#402 The economics of stupidity (Economics)
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Edition #402
Act 1: The Word – Ownership society – Colbert Report
Song 1: Different Names for the Same Thing – Plans
Act 2: Supply-side economics debunked – Young Turks
Song 2: Baby, It’s Fact – Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! and More!
Act 3: Unemployed voters – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Working Class Hero – Lennon Legend (Bonus Track Version)
Act 4: Wall street starving millions and getting away with it – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: Beautiful – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Act 5: Company you’ve never heard of wants to reward you – Onion
Song 5: Beyond the Sea – The Ultimate Bobby Darin
Act 6: Social security rant by Cenk – MSNBC
Song 6: Kandi – One EskimO (Deluxe Edition)
Act 7: Econo-misers – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Money for Nothing – Private Investigations – The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
Act 8: Barney Frank on the Consumer protection agency – Colbert Report
Song 8: When You Were Young – Sam’s Town
Act 9: Were you born on the wrong continent – Thom Hartmann
Song 9: Summer In the City – Platinum & Gold Collection: The Lovin’ Spoonful
Act 10: The unpaved States of America – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
How Senators Protect The Richest Americans – Young Turks
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#400 So much for don’t be evil (Net Neutrality)
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Edition #400
Act 1: So much for ‘don’t be evil’ – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Blueprint – Jackson Square
Act 2: Internet Exploiter – Daily Show
Song 2: Once Around the Block – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Act 3: Google and Verizon on net neutrality – Countdown
Song 3: Resurection (Space Club Mix) – Resurection
Act 4: Peter and the Wolf meets net neutrality – On the Media
Song 4: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf – Sting, Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Claudio Abbado
Act 5: Area man consults the Internet – The Onion
Song 5: Wait So Long – Palomino
Act 6: Google and Verizon have a deal – Young Turks
Song 6: Jenny Don’t Be Hasty – These Streets
Act 7: Net neutrality and the Google-Verizon deal – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Solid Action – Playing Favourites
Act 8: Internet outage plunges nation into productivity – The Onion
Song 8: The Office UK – Outro #1 – The Office UK Theme Music
Act 9: Net neutrality – Countdown
Song 9: The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
Act 10: Electronic frontier foundation – Colbert Report
Song 9: Cat Faces – Sharpen Your Teeth
Act 10: Cenk’s rant on net neutrality – Dylan Ratigan Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
At what point have we lost liberty because we lost privacy? – Thom Hartmann
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#396 Mentally and morally bankrupt economics (Economics)
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Edition #396
Act 1: Killing an ant with a nuclear bomb – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: High Hopes – Frank Sinatra: Complete Capitol Singles Collection
Act 2: Barney Frank on Elizabeth Warren – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Welcome to the Black Parade – The Black Parade
Act 3: Breaking down the impending tax “hike” – Jimmy Dore
Song 3: These things take time – Pummel
Act 4: Restore the estate tax! – Slate.com
Song 4: Modern Way – Employment
Act 5: Voodoo economics – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – The Sunlandic Twins
Act 6: Survival air for sale – Le Show
Song 6: Take a Look Around – Greatest Hits
Act 7: Honest and dishonest discussions of trade policy – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 7: We Are Nowhere and It’s Now – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Act 8: Goldman S@#%$ – Daily Show
Song 8: You Make Loving Fun – Greatest Hits
Act 9: Time to cut social security – Young Turks
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The Word – The White Stuff – Colbert Report
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#395 Another giant distraction based on bigotry (Immigration)
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Edition #395
Act 1: Be nice to minorities – Bill Maher
Song 1: We Are Going to Be Friends (Live) – Under Great White Northern Lights (Live)
Act 2: Latino 911 – Daily Show
Song 2: Nothing Else Matters – Inquisition Symphony
Act 3: Championing the AZ law – Media Matters
Act 4: Obama’s weak immigration reform – Young Turks
Song 4: Loud Pipes – Classics
Act 5: Arizona’s photo radar – Daily Show
Song 5: Ballad of Hugo Chavez – Jackson Square
Act 6: Border violence, that’s bullshit – Sam Seder
Song 6: Cattle Call – Songs of the Trail
Act 7: Interview on reaction to AZ law ruling – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Breakneck Speed – Champ
Act 8: Hurray for courageous judge Suan Bolton – The Progressive
Song 8: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 9: Susan Bolton ruling – Media Matters
Act 10: AZ immigration law stopped by federal judge – Young Turks
Song 10: Look After You – How to Save a Life
Act 11: Fake immigration stories – Rachel Maddow
Song 11: Concrete Box – Nada Surf
Act 12: US will now offer platinum plus citizenship – The Onion
Song 12: Solid Action – Playing Favourites
Act 13: Immigration stories now user generated – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Arturo Rodriguez on immigrant workers – Colbert Report
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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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#392 WikiFrenzy (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #392
Act 1: Just got the carfax – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Aegean Wave – Pianissimo
Act 2: Documents – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Opportunity – See the Sun
Act 3: That’s the way I leak it – Colbert Report
Song 3: Mr. Maker – Konk
Act 4: Congrats to Wikileaks – The Progressive
Song 4: So Long – Honeymoon Is Over
Act 5: More on the Iraq inquiry – Le Show
Song 5: Broken Horse – Weathervanes
Act 6: On the Wikileak – On the Media
Song 6: Do You Want To Know A Secret – The Beatles
Act 7: Secret info revealed – The Now Show
Song 7: Throwing Stones – Work
Act 8: Best Leak Ever – Daily Show
Song 8: Fall of the Star High School Running Back – All Hail West Texas
Act 9: Wikileak and video critique – Citizen Radio
