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Episode #1828: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Chloe (@itsthechew) and Rachel (@realslimchada) join the show to talk about burning bridges, The End of the F***ing World, and why you shouldn't be rude on the subway. Also, Stormy Daniels once claimed she spanked Trump with a Forbes magazine and a bunch of dudes who are pretending they don't watch porn are freaking out about it, government shuts down on one-year anniversary of Trump presidency but all Trump could think about was missing his glitzy Mar-a-Lago party, Mitch McConnell's supervillain statement demanding Dems choose between sick kids and the children of immigrants, Trump becomes the first president to speak at the anti-choice March for Life, Trump administration rescinds Obama guidance on defunding Planned Parenthood, FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump, and Colin Firth also says he won't work with Woody Allen again Check out Sorry Mom's

Episode #1827: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to share subway drama (TW: domestic violence) and help answer a Patreon question about if it's healthy to make your pets vegan. Also, Ann Curry was "not surprised" by Matt Lauer's sexual misconduct allegations, Dylan Farrow tells Gayle King about childhood sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen, the next Women's March is scheduled for Jan 21 in Vegas and Jan 20 in D.C. and NYC, Trump's "Fake News Awards" turned out to be a poorly functioning web page, Trump undercuts Chief of Staff and GOP on key issues as shutdown looms, border patrol agents accused of systematically destroying water that saves migrants' lives, feds planning massive Northern California immigration sweep to strike against sanctuary laws, and media recs: Ru Paul's Drag Race, Living Single, and the awfulness that is Supplies by Justin Timberlake Subscribe to Sorry M

Episode #1826: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to offer media recs: You Are a Badass, Astrophysics For People in a Hurry, Hayley Kiyoko, Phantom Thread, and Paddington 2. Also, ICE deports man who has lived in the U.S. for 30 years, Trump cancels his trip to London and blames Obama, and the Trump admin waives punishment for convicted banks, including Deutsche, which Trump owes millions Your Fun Aunts have created vision boards for their 2018 vision goals! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9U00itaysY You know the drill: subscribe, like, and comment! *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1825: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to rec The Generation Why Podcast and talk about getting out of a shitty job. Also, some corrections about Sword & Scale and Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Bannon is subpoenaed in Mueller's Russia investigation, 21 states sue to keep Net Neutrality as Senate Democrats reach 50 votes, and Andrew Sullivan's very bad take on the #MeToo movement Your Fun Aunts have created vision boards for their 2018 vision goals! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9U00itaysY You know the drill: subscribe, like, and comment! *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1824: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Erek (@erek_smith) and Shem (@each1teach1) join the show to offer media recs: Hammer and Hoe, Cupcake, Sword & Scale, and Call Me By Your Name. Also, a woman accuses Aziz Ansari of sexual assault, Magic: The Gathering community deals with ongoing harassment from streamer, Trump having consensual sex with a porn star is literally the least offensive thing he's ever done, actress Catherine Deneuve decries #MeToo movement as "puritanism," and how men feel entitled to sex and perceive women laughing at them as the greatest crime Your Fun Aunts have created vision boards for their 2018 vision goals! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9U00itaysY You know the drill: subscribe, like, and comment! *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1823: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Erek (@erek_smith) and Shem (@each1teach1) join the show to help answer a Patreon question about dealing with people who are worried about climate change but refuse to consider going vegan. Also, a ballistic missile emergency alert was mistakenly sent to people in Hawaii, Trump attacks protections for immigrants from "shithole" countries, Trump asked why "we need more Haitians" and said to take them out and someone else in the room responded, "Because if you do, it will be obvious why," in March Trump met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and when one of the members relayed to Trump that potential welfare cuts would harm her constituents "not all of whom are black," Trump replies: "Really? Then what are they?", and Chelsea Manning files for U.S. Senate bid in Maryland Your Fun Aunts have created vision boards for their 2018 vision goals! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Episode #1822: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Katharine (@spkheller) joins the show to help answer a Patreon question about sneaking cats into apartments. Also, Steve Bannon is out at Breitbart, NYC plans to divest $5 billion from fossil fuels and sue oil companies, federal judge orders Trump admin to keep DACA in place, Trump holds bipartisan meeting on immigration in which he accidentally embraces the idea of a "clean Dream Act," Trump admin orders that nearly 200,000 Salvadorans must leave the country, ICE agents descend on 7-Eleven stores in 17 states to harass employees, New Jersey prisons reverse course on banning The New Jim Crow after ACLU of New Jersey letter, Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig says she will never work with Woody Allen again, court strikes down North Carolina's GOP-drawn congressional map as partisan gerrymander, Trump dissolves voter fraud commission: adviser says it went "off the rails," Katie Roi

