Sunday, May 12 - After touching on Vladimir Putin wiping out
at a hockey game, we looked at Georgia’s new abortion law, as well as similar
legislation in other states. The congresswoman reading “direct quotes”
from “Baby Fetus” was wild, and I liked John’s contribution of selections from
Baby Fetus’s 1973 autobiography. The
main story was on the Green New Deal: what it is, what it isn’t, and what
might be done moving forward. I
appreciated the time John took to show how the resolution was more about
setting priorities and making a commitment to big legislation on multiple
fronts and not actually “coming for all our airplanes and hamburgers!!!”
And while he pointed out issues with how the Green New Deal was rolled
out, he also noted how it’s started (and continued!) a conversation about
combat climate change. Bill Nye stopped
by for a “fun experiment” demonstrating the importance of this issue that
involved setting a globe on fire.
Tuesday, May 14 - Clip show week. Today’s episode looked
at international stories. First was a roundup of British news, from Boris
Johnson saying women in burqas look like “letter boxes” to “the most British
heist ever” during a Parliament fight over Brexit. I loved revisiting
Trevor’s delight at Australia’s largest cow, and we also got repeats of pole
dancing at a Chinese kindergarten, Nigerians being paid to fly to
England for pizza, and lightsaber duels becoming an official French
sport. It was great to see the fantastic piece on stolen African art
again, with the many terrible/paternalistic excuses for why western nations
couldn’t possibly give it back, along with the story on a Basketball
Africa League started by the U.S. (“Enslave me once, shame on you.
Enslave me twice...”) We ended on the poacher killed by
African wildlife, featuring the amusing graphic of a lion in a shirt it stole
from the poacher.
Wednesday, May 15 – The theme of the night was the 2020 Democratic race. Even limited to one story per candidate, the
show only covered half of the
Democrats running (I wish they’d done a montage of the “Look at all those
faces!” jokes.) For “I’m running!”
pieces, we had Bernie Sanders (you know he’s serious because he didn’t rub a
balloon over his hair beforehand,) Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Julián
Castro (still love Trevor’s theory that he’s secretly Obama,) and Amy Klobuchar
(with a bonus content about her terrorizing her staff.) I liked the return of Kirsten Gillibrand’s
policy changes prefaced by trips to Brooklyn, the rundown on Pete Buttigieg,
and Joe Biden’s inappropriate personal space (“Taste?! We’re tasting
now??”) They also touched on Cory Booker
and included clips of Trevor’s interview with Kamala Harris and Ronny being
prepared to blindly support Andrew Yang no matter what he stands for.
Thursday, May 16 – Tonight featured stories all about young people. The activism of Parkland students kicked
things off, with the student walkout, a sum-up of progress a year after the
shooting (the note that 2018 saw the most gun-control legislation since Sandy
Hook was a little eerie,) and Trevor’s interview with two of the students. We revisited fun bits, like the 14-year-old
running for governor of Vermont (“‘Politics as usual’? Since when, since you learned to read seven
years ago?”) and Roy’s piece on young YouTube pundits. We saw Dianne Fienstein getting snippy with
some kids about the Green New Deal, followed that great bit from Jaboukie about
how young people should get “preparations” (pre-reparations) for how we’re
being screwed over in the future. And of
course, you can’t leave out anti-vaxxers and the teen who turned to the
Internet to find out how to get vaccinated when his mom wouldn’t let him.
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