This week’s episode includes: Mark Twain and Fran Lebowitz on the ups and downs of the telephone, Allen Ginsberg’s “I Am a Victim of Telephone,” Top Five Telephone Songs, The Phone Ranger (2005) and other telephone film titles, Top Five Phones in Poetry, Invaluable Telephone Facts of the Week, Ogden Nash on wrong numbers, Fleming’s Follies, featuring the iPhone sendups from Conan O’ Brien and Mad TV, Bad Book Cover of the Week, viewer mail from the last week, and so much more you’ll want to turn your phone off and tune in! 30mins.

This week’s episode includes: George Washington on the highest bidder, Honest Abe on fooling some of the people some of the time, Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Woodrow Wilson on making enemies, top five presidential movies, left-handed presidents, presidential facial hair, Linda Lovelace for President, top ten cartoon eye-popping reactions to Olive Oyl, amazing presidential facts, Fleming’s Follies, Bad Book Cover of the Week - Slime, Jefferson City, Missouri, presidential collective nouns, cool presidential campaign slogans, top five presidents with the largest popular votes and top five with greatest electoral votes, and so much more, you just have to watch! Audio 50 mins, Video 30 mins.

This week’s episode includes: Somerset Maugham and Confucius, Thom Gunn’s “Sweet Things,” top five habits of highly ineffective coworkers, Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human and Sister Act II: Back, John Dryden, endlessbookshelf.net, Fleming’s Follies, featuring Eye Smoking Guy, Guinness Book of World Records guy who smokes seven packs at once, monkey scratching its ass, invaluable bad habit facts of the week, Mark Twain on habits, Bad Book Cover of the Week, Night of the Living Hell, book plots that hinge on the acquisition or loss of funds, an Australian in a funky Bedford nearly runs over a koala, Hooker, Okalahoma, top five superstitions, Ernest Hilbert’s poem “In Bed for a Week” from the New Criterion, reprint of Hilbert’s In Memoriam for Thom Gunn from the December 2004 issue of the Contemporary Poetry Review, and much more fun stuff. Check it out!

This week’s episode includes: Alexis de Tocqueville on vice, Nancy Mitford on headless chickens, Keith Douglas’s “Aristocrats,” top five royal deaths in the 20th century, King Kong Lives, Chesterton on the badly educated, Homer Simpson and the Queen, Charles in Charge, Catherine Tate at the Queen’s birthday bash, invaluable and sometimes unbelievable facts about the British royals, unbelievable book cover of the week (Unanswered Prayers), Cut-Off Louisiana, Thomas Jefferson on natural aristocracy, and so much more fun.