Episode #1821: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Charles Rockhill (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to talk about tanning, offers recs about Dr. Who, Community, and Cruel Intentions the musical, and to remember Matthew Sheppard. Also, sadly Trump's Fake News Awards has been rescheduled, Joe Arpaio is running for Senate in Arizona, Jeff Session's DOJ charged a white supremacist with terrorism but they didn't tell anyone, and New Jersey prisons ban The New Jim Crow and the ACLU isn't having it *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1820: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Charles Rockhill (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to talk about Desi potentially getting a little backpack and to help answer Patreon questions about fav media moments of 2017, including: Big Little Lies, Get Out, and Big Mouth and fav tabletop games like Clue and Guess Who. Also, stars wear all black at the Golden Globes as part of #TimesUp campaign, Allison wonders why women are always expected to bleed and clean up men's messes, empty words of solidarity from men like Justin Timberlake and James Franco, Oprah becomes the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille award and some have begun to wonder if she'll run for president, Ivanka Trump's tone-deaf praise for Oprah's speech didn't go over well, and Stephen Miller's batshit Jake Tapper interview ended with security escorting Miller off set  *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or

Episode #1819: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to answer Patreon questions about The Monkey King and the problematic aspects of The Simpsons. Also, Community writer Megan Ganz takes Dan Harmon to task for demeaning treatment in the writers' room, Trump administration holds Dreamers hostage for $18 billion border wall demand, ICE pick says politicians who run sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes, ICE to move forward with deportation of paraplegic boy's caregiver, DOJ pushes for citizenship question on census and recs for Once Upon a Time, Bojack Horseman, The Glass Castle, and an anti-rec for Downsizing  *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1818: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show to answer Patreon questions about hypermobility and to discuss seasonal depression and when it's okay to quit things. Also, Youtube's Logan Paul posts video of a dead body from a Japanese forest known for suicides, Black Mirror got a key fact about Emergency Contraception wrong, Steve Bannon's tirade: going from calling Don Jr.'s acts "treasonous" to backpedaling as light speed, Trump says Bannon has "lost his mind," Trump's lawyer sends cease-and-desist to Bannon the day before Michael Wolff's book dropped, Trump is failing to recognize a succession of old friends, that gorilla channel thing isn't true, and Trump calls himself a "stable genius" *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1817: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) joins the show to talk about Snickers the cat and offer the first-ever anti-viewing rec for Fuller House. Also, some real recs for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Broad City, Sherlock, and Dr. Who; powerful Hollywood women unveil anti-harassment action plan, five women accuse top left-leaning media executive of sexually harassing them, two top Vice executives are on leave following sexual harassment allegations and investigation, Iceland has made it illegal to pay men more than women for the same work, Trump to announces "most dishonest" and "corrupt media awards" next week, likely record-breaking number of women are running for governor in Michigan, and Dave Chapelle on Louis C.K. allegations: They "made me laugh" *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1816: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) joins the show to help answer Patreon questions about video game "loot boxes" and offers advice for a former young Republican in dealing with feelings of guilty about being a political and moral douchebag. Also, our viewing rec: Black Mirror (no spoilers), Trump brags about the size of his "nuclear button," Chrissy Teigen and John Legend shame Twitter into stripping Pizzagater's verified badge, and 22 people dead and hundreds arrested in Iran protests *** Desi calendars are available again for the Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1815: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Happy Holidays! Citizen Radio will return with new episodes in January! Tessa Hersh (@welliTclaire) joins the show to rec Mr. Rogers, Andra Day, Once on the Island, and to help answer Patreon questions about being a lady while traveling abroad and advice for separating home time from work time. Also, the GOP rushed to pass tax bill, but likely won't fund Children's Health Insurance Program until 2018, House Republicans don't know some very basic facts about the tax bill they wrote, Democrats unlikely to force DACA vote this week in order to avert shutdown, White House calls to end "chain migration," which just sounds like all immigration, J20 protesters found not guilty and avoid lengthy prison sentences, four people critically injured after car rams into Melbourne pedestrians, and USA Gymnastics paid McKayla Maroney $1.25 million to keep quiet about years of sex abuse Read All

Episode #1814: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Charles Rockhill (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to discuss the Trixie and Katya Show, Ru Paul's Drag Race, and The Crown. Also, 7 Dreamers including Bernie Sander's former Press Secretary are in prison on a hunger strike, judge rules two immigrant teens must be allowed abortion access, Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf vetoes "most restrictive anti-choice bill in the country," Trump administration dropping climate change as national security threat, Grand Rapids police chief says officers should not have handcuffed an 11-year-old girl, federal judge blocks Trump rule allowing employers to opt out of birth control coverage, and Millennials are poor as hell Meet your Fun Aunts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sObvuXDNPkY (like and subscribe, bbs!) Only a few Desi calendars left for the next Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $10/month! patreon.com/allisonkilkenny

