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1. Some live election coverage... until we aborted at the end
2. Happier topics than election 2024 including a review of mulching

1. Election Themes - Sanewashing & Fascism, media dereliction of duty, billionaires hedge their bets, Fascist regimes review vs GOP
2. MSNBC look at Trumps authoritarianism, Steven Harper on Nazi comparison to GOP, conservative Judge Luttig on corruption of rule of law under DJT and why Trump is unfit for office, COVID excess deaths of 400,000 under DJT, foreign interference in US elections - again, James Risen musings, the "secret plan" of Trump and Mike Johnson to derail the election certification via The House of Representatives

1. Special Edition of Radio Parallax: a chat with Fremont mayoral candidate Vinnie Bacon

1. Trump fry cook & peeping Tom, Robert Reich, Smoot Hawly tariff disaster, DJT "negotiator", US News Op-ed of John Miller on creating a monster - fake billionsire Trump
2. Steven J Harper on election, Nancy Yamada

1. Chat with Mark Mattingly my high school poli sci teacher about our current woeful status as a democracy
2. Lincoln Project ad, Silicon Valley CEOs on Team Trump and crypto corruption

1. Comet, nastier hurricanes, Musk & Trump, electoral worry - Jill Stein, Roy Cohn lies CBS, interview with David Marcus cousin of Cohn tells tales of Roy, Frontline review of same topic
2. GB&U, Dave Pakman on NYT sudden discovery of DJTs mental decline, Packman part II on NYT, fact checking fiascos

1. Reprise of talk with Steven J Harper from 2021 which remains sadly topical 3 years later
2. Part II Steven Harper

1. Lev Parnas docu, look back at presidential debates, GB&U, some levity - old essay for NYU entry, excellent MSNBC piece on whether it is unfair to call Trump a threat to democracy
2. B.T. Cohen look at NY court decision on Trump Jan 6th criminal behavior and election interference, D. Pakman points out unhinged Trump statements, Rachel Maddow and MSNBC talk to Maine GOP party chairmen who support Harris for the cult of Trump, Atlantic article on Trump/MAGA take-over of GOP

1. Cleveland 22nd & 24th president in context - electoral college choosing the loser, a new look at Hitler by MAGA fans, GB&U, Dave Pakman looks at GOP trying to blame asassination attempts on Dems
2. Medi Hasan takes down notion of Trump not being a warhawk, Dave Pakman look at lying Trump out on the stump talking about "criminal" aliens and Harris being a Marxist, Communist, Fascist, Socialist, MSNBC looks at this crazy campaign, B.T. Cohen take down of Trump lies

1. Talks with citizens pushing back against the US Army Corps of Engineers plans for the American River Parkway: Bill Brattain and Pete Spaulding
2. A brief look at the Presidential debate followed by analysis of recent Trump statements

1. 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
2. Continuation of Steven J. Harper

1. RFK Jr, Phil Donahue obit (and mention of his Iraq war opposition), Trump disparages Congressional Medal of Honor, lost in space
2. Meiselas report on DJT/RFK Jr phone call (recorded by RFK III)

1. Trump, the oldest person ever to become president now older than oldest person to BE president - Reagans record holder - Reagan
2. More clips on Trump - Ben Meiselas, HannibalLecter craziness, recent polls

1. Look ahead to election 2024 and need to address Trump s increasingly bizarre behavior
2. Clips from MSNBC on press conference anger vs Biden contrasted with Trump blather

1. Current Event round up
2. 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

1. David Packman clip on latest Trump incoheret ramblings, GB&U, Joe Conason clip on his new book The Long Con
2. Chat with our favorite Trump expert Steven J. Harper

1. Current Events
2. Collection of you tube clips frpm Dave Pakman and Ben Meiselas on Trumps mental issues, glossed over by the MSM

1. 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
2. Abandonment of current events in favor of humorous material

1. GB&U review, Trumpland detour
2. Pushback from US women, review of 2015 Ashley Madison scandal which faked data

1. Travelogue of Asia and Europe
2. Listener urging, More tales from the road

1. Honoring former guests Wecht, and McKlosky, GB&U, pumping perrier, finding former film critic from NYT who almost sank career of Mel Brooks
2. Einstein on propaganda, Pete McKlosky excerpt Cyril Wecht excerpt

1. The Mazatlan Eclipse, aviation, astronomy, and really terrible music
2. More eclipse, GB&U, science close

1. Archival material, 2002 Art of the Hoax
2. GB&U

1. GB&U
2. Jefferson Morley on his book Snowstorm in August

1. 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
2. Chat with investigatibe journalist Jefferson Morley about his historical book Snowstorm in August The Struggle for Americas Freedom and Washingtons Race Riot of 1835

1. Some jokes, Harpers Index, look back at Bob Edwards, Giuliani, another Putin murder, Silicon Valleys scary technocracy advocates
2. GB&U, potpourri of recent Trump mental deterioration, traformation of war via drone technology, Palantir in Ukraine science topics