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Frienemies – Mark Fiore
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#391 Not right, not fair and not justice (Law Enforcement)
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Edition #391
Act 1: Gary Johnson, Pro-pot activist – Colbert Report
Song 1: Drug Ballad – The Marshall Mathers LP
Act 2: How the drug war hurts communities – Citizen Radio
Song 2: Down On the Corner – Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 3: Drug Czar toppled by drug Bolsheviks – The Onion
Song 3: Because I Got High – The Good Times
Act 4: Daniel Okrent on prohibition – Daily Show
Song 4: Drink the Water – Brushfire Fairytales
Act 5: Police tortured confessions – On the Media
Song 5: Behind Bars – Baga Tricks
Act 6: Cops taser family in their backyard – Young Turks
Song 6: Paperwork – Safety First
Act 7: Drugs and Taser war – Citizen Radio
Song 7: New Slang – Oh, Inverted World
Act 8: Police taser trail – Rachel Maddow
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Automatics for the People – Ilya Shapiro & Jackie Hilly – Colbert Report
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#389 Religious Justice League (Religion)
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Edition #389
Act 1: Banning haircuts – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Painted By Numbers – Dying to Say This to You
Act 2: Political fashion news – The Bugle
Song 2: Garden State (Music from the Motion Picture) – Various Artists
Act 3: Pope whipped himself – Young Turks
Song 3: Hey, Soul Sister – Hey, Soul Sister – Single
Act 4: Bible more violent than Quran – NPR
Song 4: Monster Hospital – Metric
Act 5: God cites ‘moving in mysterious ways’ – The Onion
Song 5: Master Plan – It Still Moves
Act 6: News of the godly Part 1 – Le Show
Song 6: (Why Is Your) Heaven So Small – The Gospel Truth
Act 7: Stephen Prothero on the 8 religions – Colbert Report
Song 7: Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam (Live) – MTV Unplugged in New York: Nirvana
Act 8: Study says abstinence-only works – Young Turks
Song 8: Boadicea – The Very Best of Enya
Act 9: Heaven to return 3.6 billion souls for rejudging – The Onion
Song 9: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hits
Act 10: News of the godly Part 2 – Le Show
Song 9: Kids – Oracular Spectacular
Act 10: Glenn Beck, Ignore Jesus, be selfish – Young Turks
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Modest-Con 2010 – Colbert Report
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#388 Torture is Un-American so we don’t call it that (Media)
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Edition #388
Act 1: Blame – Daily Show
Song 1: Blame It On the Tetons – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Act 2: Harvard’s study on torture – Young Turks
Song 2: Where Does the Good Go – So Jealous
Act 3: Yahweh or no way – Glenn Beck’s MLK rally – Colbert Report
Song 3: High – Back to Bedlam
Act 4: New ruling on media profanity – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 4: Escucha Me – The Best of the Gipsy Kings
Act 5: Father Guido Sarducci on Prophet Glenn Beck – Colbert Report
Song 5: Modern Way – Employment
Act 6: Torture in the media – On the Media
Song 6: Tell Me a Lie – Lost & Found
Act 7: People don’t like facts or failing – Citizen Radio
Song 7: Pony (It’s OK) – Love, Save the Empty (Bonus Track Version)
Act 8: Rush Limbaugh kids should dumpster-dive – Young Turks
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Media Fail On McChrystal Resignation – Young Turks
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#387 The state of the empire (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #387
Act 1: McChrystal article by Michael Hastings – Colbert Report
Song 1: The Moment I Said It – Speak for Yourself
Act 2: Gaps in Afghan government – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Out of Our Hands – Signs
Act 3: UK investigating war crimes – Citizen Radio
Song 3: All American Girl – My Private Nation
Act 4: Judge sides with detainee in Guantanamo – The Progressive
Song 4: Shuffle Your Feet – Howl
Act 5: Counter insurgency interview with General – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Eve of Destruction – 60′s Gold
Act 6: Odd couple Frank and Paul on military spending – NPR
Song 6: No Need to Argue – No Need to Argue
Act 7: Obama authorizes assassinations on US citizens – Young Turks
Song 7: The Perfect Space – I and Love and You
Act 8: Afghanistan commentary – Rachel Maddow
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Petraeus takes over with same strategy – Rachel Maddow
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#385 A flawed and broken paradigm (Economics)
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Edition #385
Act 1: Pros and cons of financial reform bill – Young Turks
Song 1: Satellite – Ganging Up On the Sun
Act 2: Estate tax discussion – Bill Maher
Song 2: I Want to Protect You – Useless Trinkets-B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (Audio Version)
Act 3: Reinstate the estate tax – The Progressive
Song 3: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 4: Working on cutting social security – Counterspin
Song 4: Noctuary – Dial ‘M’ for Monkey
Act 5: Canadian banks vs US Banks – Young Turks
Song 5: Spare Change – Grand
Act 6: Social security broke – That’s Bullshit – Sam Seder
Song 6: 1234 – The Reminder
Act 7: Rich vs the middle class – Young Turks
Song 7: Buildings & Mountains – Keep Color
Act 8: America’s got nothing – Daily Show
Song 8: Built for This – Learning to Bend
Act 9: Obama needs to change budget dialogue – The Progressive
Song 9: Blessed – Brett Dennen
Act 10: Unemployment benefits with Paul Krugman – Colbert Report
Song 10: Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran: Greatest
Act 11: GOP on the deficit – Rachel Maddow
Song 11: Believe – The Sun and the Moon
Act 12: Conservatives don’t understand – Jimmy Dore
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Holier Than Dow – Daily Show
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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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#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
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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
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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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Put the Cursed Monkey Paw Down – Colbert Report
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