#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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Holier Than Dow – Daily Show
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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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#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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
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
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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#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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#364 Delusions of fascism, journalism and grandeur (Media)
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Edition #364
Act 1: Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s – Daily Show
Song 1: Better be quite now – Elliott Smith
Act 2: The power of conservative media – Young Turks
Song 2: Everything In Its Right Place – Radiohead
Act 3: Dissecting NBC report on financial reform – Jimmy Dore
Song 3: Too much information – Duran Duran
Act 4: Bernie Goldberg fires back – Daily Show
Song 4: Knock yourself out – Jon Brion
Act 5: Fox News spins net neutrality – Young Turks
Song 5: So much more – Marc Robillard
Act 6: Jon Meacham on sale of Newsweek – Daily Show
Song 6: Who will buy – Oliver Twist
Act 7: Goldman defended in the media – Counterspin
Song 7: You’re a wolf – Sea Wolf
Act 8: Glenn to the mountaintop – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obama Slams Tea Party Rallies & Fox News Reacts – Young Turks
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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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#361 The Police State Welcomes You (Immigration)
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Edition #361
Act 1: Boycotting AZ, teas and otherwise – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Tea for the Tillerman – Cat Stevens
Act 2: AZ law spurs immigration reform – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Different People – No Doubt
Act 3: AZ Sheriff rips new law – Young Turks
Song 3: Stand – R.E.M.
Act 4: Law and Border – Daily Show
Song 4: I miss you – Blink 182
Act 5: O’Reilly grasping to support AZ law – Counterspin
Song 5: See you on the other side – Ozzy Osbourn
Act 6: Papers please amendments – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Bouncing around the room – Phish
Act 7: The word – No Problemo – Colbert Report
Song 7: Mexico – The Refreshments
Act 8: Wrongful arrests happens already – Young Turks
Song 8: Still crazy after all these years – Paul Simon
Act 9: Police State Pete – Mark Fiore
Song 9: What I’m looking for – Brendan Benson
Act 10: AZ law writers are liars, racists – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Suspicious Behavior on Cinco de Mayo – Daily Show
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#358 Forced to lie to serve with honor (Gay Rights)
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Edition #358
Act 1: Busted anti-gay republican comes out – Young Turks
Act 2: Repealing DADT popular in polls – Counterspin
Act 3: Bait and snitch – Colbert Report
Act 4: Gay Saudi gets arrested – Young Turks
Act 5: Letter from old military on DADT Part 1 – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Gay gene isolated, ostracized – The Onion
Act 7: Letter from old military on DADT Part 2 – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Gays in military leads to genocide – Young Turks
Act 9: New law to ban unloving marriages – The Onion
Act 10: Dutch ask Dutch tell – Rachel Maddow
Act 11: Bigots likely dumber and poorer, duh – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Trying to support the military and hate gays – Colbert Report
Music:
Close to me – The Cure
Minority – Green Day
Take your mama – Scissor Sisters
The argument – This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – The Smiths
Me and Julio down by the schoolyard – Paul Simon
Your Heart Is An Empty Room – Death Cab For Cutie
All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers
January Wedding – The Avett Brothers
Pure Imagination – Leslie Bricusse (Willy Wonka)
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#353 Backwards politics and the climate (Climate)
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Edition #353
Act 1: Annie Leonard on stuff – Colbert Report
Act 2: Dr. James Hansen – Storms of my grandchildren – Thom Hartmann
Act 3: Chamber of commerce and the climate – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Facing America’s energy crisis Part 1 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 5: British House of Commons on ‘climate gate’ – Counterspin
Act 6: Facing America’s energy crisis Part 2 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 7: Obama’s switcheroo on offshore drilling – The Progressive
Act 8: Oilmen fund anti-climate change groups – Young Turks
Act 9: Media reaction to offshore drilling – Counterspin
