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
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September 4, 2024 Audio Files:
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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
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
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
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January 3, 2024 Audio Files:
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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
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December 13, 2023 Audio Files:
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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
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October 11, 2023 Audio Files:
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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
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August 16, 2023 Audio Files:
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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
Bill Maher use of canned laughter, recycled comedy bits, Uncle Johns review including sourdugh bread, Shasta Lemurians, Heaves Gate cult, how win all arguments
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
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
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
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
Expiration dates, Georgia politics, AI spying on your friends now, smart devices can cut off your devices, crappy tech support via new ways of doing things, GB&U, satellite light pollution, urban concrete promotes floods
Chat with investigative journalist Russ Baker over his essays pondering the view of some progressives that Putins war in Ukraine is somehow justified, GB&U
Beaver lodge breaking & entering, north star stuff, Tito the missing Bolivian cat, Borowitz, GB&U, single cell creatures go fraternal, pirates & guacamole, the bear on Mars,
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February 15, 2023 Audio Files:
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Obits for Jeff Beck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gaylord Perry, look back on bio lab & delta smelt, ChatGPT test drive by us, GB&U, The Intercept looks at US communications at start of Covid pandemic, Chinese resurgence of same
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January 25, 2023 Audio Files:
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Einstein wisecrack, Dave Barry 2022 year in review, loonie column on why voter supression is no big, more Delta smelt woes despite temporary slowing of delta pumps, laughable Stanford PC language guidelines gets laughed at, the CES in Las Vegas just keeps making our lives better – talking dog devices, AI based baby stroller, South African aloe vera mistaken for aliens
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January 18, 2023 Audio Files:
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More crypto woes, and more on corporate socialism/ financial chicanery, follow-up items French language; canoing in the Pacific, MDMA, January 6th commission advice, Trump gets nuttier yet, the Economist looks back at its predictions and 2022 news, cover-ups, more Delta Tunnel machinations and the continued destruction of the ecosystem for the benefit of developers and agribusiness
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December 21, 2022 Audio Files:
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Motion picture mentions, space news, tech follies, the JCPA and ripping off journalists, AM radio elimination in elecrric cars, GB&U, phone call from Mitch McConnel
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December 14, 2022 Audio Files:
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Reprise program – our 2007 interview with Steven Etlinger on his book Twinkie Deconstructed , a look at what goes into that snack food, surprise call from Senator Mitch McConnel
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November 30, 2022 Audio Files:
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21st century George McClellan, still more Trump lies, polls of confusion, fake Terrorists for DJT, still more Pelosi propaganda and fears of more violence while avoiding Jan 6th coup, Rutenberg NYT article on Russiagate
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November 9, 2022 Audio Files:
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Election fears, Pelosi MAGA propaganda, Musk, Tech disinfo, more Saudi skulduggery & gas price chicanery, Ashby v Jones race, lawsuit to promote animal cruelty, GOP adopts the anti-vaxxer gang
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November 2, 2022 Audio Files:
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Attorney Bill Simpich explains the lawsuit filed by him on behalf of the Mary Ferrel Foundation to compel the release of still hidden records in accordance with the JFK Records Act. First Trump and now Biden have stalled this effort despite clear direction found in the law.
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October 26, 2022 Audio Files:
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Greg Palast returns to discuss vote suppression and his new documentary titled Vigilante . It centers on Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and he is not the hero of the story.
