#550 Advocating for selfish altruism (Economics)
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Edition #550
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Act 1: Wall Street wankers according to an Irishman abroad – TheDadgadman on YouTube
Song 1: The Czar of Munster – When Juniper Sleeps
Act 2: Obama Moves Left For 2012 Election – Jimmy Dore 9-19-11
Song 2: I’m Free – Played In Full: the 90′s
Act 3: Republican Businessman Suggest 3 dollar Minimum Wage – David Pakman Air Date: 9-27-11
Song 3: Minimum Wage – Flood
Act 4: The 1 percent didn’t give workers weekends and child labor laws – Majority Report Air Date: 10-28-11
Song 4: Working Class Hero (John Lennon) – Jolly Roget Sessions – EP
Act 5: Taco Bell Employee Somehow Dressed Down By Manager – The Onion
Song 5: So low – Self
Act 6: Why GDP Is Like GPA – NPR Air Date: 10-29-11
Song 6: World Go ‘Round – Tragic Kingdom
Act 7: The disuniting of America – Jim Hightower Air Date: 11-10-11
Song 7: The Bare Necessities – The Jungle Book (Original Soundtrack)
Act 8: Bloomberg’s Don’t Blame the Banks Lie Debunked – Majority Report Air Date: 11-4-11
Song 8: Billionaire (feat. Bruno Mars) – Billionaire (feat. Bruno Mars) – Single
Act 9: Legalized Corruption of Government Exposed by Abramoff – Young Turks Air Date: 11-7-11
Song 9: Bling (Confession of a King) – Sam’s Town
Act 10: Working Man Proud Of Job He Hates – The Onion
Song 10: Slave Song – Lovers Rock
Act 11: The Managers Of Money – Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 11-13-11
Song 11: Torn Blue Foam Couch – The Grand Archives
Act 12: On Capitol Hill, Rand’s ‘Atlas’ Can’t Be Shrugged Off – NPR Air Date: 11-15-11
Song 12: Evil Is Alive and Well – Seeing Things
Act 13: Pawning the Libertarians again – Majority Report Air Date: 9-16-11
Song 13: Selfish – Who Are You Now? (Deluxe Version)
Act 14: Bank of America CEO Thank Us – Young Turks Air Date 10-30-11
Voicemails:
Responding regarding the Fairness Doctrine – Todd from LA
Thanks for elements of non-violence – Eric
Thoughts on medicare and student loans – Earland from Indiana
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final Comments on advocating for selfish altruism
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Republicans say tax the bottom 50 percent more – Young Turks
Produced By:
Jay! Tomlinson
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#542 Greed is no longer good (Occupy Wall St Part 4)
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Act 1: Occupy Wall Street Is A Thought Revolution – And It Won’t Be Minimized – Lee Camp Air Date: 10-10-11
Song 1: Bathroom Girl – Virgin Suicides (Original Motion Picture Score)
Act 2: The Occupation – Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 10-10-11
Song 2: Late Afternoon (Live) – Theo Bard
Act 3: False reporting about Soros connection to Occupy Wall St – Counterspin
Song 3: Run Screaming (Live) – Stockdale and Shapiro
Act 4: Round-table discussion of Occupy Wall St. – Jimmy Dore Air Date: 10-13-11
Song 4: The Walls Are Coming Down – Reservoir
Act 5: Tom Hayden offers extraordinary insight into evolution of Occupy Wall Street movement – Countdown Air Date: 10-13-11
Song 5: Cat Faces – Sharpen Your Teeth
Act 6: The Numbers Behind Occupy Wall Street – Lee Camp Air Date 10-20-11
Song 6: Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
Act 7: This Is the Movement We’ve Been Waiting For – The Progressive Air Date: 10-14-11
Song 7: I Shall Not Be Moved – The Gospel Album
Act 8: Round up of Sunday morning news on Occupy Wall St – Counterspin Air Date: 10-13-11
Song 8: Serre-moi – Tryö
Act 9: Obama, Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Campaign – Young Turks Air Date: 10-17-11
Song 9: Never Again – Fourth Circle
Act 10: Knee jerks defend Wall Street – Jim Hightower Air Date: 10-17-11
Song 10: United We Stand – Sing the 70′s
Act 11: Tonight at Liberty Plaza ‘The American People Agree with Us’ – Michael Moore Air Date: 10-20-11
Song 11: Stand by me – Playing For Change
Act 12: Wall Street Is Dirtier Than Occupy Wall Street – Lee Camp Air Date: 10-17-11
Song 12: Clean Up – Clean Up EP
Act 13: OWS-Hating CBC Anchor Destroyed By Chris Hedges – Young Turks Air Date 10-17-11
Voicemails:
Write on your car to promote Occupy protests – Amy from Florida
Context for Ted’s voicemail – Jay!
