(2012/04/16) Al fresco brunch apocalypse (Climate)
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🗓️ 16 April 2012
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Summary
Edition #596
Al fresco brunch apocalypse
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 20,000 High Temp Records Broken - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me - Air Date: 4-14-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Picnic - Young Fresh Fellows
Ch. 4: Act 2: Warmer Colder Wetter And More Severe - Green News Reports - Air Date: 4-1-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Crumbling down - Yaves (The Street Pastor)
Ch. 6: Act 3: Global Warming Is Here - The Progressive - Air Date: 4-2-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Warning - Green Day
Ch. 8: Act 4: Sunny Days Are Here Again — But Is That Good? - NPR - Air Date: 4-8-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Like the weather - 10,000 Maniacs
Ch. 10: Act 5: Obama Approves New Keystone Pipeline Project - Young Turks - Air Date: 2-28-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Never gonna learn - Jont
Ch. 12: Act 6: Republicans claim Keystone will lower gas prices, but analysis says otherwise - Green News Report - Air Date: 3-1-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Hey there, Delilah - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 14: Act 7: Despite Scientific Evidence, Fox Continues to Call Global Warming a "Hoax" - Media Matters Air Date: 2-29-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Hey there, Delilah - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 16: Act 8: Leaked Heartland Institute E-mails Inside the Climate Denier - Majority Report - Air Date: 2-23-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: This is the day - The The
Ch. 18: Act 9: Reviewing the Reality Behind Climate-Gate - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 3-15-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Safe - Phil Wickham
Ch. 20: Act 10: Santorum Mocks Global Warming - The Progressive Air Date: 3-21-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Galilieo - G.G. Allin
Ch. 22: Act 11: All Hail The Least Deserving - Green News Report - Air Date: 3-29-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Hey Ya - Obadiah Parker
Ch. 24: Act 12: Climate-Friendly GOPers Abandoning Policies Previously Supported - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-5-12
Ch. 25: Song 12: La Valse Des Vieux Os - Yann Tiersen
Ch. 26: Act 13: Fox Host: "If A Polar Bear Dies, I Don't Feel Bad" - Media Matters - Air Date: 4-12-12
Ch. 27: Song 13: La Valse Des Vieux Os - Yann Tiersen
Ch. 28: Act 14: Bill Maher Guest: 'Climate Change A Crock Of Shit' - Young Turks - Air Date: 3-12-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Mormon perspective on posthumous baptisms - Eric from Provo, UT
Ch. 30: If you don't believe in Mormonism then why do you care about posthumous baptisms? - Chuck in Salt Lake City
Ch. 31: Detailed explanation of posthumous Mormon baptisms - Todd from Salt Lake City
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Ch. 32: Final comments on why Fox News is like a bad parody of a bad news channel
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details |
| 0:06.2 | visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft |
| 0:10.9 | podcast with Kupstay from Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Green News Report, The Progressive, |
| 0:15.5 | NPR, The Young Turks, Media Matters, The Majority Report and The Rachel Maddo Show and a note |
| 0:20.9 | for our more sensitive listeners this episode contains references to science. |
| 0:30.0 | Julie here is your next quote. |
| 0:33.2 | It's meteorological March Madness. |
| 0:36.0 | That was what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was calling this March. |
| 0:40.6 | It was very unusual why. |
| 0:43.0 | Um, it was the hottest March. |
| 0:46.4 | It was one of the hottest months ever in terms of being over its average temperature. |
| 0:51.3 | So, you know, how much fun you had in March going for walks and your t-shirt insured |
| 0:58.9 | admiring the flowers and trees tossing your dog to your frisbee. |
| 1:02.2 | Well, I hope you all enjoyed the end of the world. |
| 1:06.4 | Believe it or not, that was an extreme weather event. |
| 1:08.5 | One of the warmest marches ever, more than 20,000 local temperature records were broken |
| 1:13.1 | in one month. |
| 1:14.1 | That's winning in a different way. |
| 1:15.9 | It is. |
| 1:17.9 | Al Gore is winning now. |
| 1:20.4 | But all that fun you were having, it was a disaster. |
| 1:22.8 | It was the picnipocalypse. |
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