(2009/12/09) Winter Holiday Extravaganza (MP3)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

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🗓️ 9 December 2009

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Edition #320 Winter Holiday Extravaganza Act 1: Atheist 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 Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Audible.
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0:08.8	Now welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the Young Turks, the Onion
0:12.8	Radio News, This American Life, The Colbert Report, Tom Hartman, and Rachel Maddo.
0:30.0	Alright, let's talk about the atheist summer camp.
0:33.5	So there's a company called Camp Quest, and they have created this secular camp that
0:39.5	has obviously nothing to do with the typical Christian stuff that goes on in summer camps.
0:45.5	I didn't know this, but there are a lot of Christian references and camp songs and things
0:50.4	like that.
0:51.4	And Camp Quest seeks to get rid of that.
0:53.2	Yeah, I didn't know that either, partly because I've never gone camping.
0:57.0	When I was a little kid, I was the one that was left out.
0:59.4	And I just sit at home with my mom and watch general hospital all summer long while the
1:04.0	cool kids went to camp.
1:05.7	But now that I know that they were indoctrinating them with Jesus brainwashing, now you know
1:11.4	what?
1:12.4	Look and Laura on the cast design, not so bad, okay, I'll take it.
1:15.8	No, I literally didn't know.
1:16.8	Another thing I didn't know is apparently a lot of the summer camps are run by Mormons.
1:20.7	Right.
1:21.7	Okay, so who knew that?
1:24.6	Maybe that's what Glenn Beck went to when he got converted, I don't know.
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