Show 765

Aug 27, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Jimmy Carter's efforts to explain Israel's Apartheid to America, baby boomer Doug is joined by millenial Graham Smith to chat up The Atlantic's piece on college politcal correctness
3. Graham Smith stays on to talk about word & phrase origins

Show 764

Aug 20, 2015

1. Current Events, Obit: Robert Conquest, the man who told the unhappy truth about the USSR
2. Stopping bobcat trapping, more BS from trophy hunters, Sy Hersh on Bin Laden's death; Saudis deny links to 9/11 attacks (and legal liability), US Muslim politics
3. Lawsuit fun from Uncle John's, our hotter future, capital jargon

Show 763

Aug 13, 2015

1. Current Events
2. A chat with SN&R reporter Cosmo Garvin who is stepping away from his great reporting (temporarily we hope)
3. Briefing section radical Islam, tech stuff: adaptive optics, hacking cars & cities

Show 762

Aug 6, 2015

1. 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
2. Normal top of show; you know quote, quip, joke, stat, anecdote & good news; the good, the bad, and the ugly
3. Beach Boys "God Only Knows", Alameda County reaps Area woes (somebody tell Scott Walker), Trump conspiracy theories, Stooge museum, politicians want bad writing, Discover magazine debunks homeopathy

Show 761

Jul 30, 2015

1. Current Events, with an on-the-attack appearance by Donald Trump
2. Interview with Marin activist Bob Silvestri
3. A chat with camera artist Colleen Gino

Show 760

Jul 23, 2015

1. Current Events, goodbye to Prarie Home Companion, Will Durst on The Donald
2. "Book report": Phllip Knightley's classic The First Casualty, Jeb Bush thinks you should work more, lazy ants
3. Obit: Omar Sharif, "life" on comet, Pluto mission update, Greek wenging, Mexico's own Houdini, Kevin Johnson's pals play the race card (we back the SN&R)

Show 759

Jul 16, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Science topics: hope for coral reefs, Dutch court fights carbon emissions, chronic fatigue - antibody related?, physics needs experiments, hybrid vigor in people, "junk" DNA is in the RNA business, sunshine is good for you
3. Quoted from "Unusually Stupid Americans", stand-up comedy in China

Show 758

Jul 9, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Chat with UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Geology Eldridge Moores
3. Lighter fair

Show 757

Jul 2, 2015

1. Current Events, anecdote about The Banana man
2. Will Durst on the confederate flag, Kevin Johnson's e-mail follies, mining aquifers, greenery = healthy, new vaccine bill, "apps" for STDs?, computer heroin
3. Some tales of Costa Rica

Show 756

Jun 25, 2015

1. Current Events
2. The modern/crazy attitudes on childen being "supervised"; "identifying" with a race or sex; Obits - singing impersonator Jim Bailey, actress Anita Ekberg, Jean Nidetch of Weight Watchers, inventor S. Donald Stookey, spy David Greenglass, Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk
3. More chat with Bob Dunham on things financial, Alan Abel Hoaxter extraordinaire, dumb quotes

Show 755

Jun 18, 2015

1. Current Events, not exactly epic news on the misnamed "female viagra"
2. Techonology gone stupid?, "click farms", good news items, Dick Cavett on "political correctness"
3. Film reviews with Capital Public Radio's Gary Chew

Show 754

Jun 11, 2015

1. Current Events, Will Durst on gutting the 4th amendment
2. Our tribute to the fearless, fiesty (and recently departed) Vincent Buglosi with whom we spoke on two occasions. We admired him even if we sometimes did not agree with him (when we did, we really did)
3. Financial chat with Bob Dunham "from the neighborhood"

Show 753

Jun 4, 2015

1. Current Events, Will Durst raises a ruckus
2. A chat with Henry Vinson author of "Confessions of D.C. Madam", telling tales of running the largest gay escort service in the nation's capital and getting caught in a political crossfire
3. Artist Laura Hohlwein talks about her exhibit currently at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis

Show 752

May 28, 2015

1. Current Events
2. A talk with science writer Charles Mann about his fascinating book 1493
3. Political/media revisionism about the Iraq war. Rachel Maddow covered this SO WELL we air clips from her show. Rachel nails the lie about "faulty intelligence" being responsible for the still unfolding debacle in the Middle East

Show 751

May 21, 2015

1. Today's show pre-empted on KDVS, so we celebrate KZFR. Current Events
2. Rick Anderson the GM of KZFR talks about the station which is celebrating 25 years of broadcasting next month
3. Obit: The Late Show with David Letterman; we chat with another TV weatherman who came west to California Gary Chew plus a few other observations about Dave, a comedy genius if there ever was one

