E44: Brett Kavanaugh Wears a Wankband!

Everything is terrible! Not even glamorous red carpet photos could distract us in a week where the glorious Angela Basset was mistaken at the Emmys for...Omarosa. In this episode, the cousins recount their harrowing visit to a drug store hall of mirrors pop-up; GOP Senators prepare to use female staffers as human shields; Hurricane Florence brings wetness and flying killer snakes to the Carolinas; a spider haunts an anonymous woman in Ipswich; Instagram influencers shriek about a restaurant; Stormy Daniels uncovers evidence that Donald Trump is related to the abominable snowman; and, finally, we discover the world’s first perpetual-motion machine, the wankband. HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope BUZZSPROUT http://www.buzzsprout.com/208569 SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: The New York Times issues a correction after mistaking Angela Bassett for Omarosa in a photo from the Emmys: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/pageoneplus/corrections-wednesday-september-19-2018.html Rachel and Brian find themselves inside a strange, ephemeral hall-of-mirrors retail experience: https://tribecacitizen.com/2018/09/13/dirty-lemons-drug-store-has-opened/ GOP Senators propose using female staffers to question Kavanaugh’s accuser, Dr. Christine Ford: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-senators-male-brett-kavanaugh-hearing_us_5ba16080e4b013b0977fe14a Donald Trump Tweets a video in which he attempts to view Hurricane Florence from the perspective of water: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1042197168533241856 If the storm wasn’t bad enough, Carolinians might be in for a Snakenado: https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/killer-snakes-could-turn-loose-after-florence-slams-carolinas/ Hear about an anonymous woman in Ipswich who was haunted by a spider: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-45496670 People from Instagram discover a 62-year-old restaurant, claim credit for its existence: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/nyregion/forlinis-instagram.html Stormy Daniels describes Donald Trump’s penis in her forthcoming memoir: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/stormy-daniels-book/index.html Pre-order “Full Disclosure” by Stormy Daniels here: https://www.amazon.com/Full-Disclosure-Stormy-Daniels/dp/1250205565 Learn more about the wankband here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzjeAaLbM5k Big #YUP to… The new musical “Be More Chill,” coming to Broadway in February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyxEQq5R_do Judy Cochran, a great-grandmother in Texas who carried out a vendetta against an alligator who previously ate her miniature horse: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Livingston-Texas-mayor-grandmother-alligator-13239084.php