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Edition #543

The peace process

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Act 1: Obama's Lofty Rhetoric - The Progressive

Song 1: You talk too much - Joe Jones

Act 2: Breakdown of Netanyahu's Appearance in US Congress - Young Turks Air Date: 5-24-11

Song 2: War - Edwin Starr

Act 3: Obama Israeli Palestinian Resolution Statement - Counterspin

Song 3: Ten thousand words - The Avett Brothers

Act 4: Obama Reiterates Comments On Israel's Borders - NPR

Song 4: Come undone - Duran Duran

Act 5: Mel Gibson Launches Rockets Into Israel - The Onion

Song 5: Rocketman - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Act 6: NY Times Subjectivity on Israel - Counterspin Air Date: 7-07-11

Song 6: Sweet lullaby - Deep Forest

Act 7: Losing Our Minds Over Israel - Young Turks

Song 7: Common sense - Justin Mcroberts

Act 8: Suspend U.S. Aid to Israel after Golan Heights Massacre - The Progressive

Song 8: Our hearts are wrong - Jessica Lea Mayfield

Act 9: Gaza Raids, Israeli and US Propaganda - Counterspin Air Date: 8-25-11

Song 9: I go blind - Hootie And The Blowfish

Act 10: Palestine Appoints New Minister Of Rubble And Urban Development - The Onion

Song 10: Back on earth - Ozzy Osbourne

Act 11: Palestine At The U.N.: Nationhood - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 9-18-11

Song 11: Claire De Lune - Claude Debussy

Act 12: Fox: Obama Set Up UN Vote Just So He Can Veto It - Media Matters

Act 13: Palestine Asks UN for official State Status - The Bugle

Song 13: Run, Freedom Run - Urinetown

Act 14: Obama Wrong About Palestinian State - Young Turks Air Date: 9-22-11

Song 14: These days - Luxury

Act 15: Palestinian Gambit UN efforts - Counterspin Air Date: 9-15-11

Song 15: Void of a legend - Antoniette Costa & Kevin "K.O." Olusola

Act 16: Obama's Shortsighted and Cowardly UN Speech - The Progressive Air Date: 9-21-11

Song 16: Between Love and Hate - The Strokes

Act 17: Netanyahu No Settlement Freeze - Young Turks Air Date: 9-28-11

Song 17: Sandstorm - Darude

Act 18: Palestinian prisoner hyper inflation - The Bugle

Voicemails:

Reaction to Troy Davis Death Penalty episode - Joseph from Palo Alto, CA

Arguing for anti-religion episodes - Daniel from CA

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on taking action and Wolf-PAC.com

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Obama Meets With Israeli PM Netanyahu - Young Turks

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Edition #542

Greed is no longer good

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Act 1: Occupy Wall Street Is A Thought Revolution - And It Won't Be Minimized - Lee Camp Air Date: 10-10-11

Song 1: Bathroom girl - Air

Act 2: The Occupation - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 10-10-11

Song 2: Late Afternoon (Live) - Theo Bard

Act 3: False reporting about Soros connection to Occupy Wall St - Counterspin

Song 3: Run Screaming (Live) - Stockdale and Shapiro

Act 4: Round-table discussion of Occupy Wall St. - Jimmy Dore Air Date: 10-13-11

Song 4: The walls are coming down - Fanfarlo

Act 5: Tom Hayden offers extraordinary insight into evolution of Occupy Wall Street movement - Countdown Air Date: 10-13-11

Song 5: Cat faces - Ugly Casanova

Act 6: The Numbers Behind Occupy Wall Street - Lee Camp Air Date 10-20-11

Song 6: Take me out - Franz Ferdinand

Act 7: This Is the Movement We've Been Waiting For - The Progressive Air Date: 10-14-11

Song 7: I shall not be moved - Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band

Act 8: Round up of Sunday morning news on Occupy Wall St - Counterspin Air Date: 10-13-11

Song 8: Serre-moi - Tryö

Act 9: Obama, Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Campaign - Young Turks Air Date: 10-17-11

Song 9: Never again - Enter the Worship Circle

Act 10: Knee jerks defend Wall Street - Jim Hightower Air Date: 10-17-11

Song 10: United we stand - The Brotherhood of Man

Act 11: Tonight at Liberty Plaza  'The American People Agree with Us' - Michael Moore Air Date: 10-20-11

Song 11: Stand by me - Playing For Change

Act 12: Wall Street Is Dirtier Than Occupy Wall Street - Lee Camp Air Date: 10-17-11

Song 12: Clean up - Ari Herstand

Act 13: OWS-Hating CBC Anchor Destroyed By Chris Hedges - Young Turks Air Date 10-17-11

Voicemails:

Write on your car to promote Occupy protests - Amy from Florida

Context for Ted's voicemail - Jay!