Show 750

May 14, 2015

1. Current Events; invade Texas? (if only); Bolivia wants a coast back; some sexual stats
2. The newly discovered relationship to us of earth's 3rd type of life, chat with "Governor Brown"
3. Travel agent Stan Godwyn talks up some exotic Asian locations

Show 749

May 7, 2015

1. Current Events
2. California's specialty in political corruption - yet more water follies; a generation of youth that is computer (but not otherwise) savvy; nature is good for you (duh)
3. Obit: Pakistani activist Sabin Mahmud; medical skepticism; immune boosters - for real?; raising kids, Ivy Leage twit factories

Show 748

Apr 30, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Investigative journalist Joe Rubin returns to talk about issues he has gotten involved with
3. Obit: Jack Ely of Louie Louie fame, is fire the source of "entertainment"?, mammogram confusions, follies in CSI and "Citizens United", 1965 in music

Show 747

Apr 24, 2015

1. Annual pledge drive show - make a contribution! This Date in History: Good, Bad & Ugly
2. Some talk on water; words we don't have in English (but maybe should)
3. Snippets from some old shows

Show 746

Apr 16, 2015

1. Current Events, Wall St imitates "Minority Report"; Attack Iran? - don't be a moron, 47 Republican dopes in US Senate
2. The Greeks: hopeless financial cheaters, excerpt from book "1493: leads to Doug's amecdote from Potosi, Bolivia; "chemosynthesis - its not just at deep sea vents, its everywhere; still more onbacterial ingenuity
3. Jeb Bush - "liberal"; almond/water math; The Economist weighs in on CA's water pricing stupidity, more on color vision; Sex - not a "drive" says nutty PhD

Show 745

Apr 9, 2015

1. Current Events; Chowchilla kidnapper parole, appropriately negative reviews of Psychiatry: the Untold Story, Saudi misbehavior, Moliere in Berkeley book
2. Investigative reporter Joe Rubin talks about Sacramento's water meter scandal (which he uncovered) and efforts to make city governent e-mails vanish
3. Mini Obit: the great Stan Freberg, a discussion of some trenchant articles about Jerry Brown's fiddling while Rome burns (telling the citiizens WE are the water problem, not the users who squander 80% of the state's H20)

Show 744

Apr 2, 2015

1. Current Events; college sports & gambling, a sad connection, Will Durst tees off on Ted Cruz
2. James Israel talks about the 24th anniversary issue of the Humor Times, Science: English does poorly with smells, new wrinkle in evolution (mutations might come AFTER a change in environment; transgenetics is a nautural process! (including human biology); go ahead and use q-tips in your ears
3. Touting coke as a "snack", eclipses mess up solar power generation, DJ "Presto Pancakes" chats up KDVS's musical programming

Show 743

Mar 26, 2015

1. Current Events, 6 activities you can do; intelligence gathering - lousy vs terrorists, great vs you & me
2. Davis's Poet Laureate and our favorite professor of English Dr Andy Jones, of KDVS's Poetry & Technology Hour, returns and again tries to lead Doug to erudition by example
3. Partial Obit: Danny Schechter, political knuckleheads with specifics on knuckleheadedness

Show 742

Mar 19, 2015

1. Radio Parallax looks at the history of Satan - it is show 666, after all
2. More on Lucifer..... quips, the "Devil's Advocate", Beelzebub's history in literature, "satanism", the seven deadly sins, and a hell of a lot more
3. This day in history, our usual boilerplate; the good, the bad & the ugly

Show 741

Mar 12, 2015

1. Current Events, Lake Nicaragua under Chinese threatm McDonalds moves away from rBSH induced milk (yay)
2. Yet MORE CA water nonsense (why "conservation" is a scam), N. Miller - STILL a jerk but Cosmo Garvin is still on the ball, tales of prescription drug chicanery: colchicne and the bendectine story - both headed for happy endings
3. Leonard Nimoy & Star Trek, UC auctions off spots to non-residents for money, Mohammed vs Larry documentary, Selma plus 50 years

Show 740

Mar 5, 2015

1. Current Events, gut bacteria - obseity link, giving politicians more ability to thwart democracy
2. Interview with historian Joan Mellen about the back story of George DeMohrinschildt (who Bill O'Reilley did NOT hear the fatal gunshot of...)
3. $ transfer to cities to millionaires (how arenas work), zebra stripes, the weird clouds seen on Mars, sad fruit flies are bar flies (kinda like people)

