#399 Climate bill killed as the world melts (Climate Change)
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Edition #399
Act 1: The trouble with fracking – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: That’s All – Arrow
Act 2: Obama on respecting science – Citizen Radio
Song 2: Where Is My Mind? – Surfer Rosa
Act 3: News of the warm Part 1 – Le Show
Song 3: Let’s Dance to Joy Division – A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Act 4: The cries from Pakistan – The Progressive
Song 4: Cry – Back to Bedlam
Act 5: Lose 300 million pounds of CO2 – Slate.com
Song 5: Don’t Let’s Start – Then: The Earlier Years
Act 6: Climate bill killed – Young Turks
Song 6: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – The Joshua Tree (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]
Act 7: The decline of the oil economy – The Bugle
Song 7: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 8: News of the warm Part 2 – Le Show
Song 8: Faster, Sooner, Now – Sell, Sell, Sell
Act 9: Greenland ice island – Countdown
Song 9: Juno – Elephant Shell
Act 10: 2010 hottest year so far on record – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Climate Bill – Rachel Maddow
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#396 Mentally and morally bankrupt economics (Economics)
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Edition #396
Act 1: Killing an ant with a nuclear bomb – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: High Hopes – Frank Sinatra: Complete Capitol Singles Collection
Act 2: Barney Frank on Elizabeth Warren – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Welcome to the Black Parade – The Black Parade
Act 3: Breaking down the impending tax “hike” – Jimmy Dore
Song 3: These things take time – Pummel
Act 4: Restore the estate tax! – Slate.com
Song 4: Modern Way – Employment
Act 5: Voodoo economics – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – The Sunlandic Twins
Act 6: Survival air for sale – Le Show
Song 6: Take a Look Around – Greatest Hits
Act 7: Honest and dishonest discussions of trade policy – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 7: We Are Nowhere and It’s Now – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Act 8: Goldman S@#%$ – Daily Show
Song 8: You Make Loving Fun – Greatest Hits
Act 9: Time to cut social security – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Word – The White Stuff – Colbert Report
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#386 Thank you BP (Oil Spill)
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Edition #386
Act 1: Endless bummers – Daily Show
Song 1: My Name Is Jonas – Weezer
Act 2: Shep Smith slams Fox News defending BP – Young Turks
Song 2: Real World – Exile On Mainstream
Act 3: ThreatDown – Dawn – Colbert Report
Song 3: Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix) – U.F.Off: The Best of the Orb
Act 4: BP CEO acts like Star Trek character – Young Turks
Song 4: House of the Rising Sun – Retrospective
Act 5: BP’s PR campaign – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Sinnerman – The Thomas Crown Affair (Music from the MGM Motion Picture)
Act 6: BP’s criminal negligence – The Progressive
Song 6: Politic Amagni ” La politique, c’est pas bon ” – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 7: Carl Safina on oil regulation – Colbert Report
Song 7: Soft Serve – Irresistible Bliss
Act 8: Extreme energy – Slate.com
Song 8: I Go to Extremes – The Essential Billy Joel
Act 9: Josh Fox talks about toxic materials – Daily Show
Song 9: Classical Gas – Classical Gas
Act 10: Entire oil rig searches for pizza cutter – The Onion
Song 10: Cuts Like a Knife – An Acoustic Tribute to Bryan Adams
Act 11: Oil invested judge OKs offshore drilling – Young Turks
Song 11: Stop the Madness – Versatile Roots
Act 12: Lube Job – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obamas BP Oil Spill Speech – Colbert Report
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#354 Toxic assets from Wall St to West Virginia (Economics)
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Edition #354
Act 1: Lifestyles of the rich and despicable – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 2: We bought a toxic asset so you can watch it die – NPR
Act 3: Michael Lewis – The Big Short – Daily Show
Act 4: Joeseph Stiglitz on the economic freefall Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 5: Is 2010 going to be 1994 or 1934 – Slate.com
Act 6: Joeseph Stiglitz on the economic freefall Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: No one would listen – Daily Show
Act 8: WV Mine blast conservatives fault – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Robin Hood Tax – A Good Idea – Green.tv
Music:
So long – Lodger
Toxicity – System of a Down
I second that emotion – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The gambler – Kenny Rogers
Dreamtime – Uberzone
Falling down – Oasis
Lights out – Santigold
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#330 Impending Mending or Coming Crash? (Economics)
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Edition #330
Act 1: Financial inquiry report – Daily Show
Act 2: Another economic disaster coming – Young Turks
Act 3: Banker are America’s new thugs – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Bernie Madoff M.D. – Slate
Act 5: Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs – Colbert Report
Act 6: Obama starts to revamp economic team – Young Turks
Act 7: Regulation fundamentally works – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: David Walker’s plan for the economy – Daily Show
Act 9: Obama finally standing up to banks – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obama’s Bailout Fee: Is It Enough – Young Turks
Music:
Working class hero – Exit Clov
