09/11/2005       [ Listen to the whole show]

Ben's Intro
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Is it a Hit?
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Today, Gary Stewart is in charge of the "Essentials" collections on the iTunes Music Store, but back in the 80s, he was a talent scout for Rhino Records. Rhino Records is now a re-issue label, but it put out new music back in the 80s - not a lot of people know that, which gives you a clue into Gary's predicament as an A&R man. But then he found his ticket: House of Freaks. The band HE thought would finally rise to top.

Sexual Healing
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Twenty four years ago, Marvin Gaye's career was on life support. He was surrounded by drugs, women, sex and writer David Ritz offered Gaye two simple words. Those words morphed into a hit song but David told Ben, he didn't get his due until decades later.

Read David's book Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye

Chasing Love
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Miguel Macias lives in New York and he spent three years researching love, interviewing psychologists, brain scientists, friends and neighbors about love. He took over 80 hours of interviews and made a one-hour documentary called, "Chasing Love."

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AIDS - Pamela Dewalt
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Pamela DeWalt is sort of a self-taught expert on love. Pam has been married and divorced and was engaged once more besides that. She's now a wife and a mother to a 23-year-old stepson. Polly Sveda drove down to the South Bay and found a family that's probably unlike any other.

Song Break: The Fairest of the Seasons
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by Nico from the 1968 album Chelsea Girl

AIDS - Elinor Castenda
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Elinor Casteneda is HIV positive and once upon a time, that didn't stop her from looking for love. Elinor tells Polly Sveda that search is long over.

David Gere on AIDS Art
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Remember when it seemed like you couldn't go to a museum or a gallery or a theater without somebody painting or sculpting or performing about AIDS? Queena Kim talks with David Gere, a professor of World Arts and CultureFestival at UCLA to find out why AIDS has fallen off the map of the art world.

Read David's book How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS

Botanica El Congo Manuel
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Charles Gulperin sees himself as a country priest. Gulperin draws from Santeria and helps people from his Botanica in Hollywood. Gulperin usually helps people who are having troubles in life but lately he's been minstering to men infected with HIV.

Botanica El Congo Manuel
5712 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
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Song Break: Humanity Dub
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by Yabby You from the album: Dub It To The Top

Closing and Credits
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