Radio Parallax Shows

Show 1172

Jun 25, 2025
  1. Latest 2025 Radio Parallax show. Bombing of Iran by Israel, Gaza, Orange man demands surrender.
  2. Second half of show

Show 1171

Jun 11, 2025
  1. The latest Radio Parallax show with updates and including a review of the Presidency so far
  2. Segment 2 of the show

Show 1170

Sep 11, 2024
  1. Talks with citizens pushing back against the US Army Corps of Engineers plans for the American River Parkway: Bill Brattain and Pete Spaulding
  2. A brief look at the Presidential debate followed by analysis of recent Trump statements

Show 1169

Sep 4, 2024
  1. We take Trump up on question of whether we are better off today than 4 years ago: Steven J. Harper returns to examine the disastrous Trump mislandling of Covid in 2020
  2. Continuation of Steven J. Harper

Show 1168

Aug 28, 2024
  1. RFK Jr, Phil Donahue obit (and mention of his Iraq war opposition), Trump disparages Congressional Medal of Honor, lost in space
  2. Meiselas report on DJT/RFK Jr phone call (recorded by RFK III)

Show 1167

Aug 21, 2024
  1. Trump, the oldest person ever to become president now older than oldest person to BE president - Reagans record holder - Reagan
  2. More clips on Trump - Ben Meiselas, HannibalLecter craziness, recent polls

Show 1166

Aug 14, 2024
  1. Look ahead to election 2024 and need to address Trump s increasingly bizarre behavior
  2. Clips from MSNBC on press conference anger vs Biden contrasted with Trump blather

Show 1165

Aug 7, 2024
  1. Current Event round up
  2. Ben Tyler Cohen clips on Trump running away from Project 2025 and how GOP election officials are going to avoid certifying vote counts - chat with attorney Marc Elias

Show 1164

Jul 31, 2024
  1. David Packman clip on latest Trump incoheret ramblings, GB&U, Joe Conason clip on his new book The Long Con
  2. Chat with our favorite Trump expert Steven J. Harper

Show 1163

Jul 24, 2024
  1. Current Events
  2. Collection of you tube clips frpm Dave Pakman and Ben Meiselas on Trumps mental issues, glossed over by the MSM

Show 1162

Jul 17, 2024
  1. Near assassination of DJT, Debate and takeaway - review of same, judges bulldozing a path for the former prez, GB&U, limits to growth, potpourri small news items
  2. Abandonment of current events in favor of humorous material

Show 1161

Jul 3, 2024
  1. GB&U review, Trumpland detour
  2. Pushback from US women, review of 2015 Ashley Madison scandal which faked data

Show 1160

Jun 26, 2024
  1. Travelogue of Asia and Europe
  2. Listener urging, More tales from the road

Show 1159

May 15, 2024
  1. Honoring former guests Wecht, and McKlosky, GB&U, pumping perrier, finding former film critic from NYT who almost sank career of Mel Brooks
  2. Einstein on propaganda, Pete McKlosky excerpt Cyril Wecht excerpt

Show 1158

Apr 17, 2024
  1. The Mazatlan Eclipse, aviation, astronomy, and really terrible music
  2. More eclipse, GB&U, science close

Show 1157

Apr 3, 2024
  1. Archival material, 2002 Art of the Hoax
  2. GB&U

Show 1156

Mar 20, 2024
  1. GB&U
  2. Jefferson Morley on his book Snowstorm in August

Show 1155

Mar 6, 2024
  1. USACE assaults on the American River Parkway, SCOTUS assaults the American democracy, Putin murders Navalny, a fishy Superbowl, docu on reporter Danny Casoleros "suicide", GB&U, Harpers Index
  2. Chat with investigatibe journalist Jefferson Morley about his historical book Snowstorm in August The Struggle for Americas Freedom and Washingtons Race Riot of 1835

Show 1154

Feb 21, 2024
  1. Some jokes, Harpers Index, look back at Bob Edwards, Giuliani, another Putin murder, Silicon Valleys scary technocracy advocates
  2. GB&U, potpourri of recent Trump mental deterioration, traformation of war via drone technology, Palantir in Ukraine science topics

Show 1153

Feb 7, 2024
  1. A look at Japans bizarre politics, "intelligence failures" in Gaza and Israeli overreaction
  2. Jimmy Carter on Israeli Apartheid, slavery in the US, the tragic tale of civil rights workers murder in 1964

Show 1152

Jan 31, 2024
  1. Bush 41, the pledge of alliegance, Fareed Zakaria BS, the tractor, Pacific islander navigation, GB&U
  2. Everything gets marketed as "AI" now, the superyachts, the illegal and unscrupulous fishinging industry (Chinese mostly), The Tragedy of the Commons revisited, bad reporting

