#341 Flagrant ignorance (Climate Change)
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Edition #341
Act 1: Unusually large snow storm – Daily Show
Act 2: Snowpocalypse vs. climate change – Media Matters
Act 3: GOP doesn’t believe in climate change – Countdown
Act 4: Does winter snow disprove climate change – Young Turks
Act 5: Climate change deniers given second wind – Counterspin
Act 6: Denial also an inexplicable position on climate change – The Bugle
Act 7: Full court shot on climate change – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: False balance on snow vs. climate change – Counterspin
Act 9: Belief in climate change hinges on worldview – NPR
Act 10: Fox and Friends don’t understand that it’s cold in winter – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Colbert We’re Off to See the Blizzard – Colbert Report
Music:
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When the cold days come – Theo Bard
Time waits for no man – Theo Bard
Having a good time – Theo Bard
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All the orders gone – Theo Bard
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Everything you have – Theo Bard
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Evil eyes – Theo Bard
This fickle world – Theo Bard
Drums of freedom – Theo Bard
Middle class boy – Theo Bard
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#334 No bridges to burn (Healthcare)
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Edition #334
Act 1: The healthcare debate is making me sick – Brian Unger
Act 2: Pass healthcare, DUH – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: 6 facts on Obama and Dems being bipartisan – Young Turks
Act 4: Reconciliation deemed risky – Counterspin
Act 5: Secondhand smoke linked to secondhand coolness – The Onion
Act 6: Haiti vs healthcare – Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast
Act 7: Obama gets tough(er) with GOP – Young Turks
Act 8: The Word, Political Suicide – Colbert Report
Act 9: Real life death panels = Countdown
Act 10: The apparent trap and Hawaiian healthcare – Daily Show
Act 11: Obama has no bridges to burn – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Has Obama Decided Not to Do Health Care Anymore? – Young Turks
Music:
All the same – Sick Puppies
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Build me up Buttercup – The Foundations
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Don’t worry baby – Beach Boys
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Never there – Cake
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Cigarette Smoke – Arctic Monkeys
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Lives in the balance – Jackson Browne
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Directions – Josh Rouse
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Play with fire – Rolling Stones
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Pura Carroceria – Los Del Rio
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King Kamehameha – The Waikiki Hula Boys
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#333 Soulless, Clueless, Feckless, Brazen (Media)
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Edition #333
Act 1: Limbaugh’s Haiti comment – Countdown
Act 2: Limbaugh the hyena – Ring of Fire
Act 3: O’Reilly and the Haiti telethon – Countdown
Act 4: Even better than the real thing – The Daily Show
Act 5: Daughter Cheney can’t debate – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: The Word – Two-faced – Colbert Report
Act 7: The Wash Post and the Fiscal Times – Counterspin
Act 8: Gretchen Carlson dumbs down – Daily Show
Act 9: Brian Williams on Jon Stewart – NPR
Act 10: How awful it is when media is weak – Counterspin
Act 11: Q and O – Fox News cuts the feed – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Wag of the finger to Fox News – Colbert Report
Music:
Like humans do – David Byrne
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Circle of life – Faca Kulu, Lebo M., The Lion King Ensemble & Tsidii Le Loka
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The man in me – Bob Dylan
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Fairytale – Sara Bareilles
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Duck and run – 3 Doors Down
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The asshole song – Jimmy Buffett
Highly suspicious – My Morning Jacket
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Plum dumb – The Dead Milkmen
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Good people – Jack Johnson
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Live like you’re dying – Lenka
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#325 Where religion and ignorance meet (Religion)
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Edition #325
Act 1: Conservapedia working on conservative bible – Colbert Report
Act 2: Hume on Woods and religion – Counterspin
Act 3: Interview on conservative bible – Colbert Report
Act 4: Exporting homophobia to Uganda – The Progressive
Act 5: Uganda be kidding me Part 2 – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Christmas billboard stirs seasonally inappropriate emotions – The Onion
Act 7: Kill the gays law hits major news in US – Thom Hartmann
Act 8: Prayer effort seeks right-thinking from liberals – NPR
Act 9: Killing people to make magic potions Part 1 – Young Turks
Act 10: Christ returns to NBA – The Onion
Act 11: Killing people to make magic potions Part 2 – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Uganda be kidding me Part 1
Music:
Blacking Out The Friction – Death Cab For Cutie
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Redemption song – Bob Marley
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God – The Dodos
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Hate me – Blue October
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Directions – Josh Rouse
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Carol of the bells – United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus
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Gods gonna cut you down – Johnny Cash
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Like a prayer – Rufio
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You’re wrong – NOFX
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Jammin – Bob Marley
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#322 Reason to celebrate? (Podcast)
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Edition #322
Act 1: Episode recap from The DC – Daily Show
Act 2: Lincoln conservative on healthcare – Counterspin
Act 3: GOP weakens health bill and then bash it – Young Turks
Act 4: Is GOP serious about fixing healthcare – Slate
Act 5: Open letter on free health clinics – Countdown
Act 6: Obama defends health bill from the left – NPR
Act 7: For he’s a jowly good fellow – Colbert Report
Act 8: Media misleads on opinions of health reform – Counterspin
Act 9: Devastating healthcare quotes from Obama – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Idiot Democrats Think It’s Good News Their Voters are Pissed at Them – The Young Turks
Music:
Hero – Enrique Iglesias
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I need to know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
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Why pretend – Mandi Perkins
