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A look at "Bohemian Rhapsody", Trump in denial of global warming & a Saudi murdering prince, our local smoky air, Alpha House
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Good, Bad and Ugly, diverless car woes, auroras on brown dwarfs, AI to help status quo
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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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More from author Vince Palamara on the Scecret Service; oddballs in the SS, the fatal breakdown with JFK
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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)
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US Secret Service expert Vince Palamara talks to us about remarkable instances of Presidentlial Protection
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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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Double GB&U, voter supressor loses, Anthony Levandowski and the self-driving car follies
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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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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,
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Trump and Kim bromance, Brent Kavanaugh sad saga, Elon and his cool rockets, the octopi & the ecstacy, gene editing to kill mosquitos,
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Obit for Marty Balin, Steeley Dan tune Kid Charlemagne is about Owlsley Stanley & LSD,
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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
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Obituary for Alan Abel, a genuine Radio Parallax hero
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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
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Trump pens, Anthony Bourdain opinions, Serena Williams acting like an ass, Brent Kavanugh acting like an ass
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Eagles vs Michael Jackson, stats, Afghan wishful thinking, miscellaneous, Wendell Wilkie
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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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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
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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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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
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Weird Science: bad Bosnian Archeology, Mars, exchange of genes, teaching happiness at Yale
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Good, Bad & Ugly, Zimbabwe woes, Montenegro threatened, election tampering in the USA, has the internet failed us? Obit: Adrian Krounauer
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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
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Croatia almost makes it
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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
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Mars; excerpts from our chats with Steve Squyers , Emily Ladwallah , more on the Earth terrain from mega waterfalls
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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,
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Brief laugh over firecrackers being illegal & ubiquitous, review of Morocco trip,
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Travel to Morocco, Trump screws Morocco, Trump apes Machiavelli, Silicon Valley antics, Obit - Dick Tuck, muffed series on Jack Parsons
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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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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
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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
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We mourn the passing of literary giant Tom Wolfe
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More commemoration of the great Tom Wolfe
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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
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200 years of "Frankenstein" and its modern version - Silicon Valley companies and their failure to reign in their perverse tech
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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
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The Economists on not to trust economists, internet companies shirk taxes, students unable to use clocks, cursive abandoned, walking The Camino of Spain, the story of a goofy fad
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Solar system near collision, Kosovo clocks, near human organ?, MLK+50, Death of Stalin and Putin antics, questionable Syrian attack reports, international injustice
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Mark Evanier on the Stormy storm, Amazon droning on drones, whining/leaving Silicon Valley, Theranos fraud, GBU, fair inequality vs unfair equality
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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,
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Death cleaning in the USA, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook wrongdoing and lies, banks taking down corporations in the rotten story of private equity firms and how the destroy jobs and commerce
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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
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dropping bowling balls on Japanese cars, is Trump demented?, Brit millenials flunk history, GBU, why is the Bible so badly written?, Henry the Navigator and religious battles
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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
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Drought relief; Jane Mayer The Atlantic article on the Steele Dossier at some length
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Reprise: Dr Ivan Schwab on the evolution of the eye
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Dr Ivan Scwab continued...
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Preserving Baikal, militarism, history of Paul Manaford per article in The Atlantic, more sex scandal with The Donald, GBU, measles returns
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Poliical correctness again; Author James DiEugenio talks more about the late Robert Parry
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GOP "fiscal restraint" borrows a trillion $, GBU, a trillion loose planets in one galaxy?, cutting edge science?,the dress that drove the slave trade
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New Scientist weighs in on Trump, clarifying opioids, crazy tech and terrible applications, trusting AI
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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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Brief Obit: Delores O Rearden, GBU, nuttiness with Greeks, Russians and doritos, who is Carter Page?, improving on "GDP", US oil is back
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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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Interview with James DiEugenio about The Post also a chat about the late Robert Parry
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Obituary: Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News, and an investigative journalist we long admired
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Talk with Dr Rodger Orman , operator of a pain clinic, about the "opiod crisis" which has been so much in the news
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Brief Obit I: Hugh Masakela, Brief Obit II: Edwin Hawkins, Trump follies & the "OJ defense", bad male behavior reacted to
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Some trivia, Pasadena: its little old ladies, more talk stimuated by film, water woes around the world (and in California), real "fire birds" (an odd tale from Australia)
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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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Daniel Ellsberg on the events seen in the film, the words of David Halberstam (The Powers That Be) on same, Finally Michael Trachtman and his summariy of the Pentagon Papers court case
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Vice Presidential musical talent, PC at NPR, a tale of witch hunts - the story of Rififi, KPFA woes, citizen journalists, food in orbit
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A discussion of the new book by Daniel Ellsberg - The Doomsday Machine, GB&U, perfect coffee? PBS on Teddy Roosevelt
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Economic oddities, KDVS show on The Ghost
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Part II on The Ghost
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Netflix send-up of Silicon Valley, subscription scams, Good, Bad & Ugly, sports musings, the Xmas tree, Russian humor, food follies
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Interview with Gary Taubes about his book The Case Against Sugar
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Yams are sweet potatos, the "interstellar asteroid" is not a spaceship, Interview with Jefferson Morley on The Ghost, a biography of James Angleton
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Part II of Jefferson Morley The Ghost, The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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Sexual misconduct, Will Durst on 2017, GB&U, The Bomb documentary, a fly in the wine
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They finally oust Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe, HUD neglect, net neutrality, Bernie Sanders comments on The Paradise Papers, tech follies including Bitcoin and how your writing style identifies you
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Curb Your Enthuiasm, Paradise Papers, battery breakthrough?, light pollution, juries - you get what you pay for,
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tech PR vs reality, firing Garrison Keillor, GB&U, plate techtonics, botox story
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Fixing Voyager on the fly, 9-11 lawsuits, college vs semi-pro sports, quotes from new book on CIA master spy Angleton
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The dangers of sugar per Dr Robert Lustig, YIMBY group ignores supply & demand, Florida real estate scams, fears of intelligent machines, slipping in to Jet Propulsion Lab a look back with Donald Rose
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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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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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See show 775, segment 2.
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The downside of high tech. JFK records retained. CO2 at 800,000 year high. Social media: its threat to democracy. Facebook & Google running amok.
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Excerpts from World Without Mind by Franklin Foer. Computer scientist Donald Rose talks about Artificial Intelligence.
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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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Obit: Fats Domino. Communism: alive and well in China. Chicoms: embracing AI technology. Dont Hassel The Hoff. Colombian coffee. Tech gone haywire.
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JFK records release scam. 225 years of the Old Farmers Almanac. The NFL and the First Amendment. Our usual fare.
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Reprise: Jefferson Morley interview. Our man in Havana.
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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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Vegas shooter: gambling creep. Obit: Arthur Janov, the Primal Scream guru. Scientific research of dubious value. Thomas Midgley: a one-man scientific disaster?
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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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Cleanliness in Western society. Handwashing: a recent development. 60th anniversary of Sputnik. A look at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
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Thoughts and analysis of the tragedy in Las Vegas.
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A remembrance of the man who prevented World War III in 1983.
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Some musings on Hawaii. Usual show opening. Quackery. Paper currency issues.
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Russiagate. Google, Amazon, Facebook: public enemies? More insidious tech.
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Interview with Martha Brockenbrough about her book, “Alexander Hamilton - Revolutionary.â€
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Part 2, Alexander Hamilton interview. More eclipse chat. Usual show fare.
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Musings on Geography. Deep Politics. Can AI tell if you’re gay? (good grief) Using DNA to tell what you look like. Thoughts on rain.
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More on the late great Dick Gregory. Yet more corporate mergers. Science topics. Goodbye, Cassini - a look at the mission’s accomplishments and findings.
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Our Australian correspondent, Pamela Taylor, joins us to talk Eclipse Tourism - plus a look at Australian slang.
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Reprise episode: Mark Anderson, author of “Shakespeare by Another Name.â€