This episode doesn’t have any talking interruptions, but it does feature an extended clip from the August 17th, episode of The New York Times’ podcast The Daily where pop music critic Jon Pareles offers a great appreciation of Aretha Franklin who passed away last week. Watch the longer version they put on their site.
This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on the topic of why the “Party of Reagan” (aka the Republicans) are so eager to bow to Vladimir Putin. What is it exactly they find so appealing about Russia? Bill has a guess.
Since I was too overwhelmed by recent news to find a single, worthy, 30-90 second clip to play on this episode, instead I'll tell you what I talked over. "4th Drawer Down" by Sleep Party People, as well as "Fot I Hose" and "Togens Hule" by Casiokids.
This episode features a clip of me being interviewed about my pizza lunch at Vinnie’s on the Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food. And also a funny clip from Charles Star's best named legal podcast, Mic Dicta, where they’re discussing the embarrassing idiocy of Jordan Peterson.
This episode features, for no reason other than I remembered it recently and LOL’d, an old Onion Video News Network report about Yum Brands new Fast Food Feed Bags. Hilarious.
This episode features a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about the outrage surrounding Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets and Samantha Bee’s calling Ivanka Trump the C-word, specifically about the coarsening of the culture.