Archive for January, 2010
#329 Welcome President Brown (Special Election)
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Edition #329
Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Act 2: Balance of the Senate – It’s all politics
Act 3: You have the majority, now act like it – The Young Turks
Act 4: Caller says election was Thom’s fault – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Dems must fight back – Colbert Report
Act 6: Ed Rendell on doing something – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Brown election and the filibuster – On the Media
Act 8: Give them a reason to vote for you – The Young Turks
Act 9: Obama’s ballsy speech – Le Show
Act 10: What to do with less than 60 – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Brown win allows Jon Stewart to retire – Daily Show
Music:
Runnin down a dream – Tom Petty
And it spread – The Avett Brothers
Wake Up Little Suzie – Everly Brothers
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Happy – SIster Hazel
Finding something to do – Hellogoodbye
Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Slight figure of speech – The Avett Brothers
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#328 Corporations is people! (Supreme Court)
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Edition #328
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics – It’s All Politics
Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates – Thom Hartmann
Act 3: The story of the case for corporate spending – On the Media
Act 4: Congress, brought to you by – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 5: Ever-living vampires – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Constitutional amendment – The Progressive
Act 7: Supreme court makes buying politicians legal – The Young Turks
Act 8: Barney Frank on fighting SC decision – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Nader on corporate personhood – Thom Hartmann
Act 10: Special Comment on worst decision ever – Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Corp – Daily Show
Music:
God’s Radar – The Dixie Hummingbirds
Welcome to the machine – Pink Floyd
Tuesday’s gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Crash – The Primitives
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) – Pilote
Recorded live in Copenhagen – Theo Bard
Maple Leaf Rag – Scott Joplin
Drown – Smashing Pumpkins
Taking over me – Evanescence
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#327 Stealth Care is Mass Backwards (Healthcare)
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Edition #327
Act 1: Stelth care reform – Daily Show
Act 2: Fixing the wrong healthcare problems – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform Part 1 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 4: Limbaugh on healthcare costs – Young Turks
Act 5: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform Part 2 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 6: Michael Pollen interview – Daily Show
Act 7: Alan Grayson on health reform – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Health lobbyists rule the system – Young Turks
Act 9: Mass Backwards – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Kathleen Sebelius – Colbert Report
Music:
This too shall pass – OKGO
Mushaboom – Feist
I’m Not over – Carolina Liar
I go blind – Hootie And The Blowfish
You can do it – No Doubt
All U can eat – Ben Folds
Sinnerman – Nina Simone
Pale Blue Eyes – The Velvet Underground
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Morning in America (Special Event)
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Act 1: 2004 DNC Keynote Speech (Clip 1) (Clip 2)
Act 2: Announcing his candidacy
Act 3: Remake this country (Link)
Act 4: Signs of Hope & Change (Link)
Act 5: Yes We Can – Will.i.am (Link)
Act 6: ‘A more perfect Union’ speech on race in America (Link)
Act 7: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for – Will.i.am (Link)
Act 8: The American Promise (Link)
Act 9: Obama in Berlin
Act 10: 2008 DNC Acceptance speech (LInk)
Act 11: We have a lot of work to do (LInk)
Act 12: DC reactions to the victory (LInk)
Act 13: Interview with Jesse Jackson – NPR (Link)
Act 14: It’s a new day! – Will.i.am (Link)
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#326 Underpants Bomb Fallout, choose your own pun (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #326
Act 1: Yemen Sad Libs – Daily Show
Act 2: Kill first harshly interrogate later – Countdown
Act 3: Bush terror policies wrongly glorified – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: Missteps in the early days reporting on Yemen – On the Media
Act 5: Rove blames NCTC then backpedals – Young Turks
Act 6: Idiot lies about Obama’s response – Countdown
Act 7: Outright lies politicizing terrorism – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Idiots with big balls – Daily Show
Act 9: Rudy says something unspeakably ignorant – Le Show
Act 10: Nonsense GOP response cause for despair – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Ideal or no deal – Colbert Report