Show 739

Feb 26, 2015

1. Current Events, Will Durst sounds off
2. Investigative journalist Jim DiEugenio talkes about the supposed North Korean "hack" of Sony and Citizen Four's Oscar (Edward Snowden)
3. Legendary KDVS PA host France Kassing talks more on Ed Martin, Bill O'Reilley caught lying about key JFK assassination figure

Show 738

Feb 19, 2015

1. Current Events, prize anecdote on Gary Owens
2. Interview with Astronomy magazine editor Richard Talcott abouth their 500th issue (with 500 cool facts)
3. Obit: Lesley Gore, CA (still) running out of water - thanks real estate developers; updates: MSG, Straus-Kahn and government spying (this time to "stop cyber attacks")

Show 737

Feb 17, 2015

1. Chris Rock hates PC people, Oz hates science (GOP too), biking in snow, Farenheit is OK, tit culture - the BIRD we mean!
2. potpourri of dubious ideas: implantable stimulators of vagus nerve, waste well injecton into protected acquifers, helping porn stars into radio, geo-engineering, cheaper oil
3. Obama's "outrageous remarks on christian terrorism", Obit: David Landau, a look at spending $1 trillion on more American nukes

Show 736

Feb 12, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Chat with the founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook series Tony Wheeler, a man who influenced how a generation (or two) of people move about the world
3. Author of the new novel Sinful Folk Ned Hayes talks about Valentines Day

Show 735

Feb 5, 2015

1. Current Events, bagging on marketing, American Sniper (& Clint) are all about jerks
2. Chat on permeable concrete (& more) w/ Bernadette Balics of Davis's Ecological Landscape Design
3. What goes into a corn dog; does milk do a body good, really?; penis evolution in lizards (no not the lounge kind)

Show 734

Jan 29, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Free speech, Econ stuff , Eco stuff, Oscar race "controversy", American Sniper controversy and propaganda
3. Report from NYC snowstorm from ex-KDVS GM Steven Valentino, surprise call from Michio Kaku

Show 733

Jan 22, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Our tribute to (with clips of) KDVS legend Ed Martin including words from those who worked with him here at the station
3. Astrophysics lite - some curious factoids about stars & planets (especially ours) including calendar matters, an alligator tale from Van Nuys

Show 732

Jan 15, 2015

1. Current Events, monarch butterfly problems
2. Monsanto machinations, GMO woes, more on antibiotics, still more California water bullshit: alfalfa really does use 20% of our water (it's kept cheap by subsidy) as water wells are draining our (un-monitored) state aquifers
3. pervious concrete/asphalt - an idea whose time has come, lame 2014 predictions, Marie Tharp seafloor geologist scorned, but vindicated in the end (like Alfred Wegner)

Show 731

Jan 8, 2015

1. Current Events
2. Talk with Mat Kaplan host of Planetary Radio (heard on both KDVS and KUCI at UC Irvine) and Graham Smith host of KDVS's Academy of Whatever
3. Dave Barry's year in review (excerpts), Obit Stu Miller, CIA admits THEY were many 1950s UFO stories, ALERT: alfalfa uses 20% of California's water & generates 0.1% of state's revenue!

Show 730

Jan 1, 2015

1. The usual look at Current (and sometimes not so current) Events
2. Talk with local NPR host and life coach Donna Apidone about her book Trans For Mission, an outline of how one can change one's life
3. Neil Ruud former KDVS GM and current activist educates us about the UC tuition controversy, including many facts not well-covered in the mainstream press, the first of several such reviews

Show 729

Dec 25, 2014

1. Current Events, weirdness in zero G
2. Chat on The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2015 with senior editor Sara Janssen
3. Science topics: E cigs, China's wall of trees, beavers in action, comet water, and is Sylvester Stallone Jewish? we go to the source for answers

Show 728

Dec 18, 2014

1. Current Events, good news: Cuba normalization, methane (life?) on Mars
2. Interview with Professor Devin Brown about his book Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century
3. Chats with more fellow KDVS PA hosts Sam Ribakoff (Ibbur) and Matthew Maxcey (Policy over Politics)

Show 727

Dec 11, 2014

1. Will Durst starts us off with the comedy year in review, Current Events
2. The History of KDVS. A chat with former DJ and current CSUS Professor of Anthropology Jerry Drawhorn
3. More talk with PA hosts, Adam tells us about "Story Time with Tummybumpr" (which is about how to be a music producer), and former co-host of Speaking in Tongues Ron Glick sounds off about who really did in JFK

