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- 07 / 01 / 08 -

Emmanuel is in a foul mood due to the weather and world events, the complications of bailing a friend out of jail, how wiring money is unnecessarily difficult, video is released of a patient dying in a New York hospital waiting room with nobody intervening, "cyber-bullying" is outlawed in Missouri, how to deal with online bullies, a setback in the case of a Canadian suing the United States for being sent to Syria where he was tortured, a controversial Supreme Court ruling concerning handguns, the parallels to speech, people who want to bring their guns to work, how the rest of the world views this sort of thing, lying on the Internet, a call from Bicycle Mark, the danger of dismissing Obama, the need to speak louder.

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July 1
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- 07 / 08 / 08 -

Spiney Norman is still in the studio, the hot and muggy conditions outside, Emmanuel confronts Spiney on something he said on his show earlier in the afternoon, a surprising lack of hate mail after last week's show, Emmanuel's dream about the upcoming HOPE conference, Emmanuel clarifies that this is in fact The Last HOPE, Spiney discusses the upcoming BlobFest, a picture of Brother Nick has disappeared, Emmanuel has a surprisingly pleasant experience paying a parking ticket in New York City, the future of Coney Island, asking the ChaCha online service a question about the Coney Island sideshow, Russia threatens military action if the United States goes ahead with a missile defense system, surprise at Iran's reaction to being threatened with attack, the Elite Iranian Force's website, reaction to Al Jazeera English being carried on a cable company, remembering "Brain Damage," what HOPE has meant over the years, changing the outro midstream, trying to be cheerful.

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July 8
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- 07 / 15 / 08 -

A retrospective show focusing on HOPE conferences of the past, a CBC report on the first HOPE conference in 1994, part of the press conference at Beyond HOPE in 1997, an excerpt from the social engineering panel from Beyond HOPE, part of Jello Biafra's keynote at H2K in 2000, an excerpt from the question and answer session at the Aaron McGruder keynote at H2K2 in 2002, part of Steve Wozniak's keynote from The Fifth HOPE in 2004, some final words.

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July 15
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- 07 / 29 / 08 -

The theme to "Brain Damage" is played instead thanks to Spiney Norman, a different type of mood because of this, the university switchboard, Emmanuel was stuck in Brooklyn earlier in the day, Emmanuel saw a fake Mister Softee truck, "The Electric Company" is being remade causing some traffic issues in Manhattan, how plots to ongoing productions are posted on the no parking signs, why Emmanuel wasn't in last week, riding Segways and carrying caskets in Manhattan, how The Last HOPE was misinterpreted, the shows this year have had songs about death as the outros, the linguistic challenge that will occur with The Next HOPE, the overwhelmingly positive response to the conference, Emmanuel describes the aftermath of the conference, a misadventure involving the Long Island Railroad, Smart car issues, a listener discovers the old editions of the radio shows, analyzing early sales of the 2600 book, Emmanuel analyzes an antiwar slogan, trying to find an outro that Spiney left.

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July 29
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