Season 8: 2011

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D-load: December 26th, 2011
THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 8! THE NEXT NEW EPISODE WILL BE IN 2012... SOMETIME!

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This episode features clips from The Onion's Today Now! about Applebee's new ad campaign (watch), and a video of Christopher Hitchens (watch).

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D-load: December 12th, 2011

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This episode features clips from Javelin's Kickstarter video pitch where they were trying to raise the funds to make their "Canyon Candy" album into a movie. The project was successfully funded, but from what I've seen of the movie, it's underwhelming.

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D-load: November 28th, 2011
SPECIAL "8th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC" EPISODE.

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  • She & Him (Portland, OR)
  • "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" & "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
  • A Very She & Him Christmas (iTunes, Amazon)

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This episode features a clip from the season finale of Real Time with Bill Maher where his new rule tries to remind right-wingers that Scrooge was supposed to be the bad guy (watch it).

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D-load: November 14th, 2011

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I talked over "What'd I Say" and "Your Last Goodbye" (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon) by Floyd Cramer, as well as "Kinder Blumen" from Days (iTunes, Amazon MP3) by Real Estate.

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D-load: October 31st, 2011
Special "WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN" episode.

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  • They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
  • "Marty Beller Mask", "Now I Know", and "Mr. Me (feat. the Other Thing)"
  • Album Raises New and Troubling Questions (buy online)

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This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher where he says the 99% movement could be caused by a "College Bubble", and from This American Life with Malcolm Gladwell telling a story about working at The Washington Post.

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D-load: October 17th, 2011

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  • The Beatles (Liverpool, England, UK)
  • "Lovely Rita"
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (iTunes)

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This episode features clips from the EPK Video Ben Folds made for The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective (watch). As well as the audio from the Steve Jobs narration version of the original Apple Think Different ad (watch) and the 2007 Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs where he showed the world the iPhone for the first time, and changed everything yet again.

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D-load: October 3rd, 2011
Special "Music from Adam Curtis Documentaries" episode.

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This episode features clips from three Adam Curtis documentaries:The Mayfair Set, The Trap, and The Century of the Self. You can search youtube.com for these films and basically watch all of them, even if some of them are cut up into segments.

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D-load: September 19th, 2011

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This episode features a clips from an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brian from May 3rd, 2007 featuring Patton Oswalt talking about hipster t-shirts.

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D-load: September 5th, 2011
Special "female singers from the 90's" episode.

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This episode features a clip of a young Steve Jobs explaining that he thinks computers are like bicycles for our minds. I love Macs and love bikes, so naturally this is a favorite clip of mine. Watch the video here.

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D-load: August 22nd, 2011

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  • Fool's Gold (Los Angeles, CA)
  • "The Dive" and "Leave No Trace"
  • Leave No Trace (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
  • similar: Thomas Mapfumo

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  • Code Pie (Montréal, Canada)
  • "Operator" and "North Side City View"
  • Love Meets Rage (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
  • similar to something, not sure.

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This episode features a clip from Louis CK's FX series Louie where he talks about how he is incapable of living a less than perfect life. My job required me to spend the last couple of weeks under very different circumstances than I am used to, and I felt how he describes in this clip.

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D-load: August 8th, 2011

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This episode features a clip from Louis CK's FX series Louie where he explains to his 5 year old daughter during a road trip that the world is to amazing for her to be bored. It's from the season two episode called Country Drive.

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D-load: July 25th, 2011

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This episode features clips from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Stephen Hawking from this video, Carolyn Porco from this video, Alice Roberts from The Incredible Human Journey episode 3, this ABC News video about Ted Haggard, and a clip about young celebrity pre-written obituaries from NPR's On the Media, listen to the whole thing here.

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D-load: July 11th, 2011

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This episode features a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher where he compares GOP voters (who are not part of the richest 1%) out as being just as inexcusable as Florida jury members who found Casey Anthony not guilty. Watch the whole thing here.

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D-load: June 27th, 2011

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This episode features a clip from Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear about the names of various boxers.

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D-load: June 13th, 2011

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  • Fats Domino (New Orleans, LA)
  • "Lady Madonna" and "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)"
  • Sweet Patootie: Complete Reprise Recordings (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
  • covers of: The Beatles

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This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) where he talks about howRepublican's whole thing seems to be doubling-down on shit that doesn't work.

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D-load: May 30th, 2011

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D-load: May 16th, 2011

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This episode didn't contain any sound clips, but if it had, it probably would have been Bill Maher's New Rule about Christians not being allowed to call themselves that while celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, and condoning torture. Watch it here.

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D-load: May 2nd, 2011

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This episode features heavily edited clips from the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner with Seth Meyers, and his roast of The 2012 Republican field, and President Obama. Watch the whole thing here. Also recommended: Obama's turn.

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D-load: April 18th, 2011

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On this episode I talk about Karen & Mike's Paper Record Player Wedding Invitation which plays the awesome song they wrote, be sure to check out Kelli's blog entry about the creation of the invitation! Also, I talked over "Jessica" by They Might Be Giants from the Why Does the Sun Shine? EP , "No One Knows My Plan" by They Might Be Giants, as covered by Apocalypso, as well "Jamaica" by Richard in Your Mind.

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D-load: April 4th, 2011

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The music I talked over on this episode was "Open a Bottle" by Shugo Tokumaru and all proceeds from sales of this song go to relief efforts in Japan. So buy it now and pay a lot for it! It's a great song!

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D-load: March 21st, 2011

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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) where he talks about what it's like to try to govern with the republican party.

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D-load: March 7th, 2011
FIRST EPISODE OF SEASON 8! NOW IN A SLIGHTLY HIGHER BITRATE! 160k AAC!

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This episode features clips from the new IFC series The Onion News Network about The Real Obama.

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