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  • Audacity of Trivia 214: Happy Birthday America!

    Audacity of Trivia 214: Happy Birthday America!
    2026/07/04
    A very special 250th birthday celebration! Jon and Chris review selected songs from the history of recorded music. "America the Beautiful" as recorded by Ray Charles, 1972; lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates, 1893 O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! "The Power and the Glory" by Phil Ochs, 1964 Come on and take a walk with me through this green and growing land Walk through the meadows and the mountains and the sand Walk through the valleys and the rivers and the plains Walk through the sun and walk through the rain Here is a land full of power and glory Beauty that words cannot recall Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom Glory shall rest on us all From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas too Virginia and Alaska, from the old to the new Texas and Ohio and the California shore Tell me, who could ask for more? Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor Only as free as a padlocked prison door Only as strong as our love for this land Only as tall as we stand Here is a land full of power and glory Beauty that words cannot recall Oh, her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom Glory shall rest on us all, on us all "The Times They Are A Changin'" by Bob Dylan, 1963 Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin'; Then you better start swimmin'; Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'; Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'; For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'; Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin'; Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'; Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin'; Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'; The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin'; And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin' "War Isn't Murder" by Jesse Welles, 2024 War isn't murder Good men don't die Children don't starve And all women survive War isn't murder That's what they say When you're fighting the devil Murder's okay War isn't murder They're called casualties There ain't a veteran With a good night's sleep Let's talk about dead people I mean a dead people The dead don't feel honored They don't feel that brave They don't feel avenged They're lucky if they got graves Call your dead mother Ask her when she died It's a deathly silence on the other line The dead don't talk But their children don't forget So in 20 short years You could live to regret that War isn't murder There's money at stake Hell, even Kushner agrees It's good real estate War isn't murder Ask Netanyahu He's got a psalm for that And a bomb for you War isn't murder It's an old-desert faith It's a nation-state-sanctioned righteous hate Let's talk about dead people I mean a dead people War isn't murder It's the vengeance of God If you can't see the bodies They don't bloat when they rot And the flies don't swarm And the children don't cry If war isn't murder Good men don't die So in a short 20 years When you vacation the Strip Don't think about the dead And have a nice trip War isn't murder We should all give thanks I saw it all in a movie Give it up for Tom Hanks War isn't murder They don't ship out the poor And the bullets they fire Aren't part of the cure War isn't murder Land is a right But the banks called dibs It's something you can't fight Let's talk about dead people I mean a dead people The dead don't feel honor They don't feel that brave They don't feel avenged They're lucky if they got graves War isn't murder Ain't a river of blood Stretching all through time And raining down in a flood It's a dark sacrifice Made on your behalf So get down on your knees And thank the ...
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    1 時間 33 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 213

    Audacity of Trivia 213
    2026/06/20

    It's a strange one this week! Chris explicitly revels in the past (except for the new They Might Be Giants album) while Jon looks at collective nouns and subject/verb agreement in World Cup coverage and the opening of the Obama Center in Chicago. PLUS Elvis-- immigration-- Italo Balbo-- monuments-- Marty Moose-- and so much more!

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    1 時間 17 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 212

    Audacity of Trivia 212
    2026/06/09
    1 時間 24 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 211

    Audacity of Trivia 211
    2026/06/02
    1 時間 17 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 210

    Audacity of Trivia 210
    2026/05/26
    1 時間 36 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 209

    Audacity of Trivia 209
    2026/05/20

    Jon tries getting campy while Chris brings up song lyrics inside every round-- PLUS American beef prices-- favorability-- Eddy Arnold-- Elvis Presley-- AI-- the Mascot Hall of Fame-- little known American museums-- Stevie Wonder-- Chad Mitchell Trio-- The Surfaris-- Ike Willis and Frank Zappa-- metacognition-- and so much more!

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    1 時間 32 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 208

    Audacity of Trivia 208
    2026/05/11

    On this episode Jon dissects the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision about redistricting, while Chris looks at the Astor Place Riot, the Apocalypse Early Warning System, and income inequality. Plus: gas prices-- AOC-- sports and singing as alternatives to AI-- Marco Rubio and The Pope-- Blue Dot Fever-- and much more! "Down with the codfish aristocracy!" #AmericasPodcast #AudacityofTrivia

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    1 時間 19 分
  • Audacity of Trivia 207

    Audacity of Trivia 207
    2026/04/12

    Another wild episode! Chris brings up heresy, Garbo, Pat Boone, and an American folksinger whose time has finally come, while Jon looks at the World Baseball Classic, the World Cup, trick shots at the Vatican, Barnburners, Whigs, and so much more. Is it punditry? Is it trivia? Are they even keeping score any more? Tune in and find out for yourself!

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    1 時間 7 分