Call to action against Keystone XL pipeline in DC - Ted Glick from CCAN

Complaint about me quoting Steve Jobs - Ryan from New York

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on why it's OK to quote anyone and rethinking how to protest corporations

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Jean Ross - Nurses Offer Free Health Care to #OWS - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 10-20-11

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dition #541

Unite like an Egyptian

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Act 1: A Detailed Plan On How To Decrease Corporate Power - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-21-11

Song 1: What we've got (Live) - Emilyn Brodsky & Anthony da Costa

Act 2: News Coverage Numbers of the Occupy Protests vs Tea Party protests - On the Media

Song 2: Fake plastic trees - Radiohead

Act 3: Bill O'Reilly Rips Occupy Wall Street Protesters - Young Turks

Song 3: You can't always get what you want - Glee Cast

Act 4: What the Occupy Wall St movement wants Part 1 - Planet Money

Song 4: Union strike song - Lisa Simpson

Act 5: What the Occupy Wall St movement wants Part 2 - Planet Money

Song 5: Rinse me down - Bombay Bicycle Club

Act 6: President's Approval Rating Soars After Punching Wall Street Banker in Face - The Onion

Song 6: Fighting Song (feat. Tom Morello) - Outernational

Act 7: Chris Hedges speech at Occupy DC - Chris Hedges

Song 7: You're the best - Joe Esposito

Act 8: Are We The Modern Day Pompeii - Lee Camp Air Date: 10-02-11

Song 8: Golden slumbers - Ben Folds

Act 9: Then Meets Now - Mark Fiore Air Date 10-19-11

Voicemails:

Touting the human megaphone at 'occupy' protests - John from Tulsa, OK

Personal 'occupy' story from Phoenix, AZ and Sheriff Joe's jail - Kim from Phoenix, AZ

Encouragement for people to join their local 'occupy' protest - Alex from Richmond, VA

Call to occupy the media - Jake from NY Alt News

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on why I'm exactly as smart as Steve Jobs

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Al Sharpton - Daily Show - Air Date: 10-19-11

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Edition #540

Echoes of war

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Act 1: Don't Give the President More Warmaking Power - The Progressive Air Date: 9-16-11

Song 1: Heads will roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Act 2: Libya NYT Misinformation - Counterspin Air Date: 8-25-11

Song 2: Banking on a myth - Andrew Bird

Act 3: Drone Strike in Yemen Al Queda Americans - On the Media

Song 3: Daffodil Lament - The Cranberries

Act 4: Libya's vs US culpability on terrorist acts - Counterspin Air Date: 9-01-11

Song 4: I won't share you - The Smiths

Act 5: Not Cheering Obama's Rub Out of Al-Awlaki - The Progressive Air Date: 9-30-11

Song 5: Animal - Neon Trees

Act 6: Ron Paul Right About Terrorism Al Qaeda - Young Turks Air Date: 9-14-11

Song 6: Reach Out Of The Darkness - Friend and lover

Act 7: Area Neighbors Protest Tree-House Acquisition of M-80 Technology - The Onion

Song 7: We car work it out - The Beatles

Act 8: American Prisoners Released in Iran - Majority Report Air Date: 9-28-11

Song 8: Under my skin - Jukebox The Ghost

Act 9: Searching for the Truth - Dan Carlin Air Date: 9-28-11

Song 9: Truth - Vaughan Penn

Act 10: The Afghan War, a Ten-Year Toll - The Progressive Air Date: 10-6-11

Song 10: This is not the end - The Bravery

Act 11: Gap Grows Between Military, Civilians On War - NPR Air Date: 10-6-11

Song 11: War - Goldfinger

Act 12: Jose Padilla Sentencing - Counterspin Air Date: 9-23-11

Song 12: Timeless - Kate Havnevik

Act 13: U.S. Leaves a Trail of Torture - The Progressive Air Date: 10-11-11

Song 13: Loose ends - Imogen Heap

Act 14: Radicalism against Iraqi's - Majority Report Air Date: 9-12-11

Voicemails:

Thoughts on using anti-religious clips on the show - Zach from Detroit

Thoughts on genetically modified food and family farms - Len from St. Paul, Minnesota

Call to action - Keystone XL tarsands pipeline - Perry from Green County, IN

Acceptable use of Abu-Jamal - Policeman Jeff from Florida

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on the US ending the war in Iraq

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Declaration of Thingamajig - Mark Fiore Air Date: 7-01-11

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Edition #539

We are the other 99 percent (Occupy Wall St Part 2)

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Act 1: Police Are On The Wrong Side At The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-25-11

Song 1: All these things that I've done - The Killers

Act 2: Romney Would Complain About Class Warfare - The Progressive Air Date: 10-5-11

Song 2: Revolution - Grandaddy

Act 3: The Screaming Majority song on Occupy Wall St - Majority Report Air Date: 10-7-11

Song 3: Up nights - Amsterband

Act 4: The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-27-11

Song 4: Free to decide - The Cranberries

Act 5: Panic of the plutocrats - Green News Report Air Date: 10-11-11

Song 5: Take 'em down - Dropkick Murphys

Act 6: CNNs Erin Burnett informs viewers about protesters - Counterspin Air Date: 10-06-11

Song 6: I'm a worried man - Willie Nelson & Toots Hibbert

Act 7: Erin Burnett's horrible Occupy Wall St report - Majority Report Air Date: 10-7-11

Song 7: We're simple minds - Club 8

Act 8: Occupy DC Event 'Infiltrated' By Conservative from American Spectator - Young Turks Air Date: 10-10-11

Song 8: Solidarity forever - Pete Seeger

Act 9: Purge the agitators at Occupy Wall St - David Feldman Show Air Date: 10-9-11

Song 9: The world has turned and left me here - Weezer

Act 10: How staying peaceful means we will win - Citizen Radio Air Date: 10-11-11

Voicemails:

Talk about cutting teachers salaries - Mark From Salisbury, MD

Call to action: Support Occupy Baltimore action - Kevin from Timonium, MD

Thank you to 'Occupy' protesters - Matt in Redding, PA

Thanks for Lee Camp! - Vicki from Oregon

Time to look for solidarity with real tea partiers - Michael From Glenn Bernie

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on converting a death penalty advocate

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Police misconduct on Wall St. - David Feldman Show Air Date: 9-27-11

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Edition #538

The 99 Percent Wakes Up (Occupy Wall St Part 1)

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Act 1: Congrats to Wall St. Protesters - The Progressive Air Date: 9-27-11

Song 1: Hi - Psapp

Act 2: Irony of Police Attacks on Protestors - Jimmy Dore Air Date: 9-27-11

Song 2: Pumped up kicks - Foster the people

Act 3: World Economy Going to Hell - Dan Carlin Air Date: 9-28-11

Song 3: Eleanor Rigby (Strings only) - The Beatles

Act 4: Fox News Gives Wall Street Protesters the "Fair & Balanced" Treatment - Media Matters Air Date: 10-3-11

Act 5: Keith Olbermann reads first collective statement of Occupy Wall Street - Countdown

Song 5: The times they are a changing - Bob Dylan

Act 6: Protesting is a Privilege? - Majority Report Air Date: 9-28-11

Song 6: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote

Act 7: Fox Host: Tea Party was Organic, Occupy Wall Street is Not - Media Matters Air Date: 10-5-11

Act 8: Michael Moore: We oppose the way our economy is structured - Countdown

Voicemails:

Call to action: Come to Occupy Wall St of join at occupytogether.org - Curtis from Baltimore

Having just come from Occupy Wall St. - Jake from NY Alt News

The Death Penalty goes against the teachings of the bible - Todd from Washington State

