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Season 17 Episode 19: October 19th, 2020

SPECIAL “ALL INSTRUMENTALS” EPISODE!

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This episode features a clip from the Al Franken Podcast where Al imagines he’s still on the judiciary committee and able to ask Amy Coney Barrett questions. He poses a hypothetical that would be fun to have heard her answer… Not that she would have, obviously.

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Season 17 Episode 18: September 28th, 2020

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This episode features a clip from New York Times' The Daily podcast, where Linda Greenhouse talks about the (news to me) Swedish roots of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's progressive gender views.

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Season 17 Episode 17: September 14th, 2020

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This episode features a clip from the PBS Newshour where special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on Sweden and Denmark's approaches to dealing with Covid-19 and how well Sweden is doing now vs how poorly it was doing some months ago. The whole segment is worth watching.

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Season 17 Episode 16: August 24th, 2020

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This episode features a clip from David Cross’ standup special Oh, Come On about why he’s starting to regret his vote for Trump. An abbreviated version of this was used in a Lincoln Project ad as well.

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Season 17 Episode 15: August 10th, 2020

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This episode features one of those Lincoln Project anti-Trump ads juxtaposing past American Presidents speeches to Trump talking. Like everything else, it's painful.

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Season 17 Episode 14: July 27th, 2020

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This episode features a cut up version of a podcast extra from WNYC’s On The Media about the clever grifters at The Lincoln Project. I enjoy many of their ads of course, but put me in the skeptical camp about their effectiveness, and I would certainly never give these guys any money. Here’s the Tooning Out the News segment they reference.

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Season 17 Episode 13: July 6th, 2020

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This episode features a clip from Paton Oswalt’s new Netflix comedy special I Love Everything about people who are probably painful to have sex with. The whole thing is quite good.