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1. Will Durst suffers stroke, memes, hearings on the impeachable Trumps, GB&U, Assange update, astro update, football betting oddity, fruit stand anecdote
2. Peter Segal on vice; hi-tech culling of cats; Trump and perjury; selling our shopping; Saudi news; fruit stand story

1. Sexual misconduct, Will Durst on 2017, GB&U, The Bomb documentary, a fly in the wine
2. 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

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

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, 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, 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, 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; college sports & gambling, a sad connection, Will Durst tees off on Ted Cruz
2. 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
3. Touting coke as a "snack", eclipses mess up solar power generation, DJ "Presto Pancakes" chats up KDVS's musical programming

1. Current Events, Will Durst sounds off
2. Investigative journalist Jim DiEugenio talkes about the supposed North Korean "hack" of Sony and Citizen Four's Oscar (Edward Snowden)
3. Legendary KDVS PA host France Kassing talks more on Ed Martin, Bill O'Reilley caught lying about key JFK assassination figure

1. Will Durst starts us off with the comedy year in review, Current Events
2. The History of KDVS. A chat with former DJ and current CSUS Professor of Anthropology Jerry Drawhorn
3. 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

1. Current Events, radioactive boars, hearing: your L & R ears differ, Will Durst on i-phone hype
2. 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"
3. Miscellaneous

1. Current Events, Diane Feinstein vs the CIA, Will Durst on charging the superbowl acts
2. 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
3. Idiot tree surgery, sandbagging Space-X, watering almonds and musings on oxygen

1. Current Events
2. Goods news: breadfruit, ferns might sequester carbon, Cane toads not SO bad, the criminalization of parenthood, Will Durst bags on GOP obstructionists
3. 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

1. Current Events, jerk reporters, Will Durst on Facebook "experiments" on us
2. The Root of Happiness (a Kava Bar) opens to Davis, we chat with the guys making it happen - Tyler Blythe
3. Health: saunas are good, doctors are not over paid, but "big pharma" is!

1. Current Events, some talk about foods, Will Durst talks up World Cup "fever" (yawn)
2. A continuation of our chat with gadfly former Congressman Pete McCloskey
3. More NSA mischief - rogue mathematicians, and fixing your computer bugs

1. Current Events, Will Durst on graduation
2. Grim politics (as usual) especially the knucklehead local version, and a few cool science stories like finding our sun's stellar brothers
3. 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?

1. Current Events, more on Voyager 1, Will Durst on bad week for racist commentaries
2. 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
3. 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

1. Current Events, computers & cars - a marriage made in purgatory, the gap between student wages and educational costs gets Grand Canyonesque.
2. 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)
3. 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

1. Current Events, the legacy of LBJ, Will Durst on executing people
2. Interview: Ellen Cochrane on East Sac's issues, in particular the controversial development threatening a decent neighborhood, which happens to be the host's
3. Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals

1. Current Events, eclipse review, plus Will Durst
2. Miscellaneous File: overuse of surgery, mammogram problems, the slothful FDA & its disgraceful inaction on antibiotic "growth factor" use and new sunscreens
3. Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the new climate news
2. Thomas Goetz, author of The Remedy Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, a tale of microbes and men
3. 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?

1. Current Events, stupidity and the law: multiple examples including one from Will Durst - marijuana's continued illegality
2. Science: Fusion progress? Polar bear politics, The great Sugar controversy, testosterone - we told ya so
3. (late) Good, Bad, & Ugly, Argentina's woes per The Economist, and Cuba's progress, Mazatlan - a qualified endorsement after a trip down Mexico way

1. Current Events, Caribe thoughts, Will Durst sounds off on techno "progress"
2. Good Bad & Ugly, Chinese Rover woes, more Mantis shrimp data, Doug's Dominican Republic visit: whales and hard motoring, Chris Christie "news"
3. A chat about the late Pete Seegar with Sat Morn Folk Show host Robyne Fawx

1. Current Events; comet to crash on Mars? the Curiosity rover keeps roving, demented drone delivery proposals - a future debacle?
2. 2013 Obits: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ruth Patrick, Martin Sharp, Tom Laughlin, Harold Camping, Paul Crouch, Al Goldstein, Joan Fontaine and the legendary Peter O'Toole
3. Will Durst gripes about computer passwords; our fossil ancestors: both human & fish, newly-discovered miracle anti-biotics (fresh air and sunlight!)

