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Welcome back to the silliest stupidest topical political podcast on record.   We've been away but we're back.  Back with a review of Maqz' predictions for 2013 - (At least he did better than Sylvia Browne).  And we're back with some news and commentary about the Crimean Peninsula, celebrities and sports.Now what could be more grown up than that!Click here for news

Click here to listen Why is it that international leaders are always hugging Angela Merkel?Ever seen Trainspotting?  Lincoln?  Orange is the New Black?  In this episode Maqz and Zach cover binge watching television, movies and Healthcare.gov.  One of these things is not like the other.Plus we include a special feature today.  Much editing is done on the podcast but some of the preliminary chatter was so much fun, that we threw it in there before the show started. Think of it as a bonus!

Listen HereSports begins our episode 31.  A couple of classic and classy baseball players retire.The NSA gets to hear more about the Affordable Care Act than they'd probably prefer.   Maqz takes a non-sequitorial turn about his favorite over-hyped politician and Zach reigns him in.Wait till you hear the kinds of questions that African Americans had to deal with on literacy tests as recently as the 1960's.   Then you'll understand our guys outrage over these attempts at voter suppression.Tea anyone?Can you do this in 10 minutes?  Remember, no mistakes!

Click here to listenIn a change of pace Zach and Maqz examine the international politics of the middle east, President Obama's political wavering and his surprising relationship with Vlad the Putin, as well as the Colorado recall, Article I of the US Constitution, NFL predictions, NYC politics and Voyager. And for an aperitif we finish with just a taste of literature.  All in all, a gourmet podcast.Listen here.

Listen here and tell us what you think!Raw and unedited (mostly) Episode 029 will stand the test of time as Zach and Maqz reflect on 50 years ago this week, on fracking, and on epic fails.  No one knows what America's approach to Syria will produce, but Maqz and Zach take a crack at it anyway.

With a bit of time perspective, Zach and Maqz discuss the Trayvon Martin case, Edward Snowden and Alex Rodriguez.  Only in this podcast can you get quite so eclectic a blend of subject matter.  Throw in a smattering of vulgarity, irreverence and respect, add a dose of amateur economics, the Patriot Act, and the sequester and you've got a tasty bit of conversation that will either improve your mood or raise your blood pressure.For dog lovers everywhere, please enjoy The Sasha Episode here.

Click here for the scoop  Too much to talk about, especially if you like sports and spys and things that really do go wrong. In today's episode Zach and Maqz ask the popular questions is Snowden a hero or a traitor and how many times to you get to throw at somebody before you bean him? Who's bigger Mark McGuire or Kirk Gibson?

This picture of Kate Beckinsale has nothing to do with today's episode.  We needed a picture for the post and ... well ... this seemed like a good one.Click here for news!Meanwhile, today the boys take a closer look at an important speech by Kate Benkinsa ... Barack Obama while listening for cicadas.  The conversation floats through drones and immigration and around the Boy Scouts and Kate Beck ... no, no ... wait, no ..., and Bill and Ted and Ron Paul goes to the UN! LGBT issues are discussed and Maqz wonders if they can get a few more letters in there.   Scandals and ... and structurally deficient bridges and ... whooo ...

Well we've certainly had a lot to talk about since last we left our heroes.    The economy has gotten better, the Senate is working on a sane immigration policy, the president has declared an end to the war on "terror" whatever that ever meant anyway ... uh ... wait, that's next week's show.   This week we have SCANDAL!Leaks, investigations into terrorism and the IRS has a tea party.  Oh boy, we're going to have fun this week!Let's not talk about Syria and student loans.  Let's see if we can attach a problem in the IRS to President Obama.  You know, he was born in Kenya and that's Africa and that's Libya and ... well you get it.Click here for your umbrella from the absurd

Zach and Maqz return to their childhoods this week. Sports and geography are the main subjects.  Baseball, football, hockey and fighting fit perfectly well with the childish behavior of some North Korean leaders. Together the boys take an extensive trip around both the sporting and real worlds and including a drift into space. Along the way we find out what “chained-CPI” really means and we get to keep our scholarhips all while not using our children to sell Chevrolets.Edgemakateme!Ancient map of the area. Including iFat (yep), where it is, and Aksum (no kidding) where it isn't.Click here for 8 Minutes On High Episode 23 and travel around the world with us.Here is that link we talked about regarding wealth inequality.

Much of this weeks podcast is edited in brutal style. For a change of pace, Maqz rants while, There will be nashing of teeth. Zach enters a list of FDR's programs and altogether greater fun ensuses. Seriously sorry of some of the cuts are a little rough. We think the sound is getting better though.Daaaamn!Work, infrastructure, production and productivity, electrification, communication, a higher standard of living, integration of rural communities with population centers and oh yes, JOBS! See what the government can do!Click here for a link to todays podcast - or Communist propogranda if you were to ask a Republican. Anyway click here for our show!

