Hog Planet

For a supplement to the episode check this out:

https://medium.com/@sam_louis/fc4124f15dac

We’re becoming “film Twitter” guys from now through at least the next 3ish episodes. Here to ease us into the world of cinema criticism is the unparalleled Darian Lusk (@eatpraylusk). We take you back to the yesteryear of 2019 and the world of A24 films with two of its top horror flicks, Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse. We’re unpacking the gay and queer elements in these films, their auteurist “film Twitter guy” appeal, and making the case for these cinema geek movies as the Covid-19 economy squeezes theaters, allowing garbage like Dolittle (2020) to lead the box office yield for this already apocalyptic year. The first in a number of film-focused episodes, this one is a great way to get through an hour and a half of your quarantine. At the very least, you won’t want to miss Darian’s list of the top 5 gay and queer icons of Midsommar.

Show Notes:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2020/

Rachey joins us to dive into the weird world of the Goop Lab, Netflix’s new show about Gwyneth Paltrow’s snake oil female empowerment lifestyle brand. In what amounts to a collection of scenes resembling pandering QVC sales pitches, awkward HR seminars, and devoted anti-vaxxer retreats, the show forces upon us a flagrant dose of native advertising for bizarre scammers such as psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson and orgasm coach Betty Dodson. If you discuss auras or energies in the workplace, think you may have undiagnosed chronic lyme disease, or sincerely believe you have a gluten “sensitivity,” this show is for you. If not, listen to this episode instead - we fill in the blanks in this bizarre world where half-truths, vague correlation, and endless gullibility are currency.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/business/goop-vaginal-egg-settlement.html

https://undark.org/2020/01/13/goop-paltrow-netflix-series-science/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2017.1332152?af=R&journalCode=hjsr20

Dan does the unthinkable and records a live to tape commentary track of the entire 4+ hour Hilary Clinton documentary series on Hulu from start to finish. Listen with or without the documentary on in the background, but if you want to follow along here is where each commentary starts:

Episode 1 - 4:26 / Episode 2 - 1:10:01 / Episode 3 - 2:15:10 / Episode 4 - 3:18:19

For a supplement to our discussion this episode, check out this piece:

https://medium.com/@sam_louis/covid-19-should-be-the-end-of-the-end-of-history-c4fb748ab3d9

Greetings from the lonely world of the socially distance! On this episode, we have a special guest applying her healthcare expertise to help us understand COVID-19, what you should be doing, how the US healthcare system is woefully unprepared for what’s to come, and how you can support healthcare workers at this time. Live from the Hog Planet...Please DON’T ask us to watch Babe: Pig in the City unless it’s COMPLETELY necessary.

Notes:

Irish people DO make up 10% of the US!

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_5YR_DP03&prodType=table

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-doctor-moved-into-garage-protect-newborn-family-president-barack-obama-praises-health-care-workers/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/europe/italy-death-toll-intl/index.html

https://www.itnonline.com/content/ct-provides-best-diagnosis-novel-coronavirus-covid-19

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/819511621/coronavirus-deaths-spike-abroad-as-new-york-city-becomes-u-s-virus-epicenter

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/Coronavirus-brooklyn-hasidic-jews.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/cpac-coronavirus-attendees-124808

https://wtop.com/dc/2020/03/georgetown-rector-infected-with-coronavirus-says-he-feels-wiped-out-but-better/

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-third-aipac-conference-attendee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-1.8638068

https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publications/2020/03/us-employers-should-pay-close-attention-to-new-legislation-requiring-paid-leave-related-to-the-covid-19-pandemic

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/coronavirus-kevin-durant-marcus-smart-rudy-gobert-among-nba-players-who-have-been-infected-with-covid-19/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-the-nba-push-through-58-coronavirus-tests-for-the-utah-jazz-when-almost-no-one-else-can-get-them

https://twitter.com/HighForShirai/status/1239771217835560960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcucjd67HDc

