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TV Talk Machine (O.G. Edition) — 179 episodes

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Stephen Colbert, 2006

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178: Winter Press tour

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177: Homeland Security

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176: Fall 2013

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174: This is The End

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173: Whores Aplenty

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172: Illuminate the Rim

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171: Big Driedel

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170: Finish Strong

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169: The Cop in the Hat

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168: TVTM 2.0

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167: The Hell Week Aftermath Edition

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166: Interview with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

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165: The Emmy Recap Edition

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164: TV Information Overload Edition

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163: The FCC Can't Stop This Obscenity Edition

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162: The Emmy Nominated Edition

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161: The Hand of Pod: The World Cup Edition

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160: The Coach Wooden Remembrance Edition

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159: Whining-Free Zone Edition

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158: The Re-Make Edition

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157: Not The World's Worst Podcast

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156: The Sports Edition

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155: The Email Edition

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154: The Fill-In Edition

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153: Tim makes love to The Pacific

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152: Vince Gilligan, creator of "Breaking Bad"

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151: New Spring TV shows to watch, Olympics wrap

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150: Third anniversary edition

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149: A Very Special TVTM Christmas, Part 2: Dreidel Time

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148: A Very Special TVTM Christmas

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147: Fast and Powerful

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146: Ho Ho... Hos.

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145: My aim is true

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144: Lost in Space

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143b: Kurt Sutter, creator of "Sons of Anarchy"

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143: Feminine Mystique

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142: Mad Women

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141: Taldar's Challenge

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140: Canadian Bacon

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139: Singing with Glee

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138: Strikes Back

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137: The Beginning of the End? (Second Installment)

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136: The Beginning of the End? (First Installment)

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135: Demoted Question Boy Is Now Best Boy

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134: The TV-Related Podcast

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133: Hootenanny Special (Second Installment)

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132: Hootenanny Special (First Installment)

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131: The Angry 'Cast

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130: The Twitter Edition

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129: The one where QB tries to do Ted Kennedy and fails

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128: The one where QB isn't here and we rip him

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127: With special guest Walter Cronkite

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126: Everything you need to know about packaging

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125: Featuring a Very Special PSA

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124: Dedicated to Ed McMahon

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123: Worst. Podcast. Ever.

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122: The oxygen-free podcast

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121: The Leno-bashing podcast

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120: Annoy Pod

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119: Who's on the bubble (not us)

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118: Benny's still around!

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117: Benny's farewell

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116: Question Boy's Voiceapalooza

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115: Benny not on the knobs

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114: A Very Special Podcast

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113: End-of-the-season news

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112: A bunch of potty mouths

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111: Amber adds value to an otherwise value-free podcast

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110: Question Boy ordered to do more voices

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109: Benny's Corner returns!

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108: Episode 108

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107: More Benny Love!

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106: Benny and the Butt Call

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105: With Bob from the 707

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104: Good news about bad news

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103: Sounds great. Less filling.

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102: Chatting with Mitchell Hurwitz, Will Arnett from "Arrested Development"

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101: Angry Regis and Crazy Dora head to "Bars"

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100: Hitting the century mark with an Oscar break down

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99: Question Boy, man of a thousand voices

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98: Conan, Leno switch could change both

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97: Luscious mullets and TVTM dreams

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96: Asking Amber about "Dollhouse;" Mugs from Hanna

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95: The Chaser Edition

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94: The Steel Shorty Robe

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93: Tell us what you do while listening to French Walton

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92: Now on Facebook; Trust Me; What's on your iPod?

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91: Lipstick in or out, Big Bang up or down

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90: TV shows President Obama should watch

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89: Sheri From The Vale, Part Deux

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88: Guest Question Girl, Rush Limbaugh and Richard Nixon

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87: Will "Caprica" launch?

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86: TV's Top 25, with Mimosas

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85: Wrapping up the year

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84: Back just in time for the holidays

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83: Weekend Companion

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82: How the sausage is made

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81: Putting the "lune" in Lunesta

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80: Election day podcast; Ask Amber has the answers

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79: Deconstructing "Mad Men;' QB and Heather?

