After recovering from a fugue state, we shut down everything this week from Chernobyl to Twizzlers. Our finest living patron of the arts, Seth Fradkoff, shares a distressing story about getting kicked out of “Tootsie: The Musical” on Broadway for taking a stand against loud snacks. Also on the docket: Manhattan prosecutor-turned-novelist Linda Fairstein attempted to un-cancel herself via op-ed; a British woman revealed that she paid her way through college by naming nearly 700,000 Chinese babies; another woman in Cincinnati quit her job to eat crab legs on YouTube; and comedian/actress/writer Jenny Slate agreed to deliver a highly exclusive commencement address in Massachusetts.

 

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In this week’s episode:

The Russians are relitigating Chernobyl with their own “patriotic” take on what happened.

Linda Fairstein, the corrupt prosecutor played by Felicity Huffman in “When They See Us” on Netflix, wrote a terrible op-ed.  

A teenager in England created a website that gives Chinese babies “meaningful” English names for less than $1 a pop.

Learn more about the mukbang phenomenon, in which people eat large quantities of food for an audience on YouTube.

Jenny Slate, what are you doing?

 

Big #YUPs to…

“Big Little Lies” Season 2, starring the fantastic Meryl Streep. Now on HBO!

Jon Stewart, whom we do not deserve.