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Radio Parallax / Douglas Everett
Radio Parallax is a show covering topics in current events, politics, science, technology, history, satire, and whatever we damn well please. The show can be heard in the greater Davis/Sacramento area every Thursday evening from 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PST on KDVS, 90.3 FM;
Talks with citizens pushing back against the US Army Corps of Engineers plans for the American River Parkway: Bill Brattain and Pete Spaulding
A brief look at the Presidential debate followed by analysis of recent Trump statements
We take Trump up on question of whether we are better off today than 4 years ago: Steven J. Harper returns to examine the disastrous Trump mislandling of Covid in 2020
RFK Jr, Phil Donahue obit (and mention of his Iraq war opposition), Trump disparages Congressional Medal of Honor, lost in space
Trump, the oldest person ever to become president now older than oldest person to BE president - Reagans record holder - Reagan
Ben Tyler Cohen clips on Trump running away from Project 2025 and how GOP election officials are going to avoid certifying vote counts - chat with attorney Marc Elias
David Packman clip on latest Trump incoheret ramblings, GB&U, Joe Conason clip on his new book The Long Con
Collection of you tube clips frpm Dave Pakman and Ben Meiselas on Trumps mental issues, glossed over by the MSM
Near assassination of DJT, Debate and takeaway - review of same, judges bulldozing a path for the former prez, GB&U, limits to growth, potpourri small news items
Chat with investigatibe journalist Jefferson Morley about his historical book Snowstorm in August The Struggle for Americas Freedom and Washingtons Race Riot of 1835
USACE assaults on the American River Parkway, SCOTUS assaults the American democracy, Putin murders Navalny, a fishy Superbowl, docu on reporter Danny Casoleros "suicide", GB&U, Harpers Index
GB&U, potpourri of recent Trump mental deterioration, traformation of war via drone technology, Palantir in Ukraine science topics
Some jokes, Harpers Index, look back at Bob Edwards, Giuliani, another Putin murder, Silicon Valleys scary technocracy advocates
A look at Japans bizarre politics, "intelligence failures" in Gaza and Israeli overreaction
Jimmy Carter on Israeli Apartheid, slavery in the US, the tragic tale of civil rights workers murder in 1964
Bush 41, the pledge of alliegance, Fareed Zakaria BS, the tractor, Pacific islander navigation, GB&U
Everything gets marketed as "AI" now, the superyachts, the illegal and unscrupulous fishinging industry (Chinese mostly), The Tragedy of the Commons revisited, bad reporting
Avatar ABBA show, modern cursive illiteracy, Venus mysteries, political aspects of Albert Einstein and Charles Chaplin, Hearst & Hitler
Space trombones, Baby Ruth BS, misc quotes, the genius of Newton, predicted collapse of civilization?, cuneiform translation and AI
Neptunes discovery & political skulduggery, Ayn Rand/Silicon Valley development in Solanao Co., Mountain House urban sprawl
Andy Borowitz on democracy, Asimov on reviews, new AI music and look back at visit fom "Paul McCartney", beaver news, Herman Daly belated obit
Old Chris Mooney look at GOP nuttiness & new Trump lies, Michael Lewis on covid including White House manipulation of reality, Halberstam article on Korean War gaffs of MacArthur/Willouby, Ben Stein & anti-Darwinism, Rudy Giulianis earlier effort to promote riots
Ted Kaczinski vs us, GB&U, archival article looking 20 years into future from over 20 years ago, Andy Borowitz on stages of ignornce in politics
Nicaraguan Ortega tyranny continued, liberal segregation advocacy, "blackface" controversy - Hannibal - not a black African, Phoenicians, "Black Pete", gender neutral French, article on cutting the virtual cord
Plunging into 2024 with Dave Barry look at 2023, Xmas movie, GB&U including Tik Tok vs the US Army, mucus evolution, congress unproductiveness, evil Nicraguan politics
Some good news items, electoral crazyness into bad films, GB&U, Gaza tragedy, trying to kill Hitler, miscellaneous items
James DiEugenio talks about the JFK Conference at Duquesne U, specifically Jims presentation on the evolution of foreign policy from JFK into the NeoCon revolution
Current event round-up, Xmas music, possible new ED therapy from spider venom, good news items
Gaza catastrophe, Obit: James Buckley, real estate brokers 6% rip off being questioned in court, Trump goes full Nazi in rhetoric
Thanksgiving turkey pardon, Good, Bad & Ugly twice over, supposed alien artifacts, alien worlds, big tech weasels want in on gambling on sports
Activist attorney Bill Simpich updates us on JFK records lawsuti vs Biden administration
Retrun to live show after a hiatus, great quotes, memes, GB&U fest, Gaetz coup, alleged intelligence failure in Gaza,
Potpourri items: GB&U fest, misc news items; phenylepherine acknowledged s placebo, standing up ti China, eliminating taxes in Argemtina, is India Bharat?, Bernie Taupin tantrum, PC run amok
Doing the Time Warp, some medical topics of note, some science topics of dubious distinction
Review of Burning Man 2023 with Guy Tortorici , GB&U, Tulare Lake reborn, Colonel Allensworth State Park, American spectacles - armour and trucks
Obit: Harry Belafonte, Secretariat the Derby winner and Dancers Image a Derby loser, strange alga, new eco-garbage-plastic-system
Dr Grover Proctor talks about The Raleigh Call, the mysterious episode of Lee Harvey Oswalds attempt to make a phone call while in police custody
The (fortunately stymied) Reber Plan to fill in San Francisco Bay, GB&U, science topics
GB&U, a review of some environmental issues, Michael Lewis essay from 2004 on investor driven corporate misbehavior
Steven J Harper discusses his book Crossing Hoffa, a tale of his fathers union work getting entangled with the efforts of the Teamsters leader
Steve Harper stays with us to talk about NYT article of Russiagate links to Putin war in Ukraine, GB&U, Obit Angela Lansbury
We get off politicians by taking about other venomous snakes w toxicologist Howard McKinney
21st century George McClellan, still more Trump lies, polls of confusion, fake Terrorists for DJT, still more Pelosi propaganda and fears of more violence while avoiding Jan 6th coup, Rutenberg NYT article on Russiagate
Good, Bad & Ugly, Sasheen Littlefeather - fake native American, DOJ - fake Trump investigation? the January 6th Commission, look back at what makes a Fascist regime, running up a high school football score, running up the score against the 49ers
Attorney Bill Simpich explains the lawsuit filed by him on behalf of the Mary Ferrel Foundation to compel the release of still hidden records in accordance with the JFK Records Act. First Trump and now Biden have stalled this effort despite clear direction found in the law.
Greg Palast returns to discuss vote suppression and his new documentary titles Vigilante. It centers on Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and he is not the hero of the story.
Good, Bad & Ugly, a look back at a footnote figure from German National Socialist history Ernst Hanfstangl, the capture of GOP candidates by Donald Trump and his big election theft lie - a troubling American lurch towards Fascism, tech fails
Steven J Harper retruns to discuss Donald Trump and the curious events surrounding his efforts to overturn democracy
We take another look at the remarkable life of General Smedly Butler, this time with help from our friend Gordon Smith
Google re-assurances, FB too, Barton Gellman book and Snowdon Frontline special from 2014, Mother Jones reporting on Trump, MAGA circuses, and Peter Thiel dark and his dark arts, sad report on Albert Sidney Burslon and 1917 censorship
Nod to last weeks re-play of Chris Hedges from 2007 interview on American Fascists and David Talbot in 2011 on Smedley Butler - available on this site, jailing Jan 6th small fry, follow-ups, asteroid smash-up, biome news, GB&U, ghoul star, ghoul satellite, Frank Drake obit, H.L.Menken
Funny travel tale, QE2, Good Bad & Ugly, Fake Famous documentary - making web influencers out of nothing, the firing of Brian Stelter at CNN
Giant $ donation to Federalist Society for reactionary pols, Big Tech hires economists, video game addiction, vacum cleaner spy, more toxic tech, polio comeback, monkeypox PR issue, space oddities investigation
Post vacation show: look at August travels combined with news of period - most prediminanty the passing of the towering figure of Mikhail Gorbachev, preliminary Dubai denunciation along with DIY phone-based bookings (works great so long as there are no complications)
Fun in Africa part one, along with more gripes about Big Techs alliance with travel corporations to eliminate humans from the process, balanced with raves about touring South Africa, Victoria Falls, and the spectacular wildlife of Botawana, viva travel
Political potpourri, prelude of Michael Trachtman talk on Supreme Court decisions prelude
GB&U, true love anecdotes, science topics, fashion produces 3rd most CO2 after electrical generation & construction, fish pond restoration, custom cancer treatments, Obituaries - Barry Sussman, James Rado
Interview with Jefferson Morley on his riviting new book Scorpions Dance, The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
Asymptomtic infections, The Blob in Colombia, Hangar 1 renovation, Clarence Thomas and other jerks om the SCOTUS, Nicaraguan role models, abortion support, Democratic comwardice, GB&U, non-recyclable plastics, health breakthroughs
Excerpts from our prior 3 chats with Uncle John Javna and exceprts from the Bathroom Readers series of books
Howard McKinney returns to the program to discuss pharmacologic treatments for abortion, largely unknown, and an ever more important issue in light of danger to Roe V Wade
W Boson shocker, pink salt ponds, navigational abilities vary, US assassination attempts on foreign leaders, shooting Che, Pakistan failed Trumpism, 1 million covid deaths in USA thanks largely to Trumpism, Russians propagandized
Chat with Doctor of Pharmacy Howard McKinney on Linus Pauling, psychadelics, AI horro story on posions, legalizing pot & treating drug abusers, opiod crisis rooted in Chinese fentalog illegal drugs not prescirption meds
Meteors & interstellar rocks, speedy stars, rules of thumb, GB&U, WWII lookback, David Talbot goes off on YIMBY
Steven J Harper law professor and Trump expert updates us on legal matters surrounding the former president, and scary the run-up to election 2022
Chat with our boardwatcher and future public affairs host Guy Tortorici , flintknapping demo, NOVA in planets, boilerplate, Carl Sagan sound-off from 1995, bye-bye Ms Lam, radical gender ideologues, GB&U, Coloorado kids can now go outside, DC rabies, Dr Oz, AI develops poisons
Miscellaneous issues of reporting vs propaganda, Trumps Truth Social review by Dana Milibank, review of Malcom Muggeridges1931 report on Ukrainian famine, Putin and Trump bromance, correction of our error on Clarence Thomas vote, fighting over Kung Fu fighting
RP returns to KDVS, Hunter Biden nonsense, GB&U, population control in 2022, Dr Andy Jones , host of Dr Andys Poetry and Technology Hour returns to OUR program
Interview with journalist Isaac Stone Fish about his book America Second, How Americas Elite are Making China Stronger
Ukraine and Russia, and a bit of Trump, GB&U, Ivermectin, cyber war in Europe, the fix in on Trump prosecution and Bill Cosby - guilty but out of jail
Discussion with author Oliver Milman about hie new book The Insect Crisis about the worrying collapse of populations of earths six legged creatures and what that means to we humans who depend upon them
A discussion with Jason Coe investigative journalist and sports writer about the curious tale of the Oakland Raiders decamping to Vegas without paying their debts
Ukraine avoided, Q uncovered perhaps, an HIV cure, Good, Bad & Ugly, P.J. ORourke tribute
Wacky theories of the alt-right, global warming may curb skiing, GB&U, plug for Sterling Seagrave, computer chip issues, 2 lame excuses
Return to the program by voting activist Greg Palast to look ahead at upcoming electoral chicanery
Podesta e-mail screw-up from "tech savvy" staffer, quotes from A. Pope, GB&U review, more on gene transfers, Dems to lose House & Senate?, gender-neutral toy law in CA, gender dysphoria, gender malpractice, trans-gender swimmer, Davos man, Rodney Dangerfield
Sceince topics - the bug that saved California, bee resistance reduced by beekeepers, mosquitofish woes, DNA sniffers, bacteriophages on our food, a good side of prions - speeding evolution, Toilet a Love Story
Re-connect with law professor, Trump expert and author Steven J. Harper a year after our last talk
Chat with James DiEugenio screenwriter for documentary JFK Revisited. Through the Looking Glass
Mother nature angry, fat americans, Theranos verdict & legal craziness, drones and 5G screwups, $769B for defense, false flags in Ukraine, NATO stupidity
MLK vs the filibuster, Manchin & Sinema gumming the works along with entire GOP, Harry Bellafonte kudos, dodging the civil war amendments, GB&U, containerized cargo history
Epic rant on low blow attacks on Oliver Stone and James DiEugenios documentary JFK Revisited by Tim Weiner in Rolling Stone
Science weird and otherwise, E.O. Wilson Obit, fugus sequesters carbon and make cheese, ambergris oddities, the space cow, cancer research not reproduced, internet influencers real and fake
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, wildlife on the rebound, global warming effect on beer, grasslands are good, cheering on overpopulation, covid negatives with omicron positives, cool science smacking an asteroid
The Economist self evaluates 2021 predictions then makes more for 2022, Bill Carter op-ed at GOP becoming anti democracy, Bart Gellman piece in The Atlantic on the same subject, artist rips off museum
Xmas music blurb, GB&U backlog, super king tides coming, excerpts from Dave Barrys look back at 2021, Sierra Club does the same but is not as funny, medical advice on diet & drink, google maps directed drivers onto forest roads in blizzard to avoid closed highways
Lucy goes to Jupiter, DART goes to asteroid, Russia goes idiot on space along with Elon Musk, ditching gas stoves - advocacy by dopes, dark side of going green, alien life vs UFOs, Russiagate denialism, Obit: Jerry Jeff Walker
Obit for the man who freed Nelson Mandela F.W. DeKlerk, nordic hack & right to repair, animal trust, renaming mania, political correctness hits medicine along with stupidity a new version of Lysenkoism, GB&U x2,
Your shoe is untied, getting Zucked by non-reality, discriminating against American workers, the death of Tippocanoe, George III revisited, Roman garum revisited
Obit: Commander Cody, did a woman write Shakespeare, Fahrenheit, GB&U x2, crazy dormitory at UCSB, the Zestimate goes to low ground ,
Taking on global warming manana maybe, the hidden history of climate change denial, Cal Bears football team tests positive for covid, Rafferperger lies about Georgia, mail to Australia shaky, the mysterious failures of American electoral polling, Biden stalls JFK records release, Oliver Stone new docu, nuke plug
The good, the bad and the ugly, political assassination news, David Moore piece lamenting war propaganda, Trump lies continue, economic stupdity and the power elite, lobbyists and politicos screw the public, John broke up the Beatles
Humans were in America 23,000 years ago, Chinese dinosaurs, plant thugs, space probe data, yacht broker woes, Alden Capital dastardly destroyer of American newspapers
Water activist Dan Bacher returns to talk about the wisdom of offshore oil drilling in California and more, Australian oil spill marttime incident including Clark and Dawe classic, conservatorship/guardian abuses, high school anecdotes
Memes, Giraffes fight clean but MLB cheats, GB&U, Canadian spoof political parties, food from trees, hiding the reality of global warming, silver lining to wildfires, aquifer protection, Obits - Colin Powell and A.Q. Khan, Bitcoin investing by a hamster
High School plus 50, grade inflation, Obit: Ed Asner, travails of Billie Bush, GB&U, Nobel Prize to Journalists, watering golf courses in CA, that was a check swing
Bestselling author Mary Roach talks up her latest effort Fuzz: When Nature Break the Law
Contemplations on global warming, evil Big Tech corporations, Peter Thiel & the shady Palantir, GB&U, wokeness and woke avoidance of new abortion restrctions
local publications, funny police blotter, more nutty Covid therapy stuff, Bob Woodward book Peril, Obits - Jean Paul Belmondo, Don Everly, Norm MacDonald plus his OJ slams
Dumb election audits, musings on brewing Constitutional crisis and 2024 putsch, the Eastman memo, cutting taxes and borrowing money, Afghan follies, General Milley looked out for the USA in January, Obit - Alimael Guzman
Looking back at Iraq war propaganda vs Shock and Awe Documentary, lies of W to lies to 2021 polarization and our detour through war, 9/11 coincidence theories, election theft conspiracies - real and fake, mysterious polling failures
GB&Uglys, pre-pythagoras, Well Fixers Warning on San Joaquin overdraws, world on fire, IPCC downplayed in 1990 yet 2x the CO2 SINCE then, cyber ninja follies in AZ
Energy solution in nuclear fission and fusion, curious inventions and inventors, idiotcoin idiocy, Obit - Charlie Watts
Grim current events, fires, hot climate, and especially Afghanistan, covid comeback thanks to vaccine avoidance
Interview with actor Burt Ward the former Robin on the classic TV action-comedy Batman, Burt also discusses his founding of Gentle Giants an operation which has rescued 16,500 dogs while developing food to promote longevity in short-lived breeds
Comic book day, obit of Edwin Edwards, nitwit Kevin McCarthy, obit of Dusty Hill, obit Kenneth Kaunda, obit Donald Rumsfeld, GB&U, tech madness, drones in combat, phone spying, and supposedly solving the Zodiac killer cyphers
Olympics doping and dopes, lcalendar inspired ook back at the history of medicine, Guiseppe Garibaldi, King Gustav tennis star, Hobson of the choice, GB&U, obit Jackie Mason
wildfire air, business as usual not possible if earth to be saved, pollls supposedly fail in USA, obit for James Kallstrom mastermind of TWA 800 cover up, Jane Mayer articler on Dark Money, claims of election fraud and capitol insurrectionists, capital police finger Trump,
Trivia, Prince Phillip, poet Wither, memes, get vaccinated even if you have had covid-19, space force, stupid AI, self driving cars will never fully arrive, GB&U
Roadrunner Anthony Bourdain, vivid words, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, political follies,
Interview with Earl Swift about his book Across the Airless Wilds, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, coinciding with the Apollo 15 mission 50 years ago this month
Bronto is back, moon cycles and floods, asteroid defense, space debris woes, recycling via cows
Former Cleveland mayor and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich interview regarding his new book "The Division of Light and Power"
Catch up on Good, Bad & Ugly; cicadas, crickets & bees, insecticide worries, money vs the environment
Reapportioning towards red, population issues, cutting environmental reviews to help real estate development and Silicon Valley corporations, the affordable housing scam funded by Zuckeberg, Big Tech caused housing problems and now wants to make more money off alleged solution
A big surprise, natural spaces are healthy; contrail controversy, misinterpreting the alleged opioid crisis, covid update, Janary 6th coup attempt, prosecution and DJT, Jane Mayer article in the New Yorker
Gene transferrence, ultra white paint, biodegradable materials, swimming the Mississippi, drone idiocy, the epic scandal of the Freeborn Hall demolition at UC Davis
Bad news, GB&U, human waste filtered by soil, miscellaneous historical figures, new coffee, new chestnut trees
JFK research, GB&U extravaganza, the Jan 6th putsch, The Birth of a Nation, America getting vaccinated, bad Covid world leaders
The biologists vs the economists on population growth, chemical weapons, eco solutions cost you, miscellaeous obituaries
Interview with Craig Unger on his new book American Kompromat, a look at how Donald Trump was turned into a Russian asset.