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October 19, 2022 Audio Files:
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Nod to last weeks re-play of Chris Hedges from 2007 interview on American Fascists and David Talbot in 2011 on Smedley Butler – available on this site, jailing Jan 6th small fry, follow-ups, asteroid smash-up, biome news, GB&U, ghoul star, ghoul satellite, Frank Drake obit, H.L.Menken
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October 5, 2022 Audio Files:
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Post vacation show: look at August travels combined with news of period – most prediminanty the passing of the towering figure of Mikhail Gorbachev, preliminary Dubai denunciation along with DIY phone-based bookings (works great so long as there are no complications)
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September 7, 2022 Audio Files:
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Vacation show 4: reprise interview with Sam Kean on his sciene book "The Violinists Thumb", one of our four chats with Sams, in this case about the genetic code
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August 31, 2022 Audio Files:
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Vacation show 3: reprise interview with author Darren W. Miller about his book and website Web of Conspiracy , key take away to this discussion was that not all of it is nonsense, many conspiracies are real things
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August 24, 2022 Audio Files:
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Vacation program 2 – new interview with James DiEugenio on JFK Through th Looking Glass book to accompany the Oliver Stone produced documantary (Jim wrote the screenplay) and a look back at Watergate
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August 17, 2022 Audio Files:
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Showbiz detour: George Jetson, Budd Shulberg, Graham Greene, Shinzo Abe back story via Sterling Segrave, brief review of past and fuure guest Michael Trachtmans take on Citizens United, Christine Whitmans (and Andrew Yangs) new political party, goodbye to OAN, Trump purge plans for future
Boris Johnson sacked, Hershel Walker babble, Republican downplaying sedition and ? thriving, Democrats suicidal tacking, a right to dessert, the SCOTUS might invalidate the federal government, GB&U
Jokes from the archives, updates from Jan 6th hearing, bugs matter, mocking the Grammies, space updates, Mexico news including anti-slavery efforts vs Texans,
Smothers Brothers 2022, Hippo ranching, Chagas chaos, GB&U, tech moguls concept of free speech, Jan 6th hearings, preview of Watergate chat w Jefferson Morley, Bill Barr turns on Trump – finally, candidate statement, changing your name to salmon
GB&U (incuding UCD mascot PC replacement), corporate accountability, economists taking over the world, big data woes, the fallacy of our decision making being logical and wishful thinking, high speed internat scam, satellites vs night sky, GOP coup still simmering
Asymptomtic infections, The Blob in Colombia, Hangar 1 renovation, Clarence Thomas and other jerks om the SCOTUS, Nicaraguan role models, abortion support, Democratic cowardice, GB&U, non-recyclable plastics, health breakthroughs
W Boson shocker, pink salt ponds, navigational abilities vary, US assassination attempts on foreign leaders, shooting Che, Pakistan failed Trumpism, 1 million covid deaths in USA thanks largely to Trumpism, Russians propagandized
Chat with our boardwatcher and future public affairs host Guy Tortorici , flintknapping demo, NOVA in planets, boilerplate, Carl Sagan sound-off from 1995, bye-bye Ms Lam, radical gender ideologues, GB&U, Coloorado kids can now go outside, DC rabies, Dr Oz, AI develops poisons
Miscellaneous issues of reporting vs propaganda, Trumps Truth Social review by Dana Milibank, review of Malcom Muggeridges1931 report on Ukrainian famine, Putin and Trump bromance, correction of our error on Clarence Thomas vote, fighting over Kung Fu fighting
RP returns to KDVS, Hunter Biden nonsense, GB&U, population control in 2022, Dr Andy Jones , host of Dr Andys Poetry and Technology Hour returns to OUR program
Podesta e-mail screw-up from "tech savvy" staffer, quotes from A. Pope, GB&U review, more on gene transfers, Dems to lose House & Senate?, gender-neutral toy law in CA, gender dysphoria, gender malpractice, trans-gender swimmer, Davos man, Rodney Dangerfield
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February 20, 2022 Audio Files:
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, wildlife on the rebound, global warming effect on beer, grasslands are good, cheering on overpopulation, covid negatives with omicron positives, cool science smacking an asteroid
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January 5, 2022 Audio Files:
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Xmas music blurb, GB&U backlog, super king tides coming, excerpts from Dave Barrys look back at 2021, Sierra Club does the same but is not as funny, medical advice on diet & drink, google maps directed drivers onto forest roads in blizzard to avoid closed highways
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January 1, 2022 Audio Files:
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Obit for the man who freed Nelson Mandela F.W. DeKlerk, nordic hack & right to repair, animal trust, renaming mania, political correctness hits medicine along with stupidity a new version of Lysenkoism, GB&U x2,
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December 5, 2021 Audio Files:
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Your shoe is untied, getting Zucked by non-reality, discriminating against American workers, the death of Tippocanoe, George III revisited, Roman garum revisited
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November 23, 2021 Audio Files:
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Humans were in America 23,000 years ago, Chinese dinosaurs, plant thugs, space probe data, yacht broker woes, Alden Capital dastardly destroyer of American newspapers
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October 30, 2021 Audio Files:
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Memes, Giraffes fight clean but MLB cheats, GB&U, Canadian spoof political parties, food from trees, hiding the reality of global warming, silver lining to wildfires, aquifer protection, Obits – Colin Powell and A.Q. Khan, Bitcoin investing by a hamster
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October 26, 2021 Audio Files:
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Contemplations on global warming, evil Big Tech corporations, Peter Thiel & the shady Palantir, GB&U, wokeness and woke avoidance of new abortion restrctions