Show 1151

Jan 24, 2024
  1. Space trombones, Baby Ruth BS, misc quotes, the genius of Newton, predicted collapse of civilization?, cuneiform translation and AI
  2. Avatar ABBA show, modern cursive illiteracy, Venus mysteries, political aspects of Albert Einstein and Charles Chaplin, Hearst & Hitler

Show 1150

Jan 17, 2024
  1. Andy Borowitz on democracy, Asimov on reviews, new AI music and look back at visit fom "Paul McCartney", beaver news, Herman Daly belated obit
  2. Neptunes discovery & political skulduggery, Ayn Rand/Silicon Valley development in Solanao Co., Mountain House urban sprawl

Show 1149

Jan 10, 2024
  1. Ted Kaczinski vs us, GB&U, archival article looking 20 years into future from over 20 years ago, Andy Borowitz on stages of ignornce in politics
  2. Old Chris Mooney look at GOP nuttiness & new Trump lies, Michael Lewis on covid including White House manipulation of reality, Halberstam article on Korean War gaffs of MacArthur/Willouby, Ben Stein & anti-Darwinism, Rudy Giulianis earlier effort to promote riots

Show 1148

Jan 3, 2024
  1. Plunging into 2024 with Dave Barry look at 2023, Xmas movie, GB&U including Tik Tok vs the US Army, mucus evolution, congress unproductiveness, evil Nicraguan politics
  2. Nicaraguan Ortega tyranny continued, liberal segregation advocacy, "blackface" controversy - Hannibal - not a black African, Phoenicians, "Black Pete", gender neutral French, article on cutting the virtual cord

Show 1147

Dec 20, 2023
  1. Some good news items, electoral crazyness into bad films, GB&U, Gaza tragedy, trying to kill Hitler, miscellaneous items
  2. Reprise of our 2008 chat with California politcal legend Willie Brown

Show 1146

Dec 13, 2023
  1. James DiEugenio talks about the JFK Conference at Duquesne U, specifically Jims presentation on the evolution of foreign policy from JFK into the NeoCon revolution
  2. James DiEugenio on Henry Kissinger

Show 1145

Nov 29, 2023
  1. Current event round-up, Xmas music, possible new ED therapy from spider venom, good news items
  2. Steven Harper updates us on SCOTUS machinations and things Trump

Show 1144

Nov 22, 2023
  1. Thanksgiving turkey pardon, Good, Bad & Ugly twice over, supposed alien artifacts, alien worlds, big tech weasels want in on gambling on sports
  2. Gaza catastrophe, Obit: James Buckley, real estate brokers 6% rip off being questioned in court, Trump goes full Nazi in rhetoric

Show 1143

Nov 15, 2023
  1. Duquesne Conference at 50th anniversary of JFKs passing
  2. More musing on JFK murder mystery
  3. Activist attorney Bill Simpich updates us on JFK records lawsuti vs Biden administration

Show 1142

Nov 1, 2023
  1. Retrun to live show after a hiatus, great quotes, memes, GB&U fest, Gaetz coup, alleged intelligence failure in Gaza,
  2. Gaza oppression, Obit: Marti Atissarre, memes, GB&U fest, vaccines dont earn a Nobel

Show 1141

Oct 11, 2023
  1. Potpourri items: GB&U fest, misc news items; phenylepherine acknowledged s placebo, standing up ti China, eliminating taxes in Argemtina, is India Bharat?, Bernie Taupin tantrum, PC run amok
  2. NASA samples an asteroid, tricky bugs, 2014 article on "service animals"

Show 1140

Oct 4, 2023
  1. Reprise: our chat with Ira Flatow from NPRs Science Friday
  2. Reprise: our interview with Ignacio Chaepela from show 146

Show 1139

Sep 20, 2023
  1. Doing the Time Warp, some medical topics of note, some science topics of dubious distinction
  2. Review of Burning Man 2023 with Guy Tortorici , GB&U, Tulare Lake reborn, Colonel Allensworth State Park, American spectacles - armour and trucks

Show 1138

Aug 30, 2023
  1. Interview with Lee McIntyre author of On Disinformation, How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
  2. GB&U, archival musings from our files

Show 1137

Aug 16, 2023
  1. Trump circus dominates news cycle, look back at 3rd party efforts to wrest power from our "two-party system", excuses from the orangemans lawyers, 1960s poli sci review, good news in Ohio
  2. US intelligence manipulating wikipedia, psychological defenses to propaganda

Show 1136

Aug 2, 2023
  1. Return to fresh material; volcanic island on Mars, Rx industry forced to negotiate prices vs serving them up via "like it or lump it" method
  2. Clip of atmospheric scientist Dr Tony Held on global warming - from 21 years ago, use AI to counter spam calls?, giant Pentagon rathole, weird things said in bookstores, GB&U

Show 1128

Jul 12, 2023
  1. Current events update of the last several weeks
  2. Economist article on gender medicine followed by discussion of trans issues in sports.

