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Just a lucky discovery, this. WAMC’s Weekly Rundown is a free, streamable, downloadable, rss-able, podcastable “irreverent” weekly newsmagazine that comes out ever Friday night (EST). Big deal, right? Wrong! It’s a strangely joyous and occasionally genuinely funny dive behind the headlines from a nicely sneery-liberal East Coast perspective. The star of the show is Greg, who’s one of those people who you just know was a geek at school because, however much they’ve blossomed/got contact lenses/come out/found likeminded people, they still retain the slightly nasal voice. I always imagine Greg as a clever-looking blond preppy character, a bit like the guy from Ally MacBeal who was in Desperate Housewives last week. I haven’t dared to look at the website for fear he’s really fat with long greasy black hair and a Megadeth t-shirt.

Support comes from Mary, who, bless her, isn’t very funny, but tries hard. And her rubbish moments just make you appreciate Greg more. I always imagine her with a big blonde perm and a pink tunic, slightly patrician-y. Again, I daren’t look at the website, as she’s probably a lank-haired dropout.

Anyway, here’s the website, and here’s the rss/podcast feed.