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June 5, 2023

INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPWRITER

If you’re like most people (and who isn’t?) there’s nothing you like more than a summer day with a good read. A soft, summer breeze blowing wisps of your hair while the pages turn like calendar pages in a 1940s Preston Sturges movi…

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Sept. 14, 2022

On HBO's "The Rehearsal," Reality TV Ain't Real

Billed as a "docu-comedy," the new Nathan Fielder HBO series, The Rehearsal, purports to take ordinary people through a variety of rehearsed life events with the goal of improving outcomes in their real lives. Kor Skeet wants to make a big conf…

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July 21, 2022

Only One Michael Flynn Away

While the media focuses on the rate of inflation, too many guns, too many voting restrictions, too high temperatures, and whatever the controversy du jour may be, the real threat to America lies in one unseen, unnamed man. There is someone out there…

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June 3, 2022

The Ever-changing Sameness of News

Now in my sixties, when I consider my mortality, it's not the fear of death that saddens me. After the sadness of leaving Jessica and my kids to go on without me, the one thing I regret most about leaving this mortal coil is missing out on the live …

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Nov. 22, 2021

Past Host Blues

The MPU podcast has had eleven (11) long-term cohosts since our inception in 2015. But for some reason, listeners still ask what ever happened to this former cohost, or why can't you bring back that former cohost. Most left because they chose to or …

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Aug. 2, 2021

"Stillwater" Plugged With Plot Holes

      I liked the new Matt Damon film, Stillwater. It was beautifully shot and nicely acted. That said, the writer in me couldn't help but flag some creative choices that felt force, lazy, or outright unbelievable. (I p…

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June 22, 2021

A Mic Drop on Slave Wages

Yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the NCAA’s cannot bar modest payments to student athletes puts a final nail in the coffin of the late Mitzi Shore, who famously refused to pay the comedians who worked at The Comedy Store u…

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May 26, 2021

An Ever-Evolving Podcast

As our loyal listeners know, The More Perfect Union podcast (aka the MPU podcast) has been chugging along for 5 years and over 300 episodes. While we like to think we've aged well, we have also undergone more than a few cast changes over our five lo…

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