In this episode we mainly discuss the big orange elephant in the room. There’s also some brief asides about cancer, modern sexual norms, Canadian politics, and the nature of existence.

Clarifications/Corrections:

Ben Carson was director of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins

Keith Ellison is the name of the Minnesota congressman who predicted Trump would win the Republican nomination during an appearance on This Week on ABC in July of 2015.

At around the 25:20 mark, Tristan mistakenly says Trudeau introduced austerity measures when it was actually Harper’s solution.

It was the Jonestown Massacre where followers of Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple committed suicide/were murdered by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid in Belize. Heaven’s Gate is a completely different insane cult.

We did a very special away episode wherein we took our new recorder to the Vancouver Art Gallery and admired some fine art. It was a bit of an experiment to say the least, and sometimes the audio is not ideal, but oh well. I’ve included pictures of some of the art we discuss below.

New York House

Sacred Fountain

The South

Santa Sees You

Studio Portraits

Negro Quarter

Evans Really Liked Coke and Pepsi

Cartoons!

Crazy Cool Japanese Art

Mohammad really liked this one for some reason

Anatomia

One Small Section of Tristan’s Favourite Piece