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This episode features a clip from a man-on-the-street style interview segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! where they ask people if Saturday Night Live went too far parodying Colorado Republican Congresswomen Lauren Boebert, then showed them clips of the actual Boebert. The modern GOP is so embarrassing.
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This episode features an extended clip from Chilly Gonzales’ Pop Music Masterclass for 1LIVE Radio where he breaks down Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. It was good enough to make it worth making myself a liar over. Love the comparison to MGMT’s Kids.
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This episode features an extended clip of Chilly Gonzales’ Pop Music Masterclass for 1LIVE Radio in Germany where he breaks down Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” on the piano detailing what makes it “country” and how similar it is to Oasis. Too good to cut much, but I did trim it a little, so watch the whole thing on YouTube.
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This episode features some one-liner comedy from the master of the one-liner Gary Delaney. Mostly sex-related jokes I guess. But he ends on Halloween. It’s from November of 2017.
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This episode features a couple of fun short clips. First, "Pronouncing English words in Japanese"
by TikToker Bebiisan. And Keanu Reeves surprisingly poignant off-the-cuff answer to the question "What do you think happens when we die?" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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This episode features a clip from CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he talks about Boris Johnson’s address to the UN on climate change. I enjoyed the Muppet references and upper-crust British snob parody. Colbert always has great writing.
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No sound clips this time, but the music I talked over this episode was “Clap Your Hands”, “Flat Palm Avenue”, and “Stomp Your Feet” by The Lewis Express.
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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about the rise of "conservative comedy", a new phenomenon made possible by the left being led down the path to self-parody so often these days.
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This episode features a clip from the SNL Digital Short Iran So Far where Andy Samberg uses "Avril 14th" to serenade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Fred Armisen) in a song about undeniable love. With accompanying vocals by Maroon 5's Adam Levine. Also, a clip from Family Guy where Peter asks God about the fate of people who say they’re “Spiritual but not religious”.
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This episode features a clip from the Vox Conversations podcast where Vox culture contributor Anne Helen Petersen talks with writer Safy-Hallan Farah about the concept of “cool.” It’s a great meditation on different generations' approaches to determining what’s cool, how the concept of ‘cool’ gets tangled up with class and consumption, as well as how taste is shaped in our digital world, where nothing’s obscure and everything’s available.
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This episode features a clip from Ellen DeGeneres' 1990 HBO One Night Stand special that I think of every time a storm is brewin' (YouTube).
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This episode features a bonus clip from Bo Burnham’s Inside where he plays the role of social brand consultant, discusses the importance of brands embracing their role during this vital cultural reckoning.
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There's no sound clips on this episode. The music I talk over is "Time Beat (Remastered)" by Ray Cathode, "Little Sunflower" by Dorothy Ashby, and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" covered by The Magnetics.
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This episode features a clip from Conversations with Coleman, where host Coleman Hughes and Skeptic Magazine's Michael Shermer discuss conspiracy theories.
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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about Rudy Giuliani’s unprecedented FBI raid and how it’s really what you should from expect from the unprecedented presidency of Trump, who was both an idiot and crazy.
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This episode features a clip from FOX’s The Simpsons, season 32 episode 19 titled Panic on the Streets of Springfield which guest-stars Benedict Cumberbatch channeling Morrissey as Lisa first learns of Quilloughby a Smiths-esque 80s band and becomes smitten. But she slowly becomes disenchanted as she learns what Morrissey has turned into as he has aged. It’s not a kind portrayal, but it is hilarious.
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This episode features a clip from Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where Liz Specht and Bruce Friedrich talk about the future of meat and what it will mean for the economies of America and China.
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This episode features a clip of Dean Wareham reading from his 2009 memoir, Black Postcards, and talking about the first time he heard The Seekers’ "Georgy Girl." Sign up for the Dean & Britta Patreon and get new chapters as he releases them as well as rarities and other tracks. It’s been great so far.
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A clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where he talks about how America isn’t just losing to China, but it has lost. I’ve been thinking this for quite a while, but the years lost to Trump idiocy solidified it. We’ll look back and see that's when China overcame America as the world’s dominant force.
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This episode features a clip from Bill Hicks’ classic Rant in E-Minor (Spotify, Amazon), recorded in the early 1990s, where he talks in the most accurate way possible about the recently deceased Rush Limbaugh (finally). Needless to say, this clip is not appropriate for children. Am I dancing on the grave of a newly dead person? Perhaps. But I’m less celebrating his death than mourning his life. 💁🏼♂️
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This episode features a clip from NBC’s Saturday Night Live S46E10 with host Dan Levi in a commercial parody for Zillow.com.
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