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Happy Memorial Day! Nancy and Sarah discuss a Columbia Journalism Review bombshell about the alleged sexual misdeeds of journalist Wes Lowery, who shot to fame during the Black Lives Matter era and is perhaps best known for popularizing the idea of journalism guided by “moral certainty.”

This is hot one! Sarah gets kneejerk over blackout confusion, Nancy doesn’t understand “situationships,” and they argue over the definition of “glory hole.” Whether Lowery is guilty of these misdeeds we can’t say, but we both hope #metoo stories start to pivot away from “tearing someone down” to pointing to a better way to engage with people you love/bone/covet/teach/mentor/etc.

Also discussed:

* The latest Mission: Impossible — wanna guess who liked it?

* A blender full of stunts, frappéd

* When did we start celebrating Memorial Day?

* The smell of a nuclear submarine (let’s ask Sarah’s brother)

* SLEEP BUFFET!!!!

* Ken Burns’ theory on binary thinking shaped by computer code

* Fifth Column + Lowery = “exactly what you want from mega-minds”

* Buying a woman a drink: Predatory behavior — or kick-ass?

* Do people get roofied? Yes, but way less than hype suggests

* How dating fell apart

* Assholes vs. criminals / regret sex vs. rape

* The sad and endless hamster wheel of the compulsively sexual male

* When Sarah was a drunk bully …

* Slutdom during Nancy’s “Eddie Vedder years”

* Rise of violence on on the left: To be continued!

Plus, Nancy has a request for sociopaths, Sarah makes a hopeless pass at Douglas Murray — and much more!

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