In this week's show Derek hates Captain Planet but loves Hugh Jackman, John hates Annie (the musical) but loves Hugh Jackman. Both of them pile the hate on Paleo diets, all the while discussing Charlie Hebdo, extremism, the US drone program, the almost-all-white cast of the latest Academy Awards nominations list, and North Korea and The Interview.

Show Notes

Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a AGM-114 Hellfire Air-to-Surface missile (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire).
There is no longer a team called the Melbourne Heart, they're now called Melbourne City FC (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_City_FC).
The latest statistics peg youth unemployment in the Eurozone at around 25%, but the AP reports that minority youth have a much harder time (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/europes-minority-youth-face-steeper-job-hurdles).
The Guardian reports that as of November 24th 2014, the US has targeted 41 individuals but have killed 1147 people (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147).
We were both right -- Japan is both 3rd (as counted by the UN) and 4th (as counted by everyone else) on the list of countries with the highest nominal GDP (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)).
It takes 1.1 gallons (4.2 litres) of water to produce one almond. (http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/07/your-almond-habit-sucking-califoirnia-dry) ONE ALMOND.
Yes, quinoa is native to Peru, as well as Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia; but no, it's probably not as bad as we made it out to be. Things are never that simple (http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/01/quinoa-good-evil-or-just-really-complicated).
Oh boy. "...in fact the entire premise of the Paleo diet—is, at best, only half correct." (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-half-baked-how-hunter-gatherer-really-eat/) Don't tell Pete "Activated Almonds (http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/mkr-hosts-nutty-snacks-activate-twitter-torrent-20121105-28t4k.html)" Evans.
Jennifer Hudson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1617685/) is the actress in Dreamgirls (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443489/?ref_=nm_knf_i1), Alejandro González Iñárritu (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1) is the director of Birdman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/?ref_=nv_sr_1), and MTV tells us why the snubbing of women and people of colour goes beyond just lack of recognition (http://www.mtv.com/news/2050617/2015-oscar-nominations-selma-snubbed/).
We hear the Rason Special Economic Zone (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rason_Special_Economic_Zone) is beautiful this time of year.

Bonus
Fantastic profile in GQ of the pilots and technicians who fly the drones (http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-pilot-assassination?printable=true).
Radiolab did a great story on how the US makes up to the families of the people they kill by accident (http://www.radiolab.org/story/our-condolences/).
Luc Besson wrote an open letter to the youth of France (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/luc-besson-writes-open-letter-to-young-muslims-after-charlie-hebdo-killings).
Do you buy almond milk? Well, don't (http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/07/lay-off-almond-milk-ignorant-hipsters). (Seriously, how easy is it just to make your own (http://www.buzzfeed.com/food52/how-to-make-diy-almond-milk)?)

Update
Two more pieces on the worldwide popularity of quinoa and that impact on consumption in the populations that grow it from Time (http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2110890,00.html) and the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/world/americas/20bolivia.html?_r=1&) (Thanks Lorna (http://middlepodcast.net/more-on-quinoa/)!)