Season 15: 2018

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Season 15 Episode 22: December 24th, 2018

Finale Season Finale!

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This episode features a clip from the season finale of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update where anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che discuss Trump's relationship with The Law.

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Season 15 Episode 21: December 10th, 2018

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip from Mediocre Films Black Friday Shopping List Prank. The content is really better watched I think. Also, I only realized after finishing the episode that I somehow managed to exclude “Daddy Butter”. For this I am very sorry.

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Season 15 Episode 20: November 26th, 2018

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This episode features a clip from this past weekend's great episode of WNYC's On the Media about American car culture. Specifically, Angie Schmitt of one of my favorite websites, Streetsblog, talking about the dark proliferation of the local news trope of guy-forced-to-walk-miles-to-get-to-work-gets-a-free-car. The whole segment is much better than my crude cut-down version, so don't miss it. The whole episode though, really.

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Season 15 Episode 19: November 12th, 2018

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This episode features a clip of Weekend Update from NBC's Saturday Night Live where Colin and Michael talk about the results from last week's Midterm Elections in the US.

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Season 15 Episode 18: October 29th, 2018

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This episode features the audio from a get-out-the-vote ad called Dear Young People, Don't Vote. For the love of all things sacred, YOU HAVE GOT TO GET OUT THERE AND VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6th FOR DEMOCRATS. The stakes really couldn't be higher.

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Season 15 Episode 17: October 15th, 2018

SPECIAL “IT CAME FROM AFRICA” EPISODE!

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No sound clips, but the music I talked over was "Omnyakane" by Royal Players, "Beer Club" by Orlando Six, "Midnight Ska" by Reggie Msomi's Hollywood Jazz Band, and "Loafers Corner" by Orlando Seven all off the wonderful South African Jazz and Jive (1954-1960) album.

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Season 15 Episode 16: October 1st, 2018

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This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che cover Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimonies as the GOP tries to get yet another sexual predator installed on the Supreme Court.

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Season 15 Episode 15: September 17th, 2018

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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher’s New Rules from September 14th, where Bill lays out how the Democrats should respond to accusations of “socialism” by Republicans. Also mentioned, the PBS documentary by Fredrick Wiseman about the New York Public Library called Ex Libris, and this NYT interview with Billy Joel.

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Season 15 Episode 14: September 3rd, 2018

SPECIAL “LET’S HEAR FROM THE LADIES” EPISODE!

  • The Kossoy Sisters (NYC)
  • 07 I'll Fly Away
  • 08 Down in a Willow Garden
  • 09 What Will We Do with the Baby O
  • Bowling Green and Other Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains
  • (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify)
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Season 15 Episode 13: August 20th, 2018

SPECIAL ALL INSTRUMENTALS EPISODE!

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This episode doesn’t have any talking interruptions, but it does feature an extended clip from the August 17th, episode of The New York Times’ podcast The Daily where pop music critic Jon Pareles offers a great appreciation of Aretha Franklin who passed away last week. Watch the longer version they put on their site.

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Season 15 Episode 12: August 6th, 2018

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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on the topic of why the “Party of Reagan” (aka the Republicans) are so eager to bow to Vladimir Putin. What is it exactly they find so appealing about Russia? Bill has a guess.

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Season 15 Episode 11: July 23rd, 2018

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Since I was too overwhelmed by recent news to find a single, worthy, 30-90 second clip to play on this episode, instead I'll tell you what I talked over. "4th Drawer Down" by Sleep Party People, as well as "Fot I Hose" and "Togens Hule" by Casiokids.

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Season 15 Episode 10: July 9th, 2018

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This episode features a clip of me being interviewed about my pizza lunch at Vinnie’s on the Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food. And also a funny clip from Charles Star's best named legal podcast, Mic Dicta, where they’re discussing the embarrassing idiocy of Jordan Peterson.

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Season 15 Episode 9: June 25th, 2018

SPECIAL "HEY, THE 80's CALLED…" EPISODE!

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This episode features, for no reason other than I remembered it recently and LOL’d, an old Onion Video News Network report about Yum Brands new Fast Food Feed Bags. Hilarious.

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Season 15 Episode 8: June 11th, 2018

  • TV Girl (Los Angeles, CA)
  • 08 Fallout
  • 09 Speak French
  • Maddie Acid's Purple Hearts Club Band
  • (Spotify, bandcamp)

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This episode features a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about the outrage surrounding Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets and Samantha Bee’s calling Ivanka Trump the C-word, specifically about the coarsening of the culture.

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Season 15 Episode 7: May 28th, 2018

SPECIAL ODDS AND ENDS EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill addresses Trump whining about being the victim of a witch hunt.

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Season 15 Episode 6: May 14th, 2018

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This episode features clips from the New Rules segment of the May 11th episode of Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill discusses how the GOP went from being the law-and-order party to the party of the mob. Also a clip from the beloved sketch comedy series The Kids In the Hall featuring a guy with a Sarcastic Speech Impediment.

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Season 15 Episode 5: April 30th, 2018

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This episode features clips from Brian Posehn's comedy album 25x2 (Amazon), specifically his bits about Kid Rock, PC culture on college campuses, and reclaiming taboo words to better represent liberals and conservatives.

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Season 15 Episode 4: April 16th, 2018

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This episode doesn't feature a clip from this review of the Bobo Yéyé box set from NPR's All Things Considered, but I kinda wish it did. I just couldn't get it to fit, so it doesn't. But listen to it anyway!

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Season 15 Episode 3: April 2nd, 2018

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The episode includes a clip of “Spacestar Ordering (The One True Path)” by Matt Berry as Douglas Reynholm on The IT Crowd.

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Season 15 Episode 2: March 19th, 2018

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This episode features a clip from the Design Matters podcast where host Debbie Millman talks to Steven Pinker about a wide range of subjects, all interesting. In particular a clip about why people don’t like change. Don’t miss his great new book, Enlightenment Now.

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Season 15 Episode 1: March 5th, 2018

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This episode features a clip from HBO's Vice News Tonight where Ian Parton and Simone Odaranile of The Go! Team break down the song Mayday. There's also a clip from Sam Harris' Waking Up podcast (with guest Preet Bharara), where Sam accurately observes that given his skills and abilities, he's surprised Trump isn't homeless and begging for change.