2009

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December 2009

• Episode 5161 (12/16/2009) – Stephen King (author), Tom Brokaw (former anchor NBC Nightly News)
• Episode 5160 (12/15/2009) – Alicia Keys (singer/musician, The Element of Freedom)
• Episode 5159 (12/14/2009) – Katherine Reutter (U.S. Olympic speedskater), Snoop Dogg (hip-hop giant, Malice in Wonderland)
• Episode 5158 (12/10/2009) – Lara Logan (CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent)
• Episode 5157 (12/9/2009) – Matt Taibbi (journalist, Rolling Stone, True/Slant)
• Episode 5156 (12/8/2009) – Senator Bernie Sanders (Socialist Party), Andrew Schlafly (Conservapedia.com)
• Episode 5155 (12/7/2009) – Bill T. Jones (Dancer, musician – Fela!)
• Episode 5154 (12/3/2009) – Janet Napolitano (U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security)
• Episode 5153 (12/2/2009) – Craig Watkins (Dallas County District Attorney)
• Episode 5152 (12/1/2009) – Brother Guy Consolmagno, Sherman Alexie (author, War Dances)

November 2009

• Episode 5151 (11/30/2009) – Dan Esty, Cevin Soling (filmmaker, The War on Kids)
• Episode 5150 (11/19/2009) – John Pike, Elvis Costello (musician, host of Sundance Channel’s Spectacle)
• Episode 5149 (11/18/2009) – Norah Jones (musician, The Fall)
• Episode 5148 (11/17/2009) – Marc Kielburger (FreeTheChildren.com), Malcolm Gladwell (author, What the Dog Saw)
• Episode 5147 (11/16/2009) – Paul Goldberger (author, Why Architecture Matters)
• Episode 5146 (11/12/2009) – Woody Harrelson (actor, The Messenger)
• Episode 5145 (11/11/2009) – Christopher Caldwell (author, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe)
• Episode 5144 (11/10/2009) – Karim Sadjadpour, Maria Shriver (First Lady of California)
• Episode 5143 (11/9/2009) – Thomas Campbell (Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Episode 5142 (11/5/2009) – Joey Cheek (U.S. Olympic Speedskater), Police Chief William Bratton
• Episode 5141 (11/4/2009) – Al Gore (Nobel Prize Winner, former Vice President of the United States), Harold Evans (author, My Paper Chase)
• Episode 5140 (11/3/2009) – Andrew Sullivan (blogger, The Daily Dish)
• Episode 5139 (11/2/2009) – Dan Jansen (U.S. Olympic Speedskater), Nicholas Thompson (author, The Hawk and the Dove)

October 2009

• Episode 5138 (10/29/2009) – Roseanne Cash (musician, closegitmonow.org), Bill Simmons (sports journalist, author: The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy)
• Episode 5137 (10/28/2009) – Brian Cox (rockstar physicist)
• Episode 5136 (10/27/2009) – Rev. Randall Balmer, Gail Collins (op-ed columnist, The New York Times)
• Episode 5135 (10/26/2009) – Cornel West (author, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud)
• Episode 5134 (10/15/2009) – Jerry Mitchell (investigative journalist, The Clarion-Ledger)
• Episode 5133 (10/14/2009) – Amy Farrell (author, Fat Shame), The RZA (hip-hop artist, author: The Tao of Wu)
• Episode 5132 (10/13/2009) – David Javerbaum (author, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Sylvia Earle (oceanographer)
• Episode 5131 (10/12/2009) – Shashi Tharoor (Indian Minister of State for External Affairs), Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN’s Chief Health Correspondent)
• Episode 5130 (10/8/2009 – Colin Beavan, No Impact Project
• Episode 5129 (10/7/2009) – Alison Gopnik (author, The Philisophical Baby)
• Episode 5128 (10/6/2009) – Lara Logan (CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent), The Mountain Goats (musicians, The Life of the World to Come)
• Episode 5127 (10/5/2009) – Arne Duncan (U.S. Secretary of Education)
• Episode 5126 (10/1/2009) – George Wendt (Author, Drinking with George), Francis Collins (Geneticist)