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78: Back by popular demand

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77: One more for the road

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76: Question Girl Girlina visits the podcave

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75: This podcast recorded in front of a live studio audience

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74: Mr. Cranky Pants slams the Emmys

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73: Parallel worlds, parallel podcasts

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72: New television season around the bend

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71: Life Could Be A Dream

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70: Return of the TVTM

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69: The multimedia edition

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68: Fall TV shows, Hanna from Sweden and Ask Amber

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67: Death March With Cocktails - Cast of Mad Men

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66: Death March With Cocktails - Spike Lee

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65: The international cougar edition

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64: Theater of the mindless

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63: The Mighty Goodman Art Players

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62: You are what you watch

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61: A floating ball of nuclear fusion

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60: Gilmore Girls, Hayden Panettiere and cougars

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59: A Sudoku companion

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58: Shifting into "Top Gear" and looking for "Action"

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57: Waning enthusiasm, great drama and cheesy imitations

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56: Tim Goodman, at your service

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55: TV across all borders

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54: Where Are You?

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53: The wide world of television

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52: Fantasy reality shows, a Sopranos flick and apologies

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51: From Amy Sedaris to the Dalai Lama

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50: The Golden Shorty Robe Podcast

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49: Paris, je t'aime

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48: Miss Guided" and Lost" on "Twin Peaks"

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47: Questions from the TVTM hotline and mailbag

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46: A conversation with Eddie Izzard of "The Riches"

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45: Avatar, come back; Boxing the Bionic Woman

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44: The BBC and the TVTM

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43: Too many TV doctors, not enough shoe salesmen

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42: The Wire, R.I.P.

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41: The Unit's appeal, Breaking Bad's chances and an angry Regis

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40: De-constructing the Oscar telecast; three top TV shows

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39: Can big-screen directors fit on the small screen?

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38: Conspiracies against gay soap characters, Obama, Dora and Goodman?

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37: Rating Hannah Montana, Mr. Rogers, Dora and Avatar

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36: The TV hot stove league

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35: What CBS might do to "Dexter;" how soaps survived strike; closing out Scrubs

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34: Golden Globe winners and losers with Question Girl Number 2

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33: What Writers Guild strike means for viewers in coming weeks

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32: Catching up on TV questions before the holidays

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31: Actor Michael C. Hall on playing killer of killers in "Dexter"

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30: Part 2 of Question Girl's debut; The TV show that made Tim cry

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29: At long last, the debut of Question Girl

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28: Spanning the globe with questions about TV

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27: Ricky Gervais - Philosophies for comedy, fame and life

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26: David Duchovny on playing Hank Moody in "Californication"

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25: A cranky pants podcast

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24: Question Girl winner; how TV shows survive; an Ugly Betty prediction

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23: Reality show podcast - Contestants vie to be crowned Question Girl

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22: Cane and "Reaper" lead big week for fall TV season

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21: Uneven Emmy censorship; what to watch on TV this fall

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20: Back in time for the fall television season

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19: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks about upcoming WWII series

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18: More opinions and comments on the end of "The Sopranos"

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17: The Sopranos are history, but was the end bitter or sweet?

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16: Love it or hate it, listeners react to "Sopranos" finale

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15: Summer cable shows and elder hot cougars

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14: Tim grades the networks, answers your TV questions

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13: Cavemen, Bionic Woman on network fall lineup

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12: Conan's in town, Duchovny's new series and TV for kids

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11: Conan O'Brien's road trip to San Francisco

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10: Critiquing how TV news covered the Virginia Tech tragedy

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9: Interview with Geraldine Laybourne, CEO of Oxygen Media

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8: Part 2 of TV critics' forecasts on "Sopranos" swan song

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7: TV critics' roundtable discussion on "The Sopranos" final season

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6: Answering your questions about Sopranos, Showtime, Galactica and more

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5: Part 2 of podcast with award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns

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4: Filmmaker Ken Burns talks about his latest epic on World War II

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3: Life on Mars in America; trimming "The Wire;" will "Friday Night Lights" go dark?

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2: An interview with "Simpsons" writer, co-producer Joel Cohen

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1: Chronicle TV critic's new podcast