Show 924

Aug 1, 2019

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

Show 923

Jul 11, 2019

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

Show 922

Jul 4, 2019

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

Show 921

Jun 27, 2019

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

Show 920

Jun 20, 2019

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

Show 919

Jun 13, 2019

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

Show 918

Jun 6, 2019

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

Show 917

May 30, 2019

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

Show 916

May 23, 2019

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

Show 915

May 16, 2019

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;

Show 914

May 9, 2019

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

Show 913

May 2, 2019

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

Show 912

Apr 25, 2019

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;

Show 911

Apr 18, 2019

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

Show 910

Apr 11, 2019

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

Show 909

Apr 4, 2019

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

Show 908

Mar 28, 2019

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

Show 907

Mar 21, 2019

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

Show 906

Mar 14, 2019

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

Show 905

Mar 7, 2019

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

Show 904

Feb 28, 2019

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

Show 903

Feb 21, 2019

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

Show 902

Feb 14, 2019

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

Show 901

Feb 7, 2019

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

Show 900

Jan 31, 2019

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

Show 899

Jan 24, 2019

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)

Show 898

Jan 17, 2019

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)

Show 897

Jan 10, 2019

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

Show 896

Jan 3, 2019

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

Show 895

Dec 27, 2018

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

Show 894

Dec 20, 2018

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

Show 893

Dec 13, 2018

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

Show 892

Dec 6, 2018

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

Show 891

Nov 29, 2018

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

Show 890

Nov 22, 2018

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

Show 889

Nov 15, 2018

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

Show 888

Nov 8, 2018

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

Show 887

Oct 18, 2018

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,

Show 886

Oct 11, 2018

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

Show 885

Oct 4, 2018

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

Show 884

Sep 20, 2018

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

Show 883

Sep 13, 2018

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

Show 882

Aug 30, 2018

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

Show 881

Aug 16, 2018

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

Show 880

Aug 2, 2018

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

Show 879

Jul 26, 2018

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

Show 878

Jul 5, 2018

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,

Show 877

Jun 28, 2018

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

Show 876

May 31, 2018

1. 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
2. Kimberly Guilfoyle, George Dukemejian, Alan Bean, the mystery of Bright Nights, Marilyn Vos Savant on negtive vs positive lightening, the scary power of Big Data, tech utopianism fades, pro-Trump bots perverted 2016 election, DARPA monitors social networks

Show 875

May 24, 2018

1. We mourn the passing of literary giant Tom Wolfe
2. More commemoration of the great Tom Wolfe