We’re reeling and retching after watching the internal Facebook music video about health insurance open enrollment. But we attempt to collect ourselves and shut down anti-goverment militia members who happen to work for the government as well as anti-mask/anti-vaxx NYC police officers marching for “freedom of choice.” Also: we discuss why guns are ever allowed on movie sets amid the golden age of CGI.   HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Read Pooja Bhatia’s account of working at Ozy Media, in the London Review of Books.Big #YUP to…Hulu’s drama about the opioid crisis, “Dopesick.” Read Rachel’s interview in Esquire with the actor Michael Stuhlbarg who is playing Dr. Richard Sackler.HBO Max’s “The Other Two.” 

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This week, we shut down the Bad Art Friends Sonya Larson and Dawn Dorland. We’ve got the latest on the scandal involving Ozy Media and its founder Carlos Watson. Also, a passel of feral hogs attacked Shakira in a park and took her mobile phone, and a zeal of zebras continues to run amok in Maryland.  HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Read “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” by Robert Kolker in the New York Times magazine. Big #YUP to…Adele Succession’s J. Smith Cameron for being a Spelling Bee whistleblower regarding the word “undaunted.” In addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

No Kidneys for the Chunky Monkeys!

This week, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham revealed in her memoir that a staffer known as The Music Man would blast show tunes to soothe Donald Trump’s nerves when he was going nuclear. An executive at a media company we never heard of called Ozy Media impersonated a YouTube executive on a conference call with Goldman Sachs. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s new father-in-law, hotelier Bill Evans, went undercover as a automotive-enthusiast-turned-media-watchdog named Hanson at her trial. Finally, we explore a highly unusual $14 million real estate listing in Maryland. bop!   HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Read Rachel’s article about Elizabeth Holmes in The Conversationalist here. Big #YUP to…The Indigo Girls Del Mar, CA In addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

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This week, we shut down Kraken lawyer John Pierce, who resurfaced following a mysterious two-week absence from court, and issued a statement that raised even more questions than it answered. Headlines from the annual Met Gala were stolen by someone who wasn’t even there: rapper Nicki Minaj, whose cousin’s friend in Trinidad was left by his fianceé because he has swollen testicles. Kim Jong Un has emerged as a fashion icon as journalists kvell over his new svelte look. And a pack of zebras is still running loose in Maryland as officials attempt to slowly gain their confidence.   HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Learn more about Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend in Trinidad who is suffering with elephant testicles.Big #YUP to…“Impeachment” on FX “The Chair” on Netflix In addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

Corral the Zebras! (feat. Nicki Minaj’s Cousin’s Friend’s Fianceé)

Rudy Giuliani shaved his beard in a restaurant. Matt Gaetz got married. Dr. Tenpenny believes that Covid vaccines magnetize people. Mike Richards, who is not the guy who played Kramer on “Seinfeld,” resigned as the new host of “Jeopardy!” after holding the job for less than one day. A San Francisco chef created $72 fried rice as a joke, only to that demand for the dish eclipsed everything else on the menu. Also: special guest Josh Rofé joins us to talk about his fascinating new documentary, “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed,” now streaming on Netflix.   HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Watch Josh Rofé’s documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed now streaming on Netflix! Big #YUP to…Larry David, for telling it like it is AirBnb, for offering to temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees   In addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

Final Jeopardy: Who is Bob Ross? (feat. Josh Rofé

This week, we shut down former assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark, a Trump appointee who believes that votes in the 2020 election were changed by Chinese thermostats. Also, Ed Solomon, the “mathematician” who told OAN that there aren’t enough atoms in the universe to explain Joe Biden’s victory isn’t so much a mathematician as he is former drug dealer now employed as a swing-set installer. Meanwhile, pharmacists are fending off Covid truthers who are requesting a poisonous anti-parasite medication for horses instead of the vaccine. And we met for the first time in person since last March–in Babylon, Long Island–so we could go to see Daryl Hall & John Oates rock Jones Beach.  HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Watch “Live from Daryl’s House” Big #YUP to…Kathy Hochul, the first female governor of New York Babylon, Long IslandIn addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

Hall & Oates: Live from Babylon!

This week we discuss all things Olympics, ranging from the series of scandals plaguing Japan’s Olympic organizing committee to the pictogram pantomime performance at the opening ceremony. Also, Jeff Bezos had an environmental epiphany while in orbit: let’s pollute space. For the Summer Music Series, we examine Michael Jackson’s understandably forgotten “Liberian Girl.”  HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Watch “Liberian Girl.” Big #YUP to…“The White Lotus” on HBO Max “After Hours” directed by Martin Scorsese In addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

Peacock Struts Past Tokyo!

This week, we have gone super niche, covering a controversial episode of an obscure fashion podcast, The Cutting Room Floor, featuring a former fashion-blogger-turned-CEO, Leandra Medine aka Man Repeller. Meanwhile, a SoftBank-funded humanoid robot named Pepper is slacking on the job and getting fired all over Japan, but may nevertheless be called upon to represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics. Finally, we turn our attention to the worst song-video combination ever to hit No. 1: the Steve Miller Band’s 1982 abomination, “Abracadabra.”  HEAR US ON ITUNEShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/OVERCASThttps://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHERhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nopeSOUNDCLOUDhttps://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTShttps://pca.st/SrJY RADIO PUBLIChttps://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N In this week’s episode: Listen to “The Cutting Room Floor” episode that has everyone (by everyone, we mean a few fashion-obsessed people) talking. Watch the Steve Miller Band’s terrible and confusing video for Abracadabra. Big #YUP to…Liz Phair for her wonderful memoir, “Horror Stories.” The Texas Democrats, for leaving the state to protect voting rights.  In addition to Twitter, you can now also follow us on Goodpods, a new app that will help you discover great podcasts. 

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Rachel Dodes and Brian Hecht are cousins and news junkies who dissect the most abominable news of the week and shut it all down, usually over whiskey. Listen as the cousins lament the disgraceful state of the world, sometimes with the help of a notable guest. But don't despair...they always end with a Yup or two: a beacon of hope amid all the #nope.

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