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“I need to be clear that I don’t want to like Tucker Carlson,” Sarah says, right before going to the mat with Nancy over the controversial news host’s recent appearance on The Lex Fridman Podcast. Fresh from his Putin interview and his discovery of coin-operated shopping carts, Carlson gave a three-plus hour interview with Fridman, whom Nancy and Sarah both like. But Carlson? That’s a tough one. Carlson is the kid in school everyone hated, with the Kennedy-esque hair and the sports car at 16. And Sarah — though she really wishes this weren’t the case — defends some of Carlson’s more piquant opinions on beauty and architecture, power and corruption (and Navalny), feminism and beauty.

Also:

* Sydney Sweeney’s boobs, smoke ‘em

* OnlyCans page: Yea, or nay?

* Does Nancy know the dirty phrase “vinegar stroke”? She does not.

* Sarah’s crush on Lex Fridman

* Sarah’s (former) crush on Jon Stewart

* Sarah’s crush on The Rock, hmm, Sarah needs to get out more …

* Yes, but who built the beautiful Moscow subway?

* Nancy and Sarah get heated over … architecture?

* Don’t worry, kids, your mommies are not getting a divorce

* Tucker Carlson vs. Jon Stewart, two shadow sides of each other

* “Don’t listen to the critic, listen to the man in the arena.”

* Nancy and Sarah really only admire two politicians. Now, they’re running against each other.

* The vocal stylings of a blobby loser

* Pro-Palestine protests inch toward violent Altamont territory

* The time the 1960s ended as The Rolling Stones sang “Under My Thumb”

Plus, Nancy explains Oregon’s messy drug laws, we debate which American city has the prettiest buildings, why Catherine Deneuve chose her face over her ass, and more!