Episode 117: The One Where Bill & Steve Switch Bodies: Play in Popup | Download

We’re back to a weekly schedule at PSFR after a break of a few weeks, just in time for election season! Our old-style notes follow below.

Note: I’m having some computer issues this week so some of the post-processing I normally do to the audio file I wasn’t able to do. As a result, the audio quality may be somewhat diminished compared to what you’re used to. A 100% refund is in the mail to you already.

Original air date: 9/5/10
Total run time: 1:59:25
File size: 57.3 MB

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Scott Pilgrim
Avatar re-release
Walking Dead trailer
NYCC
Let Me In trailer/clip
genre shows this fall
True Blood
Eureka
Warehouse 13
Futurama
Being Human

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Economy
* Job numbers
* What, if anything, is next

Iraq
* Combat troops come home
* “Operation Iraqi Freedom” formally ends

Election Upset
* Murkowski loses GOP primary in Alaska
* Joe Miller is stark raving mad
* Tea Partiers create another competitive contest

Glenn Beck’s D.C. event
* More a religious revival than a political protest
* Still ambiguous agenda
* Is the religious right comfortable with LDS (not really)

Looking ahead to the midterms
* Bleak, bleak, bleak
* Senate in play?
* Is two months a long time?
* What to expect if there’s a GOP majority (government shutdown)
* enthusiasm gap

SPSST
* Senate candidate Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
* Rep. John Fleming (R-La.)
* House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.)
* Senate candidate Linda McMahon (R-Conn.)
* Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
* Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R)

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 Episode 116: What's Up With Ben Nelson?: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s notes are below…

Original air date: 8/8/10
Total run time: 1:57:04
File size: 56.2 MB

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00:04 Oil spill containment finally

00:11 GDP and job numbers

00:16 Supreme Court, Kagen, Ben Nelson, the next justice

00:28 STATION AND SHOW ID

00:30 True Blood

00:39 SyFy and crossovers

00:43 Being Human

00:45 Starz Torchwood

00:49 No live action Star Wars

00:53 STATION AND SHOW ID

00:54 Hugo Weaving was aping Carl Sagan in the Matrix

00:5? Prop 8 declared unconstitutional

01:06 The auto industry

01:17 Fair sentencing

01:23 Lowest common denominator politics

01:29 STATION AND SHOW ID

01:30 Dragon Hunters/Invention of Lying

01:38 Disclose act

01:?? Health Care for 9/11 responders

01:43 Other bills

01:44 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things
* Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R)
* Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas)
* “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy
* Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R-Nev.), Part I
* Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R-Nev.), Part II
* Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes (R)

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 Episode 115: The Tax Fairy Cometh: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s show notes are below…

Original air date: 7/25/10
Total run time: 1:58:24
File size: 56.8 MB

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00:01 The Oil Spill

00:06 Wall street reform

00:1? Tax Cut Fairy

00:28 Station ID

00:30 SDCC and the Avengers

00:39 Chuck

00:42 Back to the Avengers

00:44 Stabbed with a pen

00:46 Another Family Guy Star Wars Thing

00:47 INCEPTION

00:59 Station ID

01:00 Republicans shooting themselves in the foot

01:10 Boehner wants to create jobs by doing nothing

01:16 Government Shutdown

01:20 Boehner wants to stop new government regulations

01:23 Bachmann only wants congress to issue subpoenas

01:27 RNC Hidden debt

01:30 Station ID

01:30 True Blood

01:35 Season Finale of Doctor Who and random stuff

01:39 The Death of Cap and Trade

01:44 Stupid People
* Former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin (R)
* Conservative media personality Ben Stein
* Disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R)
* Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
* Conservative activist/pseudo-historian David Barton
* Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)

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 Episode 114: Inconceivable!: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s show notes are below, along with “cover art” that he made. Thanks, Mike!

Original air date: 7/11/10
Total run time: 1:59:46
File size: 57.5 MB

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00:05 BP Oil Spill

00:10 Elena Kagan and Thurgood Marshall

00:20 The Job Numbers

00:24 Filibuster in the Senate has blocked unemployment extension

00:28 STATION AND SHOW ID

00:30 True Blood

00:42 Eureka

00:45 Doctor Who

00:46 Warehouse 13

00:49 Futurama

00:49 The Guild

00:51 Let Me In

00:54 Plans for PSFR at Comicon

00:55 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

00:56 Baptist Church protesters at Comicon

01:?? STATION AND SHOW ID

01:01 Robert Byrd

01:03 West Virgina senator replacement

01:05 Boehner’s ant comment

01:1? Back to Unemployment

01:17 Fareed Zakaria and The Grand Bargain

01:20 RNC Chair Michael Steele on Afghanistan

01:28 Sharron Angle is the craziest

01:30 STATION AND SHOW ID

01:31 Sharron Angle

01:36 Florida Senate Race

01:42 The Last Airbender

01:44 Predators

01:46 Inception

01:47 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things

- Michele Bachman doesn’t want us to be bound to Zimbabwe

- Michael Steele quotes the Princess Bride

- Louie Gohmert opposes terrorist children getting citizenship

- Alvin Greene wants to be an action figure

- Sharron Angle incestuous rape is just life giving you lemons

- Tom Tancredo thinks Obama is the biggest threat to America

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 Episode 113: What Was That Robot Thinking?: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s show notes are below…

