#338 They’re dickholes, but they’re smart (Economics)
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Edition #338
Act 1: Rush Limbaugh wants you to get screwed – Young Turks
Act 2: Area CEO doesn’t have time for this crap – The Onion
Act 3: Inherent racism in Tea Party movement – Countdown
Act 4: Thomas Frank Part 1 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 5: New cereal for poor stays crunchy in water – The Onion
Act 6: Thomas Frank Part 2 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 7: David Brooks says to raise taxes on middle class – Counterspin
Act 8: Devastating quotes from top economists – Young Turks
Act 9: Make it rain – Daily Show
Act 10: Obama out to lunch on banker bonuses – The Progressive
Act 11: B of A attacked through YouTube – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Fire Departments Billing Homeowners to Put Out Fires! – Young Turks
Music:
Smile like you mean it – The Killers
Not enough time – Inxs
Look at you – My Morning Jacket
Hard luck story – Men at work
Happy meal – The Cardigans
Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Young folks – Peter Bjorn And John
Where do I begin – The Chemical Brothers
Radio – One Ring Zero
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – The Smiths
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#337 Terrorism in the age of unreason (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #337
Act 1: An inconvenient trial – Daily Show
Act 2: GOP lies on terrorism – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: KSM Trail Formidable Opponent – Colbert Report
Act 4: Fox News making up BS on captured terrorists – Young Turks
Act 5: Afghan thinks every American with fake beard is CIA – The Onion
Act 6: Rank terrorism hypocrisy – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Wag of the finger on waterboarding – Colbert Report
Act 8: Cheney’s memo falls flat – Countdown
Act 9: Right wing talking points debunked – Young Turks
Act 10: The Word – Faux n tell – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Senator – I believe in racial and ethnic profiling – Young Turks
Music:
Circus Music
Hannah – Freelance Whales
Grapevine Fires – Death Cab For Cutie
Stuck in the middle with you – Stealers Wheel
Your Mama Don’t Dance – Loggins and Messina
The district sleeps tonight – The Postal Service
M79 – Vampire Weekend
Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours – The Smiths
Little lies – Fleetwood Mac
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#335 They’re here, they’re discriminated against, they’re used to it (Rights)
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Edition #335
Act 1: First DADT hearing tomorrow – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: High court bans same-sex friendships – The Onion
Act 3: DADT popular in polls – Counterspin
Act 4: Dreaded Bliss in New Jersey – Daily Show
Act 5: They’re here, they’re discriminated against, they’re used to it – The Bugle
Act 6: Fight to serve – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Be almost all that you can be – Colbert Report
Act 8: New law would ban loveless marriages – The Onion
Act 9: Praise for Obama on DADT – The Progressive
Act 10: Gays would get tattoos in the military – Wait wait, don’t tell me
Act 11: A few gay men and women – Daily Show
Act 12: Fight to serve 2 – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Hermaphrodites Can’t Be Gay – Colbert Report
Music:
Move you – Anya Marina
The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 – Neutral Milk Hotel
Starring – Freelance Whales
Redemption Song – Bob Marley
Am I wrong – Love Spit Love
What difference does it make – The Smiths
Wild Night – Van Morrison
I was married – Tegan and Sara
Cat faces – Ugly Casanova
Don’t ask me why – Billy Joel
Old man – Neil Young
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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
Build me up Buttercup – The Foundations
Don’t worry baby – Beach Boys
Never there – Cake
Cigarette Smoke – Arctic Monkeys
Lives in the balance – Jackson Browne
Directions – Josh Rouse
Play with fire – Rolling Stones
Pura Carroceria – Los Del Rio
King Kamehameha – The Waikiki Hula Boys
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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
Redemption song – Bob Marley
God – The Dodos
Hate me – Blue October
Directions – Josh Rouse
Carol of the bells – United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus
Gods gonna cut you down – Johnny Cash
Like a prayer – Rufio
You’re wrong – NOFX
Jammin – Bob Marley
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#324 When you want to cry, laugh (Economics)
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Edition #324
Act 1: Flight Delay – Daily Show
Act 2: Predicting economies Part 1 – This American Life
