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which clips today from markfiora.com, countdown, the young Turks, the Colbert Report,

Ring of Fire, the Progressive Magazine, the Jimmy Dorsho, the Daily Show,

Media Matters, Lusho, and the Rachel Maddo Show, with a bonus video clip today

of our iPhone ad users from the Colbert Report.

What are you doing? Going to work? How do you guys get around?

Well, we drive things called cars, which are powered by gas or petroleum,

which is basically the squeezing of giant lizards and plants that died millions of years ago.

As we suck them up through humongous tubes, stuck thousands of feet into the planet.

Our entire economy hinges on these dinosaur squeezes.

Nations and leaders rise and fall based on how much of these squeezes they have.

A lot of the time, this lizard juices thousands and thousands of feet below the bottom of the ocean.

But so we have to float on top of the waves and stick a super duper long tube over 800

fathoms under the sea. Sometimes things blow up and kill people, but that's just the beginning.

Animals, plants, and the livelihoods die and hope dies a little bit too.

Then it's time to lower a giant dome 5,000 feet under the sea and suck the squeezing is onto boats.

See, we pay professionals billions and billions of dollars to go all over the planet with their

goo-sucking technologies so they can bring the lizard juice up through miles of rock to the surface

for our cars and stuff. Why don't you ride a bike to work instead?

Because driving is really just so much easier.

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