Edition #481

Your body is a battleground

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Act 1: New strict anti-abortion law - Young Turks

Song 1: I'm a pilot - Fanfarlo

Act 2: Not just anti-choice but anti-contraception - Dan Savage

Song 2: Tiny wings theme - Andreas Illiger

Act 3: Perry's "Texanity" explained - Jim Hightower

Song 3: Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart

Act 4: Women now empowered by everything a woman does - The Onion

Song 4: The girl - City And Colour

Act 5: New abortion bill becomes law - Young Turks

Song 5: Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree

Act 6: Paycheck fairness - Thom Hartmann

Song 6: Women and men - They might be giants

Act 7: Report: Sexism in nature rampant - The Onion

Song 7: Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed

Act 8: Strictest abortion law in US coming soon - Young Turks

Song 8: Pregnant women are smug - Garfunkel and Oates

Act 9: Judy Williams interview - Colbert Report

Song 9: Julie-O.- Kevin "KO" Olusola

Act 10: Over 350 anti-abortion bills in 2011 so far - David Pakman

Song 10: Dreamtime - Uberzone

Act 11: Baby taken away over C-section refusal - Young Turks

Song 11: Ill with want - The Avett Brothers

Act 12: Buy and cellulite - Colbert Report

Voicemails:

Responding to Ryan from NY Re: military in Libya - Michael From Glenn Bernie

Show suggestions: Radio Free Oz - Wild Horse from Olympia, WA

In defense of calling them fascists - Roy from McClain TX

Show on stupidity in politics - Adam from Chicagoland

Voicemail Music: 

Ghostwriter - Rjd2

Final comments on advertising and the NLC fundraiser

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I Have Sex — students speak out against ideological attack on Planned Parenthood - Weslayan Uncut

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Edition #480

The monkey is not a reference to Obama

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Act 1: Federal gov almost shut down over Planned Parenthood - Double X Gabfest from Slate.com

Song 1: I wish I knew - Years and Years

Act 2: Deficits are sustainable - Majority Report

Song 2: Forever yellow skies - The Cranberries

Act 3: Deficits are unsustainable with Chris Martenson - David Pakman

Song 3: Lone Star - Jim Guthrie

Act 4: President Obama, Chief Negotiator - Citizen Radio

Song 4: Play with fire - The Rolling Stones

Act 5: Obama let's us know how he really feels - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 5: Shuffle your feet - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Act 6: Follow up on Obama the negotiator - Citizen Radio

Song 6: Talented Tailor (Live) - Laura Hocking

Act 7: Embracing the class war - Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:

Thoughts on fixing the budget issue - Sean from Atlanta, GA

Asking leniency for Obama re: Gitmo - Pamela from Virginia

Socialism and communism are part of the left in the US - Max from Berkley, CA

Voicemail Music: 

Ghostwriter - Rjd2

Final comments apologizing for failing to properly label an explicit clip from Dan Savage and more thoughts on political rhetoric

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

GOP Cuts Education - Why? - Young Turks

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Edition #479

Unsettling settlements

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Act 1: Operation Overreaction - Mark Fiore

Song 1: Overreacting - Brad Sucks

Act 2: Two Jews debate Israel policy - On the Media

Song 2: Circles - Soul Coughing

Act 3: Meet Pray Love - Daily Show

Song 3: Broken chair - Chris and Thomas

Act 4: Obama caves on settlements - The Progressive

Song 4: Turn this boat around - Matt & Kim

Act 5: Hamas signal they will accept peace deal for 1967 borders - Young Turks

Song 5: Accept yourself - The Smiths

Act 6: Bieber to solve the Israel/Palestine conflict - The Bugle

Song 6: Baby (Acoustic Version) - Justin Bieber

Act 7: Escalations begin when Israel says they do - Counterspin

Song 7: When your mind's made up - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova

Act 8: Egyptian revolution shows insanity of Israel's Palestinian policy - The Progressive

