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

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

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Isolated interview with Russ Baker

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

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Isolated phone call from McConnel from segment 1

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

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

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

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Addendum on Trump politics vs pandemic

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

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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

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Musings on the future of Parallax.

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

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The defeat of smallpox. Umami & MSG. DOD waste. Syrian mess.

Air Date: September 15, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Marni Nixon, Gary Paxton. More political wackiness – especially water.

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

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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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Celebrity poetry reading, not included: "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" but we end on it just the same

Air Date: March 24, 2016 Audio Files: 1 available

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Margaret Talbot Part 2. (The father in the book's title is actor Lyle Talbot)

Air Date: March 17, 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

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

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

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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

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Re-airing of our talk with documenatarian Alexander Gibey regarding his 2004 film Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room

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

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Reprise of George Pendle interview

Air Date: November 5, 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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Saudi misbehavior; Jeb lies about ISIS, Chafee nails Hilary, Tanzania's water woes imitate CAs, kudos to Margaret Hutchinson, also oral contraceptive pioneers

Air Date: September 3, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Graham Smith stays on to talk about word & phrase origins

Air Date: August 27, 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

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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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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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Quoted from "Unusually Stupid Americans", stand-up comedy in China

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

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More chat with Bob Dunham on things financial, Alan Abel Hoaxter extraordinaire, dumb quotes

Air Date: June 25, 2015 Audio Files: 1 available

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Financial chat with Bob Dunham "from the neighborhood"

Air Date: June 11, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Partial Obit: Danny Schechter, political knuckleheads with specifics on knuckleheadedness

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

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

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

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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

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$ 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

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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

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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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Obama's "outrageous remarks on christian terrorism", Obit: David Landau, a look at spending $1 trillion on more American nukes

Air Date: February 17, 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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Obituary on Harold Ramis (part 1) and a chat with KDVS's legendary DJ Gary B. Goode

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

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(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

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Obits: the strange tale of Hiro Onoda, Bill Wagman of the Sat Morn Folk Show continues our chat on Pete Seegar

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

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A chat about the late Pete Seegar with Sat Morn Folk Show host Robyne Fawx

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

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more science stuff

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Continued solving of the puzzle, or trying to anyway, in part 2 (with more role reversal)

Air Date: November 21, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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A chat with "Sly Stallone" about Rocky Das Musical and (maybe) Rocky VI

Air Date: May 30, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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The sinking of the USS Guitarro (while under construction!), Prop 65 misuse

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Mini-obit: Jonathan Winters, the Bush 43 library, Loch ness hoax, feeding animals excess antibiotics

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

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Obits: Awohl Von Kliest, last survivor of 1944 Adolph Hitler assassination plot, pianist Van Cliburn

Air Date: March 21, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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Sandra Day O'Connor blathers about the "rule of law" while Scientific American casts doubts on the alleged health value of anti-oxidants

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Our sports correspondent Shaun Minton talks sports (naturally)

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

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Homeopathic "overdosing", Jack Gallagher, David Rosenblum from Hollywood talking publicists

Air Date: February 21, 2013 Audio Files: 1 available

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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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Will Durst on the election, our lame "Wildlife Services", tales of eclipse chasing: Fiji and Vanuatu.

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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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More science topics, potpurri

Air Date: October 18, 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.

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Local writer Matt Perry talks about death

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Racial discrimination, a losing gambler tries to sue the casino, lying businessmen.

Air Date: June 28, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)

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More fun with Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, defending Walter Cronkite from The Right

Air Date: May 31, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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Report on the annular eclipse that passed over California. Naturally we went up to Redding to see it.

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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

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Obituary: Peter Bergman of The Firesign Theatre.

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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

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More current events; sensible bird flu censorship, the US Navy vs pirates

Air Date: January 12, 2012 Audio Files: 1 available

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A T.E. Lawrence addendum/ Science topics

Air Date: November 17, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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A history of gun control (article review) – turns out conservatives were all for it back when urban blacks took up arms and tried to assert THEIR second amendment rights

Air Date: November 3, 2011 Audio Files: 1 available

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

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An addendum to the topic of Prohibition, some Uncle John's Bathroom Reader trivia.

Air Date: September 29, 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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Fun with "Opinions You Should Have" web site, space probes, Mental Floss quotes

Air Date: August 11, 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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Sudden Republican pacifism on Libya (vs WMD lies on Iraq)

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

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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)

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Cave men living in Texas (not currently it turns out to our surprise), Fukashima overreactions including Homer Simpson's

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Science topic, NASA orbits Mercury, the "burning debate" over tau vs pi

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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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Science stuff, frog population crash, Acension Island patchwork ecosystem, bird navigation, cooling cities with greenery

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

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Chat on Dick Dales "Miserlu" with Gil Medavoy host of KDVSs Crossing Continents (and expert on Middle Eastern music)

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

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Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please

Air Date: December 2, 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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Tara Eshghi talks about rising UC tuition fees & costs. Obit: jive talking Barbara Billingsly from Leave it to Beaver

Air Date: October 21, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit – atmosphere of Mars, waste pond mishap, crazy carp farming, delta fish denied EPA protection by shaky water pols

Air Date: October 14, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: George Blanda

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Manager Stephanie Violas, gives Radio Parallax a tour of a cannabis dispensary (the one she manages)

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Kel Munger of the SN&R gives an update on the anti-gay legislation going on in Uganda.

