We took a 23andMe test this week and discovered that not only are we related, but we’re more Cherokee than Elizabeth Warren! Together with documentary filmmakers Aaron Wolf and Michael Culyba, we shut down the worst news in what was a horrible week, including Facebook’s bizarre new political ads policy; the untimely death of a Republican pimp-turned-Nevada-State-Assembly-candidate; the New York Times real estate section burying the lede on Vag-china; Allbirds’ unicorn status; the haunted subways of New York; the shaming of 007’s papoose; and the emergence of Lindsey Buckingham from his sleeper cell. 

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In this week’s episode: 

Elizabeth Warren leans into a fist: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/16/elizabeth-warren-angers-prominent-native-americans-with-politically-fraught-dna-test/?utm_term=.39eb996cc4c8 

The obituary of Dennis Hof, a pimp turned Republican political candidate, who was discovered dead by Ron Jeremy after partying with Joe Arpaio and Grover Norquist: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/dennis-hof-dead-brothel-nevada.html 

If you’re in the market for a truffle-butter dish decorated with a vagina, have we got the Vag-china for you: https://oddtitties.us/ 

Big #YUPs to…

...Brian’s longtime friend Aaron Wolf, who directed the new documentary “Restoring Tomorrow,” about the resurrection of a historic synagogue in Los Angeles and his search for community. 

It’s in theaters on Nov. 13 and you can get tickets here: https://www.fathomevents.com/events/restoring-tomorrow 

...Rachel’s dear friend Michael Culyba, a film editor who is directing his first feature documentary, “Keeper of Time,” about the history of horology and the very nature of time itself. 

You can learn about the film and contribute to his Kickstarter campaign here: https://kck.st/2NgGxYJ 

Amid the worst week on record, and joined by journalist and digital native Kerry Flynn, we turned to fashion and technology for a shred of delight. But there was none. Designers were parading models in straitjackets down the runways of Paris, the iOS 12 update unleashed a flood of accidental animojis, and Apple’s sad attempt to portray the humble bagel was an epic fail. Also this week: a PhD candidate in France developed a robotic human finger that attaches to your iPhone, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman are re-branding short-form content as “Quibi," people are shredding their artwork and their money, and our greatest living actress, Drew Barrymore, was insulted by EgyptAir Magazine. 

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In this week’s episode: 

Check out all the straitjacket trend for Spring 2019: https://nypost.com/2018/10/03/why-are-designers-dressing-everyone-in-straitjackets/ 

New Yorkers fume over bagel represenation on iOS 12.1 http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/10/whats-going-on-with-apples-new-bagel-emoji.html

A French PhD student has discovered a way to give our smartphones the ability to interact with us more, via a robotic finger: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/5/17940708/mobilimb-robotic-finger-attachment-smartphone

Business titans Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg are rebranding short-form content using a word with way too many vowels to be cool (it’s Quibi): http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-newtv-20181010-story.html 

This Week in Shredding: 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/08/why-shredder-is-banksy-greatest-work

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-puts-envelope-with-more-than-1000-cash-in-the-shredder/

Learn more about tantric speed dating, where women put beads in men’s pouches: https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/tantra-speed-dating-event-new-york.html 

Here’s the background on EgyptAir Magazine’s bizarre profile of Drew Barrymore: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/drew-barry

