This week Don and Harr discuss the recent NFL penalty for kneeling during the National Anthem, attempting to investigate what gives people the idea that the country that’s so vulnerable to interrogation.
Josh Bertone returns to discuss the voters opinions on Bill Clinton and the allegations against him compared to the allegations against Donald Trump. How do voters take into account reprehensible behavior from their preferred candidates?
This week the guys discuss Cultural Phenomena, how that gets to be defined, and the backlash effect with each example.
We’re all foreigners, in one way or another. But what about that will remain true in the strictest terms by the end of this decade, century or even this episode?
Starting off 2018 with their vaunted unbiased reps on the line, the guys discuss checking one’s biases, how they try to and often/ultimately fail. Before that, they briefly respond to an e-mail which previews the now-guaranteed upcoming Tropes in Romantic Plots episode.
The year for the podcast TRULY ends with the guys going over several feedback emails concerning how to avoid writing stereotypes, avoiding the cons of the “Will they/Won’t they” romance plots, and discussing the trajectory and possibilities for the podcast in the coming weeks of 2018!
The guys continue the list of things they observed and reported during 2017, but before that they spend an hour going through honorable mentions, including Get Out, Wonder Woman, and more!
In the first of a future sub-section of episodes determining how the future might come to look like we’d like it to, Harry and Don discuss Gender Equality and how to cure the various venoms that make equity between the races harder to swallow.
Centered mainly around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “The First White President”, Salty Don and Sugary Harry discuss the cognitive dissonance of the Trump voter, particularly the POC voter.
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