Act 10: Not taking ‘yes’ for an answer – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Tree Hugging Pentagon – Ring of Fire
Music:
Time to take out the trash – Brad Sucks
Breathe me – Sia
On the turning away – Pink Floyd
Energy – The Apples In Stereo
The airway – Owl City
Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Annie Lennox
Sill can’t – The Cranberries
Fake plastic trees – Radiohead
Shut your eyes – Shout Out Louds
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#352 Destroying the media in more ways than one (Media)
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Edition #352
Act 1: Some bullshit happening somewhere – The Onion
Act 2: We need less media consolidation – The Progressive
Act 3: Anchor management – Daily Show
Act 4: Internet freedom in danger – Young Turks
Act 5: Beck makes it harder for FOX to fool people – Counterspin
Act 6: Glenn Beck on net neutrality – Young Turks
Act 7: Beck on Obama’s politics of fear – Media Matters
Act 8: Beck attacks social justice – Colbert Report
Act 9: Glen Beck’s hate train crashes – Ring of Fire
Act 10: Context, lies and videotape – Rachel Maddow
Act 11: Fox brings on anyone against health reform – Media Matters
Act 12: CNN hires Erick Erickson – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Blogs Must Be Crazy – Daily Show
Music:
Been it – The Cardigans
And it spread – Avett Brothers
Everything to everyone – Everclear
Do it again – Five Times August
Green eyes – Coldplay
Soir De Fête – Yann Tiersen
Spirit in the sky – Norman Greenbaum
La Valse Des Vieux Os – Yann Tiersen
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#347 The new law of the land Part 1 (Health Care)
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Edition #347
Act 1: Obama’s signing speech – Countdown
Act 2: Health in the USA – The Bugle
Act 3: Reason to celebrate – Political Scene
Act 4: What happens now – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Looking back on dire predictions – Media Matters
Act 6: Media misinforms on health debate – On the Media
Act 7: Misleading right up until the vote – Counterspin
Act 8: Passing it and talk of repeal – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 9: The perfect was the enemy of the mediocre – The Progressive
Act 10: The debate is crystal clear – Rachel Maddow
Act 11: Revised school house rock – On the Media
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Pros and Cons of the Health Care Reform Bill – Young Turks
Music:
Liquid Sun – The Beginning (A New Hope) (club mix) – DJ Keoki
At the club – SM-Trax
We set ourselves free – Club 8
A Quai – Yann Tiersen
Blue Monday – New Order
If I ever feel better – Phoenix
Everybody’s free – Rozalla
Resurection (space club mix) – PPK
The world is new – Save Ferris
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#346 At war at home and abroad (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #346
Act 1: The Word – Afghanistan – Colbert Report
Act 2: Afghans may not like having families killed – Counterspin
Act 3: Local harlot exposes face – The Onion
Act 4: Morbid milestone in Afghanistan – The Progressive
Act 5: Obama caves in on military trials – Young Turks
Act 6: Garry Wills on presidential bombing power – Colbert Report
Act 7: Options for terror trials – Counterspin
Act 8: Liz Cheney’s Al-Qaeda 7 commercial – Daily Show
Act 9: Obama Admin – Torture is not illegal – Young Turks
Act 10: Marc Thiessen interview – Daily Show
Act 11: Biggest conspiracy ever – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Iraqracy – Colbert Report
Music:
Meet Me On The Equinox – Death Cab for Cutie
Daffodil Lament – The Cranberries
Killing for love – José González
Lights out – Santigold
Moment Of Tranquillity – Apoptygma Berzerk
Love like a bomb – Oasis
You or your memory – The Mountain Goats
John Adams theme song – HBO
Born Slippy – Underworld
Run on – Moby
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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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#343 Religious cults, the Christian Right and evangelists, evil and not (Religion)
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Edition #343
Act 1: Are religious cults killing democracy – Thom Hartmann
Act 2: Why are some Christians mad over Avatar – Young Turks
Act 3: Bait and switch evangelism – This American Life
Act 4: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 5: Glen Beck against ‘social justice’ in religion – Media Matters
Act 6: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Pat Robertson on Haiti’s pact with the devil – Counterspin
Act 8: Pat Robertson says Islam is not a religion – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Evangelist explains “23 Minutes in Hell” to Thom – Thom Hartmann
Music:
Hello bonjour – Michael Franti And Spearhead
In God’s country – U2
Knockin’ on heaven’s door – Guns N’ Roses
Lacrymosa – Libera
Mary Mary – Chumbawamba
Shattered faith – Bad Religion
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