Tonight we solve all trouble and strife with a collective, worldwide performance of Double Dream Feet.
How easy was that? Step clap! One more time!
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In tonight’s diversion en route to the tips Hockey Night in Canada’s Don Cherry brings his avant-garde piano stylings to his “Coach’s Corner” segment.
Let’s face it, the guy is good.
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Former vaudevillian Billy Mitchell – aka Lord High Slapper-Downer – has Got A Little List. And a machete.
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Tonight, a brief look back at African veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracey, anti-poaching District Officer Hedley, Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion and, of course, Judy the Chimp.
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In tonight’s diversion en route to the tips Australian quartet The Seekers, backed by a symphony orchestra, give an open-air performance of their 1966 pop confection Georgy Girl.
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As we’re coming up on Thanksgiving this weekend, I think this video is apropos.

How to play Risk. An excellent game, well worth learning. That is if you aren’t spending your late teens/twenties in the Choom Gang.

There’s nothing better than a good book to get away with.
From Librivox.org, the H.G. Wells classic, The Invisible Man audio book.

Says the taxpayer to the gov’t, Anna Kendrick – Cups (Pitch Perfect’s “When I’m Gone”). Probably without the fun, though.

Today we’ll feature something that has nothing at all to do with current events, The first 10 minutes of Part 1/6 of the BBC’s Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire. The rest of Part 1/6 are there too, as is the whole of the series, if you’re inclined.

Filling in for EBD while he’s AFK on a super-duper secret mission.
For all the conservatives worried that the Republicans will be blamed for the gov’t shutdown, or that they’ll cave, or that the world is spinning out of control, “The Birth of the Blues”, The Rat Pack, 1965 with guest appearance by Johnny Carson.
Lighten up!

The late Stan Rogers’ songwriting skills and baritone voice were well-suited to tales of working class men and historic ballads about adventurous men in the Great White North, but he could also write a fine love ballad: Here’s a live performance of a song from his 1976 studio album Fogarty’s Cove called Forty-Five Years.
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Guy Clark’s songs have been covered over the years by a who’s-who of performers including Vince Gill, Bobby Bare, Ricky Skaggs, and Johnny Cash, but the 71-year-old Texan will always remain better known among his fellow musicians than the listening public. Tonight he sings a song he wrote for Susanna Clark, his wife of 30 years, after she passed away last year: Here’s My Favorite Picture Of You.
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In tonight’s diversion en route to the Tips we go all transatlantic-like, as multitalented French/Italian musician/singer and world traveller Nino Ferrer details the surfeit of bouncy companions he has to deal with over Le Telefon. Mon Dieu, Nino!
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Inside of each of the planes you’re about to see, you just know there are passengers thinking “I realized just now: This has to be the last flight I ever take. I’m committing right now to stop flying. It’s just not worth the…juh-juh-juh..”
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips the late Red Sovine, who was most famous for his often maudlin spoken-word country songs like “Teddy Bear” and “Phantom 309”, covers Eric Clapton’s 1978 crossover hit Lay Down Sally.
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What do you want for nothing? A Rubber Biscuit?
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After King Radio wrote and recorded it in the 1930s, and Harry Belafonte reprised it in 1959 at Carnegie Hall for fat white liberal women in muumuus, Allan Sherman created the definitive version in 1962 when he disassembled Belafonte’s famous recording for spare parts: here’s My Zelda.
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In tonight’s tips music, from 1967, Prime Mates (L to R: Keith, Joanne, Harold, Ian, and Scott) serve up a dose of Hot Tamales. It’s a bit repetitive, but they’re doing the best they can.
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Tonight, we learn how to safely and naturally de-worm our chickens. It’s relatively easy, and our chickens will love us for it.
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