E61: NOPE LIVE! Rachel & Brian Humiliate Themselves in Front of Superfans!

What happens when you put 30 Nope superfans in a room with a cheese influencer and our finest living text-message dramaturgist? Your terrible week suddenly gets better! As the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history dragged on, we managed to execute our first-ever live show, in which we collectively shut down Trump’s hamburger inflation, Javanka’s “Vice” walkout, and explored how the hijacking of Brian’s Spotify account led him to develop a passion for Christian rock and Shen Yun dance performances. We also vomit over dueling Fyre Festival documentaries, the timing and content of WeWork’s rebranding, and ponder why a nine-foot sculpture of a piece of candy wrapped in the Saudi flag was installed at Ground Zero. Finally, world-renowned cheese influencer Brooke Hammerling offers plating advice while leading us through the darkness of the Birdbox Cheese Challenge, and professional songstress Glace Chase delivers an Oscar-quality interpretation of Jeff Bezos’s romantic text messages. Join us!

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In this week’s episode:

Learn more about WeWork’s rebranding as We Company here: https://www.we.co/

Is there anything more 2019 than two streaming companies fighting over the Fyre Festival?  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/movies/fyre-reviews.html

Is Shen Yun a dance performance or a cult? https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/shen-yun-cult-falun-gong-china-ads-show-reviews-13484697.php

How did a Saudi sculpture wind up getting installed on the site of Ground Zero? https://nypost.com/2019/01/14/sculpture-honoring-saudi-arabia-to-be-removed-from-ground-zero/  

Follow Brooke Hammerling, cheese influencer, here: https://twitter.com/brooke

Follow actress-comedian-performer Glace Chase here: https://www.instagram.com/glacechase/

Big #YUP to…

Chicago-based restaurant Alinea, for offering the Clemson Tigers a real celebratory dinner, as opposed to garbage food: https://chicago.eater.com/2019/1/16/18184811/alinea-clemson-tigers-invitation-celebration-football-white-house-trump-fast-food

Our BDE-possessed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for her no-nonsense letter to Donald Trump: https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1085549944969285634

Rachel Zegler, the high school student who was just cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” - check her out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjwEj1mxY4

Our amazing fans and guests! We’re not worthy!