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Most of the music I talk over on this episode is by Y Niwl (from Wales, in the UK) who sounds just like Shadowy Men on Shadowy Planet. Their self-titled album (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) is awesome!

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This episode features clip from the classic film The Princess Bride about Wuv, Trwue Wuv...

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This episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing FoxNews' annual "War On Christmas" nonsense. Watch the entire segment here, it's a bit longer than what I included, but all hilarious.

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This episode features a clip from the S34E04 of Saturday Night Live where Jason Sudeikis plays Joe Biden describing how terrible Wilmington, Delaware is. Also, clips from the classic film The Princess Bride followed by an amazing montage from an episode of ESPN's NFL Kickoff where the hosts incorporated as many lines from The Princes Bride as possible (Youtube)!

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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher about Hurricane Sandy, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg talking about the city's high tax rates, President Obama addressing the DNC (watch), and Chris Rock's PSA for white people from Jimmy Kimmel Live (watch).

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This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher's Friday October 12th, 2012 episode where Bill's New Rule (watch it all) pertains to how there are no apologies from the right-wing no matter how wrong they turn out to be. There is also a clip of The Gregory Brothers' fantastic VP Debate Highlights Songified video.

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This episode features a clip from the infomercial for Malt Shop Memories from Time Life Music, which has been discontinued/replaced by Dick Clark's Jukebox Gems.

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This episode features a clip from the September 7th, 2012 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill says he thinks (contrary to popular opinion) that President Barack Obama is good at governing but bad at selling it in speeches.

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This episode features a clip from WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show with guest-host (from NPR's On the Media) Brooke Gladstone interviewing Chris Stringer about his fascinating book Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth (Amazon, iTunes) on the origins of modern humans.

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On this episode I talk about the awesome iPhone app Shazam (app store) which magically identifies almost any song no matter how crummy the audio conditions you're in. It's a free app, so get it today and be amazed. Also, this episode features a clip from an episode of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) where she interviews David Kirkpatrick, the Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, about the similarities he's seen reporting on both the christian right in America and the islamic right in the middle east.

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This episode features two clips from the hilarious comedian Jim Gaffigan's stand-up album King Baby (Amazon, iTunes, eMusic), the first about "Camping," and the second about "Waffle House."

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This episode features two clips from the June 8th, 2012 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, in the first Bill and guests E.J. Dionne and Michael Brendan Dougherty talk about Gov. Scott Walker's win in Wisconsin, and a New Rule for Snake Handlers.

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This episode features a few clips from the wonderful HBO TV show Flight of the Conchords, as well as a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he discusses the fall of Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch (watch the whole clip here).

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On this episode I talked over a cover of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros song "Home" by YouTube pianist indierocks87 which you can watch the video for here. As well as "Gaia" by The Bees (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon) and "The Happy Organ" by Dave "Baby" Cortez (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon).

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This episode features a clip of "New Rules" from HOB's Real Time with Bill Maher about the insanity of America's super-stupid gun laws. Watch the whole thing here.

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This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher's New Rules where he repurposes his recent Op-Ed from the New York Times urging people to stop apologizing. Also, I talked over music from the Dickon Hinchliffe score to one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while, the film Project Nim.

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This episode features a clip from a BBC segment about the making of Air's Le Voyage Dans La Lune album, as well as a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he comments on the results of last week's Michigan GOP Primary.

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This episode features clips from the series premier of Bill Moyers' new show Moyers & Company on PBS. The clips deal with income inequality in America (watch) and feature an interview with Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson about their new book Winner-Take-All Politics, as well as clips of amazing senate testimony by Amanda Greubel (watch).