#401 The Beckoning (Rights)
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Act 1: The ACLU on Obama’s ‘New normal’ – On the Media
Song 1: Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time – Reservoir
Act 2: The ACLU report on Obama – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: There’s Still Time – Midnight Souvenirs (Bonus Track Version)
Act 3: Cut Obama no slack on civil liberties – The Progressive
Song 3: Tragic Flaw – Jackson Square
Act 4: ACLU defends Nazis’ right to burn down ACLU headquarters – The Onion
Song 4: Play With Fire – The Darjeeling Limited (Original Soundtrack)
Act 5: Interview with Akbar Ahmed – Daily Show
Song 5: Edge of the Ocean – Long Distance
Act 6: Beck and Limbaugh devastating quotes – Young Turks
Song 6: Welcome Home (Sanitarium) [Instrumental Version] – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 7: Beck and the MLK legacy – Media Matters
Act 8: Cenk on Glenn Beck’s MLK rally – Young Turks
Song 8: Frontier Psychiatrist – Since I Left You
Act 9: Tea baggers going to DC – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Legend of Zelda – Apocalyptica
Act 10: Beck vs MLK – Media Matters
Act 11: Beck on God, blood and goldline – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Beckoning – Countdown
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#397 The morale of the troops (Gay Rights)
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Edition #397
Act 1: Lt. Dan Choi finally discharged – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Honesty – The Essential Billy Joel
Act 2: Dan Choi on LGBT support of Dems – Citizen Radio
Song 2: Gimme Sympathy – Fantasies
Act 3: Jonathan Hopkins on DADT – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Right to Complain – Backatown (Bonus Track Version)
Act 4: Targeting Target scores a direct hit – The Progressive
Song 4: Back On Earth – The Ozzman Cometh
Act 5: DADT comic book theatre – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: I’m Not Over – Coming to Terms
Act 6: The Gay Reichs – Daily Show
Song 6: Go Do – Go
Act 7: Katherine Miller on DADT – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: What’s Wrong – My Name Up In Lights
Act 8: Glorious nonviolent revolution – The Progressive
Song 8: Revolution – The Beatles
Act 9: Military survey on DADT revision – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: This Fickle World – Theo Bard
Act 10: Discussion of being gay on The View – Midweek Politics
Song 10: Two Sisters – Left Side of the Brain
Act 11: Final comments on gaining respect – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Victor Fehrenbach on DADT – Rachel Maddow
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#394 A battle finally won in the war (Gay rights)
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Edition #394
Act 1: Lesbian mothers – Colbert Report
Song 1: Middle Class Boy – Listen Carefully E.P
Act 2: Crazy gay marriage speech – Young Turks
Song 2: The Bleeding Heart Show – Twin Cinema
Act 3: Kentucky bans gay pet weddings – The Onion
Song 3: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Fashion Nugget (Deluxe Version)
Act 4: Time to pay reparations to gays – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: January Wedding – I and Love and You
Act 5: Breakdown of prop 8 – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 6: Commentary on prop 8 – Countdown
Song 6: One – Inquisition Symphony
Act 7: Right wing reactions to Prop 8 ruling – Media Matters
Act 8: Californigaytions – Daily Show
Song 8: Curtains close – The Arctic Monkeys
Act 9: Landmark ruling on same-sex marriage – The Progressive
Song 9: Solid Ground – Dougie Maclean
Act 10: The winning lawyers – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Dreams – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 11: Prop 8 tossed out – It’s all politics
Song 11: Goodbye Stranger – The Very Best of Supertramp
Act 12: Gay marriage is inevitable – Young Turks
Song 12: Time to Take Out the Trash – I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Act 13: How to ruin same-sex marriages – Colbert Report
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Cenk Rant On Gay Marriage and The Bible – Young Turks
