<p>Newsrooms do the darnedest things. Dave Portnoy exposes The Washington Post&#39;s pizza party hit piece, while pundits figure out what to do about Russell Brand. PLUS: My personal Kristen Bell (Brand&#39;s &quot;Forgetting Sarah Marshall&quot; co-star) experience, Chris Evans&#39;s self-admitted Hollywood ego, and how it all ties together in this week&#39;s addition of wtf is going on.</p>

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Ep 221: Putting the Tom in Petty, It's Our Shameless Society

"Don’t tell me what I can and can’t say." Veteran journalist Taylor Ferber wrote this in her unprecedented Playboy feature, challenging the idea that brains and beauty are mutually exclusive, as the only woman who both posed and was a featured writer. After years as Hollywood's "Celebrity Whisperer" who interviewed and humanized the biggest A-listers, her irreverent show empowers viewers to think freely outside rules in politics, media, and pop culture, getting big guests like Blake Shelton, Tucker Carlson, Dave Portnoy, to say what they really think.