September 2009

• Episode 5125 (9/30/2009) – Richard Dawkins (Author, The Greatest Show on Earth)
• Episode 5124 (9/29/2009) – Matt Latimer (former speechwriter for President George W. Bush)
• Episode 5123 (9/28/2009) – Sheryl WuDunn (Author, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide)
• Episode 5122 (9/24/2009) – Ken Burns (Documentarian)
• Episode 5121 (9/23/2009) – A.J. Jacobs (Author, The Guinea Pig Diaries), Michael Moore (Director, Capitalism: A Love Story
• Episode 5120 (9/22/2009) – Jeff Goldblum (actor), Shai Agassi (CEO of Better Place)
• Episode 5119 (9/17/2009) – Jon Ronson (Author, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank Bruni (Author, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater), Farewellison
• Episode 5118 (9/16/2009) – Wayne Coyne (lead singer, The Flaming Lips)
• Episode 5117 (9/15/2009) – Jeffrey Toobin (Author, The Nine, Christiane Amanpour (correpsondent, CNN International)
• Episode 5116 (9/14/2009) – Richard Kirsch (Health Care for America Now), Cory Booker (mayor of Newark, NJ)

August 2009

• Episode 5115 (8/20/2009) – Chris Matthews (Pundit, potato lover)
• Episode 5114 (8/19/2009) – Marion Nestle (Nutritionist, Sugar Expert), Ang Lee (Director, Taking Woodstock
• Episode 5113 (8/18/2009) – Robert Wright (Author, The Evolution of God)
• Episode 5112 (8/17/2009) – Bill McKibben (Environmentalist)
• Episode 5111 (8/13/2009) – Mark Devlin (Experimental cosmology)
• Episode 5110 (8/12/2009) – Mark Johnson (Playing for Change)
• Episode 5109 (8/11/2009) – James Carville (Democratic strategist), Jonathan Cohn (Editor, The New Republic)
• Episode 5108 (8/10/2009) – Barbara Boxer (Senator (D) – CA)
• Episode 5107 (8/6/2009) – Meryl Streep (Actress)
• Episode 5106 (8/5/2009) – Joe Sestak (D-PA), Kris Kobach (Illegal immigration lawyer)
• Episode 5105 (8/4/2009) – David Wondrich (Mixologist), Kurt Andersen (Author, Reset)
• Episode 5104 (8/3/2009) – Gen. Tony Zinni

July 2009

• Episode 5103 (7/30/2009) – Kathryn Bigelow (director, The Hurt Locker)
• Episode 5102 (7/29/2009) – Kevin Baker (contributing editor to Harper’s magazine)
• Episode 5101 (7/28/2009) – Orly Taitz (whackjob), Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post)
• Episode 5100 (7/27/2009) – Movits! (Swedish swing hip-hop group)
• Episode 5099 (7/23/2009) – Zev Chafets (Author, Cooperstown Confidential)
• Episode 5098 (7/22/2009) – Matthew Waxman (Columbia Law School), Chris Anderson (Wired magazine)
• Episode 5097 (7/21/2009) – Bertha Lewis (Chief Executive Officer and Chief Organizer of ACORN), Dr. Aaron Carroll (Asst professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine)
• Episode 5096 (7/20/2009) – Geoffrey Canada (Harlem Children’s Zone), Bob Park (emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maryland)
• Episode 5095 (7/16/2009) – Edmund Andrews (Authur, Busted)
• Episode 5094 (7/15/2009) – Douglas Rushkoff (Author, Life, Inc.)
• Episode 5093 (7/14/2009) – Leymah Gbowee (executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa)
• Episode 5092 (7/13/2009) – Paul Rieckhoff (Founder, IAVA), Paul Krugman (NYT writer)
• Episode 5091 (7/2/2009) – Ed Viesturs (Mountaineer)
• Episode 5090 (7/1/2009) – Lee Siegel (Author, Against the Machine)