Well we have a new Pope, but we're not here to talk about Francis today. We're here to talk about National Security Letters, Dick Cheney, signature strikes, Ted Cruz, Dianne Fienstein and the assault weapons ban that could have saved Newtown and a list of ten surprising things that you thought were true, but weren't …We didn't get to Sarah Palin which is too bad because we love to see Republican's eat their own. Carl Rove should get a gun 'cuz the Moma Grizzly went after him … somewhere near Russia I think.This from the Dallas News"On multiple occasions, Cruz attacked Hagel for not disclosing the sources of his lucrative speaking fees, speculating that some of that money could have come from unfriendly foreign governments: “It is at a minimum relevant to know if that $200,000 that he deposited in his bank account came directly from Saudi Arabia, came directly from North Korea. I have no evidence to suggest that it is or isn’t."(empahsis added)Click here and see what Maqz thinks of Ted Cruz

In today's edition of the podcast Maqz and Zach congratulate Rand Paul for standing up to filibuster, revisit Papal proficey, investigate death from above and get into a little nude Bush discussion.  Now what could be more wholesome than that? Click here to find out the correct way to filibuster

Well its back to the battles. Reps and Dems. Greeks and Vikings. Today on 8MinutesOnHigh Zack and Maqz take on the Sequester. That's right because its no longer a taudry political strategy. Now its a thing. A hungry thing out to destroy our government ... or maybe it IS our government. Any way you look at it ... its scary!This is where you can hear the lies, the news, the Greeks and the Vikings

At last the Predictions Show! Next week back to politics and economics, with maybe a little science but today Maqz makes his annual predictions for the upcoming year. Along the way he and Zach talk a little movies and some little known and unimportant facts.Cardinal Peter KodwoClick here for the future

Well, now we did it.   We brought God into it.  In a new segment called DNA bits (don't ask, Maqz was drinking) the conversation continues.Zach and Maqz conversations often go beyond the 1/2 hour ish time limit we usually reserve for our chats.  We left the record button on and this is what resulted.God, we fuck things and we kill things, Easter Island, cloning neanderthals, smaller protons, science, religion and God and ee cummings.. Click here for philosphy, cloning and Easter Island. Seriously That's a lot of entertainment!

Every year Countless Screaming Argonauts ran a prediciton show.  Every following January Maqz, The Fabulous Penguin, and Denali would review those predictions.  Well ... CSA is gone now, but Maqz and Zach make the effort to see how well the CSA guys did in their efforts to show the way to the world.Here we go ...

Boy what a show today.   After a long production delay Maqz and Zach bring you their takes on Ranniah and Man Tie.   Toddling along the way the take on saving Churches, Roger Clemens, other sporting figures.  Perhaps this episode release took so long, because they were talking about the filibuster.Tae'o.  Ta ay ee oh.  Listen here.  You won't hear Ronniah, but you won't hear Lennay either!

WHOA - we made a boo boo, BAD EDIT.  But now the file is fixed nowZach and Maqz trundle through a bygone time.  Remember when we were ALL Americans?  Remember when loving thy neighbor meant something?  Included in todays show are all kinds of mentions of history, a little bit of sports and maybe a dash of politics? Whoda thunk it?  Check us out here.

Having been excoriated in the press for their harsh stance against assualt weapons, the boys turn to a lighter subject.  Zach and Maqz take on Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School and his list of the most notable quotes of the year.Maqz quizes Zach, and you if you dare, on your knowledge of the Star Wars Trillogy (x2).  If you're lucky, you'll score less than Maqz's honest 2points.  Today's show is all about the words ...Listen to this show, you must.

In today's edition of the podcast Maqz and Zach, having realized they've defeated the Mayans, take on Wayne Lapiere and the gun nuts.   After all doesn't the 2nd amendment say that we can each have our own tactical nuclear weapon?  We also deal with Cosmo the God, Fox News, and insurance fraud!  With that kind of opposition is it any wonder we need one?Also, we're trying to improve our sound quality.  Let us know if we succeded (or not!)   Either way, we'll keep working on getting better, and thanks for sticking with us.Click here and I'll show you my 8 inch projectile.

Which would you rather watch, Shoe TV or Dog TV? Today's special bonus edition covers breasts, space, Mars and the Mindset list. Maqz and Zach cover history of music, CIA, cable TV and used car salesmen.Today's show covers the gamut from cockroaches and Twinkies to plague and mrsa, and really, which is more dangerous?   Emma Caulfield is not mentioned in this episodeCheck out our double episode here

It may be ok for pizza, but 30 minutes just wasn't enough for Maqz and Zach. Together they check out the Are You Smarter Than A Fox News Viewer quiz from the Christian Science Monitor, in a supplemental segment worth sticking around for behind the music.We had an election. Morning Joe didn't believe the predictions, but we've done some math of our own and we figure if your people are standing in line for hours and hours just to vote, you probably really did do the math correctly. A little more politics, some music, and we find why Maqz hates shopping but you have to stick around.Listen to Episode 10 hereListen here for bonus cantosCheck out PBS for more on Occupy SandyGo here to help by giving to Occupy Sandy

We're being a little bit tricky today. We recorded a two-parter and this is Episode 009 B. Zach was away and Maqz wanted to hear Zach's thoughts on the debates when he returned. That still leaves us time to discuss how today's music all sounds the same, as well as, strikedebt.org, China, Halloween, cars, dodos, berries, horses and other paleolithic creatures such as Mitt Romney. Oh and Maqz has a new car.We also say good bye to George McGovern, a truly honorable presidential opponent.Click here to taste the berries!