Edition #502

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Act 1: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit – The Onion
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Song 1: Actual coal propaganda song – Crazy, right?
Act 2: A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes. Never. – Bill McKibben OpEd
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Song 2: Arclight – Empires
Act 3: Great Lakes May Beat Atlantic To Offshore Wind – NPR
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Song 3: Winter Winds – Sigh No More
Act 4: Gore Slams Obama On Climate Change – Young Turks
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Song 4: A Few Honest Words – Learning to Bend
Act 5: Canadian Oilverlords – Daily Show
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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
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Song 6: Wonderwall – The String Quartet Tribute to Oasis – Decadence & Vanity
Act 7: Memo to Conservatives: Solar Physicists are NOT Climate Scientists – Media Matters
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Act 8: Yacht Maker Now Navigating Wind Power Industry – NPR
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Song 8: Blowin’ In the Wind – The Essential Bob Dylan
Act 9: Oil Anthem – Mark Fiore
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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
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Song 10: For Greener Pastures – Glen Simpson
Act 11: Now We Have To Wage War On Grolar Bears – Lee Camp
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Song 11:Polar Bear – Make Some Noise
Act 12: A turning point we can’t afford to ignore – Johann Hari
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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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Edition #492

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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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Edition #490

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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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Edition #450

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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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Act 1: Climate change in the frozen UK – Friday Night Comedy
Song 1: Winter Winds – Sigh No More
Act 2: Climate for the grand kids – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance – The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance – Single
Act 3: Fox global warming denier segment – Young Turks
Song 3: Hide and Seek – Speak for Yourself
Act 4: Energy and Commerce Chair Apparent – Colbert Report
Song 4: Best God In Show – Coaster
Act 5: Best entertained and least informed – Ring of Fire
Song 5: Welcome Home (Sanitarium) [Instrumental Version] – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 6: Fox memo to always question climate change – Media Matters
Act 7: Fox busted on climate memo – Young Turks
Song 7: Looking At the Sun – Gramercy Arms
Act 8: Sam Seder’s meteorology – Countdown
Song 8: Like the Weather (Live) – MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs
Act 9: Snowy conditions hazardous for idiots – The Onion
Song 9: Crash – Lovely
Act 10: Push comes to shovel – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Hurt so good – The Yellow Snow Company
Act 11: More media idiocy on climate change – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 11: Wonder Why – Everything Collide
Act 12: Climate flip flops – Countdown
Song 12: Science Is Real – Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
Act 13: The earth is now Apollo 13 – Radio Ecoshock

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350 eARTh Climate Change Art Visible From Space – 350.org

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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

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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

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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

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Tip/Wag at Marshall Islands – Colbert Report

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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

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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

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America’s Strained Relationship With England – Colbert Report

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