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The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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    Whale of a Tale

    Amy Sutherland made waves with her essay about applying wild animal training to her husband. She expands her ideas in her new book What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage. Also, envisioning America after Iraq and another installment in this week’s food series Something to Chew On – the pleasures and pitfalls of loving stinky cheese.

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Potomac Primary Results

Washington Post reporter Michael Shear, discusses the results of the Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC primaries.

Scheuer on Negroponte and Post-9/11 Foreign Policy

Michael Scheuer, CIA veteran, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation and the author of Imperial Hubris and Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq (Free Press, 2008) says we’ve taken a wrong turn in combating terrorism since 9/11 and reacts to selections from Brian's interview with Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte at Japan Society on January 31st.

Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

The Whale is Back: Shamu the Book

Amy Sutherland, the author of What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage (Random House, 2008), discusses her new book on what animal training taught her about husband training.

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Reaction to Steroids in Sports Hearings

WNYC reporter Dan Blumberg reports on the testimonies of Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee.

Something to Chew On: Stinky Cheese

Jamie Forrest, writer of the cheese blog curdnerds and contributor to serious eats, discusses the social setbacks of loving stinky cheese.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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