Song 8: This land is mine - Dido

Act 9: Palestinian State - Peace with Israel - Young Turks

Song 9: High hopes - Frank Sinatra

Act 10: King Abdullah II of Jordan - Daily Show

Song 10: On a Neck, On a Spit - Grizzly Bear

Act 11: No support in congress for Palestine - Mike Malloy

Voicemails:

Just became a member - Shane from Cleveland, OH

Show suggestions: Skeptically speaking - Nick from Knoxville, TN

Canadian elections coming up - Paul from Winnepeg

Call the GOP "fascists" - Mike From Texas

Would I support a primary candidate? - Earl from Nashville, TN

Voicemail Music: 

Ghostwriter - Rjd2

Final comments on the use of Nazi comparisons, name-calling and referrals to Eps # 452 and #456 regarding my take on a potential primary candidate against Obama

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

The Killing Tree - Daily Show

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Edition #478

Between Scylla and Charybdis

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Act 1: Lackluster launch of Obama's campaign - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: Ottoman - Vampire Weekend

Act 2: Kicking the base - Rachel Maddow

Song 2: Ain't that a kick in the head - Dean Martin

Act 3: President Obama's un-kept campaign promises - David Pakman

Song 3: The promise - When In Rome

Act 4: As the media frames the Democrats - Counterspin

Song 4: Candy everybody wants - 10,000 Maniacs

Act 5: Meet potential GOP candidate Michele Bachmann - Young Turks

Song 5: Baby elephant walk - Lawrence Welk

Act 6: Donald goes full Birther - Media Matters

Act 7: Base race, Bachman, Cain, Gingrich - Daily Show

Song 7: The Thought Gives Me The Creeps - Hellogoodbye

Act 8: Huckabee on gay marriage - Dan Savage

Song 8: In your eyes - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 9: Palin supports Trump's birtherism - Media Matters

Act 10: Pawlenty declares candidacy before he's ready - Colbert Report

Song 10: Desire - U2

Act 11: Bachmann Overdrive by David Weigel - Slate.com

Song 11: Pale Horses - Moby

Act 12: Base race, Santorum, Barbour, Trump - Daily Show

Song 12: Easy - Deer Tick

Act 13: Trump 2012 - Media Matters

Act 14: Colbert PAC - Colbert Report

Song 14: Just for now - Imogen Heap

Act 15: Poll trouble for GOP in 2012 elections - Young Turks

Voicemails:

Show suggestions: War news radio - Chuck in Salt Lake City

Show suggestions: TAL and The Moth - Eric from Eagle Mountain, Utah

Show suggestions: Sound of Young America, Sound Opinions, Judge John Hodgman and lots of comedy shows - Steve from Richmond, VA

Responding to Ryan and the Vietnam war - Carter from Denver

Voicemail Music: 

Ghostwriter - Rjd2

Final comments on the NLC fundraiser

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Nation Elects First Openly Drunk Senator - The Onion

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Edition #477

Under every rock

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Act 1: Political crybabies - This American Life

Song 1: Awnaw - Nappy Roots

Act 2: Pulling the curtain on the Koch Bros - Jim Hightower

Song 2: Solo, Sole Dire - Gipsy Kings

Act 3: Ann Coulter says only liberal media talking about birthers - David Pakman

Song 3: How Many Planets? - They Might Be Giants

Act 4: Tales of principled behavior - Obama birth certificate - Daily Show

Song 4: Mystify - INXS

Act 5: The appearance of impropriety and bias - Rachel Maddow

Song 5: Silver Star - Chucho Valdes Felix Star

Act 6: Koch Bros: What a sight - Jim Hightower

Song 6: 2 Atoms In a Molecule - Noah and the Whale

Act 7: Santorum on needing more people in the US - Dan Savage

Song 7: Colorblind - Counting Crows

Act 8: Ayn Rand's hypocrisy - Majority Report

Song 8: La Poupee Qui Fait Non - Luna

Act 9: Koch Bros buy politicians - Young Turks

Song 9: Drumming Song (Live) - Florence + The Machine

Act 10: Billionaire Bullies - Jim Hightower

Song 10: Coming to terms - Carolina Liar

Act 11: Koch pros under every rock - Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:

