This week: "America Decides." The fascist candidate with a fondness for Hitler becomes president again. Opening theme includes clips from The Conet Project; "Saturday Night Live;" "The Simpsons;" Paul Harvey; "Citizen Kane;" 1010 WINS; Tim Walz; Bill Cosby; Jon Stewart; Larys Strong from "House of the Dragon;" and Andrew Weissmann. Thanks for the songs from Husker Du ("Turn On The News"), Shellac (“The End of Radio”), The Eagles (“Heartache Tonight”), Talking Heads (“Psycho Killer”); and Sun Ra (“Nuclear War”). Clips and excerpts from Michael Corleone; Tom Wagasbagon, Greg Hirsch, Kendall Roy, Shiv Roy, and Jeryd Mencken from “Succession;” Troy Iwata, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, and Desi Lydic from “The Daily Show;” Donald Drumpf; Bill O’Reilly; John Heilemann; Lawrence O’Donnell; and Ygritte from “Game of Thrones.” Episode 211.
Below, the source material for this show.
"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 similar to Spike Jones, Dickie Goodman, Dr. Demento, or Richard Foreman with comedy skits, sketches, radio waves, and more. Produced by Tom Roe. Clips and songs are from some of the sources below.
This radio show literally transitioned in the middle of the night as election results were announced. It began the evening as “Turn On The News” and by dawn turned back into “Donald Drumpf Theatre.” Below, is the new “Donald Drumpf Theatre” version.
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