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October 9, 2021 Audio Files:
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Looking back at Iraq war propaganda vs Shock and Awe Documentary, lies of W to lies to 2021 polarization and our detour through war, 9/11 coincidence theories, election theft conspiracies – real and fake, mysterious polling failures
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October 5, 2021 Audio Files:
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GB&Uglys, pre-pythagoras, Well Fixers Warning on San Joaquin overdraws, world on fire, IPCC downplayed in 1990 yet 2x the CO2 SINCE then, cyber ninja follies in AZ
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September 12, 2021 Audio Files:
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Interview with actor Burt Ward the former Robin on the classic TV action-comedy Batman, Burt also discusses his founding of Gentle Giants an operation which has rescued 16,500 dogs while developing food to promote longevity in short-lived breeds
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September 2, 2021 Audio Files:
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Comic book day, obit of Edwin Edwards, nitwit Kevin McCarthy, obit of Dusty Hill, obit Kenneth Kaunda, obit Donald Rumsfeld, GB&U, tech madness, drones in combat, phone spying, and supposedly solving the Zodiac killer cyphers
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August 19, 2021 Audio Files:
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Olympics doping and dopes, lcalendar inspired ook back at the history of medicine, Guiseppe Garibaldi, King Gustav tennis star, Hobson of the choice, GB&U, obit Jackie Mason
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August 14, 2021 Audio Files:
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Trivia, Prince Phillip, poet Wither, memes, get vaccinated even if you have had covid-19, space force, stupid AI, self driving cars will never fully arrive, GB&U
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August 12, 2021 Audio Files:
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Interview with Earl Swift about his book Across the Airless Wilds, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, coinciding with the Apollo 15 mission 50 years ago this month
Reapportioning towards red, population issues, cutting environmental reviews to help real estate development and Silicon Valley corporations, the affordable housing scam funded by Zuckeberg, Big Tech caused housing problems and now wants to make more money off alleged solution
Musings on doing a radio program, hiatus announcement, Trump coup attempt?, Continuity of Government per current Harpers, Georgia election follies, disloyalty to DJT
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December 3, 2020 Audio Files:
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Extra pre-election program; DJT mental status, possible shift to Trump when votes get counted, diminishing science under Trump, Scott Atlas American Trofim Lysenko – clip from 2007 interview w Peter Pringle how the election can be stolen
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November 2, 2020 Audio Files:
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Red states following Trump advice exploding in Covid, campaign 2020 and the pandemic, updates from Trumppandemic dot net web site, a big picture review, more recent Trump lies on the stump, Judith Miller
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October 22, 2020 Audio Files:
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Plug for Trumppandemic dot net, USPS tricks – GOP ballot box manipulation, Amy Barrett nonsense, Covid denial despite surge, Alex Gibney and his excellent Totally Under Control documentary
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October 15, 2020 Audio Files:
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Donald Trump gets Covid, plug for trumppandemic.net, Steven Harper continues w timelines, daily White House testing proves an inadequate shield against the virus despite fantasy thinking, discouragement of masks in the WH also a BAD idea, fantasy thinking led to superspreader event on Sept 26, contact tracing of that event derailed
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October 8, 2020 Audio Files:
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Our interview w Steven Harper goes on to Bill Moyers web site, some humor, Covid GB&U, Facebook puts money over ethics in political affairs, plug for Social Dilemma, plug for Kill Chain documentary, RBG should have retired when Obama was president
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October 1, 2020 Audio Files:
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Interview with Steven J Harper author of 2 dozen Coronavirus timelines documenting how Donald Trumps actions, decptions and failures have made the pandemic an American catastrophe
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September 24, 2020 Audio Files:
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Trump anti science, review of Trump dismanting of diease monitoring, counter productive acts, and lying about coronavirus in the first months, the great American testing fiasco
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September 17, 2020 Audio Files:
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Trump Woodward tapes – covid WAS dangerous i.e. proof he lied, denies Kashoggi murder, secret weapons reveal, Justice Dept to sub for Trump in rape case?, more Cohen, Germany confirms Navalny poisoned w novichok – Trump says cause unknown
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September 10, 2020 Audio Files:
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Trump pandemic, Dr Atlas pushes CDC to NOT test post exposure, FDAs rash push of plasma therapy, October Surprise?, comorbity vs cause of death, Dr Aaron Smith on covid risk factors
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September 3, 2020 Audio Files:
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Believing propaganda, Blaginism, dementia?- CDC blindsiding by Trump, travel restriction of yanks due to out-of-control, Hoover Insitute Dr Scott Atlas new teachers pet
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August 20, 2020 Audio Files:
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Covid obits -Trini Lopez, Potemkin Village economies – Tanzania & USA?, White House Public Heath follies & attempts to shift focus, MSNBC clip of Trump lies claiming end of pandemic and a vaccine ready to rock, Trump head on Mount Rushmore? dementia?