The Rhetoric of Aggitation and Control for Occupy Wall St. protesters - Sherise from NY

Just attended the Occupy Blacksburg rally in Virginia - Pamela from Virginia

Why aren't liberals pointing out the failure of capitalism to solve our problems? - Chuck in Salt Lake City

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final Comments on the podcast awards

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Errol Louis contextualizes Occupy Wall Street march - Countdown

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Edition #537

Embarrassing pack of losers

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Act 1: You could still be brighter than the president - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: You're the one that I want - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Act 2: Can Republicans Ever Appeal to Young People - David Pakman Air Date: 9-06-11

Song 2: Put it to the test - They might be giants

Act 3: The Enronization of presidential politics - Jim Hightower Air Date: 9-15-11

Song 3: Drop dead blues - Anya Marina

Act 4: Rick Perry Ripped By Fox News Hosts - Young Turks Air Date: 9-26-11

Song 4: To build a home - The Cinematic Orchestra

Act 5: Rick Perry isn't a *cheap* whore - Majority Report

Song 5: Lights out - Santigold

Act 6: Manipulating employment numbers in Texas - Counterspin

Song 6: Cowboy - Anya Marina

Act 7: Putting their thumb of the electoral scale - Rachel Maddow

Song 7: Neopolitan Dreams - Lisa Mitchell

Act 8: Campaign Obama Calls Out GOP - Young Turks

Song 8: Wax & Wire - Loch Lomond

Act 9: Mitt, Prick and Whatshername - The Screaming Majority

Song 9: La Valse d'Amélie (Version Piano) - Yann Tiersen

Act 10: Not Trying to Compare You to Hitler, But... - Media Matters Air Date: 9-28-11

Act 11: Obama 'Stop Complaining' Ripped By CBC's Waters - Young Turks

Song 11: All for swinging you around - The New Pornographers

Act 12: Can Republicans Ever Appeal to Young People - David Pakman Air Date: 9-06-11

Song 12: L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Noah & The Whale 

Act 13: My Calm, Collected Assessment of The GOP Field - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-19-2011

Voicemails:

Jobs not cuts event call to action - Katie from Chicago

Thoughts on freedom from worry and transportation - Vicki from Oregon

Thoughts on Jim Hightower's airport security comments - Michael From Benicia, CA

Positive reaction to my Pat Robertson commentary - Sean from Chico, CA

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments responding to all of the voicemails

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Michele Bachmann Dangerous Food - Young Turks

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Edition #536

Give me an actual number

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Act 1: Examining the death penalty in the run up to Troy Davis execution - Rachel Maddow

Song 1: Free Troy Davis - The Last Internationale

Act 2: Troy Davis Execution - Young Turks

Song 2: The Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Act 3: The morning after Troy Davis execution - Majority Report

Song 3: Certain death - Brad Sucks

Act 4: Mercy in Short Supply for Troy Davis - The Progressive

Song 4: Mercy - OneRepublic

Act 5: Dave Zirin on the questions he can't unask - Citizen Radio

Song 5: Death penalty - Eight Dayz

Act 6: Troy Davis: Movement Lessons - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 9-25-11

Song 6: Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song) - Steve Earle

Act 7: Barry Scheck - Troy Davis case - Thom Hartmann  Air Date: 9-22-11

Song 7: Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen

Act 8: Death Penalty Hypocrisy, Troy Davis   Samuel David Crowe  - David Pakman Air Date: 9-27-11

Song 8: Death Penalty - Surrogate

Act 9: Interview with an executioner - Rachel Maddow

Song 9: Great beyond - Aimee Mann

Act 10: Give me an actual number - Matthew Filipowicz Show

Voicemails:

Outraged by Troy Davis execution - Ves from North Dakota

Outraged by right wing reaction to Troy Davis execution - Ves from North Dakota

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on why the death penalty is fun

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

California Ending Death Penalty  - Liberal Viewer Air Date 09-12-11

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Edition #535

You are what and how you eat

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Act 1: From Kings To The Average Joe: Gout Makes A Comeback - NPR Air Date: 7-29-11

Song 1: Baby Elephant Walk - Lawrence Welk

Act 2: Obesity Rates up 90 percent in 17 States since 1995 - David Pakman Air Date: 7-19-11

Song 2: Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths

Act 3: Gordita Supreme Court - Colbert Report

Song 3: Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Act 4: McDonald's Stock Tumbles As Consumers Turn To Food - The Onion

Song 4: Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran

Act 5: From Kings To The Average Joe: Gout Makes A Comeback - NPR Air Date: 7-29-11

Song 5: Back to one - O.A.R.

