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This episode features a clip from WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show (subscribe) where his guests praise one of my surprise favorite movies of the year, Fantastic Mr. Fox. I expected I'd like it well enough, but ended up REALLY liking it.
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This episode features clips from The Onion News Network story "Report: Nation’s Wealthy Cruelly Deprived of True Meaning of Christmas" (watch it), as well as from a recent appearance of Bill Maher on The Jay Leno Show (watch it).
A NOTE ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This episode is kind of a "catch up" episode. I realized the season is almost over and I had a bunch of stuff I hadn't gotten to yet, so in order to cram a lot in, there's only one song per band. Also, check out David Byrne's new book Bicycle Diaries.
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This episode features a clip from a segment on The Onion's Video News (subscribe to the video podcast) called Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck.
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This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about Al Franken's first bill which sought to ban funding for contractors who essentially allow the rape of their employees, and New Rules from Real Time with Bill Maher's season finale.
AND NOW SPECIAL BIT OF PROMOTION
On this episode I talked over "The Yes Men Theme - Credit Roll" by Neel Murgai and performed by Sunny Jain's Red Baraat Festival with Neel Murgai. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out The Yes Men's new movie The Yes Men Fix the World. It's a good, funny movie you'll enjoy and on top of that Kelli and I are both in it!
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This episode features clips from the Onion News Network's (subscribe) coverage of the happy and healthy Obama's being out-of-touch with miserable Americans (watch), as well as clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) about Obama being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
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This episode features a clip from an episode of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason video podcast (subscribe) explaining the often asked question "If we descended from Chimpanzees, then why are there still Chimpanzees?"
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This episode features clips from Patton Oswalt's new album My Weakness is Strong (iTunes, Amazon) talking about how Obama's election has changed time travel, and a clip from Saturday Night Live's 2008 Vice Presidential Debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden (watch).
NOTE
Several of the songs featured in this episode are available on a very good mix, made by Aquarium Drunkard called Weird Summer (more info and free download)
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This episode features clips from PBS's Bill Moyers Journal about how bikes are used in the Congo; there's also an ad for my awesome new bike (the inspiration for this episode) the Trek Soho; and finally, there's a clip of Louis CK from Live in Houston.
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This episode features clips from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show (subscribe) about the new Harry and Louise (watch) as well as a clip of PBS' Bill Moyers Journal from an essay about guns (from back in June) (subscribe).
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This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe). The first is from his interview with former Republican Sentaor, and host of a morning showon MSNBC, Joe Scarborough where has asks what I often wonder of republicans: "Don't you ever get tired of being on the wrong side of history? Wouldn't you like to be on the right side of it just once?". Also a couple of New Rules.
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This episode features clips from The Onion's Video report on Obama changing his administration's plans following a visit to Denny's (watch), and also clips from Todd Barry's albums Falling Off the Bone (iTunes, eMusic) & From Heaven (iTunes, eMusic).
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This episode features a clip of the king talking to peasants from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (watch) as well as the sketches "The Money Program" (watch) and "Architect Sketch" (watch) from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) discussing a new statue of Ronald Reagan as well as a clip from the first week of the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien with guest Patton Oswalt discussing his recent introduction to fatherhood (watch).
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This episode features clips from The Onion News Network's coverage of Trekkies Bashing the new Star Trek film as "Fun, Watchable" and a Hot New Video Game That Consists Solely of Shooting People Point-Blank in the Face.
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This episode features a birthday well-wishing recorded for me by Pelle Carlberg to mark my turning 30 last week. Thanks Pelle, you're the bestest! (And thanks to recent guest-host/my brother-in-law/friend since pre-school Chris for hooking that up!) The episode also featured an ad for the Libertarian Paradise Vacation Destination of Somalia by the Public Service Administration (watch it!) as well as clips from HBO's Realtime with Bill Maher's (watch it), and a tiny bit of Wanda Sykes at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner (watch it).
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This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which you can watch in full here, and also a brief clip of New York Times' Ethicist Randy Cohen talking about his new column called Moral of the Story on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (subscribe).
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This episode features clips from This American Life's episode "The Wrong Side of History" . The segment in the clip is a comedy troupe from San Francisco called Kasper Hauser and the routine is "Phone Call to the 14th Century".
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This episode features clips from the New York Times' Ethicist, Randy Coen, column podcast, covering the right thing to do in three situations: Your customer is being swindled, you see a friend in pornography online, and cats crap on your lawn.
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