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Tinariwen with Kyp Malone & Tunde Adebimpe

Season 8 • 11/29/2011

Tunde Adebimpe explains how TV on the Radio hooked up with Malian nomadic band Tinariwen.

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The old, glossy, multicolored lady has done the unthinkable by crowning Bradley Cooper the Sexiest Man Alive.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the history and science of cancer.
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Stephen Colbert's meReporters
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CNN lays off 50 staff members, and Stephen gets in on the uncompensated future of news at the meReporters 6700.
11/28/2011
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Sign Off - MacBook
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Stephen signs off with his MacBook Air.
11/28/2011
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Intro - 11/28/11
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Mitt Romney launches an attack on Barack Obama, CNN unveils a new approach to journalism, and Siddhartha Mukherjee chronicles the history of cancer.
11/28/2011
05:44

Tip/Wag - Barack Obama's Omission, Mitt Romney's Ad & Lululemon's Tagline
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Barack Obama forgets that Jesus was at the first Thanksgiving, Mitt Romney takes Obama's words out of context, and Lululemon endorses Objectivism.
11/28/2011
03:25

Violent Black Friday
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The orgy of Black Friday Christmas shopping proves that America is back, and Americans will get their gifts by any means necessary.
11/28/2011
06:48

Yahweh or No Way - Altered Catholic Mass, Papal Seat Belt & Offensive Vodka Ad
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The Catholic Church revises the liturgy, Pope Benedict XVI gets caught riding the Popemobile without a seat belt, and a vodka ad offends Jews and Christians alike.
11/29/2011
00:20

Sign Off - Tinariwen' Album
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Stephen thanks Tinariwen for their performance and plugs their album "Tassili."
11/29/2011
00:34

Intro - 11/29/11
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Herman Cain's campaign gets rocked again, the Catholic Church makes a dramatic change, and North African band Tinariwen performs.
11/29/2011
05:18

Tinariwen with Kyp Malone & Tunde Adebimpe
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Eyadou ag Leche of Tinariwen discusses his band's Western musical influences and the band members' days in Muammar al-Gaddafi's rebel training camps.
11/29/2011
05:33

Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim discusses the complexity of his characters and rates Stephen's performance in "Company."
11/30/2011
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Conservative Siri
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The iPhone's archconservative voice recognition assistant, Siri, can neither locate an abortion clinic in Manhattan nor understand foreigners.
11/30/2011
00:06

Sign Off - Goodnight
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Stephen says goodnight.
11/30/2011
04:18

Newt Gingrich Denies Lobbying
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Newt Gingrich denies the liberal media's charges that he raked in cash by lobbying his former colleagues and future fellow lobbyists.
11/30/2011
03:53

Better Know a District - Massachusetts' 4th - Barney Frank Update
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Stephen honors Barney Frank's retirement from Congress with an encore presentation of his second ever Better Know a District.
11/30/2011
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Barney Frank's Retirement
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The Tennessee Tea Party says goodbye to Barney Frank with a derogatory tweet.
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Sign Off - Fire Extinguishing Powder
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Stephen says goodnight caked in fire extinguishing agent.
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Mitt Romney Gets Testy
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Fox New's Bret Baier asks Mitt Romney questions he doesn't want to answer, thereby making him look bad.
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Richard Branson
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Stop Online Piracy Act - Danny Goldberg & Jonathan Zittrain
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Music manager Danny Goldberg defends Internet piracy laws, and Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain doesn't want Justin Bieber to go to jail for copyright infringement.
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