Endorsing veganism and a show on food - Patrick from Dallas

Regarding CIA advisers in Libya - Ryan from NY

Correction on Vietnam timeline - Ryan from NY

Voicemail Music: 

Ghostwriter - Rjd2

Final comments on the New Leaders Council fundraiser

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

THE KOCHS ARE COMING! - Jim Hightower

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Edition #476

Good news for the big guys

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Act 1: Bears and balls - Misery Edition - Colbert Report

Song 1: Any way you want it - Journey

Act 2: Florida Gov calls unemployed lazy - Young Turks

Song 2: I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light - Brand New

Act 3: Obama's executive order on regulations another capitulation - The Progressive

Song 3: Starsign - Apoptygma Berzerk

Act 4: Back off Social Security - Bernie Sanders

Song 4: Hands down - Dashboard Confessional

Act 5: Judge orders God to break up into smaller deities - The Onion

Song 5: God - The Dodos

Act 6: Steal from the poor, give to the rich - Thom Hartmann

Song 6: By your side - Sade

Act 7: New ideas for revenue and spending - Counterspin

Song 7: Hurt - Johnny Cash

Act 8: Interview with Jeffrey Leonard - Colbert Report

Song 8: Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

Act 9: All things private are good, all things public are bad - The Progressive

Song 9: Zebra - Beach House

Act 10: Good news for the big guys - Rachel Maddow

Final comments Source Story Series on This American Life

Link to Mind Games episode

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Title X - Flat Out Lie By Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) - Young Turks

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Edition #475

The GlennPocalypse

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Act 1: When reporters attack - Daily Show

Song 1: Hotel California - Gipsy Kings

Act 2: Channeled rage - Colbert Report

Song 2: Sleep through the static - Jack Johnson

Act 3: Three little pigs and terrorist sympathizer - Media Matters

Song 3: Sleep through the static - Jack Johnson

Act 4: Beck say Obama sympathizes with terrorists - MSNBC

Song 4: Wait Till You See My Smile - Alicia Keys

Act 5: Bill Sammon admits Obama socialism link was a lie - David Pakman

Song 5: Drops of Jupiter - Train

Act 6: God sending a message with the Japan earthquake - Media Matters

Act 7: MSNBC is the anti-God network - MSNBC

Song 7: White blank page - Mumford & Sons

Act 8: James OKeef asks for donations - Colbert Report

Song 8: Ain't too proud to beg - Temptations

Act 9: Concurrence roundtable - The Onion

Song 9: Handsome Devil - The Smiths

Act 10: NBC reports on it's parent company (sort of) - Counterspin

Song 10: Viva la Vida - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 11: Now that sounds crazy, but life is crazy - Media Matters

Act 12: Cenk fires back at Rush Limbaugh - MSNBC

Song 12: My name is Jonas - Weezer

Act 13: FCC fines news stations for running VNR propaganda as news - David Pakman

Song 13: Bohemian Rhapsody - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 14: After 1 million lost viewers and 300 advertisers Beck calls it quits - Media Matters

Act 15: Why Glenn Beck is leaving Fox News - Young Turks

Song 15: Fade to black - Apocalyptica

Act 16: You'll all be very sorry - Media Matters

Act 17: The GlennPocalypse - Colbert Report

Voicemails:

Comment about naming of membership levels - Paul from NY

Why he just became a member - Shawn from Miami, FL

Tax awareness call to action - Vikki from HI

Reaction to Jimmy Dore segment on Libya - Michael From Glenn Bernie

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Final comments on the YouTube video version of the show

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Family Matters - Daily Show

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Edition #474

Our third war

 

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Act 1: Mess O'North Africa - Daily Show

Song 1: New shoes - Paolo Nutini

Act 2: And Like That, Blink, A New War - Mumia Abu-Jamal

Song 2: Don't look back in anger - Oasis

Act 3: Obama's Wrong-Headed Libyan War - The Progressive

Song 3: Legions (War) - Zoe Keating

Act 4: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional? - The Breakdown

