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Episode 42 focused on several current topics, including defriending, Obama’s difficulties, and airline fares. Here’s a breakdown of the episodes topics:

• Obama’s disapproval rating, his dog remarks, and the latest economic plan versus the Tea Party plan with the radical elements.
• Magnalight’s Rob Bresnahan’s horrifically bad pitch.
• People get very upset about Defriending. There’s no nuanced way to determine how to defriend in a courteous way.
• Part-time gigs turn into full time jobs. But is the subject oversharing?
• WSJ: Airlines are screwing up pricing. Richard loves the honesty, and I think this is the old model failing.

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Episode 40 starting off with a brief celebration of our 40th episode. Then our show was about a bunch of issues and tensions in society which show progressive tension.

• Same sex marriage banned again by the federal courts
• One fifth of Pakistan is flooded, and no one cares. The lack of empathy is horrifying for the 900,000 homeless and 1500 dead.
• Expendables are #1! Why? How many steroids does it take to be one… A quality movie on the market is Get Low.
• Do we really care about SxSW panel picking? We’re not even promoting the panels we’re on…SxSW panel voting is a link bait, popularity contest to select lesser content.
• CitizenGulf is coming August 25th, and Richard and I are hosting an event in New York to help fishing families
• Power corrupts and turn nice people into bastards. The Mark Hurd story… And HP’s PR failure.
• Our views of the mosque, Richard with New York, mine from a historic perspective and ADL’s decision to turn away from its values.
• Where is the Martin Luther King/Harvey Milk of our times? Is it Obama, and is he a one term president?

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Episode 37 of the El Show discussed the developing Gulf situation based on Geoff’s first-hand research.

Here’s the breakdown of Episode 37:

• Richard’s heading to Tel Aviv for business!
• Geoff’s takeaways from the Gulf, including how bad the environmental disaster is and the Obama administration’s performance (photos here)
• The PR Snow Job that we’re getting in the Gulf
• The plight of unlicensed fishing families
• Next steps for the citizengulf campaign
• What was TEDxOilSpill and why should we care?
• Is the TEDx brand elitist?
• What happened to the Superman franchise?
• Something positive this week…

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