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Big News celebrates its sixth year anniversary and its 300th episode, with our very special guest Emo Philips!!! And what did we get for this auspicious occasion? Why, news that the governor of Illinois tried to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat!

So if you weren’t among the 90 or so people who packed iO West to see the show - or if you were, and want to enjoy it again - watch it now!!

In this episode:

- Freed Guantanamo prisoners take a look back at the past six years in song, along with some newsmakes of the time!
- Big News’ creator Michael McCarthy does the same, only not in song!
- Rod and Patti Blagojovich try to make a little coin off Oprah!
- A couple hit hard by the economic crisis scale down their kids’ Christmas dreams!
- Sally Struthers brings her talent for teary pleas for donations to help some struggling rich executives!
- Larry Craig tries to call in sick…on Call in Gay Day!
- A doctor takes advantage of new government rules to use religions to keep treatments from a patient!
- Marty McFly and Doc Brown try to figure out to what year they went Back to the Future!
- Rod Blagojovich plans his next move!
- And Conspiracy Theory Girl looks at the claim that Barack Obama wasn’t born an American citizen!
- Plus the comedy of Emo Philips!
- And Tom Cruise stops by to talk about his Golden Globe nomination!

And you can now subscribe to the Big News Podcast! We offer a few different options: iTunes, Miro, normal feed, and Revver. Go here to subscribe!

BIG NEWS EPISODE 300 - “I-Rod”

Starring Christopher Biewer, Kipleigh Brown, George Caleodis, Bailee Desrocher, Neil Garguilo, Michael Hughes, Jason Kelley, Melissa Okey, Artemis Pebdani, Ray Stakenas, and Phillip Wilburn

Special Guest: Emo Philips

Directed by Ron West (more…)

Chip Saltsman, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, continues to face criticism for distributing a CD that contained the song parody “Barack the Magic Negro.” Some Democrats have defended Saltsman by noting that on January 20th Obama will in fact make a giant asshole disappear.

Chrysler has received a four billion dollar loan from the U.S Treasury. The money will be used to create a time machine so they can go back and un-invent the PT Cruiser.

Air Tran Airways apologized on Monday to nine Muslims who were removed from a flight to Florida after being wrongly accused of making suspicious remarks. The airline also apologized to Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists and Scientologists, just for being such a shitty airline. (more…)

It was bad enough that Bernie Madoff put together the largest Ponzi scheme in history to steal $50 billion from charities, financial institutions and retirees. But this week, we got news of victims even more tragic: Madoff lost the $50 million life savings of beloved Hollywood supercouple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

This news raises a lot of questions. Like, “How do you earn $50 million from starring in ‘Flatliners’ and ‘Something to Talk About’?” But in every crisis is an opportunity – and in this crisis is an opportunity to play a new version of the game that made Kevin Bacon a household name. No, not bringing dancing to a repressed small town – linking every major figure of the economic crisis to Kevin Bacon in six degrees or less! Let’s try a few: (more…)