Edition #535
You are what and how you eat
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Act 1: From Kings To The Average Joe: Gout Makes A Comeback - NPR Air Date: 7-29-11
Song 1: Baby Elephant Walk - Lawrence Welk
Act 2: Obesity Rates up 90 percent in 17 States since 1995 - David Pakman Air Date: 7-19-11
Song 2: Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths
Act 3: Gordita Supreme Court - Colbert Report
Song 3: Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Act 4: McDonald's Stock Tumbles As Consumers Turn To Food - The Onion
Song 4: Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran
Act 5: From Kings To The Average Joe: Gout Makes A Comeback - NPR Air Date: 7-29-11
Song 5: Back to one - O.A.R.
Act 6: The Invisible Food Crisis - Slate Magazine
Song 6: Folding chair - Regina Spektor
Act 7: Hog Executed Farmland Style - The Onion
Song 7: Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Act 8: Monsanto - Snarkipedia - Air Date: 6-11-11
Song 8: Planting seeds - Ten Story Relapse
Act 9: Recalling 36 Million Pounds Of Ground Turkey Linked To Salmonella Outbreak - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 8-03-11
Song 9: Don't stop believing - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 10: Watching Fox News is Bad for Your Health - Media Matters Air Date: 9-26-11
Song 10: Held - Smog
Act 11: Legislation criminalizing investigative food Journalism - On the Media
Song 11: Like humans do - David Byrne
Act 12: Suing FDA to stop antibiotics in animal feed - Green News Report
Song 12: Catch my disease - Ben Lee
Act 13: Lobbyists Gets Candy On Food Pyramid - The Onion
Song 13: Baba O'Riley - The Who
Act 14: Is factory farming manufacturing superbugs - and endangering us all? - Johann Hari
Voicemails:
Detailed dissection of food choice arguments - Mara from Pittsburgh
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments wrapping up the show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
New Psychedelic Weight Loss Drug Transforms Food Into Monstrous Hallucinations - The Onion
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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