It’s episode 44. You know, like Obama. And speaking of presidential personas, Kamala Harris, the self-described “top cop,” has officially thrown her hat in the 2020 ring. We have thoughts to share regarding her record and the ways people are already attempting to shield her from legitimate criticism. On the show this week, the very concept of life itself is under scrutiny, as we discuss the twins who tested five genomic mapping products, including 23andme, and came to the unsurprising conclusion that none of them actually work. In news visible to the naked eye, the March for Life stirred up controversies from Ben Shapiro’s addressing the crowd with live and in the flesh ad reads, to the infamous, dough-faced MAGA teens of Covington Catholic who descended on Native American protesters and later blamed the Black Israelites for everything. In the pop culture corner, we evaluate noted drug enthusiast Aaron Sorkin’s irrelevant opinions on the newest, youngest, and most left-wing wave of Democrats yet, and we recap teenage rip-off rockers Greta Van Fleet’s high school talent show-level performance on Saturday Night Live. To finish up the pop culture corner, we discuss the two Fyre Fest documentaries that Hulu and Netflix respectively released and try to contextualize the multi-million-dollar fraud that Billy McFarland and the Fyre company perpetrated in our current zeitgeist of millenial go-getterism and the rampant rush to commodify experiences and exclusivity. The story this week is about Sam getting beat up in a bar.
Notez:
Kamala is a Cop
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html
Terrible Libertarian Defense of MAGA Boys
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video
Aaron Sorkin idiocy
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aaron-sorkin-democrats-young-people_us_5c455b68e4b027c3bbc31066