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August 13, 2020 Audio Files:
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Herman Cain dies post Tulsa rally, Federalist Society head calls to re-impeach Trump after election delay, Lincoln Project opposes DJT, rushing to re-open USA mistake, US most prepared for epidemic in theory – federal response failed, virus goes rural, Kushner killed testing
Lies & Donald J Trump, more Mikovits quackery, Sinclair propaganda, Frontline doctors spread spectacularly wrong info endorsed by DJT, southern states covid explosion causes shortages
CV 16, have we become a banana republic? pandemic management run for public relations, is Trump in denial or is this even worse?, downplaying of covid continues
CV #16, Trump on virus disappearing, masks, covid parties, Texas idiocy, Amy Sorkin in New Yorker – virus goes to red states, steroids may help, old vaccines too, world restricts US tourists, contact tracing lags, Trump and mental deterioration – audio clips
Coronavirus #11, virus still not disappearing, surprise, memes, armed protesters intimidating politicians and bots, alternate universe of the AAPS which is in synch w Trumpy
Coronavirus #9, memes, bat rabies, Trump lies about test availability and suggests people do not need to test anyway though his staff is tested regularly
Coronavirus show #8, Live & Let Die?, 159 cases to 160,000 in 63 days, virus now tops Vietnam, Korea, Afghan and Iraq ears in deaths, Fauci & Brix getting sidelined, Pence predicts Memorial Day as time to re-open county, thoughts on that and horrid video claiming everything we are doing is wrong, fact checking the BS ,
Coronavirus #7, the Veep disdains mask at Mayo Clinic despite rules, insufficient US viral response, a look back at Louis Pasteur and his pioneering work on viruses & vaccines
Coronavirus show #6, seeking good news, hoping for a plateau, calls for test & trace, how much of seeming peaking is from isolation?, Trump rage at governors, right leaning wire-pullers promoting protests
Coronavirus show #5, cockwomble, Trump blames media for downplaying virus, GB&U centered alleged broken test of virus, prediction that Trump will shift blame for his failures, his wacky press conference and its epic lies and claim of total authority
Corona virus #4, still chasing rate of asymtomatic to ill – is it 30% of the number ill?, vaccine speculations, number of deaths being underestimated, earlier cases being uncovered, CA flattening curve with 1/3 expected cases, do not flush paper towels or wipes
Special Cornovirus show #3. Looking ahead to disaster without quite enough data. CA slowing rate. Advice to plan to sequester for months. Guardian article. Fauci predicts 100-200K deaths, Trump calls that a "save" of millions.
CA Voter Foundation, Trump dropping the ball on coronavirus, we take a whack at the epidemic, believing in nonsense, Interview with Wen Zhao dissident video blogger including some independent reports on virus
George Conway bit, DOJ intervention in R Stone case, Curb Your Enthusiasm & hi-def TV, Superbowl chit-chat, Obit: Fred Cox of the nerf football, rape allegation on Trump
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February 13, 2020 Audio Files:
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Update on David Talbot, impeachment cranks up, non-PC Apu, Musk is nuts on Mars, Abe Shinzo?, interview with Greg Bell host of Sirius XM Classic Radio programming
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January 23, 2020 Audio Files:
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Bethlehem moved by Jeopardy to Israel, a Batman villain – are you serious?, Obit – Buck Henry, browning onions, Khosla – fighting San Mateo communism?, limiting war powers, Harvard law prof turns "teacher"
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January 16, 2020 Audio Files:
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Ian Frazier: Coyote vs Acme Company, satellite light pollution, Betelguese, interview with Dr Andy Jones host of Dr Andys Poetry and Technology on KDVS now in its 20th year talks up the misuse of the apostrophe, and the late Harold Bloom
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January 9, 2020 Audio Files:
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The roaring 20s AGAIN, trouble in the stars, trouble in Vanuatu, trouble in climate summits, story of the ukulele and Hawaiin music and our first live, in-studio music; the National Football League at 100
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January 2, 2020 Audio Files:
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The official foot, Trump impeached, Trumps Jewish gymnastics, the Afghanistan papers & the trillion dollar rathole, GB&U, the cultural imperialism of black friday
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December 19, 2019 Audio Files:
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Star Wars installment 9 and its ill-fated Xmas special; sunsets coming later; space x wants satellites – more than stars?; look back at Apollo 12; Obit: Gahan Wilson
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December 5, 2019 Audio Files:
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Will Durst suffers stroke, memes, hearings on the impeachable Trumps, GB&U, Assange update, astro update, football betting oddity, fruit stand anecdote
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November 28, 2019 Audio Files:
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Roger Stone goes down; betting sports; Silicon Valley blood boys in real life; Trump looted his charity; report on how China has made payments automatic from travel agent Stan Godwyn
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November 21, 2019 Audio Files:
