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December 2010:

• Episode 6161 (12/16/2010) – Amy Sedaris (Craft Goddess; author, Simple Times), Paul Simon (Musician)
• Episode 6160 (12/15/2010) – Laird Hamilton (Surfer)
• Episode 6159 (12/14/2010) – Stephen Sondheim (Composer and lyricist)
• Episode 6158 (12/13/2010) – Patti Smith (Musician; author, Just Kids)
• Episode 6157 (12/9/2010) – Julie Taymor (Film director, The Tempest), Daniel Ellsberg (leaked the Pentagon Papers)
• Episode 6156 (12/8/2010) – Steve Martin (Art expert)
• Episode 6155 (12/7/2010) – David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon Eisenhower (Authors, Going Home To Glory)
• Episode 6154 (12/6/2010) – Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury cartoonist)
• Episode 6153 (12/2/2010) – David Stockman (Former OMB director under Reagan)
• Episode 6152 (12/1/2010) – Michele Rhee (Former chancellor of the DC Public Schools)

November 2010:

• Episode 6151 (11/30/2010) – Tom Vilsack (U.S. Secretary of Agriculture)
• Episode 6150 (11/29/2010) – Dan Savage (Sex columnist)
• Episode 6149 (11/18/2010) – Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta (Medal of Honor recipient)
• Episode 6148 (11/17/2010) – Ian Frazier (Author, Travels In Siberia)
• Episode 6147 (11/16/2010) – John Legend (Musician)
• Episode 6146 (11/15/2010) – David Stern (Commissioner of the NBA)
• Episode 6145 (11/11/2010) – Quincy Jones (Music producer)
• Episode 6144 (11/10/2010) – Martha Stewart (Television host; business magnate)
• Episode 6143 (11/9/2010) – Cee Lo Green (Musician)
• Episode 6142 (11/8/2010) – Reza Aslan (Author; Editor, Tablet & Pen)
• Episode 6141 (11/4/2010) – Elvis Costello (Musician)
• Episode 6140 (11/3/2010) – Doris Kearns Goodwin (Presidential historian; Author, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln)
• Episode 6139 (11/2/2010) – Midterm Midtacular Live Show: David Frum (Former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush), Katrina vanden Heuvel (Editor, The Nation)
• Episode 6138 (11/1/2010) – Jonathan Alter (Senior editor, Newsweek)

October 2010:

• Episode 6137 (10/28/2010) – Maira Kalman (Author, And the Pursuit of Happiness)
• Episode 6136 (10/27/2010) – Apolo Ohno (Gold medal winning US Speedskater)
• Episode 6135 (10/26/2010) – Gary Wills (Author, Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer)
• Episode 6134 (10/25/2010) – Nicholas Negroponte (Chairman, One Laptop per Child non-profit association)
• Episode 6133 (10/14/2010) – Bill Bryson (Author, At Home: A Short History of Private Life)
• Episode 6132 (10/13/2010) – Austan Goolsbee (Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Barack Obama)
• Episode 6131 (10/12/2010) – Brendan Steinhauser (Director of Federal and State Campaigns for FreedomWorks)
• Episode 6130 (10/11/2010) – Robert Reich (United States Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton)
• Episode 6129 (10/7/2010) – Davis Guggenheim (Documentarian, Waiting for Superman)
• Episode 6128 (10/6/2010) – Mavis Staples & Jeff Tweedy (musicians)
• Episode 6127 (10/5/2010) – Leon Botstein (President of Bard College)
• Episode 6126 (10/4/2010) – Eugene Robinson (Author, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America)

September 2010:

• Episode 6125 (9/30/2010) – Aaron Sorkin (Screenwriter, “The Social Network”)
• Episode 6124 (9/29/2010) – Steven Rattner (Car Czar for the Obama auto bailouts)
• Episode 6123 (9/28/2010) – Ross Douthat (columnist, New York Times)
• Episode 6122 (9/27/2010) – Ken Burns (documentarian)
• Episode 6121 (9/23/2010) – Oscar Goodman (Mayor of Las Vegas, NV)
• Episode 6120 (9/22/2010) – Guillermo Del Toro (movie director)
• Episode 6119 (9/21/2010) – Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google)
• Episode 6118 (9/20/2010) – Pavement (alt rock band)
• Episode 6117 (9/16/2010) – Lawrence O’Donnell (Political pundit, MSNBC)
• Episode 6116 (9/15/2010) – Saul Griffith (inventor)
• Episode 6115 (9/14/2010) – Sean Wilentz (author, Bob Dylan In America)
• Episode 6114 (9/13/2010) – Lisa Birnbach (author, True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World)

• Episode 6111 (9/7/2010) – Anthony Romero (Executive Director, ACLU)

August 2010:

• Episode 6110 (8/26/2010) – Richard Engel (NBC News’s Chief Foreign Correspondent)
• Episode 6109 (8/25/2010) – Heidi Cullen (Interim CEO and lead correspondent for Climate Central)
• Episode 6108 (8/24/2010) – Jeffrey Goldberg (journalist, The Atlantic)
• Episode 6107 (8/23/2010) – Leslie Kean (author, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
• Episode 6106 (8/19/2010) – Jon Krakauer (author, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman)
• Episode 6105 (8/18/2010) – Thomas French (author, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
• Episode 6104 (8/17/2010) – Barry Levine (Editor, National Enquirer)
• Episode 6103 (8/16/2010) – John Fetterman (Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania)
• Episode 6102 (8/12/2010) – Chuck Close (Painter and photographer)
• Episode 6101 (8/11/2010) – David Finkel (author, The Good Soldiers)
• Episode 6100 (8/10/2010) – Dylan Ratigan (host, Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC)
• Episode 6099 (8/5/2010) – Savion Glover (tap dancer)
• Episode 6098 (8/4/2010) – Michael Posner (Human Rights First’s founding Executive Director)
• Episode 6097 (8/3/2010) – Tim Meadows (as P.K. Winsome), Laura Ingraham (douche canoe)
• Episode 6096 (8/2/2010) – Jimmy Cliff (musician)

July 2010:

• Episode 6095 (7/29/2010) – Andy Cohen (Television executive and host)
• Episode 6094 (7/28/2010) – Elon Musk (founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, CEO and CTO of SpaceX)
• Episode 6093 (7/27/2010) – Kevin Kline (actor)
• Episode 6092 (7/26/2010) – Hephzibah Anderson (author, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex
• Episode 6091 (7/8/2010) – Arturo Rodriguez (president of the United Farm Workers)
• Episode 6090 (7/7/2010) – Steve Carell (actor)
• Episode 6089 (7/6/2010) – Garret Keizer (author, The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want
• Episode 6088 (7/5/2010) – [The Sick Episode] Michio Kaku (scientist)
• Episode 6087 (7/1/2010) – Manny Howard (author, My Empire Of Dirt

June 2010:

• Episode 6086 (6/30/2010) – Nicholas Carr (author, The Shallows)
• Episode 6085 (6/29/2010) – Julian Castro (mayor of San Antonio, TX)
• Episode 6084 (6/28/2010) – John Waters (director)
• Episode 6083 (6/24/2010) – Michael Specter (author, Denialism)
• Episode 6082 (6/23/2010) – Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novella), Tim Westergren (founder of Pandora and the Music Genome Project)
• Episode 6081 (6/22/2010) – Gloria Steinem (feminist and political activist)
• Episode 6080 (6/21/2010) – Wes Moore (author, The Other Wes Moore)
• Episode 6079 (6/17/2010) – David Mamet (American playwright)
• Episode 6078 (6/16/2010) – Devo (musicians)
• Episode 6077 (6/15/2010) – Carl Safina (ocean expert)
• Episode 6076 (6/14/2010) – Stephen Prothero (author, God is Not One)
• Episode 6075 (6/10/2010) – Alan Bean (astronaut, painter)
• Episode 6074 (6/9/2010) – Senator Sam Nunn
• Episode 6073 (6/8/2010) – Mark Frauenfelder (Make Magazine)
• Episode 6072 (6/7/2010) – Jonathan Alter (author, The Promise: President Obama, Year One)
• Episode 6071 (6/3/2010) – Vampire Weekend (band, Contra)
• Episode 6070 (6/2/2010) – Lisa Miller (author, Heaven)
• Episode 6069 (6/1/2010) – Ayaan Hirsi Ali (author, Nomad)

