This is a very summer episode. Soz.
Moynihan, impanelled
Implicit bias and your cup of coffee
Chipotle paranoia
We interrupt this program for a detailed Welch interregnum of the death of Milan Kundera
Tracy Chapman is “honored” by Luke Combs’s cover. The Washington Post is alarmed
Elvis was a hero to most, but he never…
You didn’t write that song. The “community” did
De La Soul is not Steely Dan
Airbrushing music and film history will save the universe
Actually Tintin in Congo is pretty bad….
A dumb congressman says something dumb. Ho hum.
A suggestion for a new Sokal hoax
Cocaine, crack, and a question never asked of Biden the Younger
Why Matt once bought $100 worth of crack
#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Three Stooges
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