Episode 14 of the Safe Spaces Podcast: meaner, leaner, and more concise than ever before! In this week’s scintillating episode our hosts talk about the latest online fury du jour that is the supposed cultural appropriation by Nintendo’s beloved mustachioed mascot, Mario, with his upcoming Nintendo Switch debut game Super Mario Odyssey.

Can a cartoon character with outrageous proportions and an exaggerated Italian persona be guilty of appropriating ANY culture, let alone that of Mexican ponchos?

From there our hosts tackle the tragic news of both the Free Shakespeare in the Park’s substituting President Donald Trump in the Bard’s famed Julius Caesar play. In a follow-up of Kathy Griffin’s boneheaded ‘art’ showcasing Trump’s severed head, the story gets more heated after the shooting of several people at a congressional baseball practice for event for charity. The gunman, 66-yaer old James Hodgkinson of Illinois, was a fervent supporter of ex-Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and a genuine loon.

It turns out that Hodgkinson also left a public trail of actual hate-speech online, calling for the death of Republicans and their ilk, as well as decades of domestic abuse allegations and questionable gun behavior. Why such a person was even allowed access to a firearm may be the most important question of all, but it’s a question that’s completely ignored by those on both sides of the political conversation one-upping the crazy talk by their constituents. Is moral relevancy really moral?