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This episode features a clip of Todd Barry talking about a visit to Sweden and apartment hunting in NYC. The clip is old, but I saw him perform here recently and as one of very few Americans in the room I think I was probably the only one to thoroughly understand the nuances of every joke.
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This episode features a clip from The Kids in the Hall Brain Candy, in anticipation of the new TKITH series on Amazon Prime! Also a funny sketch from The Harris Alterman about the debut of a truly free speech social media platform.
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This episode features a clip from The David Pakman Show where he talks about the moral panics around book censorship on the right. Wait, are they for or against book bans? It can be hard to keep track.
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This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra talks to the Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko about how the west views Ukraine, how Ukraine views the west, and how Russia views them both. It was a great hour-long conversation. My two-minute clip is heavily edited, so go listen to the whole thing!
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This episode features a clip from Dan Olson’s epic 2+ hour rant/takedown of the grifts known as crypto and NFTs and all their associated cruft, Line Goes Up. I have friends who’ve earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars leveraging the NFT shell game to great effect. But they did so with no delusions of grandeur, just wanting to take part in the early stages of an obvious MLM scheme. So I guess good on them for getting in early and milking the cash cow. But I still find the whole thing distasteful. Ha.
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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where he laments the American trend of things entirely changing but keeping their old name, regardless of how little it still applies.
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This episode features clips from Wes Anderson’s best film The Grand Budapest Hotel related to Boy with Apple. And also from the HBO series Silicon Valley.
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