In Deep with Angie Coiro: Interviews episodes:

• November 26, 2012Last Call at the Oasis

  Academy Award winning director

  Jessica Yu talks to Angie about her documentary "Last Call at the Oasis" and how

  to spread the word about water conservation without raising panic. Water

  specialist Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute joins Angie in studio for a

  discussion about the bottled water phenomenon, how prepared water treatment

  plants are to handle contaminants and if extreme weather can really be tied to

  climate change. And Anat Shenker-Osorio unpacks the language surrounding the

  Hostess shutdown and the way unions and laborers are linguistically portrayed.

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• November 19, 2012What is the Fiscal Cliff?

  Dave Johnson

  and Sara Robinson of the Campaign for America's Future join Angie this hour for

  a panel discussion. What is the "fiscal cliff" and should we really be afraid of

  falling off of it? Middle class populism may have won the election, but what can

  we learn about buying elections from this November? Will Obama "govern from the

  left" this term? And Angie's demented sidekick Buttercup asks, "What's wrong

  with that Republican?" as they discuss Charlie Webster and Maine's mystery black

  voters, the most diverse congress ever and "the angriest white guy of all" John

  McCain's run in with CNN.

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• November 12, 2012Don't Buy It: Language and the Economy

  Angie welcomes

  Anat Shenker-Osorio into the studio for the first time to talk about her new

  book 'Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense About the Economy'. Plus,

  Buttercup gives Angie her corkscrew view on the outcome of the election, letters

  to the Queen of England and Karl Rove.

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• November 12, 2012Abuse masquerading as Therapy, plus Won't Back Down: teachers as villains

  Teachers are villains

  in the upside down world of Won't Back Down. Olivia Leirer, Communications and

  Social Media Director of New York Communities for Change explains why. Brendan

  Fischer, Law Fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy exposes the shadowy

  hand of ALEC in all this and Sen. Ted Lieu (CA-28) talks about his work to

  protect children from a form of abuse which often masquerades as therapy.

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• November 05, 2012Anticipating the Vote: Three Last Considerations

  What issues will shape the

  election? AlterNet's Washington correspondent Adele Stan tells Angie about

  Menards' "Civics 101" course and other instances of workplace intimidation of

  voters. Jodi Jacobson of RH Reality Check gives her take on John Koster, the

  role women's rights will play in the election and how the economy and social

  issues aren't as uninvolved as you might think. And Angie is joined by Michelle

  Myers of the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club and Stanford associate

  professor Neil Malhotra for a panel discussion on whether Hurricane Sandy will

  sway Climate Change deniers and influence voters. As always, Angie's demented

  sidekick Buttercup (GottaLaff) offers her views on Mitt Romney's disaster-relief

  effort-turned-campaign-stop and John Koster's "rape thing."

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• October 29, 2012What is Voter Suppression?

  What is voter suppression? Brad Friedman of Brad Blog

  explains the ways that voters are being manipulated and why fiscal interests in

  voting machines matter. Plus, Buttercup (GottaLaff) offers her corkscrew views

  on Richard Mourdock and God's intent, 'ideological chameleon' Mitt Romney and

  his interest in naval expansion.

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• October 22, 2012Dave Johnson on Polling, Sensata, and more

  Dave Johnson is in studio to discuss polls, lies and trickery from the

  conservative party, Sensata, and "clean coal". Plus, Angie's demented sidekick

  Buttercup talks breaking the story of Tagg Romney wanting to 'take a swing' at

  Obama, as well as Paul Ryan's misadventures in the soup kitchen.

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• October 15, 2012Will Durst: Elect to Laugh!

  Laffy comes out of a debate speculation hangover to

  discuss CIA outing by the GOP, Paul Ryan's temper tantrum, and naked ladies.

  Will Durst stops by our studio to discuss his new book and stand-up show, 'Elect

  to Laugh', and to talk 'Low Information Voters', taxes, his audience and Romney.

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• October 01, 2012The Sex of Politics: Nancy L. Cohen's new book Delirium

  Did you know birth

  control and sodomy used to be felonies? Nancy L. Cohen, author of 'Delirium: The

  Politics of Sex in America,' joins Angie to talk about the rise of the people

  who want to punish you for rising to attention.

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• September 18, 2012The Book of Mormon and the Campaign of Mitt

  A former Mormon, "Jason", joins us to talk about his experience as a

  high-profile critic of Mormonism. Following up his story is Jason Horowitz,

  writer for the Washington Post discussing his reports on Mitt Romney's campaign

  and Kathleen M. Moore, Phd. of University of California Santa Barbara provides

  an academic perspecitve on Mormonism.

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