Good Noticings

This week everything is about perspective because todays hot topics have a different look depending on your algorithm. Is the Victoria’s Secret fashion show a heroic endeavor for women or an outdated fad? Is voting Independent a waste or a viable option for the future? Is cooking a guy thing??

13 min: Sally Rooney Took Her Books Out of the UK

22 min: Protests in France

30 min: Matthew McConaughey’s Politics

46 min: Men Who Cook

59 min: The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

71 min: Caps off

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Clash Talk at the 312 Festival in Chicago:

https://www.312comedyfestival.com/headliners/clash-talk-a-competitive-talk-show

Clash Talk at New York Comedy Festival:

https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3000654107ACBFBF

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French Protests:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/whats-driving-the-french-student-protests#intcid=_the-new-yorker-homepage-bkt-a_fba0e3d4-ddff-41cd-97ae-975303bee527_cygnus-personalized

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/europe/france-protests-violence-wwk-intl-hnk

Men Cooking:

https://slate.com/life/2026/10/food-men-women-cooking-marriage-kitchen.html

Matthew McConaughey:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/texas/2026/10/20/trump-to-visit-texas-for-ken-paxton-senate-race-against-james-talarico/92343240007/

https://www.instagram.com/reels/Deo1LIJxS3p/

Sally Rooney:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/world/europe/rooney-britain-palestine-book-sales.html

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Everything you see before you has been planted!!! Danielle Bernstein’s new brand strategy has been carefully crafted. Your opinion on the F Factor diet could be fake. A secret PR/ Legal team could be building websites full of misinformation!!! The only thing that’s true is Kelly Clarkson is not allowed to buy that bird.

14 min: Danielle Bernstein is Changing Her Strategy

39 min: Was the F Factor Diet Poison?

59 min: Publicists are Controlling the Internet

70 min: How Short Should a Movie Be?

88 min: Interview with Muhammad Ali

105 min: Caps off to Kelly Clarkson

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Clash Talk at the 312 Festival in Chicago:

https://www.312comedyfestival.com/headliners/clash-talk-a-competitive-talk-show

Clash Talk at New York Comedy Festival:

https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3000654107ACBFBF

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Buy Flame of Love!

https://www.persianpoetics.com/pages/the-flame-of-love-book?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAadVD_2dOFZbQVbF7EPJqiNrOoVFR1XY34T6hmrfVAkjKuUydGAv3Fg7oU3vdg_aem_iG-b1hg7r5hWVVXNX3F7lQ

Short Shorts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/magazine/microdramas-tv-shows-hollywood-entertainment.html

Danielle Bernstein:

https://daniellebernstein.substack.com/p/15-years-online-what-i-built-what

https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/danielle-bernstein-influencer-weworewhat-d484a5a9

PR Menaces:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/nyregion/smear-campaigns-blake-lively-bryan-freedman.html

F Factor:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/style/f-factor-diet-influencer-apology-zuckerbrot-gellis.html

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No matter where you go someone is watching. If you’re Zack Bia, that someone is Drake and sometimes hot girls. If you’re a private citizen, it’s a surveillance org. If you’re a hot new fashion brand, it’s Rihanna. Finally, if you’re a reader, PEN America is watching to make sure you don’t boycott the wrong books.

12 min: Is Matières Fécales Genius?

32 min: Who is Zack Bia?

48 min: Flock Cameras Are Watching

64 min: Is anyone really boycotting Israeli literature?

79 min: Joyce Carol Oates hates romance novels

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Clash Talk at the 312 Festival in Chicago:

https://www.312comedyfestival.com/headliners/clash-talk-a-competitive-talk-show

Clash Talk at New York Comedy Festival:

https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3000654107ACBFBF

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Who is Fecal Matter:

https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/70867/1/matieres-fecales-dazed-cover-autumn-2026-hannah-rose-dalton-steven-raj-bhaskaran

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/style/matieres-fecales-ninety-nine-percent-show-pfw.html

PEN America:

https://pen.org/a-silent-moratorium-interviews-with-israeli-and-jewish-writers/

https://pen.org/a-statement-to-our-community/

https://jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-america-got-wrong-about-antisemitism-in-publishing

What is Flock:

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/

Joyce’s Tweet:

https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2105382365761769600

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This week Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo are choosin to live forever with or without each other while Ella Langley tried to date someone who chose Texas. We’re also looking into whether or not Beck is or was a scientologist and is Scientology parenting low key closer to what normal parenting should look like?

10 min: Ella Langley is Choosin Texas

20 min: Should Kids Be Able to Walk Around?

33 min: Nolan Wells’s Family Still Needs Answers

39 min: Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo

58 min: Losing Beck

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Clash Talk at the 312 Festival in Chicago:

https://www.312comedyfestival.com/headliners/clash-talk-a-competitive-talk-show

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Ella Langley

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/ella-langley-choosin-texas-never-heard-the-song-meaning-1235631932/

Bryan Johnson:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bryan-johnson-kate-tolo-relationship-love-story-2026-9?gift-id=DeifUA2CY6EFKgUy6pYClA

Nolan Wells:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/nolan-wells-family-still-wants-answers

Beck and Scientology:

https://www.vulture.com/article/beck-scientology-leigh-limon-sea-change.html

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It’s time for a lesson but teachers are few and far between! Ed Sheeran is only listening to an incredibly misguided IG statement writer and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has put her faith in teachers above the reality of her daughter’s education and people are soooo mad.

13 min: Ed Sheeran and Macklemore

51 min: Tom Cruise for GQ

62 min: Channing Tatum on IG

66 min: Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Daughter’s Education

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Clash Talk at the 312 Festival in Chicago:

https://www.312comedyfestival.com/headliners/clash-talk-a-competitive-talk-show

Clash Talk in Toronto:

https://comedybar.ca/shows/clash-talk-a-competitive-talk-show-with-good-noticings

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Ed Sheeran:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vgyn49y4l7o

https://x.com/GilletteStadium/status/2100337429886427309

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/18/robert-kraft-macklemore-ed-sheeran-israel-donations/

Nikole Hannah-Jones:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/choosing-a-school-for-my-daughter-in-a-segregated-city.html

Tom Cruise:

https://www.gq.com/story/tom-cruise-2026-cover-story-interview

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