Episodes
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 033: Predictions Review Show - or Maqz Is A Juvenile
Welcome back to the silliest stupidest topical political podcast on record. We've been away but we're back. Back with a review of Maqz' predictions for 2013 - (At least he did better than Sylvia Browne). And we're back with some news and commentary about the Crimean Peninsula, celebrities and...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 032 - :Hugging Angela Merkel
Click here to listen Why is it that international leaders are always hugging Angela Merkel? Ever seen Trainspotting? Lincoln? Orange is the New Black? In this episode Maqz and Zach cover binge watching television, movies and Healthcare.gov. One of these things is not like the other. Plus we…
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8 Minutes On High - Episode 031 : Using the F Word
Listen Here Sports begins our episode 31. A couple of classic and classy baseball players retire. The NSA gets to hear more about the Affordable Care Act than they'd probably prefer. Maqz takes a non-sequitorial turn about his favorite over-hyped politician and Zach reigns him in. Wait till you...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 030: Syria, Putin and V-ger, Oh My!
Click here to listen In a change of pace Zach and Maqz examine the international politics of the middle east, President Obama's political wavering and his surprising relationship with Vlad the Putin, as well as the Colorado recall, Article I of the US Constitution, NFL predictions, NYC politics…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 029: Raw!
Listen here and tell us what you think! Raw and unedited (mostly) Episode 029 will stand the test of time as Zach and Maqz reflect on 50 years ago this week, on fracking, and on epic fails. No one knows what America's approach to Syria will produce, but Maqz and Zach take a crack at it anyway.
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 028: The Sasha Episode
With a bit of time perspective, Zach and Maqz discuss the Trayvon Martin case, Edward Snowden and Alex Rodriguez. Only in this podcast can you get quite so eclectic a blend of subject matter. Throw in a smattering of vulgarity, irreverence and respect, add a dose of amateur economics, the Patriot...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 026: Beanball, Snowden and Scandals
Click here for the scoop Too much to talk about, especially if you like sports and spys and things that really do go wrong. In today's episode Zach and Maqz ask the popular questions is Snowden a hero or a traitor and how many times to you get to throw at somebody before you bean him? Who's…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 025: No introductions
This picture of Kate Beckinsale has nothing to do with today's episode. We needed a picture for the post and ... well ... this seemed like a good one. Click here for news! Meanwhile, today the boys take a closer look at an important speech by Kate Benkinsa ... Barack Obama while listening for...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 024: Its scandalous!
Well we've certainly had a lot to talk about since last we left our heroes. The economy has gotten better, the Senate is working on a sane immigration policy, the president has declared an end to the war on "terror" whatever that ever meant anyway ... uh ... wait, that's next week's show. This…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 023: Where's Djibouti?
Zach and Maqz return to their childhoods this week. Sports and geography are the main subjects. Baseball, football, hockey and fighting fit perfectly well with the childish behavior of some North Korean leaders. Together the boys take an extensive trip around both the sporting and real worlds and...
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8 Mintues On High Podcast - Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan - Episode 022: One of these things is not like the other
Much of this weeks podcast is edited in brutal style. For a change of pace, Maqz rants while, There will be nashing of teeth. Zach enters a list of FDR's programs and altogether greater fun ensuses. Seriously sorry of some of the cuts are a little rough. We think the sound is getting better…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 21: Tail Gunner Ted
Well we have a new Pope, but we're not here to talk about Francis today. We're here to talk about National Security Letters, Dick Cheney, signature strikes, Ted Cruz, Dianne Fienstein and the assault weapons ban that could have saved Newtown and a list of ten surprising things that you thought…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 20: Is that a drone, or are you just happy to see me?
In today's edition of the podcast Maqz and Zach congratulate Rand Paul for standing up to filibuster, revisit Papal proficey, investigate death from above and get into a little nude Bush discussion. Now what could be more wholesome than that? Click here to find out the correct way to filibuster
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 19: Stop It, You're Sequestering Me
Well its back to the battles. Reps and Dems. Greeks and Vikings. Today on 8MinutesOnHigh Zack and Maqz take on the Sequester. That's right because its no longer a taudry political strategy. Now its a thing. A hungry thing out to destroy our government ... or maybe it IS our government. Any way…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 18: Habemos Papem
At last the Predictions Show! Next week back to politics and economics, with maybe a little science but today Maqz makes his annual predictions for the upcoming year. Along the way he and Zach talk a little movies and some little known and unimportant facts. Cardinal Peter Kodwo Click here for…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - DNA Bits - Episode 17: God what next?
Well, now we did it. We brought God into it. In a new segment called DNA bits (don't ask, Maqz was drinking) the conversation continues. Zach and Maqz conversations often go beyond the 1/2 hour ish time limit we usually reserve for our chats. We left the record button on and this is what…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 16: Review, the Predictions Show from 2012 - Episode 16: Where did we go wrong?
Every year Countless Screaming Argonauts ran a prediciton show. Every following January Maqz, The Fabulous Penguin, and Denali would review those predictions. Well ... CSA is gone now, but Maqz and Zach make the effort to see how well the CSA guys did in their efforts to show the way to the…
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8 Minutes On High Podcast- Episode 15: 2 E ah Sue so Po
Boy what a show today. After a long production delay Maqz and Zach bring you their takes on Ranniah and Man Tie. Toddling along the way the take on saving Churches, Roger Clemens, other sporting figures. Perhaps this episode release took so long, because they were talking about the filibuster....
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 14: Getting Sandy Between Your Toes
WHOA - we made a boo boo, BAD EDIT. But now the file is fixed now Zach and Maqz trundle through a bygone time. Remember when we were ALL Americans? Remember when loving thy neighbor meant something? Included in todays show are all kinds of mentions of history, a little bit of sports and maybe a...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 13: Who said that?
Having been excoriated in the press for their harsh stance against assualt weapons, the boys turn to a lighter subject. Zach and Maqz take on Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School and his list of the most notable quotes of the year. Maqz quizes Zach, and you if you dare, on your...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 12: Its the End Of The World Episode - and I feel fine
In today's edition of the podcast Maqz and Zach, having realized they've defeated the Mayans, take on Wayne Lapiere and the gun nuts. After all doesn't the 2nd amendment say that we can each have our own tactical nuclear weapon? We also deal with Cosmo the God, Fox News, and insurance fraud! With...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 11: Extra Special Petreaus Woody Mindset Episode
Which would you rather watch, Shoe TV or Dog TV? Today's special bonus edition covers breasts, space, Mars and the Mindset list. Maqz and Zach cover history of music, CIA, cable TV and used car salesmen. Today's show covers the gamut from cockroaches and Twinkies to plague and mrsa, and really,...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast Episode 010 - Is That Just Republican Math?
It may be ok for pizza, but 30 minutes just wasn't enough for Maqz and Zach. Together they check out the Are You Smarter Than A Fox News Viewer quiz from the Christian Science Monitor, in a supplemental segment worth sticking around for behind the music. We had an election. Morning Joe didn't...
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8 Minutes On High Podcast - Episode 009 Who Ate The First Berry?
We're being a little bit tricky today. We recorded a two-parter and this is Episode 009 B. Zach was away and Maqz wanted to hear Zach's thoughts on the debates when he returned. That still leaves us time to discuss how today's music all sounds the same, as well as, strikedebt.org, China…
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