Episode 19: Ruining Our American Lives

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Show notes and links

• Late March heat is anything but normal - The Buffalo News

Michael Bay and Your Freaking Childhood

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are now aliens?

• Michael Bay, movie-making maverick? | The Guardian

• ‘X-Men 4’, ‘X-Men 5’, and Deadpool: It’s All Happening | Film School Rejects

• Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business | Co.Create

• The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine

• Wax | California (Official Video) - YouTube

Mike Daisey, Lying, Journalism, and Also, Right, Lying

• Retraction | This American Life

• Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory | This American Life

• An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details | Marketplace

• Mike Daisey: Reports of my Death have been Greatly Exaggerated

• In Appearance at Georgetown, Mike Daisey Just Digs Deeper: DCist

• The Jimmy McNulty Gambit – The New Inquiry

Miscellaneous

• 2pac Feat. Celine Dion - Titanic My Heart Will Go On REMIX - YouTube (Opening theme source. It does weird things to your irony receptors).

Best Thing on the Internet This Week (BTOTITW)

• Phil: Maps of American ancestries - Wikipedia (per an Olive Garden review that caught fire)

• Kevin: A supercut of every Itchy & Scratchy appearance | The A.V. Club