Season 14: 2017

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Season 14 Episode 22: December 25th, 2017

Finale Season Finale!
  • Wintergatan (Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • 13 Hupfeld Phonolizt Violina Orchestrion - "Pasadena"
  • 21 Mechanical Instruments at the Speelklok Museum
  • (bandcamp)

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This episode features a clip of Tom Nichols on Sam Harris’ podcast Waking Up where he discusses the resentment “elites” and “experts” rampant in certain depressing pockets of America. There’s also a clip from a Wintergatan update video where Martin Molin discusses biking in Utrecht and Holland more generally. Be sure to subscribe to Wintergatan’s channel, and watch all of the amazing videos in the Music Machine Mondays series. It might just make you book a ticket to The Netherlands!

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Season 14 Episode 21: December 18th, 2017

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This episode features a clip from WNYC’s On The Media where Brooke Gladstone interviews Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick about the dangers inherent in rushing to take the high ground, specifically with regard to Al Franken being forced to resign.

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Season 14 Episode 20: December 11th, 2017

SPECIAL "ALL CHRISTMAS MUSIC" EPISODE!

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Season 14 Episode 19: November 27th, 2017

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This episode features a couple of clips of Carl Sagan from his COSMOS: A Personal Voyage series. Particularly recognizable clips for fans of Symphony of Science's Glorious Dawn.

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Season 14 Episode 18: November 13th, 2017

  • Fats Domino (New Orleans, LA)
  • 14 Love You Till the Day I Die
  • Alive and Kickin'
  • (Amazon)

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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher's New Rules where he complains about driving based action movies for dudes. At the end I played music from Jon Baptiste playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" — in the style of Fats Domino.

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Season 14 Episode 17: October 30th, 2017

SPEICAL "CHECKING IN WITH SCANDINAVIA" EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip from a VICE News Tonight segment about how Hygge is key to Denmark's cultural identity, and also from an episode of VICE News about Sweden's aggressive attempt to eliminate gendered stereotypes from their society by starting with kindergardeners.

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Season 14 Episode 16: October 9th, 2017

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This episode features a clip from Late Night with Seth Meyers Closer Look at Trump in Puerto Rico. And don't forget to buy your copy of the fantastic new popup book by Kelli Anderson: This Book is a Planetarium! Watch the trailer here, which features snippets of The Space Lady's cover of "Major Tom."

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Season 14 Episode 15: September 25th, 2017

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This episode features a couple of clips from Marc Maron’s fantastic new Netflix comedy special Too Real. He talks about how life has changed under the know-nothing sexual predator and weighs checking out Turd Journey on Clomper. The whole thing is great, don't miss it.

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Season 14 Episode 14: September 11th, 2017

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This episode features a clip from the new season of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman where he and Diane talk smack about the people of Los Angeles, CA. For no reason, other than it made me laugh when I watched it.

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Season 14 Episode 13: August 28th, 2017

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This episode features a couple of clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the first where in talking to Jesse Jackson, Bill reads a favorite quote from MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and another where NYTimes columnist Frank Bruni talks about how white male liberals are excluded from the oppression olympics which afflict the left's identity politics.

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Season 14 Episode 12: August 14th, 2017

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I talk over three songs from one of my favorite old South African compilations: African Jazz 'n Jive (1954-1960) (Amazon.de, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify). The songs were U.S.A. Special by N.D. Hotshots, Beer Club by Orlando Six, and Dinokza by Elite Swingsters.

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Season 14 Episode 11: July 31st, 2017

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This episode features a clip of Sam Harris from his Waking Up podcast, where he was talking to conservative columnist David Brooks about the walking sack of shit that heads the rotting dog abortion that is the GOP (my words, not his).

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Season 14 Episode 10: July 10th, 2017

SPEICAL "PORTLAND" EPISODE FEATURING ALL BANDS FROM PDX!

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This episode features a clip of "Portland, Oregon is Too Nice of a Place" by comedian Matt Braunger from his Big Dumb Animal special (Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Netflix). Also, if you're in Portland, or nearby in July, be sure to check out PDX Pop Now! this year, or just pick up some of their compilations.

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Season 14 Episode 9: June 26th, 2017

SPECIAL "GET UP AND DANCE" EPISODE!

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Season 14 Episode 8: June 12th, 2017

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This episode features a clip from Aziz Ansari's fantastic Netflix series Master of None.

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Season 14 Episode 7: May 29th, 2017

SPECIAL "13TH BIRTHDAY, SEASON ONE FLASHBACK" EPISODE!

  • Erlend Oye (Bergen, Norway)
  • 04 The Black Keys Work
  • The Black Keys Work EP
  • Slumber Party (Detroit, MI)
  • 08 Electronic Boots Remix: Brown Rice Vs. Young Soul Rebels Sound System
  • Tracks and Fields
  • (iTunes, Amazon)

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This episode features FLASHBACK sound clips I played in early episodes of the show when the GOP’s last idiot was in office, publicly embarrassing the country by being stupid. Like when he was addressing native Americans and had no idea was tribal sovereignty was or when he pledged that his administration was dedicated to matching the terrorist efforts to harm the country. Or as we now think of it: The good old days.

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Season 14 Episode 6: May 15th, 2017

SPECIAL 1-OFFS EPISODE (FEAT. 14 BANDS)!

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This episode features a clip from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where he discusses the prospects of a clean energy future with Carl Pope and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Season 14 Episode 5: May 1st, 2017

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This episode features a clip of MSNBC's Chris Hayes on The Brian Lehrer Show offering up an key insight about the right-wing media bubble. Specifically, the unbelievable ratings that Fox News/Bill O’Reilly have always maintained. Basically, roughly half of the population's attention is distributed across the entire media spectrum (like, every major media outlet you can think of from newspapers to networks to public broadcasting, etc.), while the other half of the country gets its news exclusively from a relative handful of explicitly right-wing outlets. As a result Fox News' ratings is roughly half the viewing public, while everything else is splitting the other half of potential viewers.

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Season 14 Episode 4: April 17th, 2017

SPECIAL ALL INSTRUMENTALS EPISODE!

The Music I Talked Over On This Episode

Background music in this episode was "New Berlin, New York" and "The Beekeeper" by The Westerlies from their self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify), as well as "Longleaf Pines" by Daniel Hart from the Music from S-Town album (iTunes, Spotify), and finally "Perpetuum Mobile" from Penguin Cafe Orchestra's album Concert Program (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify).

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Season 14 Episode 3: April 3rd, 2017

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This episode has clips of Washington Post columnist and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian Anne Applebaum on Sam HarrisWaking Up. She describes how Trump, while self-identifying as a great “dealmaker” is utterly oblivious (and hostile to) the role of American dealmaking. That is: Leveraging “soft power” for America's gain. She details how "globalization", while often maligned, is really decades of our diplomats and leaders wheeling and dealing to successfully “Americanize” the world.

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Season 14 Episode 2: March 20th, 2017

SPECIAL ALL COVERS EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip from SNL's Weekend Update about racist elf Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III's perjury, and Mike Pence's routine use of a hacked private email server when sending, among other things, sensitive security-related communiqué.

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Season 14 Episode 1: March 6th, 2017

THE 1ST EPISODE OF SEASON 14 — ALL BANDS I'VE NEVER PLAYED BEFORE!