This week, we took a break from liftin’ weights at Tobin’s with our pal Squi to dissect Lindsay Graham’s attempt to win a Tony Award (and perhaps a VP slot on the Trump 2020 ticket) in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We also shut down another insane Lindsay--La Lohan--getting punched in the face after posing as an Arab man; a vomiting cannibal snake in India; Scrabble’s perplexing new additions to its dictionary; the first-ever robot brothel in Houston; Silicon Valley moguls’ ill-conceived Kiwi escape plan; and finally there’s Brexfit, the Brexit-inspired workout craze sweeping the UK. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope BUZZSPROUT http://www.buzzsprout.com/208569 SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: Lindsey Graham throws a hissy fit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcffG57U_vw Lindsay Lohan gets punched in the face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxlP_OeWHZM In a metaphor for our times, a large snake in India swallowed an even larger snake and then vomited it out after being poked with a stick by a human: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6218053/Shocked-homeowner-films-snake-regurgitating-snake-finding-rice-drum-kitchen.html The Scrabble Dictionary is adding some very unusual new words, like “sheeple,” for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/arts/new-scrabble-words.html Houston officials are going bonkers after a Canadian company broke ground on America’s first-ever robot brothel: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/30/houston-robot-brothel-plan-halted Silicon Valley billionaires are planning on leaving us in the dust and high-tailing it to New Zealand when the rapture comes: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/ If you’ve ever wanted to work out using a punching bag bearing the likeness of Teresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, then BrexFit is for you! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brexfit-fitness-routine-brexit_us_5bae9735e4b0343b3dc0240a Big #YUP to… Pea Milk, which Brian used to make a delightful smoothie. Here’s the recipe: 8 oz pea milk 2 tbsp peanut butter 3 ice cubes 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Put all ingredients in a blender, mix and enjoy. You can learn more about pea milk here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/09/21/get-ready-for-pea-milk-it-doesnt-taste-like-peas-and-its-not-even-green/?utm_term=.f38974163634 The women in the elevator: Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher are American heroes. Learn more about them here: http://theweek.com/speedreads/798992/did-women-elevator-change-gop-sen-jeff-flakes-mind

Following the latest Kavanaugh revelations, we take a break from throwing up and realize we’ve been inadvertently embracing the Ikigai lifestyle. We also explore the drug habits of marine life; a shameful Bavarian all-you-can-eat sushi joint; a Halloween coffin competition in St. Louis; a spider sex party in Greece, and ultimately we lament the lost art of goat herding. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope BUZZSPROUT http://www.buzzsprout.com/208569 SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: If you haven’t read Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer’s latest Kavanaugh bombshell, here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez Learn about all the hot new lifestyle trends on the life menu: https://bookriot.com/2018/02/23/ikigai-lagom-and-other-cozy-concepts/ Octopuses are taking ecstasy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/science/octopus-ecstasy-mdma.html And lobsters are smoking weed: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/23/maine-investigates-restaurant-lobsters-marijuana A Bavarian all-you-can-eat sushi joint meets its match, in the form of a triathlete who consumes 100 plates: https://nypost.com/2018/09/17/triathlete-banned-from-all-you-can-eat-sushi-joint-for-eating-too-much/ If you like small spaces and being in the dark, Six Flags St. Louis has got a challenge for you: https://www.wfla.com/news/viral-news/six-flags-is-giving-prizes-to-people-who-dare-stay-in-a-coffin-for-30-hours-straight/1468877713 The spiders in Greece had an orgy and destroyed the beach: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/20/spiderweb-aetoliko-greece-blankets-beach-tetragnatha-spiders/1368944002/ Someone decided it was a good idea to airlift violent mountain goats to keep them from eating human urine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/15/mountain-goats-are-flying-out-national-park-its-long-story/?utm_term=.d51440f88e24 Big #YUP to… Eliud Kipchoge, who smashed the Berlin marathon world record, finishing the race in 2 hours 1 minute and 39 seconds: https://www.runnersworld.com/gear/a23281796/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-world-record-gear/ Brian’s favorite condiment, ranch dressing, which is finally getting its due: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/dining/one-nation-under-ranch.html

