You may have missed The Agenda with Joe Solmonese last night due to a XM system-wide signal problem. It was definitely a show you wouldn’t want to miss, so we’re posting the entire show here online. Click the links below to listen to each segment individually, or right-click on the link to save the file to your computer.

• Segment 1: Show intro with Joe Solmonese and Mary Breslauer
• Segment 2: Speech by Yolanda King at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2000 Detroit gala dinner
• Segment 3: Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report senior editor, on Jerry Falwell’s death and the rise of the Christian right
• Segment 4: Dan Gilgoff, continued
• Segment 5: Martha Coakley, Massachusetts attorney general, on the constitutional amendment to ban marriage in Massachusetts
• Segment 6: Dave White, Advocate.com, on American Idol season six
• Segment 7: Margaret Cho on the True Colors Tour with Cyndi Lauper
• Segment 8: Rick Klein, ABC News senior political reporter, on the presidential horse race and congressional news
• Segment 9: Joe Solmonese and Mary Breslauer wrap up the show and preview next week

Here’s a rundown of the show… Leading off, we heard Yolanda King in her own words at the 2000 HRC Detroit gala dinner. Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died suddenly last week.

Then we took a look at the life of the late Jerry Falwell, who also died last week, through the eyes of U.S. News & World Report Senior Editor Dan Gilgoff. Gilgoff has a new book out, The Jesus Machine, which looks at the so-called Christian right and their efforts to win the “culture war.”

Sticking with politics, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley was our guest. She recently made headlines by arguing that even if the commonwealth’s Legislature puts an amendment to ban marriage rights up to a popular vote, it may be deemed unconstitutional.

Going a little lighter, I’m a hardcore American Idol fan so I insisted that we take a look at this week’s season finale. I talked to Dave White who writes the ever-popular “American Idol” recap for Advocate.com.

We were also thrilled to welcome Margaret Cho to the show last night. She is the master of ceremonies for Cyndi Lauper’s upcoming True Colors Tour so she talked about that project as well as some of her other irons in the fire.

Finally, we circled back to politics with Rick Klein, of ABC News. He’s their senior political reporter and writes the beltway must-read, The Note. Klein filled us in on the presidential horserace and legislative happenings in Washington in a fascinating and insightful conversation.

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