ZeFrank’s The Show takes on Rocketboom, the Rocketboom Boy responds, and Ze responds further.

Ricky Gervais has put an end to his podcasts, claiming that he “wants to knock it on the head for a while before everybody hates us.” The good news is that the podcasts made so much money that Karl Pilkington may never have to work again.

Big news from those cute and cuddly sophists over at Slate! After “a late-summer hiatus” trying to figure out if black writers should be talked about or ignored, the garrulous gang has nailed down the decidedly Caucasian Michael Pollan as their author of the month. Will Katie Roiphe try tapping some hazy memory of a Pollan book she may have read in college under the pressure of politically correct profs? Will Stephen Metcalf hijack the conversation with a turgid aside about how Pollan has earned too many accolades? Find out “in mid-October,” when the audio segment is ready. Let us hope that some brave soul will be able to make it past the thirteen minute mark.