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<p>It’s a two-man show this week as Eric Kohn and Dan Hugger begin by discussing the slap heard ’round the entertainment world. In the event you haven’t heard <em>yet</em>, actor Will Smith stormed the Oscars stage last night to slap Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Was it staged? Was it real? Can we know? Does it matter? Speaking of blurring the lines of reality and fantasy, next Eric and Dan examine the stolen Jan. 6 text messages from Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. How much of politics now is just playacting of the kind we see in Hollywood? Finally, what is a woman? Perhaps Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson can’t define one, but Dan and Eric can. </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.acton.org/audio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Subscribe to our podcasts</strong></a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjEoDypUD8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Will Smith slaps Chris Rock (Warning: NSFW language)</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/will-smith-chris-rock-jada-pinkett-smith-chris-rock-had-it-coming/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sorry, but Chris Rock Had It Coming | Rod Dreher, The American Conservative</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/us/politics/ginni-thomas-donald-trump.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Texts Show Ginni Thomas’s Embrace of Conspiracy Theories | The New York Times</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/justice-scalia-won/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Justice Scalia Won | Dan McLaughlin, National Review</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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