In the tradition of Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder, Garrett the Butcher, Marcus the Baker, and Ken the Candlestick-maker gathered last Saturday night to discuss the upcoming US election, the McCain campaign and the caliginosity thereof, Taiwan, Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, chess boxing, Russell Crowe, prime numbers, Abraham Zapruder, Tectonic Plate Theory, and much, much more, and this podcast is the audio version (by transcription) of that meeting about Joseph Heller.

The 24 words Britain’s Collins English Dictionary has threatened to exuviate are:

Abstergent
Agrestic
Apodeictic
Caducity
Caliginosity
Compossible
Embrangle
Exuviate
Fubsy
Griseous
Malison
Mansuetude
Muliebrity
Niddering
Nitid
Olid
Oppugnant
Periapt
Recrement
Roborant
Skirr
Vaticination
Vilipend

As readers will notice, we have not only declined to define any of those words, but used some in the podcast and have listed only 23. We think you know what the 24th word is. We also have no idea what any of these words mean, but we’ll make something up if you ask us.

The video from the introduction of this podcast:

The West Tokyo Working-Men’s Literary Club is an idea that actually predates TPR, but took a while to come to fruition. The WTWMLC is an awkward acronym and meets irregularly on the West side of Metro Tokyo. Meetings are open to any and all attendees, and are recorded to be released in podcast form. If you would like to attend a meeting, please simply email us at transpacificradio@gmail.com.

Other videos sampled in this podcast are after the cut:

Joe the Plumber on Mike Huckabee’s show:

Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigning for McCain:

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