Extra Extra: Security Guard Loses Job After Video Of Him Farting At Work For Months Goes Viral

Aug. 23, 2018, 5:15 p.m.

Because there's a serial farter at MSNBC, check out today's end-of-day links: unreleased Tom Petty, weather-altering technology, Mario Batali sued, 'Game Of Thrones' tourism, Michael Cohen's father, and a beautiful dumb idiot dog.

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  • According to a new Reuters poll, a majority of Americans support medicare for all.
  • Volkswagen is reversing course on the use of controversial weather-altering technology at a major Mexican car plant after local farmers complained that the system caused a drought by preventing rainfall.
  • A Manafort juror says one holdout prevented him from being found guilty on all counts.
  • Chuck Schumer wants to delay Supreme Court nomination hearings in the wake of Cohen’s guilty plea, calling the developments “a game changer.”
  • The More Perfect podcast has announced 27: The Most Perfect Album, a compilation of original songs inspired by the 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution performed by the likes of Kevin Morby, Dolly Parton, They Might Be Giants, and more.
  • Michael Cohen's father urged him not to protect Trump: "I didn't survive the Holocaust to come to this country and have my name sullied [by Trump]."
  • Game of Thrones tourism has hit Croatia.
  • Andrew Scott has joined season two of Fleabag (which has started filming).
  • A woman who claims Mario Batali groped her in a Boston bar when she took selfies with the disgraced chef has filed suit against him.
  • David Pecker, publisher of the National Inquirer, was granted immunity in the Michael Cohen case.
  • Who is the serial farter at MSNBC?
  • In other farting news, a security guard lost his job after a video of him filming himself farting at work for the past six months went viral.
  • Listen to a great unreleased version of the Tom Petty song "You and Me."
  • And finally, you are a beautiful dumb idiot and I love you: