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It’s so long since the last episode, we’ve already celebrated the birthday of gentle Baby Jesus. It’s a brand new year, but we’ve got the same old Crusader Rabbit as Prime Minister.
In this podcast there’s talk of terrorism, broadband, Space Lizards, the Brandis Ham, and much more.
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Episode Credits
- How to spot a Communist, from Armed Forces Information Film No. 5, 1950, found in an extract on YouTube.
- Tony Abbott’s New Year message 2015.
- January, by Scottish band Pilot, listed from YouTube.
- Tony Abbott’s press conference via ABC News.
- UK government could ban encrypted communications with new surveillance powers, The Verge, 12 January 2015.
- The FCC has changed the definition of broadband, The Verge, 29 January 2015.
- “Chuck Tingle is my favorite author,” tweets Miktar, with illustrations.
- “I was looking for text of an Abraham Lincoln speech and the gods of Google gave me this. Who says literature is dead?”, tweets Sarah Churchwell.
- Adam Samuel’s tweet linking to the wisdom of Donald Oprie of Saratoga, USA.
- Michael Moore invokes Jesus in Sniper rant, Todd Starnes fires back, from Fox News. Of course.
Series Credits
- The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian via The Freesound Project.
- Edict fanfare by neonaeon, via The Freesound Project.
- Elephant Stamp theme by Joshua Mehlman.
- Photograph of the Trinity atmospheric nuclear test, July 1945, by the US Government via Wikimedia Commons.
[Photo: The other day my Zoom H1 recorder, the apparatus with which I record nearly all my audio these days, suffered one too many blows to the head. It has expired. It has ceased to be. Sigh.]
[Update 8 February 2015: Edited to add deadline for audio comments.]
American Sniper, the anti-war film the Left doesn’t want you to see and the Right does.
Jason (the commenter): Now I’m trying to remember which podcast I listen to that had a fascinating analysis of American Sniper in terms of that very left-right divide in war movies. If I remember, I’ll post it.