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1. Trip to Dark Skies Festival in Great Basin National park; book promotion: Pride & Prejudice; An American Way of Death, Stiff; oh yeah - Trump opens impeachment inquiry; other bad politicians; GB&U; college admissions scandal claims a Hollywood actress, but not old money elite
2. Pretending to navigate the homeless, and using this ploy to bypass environmental regs on SF Bay; Clean Water Act at risk; Sierra Club selling out on water scamming?; questionable Kern Water bank privatization

1. A second interstellar visitor, Niles Canyon hike & bike, GB&U, you cannot recycle garbage; bring back deposit bottles by passing bottle bills, and use glass vs plasic, fast food crows & cholesterol
2. Steven Kinzer book on mind control; Stanley Gottlieb - the Dr Mengele of MK-Ultra; Obits: David Koch, Lee Iacocca, Rip Torn; manipulating public opinion - slanted to those with the big bucks example: puff piece on how jobs losses from robots and Ai and automation will cause no problems

1. Olympic cheats; year zero; art follies; castorium alert; GB&U, Trump gets into the weather; Brazil bottoms; seemed like a good idea; the real zodiac
2. Enjoying nature vs phone separation anxiety; tour of old town of Alvarado in East Bay and its surprises; hacking Twitter via sim-swapping; is privacy gone?

1. Great quotes, Calvin Trillin bit from New Yorker, GB&U backlog, Obits - that rascal Robert Mugabe, that mensch Bob Fletcher, Trump tarifs impact Bible production - from China
2. Kakapoo on rebound?, most food expiration dates are just PR, homeopathy is a fraud, Obit: Liane Russell, dubious hi tech

1. Tribute Program for France Senecal Kassing; France interviews Chalmers Johnson for KDVS
2. France Kassing on Capital Public Radio program Insight talking, about Howard Zinn

1. A look at ancient Rome; interview with Professor Barry Strauss , author of Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
2. Barry Strauss , part 2

1. Charlie Chaplin tour; Monterey whale watching; Hawaiian anecdote
2. GOP funding of Maryann Williamson; GB&U; gaming Google Maps; test of Google - they pass; monkeys join apes & man as tool user; croc teeth and snake ribs, insect apocalype, carbonation surprises

1. American gay president - in 1857?, American big pharma nonsense; lowering cholesterol with food vs incentivizing docs to Rx drugs; anti-cholinergic drugs & dementia
2. GB&U; tourism out of control in Venice and elsewhere; Hong Kong rebellion continues; Obit: Lee Ra Hee; Huawei under suspicion for Chinese spying as Silicon Valley sucks up to China; dance crazes

1. No-wash clothes, toothpaste via drone, high points of low tech, google gluttony, uber inanities, AI curveliance & ideo analytics, GB&U, a look back at Joe McCarthy, 3 anecdotes
2. A look back over the decades at what a personss high school Poli Sci teacher might say about developments, courtesy of a visit with my high school Poli Sci teacher Mark Mattingly

1. The world going govern-MENTAL; political party circuses; the Dems and the Whigs
2. more early American politics; anti-slavery leads to the GOP and civil war; the banana party in Brazil; Bosco the dog mayor, GB&U; debating Dems

1. Gut bacteria may influence development of autism, close supernova may have affected earth, shyster lawyer gets some get back, slave ship Clotilda found - see prior show in Baracoon, NPR misses point on NORAD story, Gabbard only Dem taking a stand against Military Industry, forget the 10,000 steps
2. The Mystery of Expertise; census question not likely to help more vote - duh; government yawns at prospect of foreign intervention in 2020 election; Mitch McConnel lied about his actions to stop Garland SCOTUS nomination; heavyweight title to Mexican-American; Silicon Valley eyes Central Valley water

1. The extremely stable genius in action, and maybe in love; stats; US parrots; Mt Everest stupidity, a prime minister surgeon, shyster indicted, GB&U
2. Reignig-in robo calls; Roundup - bad Rx; false flag ops; student housing in the flight path; Obit: Herman Wouk; old articles; convice with values - facts will not work; Trump eco rollback - frontal assault on science

