This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.
This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O’Connor talks about how religious people try to take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.
This episode features a somewhat heavily truncated clip of the ceremony marking Sweden’s official membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaking about the importance of a unified Europe in light of global instability caused by Russian aggression and it’s invasion of Ukraine.
This episode features a clip from comedian Sam Morril’s 2022 Netflix special Same Time Tomorrow where he talks about the addictive nature of TikTok, and also a PSA from comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding on the uncanny similarities between Trump supporters and “leftist” “Free Palestine” activists—neither care or know what is true or false or what words mean, it’s all just about how they feel.
This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where he talks about the grim history of human civilization and why there is endless war in Israel. My friend group is almost entirely liberals who’ve been hoodwinked by anti-Zionist Jews (think of them like “Jews for Jesus”) who hide behind a banner of “peace” while promoting right-wing Islamic extremist terrorists.
This episode features a clip from Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) where Casey Liss and John Siracusa discuss movies and music that they watch or listen to every year around Christmastime. From an episode last year. I’d been saving it to pull a clip from, with the intention of putting on a song from John Denver and the Muppets, but the episode was too long and I couldn’t make it work.