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/488780-sanders-raises-over-2-million-for-coronavirus-relief-effort

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/12/nurses-hospitals-understaffed-risks-burnout

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/blahous-costs-medicare-mercatus-working-paper-v1_1.pdf

https://splinternews.com/we-will-win-health-justice-in-america-1837003733

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/06/16/once-again-u-s-has-most-expensive-least-effective-health-care-system-in-survey/

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more-for-health-care-with-worse-population-health-outcomes/

https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-all-would-save-450-billion-annually-while-preventing-68000-deaths-new-study-shows-1487862

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/koch-donors-george-mason.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/photo-trump-remarks-shows-corona-crossed-out-replaced-chinese-virus-n1164111

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-Asian-American-groups-compile-hate-15144295.php

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-model-us-outbreak.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/19/change-us-law-will-make-millions-more-masks-available-doctors-nurses-white-house-says/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51976484

https://www.trialsitenews.com/wuhan-institute-of-virology-china-sought-to-patent-gileads-remdesivir/

https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/20200319b.shtml

https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-testing

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/02/the-oas-has-to-answer-for-its-role-in-the-bolivian-coup

As we near the end of the Democratic Primary, it has become a two-man race (will all due respect to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard). As these two old heads duke it out, it’s evident that former Vice President Joe Biden is not up to the task and would get completely laid out in a head-to-head with President Donald J. Trump. We go through Biden’s faults in policy, personal conduct, and precipitous mental decline, with as many facts as clips showing that his grasp on the art of communication is slipping at an alarming rate. Just because Corn Pop gave Biden a chance doesn’t mean we have to. If you feel the way we do, check out https://berniesanders.com/volunteer/ to join the opposition to a second Trump term.

Sources

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/next-democratic-debate-biden-sanders.html?auth=login-facebook

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/democrats-you-really-do-not-want-to-nominate-joe-biden/

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1124438095225655296

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration

https://youtu.be/wuenGIA3YwI

https://www.c-span.org/video/?8997-1/democratic-response-drug-policy-address

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00001669&cycle=CAREER

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-joe-biden-hasnt-owned-up-to-about-anita-hill

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-says-he-s-open-republican-running-mate-n1108931

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/22/18713603/joe-biden-hyde-amendment

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-in-74-women-dont-have-sole-right-to-say-what-should-happen-to-their-bodies_n_5c78409ae4b0de0c3fbf2b70

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/opinion/a-quiet-attack-on-women.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-biden-opens-speech-joke-hugging-62198386

https://blackagendareport.com/fear-pervades-black-politics-and-makes-us-agents-our-own-oppression

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/biden-south-africa-arrest-118134

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-is-a-healthy-vigorous-77-year-old-male-his-doctor-declared/2019/12/17/c9d3b3e8-20f5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihV9yrZRHg&t=34s

https://twitter.com/goodatsexguy/status/1236373055129014272?s=21

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1182476097033781248?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlz0UEyncc&feature=youtu.be

https://twitter.com/BetaODork/status/1236400299725795331?s=20

https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1234579299652554753?s=20

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1235043566759501824?s=20

https://twitter.com/betaodork/status/1236306521023221760?s=21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGymiFlyl0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwVrg6UtxXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwVrg6UtxXQ

https://twitter.com/whatapityonyou/status/1236438345409916928?s=21

https://twitter.com/jackallisonlol/status/1236400488934862848?s=21

https://twitter.com/betaodork/status/1236306521023221760?s=21)

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-arizona-debate-123467

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/16/joe-biden-campaign-narendra-modi/

