Bonus Episode: The Powell Memo

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This is a Bonus Episode. Rather than look as deeply as I can into a given topic, I've decided to give you, the Listener, the source material for what I consider to be one of the most important documents in recent US political history.

Given its length and the dryness of the content, I in no way hold a grudge against anyone who wishes instead to execute the skip button and leave this unheard. I plan to address this document in my usual excerpting style in the near future, complete with as many jokes as I can muster; so skipping this will be no loss.

For those that do listen, I hope you share with me the awe of hearing a document that may well have shaped more of our recent history than any other.

Episode 49: Product or Packaging?

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Remember that last episode, the one where I accused NPR podcasters of parading themselves inappropriately in front of would-be funders like cheap prostitutes? I'm still not over that, it seems. In this Episode 49: Product or Packaging?, I ruminate about why none of the NPR podcasts ever responded to my years of begging them for an ad-free podcast stream, even after I promised money for the favor. I have an idea, and I'm sticking to it.

Not much this time in way of source material, except the music, this time "Prologue" by The Mystery Artists. And, of course, Dmitri Orlov once again talks over KMFDM's tune "Attack."