This week: “Sickness Is This Week's Obvious Metaphor for the USA, or 'We're All Going to Die'.” A virus controls the new/old president this week on the “Donald Drumpf Theatre” radio show. Opening theme includes clips from Rod Serling; Bill Cosby; Donald Drumpf; Eric Cartman; Jon Stewart; Richard Nixon; Kent Brockman; and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Thanks for the songs from Golden Earring ("Twilight Zone"), The Donner Party (“Sickness”), Nino Rota (“The Godfather”), The Young Fresh Fellows (“Taco Wagon”); Elvis Costello (“The Imposter”); and John Williams (“Attack of the Clones” end credits). Clips and excerpts from Jimmy Kimmel; RFK, Jr.; Hannibal Lecter; Frankenstein; Vito Corleone; Seth Meyers; Bret Baier; Steve Bannon; Piers Morgan; Karoline Leavitt; Laura Ingraham; Josh Hawley; Yoda; Victor Blackwell; Joni Ernst; and John Oliver. Episode 240.
"Donald Drumpf Theatre" is the weekly radio theatre show about a fictional presidency, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers all mixed in a style similar to Spike Jones, Dickie Goodman, Dr. Demento, or Richard Foreman with comedy skits, sketches, radio waves, and more. Produced by Tom Roe. Make sense of the unreality here. Clips and songs are from some of the sources below.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time, a perfect transmission metaphor, here, employed a bit differently.
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