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PSA: New Nope Summer Schedule! Jul 26, 2019

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It's summertime and the living is....terrible. So we're grasping for some shreds of sanity by taking it a little easy in August. No new episode this week, and the schedule for August will be irregular, but we'll be back to our usual Thursday morning episodes come Labor Day. Stay cool, stay #NOPE!

E87: Danny DeVito Has a Hot Girl Summer! (feat. John Jannuzzi) Jul 18, 2019

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It’s been a terribly confusing week, but luckily we were joined by a special guest, jack of all trades John Jannuzzi, who helped us clear up and shut down topics like the FaceApp, created by a Russian company that is harvesting our biometrics a year before a presidential election. (Everything’s fine.) Also on the docket: Millennial women are being haunted on Instagram by a Danny DeVito crop top; a reporter caused a stir at Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s cryptocurrency press conference by wearing Google Glass; millions of people are getting ready to storm Area 51 by using an anime-inspired jogging technique; a man compares himself to Martin Luther King Jr. after having a misogynistic meltdown in a Long Island bagel store; and, finally, we wax nostalgic for embattled grocer Dean & Deluca.

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OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

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In this week’s episode:

Here’s the guy who wore Google Glass to the cryptocurrency press conference.

Watch the viral video of the Bagel Guy.

Learn more about the sad state of affairs at Dean & Deluca.

Big #YUPs to…

The “Hustlers” movie trailer.

Listening to Bollywood music at the gym (check out John’s “Bollylift” playlist here.)

Bonobos shirts (and their content!)

Jannuzzi’s Cookies, John’s delicious side hustle. Order here!

And follow John Jannuzzi on Twitter.

E86: Whitney Houston Sends in the Lions! Jul 11, 2019

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You know it’s a terrible week when you wish there was an earthquake in New York so you’d have a legit excuse to be hiding under the table. We shut down Trump’s Revolutionary War fan-fic Fourth of July speech; an executive who behaves like an in-orbit astronaut in the office; a browser plug-in that allows you to stealthily watch “The Office” while in the office; a woman in Texas who faces 20 years in prison for licking ice cream; British birders who couldn’t distinguish a seagull from an eagle and an island going to extreme measures to keep mice from proliferating.

HEAR US ON ITUNES

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST

https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ

STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks

POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

Listen to Donald Trump talk about how the revolutionary army led by George Washington took over the airports.

Read a letter from a woman whose boss likes to pee in a cup in his office and wash the cup out in the company kitchen.

Watch the woman who licked ice cream in a viral video and now faces 20 years in prison.

Big #YUPs to…

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, for kicking ass at the World Cup in Paris, and making us (a little) proud to be American for the first time in years.

Whitney Houston, for her cover of a fabulous Steve Winwood song “Higher Love,” which somehow made it to the top of the charts posthumously.

E85: Betsy Ross Leaks Her DeepNudes! Jul 04, 2019

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The Fourth of July weekend is upon us and it’s already turning out to be terrible. First we learned that Betsy Ross was not so much a patriotic seamstress as she was a racist plagiarist. And now, We the People, the American taxpayers, are going to be left footing the bill for an obscene MAGA rally, complete with the finest Sherman tanks your 1957 dollars can buy. And I’ll tell you what we will not be doing. We will not be making PBS.org’s recipe for a red white and blue potato salad, which combines an unholy trinity of ingredients–blueberries, onions and mayonnaise. (Vomit.) In other horrible news, the Fyre (festival) is spreading. Cardi B. lost a copyright battle for a term she likened to a cold pigeon. Everyone’s getting diarrhea from Crypto. And restaurants around the country are introducing “not hungry girlfriend” menus.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

Check out PBS’s controversial Red White and Blue potato salad.

Big #YUPs to…

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird. Read Sue’s fabulous essay, “So the President Fucking Hates My Girlfriend.”

High school journalist Spencer Cliche, for uncovering a prison labor scandal right in his own auditorium.

