E69: Felicity Huffman Hatches a Mouse Mastodon!
Episode description
Like a Netflix crossover special of Full House, Desperate Housewives and Orange is the New Black, the college-cheating scandal known as Operation Varsity Blues captivated and revolted us in equal measure. We are a nation of grifters and there’s no turning back! Other terrible things we shut down this week: two dead people struggle to sell a house in the Hamptons that they designed to either prolong your life or end it; scientists are resurrecting the wooly mammoth and creating hybrid chicken dinosaurs; pineapples are a wedge issue on Fox News; Lacroix blames a quarterly earnings miss on “injustice”; Trump “wins” a golf tournament that he didn’t attend, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a podcast with an anti-vaxxer. Also: our very first Yope, standing at the intersection of Yup and Nope, centers on Mitt Romney’s unorthodox technique for blowing out birthday candles.
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In this week’s episode:
Read Rachel’s piece in Vanity Fair about Operation Varsity Blues: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/03/the-great-college-admissions-scam-and-the-real-cost-of-entry
Learn more about the science behind mouse mammoths: https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/scientists-are-one-step-closer-to-reviving-woolly-mammoths/
Read Lacroix’s bizarre mea culpa for their 3Q earnings miss: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/8/18256206/lacroix-earnings-brand-handicapped-nick-caporella
Watch Mitt Romney blow out birthday candles: https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1105455525074997249
Big #YUPs to…
The only Jackson we can get behind these days: Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who sentenced Paul Manafort to 90 months in prison on Wednesday.
The Asassination of Gianni Versace, now available on Netflix! https://www.netflix.com/title/81091015