R.E.M. Thriving, Tarantino Saves 3.17.20

In episode 588, Jack and Miles are joined by Bechdel Cast's Jamie Loftus to discuss the Fed throwing money in the wrong place, Trump trying to buy the coronavirus antidote, the man who bought seventeen thousand bottles of hand sanitizer, the origin of Draconian, REM blowing up in the charts, fun things to do to kill time, Fiona Apple's advice on how to quit cocaine, why we need to stay in with Arnold, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Exclusive: Fed is ‘throwing money in the wrong place,’ says Sheila Bair, former top banking regulator
2. Germany tries to stop US from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
3. He Has 17,700 Bottle of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
4. Man Who Hoarded 18,000 Bottles Of Hand Sanitizer To Resell: I'm Not Sorry
5. Draco (lawgiver)
6. Cool, R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" is charting again
7. Fiona Apple says she quit cocaine after "one excruciating night" at Quentin Tarantino's house with Paul Thomas Anderson: "Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again."
8. Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity
9. this gets better with every single second & i will never recover from it
10. ...if I preface the video by saying it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger in his kitchen wearing a Terminator t-shirt and giving coronavirus advice, while feeding a pony called Whisky & a donkey called Lulu.... it is somehow still better than you imagined
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