We’re back on our regular schedule with a special guest, WIRED Senior Writer, Lauren Goode. We all endured a horrible week in which YouPorn finally decided to ban lunatic Alex Jones, and Lauren spun around on a 3D scanner like a cat on a Roomba. We also shut down the Green Party candidate from outer space, voting on the blockchain, Magic Leap, luxury chicken diapers and the Oscars’ desperate attempt to boost ratings. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode... Read Lauren Goode’s review of Naked Labs’ 3D body scanner in WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/naked-labs-3d-body-scanner/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare Check out this thoughtful op-ed by David French detailing a legitimate rationale as to why Alex Jones should be banned: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/alex-jones-infowars-facebook.html We are living amidst the Summer of Grifting, and no beverage has been spared. Here’s the story of the Las Vegas coffee grifter: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5d4g/mysterious-coffee-grifter-has-sent-the-same-weird-handwritten-letter-to-hundreds-of-roasters Check out Green Party space alien Joe Manchik’s bio here: https://www.facebook.com/manchikengineering/about?lst=570510487%3A701693075%3A1533779673§ion=bio Here’s where Democracy dies, on the blockchain, with a tiny startup called Voatz: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/smartphone-voting-is-coming-just-in-time-for-midterms-voatz Lern more about Magic Leap, the startup that raised $2.3 billion and then released a product that was...meh. https://www.wired.com/story/magic-leap-one-creator-augmented-reality-inside-story/ Need diapers for your pet chicken? Look no further: https://theoutline.com/post/5608/bury-me-in-chicken-diapers?zd=1&zi=sygi2a2k Here’s why #OscarsSoNope https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636743517/changes-are-coming-to-the-oscars-heres-what-we-know Big #YUP to… Lauren and her cat Nougat, who is the proud owner of a $139 item called Modkat, described as “the iPhone of litter boxes” on the ultimate episode of the “Too Embarassed to Ask” podcast. Check it out here: https://www.recode.net/2018/8/3/17646320/lauren-goode-kara-swisher-final-episode-too-embarrassed-to-ask-podcast-finale And you can subscribe to Lauren’s current podcast, Gadget Lab, here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gadget-lab/id266391367?mt=2 “The Song of Achilles,” which Brian says is a cross between “Call Me By Your Name” and “Love, Simon” but set in Ancient Greece and with more violence: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006IE2IO8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Australian and Kiwi firefighters who flew all around the world to help put out the California wildfires: https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article216206915.html