Season 5: 2008

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SPECIAL GUEST-HOSTED BY CHRIS, BREAK-FROM-THE-BREAK EPISODE!

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This episode features clips from Louis CK's album Chewed Up (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic), the track was "I Enjoy Being White." Also there were clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about Dick Cheney (watch) and George W. Bush's last days (watch).

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This episode features clips from an essay by On the Media's Bob Garfield about George W. Bush having a shoe thrown at him by a journalist in Iraq.

SPECIAL 2008 CHRISTMAS MUSIC EPISODE!

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This episode features clips from the very funny David Sedaris reading "Six to Eight Black Men" which can be heard in its entirety here.

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This episode features clips from NPR affiliate WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show with guest Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel as well as from Air America's The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC's afternoon news (watch), NY1's In the Papers segment and NPR's On the Media and Morning Edition discussing the Special Edition of The New York Times, which I was integrally involved with creating and distributing. Read the paper or download it's PDF on the website, or read what the real Times had to say about it.

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This episode features clips from FAIR's weekly podcast Counterspin's interview with Billy Bragg, The Huffington Post's 23/6 compilation Election Day 2008 in 2 Minutes, and Cooking with the Obamas from CBS News' 60 Minutes.

SPECIAL 2008 ELECTION EPISODE!

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This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (watch) and (watch), Bill Moyers Journal (subscribe), Ronald Reagan essentially endorsing Barack Obama (watch), an awesome JFK campaign ad (watch), and Ralph Stanley endorsing Barack Obama (watch).

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SPECIAL MUSIC FROM RECENT MOVIES EPISODE!

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This episode features clips of Republican vice presidential candidate Sara Palin showing off her dizzying intellect. On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and in clips from her kind of amazing interview with Catie Couric on CBS News (watch: Part 1, Part 2).

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This episode features clips from The Daily Show's RNC Convention coverage, including clips primarily about John McCain and Sarah Palin. Watch the clips here, here, here, and here. It also contains a clip of the New Rules from the September 12th episode of Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe).

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This episode features clips from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama speaking at the DNC last week (subscribe), as well as Bill Maher from his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe).

SPECIAL ALL SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC EPISODE PART 2!

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This episode features clips from PBS's Bill Moyers Journal (subscribe), describing the amazing failures of conservatism. As well as a clips from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report with a rare apology from the host for offending the mayor of Cantan, GA.

SPECIAL ALL SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC EPISODE PART 1!

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This episode features clips from Air America Radio's The Rachel Maddow Show (7/31/08) where she brilliantly explains the slight of hand use by the Republican Party to conflate "America" with "American-in-Name-Only-Oil-Companies-with-Banks-in-Cayman-Islands" to justify their policy positions on domestic and foreign matters.

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This episode features a clip from CNN's typically worthless Wolf Blitzer interviewing John McCain shill Gov. Mark Sanford who, despite claiming they do often, can't think of an example of how McCain differs from Bush on economic policy, only to inadvertently give an example of how they are the same (watch the clip here). It also features clips from a fine interview with one of my favorite authors, Michael Pollan, being interviewed by environmental blog e360 (listen to the whole interview here).

SPECIAL MASHUPS EPISODE!

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  • MC Hawking (Herndon, VA)
  • "Why Won't Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up and Die"
  • Old Nerdy Bastard: Geeky Music Remixed (free download)
  • not a mashup but there are plenty of them on the album

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This episode features clips from Bill Moyers Journal's June 26th episode and a segement called "Bill Moyers on Big Oil" (watch). Related, was this about Osama Bin Laden getting his way with the help of the Bush Administration. It also features a clip of Bill Hicks about Jesse Helms from his album Rant in E Minor (iTunes).

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In addition to the song, this episode also features clips from one of my early favorite episodes of Tina Fey's brilliant NBC show 30 Rock, namely Episode 4, "Jack the Writer," from Season 1.

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  • My Little Airport (Hong Kong, China)
  • "Edward, Had You Ever Thought That the End of the World Would Come on 20.9.01?" and "Gigi Leung is Dead" and "You Smile Like a Blossom"
  • Zoo is Sad, People are Cruel (iTunes, eMusic)
  • similar: Shonen Knife

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This episode features clips the excellent NY Times Magazine column The Ethicist with Randy Cohen (subscribe). I selected the first one because I too telecommute and have pondered the question, tho not ever gone that route. I just liked the second clip, but have no horse in that race, so to speak.

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This episode features a brief clip of Patton Oswalt's "At Midnight I will Kill George Lucas with a Shovel" from his album Werewolves and Lollipops (iTunes) where he talks about wanting to prevent the creation of the Star Wars prequels, which seems appropriate given the recent release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Which despite having a lot of problems with, I still managed to like a little.

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This episode features clips from NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) where NY Times national legal correspondent Adam Liptak is interviewed about various subjects including US prisons, punitive damages, and other interesting issues.

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This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe). Topics include Earth Day/Global Warming and Obama vs. Racist Redneck Christians (don't we just call those Republicans?).

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This episode has clips from Air America's Rachel Maddow Show from 02/07/08 featuring Barack Obama speaking in New Orleans, as well as two clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 04/04/08 about government oversight as conducted by the Bush Administration, specifically with regard to airline safety and the FAA.

SPECIAL 60's-GIRL-GROUP-SOUND EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip from NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) where she interviewed Zooey Deschanel of She & Him.

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Clips from the March 13th, 2008 episode of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) featuring Dan Kennedy talking about life in a corporate record label's marketing department, and Eliot Van Buskirk discussing music's digital future. As well as a clip about Bush's tax cuts at work from March 14's The Rachel Maddow Show.

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This episode features clips The Onion's video podcast (subscribe), headlined "Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early" and from FAIR's Counter Spin regarding the media's coverage of the passing of WIlliam F. Buckley, Jr.

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This episode features clips about Mitt Romney from Air America's Rachel Maddow Show as well as from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe). Bush, Obama, and Clinton are also mentioned by Maher.

Special FIRST-EPISODE-OF-SEASON-5 AND ALL-NEW-MUSIC-FROM-NYC-BANDS episode!

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This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) with the evil genius Frank Luntz discussing Hillary vs. Obama vs. McCain and why Maher is (and why I am) supporting Obama. And also clips from the excellent NY Times Magazine column The Ethicist with Randy Cohen (subscribe).