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We’re back on our regular schedule with a special guest, WIRED Senior Writer, Lauren Goode. We all endured a horrible week in which YouPorn finally decided to ban lunatic Alex Jones, and Lauren spun around on a 3D scanner like a cat on a Roomba. We also shut down the Green Party candidate from outer space, voting on the blockchain, Magic Leap, luxury chicken diapers and the Oscars’ desperate attempt to boost ratings. 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 Lauren Goode’s review of Naked Labs’ 3D body scanner in WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/naked-labs-3d-body-scanner/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare Check out this thoughtful op-ed by David French detailing a legitimate rationale as to why Alex Jones should be banned: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/alex-jones-infowars-facebook.html We are living amidst the Summer of Grifting, and no beverage has been spared. Here’s the story of the Las Vegas coffee grifter: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5d4g/mysterious-coffee-grifter-has-sent-the-same-weird-handwritten-letter-to-hundreds-of-roasters Check out Green Party space alien Joe Manchik’s bio here: https://www.facebook.com/manchikengineering/about?lst=570510487%3A701693075%3A1533779673§ion=bio Here’s where Democracy dies, on the blockchain, with a tiny startup called Voatz: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/smartphone-voting-is-coming-just-in-time-for-midterms-voatz Lern more about Magic Leap, the startup that raised $2.3 billion and then released a product that was...meh. https://www.wired.com/story/magic-leap-one-creator-augmented-reality-inside-story/ Need diapers for your pet chicken? Look no further: https://theoutline.com/post/5608/bury-me-in-chicken-diapers?zd=1&zi=sygi2a2k Here’s why #OscarsSoNope https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636743517/changes-are-coming-to-the-oscars-heres-what-we-know Big #YUP to… Lauren and her cat Nougat, who is the proud owner of a $139 item called Modkat, described as “the iPhone of litter boxes” on the ultimate episode of the “Too Embarassed to Ask” podcast. Check it out here: https://www.recode.net/2018/8/3/17646320/lauren-goode-kara-swisher-final-episode-too-embarrassed-to-ask-podcast-finale And you can subscribe to Lauren’s current podcast, Gadget Lab, here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gadget-lab/id266391367?mt=2 “The Song of Achilles,” which Brian says is a cross between “Call Me By Your Name” and “Love, Simon” but set in Ancient Greece and with more violence: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006IE2IO8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Australian and Kiwi firefighters who flew all around the world to help put out the California wildfires: https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article216206915.html

Our ambitious summer schedule went haywire, so we’re attempting to harness technology and record remotely, capping off a horrible week that brought us Bigfoot erotica, vomit fraud, fast-food lifestyle brands, men bound together in a web of fleece vests, and a 3,000-year-old coffin that may or may not have put a curse on the people of Egypt. We apologize in advance for the sub-optimal audio quality - next week we’ll be back in full swing, sounding like buttah. We promise! 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: If you’re as horrified as we are by Denver Riggleman, a craft distiller turned B igfoot erotica author who is running for Congress in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, you can check out his Democratic opponent Leslie Cockburn here, and donate to her campaign if you feel so inclined: https://www.lesliecockburnforcongress.com/ (And if you want to see Riggleman’s Instagram post about bigfoot, you can’t because, following a public outcry, he made his account private. But here’s Leslie Cockburn’s screenshot: https://twitter.com/LeslieCockburn/status/1023701334434959362) To learn more about the perils of vomit fraud, check out this New York Magazine explainer: http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/vomit-fraud-beware-uber-drivers-fake-puke-claims.html Background on why Chipotle is focusing less on preventing E. coli and more on becoming a lifestyle brand: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/business/media/lifestyle-brands-marketing.html Men across the nation are woven together in a garment of destiny: a fleece vest. The Wall Street Journal explains how it all happened: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fleece-vest-became-the-new-corporate-uniform-1532442297 Learn more about “feline telepathy” and how an Oregon woman got rid of a rogue mountain lion in her living room: https://foxsportsradio.iheart.com/content/2018-07-25-woman-says-she-used-feline-telepathy-to-shoo-mountain-lion-away/ Sign one man’s petition to drink the red liquid from a 3,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus: https://www.change.org/p/let-people-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus Big #YUP to… Parker Posey, the Gen-X star of the stage and screen who has a fantastic new memoir out called “You’re On An Airplane.” Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N11RHPM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Intrepid seven-year-old entrepreneur Brendan Mulvaney, whose lemonade stand was shuttered by state regulators: https://nypost.com/2018/07/31/cuomo-crackdown-on-kids-lemonade-stand-ridiculous/

This week, we don’t see why we wouldn’t discuss the treasonous #HelsinkiSummit, a matricidal Arizona state senate candidate, necrophiliac crows, poison parsnips, a nose-biting party guest who overstayed her welcome, FitBit coke addicts, straw shaming, the Chick-Fil-A baby, and Andrew Cuomo’s desperate attempts to build grassroots credibility in New York by enlisting a Crossfit enthusiast.

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We’re live from the Hamptons, where we are shutting down the NYC subway IT department, Nicki Minaj Stans and clapbacks, 30-foot fingernail clippings, the booming veterinary prosthetic testicle business, a child-sized submarine abandoned in a Thai cave, #VanLife, Handmaid’s Tale-branded wine, and the patriotic woodchucks that ate Paul Ryan's car.

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Your weekends just got a lot Nopier! Rachel and Brian will be dropping fresh episodes every weekend for the next few weeks from an undisclosed beachy location[...cough...The Hamptons. So stay tuned and turn on your push notifications so you'll know when a fresh summery Nope has arrived on your doorstep!

This week we come out swinging our BDE (and BVE) to take down the worst stories of the week, including period sex blankets, GPS storks, carbonated geriatric Lacroix pilots, travel underwear, Air Force One pranks, DIY Burning Man, and unicorns-farting-electricity mugs.

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The A/C is broken and we're drunk. We can barely muster up the energy to bring you Spicer champagne, vegetarian black widows, the Fyre festival derivative scam, exploding Tesla-space X cars, and a restaurant that serves $68 spoonfuls of cocaine caviar.

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Ugh, what a garbage week! Luckily, Brian and Rachel are here to make a little bit better with a tour of the rogue's gallery, including White house grifters, pimp politicians, flat Earthers, chocolate milkers, camel milkers, anatomically correct vegan salads and, of course, our inevitable triumph in the coming space wars.

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This was a truly depressing week, and despite the alcohol and anti-depressants, Rachel & Brian still had a tough time making light of it. But after a serious breakdown of current events, they managed to dig up the most #nope news of the week including feral peacocks, Saudi runway shows, flat-world Celtics, shrimp-tossing Chinese tourists, and facial workouts at Saks Fifth Avenue. All the favorite Nope topics, all in just 40 minutes!

Brian's back and the world has exploded. This week was a maelstrom of #NOPE including, but not limited to, Scott Pruitt's used pizza mattress, his wife's Chick-fil-A franchise, pickle liberty, insidious Alexa and, of course, Bill Clinton's nauseating book tour.

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