June 2009

• Episode 5089 (6/30/2009) – Kevin Mattson (Author, What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?)
• Episode 5088 (6/29/2009) – Neil Degrasse Tyson (Host, NOVA Science NOW)
• Episode 5087 (6/25/2009) – Jim Fouratt (Journalist, Gay Activist)
• Episode 5086 (6/24/2009) – Matthew Crawford (Author, Shop Class As Soulcraft)
• Episode 5085 (6/23/2009) – Howard Dean (Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee), David Kilcullen (Counterinsurgency Consultant)
• Episode 5084 (6/22/2009) – Simon Schama (Author, The American Future)
• Episode 5083 (6/18/2009) – Paul Muldoon (Poet, Plan B)
• Episode 5082 (6/17/2009) – Joshua Micah Marshall (Founder, Talking Points Memo)
• Episode 5081 (6/16/2009) – Jim Rogers (CEO, Duke Energy; Clean Coal Advocate)
• Episode 5080 (6/15/2009) – Austan Goolsbee (Member, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers)

• Episode 5075 (6/4/2009) – Dag Soderberg (Publisher, Bible Illuminated: The Book)
• Episode 5074 (6/3/2009) – Eric Schlosser (Author, Fast Food Nation and Chew On This)
• Episode 5073 (6/2/2009) – Katty Kay (BBC Correspondent; Author, Womenomics)
• Episode 5072 (6/1/2009) – Jeffrey Toobin (Author, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court), Sen. Byron Dorgan (United States Senator from North Dakota)

May 2009

• Episode 5071 (5/21/2009) – Green Day (Rock Trio, 21st Century Breakdown)
• Episode 5070 (5/20/2009) – Seth Shostak (Author, Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
• Episode 5069 (5/19/2009) – Walter Kirn (Author, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever)
• Episode 5068 (5/18/2009) – Meghan McCain (Blogger)
• Episode 5067 (5/14/2009) – Yusuf (Musician, Roadsinger)
• Episode 5066 (5/13/2009) – Michael Pollan (Author, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto)
• Episode 5065 (5/12/2009) – Julia Sweig (Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations), Ron Howard (Director, Angels and Demons)
• Episode 5064 (5/11/2009) – Jeff Daniels (Actor, State of Play)
• Episode 5063 (5/7/2009) – Mitchell Joachim (Ecological and Urban Designer)
• Episode 5062 (5/6/2009) – Laurie Garrett (Science Journalist)
• Episode 5061 (5/5/2009) – Cliff Sloan (Co-Author, The Great Decision), Paul Rieckhoff (Executive Director, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America)
• Episode 5060 (5/4/2009) – J.J. Abrams (Dirctor, Star Trek)

April 2009

• Episode 5059 (4/30/2009) – Jonathan Alter (Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine), Ethan Nadelmann (Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance)
• Episode 5058 (4/29/2009) – David Kessler (Author, The End of Overeating)
• Episode 5057 (4/28/2009) – Richard Engel (NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent), Daniel Gross (Author, Dumb Money: How our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation)
• Episode 5056 (4/27/2009) – The Decemberists (Prog-Rock Bank)
• Episode 5055 (4/23/2009) – Elizabeth Bintliff and Daisy (from Heifer International)
• Episode 5054 (4/22/2009) – Ira Glass (Host, NPR’s This American Life)
• Episode 5053 (4/21/2009) – Mike Kryzewski (Coach, Duke University Men’s Basketbal)
• Episode 5052 (4/20/2009) – Joe Arpaio (Sheriff, Maricopa County, Arizona)
• Episode 5051 (4/16/2009) – Douglas Kmiec (Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law)
• Episode 5050 (4/15/2009) – Jim Lehrer (News Anchor, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)
• Episode 5049 (4/14/2009) – Sunita Williams (NASA Astronaut), Susie Orbach (Author, Bodies)
• Episode 5048 (4/9/2009) – Bart Ehrman (Author, Jesus, Interrupted)
• Episode 5047 (4/8/2009) – Phil Bronstein (Editor, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Episode 5046 (4/7/2009) – Queen Noor of Jordan
• Episode 5045 (4/6/2009) – Tom Brokaw (Television Journalist; Author, Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today), Rich Lowry (Editor, National Review)
• Episode 5044 (4/2/2009) – Biz Stone (Co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter)
• Episode 5043 (4/1/2009) – Dambisa Moyo (Author, Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa)

