Work in Progress: S.E. Cupp

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

If it feels like news headlines are getting more and more terrifying with each passing day, you aren’t alone. To try to get some help making sense of it all, Sophia is reaching across the proverbial aisle to conservative TV commentator, author, and nationally syndicated columnist S.E. Cupp.

Cupp was raised in a conservative home and then rose the ranks in conservative media, and she’s courageous enough to state that her values don't align with the current administration. When she first pushed back, she went from a right-wing media darling to being labeled a traitor, and today she shares her story, including the toll the threats and vitriol took on her mental health, ultimately leading to a breakdown.

Plus, S.E. gets unexpectedly emotional talking about what inspired her new podcast 'Off the Cupp,' shares her advice on what to do when feeling hopeless, and her work in progress.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress.
0:14.5	Hello, Whipsmarties, welcome back. This week, oh man, am I excited about this week's guest?
0:21.6	Like many of you, I have been trying to keep up with the fire hose of news and fear and stress and all of the things.
0:30.2	If you are a VA worker whose funding got cut this week, I see you and I'm so sorry if you are a student who doesn't know if your
0:38.6	Pell Grant is going to come. I see you and I am so sorry. I see you all. I know people are overwhelmed
0:45.4	and I needed to turn to somebody for some hope and some advice and I don't know, maybe a little bit of strategy. And I figured it would
0:57.4	be really important to reach across the proverbial aisle to do that. And so I'm sitting down
1:03.4	today with a journalist I admire who was raised as a conservative woman, none other than Sarah
1:09.8	Elizabeth Cup. You may know her as a TV host,
1:13.6	a political commentator, or a writer. She has her show S.E. Cup unfiltered. She's featured often
1:19.4	on Politico.com, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and this year she has started an amazing podcast
1:27.3	right here on IHeart called Off the Cub.
1:31.1	Honestly, because she needed a break from the news, from politics, from being triggered from all of it.
1:36.8	And somehow leaning into life has reinvigorated her for all of that too, including, yes, the political. And it's that sort of full circle
1:47.4	that I am in need of the inspiration of. So I asked her to join us today to talk about all of it,
1:54.5	career, family, identity, mental health, and how we can really be great advocates for our
2:00.7	communities in the future of this year,
2:04.9	the next four years, and beyond. So let's sit down with our friend Essie.
2:23.5	Fair, I think. Sarah, thank you so much for joining me on the show today.
2:25.9	I have been so excited about this interview.
2:34.2	And since the news is a fire hose, I'm like, I don't even know where we should start.
2:36.6	Pick a place.
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