May 2010

• Episode 6068 (5/13/2010) – The Hold Steady (musicians, Heaven is Whenever)
• Episode 6067 (5/12/2010) – Deepak Chopra (physician & author, The Shadow Effect)
• Episode 6066 (5/11/2010) – Dahlia Lithwick (senior editor, Slate), Hampton Sides (author, Hellhound on His Trail)
• Episode 6065 (5/10/2010) – Scheherazade Rehman (Professor of International Finance/Business, George Washington University), Gov. Gary Johnson (former Governor, New Mexico)
• Episode 6064 (5/6/2010) – Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Dish), Stewart Brand (author, The Whole Earth Discipline)
• Episode 6063 (5/5/2010) – David Isay (founder & producer, NPR’s StoryCorps)
• Episode 6062 (5/4/2010) – Michael J. Fox (actor, author, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Future), Mark Moffett (ecologist & author, Adventures Among Ants)
• Episode 6061 (5/3/2010) – Lori Roman & Michael Jacobson, Elizabeth Warren (Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel)

April 2010

• Episode 6060 (4/29/2010) – Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado (R-CA), OK Go (musicians, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky)
• Episode 6059 (4/28/2010) – Gregg Easterbrook (senior editor, The New Republic)
• Episode 6058 (4/27/2010) – Conn Iggulden (author, The Dangerous Book of Heroes)
• Episode 6057 (4/26/2010) – Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (musicians, I Learned the Hard Way)
• Episode 6056 (4/22/2010) – Gorillaz (Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn), musicians: Plastic Beach)
• Episode 6055 (4/21/2010) – Craig Robinson (First Brother-In-Law, author, A Game of Character)
• Episode 6054 (4/20/2010) – Tim Meadows (as P.K. Winsome), Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks Studios)
• Episode 6053 (4/19/2010) – Andrew Ross Sorkin (Financial columnist, The New York Times), George Will (conservative columnist)
• Episode 6052 (4/15/2010) – Aimee Mullins (athlete, actress, model)
• Episode 6051 (4/14/2010) – Jake Tapper (ABC This Week), Bill Adair (Politifact), David Shields (author, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto)
• Episode 6050 (4/13/2010) – Jon Mooallem (essayist)
• Episode 6049 (4/12/2010) – Jeffrey Toobin (legal analyst), Julian Assange (WikiLeaks.com)
• Episode 6048 (4/8/2010) – Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist Extraordinaire)
• Episode 6047 (4/7/2010) – Rabbi Jeff Goldblum, David Simon (TV producer, Treme)
• Episode 6046 (4/6/2010) – Joe Bastardi, Brenda Ekwurzel, Rev. Al Sharpton (civil rights activist)
• Episode 6045 (4/5/2010) – Dean Kamen (inventor)
• Episode 6044 (4/1/2010) – David Frum (former Bush speechwriter, conservative pundit), Judith Shulevitz (author, The Sabbath World)

