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It’s been a heck of a week. And it’s not over yet for Louisiana, which has to deal with Hurricane Delta making landfall. Rapper Tory Lanez has been charged in LA for shooting Meghan Thee Stallion this summer. Mindy Kaling had a secret baby last month?! We just learned that Barbie has a vlog on YouTube and friends...it’s very good. And the legendary Gloria Estefan is with us to talk about her family’s spin-off of the hit Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk,” and the family’s willingness to put it all out there. Also she talks about how fast gators can be in Florida.

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The FBI says it’s foiled an alleged right-wing plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. After getting spotted on TikTok during a weekend of partying in ‘Bama, country music star Morgan Wallen got cut from his appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” TikTok musical theater nerds have created a thing of beauty. And BuzzFeed News politics writer and editor Katherine Miller joins us to break down last night’s Vice Presidential debate and what to expect from this next sprint to Election Day. (Also, your fly jokes are bad.)

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The Department of Justice absolutely wanted kids taken away from their parents at the border in 2018, according to a draft inspector-general report. Sorry, no stimulus before the election, Trump says, to literally everyone’s dismay and confusion. A Texas county is actually charging Netflix with a felony for its promotion of the French movie “Cuties.” Our audio engineer Dan has a fitting tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen. And screenwriter and director Miranda July is with us to talk about her new movie “Kajillionaire” and her own previous life of (very petty) crime.

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Trump is back in the White House and wants you to know that you shouldn’t let the coronavirus dominate your life! (We are going to die.) Meanwhile, the CDC finally says, yes, the coronavirus can spread in the air across more than six feet. So, again, great timing, Mr. President. Rihanna had to apologize for using a song that samples a sacred Islamic text in her recent fashion show. And BuzzFeed News science reporter Stephanie Lee is with us to break down what we do and don’t know now about Trump’s condition now that he’s busted out of the fanciest hospital in the country.

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What. A. Weekend. We still don’t know exactly how sick President Trump is after he was checked into Walter Reed Military Hospital, thanks to some very unhelpful briefings. Megan Thee Stallion made a hell of a statement on “SNL” this weekend. There’s women working on all the cool nerd stuff you love, and in her new Twitch streaming show “WomenR,” Felicia Day is showing them off. And THEN we challenge Felicia to one of our HARDEST EVER rounds of “Gotta Pick One!” - where she may or may not have to decide whether to save the XBox One from oblivion.

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President Donald Trump, after months of downplaying the threat, has COVID-19. It’s a development that upends what was already set to be a chaotic final sprint to Election Day. We also have new audio of Melania Trump all but saying “fuck Christmas.” Thankfully, this year’s “Savage x Fenty” show is here for us, so all blessings to Rihanna. And BuzzFeed’s Stephen LaConte delivers some much needed advice in a new edition of “DM 911” — this time featuring post-pandemic wedding guest lists, a partner’s unfunny TikToks, and some blatant swaggerjacking. 

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President Trump was in Minnesota and warned his very white audience that Biden wants to make the whole state a refugee camp and got them to boo Somalis because racism. Millions of Americans are in danger of having their utilities shut off due to the economic recession. Chrissy Teigen shared her grief on Instagram and got a lot of love and sympathy in return. And with a wave of evictions still looming, culture writer Kovie Biakolo is looking ahead to what it could mean for the gentrification already encroaching on black and brown neighborhoods. 

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The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was, to directly quote a CNN reporter, “a shitshow.” And that’s how President Trump apparently wanted it. Oh, also he refused to condemn white supremacists directly. Meanwhile, the Tennessee Titans had players test positive for COVID-19 and Disney is laying off 28,000 park and cruise employees. So it was a bit of a relief to flash back to the awkward, amazing years of being a millennial teen with the Daily Beast’s Kevin Fallon, as we chat about the new season of Hulu’s hit show “Pen15.”

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 Over a million people worldwide have died of COVID-19. It may shock you to learn that Trump was not doing great financially when “The Apprentice” first aired. We’re apparently getting a sequel to last year’s remake of “The Lion King,” this time directed by Barry Jenkins? FarmVille is finally withering on the vine at the end of this year. And we’re joined by Imara Jones, the host of the new TransLash podcast, about creating space for trans people to tell their own stories and why she has hope for Black trans women’s futures.

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