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This episode features a clip from Late Night with Seth Meyers taking a Closer Look at the right’s newest lunacy: The War On Thanksgiving! I guess The War on Christmas is played out. I’d say Seth’s Closer Look segments are the best thing on TV these days.
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No sound clips, but the music I talked over was "Mulberry Jam" by Allah-Las; "Funkytown / I Feel Good" by Lucky Chops; "The Islander" by Frank LoCrasto; and "Lazy Hibiscus" by Monster Rally.
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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Trump gets booed and runs for his safe space, which is apparently where he really belongs: Florida.
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This episode features a clip from EconTalk where host Russ Roberts engages Tyler Cowen on his position that social media is a net positive. Despite it often being a libertarian nonsense fest, I still enjoy EconTalk. Tyler's podcast Conversations with Tyler is a wonderful show.
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This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che talking about Trump's impeachment, and the Catholic Church toying with the idea of letting some priests not be celibate.
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This episode features clips from Radio Sweden reports about a program where female refugees learn Swedish and how to ride a bike, advice from the oldest Swede, and a Swedish school where students demanded an all-vegetarian menu. Also we heard the pride of Sweden, Greta Thunberg's moving UN speech and appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah where she explains the difference between how climate change is discussed in the US vs Sweden.
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This episode features a couple of clips from the not very good NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden, as well as from a very classily produced BBC Newsnight segment juxtaposing the dueling narratives about Sweden that you routinely find in the media. I only excerpted the utopia bits, but the whole segment was quite good. Music I talked over included the theme for NPR's All Things Considered, "You've Got Your Troubles" by Billy Strange, "A Remote View" by Sambassadeur, "Magellan" and "Book of Swords" by Felt, "Your Last Goodbye" by Floyd Cramer, "Goodbye" by Goat, "Sad Baby" by Haley Bonar, and "Before Cologne" by Ben Folds.
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