1. 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
2. NSA follies: new laws needed, Snowden's cat & mouse, snooping in our mailboxes; developers to cut down old trees in West Sac
3. 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.

1. Current Events, actual travel complaints, glut of JFK TV shows
2. Interview with author/reporter Jefferson Morley about his fine book "Our Man in Mexico, Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA"
3. Will Durst on lame Obamacare rollout, no amnesty for Edward Snowden, What is a hybrid eclipse?

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the government shut-down
2. 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
3. Obit II: Robert Ford, honorary Tibetan; US nuclear follies with a clip from Dr Strangelove to finish.

1. Current Events, going to a Giants game, testicular follow-up, Will Durst on Ted Cruz
2. Brief review of a prior chat with Daniel Ellsberg leaker extraordinaire, still more on government lies, in praise of the automobile stick shift.
3. 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

1. Current Events; Of mice and modern art, paying low end workers a living wage (why can't we?)
2. Talking medicine: how it is "health news is often bogus", diesel stinks, the mysterious and unexpected rise in myopia
3. 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.

1. Current Events, Will Durst sounds off on the Supreme Court
2. Alien fish woes; Voyager 1; is the dammed spacecraft outside the solar system or not?
3. Quick items, including Chinese phallic buildings & Chinese hackers, Mexico's lost drug war, hungry young lawyers suing their own law schools

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on IRS - Tea Party woes
2. smart meters, Chinese army hackers, WWII review, Ted Cruz - jackass, USA's political assassinations & coups & CIA mischief old and new
3. A chat with "Sly Stallone" about Rocky Das Musical and (maybe) Rocky VI

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, 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, 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, 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, Will Durst comments on the "Muppets" wisecrack by Goldman Sachs employee
2. Kudos for KDVS's Bill Wagman, TV themes, sugar industry attacks high fructose corn syrup.
3. Contraceptive nonsense from the GOP and Catholic hospitals, plus laughter is healthy

1. Chats: our very 1st guest, Sacramento legend Ed Hunter, KDVS GM, well liked clips
2. Review of some favored clips with our laywer pal Steve Alexander serving as wingman
3. More amusing past clips, a live chat with Will Durst

1. Thanksgiving Show, Current Events, some Dave Barry humor, Will Durst gives thanks
2. UC Davis pepper spraying incident; Hi Speed Rail under attack
3. Reprise: "Peter Pan" segment from This American Life

1. Current Events, Our National Motto, Will Durst on Herman Cain
2. 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
3. A T.E. Lawrence addendum/ Science topics

1. Current Events, Will Durst on GOPers (again)
2. "Unscientific America" the war on science/ still more Natomas flood risk insanity
3. 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

1. Current Events, KZFR fundraiser preview (Will Durst, Michael Parenti)
2. Newsweeks John Avalon on his book Deadline Artists a look at the great columnists and some of their best work
3. Some excerpts from columns in "Deadline Artists"

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the GOP's "non vanilla" guy
2. Attorney Activist Nancy Yamada on Sacramento Occupy Wall Street.
3. Obits: Steve Jobs, and radio legend (and one of our favorite guests) Norman Corwin

1. Current Events, attaboy to McClatchy organization for investigating Anthrax attack mystery
2. Bee attaboy II: piece on woman getting the vote in California
3. Occupy Wall Street makes the news/ Chat with Will Durst

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the 'GOP's trickle-up theory'.
2. Author historian Daniel Okrent, on his book; Last Call, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, a major contributor to the Ken Burns PBS special.
3. An addendum to the topic of Prohibition, some Uncle John's Bathroom Reader trivia.

1. Current Events, Will Durst on 'belt tightening'.
2. Hawaiian influenced tales
3. More Hawaiian influenced tales

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the GOP debate
2. UC Davis's, Dr. Dawn Sumner on picking the landing site in Gale Crater for the Mars Opportunity rover
3. Obituary: songwriter extraordinaire, Jerry Lieber (of Lieber & Stoller) with musical clips of his often hilarious tunes.

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the GOP's 'pledge drive'.
2. The 911 attacks �- 10 years on
3. Author Jim Otaviani talks about his graphic novel on our favorite Nobel Prize winning physicist - Richard Feynman.

1. Current Events, more on 2004 election chicanery in Ohio
2. KZFR General Manager Rick Anderson talks about an upcoming event in Chico featuring Will Durst and Michael Parenti (and the host of this program)
3. Science: asteroid captured by Earth's gravity (for now)

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