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
Chat with investigatibe journalist Jefferson Morley about his historical book Snowstorm in August The Struggle for Americas Freedom and Washingtons Race Riot of 1835
Everything gets marketed as "AI" now, the superyachts, the illegal and unscrupulous fishinging industry (Chinese mostly), The Tragedy of the Commons revisited, bad reporting
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January 31, 2024 Audio Files:
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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
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January 10, 2024 Audio Files:
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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
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January 3, 2024 Audio Files:
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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
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
Worst opening lines in novels, Komodo Dragon bit from Bob & Ray, more Unlce Johns, our favorite classic bit from National Lampoon Radio Hour w Belushi, Radner & Harold Ramis – Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer
October Surprise update, Jeff Morley and Greg Palast weigh in, a clip from our chat with Robert Parry in 2004, clip from Barbara Honegger in 2006 on the same topic, follow up essay from Parry in Consortium News
GMOs from corn to dogs, worst movie ever seen by host wins 2023 Oscar, spineless Kevin McCarthy, CPAC nuts ARE the new GOP, Carlson hypocricy on FOX, a look at WOKE including equity language, libertarian hypocrisy when their banks tank
Musing on Jimmy Carter, quotes from Greg Palasts essay echoing Russ Baker – on the puzzling alignment of liberals and the MAGA crowd on the war Ukraine
Ozone hole improving, flipping public opinion, AI acting as an attorney in the courtroom, more woke censorship, raising a lion to shoot it, giant Stone Mountain racist scupture, the Pentagon cannot self-audit, anti-depressants and pacebo – maybe the same thing, chemical imbalance theory BS
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January 25, 2023 Audio Files:
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New revelations on ancient concrete, AG Rob Bonta suing over insuin price gouging, disables journalist Peter Pischke essay on continued opiod restictions per CDC, deep dive into The Week, GB&U, George Santos – astounding liar and Congressman, Kevin McCarthy – subpoena dodger and House Speaker, combo desk and exercise bike, marijuana tax revenue, Ugandan farmer with 12 wives and 558 grandkids now in favor of birth control
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January 18, 2023 Audio Files:
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Archival items: a 2002 look at aspiring NATO members, a 2007 look at Chairman Mao, 2011 Mental Floss look at dictator bad ideas, 2012 obit of Daniel Kaminsky, 2001 obit of Ramsey Clark, 2005 essay – was modern art a CIA weapon?, SNR article on home heating by burning food (corn) in a stove, 2009 Mental Floss piece – Voltaire vs Rousseau
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January 11, 2023 Audio Files:
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Monsoon vs drought woes, megaflood warning, sewage fish kill in SF via red tide, technology review including chatbots/AI and voter manipulation, Covid origin controversy
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January 4, 2023 Audio Files:
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GB&U, Americas Frontline Doc indicted, Greg Palast observations on Georgia voter suppression – contrary to what the MSM has reported, Jefferson Morley on the continuing failure of the CIA to obey the law and release hidden JFK records, the insanity of quantum computers & SNDL and PQC, fusion advancement, fentanyl ODs and school responsibiity, desk bombing, the yeast that gave us lager
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December 21, 2022 Audio Files:
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The history of Ukraine vs Russia, background data provided by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who discusses the Holodomor Joseph Stalins starvation of Ukraine, special mention of how coverage of the events was manipulated
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December 14, 2022 Audio Files:
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Mars opposition 12/07/22, Asimov quip, dodging waves, soccer, GB&U, Venzuela money deal, evil energy lobbying from Texas Public Policy Foundation, more crypt woes, the story of Gareth Jones and the murderous Ukranian Holodomor
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December 7, 2022 Audio Files:
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Miscellanous material converted into radio – demonstrated – AAA magazine riff, Mars opposition, Oval Office oddities, new iron-nickel magnets, outsourcing stupidity, Herman Daly obit, GPD stupidity,
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November 23, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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October 26, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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October 19, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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October 5, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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September 14, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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September 7, 2022 Audio Files:
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More from James DiEugenio on the real story of Watergate, which is much more tied to intelligence agencies and operatives than portrayed by Woodward and Bernstein
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August 17, 2022 Audio Files:
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Good, Bad & Ugly, Elon Musk misbehavior, Frontline classic from 2014 – The United States of Secrets and how Big Tech and the NSA really do listen in to phone conversations, docu on scandalous attack on USS Liberty in 1967 by Israel, civil rights on the chopping block and right to a lawyer, the Dumbarton Bridge
Euro-Dollar parity, world population going over the cliff with Musk and economists approval, Webb telescope expands what Edwin Hubble discovered just one centure ago, real estate goes off the cliff in the Bay Area, enviro woes, our look at LaMDA, the Goodgle AI program that is alleged to be sentient
Burning the wrongdoing into the public mind, Jim Hougan & Watergate, giant bacteria, ocean engineering on CO2?, pathenocarpy upadte, health tips, more jokes
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
Eatng ugly seafood, excess covid deaths in USA at maybe 900,000, Wuhan lab leak revisited, Trump still in play for 2024 thanks to Bannon, questioning liberal policies on crime, PA crazy Senate race, testosterone issues in sports
Political chicanery part II, Bidens disinformation board (and Nina Jankowits) sunk by disinformation, Marcos gold, anti-abortion craziness, Stari decisis slippery slope, excerpts of prior talk with Michael Trachtman on Brown v Board replacing Plessy v Ferguson
Oil extraction in California Dan Bacher weighs in on shennigans, exerpt of our 2006 chat w Christine Todd Whitman Bush adminstration EPA head sandbagged for efforts to cap and trade on CO2 emissions, oil, finish up on Power of Big Oil advocates their prior stances, capture of CO2, sargassum crisis, Thomas Midgely video
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
Chat with Doctor of Pharmacy Howard McKinney on Linus Pauling, psychadelics, AI horror story on poisons, legalizing pot & treating drug abusers, opioid crisis rooted in Chinese fentalog illegal drugs not prescirption meds
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
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
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February 20, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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January 21, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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January 5, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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January 1, 2022 Audio Files:
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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
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December 5, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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November 15, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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October 30, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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October 26, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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October 19, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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October 9, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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October 5, 2021 Audio Files:
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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,
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August 12, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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
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January 14, 2021 Audio Files:
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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
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December 3, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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November 19, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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November 2, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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October 22, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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October 15, 2020 Audio Files:
