Show 674

Dec 26, 2013

1. Current Events, satirical piece by Steve Weigand on Sacramento's downtown arena
2. NSA called out by Federal judge, Director of Central Intelligence caught lying (shock!), SF Bay restoration, fresh water under the sea floor, dino extinction clarified
3. More on Nelson Mandela, a look back at the controversy over Davis's 1978 Measure A (on divestment) & the verdict (decades later) that it helped (notwithstanding our misgivings about boycotts, and occasional breaking of them deliberately e.g. Cuba)

Show 673

Dec 19, 2013

1. Current Events, reviving the Dea Sea, you know your denounced when its done by the North Korean News Agency; Will Durst on the NSA's snooping on gamers
2. NSA follies: new laws needed, Snowden's cat & mouse, snooping in our mailboxes; developers to cut down old trees in West Sac
3. A report from Disneyland, some follow-up on Soviet sub chasing, our interview with the great Norman Corwin makes it onto his official web site.

Show 672

Dec 12, 2013

1. Current Events, Chinese driving - on the moon, the miracle of the Nigerian boat rescue
2. Our obituary and tribute to the late-great Nelson Mandela, the man who kept South Africa away from disaster as white rule was changed
3. More of the Mandela story: not a saint (perhaps) but a genuine hero - to a world that could use more of them

Show 671

Dec 5, 2013

1. Current Events, for-profit college rip offs continue, is UC awarding slots to more foreign students out of budget concerns (since they pay a lot more tuition?)
2. SN&R's Nick Miller gets duped by a developer-paid-for Environmental Impact Report, Dennis McEwan former respected biologist tells a ridiculous tale about the Twin Tunnels water grab (and the Bee published it!)
3. Twin spy writer obits: William Stevenson (non-fiction) and Tom Clancy (fiction); a chat with local business writer Roger S. Peterson about his special to the Bee on why the Warren Report is not credible

Show 670

Nov 28, 2013

1. Current Events; new Mars probe and what it might teach us
2. Sac Bee blows the call on "McVillage" development, we salute their Tom Knudson for his award on "Wildlife Service" exposes, Sac Bee then bloviates on JFK; a chat w/ plumber Ivo Kovacevich on how "flushable wipes" might, correction: probably will, clog your toilets
3. Thanksgiving clarifications & humor; the "Newseum" sells out to Paramount's "Anchorman"; Elk Grove - tourist Mecca? planet earth's newly discovered most common biologic entities!

Show 669

Nov 21, 2013

1. Current Events (shortened version of our usual opening)
2. We opine on the puzzle of what happened to JFK part 1 (Steve Alexander becomes the questioner and the host tries to answer the big questions)
3. Continued solving of the puzzle, or trying to anyway, in part 2 (with more role reversal)

Show 668

Nov 14, 2013

1. Current Events, actual travel complaints, glut of JFK TV shows
2. Interview with author/reporter Jefferson Morley about his fine book "Our Man in Mexico, Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA"
3. Will Durst on lame Obamacare rollout, no amnesty for Edward Snowden, What is a hybrid eclipse?

Show 667

Nov 7, 2013

1. Current Events, more Fish & Wildlife boneheadedness - this time in Africa with ivory
2. Jim DiEugenio on JFK's foreign policy and the enemies it made, hair raising tales from The Economist on how science is not checking its work and possibly producing bogus studies (yikes!)
3. Obit: Lou Reed, some comments (from William Goldman's writings) about the movies, and mention of some bad ones

Show 666

Oct 31, 2013

1. Current Events; shooting rhinos to save them; promoting casinos
2. Robert Dallek's piece on JFK and the military, Ted Bundy's lawyer's "ethical dilemma"
3. Obits: Bum Phllips, Hal Needham; Halloween Special - Our semi-annual look at the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" ( reprise)

Show 664

Oct 24, 2013

1. Current Events, Special show: A look at Dr Cyril Wecht's 2013 Duquesne University JFK conference
2. Doug's summary of five decades of back & forth in the battle for public opinion in the JFK assassination
3. The JFK case: What can be said now (first of several)

Show 663

Oct 17, 2013

1. Current Events; playing DJ at KDVS, hemp won't stone you
2. Climate change denial in Australia; capital follies - Nick Miller weighs in, so do Op Ed goofs; UCD's Dr Garen Wintemute in New Scientist magazine; fat Mexicans; testosterone mania
3. Obit: Scott Carpenter; also, nature's iron teeth; one old albatross, interviews with Dr Opfell & two governors (sort of).

