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1. Current Events, Pete McCloskey helps surfers
2. Elaina Newport of legendary The Capital Steps talks about the group and its upcoming local show
3. Science topics, the woes of the DSM-5

1. Current Events, "Greyhound Bus" therapy; Fish & Wildlife puts salmon migrations on I-80
2. 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
3. The sinking of the USS Guitarro (while under construction!), Prop 65 misuse

1. Current Events, Helium, Executive highwaymmen, Catholic BS at Hoag Hospital, Microbial IDing
2. "Deep politics": arms merchants, Iraqi "reconstruction", CIA antics, the ever more insane "war on drugs"
3. KDVS' Ed Martin talks about the (still) segregated proms in Georgia

1. Current Events, idiotic speculations on alien planets, "BDCP" phoney about saving delta admits guy running it
2. Elaina Newport of the satirical musical group "The Capital Steps" talks about the upcoming show at the Clarion Inn in Sacramento.
3. Mini-obit: Jonathan Winters, the Bush 43 library, Loch ness hoax, feeding animals excess antibiotics

1. The Annual Pledge Drive Show - a smattering of bits & clips

1. Current Events, Letterman's a gas, chimps make war, homeless advocates bill Sacramento like drunken defense contractors
2. Author Mary Roach discusses her new book, "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal"
3. Chat about SF Jersey Boys w/ Elizabeth Orpina of The California Aggie, who wrote a piece on the production

1. Current Events
2. Science/Politics roundup.
3. Our pal Domingo Escobar gives listeners a first-hand account of sneaking across the Mexican/US border (more than once)

1. Current Events
2. Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 3
3. Author Jim DiEugenio, part 4

1. Current Events
2. Investigative researcher, Jim DiEugenio, discusses his book Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (2nd Edition) pt 1
3. Author Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 2

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Obits: Awohl Von Kliest, last survivor of 1944 Adolph Hitler assassination plot, pianist Van Cliburn

1. Current Events
2. Science writer and Newsweek columnist Sharon Begley talks about her recent article; Why We Need Germs.
3. Obit: Hugo Chavez, A Viking "Sunstone" discovered - turns out the legendary navigational aid was real.

1. Current Events
2. cooking, welcoming derelicts to hang out locally, tax reform stymied, and more evil machinations from real estate developer Phil Angelides
3. Sandra Day O'Connor blathers about the "rule of law" while Scientific American casts doubts on the alleged health value of anti-oxidants

1. Current Events
2. 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)
3. Our sports correspondent Shaun Minton talks sports (naturally)

1. Current Events
2. Chinese hackers robbing us, as Chinas 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
3. Homeopathic "overdosing", Jack Gallagher, David Rosenblum from Hollywood talking publicists

1. Current Events
2. 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?
3. Obituary: Shakespearian villain King Richard lll's remains have now been found

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Archaeologist James Mangold talks about modern archaeology.

1. Current Events
2. censoring gun research, bad California "preditor management", Cordova Hills sleazy development
3. KDVS's Ed Martin, talks about various political subjects.

1. Current Events
2. Idiots in Zimbabwe & Cuba; Iran miffed at the film 'Argo'; wildlife woes
3. 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)

1. Current Events
2. Former professional cyclist Steve Fenton, talks doping, Lance Armstrong, and the future of the sport of bicycling.
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallax's new Australia correspondent talks about 2012's top science stories
3. Amusing TV host Huell Howser dies; nationally syndicated columnist Thomas Freidman waffles on Bill Maher's show

1. Current Events
2. 2012 obits: (music figures) Dick Clark, Hal David, Andy Williams, Davy Jones & more
3. Yet more 2012 obits: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of The NY Times, Senator Daniel Inoue, comic Phyllis Diller

1. Current Events
2. Will Durst unloads on the gun issue. Science topics
3. End of year recap.

1. Current Events, Will Durst, Top ten stories of 2012.
2. More on the sugar controversy, piece in Cosmos magazine & more
3. Science: Tau Ceti has planets, life on moons (vs planets), the exoplanet hunting Kepler space telescope

1. Current Events, Will Durst talks about, "the most influential women".
2. Puerto Rico, health controversies: feeding animals worms, diverting anti-smoking dollars, the great sugar controvery - is it much worse than we have realized?
3. Will Durst on the election, our lame "Wildlife Services", tales of eclipse chasing: Fiji and Vanuatu.