E84: Hickenlooper-Buttigieg 2020! (feat. Lauren Mechling) Jun 27, 2019

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We emerge from a hallway of horrors this week to shut it down with novelist and friend of the pod Lauren Mechling. If you’ve ever asked yourself “Why do there need to be five moderators for the Democratic debates?” you’ve come to the right place. Other questions we seek to answer this week: Are people really growing horns on the backs of their heads? Why are we living in an age that can only be described as “anti-corrodic”? How do you tell time in Sommaroy, Norway? What is the appropriate attire for a mother-in-law at a wedding (hint: not a wedding dress)? Why would some young people rather fake their own deaths than decline a job offer? Why is everyone eating out of bowls? So many questions.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

There are too many candidates and too many moderators for the Democratic debates.

People are growing horns on the back of their head (or it might just be a pillow scam.)

The Norwegian island of Sommaroy is going “time free.”

The Financial Times chronicles the dark history of corridors.

Big #YUPs to…

Lauren Mechling, author of “How Could She”–named a most anticipated novel of the summer by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Bustle, Vulture, and more–just debuted this week. It is so good. Buy it here.

E83: Dog Spectacular! Jerry Falwell Jr. Officiates a Canine Wedding! Jun 20, 2019

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It’s been a terrible week, but only one of us was paying attention. Rachel hasn’t slept since she decided to adopt a St. Berdoodle puppy on Sunday–unfortunately one day too late to enter the Miss Dog Mom USA pageant in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becky are embroiled in a possible love triangle with a Miami pool boy; Lenny Dykstra spent nine hours in a New Jersey dumpster looking for his teeth; an Alabama man sicced a meth-addicted attack squirrel on the police; and an entrepreneur has sold over a million stun guns for flies. Finally, we explore why job listings have gotten completely out of control.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

Look at this beautiful puppy.

Look at Lenny Dykstra dumpster diving with no teeth.

Read Amanda Mull’s piece in the Atlantic about job listings spiraling into another dimension.

Big #YUPs to…

Coco Love Brown, the 11-week-old St. Berdoodle that entered Rachel’s life this week.

“Tootsie: The Musical,” which Brian saw this week in a quiet theater, in which nobody was crinkling Twizzlers, thanks to the heroic self-sacrifice of last week’s guest, Seth Fradkoff.

E82: Meryl Streep Vibrates on a Higher Frequency! Jun 13, 2019

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After recovering from a fugue state, we shut down everything this week from Chernobyl to Twizzlers. Our finest living patron of the arts, Seth Fradkoff, shares a distressing story about getting kicked out of “Tootsie: The Musical” on Broadway for taking a stand against loud snacks. Also on the docket: Manhattan prosecutor-turned-novelist Linda Fairstein attempted to un-cancel herself via op-ed; a British woman revealed that she paid her way through college by naming nearly 700,000 Chinese babies; another woman in Cincinnati quit her job to eat crab legs on YouTube; and comedian/actress/writer Jenny Slate agreed to deliver a highly exclusive commencement address in Massachusetts.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

The Russians are relitigating Chernobyl with their own “patriotic” take on what happened.

Linda Fairstein, the corrupt prosecutor played by Felicity Huffman in “When They See Us” on Netflix, wrote a terrible op-ed.

A teenager in England created a website that gives Chinese babies “meaningful” English names for less than $1 a pop.

Learn more about the mukbang phenomenon, in which people eat large quantities of food for an audience on YouTube.

Jenny Slate, what are you doing?

Big #YUPs to…

“Big Little Lies” Season 2, starring the fantastic Meryl Streep. Now on HBO!

Jon Stewart, whom we do not deserve.

E81: Tracy Morgan Mixes a Rat Cocktail! Jun 06, 2019

Show notes

Much like a celebrity driving a brand-new Bugatti through Midtown Manhattan, this week we dealt with the consequences of terrible, yet predictable, situations. Following a flight to London, Brian got swept up in a delegation from Mauritius before being forced to surrender to the Heathrow airport authorities as an unregistered foreign agent. Meanwhile, Rachel was on her couch in New York contending with a Twitter pile-on for insulting the appearance and demeanor of Kimberly Guilfoyle. We conclude that we’ve hit peak pop-up in San Francisco, as a bar for humans and rats to intermingle is debuting with a $50 cover charge. Also in San Francisco: a new pogo-stick rental company called Cangoroo purports to help people commute to work by hopping around on vertiginous inclines. Los Angeles real-estate brokers hosted a Hieronymus Bosch-themed party with actors dressed as Adam and Eve and embalmed snakes in cocktails. West End theatrical productions are serving culinary abominations to the audience during live shows. And, finally, we describe a job listing from Craigslist for a “pro-bonobo” receptionist. Plus: just in time for Pride, we speak to the cohosts of the infamous podcast The Sydney Gays, which has torn the land down under asunder.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

