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Here you can find information on all songs and clips not attributed in the program notes.

Opening theme music includes samples of Run For You by Buke and Gase, “What’s it all about” from Alfie by Dionne Warwick, Hugh Laurie as House saying “Myoclonic Jerk”, and John Goodman saying “I’ll show you the life of the mind!” from Barton Fink by the Coen Bros.

Background music during episode content introduction: don’t be afraid, you just have your eyes closed by Mum

Plane crash follies theme music: “I’ll Fly Away – Oh Lord, Stand By Me / Marching Up To Zion”, performed by The Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama. Originally written by Albert E. Brumley (1929). Specialty Records, 1991.

episode 1: ni­hilism
The Universe is Expanding (Annie Hall) by Woody Allen Rollins-Joffe Productions 1977
Con­vic­tion of the Heart Kenny Log­gins 1997
Keep on the Sunny Side Per­formed by The Whites.  Writ­ten by Ada Blenkhorn with music by J. Howard En­twisle (1899). Mer­cury Records 2000
So­lace by Scott Joplin, per­formed by Joshua Rifkin
I Don’t Want to Mow the Lawn Andy Brick­man Gad­fly Records 1994
Ain’t That A Kick In The Head Dean Mar­tin Capi­tol Records 2004
Han­nah and her Sis­ters Writ­ten and di­rected by Woody Allen. Orion Pic­tures Cor­po­ra­tion 1986
Under the Bridge of Paris Bon Appétit Musique One Media Pub­lish­ing 2008
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episode 2: beauty
Freaks and Geeks – Smooching and Mooching (Ep.116) Writ­ten by Steve Ban­nos. Di­rected by Jake Kas­dan. Dream­works Tele­vi­sion 2000
Ugly Woman Roar­ing Lion Ice Records 1994
House – Every­body Lies (Ep.100) Writ­ten by David Shore. Di­rected by Bryan Singer. Fox 2004
30 Rock – The Bub­ble (Ep.315) Writ­ten by Tina Fey. Di­rected by Tri­cia Brock. NBC 2009
I know You Want Me Melissa Lefton Jive Records 2001
Keep Young and Beau­ti­ful if You Want to be Loved (Roman Scan­dals) Per­formed by Eddie Can­tor with cho­rus. Music by Harry War­ren. Lyrics by Al Dubin. MGM 1933
Oh! You Pretty Things David Bowie RCA Records 1971
Ain’t That A Kick In The Head Dean Mar­tin Capi­tol Records 2004
Every­body’s Talkin Harry Nils­son. Writ­ten by Fred Neil. RCA Vic­tor 1969
Bit­ing a Puppy Todd Glass Com­edy Cen­tral Records 2009
Real Fine Frame Buddy John­son and Ella John­son Roulette 1958
Pretty – Na­tional Po­etry Slam Katie Makkai Katie Makkai 2002
The Way You Look Tonight Tony Ben­nett. Writ­ten by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern. Co­lum­bia 1958
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episode 3: the beast
My Left Foot Written by: Jim Sheri­dan and Shane Con­naughton. Performed by: Daniel Day Lewis Buena Vista Home En­ter­tain­ment 2005
Beauty and the Beast Written by: Linda Woolver­ton. Di­rected by Gary Trous­dale and Kirk Wise. Walt Dis­ney Pic­tures 1991
Mes­siah: He Was De­spised Win­ches­ter Cathe­dral Choir and Lon­don Han­del Or­ches­tra. Com­posed by Han­del. 1989
Creep Ra­dio­head EMI 1997
The Beau­ti­ful Ones Prince Warner Bros. Records 1984
I Want You To Hurt Like I Do Randy New­man Reprise Records 1988
The World Isn’t Fair Randy New­man SKG Music 1999
Naima John Coltrane At­lantic Record­ing 2005
Hans Chris­t­ian An­der­sen Di­rected by Charles Vidor. Writ­ten by Myles Con­nolly, Moss Hart and Ben Hecht. MGM 2001
Ugly Fish­bone Sony Music 1989
Please be Kind Django Rein­hardt Regis Records 2004
Cyrano de Berg­erac Di­rected by Michael Gor­don. Writ­ten by Carl Fore­man, Ed­mond Ro­s­tand (Play) and Brian Hooker (Trans­la­tion). Stan­ley Kramer Pro­duc­tions 1950
Le Dernier Orage Opus Mag­num Phase 1 Opus Mag­num Phase 1 2009
