Show 620

Dec 27, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Will Durst unloads on the gun issue. Science topics
3. End of year recap.

Show 619

Dec 20, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst, Top ten stories of 2012.
2. More on the sugar controversy, piece in Cosmos magazine & more
3. Science: Tau Ceti has planets, life on moons (vs planets), the exoplanet hunting Kepler space telescope

Show 618

Dec 13, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst talks about, "the most influential women".
2. Puerto Rico, health controversies: feeding animals worms, diverting anti-smoking dollars, the great sugar controvery - is it much worse than we have realized?
3. Will Durst on the election, our lame "Wildlife Services", tales of eclipse chasing: Fiji and Vanuatu.

Show 617

Dec 6, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallaxs Australia correspondent talks about the recent eclipse
3. election review plus ramblings

Show 616

Nov 29, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Amateur historian Gordon Smith talks about Kurdish politics in today's Turkey.
3. More on bad businessmen: quotes from "Griftopia" by Matt Taiibi

Show 615

Nov 22, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Encore Presentation of Ira Glass's segment on "Failure" from This American Life
3. Author Jim DiEugenio talks about recent revelations related to JFK's death

Show 614

Nov 15, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Cannibis activist and SN&R writer Ngaio Bealum discusses the ongoing battles over medical marijuana here in California
3. Science & health: exercise is awesome, federal cannabis restrictions are not

Show 613

Nov 1, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Election overview - the beat goes on
3. Election overview ll - and so do the beatings

Show 612

Oct 25, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Special Encore Presentation: excerpts of Doug's intervews with the late Senator George McGovern and Daniel Schorr
3. Activists Annette Deglow and Leno Carolo weigh in on Measure T, the "Claw" issue which dopes in city government want to curtail

Show 611

Oct 18, 2012

1. Current Events
2. The planets getting found around other stars, fMRI scans can still show brain activity in dead fish (so how serious can we take their data?), Sac city goverment spends $684K on a study on keeping the god dammed Kings - then says it has no money to pick up our leaves
3. More science topics, potpurri

Show 610

Oct 11, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Chat with local radio personality and film reviewer Gary Chew
3. Sara of Sara's Hair Salon talks about dirtbag lawyers who sue for minor ADA violations

Show 609

Oct 4, 2012

1. Current Events
2. election previews, Dan Lungren vulnerable?, homeless advocates shake-down
3. Film "The Master" - its OK, but less interesting than the real life wacky story of L Ron Hubbard.

Show 608

Sep 27, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, 'The Worst Campaign Ever'
2. Author and lawyer Anthony V. Curto talks about his new book on how we might fix our broken legal system.
3. The rare and exotic substance, ambergris, demystified.

Show 607

Sep 20, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please
3. Encore presentation: Author George Pendle on Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

Show 606

Sep 13, 2012

1. Current Events, KDVS GM Renner Burkle talks about an upcoming KZAP reunion.
2. Science follow-ups: Salton Sea stench, "junk DNA" is not junk, the continuing disgrace of antibiotic misuse in American animal feed lots
3. 9/11 heros and Wall Street weasels (including Mitt Romney)

Show 605

Sep 6, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Author Nigel Cliff ,talks about his book, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
3. Eco Tour Guide Ted Cheeseman talks about a recent trip to the arctic and his first hand account of the effects of climate change.

Show 604

Aug 30, 2012

1. Current Events; Science, the decline of the autopsy, monarch butterfly migrations
2. NOTHING - pre-emption of second half of show by Aggie Sports

Show 603

Aug 23, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bold choice of Mitt Romney
2. Author Yale Wishnick talks about his new book, From a Culture of Dependency to a Culture of Success
3. Science topics - Microbes in our bodies with snappy bumper music

Show 602

Aug 16, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton gives us an Olympic round-up.
3. Obit: Helen Gurley Brown; Science topics

Show 601

Aug 9, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Science & Medicine: parrots expanding, ducks too, CO2 inaction, gun violence
3. California's great water scam (continued), real estate development at the Salton Sea?

Show 600

Aug 2, 2012

1. Current Events
2. India's blackout, energy gaming, toxic sludge, chat with "Mitt Romney"
3. Obits: Gore Vidal, Vidal Sasoon, the Edmund Scientific Catelogue; why we need to go into space

Show 599

Jul 26, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bain of Mitt Romney
2. Author Sam Kean, talks about his fascinating new book on DNA, The Violinist's Thumb
3. Science topics, a chat with 'Sly Stallone'.

Show 598

Jul 19, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Miscelleneous: vocabulary, Matt Taiibi on failed prosecutions of Wall St, casinos out of control, quinoa the new fad food that could actually be a boon
3. Local writer Matt Perry talks about death

Show 597

Jul 12, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton, pt 1
3. More Shaun Minton, (pt 2)

Show 596

Jul 5, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Doug recounts his recent adventures in New York City
3. World affairs, Obits: City of Stockton

Show 595

Jun 28, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Francis Gary Powers gets a posthumous medal, spy telescopes donated to NASA and a curious youtube video on the US government keeping car mileages LOW in the USA
3. Racial discrimination, a losing gambler tries to sue the casino, lying businessmen.

Show 594

Jun 21, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Kathryn Hohlwein: More on The Readers of Homer (pt 2)
3. Elise Howell talks about being a "Readers of Homer" participant.

