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Ep 205: Allison recs Tiger King, Vulture's 50 Best Horror Movies On Netflix list, The Uncoupling, Bon Appetite vids, and rants about West World S3, while Erek recs marble racing and plugs his new pod (@BassedPod)

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In bad news: Covid tears through NYC but Trump says "I don't believe you need 40,000 ventilators" and instructs Pence not to call governors who aren't "appreciative" of the White House, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren, and please don't embrace ecofascism

In good news: Christian Siriano's team creates almost 1,000 masks, London claps for the NHS, FDA okays historic blood treatment for Covid, and researchers have found a way to sterilize and reuse face masks

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Ep 204: Sorry about the sound quality on this one! Accidentally recorded on an internal mic. Our bad. Still adjusting to life in quarantine! 😷

Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show via Skype to discuss life in quarantine and to plug his new show Bass'd On A True Story: @bassedpod and to rec Reply All, watching chess, and How To Do Nothing, while Allison reads Patreon recs for Ear Hustle and Everything Is Alive and recs Ugly Delicious S2, The Weeknd's After Hours, Pandemic on Netflix, and The Tiger King

In bad news: Oh God, Corona came for Idris Elba, Joe Biden couldn't stop lying during his debate with Bernie (also, where is Joe??), and all the insider trading during the pandemic

In good news: Tulsi is out, no new cases of Coronavirus reported in Wuhan in 24 hours, and communities are coming together to show mutual support

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Ep 203: Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show via Skype for a special quarantine episode! Allison reads questions about the election and glass pens and recs Devs and The Invisible Man and discusses the finale of The Stranger and The Outsider, while Erek recs Dirty Money s2

In bad news: Coronavirus updates, Elizabeth Warren and America's misogyny problem, and Joe Biden surges

In good news: Harvey Weinstein sentences to 23 years in prison and the State Department wants to list a white supremacist group as a foreign terrorist organization for the first time in U.S. history

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Ep 202: Allison recs Good Time, You Were Never Really Here, Ma, Widows, The Stranger, and Next In Fashion

In bad news: Trump calls coronavirus a "hoax," all coronavirus messaging now needs to be run by Mike "HIV outbreak" Pence, and the HHS secretary isn't sure a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable, Chris Matthews is still employed by MSNBC despite sexual harassment accusations, and SCOTUS says the family of a Mexican teen can't sue a border patrol agent who fatally shot him

In good news: Bad Bunny used his Fallon performance to spotlight the murder of a Puerto Rican trans woman, Harvey Weinstein's guilty verdict may help to end the myth of the perfect victim, and the U.S. announces it will withdraw from Afghanistan after signing a peace deal with the Taliban

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Ep 201: Allison and Erek (@erek_smith) react to Parasite sweeping the Oscars, anti-rec the Friends reunion (before it's even out!) and Erek recs: Guided By Voices and The Figgs and Allison recs Birds Of Prey and Locke and Key

In bad news: Chris Matthews boomers all over the place in response to Bernie's surge, the shady Culinary Union response to Medicare For All, and Trump's new acting director of national intelligence is allegedly the source for that Russia-supporting-Bernie story

In good news: Bernie wins Nevada, Warren destroys Bloomberg in the Nevada debate, and Roger Stone gets 40 months in prison

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Ep 200: 200th episode spectacular!! 🎉 Allison and Erek (@erek_smith) give their Oscar predictions and Erek fields a phone call from a very special guest 😈

In bad news: Iowa caucus clusterfuck, Senate acquits Trump and he gives a batshit SOTU address, there may be no such thing as a swing voter, and Bloomberg is paying "influencers" to make him seem cool

In good news: AOC's appearance on Desus and Mero and a lady named Sara Gideon is running against Susan fucking Collins

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Ep 199: Allison recs The Outsider and Newcomers and Erek recs rewatching Groundhog Day, American Factory, and The Office Ladies

In bad news: The impeachment trial and Marco Rubio's confusing statement, Alan Dershowitz's shady legal reasoning behind acquitting Trump, Dems apparently forgot John Bolton is a monster, and unpacking Kobe Bryant's complicated legacy

In good news: Bernie Sanders is leading in Iowa and the much-deserved backlash to American Dirt

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Ep 198: Allison recs The Great Hack, Cheer, and The Outsider, and Erek (@erek_smith) recs Knives Out and the Montblanc 149, and Allison reads a Twitter question about Watchmen and The Boys

In bad news: The feud with Warren and Sanders, Trump calls his Generals "a bunch of dopes and babies," and Jared Kushner is Slenderman

In good news: Lev Parnas goes on record that Mike Pence canceled his Ukraine visit in a Quid Pro Quo, Karlie Kloss is voting Democrats and hates her in-laws, and "The rapist is you" protestors chant outside Weinstein trial

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Ep 197: Patreon recs! Also, Allison recs The Circle and Erek (@erek_smith) recs The Sopranos

In bad news: Iran strikes Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops (with no casualties), Iran claims to have unintentionally shot down Ukrainian jet, GOP furious at disastrous Iran briefing, the Trump admin dodges questions about justification, BAFTA will review voting process after outrage over all-white 2020 acting noms, and Bloomberg has spent $200 million and isn't on track to score a single delegate

In good news: We did it! We finally destroyed the royal family! #Megxit, RBG is cancer-free, and Viva Chepe!

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Ep 196: Allison anti-recs Cats insanity, semi-recs: Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, and recs: Little Women, 1917, Slave Play, and John Mulaney's Sack Lunch Bunch

In bad news: WW3! Trump told his rich Mar-a-Lago buddies about the plans for Soleimani's assassination before Congress and admitted to plans for targeting cultural landmarks AKA a war crime. Also, Australia is on fire and another anti-Semitic attack in NY

In good news: Some sane members of Congress are standing up to block funds for war against Iran, racist Don Imus is dead, #PopeSlap, and Greta Thunberg continues to be awesome

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