Show 661

Oct 10, 2013

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the government shut-down
2. A canal thru Nicaragua? Cannabis as a California water issue; Obituary: General Vo Nguyen Giap the remarkable man who defeated France AND the United States in Vietnam's wars
3. Obit II: Robert Ford, honorary Tibetan; US nuclear follies with a clip from Dr Strangelove to finish.

Show 660

Oct 3, 2013

1. Current Events, going to a Giants game, testicular follow-up, Will Durst on Ted Cruz
2. Brief review of a prior chat with Daniel Ellsberg leaker extraordinaire, still more on government lies, in praise of the automobile stick shift.
3. The deserving downfall of the "multiple personality disorder" diagnosis and the merry tale of "Dave Henderson", the alleged voluble Yale alumnus who upset the alumni newsletter

Show 659

Sep 26, 2013

1. Current Events, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. Doug's medical school reunion: some nostalgic & wistful recollections mixed with tales of mischief & fun, and yes, the names have been changed to protect the innocent
3. NPR borrowings: Dr James Fallon , "Who Can Sing The Blues?" from a chat with Mick Martin (and a commentary on "Texas") that aired on Capital Public Radio

Show 658

Sep 19, 2013

1. Current Events, how accurate need 'pi' be? (a follow up)
2. Dr. Gary Aguilar, who has seen the original autopsy materials, returns to the program to talk about the strangely discordant medical evidence in the case of JFK's fatal wounds
3. Hard times for Marxist studies, Big tobacco goes into Burma (the show's host must admit to once trafficking cigarets there).

Show 657

Sep 12, 2013

1. Local writer and KDVS host, Jeff Hudson, on the upgraded KDVS broadcast tower and boosted signal, current events, Current Events
2. Medical topics: prevention!, brain changes post bariatric surgery, sleep loss (including how this killed Doug's med school softball team) and why breakfast is controversial
3. Why Algebra II should be banned; Obits: Michael Ansara (with great clip by Bob Scheaffer of CBS), David Frost (and That Was The Week That Was, the breakthrough show he hosted at age 23).

Show 656

Sep 5, 2013

1. Current Events, the tale of the ill fated "Project Pluto" atomic airplane
2. Writer Christopher Arns talks about the new guidebook he has produced "Sacramento and the Gold Country" published by Moon Handbooks.
3. The poor readability of most medical articles; Obituaries: UC Davis's professor of biology Dr Robert Thornton (who's Bio 1 probably made the host a biology major), Virginia Johson of Masters & Johnson fame: also, a look at some bad if traditional medical advice

Show 655

Aug 29, 2013

1. Current Events; Nora Epron - celebrated writer, lousy reporter, conflicting tales of snotty Swiss retail clerks
2. Eye surgeon Dr. Gary Aguilar talks about the recently discovered part of the human eye.
3. Science: Mars has water (dammit), Alpha Centauri's dubious planet (and some really crazy ideas for a spaceship to get to it - assuming its there)

Show 654

Aug 22, 2013

1. Current Events; more water thievery in the works, the re-discovery of Orson Welles's 'Too Much Johnson' thought lost forever, yet found again
2. More from "The Wit's Thesaurus", Is memorization going to become obsolete?, Can you seize a car's controls remotely? - a scary question
3. Nasty solar flares and how they may wreck modern life, Don Rose talks up more novelty records like "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha"

Show 653

Aug 15, 2013

1. Current Events; Of mice and modern art, paying low end workers a living wage (why can't we?)
2. Talking medicine: how it is "health news is often bogus", diesel stinks, the mysterious and unexpected rise in myopia
3. Our pal (and legendary political comic) Will Durst talks about his upcoming Sacramento one man show, From LSD to OMG, a swerve from politics to geriatrics.

