Season 7: 2010

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LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 7! NEXT EPISODE WILL BE IN FEBRUARY 2011!

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This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" about Sharks in Egypt and the recent repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, as well as clips from a recent, special episode of Randy Cohen's The Ethicist podcast for The New York Times (subscribe).

SPECIAL 6th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC EPISODE!!

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  • The Crookes (Sheffield, England, UK)
  • "Just Like Christmas"
  • 12 Days of Crookesmas
  • cover of: Low

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This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" when City correspondent Stefon stops by to share some of the hottest spots in New York for Christmas tourists. (watch).

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On this episode I talked over "Pop Molecules (Molecular Pop 2)" from the new Stereolab album, as well as "Carol" and "Sunset Rounds" by Jeff Richmond from the new 30 Rock Album (Amazon).

SPECIAL ALL SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC EPISODE!

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Music in the background: "The Boat That I Row," "La Banda," and "San Francisco" by Chus Martínez Y Su Conjunto from Exitos, Exitos, Exitos, Vol.2 (Amazon, iTunes, eMusic), as well as "You Can't Go Home Again" by DJ Shadow from The Private Press (Amazon, iTunes), and "San Francisco" by Scrabbel from their self-titled album (Amazon, iTunes, eMusic).

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This episode features clips from Survival International's Uncontacted Tribes series of videos which you can watch here. (Feel free to donate money to this great organization.) And also from director Michael Marantz's Earth - The Pale Blue Dot (watch) a video featuring Carl Sagan offering an optimistic, science-based philosophy about human's place in the universe.

SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG MUSIC HEARD IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip of Patton Oswalt performing at Sound Fix Records (at the same location that The Brunettes played) when he did an in-store appearance for the release of his album Werewolves and Lollipops (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic). Watch footage of this performance here.

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This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) about the new film The Social Network. I also talked over "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from it's soundtrack (Amazon MP3) by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

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The music that was talked over on this episode was "Seize the Time" by Fuselage from FSUK 2 (Amazon), "Never Stop", "Knight Moves" and "Smothered Mate" by Gonzales from his new album Ivory Tower (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic), and also "Moi Je Joue" by Brigitte Bardot from The Best of Bardot (iTunes, Amazon).

SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG TOTALLY SUBURBAN EPISODE

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This episode features clips from Marc Maron's stand-up album Final Engagement (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic) about Traffic, as well as from the awesome Kunstler Cast podcast (subscribe) hosted by Duncan Crary, James Kunstler's TED Talk (watch), and PBS's Need to Know from a great segment on the changing demographics of the suburbs (watch).

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This episode features the opening theme song from the long-running children's PBS educational series Reading Rainbow (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3), and a snippet of the YouTube sensation Double Rainbow (watch).

SPECIAL ALL-COVERS EPISODE

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This episode features a clip from David Cross' most recent stand-up comedy album Bigger & Blackerer (iTunes, Amazon) about how a brand at Whole Foods was jewish.

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This episode features clips Woody Allen's album The Night Club Years 1964-1968 (Amazon) discussing "Oral Contraception," as well as a clip from WNYC's On the Media tribute to the recently passed Daniel Shore (subscribe).

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This episode features a heavily edited clip from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show with guest Noah Feldman, a Harvard Law professor discussing the state of "liberals" on the Supreme Court and the role they have played for the last 40 years.

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This episode features clips from director Michael Marantz's Earth - The Pale Blue Dot (watch) a video featuring Carl Sagan offering an optimistic, science-based philosophy about human's place in the universe. If you can get past it sounding like a Lexus ad on a classical radio station, it's really quite moving. Also, download the Sun Mix made by my friend Jessica.

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This episode features clips from the season finale of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, discussing the estate tax (or lack thereof) and business people who enter politics with guests Rachel Maddow and Jon Meacham (subscribe). If you find yourself seeking fine entertainment in NYC, go for the gold and attend an evening of the best magic you'll ever see. The millionaires' magician Steve Cohen, will blow your mind at Chamber Magic.

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This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment featuring Stefon, their City Correspondent, giving pointers to some fun, family fun spots for visiting out-of-towners. Watch the full clips here (they're edited in the show).

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This episode features clips from BBC's That Mitchell and Webb Look parodying "participatory news", watch it here. Also a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where he plays a real Alabama political ad (watch it here) followed by a couple of fake ones that take it through its logical next steps.

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  • Blair (Brooklyn, NY via New Orleans, LA)
  • "Rampage" and "Wolfboy"
  • Die Young (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
  • (oops. I said she was from New Orleans, but she's moved to Brooklyn)

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  • James (Manchester, UK)
  • "Laid" (Acoustic)
  • Radio WoodStock 25th Anniversary (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
  • (they have a new release in the UK, once it's out here I'll probably play it)

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This episode features an extended clip of Bill Moyers, one of my favorite people, about his admitted bias, from the final episode of Bill Moyers Journal. As well as a clip from NPR's All Things Considered recent interview with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood about new national bike policy.

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This episode features clips from Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live briefly addressing the Catholic Church's scandals and appolgies.Watch the whole thing.

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SPECIAL ALL AFRICAN MUSIC EPISODE (PART 2 of 2) — FOCUS ON GUITAR

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This episode features clips from a bio of Hellelujah Chicken Run Band on PRI's The World (listen to the whole thing here), as well as clips from a 2004 interview with South African comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross discussing the differences and similarities between the U.S. and South Africa (listen to the whole thing here).

SPECIAL ALL AFRICAN MUSIC EPISODE (PART 1 of 2) — ECLECTIC MIX

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This episode features clips from an Open University series called Environment: Journeys Through a Changing World (iTunes) about habituated gorillas and how conservation and tourism has effected the area, its people, and the gorillas themselves. A great watch, free in iTunes.

This is the First Episode of Season 7!

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This episode features clips from "Pina Horchata" (Vampire Weekend "Horchata" vs Rupert Holmes "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)") from the album Mysplice 4 (free download), and from the title track on Eugene Mirman's God is a 12-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's (iTunes, Amazon).