Author: Nebulous Media

We've been living in "unprecedented times" for the past two years. And Politico's latest scoop on the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision is no exception. Mary Katharine and Vic unpack the story, and what the decision means for trust in the nation's highest court, abortion laws, and the midterm. President Joe Biden laughs at his failing economy during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, an update on midterm polling, and a steakhouse chef earns the honor of a lifetime.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
• 07:33 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
• 07:39 - Politico scoops the Supreme Court’s decision on the Dobbs v. Jackson case, which could overturn Roe v. Wade 
• 28:29 - President Joe Biden laughs off comedian Trevor Noah’s jabs at the state of the country 
• 37:59 - Update on pre-midterm elections polling 
• 42:46 - Longtime Longhorn Steakhouse employee Gayle Dudley wins a “rare” honor for grilling a million steaks

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Politico’s scoop on the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on Dobbs v. Jackson 

To nobody’s surprise what so ever, Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flops on where we are in the pandemic... again. We’re staying up to date on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, and more importantly, the outcries from those who fear they’ll lose their ability to dictate what Twitter users can read and share. Finally, Mary Katharine and Vic reveal the “spirit” of 2022 (psst... we're talking alcohol).

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
• 12:14 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 12:20 - Segment: You Love to Hear It 
• 12:25 - Dr. Fauci says the pandemic “phase” is over 
• 22:40 - Fox News’ Brett Baier asks Pete Buttigieg about conflicting federal pandemic masking guidance versus his personal masking decisions 
• 27:15 - Twitter monitors crumble as Elon Musk takes over the platform
• 41:20 - Jägermeister is the spirit of 2022, apparently

And the crowd goes wild! Billionaire Elon Musk buys Twitter, and the libs are up in arms. Mary Katharine talks about her appearance on the Real Time with Bill Maher, American officials visit war-torn Ukraine, and new midterm forecasts give Republicans a(nother) reason to smile.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Introduction 
• 21:50 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
• 22:19 - Elon Musk sends Twitterverse into a spiral after purchasing the platform for $44 billion
• 41:43 - American officials visit Ukraine
• 43:55 - Crystal Ball forecasts bode well for Republicans
• 48:59 - Actor Chris Pratt response to calls for cancellation

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Supercut of Mary Katharine on Bill Maher, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon’s Thaleigha Rampersad

Caitlin Flanagan’s work in The Atlantic

Alison Rosen's Your New Best Friend podcast

From continuing to mask while traveling to Vice President Kamala Harris’s awe-inspiring speech on space to actors duking it out in court, Mary Katharine and Vic are talking all about performance art. 

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 08:05 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 08:28 - An update on travel mask mandates
• 15:48 - Segment: You Love to Hear It
• 15:54 - MSNBC contributor Symone Sanders concedes some points about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s pandemic health guideline decisions 
• 17:26 - Florida considers removing special carveouts for the Disney Corporation, following their opposition to the Parents’ Rights Bill
• 21:45 - Capitol building evacuated over “air threat…” which just so happened to be the Army parachuting into Nationals Stadium for military appreciation day… 
• 24:30 - Segment: Kamala Fan Club 
• 26:03 - Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard duke it out in court over defamation case 
• 39:39 - JLo’s new engagement ring looks eerily familiar to Mary Katharine…

...Without a mask! A federal judge overrules the CDC's travel mask mandates, much to Mary Katharine and Vic's delight, and the White House's dismay. The Bidens roll into the annual Easter Egg Roll, touting Democrats' eggcellent work to provide top-quality education to America's kids this year (insert eye roll here). Finally, Mary Katharine answers a listener's inquiry about Fairfax County Public Schools' search for a new superintendent.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 11:48 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 12:05 - Segment: Getting Hammered Investigates 
• 12:18 - Federal judge overruled the Center for Disease Control’s travel mask guidance
• 29:55 - Donna Brazile says Democrats to run on the “roaring” economy, Republicans on the “fumes” of 2020
• 31:26 - The White House hosts its annual Easter Egg Roll, where First Lady Jill Biden touts Democrats’ education strategy during the pandemic, and President Biden has some interesting comments on Afghanistan 
• 37:39 - Reason magazine piece on what we lost during the pandemic
• 39:43 - Listener inquiry: Fairfax County Public School’s superintendent search 

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Peter Suderman piece in Reason magazine

From guns to free speech to Elon Musk’s “hostile” Twitter takeover, Mary Katharine and Vic have quite the lineup for their 50th episode! 

