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- Episode 19: ‘Some Countries Are Better in Letterbox’, with Special Guests B.R. Cohen and Simon Tonev
Ted Cruz is almost definitely not the Zodiac Killer, Whole Foods pre-peels oranges, WV lawmakers get sick after legalizing and drinking raw milk, and the gang contemplates the meaning of folded American flags.
Show notes
- Subscribe to Various Breads and Butters
Follow-up- Andrew Hamilton
Trumped Up
- Vox: Trump Spent Election Night Pitching Trump Products That You Can’t Buy Anymore
Know Your Meme
- Ted Cruz’s Secret Life as the Zodiac Killer
Stupid Shit My Friends Post
- Flag Folding
Is This A Thing?
- Whole Foods Pre-Peeled Oranges
Headline of the Week
- WV Lawmakers Legalize Raw Milk, Drink Raw Milk, Get Mysterious Stomach Bug
Poorly Summarized News
- Tammy Duckworth and Backers Denounce G.O.P. Tweet as Insensitive
Eye Candy
- The World’s Weirdest Book
Special Guests: Benjamin R. Cohen and Simon Tonev.
1 hr 1 min - Episode 18: ‘Rare Unadulterated Honesty,’ with Special Guest Kendall Burdett
Justin attempts a covert nose wipe, Kanye West pirates some software, Mike’s dad robs a bank, Chris Christie gets held hostage, and Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t own a gas-guzzling yacht (he just borrows it).
Show notes
- Hear more Kendall at thenarrators.org
Follow-up- Daily Kos: But Who Has to Carry the Feces?
- Foreign Policy: Who Does No. 2 Work For?!
Trumped Up
- The Federalist: Take a Flamethrower to Trump
- ABC News: The History Behind the Donald Trump ‘Small Hands’ Insult
- CNN: Marco Rubio Mocks Donald Trump for ‘Wet’ Pants
- Inquisitr: Donald Trump Trashed on Twitter by ‘Modern Family’ Writer Danny Zuker
Is This A Thing?
- This is Tomatan, and He Will Power You Through a Marathon—with Tomatoes
Poorly Summarized News
- WSJ: Chris Christie Asserts He Was Not, in Fact, Being Held Hostage by Donald Trump
- Mashable: Whoops! Kanye Tweets Photo Showing Him Using Pirate Bay
- Vox: Rich Climate Activist Leonardo DiCaprio Lives a Carbon-Intensive Lifestyle, and That’s (Mostly) Fine
Stupid Shit My Friends Post
Eye Candy
- A 2,000-Marble Instrument Sounds Like a Synth for the Apocalypse
1 hr 2 min - Episode 17: ‘A Story, an Analogy and a Word,’ with Special Guest Sunish Oturkar
John McAfee offers to trick a corpse into revealing a secret, Trump loves the poorly educated, China builds a ghost town, and Mike and Justin swap prank stories.
Show notes
Follow-up- JOHN MCAFEE: I’ll decrypt the San Bernardino phone free of charge so Apple doesn’t need to place a back door on its product
- Sam Harris’s take on the Apple vs. FBI case
Trumped Up
- Who Said It: Presidential Hopeful Donald Trump or ‘Idiocracy’ President Camacho?
- On Princess Diana
Stupid Shit My Friends Post
- 35 Reasons to vote for Trump
Is This a Thing?
- Thai princess gets $40,000 toilet built for her 3-day visit to Cambodia
Eye Candy
- Surreal photos of China’s failed ‘city of the future’
59 min - Episode 16: ‘You Need to Taste These Jellyrolls,’ with Special Guest Maria Palma
Maria psychoanalyzes a pickpocket, Tim Cook gives the FBI the finger, Manny Pacquiao disparages homosexuals, Justin reveals his “super” powers, and Mike flubs the Pledge of Allegiance.
Follow-up
- “Oh, Reggie, fighting for your country…you’re such a pussy“
- ACHOO syndrome: Why some people sneeze every time they see the sun
Trumped Up
- On Apple
- On the Pope
- On Planned Parenthood
- On Rachel Maddow
- Trump threatens an independent run
Poorly Summarized News
- Apple: a message to our customers
Stupid Shit
- American Loons on “Dr.” Schulze
- Quackwatch on “Dr.” Schulze
Is this a thing? Gay animal sex
- Nike cuts ties with boxer Manny Pacquiao
Headline of the Week
- Fearing cannibalism, aquarium cancels octopus sex show on Valentine’s Day
1 hr 11 min - Episode 15: ‘Pro-Fear, Anti-Shame,’ with Special Guest Lindsay Goldwert
Lindsay defends the integrity of the bagel, Mike extolls the virtues of vaping, Eli Manning suffers from RBF, Justin seeks clarity on sexist pejoratives, and Hillary Clinton gets aggressive with her fundraising emails.
Full show notes on our Facebook page.
Special Guest: Lindsay Goldwert.
1 hr 9 min - Episode 14: ‘Making This Just a Brooke Thing,’ with Special Guest Brooke Boyarsky
A pro-rape meet-up group retreats from female boxers, Justin’s voice tickles Brooke’s and Mike’s ASMR-positive skulls, Mike fawns over WWI submarines, and Uber gets a new logo.
Inside a German U-boat (Image: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)Full show notes on our Facebook page.
1 hr - Episode 13: ‘What Kind of Sink Is She Sleeping In?’ with Special Guest Sarah Minkus
A cat gets trapped in a woman’s body, doctors test freeze-dried poop pills, Mariah Carey struggles to lift her arm, and Mike’s landlord tries to trick him into having sex.
Full show notes on our Facebook page.
55 min - Episode 12: 'A Rare Moment of Reasonableness,' with Special Guest Dave Markowski
Palin brings a flask to her Trump endorsement speech, the FBI tells MLK Jr. to off himself, McDonald’s drizzles chocolate on their fries, and Dave Markowski of the Super Hero Speak podcast tells tales of hemophiliac and Asian-American superheroes.
Full show notes on our Facebook page.
1 hr 9 min - Episode 11: 'Fear of the Phantom Arm,' with Special Guest Scientia Perceptum
Whitesboro residents vote to keep a racist town emblem, Mike hypnotizes people with vitamin C pills, Justin encounters an exhibitionist in Tennessee, and Scientia Perceptum explains the one mutation that led to all plant and animal life.
Full show notes on our Facebook page.
1 hr 2 min - Episode 10: 'Not the Existential Moment You Were Looking For', with Special Guest Peter Prosol
Hasbro forgets about Rey, Netflix promises more Arrested Development, breadfacing is a thing, our producer Corey explains why right-wing cowboys have taken over a wildlife refugee, and Peter Prosol convinces Justin to take an ice-cold shower.
Full show notes on our Facebook page.
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Mike and Justin discuss the Donald Trump dumpster fire, trending social media clickbait, stupid memes and weird art.