Apple Johnson comes out as 'ex-gay.' Gif or Jif and fungible art. Why your veggie pizza is just wrong. Big bunny milkers get cancelled. Lastly, and in all seriousness, we talk about Sarah Everard, the police brutally cracking down on vigils held in her memory, and the context in which this is taking place: increasingly violent and arbitrary state repression against legitimate forms of protest. Ben gives a short history of British policing. If you have a problem with 'defund the police' then how about we do a Marie Kondo on these mfers?

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For our milestone 20th episode, Norm & Ben gain exclusive access to a wet a** press conference. Norm takes a moment to be serious and address anti-Italian bias. Iranian history plays an understated role in present day geopolitics. A picture of Cuomo being a sex pest is worth a thousand words. Norm calls out a celebrity chef and drops truth about tahdig rice.

Featured music: 'Del Dare' by Kourosh Yaghmaei

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This week Ben & Norm look at Neera's chances, compare German guilt with Anglo-American guilt, recount the foibles of Keir "Daily" Starmer, why you should give up on Labour and just go for a party who also won't win but will at least lose with dignity, the Biden admin launch Coolag Junior, Mr & Mrs Potato Head's God-given biology, why "normal" people are perverts and psychopaths, Sophia the Robot vs. Shamima Begum, and Cuomo the sex pest.

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This week Ben & Norm look at the headlines: education as an over-priced commodity, the supreme court ruling in the UK that Uber drivers are workers (as opposed to bots with pulses), Adrian 'Voodoo' Chiles' admission that over-70s have a lower attention span than zoomers, a moment of "silence" for Rush Limbaugh, libs' sociopathic take on the Texas deep freeze, Dick Stormer's old fashioned New Labour worm brain, Cuomo the Medici of cannoli corruption, CISA at the heart of a new Cold War, and (finally some good news) the rover landing on Mars.

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Ben revisits the most disgusting thing he's ever done in public. Neera Tanden frightens America's enemies by dropping it, flipping it and reversing it. The Queen has a thing or two to learn about consent. Norm does Barstool Sports. Gina Carano vs. Nathan J Robinson. Dunning-Kruger antisemitism. Fragmentation, storytelling, and why Ben is going to sue Adam Curtis for stealing his ideas.

Here's the David Graeber article we refer to: ⁠https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-my-life-im-frightened-be-jewish/⁠

And here's the Felix Biederman article about MMA fighters and conspiracy theories: ⁠https://deadspin.com/why-are-so-many-mma-fighters-truthers-conspiracists-a-1782042590/amp⁠

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Originally published on 12.02.2021.

Ben reads the latest instalment in a series of pamphlets on the “Orwellian”: ‘Sales Soar at the Everything Store: Orwell, Power-Worship and the “Story of America”’. The piece looks at Orwell’s many critiques of James Burnham, whose 1940s works inspired 1984’s nightmare vision of an Anglicised Soviet surveillance state. Ben also explores the relationship between traditional intelligence methods (mostly leading to mass murder in the name of “anticommunism”) and the modern ‘data companies’ role in running that game for the ruling class. It’s easy to forget that power and control are not the same thing, and that sometimes our desire to feel like the ship is being steered entices us into believing that things are not going haywire. Hence Biden’s (and others’) guff about ‘the story of America’.

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Opening music: 'Now That I Can See' by Gerry Nobody.

Closing music: 'The Chestnut Tree' by Glenn Miller

***BREAKING NEWS*** Jeff Bezos: a thumb or a different member? English people doing American accents. Barney from the Simpsons (including OJ) wins an Oscar. Ben goes deep on the triangular torture device known as the Labour Party/Brexit/Scottish independence.

Just so you people don't get mad at us, here are some articles:

Agriculture needs subsidies: https://fullfact.org/economy/farming-subsidies-uk/

EU rules mean Holyrood and Westminster let BiFab tank: https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/283594/bifab-administration-unite-gmb/

Production vs. Trade: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/years-eu-debate-has-been-dominated-talk-trade-its-time-start-talking-about-production

Closing music: 'I Love Europe' by Christer Sjögren

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Originally published on 01.02.2021.

A short bonus episode. Ben reads the first part of an essay on the concept of the "Orwellian".

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Music: '⁠Now That I Can See⁠' by Gerry Nobody.

Jon Hamm has beef with Norm but Obama's got his back. Norm and Ben talk about the stock shorting attack radiating from the sulphurous bowels of Reddit. Is it a form of online organising? Trolling in the style of 4chan Trump "supporters"? Or are these guys just Jokers in it for the lols? 

Stay tuned later in the week for a *BONUS EPISODE* where Ben reads an essay on the concept of the "Orwellian."

Theme music: '⁠Now That I Can See⁠' by Gerry Nobody

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Don Draper makes a guest appearance to read the 'hard' poetry of our greatest living William. Inauguration intubation across the nation. Sea Ashanti. Bible studies with Ben & Joe. Blessed be the grifters, for theirs is the kingdom of MLM. Americans abroad are only as bad as Brits at home. The United States is a nation of Mad Men.

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Opening theme: '⁠Now That I Can See⁠' by Gerry Nobody.

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