2438: Just For Laughs

Show Notes

• — Playing It Cool: Joanna Shaw Flamm, so happy to be here and enjoy our air conditioning, is in studio
• — The Everyperson: Joanna hosts a fitness podcast with a nutrition counselor/personal trainer. Penn Jillette lost 150 pounds on a potato diet.
• — Trainwrecks: Joanna is a big Amy Schumer fan, and she shows her gratitude by reporting inappropriate comments on Amy’s Instagram
• — Angry Food: John Hinckley, Jr., Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin, will be released from St. Elizabeth's Hospital after 35 years. Keith wonders why it costs so much to keep people in prison.
• — The Impossible Burger: Joanna explains Community Supported Agriculture. A new vegetarian burger that cost $80,000,000 to create looks and tastes uncannily like meat.
• — Poutine Him In The Poor House: A Canadian comedian must pay $42,000 for telling a joke at the expense of a disfigured child singer. This isn’t the first time a Canadian comedian was fined thousands of dollars for making a joke.
• — Parker Posing: An ex-councilman from Pennsylvania was arrested for stealing parking passes and food vouchers at the DNC, to which he gained access with a pass from the RNC
• — The Hippopotamus Oath: After a group of jurors said they could not fairly judge a defendant covered in Nazi tattoos, the judge ordered that a makeup artist cover them every day before court