Activist attorney Bill Simpich updates us on JFK records lawsuti vs Biden administration

Air Date: November 15, 2023 Audio Files: 1 available

Isolated interview with Russ Baker

Air Date: March 1, 2023 Audio Files: 1 available

Isolated phone call from McConnel from segment 1

Air Date: December 14, 2022 Audio Files: 1 available

Isolated bit on the allegedly sentient and perhaps allegedly humorous AI program LaMDA

Air Date: July 20, 2022 Audio Files: 1 available

Addendum on Trump politics vs pandemic

Air Date: March 28, 2020 Audio Files: 1 available

SN&R talks up Dan Bacher, critic of CA water grabs, anchor babies are real, archives – 2007 collateralized debt obligations seen as house of cards by Steven Perlstein

Air Date: October 11, 2018 Audio Files: 1 available

Musings on the future of Parallax.

Air Date: September 29, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: April 21, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obituary of a Morton-Thiokol engineer who warned NASA that the shiuttle would blow up if they launched in cold weather.

Air Date: April 14, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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The Devil's Chessboard Part III: the JFK assassination and the CIA's links to it, Allen Dulles masterminds the Warren Commission cover-up

Air Date: March 3, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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Wall Street discussion with Bob Dunham , science stuff, a Bob & Ray classic: The Slow Talkers of America

Air Date: February 25, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

Science – those confusing gravitational waves, dark skies, Edgar Mitchell, kill ALL mosquitos?, Sirhan denied parole

Air Date: February 18, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: February 11, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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Excerpts from the early days of The National Lampoon Magazine

Air Date: January 28, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

Doug's chat with John Lisack about his participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936!

Air Date: November 26, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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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

Air Date: October 29, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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TV Obits: Martin Milner of Route 66, "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig; Donald Trump returns to scold us, plug for SN&R event on 09/16

Air Date: September 10, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Briefing section radical Islam, tech stuff: adaptive optics, hacking cars & cities

Air Date: August 13, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: August 6, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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A chat with camera artist Colleen Gino

Air Date: July 30, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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)

Air Date: July 23, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Artist Laura Hohlwein talks about her exhibit currently at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis

Air Date: June 4, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: May 28, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: May 21, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Pakistani activist Sabin Mahmud; medical skepticism; immune boosters – for real?; raising kids, Ivy Leage twit factories

Air Date: May 7, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Jack Ely of Louie Louie fame, is fire the source of "entertainment"?, mammogram confusions, follies in CSI and "Citizens United", 1965 in music

Air Date: April 30, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Jeb Bush – "liberal"; almond/water math; The Economist weighs in on CA's water pricing stupidity, more on color vision; Sex – not a "drive" says nutty PhD

Air Date: April 16, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Mini Obit: the great Stan Freberg, a discussion of some trenchant articles about Jerry Brown's fiddling while Rome burns (telling the citiizens WE are the water problem, not the users who squander 80% of the state's H20)

Air Date: April 9, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Touting coke as a "snack", eclipses mess up solar power generation, DJ "Presto Pancakes" chats up KDVS's musical programming

Air Date: April 2, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

This day in history, our usual boilerplate; the good, the bad & the ugly

Air Date: March 19, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Leonard Nimoy & Star Trek, UC auctions off spots to non-residents for money, Mohammed vs Larry documentary, Selma plus 50 years

Air Date: March 12, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

$ transfer to cities to millionaires (how arenas work), zebra stripes, the weird clouds seen on Mars, sad fruit flies are bar flies (kinda like people)

Air Date: March 5, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Legendary KDVS PA host France Kassing talks more on Ed Martin, Bill O'Reilley caught lying about key JFK assassination figure

Air Date: February 26, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Lesley Gore, CA (still) running out of water – thanks real estate developers; updates: MSG, Straus-Kahn and government spying (this time to "stop cyber attacks")

Air Date: February 19, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Author of the new novel Sinful Folk Ned Hayes talks about Valentines Day

Air Date: February 12, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Report from NYC snowstorm from ex-KDVS GM Steven Valentino, surprise call from Michio Kaku

Air Date: January 29, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Astrophysics lite – some curious factoids about stars & planets (especially ours) including calendar matters, an alligator tale from Van Nuys

Air Date: January 22, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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pervious concrete/asphalt – an idea whose time has come, lame 2014 predictions, Marie Tharp seafloor geologist scorned, but vindicated in the end (like Alfred Wegner)

Air Date: January 15, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Dave Barry's year in review (excerpts), Obit Stu Miller, CIA admits THEY were many 1950s UFO stories, ALERT: alfalfa uses 20% of California's water & generates 0.1% of state's revenue!