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Mercury transit, Neil Young stymied in US citizenship efforts, Brentwood stops developer, population growth slowing?, Andrew Marantz on social media manipulations on Fresh Air, GB&U, weirdly warm fall weather
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November 14, 2019 Audio Files:
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Monster Mash in the Rock and Roll Hall, Obit of Harold Bloom, halting eco shame, auto brewerly snydrome, racist Sponge Bob, final Silicon Valley season, scary Amazon
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October 31, 2019 Audio Files:
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Fatally dosing on vitamins, and maybe social media; Trump web-meister now running campaign – to repeat 2016?; Anonmous author has book coming soon, but another whistleblower is the one gaining traction
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October 24, 2019 Audio Files:
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Obits: Dr Robert McClelland, Dr Wang Shu Ping, Ginger Baker; GB&U, trouble in Iraq, Saudi Trump spending trumps murdering actions, Russian unit 29155 misbehavior
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October 17, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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October 3, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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September 26, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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September 12, 2019 Audio Files:
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American gay president – in 1857?, American big pharma nonsense; lowering cholesterol with food vs incentivizing docs to Rx drugs; anti-cholinergic drugs & dementia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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February 14, 2019 Audio Files:
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Roger Stone, more weasely then ever (ask Malcom Nance) Macedonian muddle, meandering California, Counter Spin backs Maduro, China feeds Drug War, Reefer Madness revived
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January 31, 2019 Audio Files:
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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
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November 22, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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November 8, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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October 18, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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September 13, 2018 Audio Files:
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Watergate-type follies with Manafort & Cohen, American judicial roulette, CA legislature designates state sport, plastic nanoparticles from 5 Asian nations
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August 30, 2018 Audio Files:
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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
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,
Addendum to Ton Wolfe obit, Current Events round up, GB&U, accuracy in reporting, hourly pay declines, the mystery of Treasure of the Sierra Madre author B. Traven
Birthday for Karl Marx, collusion vs conspiracy, 3,000 Trump lies, Marx as a founder of socialism and communism, Greg Palast on GOP anti-democratic efforts in US elections
Trump doctor admits his physical exam report was dictated to him by the Prez after which goons were sent in to remove his medical records, Obit: Chuck McCann, Michael Cohen under attack, the Golden State killer shows how our judicial system fails us, all the rapes are beyond the statute of limitations, though Bill Cosby has changed that for subsequent criminals
Solar system near collision, Kosovo clocks, near human organ?, MLK+50, Death of Stalin and Putin antics, questionable Syrian attack reports, international injustice
Radio Parallax to take a break in weekly production, Trump fails to rebuff North Korean overtures, CIA ads, GBU, when not if the driverless cars, Bannon amok, Bolivia wants a coast; backlash against evils from Google and Facebook,
LA Times weighs in on controversy at Martins Beach, sad tale from The Atlantic on how corporations became people; H1B visas and Einstein visas, brief obit for Steven Hawking
Brief Obit: Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, readers send us Borowitz, bad day on proxima centauri b, yet more tech stupidity; double dose of the good, the bad and the ugly; still more sex with The Donald, 120 million dollars to fight foreign meddling in US election goes unspent
Sexual harrassment and criminal behavior vs gymnasts, Richard Spencer and demands for censorship, a look at free speech issues on campuses and across the country,
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February 15, 2018 Audio Files:
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Brief current events, a chat with Quizmaster extraordinaire Dr Andy Jones about his new book Pub Quizzes, Trivia for Smart People, Dr Andy (always a listener favorite) tells how he finds questions with which to titillate contestants
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February 8, 2018 Audio Files:
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A look at the film The Post; including a review by former Post reporter Jefferson Morley, and some critical commentary on Ben Bradleee specifically by James DiEugenio
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January 18, 2018 Audio Files:
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Mugabe cashiered. YIMBY assholes followup. JFK: mock trial in Houston, Dallas conference. Visitor from interstellar space. Trump depresses the nation. How Silicon Valley hooks us: a caveat from The Guardian.
