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Jan 31, 2015

 

 

Note: Audio levels have been fixed in this episode

Tommy Lee Jones as MacArthur in a film about the prosecution of war criminals in post-war Japan.

There's a love story thrown in too, because why not?

Notes: 

IMDB Listing - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103264/?ref_=nv_sr_3

American Shogun by Robert Harvey - http://www.amazon.com/American-Shogun-Tale-Two-Cultures/dp/1585676829

Intro and Outro Music - "Pray for Japan" by frievents orchestra - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/frievents_Orchestra/

 

Jan 14, 2015

 

 

Review of a mockumentary in a universe where The Confederacy won the American Civil War.


Notes:

Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, Library of Congress Images Collection - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.05842/

"Dixieland" Performed by New York Military Band, in Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, UC Santa Barbara -


http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=Dixie&num=1&start=6&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia

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