(2011/06/25) Will the real moderates please stand up (Religion)
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🗓️ 25 June 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #501
Will the real moderates please stand up
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Act 1: Harold Camping's Rapture Failure - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: King of wishful thinking - Go West
Act 2: How Priests Accused Of Abuse Can Go Undetected - NPR
Song 2: Mary Mary - Chumbawamba
Act 3: The sixties made me do it - Jim Hightower
Song 3: Love sick - Anya Marina
Act 4: Johann vs homophobic violence - Johann Hari
Song 4: Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Act 5: God Quietly Phasing Holy Ghost Out Of Trinity - The Onion
Song 5: Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
Act 6: Texas GOP Governor Rick Perry Says He's A Prophet - Young Turks
Song 6: Natural blues - Moby
Act 7: Jen Lee: Saving Souls - The Moth
Song 7: Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Act 8: Johann vs multiculturalism - Johann Hari
Song 8: Swing low sweet chariot - The Persuasions
Act 9: Pope Wins Host-Eating Contest - The Onion
Song 9: Like a prayer - Madonna
Act 10: Atheists are the downfall of society but Christians are under attack - Citizen Radio
Song 10: Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum
Act 11: Moderate Christians need to speak up - Dan Savage
Voicemails:
Thanks for the Amazon link - Amy from the Bronx
Wont really talk to you soon - Amy from the Bronx
We need to maintain net neutrality - Chris from Middletown, NY
Update on privacy rights case - Sam from Maryland
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on the funniest Supreme Court decision, Malenda doesn't think I'm rude and The Progressive Playbook blog launch
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Conservapedia The Right Hates Science - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by Stitcher Smart Radio. Download their free mobile app and use the promo code BEST during activation for a chance to win $100. |
| 0:08.0 | You're welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast with clips today from Weight Weight Don't Tell Me, NPR, Jim Hightower, Johan Hari, The Onion Radio News, The Young Turks, The Moth Podcast, Citizen Radio and Dan Savage, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Young Turks. And this episode does contain profanity. |
| 0:30.0 | Here, here is your last quote that has been a really tough weekend. |
| 0:37.0 | That was a man named Harold Camping, he was speaking Monday. He was upset that something he predicted for last Saturday night didn't happen. |
| 0:47.0 | What? |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, it's not Reformation, it's everybody. |
| 0:55.0 | What was most happened? |
| 0:58.0 | Reformation. |
| 0:59.0 | Revelation, the rapture, is that what you mean? |
| 1:02.0 | The world's what we're talking about. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, he said Reformation. |
| 1:07.0 | I know all you guys follow the news pretty closely, so you may have noticed the world did not end on Saturday night. |
| 1:13.0 | You were probably as disappointed as Mr. Camping was in this as you were looking forward to either going to heaven or stealing the large screen TVs of those who did. |
| 1:25.0 | Didn't he say that it was just fuzzy math though? Didn't he say it's going to happen this fall? |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, he did. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, this is a funny thing. |
| 1:31.0 | It's going to be cold in the fall. I would rather the rapture happen now. |
| 1:34.0 | It's sort of a slow burn rapture. |
| 1:36.0 | Here's the thing, he keeps predicting specific dates. He's done this twice before. |
| 1:40.0 | Actually, this time he's done it the third time he says it will happen October, I think. |
| 1:43.0 | If anybody ever needed to learn the suffix-ish. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah! |
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