Ain’t That A Kick In The Head Dean Mar­tin Capi­tol Records 2004
Nookie Limp Bizkit In­ter­scope Records 2008
Cheers – The Coach’s Daugh­ter (Ep.105) Writ­ten by Ken Estin. Di­rected by James Bur­rows. Para­mount Pic­tures 2003
The Lit­tle Prince Di­rected by Stan­ley Donen. Writ­ten by Alan Jay Lerner. Per­formed by Gene Wilder. Para­mount Pic­tures 1974
I have A Dream Speech Mar­tin Luther King Jr. Es­tate of Mar­tin Luther King Jr. 1963
Your Feets Too Big Fats Waller Star­dust Records 2002
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episode 4: es­cape
The Ma­trix Wa­chowskis WV Films, LLC 1999
Es­cape – “Leinen­gen vs. the Ants” Carl Stephen­son, adapted by Robert Ryf CBS 1948
Dora the Ex­plorer theme Joshua Sitron Nick­elodeon Stu­dios 2000
In­di­ana Jones theme John Williams Lu­cas­film 2008
L’im­men­site du fir­ma­ment Les Pe­tits Chanteurs de Mon­tigny Cre­ative Com­mons 2005
NFL Mon­day Night Foot­ball theme Johnny Pear­son APM 2006
They’re So In­cred­i­ble Re­venge of The Nerds In­ter­scope Com­mu­ni­ca­tions 1984
Imag­i­na­tion Doris Day (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, Lyrics by Johnny Burke) Co­lum­bia 1955
Serengeti Bliss Papa J
My Body is a Cage Peter Gabriel Real World Pro­duc­tions 2010
Some­times A Fan­tasy Billy Joel Sony Music 1980
Here We All Are Andy & Zeus Cre­ative Com­mons 2011
I play Video Games Han­ni­bal Bu­ress Stand Up! Records 2010
Super Mario Bros. Theme Koji Kondo 1985
2001 A Space Odyssey Stan­ley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke MGM 1968
Fan­tasy Earth, Wind & Fire Sony Music 1998
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episode 5: ad­dic­tion
Get Him to the Greek Writ­ten & di­rected by Nicholas Stoller NBC Uni­ver­sal 2010
Push­er­man Cur­tis May­field Cur­tom 2007
Judge Judy #3177 CBS 2007
Let’s Go Get Stoned Ray Charles Cu­gate ltd. 2006
Your Brain on Drugs commercial Part­ner­ship for a Drug-Free Amer­ica 1987
Heroin The Vi­t­a­min String Quar­tet Vi­t­a­min Records 2003
Across the Uni­verse The Beatles EMI 2010
“The more you know” PSA jin­gle NBC 1989
Noth­ing from Noth­ing Billy Pre­ston A&M records 2002
I Wanna Be Se­dated The Ra­mones Rhino En­ter­tain­ment 2006
Since You’ve Been Gone Aretha Franklin At­lantic Record­s 1985
Guilty Randy New­man Warner Bros. 1974
The Big Lebowski Ethan & Joel Coen Poly­Gram 1998
Not An Ad­dict K’s Choice Co­coon Records 2010
Base­ment Wiz­ard Andy & Zeus Cre­ative Com­mons 2011
City Slick­ers writ­ten by Ganz & Man­del, di­rected by Ron Un­der­wood Cas­tle Rock 1991
Vir­tual In­san­ity Jamiro­quai Sony BMG Music 1996
Strange Days writ­ten by James Cameron & Jay Cocks, di­rected by Kathryn Bigelow Light­storm En­ter­tain­ment 1995
Vice (from the album Some­thing to Take the Edge Off) Doug Stan­hope Shake the Baby Inc 2000
Drug­store Cow­boy Gus Van Sant (performed by Matt Dillon) Av­enue En­ter­tain­ment 1989
Over The Rain­bow per­formed by Ray Charles, orig­i­nal music by Harold Arien, orig­i­nal lyrics by E.Y. Har­burg Cu­gate ltd. 2010
The Flesh Fail­ures (Let the Sun­shine In)” from Hair Galt Mac­Der­mot & Tom Pier­son BMG En­ter­tain­ment 1979
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episode 6: en­e­mies
Taxi – “Guess Who’s Com­ing to Brefnish? (Ep.39) writ­ten by Barry Kemp, di­rected by James Bur­rows, performed by Andy Kaufman Para­mount 2005
Us and Them Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Music Ltd/EMI 1987
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Un­der­stand­ing Nick Lowe Nick Lowe 2009
Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hol­ly­wood ZTT records 1993
Fear, Hate, Envy, Jeal­ousy The Neville Broth­ers Rhino / Wea 1997
