I'm Justin Cherity and I'm Kate Nebs.

Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,

excites and divides us in popular culture.

This week we're talking about in cells, otherwise known as involuntary celibates.

It's an online community that gained horrible relevancy this week after a killer in Toronto

cited the movement as motivation for his crimes.

At first Kanye West is in the building.

He's back on Twitter, he's back promoting new music, but also he's doubling down on

his support for Donald Trump and he's promoting some other unsavory right wing figures.

We're going to step back and assess where exactly Kanye West went wrong and we should

say we recorded this segment slightly before Donald Trump himself entered the fray.

He retweeted Kanye and offered his support for Kanye, he sort of retweeted Kanye saying,

I love Trump basically.

And also, so in our discussion about Kanye, we mentioned that a lot of people have sort

of defended him by saying he might, his promotion of Trump might somehow be tied to mental health

issues and I just wanted to make a note that since we recorded this session, Kim Kardashian

and Chansa rapper have both come out on Twitter and like publicly refuted that notion.

So with all of that out of the way, we're onto the show, easy, we hope you're listening.

Last week, Kanye West re-emerged to announce via Twitter the upcoming release of new music

from himself, from Kid Cudi, from Nas and his good music label mates.

Unfortunately, Kanye is also doubling down on his fondness for President Donald Trump

and now also for other beacons and pundits on the alt-right or sort of on the right wing

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