Sunday, June 3 – Craziness, with
Trump playing into North Korean propaganda by praising the letter they sent to
get him back to the summit table, despite later admitting he hadn’t read
it. Next were two stories that were both
completely wild for different reasons:
first, a prominent Putin critic faking his own death to get the jump on
some assassins, and then, the discovery that the chairman of the British
Monarchist Society is actually a New Yorker.
The latter piece was followed by a delightful “And Now This” of the
Speaker of the House of Commons very politely chiding his fellow MPs. The main story was on guardianship in elder
care, or more specifically, the abuse of it, with fraudulent guardians bleeding
seniors dry with little reliable legal recourse to protect them. It was a depressing story, brightened only by
the end-of-episode summation by a winning group of older actors including the
likes of Rita Moreno(!) and Fred Willard.
Monday, June 4 – First up was an
off-duty FBI agent accidentally shooting someone during a dancing mishap(?) in
a club, followed by quick notes on the latest Scott Pruitt scandal (sending an
EPA aide to buy a used mattress from the Trump Hotel?) and Rick Santorum
claiming Obama exacerbated racism more than Trump – I loved Trevor’s “agreement,”
saying that, before Obama, no one called the president the N-word. Next up was team Trump’s latest reactions to
the Mueller investigation, with Rudy Giuliani saying the president can’t be
indicted and Trump tweeting that he has the power to pardon himself,
juxtaposed, naturally, with his campaign speeches about no one being above the
law. Story on the back-on-for-now North Korea summit; the joke that it was like Roseanne,
one 3 a.m. tweet away from being cancelled again, was great. Awkwafina was the guest, discussing both Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians.
Tuesday, June 5 – We opened on Miss America dropping the swimsuit competition and focusing on contestants’ talents
and achievements – I liked the joke about men then perving on a woman’s
“biochemistry degree” instead of her body.
Quick bit on Apples new’s iOS before moving onto Trump disinviting the
Eagles to the White House to save face.
Characteristic display of petty foot-stomping from our president, and I
liked the note on how he’s tried to flip it back to the anthem protests, even
though no Eagles players took part in them.
Hasan reported on the upcoming Ramadan fast-breaking dinner Trump is
hosting, morbidly curious to see the trainwreck and applauding the Muslims with
the fortitude to face Trump after 16 hours of fasting and being unable to
swear. Loved the interview with Brian Tyree Henry, talking Hotel Artemis, Atlanta, and his plans to make a collaboration
with Trevor happen.
Wednesday, June 6 – Quick blurbs to
start: California primaries, airline
bathrooms getting even smaller (with Desi demo-ing a life-sized model,) and
Trump commuting Alice Marie Johnson’s sentence after speaking with Kim
Kardashian – I laughed at Trevor deciding to stop telling jokes about Kim, just
in case he ever wound up in jail someday.
Great story on Facebook and the idea that conflict is good for its
business model. I really liked the skit
the correspondents did making “Facebook” a real place, with Roy (as a
bartender) keeping people drinking/fighting till all hours by stirring up
divisions between them. Ronny had a fun
piece on the (stupid) new trend of dangerous “adventure playgrounds.” I loved his point that the whole thing was
just tricking kids into building their own playground. The guest, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
talked feminism in parenthood and the importance of bringing men onboard for
real change.
Thursday, June 7 – Loved the opening
story about Eagles player Malcolm Jenkins’s silent interview protest – Trevor calling
it Love, Blackually and saying that
racial equality is Black people’s Keira Knightley was awesome, and I liked the
joke that it was Trump-proof because we all know he doesn’t read. More on Scott Pruitt’s increasing list of
scandals, which Trevor compared to a Star
Wars opening crawl. I also liked the
theorizing that all the bizarre scandals make sense when looked at from the
context of Pruitt just being ridiculously cheap. Michael reported on various movements within
California to secede or split into 2-3 parts.
I enjoyed him trolling the secession guy for “stealing America’s ideas.” The guest was Regina King. While talking about her new Netflix show Seven Seconds, she and Trevor discussed
the perception among white people that she’s just “come out of nowhere.”
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