Speech from 1964 Re­pub­li­can Con­ven­tion Barry Gold­wa­ter 1964
“Zorba’s Dance” from Zorba the Greek Mikis Theodor­akis FM Records 2003
Is­tan­bul – Ritmo Al­le­gro Clau­dio Bernar­dini But­ter­fly Music 2011
Swim­ming to Cam­bo­dia writ­ten by Spald­ing Gray, di­rected by Jonathan Demme Cinecom Pic­tures 1987
Why Can’t We Be Friends? War Far Out Pro­duc­tions, Inc 1975
In­vic­tus writ­ten by An­thony Peck­ham, di­rected by Clint East­wood, performed by Morgan Freeman Warner Bros. 2010
Raider Na­tion Ice Cube 2009
Bridge Peo­ple/Boat Peo­ple Isaac Witty
Star­ship Troop­ers writ­ten by Ed Neumeier, di­rected by Paul Ver­ho­even Tris­tar Pic­tures 1997
Adir Adirim Balkan Beat Box JDub Records 2005
War Again Balkan Beat Box Nat Geo Music 2010
Near and Far Grover Sesame Work­shop 2010
My Heart Will Go On Lon­don Stu­dio Brass Band Red Sauce Records 2006
Gandhi writ­ten by John Bri­ley, di­rected by Richard At­ten­bor­ough, performed by Ben Kingsley Car­olina Bank Ltd. and Na­tional Film De­vel­op­ment Cor­p. 1982
I have A Dream Speech Mar­tin Luther King Jr. (Writ­ten by Mar­tin Luther King Jr., Stan­ley Lev­i­son, and Clarence Ben­jamin Jones) Es­tate of Mar­tin Luther King Jr. 1963
Alma Re­demp­toris Mater Les Pe­tits Chanteurs de Mon­tigny Cre­ative Com­mons 2011
Deadwood “Plague” (Ep. 106)” writ­ten by Mal­colm MacRury, di­rected by Davis Guggen­heim HBO 2004
Night­light Lee Ro­se­vere Cre­ative Com­mons 2010
Fail­safe The Choir Prac­tice Mint Records, Inc. 2007
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episode 7: fail­ure
Amadeus di­rected by Milos For­man, writ­ten by Peter Shaf­fer. The Saul Za­entz Com­pany 1985
A Boy Named Char­lie Brown di­rected by Bill Meléndez, writ­ten by Charles M. Schulz. Cin­ema Cen­ter Films 1969
“Good luck with your Im­pos­si­ble Dream” from Side­walk Cae­sars Scrapo­matic Scrapo­matic/Land­slide Records 2008
Neon Bible Ar­cade Fire Merge Records 2007
“Fail­ure” from Quiet Is The New Loud Kings Of Con­ve­nience Vir­gin Records Ltd. 2001
Coach Carter di­rected by Thomas Carter, writ­ten by Mark Schwahn and John Gatins Mu­nich Movie De­vel­op­ment & Pro­duc­tion 2005
“Fail­ure” from Alas I Can­not Swim Laura Mar­ling Rib­bon Music 2011
Ira Glass on Story Telling Ira Glass “YouTube, by PRI, cour­tesy of current.​tv” 2009
“Brass in Pocket” from The Sin­gles The Pre­tenders Warner Bros. Records 2004
Dead Poets So­ci­ety di­rected by Peter Weir, writ­ten by Tom Schul­man. Touch­stone Pic­tures a.a.d.o. the Walt Dis­ney Com­pany 1989
Mag­num Force di­rected by Ted Post, writ­ten by John Mil­ius, Michael Cimino, and John Mil­ius. Warner Bros. Inc. 1973
7th Sym­phony – 2nd move­ment Beethoven
“Hal­loween/Ellie” Louis C.K. 20th Cen­tury Fox 2011
Com­edy and Every­thing Else Pod­cast Jimmy Dore, Todd Glass, Brian Regan Jimmy Dore, Ste­fane Zamorano, Paul Bar­tunek 2010
Rudy di­rected by David Anspaugh, writ­ten by An­gelo Pizzo. TriS­tar Pic­tures, Inc. 1993
“Wise Up” from Mag­no­lia Sound­track Aimee Mann Reprise Records 1999
“Don’t Give Up” from So Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush Peter Gabriel Ltd 2009
Rocky di­rected by John G. Avild­sen, writ­ten by Sylvester Stal­lone. United Artists Corp. 1976
“Sur­ren­der” from Heaven Tonight Cheap Trick Sony BMG Music En­ter­tain­ment 1998
“No One Will Laugh” from Dan Reeder Dan Reeder Oh Boy Records 2004
Tonight Show Theme
“Be­gin­nings” from The Very Best Of Chicago: Only The Be­gin­ning Chicago Warner Strate­gic Mar­ket­ing 2004
“In­stant Karma! (We All Shine On)” John Lennon Capi­tol Records Inc 2010
Fail­ing and Fly­ing writ­ten by Jack Glib­ert. Read by Chet Gris­som.
