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E38: Alex Jones Wears a Chicken Diaper! (feat. Lauren Goode) Aug 07, 2018

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We’re back on our regular schedule with a special guest, WIRED Senior Writer, Lauren Goode. We all endured a horrible week in which YouPorn finally decided to ban lunatic Alex Jones, and Lauren spun around on a 3D scanner like a cat on a Roomba. We also shut down the Green Party candidate from outer space, voting on the blockchain, Magic Leap, luxury chicken diapers and the Oscars’ desperate attempt to boost ratings. 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... Read Lauren Goode’s review of Naked Labs’ 3D body scanner in WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/naked-labs-3d-body-scanner/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare Check out this thoughtful op-ed by David French detailing a legitimate rationale as to why Alex Jones should be banned: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/alex-jones-infowars-facebook.html We are living amidst the Summer of Grifting, and no beverage has been spared. Here’s the story of the Las Vegas coffee grifter: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5d4g/mysterious-coffee-grifter-has-sent-the-same-weird-handwritten-letter-to-hundreds-of-roasters Check out Green Party space alien Joe Manchik’s bio here: https://www.facebook.com/manchikengineering/about?lst=570510487%3A701693075%3A1533779673§ion=bio Here’s where Democracy dies, on the blockchain, with a tiny startup called Voatz: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/smartphone-voting-is-coming-just-in-time-for-midterms-voatz Lern more about Magic Leap, the startup that raised $2.3 billion and then released a product that was...meh. https://www.wired.com/story/magic-leap-one-creator-augmented-reality-inside-story/ Need diapers for your pet chicken? Look no further: https://theoutline.com/post/5608/bury-me-in-chicken-diapers?zd=1&zi=sygi2a2k Here’s why #OscarsSoNope https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636743517/changes-are-coming-to-the-oscars-heres-what-we-know Big #YUP to… Lauren and her cat Nougat, who is the proud owner of a $139 item called Modkat, described as “the iPhone of litter boxes” on the ultimate episode of the “Too Embarassed to Ask” podcast. Check it out here: https://www.recode.net/2018/8/3/17646320/lauren-goode-kara-swisher-final-episode-too-embarrassed-to-ask-podcast-finale And you can subscribe to Lauren’s current podcast, Gadget Lab, here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gadget-lab/id266391367?mt=2 “The Song of Achilles,” which Brian says is a cross between “Call Me By Your Name” and “Love, Simon” but set in Ancient Greece and with more violence: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006IE2IO8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Australian and Kiwi firefighters who flew all around the world to help put out the California wildfires: https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article216206915.html

E37: Bigfoot Convicted of Vomit Fraud! Aug 01, 2018

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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/

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