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Jan 13, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 183
NOPE
Rachel Dodes and Brian Hecht are cousins who enjoy dissecting the most abominable news of the week and shutting it all down, usually over whiskey, sometimes with a guest. But don't despair...they always end with a YUP or two, beacons of hope amid all the #NOPE.
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Nopes of the Year! And the Losers Are...
We decided to pull together a Year in Review episode, but first had to address some pressing Nopes, like GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who is quite possibly a Russian agent. Also: the woman who breastfed a hairless cat on a Delta flight. The fancy building in Tribeca infested with rats because it has no fire-proofing in the walls, which might be an even bigger problem. And finally, an online magazine published an article with the following headline: “Joan Didion didn’t play golf, but her writing ha...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 182
Nancy Reagan: The OG Throat GOAT (feat. Glace Chase)
This week we shut down Mark Meadows and his run-out-the-clock hail Mary strategy to evade accountability for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government. Former Senate candidate Max Linn, the first person to get COVID in Maine, died in a hot tub following a dispute over (what else?) cryptocurrency. Our roving Australian correspondent, playwright Glace Chase, explains why “Throat Goat” was trending on Twitter and what this all has to do with former first lady Nancy Reagan. And ...
Dec 17, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 181
Recycling? So Gay!
This week, just in time for Thanksgiving, we review the bountiful cornucopia of unusual characters running for governor next year, including Dr. Mehmet Oz (Pennsylvania) and Matthew McConaughey (Texas). We also shut down a sociological study that revealed why men resist recycling: because they are afraid people will think they are gay. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/ OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope SPO TIFY https://open.spo...
Nov 24, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 180
Nancy Pelosi, Always a Bridesmaid!
This week, we shut down heiress Ivy Getty’s San Francisco wedding, featuring a Galliano dress made of shards of glass, IV bags for guests and a City Hall ceremony officiated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Meanwhile in New Zealand, the winner of an annual Bird of the Year competition was a bat, and a couple discovered the world’s largest potato in their backyard. Two new Manhattan buildings–30 Hudson Yards and One Vanderbilt–are fighting to see which edifice’s observation deck re...
Nov 11, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 179
Facebook: The Metaverse Musical!
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 ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/ OVERCAST https://overc...
Oct 28, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 178
No Kidneys for the Chunky Monkeys!
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 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 S...
Oct 15, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 177
We're Amazon Prime’s Fastest-Growing Podcast!
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 Hanso...
Sep 30, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Corral the Zebras! (feat. Nicki Minaj’s Cousin’s Friend’s Fianceé)
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 sti...
Sep 17, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 175
Final Jeopardy: Who is Bob Ross? (feat. Josh Rofé
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...
Aug 27, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 174
Hall & Oates: Live from Babylon!
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 me...
Aug 13, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Peacock Struts Past Tokyo!
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 ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/ OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week...
Jul 29, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 172
A Podcast About a Podcast About a Blogger!
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 M...
Jul 15, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Cancel the Yoga Debt!
As New York City’s Board of Elections struggled with tabulating ranked-choice votes, we shut down Bill Barr’s attempts at a reputational glow up and “pastel Qanon,” aka California yoga instructors who are embracing bonkers right-wing conspiracy theories. Sea snot is taking over the Turkish coastline and threatening to disrupt NATO. Finally, the latest installment of our Summer Music Series, in which we explore the meaning and message of Billy Idol’s iconic video for “Dancing With Myself.” HEAR U...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 170
‘Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide’ Explodes On the Scene!
This week, CNN legal analyst and public masturbator Jeffrey Toobin was suddenly back on the air, much like an unexpected erection popping up in a Zoom conference call. Over at NBC, production of the reality competition “Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide” was shut down after 40 members of the crew came down with explosive diarrhea. A lobsterman in Cape Cod said he was swallowed and spit out by a humpback whale. And our Summer Music Series is back as we deconstruct Bonnie Tyler’s classic video for “Holding O...
Jun 18, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 169
Thigh Guy Summer! (feat. Steven S. Rogers)
Joined this week by a new friend of the pod, retired Harvard Business School professor Steve Rogers, we shut down the French Open as well as a Canadian member of parliament who can’t seem to stop getting naked on Zoom. Also, the hottest new fashion trend for men: 4” inseams. We talk to Steve about his excellent new book, “A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community.” HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/ OV...
Jun 03, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 168
Phil Collins Remembers the Alamo!
This week, GQP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene compared mask mandates to being sent to the gas chambers in Germany. Rand Paul received a mysterious package containing white powder and blamed it on 1980s pop icon Richard Marx. Mullets and skinny jeans were banned in North Korea. Phil Collins, musician and historian of the Alamo, donated his extensive memorabilia collection to Texas only to discover that it might be counterfeit. A former “Bachelor” contestant rebelled against new CDC guidelin...
May 28, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 167
Our NYC Mayoral Endorsement Goes To...
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May 21, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 166
Banana Peel Pie: A Taste of Home!
This week, the uncertain flight path of a wayward Chinese rocket added to our anxiety payload. Two New York City mayoral candidates said they thought that the median price of a home in Brooklyn was around $100,000. A man was arrested in Houston on murder charges, but his bengal tiger and two monkeys are still on the lam. And Nigella Lawson scandalized Britain with a recipe for...banana peel curry. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/ OVERCAST https://overcast....
