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

If you have something to say then we welcome your comments below, or feel free to email us at trekwest5@thehomestarmy.com, twitter us at hashtag TrekWest5, or leave us a voicemail at 801-788-4913.