Radio Parallax Shows

Show 436

Mar 17, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Award winning author Russ Baker talks about the latest NPR gaff and his fascinating book, Family of Secrets
  3. Potpourri of topics, internet sleuthing

Show 435

Mar 10, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Investigative journalist, Kristina Borjesson talks about her latest project; Watchdog Warriors.
  3. GOP misbehavior, inaccurate predictions

Show 434

Mar 3, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Science & politics & lies: BP on the Gulf accident and Monsanto misbehavior
  3. More Godfather lore, David Stockman on Defense cuts

Show 433

Feb 24, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Science, Finance topics, including woodpeckers pecking, Matt Taibbis article - Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? from Rolling Stone
  3. Aviation safety: Douglas Lonnstrom talks about his book, JFK Jr "10 Years after the Crash, a Pilot's Perspective" some sound aviation advice

Show 432

Feb 17, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Professor (of Brewing) Charles Bamforth, talks about beer and his book Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us , a heady chat
  3. Science topics,

Show 431

Feb 10, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. British author Tristan Gooley discusses his book "The Natural Navigator, A Watchful Explorer's Guide to a Nearly Forgotten Skill"
  3. News & science topics, including polonium in tobacco

Show 430

Feb 3, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Whatever we damn well please: the Kings Arena Scam, CA water scams
  3. Review of trip to Costa Rica with Gordon Smith & Elise Howell, travel companions (part 2)

Show 429

Jan 27, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Jouralist and author, Scott Stossel talks about his biography on Sargent Shriver
  3. Interview with Kevin Cook of Sports Illustrated about his book on "Titanic Thompson" the legendary gambler & sports hustler

Show 428

Jan 20, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please
  3. Tribute to MLK, JFK and Dwight Eisenhower

Show 427

Jan 13, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Former KDVS GM (and KZFR DJ) Steven Valentino talks about his job at WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
  3. Sciency stuff: Mono Lake bacteria to fisheries improving.

Show 426

Jan 6, 2011
  1. Current Events
  2. Doug recounts the colorful events of his recent trip to Colombia and Costa Rica with travel companions, Elise Howell and Gordon Smith.
  3. Science stuff, frog population crash, Acension Island patchwork ecosystem, bird navigation, cooling cities with greenery

Show 425

Dec 30, 2010
  1. Current Events, Matt Perry talks about producing the California Gridiron Gala here at the Sacramento Press Club.
  2. Gary Chew picks his top 10 movies of 2010. New KDVS Public Affairs director, George Selu introduces himself and talks about his show "Sounds of Africa"
  3. Chat on Dick Dales "Miserlu" with Gil Medavoy host of KDVSs Crossing Continents (and expert on Middle Eastern music)

Show 424

Dec 23, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst Top 10 comedic news stories of 2010
  2. Douglas Everett talks about his recent trip to Colombia
  3. Good things happening, periodic table review, bacterial tricks, red lunar eclipse

Show 423

Dec 16, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst gives Christmas shopping advice for the CEO on your list
  2. Science, history, politics, current events.
  3. Astronomy topics, water on an asteroid, Kuiper belt occultation, one way trip to Mars, Western thinking processes

Show 422

Dec 9, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please
  3. Political round up

Show 421

Dec 2, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst "Don't Taze My Junk, Bro"
  2. Afghanistan reality check
  3. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please

Show 420

Nov 25, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst on Thanksgiving
  2. Science, history, politics, current events.
  3. Ira Glass's, Fiasco (encore)

Show 419

Nov 18, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Real estate woes, lawyers under fire
  3. The lame predictions of pundits

Show 418

Nov 11, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Valerie Plame book, plus parts of our prior interviews with husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson
  3. NASA comet close up (again), magnetism on the brain

Show 417

Nov 4, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Award winning author Russ Baker talks about his fascinating book, Family of Secrets.
  3. Science topics

Show 416

Oct 28, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Election stuff, Dan Walters column on "recommendations", Meg Whitman slams Fresno w/ feedback from Fresno resident Jeff Shinoda
  3. Return to show by film historian David Kiehn post "60 Minutes" seg on his ID of 1906 Market St SF movie as having been shot just pre-earthquake

Show 415

Oct 21, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst "Don't Got Milk?"
  2. Science, Current events
  3. Tara Eshghi talks about rising UC tuition fees & costs. Obit: jive talking Barbara Billingsly from Leave it to Beaver

Show 414

Oct 14, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Neural marketing - oxytocin, MRI brain scans to manipulate customers, history, politics & whatever, population climbs, GB&U, write-in complaints, election money flooding in after Citizens United catastrophe
  3. Obit - atmosphere of Mars, waste pond mishap, crazy carp farming, delta fish denied EPA protection by shaky water pols

Show 413

Oct 7, 2010
  1. Current Events, Activist, Publisher, Comedian, Ngaio Bealum, talks about the upcoming CA marijuana initative (Prop 19) and a fundraiser for Americans For Safe Access.
  2. Gerald Nachman Author of, Raised On Radio, (pt 2) - more radio wonderfulness
  3. Science topics.

