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Court Blocks Trans Ban, Donna Brazile and the DNC, Starbucks Holiday Cup, Anthony Rapp Speaks Out, Non-Smoker Vacation, iPhone Brassiere Folder, Fast and the Furious Beef, 250 Million a Day, Republican Tax Reform Bill, Trump Re-Election, Manafort Indicted

Trends Like These

Travis McElroy

Comedy, News Commentary, News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

INTRO: 0:25

ACA Open Enrollment

Travis is Sick

Bevs Like These

BTH: 7:52

Starbucks Holiday Cup

Anthony Rapp Speaks Out (CW: Sexual Assault/Abuse)

Non-Smoker Vacation

Iphone Brassiere Folder

Fast and the Furious Beef

POLITICS ROUND-UP: 49:38

250 Million a Day

Republican Tax Reform Bill

Trump Re-Election

Donna Brazile and the DNC

Court Blocks Trans Ban

Manafort Indicted

Tidbits

WI-FIVE: 1:39:02

OUTRO: 1:40:37

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week Starbucks Cup revealed Papadopoulos plea unsealed and Trans Army Ban Repeel.

0:07.0

I'm Brent Black, I'm Travis McElroy, and I'm Joe Schmo Day job with trends like these. Hello Brent. Hello Travis. Hello Travis here we are it is Saturday

0:29.7

November 4th 1047 a.m. Eastern time. We're recording on a Saturday because you my friend have been a little bit

0:38.1

infirm this week is that correct? I have. I started getting sick Thursday and I just went downhill from there

0:47.0

This is my life now. You know this is true. This is I'm trying to remember what the principle is but there's something in

0:53.6

psychology where it's like when you have a like positive moment in your life it

0:58.7

feels so fleeting and when you have a negative moment like being sick it's hard to remember a time when you have a negative moment like being sick, it's hard to remember a time when you weren't sick and imagine a time where you won't be sick anymore.

1:08.5

Oh, absolutely. Like that feeling of like, I have this weird, in my journal whenever like I'm bummed out for more than like half a day

1:18.0

I'll go back and like I'll have written something like I've felt like this for a long time and I'll go back and go no no that's that wasn't true it just seems like that when you put on the sad helmet

1:27.7

Well, that's the thing is like there's a on Parks and Rec Chris Tregor talks about how his body is the microchip and like when he gets sick.

1:36.0

But for me it's more like my body is like a Rube Goldberg machine where it's all intricately balanced junk

1:42.8

that shouldn't work together and yet does.

1:45.3

Sure, with like a wheel of shoes kicking things.

1:47.8

Right.

1:48.3

Little marbles down the path there.

1:50.7

And all those things work together to make a Travis, but when something goes wrong, it just makes a whiny baby?

1:57.0

Yes, gotcha.

2:00.0

Well, hey, it might be inappropriate to like rub it, rub it in that I have good news during a week when you're not feeling well, but this week, my friend, I paid my last, my final, my no more student loan payment.

2:18.6

Hey, congratulations buddy.

2:20.2

Thanks. And I just want to say that listeners of this podcast as well as anybody that bought use your words directly

2:28.3

Helped with that so thank you

2:30.9

I'm kind of being braggy about it but like it was a really cool emotional moment for me and I was

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