This week Facebook fact-checking, Electors Electing, and Year End Reflecting.

I'm Red Black.

I'm Travis McElroy.

And I'm a tiny bit of preanimate goo.

With trends like these. Hello Brent.

Travis, help me.

It happened. It finally happened.

What happened?

I just don't get, I just don't get sick anymore. You know like I was a really sick child. I feel like I

whether karmically or epigenetically I got most of my sick out of the way, a pretty healthy adult most of the time, and then the

weather changed and man I am, I got one of those nasty cough, cold, nauseous whiny pants, just like, I'm not feeling well, bro, that's what's going.

Well, I do know that feel bro, because here in Ohio the weather went from on day one like 20 degrees day two like

57 degrees day three 18 degrees and that like yo-yo temperature just destroyed like my sinuses and

drainage and everything so that's super cool hey folks we're here you're

listening to trends like these Brent and I we go beyond the

headlines or the trending news stories to bring you as much actual factual

information as we can find I think that's the first time in a long time that we've gone out of our

way to like sum up what the show is. It's not just complaining about our

various illnesses and what temperature it is outside, though that does figure prominently in this particular intro.

And here we are, we're nearing the end of 2016, a year which many have called a big old steaming dump.

Yes, fairly, fairly enough.

That's been not great in a lot of ways.

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