#402 The economics of stupidity (Economics)
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Act 1: The Word – Ownership society – Colbert Report
Song 1: Different Names for the Same Thing – Plans
Act 2: Supply-side economics debunked – Young Turks
Song 2: Baby, It’s Fact – Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! and More!
Act 3: Unemployed voters – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Working Class Hero – Lennon Legend (Bonus Track Version)
Act 4: Wall street starving millions and getting away with it – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: Beautiful – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Act 5: Company you’ve never heard of wants to reward you – Onion
Song 5: Beyond the Sea – The Ultimate Bobby Darin
Act 6: Social security rant by Cenk – MSNBC
Song 6: Kandi – One EskimO (Deluxe Edition)
Act 7: Econo-misers – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Money for Nothing – Private Investigations – The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
Act 8: Barney Frank on the Consumer protection agency – Colbert Report
Song 8: When You Were Young – Sam’s Town
Act 9: Were you born on the wrong continent – Thom Hartmann
Song 9: Summer In the City – Platinum & Gold Collection: The Lovin’ Spoonful
Act 10: The unpaved States of America – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
How Senators Protect The Richest Americans – Young Turks
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#401 The Beckoning (Rights)
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Edition #401
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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#400 So much for don’t be evil (Net Neutrality)
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Edition #400
Act 1: So much for ‘don’t be evil’ – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Blueprint – Jackson Square
Act 2: Internet Exploiter – Daily Show
Song 2: Once Around the Block – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Act 3: Google and Verizon on net neutrality – Countdown
Song 3: Resurection (Space Club Mix) – Resurection
Act 4: Peter and the Wolf meets net neutrality – On the Media
Song 4: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf – Sting, Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Claudio Abbado
Act 5: Area man consults the Internet – The Onion
Song 5: Wait So Long – Palomino
Act 6: Google and Verizon have a deal – Young Turks
Song 6: Jenny Don’t Be Hasty – These Streets
Act 7: Net neutrality and the Google-Verizon deal – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Solid Action – Playing Favourites
Act 8: Internet outage plunges nation into productivity – The Onion
Song 8: The Office UK – Outro #1 – The Office UK Theme Music
Act 9: Net neutrality – Countdown
Song 9: The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
Act 10: Electronic frontier foundation – Colbert Report
Song 9: Cat Faces – Sharpen Your Teeth
Act 10: Cenk’s rant on net neutrality – Dylan Ratigan Show
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At what point have we lost liberty because we lost privacy? – Thom Hartmann
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#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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#398 This is a total waste of our time (Park 51)
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Edition #398
Act 1: Cat and Mosque – Mark Fiore
Song 1: Anywhere Is – The Very Best of Enya
Act 2: Municipal land-use update – Daily Show
Song 2: Tolerance – Yell Fire!
Act 3: Cantor on the mosque ‘Come on’ – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: It’s Alright – Live At 25
Act 4: Jimmy’s take on the mosque – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 4: Golden Brown – The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990
Act 5: Islamic architecture – The Bugle
Song 5: Drums of freedom – Theo Bard
Act 6: Who are we as a nation – The Young Turks
Song 6: I Don’t Believe In That – Unglorious Hallelujah
Act 7: Citizen Radio talks on Cordoba – GRITtv
Song 7: Different People – Tragic Kingdom
Act 8: The sacred ground arguement – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 8: The Argument – Front Seat Solidarity
Act 9: How to know it’s election season – Sam Seder
Song 9: One Love – Songs Around the World (Audio/Video Version)
Act 10: Embarrassing moments – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: South Side – Play & Play: B Sides
Act 11: The ‘radical’ Imam behind the mosque – Young Turks
Song 11: Knock Yourself Out – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 12: Mosque-Erade – Daily Show
Song 12: Missed the Boat – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Act 13: Special Comment on the mosque – Countdown
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Municipal Land-Use Update – Ground Zero Mosque – Daily Show
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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
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The Word – The White Stuff – Colbert Report
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#395 Another giant distraction based on bigotry (Immigration)
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Edition #395
Act 1: Be nice to minorities – Bill Maher
Song 1: We Are Going to Be Friends (Live) – Under Great White Northern Lights (Live)
Act 2: Latino 911 – Daily Show
Song 2: Nothing Else Matters – Inquisition Symphony
Act 3: Championing the AZ law – Media Matters
Act 4: Obama’s weak immigration reform – Young Turks
Song 4: Loud Pipes – Classics
Act 5: Arizona’s photo radar – Daily Show
Song 5: Ballad of Hugo Chavez – Jackson Square
Act 6: Border violence, that’s bullshit – Sam Seder
Song 6: Cattle Call – Songs of the Trail
Act 7: Interview on reaction to AZ law ruling – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Breakneck Speed – Champ
Act 8: Hurray for courageous judge Suan Bolton – The Progressive
Song 8: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 9: Susan Bolton ruling – Media Matters
Act 10: AZ immigration law stopped by federal judge – Young Turks
Song 10: Look After You – How to Save a Life
Act 11: Fake immigration stories – Rachel Maddow
Song 11: Concrete Box – Nada Surf
