E60: Kevin Hart Has a Blended Orgasm at CES!

The best thing about a cleanse is ending the cleanse--and thankfully our Trump cleanse is over. This week, Rachel reveals how the Trump administration is blocking her efforts to gain German citizenship, and we explore the technological ineptitude of Paul Manafort’s legal team and Leonardo da Vinci’s unexpected involvement in the Mueller probe. Meanwhile, the New Year’s resolution crowd is wreaking havoc at Chopt and undermining the spirit of eating salads. Also: people are blindfolding themselves for the #BirdboxChallenge and staging confusing gummy bear concerts for the #HariboChallenge; Wikifeet gets to the bottom of an AOC podiatric Instagram mystery; Saudi Arabia develops push notifications to inform women that they are divorced; Martin Scorsese finds himself embroiled in a dumpling scandal; Ellen Degeneres inserts herself in the Oscars-hosting drama and Eric Trump’s Twitter feed; and a women’s sexual health company becomes the La La Land of CES.
 
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In this week’s episode:
Learn more about how Paul Manafort’s legal team accidentally revealed that he was sharing polling data with the Russians in the run-up to the 2016 election: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/politics/manafort-trump-campaign-data-kilimnik.html
One person we never expected to get ensnared in the Mueller probe is Leonardo da Vinci: https://nationalpost.com/news/where-in-the-world-is-salvator-mundi-the-most-expensive-painting-ever-sold
Check out the idiots attempting #BirdBoxChallenge: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172657/jake-paul-bird-box-challenge-youtube-blindfold-netflix  
And learn more about the confusing #HariboChallenge: https://mashable.com/article/tik-tok-gummy-bear-haribo-someone-like-you-challenge/#o6ZgPJsue5q0
A women’s sexual health company gets shut out of a CES innovation award: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/08/ces-revokes-award-from-female-founded-sex-tech-company/
 
Big #YUP to…
“A Very English Scandal” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D3DWWG7
The Starbucks app: https://www.starbucks.com/coffeehouse/mobile-apps