This episode it’s all about the year that was 2019, as it dissolves in unreality and disappears in a cloud of bushfire smoke.
You’ll also hear about scams, Boris Johnson, lightbulbs, Scott Morrison, sea pigs, Donald Trump, harlequins, Korea (both of them), rugby players, Passion Pop, Peter Dutton, and pornography.
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Donald Trump has become just the third US president in history to be impeached.
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"Hillary Clinton purposely lost the election with the aid of Russian hacking so the Democrats could then impeach Trump"
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"Right now in a number of states the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother's womb in the 9th month. It is wrong. It has to change."
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Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.
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President Trump Participates in a Roundtable on Small Business and Red Tape Reduction Accomplishments
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People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once. They end up using more water. So, EPA is looking at that very strongly, at my suggestion.
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Crowd stares in silence as Trump explains lack of water in showers and dish washers.
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“I’ll do whatever I want,” Pres. Trump says about the impeachment process.
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The same rule applied to the Bronx Colors-brand face makeup from Switzerland that Trump slathered on — two full containers, one half full — even if it meant the housekeepers had to regularly bring new shirts from the pro shop because of the rust-colored stains on the collars.
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The undocumented housekeepers told us they had to check Trump's supply of orange face makeup. Now, the company that makes that makeup -- @bronxcolors -- is running a sale where you can get a discount on Trump's exact shade. ("BHC06").
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I find it hard to believe the press in Russia or North Korea could possibly be worse than this.
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Scotoplanes, commonly known as the sea pig, is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers of the family Elpidiidae, order Elasipodida.
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Over-opinionated geek. It turns out the other guy rusted first. Opinions are mine, all mine. Get a goddamn warrant. he/him/his
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"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is a science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison published in 1965. It is nonlinear in that the narrative begins in the middle, then moves to the beginning, then the end, without the use of flashbacks.
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Road council workers in Melbourne have been caught allegedly scamming drivers by covering a ‘no parking’ sign and then removing the cover once a car is parked there.
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The unidentified man swindled four migrant workers from South Asia last month, taking more than $40,000 from them in exchange for the promise of safe passage into the European Union, according to Russian news reports. Finnish broadcaster YLE reported that he took them on a roundabout route that, at one point, included walking them around a lake as they carried a boat.
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Fuck this shit.
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If she did this in England
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[Photo: Donald Trump speaking at the Roundtable on Small Business and Red Tape Reduction Accomplishments, 6 January 2019. Screen grab via The White House.]