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This episode features a clip from CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he talks about Boris Johnson’s address to the UN on climate change. I enjoyed the Muppet references and upper-crust British snob parody. Colbert always has great writing.
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No sound clips this time, but the music I talked over this episode was “Clap Your Hands”, “Flat Palm Avenue”, and “Stomp Your Feet” by The Lewis Express.
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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about the rise of "conservative comedy", a new phenomenon made possible by the left being led down the path to self-parody so often these days.
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This episode features a clip from the SNL Digital Short Iran So Far where Andy Samberg uses "Avril 14th" to serenade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Fred Armisen) in a song about undeniable love. With accompanying vocals by Maroon 5's Adam Levine. Also, a clip from Family Guy where Peter asks God about the fate of people who say they’re “Spiritual but not religious”.
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This episode features a clip from the Vox Conversations podcast where Vox culture contributor Anne Helen Petersen talks with writer Safy-Hallan Farah about the concept of “cool.” It’s a great meditation on different generations' approaches to determining what’s cool, how the concept of ‘cool’ gets tangled up with class and consumption, as well as how taste is shaped in our digital world, where nothing’s obscure and everything’s available.
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This episode features a clip from Ellen DeGeneres' 1990 HBO One Night Stand special that I think of every time a storm is brewin' (YouTube).
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