E53: Ariana Grande Rakes America Great Again!

It’s Thanksgiving week and the world is a very dangerous place! Donald Trump couldn’t even pardon two turkeys, believes that Finnish leaf-raking techniques will prevent forest fires, and plumbed new depths as he sided with Saudi murderers over our own intelligence agencies in an embarrassing exclamation-filled public statement. Meanwhile, romaine lettuce rears its E. coli-infested head and wreaks havoc on Americans' collective consciousness and Australians are having conniption fits over the placement of onions on a sausage sandwich. Also: we explore football player-turned-Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker’s involvement in a patent for a toilet for well-endowed men; residents of a ritzy coop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side sue their florist over a lobby arrangement that resembles a mass grave, and the Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana gets kicked out of China for an offensive Instagram video about an oversized cannoli. Thank u, next. 

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In this week’s episode: 

Learn about the Australian existential crisis unleashed by a hardware store’s decree about onion placement: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/world/australia/sausage-onion-bunnings-warehouse.html 

Acting AG Matt Whitaker’s contributes to toilet technology: https://www.metro.us/president-trump/acting-ag-matt-whitakers-company-touted-toilet-seats-well-endowed-men 

Behold the offensive floral arrangement that inspired a lawsuit on Manhattan’s Upper East Side: https://nypost.com/2018/11/19/florists-sued-over-arrangement-that-looks-like-mass-grave/ 

Check out the video that got Dolce & Gabbana booted from Shanghai: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXYtsZl6D5/ 

Big #YUP to…

South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang, who beat Putin’s lackey Alexander Prokopchuk to become Interpol’s next president. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/interpol-elects-south-korean-president-russia-kim-jong-yang 

Our new patron saint of feminist clapbacks, Ariana Grande, for throwing shade at Piers Morgan after he criticized the British pop group Little Mix: https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/1065300013335556096