Music:
Back in the high life again – Steve Winwood
Send in the clowns – The Simpsons
Whatcha say – Jason Derulo
Let go – Frou Frou
Sorry, blame it on me – Akon
American idiot – Green Day
Ridiculous Thoughts – The Cranberries
Big balls – AC/DC
Diamond – Klint
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#325 Where religion and ignorance meet (Religion)
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Edition #325
Act 1: Conservapedia working on conservative bible – Colbert Report
Act 2: Hume on Woods and religion – Counterspin
Act 3: Interview on conservative bible – Colbert Report
Act 4: Exporting homophobia to Uganda – The Progressive
Act 5: Uganda be kidding me Part 2 – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Christmas billboard stirs seasonally inappropriate emotions – The Onion
Act 7: Kill the gays law hits major news in US – Thom Hartmann
Act 8: Prayer effort seeks right-thinking from liberals – NPR
Act 9: Killing people to make magic potions Part 1 – Young Turks
Act 10: Christ returns to NBA – The Onion
Act 11: Killing people to make magic potions Part 2 – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Uganda be kidding me Part 1
Music:
Blacking Out The Friction – Death Cab For Cutie
Redemption song – Bob Marley
God – The Dodos
Hate me – Blue October
Directions – Josh Rouse
Carol of the bells – United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus
Gods gonna cut you down – Johnny Cash
Like a prayer – Rufio
You’re wrong – NOFX
Jammin – Bob Marley
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#324 When you want to cry, laugh (Economics)
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Edition #324
Act 1: Flight Delay – Daily Show
Act 2: Predicting economies Part 1 – This American Life
Act 3: Smiley-face dollar to boost economy – The Onion
Act 4: Predicting economies Part 2 – This American Life
Act 5: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big to Fail – Daily Show
Act 6: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 1 – Colbert Report
Act 7: Norway returns to a pillage-based economy – The Onion
Act 8: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 2 – Colbert Report
Act 9: NY Times exposes terrible big bank scam – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
American Idle – Daily Show
Music:
Don’t you – Simple Minds
Once around the block – Badly Drawn Boy
Crazy – Seal
Making me nervous – Brad Sucks
Island in the sun – Weezer
Catch my disease – Ben Lee
La Noy̩e РYann Tiersen
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt and Kim
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This American Life
The Onion
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
The Young Turks
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#323 Obama moves Hopelessly forward in Afghanistan (Podcast)
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Edition #323
Act 1: Rushing a decision on Afghanistan – Counterspin
Act 2: Obama mimics Bush on Afghanistan – The Progressive
Act 3: Bunker-buster averts doomed marriage – The Onion
Act 4: Report released on Afghanistan – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Dan Rather on Afghanistan – Daily Show
Act 6: Jim Hightower discusses Obama’s war Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Why aren’t there bigger protests – The Progressive
Act 8: Jim Hightower discusses Obama’s war Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: Moore and Feingold speak against escalation – Young Turks
Act 10: Lara Logan on Afghanistan – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Cenk debates war escalation – Countdown
Music:
Trouble me – 10,000 Maniacs
Choke – The Cardigans
Celebration Guns – Stars
Million faces – Paolo Nutini
Oh Lately It’s So Quiet – OK GO
Everybody’s gone to war – Nerina Pallot
Up against the wall – Peter Bjorn & John
Meteor Show – Owl City
Ain’t no reason – Brett Dennen
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#322 Reason to celebrate? (Podcast)
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Edition #322
Act 1: Episode recap from The DC – Daily Show
Act 2: Lincoln conservative on healthcare – Counterspin
Act 3: GOP weakens health bill and then bash it – Young Turks
Act 4: Is GOP serious about fixing healthcare – Slate
Act 5: Open letter on free health clinics – Countdown
Act 6: Obama defends health bill from the left – NPR
Act 7: For he’s a jowly good fellow – Colbert Report
Act 8: Media misleads on opinions of health reform – Counterspin
Act 9: Devastating healthcare quotes from Obama – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Idiot Democrats Think It’s Good News Their Voters are Pissed at Them – The Young Turks
Music:
Hero – Enrique Iglesias
I need to know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Why pretend – Mandi Perkins
Objection – Shakira
Fake Empire – The National
Serre-moi РTry̦
Haunting me – Oona Garthwaite
Everybody’s fool – Evanescence
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