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This episode features a promo for Jon Ronson’s new podcast miniseries, Things Fell Apart, from BBC. He investigates the surprising origins of different elements of today's culture wars featuring interviews with many people who, however pivotal, you've probably never heard of, and who rarely give interviews. It's topics like anti-abortion activism among evangelicals, publicly shaming people for things they said online, different waves of feminism and contemporary trans activists, racism, anti-racism, teaching sex ed, and on and on. A common theme among many of the episodes is activists becoming, in a sense, victims of their own success. It's terrifically well done and strikes a nearly impossible to achieve note of nuanced even-handedness. I think everyone who was featured in the show would say they got a perfectly fair hearing and that listeners will feel similarly about how their views are represented, regardless of which side of any given issue they are on. It's just fantastic.
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This episode features a clip from a man-on-the-street style interview segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! where they ask people if Saturday Night Live went too far parodying Colorado Republican Congresswomen Lauren Boebert, then showed them clips of the actual Boebert. The modern GOP is so embarrassing.
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This episode features an extended clip from Chilly Gonzales’ Pop Music Masterclass for 1LIVE Radio where he breaks down Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. It was good enough to make it worth making myself a liar over. Love the comparison to MGMT’s Kids.
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This episode features an extended clip of Chilly Gonzales’ Pop Music Masterclass for 1LIVE Radio in Germany where he breaks down Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” on the piano detailing what makes it “country” and how similar it is to Oasis. Too good to cut much, but I did trim it a little, so watch the whole thing on YouTube.
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This episode features some one-liner comedy from the master of the one-liner Gary Delaney. Mostly sex-related jokes I guess. But he ends on Halloween. It’s from November of 2017.
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This episode features a couple of fun short clips. First, "Pronouncing English words in Japanese"
by TikToker Bebiisan. And Keanu Reeves surprisingly poignant off-the-cuff answer to the question "What do you think happens when we die?" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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