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#401 The Beckoning (Rights)
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Edition #401
Act 1: The ACLU on Obama’s ‘New normal’ – On the Media
Song 1: Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time – Reservoir
Act 2: The ACLU report on Obama – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: There’s Still Time – Midnight Souvenirs (Bonus Track Version)
Act 3: Cut Obama no slack on civil liberties – The Progressive
Song 3: Tragic Flaw – Jackson Square
Act 4: ACLU defends Nazis’ right to burn down ACLU headquarters – The Onion
Song 4: Play With Fire – The Darjeeling Limited (Original Soundtrack)
Act 5: Interview with Akbar Ahmed – Daily Show
Song 5: Edge of the Ocean – Long Distance
Act 6: Beck and Limbaugh devastating quotes – Young Turks
Song 6: Welcome Home (Sanitarium) [Instrumental Version] – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 7: Beck and the MLK legacy – Media Matters
Act 8: Cenk on Glenn Beck’s MLK rally – Young Turks
Song 8: Frontier Psychiatrist – Since I Left You
Act 9: Tea baggers going to DC – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Legend of Zelda – Apocalyptica
Act 10: Beck vs MLK – Media Matters
Act 11: Beck on God, blood and goldline – Young Turks
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The Beckoning – Countdown
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#398 This is a total waste of our time (Park 51)
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Edition #398
Act 1: Cat and Mosque – Mark Fiore
Song 1: Anywhere Is – The Very Best of Enya
Act 2: Municipal land-use update – Daily Show
Song 2: Tolerance – Yell Fire!
Act 3: Cantor on the mosque ‘Come on’ – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: It’s Alright – Live At 25
Act 4: Jimmy’s take on the mosque – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 4: Golden Brown – The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990
Act 5: Islamic architecture – The Bugle
Song 5: Drums of freedom – Theo Bard
Act 6: Who are we as a nation – The Young Turks
Song 6: I Don’t Believe In That – Unglorious Hallelujah
Act 7: Citizen Radio talks on Cordoba – GRITtv
Song 7: Different People – Tragic Kingdom
Act 8: The sacred ground arguement – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 8: The Argument – Front Seat Solidarity
Act 9: How to know it’s election season – Sam Seder
Song 9: One Love – Songs Around the World (Audio/Video Version)
Act 10: Embarrassing moments – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: South Side – Play & Play: B Sides
Act 11: The ‘radical’ Imam behind the mosque – Young Turks
Song 11: Knock Yourself Out – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 12: Mosque-Erade – Daily Show
Song 12: Missed the Boat – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Act 13: Special Comment on the mosque – Countdown
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Municipal Land-Use Update – Ground Zero Mosque – Daily Show
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#394 A battle finally won in the war (Gay rights)
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Edition #394
Act 1: Lesbian mothers – Colbert Report
Song 1: Middle Class Boy – Listen Carefully E.P
Act 2: Crazy gay marriage speech – Young Turks
Song 2: The Bleeding Heart Show – Twin Cinema
Act 3: Kentucky bans gay pet weddings – The Onion
Song 3: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Fashion Nugget (Deluxe Version)
Act 4: Time to pay reparations to gays – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: January Wedding – I and Love and You
Act 5: Breakdown of prop 8 – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 6: Commentary on prop 8 – Countdown
Song 6: One – Inquisition Symphony
Act 7: Right wing reactions to Prop 8 ruling – Media Matters
Act 8: Californigaytions – Daily Show
Song 8: Curtains close – The Arctic Monkeys
Act 9: Landmark ruling on same-sex marriage – The Progressive
Song 9: Solid Ground – Dougie Maclean
Act 10: The winning lawyers – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Dreams – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 11: Prop 8 tossed out – It’s all politics
Song 11: Goodbye Stranger – The Very Best of Supertramp
Act 12: Gay marriage is inevitable – Young Turks
Song 12: Time to Take Out the Trash – I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Act 13: How to ruin same-sex marriages – Colbert Report
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Cenk Rant On Gay Marriage and The Bible – Young Turks
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#393 Shirley you jest, Obama (Shirley Sherrod)
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Edition #393
Act 1: The Obama Paradox – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Who’s Crying Now – Journey: Greatest Hits
Act 2: Shep Smith rips Fox – Young Turks
Song 2: True Affection – Paper Television
Act 3: Administration congratulates itself too soon – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 3: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Daft Punk) – 2 – EP
Act 4: MSNBC and Fox after the correction – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 4: Better Be Quiet Now – Figure 8
Act 5: Racist Fox News and crazy NAACP voicemail – Young Turks
Song 5: Call On Me (Radio Edit) – Call On Me – EP
Act 6: Obama’s atrophy – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: The Reflex – Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Act 7: Shirley Sherrod on interviews with Fox and Obama’s comments – Countdown
Song 7: Secret Heart – Let It Die
Act 8: Fox News on Sherrod and Democratic cowards – Young Turks
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White House Caves To Fox News, Forces Resignation – Young Turks
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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
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Obamas BP Oil Spill Speech – Colbert Report
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#384 Kagan’s vapid and hollow confirmation (Supreme Court)
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Edition #384
Act 1: Kagan on Supreme Court confirmations – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Play the Game – Work
Act 2: Too many Jews – Le Show
Song 2: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 3: Like a lady – Media Matters
Act 4: Gen. Boykin vs. Kagan – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Ready or Not – The Score
Act 5: Franken on the importance of SCOTUS – Young Turks
Song 5: See You In the Light – Yell Fire!
