Episode 87: “We need to get our poop in a group.”
Vote, vote, vote. With only days until formal Election Day in the U.S., C+D dedicate this episode to talking about the importance of voting and the hopes they have for this country.
Links To Give You Life:
Fight the cringe and watch Benedict Cumberbatch play yet another troubled man in Showtime’s adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn's novels, “Patrick Melrose”
From granny squares to temperature blankets, start your seventeenth new hobby in quarantine: crochet
Submit your ballot in on time, and make educated, thoughtful decisions on all the local candidates state propositions with the help of a nonpartisan platform like Ballotpedia
Get your own poop in a group, register to vote, request your mail-in ballot, track your ballot before and after voting, and so much more with Vote.org
Celebrate the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall this November and ponder your own response to this #AskReddit question
#AskReddit:
For this week’s #AskReddit segment, C answers, “What is something about yourself that sounds completely made up but is 100% real?” and D answers, “If you could travel back in time and witness any event but not change it, what would it be?”
Moral of the story: Vote, vote, vote. If you have more obsessions, suggestions, and questions to share with the Currently Obsessed Club, email your hosts at currentlyobsessedclub@gmail.com.
Episode Guide: (01:46) D’s obsession with “Patrick Melrose” (10:08) C’s obsession with crochet (19:56) Ballotpedia and ballot prep (32:55) Ruth Bader Ginsburg (42:21) Suffragettes, patriotism and America’s future (49:45) #AskReddit on gay bars and the Berlin Wall
