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This episode features clips from a fun segment from NPR's All Things Considered tracing the origins of William Onyeabor, as well as from the new Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, where in episode 2 Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how every living thing is related, and this is revealed through DNA.
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This episode features a clip from an NPR story about Johnny Cash's new Out Amongst the Stars (listen), plus a clip from Louis C.K.'s monologue when he recently hosted Saturday Night Live (watch).
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This episode features a clip of David Edelstein's review of Wes Anderson's new film The Grand Budapest Hotel from NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She also interviewed Wes Anderson about the movie, and it's a great listen! I also talked over nothing but music from the movie's wonderful score (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic) by Alexandre Desplat.
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This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill's New Rule is about income inequality and all of the poor little billionaires tired of being persecuted.
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This episode features clips from NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. First, an excerpt of David Edelstein's review of Spike Jonze's awesome film Her. Second an excerpt of David Bianculli's review of the new HBO series True Detective.
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Season Finale!
This episode features a clip from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the subject of the annual tradition of Fox News’ hilarious “War On Christmas” nonsense.
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This episode was guest-hosted (for the second time!) by the incomparable Neil Hohmann of Ritmo Latino fame. Honestly, I can't say I'd have chosen many of these songs, but that's the whole point of a guest-hosted episode, right?! I hadn't come up with much in the way of good Christmas music this year, so for the annual Xmas music episode I asked if Neil would be willing to fill in. He did so in record time, no doubt a testament to his podcasting professionalism!
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