Show 652

Aug 8, 2013

1. Current Events; Israeli divorces limited by zealots
2. Crazy stories: eating bugs (and why its good), inflating pot farm threats, sex trafficking myths, more GOP restricting of abortions, the symbiosis between terrorists and those who supposedly fight them
3. Don Rose of noveltyrecord.com talks up memorable examples of same, like 'The Thing' by Phil Harris.

Show 651

Aug 1, 2013

1. Current Events, Right-wing Republican stooges love the daughter of Dick Cheney as Dems prosecute whistleblowers just like Dick Cheney
2. Peter Buxton , a remarkable chat with the man who blew the whistle on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study
3. More from Tuskegee whistleblower Peter Buxton; the national scandal resulting from his going to the press

Show 650

Jul 25, 2013

1. Current Events; the unclear prospectus (a redundancy?)
2. Captain Vladimir Zeravica talks pilot training in relation to the Asiana crash at SFO, and why some airlines might best be avoided
3. Obits: financial weasel Mark Rich, computer whiz Donald Englebart, journalistic firebrand Helen Thomas

Show 649

Jul 18, 2013

1. Current Events; how will we 'ranch' insects?, the "Bay Delta Conservation Plan" is bunk
2. Sitting is bad, actually really bad; Obit: Neils Diffrient (pioneer of ergonomics) American River Bike Trail idiocy & politics, Dixon officials SCAMMED, the tale continues.
3. The science of quasars.... and fixing erectile dysfunction

Show 648

Jul 11, 2013

1. Current Events; navy kills whales with sonar, lamentations about our night skies
2. A look at Public Relations, quotes from founding father Edward Bernays & real life issues related to same
3. Wildman actor comic Phil Proctor shares some anecdotes of his early days in California leading up to the groundbreaking comedy albums of 'The Firesign Theater'.

Show 647

Jul 4, 2013

1. Current Events, Will Durst sounds off on the Supreme Court
2. Alien fish woes; Voyager 1; is the dammed spacecraft outside the solar system or not?
3. Quick items, including Chinese phallic buildings & Chinese hackers, Mexico's lost drug war, hungry young lawyers suing their own law schools

Show 646

Jun 27, 2013

1. Current Events; a gay Vatican faction?, marry a burglar?
2. baby boomers are not in-shape, guardasil follies, the testosterone fad, regulatory constipation by the FDA, Newport Beach's Hoag Hospital gets abortions torpedoed by Catholic Health Organization
3. Our favorite film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson, who filmed in Niles Canyon (pt. 2)

Show 645

Jun 20, 2013

1. Current Events; more on the Caryssa Carpenter scamming of poor Dixon
2. Science/Politics roundup.
3. Film historian David Kiehn talks about Broncho Billy Anderson pioneer of The Western as a film genre; wheeler-dealer David Rosenblum talks up his sketchy Salton Sea real estate development .

Show 644

Jun 13, 2013

1. Current Events, Doug's Hawaiian roots
2. More on Dixon "Movie Studio" Scam (real estate tycoon Angelo Tsakapoulos backs scammer!), also Phil Angelides's bad development ideas, medical tourism
3. Excerpts from The Signal and The Noise (weather predictions); talk of hoarders

Show 643

Jun 6, 2013

1. Current Events, Benghazi nonsense, attorney complains about a ticket.
2. Tort wars, arms dealing, Sac Bee uncovers a scam of the City of Dixon - Hollywood is coming? not likely
3. The Bee's Sam MacManus writings on The Niles Essanay Film Museum, our Australian correspondent Pamel Tayor reports in after Annular eclipse passes thru Queensland

Show 642

May 30, 2013

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on IRS - Tea Party woes
2. smart meters, Chinese army hackers, WWII review, Ted Cruz - jackass, USA's political assassinations & coups & CIA mischief old and new
3. A chat with "Sly Stallone" about Rocky Das Musical and (maybe) Rocky VI

Show 641

May 23, 2013

1. Current Events, Pete McCloskey helps surfers
2. Elaina Newport of legendary The Capital Steps talks about the group and its upcoming local show
3. Science topics, the woes of the DSM-5