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Objection – Shakira
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Fake Empire – The National
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Serre-moi – Tryö
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Haunting me – Oona Garthwaite
Everybody’s fool – Evanescence
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#319 1st world party, 3rd world clean up (Podcast)
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Edition #319
Act 1: Aziz Ansari on Copenhagen – It’s getting ha in here
Act 2: Gore urges Obama to take lead on climate – NPR
Act 3: Al Gore – Daily Show
Act 4: Gore the wonky bore – Counterspin
Act 5: The Story of Cap and Trade – Annie Leonard
Act 6: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: DOT to add walking lanes to highways – The Onion
Act 8: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: News of the warm – Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Act Now – Green.tv
Music:
Hold my hand – Hootie and the blowfish
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Change your mind – Sister Hazel
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If we make it through December – Merle Haggard
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Cloud Nine – Ben Howard
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Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen
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Classical Gas – Mason Williams
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Walk beside me – Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien
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Got My Mind Set On You – George Harrison
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#315 Big bill bothers bought off blowhards (Podcast)
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Edition #315
Act 1: Blow hards bloviate on healthcare – Counterspin
Act 2: Bill big, bill bad – Daily Show
Act 3: GOP Continues healthcare fear tactics – The Young Turks
Act 4: Fire hot – The Onion
Act 5: Grayson on fighting back Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 6: Lieberman on wiggling – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 7: Grayson on fighting back Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Absurd Republicans caught on tape – The Young Turks
Act 9: Wisconsin city is the best place to die – NPR
Act 10: Preggers can’t be choosers – Daily Show
Act 11: Restricting abortion rights in health reform – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Judge Napolitano Lies about Health Care Reform – The Young Turks
Music:
Tax man – The Beatles
Naive – The Kooks
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Fearless – VNV Nation
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World on Fire – Sarah McLachlan
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In a big country – Big Country
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Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
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Brain stew – Green Day
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So fast, so numb – R.E.M.
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I know I know I know – Tegan and Sara
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Different people – No doubt
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#306 Democracy for sale
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Edition #306
Act 1: Supreme Court on the verge of humanizing corporations – Colbert Report
Act 2: Looking forward on changing our economics – Bill Maher
Act 3: Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court – Colbert Report
Act 4: Obama is letting the banks off the hook – The Young Turks
Act 5: Thousands of unemployed robots join the military – The Onion
Act 6: Wall streeters weigh life after ‘giant pool of money’ – NPR
Act 7: Krugman on Palin and economics – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Dow rallies after chimpanzee rings opening bell – The Onion
Act 9: Big money vs. the people – The Young Turks
Music:
Different People – No Doubt
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Bleeding me – Metalica
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And it spread – The Avett Brothers
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Love you till the end – The Pogues
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Give it up – The Goodmen
Nothing Is Good Enough – Amiee Mann
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American Pie – Don McLean
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Ring my bell – Anita Ward
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#300 Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops (Podcast)
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Edition #300
Act 1: Laying off the robots – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: The Lehman shock – Slate.com
Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool – The Onion
Act 4: Consensus On Fixing Financial System Erodes – NPR
Act 5: Krugman on the ‘return of depression economics – Colbert Report
Act 6: Hannity misleads on unemployment numbers – Counterspin
Act 7: Discussing Lehman Bros and the economic politics – New Yorker
Act 8: 1-year anniversary of Lehman Bros collapse – Daily Show
Act 9: Deficits as the bogeyman – Counterspin
Act 10: Area coach calls star athlete ‘too big to fail’ – The Onion
Act 11: Bush vs. Clinton Do tax cuts work? – The Young Turks
Act 12: Good news / bad news America’s recession – Daily Show
Music:
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 [Main Title] – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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Never recover – The Cardigans
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Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Philip Glass
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Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
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Bury my with my car – Ben Sollee
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Little Lies – Fleetwood Mac
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Save me – Aimee Mann
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Torn Blue Foam Couch – Grand archives
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Trouble me – 10,000 maniacs
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Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – Of Montreal
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Keepsake – State Radio
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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
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
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Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
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Am I wrong? – Love Spit Love
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The District Sleeps Alone Tonight – The Postal Service
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The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
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Shout – Tears for fears