Act 3: Smiley-face dollar to boost economy – The Onion
Act 4: Predicting economies Part 2 – This American Life
Act 5: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big to Fail – Daily Show
Act 6: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 1 – Colbert Report
Act 7: Norway returns to a pillage-based economy – The Onion
Act 8: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 2 – Colbert Report
Act 9: NY Times exposes terrible big bank scam – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
American Idle – Daily Show
Music:
Don’t you – Simple Minds
Once around the block – Badly Drawn Boy
Crazy – Seal
Making me nervous – Brad Sucks
Island in the sun – Weezer
Catch my disease – Ben Lee
La Noy̩e РYann Tiersen
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt and Kim
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The Onion
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
The Young Turks
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#323 Obama moves Hopelessly forward in Afghanistan (Podcast)
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Edition #323
Act 1: Rushing a decision on Afghanistan – Counterspin
Act 2: Obama mimics Bush on Afghanistan – The Progressive
Act 3: Bunker-buster averts doomed marriage – The Onion
Act 4: Report released on Afghanistan – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Dan Rather on Afghanistan – Daily Show
Act 6: Jim Hightower discusses Obama’s war Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Why aren’t there bigger protests – The Progressive
Act 8: Jim Hightower discusses Obama’s war Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: Moore and Feingold speak against escalation – Young Turks
Act 10: Lara Logan on Afghanistan – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Cenk debates war escalation – Countdown
Music:
Trouble me – 10,000 Maniacs
Choke – The Cardigans
Celebration Guns – Stars
Million faces – Paolo Nutini
Oh Lately It’s So Quiet – OK GO
Everybody’s gone to war – Nerina Pallot
Up against the wall – Peter Bjorn & John
Meteor Show – Owl City
Ain’t no reason – Brett Dennen
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#321 Take 30,000 troops and call me in the morning (Podcast)
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Edition #321
Act 1: Misleading polling on support for war – Counterspin
Act 2: I dare you not to notice – Le Show
Act 3: Special comment on war escalation – Countdown
Act 4: Afghanistan handed over to robots – The Onion
Act 5: Why escalation is not the answer – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Obama unclear on chain of command – Colbert Report
Act 7: Cheney cries treason – Countdown
Act 8: War presidents – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: 30,000 – Daily Show
Act 10: Feingold & BBC on the Afghanistan war – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
30,000 extended video – Daily Show
Music:
Love is a battlefield – Pat Benatar
99 Red Balloons – Nena
Listen to your heart – Roxette
Mr. Roboto – Styx
War – Vince DiCola
Heat of the moment – Asia
Notorious – Duran Duran
I’m gonna be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers
Break it down again – Tears for fears
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#320 Winter Holiday Extravaganza (Podcast)
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Edition #320
Act 1: Athiest summer camp – The Young Turks
Act 2: God To Postpone Apocalypse – The Onion
Act 3: Adam and Eve Part 1 – This American Life
Act 4: Robert Wright on the three major religions – Colbert Report
Act 5: Adam and Eve Part 2 – This American Life
Act 6: Richard Dawkins new book – Thom Hartmann
Act 7: Bucket Of Rags This Year’s Must-Have Christmas Item – The Onion
Act 8: Schaeffer on hateful talk against Obama – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Offending people talking about religion – The Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Kirk Cameron’s Plot Against “Origin of Species” – The Young Turks
Music:
Hello Mother, Hello Father – Alan Sherman
Nutcracker: Act 2: Chinese Tea – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: Waltz of the Flowers – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 1: Overture – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 1: March – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: The Merlitons – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: Trepak – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy – Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
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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
Change your mind – Sister Hazel
If we make it through December – Merle Haggard
Cloud Nine – Ben Howard
Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Walk beside me – Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien
Got My Mind Set On You – George Harrison
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#318 Disaster Economics (Podcast)
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Edition #318
Act 1: Obama caving in to Wall St again – The Young Turks
Act 2: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 1 – This American Life
Act 3: Water balloon attacks hurting bottom line – The Onion
Act 4: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 2 – This American Life
Act 5: Joining the tea-baggers – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: John Perkins on the economic crash Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: US-owned GM produces the Pelosi-Boehner – The Onion
Act 8: John Perkins on the economic crash Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: Government by organized money – Thom Hartmann
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Biden on the economic recovery – Daily Show
Music:
Nothing is good enough – Aimee Mann
S̩n̩gal Fast-Food РAmadou & Mariam
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Remember Jonathan (Messenger Of The Sun album) – Cyrille Verdeaux
Smokescreen – Flying Blind
Under the milky way – Seven Nations
You’re the best around – Joe Esposito
All For Swinging You Around – The New Pornographers
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#316 Join the war on Fox News today (Podcast)
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Edition #316
Act 1: Glenn Beck tragically not a victim of anything – The Onion
Act 2: Bush Sr. calls Maddow and Olberman Sick Puppies – The Young Turks
Act 3: Dobbs steps down – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 4: MSNBC in the crossfire – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Lou Dobbs goes Rogue – Daily Show
Act 6: Murdoch fosters racist work environment – Countdown
Act 7: Hannity apologizes to Jon – Daily Show
Act 8: Cenk goes off on Morning Joe – The Young Turks
Act 9: Untruth vs. Power – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Hannity misleadingly uses Glenn Beck’s rally video
Music:
Out of my mind – James Blunt
Gone daddy gone – Violent Femmes
Ne Me Quitte Pas – Regina Spektor
I’ll meet you there – Owl City
Habla Me – Gipsy Kings
Working class hero – Exit Clov
Overkill – Colin Hay
Celebration guns – Stars
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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
Fearless – VNV Nation
World on Fire – Sarah McLachlan
In a big country – Big Country
Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Brain stew – Green Day
So fast, so numb – R.E.M.
I know I know I know – Tegan and Sara
Different people – No doubt
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#314 Pride, greed, vanity and gluttony (Podcast)
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Edition #314
Act 1: Really Goldman Sachs?! – SNL
Act 2: Spitzer on the financial bailout – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: MSNBC Ratigan bashes corporate communists – The Young Turks
Act 4: The root of the problem is campaign finance – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Global economy faces danger from below – The Onion
Act 6: Terror-industrial complex – Countdown
Act 7: How Dems are protecting capitalism – The Young Turks
Act 8: Organizing the tea parties – Thom Hartmann
Act 9: Goldman Sachs doing God’s work – Colbert Report
Act 10: Child labor endorsing, pro-slavery freaks – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The history of boom and bust cycles in US economics – ThomHartmann
Music:
Kick drum heart – The Avett Brothers
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) – The Decemberists
99 Red Balloons – Nena
Deep water – Pansy Division
Ready For The Good Times – Shakira
Goodbye stranger – Supertramp
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt and Kim
Take five – Dave Brubeck
Gold dust woman – Hole
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#313 Recruiting disciples through fear and coupons (Podcast)
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Edition #313
Act 1: Catholic lifeboat – Colbert Report
Act 2: Hell House – This American Life
Act 3: God checks in to the Mayo Clinic – The Onion
Act 4: The Republican Apocalypse Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 5: Catholics recruiting new members – Daily Show
Act 6: The Republican Apocalypse Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Catholic blow out sale – Le Show
Act 8: Pat Robertson fighting against hate crime laws – The Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme court takes on religion – Colbert Report
Music:
God – The Dodos
Friend of the devil – Counting Crows
Like a prayer – Madonna
Major Tom – Peter Schilling
You know my name – The Beatles
Natural Blues – Moby
I’m free – Soup Dragons
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