#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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Beckoning – Countdown
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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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#399 Climate bill killed as the world melts (Climate Change)
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Edition #399
Act 1: The trouble with fracking – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: That’s All – Arrow
Act 2: Obama on respecting science – Citizen Radio
Song 2: Where Is My Mind? – Surfer Rosa
Act 3: News of the warm Part 1 – Le Show
Song 3: Let’s Dance to Joy Division – A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Act 4: The cries from Pakistan – The Progressive
Song 4: Cry – Back to Bedlam
Act 5: Lose 300 million pounds of CO2 – Slate.com
Song 5: Don’t Let’s Start – Then: The Earlier Years
Act 6: Climate bill killed – Young Turks
Song 6: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – The Joshua Tree (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]
Act 7: The decline of the oil economy – The Bugle
Song 7: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 8: News of the warm Part 2 – Le Show
Song 8: Faster, Sooner, Now – Sell, Sell, Sell
Act 9: Greenland ice island – Countdown
Song 9: Juno – Elephant Shell
Act 10: 2010 hottest year so far on record – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Climate Bill – Rachel Maddow
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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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
White House Caves To Fox News, Forces Resignation – Young Turks
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#381 Wars, Crimes and War Crimes (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #381
Act 1: Back in Black – Mark Fiore
Song 1: Maple Leaf Rag – The Entertainer
Act 2: Bush admits to war crimes – Countdown
Song 2: Turtle (Bonobo Mix) – One Offs (Remixes and B Sides)
Act 3: Water-boarding is a no-brainer – Bill Maher
Song 3: Monster – Not Accepted Anywhere
Act 4: Water-boarding USA – Le Show
Song 4: Waterboardin’ USA – Songs Pointed and Pointless
Act 5: Respect my authoritah – Daily Show
Song 5: Mount Doom (feat. Renée Fleming) – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – The Complete Recordings
Act 6: Following the constitution or not – Jimmy Dore
Song 6: California – null
Act 7: Sy Hersh story on battlefield executions – Young Turks
Song 7: You Got to Get Out of There – Back to Broke
Act 8: Comparing the Bush and Obama policies – Bill Maher
Song 8: Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Mishima (Original Music Composed By Philip Glass)
Act 9: U.S. Airliner Sajacked – The Onion
Song 9: Wheel of Fortune – Kay Starr: Capitol Collectors Series
Act 10: Interview with Republican on Miranda Rights – Jimmy Dore
Song 10: 1901 – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Act 11: Clusterfuck to the war house – Korea and Middle East – Daily Show
Song 11: The Dead Heart – Diesel and Dust (2007 Remastered)
Act 12: Killing Number 3 – On the Media
Song 12: Feet to the Fire – Before We Fall
Act 13: Obama’s Bush-like war comments – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Afghanistan Stability Chart – 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
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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#372 You (nearly) have the right to remain honest (Gay Rights)
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Edition #372
Act 1: Un-gay – Mark Fiore
Song 1: It’s the End of the World As We Know It – R.E.M.
