This week, we find ourselves tethered to the blockchain in the struggle for truth and justice. Joined by multi-hyphenate guest Walt Mossberg, we shut down wild animal crackers, the Cohen-Manafort-Duncan guilty grifter trifecta, goats on the lam, mullets in Tribeca and ultimately come to grips with the overwhelming odds that we are living in a virtual reality simulation. 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: We are living in a circus, but at least the animal crackers have been liberated: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/business/animal-crackers-barnums-nabisco-mondelez.html Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has a side hustle as a Birkin bag broker: https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/08/michael-cohen-income-birkin-bag-guilty-plea-trump.html Learn more about Paul Manafort’s taste for luxury: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/08/maximilian-katzman-paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket-in-flagrante Highlights from Rep. Duncan Hunter’s 47-page criminal indictment: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/duncan-hunter-indicted/index.html Jon Stewart is an urban goat herder: https://people.com/pets/jon-stewart-rescues-goats-subway-tracks-nyc/ The hottest new book is about Goat Yoga: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Goat-Yoga-Practice-ebook/dp/B07B8DFWMK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534996362&sr=1-1&keywords=the+little+book+of+goat+yoga Check out this video, in which Elon Musk, on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, declares that we are probably living in a virtual reality simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8&feature=youtu.be Big #YUP to… Walt Mossberg and the News Literacy Project, a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to distinguish fact from fiction in the Internet age. Walt’s on the board and we really can’t think of a better cause to support right now. Donate here: https://newslit.org/donate/