Act 6: The Invisible Food Crisis - Slate Magazine

Song 6: Folding chair - Regina Spektor

Act 7: Hog Executed Farmland Style - The Onion

Song 7: Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio

Act 8: Monsanto - Snarkipedia - Air Date: 6-11-11

Song 8: Planting seeds - Ten Story Relapse

Act 9: Recalling 36 Million Pounds Of Ground Turkey Linked To Salmonella Outbreak - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 8-03-11

Song 9: Don't stop believing - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 10: Watching Fox News is Bad for Your Health - Media Matters Air Date: 9-26-11

Song 10: Held - Smog

Act 11: Legislation criminalizing investigative food Journalism - On the Media

Song 11: Like humans do - David Byrne

Act 12: Suing FDA to stop antibiotics in animal feed - Green News Report

Song 12: Catch my disease - Ben Lee

Act 13: Lobbyists Gets Candy On Food Pyramid - The Onion

Song 13: Baba O'Riley - The Who

Act 14: Is factory farming manufacturing superbugs - and endangering us all? - Johann Hari

Voicemails:

Detailed dissection of food choice arguments - Mara from Pittsburgh

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments wrapping up the show

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New Psychedelic Weight Loss Drug Transforms Food Into Monstrous Hallucinations - The Onion

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Edition #534

As the class war rages

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Act 1: Italy downgraded by S and P rating agency - BBC News Quiz

Song 1: Leap - The Cave Singers

Act 2: Numbers 'N' Stuff - Mark Fiore Air Date: 9-15-11

Song 2: Alright - Huey Lewis And The News

Act 3: World economics in "the danger zone" - The Bugle

Song 3: Deep in the sweetwater - Rasputina

Act 4: Solutions To America's Finanacial Worries - WWIII - Colbert Report

Song 4: This war - Ophelia of the Spirits

Act 5: Obama Advisers Exposed In New Book - Young Turks

Song 5: Evil eyes - Theo Bard

Act 6: Poverty Stats Are an Indictment - The Progressive Air Date: 9-14-11

Song 6: The sound of silence - Simon & Garfunkel

Act 7: 40% of Single Mothers Living in Poverty - David Pakman Air Date: 9-20-11

Song 7: Girls - Walter Meego

Act 8: Poverty stats, especially regarding women and children - Majority Report

Song 8: Hide your tears - Daniel Licht

Act 9: Fox News Host: Gutting Poverty Programs Actually "Brings Down the Poverty Rate" - Media Matters Air Date: 9-20-11

Act 10: Media debunks an Obama speech on economics he didn't give - Counterspin

Song 10: Baby, it's fact - Hellogoodbye

Act 11: Class Warfare Is a Lie - Young Turk Air Date: 9-19-11

Song 11: Nearly lost you - Screaming Trees

Act 12: Class Warfare? Give Me a Break! - The Progressive Air Date: 9-20-11

Song 12: Dark flute - Jim Guthrie

Act 13: Limbaugh Revisits "Poor Aren't Really Poor" Argument - Media Matters Air Date: 9-14-11

Act 14: Fund War, Cut Social Security & Medicare - Young Turks

Song 14: Maggie - Rod Steward

Act 15: This is not class warfare, it's math - Jimmy Reefercake

Song 15: Your ex-lover is dead - Stars

Act 16: Economics populism popular with Americans - Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:

Call to action to Occupy Wall Street - Max from Davis, CA

Update on Occupy Wall Street movement - Jake from NY Alt News

Mumia Abu-Jamal should be allowed to speak regardless of his history - Anonymous

Will my membership renew automatically? - Shane from Chicago

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments asking about Mumia Abu-Jamal commenting on the death penalty

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Govt Wastes Money On Private Contractors - Young Turks

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