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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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This episode features a clip from CBS Sunday Morning where Lee Cowan interviews Molly Lewis about what it's like to be a musician who whistles.
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This episode features a clip from an interview with Henry Catalini Smith on The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast. He is a immigrant from the UK leading the effort to unionize Spotify. Sweden is one of the most heavily unionized countries in the world, but the large tech sector is a strange outlier and he is hoping to change that.
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This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan’s album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit from his Live in Houston album, about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.
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This episode features a brief clip from The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.
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This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes (also on Nebula). His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.
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This episode features a clip from Marc Maron’s latest HBO comedy special, From Bleak to Dark, where he outlines a strategy to win over Christians by rebranding abortion clinics as “angel factories”. It may be a joke, but I think the plan could be just crazy enough to work. Mental note: From now on, always refer to Planned Parenthood and their ilk as angel factories.
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