Harry Shearer: Le Show

This week, LeShow is LIVE from Kings Place for the London Podcast Festival, with special musical guests, Judith Owen and Lee Sklar. 00:00 Open 01:04 What makes US exceptional? Reports of clowns lurking 04:00 What makes US exceptional? Fast-talking legal disclaimers 04:26 (song) 'We Give In' (live) by Judith Owen & Leland Sklar 07:22 Follow the Dollar: What Saudis Buy, Saudis Get—Senate Edition 12:29 News from Outside the Bubble: Tony Blair has made enough money 15:04 Tony Blair Associates spot 17:58 The Apologies of the Week: Charlotte shooting edition 30:40 Military Times reports Pentagon says troop obesity rate going up 35:03 (original song) 'Too Fat to Fight’ (live) by Harry Shearer 39:48 News of Microplastics: they’re all over 43:40 Trump and Hillary prepare for first debate 45:34 Trump Debate Prep 48:04 (song) ‘Arianne' (live) by Judith Owen & Leland Sklar 51:48 News of the Warm: goodbye, moose and salmon? 55:08 'Grown Folks' by Snarky Puppy /Close

00:00 Open/ the fiddle rebels against Trump 00:53 Ad-free London tube 02:11 Should China gain control of Britain’s gas grid? 02:55 We're Not #1: Paralympics gold medals 03:37 (song) 'Trick Bag’ by Earl King 06:18 News of Inspectors General: too complicated for a new aircraft carrier? 12:15 Our Freedom-Loving Friends: targeting civilians in Yemen 14:40 News About Dominion: goodbye, tool-using crows 22:13 News from Outside the Bubble: condolence payments, but only for Western hostages killed by drones 29:45 (song) 'Spirit' by Brian Auger & Julie Tippetts 33:45 News of News Corp: slap on the wrist for phone hacking, Rupe makes $ off video of Clinton stumbling 36:00 Hillary and Colin Powell 38:23 Dick Cheney Confidential: Dick Hunts Down Colin Powell 45:19 (song) 'Baby Please Be True’ by Davell Crawford 47:31 The Apologies of the Week: FARC, Facebook 55:31 'One For the Duke' by Evan Christopher/Rio Olympics profits /Close

00:00 Open 00:25 This Is Your Brain on the War on Drugs: Filipino President, policing for profit in ABQ 03:12 Ban on antibacterial soap: the FDA leaves out toothpaste, etc. 04:17 Greenwashing 06:15 (song) 'Last Day of Summer' by Kirsty MacColl 10:29 We've Got Dominion: end of the rhinos? 13:48 Tales of Airport Security: 15 years later, airports are not secure 16:22 News of the Olympic Movement: Abe’s claim that Fuk was 'under control' was 'a lie' 19:27 News from Outside the Bubble: Iran is abiding by the nuke agreement, sex IAEA 22:06 VW, Wells Fargo punish the little guys for systemic law-breaking 25:44 (song) 'Few Bad Apples' by Harry Shearer feat. Jamie Cullum 28:11 The Apologies of the Week: 21st Century Fox, Geraldo Rivera 36:31 The political week 41:11 (song) 'Brand New Beggar' by Third World 44:45 Larry King - Trump-Clinton National Security Forum 50:37 News of the Warm: Hawaiian fish threatened 53:19 What the Frack?: a new bacterium discovered in fracking wells 54:22 'Swag Times' by Bill Laurance /close

00:00 Open 00:27 What the Frack?: radioactive fracking waste! 03:58 (song) 'Work to Do’ by The Isley Brothers 07:02 (Labor Day) 07:45 Donald Trump calls in after visiting a black church 13:24 News of Superbugs: FDA nixes anti-bacterial soaps 16:00 Let Us Try: they love birds, they kill birds 22:13 News of the Godly: 'he was good with children' 24:51 HRC aide announces split from Anthony Weiner 26:21 (Original song) 'The Ballad of Carlos Danger' by Harry Shearer 29:20 F-35 fighter plane: may not be ready, again 30:08 News of Inspectors General: sexual harassment at national parks 35:15 Hillary Clinton fundraising and emails, advice from Colin Powell 37:17 (Original song) 'Smooth Moves' by Harry Shearer 40:52 The Apologies of the Week: Afghanistan, puppet show 52:14 News of the Atom: just keep the waste safe for 100,000 years 55:45 'Affinity' by Bill Evans, feat. Toots Thielemans/close