1. The smart speakers gets eyes, Obit: Doris Day, art replaces cocaine as a sign you have too much money, Gavin Newsom to cure homelessness via task force and help fish by removing water, Chinese Green Wall may be failing, energy costs
2. Australia hits reverse on climate change action; Murdoch empire bad news - for most of us; plutonium speculations; ignoring global warming in school; sunscreen toxicity; Denisovan jawboning

1. SF bans facial recognition; Fred Trump was also a jerk; visiting Santa Catalina; saving giraffes, GB&U; The Donlad lost more money than anyone else in recent history; GOP legislatures continue to limit voting and halt all abortions - despite Roe v. Wade
2. Economist notes Trump has committed impeachable offenses; do carbon dioxide levels impede your meetings?; Exxon predicted our present global warming level - in 1982 - but rather than change business model, launched PR campaign; US blocks artic nation cooperation vs climate change; longevity factors; valid anti-ageing Rx coming?; phone addiction and tech mischief; making AI accountable;

1. Sad stats; GB&U, gaslighting, follow-ups; immigrant woes; terrorist Kahanists; Obit: Charles Van Doren; Cohen before Congress; misconduct per Mueller
2. more of Cohen denunciations; more of Caro on LBJ; Newsom moratorium will not stymie trial of Golden State Killer; AI & tech issues; non-existant Google technical support

1. GB&U, Azores story that a lot of bull, recycling tips, bad news for journalism especially in America
2. Briefing on the mighty hoax of Bigfoot; wikileaks and Russia; relatives of homo sapiens; one-way trips to Mars cancelled; new tech; fiber pollution; gravity waves

1. Art ahead of life - Jack Ma trumps Silicon Valley while life imitates art in Ukraine; Trumps dirty pool; Obit: Andrew Marshall, Robert Caro on how LBJ got on 1960 ticket from The Passage of Power
2. Obit: David Fetchheimer; Bill Turner on the FBI; the Mob; Israel and Netanyahu;

1. black hole photo, speedy stars, interstellar visitor, our sun & family, GB&U, stats, video game addiction, state enhanced gambling addiction
2. viewing California wild flowers; animals are like us; lying robots; Alexa eavesdropping, driving asleep; digital baby footprint; robo calling; groundfish on rebound; Toobin on Mueller

1. Restoring wildlife in South Bay; Khashoggi: Trump - golf cheater; GB&U; new atomic threat; college admissions scandals; Silicon Valley immortals
2. Congrats to the SN&R on its 40th anniversary, bad ideas: cashless stores, drones; spectacular fossil find? - by a nobody

1. April No-Collusion Fools Days, Theranos fools, Silicon Valley forces a march away from remote work, the rent control non-answer, surveilance tech challenge to democracy
2. GB&U; vaccines still do not cause autism; social prescribing; smelling Parkinsons?; space junk; more on meteors, dinosaur killer fossils?; death of almanac

1. Mueller meanders and Barr bars, Bill Barr history of burying bodies, drafting women, new internet critics Tim Berners-Lee & Vint Cerf, EU vs big tech, felling forests for carbon credits
2. Obits - Dick Dale, Hal Blaine, Birch Bayh & Lyndon Laroche, Chinese chicanery and Zuck sucks up, international bad politician round-up, Silicon Valley immortals

1. The egg, scholastic scandal, Gavin and the misuse of Eminent Domain, death penalty denial, Theranos documentary, bad robot bedside manner
2. GB&U, bird watching bozos, read the fine print, Boeing fails to fix engineering with software, the AI panacea, news about Hawaii, tiptoeing through the turnips

1. Happy birthday to The Periodic Table, Obit - Betty Ballantine, Jane Mayer on Fox Propaganda, Trans athletes, GB&U, Bob Costas is a stand-up guy, Newsom elevates his opinion over the law, snakes on a palm tree
2. The Periodic Table of the Elements, The Economist and New Scientist, we dispute everything above Americium

1. Skiing news, actor fakes assault, Parallax finally stumbles onto fashion, GB&U, Nest Guard - listening in
2. Mort Sahl - an American institution, a first-hand report, restricting fines, fees and fortitures, organic food, low-cal fast food, Chinese sci-fi

