Sterling Cooper David Steve

I mean look, it has to happen, there are only seven episodes left.

This one is really a season starter, so we know that it will be a bit weak, and it was.

Don has a blue shirt, he's practically Jerry Rubin at this point.

This one has a lot going on, historically speaking, but those things seem to happen around the characters.

What's with the moustaches?

Men are pigs.

It's Ferg!  Steve will hate Ferg.

Is Kenny telling us the story of Mad Men?  I like to think so. He always seems like a bit of an outsider, but enough on the inside that he knows the stories etc.

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I wonder, should that be Steve's and Dave's, or, does the possessive on 'Dave' include Steve?  I mean it seems like it should, it feels right etc.

You know what else feels right? THIS EPISODE.

This is a good one, it is one of my favourites.  It actually started me on a From the Earth to the Moon rewatch.

I'm probably just at the cusp of the age where kids loved astronauts.

Oh Bert, you right wing, reactionary maniac, you were a hell of a dancer/singer.

'That's one small step for man' was a flubbed line, but it still works.

Neil Armstrong was an honest to goodness hero.

Peggy's pitch is pitch perfect.

Harry gets screwed again, ha ha.

'It's a lot of money' and 'over Dresden, I wanted to live Ted!' are Jim's two best lines of the series.

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As is often the case, the show seems to get better as seasons go on.
Burger Chef probably is run by morons.
Jim Hobart!
Bonnie is boring.
Pete is acting like a complete ass.
Lou is covering his ass, but, I hate Lou.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Lou?
The closing scene is probably the best shot thing in season 7A.
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This title pretty much wrote itself.

This one is, to me, odd.  I like it, but it feels odd somehow.  Sometimes like a bunch of vaguely related scenes.  I still like  it, and it has some great stuff, it just strikes me odd.

Megan is a bit of a twit here.

I hate Lou.

Stephanie shows up with Megan.  Oddly, my sister Stephanie might have been a Megan.

Lou is horrible.

Have I mentioned how much I dislike Lou?

Steve and I are not big on parties like that one at Megan's place.

Harry is sleazy.

I think the great Megan and Don experiment might be done.

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There has to be a 2001 reference here I can make in the title, but I'm at a loss.

Don's back!

Don's not back.

Don's being a jerk.

Don is actually back, and he's on a carousel.

Margaret is Marigold.

Electricity isn't the problem there hippies.

MEET THE METS!  The 1969 Mets were a very good baseball team.

The 1969 Expos, that's another story.

I still hate Lou.

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Everything is upside down!

Don is coming back to work.

Might have been fun had he gone to a fictionalized Wells Rich Greene.

Don called their bluff.

Megan called Don's bluff.

We hate Lou.  Of course we are supposed to.

Don't yell out dumb sexist garbage when we record live. (Apparently some people have completely missed the point of the show).

Time for Megan to fire her agent.

Steve and I would like to meet Rod Serling.

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Each year a bunch of podcasters get together and hang out, talk about our weird hobby, and generally cause trouble.

The event is known as the 'Marshall McLuhan Podcaster Roundtables'.

We also take an afternoon to record in front of an audience.

There is drinking.

There is carousing.

There is merriment.

So we sat down for about 20 minutes and took audience questions.

I thought we hadn't used the song we used, but I was wrong. 

See you next week with a regular episode.

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OK, maybe a couple of hours.

Shipka is great in this one.

Rahm is great in this one.

Much of this one is about the subtle and not so subtle racism people faced at the time and still do face.

If you still thought you liked Bert Cooper, maybe watch this one again...

Sally meets Lou.

We hate Lou.

Dine and Dash!

The Don and Sally relationship may be one of the best on the show.

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SEASON 7!

Still not sure how we'll treat season 7.  Will we do it as two separate seasons or as one big one?

Either way we're done soon.

Wait, Freddy?

Boy can Don Draper make an entrance.

So can Megan!

Megan seems to live in Laurel Canyon, you gotta talk about the sound.

Lou is a placeholder.

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OH MY GOD, WE'RE GOING INTO SEASON 7.

But first, let's talk season 6.

As is our custom, we have invited Cliff Dunn from Mad Men, Out to Lunch With Roger Sterling on the podcast.  We had a couple of other lurkers too!

How did Steve's predictions go?

What are his predictions for season 7?

1968, what a crazy year, lots of great historical stuff.

Somewhere in there you'll hear RFK's speech the day MLK was murdered.  Powerful stuff.

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