Everything is terrible! Not even glamorous red carpet photos could distract us in a week where the glorious Angela Basset was mistaken at the Emmys for...Omarosa. In this episode, the cousins recount their harrowing visit to a drug store hall of mirrors pop-up; GOP Senators prepare to use female staffers as human shields; Hurricane Florence brings wetness and flying killer snakes to the Carolinas; a spider haunts an anonymous woman in Ipswich; Instagram influencers shriek about a restaurant; Stormy Daniels uncovers evidence that Donald Trump is related to the abominable snowman; and, finally, we discover the world’s first perpetual-motion machine, the wankband. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope BUZZSPROUT http://www.buzzsprout.com/208569 SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: The New York Times issues a correction after mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa in a photo from the Emmys: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/pageoneplus/corrections-wednesday-september-19-2018.html Rachel and Brian find themselves inside a strange, ephemeral hall-of-mirrors retail experience: https://tribecacitizen.com/2018/09/13/dirty-lemons-drug-store-has-opened/ GOP Senators propose using female staffers to question Kavanaugh’s accuser, Dr. Christine Ford: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-senators-male-brett-kavanaugh-hearing_us_5ba16080e4b013b0977fe14a Donald Trump Tweets a video in which he attempts to view Hurricane Florence from the perspective of water: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1042197168533241856 If the storm wasn’t bad enough, Carolinians might be in for a Snakenado: https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/killer-snakes-could-turn-loose-after-florence-slams-carolinas/ Hear about an anonymous woman in Ipswich who was haunted by a spider: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-45496670 People from Instagram discover a 62-year-old restaurant, claim credit for its existence: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/nyregion/forlinis-instagram.html Stormy Daniels describes Donald Trump’s penis in her forthcoming memoir: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/stormy-daniels-book/index.html Pre-order “Full Disclosure” by Stormy Daniels here: https://www.amazon.com/Full-Disclosure-Stormy-Daniels/dp/1250205565 Learn more about the wankband here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzjeAaLbM5k Big #YUP to… The new musical “Be More Chill,” coming to Broadway in February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyxEQq5R_do Judy Cochran, a great-grandmother in Texas who carried out a vendetta against an alligator who previously ate her miniature horse: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Livingston-Texas-mayor-grandmother-alligator-13239084.php

It’s primary day in New York and we are gagging over politicians’ peculiar food combination choices. Also in this episode: Barnes & Noble’s ill-fated foray into the charcuterie business, fishing in a Chelsea restaurant, a PTSD-inducing mall in Bangkok, deranged Minions at New York Fashion Week, an invitation to support wolf therapy, a feline railway executive, Gwen Stefani’s responsibility for the current White House occupant…and, last but not least, how to have a dream vacation just like Thelma & Louise did. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope BUZZSPROUT http://www.buzzsprout.com/208569 SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: Listen as Sen. Orrin Hatch grills Brett Kavanaugh about his fondness for spaghetti with ketchup: https://twitter.com/KMOV/status/1036997970061869056 Witness Cynthia Nixon’s controversial bagel order at Zabar’s: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/11/lox-her-up-controversy-swirls-after-cynthia-nixon-puts-fish-on-cinnamon-raisin-bagel/?utm_term=.206d19dc305d Booksellers should not get into the restaurant business. Here’s why: https://www.eater.com/2018/9/7/17831478/barnes-noble-kitchen-restaurants-failure Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime, unless he’s fishing in this Chelsea restaurant: https://ny.eater.com/2017/6/12/15785578/zauo-chelsea-fish-for-dinner In one of the worst ideas of all time, a Bangkok mall opens a display of a replica of the Thai cave that entrapped a young soccer team: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/01/thai-cave-rescue-bangkok-mall-opens-exhibition-plastic-cave See Jeremy Scott’s pants-boot combination (aka Poonts) unveiled on the runways of New York Fashion Week: http://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-jeremy-scott-nyfw-20180907-story.html Check out Wolf Connection, a non-profit that pairs at-risk children with wolves, because what could possibly go wrong? https://wolfconnection.org/ Read the Wikipedia page for Tama, the Japanese cat who rose through the ranks to become a renowned transportation executive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat) The person responsible for Donald Trump’s election is...Gwen Stefani? https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/09/06/michael-moore-claims-trump-ran-president-because-gwen-stefani/1210403002/ Heed the advice of Sydney Morning Herald columnist Kerri Sackville and have the vacation of a lifetime with your best friend, just like Thelma and Louise: https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/how-to-go-on-holiday-with-your-best-friend-20180906-p50254.html Big #YUP to… India, for legalizing gay sex: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/world/asia/india-gay-sex-377.html U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/09/naomi-osaka-serena-williams-us-open-ellen-told-her-video-tennis