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallaxs Australia correspondent talks about the recent eclipse
3. election review plus ramblings

1. Current Events
2. Amateur historian Gordon Smith talks about Kurdish politics in today's Turkey.
3. More on bad businessmen: quotes from "Griftopia" by Matt Taiibi

1. Current Events
2. Encore Presentation of Ira Glass's segment on "Failure" from This American Life
3. Author Jim DiEugenio talks about recent revelations related to JFK's death

1. Current Events
2. Cannibis activist and SN&R writer Ngaio Bealum discusses the ongoing battles over medical marijuana here in California
3. Science & health: exercise is awesome, federal cannabis restrictions are not

1. Current Events
2. Election overview - the beat goes on
3. Election overview ll - and so do the beatings

1. Current Events
2. Special Encore Presentation: excerpts of Doug's intervews with the late Senator George McGovern and Daniel Schorr
3. Activists Annette Deglow and Leno Carolo weigh in on Measure T, the "Claw" issue which dopes in city government want to curtail

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. More science topics, potpurri

1. Current Events
2. Chat with local radio personality and film reviewer Gary Chew
3. Sara of Sara's Hair Salon talks about dirtbag lawyers who sue for minor ADA violations

1. Current Events
2. election previews, Dan Lungren vulnerable?, homeless advocates shake-down
3. Film "The Master" - its OK, but less interesting than the real life wacky story of L Ron Hubbard.

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, 'The Worst Campaign Ever'
2. Author and lawyer Anthony V. Curto talks about his new book on how we might fix our broken legal system.
3. The rare and exotic substance, ambergris, demystified.

1. Current Events
2. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please
3. Encore presentation: Author George Pendle on Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

1. Current Events, KDVS GM Renner Burkle talks about an upcoming KZAP reunion.
2. Science follow-ups: Salton Sea stench, "junk DNA" is not junk, the continuing disgrace of antibiotic misuse in American animal feed lots
3. 9/11 heros and Wall Street weasels (including Mitt Romney)

1. Current Events
2. Author Nigel Cliff ,talks about his book, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
3. Eco Tour Guide Ted Cheeseman talks about a recent trip to the arctic and his first hand account of the effects of climate change.

1. Current Events; Science, the decline of the autopsy, monarch butterfly migrations
2. NOTHING - pre-emption of second half of show by Aggie Sports

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bold choice of Mitt Romney
2. Author Yale Wishnick talks about his new book, From a Culture of Dependency to a Culture of Success
3. Science topics - Microbes in our bodies with snappy bumper music

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton gives us an Olympic round-up.
3. Obit: Helen Gurley Brown; Science topics

1. Current Events
2. Science & Medicine: parrots expanding, ducks too, CO2 inaction, gun violence
3. California's great water scam (continued), real estate development at the Salton Sea?

1. Current Events
2. India's blackout, energy gaming, toxic sludge, chat with "Mitt Romney"
3. Obits: Gore Vidal, Vidal Sasoon, the Edmund Scientific Catelogue; why we need to go into space

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bain of Mitt Romney
2. Author Sam Kean, talks about his fascinating new book on DNA, The Violinist's Thumb
3. Science topics, a chat with 'Sly Stallone'.

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Local writer Matt Perry talks about death

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton, pt 1
3. More Shaun Minton, (pt 2)

1. Current Events
2. Doug recounts his recent adventures in New York City
3. World affairs, Obits: City of Stockton

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Racial discrimination, a losing gambler tries to sue the casino, lying businessmen.

1. Current Events
2. Kathryn Hohlwein: More on The Readers of Homer (pt 2)
3. Elise Howell talks about being a "Readers of Homer" participant.

1. Our interview with Ray Bradbury (reprise part 1)
2. Ray Bradbury (reprise part 2)
3. Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)

1. Current Events
2. SN&R contributor Tara Eshghi talks about her recent article on 'food recycling'.
3. Eclipse Chaser, Jerry Rose talks about our recent effort to go see the annular eclipse; the transit of venus

1. Current Events
2. DSM-5, sustainable sushi
3. More fun with Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, defending Walter Cronkite from The Right

1. Current Events
2. 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.
3. Report on the annular eclipse that passed over California. Naturally we went up to Redding to see it.

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