Backlog of Parallaxian items to discuss.... quotes, quips, and GB&U, Mars, voter suppression by the GOP
Paying news services and better news, suicidal progressive actions w PC mania, the only good Rush Limbaugh, more PC mania, holding Trump accountable, Karla Wallenda Obit
Greg Palast, BBC investigative journalist and election theft specialist returns to update us on the goings-on in Georgia, round out the story of Brad Raffenspurger, and reveal how he has outed "Ali Alexander" for his role in the Jan 6th putsch
GB&U, gay pro wrestlter, Scientific American - Truth vs Lies, economists vs epidemiologists, David Brooks op-ed ignores Big Tech - right wing alliance, Lewis Lapham 2004 classic article Tentacles of Rage on the funding of the American right wing
Musings on doing a radio program, hiatus announcement, Trump coup attempt?, Continuity of Government per current Harpers, Georgia election follies, disloyalty to DJT
Election reaction of Europe, polls being "wrong again", the good, bad and ugly, Obits: Robert Fisk, Alex Trebeck, giant iceberg, Top Pop Albums, giant viruses, pickup bloat
Steven J Harper discusses his Russia-Trump timeline, the maneuvers of a president seeking a work-around to defeat, and how the two relate
Interview with Greg Palast investigative journalist and national expert on voting fraud
Our look at the election and aftermath, the fall covid explosion, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, miscellaneous items
Post election show, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania then and now, electoral worries, Trump in review and guesses about next moves
Kanye conceeds, Obit- the Amazing Randi, GB&U, misc items, nail biting as numbers go red to blue
Extra pre-election program; DJT mental status, possible shift to Trump when votes get counted, diminishing science under Trump, Scott Atlas American Trofim Lysenko - clip from 2007 interview w Peter Pringle how the election can be stolen
the worst are full of passionate intensity - clip from out 2006 interview w Chris Hedges on Christian Right in America, 2020 review of militia action, Unfit documentary, Nate White wit on DJT, nuclear command Qs, golden age for authocrats, bat science, SCOTUS Qs
Our second interview with Steven J. Harper about covid-19, the 2020 campaign , and possible election chaos
Red states following Trump advice exploding in Covid, campaign 2020 and the pandemic, updates from Trumppandemic dot net web site, a big picture review, more recent Trump lies on the stump, Judith Miller
Update chat w Susan Parker who drove to Florida in May, herd imminity and the so-called Barrington Declaration plus its denunciation by experts including John Barry, follow up w Stuart Wexler on school re-opening, GB&U, asteroid sampling, Trump corruption, plug for The Perfect Weapn docu and Bart Gellman article in The Atlantic
Plug for Trumppandemic dot net, USPS tricks - GOP ballot box manipulation, Amy Barrett nonsense, Covid denial despite surge, Alex Gibney and his excellent Totally Under Control documentary
Whitmer plot, GB&U, cruise ships to sail early, look back at 1876 election theft, Facebook electoral manipulation, Ivanka for Veep, Obits - Helen Reddy, Bob Gibson, Curtlood, Eddie Van Halen
Donald Trump gets Covid, plug for trumppandemic.net, Steven Harper continues w timelines, daily White House testing proves an inadequate shield against the virus despite fantasy thinking, discouragement of masks in the WH also a BAD idea, fantasy thinking led to superspreader event on Sept 26, contact tracing of that event derailed
Frrst hand experiece w Covid 19 with Tom Zimmerman and Colm O Connor a look at the best way to contact trace, and its not the way the WH is doing it
Our interview w Steven Harper goes on to Bill Moyers web site, some humor, Covid GB&U, Facebook puts money over ethics in political affairs, plug for Social Dilemma, plug for Kill Chain documentary, RBG should have retired when Obama was president
New Scientist slams Trump on Covid actions, masks more important than vaccine at the moment, Scientific American gives Trump thumbs down, plastic industry manipulations, Obit - Donald Kendall, ,
Interview with Steven J Harper author of 2 dozen Coronavirus timelines documenting how Donald Trumps actions, decptions and failures have made the pandemic an American catastrophe
slowing covid testing, admissions to Bob Woodward, the infodemic, Caputo and censorship HHS, remedies, domestic covid stats, life on Venus?
Trump anti science, review of Trump dismanting of diease monitoring, counter productive acts, and lying about coronavirus in the first months, the great American testing fiasco
Trump Woodward tapes - covid WAS dangerous i.e. proof he lied, denies Kashoggi murder, secret weapons reveal, Justice Dept to sub for Trump in rape case?, more Cohen, Germany confirms Navalny poisoned w novichok - Trump says cause unknown
FBI suspected DJT compromised, disparaging war dead, what if he does not leave?, vigilantes, DJT mini-stroke?, GB&U, Doonesbury places blame, Sturgis, vaccines, air travel
Fallwell fall, GOP ignors covid, weasel Steven Miller, activist Nancy Yamada talks getting out the vote, Bannon arrested, GB&U, smart grid deep sixed by coal lobby
Trump pandemic, Dr Atlas pushes CDC to NOT test post exposure, FDAs rash push of plasma therapy, October Surprise?, comorbity vs cause of death, Dr Aaron Smith on covid risk factors
First hand covid reports, CDC testing reduction, N.Z. outbreak, vaccine doubts, travel bans
GB&U, a virus-free Wuhan, fudging the data, infodemic, Russian 2016 election meddling, Barr works to bury it, USPS seized, GOP funding Kanye, CDC puts testing in reverse, bad plasma therapy math, coronavirus resistance?
GB&U - PC astronomy, methane regulations lifted by EPA as last Canadian ice-shelf slips, arctic sea ice gone by 2035?, hoaxster Joey Skaggs, Fallwell Jr woes, kids carry covid, Sturgis rally
Believing propaganda, Blaginism, dementia?- CDC blindsiding by Trump, travel restriction of yanks due to out-of-control, Hoover Insitute Dr Scott Atlas new teachers pet
Covid obits -Trini Lopez, Potemkin Village economies - Tanzania & USA?, White House Public Heath follies & attempts to shift focus, MSNBC clip of Trump lies claiming end of pandemic and a vaccine ready to rock, Trump head on Mount Rushmore? dementia?
News views - Obama gripes, Zimbabwe sinking; Beirut blowup, IgNobels, turtle nav, eating styrofoam, oldest north americans, starlink light pollution, food compounds, cassina caffeine
Herman Cain dies post Tulsa rally, Federalist Society head calls to re-impeach Trump after election delay, Lincoln Project opposes DJT, rushing to re-open USA mistake, US most prepared for epidemic in theory - federal response failed, virus goes rural, Kushner killed testing
Lies & Donald J Trump, more Mikovits quackery, Sinclair propaganda, Frontline doctors spread spectacularly wrong info endorsed by DJT, southern states covid explosion causes shortages
Obit - Ennio Morricone, GB&U, covid positive Oklahoma governor thinks Tulsa rally no factor, trade advisor attacks Fauci
A look at our shoulder at election 2016 with citizen researcher Pat Speer and his piece From Obamanation to Abomination
CV 16, have we become a banana republic? pandemic management run for public relations, is Trump in denial or is this even worse?, downplaying of covid continues
Vladmir Putin - now around till 2036, Xi Jin Ping ends Honk Kong semi-sovereignty, Florida explodes w covid
GB&U, Clip II Trump & demented behavior, his speech has deteriorated, third clip on nutty Trump statements, discussion of same, re-starting nuke tests?, losing our final nuclear arms agreement, Putin re-elected till 2036, Voice of America goes Alt-Right after Trump rages at their not towing his line, new boss Michael Pack is shady , Carl Reiner obit
CV #16, Trump on virus disappearing, masks, covid parties, Texas idiocy, Amy Sorkin in New Yorker - virus goes to red states, steroids may help, old vaccines too, world restricts US tourists, contact tracing lags, Trump and mental deterioration - audio clips
GB&U, knocking over statues and pressing for politcal correctness, misc news, two obits
Covid show #15, the demented idea that NOT testing for covid 19 is wise, and its demented source
Chats with activists Bill Simpich and Stu Wexler about an uncovered agent of incorrect information
Coronavirus lucky 13, NYT openly critical allegations by Trump that old man shoved to ground was in fact a wily antifa provocateur
Protests across the land, remembering Trump advising cops to treat arrestees rougher, Colin Powell jumps to Biden as he complains about Trump lies, plague misinformation - not a new thing
Cross country car ride during a pandemic a report from Susan Parker tales of the Texas ignorers and miscellaneous oddities
Fighting for your right to party, how to separate Trump and the virus, reiteration of our prediction that limited testing, contact tracing and isolation will lead to flaring of virus in 3 weeks, deserved bashing of China, & Nigaragua
Coronavirus #11, virus still not disappearing, surprise, memes, armed protesters intimidating politicians and bots, alternate universe of the AAPS which is in synch w Trumpy
Coronavirus #10 an addendum program Rolling Stone article on the four people who have failed us in the US cornovirus response
Coronavirus #9, memes, bat rabies, Trump lies about test availability and suggests people do not need to test anyway though his staff is tested regularly
Dr Howard McKinney takes us on a detour away from all this viral news with a look at poisons, a look at alarming US death rates, GB&U
Coronavirus show #8, Live & Let Die?, 159 cases to 160,000 in 63 days, virus now tops Vietnam, Korea, Afghan and Iraq ears in deaths, Fauci & Brix getting sidelined, Pence predicts Memorial Day as time to re-open county, thoughts on that and horrid video claiming everything we are doing is wrong, fact checking the BS ,
Plandemic bogus film, hydroxychloroquine wishful thinking, solid Economist look at coronavirus and rumors on research
Chat with someone in an essential business William Stoermer hardware store owner-operator weighs in on his experiences
Coronavirus #7, the Veep disdains mask at Mayo Clinic despite rules, insufficient US viral response, a look back at Louis Pasteur and his pioneering work on viruses & vaccines
Dr Shawn Killam on getting stuck in Grenada during viral ourbreak and slipping back into USA
Coronavirus show #6, seeking good news, hoping for a plateau, calls for test & trace, how much of seeming peaking is from isolation?, Trump rage at governors, right leaning wire-pullers promoting protests
Housing industry ad, Delta tunnel scam continues - plan labelled impractical by state engineers, Brad Parscale hijacks FB to get Trump elected, internet visionaries on virus
Coronavirus show #5, cockwomble, Trump blames media for downplaying virus, GB&U centered alleged broken test of virus, prediction that Trump will shift blame for his failures, his wacky press conference and its epic lies and claim of total authority
James Brown PSA, Trump false statement check (January to March) plus denials of what he said, ousting of watchdogs, de-funding the WHO, holding Trump accountable for mishandling the pandemic, ventilator follies,
Corona virus #4, still chasing rate of asymtomatic to ill - is it 30% of the number ill?, vaccine speculations, number of deaths being underestimated, earlier cases being uncovered, CA flattening curve with 1/3 expected cases, do not flush paper towels or wipes
Therapy with serum?, what is the ratio of symptomatic to sick?, was China worse than reported (but lied)?, why does one person vs another get sick or not?, how important is inoculation size?
Special Cornovirus show #3. Looking ahead to disaster without quite enough data. CA slowing rate. Advice to plan to sequester for months. Guardian article. Fauci predicts 100-200K deaths, Trump calls that a "save" of millions.
Smell the roses; thermal guns, Trump, but still wrong, quotes fro The Hot Zone, a look at supermarkets, discovery of microbes
Bay Area "shelter in place" begins, a survey of current developments, a look at the numbers and the strategies
More data and our attempt to make sense of it, federal missteps - how NOT to manage a crisis, some "expert" advice, alleged helpful managements, ,
More on Jack Welch, talk on viruses & re-actions evolving and attempts to sort the data, nasty plastics
Pandemic update, political update in primary season , GB&U, Super Tuesday, FB and Brad Parscale elected Trump (?)
CA Voter Foundation, Trump dropping the ball on coronavirus, we take a whack at the epidemic, believing in nonsense, Interview with Wen Zhao dissident video blogger including some independent reports on virus
Early election reports, Obits: Freeman Dyson, Jack Welch, discussion of some basic virology, viral stowaways inside us, Demo race narrows
Lighter fair to start, Betelguese in recovery, Atherton, Bay Area deterioration, interview with fisheries and ecologic gadfly Dan Bacher
Obit: Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, fleshing out the specter of Mark Levin, NYT article on Trump losing more money than any other American for a decade, dirty political business surounding Jack Ryan, GB&U, light items to end
National Brotherhood Week - long version tale, Trumpism - Politico article on his MO - Sam Nunberg & Mark Levin & Trump
George Conway bit, DOJ intervention in R Stone case, Curb Your Enthusiasm & hi-def TV, Superbowl chit-chat, Obit: Fred Cox of the nerf football, rape allegation on Trump
Obits: Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio, Daniel Arap Moi of Kenya, hacking & spying & wiki vs voting tech snafu
Interview with Buddy Levy about his book Labrynth of Ice about the Greely Polar Expedition
Betelguese follies, sports follies, Charles Webb - oddball tale, Mike Wallace docu, Boehner on Trump, GOP vote suppression, GB&U, Russian oligarchs
Update on David Talbot, impeachment cranks up, non-PC Apu, Musk is nuts on Mars, Abe Shinzo?, interview with Greg Bell host of Sirius XM Classic Radio programming
Bethlehem moved by Jeopardy to Israel, a Batman villain - are you serious?, Obit - Buck Henry, browning onions, Khosla - fighting San Mateo communism?, limiting war powers, Harvard law prof turns "teacher"
arguing with China, Shen Yun and Falun Gong, Roger MacNamee irks Silicon Valley, on-line Peter Lord video and response of tech analyst Donald Rose ; Good, Bad and Ugly
Ian Frazier: Coyote vs Acme Company, satellite light pollution, Betelguese, interview with Dr Andy Jones host of Dr Andys Poetry and Technology on KDVS now in its 20th year talks up the misuse of the apostrophe, and the late Harold Bloom
Peter Dale Scott points out Jamal Khasoggi ambiguities, what the hell is crisco?, Trump tries out assassination and likes it, re-cycling your soiled paper in the green bin, also bones; compost as a solution to carbon emissions, bring back deposit bottles, Keith Richards memories
The roaring 20s AGAIN, trouble in the stars, trouble in Vanuatu, trouble in climate summits, story of the ukulele and Hawaiin music and our first live, in-studio music; the National Football League at 100
Look at American sports via 1975 Interview with Roone Arledge; Obit: Paul Voelker, still more CA water machinations, thermography
GB&U; impeachent follies; blocking your view; fighting Chineses censorship, F/U on Breshnev assassination, Saudi verdict on Khassogi (not pre-meditated!); stadium madness attempt,
White Christmas, the best selling song ever; the Saturnalia, hanukkah, fine anecdote about the Christmas Song
Tech gone rogue: Kara Swisher article on how Silicon Valley revealed how safe internet is not possible; spyware helped Saudis murder while others track dissidents; we are the battlefield in the cyber wars; is there life on Mars?;
The official foot, Trump impeached, Trumps Jewish gymnastics, the Afghanistan papers & the trillion dollar rathole, GB&U, the cultural imperialism of black friday
Cannonball running, Burt Reynolds, astronomy, the underwear soil test; suspending Tim Ryan; SNL not-funny despite phony laughs, sad stats
GB&U; fire festival fiasco, health quackery; Obit: Jonathan Miller; fact checking; counter-productive quantifying of scientists;
Star Wars installment 9 and its ill-fated Xmas special; sunsets coming later; space x wants satellites - more than stars?; look back at Apollo 12; Obit: Gahan Wilson
Peter Segal on vice; hi-tech culling of cats; Trump and perjury; selling our shopping; Saudi news; fruit stand story
Will Durst suffers stroke, memes, hearings on the impeachable Trumps, GB&U, Assange update, astro update, football betting oddity, fruit stand anecdote
Roger Stone goes down; betting sports; Silicon Valley blood boys in real life; Trump looted his charity; report on how China has made payments automatic from travel agent Stan Godwyn
Critics of Parallax; Peoples Almanac on unfavorable reviews of great art; sour view on San Jose banning natural gas heating - supposedly to make energy generation greener; oddball items; story of Mormons in Mexico; OK Boomer diss;
Obits: Robert Evans, Vladimir Bukovski; protesting governments - there and here; the book by anonymous, Trumps tax dodges, and requests of other intel agencies to counter US intel incriminating him
Mercury transit, Neil Young stymied in US citizenship efforts, Brentwood stops developer, population growth slowing?, Andrew Marantz on social media manipulations on Fresh Air, GB&U, weirdly warm fall weather
Subcontacting murder ad infinitim; Thai concubine; star link to orbit 40,000 satellites?; busting mutton busting; Obit: Scotty Bowers;
Talk radio fact checking; planet 9 a primordial black hole?; burger wrapper PFASs in your bloodstream; Clinton e-mail investigation ends; hi tech issues; scandal in Nigeria
Monster Mash in the Rock and Roll Hall, Obit of Harold Bloom, halting eco shame, auto brewerly snydrome, racist Sponge Bob, final Silicon Valley season, scary Amazon
Obit: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov; Mercury transit; trilobite update; pirarucu news, the not-fake emoluments clause; the mess in Syria; China bludgeons Hong Kong;
Fatally dosing on vitamins, and maybe social media; Trump web-meister now running campaign - to repeat 2016?; Anonmous author has book coming soon, but another whistleblower is the one gaining traction
James Brown PSA; James DiEugenio investigative journalist talks about the mysterious David Ferrie in the JFK assassination case
Obits: Dr Robert McClelland, Dr Wang Shu Ping, Ginger Baker; GB&U, trouble in Iraq, Saudi Trump spending trumps murdering actions, Russian unit 29155 misbehavior
Trip to Dark Skies Festival in Great Basin National park; book promotion: Pride & Prejudice; An American Way of Death, Stiff; oh yeah - Trump opens impeachment inquiry; other bad politicians; GB&U; college admissions scandal claims a Hollywood actress, but not old money elite
Pretending to navigate the homeless, and using this ploy to bypass environmental regs on SF Bay; Clean Water Act at risk; Sierra Club selling out on water scamming?; questionable Kern Water bank privatization
Steven Kinzer book on mind control; Stanley Gottlieb - the Dr Mengele of MK-Ultra; Obits: David Koch, Lee Iacocca, Rip Torn; manipulating public opinion - slanted to those with the big bucks example: puff piece on how jobs losses from robots and Ai and automation will cause no problems
A second interstellar visitor, Niles Canyon hike & bike, GB&U, you cannot recycle garbage; bring back deposit bottles by passing bottle bills, and use glass vs plasic, fast food crows & cholesterol
Olympic cheats; year zero; art follies; castorium alert; GB&U, Trump gets into the weather; Brazil bottoms; seemed like a good idea; the real zodiac
Enjoying nature vs phone separation anxiety; tour of old town of Alvarado in East Bay and its surprises; hacking Twitter via sim-swapping; is privacy gone?
