Sunday, May 5 – We started with William Barr backing
out of his second day of testimony and Rep. Cohen’s mocking/symbolic use of KFC
(I loved the detail that he bought it the night before and likely spent the
night chuckling over what a sick burn it was gonna be.) We also checked in with Australia’s election,
which is ridiculously scandal-ridden and features a Trump-ish figure who’s
obsessed with building an Australian “Titanic II”(?) The main story was not on the desert rain frog, as John teased, but lethal injection. John’s passion for the subject
was evident as he debunked the idea that lethal injection is a “humane” death,
showing that 1) we’re more concerned with making it palatable for people who witness it and 2) the government’s
handling of it is both callous and incompetent.
I loved the analogy likening the whole thing to reasons for/against
“fucking your mom” while ignoring the giant flashing “IT’S YOUR MOM.”
Monday, May 6 – Opening blurbs on the royal baby (with
Harry impressed by Meghan’s labor in part because he’s never seen a royal do any kind of labor!), a trio of Black
beauty queens, the Kentucky Derby (great tangent from Trevor on people who
spent 22 minutes thinking they’d won
a ton of money before the results were overturned,) and a Starbucks cup spotted
in a Game of Thrones shot (which led
to some fun Westerosi-Starbucks jokes.)
We had a story on potential wars the US may be looking to enter, from
John Bolton’s hard-on to bomb Iran to Trump’s threat to escalate his trade war
with China. Roy reported on the
administration’s push to make school-lunch health standards more lax – I
laughed when he smacked a burger out of a kid’s hand. Eddie Izzard was the guest; impressive that
he performs comedy shows in four different languages, and Trevor had a fun
story about an encounter with Izzard early in Trevor’s career.
Tuesday, May 7 – We started with
extinction threats for a million animals,
followed by Chance the Rapper leading the charge to bring spicy nuggets back to
Wendys and South African runner Caster Semenya being ordered to alter her own
body chemistry before racing (which is bull, as noted in Trevor’s ensuing rant.) Next was a piece on administration drama: Steve Mnuchin refusing to hand
over Trump’s tax returns, William Barr’s possible contempt charges, and Betsy
DeVos deciding that teachers should strike outside
of school hours; I loved Trevor’s comparison to Black people desegregating
lunch counters by having food delivered.
In light of the Uber strike, Desi talked to a cabbie who’s
anti-rideshares (and says that telling a rider, “Go fuck yourself,” is the only
rating anyone needs.) The guest was
former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett.
She discussed her new memoir, which includes stories about her relationship
with the Obamas.
Wednesday, May 8 – More on royal baby Archie, followed by the US threatening to retaliate against threats from Iran
(even though the US has so many bases in the Middle East that Iran’s military
moving in any direction could be
construed as threatening the US) and a vocal anti-vaxxer getting chicken
pox. I loved the piece on Bernie Sanders’s cable access show from the ‘80s – great bit on how he both advocates and looks the same at every age (if he
was the first person you saw after time-traveling, you’d think it hadn’t
worked!), and I really laughed at the clip of him asking small children about
cocaine. Next, we looked at Trump’s billion-dollar loss over a decade of tax returns from the ‘80s and ‘90s, with
Fox News predictably spinning it as impressive (it takes talent to lose that much money, don’t ya know?) Great interview with Tyra Banks, talking
about modeling and celebrating beauty at every age and size.
Thursday, May 9 – First was a police shooting in Anaheim (he shot through the
windshield,) speculation on how to “break up” Facebook, and a bag of meth
found in a Lego box (Trevor’s whole bit about “how did the kid know it was meth”
was fun.) Big story on South Africa’s elections. Because every election seems
to need this now, we saw a candidate who’s rabidly against the press and spouts
extreme rhetoric; the clip of him saying that he didn’t advocate killing all
the white people “for now” was mind-boggling. Desi did a piece on sexism against female presidential candidates. The montage of
crass pundit remarks was gross, but Desi was hopeful that, with multiple women
running, they can at least divvy up the sexism between them. The guests, documentarians Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer, discussed their experiences from their new film
on the foster care system.
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