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Trends Like These
Travis McElroy
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2017
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Travis is at San Diego Comic Con this week, so it's up to me to tell
you what's going on in this episode. And WHAT AN EPISODE IT IS! We
have Beyond the Headlines with Brent and Travis, but then we're joined
by Gizmodo Science Editor Maddie Stone to catch up on trending science
stories from the past few weeks. And we also have Rachel Stine
returning to fill us in on some trending political stories in a rare
Travis-less Politics Roundup!
INTRO 0:28
Bevs Like These
McElroy bros on @midnight
Headline of the Week
"Dæ-lek" vs. "Dah-lek"
BEYOND THE HEADLINES 6:52
Ann Coulter's Bad Flight
Way Too many Contact Lenses Found In One Eye
Is R Kelly Running A Sex Cult?
Doctor Who's New Doctor
SCIENCE CORNER W/MADDIE STONE 48:43
Snortable Chocolate
Larsen C Iceberg Breaks Off
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter
NY Magazine's Scary Climate Change Article
Tips & Tricks For Reading Science Journalism
POLITICS ROUNDUP W/RACHEL STINE 1:27:40
WI-FIVE 1:53:53
OUTRO 1:55:44
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week climate change exaggerations are Kelly accusations and contact lens accumulations |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Brent Black I'm Travis McElroy and I'm a cop give me all your belongings |
| 0:14.0 | Give me all your prolongings. Oh, prolongings. Give me your bras. |
| 0:16.0 | With trends like these. Hello Brent. |
| 0:29.0 | Travis. |
| 0:30.0 | Travis, where are you calling me from? |
| 0:32.0 | It sounds so west coast? |
| 0:35.0 | I print that's amazing how did you how did you do that? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, you know like our first year you were always calling from the west coast and it just sounds a little more. |
| 0:46.3 | I don't know, I'm full of shit. I just happen to know you're in San Diego. |
| 0:49.3 | That's what's going. |
| 0:50.3 | Oh, okay. No, yeah, I'm calling live from Comic Com. |
| 0:55.0 | Live from CMJU Comic Con, it's Travis McElroy. |
| 0:58.0 | Check it out, we're at the Walking Dead booth, checking out all these zombies, and it's really... |
| 1:02.0 | There's people in costume, if you can believe it. bed booth checking out all these zombies and it's really... |
| 1:02.8 | There's people in costume if you can believe it. |
| 1:05.7 | Dressed like all your favorite comic book characters. |
| 1:08.6 | Superman, Batman, they're all here. |
| 1:12.3 | Stay tuned, we're gonna let you know what cosplay is short for. |
| 1:16.0 | As soon as we find out ourselves. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, ComicCon, I've never been. |
| 1:21.0 | Maybe I'll go, I've been to it like literally over 70 nerd conventions and New York |
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