Noam and Jen are baaaaaack after a holiday hiatus! We discuss Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker or bust bid, Damar Hamlin’s very scary on-field injury and the response to it, our confusion over how the new Avatar movie is doing numbers, and how much we liked The Menu.

We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, what we’ll discuss is anyone's guess at this point 

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

Noam’s thread on Ilhan Omar 

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1579472927682351105

The very good Tablet piece on the implosion of the Women’s March

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/is-the-womens-march-melting-down

Noam wants to know; can McCarthy just screw over everyone he just made a deal with?

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1611716403689578498

Richard Zednik takes a skate to the neck and bleeds everywhere (don't worry, he lives)

https://www.bardown.com/richard-zednik-discussing-his-dangerous-neck-injury-is-absolutely-terrifying-1.1594496

Commotio cordis, or how we’re all actually very delicate bags of water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis

Eric Burnett’s thread debunking the claims that athletes are having more freak heart injuries post-vaccine 

https://twitter.com/Doctor_Eric_B/status/1611017974072098818

Skip Bayless is inartful at words, the internet gets mad at him for it

https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/1610101204687949827

Shannon Sharpe gets into a fight with Skip over his tweet

https://twitter.com/shannonsharpeee/status/1610646654528688128

It’s all big brother William’s fault that Harry wore that Nazi uniform that one time

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1610928520066379776

Harry Potter fandom policing is bad and will only get worse once Hogwart’s Legacy drops

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1604197283234344960