Call to action against Keystone XL pipeline in DC – Ted Glick from CCAN
Complaint about me quoting Steve Jobs – Ryan from New York
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on why it’s OK to quote anyone and rethinking how to protest corporations
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Jean Ross – Nurses Offer Free Health Care to #OWS – Thom Hartmann Air Date: 10-20-11
Produced By:
Jay! Tomlinson
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#529 Going soft (Media)
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Act 1: Fox Thinks Obama Was President 2000-2009 – David Pakman Air Date: 8-23-11
Song 1: Spanish Flea – Going Places
Act 2: Fox News Admits Bias To Attack Media Matters – Liberal Viewer Air Date 7-07-11
Song 2: Forever Young (Techno remix) – Alphaville
Act 3: Interview with Common – Daily Show
Song 3: Take a Look Around – Greatest Hits
Act 4: Brett Baier, Fox’s “Straight News” Anchor – Media Matters Air Date: 9-13-11
Act 5: Fox News Anchors Can’t Follow Spongebob, Claim It’s Liberal Indoctrination – David Pakman Air Date: 8-09-11
Song 5: Classical Gas – Classical Gas
Act 6: Hannity school of right-wing journalism – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: The Czar of Munster – When Juniper Sleeps
Act 7: Cenk Rips CNN Obama Analysis By Fareed Zakaria – Young Turks Air Date 8-15-11
Song 7: Love You Madly – Comfort Eagle
Act 8: Misrepresenting the fairness doctrine – Counterspin
Song 8:A Whiter Shade of Pale – The Big Chill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [15th Anniversary]
Act 9: Anderson Cooper’s Kryptonite – Colbert Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 9: Sous Le Dome Epais – Aura
Act 10: Big-time corporate synergy for football season – Counterspin
Song 10: Play the Game – Work
Act 11: Planned Parenthood Firebombed, Media Says NOTHING – Right Wing Terrorism – David Pakman Air Date: 8-05-11
Song 11: Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Act 12: Television Will Be The End Of Us – Lee Camp Air Date: 7-11-11
Song 12: Throwing Stones – Work
Act 13: Bill O’Reilly Asked Cops To Investigate Wife’s Boyfriend – Young Turks
Song 13: Feet to the Fire – Before We Fall
Act 14: Softballing Cheney – Counterspin
Song 14: North By North – Dynamo
Act 15: The Humanization Of Dick Cheney – Daily Show
Voicemails:
Don’t make the mistake of believing that you can’t be wrong – Noah from Ashland, Ohio
The psychology of last place – Sean from Portland, OR
Policeman Jeff is back – Policeman Jeff from Florida
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments welcoming back Policeman Jeff
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Glazed And Confused – Daily Show Air Date: 8-09-11
Produced By:
Jay! Tomlinson
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#520 If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine (Media)
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Act 1: CNN Asks Psychics to Predict Economic Future. Does it Make Sense? – David Pakman Air Date: 06-28-11
Song 1: Close to Me – The Cure: Greatest Hits
Act 2: Cult Of Centrism, Paul Krugman Nails It – Young Turks
Song 2: Naive – Inside In / Inside Out
Act 3: When Media Is Master – Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 07-18-11
Song 3: Hey, Soul Sister – Vitamin String Quartet Performs Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister”
Act 4: Fox Business: “I Don’t Remember Any Terrorist Attacks on American Soil” 2000-2008 – Media Matters
Act 5: CNN Anchor Don Lemon Appears Not To Care For CNN – Daily Show – Air Date: 07-26-11
Song 5: Island In the Sun – Weezer (Green Album)
Act 6: Local News = Uninformed Americans – Jimmy Dore on TYT
Song 6: Dance Music – The Sunset Tree
Act 7: Data Mining for Individual Online Media Trends – On the Media Air Date: 06-17-11
Song 7: Legend of Zelda, Main Theme – Apocalyptica
Act 8: What Won’t Fox News Politicize? – Media Matters Air Date: 8-10-11
Act 9: Online Algorithms, Individual Agency vs Passivity – On the Media Air Date: 06-17-11
Song 9: No Easy Way Out – Rocky IV (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 10: Stop Giving Equal Time to Every Absurd Notion Anyone Proposes – David Pakman Air Date: 08-09-11
Song 10: Nothing Is Good Enough – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 11: After Lying All Week, Limbaugh Surprised People Complain – Media Matters Air Date: 8-16-11
Act 12: Why Cenk Uygur left MSNBC – Young Turks
Voicemails:
There’s no ethical way to eat meat – Jose from Miami
Comments on Jose’s voicemail
It’s not ethical to eat anything – Bobby from Mesa, AZ
Comments on a pathetically asinine voicemail
We evolved to eat meat – Chuck in Salt Lake City
Comments on the evolution of eating meat
Meat-eating is like child, sweatshop labor – Patrick from Dallas
Final comments on changing morality
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Turtle (Bonobo Mix) – One Offs… Remixes & B Sides
Ghostwriter – Deadringer
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Why Cenk Uygur Left MSNBC – Part 2 – Young Turks
Produced By:
Jay! Tomlinson
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