Show 593

Jun 14, 2012

1. Our interview with Ray Bradbury (reprise part 1)
2. Ray Bradbury (reprise part 2)
3. Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)

Show 592

Jun 7, 2012

1. Current Events
2. SN&R contributor Tara Eshghi talks about her recent article on 'food recycling'.
3. Eclipse Chaser, Jerry Rose talks about our recent effort to go see the annular eclipse; the transit of venus

Show 591

May 31, 2012

1. Current Events
2. DSM-5, sustainable sushi
3. More fun with Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, defending Walter Cronkite from The Right

Show 590

May 24, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Historian Traveler Gordon Smith talks about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey - a remarkable man we've been promising to discuss for years.
3. Report on the annular eclipse that passed over California. Naturally we went up to Redding to see it.

Show 589

May 17, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Actor Norman Lloyd - we squeeze still more from our chat last year at Musso Franks
3. Obit: auto designer Carrol Shelby, our pal Steve Alexander comments and relives his youth driving his high performance Shelby Mustang

Show 588

May 10, 2012

1. Current Events
2. KDVS General Manager Neil Ruud talks about the importance of funding to keep KDVS on the air.
3. Obits: George Lindsey, Nicolas Katzenbach. Science topics

Show 586

May 3, 2012

1. Current Events
2. SN&R Senior news editor Cosmo Garvin, talks about sprawl in Northern California - the effort to develop "Cordova Hills" for the usual fast buck.
3. Travel expert Stan Godwin talks about travel agents. And comedian Michael O Connell talks about an upcoming show with The Comedians with Disabilities Act

Show 587

Apr 26, 2012

1. Our Annual PLEDGE DRIVE show - great clips though

Show 585

Apr 19, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Educational chicanery, changes in the arctic, more Sacramento King BS
3. Science topics: fetal guts are not sterile? modern gut bacteria are altered from ancient times

Show 584

Apr 12, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved. pt 2
3. Joe Barr, News Director for Capitol Public Radio talks about the life and times of Mike Wallace

Show 583

Apr 5, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved (a remarkable look at eyes throughout the animal kingdom). pt 1
3. Legendary KDVS Public Affairs Radio Host France Kassing talks about the recent passing of the award winning Sac Bee cartoonist Rex Babbin

Show 582

Mar 29, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Jessy Schmidt, KDVS host of the Public Affairs show "Intercourse on Intercourse" talks with us about her show on human sexuality.
3. Obit: the Thai inventor of Red Bull

Show 581

Mar 22, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on the "Muppets" wisecrack by Goldman Sachs employee
2. Kudos for KDVS's Bill Wagman, TV themes, sugar industry attacks high fructose corn syrup.
3. Contraceptive nonsense from the GOP and Catholic hospitals, plus laughter is healthy

Show 580

Mar 15, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame "improvements" to the Sacramento International Airport (part 2), and the latest 'Occupy the Capitol' event.
3. Obituary: Peter Bergman of The Firesign Theatre.

Show 579

Mar 8, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Gary Chew on The Artist winning the Oscar (first silent film since Wings - the very first Oscar winner), Rush Limbaugh a complete horses ass yet again
3. Obits: publisher Barney Rosset, composer Robert Sherman; dirty dishes from lower phosphates

Show 578

Mar 1, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Author (and The Economist USA correspondent) Andreas Kluth talks about his fascinating book, Hannibal and Me, What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure
3. US politics is gang warfare, Romney may not be nutty enough to satisfy the GOP base, CA Fish & Game president goes to Idaho to shoot a mountain lion cuz its ILLEGAL in California

Show 577

Feb 23, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Film lovers Gary Chew & David Kiehn talk about the (silent!) Oscar nominated movie, The Artist.
3. Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame (and expensive) "improvements" to the Sacramento's International Airport

Show 576

Feb 16, 2012

1. Current Events
2. TV's Bill Nye, The Science Guy (and currently the President of the Planetary Society) talks to us about proposed cuts in NASA funding
3. Shaun Minton talks sports related stories once again

Show 575

Feb 9, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Great Ron Paul quotes from 2002 questioning our war with Iraq, local "homeless" public relations scammers, seriously
3. More current events

Show 574

Feb 2, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Writer Jeff Nilsson discusses his Saturday Evening Post article on predictions made in 1900
3. Obits: Liberal Republicans

Show 573

Jan 26, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Astronomer and author Bob Berman talks about his new book, The Suns Heartbeat
3. More from columnist Bob Berman, on The Suns Heartbeat

Show 572

Jan 19, 2012

1. Chats: our very 1st guest, Sacramento legend Ed Hunter, KDVS GM, well liked clips
2. Review of some favored clips with our laywer pal Steve Alexander serving as wingman
3. More amusing past clips, a live chat with Will Durst

Show 571

Jan 12, 2012

1. Current Events, the 'Mythbusters' boys Adam & Jamie visit Sacramento
2. Author Political Activist Jerry Policoff (our PA political correspondent) on Rick Santorum (he doesn't like him).
3. More current events; sensible bird flu censorship, the US Navy vs pirates

Show 570

Jan 5, 2012

1. Current Events; NASA meets its near Earth objects goal & news is good.
2. More CE: West Sacramento boat dock demolition, Christopher Hitchens obituary
3. Real animal magnetism, the "Rain" Beatles tribute & more