Kakapoo on rebound?, most food expiration dates are just PR, homeopathy is a fraud, Obit: Liane Russell, dubious hi tech
Great quotes, Calvin Trillin bit from New Yorker, GB&U backlog, Obits - that rascal Robert Mugabe, that mensch Bob Fletcher, Trump tarifs impact Bible production - from China
Tribute Program for France Senecal Kassing; France interviews Chalmers Johnson for KDVS
A look at ancient Rome; interview with Professor Barry Strauss , author of Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
GOP funding of Maryann Williamson; GB&U; gaming Google Maps; test of Google - they pass; monkeys join apes & man as tool user; croc teeth and snake ribs, insect apocalype, carbonation surprises
GB&U; tourism out of control in Venice and elsewhere; Hong Kong rebellion continues; Obit: Lee Ra Hee; Huawei under suspicion for Chinese spying as Silicon Valley sucks up to China; dance crazes
American gay president - in 1857?, American big pharma nonsense; lowering cholesterol with food vs incentivizing docs to Rx drugs; anti-cholinergic drugs & dementia
No-wash clothes, toothpaste via drone, high points of low tech, google gluttony, uber inanities, AI curveliance & ideo analytics, GB&U, a look back at Joe McCarthy, 3 anecdotes
A look back over the decades at what a personss high school Poli Sci teacher might say about developments, courtesy of a visit with my high school Poli Sci teacher Mark Mattingly
more early American politics; anti-slavery leads to the GOP and civil war; the banana party in Brazil; Bosco the dog mayor, GB&U; debating Dems
The Mystery of Expertise; census question not likely to help more vote - duh; government yawns at prospect of foreign intervention in 2020 election; Mitch McConnel lied about his actions to stop Garland SCOTUS nomination; heavyweight title to Mexican-American; Silicon Valley eyes Central Valley water
Gut bacteria may influence development of autism, close supernova may have affected earth, shyster lawyer gets some get back, slave ship Clotilda found - see prior show in Baracoon, NPR misses point on NORAD story, Gabbard only Dem taking a stand against Military Industry, forget the 10,000 steps
The extremely stable genius in action, and maybe in love; stats; US parrots; Mt Everest stupidity, a prime minister surgeon, shyster indicted, GB&U
Reignig-in robo calls; Roundup - bad Rx; false flag ops; student housing in the flight path; Obit: Herman Wouk; old articles; convice with values - facts will not work; Trump eco rollback - frontal assault on science
Australia hits reverse on climate change action; Murdoch empire bad news - for most of us; plutonium speculations; ignoring global warming in school; sunscreen toxicity; Denisovan jawboning
The smart speakers gets eyes, Obit: Doris Day, art replaces cocaine as a sign you have too much money, Gavin Newsom to cure homelessness via task force and help fish by removing water, Chinese Green Wall may be failing, energy costs
SF bans facial recognition; Fred Trump was also a jerk; visiting Santa Catalina; saving giraffes, GB&U; The Donlad lost more money than anyone else in recent history; GOP legislatures continue to limit voting and halt all abortions - despite Roe v. Wade
Economist notes Trump has committed impeachable offenses; do carbon dioxide levels impede your meetings?; Exxon predicted our present global warming level - in 1982 - but rather than change business model, launched PR campaign; US blocks artic nation cooperation vs climate change; longevity factors; valid anti-ageing Rx coming?; phone addiction and tech mischief; making AI accountable;
Sad stats; GB&U, gaslighting, follow-ups; immigrant woes; terrorist Kahanists; Obit: Charles Van Doren; Cohen before Congress; misconduct per Mueller
more of Cohen denunciations; more of Caro on LBJ; Newsom moratorium will not stymie trial of Golden State Killer; AI & tech issues; non-existant Google technical support
Briefing on the mighty hoax of Bigfoot; wikileaks and Russia; relatives of homo sapiens; one-way trips to Mars cancelled; new tech; fiber pollution; gravity waves
GB&U, Azores story that a lot of bull, recycling tips, bad news for journalism especially in America
Art ahead of life - Jack Ma trumps Silicon Valley while life imitates art in Ukraine; Trumps dirty pool; Obit: Andrew Marshall, Robert Caro on how LBJ got on 1960 ticket from The Passage of Power
viewing California wild flowers; animals are like us; lying robots; Alexa eavesdropping, driving asleep; digital baby footprint; robo calling; groundfish on rebound; Toobin on Mueller
black hole photo, speedy stars, interstellar visitor, our sun & family, GB&U, stats, video game addiction, state enhanced gambling addiction
Congrats to the SN&R on its 40th anniversary, bad ideas: cashless stores, drones; spectacular fossil find? - by a nobody
Restoring wildlife in South Bay; Khashoggi: Trump - golf cheater; GB&U; new atomic threat; college admissions scandals; Silicon Valley immortals
GB&U; vaccines still do not cause autism; social prescribing; smelling Parkinsons?; space junk; more on meteors, dinosaur killer fossils?; death of almanac
April No-Collusion Fools Days, Theranos fools, Silicon Valley forces a march away from remote work, the rent control non-answer, surveilance tech challenge to democracy
Mueller meanders and Barr bars, Bill Barr history of burying bodies, drafting women, new internet critics Tim Berners-Lee & Vint Cerf, EU vs big tech, felling forests for carbon credits
Obits - Dick Dale, Hal Blaine, Birch Bayh & Lyndon Laroche, Chinese chicanery and Zuck sucks up, international bad politician round-up, Silicon Valley immortals
GB&U, bird watching bozos, read the fine print, Boeing fails to fix engineering with software, the AI panacea, news about Hawaii, tiptoeing through the turnips
The egg, scholastic scandal, Gavin and the misuse of Eminent Domain, death penalty denial, Theranos documentary, bad robot bedside manner
The Periodic Table of the Elements, The Economist and New Scientist, we dispute everything above Americium
Happy birthday to The Periodic Table, Obit - Betty Ballantine, Jane Mayer on Fox Propaganda, Trans athletes, GB&U, Bob Costas is a stand-up guy, Newsom elevates his opinion over the law, snakes on a palm tree
Skiing news, actor fakes assault, Parallax finally stumbles onto fashion, GB&U, Nest Guard - listening in
Mort Sahl - an American institution, a first-hand report, restricting fines, fees and fortitures, organic food, low-cal fast food, Chinese sci-fi
Trump cheating, lying and hysterical non-emergencies, do-gooders complicate life for domestic caretakers, Jane Mayer - Dark Money
GB&U, Tim Wu at the Commonwealth Club (our new Guilded Age and the need for anti-trust and why we need to break up FB) old SN&R article on the Evils of Amazon, Obit for the Opportunity Mars rover
More Jerry Policoff on new Truth and Reconcilliation Committee and old story of media coverage
Newsom and tunnel vision, no Spanish in Montana, Interview with Jerry Pollicoff (senior editor OpEd News, expert on JFK & the media)
Minor planets and so much more, tech cororate crybabies, tax pipe dreams, putting more old folks in homes, gun control realities, Chinese crystal meth, do not flush fluchable wipes, Chinese birth hotels
Archival fun, deep political musings, GB&U, Trump all in on AI, roboburgers, AI avades drug patents, thumps up on Stan & Ollie
Super Bowl, archival items, quips, Maduro no go, GB&U, Psy-ops, border patrol tries to reverese engineer reality for benefit of Trump
Eco-tips, FB at 15, how much of internet is fake, The Secret War behind Amazon reviews, meteor strike on moon, its raining on Titan (sort of), mulling minor planes, cubewanos
Dark Money teaser, drone dummkopfs, GB&U, Oracle kneecaps workers, Newsom like Huntington housing, tech companies create housing crunch then demands others repair damage - Apple saturates market, drilling fof water on Mars
Roger Stone, more weasely then ever (ask Malcom Nance) Macedonian muddle, meandering California, Counter Spin backs Maduro, China feeds Drug War, Reefer Madness revived
Lunar eclipse, copepods and not kosher, David Talbot speaheads effort to re-open JFK case, recycling update, Trump messes up missiles
GB&U, avoid stealing Mexican gas, punting Trumps emoluments issue, Multilevel marketing scams, bad ides on drones, cashless economy, brain reading headbands, tidyness (disorderly does not mean disorganized)
Carol Channing, archival items, new rules, misc file, Bob Cutler, GB&U, Obit for Herb Kelleher
Help from The New Yorker, Anthony Bourdain and Mark Burnett (the man who invented Trump)
Charity vs greed, Dave Barry Year in Review, retro tech Woodstock, soil microbes, stopping global warming, fake robots, the complete meal
Thumbs up for Free Solo, Do not park in San Rafael, Thumbs up for Vice, FB spying on your phone, Bob Einstein, Mean Gene and Trump
PACE loan scams, Geo. Will slams ruling elite, Mr/Mrs Larry Page: owing your e & DNA data, rehabilitating fat and ties, image fakery, tech addiction
Death if RFK, FB futzing the Philippines, Tech in 68 (Englebart stunned the world), looking at 1918, GB&U, Cuban craziness, organic food
End 2018 musings, 50 year lookback, "Earthrise", Science controversies, math madness, selfie silliness, stadium scams
Tech: Robot Mexicans, robit hand, nanny spying, tracking your purchases, Chinese Middle Class, facial recogniton, more FB lies, the Bob Ross toaster
Astronomy near & far, GB&U, ionic airplanes?, ant spider, mono and MS, China and opiods
An interview with atrronomer Phil Plait , columnist for Syfy.com on about cool things we are learning about curious objects in deep space
Obits: radio host Ray Taliofero, magician Ricky Jay and the grand wimp of the GOP George H.W. Bush
A look at "Bohemian Rhapsody", Trump in denial of global warming & a Saudi murdering prince, our local smoky air, Alpha House
More from author Vince Palamara on the Scecret Service; oddballs in the SS, the fatal breakdown with JFK
A bit on Harvey Washington Wylie, Cold War espionage, food, Tom Jaego Obit, rogue planets; Good, Bad & Ugly, Alpha House, Jane Mayer, ballparks are a bad deal, William Goldman
US Secret Service expert Vince Palamara talks to us about remarkable instances of Presidentlial Protection
Oumuamua, A man who wants his body sent to deep space - we meet Graham Arthur MacKenzie , our sun can set off military mines (and do worse)
Hawaiian chronicles, travel tips: bath plug, compact flouresents, batteries; a quote from Bourdain relevant to xenophobia, election fallout, Trump ravings, Cruz survives, vote suppression and altertation continues, House goes blue, quotes from Dark Money
Double GB&U, voter supressor loses, Anthony Levandowski and the self-driving car follies
Caution on Economy, expert humor from Bruce McCall & Bertrand Russell, Kid Charlemagne leads us to Owlsley Stanley story then onto Silicon Valley, Shouts and Murmurs Social Media Guidelines, ignoring phone messages by millenials, texting 9/11 in San Mateo Co anyway, Smoot Hawley article from 2008 on how to make the economy worse
GB&U, Saudi prince a-murdering, Johnny Mathis segue from John Waters on Teri Gross, tech savvy people knew Russians were up to no good in 2016 a Jane Mayer article,
Trump and Kim bromance, Brent Kavanaugh sad saga, Elon and his cool rockets, the octopi & the ecstacy, gene editing to kill mosquitos,
Brent Kavanaugh faux investigation misleads public with mainstream media collusion, GB&U, motorcycle riders ageing, science topics, small body 2.5x the distance of Pluto but goes out to the Oort cloud and may affirm the hidden planet x, more plastic woes
Trump pens, Anthony Bourdain opinions, Serena Williams acting like an ass, Brent Kavanugh acting like an ass
Eagles vs Michael Jackson, stats, Afghan wishful thinking, miscellaneous, Wendell Wilkie
Time slips away, our favorite psychopath gets involved in a time travel film, New Yorker article on 1968 Presidential election recalls our talk with Senator Eugene McCarthy, autobio of Burt Reynolds on Betty Davis & Joan Crawford, and his Playboy interview, GB&U, lightening round
Bizarre Op-Ed assyres public that adults remain in charge of Executive Branch, dirty pool and nutty perspectives in SCOTUS politics, Milky Way has satellite galaxies, Smokey and the Bandit
Watergate-type follies with Manafort & Cohen, American judicial roulette, CA legislature designates state sport, plastic nanoparticles from 5 Asian nations
Lt Governor, Gavin Newsom on the way out, and a Tsakapolous daughter coming in?, Jerry Brown still trying to steal Delta waters, a joke, William Goldman quotes
Good, Bad & Ugly, Zimbabwe woes, Montenegro threatened, election tampering in the USA, has the internet failed us? Obit: Adrian Krounauer
Weird Science: bad Bosnian Archeology, Mars, exchange of genes, teaching happiness at Yale
How bad is The Donald?, he is, at least not headed to war, and why DO we have NATO?, wa not Ukraine, vitamins, PC mania
Mars; excerpts from our chats with Steve Squyers , Emily Ladwallah , more on the Earth terrain from mega waterfalls
Invitation to participate, Neum on the Adriatic thanks to recently deceased Lord Carrignton, planet Mars in sky along with planetary peers, and they again find water there, Tin Tin beat Apollo to the moon and found ice first, excerpt from prior chat with William Hartmann on subject of water on red planet, WA state scablands mimic of martian flows
Radio Parallax Oldies But Goodies, firecrackers for the 4th, an inventor of the rock fuzztone Glenn Snoddy passes, we strip mine Late Night Comic monologues,
Baracoon, the Last Black Cargo - a chat with Deborah Plant about the work of Zora Hurston to uncover the life story of a man taken into slavery in 1859
Travel to Morocco, Trump screws Morocco, Trump apes Machiavelli, Silicon Valley antics, Obit - Dick Tuck, muffed series on Jack Parsons
Kimberly Guilfoyle, George Dukemejian, Alan Bean, the mystery of Bright Nights, Marilyn Vos Savant on negtive vs positive lightening, the scary power of Big Data, tech utopianism fades, pro-Trump bots perverted 2016 election, DARPA monitors social networks
Addendum to Ton Wolfe obit, Current Events round up, GB&U, accuracy in reporting, hourly pay declines, the mystery of Treasure of the Sierra Madre author B. Traven
Birthday for Karl Marx, collusion vs conspiracy, 3,000 Trump lies, Marx as a founder of socialism and communism, Greg Palast on GOP anti-democratic efforts in US elections
200 years of "Frankenstein" and its modern version - Silicon Valley companies and their failure to reign in their perverse tech
Trump doctor admits his physical exam report was dictated to him by the Prez after which goons were sent in to remove his medical records, Obit: Chuck McCann, Michael Cohen under attack, the Golden State killer shows how our judicial system fails us, all the rapes are beyond the statute of limitations, though Bill Cosby has changed that for subsequent criminals
The Economists on not to trust economists, internet companies shirk taxes, students unable to use clocks, cursive abandoned, walking The Camino of Spain, the story of a goofy fad
Mark Evanier on the Stormy storm, Amazon droning on drones, whining/leaving Silicon Valley, Theranos fraud, GBU, fair inequality vs unfair equality
Solar system near collision, Kosovo clocks, near human organ?, MLK+50, Death of Stalin and Putin antics, questionable Syrian attack reports, international injustice
Death cleaning in the USA, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook wrongdoing and lies, banks taking down corporations in the rotten story of private equity firms and how the destroy jobs and commerce
Radio Parallax to take a break in weekly production, Trump fails to rebuff North Korean overtures, CIA ads, GBU, when not if the driverless cars, Bannon amok, Bolivia wants a coast; backlash against evils from Google and Facebook,
LA Times weighs in on controversy at Martins Beach, sad tale from The Atlantic on how corporations became people; H1B visas and Einstein visas, brief obit for Steven Hawking
dropping bowling balls on Japanese cars, is Trump demented?, Brit millenials flunk history, GBU, why is the Bible so badly written?, Henry the Navigator and religious battles
Brief Obit: Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, readers send us Borowitz, bad day on proxima centauri b, yet more tech stupidity; double dose of the good, the bad and the ugly; still more sex with The Donald, 120 million dollars to fight foreign meddling in US election goes unspent
Poliical correctness again; Author James DiEugenio talks more about the late Robert Parry
Preserving Baikal, militarism, history of Paul Manaford per article in The Atlantic, more sex scandal with The Donald, GBU, measles returns
New Scientist weighs in on Trump, clarifying opioids, crazy tech and terrible applications, trusting AI
GOP "fiscal restraint" borrows a trillion $, GBU, a trillion loose planets in one galaxy?, cutting edge science?,the dress that drove the slave trade
Brief Obit: Delores O Rearden, GBU, nuttiness with Greeks, Russians and doritos, who is Carter Page?, improving on "GDP", US oil is back
Sexual harrassment and criminal behavior vs gymnasts, Richard Spencer and demands for censorship, a look at free speech issues on campuses and across the country,
Brief current events, a chat with Quizmaster extraordinaire Dr Andy Jones about his new book Pub Quizzes, Trivia for Smart People, Dr Andy (always a listener favorite) tells how he finds questions with which to titillate contestants
Obituary: Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News, and an investigative journalist we long admired
Talk with Dr Rodger Orman , operator of a pain clinic, about the "opiod crisis" which has been so much in the news
Some trivia, Pasadena: its little old ladies, more talk stimuated by film, water woes around the world (and in California), real "fire birds" (an odd tale from Australia)
Brief Obit I: Hugh Masakela, Brief Obit II: Edwin Hawkins, Trump follies & the "OJ defense", bad male behavior reacted to
A look at the film The Post; including a review by former Post reporter Jefferson Morley, and some critical commentary on Ben Bradleee specifically by James DiEugenio
Daniel Ellsberg on the events seen in the film, the words of David Halberstam (The Powers That Be) on same, Finally Michael Trachtman and his summariy of the Pentagon Papers court case
A discussion of the new book by Daniel Ellsberg - The Doomsday Machine, GB&U, perfect coffee? PBS on Teddy Roosevelt
Vice Presidential musical talent, PC at NPR, a tale of witch hunts - the story of Rififi, KPFA woes, citizen journalists, food in orbit
Netflix send-up of Silicon Valley, subscription scams, Good, Bad & Ugly, sports musings, the Xmas tree, Russian humor, food follies
Yams are sweet potatos, the "interstellar asteroid" is not a spaceship, Interview with Jefferson Morley on The Ghost, a biography of James Angleton
Part II of Jefferson Morley The Ghost, The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
They finally oust Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe, HUD neglect, net neutrality, Bernie Sanders comments on The Paradise Papers, tech follies including Bitcoin and how your writing style identifies you
Curb Your Enthuiasm, Paradise Papers, battery breakthrough?, light pollution, juries - you get what you pay for,
The dangers of sugar per Dr Robert Lustig, YIMBY group ignores supply & demand, Florida real estate scams, fears of intelligent machines, slipping in to Jet Propulsion Lab a look back with Donald Rose
Fixing Voyager on the fly, 9-11 lawsuits, college vs semi-pro sports, quotes from new book on CIA master spy Angleton
Mugabe cashiered. YIMBY assholes followup. JFK: mock trial in Houston, Dallas conference. Visitor from interstellar space. Trump depresses the nation. How Silicon Valley hooks us: a caveat from The Guardian.
