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Matt -- Gaylord Perry has died. As much as I know you love baseball, his mid-career 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter is totally worth the read. It's hilarious.

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Thought the entire panel discussion on the Glenn Show covered some interesting topics, some of which I think apply not only to black Americans, but are perhaps elements of the human condition that we're all working our way through.

I also caught Kmele's debate about the relevance of public radio and thought it was really good. I recently read Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Starry Messenger, and he makes the point that technological advances happen exponentially rather than linearly and I think we experience this in life and aren't always sure when something has become obsolete because our emotional attachments make us suckers for a sunken-cost-fallacy valuation, rather than a cold and emotionless assessment of whether something provides us a sufficient first step forward into the future. Kmele did a great job discussing the relevant particulars and I like that his arguments presented a reasonable case without even really having to take any shots at the other guy's position. I think that seems like the least assailible way to debate something.

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I'm disappointed that Dylan did a cover of Brave Combo's polka arrangement of Must Be Santa without giving attribution to the original.

Here's the original with a couple live versions:

https://youtu.be/t87eJXofT6M

https://youtu.be/YklHIk3tyZM

And back when Joe Cripps (with the jingling johnny in the back) was still around:

https://youtu.be/fnc076s4jt4

Great band, worth exploring further. Lots of fun live.

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