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#502 Making the connection (Climate)
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Act 1: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit – The Onion
Song 1: Actual coal propaganda song – Crazy, right?
Act 2: A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes. Never. – Bill McKibben OpEd
Song 2: Arclight – Empires
Act 3: Great Lakes May Beat Atlantic To Offshore Wind – NPR
Song 3: Winter Winds – Sigh No More
Act 4: Gore Slams Obama On Climate Change – Young Turks
Song 4: A Few Honest Words – Learning to Bend
Act 5: Canadian Oilverlords – Daily Show
Song 5: I Can See Clearly Now – We All Are One: The Best of Jimmy Cliff
Act 6: Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant on Verge of Shutdown, Media Ignores- David Pakman- Air Date: 06-21-11
Song 6: Wonderwall – The String Quartet Tribute to Oasis – Decadence & Vanity
Act 7: Memo to Conservatives: Solar Physicists are NOT Climate Scientists – Media Matters
Act 8: Yacht Maker Now Navigating Wind Power Industry – NPR
Song 8: Blowin’ In the Wind – The Essential Bob Dylan
Act 9: Oil Anthem – Mark Fiore
Song 9: American Music – Permanent Record: The Very Best of the Violent Femmes
Act 10: RFK Jr – The Last Mountain – Thom Hartmann Air Date: 06-03-11
Song 10: For Greener Pastures – Glen Simpson
Act 11: Now We Have To Wage War On Grolar Bears – Lee Camp
Song 11:Polar Bear – Make Some Noise
Act 12: A turning point we can’t afford to ignore – Johann Hari
Voicemails:
Critique of media bias discussion – TC from State College, PA
Reaction to Lee Camp vs Limbaugh – Patrick from Dallas
Completely wrong interpretation of the Limbaugh Vs Lee Camp comparison – Cliff from the University of Maine
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter – Deadringer
Final comments correcting Cliff from U of M and pre-announcing an announcement about the website
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President Bachmann Will Allow You to Buy Any Light Bulb You Want – Daily Show
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#492 Dumb as the fossils we burn (Energy and climate)
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Act 1: Rocks – Mark Fiore
Song 1: Welcome Home (Sanitarium) [Instrumental Version] – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 2: Fracking linked to well contamination – Green News Report
Act 3: Watch It, Gas Hole – Thom Hartmann
Song 3: Home – Up From Below (Deluxe Edition)
Act 4: Nuclear and the climate – Le Show
Song 4: As Long As the Grass Grows – Round Dance the Night Away
Act 5: Island’s Recovery May Set Example For Gulf Residents – NPR
Song 5: Dudeman – Viktor Krauss II
Act 6: Exxon Paleontologists Call For Increased U.S. Fossil Production – The Onion
Song 6: La Paix – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 7: 2011 sets weird weather record – Green News Report
Song 7: Knock Yourself Out – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 8: Mark Moffett – Colbert Report
Song 8: Mexico – James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Act 9: Safe, clean, too cheap to meter – Le Show
Song 9: Go Sadness – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Act 10: More weird weather, new records set – Green News Report
Voicemails:
Thoughts on the future of climate change – Dominic from Castle Rock, Colorado
Responding on federal funding of Planned Parenthood – Patrick from Dallas
Details on government reimbursments for non-profits – Shane from Cleveland, OH
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Mix) – One Offs… Remixes & B Sides
Ghostwriter – Deadringer
Final comments on Stitcher.com and DonateYourAccount.com
Bonus Voicemail:
Deeper understanding reaction to Bin Laden – Andrew from NY
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How green is my country? – Need to Know
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#490 A 1-year oil spill retrospective (Oil Spill)
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Act 1: Coffee safety at BP – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: The Ocean – The Sun and the Moon
Act 2: Oil spill and GOP fundraising – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: The Funeral – Everything All the Time
Act 3: The oil is missing – Colbert Report
Song 3: If I Had a Hammer – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 4: The strife aquatic – Daily Show
Song 4: Someone Keeps Moving My Chair – Flood
Act 5: Gov. covers up BP oil spill worst case scenario – Young Turks
Song 5: Dreaming of You – The Coral
Act 6: RFK Jr. discusses similarities between Exxon and BP oil spills – Ring of Fire
Song 6: The Killing Moon – Ocean Rain
Act 7: All’s well that ends well – Michael Blum – Colbert Report
Song 7: Beautiful Life – Ace of Base: Greatest Hits
Act 8: Repeal of drilling moratorium – Countdown
Song 8: Here It Goes Again – Oh No
Act 9: The upshot for BP – Le Show
Song 9: Shake It – Metro Station
Act 10: The Gulf of Mexico one year later – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: The Dead Heart – Diesel and Dust (2007 Remastered)
Act 11: BP oil spill anniversary – Obama’s failure – Young Turks
Voicemails:
Call for amazement – Chris the carpenter from Cap Cod, Mass
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments introducing Louis C.K. clip
Post-show clip:
Everything is amazing and nobody’s happy – Louis C.K. on Conan O’Brien
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The Killing Fields – Vietnamese Fisherman – Daily Show
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#450 When the cluelesss are in control (Climate Change)
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Act 1: Noise pollution – Colbert Report
Song 1: Peace and quiet – The Rifles
Act 2: Obama’s green investment – Ring of Fire
Song 2: Grown Ups – Suspened Animation
Act 3: EPA revokes a permit for MTR coal mine – Jim Hightower
Song 3: Rivers and Roads – The Head and the Heart
Act 4: Labor Dept. asks court to close coal mine – NPR
Song 4: The fiddler’s ballad – Jen Osha w/Wolf Creek Session
Act 5: Obama weakness spreads to one bright spot in EPA – Young Turks
Song 5: Not Ready to Make Nice – Taking the Long Way
Act 6: 2010 the hottest year on record – Green News Report from BradBlog.com
Song 6: Hot Hot Hot!!! – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Act 7: Republicans deny climate change – The New Yorker
Song 7: Idiots have taken over – NOFX
Act 8: The commons of the climate – Thom Hartmann
Song 8: These Days – Chelsea Girl
Act 9: The dilemma of peak oil – Radio Ecoshock
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Save the Planet or Die Trying – Thom Hartmann
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