Report: author Franklin Foer at Stanford. Harpers Magazine stats. Bob Berman on Saros 136. E-commerce shipping woes. Bargain book bonus. Digital data detox.
The downside of high tech. JFK records retained. CO2 at 800,000 year high. Social media: its threat to democracy. Facebook & Google running amok.
Excerpts from World Without Mind by Franklin Foer. Computer scientist Donald Rose talks about Artificial Intelligence.
Obit: Fats Domino. Communism: alive and well in China. Chicoms: embracing AI technology. Dont Hassel The Hoff. Colombian coffee. Tech gone haywire.
Public double-cross -- again. Solar system invaded. JFK records release: the true numbers. 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union -- yawn. Che Guevara, 50 years on. Luther: 500 years on.
JFK records release scam. 225 years of the Old Farmers Almanac. The NFL and the First Amendment. Our usual fare.
UCI med school goes in for quackery. Obits: Jake LaMotta and Bobby Heaton. The Juice is loose. Also, David Lopez. Non-saluting the flag. Dementia test.
Vegas shooter: gambling creep. Obit: Arthur Janov, the Primal Scream guru. Scientific research of dubious value. Thomas Midgley: a one-man scientific disaster?
Cleanliness in Western society. Handwashing: a recent development. 60th anniversary of Sputnik. A look at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Santa Rosa burns up. RexTillerson thinks Trump is a moron? Robert Mugabe: still a jerk, but hanging on. Larry David returns to HBO. Gerrymandering. Google engulfs.
Interview with Martha Brockenbrough about her book, Alexander Hamilton - Revolutionary.
More on the late great Dick Gregory. Yet more corporate mergers. Science topics. Goodbye, Cassini a look at the missions accomplishments and findings.
Musings on Geography. Deep Politics. Can AI tell if youre gay? (good grief) Using DNA to tell what you look like. Thoughts on rain.
Our Australian correspondent, Pamela Taylor, joins us to talk Eclipse Tourism plus a look at Australian slang.
The American eclipse an eyewitness report, assisted by Pamela Taylor, our Australian correspondent.
Trumpian antics. Miscellaneous Parallax musings. Dangers from tech companies. Questions on antibiotics.
Political hitman Roger Stone - via a brief quote gathered for us in LA anyway. Can AI produce poetry? The new tech monopolies. Archival humor. Are planets 9 and 10 orbiting beyond Pluto??
Obits: Fred Kummerow (opponent of trans fats); bipolar baseballer Jim Piersall; Jack O'Neill (wizard of wet suits); Manuel Noriega; sinister media maven Roger Ailes; Zbigniew Brzezinski (author of the USSR's Afghan debacle); actor Roger Moore; Adam West (THE Batman).
Some introspection. Trump's hilarious cabinet. Our usual boilerplate. Indonesia's killer kretek cigarettes.
Summer of Love turns 50. Also from 1967: satanic lion in SF. The MMR shot. Ten peculiar laws.
Don Rickles obit. US entry into World War I centennial. Politically correct language (call-in from Dr. Chris Leslie of the Institute for Improved Language).
Serbian comedy candidate. Obama's red phone call to Putin. Marc Ambinder's bizarre Washington Post piece denying the Deep State.
Is Trump at war with the Deep State? Respected investigative journalists deny Russiagate.
Replumbing India. Daylight savings conspiracy. Wild turkeys in Davis. Goat yoga. Cyber security. Cold turkey on tech addiction.
Social media evils. Russian hacks. Taibbi quotes on Trump. Bacteria helping your health.
Water & Power: A California Heist (a Nat Geo special), interview with director Marina Zenovich and attorney Adam Keats.
Trump on the march... to doomsday? Obituary: David Lamb. Zealandia. Breeding fighting cattle.
Two plays in LA: Pacino in Tennessee Williams, Oscar Levant aided by Phil Proctor. Stories of the artists.
The usual top of the show. Is Trump crazy? Meteorite dust in your gutter? Paleo vegetarianism. The "smart" hairbrush.
Usual boilerplate. NSA secrets. CIA psychic astronauts. Taxpayer support of NFL. Testosterone oversold. Bacteria and B.O. Bison murder.
RP relocates to Bay Area. Crashing on a comet. Jerry Brown makes doctors jobs harder, and continues to plot his water theft. Dems ask FBI to investigate Russian hacks, Roger Stone, and Wikileaks.
Potpourri. Jonestown. Rose Pak. Sacto real estate corruption. San Francisco real estate corruption. Space explosions.
Clinton looking good? Blocking 9/11 Saudi lawsuits. For-profit college scamming. Calcium and dementia. Medical about-faces.
Proxima Centauri and its planet. Low tech backup. Screwball celestial objects past Neptune. What do humans taste like?
The ghost of Walter Winchell. What you sound like on radio. Opioid issues. Sexual identity.
Our attempt at a full show. Entertainment from the 12th century bullfighting. Elvis and Nixon. The Brits on the Iraq War. Discovery of lost films.
Democratic primary shenanigans. Brief obits worthy of future segments (Muhammad Ali, Mark Lane, Morley Safer). The usual Parallax fare.
Reprise of our chat with author Pope Brock about his book Charlatan, the story of Dr John Brinkley who made a fortune with a bogus cure for erectile dysfunction (and pioneering use of radio)
Real-life treater of ED Jason Sowell joins Dr Doug for a sort-of infomercial on Doctors Clinic for Men, where modern medicine can actually cure most men with this issue
Obituary of a Morton-Thiokol engineer who warned NASA that the shiuttle would blow up if they launched in cold weather.
Goodbye KDVS (its been a great 14 years), current events, reminder that we will continue at radioparallax.com
Dr Andy Jones weighs in a final time, James Israel talks about 25 years of The Humor Times - and their party next month
Celebrity poetry reading, not included: "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" but we end on it just the same
Interview with author Margaret Talbot about her book The Entertainer - Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century
Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society (and Planetary Radio) shares her knowledge of what we are learning about our neighbors in space
Author and activist David Talbot talks about his book The Devil's Chessboard; Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government. Part 1 our power elite
The Devil's Chessboard Part III: the JFK assassination and the CIA's links to it, Allen Dulles masterminds the Warren Commission cover-up
Wall Street discussion with Bob Dunham , science stuff, a Bob & Ray classic: The Slow Talkers of America
Reprise of oyr 2006 interview with Martin J. Smith about his book Oops 20 Life lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America
Science - those confusing gravitational waves, dark skies, Edgar Mitchell, kill ALL mosquitos?, Sirhan denied parole
The passing of Atonin Scalia - the Young Turks weigh in, then us; giving Trump some credit; Matt Taibbi at the Mondavi, tanking Libertarianism
Interview with John Lysack age 101, about his participation in the Berlin 1936 Olympics. NBC Sports airs a documentary on Feb 14th including footage of John..
Science topics: clever dogs, our bug roomates, convergent fossil insect evolution, plants putting up a stink, something odd is orbiting a distant star, Pluto vs Eris
Jerk genius Lowell Wood, dubious ideas - delivery drones, smart bullets, good ideas - tricking bacteria, evaluating web data
Current Events, Russia denies Litvinenko murder allegations, Chinese abductions, Wall Street jerks, criticism of Israel does not equal anti-semitism, OJ trial revisited for black history month?
Looking at "The Big Short" and "Drunk Brilliant Stoned Dead" the story of the National Lampoon, and Doug Kenney
Reprise of our talk with David Talbot about his book Devil Dog (On General Smedley Butler)
Re-airing of our talk with documenatarian Alexander Gibey regarding his 2004 film Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room
A conversation with St. John Hunt son of E. Howard Hunt, CIA agent, watergate burglar, and confessed JFK assassination conspirator
Lying, CIA fakers, what's wrong with this picture?, and what could you have eaten in the cretaceous era and still keep kosher?
Reprise of a chat with William Poundstone author of Big Secrets, Bigger Secrets and Biggest Secrets
Graham Smith talks up texbook exchanges, obits: the English language, Michael Gross of The National Lampoon
Graham's interview with Lester Lusher about the influence of shared ethicity in grading
Reprise of 2004 chat with Peter G. Peterson then head of the Council on Foreign Relations; a couple of his predictions of economic calamity came sadly true in subsequent years
Reprise: John Stauber Toxic Sludge is Good for You. Also sadly relevant ten years after our chat
Reprise: Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science. 2006 interview still relavant (sadly)
TV Obits: Martin Milner of Route 66, "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig; Donald Trump returns to scold us, plug for SN&R event on 09/16
Steve Alexander the guy who gave us the idea to start a radio show talks up numerous topics with us
Jeff vonKaenel of the Sacramento News and Review talks about the papers legal assault from the mayor and the fundraiser being held to support press freedom
Saudi misbehavior; Jeb lies about ISIS, Chafee nails Hilary, Tanzania's water woes imitate CAs, kudos to Margaret Hutchinson, also oral contraceptive pioneers
Jimmy Carter's efforts to explain Israel's Apartheid to America, baby boomer Doug is joined by millenial Graham Smith to chat up The Atlantic's piece on college politcal correctness
Stopping bobcat trapping, more BS from trophy hunters, Sy Hersh on Bin Laden's death; Saudis deny links to 9/11 attacks (and legal liability), US Muslim politics
Current Events, Obit: Robert Conquest, the man who told the unhappy truth about the USSR
A chat with SN&R reporter Cosmo Garvin who is stepping away from his great reporting (temporarily we hope)
Beach Boys "God Only Knows", Alameda County reaps Area woes (somebody tell Scott Walker), Trump conspiracy theories, Stooge museum, politicians want bad writing, Discover magazine debunks homeopathy
Normal top of show; you know quote, quip, joke, stat, anecdote & good news; the good, the bad, and the ugly
Hiroshima at 70, a look back, some comments on nukes and the remarkable work of Leo Szilard, the man who first envisioned the nuclear chain reaction; pro-nuke then anti-nuke
Obit: Omar Sharif, "life" on comet, Pluto mission update, Greek wenging, Mexico's own Houdini, Kevin Johnson's pals play the race card (we back the SN&R)
"Book report": Phllip Knightley's classic The First Casualty, Jeb Bush thinks you should work more, lazy ants
Science topics: hope for coral reefs, Dutch court fights carbon emissions, chronic fatigue - antibody related?, physics needs experiments, hybrid vigor in people, "junk" DNA is in the RNA business, sunshine is good for you
Will Durst on the confederate flag, Kevin Johnson's e-mail follies, mining aquifers, greenery = healthy, new vaccine bill, "apps" for STDs?, computer heroin
The modern/crazy attitudes on childen being "supervised"; "identifying" with a race or sex; Obits - singing impersonator Jim Bailey, actress Anita Ekberg, Jean Nidetch of Weight Watchers, inventor S. Donald Stookey, spy David Greenglass, Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk
More chat with Bob Dunham on things financial, Alan Abel Hoaxter extraordinaire, dumb quotes
Techonology gone stupid?, "click farms", good news items, Dick Cavett on "political correctness"
Our tribute to the fearless, fiesty (and recently departed) Vincent Buglosi with whom we spoke on two occasions. We admired him even if we sometimes did not agree with him (when we did, we really did)
Artist Laura Hohlwein talks about her exhibit currently at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis
A chat with Henry Vinson author of "Confessions of D.C. Madam", telling tales of running the largest gay escort service in the nation's capital and getting caught in a political crossfire
Political/media revisionism about the Iraq war. Rachel Maddow covered this SO WELL we air clips from her show. Rachel nails the lie about "faulty intelligence" being responsible for the still unfolding debacle in the Middle East
Obit: The Late Show with David Letterman; we chat with another TV weatherman who came west to California Gary Chew plus a few other observations about Dave, a comedy genius if there ever was one
Rick Anderson the GM of KZFR talks about the station which is celebrating 25 years of broadcasting next month
The newly discovered relationship to us of earth's 3rd type of life, chat with "Governor Brown"
California's specialty in political corruption - yet more water follies; a generation of youth that is computer (but not otherwise) savvy; nature is good for you (duh)
Obit: Pakistani activist Sabin Mahmud; medical skepticism; immune boosters - for real?; raising kids, Ivy Leage twit factories
Investigative journalist Joe Rubin returns to talk about issues he has gotten involved with
Obit: Jack Ely of Louie Louie fame, is fire the source of "entertainment"?, mammogram confusions, follies in CSI and "Citizens United", 1965 in music
Jeb Bush - "liberal"; almond/water math; The Economist weighs in on CA's water pricing stupidity, more on color vision; Sex - not a "drive" says nutty PhD
Current Events, Wall St imitates "Minority Report"; Attack Iran? - don't be a moron, 47 Republican dopes in US Senate
The Greeks: hopeless financial cheaters, excerpt from book "1493: leads to Doug's amecdote from Potosi, Bolivia; "chemosynthesis - its not just at deep sea vents, its everywhere; still more onbacterial ingenuity
Investigative reporter Joe Rubin talks about Sacramento's water meter scandal (which he uncovered) and efforts to make city governent e-mails vanish
Current Events; Chowchilla kidnapper parole, appropriately negative reviews of Psychiatry: the Untold Story, Saudi misbehavior, Moliere in Berkeley book
Mini Obit: the great Stan Freberg, a discussion of some trenchant articles about Jerry Brown's fiddling while Rome burns (telling the citiizens WE are the water problem, not the users who squander 80% of the state's H20)
Touting coke as a "snack", eclipses mess up solar power generation, DJ "Presto Pancakes" chats up KDVS's musical programming
James Israel talks about the 24th anniversary issue of the Humor Times, Science: English does poorly with smells, new wrinkle in evolution (mutations might come AFTER a change in environment; transgenetics is a nautural process! (including human biology); go ahead and use q-tips in your ears
Current Events; college sports & gambling, a sad connection, Will Durst tees off on Ted Cruz
Current Events, 6 activities you can do; intelligence gathering - lousy vs terrorists, great vs you & me
Partial Obit: Danny Schechter, political knuckleheads with specifics on knuckleheadedness
Davis's Poet Laureate and our favorite professor of English Dr Andy Jones, of KDVS's Poetry & Technology Hour, returns and again tries to lead Doug to erudition by example
More on Lucifer..... quips, the "Devil's Advocate", Beelzebub's history in literature, "satanism", the seven deadly sins, and a hell of a lot more
Leonard Nimoy & Star Trek, UC auctions off spots to non-residents for money, Mohammed vs Larry documentary, Selma plus 50 years
Current Events, Lake Nicaragua under Chinese threatm McDonalds moves away from rBSH induced milk (yay)
Yet MORE CA water nonsense (why "conservation" is a scam), N. Miller - STILL a jerk but Cosmo Garvin is still on the ball, tales of prescription drug chicanery: colchicne and the bendectine story - both headed for happy endings
Interview with historian Joan Mellen about the back story of George DeMohrinschildt (who Bill O'Reilley did NOT hear the fatal gunshot of...)