Air Date: January 8, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

Neil Ruud former KDVS GM and current activist educates us about the UC tuition controversy, including many facts not well-covered in the mainstream press, the first of several such reviews

Air Date: January 1, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science topics: E cigs, China's wall of trees, beavers in action, comet water, and is Sylvester Stallone Jewish? we go to the source for answers

Air Date: December 25, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Chats with more fellow KDVS PA hosts Sam Ribakoff (Ibbur) and Matthew Maxcey (Policy over Politics)

Air Date: December 18, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: December 11, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Some thought on Ferguson and our murder epidemic from black-on-black violence, bio/med items – circumcision is not just OK, it may be good, how vultures can eat what they eat

Air Date: December 4, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

More yucks: George Carlin's 'Modern Man', Stan Freberg's 'Bannana Boat Song', Nat Lamp Radio Hour's 'Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer' (Doug's fave), still more Tom Lehrer: 'National Brotherhood Week'

Air Date: November 27, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

The JFK mystery. Recorded remarks from activist attorney William Simpich about some legal aspects of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, as in was he framed?

Air Date: November 20, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Carissa Carpenter indicted, Obit: Joan Quigley astrologer to Nancy & Ronald Reagan, Bill Maher's nonsense about Islam being evil

Air Date: November 13, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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UC Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon Part 2 – the warrior gene, and more

Air Date: November 6, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Hoaxathon: Obit of Gerald LaRue hoaxer of "Noah's Ark" fragment, and Re-run of our look at Orson Welles' War of the Worlds epic 1938 radio hoax

Air Date: October 30, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Vladimir Zeravica 5) & 6) the Chinese explorer Chen Ho

Air Date: October 25, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Interview with Vladimir Zeravica about adventures in flying cargo (previously unheard on KDVS), talk with Vlado's friend Michael O'Connell about how our mutual friend lauched Michael's career in comedy.

Air Date: October 23, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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More reactions to the Gary Webb saga

Air Date: October 16, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Current comments from Robert Parry (Consortiumnews.com) and Ryan Deveraux (The Intercept) Obit: Fred Braunfman, the man who blew the whistle on the secret bombing of Laos

Air Date: October 9, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Local talk by Ray McGovern of the CIA, and his subsequent chat with our pal Jeanie Keltner on KVMR, Obits: Polly Bergen, Richard Kiel, Dr Guinter Kahn

Air Date: October 2, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Miscellaneous

Air Date: September 25, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Mathematicians helping spy agencies – an ethical dilemma, bad behavior from cell phone usage, what makes a person happy?

Air Date: September 18, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Don Pardo, more on Lauren Bacall & Robin Williams, the new James Brown bio pic (we like it), celebrity misbehavior

Air Date: August 21, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Lauren Bacall / Robin Williams, the supermoon(s) of summer, more on alleged alpha centauri planet

Air Date: August 14, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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More with Ed Haslam about a secret Laboratory in New Orleans in the early 60s, a polio vaccine-cancer connection & figures in the JFK assassination

Air Date: August 7, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: July 31, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Health: saunas are good, doctors are not over paid, but "big pharma" is!

Air Date: July 17, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obituaries – Tony Guinn (chewing tobacco) Chester Nez (last of the Navaho code talkers) and Felix Dennis (flamboyant publisher of The week)

Air Date: July 10, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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More NSA mischief – rogue mathematicians, and fixing your computer bugs

Air Date: June 26, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Good news medley: Jersey Boys gets Eastwooded to the big screen, Aral Sea hopes, wild CA condors in San Mateo county, big dinosaurs (and great dinosaur bumper music to end)

Air Date: June 19, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Further political discussions with the legendary Pete McCloskey who challenged President Richard Nixon (and Nixon's secret wars in Southeast Asia)

Air Date: June 12, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Math woes at Common Core, Health news: head rolls at VA, state marijuana strategies to be honored by feds?, the crass 9/11 Museum

Air Date: June 5, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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?

