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Mep Report #157: Storey Becomes a Mountaineer

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Take Me Home, Country Roads
Those Who Can, Teach; Those Who Can’t, Teach Pedagogy
Musical MFA Chairs at WVU
Russ Becomes a Legit LA Star
Russ vs. the Unions
Gooberman Baseball Team Expands
Death of DAoC and/or Free Time
Cardboard Nintendo!
Chopping Pennsylvania Poker
Greg Keeps a Secret
Hold Your Breath for a Blue Wave
White House Press Conferences – But at What Acosta?
Trump vs. History
Information Overload
Facebook: Evil or Utopia?

Show Links:
Storey’s Driving for U publications: http://bluepyramid.org/DrivingForU.htm
Russ’ Toyota commercial: http://russgooberman.com/the-ron-series/
Russ’ insurance commercial: https://www.facebook.com/laserfalcon/videos/10157792227627519/
Greg’s band’s latest album: https://theroad.hearnow.com/
DAOC Death of a Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YHF5OnzjB0

Live from Hollywood, it’s the Gooberman Wedding!

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Three Meppers Randomly Walk into a Ballroom in Hollywood
Mep Marriages
The Muppets Take the Goobermans
1990s Baseball Cards Revisited
Greg Sees LA But Misses the Bachelor Party
LA’s Fine Dining Scene ft. Chick-fil-A
Storey Loooooves LA
Why Russ Belongs on the Westside
The Misery-Fandom Index
Russ Tries to Get Storey Killed at Angel Stadium
Celebrate Your 42sies!
Russ Will Catch Em All in the Grand Canyon in 2020
Guest Appearances from Both Mep Daughters

Mep Report #154: Mep Too

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The Meppers dive in for an extended serious discussion of the Me Too movement, its fallout, and its future. With an early note on Star Wars, Coco, and Pixar.

Mep Report #151: PIRG’s Secret Mountain of Money

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Executive Orders
The Role of Third Parties in American Politics
Going Green
Doug Phelps and the Secret PIRG Mountain of Money
RIPrius
A Hybrid/Hybrid Hybrid
Greg Explains the Necessity of Minivans
Where Did PokemonGo?
Harnessing the Power of Video Games

Mep Report #148: The Unabomber, Stalin, and Kevin Smith Walk into a Bar…

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In the Year 2222
Why Don’t Greg and Russ Like Doctor Who?
Bowling is Up Storey’s Alley
Kevin Smith and the Last 20 Years
Naming Conventions and the Destiny of Unusal Names
Rehabilitating Stalin
Russ Defends the Unabomber and/or Malthus
The Case for the Maintenance Society
Time-Traveling Murderers

Mep Report #147: CornGuns for President!

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Iowa’s Outsized Influence
President CornGuns
Russ Offensively Tries to Solve World Politics
Mep Reports 126 and 127: a Russ Horror Story
Storey and the Several Not-Evil Exes
Wedge Antilles with a Crayon
Russ’ Immortal Love of Winning
Greg on Cooperation Over Competition
Life and Death with Diplomacy and 1830
Closeness and the Joy of Competition
Delegating is Really Only a Process for Being Disappointed
Wilt Chamberlain vs. Bill Russell
Russ Messes Up the Whole Show

TMR #143: Toastmasters, We’re Calling You Out

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The History of Canadian and American Thanksgiving, Thank-You-Note Day, America Exports a Holiday, Who Wants Trident… Missiles?; We Call Out Toastmasters: Why Does Toastmasters Exist?, Toastmasters Anonymous, Fisher Price My First Speech, Today You are Not a Man, Golden Brown Toast, Toastmasters Younger than 75; and The Sad Sordid Tale of Russ’ Addiction to Virtual Star Wars Trading Cards.

Mep Report #140: The Locust Episode

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140: The Plauge of Locusts Anniversary, Locusts in a Jersey, Bringing the Grasshopper View to the Locusts, Greg’s Good Old Gaming, Shark-Shark Locusts, Neo-Retro Gamers, 7 Billion Locusts, Being the Best Locust You Can Be, Locusts Anonymous, Russ Sells IMDB, Coaching as Methodone, Living in the Moment, Performative Body Departure, Storey is Dennis Quaid, Sending Messages Back in Time, Lost in Lost, and the Spinny Thing in Your Brain that Controls Everything.

Mep Report #132: Greg Does Acupuncture!

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Never Have I Ever Had Needles Stuck In Me…Willingly, Everyone Loves Their Anesthesiologist (When They’re Asleep), Shady Items Bought From Shady Vans Are Shady, Old Coins Are Old, Putin Steals More Super Bowl Rings than Ukrainians, Greg Doesn’t Want Racist D-Bag Medals, and America is Burning (and How to Put It Out).

Sidenote: This is our 1,000th post on this site!

Mep Report #131: MepCoin Launches!

The emu rings the opening bell late last month to usher in the new flightless bird-based currency.

The emu rings the opening bell late last month to usher in the new flightless bird-based currency.

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You Will Not Crucify Us on a Cross of MepCoin, Barnacles on the Bitcoin Boat, Greg Doesn’t Want to be Mr. Potter, How Much Coin Could A MepCoin Mep if a MepCoin Could Coin Mep, Greg will [REDACTED] when Russ [REDACTED] because Storey [REDACTED], The Only Winning Game is to Mep, and Long Movies are Long, Snoozefest are Snooze.