Our favorite things for the week.

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On last week’s show, we aired Brooke's interview with Michael Apted and Tony Walker, director and star of the “Up Series.” Brooke had no shortage of questions for Michael and Tony: even though the edited interview ran a whopping 17 minutes, many interesting tidbits of conversation ended up on the cutting room floor. We've salvaged some of those outtakes, and present them here for your enjoyment.

These are a few of our favorite things. And we're not talking raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens.

A few of our favorite things this week.

When we were looking over our archives for segments to include in this week's special hour on privacy, there were way more segments we wanted to air than time allotted. So I thought I'd throw this interview  with Ryan Singel from 2010 up on the blog.

A few of our favorite things.

Some people believe the world will end tomorrow. After talking with a NASA scientist who has investigated doomsday claims, we beg to differ. 

Happy Holidays, people.

How a rush to judgement and mistaken identity has played a significant role in the reporting of the Connecticut shooting.

A few of our favorite things.

A few of our favorite things this week. It's like opening up a few doors of an advent calendar all at once.

In this weird muddle between Thanksgiving and New Year's, we give you a few of our favorite things.

We can't give you turkeys. Or at least sending each of our listeners a turkey would be logistically daunting and prohibitively expensive. We can give you staff picks, however -- and here they are.

Last week, Bob spoke to Craig Brittain, the founder of a website called "Is Anybody Down?". The site posts nude photos of people and includes personally identifying information about them - things like their full names, Facebook pages, sometimes even their addresses and phone numbers. (interview with Brittain starts @6:00.)

Bob's interview with Brittain sparked a lot of listener reaction - both positive and critical. 

A lot of times, media stories we find funny, touching, or just plain interesting don't make it onto the show. Instead, they end up on our twitter feed. We're collecting some of our favorite stories every sunday in a blog post we call "Our Week in Tweets." To read the stories, just click on the links that appear within the tweets. Feel free to comment below, and follow us on Twitter to see all the stories we've been talking about!

Note: The Liam Neeson staff pick isn't about one of the 'Taken' movies. Also, why wasn't 'Taken 2,' called 'Took'? 'Die Hard' did it with 'Die Harder.'

A lot of times, media stories we find funny, touching, or just plain interesting don't make it onto the show. Instead, they end up on our twitter feed. We're collecting some of our favorite stories every sunday in a blog post we call "Our Week in Tweets." To read the stories, just click on the links that appear within the tweets. Feel free to comment below, and follow us on Twitter to see all the stories we've been talking about!

UPDATE: Gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna has conceded Washington's governor's race.

Last week, Bob spoke to Eli Sanders of The Stranger about the Seattle Times advertising on behalf of political campaigns.

This week, we received a letter from a Seattle Times subscriber and OTM listener named Diane Civic, which read:

I called today to cancel my [subscription] because of this ad and was told that a lot of people were calling and I could instead put my subscription on a "protest hold" which would send a message to the Ad Dept and editorial board about the impact of the ad. The Customer Service Dept did not appear to be happy about the decision. Might be interesting to investigate how many "protest holds" there were and the response of the editorial board.