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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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