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This week, Donald Trump pardoned another dead person to score political points with anti-choice activists, two maniacs won Republican Congressional primaries in Florida and Georgia, and the CEO of MyPillow is touting a new-yet-unproven miracle cure for Covid-19. A Melbourne artist is self-inseminating for a lockdown livestream performance art piece. To top it off–quite literally–we’re in the throes of a global pepperoni shortage. Finally, for our Summer Music Series we discuss another Italian adaptation, Laura Branigan’s 1984 hit, “Self Control.”

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In this week’s episode:

Watch the video for “Self Control” by Laura Branigan, directed by William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”)

Big #YUP to...

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of Portugal, who helped rescue two women who were drawing at an Algarve beach when their kayak capsized.

Gina Raimondo, the Governor of Rhode Island, for safely reopening fisheries so we could all enjoy that delicious calamari featured during the Democratic Convention.

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This week, we shut down the scourge of “mystery seeds” being sent to unsuspecting customers via Amazon. Amy Adams gets another shot at Oscars glory with a new film called “Nightbitch.” Jeffrey Epstein’s New York City mansion hits the market for $88 million. And finally, the latest edition of our Summer Music Series features “Obsession,” a 1984 hit by Animotion.

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In this week’s episode:

Watch the video for “Obsession” by Animotion.

Big #YUP to...

Walkabout, a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Nicholas Roeg, available on the Criterion Channel

The Australian military, for rescuing three men stranded on an island in Micronesia.

Axios’s Jonathan Swan, our finest living Australian White House reporter. Watch his jaw-dropping interview with Donald Trump here.

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This week, Rachel attempts to give a Zoom tarot card reading and things are not looking good. Anti-bathing cult members were arrested in Hawaii for violating quarantine. A woman in China says her car was damaged by falling tofu. eBay executives were arrested for sending a middle-aged Massachusetts couple “unwanted and disturbing deliveries” including live spiders and a bloody pig’s face because they said negative things about eBay in their newsletter. And finally, the Nope Summer Music Series revisits the 1980s hit “Xanadu,” featuring Olivia Newton John and Gene Kelly on roller skates.

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RADIO PUBLIC

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In this week’s episode:

Ex-eBay Workers Sent Critics Live Roaches and a Mask of a Bloody Pig Face, U.S. Says.

Watch the video for Xanadu here.

If you are looking for a real tarot card reader to help you make sense of your life, please check out SegoStrega.

Big #YUPs to...

“The King of Staten Island” starring Pete Davidson, available on Amazon.

The Tennessee State Legislature

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As the weather warmed up and trillions of sex-crazed Brood X cicadas emerged from the earth, we shut down Mar-a-Blogger’s latest screed against New York Attorney General Tish James and asked the only question that needs to be asked about Rep. Matt Gaetz: how is he still in Congress? Meanwhile, Scott Stringer tried to persuade us to vote for him in the NYC Mayoral primary by featuring a child named Benjamin Bridgntunnel on a large campaign postcard with no explanation of who this person was and why we should be convinced by his apparent endorsement. And finally, the New York Post made a grave error about the number of peacocks Martha Stewart has on her Connecticut farm.

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In this week’s episode:

If you have some time, here’s Donald Trump’s strange blog post about New York Attorney General Tish James.

Big #YUP to...

Restaurateur Keith McNally, for telling that Fancy Fucker what’s up.

Seasonal vegetables, such as morels and ramps, which by the way can be obtained at many if not all of Keith McNally’s restaurants.

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2019 is here and it’s already off to an abysmal start, as the major TV networks featured an anti-vaxxer and a vaginal steamer on their New Year’s Eve specials and a high-profile New York “Illuminati” party offered guests the opportunity to sip breast milk from a baby bottle. Also: a New York Times op-ed advocated abandoning smartphones in favor of sex; a Japanese school administrator married an anime hologram; a bodybuilder in England tattooed his nether regions using--what else?--a rolling pin; Kerrygold butter expanded into the music business; the TSA announced it is phasing out pointy-eared bomb-sniffing dogs; NASA gave a faraway celestial body a Nazi name; and finally, an Alabama sheriff used federal money designated for refugees to buy himself a beach house.

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In this week’s episode:

The reactions to New Year’s Eve network specials were particularly horrendous this year: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chrissy-teigen-vaginal-steaming-nbc-new-years-eve_us_5c2cf14be4b05c88b7050a43

Learn more about Cynthia von Buhler, who threw an Illuminati Ball in New York City featuring Kamadhenu the cow goddess and her four maidens: https://nypost.com/2018/12/29/inside-this-sexy-eyes-wide-shut-style-new-years-eve-bash/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=message_app

Read the op-ed that suggests people could have sex 16,000 more times per year if only they abandoned their smart phones: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/smartphones-screen-time.html

And if you’re making oat scones, we’ve got the perfect playlist for you: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5motGIMH9hSWjj65RreNwl

Big #YUP to...

Casey Wilson and Danielle Schneider, the cohosts of “Bitch Sesh,” one of our favorite podcasts, which we will be seeing live later this month.

Check it out here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bitch-sesh-a-real-housewives-breakdown/id1063393054?mt=2

Newspapers on a hiring binge, such as the NY Times, LA Times and Washington Post!