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Make your own kind of music – Cass Elliot
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We can work it out – Heather Nova
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End it on this – No Doubt
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#295 Playing games with the climate and cheating (Podcast)
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Act 1: Coal industry mail fraud – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: ‘Astroturf’ campaign fights climate bill – NPR
Act 3: A look at post-Katrina New Orleans – Le Show
Act 4: Surviving the storm: Voices from Katrina – NPR
Act 5: Bill McKibben from 350.org – Colbert Report
Act 6: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 7: Denver’s secret – Slate.com
Act 8: Jellyfish may help keep planet cool – NPR
Act 9: Face-lift: New ‘Faces of coal’ campaign – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Buildings and mountains – The Republic Tigers
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Unforgiven – Apocalyptica
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Help – Howie Day
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I will survive – Cake
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Favorite game – The Cardigans
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Beds are burning – Midnight Oil
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Blowing’ in the wind – Bob Dylan
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Into the ocean – Blue October
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#294 The very long battle continues, now without our General (Podcast)
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Act 1: Betsy McCaughey pounded by Jon Stewart – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: The history of pushing for universal healthcare – On the Media
Act 3: The powerful vs. the powerless – The Young Turks
Act 4: The Republican death machine – Slate.com
Act 5: Jonathan Cohn on healthcare – Colbert Report
Act 6: A detailed look at the possible death of the public option – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Kennedy’s lasting devotion to heathcare reform – NPR
Act 8: The profit of providing bad health insurance – Countdown
Music:
Mr. Maker – The Kooks
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See you on the other side – Ozzy Osbourn
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You could be happy – Snow Patrol
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A million ways – OK Go
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Any way you want it – Journey
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Close Your Eyes – Young Love
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#292 The opponents of healthcare are scarier than death panels
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Act 1: These guys are not on the level – The Young Turks
Act 2: Sick for profit – Brave New Films
Act 3: Bernie Sanders on single-payer healthcare Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Debate on healthcare goes unexplained – Counterspin
Act 5: Bernie Sanders on single-payer healthcare Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 6: Deep fear and anger over healthcare – The Young Turks
Act 7: Heal or no heal, Montana townhall – Daily Show
Act 8: Kill Grandma? Debunking health bill myths – NPR
Act 9: Report from a remote access clinic in LA – Bill Maher
Act 10: Fact-free, purely political healthcare debate – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Debate Exposes Doubt – Death Cab For Cutie
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Sing Theresa Says – Greg Laswell
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Call on me – Eric Prydz
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Break it down again – Tears for fears
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Can’t Fight This Feeling – REO Speedwagon
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Girl afraid – The Smiths
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Wanted – The Cranberries
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Don’t let it bring you down – Annie Lennox
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Good – Better Than Ezra
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#288 It’s 7pm, do you know where your grandparents are? (Podcast)
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Act 1: Healthrasier – Daily Show
Act 2: GOP on the wrong side of history – Bill Maher
Act 3: Healthcare Pap Attack – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Obama strikes back, is it enough? – The Young Turks
Act 5: Master Rebators: The Crank Cycle – Daily Show
Act 6: Manufactured riots – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Hostile groups at townhalls – NPR
Act 8: Heathcare reform is the matrix – Colbert Report
Act 9: Debunking the fears of healthcare – Countdown
Act 10: Obama must pass a healthcare bill – Daily Show
Act 11: Covering the confusion about healthcare – Counterspin
Act 12: Violence, eugenics and heathcare – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Hospital Beds – Cold War Kids
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Live Like You’re Dying – Lenka
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Oxford comma – Vampire Weekend
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Gone going – Black Eyed Peas
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Live forever – Oasis
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Lights out – Santigold
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I’m no superman – Laslo Bane
Beloved – VNV Nation
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Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers
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The Secret Agent Ending – Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico & Elias Arizcuren
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The Importance of Being Idle – Kaiser Chiefs
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#287 Cap’n Trade to the rescue! (If only!) (Podcast)
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Act 1: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 2: Scientists debate geoengieneering – NPR
Act 3: Steven Chu – Daily Show
Act 4: About climate change: Never mind – Slate.com
Act 5: The Word: Ban de Soleil – Colbert Report
Act 6: Tidwell interview about cap & trade bill Part 1 – The Young Turks
Act 7: Meat shelf breaks free of Iowa – The Onion
Act 8: Tidwell interview about cap & trade bill Part 2 – The Young Turks
Act 9: Captain Trade! – Daily Show
Music:
July July – The Decemberists
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Sky – Sonique
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Stuck in the middle with you – Stealers Wheel
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Better off alone – Alice Deejay
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The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
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Dreaming of you – The Coral
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Just a ride – Jem
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Auto-tune the news #6 – YouTube user schmoyoho
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