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#392 WikiFrenzy (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #392
Act 1: Just got the carfax – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Aegean Wave – Pianissimo
Act 2: Documents – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Opportunity – See the Sun
Act 3: That’s the way I leak it – Colbert Report
Song 3: Mr. Maker – Konk
Act 4: Congrats to Wikileaks – The Progressive
Song 4: So Long – Honeymoon Is Over
Act 5: More on the Iraq inquiry – Le Show
Song 5: Broken Horse – Weathervanes
Act 6: On the Wikileak – On the Media
Song 6: Do You Want To Know A Secret – The Beatles
Act 7: Secret info revealed – The Now Show
Song 7: Throwing Stones – Work
Act 8: Best Leak Ever – Daily Show
Song 8: Fall of the Star High School Running Back – All Hail West Texas
Act 9: Wikileak and video critique – Citizen Radio
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Frienemies – Mark Fiore
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#388 Torture is Un-American so we don’t call it that (Media)
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Edition #388
Act 1: Blame – Daily Show
Song 1: Blame It On the Tetons – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Act 2: Harvard’s study on torture – Young Turks
Song 2: Where Does the Good Go – So Jealous
Act 3: Yahweh or no way – Glenn Beck’s MLK rally – Colbert Report
Song 3: High – Back to Bedlam
Act 4: New ruling on media profanity – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 4: Escucha Me – The Best of the Gipsy Kings
Act 5: Father Guido Sarducci on Prophet Glenn Beck – Colbert Report
Song 5: Modern Way – Employment
Act 6: Torture in the media – On the Media
Song 6: Tell Me a Lie – Lost & Found
Act 7: People don’t like facts or failing – Citizen Radio
Song 7: Pony (It’s OK) – Love, Save the Empty (Bonus Track Version)
Act 8: Rush Limbaugh kids should dumpster-dive – Young Turks
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Media Fail On McChrystal Resignation – Young Turks
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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
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Obamas BP Oil Spill Speech – Colbert Report
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#385 A flawed and broken paradigm (Economics)
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Edition #385
Act 1: Pros and cons of financial reform bill – Young Turks
Song 1: Satellite – Ganging Up On the Sun
Act 2: Estate tax discussion – Bill Maher
Song 2: I Want to Protect You – Useless Trinkets-B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006 (Audio Version)
Act 3: Reinstate the estate tax – The Progressive
Song 3: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 4: Working on cutting social security – Counterspin
Song 4: Noctuary – Dial ‘M’ for Monkey
Act 5: Canadian banks vs US Banks – Young Turks
Song 5: Spare Change – Grand
Act 6: Social security broke – That’s Bullshit – Sam Seder
Song 6: 1234 – The Reminder
Act 7: Rich vs the middle class – Young Turks
Song 7: Buildings & Mountains – Keep Color
Act 8: America’s got nothing – Daily Show
Song 8: Built for This – Learning to Bend
Act 9: Obama needs to change budget dialogue – The Progressive
Song 9: Blessed – Brett Dennen
Act 10: Unemployment benefits with Paul Krugman – Colbert Report
Song 10: Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran: Greatest
Act 11: GOP on the deficit – Rachel Maddow
Song 11: Believe – The Sun and the Moon
Act 12: Conservatives don’t understand – Jimmy Dore
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Holier Than Dow – Daily Show
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#384 Kagan’s vapid and hollow confirmation (Supreme Court)
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Edition #384
Act 1: Kagan on Supreme Court confirmations – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Play the Game – Work
Act 2: Too many Jews – Le Show
Song 2: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 3: Like a lady – Media Matters
Act 4: Gen. Boykin vs. Kagan – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Ready or Not – The Score
Act 5: Franken on the importance of SCOTUS – Young Turks
Song 5: See You In the Light – Yell Fire!
