#584 Bullies, bad words and birth control (Limbaugh v Fluke)
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Act 1: GOP Does Not Understand How Contraception Works – Rachel Maddow Air Date 3-2-12
Song 1: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm – God Shuffled His Feet
Act 2: Bill O’Reilly Rips Sandra Fluke – Young Turks Air Date: 3-6-12
Song 2: The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Act 3: Guide to Are you a prostitute? by Rush Limbaugh – The Bugle Air Date: 3-9-12
Song 3: Oh, Pretty Woman – 16 Biggest Hits: Roy Orbison
Act 4: Limbaugh and the GOP war on women – Counterspin Air Date: 3-8-12
Song 4: Possibility – The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Deluxe Version) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Act 5: Advertisers flee from Limbaugh’s radio program – On the Media Air Date: 3-8-12
Song 5: White Electric – Gloss Drop (Bonus Track Version)
Act 6: Rush Limbaugh Gets a Measure of Comeuppance – The Progressive Air Date: 3-5-12
Song 6: All Apologies (Live) – MTV Unplugged in New York: Nirvana
Act 7: Insincere Apologies – Mitt Romney Has a Rush Limbaugh Problem – Rachel Maddow Air Date 3-5-12
Song 7: The Prettiest Weed – Sword & Sworcery LP – The Ballad of the Space Babies
Act 8: Fluke Isn’t the Only Woman Being Attacked By Limbaugh This Week – Media Matters Air Date: 3-8-12
Voicemails:
Follow up on comments regarding joke on the Jimmy Dore Show and standards in broadcasting – Joe from Nanjing China
Reaction to the Jimmy Dore Show vs Limbaugh comparison – Mara from Pittsburgh
Rush Limbaugh’s misunderstanding of contraception – Patrick from Dallas
Follow up comparison question to Limbaugh vs Jimmy Dore Show discussion – Andrew from Brooklyn, NY
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Final comments on the follow up comparing a Jimmy Dore Show joke and the Limbaugh controversy
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#579 The War on Women Part 1: Contraception
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Act 1: Fox Attempts to Smear Obama as Anti-Catholic – Media Matters Air Date: 2-2-12
Song 1: Only the Good Die Young (Single Version) – The Essential Billy Joel
Act 2: Obama Attacks Religious Freedom McConnel on Contraception Coverage – TYT – Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 2: If I Had a Hammer – The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary
Act 3: It’s a great time to be a woman in America! – Blacking it up Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 3: Living In America – James Brown: Greatest Hits Fourth Decade
Act 4: Fox: Access to Birth Control = Forcing You To Eat Pork – Media Matters Air Date: 2-15-12
Song 4: Fool – Laundry Service
Act 5: Republicans Have Picked a Loser in Contraception Fight – The Progressive Air Date: 2-16-12
Song 5: Those Were the Days (Re-Recorded) – Mother’s Golden Memories – Classic Songs from the 50′s-70′s (Re-Recorded Versions)
Act 6: If we allow contraception women may begin to think they’re equal to men – Majority Report Air Date: 2-14-12
Song 6: Barefoot and Pregnant – The Doyle and Debbie Show
Act 7: American Lady News and the debate on contraception – The Bugle Air Date: 2-17-12
Song 7: Lessons Learned – Grand
Act 8: Obama Contraception Compromise Not 3D Chess – Young Turks – Air Date 2-20-12
Song 8: The Boy In the Bubble – Graceland (Remastered)
Act 9: Really? with Seth and Amy: Birth Control – Saturday Night Live
Voicemails:
Reaction to the Jay and Lauren’s discussion on communication – Todd from LA
If homosexuality is a choice then why not try choosing it for a week just to see? – Daniel from Clemmons, NC
Reaction to the Jay and Lauren’s discussion on communication – Dave from Olympia, WA
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Final comments teasing that I’m going to start a conversation about the oppression of women in society
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#575 Where the money hits the road (Climate Change)
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Act 1: Former Climate Skeptic Admits Global Warming is Real – David Pakman – Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 1: Don’t Stop Believin’ (Live) – Greatest Hits Live
Act 2: Climate Change Deniers Koch Blocked – Majority Report – Air Date: 10-24-11
Song 2: Mr. Blue Sky – ELO’s Greatest Hits
