EPISODE NUMBER: 10009 (October 21, 2013)
GUEST: The Reflektors
STAFF CAMEO: Paul Dinello
SEGMENTS: End of the Government Shutdown | Tip/Wag – Gay Marriage in New Jersey, America’s Education Problem, & Erotic Fiction on Kindle | The Reflektors – “Normal Person” | Sign Off – @Midnight
EXCLUSIVES: The Reflektors – “Afterlife”
SUIT REPORT: Gray Suit | White Shirt | Burgundy Tie
TAPING REPORT: [Link]
VIDEOS: Monday, October 21, 2013
I have never heard the audience “awww” more often in a TCR musician’s interview than last night. Win Butler was a tuggin’ at the heart strings, and made a pretty substantive case to visit Haiti. The puppets kind of creeped me out a bit, but other than that, the music was great. I am glad Arcade Fire The Reflektors made it on the show – they seem like it-getters and helped ease us into a return from break week.
Also loved the gay treatise on New Jersey’s legalization of gay marriage – Stephen gayed it up while also making a pretty astute characterization of suburban life. As a suburbanite myself, I always say, “sure I’ll go to Chicago…sometime…but my daughter’s got a girl scout thing and I’m too tired”…right.
What grabbed your attention from this ep? How did you enjoy The Reflektors? Let us know in the comments.
End of the Government Shutdown
“The government shutdown…caused China to lower our credit rating to A-. Or, as Chinese parents call it, an “F.”
- Now, Congress can get back to the important work of government gridlock.
- [On a Zimbabwe publication’s declaring the United States “a failed state”] That’s like asking Ted Cruz, “have you really thought your strategy through?”
- Yes, this shutdown was a remarkable victory, and with all victories, we’ve got to know who to blame.
- Yes, Obama’s refusal to negotiate with Congress was just him getting back at his parents.
“I mean, we’ve seen this story too many times. African-American males without role models go on to become President and give everyone healthcare. It’s sad, so sad.”
- That a brilliant long-distance diagnosis by Dr. Ablow. But one must ask: how was he able to yank such an insightful diagnosis so smoothly from his ass?
Tip/Wag – Gay Marriage in New Jersey, America’s Education Problem, & Erotic Fiction on Kindle
- Now Nation, if you watch this show, you know my judgments are final. But if you have a receipt, I can offer store credit. This is Tip/Wag!
Tip: New Jersey’s Making Gay Marriage Less Glamorous
- Whenever I am invited to a gay wedding, I express my outrage by getting a gift that’s not on the registry. Hey, Mark and Jeffrey, you’ll never match my sauterne glasses with the stemware on your list and enjoy a couple’s dinner party with 7 of them!
Stephen applauds NJ’s first gay marriages: “I don’t know why I’m clapping. (continues clapping) I have NO idea what this means.”
- Yes that was Newark’s hero-mayor and Senator-Elect Cory Booker acting also as Justice of the Peace. He then went on to cater the wedding dinner, drive the limo, and save the couple from an escaped circus lion.
- Gay marriage has come to New Jersey, and not just because it missed it’s exit on the Cross-Bronx expressway.
- A tip of my hat to the Olive Garden State. If there is anything that will take the glamour out of gay marriage, it’s New Jersey.
I mean the suburbs sound nice at first, gays. You stop renting a cramped gay apartment in the big gay city and own your own gay house. Lots more room to gay live. Some place with a gay yard where you can plant some gay tomatoes. Sure gay property taxes can be high, but that’s to pay for all the great gay schools. But then, after a few years, you get gay fat. Oh sure, you promised yourself you will gay go into the City but it’s Friday night and you gay worked all week and gay Dateline NBC is on. And you say, “Ah, the gay hell with it!” And you sit on the couch with a beer. Traditional values win.
Tip: Robo-grading
- Three times faster! That’s almost twice as much.
- If we can help one kid in school do better, we will help all the kids who copy off that kid.
- Finally, we have the ability to grade homework at the same blind speed it was plagiarized from Wikipedia.
Tip: Erotic Kindle-lit
- Daniel Day Lewis, return my calls!
- A tip of my hat for putting the power of the press into the hands of the people, especially in their finest genre- and again, this is real- “Dinosaur Erotica.” It’s for anyone who’s been at the museum and said to themselves, “I’d tap that.”
- That is the hottest story of a prehistoric creature taking advantage of a young woman since Hugh Hefner.
- Who among us has not thought about getting it on with a Lady Triceratops? We’re all a little tri-curious.
Interview — The Reflektors
- Stephen: What do you like more, getting people to listen to your lyrics? And think about the message of isolation in the modern world, or getting them on the dance floor to shake dat ass?
- Win Butler: Ideally, you’d be shaking your ass with a little tear in your eye.
“Travel to Haiti.”
“Actually, you and Paul [Farmer] have a physical resemblance, yeah, you guys can kind of be ‘reflektors’ of each other. Just physically. He’s a way better person.” “Really?You don’t know me!”
The Reflektors – “Normal Person”
A little healthy Self-”Reflektion”= Two handsome guys.
Exclusive: The Reflektors – “Afterlife”
“Hello everyone watching on the internet. Here, with yet another song from *not this* (long pause) The Reflektors!”
October 21, 2013 — The Reflektors
GUEST: The Reflektors
STAFF CAMEO: Paul Dinello
SEGMENTS: End of the Government Shutdown | Tip/Wag – Gay Marriage in New Jersey, America’s Education Problem, & Erotic Fiction on Kindle | The Reflektors – “Normal Person” | Sign Off – @Midnight
EXCLUSIVES: The Reflektors – “Afterlife”
SUIT REPORT: Gray Suit | White Shirt | Burgundy Tie
TAPING REPORT: [Link]
VIDEOS: Monday, October 21, 2013
I have never heard the audience “awww” more often in a TCR musician’s interview than last night. Win Butler was a tuggin’ at the heart strings, and made a pretty substantive case to visit Haiti. The puppets kind of creeped me out a bit, but other than that, the music was great. I am glad
Arcade FireThe Reflektors made it on the show – they seem like it-getters and helped ease us into a return from break week.Also loved the gay treatise on New Jersey’s legalization of gay marriage – Stephen gayed it up while also making a pretty astute characterization of suburban life. As a suburbanite myself, I always say, “sure I’ll go to Chicago…sometime…but my daughter’s got a girl scout thing and I’m too tired”…right.
What grabbed your attention from this ep? How did you enjoy The Reflektors? Let us know in the comments.
End of the Government Shutdown
“The government shutdown…caused China to lower our credit rating to A-. Or, as Chinese parents call it, an “F.”
“I mean, we’ve seen this story too many times. African-American males without role models go on to become President and give everyone healthcare. It’s sad, so sad.”
Tip/Wag – Gay Marriage in New Jersey, America’s Education Problem, & Erotic Fiction on Kindle
Tip: New Jersey’s Making Gay Marriage Less Glamorous
Stephen applauds NJ’s first gay marriages: “I don’t know why I’m clapping. (continues clapping) I have NO idea what this means.”
Tip: Robo-grading
Tip: Erotic Kindle-lit
Interview — The Reflektors
“Travel to Haiti.”
“Actually, you and Paul [Farmer] have a physical resemblance, yeah, you guys can kind of be ‘reflektors’ of each other. Just physically. He’s a way better person.” “Really?You don’t know me!”
The Reflektors – “Normal Person”
A little healthy Self-”Reflektion”= Two handsome guys.
Exclusive: The Reflektors – “Afterlife”
“Hello everyone watching on the internet. Here, with yet another song from *not this* (long pause) The Reflektors!”