This episode features the opening theme song from the long-running children's PBS educational series Reading Rainbow (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3), and a snippet of the YouTube sensation Double Rainbow (watch).

This episode features clips Woody Allen's album The Night Club Years 1964-1968 (Amazon) discussing "Oral Contraception," as well as a clip from WNYC's On the Media tribute to the recently passed Daniel Shore (subscribe).

This episode features a heavily edited clip from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show with guest Noah Feldman, a Harvard Law professor discussing the state of "liberals" on the Supreme Court and the role they have played for the last 40 years.

This episode features clips from director Michael Marantz's Earth - The Pale Blue Dot (watch) a video featuring Carl Sagan offering an optimistic, science-based philosophy about human's place in the universe. If you can get past it sounding like a Lexus ad on a classical radio station, it's really quite moving. Also, download the Sun Mix made by my friend Jessica.

This episode features clips from the season finale of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, discussing the estate tax (or lack thereof) and business people who enter politics with guests Rachel Maddow and Jon Meacham (subscribe). If you find yourself seeking fine entertainment in NYC, go for the gold and attend an evening of the best magic you'll ever see. The millionaires' magician Steve Cohen, will blow your mind at Chamber Magic.