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What made the internet angry this week?
This week on TANGENT FACTORY, we spend a full ten minutes discussing Derek's internet romance. How long do people have sex for, anyways? Why porn makes Dale's back hurt. Tyler Perry is a celebrity for whatever reason and can't believe how much hotel water costs. Bowling. Vin Diesel movies. The worst atrocity ever committed with bagels. A celebrity was exposed drugging people, but not the way you think! Brexit is the world's most hilarious shitshow. Memes are illegal now. Some people are still mad about Chick-Fil-A, but Chick-Fil-A is still delicious! All that and more tangents than you can shake a stick at, on the world's greatest podcast hosted in Derek's living room.
What made the internet angry this week?
In a week full of truly awful news, Derek and Dale spend half of the episode discussing the craziest internet argument they saw this week. Also: altar boy insider information; bodily autonomy and consent: not just for adults anymore!; personal trauma as an internet argument trump card; circumcision; Dale explains the 'credit card'; James Gunn is coming back to direct Guardians 3 because people can't stay mad at one thing for more than a week; Dale helps us meet our problematic opinion quota by coming out in defense of Louis C.K.; Derek explains consent to Dale; and we discuss that batshit insane college admissions scandal that ensnared two of the biggest-name actresses in stay-at-home-mom circles. All that and more, on a podcast!
#What made the internet angry this week?
Dale and Derek have strong feels about Daylight Savings Time. Hitting kids in the face with processed cheese: good or bad? The saddest cheese-related meals we've ever eaten. Happy International Women's Day to everyone except the shitty manbabies who complained about it (and also men in general because FUCK YOU IT ISN'T YOUR DAY.) Dale is harassing his coworkers with Annie Lennox songs, which is exactly what they were intended for. Don't climb into zoo enclosures for dope Instagram shots. The trials and tribulations of the modern male photographer. All this, and a whole more you didn't ask for, on the world's greatest podcast*.
#What made the internet angry this week?
BREAKING NEWS: POP SINGER MICHAEL JACKSON ALLEGEDLY MOLESTED CHILDREN. We discuss the perfect storm of fucked-uppedness that led to the King of Pop, the new documentary detailing the allegations against him, whether MJ cover songs are still acceptable, why The Beatles should also be cancelled, and why Dale hates...uh....'ethnic' music. ALSO: Momo is coming for your kids, YouTube is punching holes in our brains, the US Civil War 2.0 is all but guaranteed, Kylie Jenner is self-made(?), Will Smith is black (?!). Hey, look at that, another episode of your favorite podcast!
#What made the internet angry this week?
A brief history of men knowing absolutely fucking nothing about flirting with women. Dale discovers The Mandela Effect and it's melting his mind. The Oscars happened, and they were relatively free of controversy and therefore boring as hell. Even as a 61 year old in the 1970s, John Wayne had some pretty shitty views, but people are morons for getting mad about it now. Democracy is broken and we're all too dumb to fix it. The most confusing thing about Jussie Smollett is how to pronounce his name, but why he would totally invent a hate crime is a close second. We plan the perfect crime and land on our next business idea. Lastly, menstrual equality is an important cause with a name that will make 12 year old dudes giggle. All this and more on your favorite dumb podcast!
#What made the internet angry this week?
Derek made it out of China, where they REALLY like white kids, without getting detained in a Canadian internment camp. Measles are on trend in Vancouver. The Aziz Ansari comeback tour is moderately more successful than Louis CK's, and we have a review. Swastika pizzas. Dale and Derek share tips for how to avoid your own #MeToo charge, and it's easier than you'd think. Hey, remember 50 Cent? A Brooklyn police commander wants him dead! People got pretty upset about an Amber Alert, which seems like a perfectly reasonable response to an abducted child. All this and more, on a very special surprise second birthday episode of your favorite podcast!
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What made the internet angry this week?
#What made the internet angry this week?
The internet wasn't angry about enough stuff so we spend the first ten minutes of the episode making dumb small talk. Autonomous cars don't kill as many people as you might assume. Derek gets heated about Trump's inability to get a suit tailored. An elected official gets outed for being an insensitive piece of shit, but it's not the one you might think. When is blackface okay? We share the origin story of the legendary Boruiter clan. Columbia House deserved to go bankrupt. Poo transplants are an apparently necessary thing! Someone got kicked off of a plane for body odor for quite possibly the first and only time in history. All this and more, on a very stupid edition of the world's dumbest podcast!
#What made the internet angry this week?
Dale spends twenty minutes explaining his literary masterpiece. Saying that men should be less shitty is apparently a really controversial statement to make, as we found out with the #GilletteAd backlash. We also discuss peeing on people, Dale's gout, Trump's fast food photo op and pandering to the poors, competitive eating, shrimp forks, MAGA hats, poor people breeding, slut shaming, sex vs Pokemon, how children impact mobility, and more. You aren't going to hear this shit on NPR!
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#What made the internet angry this week?
YouTube entertainers are shitty, awful people. Warning: being woke and inclusive may result in egregiously long acronyms. Going gay for a limited time: woke, broke, or bespoke? Kinder eggs are trying to make us all racist. Facebook's nudity algorithm hates women and dolls, exclusively! Dale and Derek give a lesson in genitals. People are irritated by the latest Facebook 'challenge'! Darkest timeline Derek Bolen is wrecking awesome podcast host Derek Bolen's online brand. All this and more, on your favorite dumb podcast!
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