#329 Welcome President Brown (Special Election)
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Edition #329
Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Act 2: Balance of the Senate – It’s all politics
Act 3: You have the majority, now act like it – The Young Turks
Act 4: Caller says election was Thom’s fault – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Dems must fight back – Colbert Report
Act 6: Ed Rendell on doing something – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Brown election and the filibuster – On the Media
Act 8: Give them a reason to vote for you – The Young Turks
Act 9: Obama’s ballsy speech – Le Show
Act 10: What to do with less than 60 – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Brown win allows Jon Stewart to retire – Daily Show
Music:
Runnin down a dream – Tom Petty
And it spread – The Avett Brothers
Wake Up Little Suzie – Everly Brothers
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Happy – SIster Hazel
Finding something to do – Hellogoodbye
Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Slight figure of speech – The Avett Brothers
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#328 Corporations is people! (Supreme Court)
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Edition #328
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics – It’s All Politics
Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates – Thom Hartmann
Act 3: The story of the case for corporate spending – On the Media
Act 4: Congress, brought to you by – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 5: Ever-living vampires – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Constitutional amendment – The Progressive
Act 7: Supreme court makes buying politicians legal – The Young Turks
Act 8: Barney Frank on fighting SC decision – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Nader on corporate personhood – Thom Hartmann
Act 10: Special Comment on worst decision ever – Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Corp – Daily Show
Music:
God’s Radar – The Dixie Hummingbirds
Welcome to the machine – Pink Floyd
Tuesday’s gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Crash – The Primitives
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) – Pilote
Recorded live in Copenhagen – Theo Bard
Maple Leaf Rag – Scott Joplin
Drown – Smashing Pumpkins
Taking over me – Evanescence
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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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#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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#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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#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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#312 Ancient sunlight vs fresh sunlight (Podcast)
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Edition #312
Act 1: The true cost of fossil fuels – Thom Hartmann
Act 2: Inhofe headed to Copenhagen – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Colin Beavan is No Impact Man – Colbert Report
Act 4: Rob Dunbar on ocean temps – Found Object Films
Act 5: Giant greenhouse blamed for climate change – The Onion
Act 6: Climate deniers – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Oil industry employees rally – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 9: Shia Agassi on fresh sun power – Found Obect Films
Act 10: Steven Levitt on economics of geo-engineering – Daily Show
Act 11: The arguement for switching to natural gas – Ring of Fire
Act 12: News of the warm – Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Dems shooting themselves in the foot on cabon legislation
Music:
Catalog & Classify – Mark Robinson
Knock yourself out – Jon Brion
This is the day – The The
Kyoko’s House – Philip Glass
Solsbury hill – Peter Gabriel
One million miles – J Ralph
M79 – Vampire Weekend
What I’m looking for – Brendan Benson
Close your eyes – Young Love
Hey ya – Obadiah Parker
Keepsake – State Radio
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#310 The war on Fox (Podcast)
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Edition #310
Act 1: The GOP colicky babies – Ring of Fire
Act 2: CNN leaves it there – Daily Show
Act 3: Fox News is not like the others – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: How Murdoch brought the Fox model to the US – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Bend it like Beck – Colbert Report
Act 6: The war on FOX – Counterspin
Act 7: Media and power – Thom Hartmann
Act 8: Evidence of Fox collusion with GOP – The Young Turks
Music:
Camera one – Josh Joplin Group
Better Days (and the bottom drops out) – Citizen King
The boy in the bubble – Paul Simon
Nothing compares to you – Sinade O’Connor
Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – Of Montreal
Let go – Frou Frou