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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, ,
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October 1, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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September 10, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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August 20, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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
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
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
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,
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?
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
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February 27, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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January 16, 2020 Audio Files:
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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
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January 9, 2020 Audio Files:
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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?;
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December 19, 2019 Audio Files:
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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;
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November 21, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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November 14, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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October 31, 2019 Audio Files:
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Obit: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov; Mercury transit; trilobite update; pirarucu news, the not-fake emoluments clause; the mess in Syria; China bludgeons Hong Kong;
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October 24, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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October 3, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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September 26, 2019 Audio Files:
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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?
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September 19, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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
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
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
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;
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
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
GB&U; vaccines still do not cause autism; social prescribing; smelling Parkinsons?; space junk; more on meteors, dinosaur killer fossils?; death of almanac
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
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
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February 28, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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February 7, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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January 31, 2019 Audio Files:
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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,
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October 18, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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October 4, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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September 13, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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August 30, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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
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
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
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
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)
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January 25, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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January 18, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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December 14, 2017 Audio Files:
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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
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November 30, 2017 Audio Files:
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Vegas shooter: gambling creep. Obit: Arthur Janov, the Primal Scream guru. Scientific research of dubious value. Thomas Midgley: a one-man scientific disaster?
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October 19, 2017 Audio Files:
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More on the late great Dick Gregory. Yet more corporate mergers. Science topics. Goodbye, Cassini – a look at the mission’s accomplishments and findings.
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September 14, 2017 Audio Files:
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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??
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August 10, 2017 Audio Files:
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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).
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)
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..
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February 11, 2016 Audio Files:
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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
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September 3, 2015 Audio Files:
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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
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August 27, 2015 Audio Files:
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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
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August 20, 2015 Audio Files:
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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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
potpourri of dubious ideas: implantable stimulators of vagus nerve, waste well injecton into protected acquifers, helping porn stars into radio, geo-engineering, cheaper oil
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February 17, 2015 Audio Files:
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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
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February 12, 2015 Audio Files:
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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
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January 15, 2015 Audio Files:
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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
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December 18, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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November 27, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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November 6, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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October 30, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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October 23, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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October 16, 2014 Audio Files:
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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).
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October 9, 2014 Audio Files:
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Interview with Josiah Thompson about his groundbreaking JFK research on the Zapruder film, the acoustics evidence and grassy knoll assassin witness S.M. Holland
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October 2, 2014 Audio Files:
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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"
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September 25, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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August 21, 2014 Audio Files:
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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?)
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August 14, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
Miscellaneous topics: college athletes can unionize, Obama loses young people but keeps comedy skills, ice sheet melting, Pentagon woes, the Bush economic collapse
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 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)
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
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).
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
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
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February 27, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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February 13, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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January 23, 2014 Audio Files:
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2013 Obits: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ruth Patrick, Martin Sharp, Tom Laughlin, Harold Camping, Paul Crouch, Al Goldstein, Joan Fontaine and the legendary Peter O'Toole
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January 2, 2014 Audio Files:
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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
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December 26, 2013 Audio Files:
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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!)