Original air date: 6/27/10
Total run time: 1:58:28
File size: 56.9 MB

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00:03 Oil spill: warning, measurements may vary

00:07 Oil spill: takes bronze for worst spill ever

00:10 Oil spill: conflictedly injunctifying the moratorium

00:14 Oil spill: the shakedown fallout

00:17 Oil spill: republicans support BP

00:23 Oil spill: Jindal can’t always get what he wants, but if he tries sometime, he just might find, he’s got what he needs

00:26 Oil spill: relief wells

00:29 STATION AND SHOW ID

00:30 True Blood: icky awful erotica and repetitive unnecessary traumatization

00:37 Futurama: returning to fill the void that is the sci-fi comedy genre

00:41 Red Dwarf: Bill and Steve prove their taste [is impeccable]

00:42 Doctor Who: British people have funny names

00:46 Chuck: vs. the 5 week delay

00:49 A-Team: good to see if you need air conditioning on a hot summer day

00:53 Toy Story 3: so good it made Bill cry

00:54 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: much better than you think it would be

00:57 STATION AND SHOW ID

00:58 Bill: having an identity crisis from caring about sports

01:00 General McChrystal: a shakeup bigger than the concurrent VT earthquake

01:06 General Petraeus: Taking the reigns

01:09 Kagan Nomination: hearings begin Monday

01:10 Failed unemployment extension: apparently 41 > 57

01:13 Republicans: undermining the economy for political gain?

01:22 Wall Street Reform: passes conference committee

01:25 Carbon reduction: utility only may pass, despite republicans resisting all cap and trade

01:27 Bob Inglis: lost primary as part of a republican purge of sane people

01:31 STATION AND SHOW ID

01:33 The G20: why are people protesting?

01:35 The Hobbit: Peter Jackson might actually direct it

01:37 Bill: he is not a big fantasy guy

01:38 Shane Carruth: A Topiary synopsis makes no sense, as would be expected

01:40 Movies: they’re releasing more of them, mostly bad

01:43 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things:

- Steve King: profiling, it is a common 6th sense thing

- Sarah Palin: we should get help from European dikes

- Brian Kilmeade: what was that robot thinking?

- Joe Barton: the escrow is a shakedown

- Bill Randal (not a conspiracy theorist): it is a conspiracy

- Thomas Sowell: presents a fine example of Godwin’s Law

01:55 Texas Republican Party Platform: this is why we have crazy people in congress

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 Episode 112: Chuck vs. The TiVo Situation: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s show notes are below…

Original air date: 5/13/10
Total run time: 1:57:51
File size: 56.6 MB

00:03 The World Cup and how the right hates non-American football

00:12 The still-ongoing BP oil disaster

00:19 GOP criticism of the president

00:23 Boehner wants taxpayers to pay to clean up the spill

00:28 Station and show id

00:30 Chuck vs. the TiVo situation

00:31 SGU two part finale

00:41 True Blood is back tonight

00:43 Splice: Worst. Movie. Ever.

00:48 Torchwood to Starz in 2011

00:52 Guillermo Del Toro decided not to do the Hobbit movie

00:57 Climate bill progress

01:09 Primary elections

01:30 Station and show ID

01:31 Fringe

01:34 Lame Flash Forward stunt

01:38 Firefly Blu Ray, Monster Cows, and the new Wash comic

01:43 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things

- Michele Bachman wanted the President to commandeer boats

- Jake Knotts of SC called Obama a rag-head and India not a foreign country

- Kit Bond declares that trees would die without carbon

- Bill Kristol thinks real men don’t need experts to know whose ass to kick

- Jeffrey Kuhner degraded the office of the presidency and so much more

- Scott Brown think that the EPA is a non-governmental organization

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 Episode #111 Lost Legacy: Play in Popup | Download

No Mike’s notes this week, so my pre-show notes follow below…

Original air date: 5/30/10
Total run time: 1:56:20
File size: 55.8 MB

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Lost series finale
Chuck season finale
SGU (we actually forgot to talk about it last week)
FlashForward series finale
summer genre movies

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BP oil spill disaster
* “Top kill” didn’t work
* Worst case scenario: August?
* Vague, pointless criticism

DADT repeal
* Key breakthroughs on the Hill (just as it was planned months ago)
* What could still go wrong
* filibuster/veto issues

CBO: stimulus created 2.8 million jobs

Sestak “controversy”
* Was offered unpaid advisory gig
* No one can find any actual wrongdoing
* GOP wants a special prosecutor

America Speaking Out
* The latest in a series of gimmicks
* Taxpayers footing the bill
* Initial entries are pretty nutty

Exaggerated service records
* First Blumenthal, now Mark Kirk
* Long history: Bush, Reagan, and Lindsey Graham

