Edition #451

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Act 1: Giffords shooting 9/11 tapes
Act 2: Are you happy now? – The Progressive
Song 2: Mad World – VSQ Film School: Cult Classics and Indie Favs
Act 3: Sheriff Dupnik’s press conference comments
Act 4: Violence outbreak affects the nutty – Countdown
Song 4: Sick As a Dog – I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Act 5: Giffords interview prior to shooting – Young Turks
Song 5: How to Save a Life – Unravel – The String Quartet Tribute to the Fray
Act 6: Right-wing downplays threats to Democrats – Media Matters
Act 7: Thinking of other tragedies – It’s all politics
Song 7: You Talk Too Much – Carnival Time – The Best of Ric Records, Vol. 1
Act 8: Politics and violence – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Forbidden Curiosities – Stages
Act 9: When ‘nut’ ain’t enough – Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 9: Glycerine – Sixteen Stone
Act 10: The guy is crazy but that’s not all – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 10: I Hear the Bells – Haughty Melodic
Act 11: Is Jared Loughner conservative or liberal? – Young Turks
Song 11: Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – Strangeways, Here We Come
Act 12: Even after Tucson, don’t limit speech – The Progressive
Song 12: Speak to me/Breathe – Pink Floyd
Act 13: False equivalence of violent rhetoric – Counterspin
Song 13: Nothing Else Matters – Inquisition Symphony
Act 14: Does Megyn Kelly watch her own network? – Media Matters
Act 15: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Angriness – Colbert Report
Song 15: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Agents of Fortune
Act 16: On aggressive rhetoric – On the Media
Song 16: Jar of Hearts (Live At Ocean Way Studios) – The Ocean Way Sessions – EP
Act 17: Richard Eskow responds to claims shooting was not political – Young Turks
Song 17: Crazy – St. Elsewhere
Act 18: Special comment renouncing violent rhetoric – Countdown

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Limbaugh: Democrats Behind Loughner – Young Turks

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Edition #447

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Act 1: The Hammer has fallen – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Delay – In his own words
Act 3: The Delay Litany – Al Franken
Act 4: Delay – In his own words
Act 5: Memorable moments – The Young Turks
Act 6: Delay – In his own words
Act 7: I’m just a bug man – Slate Podcast
Act 8: Delay – In his own words
Act 9: Good Riddance – Jack Cafferty
Song 9: Future Is Now – Dune
Act 10: Verdict is in – Young Turks
Song 10: Tonight I Have to Leave It – Our Ill Wills
Act 11: Commenting on Tom Delay – It’s all politics
Song 11: The Office UK – Outro #2 – The Office UK Theme Music
Act 12: Story behind the conviction – Jim Hightower
Song 12: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – 60′s Gold
Act 13: Sam announces the sentence – Majority Report
Song 13: Cigarette Smoker Fiona – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? – EP
Act 14: Allison announces the sentence – Citizen Radio
Song 14: Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol: Greatest Hits
Act 15: Cocky Delay gets three years – Jim Hightower
Song 15: Behind Bars – Baga Tricks
Act 16: Liberals to blame for the conviction – Countdown
Song 16: Montaña – Love & Liberte
Act 17: 3 years prison for Tom Delay – Young Turks

Source Story Series Featuring Rachel Maddow

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The Big Buy Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress – Brave New Films

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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