This episode of West of Knowhere covers a chaotic week of news and online drama: the suspected shooting/assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and the swirl of conspiracy theories around it.
We discuss a Taco Bell employee shooting over a soda dispute, legal and social media fallout from high-profile posts (including James Comey’s seashells and a brewery’s controversial tweet), and Jimmy Kimmel’s joked-about remark about Melania.
Other topics include Palantir’s CEO on wartime targeting, teenagers storming the Church of Scientology, Rudy Giuliani’s hospitalization, a big-game hunter killed by elephants, OpenAI models avoiding talk of goblins, and an Am I the Asshole segment about urging a partner into rehab after a newborn arrives.
