Edition #480

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Act 1: Federal gov almost shut down over Planned Parenthood – Double X Gabfest from Slate.com
Song 1: I wish I knew – Years and Years
Act 2: Deficits are sustainable – Majority Report
Song 2: Forever Yellow Skies – The Treasure Box for Boys and Girls
Act 3: Deficits are unsustainable with Chris Martenson – David Pakman
Song 3: Lone Star – Sword & Sworcery LP – The Ballad of the Space Babies
Act 4: President Obama, Chief Negotiator – Citizen Radio
Song 4: Play With Fire – The Darjeeling Limited (Original Soundtrack)
Act 5: Obama let’s us know how he really feels – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Shuffle Your Feet – Howl
Act 6: Follow up on Obama the negotiator – Citizen Radio
Song 6: Talented Tailor (Live) – Laura Hocking
Act 7: Embracing the class war – Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:
Thoughts on fixing the budget issue – Sean from Atlanta, GA
Asking leniency for Obama re: Gitmo – Pamela from Virginia
Socialism and communism are part of the left in the US – Max from Berkley, CA

Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter – Deadringer

Final comments apologizing for failing to properly label an explicit clip from Dan Savage and more thoughts on political rhetoric

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GOP Cuts Education – Why? – Young Turks

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Edition #478

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Act 1: Lackluster launch of Obama’s campaign – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Ottoman – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition]
Act 2: Kicking the base – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Ain’t That a Kick In the Head – Dino – The Essential Dean Martin
Act 3: President Obama’s un-kept campaign promises – David Pakman
Song 3: The Promise – When in Rome
Act 4: As the media frames the Democrats – Counterspin
Song 4: Candy Everybody Wants – Our Time In Eden
Act 5: Meet potential GOP candidate Michele Bachmann – Young Turks
Song 5: Baby Elephant Walk – The Best of Lawrence Welk
Act 6: Donald goes full Birther – Media Matters
Act 7: Base race, Bachman, Cain, Gingrich – Daily Show
Song 7: The Thoughts That Give Me the Creeps – Would It Kill You?
Act 8: Huckabee on gay marriage – Dan Savage
Song 8: In Your Eyes – The String Quartet Tribute to Peter Gabriel
Act 9: Palin supports Trump’s birtherism – Media Matters
Act 10: Pawlenty declares candidacy before he’s ready – Colbert Report
Song 10: Desire – The Best of 1980-1990
Act 11: Bachmann Overdrive by David Weigel – Slate.com
Song 11: Pale Horses – Wait for Me
Act 12: Base race, Santorum, Barbour, Trump – Daily Show
Song 12: Easy – Born On Flag Day
Act 13: Trump 2012 – Media Matters
Act 14: Colbert PAC – Colbert Report
Song 14: Just for Now – Speak for Yourself
Act 15: Poll trouble for GOP in 2012 elections – Young Turks

Voicemails:
Show suggestions: War news radio – Chuck in Salt Lake City
Show suggestions: TAL and The Moth – Eric from Eagle Mountain, Utah
Show suggestions: Sound of Young America, Sound Opinions, Judge John Hodgman and lots of comedy shows – Steve from Richmond, VA
Responding to Ryan and the Vietnam war – Carter from Denver

Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter – Deadringer

Final comments on the NLC fundraiser

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Nation Elects First Openly Drunk Senator – The Onion

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Edition #471

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Act 1: Election hangover – Slate.com
Song 1: Razorblade – First Impressions of Earth
Act 2: Senator Hatch gives absurd speech – Young Turks
Song 2: Momentum – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 3: Republicans flirt with presidential candidacy – Colbert Report
Song 3: Use Somebody – Only By the Night (Deluxe Version)
Act 4: Anti-Muslim GOP candidate Herman Cain – Young Turks
Song 4: North By North – Dynamo
Act 5: Newt is faking it – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Money (That’s What I Want) – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barrett Strong
Act 6: Newt Gingrich wants to screw America – Colbert Report
Song 6: Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise – I and Love and You
Act 7: Morbid Curiosity leading many voters to support Palin – The Onion
Song 7: Good (for a woman) – Alien Ant Farm
Act 8: Sarah Palin destroyed by conservatives – Young Turks
Song 8: Solsbury Hill – The String Quartet Tribute to Peter Gabriel
Act 9: Huckabee doubles down – Media Matters
Act 10: Amending the constitution to deny corporate personhood – The Progressive
Song 10: This Is the Day – Soul Mining
Act 11: Some states cancelling primaries – Young Turks
Song 11: Out of Our Hands – Signs
Act 12: Ballotproof elections – Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:
Message trumps the messenger – Matt from Alabama
Supporter of Abu-Jamal written statement – Garrett
17-year old reaction to Pakman stat on troops in Afghanistan – Colin from Sacramento, CA
Response to Colin – David Pakman from Mass

Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter – Deadringer

Final comments on new video version of the show

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Colbert PAC Ad – Colbert Report

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Edition #470

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Act 1: Boehner’s People – Jim Hightower
Song 1: Tears and Rain – Back to Bedlam
Act 2: Ineffective GOP – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: If you’ve got trouble – The Beatles
Act 3: The do-nothing congress – Slate.com
Song 3: Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tears for Fears
Act 4: Congress forgets how to pass a bill – The Onion
Song 4: Kill the Director – The Wombats – EP
Act 5: Three quarters of Senate Republicans don’t believe in science – David Pakman
Song 5: The Idiots Are Taking Over – The War On Errorism
Act 6: Congress slumps back to Tom Delay ethics – Jim Hightower
Song 6: These Are the Days – Ibiza After Dark – Late Night Luxury Grooves
Act 7: Boehner is bad at his job Part 1 – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Theme from “Greatest American Hero” (Believe It or Not) – America’s Greatest Hero
Act 8: Useless GOP distractions – Bill Maher
Song 8: Radio – As Smart As We Are
Act 9: Boehner OK with Americans losing jobs – Young Turks
Song 9: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Act 10: Johnnie “Business as usual” Boehner – Jim Hightower
Song 10: Broken Horse – Weathervanes
Act 11: Boehner is bad at his job Part 2 – Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:
BYU basketball player kicked off for honor code violation – Scott from California
Supporting Mumia because he’s based on facts – John From Omaha
Excitement about YouTube playlists – Max from Berkley, CA

Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics

Final comments on Power Shift, new video version of the show and the listener of the year

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John Boehner’s Large Gavel – Colbert Report

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Edition #452

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Act 1: Jon’s reaction to the AZ shooting – Daily Show
Song 1: A Beautiful World – The Good Life – EP
Act 2: Carefully stating the obvious – On the Media
Song 2: Cordell (Box Set Bonus Track) – To the Faithful Departed (The Complete Sessions 1996-1997)
Act 3: Sarah Palin and the shooting – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 3: Welcome to the Black Parade – Strung Out – The String Quartet Tribute to Alternative Rock Hits, Vol. 3
Act 4: Palin: criticism of violent rhetoric leads to violence – Media Matters
Act 5: Palin plays the victim – The Progressive
Song 5: Save Tonight – Desireless
Act 6: Sarah Palin’s speech about the shooting – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: American Music – Permanent Record: The Very Best of the Violent Femmes
Act 7: Obama at the Tucson memorial
Song 7: Expectations – Tigermilk
Act 8: Obama’s wise and poignant speech – The Progressive
Song 8: Listen to Your Heart – Look Sharp!
Act 9: Hitler’s inspiring Tucson memorial speech – Colbert Report
Song 9: If I Ever Lose My Faith in You – The Very Best of Sting & The Police
Act 10: Beautiful noise – Slate.com
Song 9: The Silvery Light of a Dream Pt. 2 – Tone Soul Evolution
Act 10: There was another gun – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Fantasy – Miss Halfway
Act 10: Moron on the AZ shooting – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 9: Common Sense – Deconstruction
Act 10: Special comment on the 9 days since Tucson – Countdown

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Edition #446

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Act 1: GOP takes over – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Read It & Weep – Lucky You
Act 2: House oversight committee – Colbert Report
Song 2: What I’m Looking For (Ad Version) – What I’m Looking For (Ad Version) – Single
Act 3: Dumb new congress – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Broken Chair – Land of Sea
Act 4: Read it and weep – Slate.com
Song 4: We’re Simple Minds – Spring Came, Rain Fell
Act 5: What you will and wont find in the constitution – Liberal Oasis
Song 5: Figure It Out – It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
Act 6: GOP house takeover, the hypocrisy begins – Young Turks
Song 6: Gone Going – Monkey Business
Act 7: Earmarks, Schmearmarks – Jim Hightower
Song 7: Dirty Job – Once Again
Act 8: The correct way to ridicule Boehner – Citizen Radio
Song 8: Gorel – Babba Maal
Act 9: Boehner guilty of violent talk too – Counterspin
Song 9:In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Act 10: GOP attacks health care, helps Dems – Rachel Maddow

