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wsg Jane Coaston (@cjane87) senior politics Reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism and the right, who got that gig by getting good at college football Twitter (Go Blue!)

also wsg Joe Pichey, writer of those MGoBBQ articles we'll bring back as soon as a sponsor steps up. Find him at Instagram at gobluebbq, and twitter: @GOBLUEBBQ.

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[After THE JUMP: a rundown]

You guys really came through this week with the questions, which span topics from football to hoops to music to desert island partners. Things discussed include:

• Real improvement vs. Rutgers “improvement”
• Importance of the Iowa game on projected wins
• Early-season MVPs
• Please stop trying to move Josh Metellus
• Jane Coaston for Rutgers head coach
• Brandon Johns or more two-guards?
• The sustainability of Juwan Howard’s star-heavy recruiting approach
• Desert island Michigan head coach, featuring the pioneer in the field of artificial vaginas and his successor, the Gold Rush success story
• Twin Fantasy vs. Twin Fantasy
• The sixth-best rapper of all time
• Early 2000s music choices
• Favorite non-Michigan twitter follows
• This one, uh, goes in a few unexpected places.

MUSIC:

“Alligator” — The Babies
“Sober to Death” — Car Seat Headrest

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Vox Media Senior Politics Reporter and Michigan Twitter legend Jane Coaston was in town to give a talk at U-M and dropped by Ace’s place to discuss whatever they wanted, so long as it was not politics, which was fine, because they didn’t want that whatsoever. The conversation turned mostly to things you can watch on Netflix or Hulu. Language warning, largely because Fyre Festival gets involved.

SEGMENT ONE: SPORTS AND SPITE. No politics! We’re both quite pleased about this. Chris Wormley was a much better bouncer than Morgan Trent theoretically would’ve been. Anyway, basketball: Tom Izzo should be able to convince his players to beat Indiana at home, but he can’t, and to us that makes up for the Iowa loss. Petty points should be factored into NET rating. A Darko/Barkley fight would be amazing. These things are related, trust me. Jane offends UMass listeners. Do we have UMass listeners? Anyway, we don’t fear the Northeast as a region. The amazing power of heat relativity and spring-ish rituals. The power of marriage to prevent one from bad decisions. This seems like enough of a… basketball… segment?

SEGMENT TWO: MIDSOMER MURDERS (17:50). We spend an entire segment discussing a British murder mystery because we can do that. It’s on Netflix! This is not an advertisement unless the BBC wants it to be. Anyway, British gun laws make for spectacularly creative deaths. These people are shockingly bad at dealing with the police considering the absurd local murder rate. Tom Barnaby was maybe not a great husband! Long segue about other British or Australian murder mystery shows and their obscene body counts, as well as the ease of getting away with murder if you were Jack the Ripper. Back to Midsomer Murders: everyone there is awful so many of the murders feel justified. Finally, Jane destroys the “real plot vs twitter bot” quiz.

SEGMENT THREE: GIVE US MORE FYREFEST (42:05). I cannot even begin to describe this segment. Spoiler alerts abound for the Hulu and Netflix Fyrefest documentaries, except something this beautiful cannot be spoiled.

MUSIC:

• Intro: Loyalty Freak Music - “Traveling In Your Mind”
• “Midsomer Murders Theme”
• Rage Against The Machine - “Killing In The Name”
• Blink-182 - “All The Small Things"

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