March 2010

• Episode 6043 (3/31/2010) – Craig Mullaney (author, The Unforgiving Minute)
• Episode 6042 (3/30/2010) – Simon Johnson (author, 13 Bankers)
• Episode 6041 (3/29/2010) – Claire McCaskill (U.S. Senator, D-MO)
• Episode 6040 (3/18/2010) – Fr. James Martin (TCR Chaplain), Mary Matalin (political consultant)
• Episode 6039 (3/17/2010) – Nell Irvin Painter (author, The History of White People)
• Episode 6038 (3/16/2010) – Eric Foner (historian), Rebecca Skloot (author, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
• Episode 6037 (3/15/2010) – Robert Baer (author, The Devil We Know)
• Episode 6036 (3/12/2010) – Scott Rasmussen (pollster), David Aaronovitch (author, Voodoo Histories)
• Episode 6035 (3/11/2010) – Charlie Cook (founder, Cook Political Report), Sean Carroll (author, From Eternity to Here)
• Episode 6034 (3/9/2010) – Annie Leonard (author, The Story of Stuff)
• Episode 6033 (3/8/2010) – Ezra Klein (journalist, The Washington Post), Tom Hanks (actor, producer – HBO’s The Pacific)
• Episode 6032 (3/4/2010) – Barry Schwartz (author, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less)
• Episode 6031 (3/3/20100 – Scheherazade Rehman (economist, George Washington University), Garry Wills (author, Bomb Power)
• Episode 6030 (3/2/2010) – David Brooks (Conservative columnist, New York Times)
• Episode 6029 (3/1/2010) – Michael Bublé (musician), Don Cheadle (actor, Brooklyn’s Finest)

February 2010

• Episode 6024 (2/11/2010) – Al Michaels (NBC sports broadcaster), David Ross (former director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
• Episode 6023 (2/10/2010) – Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL 5th District), Claire Danes (actress, Temple Brandin)
• Episode 6022 (2/9/2010) – Senator Chris Dodd (D-VT), George Stephanopolous (former Clinton White House Press Secretary, co-anchor Good Morning America)
• Episode 6021 (2/8/2010) – Jonathan Safran Foer (author, Eating Animals)
• Episode 6020 (2/4/2010) – Henry Louis Gates (Historian, host Faces of America)
• Episode 6019 (2/3/2010) – Peter Cove (literary critic), John Durant (Paleo Diet)
• Episode 6018 (2/2/2010) – Henry Allen (literary critic), Eliot Spitzer (Former governor of New York)
• Episode 6017 (2/1/2010) – Nicole Detling Miller (Sports Psychologist for 2010 Olympic Speedskating Team), Jessica Smith (alternate for 2010 Olympic Speedskating Team), Harold Ford Jr. (political candidate)

January 2010

• Episode 6016 (1/28/2010) – David Gergen (CNN Political Analyst)
• Episode 6015 (1/27/2010) – Arthur Benjamin (Mathemagician)
• Episode 6014 (1/26/2010) – Paul Begala (Democratic political consultant), Mika Brzezinski (Author, All Things at Once)
• Episode 6013 (1/25/2010) – Kati Marton (Author, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America)
• Episode 6012 (1/21/2010) – John Farmer (Author, The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11)
• Episode 6011 (1/20/2010) – Dick Ebersol (NBC)
• Episode 6010 (1/19/2010) – Ambassador Stephen Bosworth (Special Representative for North Korea Policy)
• Episode 6009 (1/18/2010) – Dr. Margaret Palmer (Mountaintop Mining Consequences), Emily Pilloton (environmental engineer and product designer)
• Episode 6008 (1/14/2010) – Sec. Kathleen Sebelius (Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services)
• Episode 6007 (1/13/2010) – John Heilemann (Author, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime)
• Episode 6006 (1/12/2010) – Philip Glass (musician), Raj Patel (Author, The Value Of Nothing)
• Episode 6005 (1/11/2010) – Eugene Jarecki (Move Your Money), Morgan Freeman (actor)
• Episode 6004 (1/7/2010) – Barry Scheck (The Innocence Project), James Fowler
• Episode 6003 (1/6/2010) – Ezra Klein (Washington Post), Linda Douglass (White House Press Secretary for Health Care Reform), Capt. Charles Moore (Algalita Marine Research Foundation).
• Episode 6002 (1/5/2010) – Dr. Riley Crane (MIT Post Doctoral Fellow – finder of DARPA balloons)
• Episode 6001 (1/4/2010) – Erick Erickson (blogger, redstate.com)