Chicago White Sox first baseman Adam LaRoche abruptly retired from baseball last week with a year and $13 million left on his contract because the team's front office told him he had to stop bringing his 14-year-old son Drake into the clubhouse so much. Then the actual team rallied behind both LaRoches. But it turns out it all happened 'cause Adam's teammates complained about Drake. But so anyway: Aren't people who bring their kids to work with them just the worst?
And: There's this big hit song that all the kids are loving on called... "Stressed Out." Because the kids are all miserable, I guess. Probably because their parents keep dragging them to work with them.
And then: Three months ago, Kraft updated its decades-old Mac & Cheese recipe (formula?), removing the artificial preservatives and colors. And guess what? You had no idea.
Other possible topics include:
- RuPaul’s uproarious, and super-quotable, Vulture interview
- The millennials actually are the parents already
- A British polar research vessel named... Boaty McBoatface?
- The automated, self-teaching Twitter bot that was meant to learn 'conversational understanding,' but instead turned into a racist jerk
- The deaths of Garry Shandling and A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg
GUESTS:
- Taneisha Duggan - Producing associate at TheaterWorks
- Rich Hollant - Principal and design director at co:lab
- Jacques Lamarre - The outgoing director of communications and special programs at The Mark Twain House
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Colin McEnroe, Greg Hill, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.