$ transfer to cities to millionaires (how arenas work), zebra stripes, the weird clouds seen on Mars, sad fruit flies are bar flies (kinda like people)
Current Events, gut bacteria - obseity link, giving politicians more ability to thwart democracy
Investigative journalist Jim DiEugenio talkes about the supposed North Korean "hack" of Sony and Citizen Four's Oscar (Edward Snowden)
Legendary KDVS PA host France Kassing talks more on Ed Martin, Bill O'Reilley caught lying about key JFK assassination figure
Interview with Astronomy magazine editor Richard Talcott abouth their 500th issue (with 500 cool facts)
Obit: Lesley Gore, CA (still) running out of water - thanks real estate developers; updates: MSG, Straus-Kahn and government spying (this time to "stop cyber attacks")
potpourri of dubious ideas: implantable stimulators of vagus nerve, waste well injecton into protected acquifers, helping porn stars into radio, geo-engineering, cheaper oil
Obama's "outrageous remarks on christian terrorism", Obit: David Landau, a look at spending $1 trillion on more American nukes
Chris Rock hates PC people, Oz hates science (GOP too), biking in snow, Farenheit is OK, tit culture - the BIRD we mean!
Chat with the founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook series Tony Wheeler, a man who influenced how a generation (or two) of people move about the world
Chat on permeable concrete (& more) w/ Bernadette Balics of Davis's Ecological Landscape Design
What goes into a corn dog; does milk do a body good, really?; penis evolution in lizards (no not the lounge kind)
Free speech, Econ stuff , Eco stuff, Oscar race "controversy", American Sniper controversy and propaganda
Report from NYC snowstorm from ex-KDVS GM Steven Valentino, surprise call from Michio Kaku
Our tribute to (with clips of) KDVS legend Ed Martin including words from those who worked with him here at the station
Astrophysics lite - some curious factoids about stars & planets (especially ours) including calendar matters, an alligator tale from Van Nuys
Monsanto machinations, GMO woes, more on antibiotics, still more California water bullshit: alfalfa really does use 20% of our water (it's kept cheap by subsidy) as water wells are draining our (un-monitored) state aquifers
pervious concrete/asphalt - an idea whose time has come, lame 2014 predictions, Marie Tharp seafloor geologist scorned, but vindicated in the end (like Alfred Wegner)
Dave Barry's year in review (excerpts), Obit Stu Miller, CIA admits THEY were many 1950s UFO stories, ALERT: alfalfa uses 20% of California's water & generates 0.1% of state's revenue!
Talk with Mat Kaplan host of Planetary Radio (heard on both KDVS and KUCI at UC Irvine) and Graham Smith host of KDVS's Academy of Whatever
Talk with local NPR host and life coach Donna Apidone about her book Trans For Mission, an outline of how one can change one's life
Neil Ruud former KDVS GM and current activist educates us about the UC tuition controversy, including many facts not well-covered in the mainstream press, the first of several such reviews
Science topics: E cigs, China's wall of trees, beavers in action, comet water, and is Sylvester Stallone Jewish? we go to the source for answers
Chats with more fellow KDVS PA hosts Sam Ribakoff (Ibbur) and Matthew Maxcey (Policy over Politics)
Interview with Professor Devin Brown about his book Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century
The History of KDVS. A chat with former DJ and current CSUS Professor of Anthropology Jerry Drawhorn
More talk with PA hosts, Adam tells us about "Story Time with Tummybumpr" (which is about how to be a music producer), and former co-host of Speaking in Tongues Ron Glick sounds off about who really did in JFK
Interview with Conrad's Corner host Conrad Wilton, surprise chat with "Governor Jerry Brown"
Some thought on Ferguson and our murder epidemic from black-on-black violence, bio/med items - circumcision is not just OK, it may be good, how vultures can eat what they eat
Current Events, follow-ups: fusion power, taxing smokes, the Sac water meter scandal - damage control
More yucks: George Carlin's 'Modern Man', Stan Freberg's 'Bannana Boat Song', Nat Lamp Radio Hour's 'Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer' (Doug's fave), still more Tom Lehrer: 'National Brotherhood Week'
Classic Comedy for the Holidays; a Rodney Dangerfield riff, Abbot & Costello's 'Who's on First', Monty Python's 'Argument Clinic', Nat Lampoon Radio Hour 'The Immigrants', Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', Symphonic Rolling Stones
The JFK mystery. Recorded remarks from activist attorney William Simpich about some legal aspects of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, as in was he framed?
Current Events, more on water woes, some good news on global warming and offshore (believe it or not) oil rigs
A potpourri of topics related to money, and its relation to avarice, politics and madness.
Carissa Carpenter indicted, Obit: Joan Quigley astrologer to Nancy & Ronald Reagan, Bill Maher's nonsense about Islam being evil
Current Events, opps it wasn't the Higgs Boson, bad medical advice from the early 1900s
Interview with Dr James Fallon about his book The Psychopath Inside - A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. Part 1 - Remarkable brain scans
Current Events, new old news: Japan - 50 years of high speed trains vs USA -0, Nazis used by CIA & FBI, low back pain and sex
Pre-election unamused musings, more water politics, voting NO on 46 despite Ralph Nader's ravings and NO on the Sacto mayoral power grab to help developers get their way even easier than they do now
Hoaxathon: Obit of Gerald LaRue hoaxer of "Noah's Ark" fragment, and Re-run of our look at Orson Welles' War of the Worlds epic 1938 radio hoax
Collection of all Vladimir Zeravica visits to Radio Parallax - 1) Wright Brothers, 2) Cargo hauling
James DiEugenio talks with us about his review of Kill the Messenger currently on Consortiumnews.com, and a review sent to us by Richard Estes host of KDVS's Speaking in Tongues
Interview with Vladimir Zeravica about adventures in flying cargo (previously unheard on KDVS), talk with Vlado's friend Michael O'Connell about how our mutual friend lauched Michael's career in comedy.
Current Events, FBI wants the option of breaking in to your cell phone, CIA notes that arming rebels usually fails to produce good results (duh)
Dr Gary Aguilar talks about Kill the Messenger, including his discussions with Webb when the NY Times, Washington Post and LA Times turned on the Dark Alliance revelations
Current comments from Robert Parry (Consortiumnews.com) and Ryan Deveraux (The Intercept) Obit: Fred Braunfman, the man who blew the whistle on the secret bombing of Laos
Re-Airing of excerpts of our talk with DEA agent Michael Levine and investigative journalist Robert Parry about Gary Webb's story (from our 2004 tribute).
Gary Webb Tribute II, Current Events, Melinda Welsh's SN&R piece on her former colleague as Kill the Messenger comes to theaters
Current Events, the AARC conference in DC last weekend, Jefferson Morley of JFKfacts.com's call to action; more recent Secret Service mishaps,
Interview with Josiah Thompson about his groundbreaking JFK research on the Zapruder film, the acoustics evidence and grassy knoll assassin witness S.M. Holland
Local talk by Ray McGovern of the CIA, and his subsequent chat with our pal Jeanie Keltner on KVMR, Obits: Polly Bergen, Richard Kiel, Dr Guinter Kahn
Potpourri of follies: big bang left over radiation? (no, dust); tertiary water treatment for Sacramento (so the water LA steals will taste better?), running America's health care via insurance companies (iffy idea) and palaverous writings like "Greece, bulwark of Western civilization"
Current Events, radioactive boars, hearing: your L & R ears differ, Will Durst on i-phone hype
Mathematicians helping spy agencies - an ethical dilemma, bad behavior from cell phone usage, what makes a person happy?
The Senate's sweet tooth, a look at Sen Thomas Kuchel, thoughts on Ferguson and police power, The Economist's look at the sex industry
Follow ups: the TSA groper gets a pass, crying for Argentina, local boosters boost boosterism for the Bee, the water bond, our Australian correspondent Pamela Taylor returns
Obits: Don Pardo, more on Lauren Bacall & Robin Williams, the new James Brown bio pic (we like it), celebrity misbehavior
40 years post Nixon's resignation, a look at the F-35 $400 billion fiasco, a review of The Rule of Nobody review, several looks at trees (sure, trees, why not?)
Obits: Lauren Bacall / Robin Williams, the supermoon(s) of summer, more on alleged alpha centauri planet
Interview with Edward Haslam about his research into an unsolved murder mystery of 50 years ago and his book Dr Mary's Monkey
More with Ed Haslam about a secret Laboratory in New Orleans in the early 60s, a polio vaccine-cancer connection & figures in the JFK assassination
Goods news: breadfruit, ferns might sequester carbon, Cane toads not SO bad, the criminalization of parenthood, Will Durst bags on GOP obstructionists
Close calls: the 2012 coronal mass ejection, sliding ice sheets, the Natomas flood risk, "tax inversions", the militarization of our police, Jay Barbree in Astronomy Magazine and Planetary Radio (after us), Billy Joel honored
Mind bending science stories: plants really can hear, odors can affect skin healing, more strange bugs in the ocean depths, and a wearable submarine
Interview: NASA reporter Jay Barbree about his fine book - Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
The Root of Happiness (a Kava Bar) opens to Davis, we chat with the guys making it happen - Tyler Blythe
Obituaries - Tony Guinn (chewing tobacco) Chester Nez (last of the Navaho code talkers) and Felix Dennis (flamboyant publisher of The week)
Health & science; sun addicts (mice & men); psychology & gambling; cigaret butts, tylenol, human DNA surprises
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; communication guide for men; Obama tries to help college grads; a look at America's tuition spiral
Good news medley: Jersey Boys gets Eastwooded to the big screen, Aral Sea hopes, wild CA condors in San Mateo county, big dinosaurs (and great dinosaur bumper music to end)
GOP anti-war maverick and former Congressman Pete McCloskey talks about his fights in the American political scene from the 1960s to the present
Further political discussions with the legendary Pete McCloskey who challenged President Richard Nixon (and Nixon's secret wars in Southeast Asia)
Math woes at Common Core, Health news: head rolls at VA, state marijuana strategies to be honored by feds?, the crass 9/11 Museum
Grim politics (as usual) especially the knucklehead local version, and a few cool science stories like finding our sun's stellar brothers
German words we don't have in English, technology - good and bad, "the right to be forgotten", Asimov unfriendly robots, why R2D2 was cool, virtual reality for chickens?
Medical stuff; the asymptomatic flu, cloning for diabetes, dark chocolate as health food, Juan Valdez and the worlds most popular drug - caffeine, Elizabeth Orpina Aggie Editor-in-Chief updates the story on how fixing the paper got sandbagged
The luckiest archeologic find in history, Glen Greenwald's defense (and aiding of) Edward Snowden, how bacteria communicate (a prelude), some favorites from David Letterman's Top Ten lists.
Miscellaneous topics: college athletes can unionize, Obama loses young people but keeps comedy skills, ice sheet melting, Pentagon woes, the Bush economic collapse
Current Events, Iraq - the ongoing disaster, urine in pool water - the alleged health hazard
Obit: James Tague the third man wounded on 11-22-63, the booming Chinese tourist industry, Lonely Planet guide books - works in transistion.
Interview: Sam Kean author of The Tale of the Dueling Nuerosurgeons; the History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness and Recovery
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, happy 25th anniversary to the SN&R, happy 100th birthday to the Hershsprung-Russel Diagram, some more on The Denisovans
Voyager 1 has for sure left our solar system (they think... probably anyway) the definitive answer (maybe), Hollywood correspondent David Rosenbloom explains his novel approach to marketing Shakespeare's plays
The Sacramento City Council sells out (not again?): a chat with Doug's neighbor Sidney Norris about the McVillage travesty, we award a Horses Ass of the Year Award for crap reporting and let Will Durst sound off about neighborhoods (not ours)
Current Events, computers & cars - a marriage made in purgatory, the gap between student wages and educational costs gets Grand Canyonesque.
Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals
Interview: Ellen Cochrane on East Sac's issues, in particular the controversial development threatening a decent neighborhood, which happens to be the host's
Miscellaneous File: overuse of surgery, mammogram problems, the slothful FDA & its disgraceful inaction on antibiotic "growth factor" use and new sunscreens
Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes
Thomas Goetz, author of The Remedy Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, a tale of microbes and men
Chloe Lessard current Public Affairs host (and PA director as KDVS) on her show & new shows, KDVS radio host Dr. Andy Jones talks about his new book based upon his son: Where's Jukie?
Cuckoo bird biology and cuckoo bird local politics: Sacramento Marina fails to apologize for being jerks, and they now want your business, No "YIMBY" with Sutter Memorial project. The misadventures of State Sen Leland Yee, why the Chinese hate their doctors (its corruption, again).
Obit: Wm Pogue Part 2 with quotes from "How Do You Go To the Bathroom in Space?" also "Bunny" Mellon, amusing Sam McManus piece in Bee on watching a TV show being taped
Current Events, new discovery of remarkable object at edge of solar system: 2012VP113 aka "Biden"
Obits: William Pogue (part 1); more from our favorite cartoonist Eric Decetis (how to not get ripped off as an artist); is Yelp using extortion?
Current Events, Cosmos riles creationists & other cave dwellers, some good news about Fukushima contamination
More good news: Japanese nukes, retiring bad farmland, suburbs with farms added; congrats to the Sac Bee; a look a military wastage old & new, Dwight Eisenhower and your host a psychological comparison
Obit: Joe McGinnis, Glen Beck (in a moment of clarity) admits he's a horse's ass, the EHR "fix" of american medicine, a visit to Jack London State Park
Drug doubts; voting, does it matter? Interview with Dr. Vladimir Dinets about his curious research on animals.
Obit: Bob Casale of DEVO (and one-time interviewee for KDViations), Tennant Bagley - CIA agent & disinformationalist? Jerry Brown takes advice from Bibi Netanyahu, North Koreans (unlike Sacramentans) get to vote, more "supplement" bad news, Mexico kills drug lord - for the 2nd time
Current Events, the discovery of Uranus, as told to us previously by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and BTW its pronounced YURR-a-nus)
A brief look (and obit) re: cartoonist Morrie Turner, a chat with our favorite local cartoonist Eric Decetis, more on Harold Ramis including our favorite clip of his: excerpt of "Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer" (first aired on KDVS in 1977 via The National Lampoon Radio Hour). Ramis played Shriner.
