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1. Spirit vs. Led Zeppelin. Usual Parallax fare.

1. A completely typical show. Crazy legal case.

1. The usual stuff. “Ghostbusters” sexism? Will Durst on third parties.

1. Democratic primary shenanigans. Brief obits worthy of future segments (Muhammad Ali, Mark Lane, Morley Safer). The usual Parallax fare.

1. A half hour of the usual fare, bagging on politicians, etc.

1. Current Events
2. 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)
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Reprise of interview with the celebrated hostorical writer Evan Thomas
3. Obituary of a Morton-Thiokol engineer who warned NASA that the shiuttle would blow up if they launched in cold weather.

1. Goodbye KDVS (its been a great 14 years), current events, reminder that we will continue at radioparallax.com
2. Dr Andy Jones weighs in a final time, James Israel talks about 25 years of The Humor Times - and their party next month
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Interview with author Margaret Talbot about her book The Entertainer - Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century
3. Margaret Talbot Part 2. (The father in the book's title is actor Lyle Talbot)

1. Current Events, brief obit Nancy Reagan
2. Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society (and Planetary Radio) shares her knowledge of what we are learning about our neighbors in space
3. Science topics, including some science of econ and poli sci

1. 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
2. The Devil's Chessboard Part II: Dulles and the CIA's gains in power in the 50s
3. The Devil's Chessboard Part III: the JFK assassination and the CIA's links to it, Allen Dulles masterminds the Warren Commission cover-up

1. Current Events, some black history month items
2. Reprise of oyr 2006 interview with Martin J. Smith about his book Oops 20 Life lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America
3. Wall Street discussion with Bob Dunham , science stuff, a Bob & Ray classic: The Slow Talkers of America

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the primaries
2. The passing of Atonin Scalia - the Young Turks weigh in, then us; giving Trump some credit; Matt Taibbi at the Mondavi, tanking Libertarianism
3. Science - those confusing gravitational waves, dark skies, Edgar Mitchell, kill ALL mosquitos?, Sirhan denied parole

1. Current Events
2. 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..
3. 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

1. 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?
2. Jerk genius Lowell Wood, dubious ideas - delivery drones, smart bullets, good ideas - tricking bacteria, evaluating web data
3. Assorted stats, anecdotes, quotes quips and jokes not stuck at top of show

1. Looking at "The Big Short" and "Drunk Brilliant Stoned Dead" the story of the National Lampoon, and Doug Kenney
2. Excerpets from the writings of Michael Lewis
3. Excerpts from the early days of The National Lampoon Magazine

1. Reprise of our talk with David Talbot about his book Devil Dog (On General Smedley Butler)
2. More with David Talbot on Smedley Butler and the Wall Steet plot to overthrow FDR
3. Re-airing of our talk with documenatarian Alexander Gibey regarding his 2004 film Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room

1. Current Events
2. St. John Hunt part III the deep politics of his father E. Howard Hunt, the CIA and JFK
3. Part IV St. John Hunt

1. Current Events
2. A conversation with St. John Hunt son of E. Howard Hunt, CIA agent, watergate burglar, and confessed JFK assassination conspirator
3. St. John Hunt part II (of IV) Obit: P.F. Sloan

1. Current Events
2. Great stories (mostly science news) from 2015
3. Replay of our obit (with Gary Chew) for The Late Show with David Letterman

1. Current Events, great Mark Evanier Xmas anecdote
2. Comedy favorites (replay of Thanksgiving 2014 show)
3. Comedy favorites (replay of 2014 Thanksgiving show)

1. Current Events
2. Reprise of interview with General Chuck Yeager the inspiration of "the Right Stuff"
3. Reprise of our chat with CBS news legend Walter Cronkite

1. Current Events
2. Our chat with Bob Edwards about his book on Edward R. Murrow
3. Lying, CIA fakers, what's wrong with this picture?, and what could you have eaten in the cretaceous era and still keep kosher?

1. Current Events
2. Reprise of a chat with William Poundstone author of Big Secrets, Bigger Secrets and Biggest Secrets
3. Graham Smith talks up texbook exchanges, obits: the English language, Michael Gross of The National Lampoon

1. Current Events
2. Graham's interview with Lester Lusher about the influence of shared ethicity in grading
3. Doug's chat with John Lisack about his participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936!

