S02:E04 - "That's A Big Bowl of Pasta"

It’s The Official Podcast Day because Conan hath declared it

It’s The Official Podcast Day because Conan hath declared it

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Folks, the only Amazon Fire I want is the one plugged into my TV. Amirite? Up here.

Amazon rainforest fires: Here’s what we know - CNN

Thin dalmation line

https://www.aspiregear.com/blogs/news/what-do-the-thin-line-colors-mean

Thicc Orange Line

Baby please don’t leave me, I swear I’ll be better

Corporations are trying to gaslight us into believing they care about the good of mankind
https://opportunity.businessroundtable.org/ourcommitment/
File Under “Hmmmm.”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/08/19/heads-gm-ford-among-ceos-rejecting-shareholder-centric-model/2050475001/

Calendar Capitalism

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared ice cream a “nutritious and wholesome food” to help the dairy industry, since he was already trying to find a way to get rid of a surplus of 500 million pounds of cheese. In the years since, sales of ice cream have spiked on this day. Dippin’ Dots, Cold Stone Creamery, and Baskin-Robbins ran promotions and in-store giveaways on National Ice Cream Day 2019, as did PetSmart and Williams Sonoma. Halo Top gave out vouchers in a promotional collaboration with Bumble. Yes, some Americans are likely now using a dating app because Ronald Reagan had too much cheese .

Why Every Day Is Suddenly ‘National Something Day’ - The Atlantic

The Chicken Sandwich Wars, They Have Begun

A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich and a Tactic to Set Off a Twitter Roar - The New York Times

Hot take: fried chicken is already a sandwich.

It’s literally meat between bread, folks.

We love it!

Idea: start making fake trump catchphrases and say them in his voice in order to spread them

pigs and chickens

zima zima zima

a big bowel of pasta

Ketamine for the Troops

The president wants to make a controversial new nasal spray available to depressed veterans. The agency says it will consider incorporating the drug after it has more data.

Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans - The Atlantic

Conan invents podcasting

Inside the Podcast Boom: How Conan O’Brien and More Cash in – Variety

Doing some podcast growth hacking

2% of our downloads are from France
2% of our downloads are from Spain

Actually, We Can’t: The Humiliating Weakness of Neoliberal Policy Worship

Posit: policies are great, but without power they’re meaningless.

All political movements which prioritize policy at the expense of, or without commensurate focus on obtaining the power necessary to enact an agenda will always fail.
Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care - The Ezra Klein Show
One of the argument Ezra makes against pure, unadulterated M4A appears to be as follows:

We cannot afford to risk failed attempts at bold policy because it results in disillusioned voters

As if failing to try is not equally or more discouraging and disillusioning
Voters want representatives that fight for them
The incentive is a fear of losing power when it should be a fear of wasting power.
The policy is secondary to the movement behind it.
There’s just always this underlying but unspoken assumption that the status-quo is tolerable while we wait. And it’s curiously always coming from people for whom the status quo is, like, not killing them and their family.