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Today’s episode begins with some nice holiday-themed audio from our show’s announcer, then we talk about what’s making Jen mad this week, then we read a news story about a prayer network devoted to celebuwrecks, then we talk about TV (and hulu), then we read an article about history’s dangerouest toys and we finish the show up with some audio flubz.

Links:

• FreeThought Fresno: “Yellow-Eyed Santa”
• The Media Burnout
• Haiku of Frustration: Wage Slave
• hulu
• “The return of TV”
• “Kitchen Nightmares”
• “The Most Dangerous Toys Of All Time”
• Richard Taylor’s podcast: “Ever Green”
• Music heard on this episode:
  • the unXpektd

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Show length: 1:15:36
File size: 52 MB
File type: 96 kbps stereo mp3

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We start this show off with an in-depth update on our heat, then we talk about some media coverage we received, then we have an announcement, then we finish things off with a special segment called “Christmas songs that don’t suck.”

Links:

• “Time Out Chicago: Radio & podcasts”
• Haiku of Frustration: Wage Slave
• Music heard in this episode:
  • The Shames (buy the CD) (download the CD)
  • “Weird Al” Yankovic - “Christmas At Ground Zero” (buy the CD)
  • Michael W. Dean - “God Rest Ye Merry Bonzo”
  • Jonathan Coulton - “Chiron Beta Prime”
  • The Dwarves - “Drinking Up Christmas”
  • Rockosaurus Rex - “I Have A Little Dreidel”
  • American Heartbreak - “The Greatest Xmas Song Ever Written”
  • TV’s Kyle - “California Christmas”
  • The Johnny Starlings - “Christmas Here”

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Show length: 56:46
File size: 39.3 MB
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This show begins with a murder update, then we cover a news story about big-city naming rights, then we talk about scary real video games and we finish the show out with some bad English.

Links:

• “Chicago Might Sell Naming Rights”
• “French In Action”
• Helium
• “Gears Of War”
• Music heard on this episode:
  • the unXpektd
  • Scott Goldstone

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Show length: 51:46
File size: 35.6 MB
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This show starts off with some complaining about our lack of heat, then we read a news story about someone gettin’ capped, then we read a news story about a drunk-driving rock star, then we read some end-of-year lists. Other stuff happened, too.

Links:

• Inside My Head
• “Weiland arrested for DUI of … something”
• “Hottest Products of 2007″
• “The top 10 movies of 2007″
• Fight Club (buy the DVD)
• Pleo
• Music heard in this episode:
  • The Shames (buy the CD) (download the CD)
  • Artificial Intelligence in Texas (download the CD)

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Show length: 1:29:48
File size: 61.7 MB
File type: 96 kbps stereo mp3

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