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November 23, 2017 Audio Files:
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Report: author Franklin Foer at Stanford. Harpers Magazine stats. Bob Berman on Saros 136. E-commerce shipping woes. Bargain book bonus. Digital data detox.
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November 16, 2017 Audio Files:
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Public double-cross — again. Solar system invaded. JFK records release: the true numbers. 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union — yawn. Che Guevara, 50 years on. Luther: 500 years on.
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November 2, 2017 Audio Files:
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UCI med school goes in for quackery. Obits: Jake LaMotta and Bobby Heaton. The Juice is loose. Also, David Lopez. Non-saluting the flag. Dementia test.
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October 19, 2017 Audio Files:
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Santa Rosa burns up. RexTillerson thinks Trump is a moron? Robert Mugabe: still a jerk, but hanging on. Larry David returns to HBO. Gerrymandering. Google engulfs.
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October 12, 2017 Audio Files:
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Don Rickles obit. US entry into World War I centennial. Politically correct language (call-in from Dr. Chris Leslie of the Institute for Improved Language).
RP relocates to Bay Area. Crashing on a comet. Jerry Brown makes doctors’ jobs harder, and continues to plot his water theft. Dems ask FBI to investigate Russian hacks, Roger Stone, and Wikileaks.
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October 6, 2016 Audio Files:
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Our attempt at a full show. Entertainment from the 12th century – bullfighting. Elvis and Nixon. The Brits on the Iraq War. Discovery of lost films.
Author and activist David Talbot talks about his book The Devil's Chessboard; Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government. Part 1 our power elite
Current Events, Russia denies Litvinenko murder allegations, Chinese abductions, Wall Street jerks, criticism of Israel does not equal anti-semitism, OJ trial revisited for black history month?
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February 4, 2016 Audio Files:
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Hiroshima at 70, a look back, some comments on nukes and the remarkable work of Leo Szilard, the man who first envisioned the nuclear chain reaction; pro-nuke then anti-nuke
Current Events; Chowchilla kidnapper parole, appropriately negative reviews of Psychiatry: the Untold Story, Saudi misbehavior, Moliere in Berkeley book
Current Events, reviving the Dea Sea, you know your denounced when its done by the North Korean News Agency; Will Durst on the NSA's snooping on gamers
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December 19, 2013 Audio Files:
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Current Events, for-profit college rip offs continue, is UC awarding slots to more foreign students out of budget concerns (since they pay a lot more tuition?)
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December 5, 2013 Audio Files:
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Current Events, Activist, Publisher, Comedian, Ngaio Bealum, talks about the upcoming CA marijuana initative (Prop 19) and a fundraiser for Americans For Safe Access.
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October 7, 2010 Audio Files:
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Progressive talk show host, Peter B. Collins, talks about the demise of Air America in Sacramento. Blogger/Activist Brad Friedman discusses voting machine fraud.
Current Events, SN&R writer and award winning author Jennifer Davidson talks about the environmental harm of sport fishing. Will Durst comments on the 'undead' Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
Nick Gregory gives an on the scene, first hand account of the recent anti-war rally in Washington DC; Will Durst reflects on Gen. Petraeus' update on Iraq.
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September 20, 2007 Audio Files:
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Capitol Public Radio's Donna Apidone, talks about her upcoming interview, An Evening With Morning Edition, at the Mondavi Center; and William Beteta, Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services at the Brown verses Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, talks about the anniversary of the historic decision.
Current Events; Review of Mikhail Gorbachev talk in Sacramento with embarrassingly numbskull "radio personality" Mike Reagan; 60 Minutes buries a critical WMD story.
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November 10, 2005 Audio Files:
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Special live edition of program broadcast despite broadcast issues, co-hosted by KDVS News Director Steven Valentino and updated by Rich Lusher engineer, News Years Day program looks at 6 degrees of separation,
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January 1, 2004 Audio Files:
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War raging in Iraq, neocon hawk Richard Perle never served but broker arms deals, Satire – White House spokesman Yuri Fleishman offers excuses for Iraqi invasion
KDVS News Director <b. Steven Valentino joins us for look at "worlds funniest jokes", and we review trivia, and MTV visit to UC Davis sorority for a reality show
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October 10, 2002 Audio Files:
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