Episode #1813: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Charles Rockhill (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to discuss Fun Aunts, The Last Jedi, Christmas cookies, and the Real Hot Wives of Orlando and Vegas, and to help answer Patreon questions about kitty adoption and Net Neutrality. Also, Trump's terrifying robot debuts at Disney World, Fox News accuses the FBI and Mueller of "coup" to overthrow Trump, Mitch McConnell says Senate will vote on the GOP tax bill Tuesday night (here's what that will mean for you), Doug Jones doesn't think Trump should resign because of sexual harassment allegations, second director says Weinsteins blacklisted actress Mira Sorvino from film, woman says T.J. Miller sexually assaulted and punched her, MSNBC's Chris Matthews reportedly received reprimand over sexual harassment complaint in 1999, and the House paid out $350,000 in settlements over four years including $115,000 for sexual harassment claims

Episode #1812: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show to discuss Hercule Poirot, The Crown, 12-Hour Day, and Age of Napoleon, and to help answer a Patreon question about when to call the cops. Also, ex-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert barred from being left alone with minors, Dustin Hoffman accused of sexually assaulting two women and exposing himself to a teen, FBI agents on Russia probe called Trump an "idiot," French president Emmanuel Macron awards U.S. climate scientists grants to study climate change, 50 world leaders gather in Paris for climate summit and Trump was not invited, California has nearly hit a record on wildfire spending, New Mexico school shooter had secret life on Pro-Trump white supremacy sites, and Neo-Nazi who rammed his car into anti-fascist protesters charged with first-degree murder Read Allison's piece at Reductress about a woman, who is totally not her, projecting t

Episode #1811: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show to discuss Patreon's fee reversal, pens, the Zodiac Killer, the West Memphis Three, True Crime Garage, and Cat Person. Also, CDC bans words including "diversity," "transgender," and "fetus," Republicans are voting to give a huge tax cut to many members of Congress, Trump allies flip out after Robert Mueller lands tens of thousands of emails, Paul Ryan is retiring, Matt Damon shares all of his bad opinions on sexual misconduct, Bryan Singer sued for alleged rape of 17-year-old boy at party on yacht, and Anita Hill will lead a commission to check sexual abuse in Hollywood Read Allison's piece at Reductress about a woman, who is totally not her, projecting therapy diagnoses onto her cat: http://reductress.com/post/wow-this-woman-is-definitely-projecting-her-own-therapy-diagnoses-onto-her-cat/ Only a few Desi calendars left for the next Patreon suppo

Episode #1811: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy) joins the show to discuss adopting a cat, meditation, and the failed model of pivoting to video. Also, the 5-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, Kilkenny's rule, Patreon back-peddles on fee change, Alabama elects Doug Jones, GOP's Senate majority shrinks to 51, Trump endorsed not one but two losing candidates in Alabama, Roy Moore's embarrassing horse ride, reports of voter suppression tactics pour in from Alabama election, FCC votes 3-2 to repeal Net Neutrality, Ajit Pai thinks you're stupid enough to buy the crap featured in his stupid video (that features a Pizzagater), more sexual misconduct allegations against Russell Simmons, Tavis Smiley, and Morgan Spurlock, who preemptively admitted to history of sexual misconduct, Kentucky Rep. Dan Johnson dies of "probable suicide" days after molestation accusation surfaces, judge drops felo

Episode #1810: Sign up to support Allison's future BRAND-NEW podcast at patreon.com/allisonkilkenny for as little as $1/month! Charles Rockhill (@charlesrockhill) joins to share a story about the Mother of the Year. Also, inside the trial that could determine the future of free speech in America's capital, Mario Batali steps away from restaurant empire following sexual misconduct allegations, two senators call for Trump's resignation over sexual misconduct allegations, Trump sends sexually suggestive and demeaning tweet  about Kirsten Gillibrand, four Trump accusers call on Congress to investigate sexual misconduct claims, and Jimmy Kimmel makes another emotional plea for children's health care Read Allison's piece at Reductress about a woman, who is totally not her, projecting therapy diagnoses onto her cat: http://reductress.com/post/wow-this-woman-is-definitely-projecting-her-own-therapy-diagnoses-onto-her-cat/ Only a few Desi calendars left for the next Patreon supporters who sign up or upgrade to $