Sunday, October 14 – After a clip of
Trump bizarrely praising Neil Armstrong for not taking part in the NFL protests
during the moon landing(?), we looked at the midterms, particularly ads put out
by candidates; the one GOP guy doing a montage teaching his kids Trumpy things
(a la “building the wall” with blocks) was creepy. The main story was on Saudia Arabia, the
murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and Trump’s chummy relationship with the country’s
crown prince. I liked that John emphasized
that every president in recent decades has gotten dirty playing nice with Saudi
Arabia for oil, but I also appreciated his point that Trump is the first who
doesn’t seem to view that as a moral compromise. The episode ended with a tour through the
Instagram pages of various news personalities, with John kicking off his own hashtag
featuring him doing things like not
lifting weights (like Chris Cuomo) or picking up distressed pigs (like Mika
Brzezinski.)
Monday, October 15 – Boo on Hillary Clinton skirting an interview question about Monica Lewinsky in light of
#MeToo, but yay to an activist putting googly eyes on a Confederate statue (I
loved Trevor’s joke that, if they didn’t want more people to do that, they
shouldn’t have shown it on the news.)
After a bit on the proposal to charge a fee to Capitol protesters, we
moved onto Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test “suggesting” a very minute amount of Native American blood. Trevor had a great riff on Trump being all,
“Who cares?” after harping on it for, like, two years, but I wish he’d gone
harder on Warren. Awesome story on the
white woman who cried “sexual harassment” on a 9-year-old Black boy whose
backpack accidentally brushed her. The whole
neighborhood laughing while she watched the security footage (proving the boy’s
innocence) gave me life. Good interview
with Amandla Stenberg on The Hate U Give;
I liked what they said about creating empathy and that “making white people
cry” was the film’s goal.
Tuesday, October 16 – Opening blurbs on
climate change potentially doubling the cost of beer and the massive increase
in the federal budget deficit. Next was
Saudi Arabia’s response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Trump’s “well, the crown prince absolutely denies it” reminded me of his
easy support of alleged abusers/predators, and Michael had a good piece on
Saudi Arabia floating possible lies the U.S.
would be comfortable “pretending” to believe so we could stay in bed with them
on trade. Roy did a new “C.P. Time” on
Black athlete protests, looking at protests of the past and present; I loved
the line about how Colin Kaepernick kneeled while sporting two of the
statistically-blackest hairstyles known to man (an afro and cornrows.) Melissa McCarthy was the guest, talking about
her new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?,
playing a deeply-flawed character, and trying not to accidentally insult her
husband (as it turns out, harder than expected.)
Wednesday, October 17 – We started with
Trevor envying Canada’s legalized weed, being impressed at the “fine print” on
abolition in various state constitutions, and admitting that he’d probably eat
cookies even if he knew they contained human ashes. We then moved onto some recent Trump interviews, spouting nonsense on climate change and pushing “innocent until
proven guilty” for Saudi Arabia. I was
making mental comparisons with Kavanaugh and was slightly amazed that Trump
explicitly went there himself. Dulce
reported on Jeannine Lee Lake, the first Black woman running for Congress in
her Indiana district, and the Democratic committtee who won’t back her because
they don’t think her race isn’t “winnable.”
The guest, politician Julián Castro, talked about courting Latinx voters
in meaningful ways and potentially becoming the first presidential candidate
with an accented letter in their name.
Thursday, October 18 – Fun opening bit on
an Astros fans possibly getting in the way of a home run, followed by Stephen
Hawking’s posthumus book and Kleenex changing the name of their “Mansized” box
(to, Trevor posited, “Jerk-Off” box?)
Good story on voter suppression, from the voter ID requirements in North
Dakota to Brian Kemp disproportionately removing Black voters from Georgia
voter rolls for the election he’s running
in. I liked Trevor’s plan to have
all Black people register as Republicans (and then vote for whoever they want) –
“They’ll be waving Trayvons into the polls like a third-base coach!” Ronny reported on new wearable technology
that seems like more trouble than its worth, like a special jacket to operate a
drone with your whole body or a jet-suit that only has enough gas for 3-4
minutes of flight. Formula One driver
Lewis Hamilton was the guest, talking about his combined love of racing and fashion.
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