#574 We’re all the scarecrow now (Economics)
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Act 1: Wage stagnation coverage by media big leagues – Counterspin – Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 1: Sweet Disposition – (500) Days of Summer (Music from the Motion Picture) [Bonus Track Version]
Act 2: Shoveling America’s wealth to the top – Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-3-12
Song 2: A Change Is Gonna Come – 30 Greatest Hits – Sam Cooke Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 (Remastered)
Act 3: Dr. David Graeber – Debts as a promise and the story of The Wizard of Oz – Majority Report Air Date: 12-13-11
Song 3: I’m a Believer – The Best of the Monkees
Act 4: Disastrous Obama Choice for World Bank Chief – Young Turks 1-18-12
Song 4: Africa – The Essential Toto
Act 5: Newsweek’s Neil Ferguson on Convincing the Public for Austerity Measures – Counterspin – Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 5: Why Did I Listen to That Man? – Urinetown the Musical (The Original Cast Recording)
Act 6: An ugly surprise from big oil – Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-24-12
Song 6: Gorel – Babba Maal
Act 7: ExxonMobil Swears It’s Going To Start Taxes Early This Year – The Onion
Song 7: Elevator Love Letter – Heart
Act 8: The argument for refusing to leave your home – Rachel Maddow – Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 8: Winter Song – Winter Songs
Act 9: NY Times David Brooks Defends Economic Elite – Counterspin – Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 9: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me – Have Another Ball
Act 10: Tim Wise – Demonization of Minorities – Majority Report – Air Date: 1-30-12
Song 10: Just a Ride – Finally Woken
Act 11: Getting stuck on America’s economic ladder – Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-25-12
Song 11: Big Black Nothing – Outer South
Act 12: Subtle GOP Racism – Romney not concerned about very poor – Matthew Filipowicz – Air Date: 2-2-12
Voicemails:
Asking teenagers when they chose to be straight – Tony from Southern New Jersey
Recommending the Smiley and West Podcast – Max from Davis, CA
Wishing there had been a two-way teachable moment regarding It Gets Better – Adrianne from College Station. TX
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Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on the fringe LGBT movement against equality
Article:
Not the marrying kind – Activist Ryan Conrad critiques the gay equality movement
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Re: The Ending Commentary
‘..if he wasn’t such a dick about it.’
I involuntarily started laughing at this point. That’s pretty much what I was thinking as well.