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This episode features a clip from the recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show “Behind the panic in white, Christian America” where Ezra talks to Robert Jones. I typically find Ezra’s questions more compelling than the guest’s answers, and this episode isn’t really an exception, but Robert was plenty good too. I particularly liked this part where Ezra talked about how politics trails demography by 10 years while culture is 10 years ahead of demography, resulting in everyone in America feeling they’re perpetually losing.
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This episode features a clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert spoofing the announcement that Barack Obama is launching a podcast on Spotify. I also played the theme song to Reading Rainbow, and a brief snippet of "The Coffee Cola Song" by Francis Bebey.
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This episode features a clip from The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell where he reads a short passage from Michael Wolff's new book Siege: Trump Under Fire. I’ve been listening to, and greatly enjoying the audiobook, but didn’t take the time to pull favorite clips from that, so instead, I just relied on Lawrence to read a funny passage. It's about how much Trump distains Don Jr. and his children.
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This episode features a clip from one of Comedy Central's cult sketch comedy series Exit 57 which starred Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris (among others). In this clip a couple of women in the office try to make nice with Vicky, who's really got to get it together.
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Apropos of nothing, this episode features a clip from Mike Judge’s classic 1999 film, Office Space, where Drew talks about what happened to Tom Smykowski. I hadn’t watched the movie in many years, but I re-watched recently and am pleased to report it holds up very well. I LOL’d aplenty.
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This episode features a clip from an Ohio local NBC affiliate where they interview the teenage girl who first heard Toto’s "Africa" on Stranger Things and trolled Weezer online until the band acquiesced and recorded a cover of it, which, ironically, I don’t then play on the show. Figured you’d already heard it. Also, their covers album is pretty meh, I’d say. They don’t really do much with the songs.
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This episode features a hilarious parody podcast called 88% P(a(r(e(n(t(h(e(t(i(c(a(l(s))))))))))))) hosted by Sarah Koenig, of Serial and This American Life fame. If you’ve not heard the recent episode of Reply All for which this was created, I fully endorse that as well.
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