Archive for September, 2009
#301 Compromise catastrophe soaked in corporate cash (Podcast)
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Edition #301
Act 1: Baucus stands alone – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: Does the GOP care more about property than people? – The Young Turks
Act 3: The terrible result of the Baucus compromise – Counterspin
Act 4: Bill Clinton on healthcare reform – Daily Show
Act 5: Health insurance whistle-blower – Bill Maher
Act 6: Rick Sanchez investigates corruption in healthcare debate – CNN
Act 7: Candidate Obama on healthcare negotiations – The Young Turks
Act 8: Better know a lobby: Healthcare for America NOW – Colbert Report
Act 9: GOP fear leads to victim-blame – Ring of Fire
Act 10: Sen. Conrad outlines how weak he is – The Young Turks
Music:
Anthem, Pt 1 – Blink-182
Passing storm – Ottmar Liebert
Good – Better Than Ezra
I gotta feeling – Black Eyed Peas
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out – Cat Stevens
Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) – Pet Shop Boys
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing – Jack Johnson
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
We’re simple minds – Club 8
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#300 Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops (Podcast)
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Edition #300
Act 1: Laying off the robots – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: The Lehman shock – Slate.com
Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool – The Onion
Act 4: Consensus On Fixing Financial System Erodes – NPR
Act 5: Krugman on the ‘return of depression economics – Colbert Report
Act 6: Hannity misleads on unemployment numbers – Counterspin
Act 7: Discussing Lehman Bros and the economic politics – New Yorker
Act 8: 1-year anniversary of Lehman Bros collapse – Daily Show
Act 9: Deficits as the bogeyman – Counterspin
Act 10: Area coach calls star athlete ‘too big to fail’ – The Onion
Act 11: Bush vs. Clinton Do tax cuts work? – The Young Turks
Act 12: Good news / bad news America’s recession – Daily Show
Music:
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 [Main Title] – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Never recover – The Cardigans
Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Philip Glass
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
Bury my with my car – Ben Sollee
Little Lies – Fleetwood Mac
Save me – Aimee Mann
Torn Blue Foam Couch – Grand archives
Trouble me – 10,000 maniacs
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – Of Montreal
Keepsake – State Radio
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#299 Tom Ridge’s ‘I-didn’t-really-mean-it’ tour (Podcast)
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Act 1: Torture reports show Dick Cheney was wrong – The Young Turks
Act 2: UK mad at Cheney for preempting their police work – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Debate on procecuting torture – The Young Turks
Act 4: Changing up the terror alert system – Le Show
Act 5: Tom Ridge would make same decision about Iraq – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: John Deanon Tom Ridge’s book and interview – Countdown
Act 7: Tom Ridge’s ‘I-really-didn’t-mean-it’ tour – Le Show
Act 8: Reflection on the Tom Ridge interview – Rachel Maddow
Music:
God? – The Dodos
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – The Smiths
Hi – Psapp
Warning sign – Coldplay
Thank you – Dido
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
Take a chance – The Magic Numbers
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#298 In the wake of Obama’s healthcare speech (Podcast)
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Act 1: Details still to be ironed out – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Pastor Incites gun-toting Obama protesters – The Young Turks
Act 4: Checking some healthcare facts – Counterspin
Act 5: Why there’s no point in reading bills – On the Media
Act 6: More fact-free arguments against healthcare – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Breaking down Obama’s speech and the reaction to it – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Healthcare lies believed shows poll – The Young Turks
Act 9: Fixing healthcare by altering patient behavior – NPR
Act 10: Having to explain how a healthcare system works – Counterspin
Act 11: Talking about the lack of respect for the office of the President – It’s all politics
Music:
Hands down – Dashboard Confessional
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Am I wrong? – Love Spit Love
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight – The Postal Service
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Shout – Tears for fears
Make your own kind of music – Cass Elliot
We can work it out – Heather Nova
End it on this – No Doubt
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