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#386 Thank you BP (Oil Spill)
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Edition #386
Act 1: Endless bummers – Daily Show
Song 1: My Name Is Jonas – Weezer
Act 2: Shep Smith slams Fox News defending BP – Young Turks
Song 2: Real World – Exile On Mainstream
Act 3: ThreatDown – Dawn – Colbert Report
Song 3: Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix) – U.F.Off: The Best of the Orb
Act 4: BP CEO acts like Star Trek character – Young Turks
Song 4: House of the Rising Sun – Retrospective
Act 5: BP’s PR campaign – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Sinnerman – The Thomas Crown Affair (Music from the MGM Motion Picture)
Act 6: BP’s criminal negligence – The Progressive
Song 6: Politic Amagni ” La politique, c’est pas bon ” – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 7: Carl Safina on oil regulation – Colbert Report
Song 7: Soft Serve – Irresistible Bliss
Act 8: Extreme energy – Slate.com
Song 8: I Go to Extremes – The Essential Billy Joel
Act 9: Josh Fox talks about toxic materials – Daily Show
Song 9: Classical Gas – Classical Gas
Act 10: Entire oil rig searches for pizza cutter – The Onion
Song 10: Cuts Like a Knife – An Acoustic Tribute to Bryan Adams
Act 11: Oil invested judge OKs offshore drilling – Young Turks
Song 11: Stop the Madness – Versatile Roots
Act 12: Lube Job – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obamas BP Oil Spill Speech – Colbert Report
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#383 A celebration of science (Climate Change)
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Edition #383
Act 1: NUMMI is reborn for electric cars – NPR
Song 1: Electric Car – Here Comes Science
Act 2: News of the warm 1 – Le Show
Song 2: Warning Sign – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Act 3: Bill McKibben Interview Part 1 – The Progressive
Song 3: Fake Empire – Boxer
Act 4: Climate change vs. Biblical Armageddon – The Onion
Song 4: The End’s Not Near – The O.C. Mix 6 – Covering Our Tracks
Act 5: Bill McKibben Interview Part 2 – The Progressive
Song 5: Big Black Nothing – Outer South
Act 6: How to draw attention to climate rallies – Counterspin
Song 6: Starsign – Welcome to Earth
Act 7: Bill McKibben Interview Part 3 – The Progressive
Song 7: Drive – EP – R.E.M.
Act 8: Denying science – Ring of Fire
Song 8: Science Is Real – Here Comes Science
Act 9: News of the warm 2 – Le Show
Song 9: Polar Bear – Make Some Noise
Act 10: What the fuck is wrong with you people – Bill Maher
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Quest For Arctic Riches – Colbert Report
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#382 Obama and GOP speak on oil spill (Oil Spill)
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Edition #382
Act 1: Day 58, Obama’s speech – Daily Show
Song 1: Friend of the Devil – Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows
Act 2: President’s weekly address – Le Show
Song 2: Angry – Mad Season
Act 3: LA Senator wants more oil drilling – Young Turks
Song 3: Mushaboom – Let It Die
Act 4: More moronic GOP reactions – Daily Show
Song 4: The Wind – The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Act 5: Leaving for a yacht race – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 5: Skinny Love – For Emma, Forever Ago
Act 6: Oil execs know nothing about spills – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Aegean Wave – Pianissimo
Act 7: Oil regulation corruption – Le Show
Song 7: Failure By Design – Your Favorite Weapon
Act 8: Of oil, energy and filibusters – Bill Maher
Song 8: Never Before – Never Before
Act 9: Oil spill not an environmental disaster – Young Turks
Song 9: When It All Goes Wrong Again – The Best of Everclear
Act 10: International oil market – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Tip/Wag at Marshall Islands – Colbert Report
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#380 Oil Apologies (Oil Spill)
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Edition #380
Act 1: Trust me – Mark Fiore
Song 1: Stuck With You – Greatest Hits: Huey Lewis & The News
Act 2: We care about the small people – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 2: Always Mean It – Emilyn Brodsky’s Greatest T**s
Act 3: Oil apologies – Le Show
Song 3: Small People – Harry Shearer
Act 4: Oil companies lie about spill severity – On the Media
Song 4: Chicago – Ladders
Act 5: BP and the oil spill – The NOW show
Song 5: The Unforgiven (Instrumental Version) – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 6: Defending BP – Media Matters
Act 7: Jobs lost in murderous, hateful industries – Bill Maher
Song 7: Working Class Hero – Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