1. Current Events
2. A chat with James Randi conjurer-magician and exposer of charlatans part 1
3. James Randi Part 2

1. Re[rise of Michael Tractman pt 1
2. Michael Tractman pt 2
3. Reprise of George Pendle interview

1. Current Events
2. Reprise of 2006 chat with consumer expert David Cay Johnston
3. 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

1. Surprisingly familiar opening
2. Reprise: Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science. 2006 interview still relavant (sadly)
3. Reprise: John Stauber Toxic Sludge is Good for You. Also sadly relevant ten years after our chat

1. Graham makes some observations; part one of Larry Tye on Satchel Paige
2. Baseball ledgend Satchel Paige part two
3. Kevin Cook on Titanic Thompson, hustler extrordinaire

1. Salon.com founder David Talbot reads from his new book The Devil's Chessboard
2. More from The Devil's Chessboard
3. Doug makes a special appearance to rant about bagels

1. Current Events
2. Our chat with Mary Roach on "Packing for Mars
3. More Mary Roach: Bonk, the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

1. BEST OF Radio Parallax with Graham Smith
2. Our talk with Michael Pollan (he's coming to town next week) on food
3. Our talk with Sam Kean on the periodic table of the elements

1. Current Events
2. Russ Baker of whowhatwhy.org updates us on some of their recent articles
3. Obit: Oliver Sachs, update from Australia with Pamela Sue Taylor

1. Current Events
2. Steve Alexander the guy who gave us the idea to start a radio show talks up numerous topics with us
3. TV Obits: Martin Milner of Route 66, "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig; Donald Trump returns to scold us, plug for SN&R event on 09/16

1. Current Events, margarine is worse than butter
2. 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
3. Saudi misbehavior; Jeb lies about ISIS, Chafee nails Hilary, Tanzania's water woes imitate CAs, kudos to Margaret Hutchinson, also oral contraceptive pioneers

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Graham Smith stays on to talk about word & phrase origins

1. Current Events, Obit: Robert Conquest, the man who told the unhappy truth about the USSR
2. 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
3. Lawsuit fun from Uncle John's, our hotter future, capital jargon

1. Current Events
2. A chat with SN&R reporter Cosmo Garvin who is stepping away from his great reporting (temporarily we hope)
3. Briefing section radical Islam, tech stuff: adaptive optics, hacking cars & cities

1. 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
2. Normal top of show; you know quote, quip, joke, stat, anecdote & good news; the good, the bad, and the ugly
3. 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

1. Current Events, with an on-the-attack appearance by Donald Trump
2. Interview with Marin activist Bob Silvestri
3. A chat with camera artist Colleen Gino

1. Current Events, goodbye to Prarie Home Companion, Will Durst on The Donald
2. "Book report": Phllip Knightley's classic The First Casualty, Jeb Bush thinks you should work more, lazy ants
3. 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)

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Quoted from "Unusually Stupid Americans", stand-up comedy in China

1. Current Events
2. Chat with UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Geology Eldridge Moores
3. Lighter fair

1. Current Events, anecdote about The Banana man
2. Will Durst on the confederate flag, Kevin Johnson's e-mail follies, mining aquifers, greenery = healthy, new vaccine bill, "apps" for STDs?, computer heroin
3. Some tales of Costa Rica

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. More chat with Bob Dunham on things financial, Alan Abel Hoaxter extraordinaire, dumb quotes

1. Current Events, not exactly epic news on the misnamed "female viagra"
2. Techonology gone stupid?, "click farms", good news items, Dick Cavett on "political correctness"
3. Film reviews with Capital Public Radio's Gary Chew

1. Current Events, Will Durst on gutting the 4th amendment
2. 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)
3. Financial chat with Bob Dunham "from the neighborhood"

1. Current Events, Will Durst raises a ruckus
2. 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
3. Artist Laura Hohlwein talks about her exhibit currently at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis

1. Current Events
2. A talk with science writer Charles Mann about his fascinating book 1493
3. 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

1. Today's show pre-empted on KDVS, so we celebrate KZFR. Current Events
2. Rick Anderson the GM of KZFR talks about the station which is celebrating 25 years of broadcasting next month
3. 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

1. Current Events; invade Texas? (if only); Bolivia wants a coast back; some sexual stats
2. The newly discovered relationship to us of earth's 3rd type of life, chat with "Governor Brown"
3. Travel agent Stan Godwyn talks up some exotic Asian locations

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