This hour on the nose: Sports! Did you know it’s a mistake to include content that makes light of domestic violence? Damn, why didn’t WE know about it here at the Cleveland basketball office place? Like eight or nine of us watched the video and we thought it was totally fine, but now we can kind of see what people object to. Also... deflate-gate.
?Fast Food. Whole Food. It has to be said that if there’s an award for 2015 Hamburglar journalism, the field will be as thick as special sauce. What if we don’t want to eat Mickey D’s? What if we want Whole Foods but we are still pretending to be poor with our friend Gwyneth?
We may recap the problematic Met Gala. The dress with the penis on it? No. We do not judge. The dress that 162 laborers died making and/or carrying? No. We love tourist attractions. The wasteful extravagance of an evening that could easily cost $62,000 to attend and dress for? No.
Well, if it’s not any of those, what was the problem? Oh, I know! Was is that Clooney’s human rights lawyer wife wore anti-semitic Galliano? No. We’re sure she had her very good reasons! I know! It was all the people who wore poppies, missing their humiliation-laden overtones of Opium War imperialism!. No! Was it the cultural appropriation? Well, kinda.
Then what is it? Dummy, it’s the failure of the celebrities to in any way acknowledge “the ongoing brutal and inhumane crackdown on free speech and human rights going on on the ground in China, one that’s being called the most repressive in 25 years.”
All that and more!
GUESTS:
- Taneisha Duggan - Director of Audience Engagement at HartBeat Ensemble
- Tracy Wu Fastenberg - Director of Development at the Mark Twain House & Museum
- Howard Sherman - Director of the Arts Integrity Initiative at the New School for Drama, Senior Strategy Director of the Alliance for Inclusion on the Arts in New York
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Chion Wolf and Catie Talarski contributed to this show.
