(2012/11/26) Making Thelma and Louise Proud (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 November 2012
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Edition #665
Making Thelma and Louise Proud
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Cliff Diving - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 11-20-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Bulletproof - La Roux
Ch. 4: Act 2: It's time to jump off the 'Fiscal Cliff'! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-22-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Shove it - Santigold
Ch. 6: Act 3: How to Solve the Fiscal Cliff - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-13-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: I hear the bells - Mike Doughty
Ch. 8: Act 4: How the Establishment Wants to Destroy Social Security - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-12-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Come sail away - Styx
Ch. 10: Act 5: Walmart Black Friday- Why Workers Are Striking - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-22-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Mountain Sound - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 12: Act 6: Hooray for the Walmart Strikers! - The Progressive - Air Date: 11-23-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Union warriors - Robin Roberts
Ch. 14: Act 7: Thom on FDR and The Fiscal Cliff - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-13-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Sitting waiting, wishing - Jack Johnson
Ch. 16: Act 8: Rolling Jubilee: A Bailout for the People - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-15-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Hannah - Freelance Whales
Ch. 18: Act 9: How Obama Could Kick Republican Ass (If He Wanted To) - Young Turks - Air Date: 11-15-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Thoughts on the fiscal cliff - Jake from NY Alt News
Ch. 20: Detailed thoughts on GMOs - Vicki from the Pacific Northwest
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 21: Final comments on methods of attaining the greater good
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Vestival left podcast with Coops today from MarkFurray.com, |
| 0:13.2 | the Tom Hartman program, the David Pakman show, the majority report, the Young Turks and |
| 0:16.9 | the Progressive, and a note to all listeners that you may want to hold your earned benefits |
| 0:21.0 | close at hand as we're entering a high-fifth area. |
| 0:30.0 | Mark, up on the sky! |
| 0:31.8 | It's a bird! |
| 0:32.8 | It's a plant! |
| 0:33.8 | Yes, it's! |
| 0:35.4 | Newly frugal guy! |
| 0:37.8 | Here to warn you of the Fiskal Cliff! |
| 0:42.8 | It all started back when I, Newly frugal guy, and by Newly frugal Hock's Catears helped |
| 0:47.9 | create the Fiskal Cliff to teach you the evils of deficit spending. |
| 0:52.9 | With the Spendo Crafts, we had to threaten you with absolute destruction so you cut the |
| 0:57.9 | deficit we're now warning you against cutting! |
| 1:00.9 | You see, citizens, the Cliff would dramatically cut the deficit, but it would do so by cutting |
| 1:06.1 | Pentagon spending, which, through the mysteries of Newly frugal, this is huge government spending |
| 1:11.8 | that is amazingly not socialistic. |
| 1:14.6 | We all know true deficit reduction can only come from cutting pincoe social programs, |
| 1:20.0 | like schools, health, and welfare. |
| 1:22.0 | The Fiskal Cliff also threatens to blow up the Bush tax cuts in devious Spendo Crafts |
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