Episode 13- #NeverOprah (featuring Rachey)

Yes friends we have entered the elite ranks of the iTunes Store! Also jobless racist Joe Arpaio, having narrowly escaped criminal charges in a deus ex Trump, is now running for Arizona senate to replace retiring senator Jeff Flake. We will fill you in on his prior exploits as the totalitarian sheriff of Maricopa county, and we discuss the merits of faking one’s own assassination. But as one racist ascends, so another has fallen: Steve Bannon is out at Breitbart, and we couldn’t be happier..
Soon-to-be-jobless Chris Christie has offered massive tax breaks to Amazon in exchange for the coveted second headquarters being located in New Jersey. Unfortunately, as we say goodbye to the governor’s meatloaf-filled body, we still find ourselves forced to contend with the sheer dominance of Amazon and its god-emperor, Jeff Bezos.
In the pop culture corner, we’ll have consulting producer Rachey on the show to discuss Justin Timberlake’s return to the Superbowl stage and the use and abuse of black music and culture by former teen idols as they struggle to shake their bubblegum image. We’ll also harken back to the pre-Youtube days of 2004, when the phrase “wardrobe malfunction” entered our lexicon.
Rachey also came here to give her unadulterated read on Oprah 2020, and that’s what’s going to happen. Then she will stick around to tell us a story about newly-minted sex pest James Franco and his overwhelming odor.

Notes:
Hell world, exhibit A: Joe Arpaio’s senate run
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/arizona-sheriff-pardoned-by-trump-announces-he-s-running-for-senate

Epic thread listing every insane thing Arpaio has done
https://twitter.com/phoenixnewtimes/status/901263384087334914
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/joe-arpiao-barack-obama-cnntv/index.html
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/joe-arpaio-courts-infowars-in-his-run-for-senate/

BANNON IS SLAIN
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/09/576868468/bannon-out-at-breitbart-news

Supine Chris Christie offers Amazon tax breaks
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/11/new-jersey-christie-tax-breaks-amazon-333159
https://newrepublic.com/article/146540/amazon-thriving-thanks-taxpayer-dollars?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nuzzel

Snowden dispatch on the extension
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/951498077923348481
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html

Edward Snowden also kinda sucks
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-crypto-keepers-levine

The scourge of “Trump exceptionalism”
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/trump-exceptionalism-will-kill-every-last-one-of-your-brain-cells

Luke Savage on Bill Maher
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/09/bill-maher-real-time-trump-islamophobia

NYC fossil fuel divestment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/nyc-taking-steps-to-divest-pension-funds-of-fossil-fuels/2018/01/10/d005dce8-f5c6-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html?utm_term=.c3e7bfdd1061

Books Through Bars’ letter regarding the vendor policy
https://booksthroughbarsnyc.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/openletterJanuary.pdf
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/08/new-jim-crow-ban-prisons-nj-new-jersey-aclu/
http://www.newsweek.com/new-york-prisons-impose-draconinan-rules-limiting-books-inmates-can-read-sex-775708

Miley Cyrus, Mark Wahlberg, Kid Rock, etc. using black music to get out of child star swamp and then abandoning it once necessary
https://twitter.com/DuragsBoatshoes/status/860343445080199168/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.essence.com%2Fculture%2Fblack-twitter-claps-back-yesjulz-miley-cyrus

Justin Timberlake will be headlining the super bowl
http://time.com/5097637/justin-timberlake-super-bowl-singing/

Racialized and gendered impact of the Super Bowl on Janet Jackson
http://gawker.com/nipplegate-at-10-how-justin-won-superbowl-xxxviii-and-1511051968

Bonus: Super Bowl mishap apparently inspired Youtube?
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-youtube-1992691