Act 8: BP stock sinks – Colbert Report
Song 8: All In – Paper Empire (Bonus Track Version)
Act 9: Chairman Barton – It’s all politics
Song 9: Sorry, Blame It On Me – Sorry, Blame It On Me – Single
Act 10: GOP glass jaw – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Alright Alright (Here’s My Fist Where’s the Fight) – Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 11: An energy-independent future – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Put the Cursed Monkey Paw Down – Colbert Report
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#377 Yet another oil spill show (Oil Spill)
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Edition #377
Act 1: Crude and Unusual – Colbert Report
Song 1: White Flag – Life for Rent
Act 2: BP RIP – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Addicted to Oil – Songs Pointed and Pointless
Act 3: The gall of BP’s Tony Hayward – The Progressive
Song 3: Back In the High Life Again – Back In the High Life
Act 4: Hayward’s apology from BP – Le Show
Song 4: Hard to Say I’m Sorry – The Best of Chicago (40th Anniversary Edition) [Remastered]
Act 5: GOP wants you to pay for the spill – Young Turks
Song 5: Rude Awakening – The Awakening
Act 6: Strike it mucky – The Bugle
Song 6: Not Sorry – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (The Complete Sessions 1991-1993)
Act 7: Philippe Cousteau interview – Bill Maher
Song 7: Liquid Sun – The Beginning (A New Hope) (club mix) – DJ Keoki
Act 8: Dead, dying and headless carcases – Countdown
Song 8: Black Water – The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers (Remastered)
Act 9: The Petro science dude – Le Show
Song 9: I Am a Paleontologist – Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
Act 10: Comparing ACORN with BP – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
America’s Strained Relationship With England – Colbert Report
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#376 Yeah, still going on (Oil Spill)
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Edition #376
Act 1: More of Obama’s non-anger – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Don’t Look Back In Anger – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
Act 2: Proven unsafe – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Mystify – The Best of INXS
Act 3: Speaking of BP – Le Show
Song 3: Too Late Too Slow – Work
Act 4: BP ad campaign – Daily Show
Song 4: Dream On (Live) – A Little South of Sanity (Live)
Act 5: Oil spill prayer chain – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Like a Prayer – Like a Prayer
Act 6: James Carville oil spill rage – Colbert Report
Song 6: Love Like a Bomb – Don’t Believe the Truth
Act 7: Rachel’s Presidential address – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: World Spins Madly On – Say I Am You
Act 8: Tar Beachopolous – Le Show
Song 8: Kernkraft 400 (Original Version) – Kernkraft 400 – EP
Act 9: Oil spill retrospective – Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The spilling fields – To Shell and Back – Daily Show
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#374 We’re all covered in oil (Oil Volcano)
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Edition #374
Act 1: The Spilling Fields – Daily Show
Song 1: Sweet Georgia Brown – Brother Bones and His Shadows
Act 2: Oil and energy policy – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Talk – Coldplay
Act 3: Obama’s non-anger – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 3: Talking to myself – Pummel
Act 4: Booming rant – Le Show
Song 4: Boom – Le Show
Act 5: Profits drive corner-cutting – Counterspin
Song 5: This year – The Mountain Goats
Act 6: Interview with Republican on oil – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours – The Smiths
Act 7: BP should go under – The Progressive
Song 7: Shady River – The Chapin Sisters
Act 8: Talking about oil – Bill Maher
Song 8: Electric Version – The New Pornographers
Act 9: BP’s media blockade – On the Media
Song 9: Clubbed to Death – Rob Dougan
Act 10: BP blocks reporter – Young Turks
Song 10: Einstein On The Beach – Counting Crows
Act 11: Obama’s kick-ass PR skills – BBC News Quiz
Song 11: Common people – William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson
Act 12: Test of functioning media and politics – Rachel Maddow
Song 12: A change is gonna come – Ben Sollee
Act 13: Who’s really covered in oil – Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Oils well that never ends – Colbert Report
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#371 Stop me if you’ve heard this before (Oil Spill)
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Edition #371
Act 1: Moving on to depressed resignation Part 1 – The Bugle
Song 1: Witness – Roots Manuva