Act 6: Kagan confirmation process – It’s all politics
Song 6: Keep On Moving Forward – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 7: Thurgood Marshall case histories – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Powerless – The Big Picture
Act 8: Kagan in a turban – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Will You Remember? – To the Faithful Departed (The Complete Sessions 1996-1997)
Act 9: Terrible confirmation process – Citizen Radio
Song 9: Carolina Dreams – US – EP
Act 10: More of less free – Young Turks
Song 10: I’m Free – Hotwired
Act 11: Release the Kagan – Daily Show
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Supreme Court Justice Sweetness – Colbert Report
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#382 Obama and GOP speak on oil spill (Oil Spill)
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Edition #382
Act 1: Day 58, Obama’s speech – Daily Show
Song 1: Friend of the Devil – Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows
Act 2: President’s weekly address – Le Show
Song 2: Angry – Mad Season
Act 3: LA Senator wants more oil drilling – Young Turks
Song 3: Mushaboom – Let It Die
Act 4: More moronic GOP reactions – Daily Show
Song 4: The Wind – The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Act 5: Leaving for a yacht race – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 5: Skinny Love – For Emma, Forever Ago
Act 6: Oil execs know nothing about spills – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Aegean Wave – Pianissimo
Act 7: Oil regulation corruption – Le Show
Song 7: Failure By Design – Your Favorite Weapon
Act 8: Of oil, energy and filibusters – Bill Maher
Song 8: Never Before – Never Before
Act 9: Oil spill not an environmental disaster – Young Turks
Song 9: When It All Goes Wrong Again – The Best of Everclear
Act 10: International oil market – Rachel Maddow
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Tip/Wag at Marshall Islands – Colbert Report
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#379 The Breakup of the Year (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #379
Act 1: Never disparage civilian superiors – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: 16 Military Wives – Picaresque
Act 2: Firing generals – It’s all politics
Song 2: We Never Change – Parachutes
Act 3: Must have been high – Colbert Report
Song 3: Higher and higher – Alice Deejay
Act 4: Fox News hits the talking points – Young Turks
Song 4: Superman – All The Time In The World
Act 5: McChrystal’s Balls – The Bugle
Song 5: Popular – High / Low
Act 6: Unfettered access – On the Media
Song 6: It’s the Same Old Song – Essential Collection: Four Tops
Act 7: Honorable, yet oily, discharge – Daily Show
Song 7: All the Same to Me – Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
Act 8: McChrystal’s last report and meeting – Le Show
Song 8: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – 60′s Gold
Act 9: Great Hastings quotes – Young Turks
Song 9: You’re the Best – The Karate Kid (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 10: Ore on Terror – Daily Show
Song 10: Fade to Black – Welcome to Earth
Act 11: Not just for opium wholesalers – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 11: Meet the Elements – Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
Act 12: The Word – Who War it Best – Colbert Report
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McChrystal’s Balls – Daily Show
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#376 Yeah, still going on (Oil Spill)
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Edition #376
Act 1: More of Obama’s non-anger – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Don’t Look Back In Anger – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
Act 2: Proven unsafe – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Mystify – The Best of INXS
Act 3: Speaking of BP – Le Show
Song 3: Too Late Too Slow – Work
Act 4: BP ad campaign – Daily Show
Song 4: Dream On (Live) – A Little South of Sanity (Live)
Act 5: Oil spill prayer chain – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Like a Prayer – Like a Prayer
Act 6: James Carville oil spill rage – Colbert Report
Song 6: Love Like a Bomb – Don’t Believe the Truth
Act 7: Rachel’s Presidential address – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: World Spins Madly On – Say I Am You
Act 8: Tar Beachopolous – Le Show
Song 8: Kernkraft 400 (Original Version) – Kernkraft 400 – EP
Act 9: Oil spill retrospective – Countdown
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The spilling fields – To Shell and Back – Daily Show
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#373 Lots of swears about religion (Religion)
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Edition #373
Act 1: Pope song – Tim Minchin
Act 2: 90′s norms of priesthood – Le Show
Song 2: Lleva Me El Compas – Gipsy Kings
