June 24, 2014 — Edie Falco

Intro – 6/24/14

Tonight, partisan politics are tearing this country apart. I blame the Democrats. Then, new regulations in social media. You can no longer claim your Facebook friends as dependents. And my guest, Edie Falco, plays a nurse on Showtime’s ‘Nurse Jackie.’ I will interview her in a backless robe. A new study says casual sex may be good for you. Well, it was good for me.

ISIS Invades Hashtagistan

For the past week I’ve been reporting on the alarming spread of the Jihadist group, ISIS. They’ve already swept through large swaths of Iraq and Syria. But now they have invaded Hashtagistan.
They are deviously piggy-backing on Twitter trends to spread their message.
Sharing pro-ISIS content with the hashtag #WorldCup2014
Do not click on any links from ISIS that say “Check out this amazing header”, cause it’s not soccer.

Tip/Wag – FDA & Ben & Jerry’s

Wag of the Finger: FDA

Under the new guidelines, Big Pharma Tweets will now have to include all side effects and warnings printed on the product’s label.
There’s no way that Pfizer could tell all their Pfollowers all the side effects for Viagra in just 140 characters.
Viagra has nine potentially serious side effects on it’s label, including permanent damage to the penis, loss of sight and loss of hearing.
That is scary stuff. I, for one, would not know what to do if my penis went blind and deaf.
There is a very simple way to Tweet your drug’s side effects: Emojis.
For depression, just Tweet a frownie face. Risk of cardiac arrest? A broken heart.

And most importantly, if there’s a risk of genital purpling.

But now a radical change a Ben & Jerry’s has me so outraged that I scream, you scream, we all scream at ice cream.

“Ben & Jerry’s is switching to non-GMO ingredients.”

Wag of the Finger: Ben & Jerry’s

In a recent interview, & Jerry was asked, “What is your favorite ice cream flavor?” And he said, “Ben & Jerry’s Americone Dream.”

Excuse me. Excuse me. Ben & Jerry’s Americone Dream? Check the label! It’s Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream!

They have cut out the most important ingredient of all: ME!

New York’s Ban on Tiger Selfies

As The New York Post reports:

“State legislators in both houses have passed a bill banning people from posing for photos while hugging, patting or otherwise touching tigers.”

Of course, the biggest victims of this plan are, as usual in Obama’s America, guys trying to get laid.

Oh yeah, ladies love a man who cuddles up with big game cats. It shows you’re spontaneous and don’t over think things.

Like it or not, tiger selfies are not some passing fad. In fact, Tinder “users estimate they encounter tigers in one out of every 10 profiles they view.”
One in ten! I had no idea there were so many tigers left out there.
This is how endangered species can save themselves. By helping us get laid.

Interview – Edie Falco

Stephen: You’ve been very open about your own sobriety and your own recovery. Is playing Nurse Jackie … is it tempting to abuse again when you’re playing somebody who is abusing or is it a reminder to just never touch it again?
Edie: I’m lucky in that it’s the second of those two things. That it makes me so glad that I’m not doing anything like that anymore. You get to remember what it felt like to be all mixed up in that chaos and that kind of polluted head and confused state all the time.
Stephen: So it actually helps.
Edie: It totally helps.