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1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bain of Mitt Romney
2. Author Sam Kean, talks about his fascinating new book on DNA, The Violinist's Thumb
3. Science topics, a chat with 'Sly Stallone'.

1. Current Events
2. Miscelleneous: vocabulary, Matt Taiibi on failed prosecutions of Wall St, casinos out of control, quinoa the new fad food that could actually be a boon
3. Local writer Matt Perry talks about death

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton, pt 1
3. More Shaun Minton, (pt 2)

1. Current Events
2. Doug recounts his recent adventures in New York City
3. World affairs, Obits: City of Stockton

1. Current Events
2. Francis Gary Powers gets a posthumous medal, spy telescopes donated to NASA and a curious youtube video on the US government keeping car mileages LOW in the USA
3. Racial discrimination, a losing gambler tries to sue the casino, lying businessmen.

1. Current Events
2. Kathryn Hohlwein: More on The Readers of Homer (pt 2)
3. Elise Howell talks about being a "Readers of Homer" participant.

1. Our interview with Ray Bradbury (reprise part 1)
2. Ray Bradbury (reprise part 2)
3. Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)

1. Current Events
2. SN&R contributor Tara Eshghi talks about her recent article on 'food recycling'.
3. Eclipse Chaser, Jerry Rose talks about our recent effort to go see the annular eclipse; the transit of venus

1. Current Events
2. DSM-5, sustainable sushi
3. More fun with Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, defending Walter Cronkite from The Right

1. Current Events
2. Historian Traveler Gordon Smith talks about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey - a remarkable man we've been promising to discuss for years.
3. Report on the annular eclipse that passed over California. Naturally we went up to Redding to see it.

1. Current Events
2. Actor Norman Lloyd - we squeeze still more from our chat last year at Musso Franks
3. Obit: auto designer Carrol Shelby, our pal Steve Alexander comments and relives his youth driving his high performance Shelby Mustang

1. Current Events
2. KDVS General Manager Neil Ruud talks about the importance of funding to keep KDVS on the air.
3. Obits: George Lindsey, Nicolas Katzenbach. Science topics

1. Current Events
2. SN&R Senior news editor Cosmo Garvin, talks about sprawl in Northern California - the effort to develop "Cordova Hills" for the usual fast buck.
3. Travel expert Stan Godwin talks about travel agents. And comedian Michael O Connell talks about an upcoming show with The Comedians with Disabilities Act

1. Our Annual PLEDGE DRIVE show - great clips though

1. Current Events
2. Educational chicanery, changes in the arctic, more Sacramento King BS
3. Science topics: fetal guts are not sterile? modern gut bacteria are altered from ancient times

1. Current Events
2. Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved. pt 2
3. Joe Barr, News Director for Capitol Public Radio talks about the life and times of Mike Wallace

1. Current Events
2. Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved (a remarkable look at eyes throughout the animal kingdom). pt 1
3. Legendary KDVS Public Affairs Radio Host France Kassing talks about the recent passing of the award winning Sac Bee cartoonist Rex Babbin

1. Current Events
2. Jessy Schmidt, KDVS host of the Public Affairs show "Intercourse on Intercourse" talks with us about her show on human sexuality.
3. Obit: the Thai inventor of Red Bull

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on the "Muppets" wisecrack by Goldman Sachs employee
2. Kudos for KDVS's Bill Wagman, TV themes, sugar industry attacks high fructose corn syrup.
3. Contraceptive nonsense from the GOP and Catholic hospitals, plus laughter is healthy

1. Current Events
2. Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame "improvements" to the Sacramento International Airport (part 2), and the latest 'Occupy the Capitol' event.
3. Obituary: Peter Bergman of The Firesign Theatre.

1. Current Events
2. Gary Chew on The Artist winning the Oscar (first silent film since Wings - the very first Oscar winner), Rush Limbaugh a complete horses ass yet again
3. Obits: publisher Barney Rosset, composer Robert Sherman; dirty dishes from lower phosphates

1. Current Events
2. Author (and The Economist USA correspondent) Andreas Kluth talks about his fascinating book, Hannibal and Me, What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Film lovers Gary Chew & David Kiehn talk about the (silent!) Oscar nominated movie, The Artist.
3. Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame (and expensive) "improvements" to the Sacramento's International Airport

1. Current Events
2. TV's Bill Nye, The Science Guy (and currently the President of the Planetary Society) talks to us about proposed cuts in NASA funding
3. Shaun Minton talks sports related stories once again

1. Current Events
2. Great Ron Paul quotes from 2002 questioning our war with Iraq, local "homeless" public relations scammers, seriously
3. More current events

1. Current Events
2. Writer Jeff Nilsson discusses his Saturday Evening Post article on predictions made in 1900
3. Obits: Liberal Republicans

1. Current Events
2. Astronomer and author Bob Berman talks about his new book, The Suns Heartbeat
3. More from columnist Bob Berman, on The Suns Heartbeat

1. Chats: our very 1st guest, Sacramento legend Ed Hunter, KDVS GM, well liked clips
2. Review of some favored clips with our laywer pal Steve Alexander serving as wingman
3. More amusing past clips, a live chat with Will Durst

