#563 This is Pottersville (Economics)
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Act 1: Big Banks Behind Payday Loan Scams – Young Turks Air Date: 12-7-11
Song 1: Spite – Dig Down Deep (Bonus Track Version)
Act 2: Alan Grayson: Trillions in bank bailouts by the Federal Reserve – Countdown Air Date: 11-29-11
Song 2: King (feat. Russell Simmons & DJ Logic) – King (Deluxe Version)
Act 3: Bloomberg vs. The Fed – On the Media Air Date: 12-2-11
Song 3: Carmina Burana: I. O Fortuna – Orff: Carmina Burana
Act 4: Teenager Learns Negligible Value Of A Dollar – The Onion
Song 4: Panning for Gold – Learning to Bend
Act 5: Do The Rich Have Souls – Young Turks Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 5: Money (That’s What I Want) [Single] – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barrett Strong
Act 6: Vulture Funds And The Greediest Men Alive – Lee Camp Air Date: 12-19-11
Song 6: More and More (Original Single Version) – More and More
Act 7: Congressman Keith Ellison – How to get corporate money out of politics – Thom Hartmann Air Date: 12-7-11
Song 7: Pottersville – Blank Squirrel as heard on The Majority Report – Air Date: 12-23-11
Act 8: Big corporation, tiny heart – Jim Hightower Air Date: 12-14-11
Song 8: Breathe Me – Breathe Me – Single
Act 9: GOP Plan To Raise Your Taxes, Cut Taxes On Rich – Young Turks Air Date: 11-13-11
Song 9: Worried Man – Sunny Side Up
Act 10: Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department – The Onion
Song 10: Yell Fire! – Yell Fire!
Act 11: Payroll tax cut: Robert Reich breaks down the GOP’s hypocrisy – Countdown Air Date: 12-6-11
Song 11: Maria – Blondie: Greatest Hits
Act 12: GOP Objects To ‘Millionaires Surtax’; Millionaires We Found? Not So Much – NPR Air Date: 12-10-11
Song 12: The Silvery Light of a Dream Pt. 2 – Tone Soul Evolution
Act 13: Payroll Tax Cut Advice from the Wall Street Journal – Young Turks Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 13: Eclipse – Welcome to Earth
Act 14: A List Of Corporate Criminals Ravaging The World – Lee Camp Air Date: 12-12-11
Voicemails:
9/11 Truthers and the discussion of cults – Arkle
Hijacked by the bamboozle – Rochelle from TX
Leave a message at 206-202-3410
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final Comments on “Opt-In-Island Economics”
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
SuperCommittee – Mark Fiore Air Date: 11-16-11
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#561 Sorry about that (Foreign Policy)
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Act 1: Victoryish – Mark Fiore Air Date 12-26-11
Act 2: Sorry – Al Franken Show
Act 3: General Pushes For U.S. War With Iran – Young Turks Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 3: Auld Lang Syne – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 4: Shitzkrieg – European Wars – Daily Show Air Date: 8-9-11
Song 4: I Saved the World Today – Eurythmics: Ultimate Collection (Remastered)
Act 5: ACLU on Redacted Documents – On the Media Air Date: 12-9-11
Song 5: Secrets – Waking Up (Deluxe Version)
Act 6: US Spends 59 percent of Budget on Defense – Young Turks Air Date: 12-4-11
Song 6: Cuts Like a Knife – An Acoustic Tribute to Bryan Adams
Act 7: New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq – The Onion
Song 7: Mickey – Best of Toni Basil – Mickey & Other Love Songs
Act 8: 9 Children killed in US Afghan Air Strike – Counterspin Air Date: 12-1-11
Song 8: Cry – Back to Bedlam
Act 9: Game Of Drones – Daily Show Air Date: 12-7-11
Song 9: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Act 10: For Afghan Women, Rape Law Offers Little Protection – NPR Air Date: 12-3-11
Song 10: Marry You – Doo-Wops & Hooligans (Deluxe Version)
Act 11: Virginity Tests Banned – Young Turks Air Date: 12-28-11
Song 11: Put It to the Test – Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
Act 12: Time Magazine Columnist – Tensions toward Pakistan – Counterspin Air Date: 12-8-11
Song 12: Ruby – Kaiser Cheifs
Act 13: Lowe’s Balls of the Week – Daily Show Air Date: 12-14-11
Song 13: Big Balls – AC/DC
Act 14: Syrian Government Attacking Citizens – Young Turks Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 14: Call for Help – Stale and Dry
Act 15: Iraqi war invasion historiography, a rewriting – Counterspin Air Date: 12-8-11
Song 15: Turn it Over – The Bluegrazer Album
Act 16: U.S. Plans To Give Every Iraqi $3,544.91 And Let Free Market Do Rest – The Onion
Song 16: From the Ashes – Land of the Free Pt. II
Act 17: Iran Sanctions, War, Israel, Gas Prices – Young Turks Air Date: 12-28-11
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Year In Review: Revolution In Egypt Either Courageous Or Stupid Depending On Outcome – The Onion