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#309 Derailing unprecedented health reform would be unprecedented (Podcast)
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Edition #309
Act 1: Kid is denied healthcare for being too skinny – The Young Turks
Act 2: Max Baucus and Senate health reform – Bill Moyers Journal
Act 3: Medicare Part E – Thom Hartmann
Act 4: Healthcare, now what – This American Life
Act 5: Dems stopping healthcare would be unprecedented – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: The history of our healthcare system – This American Life
Act 7: Insurance company calls sick people dogs – The Young Turks
Act 8: Further reporting on anti-healthcare campaign – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Curl up and die – Relient K
Who will buy – Oliver Soundtrack
Fake Empire – The National
Doctor my eyes – Jackson 5
I go to extremes – Billy Joel
Remember Jonathan – Cyrille Verdeaux
Stop crying your heart out – Oasis
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#290 The danger is not theoretical (Podcast)
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Act 1: Give me liberty and give me death – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 2: The ghost of the klan returns to stoke fear of change – The Young Turks
Act 3: Glenn Beck’s operation – Daily Show
Act 4: Frank Schaeffer on healthcare – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Barny Frank being frank on healthcare – Politico
Act 6: Aaron Carroll on single payer healthcare – Colbert Report
Act 7: Threats of violence on the fringe is not theoretical – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Bringing a gun to Obama’s townhall – The Young Turks
Act 9: Special comment on healthcare violence – Countdown
Music:
Live and let die – Guns N’ Roses
A change is gonna come – Sam Cooke
Let my love open the door – Pete Townsend
99 red balloons – Nena
Put me down – The Cranberries
Pony (It’s OK) – Erin McCarley
Hurt so good – The Yellow Snow Company
Take a chance on me – Abba
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#280 Reaping the results of corruption and greed (Podcast)
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Act 1: F#@ked or Fixed – Economic Crisis – Daily Show
Act 2: Regulating AIG – Who fell asleep on the job? – NPR
Act 3: Phantom Wealth – Thom Hartmann
Act 4: Peter Shiff on the economy – Daily Show
Act 5: Stuff the bankers, starve the kids – The Young Turks
Act 6: Recession forces U.S. to dip into Guam – The Onion
Act 7: Crazy Eddie’s house sale – Slate Magazine – Slate
Act 8: Justin Fox on the economy – Daily Show
Act 9: Using psychology to save you from yourself – NPR
Music:
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake
Here it goes again – Ok Go
Phantom of the opera – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
Let go – Frou Frou
We didn’t start the fire – Billy Joel
Crazy Maze – Desree
Take a chance – The Magic Numbers
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#272 In sickness and health and other rights denied (Podcast)
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Act 1: Gaywatch in Maine and Washington, DC – The Daily Show
Act 2: All aren’t happy with health insurance for all – NPR
Act 3: Mother of hate-crime murder victim interview – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: Elizabeth Edwards on healthcare – The Daily Show
Act 5: The rights of the government to spy on us – On the Media
Act 6: Bernie Sanders on healthcare reform in congress – Thom Hartman
Act 7: Drug use and crime in the Netherlands – The Young Turks
Act 8: Maintaining hope in Obama – Mike Malloy
Act 9: Gay marriage bad for small business – The Daily Show
Act 10: The healthcare at Gitmo – Countdown
Music:
Drug Ballad – Eminem
Luna – Smashing Pumpkins
Cemetry Gates – The Smiths
Only ones who know – Arctic Monkeys
Do You Want To Know A Secret – The Beatles
I’m a pilot – Fanfarlo
Think (Freedom) – Aretha Franklin
Liquid Sun – DJ Keoki
Another lesson in love – Danger Radio
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#267 Why and how banks are going down (Podcast)
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Act 1: American’s having sex at home – The Onion
Act 2: Credit card holders bill of rights – Colbert Report
Act 3: How to take down a bank Part 1 – This American Life
Act 4: Limbaugh’s racist take on Obama’s economic plan – Counterspin
Act 5: Closing auto dealerships by mail – The Daily Show
Act 6: How to take down a bank Part 2 – This American Life
Act 7: 1/4 cent “soda tax” – Colbert Report
Act 8: Productivity up and wages down equals crash – Thom Hartmann
Act 9: We all just bought a car company – The Daily Show
Music:
I want you to want me – Cheap Trick
Killing for love – José González
I shall not be moved – Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
About today – The National
Bottle it up – Sara Bareilles
Le Banquet – Yann Tiersen
God – The Dodos
Teenage dirtbag – Wheatus
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