This episode features a clip of Jim Gaffigan talking about Weddings from his Obsessed album (Netflix, Amazon). The whole routine is hilarious but I only included a bit of it.
This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live where dinner party guests debate Weezer fandom. It’s the 30th anniversary of the blue album which I intended to mention, but failed to. Also, for the closing I talked over the 8-Bit Misfits awesome version of "Buddy Holly" (Amazon, Spotify, YouTube) but didn't say so.
This episode features some edited down clips of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on Radio X talking to John Kennedy about the origins of the two songs I played in the episode. The Paul Simon documentary I mentioned is called In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon by Alex Gibney.
This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.
This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O’Connor talks about how religious people try to take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.
This episode features a somewhat heavily truncated clip of the ceremony marking Sweden’s official membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaking about the importance of a unified Europe in light of global instability caused by Russian aggression and it’s invasion of Ukraine.