(2012/11/14) Schadenfreude Part 1: The Meltdown (Elections)
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🗓️ 15 November 2012
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Edition #662
Schadenfreude Part 1: The Meltdown
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Top Story Of The Week - It's Over - The Bugle - Air Date 11-9-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Play with fire - The Rolling Stones
Ch. 4: Act 2: Karl Rove Refuses to Believe Fox News' Own Obama Victory Projection - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-08-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Shame - Ophelia of the Spirits
Ch. 6: Act 3: Analyzing The Re-Election - Jimmy Dore - Air Date 11-9-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Sunshine goodtime - Minnutes
Ch. 8: Act 4: Romney Campaign Genuinely Shocked at Loss - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-09-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Victory - Trampled by Turtles
Ch. 10: Act 5: Ole Miss Racist Riots After Obama Re-Elected - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-09-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Angry - The Bug & Tippa Irie
Ch. 12: Act 6: Rush Limbaugh's Epic Post Election Meltdown - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-07-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Spiraling - Jukebox the Ghost
Ch. 14: Act 7: Victoria Jackson's Election Meltdown on Twitter - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-08-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Viva la Vida - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 16: Act 8: It's Official: Dick Morris Is "Through" - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 11-07-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Viva la Vida - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 18: Act 9: Glenn Beck Totally Loses It: Buy Farmland & Guns - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-08-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Stairway to Gilligan's Island - Little Roger and the Goosebumps
Ch. 20: Act 10: Donald Trump's Clownish Election Tweets - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-08-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Different names for the same thing - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 22: Act 11: Libertarian Republican Cries "End of Liberty in America!" After Obama Win - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-09-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Say goodbye - Ian Rhett
Ch. 24: Act 12: Racist Tweets Explode After Obama Re-Election - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-10-12
Ch. 25: Song 12: Lost! - Coldplay
Ch. 26: Act 13: Study: Post-Election Racist Tweets Came From Romney States - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-10-12
Ch. 27: Song 13: Those were the days - Mary Hopkin
Ch. 28: Act 14: The Polish is Off the Turd Blossom - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-8-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cupsidae from The Bugle, the |
| 0:12.7 | Majority Report, the Jimmy Dorsho, the Young Turks, the David Pakman Show, the Media Matters |
| 0:16.5 | Minute, and the Rachel Maddo Show, and a note for any listener sensitive to hearing grown |
| 0:20.9 | men and women cry when they lose, proceed with caution. |
| 0:30.1 | Top story this week, and obviously, in this week of all weeks, there is only one place |
| 0:35.4 | to start with the news that gets everyone around the world's awake through the night, |
| 0:40.8 | a historic moment in social history. |
| 0:43.6 | Good news for some people viewed as a disaster by others, and that news, of course, was |
| 0:48.2 | the news that coffee is extinct or could be extinct in 70 years' time. |
| 0:55.3 | That's a rabbit-a-coffee, wild rabbit-a-coffee, but boffins in laboratories have claimed |
| 1:01.2 | the entire genetic sustainability of coffee as a species is under threat, John, and that |
| 1:06.8 | coffee could be dead by this time next century. |
| 1:11.1 | That's all coffee, John. |
| 1:12.7 | Here's the thing, and especially now, with the level of tiredness I feel at the moment |
| 1:18.2 | the very notion of the possibility of coffee going extinct is so alarming that I cannot |
| 1:23.8 | even joke about it. |
| 1:24.8 | It's just not seem like a subject for comedy, Andy. |
| 1:28.4 | That's really my second complaint. |
| 1:30.2 | The first complaint is that that cannot be a top story, Andy, because what the f**k are |
| 1:34.4 | you talking about, Andy? |
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