The Bob Cesca Show

The acclaimed Japanese anime series Star Blazers, or Space Battleship Yamato, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, so today I welcomed my friend Tim Eldred to the show to talk about the series and its many spinoffs and reboots. Tim is a comic and animation artist who produced a Star Blazers comic book and is the premiere expert in and historian for the series. It's a welcome break from the existential dread of our politics. You can follow Tim's work at OurStarBlazers.com and The Art Vault. If you love animation and comics, chances are you're familiar with his incredible work. Meantime, make sure to support this podcast by subscribing at patreon.com/bobcescashow. Music by Paul Melançon.

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Cliff Schecter joins the Tuesday show. Who is Cliff? Cliff versus Cleta Mitchell circa 2006. Does aggressive push-back work any more? Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's meeting with Trump at Mar-a-lago. The clock is ticking on the bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Boris Epshteyn is already feuding with Elon. Bob is nuking his Twitter account. Donald Trump pledges to declare a national emergency to start his mass deportations. What will that look like? Donald versus the Generals. Muslim-American groups feel betrayed by Donald. With Cliff Schecter, music by The Metal Byrds, Firefall, and more!

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How are we holding up? We lost 30 Patreon subscribers and 220 Apple Podcast followers. Please support independent media! Bluesky is an excellent large scale support group. The Onion bought Alex Jones's Infowars. The ACLU's full page ad in the NYT. Donald Trump's cabinet nominees are a McDonaldland of Scooby Doo villains. Elon Musk's DOGE project. Pete Hegseth's disgusting lack of hygiene. Tom Homan looks like the guy who yells at Luke Skywalker in the Cantina. Republicans lining up to oppose Matt Gaetz. Bad news for Polymarket. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by BetamaxDC, Dreamkid, and more!

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JoJo doesn't have any effs left, so she's fighting back hard against the incoming gaggle of incompetent stupids. We talked about her approach to protecting democracy, what we can expect from the new Trump administration, John Thune's Senate leadership, and Fritos for your tomato soup. You can find her on Substack @JoJoFromJerz and all the various social media platforms including Bluesky. Meantime, make sure to support this podcast by subscribing at patreon.com/bobcescashow. Music by Prehab.

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We bid farewell to the great Buzz Burbank, who's been our Tuesday co-host since 2017. Our 31 year history together, starting with Bob's internship for Buzz at WJFK in Washington, DC. How we teamed up in the newsroom. Buzz's radio career. How we reunited around politics and the news. Supporting independent news media. What's next for social media. Cliff Schecter steps in as our Tuesday co-host starting next Tuesday, November 19. With Buzz Burbank, music by Elijah Bone, Bob Malone, Michael McDermott, and more!

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No Ultimate Edition or Shadow Docket today -- just one long, uninterrupted talk between Bob, Jody, and David about the incoming disaster. We all need to be the friend who jumps in the hole. We recap some highlights from Sexy Liberal LA. And most importantly we get our first big laughs since Election Night Nightmare. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by C.C. Grace, and more.

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Buzz and Bob react to the catastrophic election results. How do we move forward? How do we hold fast to our American values? How do we cope with the nightmare scenario? The suspicious turnout numbers. Our friends in Ukraine and in the LGBTQ community. The exit polls and the Gen Z vote. And more. With Buzz Burbank. Music by Kyiv, Ukraine's Pasha Black.

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Our Election Day podcast is in the eye of the hurricane -- or water dump. Bob's Sexy Liberal weekend in Los Angeles and his encounters with many celebrities like Mark Hamill and Robert Englund. The stakes of the election and where we go from here. Bob opens up about Joe Rogan's endorsement of Donald Trump. Donald's friends in Russia up the ante with anti-American terrorism. Hello, people of the future! With Buzz Burbank, music by The Wildwoods, Circe Link and Christian Nesmith, and more!

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This election will decide the character of the United States for the next 100 years. More horrendous fallout from red state abortion bans. Christopher Bouzy's new map. The voter enthusiasm gap. The New York Times article about the gaming of the polls by Republicans. Fortune report on the Polymarket scam. The new Harris-Walz ad narrated by Julia Roberts. MAGA trying to control women. WSJ report on the economy. Donald will protect women whether they like it or not. Donald's garbage truck stunt. Mike Johnson pledges to repeal Obamacare. The latest on the lawsuit against Elon Musk. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Divided Heaven, Hunger Anthem, and more!

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Tom Ortenberg is the founder of Briarcliff Entertainment, which is distributing the new movie about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn called "The Apprentice." It premieres this Friday November 1 wherever you rent your streaming movies – Prime, Apple, etc. As I've discussed on the show, it's not necessarily a political indictment of Donald, but it gives us a feel for how he became the monster we all know – a toxic mix of his own sociopathy, plus some Fred Trump toxicity, and a lot of Roy Cohn in there, too. Meantime, make sure to support this podcast by subscribing at patreon.com/bobcescashow. Music by Jesse Terry and Alex Wong.

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