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This week, we shut down former assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark, a Trump appointee who believes that votes in the 2020 election were changed by Chinese thermostats. Also, Ed Solomon, the “mathematician” who told OAN that there aren’t enough atoms in the universe to explain Joe Biden’s victory isn’t so much a mathematician as he is former drug dealer now employed as a swing-set installer. Meanwhile, pharmacists are fending off Covid truthers who are requesting a poisonous anti-parasite medication for horses instead of the vaccine. And we met for the first time in person since last March–in Babylon, Long Island–so we could go to see Daryl Hall & John Oates rock Jones Beach. 

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OVERCAST

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In this week’s episode: 

Watch “Live from Daryl’s House” 

Big #YUP to…

Kathy Hochul, the first female governor of New York 

Babylon, Long Island

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This week we discuss all things Olympics, ranging from the series of scandals plaguing Japan’s Olympic organizing committee to the pictogram pantomime performance at the opening ceremony. Also, Jeff Bezos had an environmental epiphany while in orbit: let’s pollute space. For the Summer Music Series, we examine Michael Jackson’s understandably forgotten “Liberian Girl.” 

HEAR US ON ITUNES

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

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https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

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RADIO PUBLIC

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In this week’s episode: 

Watch “Liberian Girl.” 

Big #YUP to…

“The White Lotus” on HBO Max 

“After Hours” directed by Martin Scorsese 

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This week, we have gone super niche, covering a controversial episode of an obscure fashion podcast, The Cutting Room Floor, featuring a former fashion-blogger-turned-CEO, Leandra Medine aka Man Repeller. Meanwhile, a SoftBank-funded humanoid robot named Pepper is slacking on the job and getting fired all over Japan, but may nevertheless be called upon to represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics. Finally, we turn our attention to the worst song-video combination ever to hit No. 1: the Steve Miller Band’s 1982 abomination, “Abracadabra.” 

HEAR US ON ITUNES

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OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

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https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

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RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Listen to “The Cutting Room Floor” episode that has everyone (by everyone, we mean a few fashion-obsessed people) talking. 

Watch the Steve Miller Band’s terrible and confusing video for Abracadabra. 

Big #YUP to…

Liz Phair for her wonderful memoir, “Horror Stories.” 

The Texas Democrats, for leaving the state to protect voting rights.  

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As New York City’s Board of Elections struggled with tabulating ranked-choice votes, we shut down Bill Barr’s attempts at a reputational glow up and “pastel Qanon,” aka California yoga instructors who are embracing bonkers right-wing conspiracy theories. Sea snot is taking over the Turkish coastline and threatening to disrupt NATO. Finally, the latest installment of our Summer Music Series, in which we explore the meaning and message of Billy Idol’s iconic video for “Dancing With Myself.” 

HEAR US ON ITUNES

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

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https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

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https://pca.st/SrJY 

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Watch Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” video from 1981 

Read Rachel’s story about Rebekah Neumann, the woman who put the Woo-Woo in WeWork,  in Vanity Fair 

Big #YUP to…

“House Work” by Jax Jones 

“The Hustler and the Housewife” on Hulu 

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This week, CNN legal analyst and public masturbator Jeffrey Toobin was suddenly back on the air, much like an unexpected erection popping up in a Zoom conference call. Over at NBC, production of the reality competition “Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide” was shut down after 40 members of the crew came down with explosive diarrhea. A lobsterman in Cape Cod said he was swallowed and spit out by a humpback whale. And our Summer Music Series is back as we deconstruct Bonnie Tyler’s classic video for “Holding Out for a Hero.”   

HEAR US ON ITUNES

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

STITCHER

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD

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POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY 

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Watch the video for Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero.”  

Big #YUP to…

“Hacks” on HBO Max 

“Love, Victor” season 2 on Hulu 

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Joined this week by a new friend of the pod, retired Harvard Business School professor Steve Rogers, we shut down the French Open as well as a Canadian member of parliament who can’t seem to stop getting naked on Zoom. Also, the hottest new fashion trend for men: 4” inseams. We talk to Steve about his excellent new book, “A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community.”  

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

STITCHER

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD

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POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY 

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Read “Naomi Osaka and the Power of Nope” in the New York Times

Big #YUP to…

Steve Rogers, whose book you can buy here, at the Tattered Cover book store. 

Hall & Oates at Jones Beach! 

Documentaries about the Tulsa Massacre

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This week, GQP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene compared mask mandates to being sent to the gas chambers in Germany. Rand Paul received a mysterious package containing white powder and blamed it on 1980s pop icon Richard Marx. Mullets and skinny jeans were banned in North Korea. Phil Collins, musician and historian of the Alamo, donated his extensive memorabilia collection to Texas only to discover that it might be counterfeit. A former “Bachelor” contestant rebelled against new CDC guidelines to prevent salmonella infections by kissing a rooster on Tucker Carlson’s show. And a woman in El Paso jumped a zoo barrier to feed Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to a pair of spider monkeys. 

HEAR US ON ITUNES

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

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https://pca.st/SrJY 

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Read about the saga of Phil Collins’s Alamo collection in Texas Monthly. 

Follow @gertiegertboss on Instagram 

Big #YUP to…

“Halston” on Netflix 

Bandsintown app: never miss a live show 

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As the weather warmed up and trillions of sex-crazed Brood X cicadas emerged from the earth, we shut down Mar-a-Blogger’s latest screed against New York Attorney General Tish James and asked the only question that needs to be asked about Rep. Matt Gaetz: how is he still in Congress? Meanwhile, Scott Stringer tried to persuade us to vote for him in the NYC Mayoral primary by featuring a child named Benjamin Bridgntunnel on a large campaign postcard with no explanation of who this person was and why we should be convinced by his apparent endorsement. And finally, the New York Post made a grave error about the number of peacocks Martha Stewart has on her Connecticut farm. 

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

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https://pca.st/SrJY 

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

If you have some time, here’s Donald Trump’s strange blog post about New York Attorney General Tish James. 

Big #YUP to…

Restaurateur Keith McNally, for telling that Fancy Fucker what’s up. 

Seasonal vegetables, such as morels and ramps, which by the way can be obtained at many if not all of Keith McNally’s restaurants. 

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This week, the uncertain flight path of a wayward Chinese rocket added to our anxiety payload. Two New York City mayoral candidates said they thought that the median price of a home in Brooklyn was around $100,000. A man was arrested in Houston on murder charges, but his bengal tiger and two monkeys are still on the lam. And Nigella Lawson scandalized Britain with a recipe for...banana peel curry. 

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

STITCHER

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD

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https://pca.st/SrJY 

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Try the hottest new recipe: Nigella Lawson’s banana peel curry. 

Big #YUP to…

Bravo’s new season of The Real Housewives of New York City 

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, on Hulu 

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This week, we discuss Donald J. Trump’s reemergence as a blogger. A furniture company discovered that a third of people in England wash their sheets only once a year. A man in Japan was arrested for dating 35 women simultaneously in a bid to get birthday presents. 

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope 

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https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

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SOUNDCLOUD

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RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N 

In this week’s episode: 

Check out Donald J. Trump’s breakthrough in communications technology. 

Big #YUP to…

“Bad Trip” on Netflix 

“The Circle: Season 2” also on Netflix 

Netflix in general 

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