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Hello podcast listeners! Maybe you currently check out the Paper Machete Radio Magazine each week at WBEZ, or at iTunes. If you don’t already, we encourage you to listen and subscribe. But for those of you already listening, you know our Radio Magazine format generally includes three essays from the show plus a musical guest clip, narrated throughout by the producers.

Well, going forward we’re going to try something a little different. » Read more..

Featuring Bill Ayers with a message of peace; Tim Sniffen & Brendan Dowling on Brett Rattner’s “rehearsal is for f–s” comment; Coya Paz on Ecuador’s lesbian torture clinics; and music by Pinto and the Bean.

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Christopher Piatt & Bill Ayers dance to Pinto & the Bean

Dr. William Ayers

Tim Sniffen and Brendan Dowling

Coya Paz

Pinto and the Bean

Featuring Samantha Irby on Herman Cain, Cayne Collier on fecal transplants & Chad the Bird on Guy Fawkes. Music by Diego Sol and the Metronomes.

 Listen here at WBEZ.org.

Photos from the 11/5 show here.

Josh Zagoren, normally seen crouching suggestively behind Chad the Bird, guests hosted the 10/29 live show & joined us on the podcast this week. Also featuring Adam Guerino on the gay man’s stake in Halloween, Aemilia Scott on the Occupy movement, and music by Fatbook. Fatbook KILLED and sounded amazing in our live show, thanks to our trusty sound engineer Aadam Jacobs. But we at the Machete don’t have the advanced scientific tools and machinery needed to capture that many instruments in a box. So, for the podcast, we used a recording of “Kill it For Me” off their album No Time to Lose.

Listen here on WBEZ.org.

More photos of the show at our Flickr (or the slideshow below, which may or may not cooperate).

This week’s Radio Mag looks at local baseball, international sexism and dismemberment in the office. Read more and listen here at WBEZ.org.

More photos of the show here.

Tim Baltz. Photo by evan Hanover.

This week we commemorate the Chicago Reader’s 40th Birthday with an interview with Chicago journalism legend Michael Miner.  Also: Thea Lux, Whit Nelson, Hans Holsen and music by Dastardly. Listen here on WBEZ.org.

Check out all the photos from the 10/15 show at our Flickr.

This week’s Radio Mag features selections from the 10/8 show. From WBEZ: “This was just a big, big news week, so Chad the Bird recaps it for you. Matt Klingler plays Terrence McCarthy, who talks about the cancellation of The Playboy Club. James Porter weighs in on the Hank Williams Jr. Hitler controversy. Katie Rich gives election advice to single ladies. There’s music from Jessica Joy and Chance Bone.”  Listen here on WBEZ.org.

View photos from the show.