In our first ever international Nope interview, we speak to Wil Sabin and Jay Fisher of the podcast The Sydney Gays.

In case you want to get tickets to the pop-up rat bar in San Francisco, here’s a link.

An “unusual opportunity” for someone who is seeking employment for no pay in a “pro-bonobo” community is here.

Big #YUPs to…

Ava DuVernay for her four-part series “When They See Us” chronicling the horrific story of the Central Park Five. Now on Netflix.

Restaurateurs Keith McNally and Stephen Starr, for bringing back one of our all-time favorite haunts, Pastis!

E80: Mandy Moore Inhales Molecules of Freedom! May 30, 2019

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For our second-ever transatlantic broadcast, Brian was holed up in a bar in the north of England and Rachel was home in New York City--and if we had had confidence that this week was not an abomination, we would have said so. To that end, we shut down Robert Mueller’s cryptically worded press conference; anarchy on Mt. Everest and an Antipodean uproar over a podcast called “The Sydney Gays.” Also on the docket: one government official compared Jews to carbon dioxide and another government official compared American soldiers to natural gas; Moby feuded with Natalie Portman over whether they dated 20 years ago (they didn’t); incels tested out a penis-enlargement procedure called “jelqing”; and finally, an act of God flooded a Noah’s Ark theme park in Kentucky. And the nopes marched in, two by two.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

Watch Robert Mueller’s 10-minute statement here.

Here’s Mandy Moore’s selfie at the summit of Mt. Everest.

This is a link to the highly controversial Australian podcast, The Sydney Gays. Listen at your own risk.

The Trump administration is systematically concealing data about climate change, framing carbon dioxide as the hero, not the villain, in their upside-down narrative.

We can’t understand the incels’ theory about the Stacys and the Chads. Maybe you will.

Big #YUPs to…

The Shrink Next Door. This podcast has everything: a Hamptons house with life-sized cow sculptures, a deranged therapist, a koi pond, a 40-year-old man throwing himself a bar mitzvah and grand larceny!

Brian’s shoutout in the New York Times in a listicle about subway oddities.

E79: Donald Trump Wargs Into a Bathroom Monster! May 23, 2019

Show notes

Our attempts to warg our troubles away were interrupted by an impromptu Donald Trump speech, in which the Victim-In-Chief announced that he was going on strike until the Democrats cease all of their investigations into his rampant misconduct. To which we say, Nope! Meanwhile, Mayor Bill de Blasio entered the Democratic 2020 field with a cringeworthy (and possibly illegal) video shot inside his taxpayer-funded luxury SUV; Kris Kobach sent a list of demands to the White House, including the requirement for a private jet, to fulfill his Peter Principle-sanctioned destiny; and Steve Mnuchin’s 85-year-old dad used a flip phone to buy a $91 million Jeff Koons rabbit sculpture for disgraced hedge-fund operator Steve Cohen. Also: Nope investigates an unusual commercial real estate transaction in Hell’s Kitchen; Elon Musk sends an insane memo to all of his Tesla employees; and yet another high-flying Silicon Valley biotech CEO turns out to be a fraud. Finally, we speculate on what precipitated Kim Kardashian’s Twitter beef with fast food chain Jack in the Box.

HEAR US ON ITUNES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/

OVERCAST
https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope

SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ
STITCHER
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks
POCKET CASTS

https://pca.st/SrJY

RADIO PUBLIC

https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N

In this week’s episode:

Watch Trump’s meltdown in the Rose Garden.

Check out Kris Kobach’s leaked list of demands.

Learn more about the bidding war for Jeff Koons’s rabbit sculpture.