March 2009

• Episode 5042 (3/31/2009) – David Plotz (Editor, Slate),
• Episode 5041 (3/30/2009) – Emily Yoffe (Contributor, Slate magazine), Derrick Pitts (Astronomer)
• Episode 5040 (3/19/2009) – John McCardell (Professor of History, Middlebury College)
• Episode 5039 (3/18/2009) – Juan Cole (Professor of History, University of Michigan; Author, Engaging the Muslim World)
• Episode 5038 (3/17/2009) – David Grann (Author, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon)
• Episode 5037 (3/16/2009) – Jonathan Chait (Senior Editor. The New Republic), Neil Gaiman (LOTR Geek and Author, The Graveyard Book)
• Episode 5036 (3/12/2009) – Simon Johnson (Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT), David Singer (Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University)
• Episode 5035 (3/11/2009) – Howard Fineman (Chief Political Correspondent, Newsweek)
• Episode 5034 (3/10/2009) – William Gerstenmaier (Associate Administrator for Space Operations, NASA), Jay Keasling (Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley)
• Episode 5033 (3/9/2009) – Lisa Hannigan (Singer, Sea Sew)
• Episode 5032 (3/5/2009) – Jim Cramer (Host, CNBC’s Mad Money), Stephen Berlin Johnson (Author, The Invention of Air)
• Episode 5031 (3/4/2009) – Carl Wilson (Author, Let’s Talk About Love)
• Episode 5030 (3/3/2009) – Mark Bittman (Author, Food Matters)
• Episode 5029 (3/2/2009) – David Byrne (Musician, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today)

February 2009

• Episode 5028 (2/26/2009) – Kris Kristofferson (Musical Icon)
• Episode 5027 (2/25/2009) – John Fetterman (Mayor, Braddock, Pennsylvania)
• Episode 5026 (2/24/2009) – Cliff Sloan (Author, The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court)
• Episode 5025 (2/23/2009) – Father James Martin (Jesuit Priest), Helen Fisher Author, Why Time, Why Her: Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type)
• Episode 5024 (2/12/2009) – Adam Gopnik (Author, Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life)
• Episode 5023 (2/11/2009) – Stephen Pinker (Evolutionary Psychologist)
• Episode 5022 (2/10/2009) – Robert Ballard (Marine Archeologist)
• Episode 5021 (2/9/2009) – TV On The Radio (American Rock Band)
• Episode 5020 (2/5/2009) – James Surowiecki (Journalist, The New Yorker), Jonah Lehrer (Author, How We Decide)
• Episode 5019 (2/4/2009) – Steve Martin (Comedian, Film Star, Banjo Player)
• Episode 5018 (2/3/2009) – Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Author, Lincoln on Race and Slavery)
• Episode 5017 (2/2/2009) – Dan Zaccagnino (Founder, Indabamusic.com)

January 2009

• Episode 5016(1/29/2009) – John Podesta (Author, The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country)
• Episode 5015 (1/28/2009) – Dennis Dutton (Author, The Art Instinct)
• Episode 5014 (1/27/2009) – Philippe Petit (Tightrope Walker)
• Episode 5013 (1/26/2009) – Chris Mooney (Senior Corespondent, The American Prospect), Ed Young (Founder and Pastor, Fellowship Church)
• Episode 5012 (1/22/2009) – Jon Meacham (Editor, Newsweek; Author, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House)
• Episode 5011 (1/21/2009) – Elizabeth Alexander (Poet; Co-author, Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color)
• Episode 5010 (1/20/2009) – Jabari Asim (Columnist, Washington Post; Author, What Obama Means)
• Episode 5009 (1/19/2009) – Frank Rich (Columnist, New York Times)
• Episode 5008 (1/15/2009) – David Gregory (Journalist, MSNBC; Host – Meet The Press)
• Episode 5007 (1/14/2009) – Alan Khazei (Director, BeTheChangeInc.org)
• Episode 5006 (1/13/2009) – Niall Ferguson (Economist)
• Episode 5005 (1/12/2009) – Anthony Romero (Executive Director, ACLU)
• Episode 5004 (1/8/2009) – Lawrence Lessig (Author, Remix)
• Episode 5003 (1/7/2009) – Benicio Del Toro (Actor, Che)
• Episode 5002 (1/6/2009) – David Leonhardt (Economist), Matt Miller (Fortune columnist)
• Episode 5001 (1/5/2009) – Alan Colmes (liberal pundit), John King (CNN Anchor)

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