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This episode features clips from Radio Sweden reports about a program where female refugees learn Swedish and how to ride a bike, advice from the oldest Swede, and a Swedish school where students demanded an all-vegetarian menu. Also we heard the pride of Sweden, Greta Thunberg's moving UN speech and appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah where she explains the difference between how climate change is discussed in the US vs Sweden.
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This episode features a couple of clips from the not very good NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden, as well as from a very classily produced BBC Newsnight segment juxtaposing the dueling narratives about Sweden that you routinely find in the media. I only excerpted the utopia bits, but the whole segment was quite good. Music I talked over included the theme for NPR's All Things Considered, "You've Got Your Troubles" by Billy Strange, "A Remote View" by Sambassadeur, "Magellan" and "Book of Swords" by Felt, "Your Last Goodbye" by Floyd Cramer, "Goodbye" by Goat, "Sad Baby" by Haley Bonar, and "Before Cologne" by Ben Folds.
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This episode features a clip from The Brady Bunch Movie, where one of my favorite actors, Gary Cole, as patriarch Mike Brady delivers some of his patented wisdom. Also, I threw in They Might Be Giants covering the theme song for The Monkees, as performed live on The Adventure Club with Josh from a long time ago. It felt appropriate to play a clip from Dallas’ radio station KDGE The Edge, as it would have just turned 30 years old if it were still around. The station was very formative for me in the early 90s.
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This episode features a clip from the recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show “Behind the panic in white, Christian America” where Ezra talks to Robert Jones. I typically find Ezra’s questions more compelling than the guest’s answers, and this episode isn’t really an exception, but Robert was plenty good too. I particularly liked this part where Ezra talked about how politics trails demography by 10 years while culture is 10 years ahead of demography, resulting in everyone in America feeling they’re perpetually losing.
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This episode features a clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert spoofing the announcement that Barack Obama is launching a podcast on Spotify. I also played the theme song to Reading Rainbow, and a brief snippet of "The Coffee Cola Song" by Francis Bebey.
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This episode features a clip from The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell where he reads a short passage from Michael Wolff's new book Siege: Trump Under Fire. I’ve been listening to, and greatly enjoying the audiobook, but didn’t take the time to pull favorite clips from that, so instead, I just relied on Lawrence to read a funny passage. It's about how much Trump distains Don Jr. and his children.
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This episode features a clip from one of Comedy Central's cult sketch comedy series Exit 57 which starred Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris (among others). In this clip a couple of women in the office try to make nice with Vicky, who's really got to get it together.
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