Show 726

Dec 4, 2014

1. Current Events, follow-ups: fusion power, taxing smokes, the Sac water meter scandal - damage control
2. Interview with Conrad's Corner host Conrad Wilton, surprise chat with "Governor Jerry Brown"
3. Some thought on Ferguson and our murder epidemic from black-on-black violence, bio/med items - circumcision is not just OK, it may be good, how vultures can eat what they eat

Show 725

Nov 27, 2014

1. Thanksgiving show. Our usual opening approach.
2. Classic Comedy for the Holidays; a Rodney Dangerfield riff, Abbot & Costello's 'Who's on First', Monty Python's 'Argument Clinic', Nat Lampoon Radio Hour 'The Immigrants', Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', Symphonic Rolling Stones
3. More yucks: George Carlin's 'Modern Man', Stan Freberg's 'Bannana Boat Song', Nat Lamp Radio Hour's 'Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer' (Doug's fave), still more Tom Lehrer: 'National Brotherhood Week'

Show 723

Nov 20, 2014

1. Current Events, more on water woes, some good news on global warming and offshore (believe it or not) oil rigs
2. A potpourri of topics related to money, and its relation to avarice, politics and madness.
3. The JFK mystery. Recorded remarks from activist attorney William Simpich about some legal aspects of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, as in was he framed?

Show 722

Nov 13, 2014

1. Current Events, opps it wasn't the Higgs Boson, bad medical advice from the early 1900s
2. Chat with voice actor Corey Burton, bits of our prior chats with Norman Lloyd
3. Carissa Carpenter indicted, Obit: Joan Quigley astrologer to Nancy & Ronald Reagan, Bill Maher's nonsense about Islam being evil

Show 721

Nov 6, 2014

1. Current Events, the Stan Freberg tribute in Los Angeles. Mini election round-up
2. Interview with Dr James Fallon about his book The Psychopath Inside - A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. Part 1 - Remarkable brain scans
3. UC Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon Part 2 - the warrior gene, and more

Show 720

Oct 30, 2014

1. Current Events, new old news: Japan - 50 years of high speed trains vs USA -0, Nazis used by CIA & FBI, low back pain and sex
2. Pre-election unamused musings, more water politics, voting NO on 46 despite Ralph Nader's ravings and NO on the Sacto mayoral power grab to help developers get their way even easier than they do now
3. Hoaxathon: Obit of Gerald LaRue hoaxer of "Noah's Ark" fragment, and Re-run of our look at Orson Welles' War of the Worlds epic 1938 radio hoax

Show 719

Oct 25, 2014

1. Collection of all Vladimir Zeravica visits to Radio Parallax - 1) Wright Brothers, 2) Cargo hauling
2. Vladimir Zeravica 3) The "Gimli glider" 4) The Boeing 737 vs the hailstorm
3. Vladimir Zeravica 5) & 6) the Chinese explorer Chen Ho

Show 718

Oct 23, 2014

1. Current Events, FBI wants the option of breaking in to your cell phone, CIA notes that arming rebels usually fails to produce good results (duh)
2. James DiEugenio talks with us about his review of Kill the Messenger currently on Consortiumnews.com, and a review sent to us by Richard Estes host of KDVS's Speaking in Tongues
3. Interview with Vladimir Zeravica about adventures in flying cargo (previously unheard on KDVS), talk with Vlado's friend Michael O'Connell about how our mutual friend lauched Michael's career in comedy.

Show 716

Oct 16, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Dr Gary Aguilar talks about Kill the Messenger, including his discussions with Webb when the NY Times, Washington Post and LA Times turned on the Dark Alliance revelations
3. More reactions to the Gary Webb saga

Show 715

Oct 9, 2014

1. Gary Webb Tribute II, Current Events, Melinda Welsh's SN&R piece on her former colleague as Kill the Messenger comes to theaters
2. Re-Airing of excerpts of our talk with DEA agent Michael Levine and investigative journalist Robert Parry about Gary Webb's story (from our 2004 tribute).
3. Current comments from Robert Parry (Consortiumnews.com) and Ryan Deveraux (The Intercept) Obit: Fred Braunfman, the man who blew the whistle on the secret bombing of Laos

Show 714

Oct 2, 2014

1. Current Events, the AARC conference in DC last weekend, Jefferson Morley of JFKfacts.com's call to action; more recent Secret Service mishaps,
2. Interview with Josiah Thompson about his groundbreaking JFK research on the Zapruder film, the acoustics evidence and grassy knoll assassin witness S.M. Holland
3. Local talk by Ray McGovern of the CIA, and his subsequent chat with our pal Jeanie Keltner on KVMR, Obits: Polly Bergen, Richard Kiel, Dr Guinter Kahn