Épisodes

  • Episode 19: #OscarsSoUnpredictable

    Episode 19: #OscarsSoUnpredictable
    Mar 23 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by Marina Fang, culture reporter for The Huffington Post, to discuss the Oscars. In particular: Apparently the Oscars are still happening This is the most diverse field of nominees in history Two women have been nominated for best director, for the first time ever
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    43 min
  • Episode 18: Vaccine And Not Heard

    Episode 18: Vaccine And Not Heard
    Mar 16 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by Jesselyn Cook, senior enterprise reporter for The Huffington Post and adjunct professor of journalism at the University of La Verne, to discuss: Children of Q-Anon believers are trying to get their parents back What are social media giants doing (if anything) to combat vaccine misinformation?
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    38 min
  • Episode 17: What's Mnuchin Munchin'?

    Episode 17: What's Mnuchin Munchin'?
    Mar 9 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by food reporter from The Washingtonian, Jessica Sidman, to discuss: What was it like to serve the right wing elite in Trump's Washington restaurant? How are restaurants preparing for a post lockdown COVID reality? The insane steps restaurants take to keep up with reviewers and get a good review.
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    46 min
  • Episode 16: Pandemic Pennies And Profits

    Episode 16: Pandemic Pennies And Profits
    Mar 2 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by economic and politics reporter from Buzzfeed News, Venessa Wong, to discuss: The people and companies who made huge profits during the pandemic How the disaster in Texas exposed the state's deep inequalities. After January 6th, Trump supporters can no longer hide behind "economic anxiety".
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    40 min
  • Episode 15: (Bonus) Pour One Out For Percy

    Episode 15: (Bonus) Pour One Out For Percy
    Feb 23 2021
    On this week's show, as promised, Don is rejoined by science and space reporter from The Atlantic, Marina Koren, to go over NASA's picture perfect landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars.
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    24 min
  • Episode 14: Lord Have Percy

    Episode 14: Lord Have Percy
    Feb 16 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by science and space reporter from The Atlantic, Marina Koren, to discuss: What happens to Space Force now that Trump is gone? How today's version of an astronaut has drastically changed. The imminent landing of the latest Mars rover, Perseverance.
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    44 min
  • Episode 13: Coins, Cars, and Conspiracies

    Episode 13: Coins, Cars, and Conspiracies
    Feb 9 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by journalist Ilana Strauss, whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Politifact, Popular Science, and many others. Thing 1: What would happen if money suddenly disappeared? Thing 2: The man who made money betting against QAnon. Thing 3: What would happen if cars suddenly disappeared?
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    35 min
  • Episode 12: Cloning Betty White

    Episode 12: Cloning Betty White
    Feb 2 2021
    On this week's show, Don is joined by Brian Sheehan, host of The TV Trivia Pod, to discuss: Thing 1: Betty White was an early civil rights fighter. Thing 2: The crazy legal loophole that led to the James Bond film that wasn't an official James Bond film. Thing 3: Are we close to being able to clone a woolly mammoth?
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    35 min