Show 412

Sep 30, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst "She's in the attic!"
  2. Gerald Nachman Author of, Raised On Radio, (pt 1) - a wonderful look at old time radio
  3. Obit: George Blanda

Show 411

Sep 23, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst is 'Mad'!
  2. Jared Diamond, talks about the National Geographic TV special that is based on his book; Collapse, How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.
  3. Manager Stephanie Violas, gives Radio Parallax a tour of a cannabis dispensary (the one she manages)

Show 410

Sep 16, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on Doom
  2. Science, history, politics, current events and whatever we damn well please
  3. Obits: Robert Boyle, Paul Conrad, Orson Welles fakery

Show 409

Sep 9, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on Obama's race and religion
  2. Cosmo Garvin, senior staff writer and columnist for the Sac News and Review, discusses the latest three-card monte attempt to get a new arena for the Sacramento Kings
  3. Kel Munger of the SN&R gives an update on the anti-gay legislation going on in Uganda.

Show 408

Sep 2, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on Labor Day
  2. Science, politics.
  3. More science and politics

Show 407

Aug 26, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Activist Burt Wilson talks about the currently ongoing, underhanded and nefarious attempts to divert yet more water to Southern California
  3. Iranian American (and KDVS DJ) Tara Eshghi discusses the sabre rattling between Iran and Israel.

Show 406

Aug 19, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Science, politics and Will Durst comments on Swamp Drainage
  3. Science, history, politics, current events.

Show 405

Aug 12, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Author, Mary Roach, talks about her new book "Packing For Mars, the Curious Science of Life in the Void"
  3. More Science stuff

Show 404

Aug 5, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on Deep Dish Pizza
  2. Publisher & Comedian, Ngaio Bealum, talks about the CA marijuana initative (Prop 19) and cannabis in general
  3. Dr. Gary Aguilar, on the recent increase in Whooping Cough and relates his recent experience with the same.

Show 403

Jul 29, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Obituary: Daniel Schorr, senior NPR news correspondent, talks about his life in radio. (encore)
  3. Excerpts of Douglas Everett's talk with George McGovern and Daniel Schorr on Capital Public Radio's Insight program

Show 402

Jul 22, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Journalist, Film maker Matt Perry talks World Cup and films
  3. Sara, of Sara's Hair Salon, comments on a non-Persian actor playing the lead in The Prince of Persia, and some other things related to Iran

Show 401

Jul 15, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on The GOP
  2. Political Activist Jerry Policoff talks about his current run for the State Legislture in Pennsylvania
  3. Science, history, politics, current events.

Show 400

Jul 8, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on 'The World Cup'
  2. Obit: Senator Robert Byrd, Science topics
  3. Female A discusses the different navigation methods used by men and women

Show 399

Jul 1, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. General Chuck Yeager (second half of interview)
  3. Obits: Jimmy Dean, Joan Hinton

Show 398

Jun 24, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on 'Politics as Usual'
  2. Newsweek's Evan Thomas, talks about his new book "The War Lovers, Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, And The Rush To Empire, 1898"
  3. Debbie Hollingsworth & Bruce Stiny give Doug a tour of the 'This Means War' exhibit of the Spanish American War, on display at the CA State Capitol Museum

Show 397

Jun 17, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Gregg Stebben of Men's Health Magazine talks about some fascinating new developments in cancer detection using the remarkable sense of smell of dogs.
  3. Science topics, current events

Show 396

Jun 10, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Truth activist, Mark Graham, talks about some of the curious and suspicious events that surrounded the 911 tragedy.
  3. Current Events; Science

Show 395

Jun 3, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on 'The Third Gulf War'
  2. Science potpourri
  3. Obits; Dennis Hopper,

Show 394

May 27, 2010
  1. Current Events, Comedian Michael O'Connell
  2. LCDR Ted Robinson USNR, talks about a daring rescue he performed during the WWII Battle of Okinawa (pt 1)
  3. Ted Robinson talks about rescue at Okinawa (pt 2)

Show 393

May 20, 2010
  1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on 'Manhattan Flannel'.
  2. Science, history, politics and whatever we damn well please...
  3. Outgoing KDVS GM, Kevin Corrigan, talks about the LA Times, Investgative journalist Lisa Pease, weighs in on the ouster of Bob Bennett from the Senate

Show 392

May 13, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. A chat with Phil Proctor of the ledgendary Firesign Theatre
  3. Denise Fitzgerald talks about experiences as an auditor in the Health Insurance industry.

Show 391

May 6, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Author Gerald Nachman talks about his book, Seriously Funny, The Rebel Comedians of the 1950's and 1960's
  3. America's foremost political comedian Will Durst, talks about the SF Bay area comedy scene

Show 390

Apr 29, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. LCDR Ted Robinson USRN, talks about his recent donation to the Smithsonian, the a cane used by JFK. Will Durst comments on the GOP needing a new scale.
  3. Author Activist Charlotte Dennett updates her efforts with Vincent Bugliosi to prosecute George W. Bush for murder.

Show 388

Apr 15, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. Science, history, politics and whatever we damn well please...
  3. Science topics, Obits:

Show 387

Apr 8, 2010
  1. Current Events
  2. General Chuck Yeager talks about his escape from Nazi-held France during WWII (part 1)
  3. Current events, Obit: Elinor Smith

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