Nancy and Sarah discuss former “Shagger of the Year” Russell Brand, who’s been charged with sexual misconduct, a year or two after an explosive documentary landed on British TV about the comedian/entertainer/podcaster/New-Age guru. That show kicked off a criminal investigation, now headed to the courts.
Brand is at once an obvious and peculiar #MeToo target, since he was so outspoken about his misdeeds in real time, including a memoir about his sex addiction called My Booky Wook. The ladies discuss changing cultural climates, why women are drawn to charming reprobates, the logic of age-of-consent laws, and the appropriate legal consequences for someone who behaved badly and got lavishly rewarded for it.
Also discussed:
* Are Americans horny for anger, or is it just our Twitter feeds?
* Disinhibited by a nap, Sarah falls into Twitter spat
* Carrie Coon stans came to win
* The spitfire that is (recent Smoke ‘Em guest!) Meghan McCain
* Sarah regrets editing out a line about Russell Brand asking about panties
* “Attention hunger”
* The late great David Carr
* “Feeding the fat kid” into perpetuity
* Beware the older man saying, “I want to buy you a dress and take you out in it.” Honeytrap!
* Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver screenwriter, should have known better
* Sarah challenges Kmele Foster to an “antic conversation”
* “It’s dudes all the way down.”
Plus, Sarah tries to explain a “vacation hat,” Nancy nominates Tom Hardy for perennial “Sexiest Man Alive,” a pic of where dozens of your favorite podcasters have peed, and much more!
Correction: Nancy said the tariffs had wiped out $10 trillion in “debt,” when she meant to say “wealth.” Management regrets the error, while thinking she might have been wish-casting …