1. Current Events, the 'Mythbusters' boys Adam & Jamie visit Sacramento
2. Author Political Activist Jerry Policoff (our PA political correspondent) on Rick Santorum (he doesn't like him).
3. More current events; sensible bird flu censorship, the US Navy vs pirates

1. Current Events; NASA meets its near Earth objects goal & news is good.
2. More CE: West Sacramento boat dock demolition, Christopher Hitchens obituary
3. Real animal magnetism, the "Rain" Beatles tribute & more

1. Current Events, buying spam ads
2. A look back at 2011 with Dr. Andy Jones of KDVS's Dr Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour
3. Some Bathroom Readers Series fun

1. Current Events; man bites python follow-up, KGO radio host bloodbath
2. Those vexing "ear worms", contributor Matt Perry sounds off on running
3. Xmas music/ Bee article on same with a chat with Priya Malelu 4th grader and article interviewee

1. Current Events, some old Harpers selections
2. Right wing PR/ Eating less meat to save the earth
3. Updates: California water grab and Occupy Wall St.

1. Current Events, bad water, google gullibility
2. KDVS DJs Jeff Hudson and Robyne Fawx talk about 35 years of KDVS' Saturday Morning Folk Show.
3. Occupy Wall St (& UCD) update

1. Current Events, love at mensa
2. More arena crap; LA's subway, our crazy weather
3. Miscellaneous bits from the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers Series

1. Thanksgiving Show, Current Events, some Dave Barry humor, Will Durst gives thanks
2. UC Davis pepper spraying incident; Hi Speed Rail under attack
3. Reprise: "Peter Pan" segment from This American Life

1. Current Events, Our National Motto, Will Durst on Herman Cain
2. Author, Michael Korda on his book Hero (Lawrence of Arabia) - whom his uncle, incidentally, agreed not to make a movie about when Lawrence himself griped - talks about this singular figure
3. A T.E. Lawrence addendum/ Science topics

1. Current Events, stuff on taxes
2. Author Reise Palley on his book on mini-nuclear power plants
3. Democratic party spoils - Sac's Ms Ambassador and her local connection to big-time real estate money

1. Current Events, Will Durst on GOPers (again)
2. "Unscientific America" the war on science/ still more Natomas flood risk insanity
3. 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

1. Current Events, KZFR fundraiser preview (Will Durst, Michael Parenti)
2. Newsweeks John Avalon on his book Deadline Artists a look at the great columnists and some of their best work
3. Some excerpts from columns in "Deadline Artists"

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the GOP's "non vanilla" guy
2. Attorney Activist Nancy Yamada on Sacramento Occupy Wall Street.
3. Obits: Steve Jobs, and radio legend (and one of our favorite guests) Norman Corwin

1. Current Events, attaboy to McClatchy organization for investigating Anthrax attack mystery
2. Bee attaboy II: piece on woman getting the vote in California
3. Occupy Wall Street makes the news/ Chat with Will Durst

1. Current Events; Hank Williams Jr gaff, limitless Arnold ego, Chinese dog meat festival cancelled
2. Local political gadfly David Lynch talks about 'Smart meters' which monitor homeowner activity
3. Musicologist Kyle Larsen augments our Jerry Lieber obituary, and yes we play more terrific music clips

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the 'GOP's trickle-up theory'.
2. Author historian Daniel Okrent, on his book; Last Call, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, a major contributor to the Ken Burns PBS special.
3. An addendum to the topic of Prohibition, some Uncle John's Bathroom Reader trivia.

1. Current Events, Will Durst on 'belt tightening'.
2. Hawaiian influenced tales
3. More Hawaiian influenced tales

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the GOP debate
2. UC Davis's, Dr. Dawn Sumner on picking the landing site in Gale Crater for the Mars Opportunity rover
3. Obituary: songwriter extraordinaire, Jerry Lieber (of Lieber & Stoller) with musical clips of his often hilarious tunes.

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the GOP's 'pledge drive'.
2. The 911 attacks  - 10 years on
3. Author Jim Otaviani talks about his graphic novel on our favorite Nobel Prize winning physicist - Richard Feynman.

1. Current Events, nuclear reactor in the kitchen
2. Author Mark Stein on his book "How the States Got Their Shapes", source of TV program of same name
3. Chat with KDVS's Ed Martin

1. Current Events, Bernie Madoffs customers get stupider and greedier still.
2. UCD Professor Gitta Coaker talks about plant pathology
3. New Scientist mag (and KDViations) interviewee Simon Singh sounds off in print

1. Current Events, polygamy, hilarious SN&R film review
2. More CE: fewer plastic bags & less meat to save the Earth
3. Misc. topics: the British resent Blair's lies on Iraq

1. Current Events; cod recovery, delta smelt too?
2. Former naval petty officer Janet Smith talks about tracking Soviet subs amid the 1980's Cold War tensions (turns out it wan't quite like the Hunt for Red October)
3. Fun with "Opinions You Should Have" web site, space probes, Mental Floss quotes

1. Current Events, bad college cover letters
2. Actor, director, Hollywood icon, Norman Lloyd, at Musso & Frank Grill (part 3).
3. The immortal Chuck Berry at 84 with many music clips

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