00:00 Open/(accountability/NO flooding in 2005) 06:16 (song) 'She Just Wants to Dance' by Keb Mo 11:05 News of the Olympic Movement: police violence in Rio, Olympics beaten by bake-off 14:48 Reading the Trades: Olympics ratings 'nightmare' for NBC 21:03 News of the New Iraq: have some guns 26:07 The story of Lou Pearlman ends 27:44 Larry King Live: Dewey Gordon tribute to Lou Pearlman 34:44 News of the Warm: higher ocean temperature means more radiation damage to mussels 37:49 News of AfPak: Taliban aiming at Kunduz—again, friction between Pres. Ghani & Abdullah Abdullah 41:51 Karzai Talk: Kundus and Abdullah 49:49 (song) 'So Danco Samba' by Joao Gilberto 53:04 The Apologies of the Week 56:46 (song) 'Delicado' by Dr. John /close

00:00 Open/ Matt Bissonette paid the price for not publishing classified information 02:08 The Karma Train arrives: Ken Starr booted out of Baylor 05:00 We're Not #1: maternal mortality 07:54 Why this year’s Louisiana flooding is different from 2005 New Orleans flooding 10:28 (song) Sonny Landreth - "The Promised Land" 13:53 News of the Atom: the Fuk Ice Wall has failed 16:58 News of the Olympic Movement: another defective pool? 21:23 Neonicotinoids and bees: pick your study 25:54 News from Outside the Bubble: Larry King for Sale, UN to blame for cholera in Haiti, Germany to ban the burka? 31:14 (original song) "Lady in Black" 34:48 The Apologies of the Week: Blake Shelton, USOC 43:30 Trump with Dr. Bill 51:00 News of Inspectors General: Army fudges its account by TRILLIONS 53:42 Follow the Dollar: the election campaign is disappointing TV station accountants 55:23 (song) Helen Gillet - "Respondez-Moi" /close

00:00 Open/ Your Brain on the War on Drugs: 'Feeding the Monster' 02:47 What the Frack?: OK reduces earthquakes with…regulation 05:01 'Perdi' by Celso Fonseca 10:44 News of the Warm: Mountain streams can cool it 15:22 News of the Olympic Movement: the water turned green, the coaches turned pedophile 23:15 Our Freedom-Loving Friends: the Saudis buy an Olympic team 25:08 Let Us Try: the Corps defies its own experts…again 26:21 'A Rede' by Lenine 29:59 News from Outside the Bubble: Kissinger helped Argentina’s disappearances 38:41 Clintonsomething: Hillary gets a mentoring touch-up from Henry 45:54 News of the Atom: Hinkley gets pinky 51:54 The Apologies of the Week: Olympics edition 56:03 'Surpresa' by Hermeto Pascoal /close

00:00 Open/(Giuliani's idea of law and order) 03:02 News of Bad Banks: HSBC is a little tardy with anti-money laundering compliance 05:13 (song) 'Mas Que Nada' by Jorge Ben Jor 08:17 (Brazil's deforestation: what was left out of the Opening Ceremony) 10:11 News of the Olympic Movement: Brazil stopped drug-testing its athletes 14:37 News of the Atom: burying waste forever, but forever didn't last long 18:02 News of the Godly: priests on Grindr? 24:58 (original song) 'Priests on Grindr' by Harry Shearer 28:24 (song) 'Master Blaster (Jammin')' by Stevie Wonder 32:54 News of the Warm: Earth missed its target 38:46 Did Gingrich, Giuliani and Priebus plan an 'intervention' with Trump? 40:36 Newt Calls Trump: No Intervention 44:41 (song) 'You've Been in Love Too Long' by Bonnie Raitt 48:16 The Apologies of the Week: Charter Cable, Draymond Green 54:13 News of Inspectors General: Afghan army can't fix its own trucks 56:02 'Wave' by Antonio Carlos Jobim/News of AfPak/close

00:00 Open/Superbugs: we are the cure 02:29 (song) 'Woke up Today’ by Jacob Collier 07:22 News of the Olympic Movement: Beijing’s mascots in ruins, Brazil’s gov’t employees take it out on the torch 16:14 Reading the Trades: how to make the Olympics work for you 22:46 Bill O’Reilly history - checks Michelle Obama’s speech - the slaves were "well fed" 23:59 Bill O'Reilly's White House Slave Diet 26:03 (song) 'Lazy Afternoon’ by Cyrille Aimee 30:48 Cheney on Gitmo: the detainees are "well fed" 31:18 News from Outside the Bubble: Australia’s child-detention scandal 34:00 News of the Atom: don’t play Pokemon Go near Fukushima 36:32 Hillary Clinton at the DNC: did Terry Macauliffe give something away? 38:43 Clintonsomething: after the convention 44:11 (song) 'I'll Watch You (While You're Sleeping)’ by Judith Owen 47:01 The Apologies of the Week: Netanyahu, Debra Messing 54:55 News of the Warm: burying CO2 might work 56:13 'Spider-Gris' by Sonny Landreth/close