Politics in Olympic judging: chat with UCD professor of Political Science John Stone, a look at Phllip Seymour Hoffman and heroin
The Future of News essay (on the need for context), a clip from Daniel Schorr on that same topic, sports cheating - with xenon!, nicotine - a possibly useful drug even if tobacco is still poison
Science: Fusion progress? Polar bear politics, The great Sugar controversy, testosterone - we told ya so
Current Events, stupidity and the law: multiple examples including one from Will Durst - marijuana's continued illegality
(late) Good, Bad, & Ugly, Argentina's woes per The Economist, and Cuba's progress, Mazatlan - a qualified endorsement after a trip down Mexico way
Chat with Elizabeth Orpina Aggie Editor-in-Chief over ASUCD vote, Obama a wuss - on pot too, Arena weasels at it again, Chuck Yeagar in court, The Ouija Board
Obits: the strange tale of Hiro Onoda, Bill Wagman of the Sat Morn Folk Show continues our chat on Pete Seegar
Essays: on "the process" of housing developments, CA water misuse, the hero of the Dreyfus Affair - Georges Picquart
Good Bad & Ugly, Chinese Rover woes, more Mantis shrimp data, Doug's Dominican Republic visit: whales and hard motoring, Chris Christie "news"
A mantis shrimp follow up (we know you've been waiting), A look at the Surgeon General's report 50 years on, and a look at the statistician who somehow failed to notice the dangers of smoking cigarets
Current Events, stopping cars by shutting down the electronics - from afar, exercise - good, vitamins - unclear benefits
Obit: Phil Everly, Science topics: exo-plants are not like the neighborhood, more on good germs, snowflakes don't look like we've been led to believe they look
Will Durst gripes about computer passwords; our fossil ancestors: both human & fish, newly-discovered miracle anti-biotics (fresh air and sunlight!)
2013 Obits: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ruth Patrick, Martin Sharp, Tom Laughlin, Harold Camping, Paul Crouch, Al Goldstein, Joan Fontaine and the legendary Peter O'Toole
Current Events; comet to crash on Mars? the Curiosity rover keeps roving, demented drone delivery proposals - a future debacle?
More on Nelson Mandela, a look back at the controversy over Davis's 1978 Measure A (on divestment) & the verdict (decades later) that it helped (notwithstanding our misgivings about boycotts, and occasional breaking of them deliberately e.g. Cuba)
NSA called out by Federal judge, Director of Central Intelligence caught lying (shock!), SF Bay restoration, fresh water under the sea floor, dino extinction clarified
A report from Disneyland, some follow-up on Soviet sub chasing, our interview with the great Norman Corwin makes it onto his official web site.
NSA follies: new laws needed, Snowden's cat & mouse, snooping in our mailboxes; developers to cut down old trees in West Sac
Current Events, reviving the Dea Sea, you know your denounced when its done by the North Korean News Agency; Will Durst on the NSA's snooping on gamers
More of the Mandela story: not a saint (perhaps) but a genuine hero - to a world that could use more of them
Our obituary and tribute to the late-great Nelson Mandela, the man who kept South Africa away from disaster as white rule was changed
Current Events, for-profit college rip offs continue, is UC awarding slots to more foreign students out of budget concerns (since they pay a lot more tuition?)
Twin spy writer obits: William Stevenson (non-fiction) and Tom Clancy (fiction); a chat with local business writer Roger S. Peterson about his special to the Bee on why the Warren Report is not credible
SN&R's Nick Miller gets duped by a developer-paid-for Environmental Impact Report, Dennis McEwan former respected biologist tells a ridiculous tale about the Twin Tunnels water grab (and the Bee published it!)
Sac Bee blows the call on "McVillage" development, we salute their Tom Knudson for his award on "Wildlife Service" exposes, Sac Bee then bloviates on JFK; a chat w/ plumber Ivo Kovacevich on how "flushable wipes" might, correction: probably will, clog your toilets
Thanksgiving clarifications & humor; the "Newseum" sells out to Paramount's "Anchorman"; Elk Grove - tourist Mecca? planet earth's newly discovered most common biologic entities!
Continued solving of the puzzle, or trying to anyway, in part 2 (with more role reversal)
We opine on the puzzle of what happened to JFK part 1 (Steve Alexander becomes the questioner and the host tries to answer the big questions)
Interview with author/reporter Jefferson Morley about his fine book "Our Man in Mexico, Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA"
Will Durst on lame Obamacare rollout, no amnesty for Edward Snowden, What is a hybrid eclipse?
Obit: Lou Reed, some comments (from William Goldman's writings) about the movies, and mention of some bad ones
Jim DiEugenio on JFK's foreign policy and the enemies it made, hair raising tales from The Economist on how science is not checking its work and possibly producing bogus studies (yikes!)
Obits: Bum Phllips, Hal Needham; Halloween Special - Our semi-annual look at the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" ( reprise)
Current Events, Special show: A look at Dr Cyril Wecht's 2013 Duquesne University JFK conference
Doug's summary of five decades of back & forth in the battle for public opinion in the JFK assassination
Climate change denial in Australia; capital follies - Nick Miller weighs in, so do Op Ed goofs; UCD's Dr Garen Wintemute in New Scientist magazine; fat Mexicans; testosterone mania
Obit: Scott Carpenter; also, nature's iron teeth; one old albatross, interviews with Dr Opfell & two governors (sort of).
A canal thru Nicaragua? Cannabis as a California water issue; Obituary: General Vo Nguyen Giap the remarkable man who defeated France AND the United States in Vietnam's wars
Obit II: Robert Ford, honorary Tibetan; US nuclear follies with a clip from Dr Strangelove to finish.
Brief review of a prior chat with Daniel Ellsberg leaker extraordinaire, still more on government lies, in praise of the automobile stick shift.
The deserving downfall of the "multiple personality disorder" diagnosis and the merry tale of "Dave Henderson", the alleged voluble Yale alumnus who upset the alumni newsletter
Doug's medical school reunion: some nostalgic & wistful recollections mixed with tales of mischief & fun, and yes, the names have been changed to protect the innocent
NPR borrowings: Dr James Fallon , "Who Can Sing The Blues?" from a chat with Mick Martin (and a commentary on "Texas") that aired on Capital Public Radio
Dr. Gary Aguilar, who has seen the original autopsy materials, returns to the program to talk about the strangely discordant medical evidence in the case of JFK's fatal wounds
Hard times for Marxist studies, Big tobacco goes into Burma (the show's host must admit to once trafficking cigarets there).
Medical topics: prevention!, brain changes post bariatric surgery, sleep loss (including how this killed Doug's med school softball team) and why breakfast is controversial
Why Algebra II should be banned; Obits: Michael Ansara (with great clip by Bob Scheaffer of CBS), David Frost (and That Was The Week That Was, the breakthrough show he hosted at age 23).
Local writer and KDVS host, Jeff Hudson, on the upgraded KDVS broadcast tower and boosted signal, current events, Current Events
The poor readability of most medical articles; Obituaries: UC Davis's professor of biology Dr Robert Thornton (who's Bio 1 probably made the host a biology major), Virginia Johson of Masters & Johnson fame: also, a look at some bad if traditional medical advice
Writer Christopher Arns talks about the new guidebook he has produced "Sacramento and the Gold Country" published by Moon Handbooks.
Science: Mars has water (dammit), Alpha Centauri's dubious planet (and some really crazy ideas for a spaceship to get to it - assuming its there)
Eye surgeon Dr. Gary Aguilar talks about the recently discovered part of the human eye.
Current Events; Nora Epron - celebrated writer, lousy reporter, conflicting tales of snotty Swiss retail clerks
Current Events; more water thievery in the works, the re-discovery of Orson Welles's 'Too Much Johnson' thought lost forever, yet found again
Nasty solar flares and how they may wreck modern life, Don Rose talks up more novelty records like "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha"
More from "The Wit's Thesaurus", Is memorization going to become obsolete?, Can you seize a car's controls remotely? - a scary question
Talking medicine: how it is "health news is often bogus", diesel stinks, the mysterious and unexpected rise in myopia
Current Events; Of mice and modern art, paying low end workers a living wage (why can't we?)
Our pal (and legendary political comic) Will Durst talks about his upcoming Sacramento one man show, From LSD to OMG, a swerve from politics to geriatrics.
Crazy stories: eating bugs (and why its good), inflating pot farm threats, sex trafficking myths, more GOP restricting of abortions, the symbiosis between terrorists and those who supposedly fight them
Don Rose of noveltyrecord.com talks up memorable examples of same, like 'The Thing' by Phil Harris.
Current Events, Right-wing Republican stooges love the daughter of Dick Cheney as Dems prosecute whistleblowers just like Dick Cheney
Peter Buxton , a remarkable chat with the man who blew the whistle on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study
More from Tuskegee whistleblower Peter Buxton; the national scandal resulting from his going to the press
Captain Vladimir Zeravica talks pilot training in relation to the Asiana crash at SFO, and why some airlines might best be avoided
Obits: financial weasel Mark Rich, computer whiz Donald Englebart, journalistic firebrand Helen Thomas
Current Events; how will we 'ranch' insects?, the "Bay Delta Conservation Plan" is bunk
Sitting is bad, actually really bad; Obit: Neils Diffrient (pioneer of ergonomics) American River Bike Trail idiocy & politics, Dixon officials SCAMMED, the tale continues.
Wildman actor comic Phil Proctor shares some anecdotes of his early days in California leading up to the groundbreaking comedy albums of 'The Firesign Theater'.
A look at Public Relations, quotes from founding father Edward Bernays & real life issues related to same
Quick items, including Chinese phallic buildings & Chinese hackers, Mexico's lost drug war, hungry young lawyers suing their own law schools
baby boomers are not in-shape, guardasil follies, the testosterone fad, regulatory constipation by the FDA, Newport Beach's Hoag Hospital gets abortions torpedoed by Catholic Health Organization
Our favorite film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson, who filmed in Niles Canyon (pt. 2)
Film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson pioneer of The Western as a film genre; wheeler-dealer David Rosenblum talks up his sketchy Salton Sea real estate development .
More on Dixon "Movie Studio" Scam (real estate tycoon Angelo Tsakapoulos backs scammer!), also Phil Angelides's bad development ideas, medical tourism
The Bee's Sam MacManus writings on The Niles Essanay Film Museum, our Australian correspondent Pamel Tayor reports in after Annular eclipse passes thru Queensland
Tort wars, arms dealing, Sac Bee uncovers a scam of the City of Dixon - Hollywood is coming? not likely
smart meters, Chinese army hackers, WWII review, Ted Cruz - jackass, USA's political assassinations & coups & CIA mischief old and new
Elaina Newport of legendary The Capital Steps talks about the group and its upcoming local show
Tyler Blythe, proprietor of, The Root of Happiness Kava Bar, talks about the curious Polynesian medicine and his bold effort to bring the tradition to Sacramento
Current Events, "Greyhound Bus" therapy; Fish & Wildlife puts salmon migrations on I-80
"Deep politics": arms merchants, Iraqi "reconstruction", CIA antics, the ever more insane "war on drugs"
Current Events, Helium, Executive highwaymmen, Catholic BS at Hoag Hospital, Microbial IDing
Elaina Newport of the satirical musical group "The Capital Steps" talks about the upcoming show at the Clarion Inn in Sacramento.
Mini-obit: Jonathan Winters, the Bush 43 library, Loch ness hoax, feeding animals excess antibiotics
Current Events, idiotic speculations on alien planets, "BDCP" phoney about saving delta admits guy running it
Chat about SF Jersey Boys w/ Elizabeth Orpina of The California Aggie, who wrote a piece on the production
Current Events, Letterman's a gas, chimps make war, homeless advocates bill Sacramento like drunken defense contractors
Our pal Domingo Escobar gives listeners a first-hand account of sneaking across the Mexican/US border (more than once)
Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 3
Author Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 2
Investigative researcher, Jim DiEugenio, discusses his book Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (2nd Edition) pt 1
Investigative journalist Kristina Borjesson, editor of Feet to the Fire, looks back at uncovering 10 years of government lies over the Iraq War and more
Obits: Awohl Von Kliest, last survivor of 1944 Adolph Hitler assassination plot, pianist Van Cliburn
Obit: Hugo Chavez, A Viking "Sunstone" discovered - turns out the legendary navigational aid was real.
Science writer and Newsweek columnist Sharon Begley talks about her recent article; Why We Need Germs.
Sandra Day O'Connor blathers about the "rule of law" while Scientific American casts doubts on the alleged health value of anti-oxidants
cooking, welcoming derelicts to hang out locally, tax reform stymied, and more evil machinations from real estate developer Phil Angelides
young earth mystery, shrinking evolutionary "mising links", goldfish in Lake Tahoe!, old motorcycyle riders, Reviews of old material for the show (and a search for better conditions now)
Chinese hackers robbing us, as China's water quality declines, fish behavior on human drugs seeping into their rivers & lakes, meanwhile California water officials say (with a straight face) that they can help our fish by removing their water
the selling out of Sacto's regional master plan to greedy developers (shock); North Korea, an eco disaster, well sure, but a Maoist paradise just the same?
Al Gore is on the ball; how legal weasel (and future Supreme Court Justice) Lewis Powell led corporations to "occupy" the US; more Catholic scandals
censoring gun research, bad California "preditor management", Cordova Hills sleazy development
Our DC correspondent Benjamin Jonas-Keeling reports on the second Obama inauguration while our Australian correspondent Pamela Taylor reports from a land down under (a land a' wonder)
Former professional cyclist Steve Fenton, talks doping, Lance Armstrong, and the future of the sport of bicycling.
China's bad air, Vega may have planets orbiting around it, mild obesity may not be so bad, OTOH Beta blockers may not be so good
Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallax's new Australia correspondent talks about 2012's top science stories
Amusing TV host Huell Howser dies; nationally syndicated columnist Thomas Freidman waffles on Bill Maher's show
Yet more 2012 obits: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of The NY Times, Senator Daniel Inoue, comic Phyllis Diller
Science: Tau Ceti has planets, life on moons (vs planets), the exoplanet hunting Kepler space telescope
Will Durst on the election, our lame "Wildlife Services", tales of eclipse chasing: Fiji and Vanuatu.
Puerto Rico, health controversies: feeding animals worms, diverting anti-smoking dollars, the great sugar controvery - is it much worse than we have realized?
Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallax's new Australia correspondent talks about the recent eclipse
Cannibis activist and SN&R writer Ngaio Bealum discusses the ongoing battles over medical marijuana here in California
Special Encore Presentation: excerpts of Doug's intervews with the late Senator George McGovern and Daniel Schorr
Activists Annette Deglow and Leno Carolo weigh in on Measure T, the "Claw" issue which dopes in city government want to curtail
The planets getting found around other stars, fMRI scans can still show brain activity in dead fish (so how serious can we take their data?), Sac city goverment spends $684K on a study on keeping the god dammed Kings - then says it has no money to pick up our leaves
Film "The Master" - its OK, but less interesting than the real life wacky story of L Ron Hubbard.
Author and lawyer Anthony V. Curto talks about his new book on how we might fix our broken legal system.
Encore presentation: Author George Pendle on Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Science follow-ups: Salton Sea stench, "junk DNA" is not junk, the continuing disgrace of antibiotic misuse in American animal feed lots
Author Nigel Cliff ,talks about his book, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
Eco Tour Guide Ted Cheeseman talks about a recent trip to the arctic and his first hand account of the effects of climate change.
Author Yale Wishnick talks about his new book, From a Culture of Dependency to a Culture of Success
Obits: Gore Vidal, Vidal Sasoon, the Edmund Scientific Catelogue; why we need to go into space
Miscelleneous: vocabulary, Matt Taiibi on failed prosecutions of Wall St, casinos out of control, quinoa the new fad food that could actually be a boon
Francis Gary Powers gets a posthumous medal, spy telescopes donated to NASA and a curious youtube video on the US government keeping car mileages LOW in the USA
Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)
Eclipse Chaser, Jerry Rose talks about our recent effort to go see the annular eclipse; the transit of venus
Report on the annular eclipse that passed over California. Naturally we went up to Redding to see it.
Historian Traveler Gordon Smith talks about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey - a remarkable man we've been promising to discuss for years.
Obit: auto designer Carrol Shelby, our pal Steve Alexander comments and relives his youth driving his high performance Shelby Mustang
KDVS General Manager Neil Ruud talks about the importance of funding to keep KDVS on the air.
Travel expert Stan Godwin talks about the benefits of consulting a travel agent. And comedian Michael O'Connell talks about an upcoming show with The Comedians with Disabilities Act.
SN&R Senior news editor Cosmo Garvin, talks about sprawl in Northern California - the effort to develop "Cordova Hills" for the usual fast buck.
Science topics: fetal guts are not sterile? modern gut bacteria are altered from ancient times
Joe Barr, News Director for Capitol Public Radio talks about the life and times of Mike Wallace
Legendary KDVS Public Affairs Radio Host France Kassing talks about the recent passing of the award winning Sac Bee cartoonist Rex Babbin
Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved (a remarkable look at eyes throughout the animal kingdom). pt 1
Jessy Schmidt, KDVS host of the Public Affairs show "Intercourse on Intercourse" talks with us about her show on human sexuality.
Kudos for KDVS's Bill Wagman, TV themes, sugar industry attacks high fructose corn syrup.
Current Events, Will Durst comments on the "Muppets" wisecrack by Goldman Sachs employee
Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame "improvements" to the Sacramento International Airport (part 2), and the latest 'Occupy the Capitol' event.
Obits: publisher Barney Rosset, composer Robert Sherman; dirty dishes from lower phosphates
Gary Chew on The Artist winning the Oscar (first silent film since Wings - the very first Oscar winner), Rush Limbaugh a complete horses ass yet again
US politics is gang warfare, Romney may not be nutty enough to satisfy the GOP base, CA Fish & Game president goes to Idaho to shoot a mountain lion cuz its ILLEGAL in California
Author (and The Economist USA correspondent) Andreas Kluth talks about his fascinating book, Hannibal and Me, What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure
Film lovers Gary Chew & David Kiehn talk about the (silent!) Oscar nominated movie, The Artist.
Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame (and expensive) "improvements" to the Sacramento's International Airport
TV's Bill Nye, The Science Guy (and currently the President of the Planetary Society) talks to us about proposed cuts in NASA funding
Great Ron Paul quotes from 2002 questioning our war with Iraq, local "homeless" public relations scammers, seriously
Writer Jeff Nilsson discusses his Saturday Evening Post article on predictions made in 1900
Author Political Activist Jerry Policoff (our PA political correspondent) on Rick Santorum (he doesn't like him).
Xmas music/ Bee article on same with a chat with Priya Malelu 4th grader and article interviewee
KDVS DJs Jeff Hudson and Robyne Fawx talk about 35 years of KDVS' Saturday Morning Folk Show.
Author, Michael Korda on his book Hero (Lawrence of Arabia) - whom his uncle, incidentally, agreed not to make a movie about when Lawrence himself griped - talks about this singular figure
Democratic party spoils - Sac's Ms Ambassador and her local connection to big-time real estate money
A history of gun control (article review) - turns out conservatives were all for it back when urban blacks took up arms and tried to assert THEIR second amendment rights
Newsweek's John Avalon on his book "Deadline Artists" a look at the great columnists and some of their best work
Current Events, attaboy to McClatchy organization for investigating Anthrax attack mystery
Local political gadfly David Lynch talks about 'Smart meters' which monitor homeowner activity
Current Events; Hank Williams Jr gaff, limitless Arnold ego, Chinese dog meat festival cancelled
Musicologist Kyle Larsen augments our Jerry Lieber obituary, and yes we play more terrific music clips
Author historian Daniel Okrent, on his book; Last Call, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, a major contributor to the Ken Burns PBS special.
UC Davis's, Dr. Dawn Sumner on picking the landing site in Gale Crater for the Mars Opportunity rover
Obituary: songwriter extraordinaire, Jerry Lieber (of Lieber & Stoller) with musical clips of his often hilarious tunes.
Author Jim Otaviani talks about his graphic novel on our favorite Nobel Prize winning physicist - Richard Feynman.
Author Mark Stein on his book "How the States Got Their Shapes", source of TV program of same name
Former naval petty officer Janet Smith talks about tracking Soviet subs amid the 1980's Cold War tensions (turns out it wan't quite like the Hunt for Red October)
KZFR General Manager Rick Anderson talks about an upcoming event in Chico featuring Will Durst and Michael Parenti (and the host of this program)
Mat Kaplan, the host of KUCI's Planetary Radio (heard on KDVS too), talks about recent space news
Obit: Jeane Bartick; man in space?, the Anthony Summers investigation of the links between the Saudi royal family and the 9/11 attackers
Author David Talbot, talks about his book, "Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America" (General Smedley Butler)
Science topcs: Truthout.com review of Merchants of Doubt, the anti-global warming propaganda battle
Obits: James Arness of Gunsmoke, Dr Jack Kevorkian, dubious element discoveries, our closer music - a complete Tom Lehrer's The Elements
Author Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon and other Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements.
Obit: Gil Scott Heron, with closing music bed (how could we resist) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Actor, director, Hollywood icon, Norman Lloyd, at Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood (part 2).
Obama's transiently standing up to the Israeli right on Middle Eastern peace obfuscations
Author, Doug Perednia MD, discusses his new book; Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (pt 3)
Our friend Pakistan (?), Bee article about Ah-nold's shady deal over Fabian Nunez's felonious son
Actor, director, Hollywood icon, Norman Lloyd chats with us at Musso Franks about his co-horts Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock
Bin Laden's location known in October 08 - and mentioned on TV!, US Attorney gets Dr Mollie Fry jailed for cannabis advocacy (your tax dollars being spent stupidly)
Author, Doug Perednia MD, discusses his new book; Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (pt 2 of 3)
Author, Doug Perednia MD, discusses his new book; Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (pt 1 of 3)
Miscellaneous file: digging up the "Mona Lisa", Jesse Ventura's pretty good book on "conspiracy"
Comics Michael O'Connell & Jason Armenio talk about the local comedy scene. Will Durst checks in from from a Giant's game in SF.
Cave men living in Texas (not currently it turns out to our surprise), Fukashima overreactions including Homer Simpson's
Author, Sherie Holbrook Labedis, talks about her book; "You Came Here to Die, Didn't You: Registering Black Voters One Soul at a Time", a stirring tale of the civil rights efforts of the 60s
Award winning author Russ Baker talks about the latest NPR gaff and his fascinating book, "Family of Secrets"
Investigative journalist, Kristina Borjesson talks about her latest project; Watchdog Warriors.
Science, Finance topics, including woodpeckers pecking, Matt Taibbis article - Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? from Rolling Stone
Aviation safety: Douglas Lonnstrom talks about his book, JFK Jr "10 Years after the Crash, a Pilot's Perspective" some sound aviation advice
Professor (of Brewing) Charles Bamforth, talks about beer and his book "Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us", a heady chat
British author Tristan Gooley discusses his book "The Natural Navigator, A Watchful Explorer's Guide to a Nearly Forgotten Skill"
Review of trip to Costa Rica with Gordon Smith & Elise Howell, travel companions (part 2)
Interview with Kevin Cook of Sports Illustrated about his book on "Titanic Thompson" the legendary gambler & sports hustler
Former KDVS GM (and KZFR DJ) Steven Valentino talks about his job at WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
Doug recounts the colorful events of his recent trip to Colombia and Costa Rica with travel companions, Elise Howell and Gordon Smith.
Gary Chew picks his top 10 movies of 2010. New KDVS Public Affairs director, George Selu introduces himself and talks up his program "Sounds of Africa"
Current Events, Matt Perry talks about producing the California Gridiron Gala here at the Sacramento Press Club.
A chat on Dick Dale's famous "Miserlu" with Gil Medavoy host of KDVS's legendary Crossing Continents (and expert on Middle Eastern music which, surprisingly, inspired the surf guitar classic)
Valerie Plame book, plus parts of our prior interviews with husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson
Return to show by film historian David Kiehn post "60 Minutes" seg on his ID of 1906 Market St SF movie as having been shot just pre-earthquake
Election stuff, Dan Walters column on "recommendations", Meg Whitman slams Fresno w/ feedback from Fresno resident Jeff Shinoda
Tara Eshghi talks about rising UC tuition fees & costs. Obit: jive talking Barbara Billingsly from Leave it to Beaver
Current Events, Activist, Publisher, Comedian, Ngaio Bealum, talks about the upcoming CA marijuana initative (Prop 19) and a fundraiser for Americans For Safe Access.
Jared Diamond, talks about the National Geographic TV special that is based on his book; Collapse, How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.
Manager Stephanie Violas, gives Radio Parallax a tour of a cannabis dispensary (the one she manages)
Cosmo Garvin, senior staff writer and columnist for the Sac News and Review, discusses the latest three-card monte attempt to get a new arena for the Sacramento Kings
Activist Burt Wilson talks about the currently ongoing, underhanded and nefarious attempts to divert yet more water to Southern California
Iranian American (and KDVS DJ) Tara Eshghi discusses the sabre rattling between Iran and Israel.
Author, Mary Roach, talks about her new book "Packing For Mars, the Curious Science of Life in the Void"
Publisher & Comedian, Ngaio Bealum, talks about the CA marijuana initative (Prop 19) and cannabis in general
Dr. Gary Aguilar, on the recent increase in Whooping Cough and relates his recent experience with the same.
Obituary: Daniel Schorr, senior NPR news correspondent, talks about his life in radio. (encore)
Excerpts of Douglas Everett's talk with George McGovern and Daniel Schorr on Capital Public Radio's Insight program
Sara, of Sara's Hair Salon, comments on a non-Persian actor playing the lead in The Prince of Persia, and some other things related to Iran
Political Activist Jerry Policoff talks about his current run for the State Legislture in Pennsylvania
Newsweek's Evan Thomas, talks about his new book "The War Lovers, Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, And The Rush To Empire, 1898"
Debbie Hollingsworth & Bruce Stiny give Doug a tour of the 'This Means War' exhibit of the Spanish American War, on display at the CA State Capitol Museum
Gregg Stebben of Men's Health Magazine talks about some fascinating new developments in cancer detection using the remarkable sense of smell of dogs.
Truth activist, Mark Graham, talks about some of the curious and suspicious events that surrounded the 911 tragedy.
LCDR Ted Robinson USNR, talks about a daring rescue he performed during the WWII Battle of Okinawa (pt 1)
Outgoing KDVS GM, Kevin Corrigan, talks about the LA Times, Investgative journalist Lisa Pease, weighs in on the ouster of Bob Bennett from the Senate
Denise Fitzgerald talks about experiences as an auditor in the Health Insurance industry.
Author Gerald Nachman talks about his book, Seriously Funny, The Rebel Comedians of the 1950's and 1960's
America's foremost political comedian Will Durst, talks about the SF Bay area comedy scene
LCDR Ted Robinson USRN, talks about his recent donation to the Smithsonian, the a cane used by JFK. Will Durst comments on the GOP needing a new scale.
Author Activist Charlotte Dennett updates her efforts with Vincent Bugliosi to prosecute George W. Bush for murder.
Author Attorney Charlotte Dennett talks about her efforts with Vincent Bugliosi to prosecute George W. Bush for Murder.
Adventure Cyclist, Willie Weir, again talks about bike travel around the world and at home.
Journalist, Jefferson Morley, talks about his newly discovered information about Lee Harvey Oswald's interaction with the CIA and his book, Our Man in Mexico.
Radio host, Dr. Dave Schneider, talks about a pesticide that turns male frogs into females.
Current Events, Adventure Cyclist, Willie Weir discusses his book, Travels With Willie.
Douglas Everett does a retrospective of Radio Parallax with sound clips of many notable moments inspired by the recent article on the SN&R by Rachel Lebrock
LCDR Ted Robinson USNR talks about his autobiography, Water In My Veins, in which he recounts his part in the rescue of Lt John F. Kennedy and the crew of PT 109.
France Kassing, host of, It's About You, discusses her many interviews with the late historian Howard Zinn
Nick Brunner talks about his web based radio program "Off Air" and his work at Capitol Public Radio.
Dr. Andy Jones, talks about the recently deceased, J.D. Salinger. Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio, gives updates on Mars and space exploration.
William Poundstone discusses his book, Priceless, The Myth of Fair Value (and how to take advantage of it).
Author Jay Rankin talks about his book, Under the Neon Sky, a colorful and entertaining recounting of his life as a doorman at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Author Gerald Nachman, discusses his book on the inimitable Ed Sullivan titled, Right Here on our Stage Tonight.
Legendary UC Davis physician and educator, Dr. Faith Fitzgerald, talks medicine, health and history
Gordon 'Uncle John' Javna talks about, Plunges Into Music, his latest Bathroom Reader (encore)
William Poundstone reveals, Big Secrets, like the formula for Coke and how the Empire State Building was made to 'vanish' (encore).
Sacramento writer & fisheries activist Dan Bacher talks about water issues in the Sacramento Delta.
National Lampoon Radio Hour classic "Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer" located after 35 years of search by the host, who heard original airing as a UCD undergrad only to see it mysteriously disappear
Jeff Russell of the Dolphin Club and SF Bay Keepers talks about swimming in the SF Bay without a wetsuit and their team swim from Sacramento to the Baymore.
Rancher John Wood talks about the health and environmental benefits of his grass fed livestock
Astronomy Professor Alan Hirshfeld talks about his new book on Archimedes, titled; Eureka Man.
Cool As Folk host, Michael Leahy comments on his recent award from SN&R and other topics related to Folk and Americana music
Radio Parallax music correspondent David Watts Barton talks about the recently released and remastered Beatles catalog.
Film Documentarian, Michael Bhana, talks about, Planet Shark, his upcoming exhibit at the world's largest aquarium in Atlanta.
Pope Brock talks about his book, Charlatan, America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, And The Age Of Flimflam. The story of the infamous J.R. Brinkley.
Bicycling correspondent Paul Dorn rails the government's much flawed "Cash 4 Clunkers" program.
Radio Parallax film correspondent Matthew Perry talks about, Public Enemies. And environmental engineer, Dr. Whitney Leeman weighs in on the film, Food Inc.
Author Bryan Burrough on Public Enemies, the FBI's War on Crime 1933-34 (encore), and Film Instructor, Matthew Perry, talks about gangster films .
Benjamin Jonas-Keeling of the Voice of America talks about their efforts to get accurate news to the people of Iran
Investigative jounalist, Dan Bacher, talks about the drawbacks of diverting ever more water out of the Sacramento delta.
Author Larry Tye talks about his book, Satchel, a biography of the colorful Leroy Satchel Paige, regarded by many as the greatest pitcher ever
Will Durst weighs in on the Iranian election, comedy excerpts from the inimitable, Bill Cosby
Radio Parallax's bicycling correspondent Paul Dorn talks about the benefits of pedal power.
Author Kurt Ebesmeyer talks about his book, Flotsametrics, on how things float around on ocean currents.
Author Alex Hutchinson talks about his book The 100 Most Important Inventions Since WW ll.
Science writer/Shakespeare researcher, Mark Anderson weighs in on a recently discovered portrait alleged to be of the bard.
NYT Best selling author Mary Roach talks about her latest book; Bonk, the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Author Charles Seif talks about his book, Sun in a Bottle, on cold fusion. (encore presentation)
Author Charles Seif talks about his book, Sun in a Bottle, which addresses the topic of cold fusion.
Dr. David Kahn talks about cryptology and his part in the upcoming National Geographic special on the subject.
Current Events; Science, the search for National Lampoon's, Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer
Tom Blees talks about his new book, PRESCRIPTION FOR THE PLANET, which lays out his plan on how to solve the worlds energy problems (pt 1)
Author Jeff Fekete discusses his book, MAKING THE BIG GAME, Tales of an Accidental Spectator.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about his book, THE PLUTO FILES, The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Sacramento Bee writer, Matt Wieser, talks about his Sacramento Bee article on California's water woes.
The Orson Welles 1938 radio drama which shocked the nation; The War of the Worlds. (encore)
Local award winning activist and tv talk show host Jeanie Keltner talks about politics and change.
Dr. John Linner, former Naval Medical Officer, and author of the book, From Normandy to Okinawa, recounts his participation in some of the major battles of WW ll.
Onion editor writer Joe Randazzo talks about "Our Dumb World", The Onion's recently released World Atlas.
Dr. Freeman Dyson talks about his career working with some of the greatest 20th century physicists (part 1)
Congressional candidate, Dr. Bill Durston tells District 3 residents why they should vote for him.
Current Events, Ivo Kovacevich, the Plumber, talks about plumbers and voting, vs Joe the plumber. Will Durst commentary - Don't Vote
Dave Lynch, District 5 Congressional Write-in Candidate speaks about why he's running and what he'll do if elected.
Darren W. Miller, author of "Web of Conspiracy", talks about his book, a guide to conspiracy web sites, and the relative validity of some theories.
Interview Dr. Simon Singh, author of Trick or Treatment, a careful look at alternative medical modalities.
Host Douglas Everett recounts his recent trip to Siberia to view a solar eclipse, pt 1.
Author Donald Prothero talks about his article, What Missing Links?, in the current New Scientist Magazine (encore)
Vincent Bugliosi best selling author and former Los Angeles District Attorney, talks about his new book; The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (part 1) Encore
Peter Pringle talks about his book, The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, a sordid tale of politics triumphing over science
Professor James Kakalios talks about his book, The Physics of Superheroes - an entertaining reality check
Award winning journalist Robert Scheer talks about his new book, The Pornography of Power
Vincent Bugliosi best selling author and former Los Angeles District Attorney, talks about his new book; The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (part 1)
Dr. Bruce Betts, spokesman for the Planetary Society, talks about Space, the upcoming Planetfest, and other astronomical news
John Dean, talks about his new book, Pure Goldwater, a compilation of the journals of the late Barry Goldwater.
RP Intern Lery Chavez discusses Carlos Slim, the second richest man in the world and how so he became.
David Lamb, 34 year veteran of the LA Times, talks about the progress of Vietnam since the American War, and his new book Vietnam Now
Progressive talk show host, Peter B. Collins, talks about the demise of Air America in Sacramento. Blogger/Activist Brad Friedman discusses voting machine fraud.
KDVS Public affairs hosts, Richard Estes & France Kassing talk about filling the void left from the Air America departure from Sacramento.
Julie Kredens, host of Kentucky Public Radio's, State of Affairs, comments on the largest White Castle recently built in Louisville, KY.
William Poundstone talks about his book, Big Secrets, revealing the secret formula for Coke, and how the Empire State Building was made to 'vanish'.
Author Donald Prothero talks about his article, What Missing Links?, in the current New Scientist Magazine
Stephen Braun, co-author of, Merchant of Death, discusses the notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout
Current Events, SN&R writer and award winning author Jennifer Davidson talks about the environmental harm of sport fishing. Will Durst comments on the 'undead' Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
Tim Cope recounts his incredible 3 year journey on horseback across the Eurasian Steppe, On the Trail of Genghis Khan.
Dr. Jack Weatherford talks about his book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
KDVS's Program Director, Jen Kao, talks about the start of the UCD Radio Network. Dan Tsang, radio host of UCI's Subversity, speaks about CIA whistle blower Phillip Agee.
