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Ep. 176: The Overflow

May 8, 2012
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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng gets to come to America… maybe. Real Biden is weirder than the Onion’s jokes about Biden. Is it better to have an alpha or a beta president? What IS an alpha or a beta president? And why does Kenneth Cole hate America’s teachers? This is why we have… The Overflow! About...

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Ep. 176: Drinko De Mayo

May 5, 2012
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Ep. 176: Drinko De Mayo

In honor of a Mexican holiday, we celebrate 1 World Trade Center’s reclamation of the Manhattan skyline, and debate whether Obama did (or should) politicize the bin Laden killing, the resignation of an openly gay press officer in the Romney campaign, austerity, and the right’s backlash against the Ryan budget.   Episode 176 About...

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Ep. 173: THE OVERFLOW

April 17, 2012
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The Miami Marlins become briefly politically relevant when Ozzie Guillen sort of compliments Fidel Castro. Herman Cain has a political ad where a farmer is eaten by his own chickens. There are many reasons why Daniel Patterson had to resign from his Arizona House of Representatives seat and we list all of them. Bin...

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Ep. 173: Lifetime Achievement Award

April 14, 2012
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Ep. 173: Lifetime Achievement Award

North Korea’s satellite launch fails, again. George Zimmerman gets arrested. Vermont’s governor gets chased by bears. Rich people never get audited. America learns Ann Romney is a mother. Episode 173 About Joe GeniMail | Web | More Posts (24)

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Ep. 170: It’s Vagina Day In America

March 27, 2012
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Nikki Przasnyski and Jess Chapman join the podcast to discuss the record-setting number of legislative efforts to resrict women’s access to birth control and abortion, the Trayvon Martin shooting, and how the Republican primary is like The Hunger Games. Ep. 170 About Joe GeniMail | Web | More Posts (24)

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Ep. 170: The Overflow

March 26, 2012
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This week’s overflow features Mali in crisis, Syria in crisis, Iran in crisis, Mitt Romney’s dog in crisis, Mitt Romney’s campaign in crisis. Why did we post The Overflow first? No idea. The Overflow About Joe GeniMail | Web | More Posts (24)

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Episode 169: The Overflow

March 21, 2012
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Obama’s War On Independent Journalism In Yemen. A bitter ex-Goldman Sachs VP. The guitarist from Exhumed loves Ron Paul. Can you discern Charles Manson quotes from Unabomber quotes? We can’t. And somehow, the unveiling of Nixon’s love letters to his wife turns into an long and rambling debate about the relative benefits of Kissingerian realist...

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Ep. 169: Oral Robertson

March 19, 2012
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Jordan Williams joins Joe and Chris to discuss whether the Afghan massacre will bring about an early end to the war, and then the crew talks a lot about sex and perfume as relating to Rick Santorum, Jason Russell from the Kony2012 video, Pat Robertson, and the pope. Also, some of Mitt Romney’s best...

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Kony 2012: Annoying video, dubious NGO, good policy?

March 13, 2012
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Kony 2012: Annoying video, dubious NGO, good policy?

A bit about the #Kony2012 campaign: THE VIDEO ITSELF, assuming you’re not one of the 76 million (and counting) who’ve seen it on YouTube, is (in this writer’s opinion) cloying, annoying, manipulative, misleading, wildly oversimplified, and far too slickly produced for a reasonable NGO. The one really moving part is an interview with Ugandan children who...

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Ep. 167: The Libertine Libertarian

March 5, 2012
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Author and traveler Francis Tapon fulfills a lifelong goal and joins the podcast to discuss whether Putin stole the Russian elections, whether Putin would have won anyway, whether Ron Paul could beat Obama head-to-head, whether Mitt Romney is a robot or a space alien, why Wyoming would want an aircraft carrier, and whither the...

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