Show 1127

Jun 21, 2023
  1. Reprise broadcast of our chat with NPR Science Friday host Ira Flatow
  2. Reprise broadcst of our chat with author Peter Pringle on his book about Nikolai Vavilov

Show 1126

Jun 7, 2023
  1. Some favorite clips from the years 2005-2010
  2. Present time musings

Show 1118

May 24, 2023
  1. Look back at 23 years of radio from Douglas Everett & Edward MacMillan
  2. More Radio Parallax look-back, a potpourri of favored snippets

Show 1084

May 17, 2023
  1. Obit: Harry Belafonte, Secretariat the Derby winner and Dancers Image a Derby loser, strange alga, new eco-garbage-plastic-system
  2. A look at the Supreme Court of the United States with Steven J. Harper

Show 1083

May 10, 2023
  1. The (fortunately stymied) Reber Plan to fill in San Francisco Bay, GB&U, science topics
  2. Dr Grover Proctor talks about The Raleigh Call, the mysterious episode of Lee Harvey Oswalds attempt to make a phone call while in police custody

Show 1082

May 3, 2023
  1. Discussion of the Americas most popular dog breed the French Bulldog with veterenarian Evelyn Warner ,the dog of the plant world i.e. the cabbage family, life under the snow, warmer oceans, Rolling Stone article on Okavango oil drillling
  2. Psychiatry detour, why name mascots after nasty beasts, SSRI hucksterism, Freud the fraud, bad science of Stanly Milgram experiment, Obit: Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, look back on Charoltte Denon interview about prosecuting George W Bush for murder, quote from Vince Bugliosi on Iraq War, misremembering that war by the NYT and its culpability in that conflict

Show 1081

Apr 26, 2023
  1. GB&U, a review of some environmental issues, Michael Lewis essay from 2004 on investor driven corporate misbehavior
  2. Steven J Harper discusses his book Crossing Hoffa , a tale of his fathers union work getting entangled with the efforts of the Teamsters leader

Show 1080

Apr 12, 2023
  1. Bill Maher use of canned laughter, recycled comedy bits, Uncle Johns review including sourdugh bread, Shasta Lemurians, Heaves Gate cult, how win all arguments
  2. Worst opening lines in novels, Komodo Dragon bit from Bob & Ray, more Unlce Johns, our favorite classic bit from National Lampoon Radio Hour w Belushi, Radner & Harold Ramis - Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer

Show 1078

Apr 5, 2023
  1. GB&U, James Risen on meaninless vote to end Iraq War, Atlantic article by Breakthrough Institute bullsh*tters and their outing, water woes, a few frivolities
  2. Trump indictment - an analysis from our resident expert on things related to DJT and legal matters Steven J. Harper

Show 1077

Mar 29, 2023
  1. Our wet year restores the drained Tulare Lake, an essay on 20 years look back on the Iraq War based on lies, Silicon Valley Chatbotpocalypse and how AI learns how lie to us in order to sound convincing
  2. October Surprise update, Jeff Morley and Greg Palast weigh in, a clip from our chat with Robert Parry in 2004, clip from Barbara Honegger in 2006 on the same topic, follow up essay from Parry in Consortium News

Show 1076

Mar 22, 2023
  1. Spring, Trump non-indictment, 20 year anniversary of shame vs Iraq war, report from Mexico, Uranium, repealing Iraq enabling laws, WMD lie, French retirees get angry, weight watchers drugs, anti-mask disinformation, GB&U, nord stream PR battle, Trump continues to skate, Pence might be waking up
  2. GMOs from corn to dogs, worst movie ever seen by host wins 2023 Oscar, spineless Kevin McCarthy, CPAC nuts ARE the new GOP, Carlson hypocricy on FOX, a look at WOKE including equity language, libertarian hypocrisy when their banks tank

Show 1075

Mar 15, 2023
  1. Eclipse chasing, listener mail, "ancient alien" nonsense, Isaac Asimovs take on "flying saucers", seeing the future - in 1964, nuclear power, new game changer obesity drugs, insulin highway robbery in the USA
  2. Free range chat with our favorite pharmacologist Howard McKinney