The Nose On Tay Tay, Pepe's, And 'Blinded By The Light'

The Nose has this odd habit of covering basically every new Taylor Swift single/video. And so there's a new Taylor Swift single/video. And so The Nose is covering it.

And: As this is the way the world works now, a Facebook post has started a backlash against Frank Pepe Pizzeria over... politics. Sigh.

And finally: In the great tradition of A Bug's Life/Antz, Deep Impact/Armageddon, and The Prestige/The Illusionist, this year gives us Yesterday/Blinded by the Light. This week's Nose has seen the latter, a coming-of-age story about the music of Bruce Springsteen and a British-Pakistani teenager whose life is forever changed by it.

Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:

• In Urgent Older Millennial News, Counting Crows' Adam Duritz Shaved His Head
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit Animator Richard Williams Has Died. He Can Still Teach You a Lot About Animation.
• The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America
• I'll Be Loving You Forever
  My best friend and the New Kids on the Block, 30 years later.
• The Beautiful Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates
  With his groundbreaking nonfiction works, Ta-Nehisi Coates emerged as our most vital public intellectual. Now, his debut novel, The Water Dancer, takes him to uncharted depths.
• Secrets and Lies in the School Cafeteria
  A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts
• He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some young adults don't move on
• Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
  He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
• Why Viacom and CBS Had to Merge to Survive
• Five Burning Questions: Billboard Staffers Discuss Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' Replacing Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' at No. 1
• Keanu Reeves set to return for The Matrix 4
• 'Maus' Author Removed From Marvel Collection For Calling Trump 'Orange Skull'
• Robert De Niro's Company Files $6 Million Suit Against Ex-V.P. Who Binged 55 Episodes of Friends on the Job
  And 20 episodes of Arrested Development and 10 episodes of Schitt's Creek.
• Broadway Snobs Explain Theater Etiquette to YouTube Stans in Niche Twitter Drama
• Greta Gerwig Says Her Babies Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet Are a 'Bonfire' Together
• The Trailer for Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars Album Doc Is Maybe the Best Short Film of 2019
• MLB reportedly had to send a memo out to players warning against the use of gas-station sexual-enhancement pills
• Report: Spider-Man Will No Longer Be Shared by Marvel and Sony
• "Social Media Harms Your Mental Health" iPhone Cases Are Just the Latest Feeble Nod to Authenticity
• Six people aged 62 to 85 arrested for 'sexual activity' in woods after police surveillance operation
• Colton Underwood Just Said He Pretended to Like Hannah G. the Most to Trick 'Bachelor' Producers
• Sean Spicer Will Make Six Figures for 'Dancing With the Stars'

GUESTS:

• Jim Chapdelaine - Emmy Award-winning musician, producer, composer, and recording engineer; patient advocate for people with rare cancers
• Rand Richards Cooper - A contributing editor at Commonweal; writes the "In Our Midst" column for Hartford Magazine
• Carolyn Paine - An actress, comedian, and dancer; founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.