Season 3 Parts 1 & 2 Current Events - What was going on at the time?

Episode 32E Notes: #1 movie this weekend, other TV shows this summer, in the news this day & TIME cover this week

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0:00 INTRO to new era w/ aside on when it aired (+ clip of Trump's Lynch quote)

1:11 #1 MOVIE Alien: Covenant

2:52 TV CONTEXT FOR WHOLE SERIES including ratings (3:38); Showtime lead-outs: Ray Donovan, I'm Dying Up Here; cable counterprogramming: Game of Thrones (4:59), The Leftovers & its Lynch connections, The Defiant Ones, Fear the Walking Dead, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Parts Unknown, The Nineties, American Gods, Power

7:46 WORLD EVENTS (episode image discussed at 8:23) status of the Trump presidency, Trump's orb in the Middle East w/ aside on Lynch's Trump comments from 2018 (8:44), BTS wins Billboard award (9:35), final Barnum & Bailey circus (10:39)

13:44 TIME COVER Pandemic Preparedness (+ post-2020 hindsight)

21:28 FINAL THOUGHTS + setting up clip & next time

23:11 OUTRO clip from fact check of Simpsons/Trump orb cartoon

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EPISODE LINKS

Trump jokes David Lynch's career 'is over' as he quotes Guardian interview (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeU8-HqUgYA

Cast Of The 'Twin Peaks' Chats Showtime Reboot - GMA (video featuring actor from upcoming part) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuoPry35wt0

American Chronicles Circus and Truck Stop (video) https://vimeo.com/390634186

Browsable visual copies of Time issues end in 2015, so I will not be able to link any more of those. However, you can read the cover story online...

"The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic" (cover of May 15, 2017 TIME Magazine) https://time.com/magazine/us/4766607/may-15th-2017-vol-189-no-18-u-s/

2002 Simpsons episode predicted Trump orb encounter? (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4f4wvF_lVE

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