This week, Shapchat made a very stupid attempt to celebrate 4/20, United Health dealt the Affordable Healthcare Act a serious blow, and America’s $20 bill got a significant upgrade. Also, we said goodbye to Prince, one of the most perfect pop stars of all time.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Jackson gets booted to the back of the $20. (http://grdnt.is/20YiZZT)
• Story Four: Amazon Prime gets serious about competing with Netflix: (http://grdnt.is/1rbjCDA)
• Story Three: What’s the best channel on television right now? (http://grdnt.is/1STVOd8)
• Story Two: Snapchat tries and fails to honor Bob Marley’s legacy. (http://grdnt.is/1r0Em0y)
• Story One: United Health is pulling out of Obamacare. (http://grdnt.is/1ppgmT6)
• Epilogue: Rest in peace, Prince (1958-2016) (http://grdnt.is/1rpUpp2)

This week, Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking teamed up to talk space travel while an all-men’s club at Harvard defended itself from accusations of sexism in probably the worst way possible. Also, Bono had a novel approach to stopping ISIS, Buzzfeed is struggling to make ends meet and the NBA had a night for the ages.

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Michael Romero ... @mromero

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: The future of space travel. (http://bit.ly/1Nn0K8R)
• Story Four: Harvard’s men’s only club (http://bit.ly/1TVxRqW)
• Story Three: Bono wants to send comedians after ISIS. (http://bit.ly/1NobrYI)
• Story Two: Buzzfeed misses its financial projections. (http://cnnmon.ie/1Sbj5Yz)
• Story One: Kobe Bryant calls it a day. (http://grdnt.is/1Sctgyo)

This week, Twitter got rights to stream Thursday night NFL games, WhatsApp’s new encryption blocked out the FBI and the Panama Papers became the largest information leak in history. Also, we recap The People VS OJ Simpson’s finale. No spoilers!

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Show Notes: 

• Story Five: The End of The People VS. OJ Simpson: http://grdnt.is/1Ve8aD5
• Story Four: Twitter wins rights to stream NFL games: http://grdnt.is/1XlUpA4
• Story Three: Jump Ball: Spain is cancelling the afternoon siesta http://grdnt.is/1S1YTdL
• Story Two: WhatsApp’s new encryption blocks out the FBI: http://grdnt.is/1UOkB8P
• Story One: The Panama Papers shines a light on how the wealthy avoid taxation: http://grdnt.is/23iN4Ix

This week, the NFL demanded The New York Times retract a story about their football players and concussions, journalists criticized the Obama Administration’s lack of transparency, Oculus Rift tried (and failed) to make a splash, and white people complained that Hamilton put out a casting call for nonwhite actors.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: The NFL Requests a New York Times Retraction (http://grdnt.is/1RRngxS)
• Story Four: President Obama Called Out For Lack of Media Transparency (http://grdnt.is/1pQUr82)
• Story Three: Judson Decodes the Culture: Oculus Rift (http://grdnt.is/1MH7MtZ)
• Story Two: Instagram Changes Its Photostream (http://grdnt.is/1PKeTfP)
• Story One: Hamilton Accused of Discrimination Against Whites (http://grdnt.is/1ooF7hV)

This week, Speaker of House Paul Ryan apologized for some previous views he held about the poor, some of VICE Media’s practices get called into question, new research proves that dogs are smarter than we thought and one of hip-hop’s true greats passed away. We also recap the horror in Belgium, and take a look at how global leaders responded.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Paul Ryan admits he was wrong. (http://grdnt.is/1T6LbIE)
• Story Four: Brussels recap. (http://grdnt.is/1Rx6SfF)
• Story Three: Dogs are smarter than we thought. (http://grdnt.is/1RDjDM2)
• Story Two: VICE’s ethics called into question. (http://grdnt.is/25oiKLh)
• Story One: Phife Dawg passes away. (http://grdnt.is/1q2duwr)

This week, President Barack Obama introduced his SCOTUS nominee to the Senate, Amazon announced a new selfie-centric payment method, Apple introduced a gamble to make mixtapes lucrative and the NFL finally admitted something literally everybody knows.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Apple launches a new way to make mixtapes lucrative. http://bit.ly/1UHnO8u
• Story Four: The NFL fesses up to their company’s link to concussions:http://bit.ly/1RpHZbM
• Story Three: A quick recap of all the election news of the week: http://bit.ly/1TUL0RI
• Story Two: Amazon announces a new way to pay with your face: http://bit.ly/1pRarqW 
• Story One: President Obama nominates Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court:http://bit.ly/1Vkxl64

This week, Hulk Hogan started the fight of his life against Gawker in the courtroom, NASCAR President Brian France took heat for endorsing Donald Trump, the legendary “fifth Beatle” passed away and Dos Equis began its search for the new Most Interesting Man in the World.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Hulk Hogan sues Gawker over the release of his sex tape. (http://nyti.ms/1UU6mxX)
• Story Four: George Martin passes away. (http://cnn.it/1QD1ryt)
• Story Three: Dos Equis on the hunt for a new Most Interesting Man in the World. (http://usat.ly/1nvWQ6y)
• Story Two: NASCAR endorses Donald Trump. (http://bit.ly/1RbcewZ)
• Story One: Sony to release Dr. Luke from his contract. (http://bit.ly/1QDZGB8)

This week, we take a look at a small hiccup in Google’s plan to rollout self-driving cars, a big hiccup in the GOP establishment’s plan to slow Donald Trump’s march towards the nomination and discuss how Chris Rock handled the Oscars.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Chris Rock hosts the Oscars (http://bit.ly/1VMkesv)
• Story Four: Google’s Car Crush (http://bit.ly/21L4JrM)
• Story Three: Tidal’s bumpy year (http://bit.ly/1TDp77K)
• Story Two: AT&T’s new plan for cable (http://usat.ly/1QtZpSu)
• Story One: Donald Trump’s march towards the nomination. (http://53eig.ht/1QNYXKA)

This week, we take a look at President Obama’s new push to close Guantanamo Bay, USA Today’s scathing report on Hollywood’s diversity problem, Amazon’s move into the fast fashion industry and Kesha’s denied injunction bid against Dr. Luke.

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Astronauts heard music (sort of) on the moon (sort of.) (http://bbc.in/1UmQHXy)
• Story Four: The looming Gitmo battle. (http://cnn.it/1QvRVKg)
• Story Three: No end in sight for Hollywood’s failing diversity issue, (http://usat.ly/1SXr8gw)
• Story Two: Amazon’s move into fast fashion. (http://cnnmon.ie/1QfgIXe)
• Story One: Kesha’s denied injunction bid against Dr. Luke. (http://bit.ly/1LdlZhx)

This week, we look at what the Grammys got right and wrong, Katie Holmes maybe sort of throws Scientology under the bus, Kanye keeps himself in the news and we get an expert to explain Apple’s potentially huge beef with the FBI

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Show Notes:

• Story Five: Deadpool breaks all the records (http://onforb.es/1orDyQE)
• Story Four: Katie Holmes kicks off a promising comeback: (http://bit.ly/1OiJ6lH)
• (http://theatln.tc/1NP7MUA)
• Story Three: Taylor Swift takes home the Grammy for Album of the Year (http://bit.ly/1Tolx2A)
• Story Two: Kanye West drops The Life of Pablo (http://on.thegrio.com/1KtggnJ)
• Story One: Apple CEO Tim Cook refuses to grant FBI requests (http://apple.co/1Lt7ReW)