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Thursday, November 4, 2010
1-3 p.m.
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SUBSTITUTE HOST JIM RAINEY,
1:06 – 1:19
OPEN
1:21 – 1:39
The great healthcare reform fight, part II
It’s déjà vu all over again: less than a year after passage of the Affordable Care Act, the huge healthcare reform bill that was signed by President Obama after a year of bitterly contentious debate, the nation is set to re-debate healthcare. While it’s unclear whether anger over the healthcare bill or the lousy economy, or a combination of both, were the primary factors in ousting Democrats from control of the House in convincing fashion, the incoming Republican majority is certainly seizing the opportunity to go after a health care bill that they despise. At a press conference on Wednesday incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner described his approach to healthcare reform: "The American people are concerned about the government takeover of health care," Boehner said. "I think it’s important for us to lay the groundwork before we begin to repeal this monstrosity and replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance in
Guests:
Dean Clancy, director of health care policy at FreedomWorks, a nonprofit advocacy group “fighting for less government, lower taxes and more freedom”
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Jacob Hacker, professor of political science at
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1:41 – 1:58:30
Shouldn’t $141 million buy more than a nifty concession speech? The tale of rich candidates in the midterms
Rich candidates financing their own runs for elected offices isn’t necessarily new a new trend but this year’s crop of wealthy candidates seemed to spend like never before—and for all of their accumulated wealth, they seem to have made poor investments in themselves. Of the 58 self-funded candidates for federal offices this year, defined as those giving at least $500,000 to their campaigns, 30 lost in primaries or dropped out before Election Day, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Those self-funded Senate and House candidates spent at least $158.9 million combined. In total wealthy candidates spent more than $500 million of their own money running for office, and right here in California two of the wealthiest candidates in the country, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, went down to defeat. The futility of money was bipartisan as wealthy Democrats were just as likely to lose as wealthy Republicans. Is the mediocre success rate of rich candidates a byproduct of the bad image of money that they’ve spent on themselves, or are they just bad candidates to begin with, rich or poor?
Guest:
David Levinthal, spokesman for the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics
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Daniel Newman, executive director, Maplight
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2:06 – 2:30
OPEN
2:30 – 2:39
The global plastic pollution crisis
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gyre of marine litter floating in the central North Pacific Ocean, extends over a very wide expanse, with estimates of its size ranging from an area the size of the state of Texas to one larger than the continental
JIM: The TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch event takes place on Nov 6th at the
Guests:
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Sylvia Earle, an oceanographer and expert of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. She is Chairman of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research and is an Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society and an adjunct scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
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Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
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- He discovered the garbage patch and has, to date, he has conducted ocean and coastal sampling for plastic fragments through more than 40,000 miles of the
2:41 – 2:58:30
Absence make the McHeart grow fonder: the staying power of the McRib is that it always goes away
The McRib is back, but like Celine Dion, The Rolling Stones and Cher, it’s promising this is its farewell tour. McDonald’s removed the sandwich from its permanent menu over twenty years ago, and has since offered it in only limited places for a limited time, perhaps unintentionally positioning it as the Chupacabra of fast foods. McRib’s evasiveness also garnered it a cult-like following, prompting over 300 fan pages on Facebook and independent blogs like “The McRib locator,” where readers can track the hoagie’s movements and share stories of hours-long quests…is there really no app for that? In bipartisan fashion, perhaps as an olive branch to angry voters on both sides of the spectrum, McDonald’s brought back the sandwich in wide release on Election Day this week. We may never know whether it’s the sugary “blazing hot sauce,” the boneless pork patty’s form, or its seemingly subversive cultural relevance in a
Guests:
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Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer
ON TAPE
Christopher Ness, founder of a blog dedicated to “the sandwich of kings”
His blog: http://nessart.8m.com/mcrib.htm
Sasha Strauss, Founder of Innovation Protocol, a management consulting firm focused on brand marketing; he also teaches and lectures on brand marketing at USC, UCLA, and UC Irvine
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Jonathan Serviss
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