Act 2: Obama responds to BP disaster – The Progressive
Song 2: Like a Criminal – The Sheila Divine
Act 3: Moving on to depressed resignation Part 2 – The Bugle
Song 3: Cold cash, colder hearts – Thrice
Act 4: Oil regulation break down – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Instrumental – Chris Priest
Act 5: Just blow it up – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 5: Death to traitors – Beloved
Act 6: Obama’s non-anger – Countdown
Song 6: Roosevelt Room – Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
Act 7: No dog feces on BP gas pump handles – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 7: Rebel Hearts – Roots Manuva
Act 8: Oil spill may be a message from God – Young Turks
Song 8: Harrisburg – Josh Ritter
Act 9: Interview with BP Exec – Le Show
Song 9: Spandex Man – Mr. Scruff
Act 10: Oil spill rant – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Change of time – Josh Ritter
Act 11: Macho failures – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 11: Big black nothing – Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
Act 12: Gulf oil spill from the 70′s – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Nature of corporations and oil – Rachel Maddow
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#368 Their fault, our fault, your fault, my fault (Oil Spill)
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Edition #368
Act 1: Proud to be British – The Bugle
Song 1: Crazy train – Ozzy Osbourn
Act 2: GOP runs from drill baby drill – Young Turks
Song 2: Accidental Mambo – Mambo All-Stars
Act 3: Impacts and comparisons – On the Media
Song 3: Sea – George Winston
Act 4: Spreading the blame – BBC News Quiz
Song 4: Hole in the bucket – Spearhead
Act 5: Oil spills not a big deal – Counterspin
Song 5: Don’t worry baby – The Beach Boys
Act 6: Texas Gov blames God for spill – Young Turks
Song 6: Better days – Citizen King
Act 7: Oil spill results in improved wildlife viscosity – The Onion
Song 7: A beautiful world – Tim Myers
Act 8: Political consequences – The Political Scene
Song 8: Heart still beating – Ottmar Liebert
Act 9: Oil spill is your fault – Mark Fiore
Song 9: Anthem Pt. 2 – Blink 182
Act 10: Getting off of oil – Bill Maher
Song 10: In the aeroplane over the sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
Act 11: Oil containment solutions randomizer – Colbert Report
Song 11: Shove it – Santigold
Act 12: Lasting legacy of oil spills – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
There Will Be Blame – Daily Show
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#360 For the sake of dinosaur squeezings (Oil Spill)
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Edition #360
Act 1: Dinosaur squeezings – Mark Fiore
Act 2: Conversation with Joe Romm – Countdown
Act 3: One final taste of oysters – Young Turks
Act 4: Wind farm vs. oil spill – Colbert Report
Act 5: Discussion of oil spill – Ring of Fire
Act 6: BP oil spill – The Progressive
Act 7: George Will lies on wind vs. oil spill – Jimmy Dore
Act 8: Beyond Awful – Daily Show
Act 9: Right wing conspiracy – Media Matters
Act 10: Spill kills Obama energy bill – Young Turks
Act 11: Politics of the spill – Countdown
Act 12: GOP, Haliburton and the spill – Le Show
Act 13: Claiming drilling is safe – Media Matters
Act 14: Drill baby, drill – Colbert Report
Act 15: Lessons learned from Exxon Valdez – Young Turks
Act 16: No second thoughts – The Progressive
Act 17: Maddow’s final comments – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
BP’s Undersea Dome – Colbert Report
Music
Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Good day sunshine – The Beatles
Hold it in – Jukebox The Ghost
Beach song – The Dead Milkmen
Black water – Doobie Brothers
Into the ocean – Blue October
Take a look around – Limp Bizkit
La Valse d’Amélie – Yann Tiersen
Take a chance – The Magic Numbers
Deep water – Pansy Division
Le Moulin – Yann Tiersen
Lessons learned – Matt & Kim
Don’t trust me – 3OH!3
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#345 Blowing up mountains and our future (Climate Change)
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Edition #345
Act 1: Lorax Coal – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Ed Markey on climate bill Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Oil spill improves wildlife viscosity – The Onion
Act 4: Ed Markey on climate bill Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 5: Cookies and carbon – NPR
Act 6: Plans for another energy crisis squashed – Thom Hartmann
Act 7: NY Times gives fair shake to climate loons – Counterspin
Act 8: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 9: Maria Cantwell on the CLEAR Act – Ring of Fire
Act 10: Nuclear gets another comeback – Counterspin
