This episode features some edited down clips of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on Radio X talking to John Kennedy about the origins of the two songs I played in the episode. The Paul Simon documentary I mentioned is called In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon by Alex Gibney.
This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.
This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O’Connor talks about how religious people try to take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.
This episode features a somewhat heavily truncated clip of the ceremony marking Sweden’s official membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaking about the importance of a unified Europe in light of global instability caused by Russian aggression and it’s invasion of Ukraine.
This episode features a clip from comedian Sam Morril’s 2022 Netflix special Same Time Tomorrow where he talks about the addictive nature of TikTok, and also a PSA from comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding on the uncanny similarities between Trump supporters and “leftist” “Free Palestine” activists—neither care or know what is true or false or what words mean, it’s all just about how they feel.