The People's Court Judge Joseph Wapner speaks about his new "how to" e-book on going to small claims court
Willie Brown, Former Mayor of San Francisco and Speaker of the CA Assembly talks about his memoir, Basic Brown
David Cay Johnston talks about his new book, Free Lunch, How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Government Expense (And Stick You With The Bill)
Mick Mucus of KDVS's Chicken Years program talks about going to Peru to assist in the post earthquake humanitarian efforts. KDVS public affairs host, Dr. Andy Jones talks about the local poetry scene
Gwyneth Cravens author of, Power To Save The World, The Truth About Nuclear Energy, pt 1
Author Seth Shulman discusses his new book on the controversy regarding who actually invented the telephone titled The Telephone Gambit.
Radio Parallax's Sports Correspondent Shaun Minton give a summary of 2007's sports stories.
Doug's neighbor and educator Leno Carolo talks about meeting the rocket scientist who designed Evel Knievel's famous Skycycle.
Radar magazine senior editor Dale Hraby talks about his article "Help, I Can't Move My Face", which exposes plastic surgery mishaps in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Sac News & Review writer, Jennifer Davidson, reports on the grisly processing of salmon at the Nimbus hatchery. And Bob Roper talks about the Golden Gate bridge swim event in which Doug participated
Bruce Braunstein talks about his recent LA Times editorial on California water politics, and Vincent Rincon gives a first hand account of the Van Halen reunion tour.
Michael Krasny, author, and award winning host of NPR's, Forum, talks about his new book, Off Mike (pt 1)
Investigative jounalist Lisa Pease discusses the lawsuit against some voting machine companies in California.
Dr. Peter Dale Scott concludes the discussion of his new book, The Road to 911 (pt 3), Mat Kaplan host of the Planetary Report radio program talks about his show and his start in radio at UCI
KDVS's Heather Klinger talks about, The Midtown Monthly, a new magazine for which she writes articles on local music happenings.
SN&R's Jennifer Davidson talks about the cruelty to which circus elephants are subjected
Nick Gregory gives an on the scene, first hand account of the recent anti-war rally in Washington DC; Will Durst reflects on Gen. Petraeus' update on Iraq.
Actor Jeff Kravitz, speaks about the play, A Patriot Act: The Trial of GW Bush, currently playing in Sacramento.
Sac News & Review writer and Radio Parallax's Eco correspondent, Jennifer Davidson, talks about solar cookers and their use in developing nations.
Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday, speaks about his new book. Present at the Future
Former 60 minutes producer and Pulitzer prize winner, Lowell Bergman, talks about Arms Merchants and his Frontline special on the subject; Gun Runners.
Meteorologist Elyssa Lynn talks about the amazing Science on a Sphere exhibit currently at Cal Expo
Paul Schramski, CA State Director of Pesticide Watch, speaks on the folly of aerial pesicide spraying to combat West Nile virus. And, Sac News & Review writer and Radio Parallax's new Eco correspondent, Jennifer Davidson, introduces herself.
More CE, and the host of KDVS' Saturday Morning Folk Show, Robyne Fawx, comes on to correct last week's obit of Lady Astor.
Brad Friedman of bradblog.com discusses election fraud and the recent hacking and decertification of Diebold electronic voting machines. And, Dr. Sharad Malelu talks about the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan (encore).
Dr. Matthew Bishop of UC Davis and Dr. David Wagner of UC Berkeley discuss the vulnerability of California's recently decertified electronic voting machines
Excerpt of Radio Parallax interview with author, and founder of salon.com, David Talbot, on his book, Brothers, The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years; and author Jim Gerard, speaks about his new book , Beam Me Up, Jesus - A Heathen's guide to the Rapture.
Pulitzer prize winning author Chris Hedges talks about his book, American Facists, which documents the agenda of radical right wing christians (encore presentation)
Astronomer, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld, discusses his book , Parallax, The Race To Measure The Cosmos.
Tour d'France winner Floyd Landis speaks about cycling and the controversy surrounding his 2006 victory.
Former Aerojet worker Leno Carolo talks about meeting Gus Grissom and other astronauts while helping build the rocket engine that helped save the Apollo 13 crew.
Mitchell Benson, head of UC Davis' News and Information Service talks about Huell Howser's recent visit to the campus. And, Dr. Bill Ferrier speaks about The California Raptor Center
Screenwriter, author, and blogger (of the great site News from Me) ,Mark Evanier, gives a report about the recent All Star Mort Sahl tribute.
Obit: Ed Yost, Stu Wexler comments on inaccuracies in Vincent Bugliosi's book on the assassination of JFK, Dr. Malcom North discusses the Angora fire currently raging in the Sierras.
Professor Alfred McCoy speaks about the recent plot to usurp the current Laotian government.
Interview with author Michael Trachtman about his book The Supremes' Greatest Hits - The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Affect Your Life (encore)
Vincent Bugliosi, former LA DA, talks about Reclaiming History, The Assassination of JFK, (part 2)
Vincent Bugliosi, best selling author and former Los Angeles District Attorney, talks about his new book; Reclaiming History, The Assassination of JFK, in which he claims to have put to rest the controversies that surround that historic event (part 1)
Dr. Kirsten Gilardi talks about her project to recover hazardous lost fishing line and gear from California's waters
Capitol Public Radio's Donna Apidone, talks about her upcoming interview, An Evening With Morning Edition, at the Mondavi Center; and William Beteta, Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services at the Brown verses Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, talks about the anniversary of the historic decision.
Caitlyn O'Connell discusses her book, The Elephants Secret Sense. - Professor Jorge Dubcovsky talks about wheat rust and the history of wheat. - KDVS Producer Steve Lambert talks about his recent write up in The New York Times.
Steve Freeman discusses vote tampering in the past three US elections, and Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges, talks about his documentation of the taunting and murder of Palestinian youths by Israeli forces in a refugee camp.
Science topics, obits; Boris Yeltsin, David Halberstam, Jack Valenti and Bobby (Boris) Pickett
Will Durst and James Israel talk about the 16th anniversary of the Comic Press News and it's name change to, The Humor Times.
Steve Ettlinger, author of Twinkie Deconstructed, talks about what goes into some of our snack foods (encore).
Encore presentation of Author George Pendle discussing his book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Pulitzer prize winning author Chris Hedges talks about his book American Facists which documents the agenda of radical right wing christians
Current Events, Misha Brodsky recounts being in the USSR in 1961 when Uri Gagarin became the first man to return from a space flight.
Current Events, interview with WECI program director Alice Edgarton and Jeff Shaw, station director of KDRT
Interview with author Michael Trachtman about his book The Supremes' Greatest Hits - The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Affect Your Life
Steve Ettlinger, author of Twinkie Deconstructed, talks about what exactly goes into the well-known snack food.
Kirsten Sanford, host of This Week in Science, talks about her attendance at a science conference in SF last week. Benjamin Jonas-Keeling former producer of CPR's Insight lends a hand in determining which Coca-Cola sweetener tastes best.
Interview with author David Wallechinsky on his survey of the world's 10 worst dictators
Dr. Andrew Nangalama describes meeting Idi Amin and his escape from Uganda to avoid persecution (part 2)
Dr. Andrew Nangalama talks about meeting Idi Amin and his escape from Uganda to avoid persecution, (part 1). Molly Ivins obituary.
Current events, and writer Lyra Halprin gives her eyewitness account of the Yuba City flood of the 1950's
Science potpourri: Cure for cancer? How bats fly, Do you and your mate have compatible immune systems, and more.
Interview with PJ O'Rourke about his new book On The Wealth of Nations, a look into Adam Smith's classic book from the late 1700's
Interview with CC Goldwater on her documentary; Mr. Conservative, Goldwater on Goldwater
Benjamin Jonas-Keeling, producer of Capitol Public Radio's Insight program, talks about his upcoming move to The Voice of America
Author George Pendle discusses his book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Dr. Phil Plait, founder of bad astronomy.com discusses the top 10 astronomy images of 2006
Encore presentation - Stephen Kleinedler of American Heritage Dictionary talks about his book '100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses'
Steven Valentino, former KDVS General Manager interviews Douglas Everett about his world travels.
Investigative Journalist and author Lisa Pease speaks about 'Bobby', a new film about Robert Kennedy
Encore presentation of interview with Mark Anderson author of 'Shakespeare by Another Name', a book concerning the life of the 17th Earl of Oxford, the man who was the famous bard
Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's CSUS liason, gives a report about Director Oliver Stone's recent lecture at CSUS
Jeff Kravitz, Bob Fritakis Ohio activist discuses the theft of the Presidential election in 2004.
Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's new CSUS liason, gives a report about a recent comedy competition
Interview with Ohio Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Bob Fritakis on election fraud in the 2004 presidential race
Mark Anderson author of 'Shakespeare by Another Name' discusses the 17th Earl of Oxford, the man who was the famous bard
Investigative journalist Lisa Pease speaks on the passing of Lawrence Teeter, attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, and former Radio Parallax guest.
Shaun Minton and bicycling activist Paul Dorn discuss the Floyd Landis doping scandal and the benefits of bicycles verses automobiles.
Sacramento's News & Review Investigative Reporter R.V. Scheide talks about crisis in Lebannon. Leila Annane gives first hand account of the Israeli bombing of Beirut.
Dr. Tom Stalcup TWA Flight 800 forensic analysis indicating the plane did not explode "spontaneously"
Legendary screen and stage actor Eli Wallach talks about his work, including The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Paul & Phil local radio jocks talk about their split. Former KDVS GM Steven Valentino reminisces about the last 2 years.
A chat with author Martin J. Smith about his book Oops 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America; Shaun Minton talks up a Disco Night disaster
We chat with former cabinet member Christine Todd Whitman about her book It's My Party, Too
More current events: preview of Why We Fight interview, ex-Soviet Republic phony elections
Former congressman (and GOP legend) Pete McCloskey on his primary challenge to arch-conservative Congressman Richard Pombo.
Community activist Dr. Will Green discusses Mercy Hospital's sprawling expansion plans in the quiet neighborhood of East Sacramento, Cheney shooting, Democrat insanity in Ohio, Pink Panther re-done
California 9th District Assembly Member Dave Jones talks about private conservators and his reform bill in the legislature
More current events: U.S. hostages, science of wine vs cheese, Obits: Coretta King, Betty Freidan, Al Lewis
Obits: Shelly Winters, Tony Franciosa. Discussion of Pluto mission with KDVS news director Drake Martinet. Obit: Candy Barr
Current Events; talk with Capitol Public Radio's Donna Apidone, local host of NPR's Morning Edition
Interview with Barbara Honegger, author of October Surprise on 25th anniversary of Iranian hostage release
Interview: UCD Religious studies professor Allison Cudart on Italian legal case of whether Jesus existed and the crying statue of Mary in Sacramento
Obit: Vietnam chopper pilot Hugh Thompson and a discussion of My Lai and Thompson's actions with Steve Valentino host of Stop Making Sense
Obit: Jack Anderson, talk with Hollywood writer Jane Rusconi, discussion of the NASA Pluto mission with Dr. Amir Alexander of the Planetary Society
Coverage of John Edwards press conference at Mondavi center (1.09.06), talk with George Franco of WAGA-TV Atlanta who helped cover Edwards for KDVS
CIA agent Gary Bertsen on his book - Jawbreaker, describing how Bin Laden was cornered at Tora Bora, yet somehow still escaped
Reprise: portions of 5/27/04 interview with Eugene McCarthy, discussion with KDVS GM Steven Valentino on visit to the Senator in Summer '04
Chat with astronaut (and former KDVS program director!) Steve Robinson; plus discussion of his talk at the Mondavi Center
"With a Little Help from our friends" chats with people who help provide us with quality guests: Andy Fell of the UC Davis News Service, Ilene Proctor of Proctor International, Chuck Monroe of Newman Communications and fellow KDVS Public Affairs host France Senecal
Current Events; Review of Mikhail Gorbachev talk in Sacramento with embarrassingly numbskull "radio personality" Mike Reagan; 60 Minutes buries a critical WMD story.
Pre-Election Review: Conservative "David Mather" and liberal "Alan Stanton" discuss the propositions on the upcoming special election
Repeat: Bob Edwards after the publishing of his book Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
Current Events, The film Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney's look at Edward R Murrow's battle with Joe McCarthy.
Science topics, Steven Valentino on his award for piece on gay marriage politics done for the Radio Project of KPFA
James Dean - 50 years after his death. Interview with local author & poet William Hughes who attended a commemoration event near Paso Robles
Washington DC war protest with participants: Cheryl Qualset from Davis and Jerry Policoff from Lancaster, PA
The improbable UCD football victory over Stanford: KDVS sports director Angela DePrato, also Shaun Minton on Division 1 football
Planetary Astronomer and Painter, William K. Hartmann, Author of the Grand Tour - A Travelers Guide to the Solar System
Michelle Feynman on Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, the Letters of Richard P. Feynman (her dad)
A visit (down the hall in Lower Freeborn Hall) with the Cal Aggie editor Daniel Stone, and reporter Catherine An
Interview Stalin's Folly author Dr. Constantin Pleshakov the tale of the Soviet collapse in the face of the Nazi invasion
Interview: Ex-FBI Agent and Investigative journalist William Turner on Mark Felt whom he fingered as "Deep Throat" in 1978!
Interview: Dr. Ron Baiman on the statistical analysis demonstrating election fraud in 2004
Film historian David Kiehn discusses how Charlie Chaplin made movies in Niles (now Fremont) in the year 1915
The remarkable current butterfly migration: Dr. Arthur Shapiro; Satire - Judy Rosenbloom interview
Israeli atomic weapons. An interview with Mordecai Vanunu in Israel (he was jailed 18 years for revealing their existence)
Interview: Dr. Ignacio Chapela from UC Berkeley. Chapela had apparently been blackballed for his work on GMO crop contamination of Mexican corn (later vindicated).
Interview: John Stauber co-founder, Center for Media and Democracy, author of Toxic Sludge is Good for You, talks about the epidemic of "Video News Releases" by the federal government
"The Gimli Glider" with Vladimir Zeravica, a tale of running out of gas in a commercial jet.
Ron Glick, host of Speaking in Tongues on KDVS, talks about other near disasters like Gimli coming from miscalculations.
Discussion of the late film director Russ Meyer with his friend KCRA cameraman Mike Carroll
Talk with Peace Corps volunteer and KDVS DJ Kara Tierney upon her departure to Burkina Faso
Interview: Jeff von Kaenel Sacramento News & Review and their tiff with The Sacramento Bee
Sound effects expert and voice actor Fred Newman (from A Prarie Home Companion); More Current Events
Interview: Dr. Phillip Denny, medical marijuana issues from the viewpoint of a physician
A talk with Georgia Public Radio reporter Susan Capalouto on those evolution disclaimer stickers in Georgia's textbooks
A Cassini Mission Update from Saturn with Trina Ray of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Interview: Dr. Cyril Wecht, the science of forensics and current increased public interest in the topic thanks to TV shows
Interview: Joe Garden, staff writer for The Onion, America's foremost satirical newspaper
Interview: Steven Kleinedler, Editor and Author from the American Heritage Dictionary's Commonly Misused Words.
Pre-presidential Debate Interview: Heather Dahl of NPR and former assistant to Jim Lehrer
Interview: Peter G. Peterson, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Running on Empty
KDVS GM Steven Valentino on his trip to Washington and the Public Radio News Directors conference
The Cassini Mission to Saturn, Interview with Trina Ray from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current Events; Talk with Shelley Crouse - Monarez on gay marriage as Campaign 2004 issue
Ambassador Joseph Wilson returns to discuss the case of his wife Valerie Plame and his book The Politics of Truth
Interview: Bob Edwards on his book Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
Interview: Daniel Schorr, former CBS Reporter and NPR Analyst on Ed Murrow, CBS, and his career
Interview: Attorney Robert K. Tannenbaum, author and former Beverly Hills Mayor, discusses the law and the writing of his best-selling fiction
Review of The Fog of War, Gary Chew Carleton Heston American Landmine Manufacturers Association
Radio Pacifica's (and KDVS's) Sakura Saunders on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised documentary; Satire - "Crazy Eddie" Chalabi
Science the Mars Rovers, first hand report from Pasadena "Planetfest" of Spirit robot landing
Interviews (Joan Kroc NPR donation): Stephanie Bergsma, KPBS radio, Michael Lazar, Capital Public Radio
Current Events; "Joe Lieberman" interview; Ted Dunning of KDVS's This Week in Science show
Interview: Robert Greenwald on his documentary, Uncovered: the Truth about the War in Iraq
Interview: Dr. Gary Aguilar on the medical evidence in the still mysterious death of John F. Kennedy
Interview: filmmaker & media expert Danny Schechter on his book Weapons of Mass Deception
Talk with Free Speech TV's Andy Derringer on Project Censored Awards; reporter Vince Winkle on toxic waste issues
Science with KDVS's Kirsten Sanford; Capital Public Radio's Jeffrey Callison on Scottish lore
Marti Anaya on the Sacramento Film Festival; Attorney Jeff Kravitz, host of Panic Attack on KDVS on the "Do Not Call" list.
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers Chief Pilot Charles Lowe - about University Airport and the CAFF
Interview with Sirhan Sirhan lawyer Lawrence Teeter on real life Manchurian Candidate aspects of 1968 shooting of RFK.
Interview: Michael Bhana part II the art of documentary film making for the US and world markets.
Interview: National Geographic film documentary maker Michael Bhana on his Tuna Cowboys