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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where he talks about the grim history of human civilization and why there is endless war in Israel. My friend group is almost entirely liberals who’ve been hoodwinked by anti-Zionist Jews (think of them like “Jews for Jesus”) who hide behind a banner of “peace” while promoting right-wing Islamic extremist terrorists.
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This episode features a clip from Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) where Casey Liss and John Siracusa discuss movies and music that they watch or listen to every year around Christmastime. From an episode last year. I’d been saving it to pull a clip from, with the intention of putting on a song from John Denver and the Muppets, but the episode was too long and I couldn’t make it work.
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This episode features a clip from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, guest-hosted by Ronny Chieng where he discusses the dilemma of Americans taking the new weight loss drugs on Thanksgiving with correspondent Michael Kosta.
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This episode features a clip of Julia Steinberg's testimony in front of Congress on November 9, where she talks about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and its modern roots in the conflict theory of the oppressor vs. oppressed.
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This episode features a clip of Israeli historian, political scientist, and tour guide Oren, from his YouTube channel travelingisreal.com. He has a lot of videos about Israel offering a pro-Israeli, but also highly informed and even-handed perspective. I think he’s fantastic.
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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about conflict theory and how we got to the point where liberal people think the morally right position is to side with antisemitic hardline islamists. It's not halloween related, but I for one sure do find it scary!
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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, where panelist Sarah Isgur of ABC News and other things (I'd never heard of her, but apparently, she's a conservative of some sort?) makes some good points about the unexpected effects of the increase of small donors in the political sphere.
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This episode features a clip from Strike Force Five, the podcast featuring Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon, which they created to raise money for their staffs during the ongoing strike. I really enjoy their dynamic and it’s so fun that they all clearly like each other as compared to the olden days when there was so much animus between the late-night hosts. I pulled a clip of Steven Colbert telling the story of how he met his wife.
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This episode features a clip of a YouTuber andewr reflecting on HBO’s How To with John Wilson, one of the best things I’ve ever seen. If like me, you missed hearing about it, it just wrapped on the 3rd and final season. There’s six 25 minute long episodes per season, and they are nothing like anything you’ve ever seen on TV before. Part personal video essay, part comedy, part poignant vignettes of everyday people. It’s the most NYC thing ever and it’s truly something special. Don’t miss it!
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This episode features a clip from The Urbanist Agenda podcast where Jason and Adam Something talk about how annoying it is that cars vs bikes has become a culture war issue in Europe, as traditional conservative parties have tried to court right-wing party voters only to lose votes to them. A trend witnessed in Sweden as well.
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This episode features a clip of Kumail Nanjiani on ABC’s Good Morning America (of all places) talking about his Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales. He produced it with his wife and stars in the series. I missed it when it came out late last year, but watched it recently knowing nothing about the history and thought it was fascinating and just a really great series. So I highly recommend checking it out, and the less you know about it beforehand, the better.
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This episode features an edited down “41 Lessons from my 41 Years” list presented by Nate B. Jones on TikTok. It was just too long to include the whole thing, but I really don’t disagree with any of his list. This kinda thing easily veers too far into trite, but there can be a lot of truth in well composed bumper stickers, and I think Nate hits them all well.
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This episode features a clip of a CNN Town Hall where former NJ governor and Trump lackey Chris Christie recounts to Anderson Cooper how Trump gave him COVID, which very nearly killed him, then lied about it, naturally.
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This episode features a clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense, where he talks about the incomprehensible waste of collective attention the human race has wasted on about the least important human to ever be born. I didn’t include much of it, when he gets into a media analysis and so on, but I’m 100% with him on all of it.
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A clip from NPR’s Fresh Air where Justin Chang reviews Asteroid City, and a clip of Taffy Nivert talking about the origin of Take Me Home, Country Roads from John Denver: Country Boy. And don't miss Mr. Jones, the intense drama about the holodomor where close to 5 million people died in the early 1930s.
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This episode features a clip from CBS Sunday Morning where Lee Cowan interviews Molly Lewis about what it's like to be a musician who whistles.
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This episode features a clip from an interview with Henry Catalini Smith on The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast. He is a immigrant from the UK leading the effort to unionize Spotify. Sweden is one of the most heavily unionized countries in the world, but the large tech sector is a strange outlier and he is hoping to change that.
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This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan’s album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit from his Live in Houston album, about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.
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This episode features a brief clip from The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.
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This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes (also on Nebula). His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.
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This episode features a clip from Marc Maron’s latest HBO comedy special, From Bleak to Dark, where he outlines a strategy to win over Christians by rebranding abortion clinics as “angel factories”. It may be a joke, but I think the plan could be just crazy enough to work. Mental note: From now on, always refer to Planned Parenthood and their ilk as angel factories.
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