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Great Gaffesby – Daily Show

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Edition #445

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Act 1: Medicare for all should be clear to all – The Progressive
Song 1: Choctaw Hayride – New Favorite
Act 2: Reflecting on health care opt-out – Liberal Oasis Podcast
Song 2: Powerless – The Big Picture
Act 3: Man paralyzes man from waist up – The Onion
Song 3: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend
Act 4: Record-breaking fine for health care company – Young Turks
Song 4: The Unforgiven (Instrumental Version) – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 5: Lie of the year – Media Matters
Act 6: Wendell Potter’s background in health care – David Pakman Show
Song 6: Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits
Act 7: Doctors have cure for head-bonk amnesia – The Onion
Song 7: Blue Bird Tattoo – More Songs!
Act 8: Rush’s take on health care – Young Turks
Song 8: Middle Class Boy – Listen Carefully E.P
Act 9: AZ death panel continues – Countdown
Song 9: Cuts Like a Knife – An Acoustic Tribute to Bryan Adams
Act 10: Algae alternative fuel report – ABC News
Act 11: Scandal of the uninsured – The Progressive
Song 11: Suffer – Prelude
Act 12: McSurance – Slate.com
Song 12: Built for This – Learning to Bend
Act 13: Return of the myth of death panels – Media Matters
Song 13: No Myth – March
Act 14: Death panels are back – Rachel Maddow
Song 14: Clubbed to Death – Furious Angels
Act 15: Insane health insurance profits – MSNBC

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Tea Party Elect Complains His Gov’t Health Care Doesn’t Start For 28 Days – Young Turks

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Edition #434

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Act 1: Poor corporations pay too much tax – Young Turks
Song 1: Revolution – The Beatles 1967–1970 (The Blue Album)
Act 2: The Word – Nothingness – Colbert Report
Song 2: Koto Meditation Music 4 – Chinese and Japanese Koto Harp and Shakuhachi Flute Music
Act 3: High taxes keeps money in businesses – Thom Hartmann
Song 3: Up nights – Amsterband
Act 4: All the devils are here – Daily Show
Song 4: Melody – Kate Earl
Act 5: Give the people what we want – Slate.com
Song 5: Is Love Enough (feat. Gentleman) – Yell Fire!
Act 6: Massive foreclosure fraud by banks – Young Turks
Song 6: Nutcracker: Act 2: Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy – Nutcracker
Act 7: America’s job loss – Beri Fox – Colbert Report
Song 7: Pilot Light (Extended Version) – Pilot Season Soundtrack
Act 8: GOP budget management – Rachel Maddow

Source Story Series Featuring The Majority Report

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Rich Ask Obama To Raise Their Taxes – MSNBC

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Act 1: David Bender and Rachel discuss – Rachel Maddow Show
Song 1: Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Act 2: The Colbert Revolt – Slate.com
Song 2: Another Love Song – Organised for Hi Fi
Act 3: Dissecting the comedy – The Al Franken Show
Song 3: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 4: 9/11 was on a Tuesday – Young Turks
Song 4: In the Summertime – The Very Best of Mungo Jerry
Act 5: Why journalists didn’t like the routine – Counterspin
Song 5: Jerk It Out – Love for the Streets
Act 6: Rumors of death threats to Colbert – The Majority Report
Song 6: That non-song that has since become the outro music for the show
Act 7: Anniversary of Mission Accomplished – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 7: Circles – El Oso
Act 8: We shouldn’t even be doing this – On the Media

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Unedited video of Colbert’s original speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

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Edition #427

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Act 1: The mourning after – Daily Show
Song 1: Fake Plastic Trees – The Best of Radiohead
Act 2: 1st draft of election night speeches – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 2: I Feel So – Box Car Racer
Act 3: Compromise and class after the elections – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Fake Empire – Boxer
Act 4: Where has a tea party got out of control – BBC News Quiz
Song 4: Late Night, Maudlin Street – Viva Hate
Act 5: Will the GOP compromise – MSNBC
Song 5: Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers: Gold
Act 6: Yes we can, but – Le Show
Act 7: Obama was punished for underreaching – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 7: Good People – In Between Dreams (Bonus Track Version)
Act 8: Katrina vanden Heuvel – Colbert Report
Song 8: Slight Figure of Speech – I and Love and You
Act 9: Mourning Russ Feingold – The Progressive
Song 9: All I Want Is You – Rattle and Hum
Act 10: The youth and the election – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Silver Lining – Under the Blacklight
Act 11: Electile dysfunction – Slate.com
Song 11: Take It or Leave It – Is This It
Act 12: Election to end all elections – Colbert Report
Song 12: Don’t Dream It’s Over – Divine Discontent
Act 13: Let me recount the errors of our ways – Young Turks

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Who wants it more – Daily Show

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