We find ourselves trapped inside a zoo without walls, caught between a seal, a rat and a smoked watermelon ham. This week, the ‘90s have been reasserting themselves in some unsettling ways, with the sudden return to the cultural spotlight of Geoffrey Owens (aka Alvin from “The Cosby Show”), one-hit-wonder Vanilla Ice, and the Lord of the Dance himself, Michael Flatley. Also: universities explore the canon of e-sports and force students and teachers to cohabitate in a perverse new incarnation of AirBnb. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: The elephant in the room is Bob Woodward’s book, “Fear: Trump In the White House.” You can (and should) pre-order it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501175513/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 Read David Remnick’s letter explaining why he had a change of heart about inviting human boil Steve Bannon to headline the New Yorker Festival: https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1036746441715277825 Get in on New York City’s most “viral” food--the smoked watermelon ham--here: https://ny.eater.com/2018/9/5/17823836/ducks-eatery-smoked-watermelon-viral Stop, collaborate and listen to Vanilla Ice stranded on the tarmac at JFK amid some kind of terrifying outbreak: https://twitter.com/vanillaice/status/1037395392315449344 See the Tweet from Tyler Perry offering Geoffrey Owens a job on a show on Oprah’s network (which he refused): https://twitter.com/tylerperry/status/1036944072836034560 Learn more about Michael Flatley’s self-financed spy thriller: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/06/michael-flatley-blackbird-film-self-financed-spy-thriller-what-you-need-to-know The University of Akron is phasing out 80 degree programs to focus on...the academic field of e-sports: https://www.chronicle.com/article/U-of-Akron-Will-Phase-Out-80/244293 Elsewhere in academia, UC Santa Cruz is encouraging students and teachers to shack up in some unholy AirBnB arrangement: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/9/4/17819898/ucsc-housing-faculty-crisis-santa-cruz-students-roommates Big #YUP to… “Crazy Rich Asians,” the hottest movie of the summer, for continuing its box office domination! Get tickets here: https://www.fandango.com/crazy-rich-asians-211315/movie-overview And read Rachel’s short NY Times profile of one of the film’s stars, Awkwafina, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/style/awkwafina-oceans-8-crazy-rich-asians.html The shrike, a tiny songbird which vigorously defends itself in the face of significantly larger predators using a newly discovered beak-and-jaw motion: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/this-tiny-songbird-rolls-its-head-to-break-its-victims-neck/569341/

It’s 103 degrees in New York City and we’re mourning the loss of two cultural icons: John McCain and Aretha Franklin. We shut down Russia’s new Khalashnikov chicken robot, InfoWars’ theory about John Kerry’s Antarctic laser beam, a new Hollywood con queen, Oreo’s new disgusting flavor combinations, Dunkin’ Donuts rebranding and Procter & Gamble’s trademark overreach. Also: a Maryland woman’s quest to sequence the dog poop genome. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: Read “An Ode To One of the Worst GOP Candidates In Recent Memory,” about Kelli Ward, the GOP Senate candidate who accused John McCain’s family of sabotaging her campaign by announcing that he was ending his treatment for brain cancer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/29/an-ode-one-worst-gop-candidates-recent-memory/?utm_term=.c978eaeeb4d5 Learn more about Aretha Franklin’s 3 outfit changes: https://pagesix.com/2018/08/29/outfit-change-for-aretha-franklin-on-second-day-of-public-viewing/ The New York Times had an interesting report on the latest technological innovations from the Russian firearms manufacturer Khalashikov: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/world/europe/kalashnikov-car-robot-tesla.html InfoWars has a word-salad theory about John Kerry’s involvement in splitting a hurricane in two by laser beam: https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/24/infowars-host-hurricane-threatening-hawaii-has-been-split-two-energy-beam-shot-antarctica-possibly/221094 Get up to date on the FBI’s investigation of the Hollywood Con Queen: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-con-queen-fbi-opens-investigation-1137720 Here’s the recipe for Donut Prune Salad - don’t forget the mayo! http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4310/3032/1600/donut1003.2.jpg Read about Jeanne Fisher and her quest to solve her condo’s dog poop mystery using DNA kits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/condo-spends-2500-on-dna-kits-to-solve-dog-poop-mysteries/2018/08/23/d8cee31e-a715-11e8-ad6f-080770dcddc2_story.html?utm_term=.fdd5d54cdd77 Big #YUP to… “Succession” on HBO - watch it here: https://www.hbo.com/succession Aretha Franklin and George Michael’s 1986 duet, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).” Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBCWLhlJV0Y