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
• 11:26 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
• 11:40 - Transportation Security Administration extends mask mandate for travel—and Dr. Fauci changes his tune (again) 
• 14:53 - President Joe Biden’s approval rating falls to 33 percent, according to latest Quinnipiac poll
• 18:21 - Biden administration shifts its focus to “ghost guns”
• 21:10 - Black nationalist New York City subway shooter injures thirty
• 28:17 - The View’s Joy Behar shares her… interesting… take on the gun control 
• 39:57 - "Pants wetting" ensues as Elon Musk plots his hostile Twitter takeover

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The Cheesecake Factory menu, for your viewing pleasure

Quinnipiac poll on Biden's approval numbers

Stephen Gutowski’s The Reload 

Mary Katharine’s latest in the Daily Beast

White House press secretary Jen Psaki tries to make the "Putin Price Hike" happen. But Mary Katharine and Vic say, it's not going to happen! Dozens of D.C. elites catch the coronavirus after the Gridiron dinner, Elon Musk plots his Twitter takeover, and reporters jump on students who ask about the Hunter Biden laptop story coverup—and other media missteps—at a University of Chicago conference on disinformation.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 13:04 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 13:05 - Dozens of D.C. elites—including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—test positive for Covid following the Gridiron dinner
• 20:58 - Segment: You Love to Hear It (we think?)
• 21:00 - Anthony Fauci says… finally… that Covid will not be eliminated... and that people will have to start (start?) using their own judgement... when making health decisions
• 23:58 - Philadelphia reinstates their indoor mask mandate 
• 26:55 - White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki tries to blame Putin for spiked gas prices. 
• 33:53 - University of Chicago hosts conference on disinformation; administrators and panelists poke fun at students for asking about misinformation in the media—including the Hunter Biden laptop story coverup
• 41:50 - An update on Elon Musk’s Twitter Takedown 

Taylor Lorenz, a former content cop who went after creators and now writes on the lives of internet-famous teens for a living, claims she’s really the victim of online attacks. And Senate Democrats are convinced that newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson faced worse treatment on the Senate floor than Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But Mary Katharine and Vic question who the real victim is here.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
• 11:13 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
• 11:18 - President Barack Obama visits the White House to tout improvements to the Affordable Care Act
• 22:36 - University of Chicago student peppers The Atlantic columnist Anne Applebaum with questions on the mainstream media’s Hunter Biden laptop story coverup 
• 39:34 - Taylor Lorenz says she’s bullied for her reporting on internet teens
• 46:57 - Senate Democrats allege newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson faced worse treatment than Justice Brett Kavanaugh 
• 49:00 - Bojangles to give out gas gift cards to customers 

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The Washington Post opinion on Hunter Biden’s laptop 

From the CDC’s admission that lockdowns caused a mental health crisis among teens to Jennifer Rubin’s worst column ever (yeah, it’s really that bad), we’ve got quite an uplifting lineup for a very important day: Mary Katharine’s birthday!

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
• 12:23 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
• 12:31 - Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson goes to final floor vote 
• 15:59 - Elon Musk buys more than 73 million shares of Twitter stock, now a member of the platform’s board of directors
• 21:40 - The CDC releases information on the impact Covid lockdowns had on teen mental health
• 31:49 - President Joe Biden shares a story—about what, we don’t know… 
• 42:01 - Jennifer Rubin’s worst column yet: A defense of Biden’s economy 

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Suzy Weiss piece for Bari Weiss’s Common Sense Substack on teen girls’ experience with Covid lockdowns

…To know that one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions was directly responsible for keeping schools closed for months? To not be invited to the sex parties that Rep. Madison Cawthorn claims are rampant in the nation’s capital? Or to know that the New York Times and the Washington Post are just now talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story? 

As Mary Katharine often says, it’s not good! It’s not good, Vic!

** Content Warning: Includes conversations on sex that may not be appropriate for young ears **

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
• 12:57 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 13:02 - New emails show the American Federation of Teachers imposed line-by-line edits to the Center for Disease Control’s school reopening guidance
• 23:28 - Rep. Madison Cawthorn claims elder statesmen snort cocaine and host sex parties, gets slap on the hand from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
• 29:22 - More than a year and a half after it was first reported in the New York Post, the New York Times and the Washington Post dig into the Hunter Biden laptop story 
• 30:59 - The Slap Part 2: Revenge of the Takes—a brief unpacking of the takes on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
• 40:20 - Disney comes out against parental rights bill in Florida 

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Guy Benson’s podcast