Jump jive and wail – Brian Setzer Orchestra
Say hey – Michael Franti & Spearhead
All will be well – The Gabe Dixon Band
The Bubble Machine – Leslie Bricusse (From Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
This is twice now – Lydia
I saved the world today – The Eurythmics
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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
I need to know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Why pretend – Mandi Perkins
Objection – Shakira
Fake Empire – The National
Serre-moi РTry̦
Haunting me – Oona Garthwaite
Everybody’s fool – Evanescence
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#317 Rights, gay and otherwise, all obvious (Podcast)
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Edition #317
Act 1: From here to neutrality – Daily Show
Act 2: Feingold and Franken beat up Patriot Act – Young Turks
Act 3: The end of prohibition – Slate
Act 4: Don’t ask, don’t tell – Colbert Report
Act 5: Texas bans marriage – Young Turks
Act 6: Texas bans marriage – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 7: Mormon trespassing – Colbert Report
Act 8: Utah politician outrageous comments on gays – Young Turks
Act 9: Gaywatch Gaywatch – Peter Vadala & William Phillips – Daily Show
Act 10: Skeletons in the closet – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Can’t get queer from here – Daily Show
Music:
Here comes my baby – Cat Stevens
Your ex-lover is dead – Stars
Change is gonna come – Ben Sollee
What went wrong – Blink 182
It’s a mistake – Men at work
Miss Misery – Elliott Smith
Steal my kisses – Ben Harper
Build me up buttercup – The Foundations
Tuesday’s gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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
Never recover – The Cardigans
Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Philip Glass
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
Bury my with my car – Ben Sollee
Little Lies – Fleetwood Mac
Save me – Aimee Mann
Torn Blue Foam Couch – Grand archives
Trouble me – 10,000 maniacs
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – Of Montreal
Keepsake – State Radio
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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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#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
Unforgiven – Apocalyptica
Help – Howie Day
I will survive – Cake
Favorite game – The Cardigans
Beds are burning – Midnight Oil
Blowing’ in the wind – Bob Dylan
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
See you on the other side – Ozzy Osbourn
You could be happy – Snow Patrol
Unknown song 
A million ways – OK Go
Any way you want it – Journey
Close Your Eyes – Young Love
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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
Sky – Sonique
Stuck in the middle with you – Stealers Wheel
Better off alone – Alice Deejay
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Dreaming of you – The Coral
Just a ride – Jem
Auto-tune the news #6 – YouTube user schmoyoho
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#283 Your money or your health – Sounds like a robbery (Podcast)
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Act 1: Quizzed on healthcare – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 2: Bernie Sanders on the Dems and healthcare – Countdown
Act 3: Glenn Beck loses his mind over healthcare – The Young Turks
Act 4: Kathleen Sebelius interview Part 1 – Daily Show
Act 5: Message strategy meeting – HAARM.org
Act 6: Kathleen Sebelius interview Part 2 – Daily Show
Act 7: Obama strikes back, is it enough? – The Young Turks
Act 8: Your money or your health – Slate.com
Act 9: Bernie Sanders on healthcare reform – The Young Turks
Music:
Bushfire – Midnight Oil
All will be well – The Gabe Dixon Band
Call me – Blondie
No easy way out – Robert Tepper
Some girls are bigger than others – The Smiths
Hands Down – Dashboard Confessional
Finish Line – Fanfarlo
Title And Registration – Death Cab For Cutie
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#280 Reaping the results of corruption and greed (Podcast)
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Act 1: F#@ked or Fixed – Economic Crisis – Daily Show
Act 2: Regulating AIG – Who fell asleep on the job? – NPR
Act 3: Phantom Wealth – Thom Hartmann
Act 4: Peter Shiff on the economy – Daily Show
Act 5: Stuff the bankers, starve the kids – The Young Turks
Act 6: Recession forces U.S. to dip into Guam – The Onion
Act 7: Crazy Eddie’s house sale – Slate Magazine – Slate
Act 8: Justin Fox on the economy – Daily Show
Act 9: Using psychology to save you from yourself – NPR
Music:
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake
Here it goes again – Ok Go
Phantom of the opera – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
Let go – Frou Frou
We didn’t start the fire – Billy Joel
Crazy Maze – Desree
Take a chance – The Magic Numbers
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#277 The war of words over torture (Podcast)
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Act 1: Jesse Ventura on The View – The Young Turks
Act 2: Dick Cheney blaming 9/11 on Dick Clark – Daily Show
Act 3: Jesse Ventura on torture with Hannity – The Young Turks
Act 4: There are 355 terrorists in the US already – Slate.com
Act 5: Dealing with the facts of torture – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: New documents from the CIA on torture – The Young Turks
Act 7: You don’t ask what’s legal, you ask what works – Countdown
Music:
Under the milky way tonight – Seven Nations
Ready For The Good Times – Shakira
The man in me – Bob Dylan
Sowing the seeds of love – Tears for Fears
Bend – Ben Sollee
Just For You – Imogen Heap
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