(2016/03/22) A Look Back (Episode #1000)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2016
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1000
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
00:02:54 Ch. 2: Act 1: TYT video streaming launch party while CNN makes new hires - The Young Turks
00:06:19 Ch. 3: Act 2: Bin Laden resurfaces and MSNBC calls him a Democrat - Rachel Maddow Show
00:12:30 Ch. 4: Act 3: Speaking with Helen Thomas on the state of the media - Mother Jones Radio
00:16:56 Ch. 5: Act 4: John Boehner running for speaker - Rachel Maddow
00:19:26 Ch. 6: Act 5: John Conyers on Bush wiretapping program - Thom Hartmann
00:24:45 Ch. 7: Act 6: Rage over cartoons perplexes Denmark - The Young Turks
00:30:28 Ch. 8: Act 7: Rob Corddry on Cheney shooting his friend in the face - The Daily Show
00:34:09 Ch. 9: Act 8: Harry Whittington Apologizes for Getting Shot in the Face by Dick Cheney
00:37:23 Ch. 10: Act 9: This happens all the time and by the way, it's incredibly traumatic - Al Franken Show
00:42:48 Ch. 11: Act 10: Hurricane Katrina and it's aftermath - Mother Jones Radio
00:50:13 Ch. 12: Act 11: O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts - NPR Morning Edition
00:54:23 Ch. 13: Act 12: Sandra Day O'Connor and avoiding these beginnings - The Young Turks
00:59:21 Ch. 14: Act 13: Tom Delay steps down from congress - Rachel Maddow Show
01:02:51 Ch. 15: Act 14: A reminder of all the things terrible about Tom Delay - The Young Turks
01:11:34 Ch. 16: Act 15: Hate Mail from the left - Al Franken Show
01:13:50 Ch. 17: Act 16: I'm the decider - The Young Turks
01:17:26 Ch. 18: Act 17: The Chief Executive's Role - The President's Weekly Radio Address
01:21:22 Ch. 18: Act 18: Highlights from Colbert's White House Correspondents Dinner Speech with David Bender - Rachel Maddow
01:31:22 Ch. 18: Act 19: Supercut of Colbert at the White House Correspondence Dinner
Voicemails
01:36:36 Ch. 19: 1000 Episodes - Lee Camp
01:37:05 Ch. 20: 1000 Episodes - David Pakman
Plus messages from:
Eammon from La Habra, California
Nancy from San Francisco
Zach from Atlanta
Megan from Seattle
Josh from Lafayette, LA
Erin from Philadelphia
Tony from New Jersey
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
01:37:50 Ch. 21: Final comments on how I met David Pakman and thanks for the last 1000 episodes
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is and has for a long time been made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:06.0 | If you'd like to support the work we're doing, please visit the Contribute tab at bestivaleth.com. |
| 0:11.3 | Now, maybe you noticed and maybe you didn't, but today is the 1,000th episode of Bestivaleth, |
| 0:17.7 | so it's going to be a little bit different than normal. We're going to hear some familiar voices, |
| 0:22.2 | some young Turks, and some Rachel Maddo, and some Tom Hartman, and then some other voices that you |
| 0:27.4 | can't even hear on the radio anymore. And here's the story of what's going on. |
| 0:34.0 | Six or eight months ago, I realized, oh geez, 1,000th episode is coming up. I wonder what I should do |
| 0:40.1 | about that, and then I didn't think much about it. And then like a month ago, I thought, oh boy, |
| 0:47.3 | it's really coming up fast. I should probably do something about it. And the only idea I had, |
| 0:52.6 | it's like the most obvious thing, is like, well, do the best of the best of the left. |
| 0:56.6 | We'll find all the best clips from the last 10 years, and I would just laugh to myself and wonder |
| 1:02.5 | about whose staff was going to be employed to filter through 1,000 episodes. And then about three |
| 1:10.9 | days ago, I thought, oh man, I really should do something. Maybe I'll do what the show looked and |
| 1:18.1 | sounded like, and what was going on almost exactly 10 years ago. Because it just so happens that |
| 1:24.0 | it took me almost exactly 10 years to make exactly 1,000 episodes. I started the show in January |
| 1:30.1 | 2006. And so what I've done over those past few days is I have listened to the first four or |
| 1:38.0 | five months of this show. And I pulled out some of my favorite clips from the beginning of 2006, |
| 1:46.1 | just to give you a snapshot of what was going on then, and how things felt. And that'll allow you |
| 1:52.8 | to sort of compare to today. And it's just sort of a fun way to mark this occasion. So to begin with, |
| 1:59.6 | we're going to hear from the young Turks. They were the first show I ever promoted on Best of |
| 2:04.2 | the Left. And apparently it's worked because they now have like two and a half billion views on YouTube. |
| 2:11.2 | Well, this first clip, it's just that they're having a conversation about the media. But it so |
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