Air Date: May 29, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

The luckiest archeologic find in history, Glen Greenwald's defense (and aiding of) Edward Snowden, how bacteria communicate (a prelude), some favorites from David Letterman's Top Ten lists.

Air Date: May 22, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: James Tague the third man wounded on 11-22-63, the booming Chinese tourist industry, Lonely Planet guide books – works in transistion.

Air Date: May 15, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: May 8, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: May 1, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals

Air Date: April 24, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes

Air Date: April 17, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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?

Air Date: April 10, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Wm Pogue Part 2 with quotes from "How Do You Go To the Bathroom in Space?" also "Bunny" Mellon, amusing Sam McManus piece in Bee on watching a TV show being taped

Air Date: April 3, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obits: William Pogue (part 1), more from our favorite cartoonist Eric Decetis (how to not get ripped off as an artist), is Yelp using extortion?

Air Date: March 27, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Joe McGinnis, Glen Beck (in a moment of clarity) admits he's a horse's ass, the EHR "fix" of american medicine, a visit to Jack London State Park

Air Date: March 20, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Bob Casale of DEVO (and one-time interviewee for KDViations), Tennant Bagley – CIA agent & disinformationalist? Jerry Brown takes advice from Bibi Netanyahu, North Koreans (unlike Sacramentans) get to vote, more "supplement" bad news, Mexico kills drug lord – for the 2nd time

Air Date: March 13, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

A brief look (and obit) re: cartoonist Morrie Turner, a chat with our favorite local cartoonist Eric Decetis, more on Harold Ramis including our favorite clip of his: excerpt of "Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer" (first aired on KDVS in 1977 via The National Lampoon Radio Hour). Ramis played Shriner.

Air Date: March 6, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

(late) Good, Bad, & Ugly, Argentina's woes per The Economist, and Cuba's progress, Mazatlan – a qualified endorsement after a trip down Mexico way

Air Date: February 20, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Christopher Jones, Maximillian Schell, Sid Ceasar, Shirley Temple

Air Date: February 13, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

"Obit" for Rep George Miller, Texas jackasses, drugs and banking, Cosmos II

Air Date: January 16, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Phil Everly, Science topics: exo-plants are not like the neighborhood, more on good germs, snowflakes don't look like we've been led to believe they look

Air Date: January 9, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

Will Durst gripes about computer passwords; our fossil ancestors: both human & fish, newly-discovered miracle anti-biotics (fresh air and sunlight!)

Air Date: January 2, 2014 Audio Files: 1 available

More on Nelson Mandela, a look back at the controversy over Davis's 1978 Measure A (on divestment) & the verdict (decades later) that it helped (notwithstanding our misgivings about boycotts, and occasional breaking of them deliberately e.g. Cuba)

Air Date: December 26, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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.

Air Date: December 19, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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More of the Mandela story: not a saint (perhaps) but a genuine hero – to a world that could use more of them

Air Date: December 12, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Twin spy writer obits: William Stevenson (non-fiction) and Tom Clancy (fiction), a chat with local business writer Roger S. Peterson about his special to the Bee on why the Warren Report is not credible

Air Date: December 5, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Thanksgiving clarifications & humor; the "Newseum" sells out to Paramount's "Anchorman"; Elk Grove – tourist Mecca? planet earth's newly discovered most common biologic entities!

Air Date: November 28, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Will Durst on lame Obamacare rollout, no amnesty for Edward Snowden, What is a hybrid eclipse?

Air Date: November 14, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Lou Reed, some comments (from William Goldman's writings) about the movies, and mention of some bad ones

Air Date: November 7, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Obits: Bum Phllips, Hal Needham; Halloween Special – Our semi-annual look at the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" ( reprise)

Air Date: October 31, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Scott Carpenter; also, nature's iron teeth; one old albatross, interviews with Dr Opfell & two governors (sort of).

Air Date: October 17, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit II: Robert Ford, honorary Tibetan; US nuclear follies with a clip from Dr Strangelove to finish.

Air Date: October 10, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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

Air Date: October 3, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

NPR borrowings: Dr James Fallon , "Who Can Sing The Blues?" from a chat with Mick Martin (and a commentary on "Texas") that aired on Capital Public Radio

Air Date: September 26, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Hard times for Marxist studies, Big tobacco goes into Burma (the show's host must admit to once trafficking cigarets there).

