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Roger gets changry as the gentlemen discuss the morality of eating fake meat, the fate of train transportation, various theories on migration to the Americas, and the real reasons for high oil prices.

The show focuses on listener comments. Roger and Tom discuss train travel, immigration, how the Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908, leaving San Francisco, the meaning of Google in Chinese, and much much more.

The discussion is joined by Veronica and Ryan as they talk about immigration, Oakland, laptop thievery, and more. Roger and Tom also explain the delay in this week’s episode.

Just a note that East Meets West will record on Monday night instead of Sunday. That’s the plan now.

In this episode Roger and Tom talk about daylight savings time, trains, democracy, immigration, the industrial revolution and touch on soda and Barry Bonds again.

The discussion centers around travel, involving how to travel, where to travel, and why to travel. Roger and Tom also answer questions from the blog, regarding Zimbabwe, movies, poems, and football (soccer). Thay also discuss Coca-Cola, but unfortunately didn’t get any money for it.

Listening to this episode will get you up to speed on V for Vendetta as wella s athe history of dictatorship and revolutions both slow-working and abrupt.  Tom and Roger also read feedback on Ep 13, the evil episode, whihc a surprising number of people listened to.

BBC reports that researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed artificial muscles with the strength of a hundred men.

The most powerful type, “shorted fuel cell muscles” convert chemical energy into heat, causing a special shape-memory metal alloy to contract.

Turning down the heat allows the muscle to relax.

Lab tests showed that these devices had a lifting strength more than 100 times that of normal skeletal muscle.

It should be noted that Dallas is north of Austin and the bionic man was Steve Austin. Just keep that in mind. Link.

U.S.S. Mariner has an excellent analysis of the 1946 game between the Gas House Gorillas and the Teatotallers played at the Polo Grounds. You may have seen clips of the game before on TV but DMZ does an excellent job teasing out the details and providing a sound overview of what we can tell from the avialable footage.

Consider that given fifteen outs, Bunny scored 96 times. His RC/27 would be 173. Now of course Bunny could not always face a team so ill-equipped to deal with his high-percentage take-all-four-bases running style and bean-all-nine-fielders hitting ability, but even dramatic penalties placed on him would still make him the greatest offensive player of all time.

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This time Tom and Roger mess with forces they can’t control. You might hear them talk about the World Basbeall Classic, ramen noodles, the meaning of federalism, proper way to gain tech experience and more.  Then again you may only hear the voices of evil.