“Don’t Rain on My Pa­rade” from Funny Girl Sound­track Bar­bra Streisand Sony Music En­ter­tain­ment Inc. 1968
“Night­light” from The Am­bi­ent Baby (BG for Veil of Ig­no­rance mono­logue) Lee Ro­se­vere Cre­ative Com­mons 2010
“Lul­laby” from The Am­bi­ent Baby (BG for Veil of Ig­no­rance mono­logue) Lee Ro­se­vere Cre­ative Com­mons 2010
“Ec­cle­sia” from life on ceres net­Bloc Vol. 22 Am­bi­en­teer Cre­ative Com­mons 2009
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episode 8: eat­ing an­i­mals
Lisa The Veg­e­tar­ian (Simp­sons) Writ­ten by David X. Cohen Fox Broad­cast­ing 1995
City Slick­ers di­rected by Ron Un­der­wood, writ­ten by Low­ell Ganz and Ba­baloo Man­del Cas­tle Rock En­ter­tain­ment 1991
Car­nism:The Psy­chol­ogy of Eat­ing Meat Melanie Joy Melanie Joy 2012
Bacon Jim Gaffi­gan Com­edy Cen­tral Records 2009
The Ge­nius of Charles Dar­win Richard Dawkins In­ter­view with Peter Singer Chan­nel 4 Tele­vi­sion Co 2008
Can You De­fend Eat­ing Meat Sam Har­ris ma­halodot­com (YouTube) 2011
Jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for Meat Con­sump­tion Louis CK Louis CK 2008
The Re­luc­tant Can­ni­bal Michael Flan­ders and Don­ald Swann Stage Door Records 2011
My Big Fat Greek Wed­ding Writ­ten by Nia Varda­los Big Wed­ding, LLC 2002
Are You Washed in the Blood The Stan­ley Broth­ers Gusto Records 2003
Bow and Arrow Jimmy Cousins Mass Dist 2011
Cir­cle of Life Ylmoy 8 pleonasm! 2011
Hot Dogs (from Com­edy is not Pretty) Steve Mar­tin Warner Bros. 1979
The Lit­tle Farm Lois Lenski Ran­dom House 2001
Look at Him Now (Lau­rel and Hardy) The Beau Hunks Or­ches­tra Basta Audio Vi­su­als 1992
Fright­ened Gui­tar & Records 2009
Old Mac­Don­ald Rufus Thomas Fan­tasy Inc 1997
Per­due Chicken com­mer­cial Frank Per­due Per­due Farms ?
An­i­mal Stress Tem­ple Grandin Tem­ple Grandin ?
Farm To Fridge Nar­rated by James Cromwell Mercy For An­i­mals 2011
Some Other Time Bill Evans and Tony Ben­nett Fan­tasy Inc 1975
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas An­der­son Mi­ra­max Films 2007
Angel Sarah McLach­lan Arista Records 1997
GI Jane Self Pity by DH Lawrence, per­formed by Viggo Mortensen, di­rected by Ri­d­ley Scott Buena Vista Pic­tures 1997
Do­min­ion Con­sol­i­dated Net­twerk 1991
Bad Day to be a Chicken Denny’s com­mer­cial Denny’s Corp. 2010
A Face in the Crowd Tom Petty Gef­fen Records 1989
Hoe Down (Rodeo Suite) by Aaron Copeland, per­formed by NY Phil­har­monic with Leonard Bern­stein Sony BMG 1997
Bill Clin­ton In­ter­view Wolf Blitzer and Bill Clin­ton CNN 2010
Vegan Myths De­bunked Jonathan Mann with Ivory King Jonathan Mann 2011
Mother Na­ture’s Son The Bea­t­les EMI Records 1968
Mercy Duffy Aimee Duffy 2008
To Serve Man (Twi­light Zone) by Rod Ser­ling based on short story by Damon Knight CBS 1962
Save Me (Mag­no­lia Sound­track) Aimee Mann Reprise Records 1999
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach) per­formed by Eaken Fam­ily Trio Naxos 1996
Bud­dhism and Veg­e­tar­i­an­ism Gil Frons­dal In­sight Med­i­ta­tion Cen­ter 2010
Blood Bank Bon Iver Jag­jaguwar 2009
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episode 9: sex
Anchorman Will Farrell, Adam McKay (dir) Dreamworks 2004
Sexe Line Renaud Capitol Records 1996
Sex Norm MacDonald Comedy Central Records 2011
Fourth Time Around Bob Dylan Sony Music Entertainment 1966
Hey Big Spender Peggy Lee Capitol Records 1966
Kiss My Lips Tom Brosseau FatCat Records 2007
Open Range written by: Craig Storper Open Range Productions 2003
Dumb Sex Nick Kroll ?