Air Date: September 19, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Why Algebra II should be banned; Obits: Michael Ansara (with great clip by Bob Scheaffer of CBS), David Frost (and That Was The Week That Was, the breakthrough show he hosted at age 23).

Air Date: September 12, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

The poor readability of most medical articles; Obituaries: UC Davis's professor of biology Dr Robert Thornton (who's Bio 1 probably made the host a biology major), Virginia Johson of Masters & Johnson fame: also, a look at some bad if traditional medical advice

Air Date: September 5, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Science: Mars has water (dammit), Alpha Centauri's dubious planet (and some really crazy ideas for a spaceship to get to it – assuming its there)

Air Date: August 29, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Nasty solar flares and how they may wreck modern life, Don Rose talks up more novelty records like "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha"

Air Date: August 22, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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.

Air Date: August 15, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Don Rose of noveltyrecord.com talks up memorable examples of same, like 'The Thing' by Phil Harris.

Air Date: August 8, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

More from Tuskegee whistleblower Peter Buxton; the national scandal resulting from his going to the press

Air Date: August 1, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: financial weasel Mark Rich, computer whiz Donald Englebart, journalistic firebrand Helen Thomas

Air Date: July 25, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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The science of quasars…. and fixing erectile dysfunction

Air Date: July 18, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Wildman actor comic Phil Proctor shares some anecdotes of his early days in California leading up to the groundbreaking comedy albums of 'The Firesign Theater'.

Air Date: July 11, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Quick items, including Chinese phallic buildings & Chinese hackers, Mexico's lost drug war, hungry young lawyers suing their own law schools

Air Date: July 4, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Our favorite film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson, who filmed in Niles Canyon (pt. 2)

Air Date: June 27, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

Film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson pioneer of The Western as a film genre; wheeler-dealer David Rosenblum talks up his sketchy Salton Sea real estate development .

Air Date: June 20, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Excerpts from The Signal and The Noise (weather predictions), talk of hoarders

Air Date: June 13, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

The Bee's Sam MacManus writings on The Niles Essanay Film Museum, our Australian correspondent Pamel Tayor reports in after Annular eclipse passes thru Queensland

Air Date: June 6, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Chat about SF Jersey Boys w/ Elizabeth Orpina of The California Aggie, who wrote a piece on the production

Air Date: April 18, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Our pal Domingo Escobar gives listeners a first-hand account of sneaking across the Mexican/US border (more than once)

Air Date: April 11, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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KDVS's Ed Martin, talks about various political subjects.

Air Date: January 31, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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)

Air Date: January 24, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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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

Air Date: January 17, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Yet more 2012 obits: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of The NY Times, Senator Daniel Inoue, comic Phyllis Diller

Air Date: January 3, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Activists Annette Deglow and Leno Carolo weigh in on Measure T, the "Claw" issue which dopes in city government want to curtail

Air Date: October 25, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Eco Tour Guide Ted Cheeseman talks about a recent trip to the arctic and his first hand account of the effects of climate change.

Air Date: September 6, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Travel expert Stan Godwin talks about travel agents. And comedian Michael O Connell talks about an upcoming show with The Comedians with Disabilities Act

Air Date: May 3, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Legendary KDVS Public Affairs Radio Host France Kassing talks about the recent passing of the award winning Sac Bee cartoonist Rex Babbin

Air Date: April 5, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: publisher Barney Rosset, composer Robert Sherman; dirty dishes from lower phosphates

Air Date: March 8, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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US politics is gang warfare, Romney may not be nutty enough to satisfy the GOP base, CA Fish & Game president goes to Idaho to shoot a mountain lion cuz its ILLEGAL in California

Air Date: March 1, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Shaun Minton talks sports related stories once again

Air Date: February 16, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Democratic party spoils – Sac's Ms Ambassador and her local connection to big-time real estate money

Air Date: November 10, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

Musicologist Kyle Larsen augments our Jerry Lieber obituary, and yes we play more terrific music clips

Air Date: October 6, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obituary: songwriter extraordinaire, Jerry Lieber (of Lieber & Stoller) with musical clips of his often hilarious tunes.

