Episode 94: Left vs. Left: Play in Popup | Download

Mike’s show notes follow after the jump…

Original air date: 12/20/09
Total run time: 1:57:30
File size: 56.4 MB

4:03 Bill: This is the please bear with me part of the show”

4:04 Title Music

4:05 Another Atheist Christmas

4:08 The (now weakened) healthcare bill gets through the senate

Bill (as Lieberman): “No Charlie Brown, I won’t pull the football away!”

Bill (as congress): “We must appease the enormous cranium of Ben Nelson”

Steve: “What Joe Lieberman is willing to vote for today is infinitely stronger than what Howard Dean promoted in 2004″ 4:18

Bill: “What about reintroducing the bill with reconciliation?” 4:22

Steve: “I think it is a solid bill. It will do a lot of good for a lot of people” 4:27

4:28 Station and Show id

4:29 Return to healthcare and discussion of the managers amendment and what will happen going forward

Steve (on Reid): “There are very few people in the universe who could have gotten 60 votes” 4:32

4:41 The genre segment finally begins with a discussion of Dollhouse. No wait, it didn’t. It started with Avatar.

Bill: “It was exactly what I expected. A giant spectacle and a hackneyed plot. 2D characters, but well acted.” 4:42

Emily: “I resent that amount of money being spent on a movie.” 4:44

Bill: [repeats his blog post story about disengaging from the 3D technology to go to the bathroom] 4:48

Bill: “blah blah blah” [keep talking about Avatar instead of Dollhouse]

4:54 Brian Singer gets signed to do two new X-Men movies

4:56 Speaking of Patrick Stewart, rumor has it that he will be knighted!

4:56 Sam Rami set to direct the fourth Spiderman movie

5:01 Teaser: what are the best sci-fi movies of the decade?

5:01 Station and show id

5:02 Back to healthcare. What is up with Olympia Snow?

5:09 Can Lieberman be recalled? Apparently it is unconstitutional to do so.

Steve: “Being exceedingly annoying is not grounds for expulsion.” 5:11

5:15 Nothing much happened in Copenhagen

Bill: “Agreements were made. Liberals are angy. China is a jerk.” 5:15

5:21 Don QuInhofe goes to Copenhagen

5:24 Michael Goldfarb says something stupid, and it really gets Steve’s dander up. Sorry wasn’t really listening.

5:32 Station and show id

5:32 DOLLHOUSE! Crash course to insanity!

5:46 Awesome People Saying Awesome Things: Franken smacks down Lieberman

5:50 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
RNC Chairman Michael Steele
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska)
Newt Gingrich

6:00 We will be discussing the top sci-fi movies of the decade next week

6:01 End of show