1. Trump cheating, lying and hysterical non-emergencies, do-gooders complicate life for domestic caretakers, Jane Mayer - Dark Money
2. GB&U, Tim Wu at the Commonwealth Club (our new Guilded Age and the need for anti-trust and why we need to break up FB) old SN&R article on the Evils of Amazon, Obit for the Opportunity Mars rover

1. Newsom and tunnel vision, no Spanish in Montana, Interview with Jerry Pollicoff (senior editor OpEd News, expert on JFK & the media)
2. More Jerry Policoff on new Truth and Reconcilliation Committee and old story of media coverage

1. Minor planets and so much more, tech cororate crybabies, tax pipe dreams, putting more old folks in homes, gun control realities, Chinese crystal meth, do not flush fluchable wipes, Chinese birth hotels
2. Archival fun, deep political musings, GB&U, Trump all in on AI, roboburgers, AI avades drug patents, thumps up on Stan & Ollie

1. Super Bowl, archival items, quips, Maduro no go, GB&U, Psy-ops, border patrol tries to reverese engineer reality for benefit of Trump
2. Eco-tips, FB at 15, how much of internet is fake, The Secret War behind Amazon reviews, meteor strike on moon, its raining on Titan (sort of), mulling minor planes, cubewanos

1. Roger Stone, more weasely then ever (ask Malcom Nance) Macedonian muddle, meandering California, Counter Spin backs Maduro, China feeds Drug War, Reefer Madness revived
2. Dark Money teaser, drone dummkopfs, GB&U, Oracle kneecaps workers, Newsom like Huntington housing, tech companies create housing crunch then demands others repair damage - Apple saturates market, drilling fof water on Mars

1. Lunar eclipse, copepods and not kosher, David Talbot speaheads effort to re-open JFK case, recycling update, Trump messes up missiles
2. GB&U, avoid stealing Mexican gas, punting Trumps emoluments issue, Multilevel marketing scams, bad ides on drones, cashless economy, brain reading headbands, tidyness (disorderly does not mean disorganized)

1. Carol Channing, archival items, new rules, misc file, Bob Cutler, GB&U, Obit for Herb Kelleher
2. Help from The New Yorker, Anthony Bourdain and Mark Burnett (the man who invented Trump)

1. Thumbs up for Free Solo, Do not park in San Rafael, Thumbs up for Vice, FB spying on your phone, Bob Einstein, Mean Gene and Trump
2. Charity vs greed, Dave Barry Year in Review, retro tech Woodstock, soil microbes, stopping global warming, fake robots, the complete meal

1. King tides, animal econ, "moderate Islam in Saudi, endless war, poll data
2. PACE loan scams, Geo. Will slams ruling elite, Mr/Mrs Larry Page: owing your e & DNA data, rehabilitating fat and ties, image fakery, tech addiction

1. End 2018 musings, 50 year lookback, "Earthrise", Science controversies, math madness, selfie silliness, stadium scams
2. Death if RFK, FB futzing the Philippines, Tech in 68 (Englebart stunned the world), looking at 1918, GB&U, Cuban craziness, organic food

1. Astronomy near & far, GB&U, ionic airplanes?, ant spider, mono and MS, China and opiods
2. Tech: Robot Mexicans, robit hand, nanny spying, tracking your purchases, Chinese Middle Class, facial recogniton, more FB lies, the Bob Ross toaster

1. An interview with atrronomer Phil Plait , columnist for Syfy.com on about cool things we are learning about curious objects in deep space
2. More from Phil, more space news, than a return to planet earth

1. Obits: radio host Ray Taliofero, magician Ricky Jay and the grand wimp of the GOP George H.W. Bush
2. News round up, and our usual fare including a look at tech

1. A look at "Bohemian Rhapsody", Trump in denial of global warming & a Saudi murdering prince, our local smoky air, Alpha House
2. Good, Bad and Ugly, diverless car woes, auroras on brown dwarfs, AI to help status quo

1. A bit on Harvey Washington Wylie, Cold War espionage, food, Tom Jaego Obit, rogue planets; Good, Bad & Ugly, Alpha House, Jane Mayer, ballparks are a bad deal, William Goldman
2. More from author Vince Palamara on the Scecret Service; oddballs in the SS, the fatal breakdown with JFK

