Welcome to The Shitshow Room! I’m your host, Lisa Tozzi.

What is The Shitshow Room?

I imagine it as a once-glamorous, now falling-apart lounge and restaurant. I use it as a shorthand for the relentless disaster of This Time. It's sometimes a metaphor for America. Or the world. Or my aging self. (I know, I was never glamorous, but you get the idea!) The news and the people who make it, and the struggles of everyday life are the terrible customers (who probably refuse to wear masks or come up with some lie about their doctor saying that it doesn’t really need to cover their nose). I, like you, am scrambling to try to move everything along, keep as calm as possible, and try to turn the tables (in restaurant parlance, to get one table of people out so you can get another one in.) But these days, all the bad people keep asking for another round of drinks or extra dessert. We can never drop the check on them or get them to leave. 

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Welcome to The Shitshow Room, where the struggles of everyday life are like terrible customers who won't leave and never tip. The circus music is blaring and we're always at max capacity. I am Lisa Tozzi, your host. Join us!

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