The Saga continues as we’ve finally reached Safe Spaces Episode Nine! There’s tons out there worth talking about, even more worth shouting about, and this week our hosts find much to munch on. Let’s get right to it!

We get feisty out of the gate with the stunning and brave tale of popular YouTube “influencer” and trendsetting feminist voice Laci Green, who’s making hay by having the audacity to question the ethics of the online SJW set – social justice warriors for you social Luddites. That a popular personality’s epiphany that open-mindedness and willingness to converse with those she doesn’t understand would – or should – ever be considered brave and insightful is mind-boggling, but that’s the world we live in. Progress!

In a week that saw President Trump fire FBI Director James Comey, you’d be right in assuming the topic would be prime material on this week’s episode. However, you might be surprised to hear that our observant hosts don’t bother with the facts and figures of this budding ‘controversy’, as there’s actual few facts and figures just yet. They don’t know exactly what happened (nobody does). Rather than simply regurgitate mindless talking points, the guys take a different approach; exposing the hypocrisy and tantrum-inducing hysteria rotting away what little credibility remains from both political spectrum that dominate US politics.

In a follow-up to last week’s Stephen Colbert packed episode, the Late Show host has kept his unfunny vendetta against the President alive and well, throwing bombs and bad jokes to make his point. However, we discover something amiss with laugh track to Colbert’s program, and bring choice clips to demonstrate. Listen as Colbert plays his all-too-willing audience like the trained seals they are, barking out the right tonally correct responses when prompted.

Naturally, Trump’s abrupt dismissal of the derided director has caused massive (and quite entertaining) conniptions with actual politicians, too, giving casual observers a look at what cognitive dissonance actually looks like in practice. No single individual has demonstrated this more then Californian Congresswomen Maxine Waters, who never fails to demonstrate the need for term limits and the importance of passing a psychological evaluation before running for public office.

Listen as MSNBC’s Peter Alexander shows an amazing level of restraint by keeping his head from exploding in Scanners-like fashion as he grills the Congresswoman over the word salad spewing from her mouth. Again, this isn’t Fox News, but MSNBC grilling Mrs. Waters. Now that’s stunning and brave. Speaking of brave, our hosts do listeners a solid by keeping the hilarious – and hilariously scary – to an absolute minimum (you’re welcome).

Capping off this week’s most distressing story bits was the news that work crews, clad in bulletproof vests and under the protection of snipers, continued to remove monuments dedicated to the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” in New Orleans. Their removal has been just the latest salvo by supporters and critics alike to reevaluate the politics and legacy of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history.

From Mark Twain to Chicago’s public libraries to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the guys take listeners on an epic journey through history as they attempt to reconcile the needs of government to regulate – and protect – those moments (and monuments) representing the best, worst, and most divisive parts of our shared heritage. There are no easy answers or solutions to such complicated issues, in spite of what shady politicians might tell you.

And just so the guys don’t leave listeners on the precipice of doom and gloom, they close out this week’s episode by going back to where it all started – YouTube! While we’re still a few months away from its fifth anniversary, Korean rapper-slash-color enthusiast Psy continues his mission to topple his own Gangnam Style as YouTube’s most-watched video, like, ever with TWO new contenders this week: I Luv It and New Face, both crazy colorful and both absolutely bonkers. 즐겨!