Podcast 73: Jared's bug bear*

 We suckered another person to listen to us! Welcome in to the podcast Listener Jaybird (or whatever name you decide you want). Thanks to he and Listener Jim for some great insight on racial profiling. We also discussed episodes 9-12 of The West Wing, Season 4.

*"Often, especially when learning some large new system, programmers get stuck on something that looks like a bug and ask someone for help. Halfway through explaining their problem they realize where they had gone wrong. Never mind, never mind, it's not a bug, I'm an idiot. At a company I used to work for we had a stuffed bear called the bugbear. Before you could bug anyone else about your bug, you had explain it to the bugbear. Just thinking to yourself doesn't always work; there is something about vocalizing your mini-mental crisis to another being that engages the brain." -- http://carlos.bueno.org/

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Weird Fortune Cookie fortune: Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy
    New listener Jay and his Podcast: Geek Squared Podcast
    More discussion on Racial Profiling
    Online Book Website: Daily Lit
    Joey's Culture Corner: Flatland by Edwin Abbott
    Principles of an American Life: The 23rd Amendment
    Peter is Jared's bug bear
    Joey and Peter do not have a Star Trek fetish
    Music and Memory
    Josh Woodward's track Morning Blue

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
Swiss Diplomacy: 48min 52sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 6

Arctic Radar: 31min 01sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 8

Holy Night: 31min 46sec
Peter: Television - 8
Joey: Television - 8

Guns Not Butter: 20min 24sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 7

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Podcast 72: We're calling you out Orrin Hatch

We hereby lay down an open invitation/challenge to Senator Orrin Hatch to come on this podcast. If he is a real man then he'll show up. My Friend Jon Madsen dropped by long enough to call him a tyrant. Bold words. But we are very glad that Jon could stop by. We also discussed episodes 5-8 of The West Wing, Season 4.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    My Friend Jon Madsen comes by to chat
    Joey's Culture Corner: Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald
    Principles of an American Life: The 22nd Amendment
    Podcast series test: The Simpson's
    Joey is too good to move his own stuff
    Is racial profiling ok to use?
    Shaky cameras are dumb
    How do you make big decisions?
    Electronic voting machines can be hacked!
    Music by Shayna Zaid

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
Debate Camp: 1hr 04min 36sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 6

Game On: 36min 32sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 8

Election Night: 19min 53sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 7

Process Stories: 12min 32sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 7

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Podcast 71: Subsidized by the Government

 Welcome back from our Independence Day holiday! It turns out that we can get government funding for this little podcast of ours. So many thanks to all of you tax payers out there subsidizing our work. Well... actually there is no funding for us, but it's nice to dream once and a while. We did however discuss episodes 1-4 of The West Wing, Season 4.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Joey's Culture Corner: The Stars Like Dust by Issac Asimov
    Jules Verne gives birth to Science Fiction
    Principles of an American Life: The 21st Amendment
    Are farm subsidies good?
    Being the smartest kid in the class
    Justice served in secret
    Needle Exchange
    3rd Party Candidates
    I Fight Dragons

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
20 Hours in America: 1hr 03min 06sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 8

College Kids: 32min 45sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 7

Red Mass: 27min 53sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 6

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Podcast 70: West Wing Season 3 wrap up

 The ending of season 3 has brought another grouping of great television, as well as the introduction of a new music intro from the group Imagine Dragons. This podcast covers episodes 21-22 of The West Wing, Season 3.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Joey's Culture Corner: Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
    Principles of an American Life: The 20th Amendment
    Assassinations
    Are there moral absolutes?
    Could you shake the hand of the man you were about to kill?
    Joey pretends to be Batman
    Here Me by Imagine Dragons

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show as well as Season 3 lists/recaps:
We Killed Yamamoto: 57min 33sec
Peter: Television - 10
Joey: Television - 8

Posse Comitatus: 41min 48sec
Peter: Television - 10
Joey: Television - 10

Season 3 wrap up: 25min 07sec

Season 2 recaps and lists
Favorite Extra/Bit Part
Peter: Cliff Caley
Joey: Deborah Fitterer

