This episode features one of those Lincoln Project anti-Trump ads juxtaposing past American Presidents speeches to Trump talking. Like everything else, it's painful.
This episode features a cut up version of a podcast extra from WNYC’s On The Media about the clever grifters at The Lincoln Project. I enjoy many of their ads of course, but put me in the skeptical camp about their effectiveness, and I would certainly never give these guys any money. Here’s the Tooning Out the News segment they reference.
This episode features a clip from Paton Oswalt’s new Netflix comedy special I Love Everything about people who are probably painful to have sex with. The whole thing is quite good.
This episode features a clip of Daniel Markovits talking about the tired “efficiencies of the free market vs bureaucratic waste of the government” trope, as well as an analogy about what it’s like living in a world where people still support Captain Trump, both from Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast.
This episode features clips from the Accidental Tech Podcast where John Siracusa and Marco Arment talk about the endless, unacceptable prevalence of police violence against black people and the insanity that any group should have to remind other people that their lives matter. Also, a clip from Chris Rock's special Tamborine about the “few bad apples” theory of police killing black people.
This episode features a nice little story from the Bill Moyers in Conversation podcast where Bill tells a story recalling when he was 11 and FDR died and the reaction of his father.