eastwood is older than boomers! He's part of the Silent Generation.
@Jduajgbv62859
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Sparts
@misspiggyonrollerskates3744
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
The pawpaw take is shocking! But to be fair, I've only ever had them from an orchard.
@cindyhill9091
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Alexis Nikole Nelson is a wonderful beautiful person, so nerdy and enthusiastic!! Thanks for having her on.
@larnewman3009
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
When you break healthcare work down by sector, the balance is kind of weird. For instance, there are more female nurses, but more male paramedics.
There are more men in the military, the police, construction, mining, forestry, and driving jobs. We still tend to do more the physical and dangerous jobs. Most of these don't require college degrees.
@ChantalPirmez
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
It’s ‘a little bit Alexis’. IYKYK
@matthewschumann135
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
So, if you watch Sweeny in "Christy" and read/believe the background, she really did train like a boxer, very hard, for more than a year. So, okay, right? It could be from a career perspective either she and/or her management are "both sides-ing" things a little bit. "Here's one for the girls… a-and here's one for the guys," type thing.
But again, both-sides-erism favors the Right because "capitalism" so there's that.
@terrymckenzie857
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Furious is GREAT. I love Emmy Rossum. Quincy Tyler Berstine is fabulous. I couldn't figure out why Lola Pettigrew looked familiar. It was stunninng to realize she is the same actress who played the young Dolours Price, the IRA soldier who was imprisoned with her sister after planting bombs in London, in the Hulu series Say Nothing. After I finished Furious, I went back and re-watched Say Nothing, Pettigrew is just stunning in both.
@seangierock9584
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Inturned this off cause the host makes me feel bad about myself. Surely women must suffer some type of consequence from phones and internet. I guess nature pre disposes me to being bad. Thanks for the cheap hashtag I'm f7cking off from this channel
@SarahReed-r1w
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Also my dad is a male nurse. This is my least favorite episode
@SarahReed-r1w
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Not a fan of your video game talk. I was a gamer girl and I work as a building substitute teacher. I hated when I worked in retail and people acting like I cannot know video games and now you are making gamers seem like they can’t emphasize.
@sarahbelle8791
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Separated the ART from the FARTIST
@KarenS19
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
1:49 for someone who was a cast member of The Handmaids Tale, she thoroughly lost the plot of that story.
@stu1037
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Tucker just endorsed Abdul?!! WOW! That's the first genuinly surprising thing I've heard in a long time.
@julietfontaine4707
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
No way my daughter could work and pay child care instead of watching the kids herself and she is and LPN but it doesn’t financially work for her or most families- child care is expensive
@PocketsVsCapital4Humanity
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
Philly has SO much public park space. But it only ranks like 20-30s as far as public park per mile in a city or per capita.
That being said…
I learned the basics of foraging from my buddy who does urban foraging specifically in Philly. If Philly has as much public space as it does, and it isn't even among the highest rated, I can almost guarantee most other major cities have SOMETHING for you to forage.
Tons of Chicken of the Woods in Philly. I used to go home with huge brown paper bags worth.
@elliotmurphy534
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
❤💚
@sarahbelle8791
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
I usually don’t mind just listening as I do other things. But Alexis Nicole is so captivating and charismatic I just want to stop what I’m doing and watch her as she speaks.
@teresavalliere2888
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 pm
A broad brush approach is all JD can do. He doesn't have a full idea about anything thats why he can work for trump.