Episode 5 – VP Debate Special

Episode 5 is streaming on Soundcloud, iTunes, and Stitcher! Carson and Allan discuss share their reaction to the 2016 Vice Presidential Debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Conservative Talk Show Host Mike Pence, as well as the future of the GOP, LBJ and the “Daisy” ad, and the exceptional horribleness that is Scott Walker.

Cheat Sheet and Articles of Note

• “Andrew Kaczynski’s BuzzFeed Team Joins CNN”
• “This Wasn’t a Debate. This Was a National Gaslighting.”
• “The Two Debates-And Trump Hung Out to Dry”
• “Kaine lost the night but won the morning”
• “Reports suggest Donald Trump is unhappy with Mike Pence for winning the VP debate”
• “Many of Trump’s Supporters Never Left Their Hometowns”
• “Paul Ryan Is Planning a Revolution, and It Starts in January”
• “How the ‘Daisy’ Ad Changed Everything About Political Advertising”
• Clinton Campaign Post-Debate Ad

Episode 2 – Lester Holt Makes Wayne Brady Look Like Malcolm X

Episode 2 is streaming now on Soundcloud and available on iTunes and Stitcher for download! In this week’s episode the gang takes on the current state of race in America, the plight of white working-class men, behaving badly at Springsteen shows, and make predictions in Monday night’s presidential debate against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Cheat Sheet and Articles of Note

• “Peyton Manning’s Hairline is a Lie”
• America’s Lost (Male) Workers and the Election of 2016
  • “America’s Lost Workers”
  • Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis by Nicholas Eberstadt
• The  Souls of White Folk—Police Shootings and White Outrage
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates and “Between the World and Me”
  • “White People Explain Why the Feel Oppressed”
  • “NC GOP Rep: Charlotte Protesters ‘Hate White People’
  • “GOP Rep.: ‘Outrageous’ For Obama To Joke About Race Amid NC Unrest”
  • “Mariners: Steve Clevenger tweets ‘don’t in any way represent the team'”
• How to Stream Tonight’s Presidential Debate for Free, No Cable Required

 

Cheat Sheet for “Episode 1 Cheat Sheet — Roll Herd”

Allan and Carson open the show by talking about Donald Trump’s apparent retreat from Birtherism, Jimmy Fallon and the demise of political satire, and the depiction of the War on Drugs in Netflix’s “Narcos.” The crew also talks about the ACC’s decision to move games away from North Carolina over its anti-LGBTQ legislation, the Colin Powell email hack, Hillary Clinton’s slide in the polls, and the merits of North Dakota State University Football (or lack thereof).

Each week we’ll provide you with a list of the articles we’ve read or cited in the show. You can listen to our podcast here on Soundcloud (links to iTunes and Stitcher coming soon!).

Cheat Sheet and Articles of Note

• “This Is Maybe But Probably Not Tom Brady Secretly Calling In To A Radio Show”
• Trump and Birtherism
  • “Donald Trump’s ‘Original Sin'”
  • “Donald Trump’s history of birtherism, selective resume checks, and the thread that connects it all”
  • “Watch This Video”
• Jimmy Fallon, Satire, and Extremist Politics
  • “With His Trump Interview, Jimmy Fallon Officially Became Jay Leno”
  • “Jimmy Fallon’s Interview Was the Opposite of Inoffensive”
• “Narcos” and the Drug War
  • “What ‘Narcos’ Gets Wrong About the War on Drugs”
  • “What ‘Narcos’ Still Gets Wrong About the War on Drugs”
• Something or Nothing
  • “ACC moving neutral-site championship games out of North Carolina due to HB2”
  • “Colin Powell, the Last Reasonable Man”
  • “How panicked should Democrats be about Donald Trump’s poll surge? We asked 8 experts.”
  • “McFeely: Big Bison defeat will bolster cries of ‘JV football'”