Act 6: Kagan confirmation process – It’s all politics
Song 6: Keep On Moving Forward – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 7: Thurgood Marshall case histories – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Powerless – The Big Picture
Act 8: Kagan in a turban – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Will You Remember? – To the Faithful Departed (The Complete Sessions 1996-1997)
Act 9: Terrible confirmation process – Citizen Radio
Song 9: Carolina Dreams – US – EP
Act 10: More of less free – Young Turks
Song 10: I’m Free – Hotwired
Act 11: Release the Kagan – Daily Show
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Supreme Court Justice Sweetness – 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
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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
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Put the Cursed Monkey Paw Down – Colbert Report
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#379 The Breakup of the Year (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #379
Act 1: Never disparage civilian superiors – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: 16 Military Wives – Picaresque
Act 2: Firing generals – It’s all politics
Song 2: We Never Change – Parachutes
Act 3: Must have been high – Colbert Report
Song 3: Higher and higher – Alice Deejay
Act 4: Fox News hits the talking points – Young Turks
Song 4: Superman – All The Time In The World
Act 5: McChrystal’s Balls – The Bugle
Song 5: Popular – High / Low
Act 6: Unfettered access – On the Media
Song 6: It’s the Same Old Song – Essential Collection: Four Tops
Act 7: Honorable, yet oily, discharge – Daily Show
Song 7: All the Same to Me – Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
Act 8: McChrystal’s last report and meeting – Le Show
Song 8: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – 60′s Gold
Act 9: Great Hastings quotes – Young Turks
Song 9: You’re the Best – The Karate Kid (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 10: Ore on Terror – Daily Show
Song 10: Fade to Black – Welcome to Earth
Act 11: Not just for opium wholesalers – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 11: Meet the Elements – Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
Act 12: The Word – Who War it Best – Colbert Report
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McChrystal’s Balls – Daily Show
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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
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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
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The spilling fields – To Shell and Back – Daily Show
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#375 An Armada of Humanaterrorists (Israel)
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Edition #375
Act 1: Israel beat the Somalis to it – BBC News Quiz
Song 1: Hostage-O – Life’ll Kill Ya
Act 2: Release the prisoners, release the tapes – Young Turks
Song 2: Respect – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Act 3: Republican on Gaza – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Danger Zone – Top Gun / Footloose / Sleepless In Seattle
Act 4: Obama mute on Israeli aggression – The Progressive
Song 4: Different Names for the Same Thing – Plans
Act 5: Discussing the flotilla – Bill Maher
Song 5: A Different Shore – Peace of Mind
Act 6: Dueling taped accounts – On the Media
Song 6: Sea of Love (Remastered) – Juno (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 7: Obama helps obstruct Israel investigation – Young Turks
Song 7: Glycerine – Sixteen Stone
Act 8: Don’t cheer the departure of Helen Thomas – The Progressive
Song 8: Soir de fête – Amélie (Sountrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 9: Fox on Helen Thomas – Media Matters
Act 10: Helen Thomas’s departure – Counterspin
Song 10: Slight Figure of Speech – I and Love and You
Act 11: Michael Oren and formidable opponent – Colbert Report
Song 11: We Could Be Friends – Weathervanes
Act 12: Joe Biden hits new low – The Progressive
Song 12: Doctor My Eyes – Anthology: Jackson 5
Act 13: Israel does something crazy/frustrating – The Bugle
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Israel Flotilla Raid – Breakdown of Who’s Right and Wrong – Young Turks
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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
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Act 2: Oil and energy policy – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Talk – Coldplay
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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
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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
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Act 8: Talking about oil – Bill Maher
Song 8: Electric Version – The New Pornographers
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Act 9: BP’s media blockade – On the Media
Song 9: Clubbed to Death – Rob Dougan
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Act 10: BP blocks reporter – Young Turks
Song 10: Einstein On The Beach – Counting Crows
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Act 11: Obama’s kick-ass PR skills – BBC News Quiz
Song 11: Common people – William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson
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Act 12: Test of functioning media and politics – Rachel Maddow
Song 12: A change is gonna come – Ben Sollee
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Act 13: Who’s really covered in oil – Le Show
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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
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Act 2: Obama responds to BP disaster – The Progressive
Song 2: Like a Criminal – The Sheila Divine
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Act 3: Moving on to depressed resignation Part 2 – The Bugle
Song 3: Cold cash, colder hearts – Thrice
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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
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Act 6: Obama’s non-anger – Countdown
Song 6: Roosevelt Room – Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
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Act 7: No dog feces on BP gas pump handles – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 7: Rebel Hearts – Roots Manuva
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Act 8: Oil spill may be a message from God – Young Turks
Song 8: Harrisburg – Josh Ritter
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Act 9: Interview with BP Exec – Le Show
Song 9: Spandex Man – Mr. Scruff
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Act 10: Oil spill rant – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Change of time – Josh Ritter
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Act 11: Macho failures – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 11: Big black nothing – Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
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Act 12: Gulf oil spill from the 70′s – Rachel Maddow
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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
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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
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Act 4: Spreading the blame – BBC News Quiz
Song 4: Hole in the bucket – Spearhead
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Act 5: Oil spills not a big deal – Counterspin
Song 5: Don’t worry baby – The Beach Boys
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Act 6: Texas Gov blames God for spill – Young Turks
Song 6: Better days – Citizen King
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Act 7: Oil spill results in improved wildlife viscosity – The Onion
Song 7: A beautiful world – Tim Myers
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Act 8: Political consequences – The Political Scene
Song 8: Heart still beating – Ottmar Liebert
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Act 9: Oil spill is your fault – Mark Fiore
Song 9: Anthem Pt. 2 – Blink 182
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Act 10: Getting off of oil – Bill Maher
Song 10: In the aeroplane over the sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
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Act 11: Oil containment solutions randomizer – Colbert Report
Song 11: Shove it – Santigold
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Act 12: Lasting legacy of oil spills – Rachel Maddow
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There Will Be Blame – Daily Show
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