Act 2: Alpha Dog of the Week – Colbert Report
Song 2: Dog days are over – Florence And The Machine
Act 3: Closeted gays hurting the rest – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Unforgiven – Apocalyptica
Act 4: Teens turn gay spontainiously – Young Turks
Song 4: Jenny says – Cowboy Mouth
Act 5: New life in the closet – The Onion
Song 5: Brand new lover – Dead or alive
Act 6: They Gay – Colbert Report
Song 6: Take my hand – Dido
Act 7: DADT update – Young Turks
Song 7: When you’re gone – The Cranberries
Act 8: Beginning on DADT – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: The Climb – No Doubt
Act 9: Good riddance to DADT – The Progressive
Song 9: This is not the end – The Bravery
Act 10: Can’t trust gay soldiers – The Young Turks
Song 10: The passenger – Iggy Pop
Act 11: Discussion with Dan Savage – Countdown
Song 11: I’m looking through you – The Wallflowers
Act 12: On the road to overt sexuality – Young Turks
Song 12: Run around – Blues Traveler
Act 13: DADT nowhere near over – Rachel Maddow
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Family Research Council’s European Gaycation – Daily Show
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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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#366 Horrifying health care aftermath (Health Care)
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Edition #366
Act 1: Unethical bastards – Daily Show
Song 1: Slave song – Sade
Act 2: Post-game of just passed health bill – Blast the Right
Song 2: Suffer – Stretford End
Act 3: Angry reactions to health care law – It’s all politics
Song 3: A-Punk – Vampire Weekend
Act 4: GOP strike back – Young Turks
Song 4: Scenic world – Beirut
Act 5: Well point and bartering with Michael Moore – Countdown
Song 5: Happy – Sister Hazel
Act 6: John Dingell on health care and finance – Daily Show
Song 6: Tin man – The Avett Brothers
Act 7: Fox says you’ll go to jail – Fox News Channel
Song 7: Red Rain – REM w/ Peter Gabriel and Natalie Merchant
Act 8: O’Reilly attempts to rewrite history – Young Turks
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Sue Lowden on chickens for healthcare – Colbert Report
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#365 Valid and moronic arguments against Kagan (Supreme Court)
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Edition #365
Act 1: Hang on Stevens – The Al Franken Show
Act 2: History of Supreme Court fights – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: A Quai – Yann Tiersen
Act 3: Nomination predictions – Media Matters
Song 3: A Quai – Yann Tiersen
Act 4: Release the Kagan – Daily Show
Song 4: The great estates – Freelance Whales
Act 5: Kagan a bad pick by Obama – Young Turks
Song 5: Somebody Already Broke My Heart – Sade
Act 6: Swing and a miss – Countdown
Song 6: Gone to sleep – Moby
Act 7: Kagan the consensus builder – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Les Jours Tristes – Yann Tiersen
Act 8: Kagan and the military recruiters – Media Matters
Song 8: Les Jours Tristes – Yann Tiersen
Act 9: Kagan worship with Dahlia Lithwick – Colbert Report
Song 9: No questions – Fleetwood Mac
Act 10: Hypocrisy on Kagan – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: La Dispute – Yann Tiersen
Act 11: Kagan a leftist activist – Media Matters
Song 11: La Dispute – Yann Tiersen
Act 12: Conservatives pretend Kagan is gay – Young Turks
Song 12: Take Five – Dave Brubeck
Act 13: Comparison to H. Meyers nomination – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Confirming Elena – Colbert Report
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#363 Wrongheaded reactions, foreign and domestic (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #363
Act 1: Palin on the playground – The Bugle
Song 1: Buildings and mountains – The Republic Tigers
Act 2: Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan Part 1 – Moyers Journal
Song 2: Highschool lover – Air
Act 3: Using smaller missiles – Counterspin
Song 3: Empty room – Marjorie Fair
Act 4: Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan Part 2 – Moyers Journal
Song 4: What’s the matter here – 10,000 maniacs
Act 5: Iraq should pay for us killing them – Young Turks
Song 5: Politic Amagni (La Politique, C’est Pas Bon) – Amadou & Mariam
Act 6: Post script to Afghanistan interview – Moyers Journal
Song 6: Peacocks – The Mountain Goats
Act 7: Boom doesn’t go the dynamite – Colbert Report
Song 7: Headlock – Imogen Heap
Act 8: Lieberman’s citizenship law – Countdown
Song 8: Patience – Guns N’ Roses
Act 9: Lieberman’s extrajudicial law – The Progressive
Song 9: Up against the wall – Peter Bjorn & John
Act 10: Just lucky – Young Turks
Song 10: The lucky one – Alison Krauss and Union Station
Act 11: Lieberman introduces citizenship bill – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Explosive and the City 2 – 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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