Air Date: September 15, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Jeane Bartick; man in space?, the Anthony Summers investigation of the links between the Saudi royal family and the 9/11 attackers

Air Date: July 14, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: James Arness of Gunsmoke, Dr Jack Kevorkian, dubious element discoveries, our closer music – a complete Tom Lehrer's The Elements

Air Date: June 16, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Our friend Pakistan (?), Bee article about Ah-nold's shady deal over Fabian Nunez's felonious son

Air Date: May 19, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Bin Ladens location known in October 08 – and mentioned on TV!, US Attorney gets Dr Mollie Fry jailed for cannabis advocacy (your tax dollars being spent stupidly)

Air Date: May 12, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Aviation safety: Douglas Lonnstrom talks about his book, JFK Jr "10 Years after the Crash, a Pilot's Perspective" some sound aviation advice

Air Date: February 24, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview with Kevin Cook of Sports Illustrated about his book on "Titanic Thompson" the legendary gambler & sports hustler

Air Date: January 27, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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Good things happening, periodic table review, bacterial tricks, red lunar eclipse

Air Date: December 23, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please

Air Date: December 2, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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NASA comet close up (again), magnetism on the brain

Air Date: November 11, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Return to show by film historian David Kiehn post "60 Minutes" seg on his ID of 1906 Market St SF movie as having been shot just pre-earthquake

Air Date: October 28, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: George Blanda

Air Date: September 30, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

Science, history, politics, current events.

Air Date: August 19, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Excerpts of Douglas Everett's talk with George McGovern and Daniel Schorr on Capital Public Radio's Insight program

Air Date: July 29, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

Sara, of Sara's Hair Salon, comments on a non-Persian actor playing the lead in The Prince of Persia, and some other things related to Iran

Air Date: July 22, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Debbie Hollingsworth & Bruce Stiny give Doug a tour of the 'This Means War' exhibit of the Spanish American War, on display at the CA State Capitol Museum

Air Date: June 24, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Ted Robinson talks about rescue at Okinawa (pt 2)

Air Date: May 27, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

Outgoing KDVS GM, Kevin Corrigan, talks about the LA Times, Investgative journalist Lisa Pease, weighs in on the ouster of Bob Bennett from the Senate

Air Date: May 20, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Author Activist Charlotte Dennett updates her efforts with Vincent Bugliosi to prosecute George W. Bush for murder.

Air Date: April 29, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Author Attorney Charlotte Dennett talks about her efforts with Vincent Bugliosi to prosecute George W. Bush for Murder.

Air Date: March 25, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Local Radio Legend Phil Cowan talks about some of his radio and television experiences

Air Date: March 4, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dr. Andy Jones helps discuss the Obit of Eric Segal

Air Date: February 11, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

Potpurri, current events, science round up

Air Date: December 3, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

National Lampoon Radio Hour classic "Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer" located after 35 years of search by the host, who heard original airing as a UCD undergrad only to see it mysteriously disappear

Air Date: November 26, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science topics

Air Date: November 5, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Joseph Wiseman, Elizabeth Prophet

Air Date: October 22, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Mary Travers, William Saffire

Air Date: October 1, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Air Date: September 10, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science topics, Obit: Ted Kennedy

Air Date: August 27, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Bicycling correspondent Paul Dorn rails the government's much flawed "Cash 4 Clunkers" program.

Air Date: August 13, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Will Durst weighs in on the Iranian election, comedy excerpts from the inimitable, Bill Cosby

Air Date: June 18, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science, current events

Air Date: June 11, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Maurice Jarre, science topics

Air Date: April 9, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Science

Air Date: March 26, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dick Smothers of the legendary Smothers Brothers talks about that famous comedic duo

Air Date: March 12, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Science

Air Date: February 26, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dr. Andy Jones, of talks about the the poetry read at Obama's Inauguration

Air Date: January 22, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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The Orson Welles 1938 radio drama which shocked the nation; The War of the Worlds. (encore)

Air Date: December 25, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Studs Terkel, science topics

Air Date: November 20, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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R. V. Scheide of SN&R gives his thoughts on the California Propositions

Air Date: October 30, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Will Durst, Keith Ochwat

Air Date: July 24, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Jesse Helms, science topics

Air Date: July 10, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current events, Will Durst comments on gas prices

Air Date: June 19, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dr. Shamser Sinha talks about his work helping child refugees in the UK

Air Date: June 5, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science, politics and whatever we damn well please.

