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1. Current Events; Nora Epron - celebrated writer, lousy reporter, conflicting tales of snotty Swiss retail clerks
2. Eye surgeon Dr. Gary Aguilar talks about the recently discovered part of the human eye.
3. 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)

1. Current Events; more water thievery in the works, the re-discovery of Orson Welles's 'Too Much Johnson' thought lost forever, yet found again
2. More from "The Wit's Thesaurus", Is memorization going to become obsolete?, Can you seize a car's controls remotely? - a scary question
3. 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"

1. Current Events; Of mice and modern art, paying low end workers a living wage (why can't we?)
2. Talking medicine: how it is "health news is often bogus", diesel stinks, the mysterious and unexpected rise in myopia
3. Our pal (and legendary political comic) Will Durst talks about his upcoming Sacramento one man show, From LSD to OMG, a swerve from politics to geriatrics.

1. Current Events; Israeli divorces limited by zealots
2. Crazy stories: eating bugs (and why its good), inflating pot farm threats, sex trafficking myths, more GOP restricting of abortions, the symbiosis between terrorists and those who supposedly fight them
3. Don Rose of noveltyrecord.com talks up memorable examples of same, like 'The Thing' by Phil Harris.

1. Current Events, Right-wing Republican stooges love the daughter of Dick Cheney as Dems prosecute whistleblowers just like Dick Cheney
2. Peter Buxton , a remarkable chat with the man who blew the whistle on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study
3. More from Tuskegee whistleblower Peter Buxton; the national scandal resulting from his going to the press

1. Current Events; the unclear prospectus (a redundancy?)
2. Captain Vladimir Zeravica talks pilot training in relation to the Asiana crash at SFO, and why some airlines might best be avoided
3. Obits: financial weasel Mark Rich, computer whiz Donald Englebart, journalistic firebrand Helen Thomas

1. Current Events; how will we 'ranch' insects?, the "Bay Delta Conservation Plan" is bunk
2. Sitting is bad, actually really bad; Obit: Neils Diffrient (pioneer of ergonomics) American River Bike Trail idiocy & politics, Dixon officials SCAMMED, the tale continues.
3. The science of quasars.... and fixing erectile dysfunction

1. Current Events; navy kills whales with sonar, lamentations about our night skies
2. A look at Public Relations, quotes from founding father Edward Bernays & real life issues related to same
3. 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'.

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

1. Current Events; a gay Vatican faction?, marry a burglar?
2. baby boomers are not in-shape, guardasil follies, the testosterone fad, regulatory constipation by the FDA, Newport Beach's Hoag Hospital gets abortions torpedoed by Catholic Health Organization
3. Our favorite film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson, who filmed in Niles Canyon (pt. 2)

1. Current Events; more on the Caryssa Carpenter scamming of poor Dixon
2. Science/Politics roundup.
3. 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 .

1. Current Events, Doug's Hawaiian roots
2. More on Dixon "Movie Studio" Scam (real estate tycoon Angelo Tsakapoulos backs scammer!), also Phil Angelides's bad development ideas, medical tourism
3. Excerpts from The Signal and The Noise (weather predictions); talk of hoarders

1. Current Events, Benghazi nonsense, attorney complains about a ticket.
2. Tort wars, arms dealing, Sac Bee uncovers a scam of the City of Dixon - Hollywood is coming? not likely
3. 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

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

1. Current Events, Pete McCloskey helps surfers
2. Elaina Newport of legendary The Capital Steps talks about the group and its upcoming local show
3. Science topics, the woes of the DSM-5

1. Current Events, "Greyhound Bus" therapy; Fish & Wildlife puts salmon migrations on I-80
2. Tyler Blythe, proprietor of, The Root of Happiness Kava Bar, talks about the curious Polynesian medicine and his bold effort to bring the tradition to Sacramento
3. The sinking of the USS Guitarro (while under construction!), Prop 65 misuse

1. Current Events, Helium, Executive highwaymmen, Catholic BS at Hoag Hospital, Microbial IDing
2. "Deep politics": arms merchants, Iraqi "reconstruction", CIA antics, the ever more insane "war on drugs"
3. KDVS' Ed Martin talks about the (still) segregated proms in Georgia

1. Current Events, idiotic speculations on alien planets, "BDCP" phoney about saving delta admits guy running it
2. Elaina Newport of the satirical musical group "The Capital Steps" talks about the upcoming show at the Clarion Inn in Sacramento.
3. Mini-obit: Jonathan Winters, the Bush 43 library, Loch ness hoax, feeding animals excess antibiotics

1. The Annual Pledge Drive Show - a smattering of bits & clips

1. Current Events, Letterman's a gas, chimps make war, homeless advocates bill Sacramento like drunken defense contractors
2. Author Mary Roach discusses her new book, "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal"
3. Chat about SF Jersey Boys w/ Elizabeth Orpina of The California Aggie, who wrote a piece on the production

1. Current Events
2. Science/Politics roundup.
3. Our pal Domingo Escobar gives listeners a first-hand account of sneaking across the Mexican/US border (more than once)

1. Current Events
2. Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 3
3. Author Jim DiEugenio, part 4

1. Current Events
2. Investigative researcher, Jim DiEugenio, discusses his book Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (2nd Edition) pt 1
3. Author Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 2

1. Current Events
2. Investigative journalist Kristina Borjesson, editor of Feet to the Fire, looks back at uncovering 10 years of government lies over the Iraq War and more
3. Obits: Awohl Von Kliest, last survivor of 1944 Adolph Hitler assassination plot, pianist Van Cliburn

1. Current Events
2. Science writer and Newsweek columnist Sharon Begley talks about her recent article; Why We Need Germs.
3. Obit: Hugo Chavez, A Viking "Sunstone" discovered - turns out the legendary navigational aid was real.

