Noam and Jen chat about Trump’s big indictment (what he’s being charged with is anyone’s guess), the battle over whether TikTok should be allowed to stay in the US, the extremely overbroad RESTRICT Act, how the federal government never lets a good crisis go to waste, and how the current season of Love Is Blind is peak trash.

We will be moving Callin this week to Thursday at 8:30pm Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Not really anything to put here this week, we will do better next week

Jen and Noam chat about Noam’s lost week of fever dreams, Wired being very mean to Brandon Sanderson for no reason, Trump’s big arrest that wasn’t, the ineffectivness of Trump rallies like the one that took place in Waco, DeSantis getting sassy, and the Stanford free speech mess currently unfolding

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Brandon Sanderson is a normal guy, Wired is disappointed:

https://www.wired.com/story/brandon-sanderson-is-your-god/

Trump’s lawyer goes on Meet The Press, says Trump “assumed” he was going to be arrested:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1639992843904139266?s=20

Ted Nugent calls Zelenskyy a “homosexual weirdo”, which means we have new definitions of both homosexual and weirdo:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1639706546492899329?s=20

Ron DeSantis throws shade at Trump’s current hush money troubles by pointing out he knows nothing about paying hush money to porn stars:

https://youtu.be/65wj8IE8n6E

…and also doesn’t care what he call him, so long as he adds “winner” to that title:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3912048-desantis-on-trumps-nickname-for-him-i-kind-of-like-it-its-got-a-lot-of-vowels/

The Stanford Law - Duncan situation, with Dean Jennifer Martinez’s response:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/stanford-law-draws-line-on-disrupting-campus-speech/

Noam and Jen tell the story about how Noam being a Podcast Bro got him out of jury duty, Trump’s big uncorroborated announcement that he’s getting arrested on Tuesday and the various reactions to his announcement, Ron Desantis’ pudding fingers and his weight loss drugs, and a little Mandalorian talk 

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! Will Trump be in jail? Who knows!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Donald Trump announces he will be going to jail: 

https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110044039949982181

Donals Trump’s spokesperson says Trump has received no official notification that he would be arrested:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-received-no-notification-than-illegal-leaks-possible-arrest-next-week-spokesperson-says 

Ron DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers, which is obviously the most important awful thing that DeSantis has ever done: 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/17/ron-desantis-chocolate-pudding-fingers-us-republican-white-house/ 

Ron DeSantis is also allegedly taking Ozempic, which does not comport with eating pudding with one’s bare hands

https://puck.news/newsletter_content/desantiss-new-diet-pences-moment-of-truth/ 

Jen and Noam spend a little time discussing the ongoing Silicon Valley Bank / Signature Bank meltdowns, talk Oscar wins and uplifting stories, and the season finale of The Last of Us which required two viewings to fully digest (spoilers at the end of the episode so be careful!)

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

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Show notes:

Key Huy Quan’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor:

https://youtu.be/EvAdahLczGk

Jaime Lee Curtis’ acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress:

https://youtu.be/5NDeOvfBuWA

Michelle Yeoh’s acceptance speech for Best Actress:

https://youtu.be/eQcQrFkBSuQ

The Daniels’ acceptance speech for Best Director:

https://youtu.be/-YeKsXCXJx8 

Acceptance speech from everyone for Best Picture:

https://youtu.be/0O2B6ywhqQw 

Brendan Fraser’s acceptance speech for Best Actor: 

https://youtu.be/NJnWB8UX3rs 

Noam and Jen take on Scott Adams performatively getting himself canceled, social media weirdos trying to performatively get a food YouTuber canceled for making a Hogwarts Legacy video, who didn't perform at CPAC this year, and the performances in The Mandalorian and The Last Of Us. 

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Scott Adams, segregation fan:

https://twitter.com/RyLiberty/status/1628601302489128960

Jesse Singal concern trolled by Popular Information:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1630304863065108480

Dilbert black and white comic (pun intended):

https://twitter.com/CritterJams/status/1521171487553724416

Jordan Peterson is mad at paper towels:

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208

Streamer takes a break due to Hogwarts Legacy ads:

https://twitter.com/NikatinePrime/status/1622312576897138688

Hogwarts Legacy made lotsa money, because not everyone lives on the internet:

https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1628859457655476226

Charlie is confused how a guy claiming to be in a relation with a famous streamer is supposed to help him get nudes / dates from her fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crlL4kpsBR8

Jen is annoyed at the Babish "controversy" (LEAVE BABISH ALONE!)

https://twitter.com/thatjenmonroe/status/1632166792830369792

Fuentes banned from CPAC (again):

https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1632197813730680832

The allegations that Schlapp sexually assaulted a campaign staffer:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/matt-schlapp-cpac-sexual-misconduct-allegation

Golden tickets to Trump event (ed. note - Jen was right, they were candy bars):

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1632034940949782529

Monica Crowley being performatively gross about Fetterman’s health:

https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1631774506971811843

Jen and Noam commemorate the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by discussing the dumbest Ukraine war takes of the present and the past, and wonder where all the war footage is (jk it’s on Twitter we see it every day). 

And in late breaking news - it’s ok to talk about lab leak theory in public now! In fact there seems to be some coalescing of intelligence that it may in fact be the explanation for the COVID pandemic! 

