Our ambitious summer schedule went haywire, so we’re attempting to harness technology and record remotely, capping off a horrible week that brought us Bigfoot erotica, vomit fraud, fast-food lifestyle brands, men bound together in a web of fleece vests, and a 3,000-year-old coffin that may or may not have put a curse on the people of Egypt. We apologize in advance for the sub-optimal audio quality - next week we’ll be back in full swing, sounding like buttah. We promise! HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: If you’re as horrified as we are by Denver Riggleman, a craft distiller turned B igfoot erotica author who is running for Congress in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, you can check out his Democratic opponent Leslie Cockburn here, and donate to her campaign if you feel so inclined: https://www.lesliecockburnforcongress.com/ (And if you want to see Riggleman’s Instagram post about bigfoot, you can’t because, following a public outcry, he made his account private. But here’s Leslie Cockburn’s screenshot: https://twitter.com/LeslieCockburn/status/1023701334434959362) To learn more about the perils of vomit fraud, check out this New York Magazine explainer: http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/vomit-fraud-beware-uber-drivers-fake-puke-claims.html Background on why Chipotle is focusing less on preventing E. coli and more on becoming a lifestyle brand: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/business/media/lifestyle-brands-marketing.html Men across the nation are woven together in a garment of destiny: a fleece vest. The Wall Street Journal explains how it all happened: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fleece-vest-became-the-new-corporate-uniform-1532442297 Learn more about “feline telepathy” and how an Oregon woman got rid of a rogue mountain lion in her living room: https://foxsportsradio.iheart.com/content/2018-07-25-woman-says-she-used-feline-telepathy-to-shoo-mountain-lion-away/ Sign one man’s petition to drink the red liquid from a 3,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus: https://www.change.org/p/let-people-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus Big #YUP to… Parker Posey, the Gen-X star of the stage and screen who has a fantastic new memoir out called “You’re On An Airplane.” Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N11RHPM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Intrepid seven-year-old entrepreneur Brendan Mulvaney, whose lemonade stand was shuttered by state regulators: https://nypost.com/2018/07/31/cuomo-crackdown-on-kids-lemonade-stand-ridiculous/
