George Takei Revealed Why He Can’t Stand William Shatner

July 21, 2014 - David Feldman Show, The News From Around The World

While Star Trek fans might like to pretend the ongoing feud between George Takei and William Shatner doesn’t exist — I do the same thing with my favorite bands, don’t worry — the bickering’s been heavily documented over the years. Last night on Real Time, Bill Maher asked about the seemingly never-ending beef and Takei finally revealed why he can’t stand being around good ole Captain Kirk.

“He is Canadian. And Canadians have a certain image of being even-tempered and friendly and all that,” Takei said of Shatner. “Well, he is a person who is that way … with himself. He is very self-centered.”

He said that the men are both professionals and so they are able to get the work done. “But, it’s with a lot of difficulty,” he conceded.

Maher mixed his Star franchises by saying, “It’s not like you’re going to drive the ship into a Death Star just to spite him.”

“The temptation is there,” Takei said.

The conversation then switched gears to the topic of gay rights. According to Takei, nearly the entire cast and crew of Star Trek during the late ’60s knew that he was gay. Well, not everyone exactly. “It went right over his head,” he laughed, implying his oblivious sparring partner Shatner.

Sucks to be Canadian and clueless, huh? It’s okay, though. We still love you, Captain. And, yes, you too, the ever-fragrant Hikaru Sulu. Watch the full interview below.

via Uproxx.com

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Jabronis Only: Inside the Iron Sheik’s ‘Roast Rumble’

July 21, 2014 - David Feldman Show, The News From Around The World

Jabronis Only: Inside the Iron Sheik's 'Roast Rumble'

Iron Sheik’s Hollywood Roast Cherie Steinberg As a child, I was terrified by many things: The old man in Poltergeist II , the clown in It , Large Marge’s transforming face , the singing career of Bruce Willis…and, of course, the Iron Sheik. Don’t laugh. During my formative years, I was a huge wrestling fan. I watched WWF every Saturday morning, cheered good guys like Hulk Hogan and Koko B. Ware, and damned the existence of bad guys like Andre the Giant and Rick “the Model” Martel.

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If the Left Wants Scapegoats, Just Look in the Mirror

July 21, 2014 - David Feldman Show, Top Stories

If the Left Wants Scapegoats, Just Look in the Mirror

Thomas Frank is convinced that Barack Obama single-handedly prevented America from becoming the lefty paradise it was on course for after the financial meltdown of 2008: The Obama team, as the president once announced to a delegation of investment bankers, was “the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” and in retrospect these words seem not only to have been a correct assessment of the situation at the moment but a credo for his entire term in office . For my money, they should be carved in stone over the entrance to his monument: Barack Obama.

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The Crazy Cool Comedy of Bob Rubin

July 17, 2014 - Comedians, David Feldman Show, Full Interviews With Our Guests, Most Recent, Our Podcast

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Bob Rubin, one of the most cerebral and hilarious comedians out there join Laura House and Jerry Stahl for a carnival house of a show. Be sure to put your drinks down while listening to this episode or you’ll be doing a lot of spit takes! Also, David Feldman kicks off the show with a loose conversation with KPFK’s John Matthews.

The Rube jumping through a flaming tube. Yes, this actually happened.

The Rube jumping through a flaming tube. Yes, this actually happened.

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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Is Now Going To Lose In November

July 15, 2014 - David Feldman Show, The News From Around The World, Top Stories

Governor Sam Brownback is the matter with Kansas.

The Wall Street Journal is now reporting:

More than 100 Republican former officeholders, elected officials and past party officials endorsed the Democratic opponent of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Tuesday, the latest sign of re-election troubles for one of the nation’s most conservative governors.

How did this happen? What’s the matter with Kansas? Governor Sam Brownback is one of the most religious politicians on the right, and he accepted as received wisdom that tax cuts for the rich create jobs. Just like religion, if you repeat economic nonsense enough times only the ignorant except it as the truth.

Brownback’s tax cuts have destroyed Kansas, just like the tax cuts from George Bush, whose favorite philosopher was Jesus, almost destroyed America.

According to Sunday’s New York Times:

There was only one reason for the state’s plummeting revenues, and that was the spectacularly ill-advised income tax cuts that Mr. Brownback and his fellow Republicans engineered in 2012 and 2013. The cuts, which largely benefited the wealthy, cost the state 8 percent of the revenue it needs for schools and other government services. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted, that’s about the same as the effect of a midsize recession. Moody’s cut the state’s debt rating in April for the first time in at least 13 years, citing the cuts and a lack of confidence in the state’s fiscal management.

Brownback says we need to give the cuts more time. Easy for him, he still has a job, at least until November.

Austerity on the backs of the poor coupled with tax breaks for the rich has been completely discredited. Locally, nationally and in Europe. Only a religious zealot could ignore the evidence and still believe.

These people, of all religious stripes including mine, have to be purged from our government. Blind faith only works when you’re listening to Ginger Baker.

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