People (Real)
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Mentions of real people, living and dead.
Central theme
- Absolutely Bill's Mood - Bill Krauss, the original "Third Giant"
- Announcement A - Donovan Leitch
- Au Contraire - David Bowie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jodie Foster, J. S. Bach, Mahatma Gandhi
- Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)
- Born To Run And Fail - Al Gore (and Joe Lieberman), John McCain (and Sarah Palin), Michael Dukakis, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson
- Brooklyn - Marty Markowitz
- Budnitz #1 - Judy Budnitz
- Dashiki Lover - A whole bunch of interesting people
- The Darlings Of Lumberland
- The Day - Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs
- Demarais Parker
- Don't Worry Kyoko - Yoko Ono's daughter
- The Edison Museum
- Fat Danny Aykroyd
- Flansy Stays In The Picture - A. J. Schnack
- Irving Plaza - Washington Irving
- James K. Polk
- John Lee Supertaster
- Kendra McCormick
- Koenigstein - Walter Koenigstein
- Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby
- Lincoln, Washington, And That Jefferson Guy
- Lord Snowdon
- Marty Beller Mask - Marty Beller, Whitney Houston
- Meet James Ensor
- The Mesopotamians - Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, Gilgamesh
- Mona Lisa
- Mr. Hughes Says - Based on a line from Motto by Langston Hughes - monopuff.org
- Oprah
- People Died Today
- Robert Lowell
- Rosa Parks, C'est Moi
- Scott Bower
- She Thinks She's Edith Head - Edith Head (imdb.com) - won 8 Oscars (34 nominations) for costume design. Helen Gurley Brown - author (Sex and the Single Girl) long time editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and cut one of the worst spoken word albums ever.
- Somebody Stole My Hairstyle - Trent Lott and Pierre Salinger
- Tesla - Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain
- Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6 - Thank Yous - pretty much everyone listed
- Tippecanoe And Tyler Too
- Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous
- Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead At 75
- Town To Town - Tom Vu
- Vestibule - Pennsylvania's Senator Arlen Specter
- Walt Whitman
- What Bothers The Spaceman? - Bill "Spaceman" Lee was an eccentric pitcher for the Red Sox and Expos during the '70s and early '80's. Dock Ellis pitched for a variety of teams during the late '60's and '70s. Probably most famous for claiming he pitched his 1970 no-hitter for the Pirates on LSD.
- Why Must I Be Sad? - Alice Cooper
- Wicked Little Critta - Bobby Orr and John Havlicek were Hall of Fame players for the Boston Bruins and Celtics respectively in the late '60's and '70's.
- XTC Vs. Adam Ant
Briefly mentioned
- 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye - Tim Conway
- '85 Radio Special Thank You - Tina Turner
- Ask Me Another - Ophira Eisenberg, Jonathan Coulton, Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich
- Celebration - Banksy, Hieronymus Bosch
- Cells - Dwight David Eisenhower
- Critic Intro - Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle
- Cut The Strings - Isaac Newton
- Damn Good Times - David Lee Roth
- Dan Vs. Cog - Rodney Brooks, Robert Krulwich
- Darling, The Dose - Yushchenko, Rasputin, Socrates
- Definition Of Good - Captain Beefheart
- Disappointing Show - Joseph Stalin
- Dunkin Of Course Of Course - Judge Judy, Dr. Ruth
- Exploding Invitation - Jackie Collins
- Goatee - Richard Thompson, Howie Mandel
- Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - Peter Tork
- Hell Hotel - Sebastian Cabot
- Hidden Track - "My name is Pat Dillett and I am a record producer."
- Hide Away Folk Family - Leslie-Anne Down
- It Was A Very Good Year - Margaret Thatcher and Joey Heatherton
- King Weed - David Jablonski, Robert Krulwich, Ted Koppel
- Kiss Me, Son Of God - Jesus
- Lazy - Charles Dickens, Omar Khayyam, John D. Rockefeller
- Marshie - Milton Berle
- McCafferty's Bib - Bob Hope
- Money For Dope - Edna Ferber, Julian Cope
- "Monongahela" - Johnny Banana, the alcoholic, gun-toting owner of The Electric Banana
- My Evil Twin - Nostradamus
- New York City - Bob Dylan
- No One Knows My Plan - Plato is "the Greek guy" who "made the allegory of the people in the cave"
- Rest Awhile - Ruy López
- Seven In The Morning - John Richards
- She's Actual Size (New Live Version) - Stevie Wonder
- and various drummers:
- Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown Band)
- Gene Krupa
- Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- "that angry guy from Grand Funk Railroad": likely referring to Don Brewer
- Buddy Rich
- and various drummers:
- Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - Lou Ferrigno, Patti Hearst, Charles Manson, Ronald Reagan
- The Communists Have The Music - Ayn Rand, Friedrich Engels
- The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - John Glenn
- They Got Lost - Julie Kramer (Boston radio host)
- They Might Be Giants (Song) - Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Thinking Machine - Ansel Adams
- This Is Only Going To Go One Way - Geronimo
- Through Being Cool - [Pablo] Picasso
- Trucker's Coffee - Ken Kesey
- Violin - George Washington
- Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Kurtis Blow
- The World's Address - Albert Einstein, Copernicus
- Yellow Submarine - Kurt Hoffman
- You Don't Like Me - "Shadow puppets, Woody Harrelson, reading in the bath"
- Your Own Worst Enemy - Sonny Geraci