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1236092311328690176?s=20

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1236170800060919808?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=cRac2XSFYnk&feature=emb_logo

https://twitter.com/thedailyangle/status/1235760412735541248?s=20

https://twitter.com/hilaryr/status/1235987417586335744?s=20

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Unless they’re one Senator Elizabeth Warren. Folks, we usually #trustwomen on Hog Planet, but in this 2-part episode, we’re going to catalog the bizarre lies, half-truths, and exaggerations that the Senator from Massachusetts has told in her legal, academic, and political career. It’s a long and suspenseful journey from her upbringing in Norman, Oklahoma to her present day shenanigans and ongoing attempts to kneecap Bernie Sanders, her former ally and fellow primary contender. We’ll find out which TV Western hunk inspired her to leave her humble prairie home and find out just how little your household needs to pull in annually to qualify for her means-tested Medicare for “all” program. Plagiarizing so-called Native American recipes? She’s got a plan for that. Strap in and see just how weird Warren can get.

Sources

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/12/23/elizabeth-warren-brothers-are-silent-fixture-her-campaign/eRgfvczXA9FLxnjJsQ5AXM/story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/2012/08/when-is-elopement-not-elopement.html

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/8/20904777/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-discrimination-washington-free-beacon

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people7/Warren/warren-con1.html

https://www.scribd.com/document/429152169/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-Involving-Elizabeth-Warren-1970-1971

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146628/Elizabeth-Warrens-Pow-Wow-Chow-Cherokee-recipes-word-word-COPIES-famous-FRENCH-chefs-techniques.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/29/elizabeth-warren-was-listed-minority-professor-law-directories-and/yBZTdrH3Qt8xRu6KZkLDlO/story.html

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claiming-native-american-heritage-actually-help-elizabeth-warren-get-ahead-but-complicated/wUZZcrKKEOUv5Spnb7IO0K/story.html

https://www.wbur.org/edify/2019/10/31/harvard-law-elizabeth-warren-professor

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1967901

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/5/22/warren-tenure/

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/elizabeth-warren-dna-video-native-american-harvard/

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261/so-what-exactly-is-blood-quantum

https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/fordham-piece-called-warren-harvard-laws-first-woman-of-color-123526

https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/05/21/warren-biden-bankruptcy-bill-democrats

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/29/elizabeth-warren-was-listed-minority-professor-law-directories-and/yBZTdrH3Qt8xRu6KZkLDlO/story.html

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/harvard-welcomes-first-tenured-professor-in-native-american-history/

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-public-option

https://fair.org/home/cnns-sanders-hit-piece-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test/

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21066436/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-woman-white-house-electability

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479769-warren-lays-out-path-to-victory-in-2020

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/elizabeth-warren-campaign-nevada-111595

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/18/frederick-douglass-photos-smashed-stereotypes-could-elizabeth-warren-selfies-do-same/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-dog-bailey-campaigns-iowa-caucus-impeachment-trial/

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484731-over-200-native-americans-sign-letter-urging-warren-to-retract-ancestry

https://americanindependent.com/elizabeth-warren-native-american-ancestry-retraction-cherokee-nation-tribal-citizenship/

https://twitter.com/rebeccanagle/status/1232710703452237825

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/elizabeth-warren-super-pac-2020-campaign

Part 2 of this episode coming soon...

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Unless they’re one Senator Elizabeth Warren. Folks, we usually #trustwomen on Hog Planet, but in this 2-part episode, we’re going to catalog the bizarre lies, half-truths, and exaggerations that the Senator from Massachusetts has told in her legal, academic, and political career. It’s a long and suspenseful journey from her upbringing in Norman, Oklahoma to her present day shenanigans and ongoing attempts to kneecap Bernie Sanders, her former ally and fellow primary contender. We’ll find out which TV Western hunk inspired her to leave her humble prairie home and find out just how little your household needs to pull in annually to qualify for her means-tested Medicare for “all” program. Plagiarizing so-called Native American recipes? She’s got a plan for that. Strap in and see just how weird Warren can get.