This week, we find ourselves tethered to the blockchain in the struggle for truth and justice. Joined by multi-hyphenate guest Walt Mossberg, we shut down wild animal crackers, the Cohen-Manafort-Duncan guilty grifter trifecta, goats on the lam, mullets in Tribeca and ultimately come to grips with the overwhelming odds that we are living in a virtual reality simulation. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: We are living in a circus, but at least the animal crackers have been liberated: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/business/animal-crackers-barnums-nabisco-mondelez.html Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has a side hustle as a Birkin bag broker: https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/08/michael-cohen-income-birkin-bag-guilty-plea-trump.html Learn more about Paul Manafort’s taste for luxury: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/08/maximilian-katzman-paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket-in-flagrante Highlights from Rep. Duncan Hunter’s 47-page criminal indictment: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/duncan-hunter-indicted/index.html Jon Stewart is an urban goat herder: https://people.com/pets/jon-stewart-rescues-goats-subway-tracks-nyc/ The hottest new book is about Goat Yoga: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Goat-Yoga-Practice-ebook/dp/B07B8DFWMK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534996362&sr=1-1&keywords=the+little+book+of+goat+yoga Check out this video, in which Elon Musk, on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, declares that we are probably living in a virtual reality simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8&feature=youtu.be Big #YUP to… Walt Mossberg and the News Literacy Project, a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to distinguish fact from fiction in the Internet age. Walt’s on the board and we really can’t think of a better cause to support right now. Donate here: https://newslit.org/donate/

It’s a dry ice world and we’re just living in it. This week we address horrors such as dragon breath, cocaine nuns, Gumball 3000 confusion, the Asian nations of Nipple and Button, armpit advertising, pork-skinned billionaires and White House sorceress, Omarosa. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode... A good backgrounder about the Grimes-Musk-Banks hostage saga: https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/azealia-bankss-feud-elon-musk-grimes-explained.html Check out Michael Cohen providing exculpatory Tweet evidence that Donald Trump is a paper eater: https://people.com/politics/michael-cohen-denies-omarosa-claim-trump-ate-paper-oval-office/ Learn about armpit ads here: https://www.adweek.com/creativity/this-japanese-company-believes-that-renting-space-on-armpits-is-the-next-great-ad-frontier/ People are eating liquid nitrogen and things are getting ugly: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/2018/08/14/anderson-man-claims-intense-pain-trying-haywood-malls-dragon-breath/985594002/ If you are interested in digging into the Gumball 3000 mystery, here’s some information: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6024053/Gumball-3000-Rally-2018-need-know-20th-anniversary-race-London-Tokyo.html The tragic story of a Missouri nun who traveled to Sydney to smuggle cocaine for a man she met on the Internet: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/15/missouri-woman-busted-at-sydney-airport-for-smuggling-cocaine-inside-high-heels-officials-say.html Avoid eating salads at McDonald’s: https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/mcdonalds-salad-parasite-400-sickened-in-15-states Hear more about the lunch ladies who ran a $500K cafeteria heist: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638486873/lunch-lady-larceny-cafeteria-workers-allegedly-stole-half-a-million-dollars Big #YUP to… Stephen Miller’s uncle David Glosser: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351 Bob Goodlatte’s son, Bobby Goodlatte: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/politics/bobby-goodlatte-jennifer-lewis/index.html Tootsie the Musical - get your tickets now: https://tootsiemusical.com/