1. Oumuamua, A man who wants his body sent to deep space - we meet Graham Arthur MacKenzie , our sun can set off military mines (and do worse)
2. US Secret Service expert Vince Palamara talks to us about remarkable instances of Presidentlial Protection

1. Hawaiian chronicles, travel tips: bath plug, compact flouresents, batteries; a quote from Bourdain relevant to xenophobia, election fallout, Trump ravings, Cruz survives, vote suppression and altertation continues, House goes blue, quotes from Dark Money
2. Double GB&U, voter supressor loses, Anthony Levandowski and the self-driving car follies

1. Caution on Economy, expert humor from Bruce McCall & Bertrand Russell, Kid Charlemagne leads us to Owlsley Stanley story then onto Silicon Valley, Shouts and Murmurs Social Media Guidelines, ignoring phone messages by millenials, texting 9/11 in San Mateo Co anyway, Smoot Hawley article from 2008 on how to make the economy worse
2. GB&U, Saudi prince a-murdering, Johnny Mathis segue from John Waters on Teri Gross, tech savvy people knew Russians were up to no good in 2016 a Jane Mayer article,

1. Trump and Kim bromance, Brent Kavanaugh sad saga, Elon and his cool rockets, the octopi & the ecstacy, gene editing to kill mosquitos,
2. Obit for Marty Balin, Steeley Dan tune Kid Charlemagne is about Owlsley Stanley & LSD,
3. 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

1. Obituary for Alan Abel, a genuine Radio Parallax hero
2. Brent Kavanaugh faux investigation misleads public with mainstream media collusion, GB&U, motorcycle riders ageing, science topics, small body 2.5x the distance of Pluto but goes out to the Oort cloud and may affirm the hidden planet x, more plastic woes

1. Trump pens, Anthony Bourdain opinions, Serena Williams acting like an ass, Brent Kavanugh acting like an ass
2. Eagles vs Michael Jackson, stats, Afghan wishful thinking, miscellaneous, Wendell Wilkie

1. Time slips away, our favorite psychopath gets involved in a time travel film, New Yorker article on 1968 Presidential election recalls our talk with Senator Eugene McCarthy, autobio of Burt Reynolds on Betty Davis & Joan Crawford, and his Playboy interview, GB&U, lightening round
2. Bizarre Op-Ed assyres public that adults remain in charge of Executive Branch, dirty pool and nutty perspectives in SCOTUS politics, Milky Way has satellite galaxies, Smokey and the Bandit

1. Watergate-type follies with Manafort & Cohen, American judicial roulette, CA legislature designates state sport, plastic nanoparticles from 5 Asian nations
2. Lt Governor, Gavin Newsom on the way out, and a Tsakapolous daughter coming in?, Jerry Brown still trying to steal Delta waters, a joke, William Goldman quotes

1. Weird Science: bad Bosnian Archeology, Mars, exchange of genes, teaching happiness at Yale
2. Good, Bad & Ugly, Zimbabwe woes, Montenegro threatened, election tampering in the USA, has the internet failed us? Obit: Adrian Krounauer

1. How bad is The Donald?, he is, at least not headed to war, and why DO we have NATO?, wa not Ukraine, vitamins, PC mania
2. Croatia almost makes it

1. Invitation to participate, Neum on the Adriatic thanks to recently deceased Lord Carrignton, planet Mars in sky along with planetary peers, and they again find water there, Tin Tin beat Apollo to the moon and found ice first, excerpt from prior chat with William Hartmann on subject of water on red planet, WA state scablands mimic of martian flows
2. Mars; excerpts from our chats with Steve Squyers , Emily Ladwallah , more on the Earth terrain from mega waterfalls

1. Radio Parallax Oldies But Goodies, firecrackers for the 4th, an inventor of the rock fuzztone Glenn Snoddy passes, we strip mine Late Night Comic monologues,
2. Brief laugh over firecrackers being illegal & ubiquitous, review of Morocco trip,

1. Travel to Morocco, Trump screws Morocco, Trump apes Machiavelli, Silicon Valley antics, Obit - Dick Tuck, muffed series on Jack Parsons
2. Baracoon, the Last Black Cargo - a chat with Deborah Plant about the work of Zora Hurston to uncover the life story of a man taken into slavery in 1859

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