Act 3: How L.A. Archdiocese mishandled a priest – NPR
Song 3: Tomorrow, Wendy – Concrete Blonde
Act 4: 8-year old injured mimicking crucifixion – The Onion
Song 4: Crucify – Tori Amos
Act 5: US founded on the bible – Young Turks
Song 5: Great divide – The Cardigans
Act 6: White people prayer gap – Colbert Report
Song 6: Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash
Act 7: Some religions crazier than others – Bill Maher
Song 7: Me and God and Jesus – Crooked Roads Band
Act 8: Church cancelled due to lack of God – The Onion
Song 8: Do you believe in magic – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Act 9: Witchcraft in Nigeria related to Christians – Young Turks
Song 9: La Réalité – Amadou & Mariam
Act 10: South Park death threats – Daily Show
Song 10: Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah – The London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir & Walter Susskind
Act 11: Comedy stylings on religion – Jamie Kilstein
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Boobquake Day Causes Earthquake – Colbert Report
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#370 Analysis and warnings, we see it coming (Economics)
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Edition #370
Act 1: Hoarders – Daily Show
Song 1: Have you had enough – Rickie Lee Jones and The Squirrel Nut Zippers
Act 2: The banks still own congress – The Progressive
Song 2: What I am – Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Act 3: Goldman fraud case – Colbert Report
Song 3: All apologies – Nirvana
Act 4: Greece falls, the US may be next – Young Turks
Song 4: Curl up and die – Relient K
Act 5: Ian Bremmer interview – Daily Show
Song 5: TV Trays – Death Cab For Cutie
Act 6: Loan sharks manipulate people – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Hey Ya – Obadiah Parker
Act 7: Simon Johnson, 13 Bankers – Colbert Report
Song 7: Torn Blue Foam Couch – Grand Archives
Act 8: Taxes – Daily Show
Song 8: Class Warfare – Chris Priest
Act 9: Reform bill is a joke – Young Turks
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Greece Wither Soon – Scheherazade Rehman – Colbert Report
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#369 Out of the mouths of infant-minded adults (Tea Party)
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Edition #369
Act 1: Napoleon blown apart – Colbert Report
Song 1: Loser – Three doors down
Act 2: Tax Day Tea Party Part 1 – New Left Media
Song 2: Unwell – Matchbox Twenty
Act 3: Blogger want Obama assassinated – Young Turks
Song 3: Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love – They might be giants
Act 4: Tax Day Tea Party Part 2 – New Left Media
Song 4: Drums of freedom – Theo Bard
Act 5: Maddow on McVeigh tapes – Daily Show
Song 5: See the sun – Dido
Act 6: Tax Day Tea Party Part 3 – New Left Media
Song 6: Little miss can’t be wrong – Spin Doctors
Act 7: Anti-govt militia movement growing – Young Turks
Song 7: Yell fire – Michael Franti And Spearhead
Act 8: Tax Day Tea Party Part 4 – New Left Media
Song 8: Struggle – Ringside
Act 9: Rand Paul follow up – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Bulletproof – La Roux
Act 10: Tax Day Tea Party Part 5 – New Left Media
Song 10: Take me home tonight – Eddie Money
Act 11: Tea Party PSA from D.C. Douglas – Funny or Die
Song 11: John Adams theme song – HBO
Act 12: Tax Day Tea Party Part 6 – New Left Media
Song 12: Brain damage – Pink Floyd
Act 13: Giving up the empire – Bill Maher
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P.K. Winsome – Tea Party Consulting – Colbert Report
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#368 Their fault, our fault, your fault, my fault (Oil Spill)
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Edition #368
Act 1: Proud to be British – The Bugle
Song 1: Crazy train – Ozzy Osbourn
Act 2: GOP runs from drill baby drill – Young Turks
Song 2: Accidental Mambo – Mambo All-Stars
Act 3: Impacts and comparisons – On the Media
Song 3: Sea – George Winston
Act 4: Spreading the blame – BBC News Quiz
Song 4: Hole in the bucket – Spearhead
Act 5: Oil spills not a big deal – Counterspin
Song 5: Don’t worry baby – The Beach Boys
Act 6: Texas Gov blames God for spill – Young Turks
Song 6: Better days – Citizen King
Act 7: Oil spill results in improved wildlife viscosity – The Onion
Song 7: A beautiful world – Tim Myers
Act 8: Political consequences – The Political Scene
Song 8: Heart still beating – Ottmar Liebert
Act 9: Oil spill is your fault – Mark Fiore
Song 9: Anthem Pt. 2 – Blink 182
Act 10: Getting off of oil – Bill Maher
Song 10: In the aeroplane over the sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
Act 11: Oil containment solutions randomizer – Colbert Report
Song 11: Shove it – Santigold
Act 12: Lasting legacy of oil spills – Rachel Maddow
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There Will Be Blame – Daily Show
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