This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher's Friday October 12th, 2012 episode where Bill's New Rule (watch it all) pertains to how there are no apologies from the right-wing no matter how wrong they turn out to be. There is also a clip of The Gregory Brothers' fantastic VP Debate Highlights Songified video.
This episode features a clip from the infomercial for Malt Shop Memories from Time Life Music, which has been discontinued/replaced by Dick Clark's Jukebox Gems.
This episode features a clip from the September 7th, 2012 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill says he thinks (contrary to popular opinion) that President Barack Obama is good at governing but bad at selling it in speeches.
This episode features a clip from WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show with guest-host (from NPR's On the Media) Brooke Gladstone interviewing Chris Stringer about his fascinating book Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth (Amazon, iTunes) on the origins of modern humans.
On this episode I talk about the awesome iPhone app Shazam (app store) which magically identifies almost any song no matter how crummy the audio conditions you're in. It's a free app, so get it today and be amazed. Also, this episode features a clip from an episode of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) where she interviews David Kirkpatrick, the Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, about the similarities he's seen reporting on both the christian right in America and the islamic right in the middle east.
This episode features two clips from the hilarious comedian Jim Gaffigan's stand-up album King Baby (Amazon, iTunes, eMusic), the first about "Camping," and the second about "Waffle House."
This episode features two clips from the June 8th, 2012 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, in the first Bill and guests E.J. Dionne and Michael Brendan Dougherty talk about Gov. Scott Walker's win in Wisconsin, and a New Rule for Snake Handlers.