Song 4: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

Act 5: America at Not-War - Obama Defends Military Action in Libya - Daily Show

Song 5: Halo - Beyoncé

Act 6: Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling them Bombs - David Pakman

Song 6: Naive - The Kooks

Act 7: No Al Qaeda In Libya - U.S. Intelligence Community - Young Turks

Song 7: For whom the bell tolls - Apocalyptica

Act 8: Right Wing Media Can't Agree On How Libya is Obama's Fault - Media Matters

Act 9: Lots of rational talk about Libya - Counterspin

Song 9: Over my head - The Fray

Act 10: Glenn Beck - Obama Helping Terrorists In Libya - Young Turks

Song 10: Fireflies - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 11: When Is Dissent Patriotic? - Media Matters

Act 12: Obama's Faulty Doctrine - The Progressive

Song 12: Perpetual - VNV Nation

Act 13: The Enemies We Don't Know - Mumia Abu-Jamal

Song 13: You learn - Alanis Morissette

Act 14: It's different when a black guy does it - Jimmy Dore Show

 

Voicemails:

Recommendation on Supreme Court podcast - Seth from Lancaster PA

Colin admits he was wrong - Colin from Sacramento, CA

 

Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

 

Final comments on Power Shift '11 and BotL on YouTube

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Mess O The Whole Potamia Region - Libya Uprising - Daily Show

 

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Edition #473

They only call it class war when we fight back 

 

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Act 1: Cut and ruin - Mark Fiore

Song 1: Honey - Moby

Act 2: Callous Republicans cut unemployment - The Progressive

Song 2: Working class hero - John Lennon

Act 3: There is a class war going on - Majority Report

Song 3: Breathless - Jonathan Byrd

Act 4: Class war casualties - Jim Hightower

Song 4: Class warfare - Chris Priest

Act 5: Rich vs poor and misplaced priorities - Majority Report

Song 5: Go your own way - The Cranberries

Act 6: Just raise taxes - MSNBC

Song 6: Jenny don't be hasty - Paolo Nutini

Act 7: Economic Boom - Colbert Report

Song 7: California - Phantom Planet

Act 8: Matt Taibbi on how Wall St crooks avoided jail - Bill Maher

Song 8: That's all - Clare and the Reasons

Act 9: Unpopulism - Rachel Maddow

 

Final comments on setting priorities and using your limited time in the best way possible

 

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Robert Reich on tax reform - Thom Hartmann

 

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Edition #472

Some people are gay, get over it 

 

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Act 1: Unmarried heterosexuals should be allowed to have kids - Dan Savage

Song 1: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote

Act 2: Badid Boles on Prop 8 litigation - Colbert Report

Song 2: Tell him - Exciters

Act 3: High court rules for anti-gay protesters at funerals - NPR

Song 3: First Few Desperate Hours - The Mountain Goats

Act 4: Wayne Besen interview - David Pakman

Song 4: Fall hard - Shout Out Louds

Act 5: Reverend busted for male escorts and more - Young Turks

Song 5: Tiny dancer - Elton John

Act 6: Another anti-gay minister a sexual deviant - Dan Savage

Song 6: We only come out at night - Smashing Pumpkins

Act 7: Anti-gay congressman caught in relationship with a horse - The Onion

Song 7: Eyes - Rogue Wave

Act 8: Out of the closet in the pulpit of a megachurch - NPR

Song 8: Heart of the city - Arkells

Act 9: Reaction to Obama's anti-gay bullying conference - Dan Savage

Song 9: Sing Theresa Says - Greg Laswell

Act 10: Ann Coulter calls Cenk 'retarded' - Young Turks

 

Voicemails:

Thoughts on Mumia from an ex con - Seth from Lancaster PA

Just became a member - Martina Myers

 

Voicemail Music: 

Ghostwriter - Rjd2

 

Final comments on Power Shift 2011 and YouTube edition of the show

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Look Who's Stalking - The Daily Show

 

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