Air Date: September 9, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Iranian American (and KDVS DJ) Tara Eshghi discusses the sabre rattling between Iran and Israel.

Air Date: August 26, 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

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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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Obits; Dennis Hopper,

Air Date: June 3, 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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Adventure Cyclist, Willie Weir, again talks about bike travel around the world and at home.

Air Date: March 18, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Science

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

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France Kassing, host of, It's About You, discusses her many interviews with the late historian Howard Zinn

Air Date: February 18, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dr. Andy Jones, talks about the recently deceased, J.D. Salinger. Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio, gives updates on Mars and space exploration.

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

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Science topics, current events

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

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Chris Thielen, host of KDVS's American Athiest talks about his program

Air Date: January 7, 2010 Audio Files: 1 available

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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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Cool As Folk host, Michael Leahy comments on his recent award from SN&R and other topics related to Folk and Americana music

Air Date: October 8, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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SNR awards – sad radio award, comedy bit from Nat Lamp radio hour – "Mr Rogers", Bob & Ray Komodo dragon bit, science – the dark flow of galaxies

Air Date: September 17, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science writer/Shakespeare researcher, Mark Anderson weighs in on a recently discovered portrait alleged to be of the bard.

Air Date: April 30, 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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Obit: Bob Wilkins, Science topics

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

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Potpurri Catch-up

Air Date: February 19, 2009 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Science

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

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Local award winning activist and tv talk show host Jeanie Keltner talks about politics and change.

Air Date: December 18, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Dr. Bart Ehrman author of Peter, Paul and Mary Magdelene (encore)

Air Date: November 27, 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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Obits, Current events

Air Date: June 12, 2008 Audio Files: 1 available

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Julie Kredens, host of Kentucky Public Radio's, State of Affairs, comments on the largest White Castle recently built in Louisville, KY.

Air Date: April 10, 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

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Obits: W.F. Buckley, Robert Jastrow

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

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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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Doug's neighbor and educator Leno Carolo talks about meeting the rocket scientist who designed Evel Knievel's famous Skycycle.

Air Date: December 20, 2007 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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Obits: Norman Mailer, Joey Bishop, Robert Goulet

Air Date: November 15, 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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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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Meteorologist Elyssa Lynn talks about the amazing Science on a Sphere exhibit currently at Cal Expo

Air Date: August 30, 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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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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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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Vincent Bugliosi, former LA DA, talks about Reclaiming History, The Assassination of JFK, (part 2)

Air Date: May 31, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Science topics, obits; Tom Poston and Don Ho.

Air Date: May 17, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Current Events; Science, Obits; Tommy Newsom

Air Date: May 10, 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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James Israel of the Humor Times celebrates 16 years in print

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

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Iraq War price tag examination, political analysis.

Air Date: March 22, 2007 Audio Files: 1 available

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Obit: Frankie Laine, science topics.

Air Date: March 1, 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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Current Events; Science

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

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Investigative journalist Lisa Pease speaks on the passing of Lawrence Teeter, attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, and former Radio Parallax guest.

Air Date: September 7, 2006 Audio Files: 1 available

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More science topics

Air Date: February 23, 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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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

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Obit: Jack Anderson, talk with Hollywood writer Jane Rusconi, discussion of the NASA Pluto mission with Dr. Amir Alexander of the Planetary Society

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

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Science Topics; More Current Events

Air Date: December 1, 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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Miscellaneous Topics

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

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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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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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More Current Events

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

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Interview: KBHM News Director Steve Chiotakis – the 2004 election as seen from Alabama

Air Date: October 21, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Interview: Daniel Schorr, former CBS Reporter and NPR Analyst on Ed Murrow, CBS, and his career

Air Date: June 3, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Satire – "Beachcomber Joe" Lieberman

Air Date: May 13, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Investigator Michael C. Rupert on the 9/11 hearings

Air Date: April 15, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Christy Canyon, adult film actress, on her autobiography Lights, Camera, Sex!

Air Date: April 8, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Air Date: March 12, 2004 Audio Files: 1 available

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Attorney Jim Harrison – some interesting current legal issues

Air Date: January 15, 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

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Emails sent to us, miscellaneous topics

Air Date: December 11, 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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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

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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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Report on E.O. Wilsons Mondavi talk and his approach to using economic incentives in conservation

Air Date: May 15, 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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Prayer antenna commercial, our UCD student correspondent Steven Valentino talks about picnic day,

Air Date: April 17, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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The Oscars go south, Satire – David Rosenbloom reports on Oscars and Razzies and his effort to get Welcome Back Kotter The Movie made

Air Date: March 27, 2003 Audio Files: 1 available

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More with reporter Steven Valentino on a variety of topics

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

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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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Bush propaganda on smallpox vaccination done to imply Iraq might loose the disease on the world

Air Date: January 9, 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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The strange tale of D.B. Cooper discussed with pilot Vladimir Zeravica

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

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Shaun Minton sports show host re-joins us

Air Date: September 26, 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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