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This episode features a clip from a recent Closer Look segment on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers about the hopeless folly of Democratic leaders thinking there’s some post-Trump scenario where the Republican Party becomes sane and full of honest brokers who can be negotiated with like in the olden days. Eye roll emoji.
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This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update where Colin and Michael talk about the continuing slow-motion embarrassment of Trump’s “lawyers” trying to overturn the election and stuff. Jesus am I counting the days that I never have to hear anything about this sad man and all of his incompetent grifters.
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This episode features a clip from Late Night with Seth Meyers where he talks about the gang of republican dumbasses who can’t shoot straight, but are trying to muddle their way through a coupe for Trump.
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This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update following Joe Biden beating Trump for president. Amen to that.
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This episode features a clip of Bernie Sanders concisely explaining to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show why you should vote for Joe Biden. Need more reasons? Try this litany from the New York Times. Want a more detailed walk-through of the importance of the rule of law without all that reading? LegalEagle walks you through it.
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This episode features a clip from the Al Franken Podcast where Al imagines he’s still on the judiciary committee and able to ask Amy Coney Barrett questions. He poses a hypothetical that would be fun to have heard her answer… Not that she would have, obviously.
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This episode features a clip from New York Times' The Daily podcast, where Linda Greenhouse talks about the (news to me) Swedish roots of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's progressive gender views.
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This episode features a clip from the PBS Newshour where special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on Sweden and Denmark's approaches to dealing with Covid-19 and how well Sweden is doing now vs how poorly it was doing some months ago. The whole segment is worth watching.
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This episode features a clip from David Cross’ standup special Oh, Come On about why he’s starting to regret his vote for Trump. An abbreviated version of this was used in a Lincoln Project ad as well.
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This episode features one of those Lincoln Project anti-Trump ads juxtaposing past American Presidents speeches to Trump talking. Like everything else, it's painful.
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This episode features a cut up version of a podcast extra from WNYC’s On The Media about the clever grifters at The Lincoln Project. I enjoy many of their ads of course, but put me in the skeptical camp about their effectiveness, and I would certainly never give these guys any money. Here’s the Tooning Out the News segment they reference.
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This episode features a clip from Paton Oswalt’s new Netflix comedy special I Love Everything about people who are probably painful to have sex with. The whole thing is quite good.
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This episode features a clip of Daniel Markovits talking about the tired “efficiencies of the free market vs bureaucratic waste of the government” trope, as well as an analogy about what it’s like living in a world where people still support Captain Trump, both from Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast.
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This episode features clips from the Accidental Tech Podcast where John Siracusa and Marco Arment talk about the endless, unacceptable prevalence of police violence against black people and the insanity that any group should have to remind other people that their lives matter. Also, a clip from Chris Rock's special Tamborine about the “few bad apples” theory of police killing black people.
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This episode features a nice little story from the Bill Moyers in Conversation podcast where Bill tells a story recalling when he was 11 and FDR died and the reaction of his father.
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This episode features a clip from the Al Franken Podcast where The Fifth Risk author Michael Lewis talks about how weird it is that people accept roles for which they are obviously unfit in Trump’s orbit, and also a clip from NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross where New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer describes Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump’s Plutocrat Populism pact.
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This episode features a brief clip of Louis CK’s new comedy special: Sincerely, Louis CK. I know he’s polarizing, but I am not remotely conflicted. I think he’s still got it. I laughed hard all the way through.
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This episode features a clip from Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where he describes Trump as a golem of everything bad about America.
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To avoid making this episode any longer I didn't add any sound clips. Also, it seems like Spotify removed my show from their listings. They didn't alert me to this, it just vanished. Hmm. Maybe this happened a while ago and I only just noticed, or maybe Air was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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This episode features a clip of Ezra Klein on Real Time with Bill Maher’s Overtime talking about what ails news in the US, and his theory which is also mine, which is that “fake news” and facebook misinformation campaigns by Russia or anyone else had a marginal effect at best on the 2016. The real problem is how the legitimate media covers “real” stories.
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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher’s New Rules where Bill talks about how people think authoritarianism begins vs how it really does. I don’t quite share the fear, but I’d say he makes a good case for that view.
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This episode features a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher where Rick Wilson explains the perils of leading a policy-oriented campaign vs a bumper sticker slogan one, and Radio Sweden reports on what Brits in Sweden are thinking in a post-Brexit world.
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This episode features a clip from Netflix' I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. In particular, a lawyer who's there to help when you have a very specific legal problem.
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