May 14, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 165
From the Wee Desk of a Tiny Man!
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May 06, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Scromiting Through the Ages!
This week we shut down the America First Caucus, designed to “protect Anglo-Saxon traditions,” and the garbage monsters who are now trying to distance themselves from it. Demi Lovato deployed asymmetrical warfare against a mom-and-pop frozen yogurt joint. A mystery animal that terrified a neighborhood in Krakow, Poland wound up being a croissant. And finally, in honor of 4/20, we look at the wave of cannabinoid hyperemisis–aka scromiting–that Tucker Carlson believes is sweeping the nation. HEAR ...
Apr 22, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 163
Find Us on Wikifeet! (feat. Jessica Winter)
This week, we shut down the Republican Party’s silence as Matt Gaetz becomes further engulfed in scandal. A daring journalist confronted the stranger who was posting photos of her feet to a foot-fetish website without asking. A person posted an extremely honest ad online in the hopes someone would adopt Prancer, a chihuahua mix described by his current owner as a “haunted Victorian child.” Also: we talk to special guest Jessica Winter about her excellent new novel, “The Fourth Child.” HEAR US ON...
Apr 15, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Gaetz Part II: Into the Eye of the Wormnado
This week, Rep. Matt Gaetz was promoted from alleged interstate sex trafficker to alleged international sex trafficker owing to a story involving a hand surgeon and a trip to the Bahamas. The Trump campaign’s fundraising arm was revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme in which Peter was robbed to pay Karen. A man in New Mexico found 15,000 bees in the backseat of the Buick he borrowed from a friend. A woman in New Jersey discovered a cyclone made of worms. And a Georgia auto body shop paid a former...
Apr 09, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 161
Florida Man: The Musical, Starring Matt Gaetz!
This week, we try to unpack the convoluted scandal involving Congressman Matt Gaetz, who is under investigation for child sex trafficking but claims he is actually the victim of a $25 million extortion plot involving his father and an FBI agent who was kidnapped in Iran and presumed dead. The National Academies of Science is interested in investigating how to reverse the effects of climate change by...dimming the sun. What could possibly go wrong? Also, we unearth an underappreciated 1980s video...
Apr 01, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 160
Honey, There's Shrimp in My Cereal!
This week, we shut down former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s strategy to fight a defamation lawsuit, which is to argue that nothing she says should be taken seriously by any reasonable person. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles man named Jensen Karp found shrimp tails, a pistachio nut and other flotsam and jetsam in a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. YouTubers attempted to answer the one question nobody ever asked, which is how many slaps does it take to cook a chicken? And the Suez Canal remains blocked by a...
Mar 25, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 159
The People vs. Beeple!
This week, Generation X waded into the cancel culture wars only to find itself ratioed on Twitter. An artist named Beeple sold a digital work of art, and its corresponding NFT, for $69 million to a person called Metakoran who has a spokesman named Twobadour. Scientists want to send 6.7 million sperm samples to the moon to replicate the animal kingdom. We delve into the insanity that is local Trenton, NJ politics as well as the bananas race for Staten Island borough president. Finally, Alabama en...
Mar 18, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Madea Saves the Royals!
Alive with the spirit of the American Revolution, we shut down the entire British monarchy this week following Oprah’s incredible tea-spilling interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, a lotion insurrection broke out in a Bath & Bodyworks in Scottsdale. Elizabeth Banks is directing a movie called “Cocaine Bear.” An elderly saxophonist told his harrowing story of being lured into a Scientology jazz band in his youth. And finally, we look into the ...
Mar 12, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Who Will Speak for the Neanderthals?
This week, we shut down the Nazi-insignia-shaped stage at CPAC, on which a woman performed a most unusual rendition of our national anthem. Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, the Muppets and Neanderthals were all allegedly cancelled (except they weren’t). New York State, which will allow weddings of up to 150 people starting on March 15, offered some interesting restrictions on dancing. Meanwhile, Cuomosexuals are doing some soul searching after the governor of New York was credibly accused by three wo...
Mar 05, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 156
We Demand Justice for Snowflake!
This week, two historians went on television to participate in a segment about how one of Joe Biden’s dogs looks insufficiently “presidential.” Meanwhile, the real dog drama was happening in Texas, where Ted Cruz abandoned his poodle amid freezing cold temperatures while fleeing to Cancún. Just in time for Purim, organizers of this year’s CPAC conference–entitled “America Uncanceled”–nevertheless canceled the appearance of rapper Young Pharaoh over his anti-Semitic tweets. The Golden Globes, run...
Feb 25, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Gorilla Glue Girl Unravels!
This week, we puzzle over Donald Trump’s two-page statement blasting Mitch McConnell for not smiling enough. 432 Park Avenue, a fancy tower for billionaires, was revealed to be a “horrifying hellhole.” A mayor in Texas resigned after telling his struggling constituents to “think outside the box” as they froze to death amid a power outage. Qanon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had an affair with a polyamorous tantric sex guru. And a woman in Louisiana had to go to the emergency room after us...
Feb 18, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 154
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