Episode 6132 (10/13/2010) – Austan Goolsbee

EPISODE NUMBER: 6132 (October 13, 2010)
GUESTS: Austan Goolsbee
SEGMENTS: America Helps Rescue Chilean Miners, Sport Report – Steroids, Commonwealth Games & Brett Favre’s Sexting, Tax Shelter Skelter
VIDEOS: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

I originally started this episode guide yesterday at lunch during work. I had plugged in my earphones, fired up my net book, and had taken the first bite of my sandwich when Stephen said “Tonight, should steroids be allowed in professional sports? New evidence suggests Rrawrrrwwraaarrawr!” and I literally choked on my sandwich. For some reason that absolutely hit me as the most ridonk thing Stephen’s done in the intro in a long time.

I’m so glad they rescued poor Intern Jay. Poor thing looked hungry – guess that hair wasn’t enough. The Commonwealth Games sound like a comedy of horrors. But you gotta love any Sport Report that ends in a turtle humping a Crock. Classic.

It took me a second to catch why that audience was laughing at the Keith Whitacre picture, and then I caught it: Sad Thurston Howell the Third! Hahahahah! I can only imagine how that one went down, “Okay, intern, I need a screen cap of Thurston Howell the Third, but he needs to be pouty. Here’s Season One DVDs of Gilligan’s Island … go!”

What did all of you enjoy about Wednesday’s show?

• I gotta say I love the Chilean flag. It’s got everything our flag has, but chunkier.
• You got to imagine the gift shop down there is pretty limited.
• I would not be silenced about it. No matter how many times they said to me, sir, this is not the Chilean embassy, this is a Chili’s. To which I say, then where’s my crispy onion string and Jalapeño stack?
• Jay: I’m so hungry.
  Stephen: Me too. I’ll take a triple shot latte and a pumpkin scone. Chop, chop.
• Nation, we are in the thick of the baseball playoffs, which means the pace of the game has gone from stultifying to glacial.
• Just last week in the baseball playoffs, there was a total snooze fest of a game where the Cincinnati Reds didn’t get a single hit, and that could have been avoided if the Reds’ players had shot themselves up with a combination of HGH and Minute Wax mahogany wood finish. Then not only would they be huge, their arms would turn into bats.
• A glorious quadrennial athletic tournament where her majesty’s former colonies gather to compete for the honor of who was most imperially raped for their natural resources.
• That makes for an exciting race. You have a real motivation not to fall behind.
• In all sports we’re inspired by athletes overcoming personal obstacles, but only at the Commonwealth Games can we be inspired by the athletes overcoming the Commonwealth Games.
• Finally, Brett Favre, who for the first time in years is in the news for something other than retiring.
• Now we know why Favre’s ankles are so bad. Those things do not provide proper support.
• Will the market or the federal government stripo of your assets, and will I lose my summer home? And what about my winter, spring and fall homes?
• So what? We’ll just borrow it from something else big and red.
• But I’m middle class. I just happen to be upper elite platinum plus middle class.