1. A look at Japans bizarre politics, "intelligence failures" in Gaza and Israeli overreaction
2. Jimmy Carter on Israeli Apartheid, slavery in the US, the tragic tale of civil rights workers murder in 1964

1. Bush 41, the pledge of alliegance, Fareed Zakaria BS, the tractor, Pacific islander navigation, GB&U
2. Everything gets marketed as "AI" now, the superyachts, the illegal and unscrupulous fishinging industry (Chinese mostly), The Tragedy of the Commons revisited, bad reporting

1. Space trombones, Baby Ruth BS, misc quotes, the genius of Newton, predicted collapse of civilization?, cuneiform translation and AI
2. Avatar ABBA show, modern cursive illiteracy, Venus mysteries, political aspects of Albert Einstein and Charles Chaplin, Hearst & Hitler

1. Andy Borowitz on democracy, Asimov on reviews, new AI music and look back at visit fom "Paul McCartney", beaver news, Herman Daly belated obit
2. Neptunes discovery & political skulduggery, Ayn Rand/Silicon Valley development in Solanao Co., Mountain House urban sprawl

1. 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
2. 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

1. 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
2. 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

1. Some good news items, electoral crazyness into bad films, GB&U, Gaza tragedy, trying to kill Hitler, miscellaneous items
2. Reprise of our 2008 chat with California politcal legend Willie Brown

1. 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
2. James DiEugenio on Henry Kissinger

1. Current event round-up, Xmas music, possible new ED therapy from spider venom, good news items
2. Steven Harper updates us on SCOTUS machinations and things Trump

1. Thanksgiving turkey pardon, Good, Bad & Ugly twice over, supposed alien artifacts, alien worlds, big tech weasels want in on gambling on sports
2. Gaza catastrophe, Obit: James Buckley, real estate brokers 6% rip off being questioned in court, Trump goes full Nazi in rhetoric

1. Duquesne Conference at 50th anniversary of JFKs passing
2. More musing on JFK murder mystery
3. Activist attorney Bill Simpich updates us on JFK records lawsuti vs Biden administration

1. Retrun to live show after a hiatus, great quotes, memes, GB&U fest, Gaetz coup, alleged intelligence failure in Gaza,
2. Gaza oppression, Obit: Marti Atissarre, memes, GB&U fest, vaccines dont earn a Nobel

1. 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
2. NASA samples an asteroid, tricky bugs, 2014 article on "service animals"

1. Reprise: our chat with Ira Flatow from NPRs Science Friday
2. Reprise: our interview with Ignacio Chaepela from show 146

1. Doing the Time Warp, some medical topics of note, some science topics of dubious distinction
2. Review of Burning Man 2023 with Guy Tortorici , GB&U, Tulare Lake reborn, Colonel Allensworth State Park, American spectacles - armour and trucks

1. Interview with Lee McIntyre author of On Disinformation, How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
2. GB&U, archival musings from our files

1. Trump circus dominates news cycle, look back at 3rd party efforts to wrest power from our "two-party system", excuses from the orangemans lawyers, 1960s poli sci review, good news in Ohio
2. US intelligence manipulating wikipedia, psychological defenses to propaganda

1. Return to fresh material; volcanic island on Mars, Rx industry forced to negotiate prices vs serving them up via "like it or lump it" method
2. Clip of atmospheric scientist Dr Tony Held on global warming - from 21 years ago, use AI to counter spam calls?, giant Pentagon rathole, weird things said in bookstores, GB&U

1. Current events update of the last several weeks
2. Economist article on gender medicine followed by discussion of trans issues in sports.

1. Reprise broadcast of our chat with NPR Science Friday host Ira Flatow
2. Reprise broadcst of our chat with author Peter Pringle on his book about Nikolai Vavilov

1. Some favorite clips from the years 2005-2010
2. Present time musings

1. Look back at 23 years of radio from Douglas Everett & Edward MacMillan
2. More Radio Parallax look-back, a potpourri of favored snippets

1. Obit: Harry Belafonte, Secretariat the Derby winner and Dancers Image a Derby loser, strange alga, new eco-garbage-plastic-system
2. A look at the Supreme Court of the United States with Steven J. Harper

1. The (fortunately stymied) Reber Plan to fill in San Francisco Bay, GB&U, science topics
2. 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

1. Discussion of the Americas most popular dog breed the French Bulldog with veterenarian Evelyn Warner ,the dog of the plant world i.e. the cabbage family, life under the snow, warmer oceans, Rolling Stone article on Okavango oil drillling
2. Psychiatry detour, why name mascots after nasty beasts, SSRI hucksterism, Freud the fraud, bad science of Stanly Milgram experiment, Obit: Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, look back on Charoltte Denon interview about prosecuting George W Bush for murder, quote from Vince Bugliosi on Iraq War, misremembering that war by the NYT and its culpability in that conflict

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