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#549 Beyond the water’s edge (Foreign Policy)
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Act 1: Investigate Alleged U.S. War Crime in Iraq – The Progressive Air Date: 9-1-11
Song 1: One Million Miles Away – The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine and Nazu
Act 2: What Do Peanuts Have To Do With Terrorism – Lee Camp Air Date: 9-11-11
Song 2: Peanut Butter – Greatest Hits Of The 1960′s
Act 3: Obama Continues No-Bid Contracts For Wars – Young Turks Air Date: 9-6-11
Song 3: A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard – The Reluctant Graveyard
Act 4: Anecdotal Iraqi Opinion Propaganda – Counterspin Air Date: 9-15-11
Song 4: One Day – Light (Bonus Track Version)
Act 5: Robin Wright on rejecting extremism in foreign policy – Colbert Report Air Date: 9-7-11
Song 5: Rock the Casbah – The Essential Clash
Act 6: NBC news links Occupy to Afghan War – Counterspin
Song 6: The Holidays Are Here (And We’re Still At War) – The Holidays Are Here (And We’re Still At War) – Single
Act 7: 6 Dead In West Point Panty Raid – The Onion
Song 7: Oops and move on – Henery Philips
Act 8: Al Qaeda Vs Ahmadinejad – Young Turks Air Date: 9-28-11
Song 8: If I Ever Feel Better – United
Act 9: Who Benefits from the Far-Fetched Plot? – The Progressive Air Date: 10-12-11
Song 9: Ruby Soho – …And Out Come the Wolves
Act 10: Ali Soufan on interrogation techniques used on Al Qaeda operatives – Colbert Report Air Date: 10-19-11
Song 10: Hotel California – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 11: Richard Engel on Iraq War – Counterspin
Song 11: I Don’t Believe In That – Unglorious Hallelujah
Act 12: Obama’s Welcome News on Iraq – The Progressive Air Date: 10-24-11
Song 12: WMD – Body of War – Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 13: Tough Enough – Mark Fiore Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 13: Cobrastyle – Robyn
Act 14: American Bases in Iraq – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on David Pakman, two straight men and an improvised nature documentary
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Democracy on the Lurch – Daily Show Air Date: 9-29-11
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#546 The whole world is, in fact, watching and taking part (Occupy Wall St Part 5)
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Act 1: Thanks for Nothin’ – Mark Fiore Air Date 10-27-11
Song 1: I’m Looking Through You – I Am Sam (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Act 2: Erroneous reporting on the Occupation – Counterspin Air Date: 10-27-11
Song 2: Down the Line – Down the Line – Single
Act 3: Prophetic article calling for the occupation Part 1 – Majority Report 10-25-11
Song 3: Generation – Emerson Hart
Act 4: Why Don’t The Occupy Protesters Stop Whining, Just Work Hard – Lee Camp Air Date: 10-28-11
Song 4: Have you had enough? – Rickie Lee Jones & The Squirrel Nut Zippers
Act 5: Prophetic article calling for the occupation Part 2 – Majority Report 10-25-11
Song 5: I Can Help – The Best of Billy Swan
Act 6: Comparing the Occupation to the Bonus Army encampment – Rachel Maddow Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 6: Down the Drain – Torrent, Vol. 1 & 2: Will Dailey
Act 7: Protest update and thoughts on tear gas – The Bugle Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 7: Touch of Grey – The Very Best of Grateful Dead
Act 8: Poll Americans Distrust Government – Young Turks Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 8: I didn’t fuck it up – Katie Goodman
Act 9: Missing Howard Zinn, Oracle of OWS – The Progressive Air Date: 10-31-11
Song 9: Back to Life – Keep On Movin’
Act 10: Shockupy Wall Street Fad – Colbert Report Air Date: 10-27-11
Song 10: Ave Maria (Pavarotti / O’Riordan) – To the Faithful Departed (The Complete Sessions 1996-1997)
Act 11: The world is, in fact, watching the Oakland Occupation – Matthew Filipowicz Air Date: 10-27-11
Voicemails:
Call to action: go visit an occupation and bring food and water – Todd from LA
Disappointment in election results and education system in Colorado – Dominic from Castle Rock, Colorado
Request for a union episode – Colin from Cleveland, OH
Occupy protests hitting on emotions and logic to take down the system – John from Tulsa, OK
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final Comments on the irrelevance of other news
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Parks & Demostrations – Oakland Riot – Daily Show Air Date: 10-26-11
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