Air Date: May 15, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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RP Intern Lery Chavez discusses Carlos Slim, the second richest man in the world and how so he became.

Air Date: May 1, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Doug talks about his recent expedition to the Big Apple and our nation's capitol.

Air Date: April 3, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

Tim Cope recounts his incredible 3 year journey on horseback across the Eurasian Steppe, On the Trail of Genghis Khan.

Air Date: March 6, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: W.F. Buckley, Robert Jastrow

Air Date: February 28, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

R V Scheide of SN&R gives his thoughts on the upcoming primary election

Air Date: January 31, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Joanne Fuller talks about the watch dog group, Common Cause, of which she is part.

Air Date: January 17, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Bruce Braunstein talks about his recent LA Times editorial on California water politics, and Vincent Rincon gives a first hand account of the Van Halen reunion tour.

Air Date: December 6, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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KDVS's Heather Klinger talks about, The Midtown Monthly, a new magazine for which she writes articles on local music happenings.

Air Date: October 18, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Actor Jeff Kravitz, speaks about the play, A Patriot Act: The Trial of GW Bush, currently playing in Sacramento.

Air Date: September 20, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Sac News & Review writer and Radio Parallax's Eco correspondent, Jennifer Davidson, talks about solar cookers and their use in developing nations.

Air Date: September 13, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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More CE, and the host of KDVS' Saturday Morning Folk Show, Robyne Fawx, comes on to correct last week's obit of Lady Astor.

Air Date: August 23, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Las Vegas correspondent Dr. Sam Russo talks about the last episode of the Sopranos.

Air Date: August 9, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

Excerpt of Radio Parallax interview with author, and founder of salon.com, David Talbot, on his book, Brothers, The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years; and author Jim Gerard, speaks about his new book , Beam Me Up, Jesus – A Heathen's guide to the Rapture.

Air Date: August 2, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Former Aerojet worker Leno Carolo talks about meeting Gus Grissom and other astronauts while helping build the rocket engine that helped save the Apollo 13 crew.

Air Date: July 19, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Egyptologist Matthew McCauley lends insight to the Great Pyramids and ancient Egypt

Air Date: July 5, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

Obit: Ed Yost, Stu Wexler comments on inaccuracies in Vincent Bugliosi's book on the assassination of JFK, Dr. Malcom North discusses the Angora fire currently raging in the Sierras.

Air Date: June 28, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Sir Wally Herbert, the first man to reach the North Pole on foot. Science topics

Air Date: June 21, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Science, Obits; Tommy Newsom

Air Date: May 10, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

Science topics, obits; Boris Yeltsin, David Halberstam, Jack Valenti and Bobby (Boris) Pickett

Air Date: May 3, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Encore presentation of Author George Pendle discussing his book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

Air Date: April 19, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dr. Andrew Nangalama talks about meeting Idi Amin and his escape from Uganda to avoid persecution, (part 1). Molly Ivins obituary.

Air Date: February 8, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science topics, Van Halen admitted to Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame

Air Date: January 11, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Encore presentation – Stephen Kleinedler of American Heritage Dictionary talks about his book '100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses'

Air Date: December 14, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's CSUS liason, gives a report about Director Oliver Stone's recent lecture at CSUS

Air Date: November 16, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's new CSUS liason, gives a report about a recent comedy competition

Air Date: October 12, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science Topics, current events

Air Date: July 13, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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"Col. Skip Klondike" discusses progress in Iraq

Air Date: June 29, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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Community activist Dr. Will Green discusses Mercy Hospital's sprawling expansion plans in the quiet neighborhood of East Sacramento, Cheney shooting, Democrat insanity in Ohio, Pink Panther re-done

Air Date: February 16, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview with Barbara Honegger, author of October Surprise on 25th anniversary of Iranian hostage release

Air Date: January 26, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

Barbara Honegger talks about her book, October Surprise. Obit: Vietnam chopper pilot Hugh Thompson and a discussion of My Lai and Thompsons actions with Steve Valentino host of Stop Making Sense

Air Date: January 19, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

Review of the events of 2005, Part III

Air Date: December 29, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Richard Pryor and Tookie Williams; Science Topics

