A liberal enclave in Minneapolis decides to stop calling the police and their neighborhood is overrun by homeless, drug addicts, and criminals. Major corporations are boycotting Zuckerberg and his mealy wish-washy approach to hate speech online. Carl Reiner dies at 98 years old. These among other randomness are here for your listening edification.

Today’s episode has Don quizzing David in the spirit of James Lipton. We find out how he feels about diversity training, which Friends character he identifies with, why the movie Cocktail is better than Roadhouse, and that he doesn’t know the difference between Pocahontas and Sacagawea.

David’s dog is basically a racist relative. Don decides to bag in the wokeness of Brian Sweeney without any provocation. Don then makes an argument in favor of reparations for black Americans. As an alum, David has a few things to say about the woke decision to “retire” the UNLV mascot. Oh, did you here that Chicago arts is going through a summer of reckoning and revenge?

The Apes decide, in the wake of social change, to have a quick competition: which of the two of them has the *most* white privilege and continue talking about how to handle a bloated, brutal police state including ending the worship of police on television. Also, reparations. Best idea ever.

After the massive unrest and nationwide protests rocked the fragile COVID-countryside, D & D sit down and solve the problem of the brutal policing in our country. Also, apparently Don is in favor of better training for cops and, in a side note, is fine with killing babies.

David turns the corner from 40 to 41 and, in keeping with tradition, he details a few things he has learned in the past year.

Which author is writing your life? Which director is helming the film? Also a bit of Game of Thrones yapping, frustration at anti-shutdown protesters, and dancing the Re-Opening of Work tap dance.

In one of the strangest ApeCasts on record, David refuses to play a “What If...?” Game, Don bullies him into playing, and then in a discussion of Don’s designation of Human Care Bear, we open up about a marital argument he and Dana had recently that we can GUARANTEE you’ve never had with your significant other.

David is mentally exhausted by the protesters and being shut in with his dog but not as mentally ill-prepared for his job as Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. That and the fact that Harvard, that bastion of liberal collegiate thought, is firing their janitors despite the $40 billion they have stowed.

David is caught off guard with the news of Joe Diffie’s demise and also has an open letter to Oprah Winfrey. Don is a dick. The self isolation is starting to show the fraying at the edges…

David is torn between wanting to defeat Donald Trump in November and being so disgusted with The Wokesters that it would be satisfying to lose to him just to prove a point. But what point? And why is it so annoying to talk to both the Right and Left extremists during the pandemic? But first, doesn’t David’s quarantine beard look John Wick-sexy?

We’re all trapped in our homes and the little things are TEARING US APART! The boys talk about the new inability to joke about the COVID-19 world and the spectres of the opinions of past relationships.

The Apes decide to delve into dystopian Gee Kerry and discuss who they would become should the world resemble The Walking Dead and which post-apocalyptic movie will our demise most resemble (spoiler: of course David brings Cocktail into it). Plus, David’s ingenious idea to put $50.00 in your pocket for listening to our ApeCast.

Don and David are back this week, both in the grips of the COVID-19 lockdown in Chicago and Las Vegas. Today, the reflect a bit on how they’re doing and what they think the best and worst outcomes of the tipping over of society will bring.

Practicing full-on social distancing, Don sits this one out and Dana Jerman fills his chair. She and David talk about home life in the wake of Armageddon and present two distinct playlists to listen to as society collapses around us.

The Gentlemen Apes wrestle with why Elizabeth Warren fizzled out despite being the only adult in the room and why a white woman can’t write a novel about people who aren’t exactly like her.

Himmel’s new work schedule prevented a recording time this week, so Don invited his wife (and Literate Ape writer) Dana Jerman to have a quick conversation about life in Vegas just a bit over a year since moving from Chicago.

Don is NOT talking about the Nevada Caucus. He is NOT talking about politics today, sir! So the boys dive into the story of Quaden Bayles and the concepts of Performative trauma, a party Don attended where people bragged about their weakness, and things get dicey when David gives his take on Instagram foodies.

Don is frustrated with what a bunch of provoking dickweeds we’ve all become while David is just excited about winning Valentine’s Day. Plus some squawk about true believers (in anything) are insufferable.