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Thread of the greatest “where is the footage of the war in Ukraine” hits:

https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1629414814886797314

Yes this Brad Paisley / Zelenskyy song is a thing:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/brad-paisley-releases-song-featuring-zelenskyy-wars-anniversary-rcna72189

Reporters Without Borders criticize Ukraine for not wanting to squire reporters around a war zone:

https://rsf.org/en/rsf-urges-ukrainian-authorities-lift-arbitrary-restrictions-reporters-field

Ukrainian war photographer profile:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-life-and-death-of-a-ukrainian-photographer

Seymour Hersh says that the US blew up the Nord 2 pipeline:

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Seymour Hersh’s nutty interview:

https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1628894592253804547

Bad takes from the beginning of the war:

https://twitter.com/russophileLs/status/1629118997668003842

The Wall Street Journal reports on the emerging lab leak consensus:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a

The Plague Year:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year

China was hoarding PPE before we even knew COVID was a thing:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/05/04/china-covered-up-coronavirus-to-hoard-medical-supplies-dhs-report-finds/?sh=1320c61c1dba

https://globalnews.ca/news/6858818/coronavirus-china-united-front-canada-protective-equipment-shortage/

Infohazard, or the things you wish you didn’t know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard

Marjorie wants a divorce…from the nation:

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1627665203398688768

Noam and Jen take on the “controversy” surrounding what name Nikki Haley chooses to go by, the Roald Dahl sensitivity edits that everyone hates, and the mind numbingly hard to follow Chait / Singal / WPATH manufactured controversy and the common practice of people believing any damn thing they read on Twitter

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

The funniest line in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1626975820114759681

Nikki, or Nimrata as her haters call her:

https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1625649699813195776

https://twitter.com/JamieOGrady/status/1625496305048092675

The Lincoln Project wants you to know that DeSantis has a weird laugh and will lose to Trump because of it:

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1626287954317524993

A thread of the Roald Dahl edits…

https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1626860237104857089

…that nobody asked for or wants:

https://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie/status/1627075835525210113

Keanu is thinking ahead, may be smartest actor in Hollywood:

https://www.insider.com/keanu-reeves-contracts-clause-banning-digital-tweaks-2023-2 

The movie The Congress, or What Keanu Will Not Be Signing Up For:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/

WPATH Standards of Care 8th edition, if you want to read it for yourself:

https://www.wpath.org/soc8

Chait piece’s in NY Intelligencer:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/nytimes-letter-trans-gender-youth-accountability.html

That lead to Jesse Singal tweeting in defense of Chait:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626363377152061441

Which caused E. Kale Edmiston to enter the chat:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626997603341860865

Jeet Heer being a hypocrite and general idiot:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1627022388901859328

Billy Binion on "Patient Zero":

https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1626704523270971397

Gretchen Felker-Martin has very weird and violent thoughts about Jesse:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1625331210443722753

NYT staff memo responding to the two letters, for once deciding to stick up for its employees over the Slacktivists:

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1626324277422133253

Jen and Noam do their one sportsball episode of the year, talk about the UFOs that (probably) aren’t aliens, and the two (!) episodes of The Last Of Us that have aired since our last episode.

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Rhianna’s very pregnant Super Bowl halftime show

https://youtu.be/HjBo--1n8lI 

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trailer

https://youtu.be/JqcncLPi9zw

Noam and Jen tackle the 2023 Great Chinese Spy Balloon Tour 2023 and the various reactions to the news that China has surveillance balloons floating around. 

And obviously episode 3 of The Last Of Us. Because how could we not.

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Santos addas “producer of awful Spider-Man Broadway play” to his resume

https://ew.com/theater/george-santos-spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-broadway-web-of-lies/

Santos also adds “allegations of sexual harassment” to his resume

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/05/george-santos-sexual-harassment-accusation-derek-myers

Neal Stephenson has predicted everything that will ever happen

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1292822668627136513

Remember Balloon Boy and that time he totally ratted out his parents’ scheme to get famous?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtFXtiUbbw 

You don’t need murder podcasts, you need JCS Criminal psychology videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfg861hO-Ag

The live action Mario we deserve, but not the one we’re going to get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIRlg4Xr5w

Jen and Noam wade back into the Damar Hamlin conspiracy theory now that he’s being accused of being dead and having a body double and also making a deepfake video, and Jen tees off on people who are still seeking validation for not being vaccinated. After that we take a look at the recently released body cam footage of the Paul Pelosi attack, and Jen tees off on people who are still seeking validation for spreading weird lies about Pelosi on Twitter. Finally we spend some time on the Tyre Nichols video (which Noam has not watched) and our thoughts on the incident writ large.

And of course we talk a little about The Last Of Us episode two, including seeing a clicker for the first time in the show and That Kiss.

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Damar Hamlin thanks everyone who helped him on his road to recovery, gets accused of being a deepfake

https://twitter.com/HamlinIsland/status/1619481054980767744

Paul Pelosi was indeed attacked by a crazy guy who broke into his house to attack his wife

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1619051120084586507

Sam Harris gets canceled for the 50th time, this time for pointing out that covid skeptics would not have been tolerated if the disease killed children instead of adults

https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1614292007463313411