For a supplement to our discussion this episode, check out this piece:

https://medium.com/@sam_louis/we-are-the-hogs-watching-cats-47df93bfbf58

Hogheads, for you we have prepared an episode with about as loose a structure as its subject, the Cats movie. We all forced ourselves through two hours of “digital fur technology,” cat bulges, and the stomach-churning James Corden to bring you tales from the sparsely-attended theaters where this film burned itself into our corneas. We discuss how the film made us feel like hogs, why it explains anti-American terrorism, and the unparalleled speed of its jump from theatrical release to ironic cult classic. We answer the hard questions, like what is the best way to dissociate mid-viewing? Which actors deserved to be stuck playing cats (looking at you, Rebel Wilson) in Cats? And is it worse than Loqueesha? (trick question - both should be erased from history) Tune in and keep it Jellicle.

Sources

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/people-are-seeing-cats-while-high-out-of-their-minds-these-are-their-stories/2020/01/05/d0ebfb3a-2beb-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/cats-movie-cult-classic-toronto-revue/https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/cats-movie-cult-classic-toronto-revue/

https://drafthouse.com/show/cats-rowdy-screening

https://screenrant.com/cats-movie-dog-friendly-screenings/

https://decider.com/2020/01/10/midsommar-amazon-prime-cats-murder-cult/

Apparently the furries did NOT like Cats

https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/how-do-furries-feel-about-the-new-cats-movie.html

For a supplement to our discussion this episode, check out this piece:

https://medium.com/@samwagstaff/eddie-gallagher-a-hog-in-the-war-machine-400715f0411c

As the United States military and our gormless commander-in-chief continue to ratchet up tensions with Iran, the time has come to examine the case of former Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher, an emblematic case of the right wing’s contemporary valorization of bloodlust. In this episode, we follow the case, beginning with Gallagher’s crimes as platoon leader of SEAL Team 7 in Mosul, Iraq, to his arrest, trial and eventual acquittal, all the way through President Trump’s intervention to allow Gallagher to keep his SEAL trident, and his inevitable rebrand as a conservative influencer in retirement. Our aim is to show how Trump’s novel approach is to embrace, rather than denounce Gallagher’s crimes, evidenced by his publicization of his relationship with Gallagher and decision to bring the retired Chief on the campaign trail with him this election season.

Sources:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/02/02/war-crimes-prosecution-against-navy-seals-takes-a-double-hit/?fbclid=IwAR2FmprhLqBMKNqRUJmUTT0tQLP_86BjxLF3E33aCAQu1xxkKCnHp0lUj_k

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/the-crimes-of-seal-team-6/

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/05/donald-trump-eddie-gallagher-navy-seals/

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-hunter-rules-engagement20190219-story.html

https://teamneverquit.com/podcast/eddie-gallagher-highly-decorated-seal-chief-of-8-combat-deployments-battling-charges-of-war-crimes-against-isis-freeeddie/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/navy-seals-crimes-of-war.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/podcasts/the-daily/navy-seal-edward-gallagher-trial.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/us/Edward-Gallagher-acquitted.html?smid=pc-thedaily

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/us/trump-seals-eddie-gallagher.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/15/donald-trump-pardons-clint-lorance-mathew-golsteyn-war-crime-cases/1229083001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/06/donald-trump-michael-behenna-pardoned-ali-mansur-mohamed-killing/3656410002/

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1197507542726909952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1197507542726909952&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F11%2F21%2Fus%2Ftrump-seals-eddie-gallagher.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/783069692/questions-remain-over-what-will-happen-to-3-navy-seals-implicated-in-war-crimes-

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-video.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-trump.html

https://www.salon.com/2020/01/02/eddie-gallagher-isnt-a-lifestyle-brand-story-its-a-story-about-the-rights-violent-nihilism/

https://www.instagram.com/eddie_and_andrea/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/redcon1/

https://www.instagram.com/blackriflecoffee/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/projectwarpath/

https://www.instagram.com/ninelineapparel/

https://wekbd.com/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/trump-wants-to-take-war-criminal-buddies-on-campaign-trail-eddie-gallagher