Act 12: US will now offer platinum plus citizenship – The Onion
Song 12: Solid Action – Playing Favourites
Act 13: Immigration stories now user generated – Rachel Maddow
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Arturo Rodriguez on immigrant workers – Colbert Report
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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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#393 Shirley you jest, Obama (Shirley Sherrod)
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Edition #393
Act 1: The Obama Paradox – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Who’s Crying Now – Journey: Greatest Hits
Act 2: Shep Smith rips Fox – Young Turks
Song 2: True Affection – Paper Television
Act 3: Administration congratulates itself too soon – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 3: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Daft Punk) – 2 – EP
Act 4: MSNBC and Fox after the correction – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 4: Better Be Quiet Now – Figure 8
Act 5: Racist Fox News and crazy NAACP voicemail – Young Turks
Song 5: Call On Me (Radio Edit) – Call On Me – EP
Act 6: Obama’s atrophy – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: The Reflex – Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Act 7: Shirley Sherrod on interviews with Fox and Obama’s comments – Countdown
Song 7: Secret Heart – Let It Die
Act 8: Fox News on Sherrod and Democratic cowards – Young Turks
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White House Caves To Fox News, Forces Resignation – Young Turks
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#391 Not right, not fair and not justice (Law Enforcement)
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Edition #391
Act 1: Gary Johnson, Pro-pot activist – Colbert Report
Song 1: Drug Ballad – The Marshall Mathers LP
Act 2: How the drug war hurts communities – Citizen Radio
Song 2: Down On the Corner – Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 3: Drug Czar toppled by drug Bolsheviks – The Onion
Song 3: Because I Got High – The Good Times
Act 4: Daniel Okrent on prohibition – Daily Show
Song 4: Drink the Water – Brushfire Fairytales
Act 5: Police tortured confessions – On the Media
Song 5: Behind Bars – Baga Tricks
Act 6: Cops taser family in their backyard – Young Turks
Song 6: Paperwork – Safety First
Act 7: Drugs and Taser war – Citizen Radio
Song 7: New Slang – Oh, Inverted World
Act 8: Police taser trail – Rachel Maddow
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Automatics for the People – Ilya Shapiro & Jackie Hilly – Colbert Report
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#390 Reverse Robin Hood Republicans (Economics)
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Edition #390
Act 1: GOP on raising retirement age, cut benefits – Young Turks
Song 1: Home – Up From Below (Deluxe Edition)
Act 2: Barney Frank on financial reform – Chris Priest
Song 2: Lawless Flawless – Chris Priest
Act 3: GOP plan for the deficit – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: If you close the door – Adam Bork
Act 4: The Magnetar Trade story Part 1 – Pro Publica
Song 4: One – Inquisition Symphony
Act 5: Largest ever tax hike – Media Matters Minute
Act 6: The Magnetar Trade story Part 2 – Pro Publica
Song 6: Wild World – Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits
Act 7: Unemployed are lazy drug addicts – Young Turks
Song 7: The Sound of Settling – Transatlanticism
Act 8: Military spending – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Economic Fun Fair – Mark Fiore
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#389 Religious Justice League (Religion)
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Edition #389
Act 1: Banning haircuts – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Painted By Numbers – Dying to Say This to You
Act 2: Political fashion news – The Bugle
Song 2: Garden State (Music from the Motion Picture) – Various Artists
Act 3: Pope whipped himself – Young Turks
Song 3: Hey, Soul Sister – Hey, Soul Sister – Single
Act 4: Bible more violent than Quran – NPR
Song 4: Monster Hospital – Metric
Act 5: God cites ‘moving in mysterious ways’ – The Onion
Song 5: Master Plan – It Still Moves
Act 6: News of the godly Part 1 – Le Show
Song 6: (Why Is Your) Heaven So Small – The Gospel Truth
Act 7: Stephen Prothero on the 8 religions – Colbert Report
Song 7: Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam (Live) – MTV Unplugged in New York: Nirvana
Act 8: Study says abstinence-only works – Young Turks
Song 8: Boadicea – The Very Best of Enya
Act 9: Heaven to return 3.6 billion souls for rejudging – The Onion
Song 9: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hits
Act 10: News of the godly Part 2 – Le Show
Song 9: Kids – Oracular Spectacular
Act 10: Glenn Beck, Ignore Jesus, be selfish – Young Turks
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Modest-Con 2010 – Colbert Report
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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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#387 The state of the empire (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #387
Act 1: McChrystal article by Michael Hastings – Colbert Report
Song 1: The Moment I Said It – Speak for Yourself
Act 2: Gaps in Afghan government – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Out of Our Hands – Signs
Act 3: UK investigating war crimes – Citizen Radio
Song 3: All American Girl – My Private Nation
Act 4: Judge sides with detainee in Guantanamo – The Progressive
Song 4: Shuffle Your Feet – Howl
Act 5: Counter insurgency interview with General – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Eve of Destruction – 60′s Gold
Act 6: Odd couple Frank and Paul on military spending – NPR
Song 6: No Need to Argue – No Need to Argue
Act 7: Obama authorizes assassinations on US citizens – Young Turks
Song 7: The Perfect Space – I and Love and You
Act 8: Afghanistan commentary – Rachel Maddow
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Petraeus takes over with same strategy – Rachel Maddow
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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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