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This John Oliver Segment On Pumpkin Spice Lattes Is Perfect
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Jen Carlson
Published Oct 17, 2017
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If you were too busy placing a security freeze on your credit file following John Oliver's segment on the Equifax breach this week, you may have missed this 1 minute and 40 seconds of perfect entertainment.
On Sunday, Oliver continued his crusade against Pumpkin Spice in his "Now This" segment, which heavily features PSL's most enthusiastic demo: white male cable news talking heads. Come for the monster truck voiceover, and stay for Tucker Carlson [no relation! at all!], who asks: "They seem wholesome, and after all they're only a beverage, but are they also racist?"
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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