RUSS BAKER author of the definitive expose on President George Herbert Walker Bush, Family of Secrets, Comics DAVE SIRUS and KEVIN BARTINI and ZACK FORD, the LGBTQ editor for Think Progress.

TIME CODE:

Russ Baker: 2:20 Dave Sirus: 38:46 Kevin Bartini: 1:14:40 Zack Ford: 1:33:02

DEEP BACKGROUND

ZACK FORD is the LGBTQ editor for Think Progress, he talks about Mika Brzezinski’s use of the word “butt boy,” Kevin Hart’s Oscar unworthy homophobic tweets, and the use of the word “queer” in the LGBTQ community. 

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Who, What, Why RUSS BAKER on George H.W. Bush’s sins against democracy. Russ is author of  Family of Secrets published by Bloomsbury Press in 2008. Gore Vidal called it, “One of the most important books of the last ten years.” Family of Secrets describes alleged connections between the Bush family with the Central Intelligence Agency. The book asserts that President George H.W. Bush was linked to the Watergate scandal and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Order it here: h

Comedian DAVE SIRUS says YouTube has a PewDiePie problem. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, YouTube’s most popular vlogger continues to dabble in white nationalism. SIRUS also discusses Maria Butina pleading guilty, David Pecker and The National Enquirer admit to making Karen McDougal payment to help Trump’s presidential campaign, and Michael Cohen gets three years.

Comic KEVIN BARTINI looks back at the week in weird, and tells us about men who vape viagra, how Christmas Eve is the most common time of the year to suffer a heart attack, nutritionists say we should eat more dirt, and a human heart is found on a Southwest jet.