The usual round-up of hilarity and information.

The Vermont Barter system: “I’ve got burlap, you’ve got granola.”

Phil the Spokessore. Oh my buddha*, too funny.

And the celebrity guest was Calvin Trillin, “the Susan Lucci of the Poet Laureate” world. Very, very humorous segment.

*Just a little shout-out to yankeefrog DWoo! 🙂

Accidentally singing outloud (along w/ your iPod) on the El? Or laughing out loud so hard (also on the El) that you almost fall over (out of your seat!), due to the podcast you are listening to?
Here are some moments for you:

• Peter Segal(sp?): “First a note to our troops serving overseas. We were alarmed to read this week that Armed Forces radio might be cutting down on their talk radio offerings, including NPR, because surveys show that younger service members really don’t care for it. Guys, gals, you’re making a mistake. Someday this war will be over, and then you’ll be back home, and you’ll be at a cocktail party. And some attractive person is going to say “I’m really interested in traditional Appalachian* quilt making, do you know anything about it?” And then where’re you gonna be? The military trains you for war, we will train you for chat.”
  
• Paula Poundstone discussing how she had been searching for [the Iranian dude whose name I can’t remember with the $25 million bounty on his head. And I couldn’t spell it even if I could remember it].
  
• Talking about a Republican claiming that being anti-gay marriage is a civil rights issue (I think it was the new White House spokesman). Wait wait’s comment: “Gay marriage is a civil rights issue like prohibition was a happy hour issue.”
  
• Paula on the dichotomy “Gay Republicans”. “What is a Gay Republican? Do they beat themselves up in parking lots?”
  
• The segment on airbags for the crotch (on scooters). Too funny. Before it was clear they were talking about scooters rather than cars, Paula: “Am I driving wrong?”
  
• The producer of the Aristocrats’ mother’s standard compliment for something she actually didn’t like: “I just don’t know where they get the energy!”
  
• The fact that he (producer of the Aristocrats) has obtained the film rights for the Japanese kid’s book “Everybody Poops.”
  
• Jessica Simpson’s question to Pamela Anderson when they met recently: “How did you run so slow during the opening scenes of Baywatch?” Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha…………

I LOVE this podcast (even though I am obviously listening to it about a month behind! Pathetic being that it only comes out once a week!). And from a girl who never reads the paper or watches the news, that is very high praise for what is really a news quiz show!
*Which I would pronounce “App-a-laesch-an” but he pronounced “App-a-latch-ee-an”,