Most Hated Character
Peter: Amy Gardner
Joey: Bruno Gianelli

Favorite Villain
Peter & Joey: Omar Shareef

Hot Chick
Peter: Ainsley Hayes played by Emily Procter
Joey: Amy Gardner as played by Mary Louise Parker

Favorite Issue
Peter: Stand up for your mistakes
Joey: The way people pull together in crisis situations

Top 5 Hated Episodes
Peter

1. 100,000 Airplanes
2. Dead Irish Writers
3. 2 Bartlets
4. Stirred
5. The Indians in the Lobby

Joey

1. The Women of Qumar
2. Dead Irish Writers
3. Manchester part 1
4. War Crimes
5. The Indians in the Lobby

Top 5 Favorite Episodes
Peter:

1. Posse Comitatus
2. Manchester part 2
3. Bartlet for America
4. We Killed Yamamoto
5. The Black Vera Wang

Joey:

1. Posse Comitatus
2. The US Poet Laureate
3. Night 5
4. Bartlet for America
5. Manchester part 2

Favorite Overall Moment
Peter: Manchester part 2: Don't you dare lecture me Mr President!

Joey: Manchester part 2: President Bartlet apologizing to his staff


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Podcast 69: No Sex Jokes Please

 Woot, under 2 hours! We are really getting good at this podcast thing (assuming the object is to keep it under 2 hours). Lots of fun this week discussing the latest installment of WW. Special thanks to DeDe for loaning Joey to me on their 11th wedding anniversary. Well done on a fine accomplishment. Here's hoping the next eleven we be less eventful. We discuss episodes 17-20 of The West Wing, Season 3.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Happy Anniversary Joey and DeDe!
    Joey's Culture Corner: The Gods Themselves by Issac Asimov
    Principles of an American Life: The 19th Amendment
    New poetry podcast coming soon
    Are college transcripts an indicator of ones ability?
    message boards and forums; good blog post here
    Stupid ideas to do with nuclear waste
    How do you get out of going to a meeting?
    NCIS rocks and CSI sucks
    Josh Woodward's track Morning Blue

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
The U.S. Poet Laureate: 40min 41sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 9

Stirred: 12min 25sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 7

Enemies Foreign & Domestic: 17min 31sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 8

The Black Vera Wang: 14min 10sec
Peter: Television - 8
Joey: Television - 8

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Podcast 68: Tee-Totaled, sort of - itunes link fixed again

 Well, who knew that two Mormon guys would be against prohibition? This ended up being a rushed podcast (due to a Saturday recording and my soccer game) that worked out really well because this weeks episodes really didn't have that much conversational meat in them. We also got a special visit from the TW5 intern. We discuss episodes 9-12 of The West Wing, Season 3.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Helen Thomas is an idiot
    Joey's Culture Corner: The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
    Principles of an American Life: The 18th Amendment
    Affirmative Action revisited
    Should the President be required to see a therapist?
    Sexual Harassment
    Don't mess with other people's stuff
    Chess is a tough game
    I Fight Dragons

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
The Two Bartlet's: 39min 44sec
Peter: Television - 5
Joey: Television - 8
Aaron: Television - 4

Night Five: 23min 11sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 8
Aaron: Television - 6

Hartsfield's Landing: 16min 36sec
Peter: Television - 8
Joey: Television - 8
Aaron: Television - 8

Dead Irish Writers: 16min 32sec
Peter: Television - 5
Joey: Television - 4
Aaron: Television - 5

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Podcast 67: Tang: The only thing we got from NASA

 You don't want to miss this week as Joey declares Tang to be one of the best things that came from NASA. One of the really big discussions we had is about prostitution and pornography. I would love to get some female feedback on the subject. We discuss episodes 9-12 of The West Wing, Season 3.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Joey's Culture Corner: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
    Principles of an American Life: The 17th Amendment
    Mad Cow Disease
    Legalize Prostitution? Why not? Pornography is legal.
    Alcoholism/Addiction: Isn't it just a willpower issue?
    Tell all books are stupid
    Music by Shayna Zaid

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
The Women of Qumar: 1hr 1min 38sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 4

Bartlet For America: 22min 19sec
Peter: Television - 8
Joey: Television - 8

H Conn 172: 19min 13sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 8

100,000 Airplanes: 13min 36sec
Peter: Television - 5
Joey: Television - 7

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