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Friday Nite Videos -- November 1, 2013

Following the Ninth (Beethoven!). Tough Questions About Black Lung and Money. LeBron Asks: What Muscles Do We Use When Shooting a Basket? George Carlin on Religion and God. Least Gay Marriage Friendly State: Alabama or Mississippi? Guy Davis -- Goin' Down Slow.

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Following the Ninth (Beethoven!)
Trailer for the film Following The Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony http://followingtheninth.com, tracking the global impact of the 9th, from China to Chile, from Japan to Vienna.

For Top-Ranked Hospital, Tough Questions About Black Lung and Money
Coal companies have paid millions of dollars to Johns Hopkins medical institutions over the last decade for medical opinions that have been used to deny hundreds of ailing mine workers meager black lung benefits

 

LeBron Asks: What Muscles Do We Use When Shooting a Basket?
If you shoot a basket ball with your arms and hands, what do your legs have to do with it?

George Carlin on Religion and God
George Carlin brings comic heat to the belief in the Invisible Man and the -- ahem -- inconsistencies in the story. 

Last Gay Standing

Al Madrigal travels to Alabama and Mississippi to see which one of these backwoods, inbred, homophobic states will swim longest against the tide of history.

Guy Davis -- Goin' Down Slow
The roots of bluesman Guy Davis' music are the rhythms and themes of the South. One person's favorite: his album Call Down the Thunder. 

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