Possible discussion topic
* Creating controversies out of routine, mundane developments
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/024030.php

Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) resigns after sex scandal
* Teaching moment for far-right moralists

SPSST
* AFA’s Bryan Fisher
* Nevada Senate candidate Sue Lowden (R)
* Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas)
* Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R)

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 Episode 110: Damn you to Hell, Geoff Kennedy (again!): Play in Popup | Download

My sincere apologies for this podcast-upload being so late. I’m on vacation and away from the gear I normally use for editing, not to mention being away from the routine in which I normally upload these things. Anyway, as mentioned in this episode, we’ll be doing a new PSFR live this coming Sunday and then we’ll begin our summer schedule, which will reduce our output to an every-two-weeks schedule for June, July and August. After Labor Day, we’ll resume a weekly schedule again.

Mike’s show notes follow…

Original air date: 5/32/10
Total run time: 1:59:57
File size: 57.6 MB

00:02 Announcing the summer schedule of every two weeks

00:04 BP Oil Spill

00:09 Wall Street Reform

00:1? Barack Obama’s Legacy

00:30 Station ID

00:31 Alex Ch’s claim that Barack Obama is a Republican

00:46 Chuck

00:50 Flash Forward

00:53 V

00:56 Doctor Who

00:58 Station ID and underwriters

00:58 Elections and the media’s story that incumbents are losing

01:04 PA’s 12th District

01:10 Kentucky and Rand Paul

01:28 Elena Kagan and her nomination to the Supreme Court

01:31 Station and show ID

01:32 Upcoming genre shows Bill and Steve have seen trailers for

01:36 What shows are being renewed and canceled (mostly non-genre)

01:37 Iron Man 2

01:4? Something or another

01:49 Bill tells the story about how Empire was ruined for him, yet again

01:52 The internet saves a couple of girls!

01:53 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things

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 Episode 109: The Mother of All Mother's Days: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s show notes follow below.

Original air date: 5/9/10
Total run time: 2:00:24
File size: 57.8 MB

00:01 Happy Mother’s Day!

00:03 It’s that time of the month… job numbers.

00:15 The British Parliament

00:19 The Greek Tragedy

00:21 BP Oil Spill

00:25 Did Obama blow up the oil platform?

00:27 The climate/energy bill and political impact of the oil spill

00:34 station and show id

00:35 Lingering on acoustic oil drilling sensors

00:37 Iron Man 2

00:45 A big episode of Lost

00:52 Chuck

00:57 No Fringe, V, or Doctor Who from Steve

00:58 Station and Show ID

01:00 Times Square bomber was caught fleeing

01:11 Joe Lieberman’s TEA Act

01:18 Muslim street vendor helped spot the bomb

01:20 Supreme Court appointment is imminent

01:23 Senator Bennet is not running for re-election

01:28 Back to the Public Safety Exemption

01:32 SGU

01:39 Fringe has a Goonies person

01:41 The looming asteroid threat

01:47 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things

- Fox’s Eric Bowling on the BP oil disaster response

- Peter King know someone is a citizen, “but still”

- Dan Fanelli is running on a platform of racial profiling

- Sarah Palin says the constitution is based on religion

- Liz Cheney thinks Miranda rights are the wrong way to win the war

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 Episode 108: Those People Are Wrong: Play in Popup | Download

Sorry it’s taken so long to get this posted this week — it’s been one of the busiest weeks of my year (end of the semester) and I’ve been super busy. I apologize for the extra loud background hiss in this episode — I was in a rush to get it up and bypassed my usual signal processing. Mike’s notes are below.

Original air date: 5/2/10
Total run time: 1:59:33
File size: 57.4 MB

00:00 Weird feedback loop stops

00:01 Bomb scare in Times Square

00:10 Oil Spill disaster

00:19 Change in US energy and climate policy

00:21 GDP numbers

00:23 Station and show id

00:25 No Lost, so talking about Chuck first instead

00:32 Star Trek Voyager is full of superlative worsts

00:42 SGU (which is now being shown on Hulu 8 days after initial airing)

00:50 Fringe: the musical

00:51 Flash Forward now with Baltar

00:55 Republicans repeatedly filibuster Wall Street reform

01:03 Energy bill is suffering due to no expanded drilling

01:04 Immigration reform, protests, and the AZ law

01:12 Charlie Crist leaves the Republican party

01:18 Jeff Green is a billionaire who is making a primary run for senate

01:20 Moderates are not allowed in the Republican party

01:27 Station and show id and underwriting

01:28 A light summer for Sci-Fi, but a couple of things are coming up

~01:35 Where are things going with the new Batman?

01:39 Clone Wars season finale

01:40 Poem on dead lost characters

01:44 Stupid People saying stupid things

- Tim James thinks only English-speaking people should take driver’s tests

- Duncan Hunter Jr wants to deport the children of illegal immigrants

- Pat Betroche wants to radio chip immigrants like pets

- Rush Limbaugh thinks environmentalists may have caused the oil spill

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