1. Current Events
2. cooking, welcoming derelicts to hang out locally, tax reform stymied, and more evil machinations from real estate developer Phil Angelides
3. Sandra Day O'Connor blathers about the "rule of law" while Scientific American casts doubts on the alleged health value of anti-oxidants

1. Current Events
2. young earth mystery, shrinking evolutionary "mising links", goldfish in Lake Tahoe!, old motorcycyle riders, Reviews of old material for the show (and a search for better conditions now)
3. Our sports correspondent Shaun Minton talks sports (naturally)

1. Current Events
2. Chinese hackers robbing us, as Chinas water quality declines, fish behavior on human drugs seeping into their rivers & lakes, meanwhile California water officials say (with a straight face) that they can help our fish by removing their water
3. Homeopathic "overdosing", Jack Gallagher, David Rosenblum from Hollywood talking publicists

1. Current Events
2. the selling out of Sacto's regional master plan to greedy developers (shock); North Korea, an eco disaster, well sure, but a Maoist paradise just the same?
3. Obituary: Shakespearian villain King Richard lll's remains have now been found

1. Current Events
2. Al Gore is on the ball; how legal weasel (and future Supreme Court Justice) Lewis Powell led corporations to "occupy" the US; more Catholic scandals
3. Archaeologist James Mangold talks about modern archaeology.

1. Current Events
2. censoring gun research, bad California "preditor management", Cordova Hills sleazy development
3. KDVS's Ed Martin, talks about various political subjects.

1. Current Events
2. Idiots in Zimbabwe & Cuba; Iran miffed at the film 'Argo'; wildlife woes
3. 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)

1. Current Events
2. Former professional cyclist Steve Fenton, talks doping, Lance Armstrong, and the future of the sport of bicycling.
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallax's new Australia correspondent talks about 2012's top science stories
3. Amusing TV host Huell Howser dies; nationally syndicated columnist Thomas Freidman waffles on Bill Maher's show

1. Current Events
2. 2012 obits: (music figures) Dick Clark, Hal David, Andy Williams, Davy Jones & more
3. Yet more 2012 obits: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of The NY Times, Senator Daniel Inoue, comic Phyllis Diller

1. Current Events
2. Will Durst unloads on the gun issue. Science topics
3. End of year recap.

1. Current Events, Will Durst, Top ten stories of 2012.
2. More on the sugar controversy, piece in Cosmos magazine & more
3. Science: Tau Ceti has planets, life on moons (vs planets), the exoplanet hunting Kepler space telescope

1. Current Events, Will Durst talks about, "the most influential women".
2. Puerto Rico, health controversies: feeding animals worms, diverting anti-smoking dollars, the great sugar controvery - is it much worse than we have realized?
3. Will Durst on the election, our lame "Wildlife Services", tales of eclipse chasing: Fiji and Vanuatu.

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallaxs Australia correspondent talks about the recent eclipse
3. election review plus ramblings

1. Current Events
2. Amateur historian Gordon Smith talks about Kurdish politics in today's Turkey.
3. More on bad businessmen: quotes from "Griftopia" by Matt Taiibi

1. Current Events
2. Encore Presentation of Ira Glass's segment on "Failure" from This American Life
3. Author Jim DiEugenio talks about recent revelations related to JFK's death

1. Current Events
2. Cannibis activist and SN&R writer Ngaio Bealum discusses the ongoing battles over medical marijuana here in California
3. Science & health: exercise is awesome, federal cannabis restrictions are not

1. Current Events
2. Election overview - the beat goes on
3. Election overview ll - and so do the beatings

1. Current Events
2. Special Encore Presentation: excerpts of Doug's intervews with the late Senator George McGovern and Daniel Schorr
3. Activists Annette Deglow and Leno Carolo weigh in on Measure T, the "Claw" issue which dopes in city government want to curtail

1. Current Events
2. The planets getting found around other stars, fMRI scans can still show brain activity in dead fish (so how serious can we take their data?), Sac city goverment spends $684K on a study on keeping the god dammed Kings - then says it has no money to pick up our leaves
3. More science topics, potpurri

1. Current Events
2. Chat with local radio personality and film reviewer Gary Chew
3. Sara of Sara's Hair Salon talks about dirtbag lawyers who sue for minor ADA violations

1. Current Events
2. election previews, Dan Lungren vulnerable?, homeless advocates shake-down
3. Film "The Master" - its OK, but less interesting than the real life wacky story of L Ron Hubbard.

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, 'The Worst Campaign Ever'
2. Author and lawyer Anthony V. Curto talks about his new book on how we might fix our broken legal system.
3. The rare and exotic substance, ambergris, demystified.

1. Current Events
2. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please
3. Encore presentation: Author George Pendle on Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

1. Current Events, KDVS GM Renner Burkle talks about an upcoming KZAP reunion.
2. Science follow-ups: Salton Sea stench, "junk DNA" is not junk, the continuing disgrace of antibiotic misuse in American animal feed lots
3. 9/11 heros and Wall Street weasels (including Mitt Romney)

1. Current Events
2. Author Nigel Cliff ,talks about his book, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
3. Eco Tour Guide Ted Cheeseman talks about a recent trip to the arctic and his first hand account of the effects of climate change.

1. Current Events; Science, the decline of the autopsy, monarch butterfly migrations
2. NOTHING - pre-emption of second half of show by Aggie Sports

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