Act 11: Coal Comfort – Margaret Palmer – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Knock-on effects – Green.tv
Music:
Flyswatter – Eels
The perfect space – The Avett Brothers
Greased lightnin’ – Grease Soundtrack
Goodbye blue sky – Pink Floyd
I’m free – Soup Dragons
Horchata – Vampire Weekend
Foolish games – Jewel
Let my love open the door – Pete Townsend
Planting seeds – Ten Story Relapse
Friend of the devil – Counting Crows
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#319 1st world party, 3rd world clean up (Podcast)
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Edition #319
Act 1: Aziz Ansari on Copenhagen – It’s getting ha in here
Act 2: Gore urges Obama to take lead on climate – NPR
Act 3: Al Gore – Daily Show
Act 4: Gore the wonky bore – Counterspin
Act 5: The Story of Cap and Trade – Annie Leonard
Act 6: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: DOT to add walking lanes to highways – The Onion
Act 8: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: News of the warm – Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Act Now – Green.tv
Music:
Hold my hand – Hootie and the blowfish
Change your mind – Sister Hazel
If we make it through December – Merle Haggard
Cloud Nine – Ben Howard
Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Walk beside me – Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien
Got My Mind Set On You – George Harrison
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#312 Ancient sunlight vs fresh sunlight (Podcast)
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Edition #312
Act 1: The true cost of fossil fuels – Thom Hartmann
Act 2: Inhofe headed to Copenhagen – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Colin Beavan is No Impact Man – Colbert Report
Act 4: Rob Dunbar on ocean temps – Found Object Films
Act 5: Giant greenhouse blamed for climate change – The Onion
Act 6: Climate deniers – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Oil industry employees rally – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 9: Shia Agassi on fresh sun power – Found Obect Films
Act 10: Steven Levitt on economics of geo-engineering – Daily Show
Act 11: The arguement for switching to natural gas – Ring of Fire
Act 12: News of the warm – Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Dems shooting themselves in the foot on cabon legislation
Music:
Catalog & Classify – Mark Robinson
Knock yourself out – Jon Brion
This is the day – The The
Kyoko’s House – Philip Glass
Solsbury hill – Peter Gabriel
One million miles – J Ralph
M79 – Vampire Weekend
What I’m looking for – Brendan Benson
Close your eyes – Young Love
Hey ya – Obadiah Parker
Keepsake – State Radio
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#305 Corporate energy fighting for and against the climate (Podcast)
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Edition #305
Act 1: James Hansen is arrested during MTR protest – Ring of Fire
Act 2: Cloudy with a chance of heat balls – Daily Show
Act 3: The fake cost of Obama’s energy policy – Counterspin
Act 4: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 5: Exxon named the green company of the year – Ring of Fire
Act 6: Shai Agassi on electric cars – Colbert Report
Act 7: Interview with Joe Romm – Counterspin
Act 8: Wood Nymphs working to reduce dependence on foreign dew drops – The Onion
Act 9: More forged letters for pro-coal lobby – Ring of Fire
Act 10: Is Inhofe stupid or just corrupt – The Young Turks
Music:
Why does the sun shine? – They might be giants
Hey ya! – Outkast
Tell me a lie – Griffin House
Scenic world – Beirut
Carefree – The Refreshments
Why does the sun really shine? – They might be giants
Fluffy little clouds – The Orb
Con Cassidy’s and Neil Gow’s Highlands/Moil and Tiarna/McSweeney’s Reel – Alton
Hey Ya – Obadiah Parker
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#295 Playing games with the climate and cheating (Podcast)
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Act 1: Coal industry mail fraud – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: ‘Astroturf’ campaign fights climate bill – NPR
Act 3: A look at post-Katrina New Orleans – Le Show
Act 4: Surviving the storm: Voices from Katrina – NPR
Act 5: Bill McKibben from 350.org – Colbert Report
Act 6: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 7: Denver’s secret – Slate.com
Act 8: Jellyfish may help keep planet cool – NPR
Act 9: Face-lift: New ‘Faces of coal’ campaign – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Buildings and mountains – The Republic Tigers
Unforgiven – Apocalyptica
Help – Howie Day
I will survive – Cake
Favorite game – The Cardigans
Beds are burning – Midnight Oil
Blowing’ in the wind – Bob Dylan
Into the ocean – Blue October
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