Slate’s Caitlin Schneider returns to the third chair to discuss:
Trump attending Game Three of NBA Finals (they lost)
Are rumors of Taylor and Travis holding their wedding at Madison Square Garden a false flag by Tree Paine?
Scott Pelley’s tearful exit interview from 60 Minutes and CBS News with the New York Times
Remembering how Lady Gaga once said she wanted to be a combat journalist
There is unfortunately another goddamn scandal surrounding Maine Democratic Senate Graham Platner, this time involving some of his ex-girlfriends
And in our After Dark segment available only to subscribers, a follow-up on the California primaries and Spencer Pratt’s implosion
This week’s cultural recs:
Jack recommends Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives, now in theaters
Caitlin recommends Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men
Aleks recommends the music video for Britney Spears and Madonna’s “Me Against the Music” (inspired by seeing Kane Parsons’ Backrooms)
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