00:00 Open/ Our Freedom-Loving Friends: we didn’t assess Saudis in Yemen as not violating law 04:31 (song) 'A Hundred and Ten in the Shade' by John Fogerty 08:41 Let Us Try: the right hand will pay the left hand 11:45 Lockheed Martin explains the problems with the F-35 17:38 The Apologies of the Week: Illinois governor, Meredith McIver 27:01 (Roger Ailes resignation) 29:52 Keeping Up with the Murdochs: Roger’s Out 32:09 (song) 'Too Darn Hot’ by Ella Fitzgerald 35:55 (heat at the RNC) 36:26 A Phone Call from Donald J. Trump, and Meredith McIver 43:55 News of the Olympic Movement: a guest of honor in Rio 46:25 News of the Atom: more subsidies, please 55:20 (song) 'Ode to a Butterfly’ by Nickel Creek /one last Apology/close

00:00 Open/ (missile defense system isn’t close to working) 04:16 (song) 'A Dip in the Ocean' by Fountains of Wayne 07:51 News of the Godly: free-lance vicar who used to be a pedophile 09:47 Your Brain on the War on Drugs: medical pot states experience lower opioid prescriptions 14:51 (Canada's pipeline—shoddy parts) 17:13 Let Us Try: the Corps starts an algae bloom, then tries to stop it 19:27 It’s Not Just Bees—insect population plummets 25:50 (Trump VP choice) 26:16 (original song) 'I Don't Like Mosquitoes' by Harry Shearer 27:17 (song) 'Summer Breeze' by Judith Owen 30:52 News of the Olympic Movement: Chicago pays plenty for not hosting, will world leaders show up in Rio? 35:11 The New Iraq: how the intel went bad 42:52 (original song) 'Trillion Dollar Bargain' by Harry Shearer 46:49 The Apologies of the Week: wrestler, Bianca Jagger 56:11 'Suite Norte, Sul, Leste, Oeste' by Hermeto Pascoal/close

MUSIC & SEGMENTS 00:00 Open/ (this week in the US news/racism) 03:47 (song) 'Agua de Coco' by Marcos Valle 08:43 News of the Olympic Movement: "your boat looks like a toilet" 14:53 Reading the Trades: survey-proved music on public radio, e-discovery vs. actually reading HRC's e-mails 21:43 Trump considering a general or two as VP 24:58 Newt calls Trump 28:37 (song) 'Hand Across the Water' by Judith Owen 33:37 The Apologies of the Week: UK Labour Party officials, Chinese phone mfr, PBS 41:50 News from Outside the Bubble: why the Chilcot report doesn't conclude whether Iraq war was legal; Tony Blair, LLC 45:08 Tony Blair's Rest of Life Insurance 47:45 Chilcot report recalls the $9B US just flew over in cash to Iraq 49:41 (original song) 'Jet Plane Full of Loot' by Harry Shearer 53:52 (one more point on international conduct in Iraq war) 54:45 News of the Godly: a cross to bear 55:51 (song) 'Black and Blue' by Andre Previn / closing

00:00 Open/ (Brexit) 05:52 (song) NRBQ - "Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-Jo Working" 09:13 (Australian elections: they can wait for the result) 10:28 The Apologies of the Week: Red Bull, Kenny Chesney 20:55 Holiday weekend news dump: drone civilian casualties, Mitchell & Jessen admit waterboarding 27:42 (original song) "The Fourth of July"by Harry Shearer 30:50 News of Inspectors General: CIA's detention without reason 36:12 News from Outside the Bubble: UK troops will be held responsible, but not Blair 38:10 (Hillary meets with FBI/Bill meets with Loretta Lynch) 42:04 Clintonsomething: Bill and Loretta 48:16 (song) Spinal Tap - "America" 51:52 News of the Atom: who's guarding the nuke plants? 55:16 "In the Land of Do-Bla-Dee" by Evan Christopher & Ehud Asherie)/close

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