The Velvet Hammer Episode 16: This week gets off to a worrying start when we realized that most of our bottled water is straight from the tap. And the plastic is getting not just in the fish but our bodies as well. That leads us to wonder how much radiation is in our environment and even what’s in the chemical waste they use for fracking. Somehow we begin to wonder whether we’re living in a simulation and if there were parallel simulations, whether there’d be fermented things…like beers? Of course, we have our US news with TikTok being forced to sell. Bernie Sanders says congress is breaking the law – we entertain the idea that our constitution should have rules preventing our congress from being unlawful. Returning to Argentine happenings, as the University of Buenos Aires loses its funding, one of the largest protests since the new presidential administration descended on the capital in fury about students not being able to continue their educations. Meanwhile, the government maintained it’s fiscal and trade surplus for an entire quarter, so Milei’s seeming not to care…

Coming every Thursday, this is The Velvet Hammer with your hosts, Jonny, Tom, & Tadeo, three American expats recording from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brought to you by One Eleven Entertainment.