Act 3: Another Foot Drag by Obama on Global Warming – The Progressive Air Date: 12-2-11
Song 3: I Melt With You – After the Snow
Act 4: Sen. Inhoff, Tea Party, brags about ‘debunking’ Climate Change – Green News Report – Air Date: 12-08-11
Song 4: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 5: Koch Brothers Exposed for Cancer Causing Pollution – Young Turks
Song 5: The fiddler’s ballad – Jen Osha w/Wolf Creek Session
Act 6: Landowners Get Fracked By Oil Companies – Majority Report – Air Date: 12-07-11
Song 6: Live and Let Die – Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hits
Act 7: Consequences of increasing emissions – Green News Report – Air Date: 11-08-11
Song 7: Don’t Stop – Greatest Hits
Act 8: Solyndra Real Scandal Is Dirty Energy Subsidies – Young Turks – Air Date: 01-22-12
Song 8: Circles – El Oso
Act 9: Fukushima and Global Warming – The Progressive Air Date: 12-29-11
Song 9: Beds Are Burning – Diesel and Dust (2007 Remastered)
Act 10: How To Destroy The Environment, Steal Money, Look Good Doing It – Lee Camp – Air Date: 01-30-12
Song 10: Goodbye Blue Sky – The Wall (Remastered)
Act 11: ‘Gasland’ Journalists Arrested At Fracking Hearing – Young Turks Air Date: 2-1-12
Song 11: I Turn My Camera On – Gimme Fiction
Act 12: GOP “mad as a hatter” about EPA mercury regs – Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-26-12
Song 12: World Spins Madly On – Say I Am You
Act 13: Strong climate advocate unseated in the Maldives – The Bugle Air Date: 2-10-12
Song 13: Take A Chance – Take A Chance
Act 14: GOP Still Pushing Keystone XL Pipeline – Young Turks – Air Date 2-6-12
Voicemails:
Thoughts on sustainable agriculture and care for farm animals – Ben from Le Grange, KY
Call to action on art exhibition on women of color. Details at idistudios.com – Ijeoma in New York City
Thoughts and call to action on new mortgage deal just signed – Todd from LA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on my fundraising ride from NYC to DC in May
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#573 As we do unto others (Foreign Policy)
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Act 1: Bush Cancels Trip to Switzerland Over Threat of Torture Arrest – Majority Report Air Date: 12-4-11
Song 1: Vacation – Go Go’s
Act 2: Iran Nuclear Scientists Executed With Car Bombs, Shootings – Young Turks Air Date: 1-11-12
Song 2: Not the Only One – Breaking Up
Act 3: Iran Scientist Assassinated – Citizen Radio Air Date: 1-1-12
Song 3: Drop Dead Blues – Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
Act 4: The Truth About War With Iran – Lee Camp Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 4: Such Great Heights – Give Up
Act 5: U.S. Must Tell Israel Not to Bomb Iran – The Progressive Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 5: I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits
Act 6: Canada’s Defense Ministry criticized for ordering 20 000 orange stress balls – The Bugle Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 6: Fear is a villain – Theo Bard
Act 7: Marines Urinate On Dead Bodies In Afghanistan – Young Turks Air Date: 1-12-12
Song 7: War – Hello Destiny…
Act 8: Urinating on dead Afghanis – History of war – Rob Delaney Commentary – Citizen Radio – Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 8: Legions (War) – Zeo Keating
Act 9: CNN Contributor Applauds Controversial Marine Video – Media Matters Air Date: 1-13-12
Act 10: Republicans boo the “golden rule” when applied to foreign policy – Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 1-26-12
Song 10: Tonight I Have to Leave It – Our Ill Wills
Act 11: Congress Fights Automatic Defense Spending Cuts – Young Turks Air Date – 1-22-12
Song 11: It’s a Wonderful Life – A Call to Arms – EP
Act 12: The Greatest Speech Ever Made – Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
Voicemails:
Thoughts on the importance of It Gets Better to be thought of as a first step – Daniel from CA
Ethically raised food and animals from your local CSA – Chuck in Salt Lake City
Excited about the next step of the “Make it Better” campaign – Dave from Olympia, WA
Thoughts on the Make it Better campaign – Jason from the cornfields of Iowa
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments clarifying my story of the It Gets Better campaign
Produced By:
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