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December 5, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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November 28, 2013 Audio Files:
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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!)
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November 7, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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October 17, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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October 10, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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September 26, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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September 19, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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September 12, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
Sitting is bad, actually really bad; Obit: Neils Diffrient (pioneer of ergonomics) American River Bike Trail idiocy & politics, Dixon officials SCAMMED, the tale continues.
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
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
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
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)
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February 28, 2013 Audio Files:
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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
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February 21, 2013 Audio Files:
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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?
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February 14, 2013 Audio Files:
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Puerto Rico, health controversies: feeding animals worms, diverting anti-smoking dollars, the great sugar controvery – is it much worse than we have realized?
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December 13, 2012 Audio Files:
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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
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October 18, 2012 Audio Files:
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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
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.
Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame "improvements" to the Sacramento International Airport (part 2), and the latest 'Occupy the Capitol' event.
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
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
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November 17, 2011 Audio Files:
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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)
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August 11, 2011 Audio Files:
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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
Gary Chew picks his top 10 movies of 2010. New KDVS Public Affairs director, George Selu introduces himself and talks about his show "Sounds of Africa"
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December 30, 2010 Audio Files:
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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
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September 9, 2010 Audio Files:
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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.
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.
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
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February 25, 2010 Audio Files:
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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.
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February 18, 2010 Audio Files:
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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.
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January 28, 2010 Audio Files:
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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.
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November 12, 2009 Audio Files:
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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.
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August 20, 2009 Audio Files:
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Radio Parallax film correspondent Matthew Perry talks about, Public Enemies. And environmental engineer, Dr. Whitney Leeman weighs in on the film, Food Inc.
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.
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December 18, 2008 Audio Files:
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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
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)
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.
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February 28, 2008 Audio Files:
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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)
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February 7, 2008 Audio Files:
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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
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January 31, 2008 Audio Files:
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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.
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December 20, 2007 Audio Files:
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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
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December 13, 2007 Audio Files:
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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
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November 15, 2007 Audio Files:
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Former 60 minutes producer and Pulitzer prize winner, Lowell Bergman, talks about Arms Merchants and his Frontline special on the subject; Gun Runners.
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August 30, 2007 Audio Files:
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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.
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August 23, 2007 Audio Files:
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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).
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August 16, 2007 Audio Files:
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Dr. Matthew Bishop of UC Davis and Dr. David Wagner of UC Berkeley discuss the vulnerability of California's recently decertified electronic voting machines
Pulitzer prize winning author Chris Hedges talks about his book, American Facists, which documents the agenda of radical right wing christians (encore presentation)
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
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)
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.
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.
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
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November 23, 2006 Audio Files:
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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.
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August 17, 2006 Audio Files:
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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
"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
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December 1, 2005 Audio Files:
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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
Sunsets are coming later by now, the Award Show Award Show get us into Rosenbloom satire on breaking ground on the same topic, Satire with Skip Klondike talking up events in Baghdad
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December 11, 2003 Audio Files:
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Some follow-up with author Reese Erlich on his former co-worker Robart Scheers reports on the Jessica Lynch propaganda effort by the Bush administration
How the Military Industrial Complex of Dwight Eisenhower resonates in contemporary America as translated through the book Addicted to War, we talk with publisher Frank Dorrel
Political activist extraordinaire Greg Palast talks about his bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy , and purging of the voter rolls in Florida election 2000 by Jeb Bush to elect his brother
Satire of administration spokesman Yuri Fleishman downplaying the trashing of the Iraqi Museum, Satire – Colonel Skip Klondike explains the military situation, real life links between neocons and Israels Likud party
Reading of essay: A Soldiers Viewpoint on Surviving Nuclear, Chemical or Biological attack, excerpt of talk with UCD professor Dr Mark Wheelis expert on WMDs weighs in on the topic
Look at the Iraq war nightmare with KDVS reporter Steven Valentino takes apart the coalition allegedly supporting US war efforts, the biohazard lab controversy in Davis, Democratic presidential hopefulls come to Sacto – Steven has his time with John Kerry given to the SF Chronicle, yet gets micro-quote from Kerry
Dr Andy Jones stays with us a talk on television including Mr Lillienthal who spoke at an event on Green Street in SF commeorating a pioneer broadcast from Berkeley
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September 26, 2002 Audio Files:
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A look back at a great legal miscarriage of justice – the prosecution of the McMartin PreSchool staff for imagined molestation, Sacramento News & Review reporter Cosmo Garvin on a local crime involving a juvenile defendant
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August 29, 2002 Audio Files:
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