I Want to be Loved Muddy Waters Sony Music 1977
Pretty Woman Roy Orbison Sony Music 1964
Does That Turn You On? Lemon Freshly Squeezed 1999
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Phil Hartman, written by: Jack Handey NBC 1991
Sex On Trial Bill Hicks Comedy Dynamics 2001
Keep on Churnin’ Wynonie Harris Gusto Records 1952
Love For Sale Kitty Kallen Ap Music
Makin’ Whoopee Ray Charles Paramount Records 1965
Kinsey Liam Neeson, Laura Linney Written/directed by: Bill Condon 20th Century Fox 2005
Monogamy Dan Savage ?
Take This Waltz Written/directed by: Sarah Polley  Magnolia Pictures 2011
After You Get What You Want Marilyn Monroe, Composer: Irving Berlin Ideal Music ?
Lust (Kinsey) John Lithgow 20th Century Fox 2005
A League of Their Own Tom Hanks, Written by: Ganz/Mandel Columbia Pictures 1992
When Harry Met Sally Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, Written by: Nora Ephron Castle Rock 1989

episode 10: evil
Dark Knight Rises by Jonathon and Christopher Nolan, performed by: Michael Caine Warner Bros 2012
Evil Stevie Wonder Motown Records 1972
Dennis Rader Sentencing Hearing Beverly Plapp  – 2005
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall Bob Dylan Sony Music 1963
Calvary by John Michael McDonagh, performed by Domhnall and Brendan Gleeson Fox Searchlight 2014
Loser Beck DGC Records 1993
Return to Innocence Enigma (with a sample of Amis chant by Difang and Igay Duana) Virgin/EMI 1994
Mary Jane’s Last Dance Tom Petty MCA 1993
Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen Columbia 1994
No Country For Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen, performed by Kelly MacDonald and Javier Bardem Paramount Vantage 2007
Get the Lead Out The Hotheads Kevin Tooley 2012
The O’Reilly Factor Bill O’Reilly FOX ?
Slate Political Gabfest David Plotz Slate 2014
Freakonomics Radio Steven Levitt WNYC ?
The Garden Bobby McFerrin Capitol Records 1990
Fun Being Evil Maria Bamford Stand Up! Records 2007
You Rascal You Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong Geffen Records 1932?
I’m Getting Even with You Billie (Willie Mae) McKenzie Document Records ?
The Princess Bride written by: William Goldman, directed by: Rob Reiner, performed by: Billy Crystal and Carol Kane 20th Century Fox 1987
Wishing for This Leigh Nash One Son Records 2006
CBS This Morning Mandy Patinkin CBS 2013
Impossible Love by Daniel Johnston, performed by Gordon Gano Gammon Records 2004
Parole Board – Saturday Night Live Keenan Thompson as the prisoner NBC 2015

episode 11: the long view
“Emily Dickinson, bitch.” (Adult World) Written by Andy Cochran, performed by Armando Riesco Treehouse Pictures 2013
The Galaxy Song Monty Python Virgin Records 1983
History Repeating Propellerheads (feat. Shirley Bassey) Parlophone Records 1997
On Tragedy (All In) Chris Hayes MSNBC 2015
“Always Bet on Black” (Passenger 57) Wesley Snipes (actor), written by David Loughery and Dan Gordon Warner Bros 1992
Viva Las Vegas Elvis Presley and The Jordanaires Sony Music 1964
The Big Things You Don’t Do Annie Duke The Moth 2012
Night Guy/Morning Guy (Seinfeld – The Glasses) Jerry Seinfeld NBC 1993
Me, Myself, and I De La Soul Tommy Boy 1989
Changes (Hunky Dory) David Bowie RCA Records 1971
Turn Out The Light Lou Reed BMG Music 1983
The Enterpise (Star Trek) Jerry Goldsmith Paramount 1979
The Universe is Expanding (Annie Hall) Woody Allen Rollins-Joffe Productions 1977
Long Time Traveler The Wailin’ Jennys Red House Records 2006

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