Air Date: December 15, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Reprise: Classic "This American Life" segment on the anatomy of a fiasco

Air Date: November 24, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science Topics: Quicksand, lying, forensics, antibiotics, "brain food"

Air Date: November 10, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Miscellaneous Topics

Air Date: November 3, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

Science topics, Steven Valentino on his award for piece on gay marriage politics done for the Radio Project of KPFA

Air Date: October 20, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef talks about the Aggie upset at Stanford

Air Date: September 22, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Declaration of Independence in Sacto

Air Date: September 8, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Story by "Chris" – Palestine 1948

Air Date: August 24, 2005 Audio Files: 2 available

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Lisa Pease on efforts to re-certify voting machines in California, more news round up

Air Date: June 16, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview: Lyra Halprin

Air Date: May 19, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science

Air Date: May 12, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science

Air Date: May 5, 2005 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview: Sacramento Bee Columnist R.E. Graswich

Air Date: December 23, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Re-run; Interview: Mike Bhana, National Geographic film maker

Air Date: September 16, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview: Dr. Bruce Betts, The Planetary Society – Martian Rover updates

Air Date: March 18, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Ira Glass, This American Life: hilarious episode on "fiasco" – Peter Pan production

Air Date: December 25, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

Interview: Dr. Gary Aguilar on the medical evidence in the still mysterious death of John F. Kennedy

Air Date: November 20, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview: filmmaker & media expert Danny Schechter on his book Weapons of Mass Deception

Air Date: November 18, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Marti Anaya on the Sacramento Film Festival; Attorney Jeff Kravitz, host of Panic Attack on KDVS on the "Do Not Call" list.

Air Date: October 2, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Edward Teller's obituary

Air Date: September 25, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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The music of Argentina – Calos Gardel; Tom Lehrer classics

Air Date: September 4, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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More talk with Jockey Frank Sorci about his riding of the legendary racehorse Seabiscuit after he has had a chance to see the film now in theaters

Air Date: July 31, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Jokes, Satire – Ronald Reagan calls Madam Clio for astrology advice, smoking issues, bacteria under attack, 455 billion budget defecit

Air Date: July 24, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obits: Gregory Peck with Gary Chew and David Brinkley with KOVR reporter George Franco

Air Date: June 19, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

Our cinema correspondent Gary Chew on A Mighty Wind, Dr Andy Jones talks to us about folk music and poetry

Air Date: June 5, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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David Rosenbloom satires: his group YIMBY, promoting vitamin enriched cigarets, Satirical chats with Yuri Fleishman and William Bennett,

Air Date: May 22, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Handoff to Todd Urick plugs James Brown 70th birthday also NPRs list of 100 influential American musical works of the 20th century

Air Date: May 8, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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The travesty of Iraqi ancient treasures being lost in the US invasion, a look at Fertile Cresent history

Air Date: April 10, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Continuing discussion with Dr Mark Wheelis

Air Date: March 13, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

Bad music assessed with fellow public affairs host Steven Valentino

Air Date: January 23, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

Look ahead to future war in Iraq, the horrid & hypocritical Dr Laura, the dolphin safe certification scam, the SUV is more dangerous than smaller cars, gas hogs are one of the blessings of American life, Bill Shatners Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Air Date: January 16, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dave Barry on 2002, with special permission from Dave to read it, Satire with David Rosenbloom on new book of Bible translation

Air Date: January 2, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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Jerry Rose talks up Bolivian eclipse chasing

Air Date: December 19, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

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The strange tale of D.B. Cooper discussed with pilot Vladimir Zeravica

Air Date: October 3, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

Tomy Held, Whitney Lehman and Sean Minton opine on the American Film Institutes honorable mentions

Air Date: September 12, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

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Our aviattion correspondent Vladimir Zeravika talks about who invented the airplaneht Brothers

Air Date: September 5, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

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A look at psychiatry in the courtroom with Andy Keough a witness in a local murder case, and Dr Sean ONeil on evaluating competency in the ER

Air Date: August 29, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

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Steve Alexander on Cuban embargo

Air Date: August 8, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

Professional sports broadcaster Shaun Minton joins us for the first time to talk about the broadcasting of sports in America

Air Date: July 18, 2002 Audio Files: 1 available

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