Episode 0008

Harvey Plankers and Phillip Moreso return for episode 0008! Phillip has enjoyed an interdimensional journey to Europe, and returns to the Infinite Frequencies studio for a madcap romp through the world of universal news. This episode is sponsored by the beloved Bob Saget; you may know him as Danny Tanner from Full House. Topics covered in this episode are: alleged 112 year-old marries younger woman, Andre Agassi wore a fake mullet and did ice, David Letterman's involvement in the diary of Stephanie Birkitt, plus Sarah Palin jokes. Old favourite Dion McGregor performs a stunning somniloquy, Carl Sagan gives us yet another symphony of science and watch out for an interesting mic check! Technical difficulties and incorrect editing abound!

Old Man Dore

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A very heartwarming story has come across the Infinite Frequencies universal newsdesk, much to the delight of Harvey and Phillip. Somalian Ahmed Muhamed Dore has become something of a legend in the older man/younger woman community. He claims that he is 112, and his new wife is 17. If he is truly 112, then he is 95 years older than local beauty Safia Abdulleh. He had to wait for her to grow up and then used his experience to convince her of his love. We wish the happy couple all the best!

The Letterman / Birkitt files

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Many of you will have enjoyed the antics of late-night teeth-licking and jacket-straightening guru David Letterman. He has found himself in the interesting scenario of having slept with at least one woman from the staff of his show! He has confessed to an affair with his assistant Stephanie Birkitt to avoid being blackmailed. To make matters even more complicated, Stephanie Birkitt was at the time the sweetheart of CBS producer Robert 'Joe' Halderman. Stephanie wrote down all the details about her raunchy feelings involving Letterman, and Halderman was surprised to read it. Kathleen Parker writes an opinion piece for USA Today exploring this delicate issue.

Letterman / Palin

David Letterman was also involved in some controversy earlier in the year when he made an interesting joke about Sarah Palin's daughter. Letterman really stirred the pot when he suggested that, at the baseball game Palin and her daughter attended, Palin's daughter was impregnated by Alex Rodriguez AKA A-Rod. Apparently, he didn't know he was talking about the 14-year old. You can watch footage of the joke and a remotely interesting news story here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6czfhBPvLOU

There were many protests over the incident, and YouTube has some classic videos about this issue. Here are but a few:

• Sarah Palin "Letterman Comment About Statutory Rape Of My 14 Year Old" - Sarah Palin hits back at Letterman's joke about her daughter and any slurs on her own character. She claims she is not a slutty flight attendant, as Letterman suggests.
• Fire David Letterman Protest: War on (Palin) Jokes - excellent piece by pop culture expert Sam Seder; formerly trained by Olinsky & Acorn. Check out the infamous pen joke.
• "Fire David Letterman" Protest Rally Becomes Hatefest - a great video featuring insights from many interesting Jay Leno fans. A highlight here is when a lady make the startling claim that David Letterman rapes children with his mouth.
• Palin/Letterman round 2 - a panel discussion revolving around reactions to "the joke"

Sagan Symphony #2

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Last episode we featured A Glorious Dawn by Carl Sagan, remixed from the Cosmos TV series. This episode, we have another masterpiece from Sagan and other scientific luminaries. Now comes We Are All Connected; a beautiful exploration of many excellent ideas and even perhaps spiritual when Sagan claims that 'the cosmos is also within us' and 'we are a way for the cosmos to know itself'. Truly infinite, we hope that you enjoy this music video.

The skeptics society has released video footage of a lecture entitled Three Views of Carl Sagan. It is very boring but a must-watch for hardcore Sagan freaks.

Andre's mullet

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Devastating news has recently come to light with the shock confession from everyone's favourite tennis pro Andre Agassi that the famous mullet hairstyle that was his trademark throughout the 80s was in fact a wig! The news that Agassi's mullet was held on with pins and designed to hide his receding hairline is almost too much to bear. Harvey and Phillip are angry at this deception.

As a side note, Agassi also confessed that he used ice. See Courtney Walsh's article detailing Agassi's use of the drug known to narcotics experts as 'crystal meth'.

Mic Check

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This video features a disturbed individual performing a microphone check before a function. It is actually a sketch comedy piece devised by the Harvard Sailing Team and the mic check guy is none other than the great Adam Lustick. We thought this was an actual mic check but it's just pure comedy gold! The Harvard Sailing Team has many more videos showcasing their improvisational style of humour, check them out at http://www.harvardsailingteam.com/hst/