#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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#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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Court Justice Sweetness – 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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#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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
McChrystal’s Balls – Daily Show
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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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Sue Lowden on chickens for healthcare – Colbert Report
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#344 The ultimate last final push (Health care)
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Edition #344
Act 1: Define and conquer – Colbert Report
Act 2: Limbaugh’s gonna leave – Media Matter Minute
Act 3: Code red to stop the bill – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: The ultimate last final push – Daily Show
Act 5: Condemning the Slaughter solution – Media Matters Minute
Act 6: Moyers on choice in health care – Bill Moyers’ Journal
Act 7: Colbert Report Action center
Act 8: Continuing lies on procedure – Media Matters Minute
Act 9: 11-year old boy – Countdown
Act 10: Heath Con1 – The Mediscarening – Daily Show
Act 11: Fox’s final push against health care – Media Matters Minute
Act 12: Getting ready to pass the bill – It’s all politics
Act 13: What happens after signing – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Health Care Vote Information Nerve Center – Colbert Report
Music:
La Valse d’Amélie (Version Piano) – Yann Tiersen
United we stand -The Brotherhood of Man
Pas Si Simple – Yann Tiersen
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins
La Valse d’Amélie – Yann Tiersen
Hard to say I’m sorry – Chicago
La Valse Des Montres – Yann Tiersen
Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time – Fanfarlo
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#329 Welcome President Brown (Special Election)
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Edition #329
Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Act 2: Balance of the Senate – It’s all politics
Act 3: You have the majority, now act like it – The Young Turks
Act 4: Caller says election was Thom’s fault – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Dems must fight back – Colbert Report
Act 6: Ed Rendell on doing something – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Brown election and the filibuster – On the Media
Act 8: Give them a reason to vote for you – The Young Turks
Act 9: Obama’s ballsy speech – Le Show
Act 10: What to do with less than 60 – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Brown win allows Jon Stewart to retire – Daily Show
Music:
Runnin down a dream – Tom Petty
And it spread – The Avett Brothers
Wake Up Little Suzie – Everly Brothers
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Happy – SIster Hazel
Finding something to do – Hellogoodbye
Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Slight figure of speech – The Avett Brothers
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#328 Corporations is people! (Supreme Court)
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Edition #328
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics – It’s All Politics
Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates – Thom Hartmann
Act 3: The story of the case for corporate spending – On the Media
Act 4: Congress, brought to you by – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 5: Ever-living vampires – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Constitutional amendment – The Progressive
Act 7: Supreme court makes buying politicians legal – The Young Turks
Act 8: Barney Frank on fighting SC decision – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Nader on corporate personhood – Thom Hartmann
Act 10: Special Comment on worst decision ever – Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Corp – Daily Show
Music:
God’s Radar – The Dixie Hummingbirds
Welcome to the machine – Pink Floyd
Tuesday’s gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Crash – The Primitives
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) – Pilote
Recorded live in Copenhagen – Theo Bard
Maple Leaf Rag – Scott Joplin
Drown – Smashing Pumpkins
Taking over me – Evanescence
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#311 Unexpected leadership, totally expected treachery (Podcast)
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Edition #311
Act 1: Nancy Peloci, you’ll burn in hell for this – Wait Wait don’t tell me
Act 2: Rebranding health reform – Countdown
Act 3: Franken kicks conservative ass – The Young Turks
Act 4: Much to commend, much to condemn – The Progressive
Act 5: Health care systems comparison – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Even Republican voters favor public option – Ring of Fire
Act 7: The Word, You-Genics – Colbert Report
Act 8: Discussing healthcare working through congress – Mother Jones
Act 9: Stupid GOP don’t have plan for health reform – The Young Turks
Act 10: Healthcare fight within and without political parties – It’s all politics
Act 11: Lieberman to join filibuster against health reform – Rachel Maddow
Act 12: Joe Lieberman is a true independent – Colbert Report
iPhone/iPod Touch App Bonus Content:
Public Option Limited – Daily Show
Music:
He got game – Public Enemy
Close to me – The Get Up Kids
The wrestler – Bruce Springsteen
Who’ll stop the rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time – Fanfarlo
Classical gas – Vanessa Mae
Oh my god – Ida Maria
White Blank Page – Mumford & Sons
Kelsey – Metro Station
Don’t let me down – The Stereophinics
Look what you’ve done – JET
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#307 Snowe in October and other healthcare nonsense (Podcast)
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Edition #307
Act 1: Will it Snowe or wont it? – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: Bogus report commissioned by the health lobby – Countdown
Act 3: The majority leader of the senate – It’s all politics
Act 4: GOP claim healthcare costs will rise with reform – The Young Turks
Act 5: Special healthcare comment Part 1 – Countdown
Act 6: Fat baby and getting Snowe’s vote – Daily Show
Act 7: Misleading healthcare opinion research – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Special healthcare comment Part 2 – Countdown
Music:
Tell me tell me – Burning spear
Sunday bloody Sunday – U2
Because the night – 10,000 maniacs
The world is new – Save Ferris
Ill with want – The Avett Brothers
I think we’re alone now – Tiffany
Soft serve – Soul Coughing
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#298 In the wake of Obama’s healthcare speech (Podcast)
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Act 1: Details still to be ironed out – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Pastor Incites gun-toting Obama protesters – The Young Turks
Act 4: Checking some healthcare facts – Counterspin
Act 5: Why there’s no point in reading bills – On the Media
Act 6: More fact-free arguments against healthcare – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Breaking down Obama’s speech and the reaction to it – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Healthcare lies believed shows poll – The Young Turks
Act 9: Fixing healthcare by altering patient behavior – NPR
Act 10: Having to explain how a healthcare system works – Counterspin
Act 11: Talking about the lack of respect for the office of the President – It’s all politics
Music:
Hands down – Dashboard Confessional
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Am I wrong? – Love Spit Love
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight – The Postal Service
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Shout – Tears for fears
Make your own kind of music – Cass Elliot
We can work it out – Heather Nova
End it on this – No Doubt
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#296 Distasteful discord leaks onto the floor of the house (Podcast)
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Act 1: Sen. Coburn to weeping woman: Ask you’re neighbor – The Young Turks
Act 2: Appease the wrong people… – Countdown
Act 3: Coverage of the healthcare debate – Counterspin
Act 4: GOP confirms they’re totally unwilling to be reasonable – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: McCan’t and McShouldn’t – Slate.com
Act 6: Conservatives don’t use logic in making decisions – The Young Turks
Act 7: Prepping for the healthcare speech – Le Show
Act 8: “You’re a liar!” shouted in joint session of congress – NPR’s It’s All Politics
Act 9: Barbara Boxer on Obama’s healthcare speech – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Live like you’re dying – Lenka
Middle Man – Jack Johnson
Mrs. Robinson – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Golden Brown – The Stranglers
Sleeping in – The Postal Service
I second that emotion – Diana Ross & The Supremes
The waiting – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
One Million Miles – J. Ralph
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