Show 640

May 16, 2013

1. Current Events, "Greyhound Bus" therapy; Fish & Wildlife puts salmon migrations on I-80
2. Tyler Blythe, proprietor of, The Root of Happiness Kava Bar, talks about the curious Polynesian medicine and his bold effort to bring the tradition to Sacramento
3. The sinking of the USS Guitarro (while under construction!), Prop 65 misuse

Show 639

May 9, 2013

1. Current Events, Helium, Executive highwaymmen, Catholic BS at Hoag Hospital, Microbial IDing
2. "Deep politics": arms merchants, Iraqi "reconstruction", CIA antics, the ever more insane "war on drugs"
3. KDVS' Ed Martin talks about the (still) segregated proms in Georgia

Show 638

May 2, 2013

1. Current Events, idiotic speculations on alien planets, "BDCP" phoney about saving delta admits guy running it
2. Elaina Newport of the satirical musical group "The Capital Steps" talks about the upcoming show at the Clarion Inn in Sacramento.
3. Mini-obit: Jonathan Winters, the Bush 43 library, Loch ness hoax, feeding animals excess antibiotics

Show 637

Apr 25, 2013

1. The Annual Pledge Drive Show - a smattering of bits & clips

Show 636

Apr 18, 2013

1. Current Events, Letterman's a gas, chimps make war, homeless advocates bill Sacramento like drunken defense contractors
2. Author Mary Roach discusses her new book, "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal"
3. Chat about SF Jersey Boys w/ Elizabeth Orpina of The California Aggie, who wrote a piece on the production

Show 635

Apr 11, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Science/Politics roundup.
3. Our pal Domingo Escobar gives listeners a first-hand account of sneaking across the Mexican/US border (more than once)

Show 634

Apr 4, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 3
3. Author Jim DiEugenio, part 4

Show 633

Mar 28, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Investigative researcher, Jim DiEugenio, discusses his book Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (2nd Edition) pt 1
3. Author Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (Second Edition) pt 2

Show 632

Mar 21, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Investigative journalist Kristina Borjesson, editor of Feet to the Fire, looks back at uncovering 10 years of government lies over the Iraq War and more
3. Obits: Awohl Von Kliest, last survivor of 1944 Adolph Hitler assassination plot, pianist Van Cliburn

Show 631

Mar 14, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Science writer and Newsweek columnist Sharon Begley talks about her recent article; Why We Need Germs.
3. Obit: Hugo Chavez, A Viking "Sunstone" discovered - turns out the legendary navigational aid was real.

Show 630

Mar 7, 2013

1. Current Events
2. cooking, welcoming derelicts to hang out locally, tax reform stymied, and more evil machinations from real estate developer Phil Angelides
3. Sandra Day O'Connor blathers about the "rule of law" while Scientific American casts doubts on the alleged health value of anti-oxidants

Show 629

Feb 28, 2013

1. Current Events
2. young earth mystery, shrinking evolutionary "mising links", goldfish in Lake Tahoe!, old motorcycyle riders, Reviews of old material for the show (and a search for better conditions now)
3. Our sports correspondent Shaun Minton talks sports (naturally)

Show 628

Feb 21, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Chinese hackers robbing us, as Chinas water quality declines, fish behavior on human drugs seeping into their rivers & lakes, meanwhile California water officials say (with a straight face) that they can help our fish by removing their water
3. Homeopathic "overdosing", Jack Gallagher, David Rosenblum from Hollywood talking publicists

Show 627

Feb 14, 2013

1. Current Events
2. the selling out of Sacto's regional master plan to greedy developers (shock); North Korea, an eco disaster, well sure, but a Maoist paradise just the same?
3. Obituary: Shakespearian villain King Richard lll's remains have now been found

Show 626

Feb 7, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Al Gore is on the ball; how legal weasel (and future Supreme Court Justice) Lewis Powell led corporations to "occupy" the US; more Catholic scandals
3. Archaeologist James Mangold talks about modern archaeology.

Show 624

Jan 31, 2013

1. Current Events
2. censoring gun research, bad California "preditor management", Cordova Hills sleazy development
3. KDVS's Ed Martin, talks about various political subjects.

Show 625

Jan 24, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Idiots in Zimbabwe & Cuba; Iran miffed at the film 'Argo'; wildlife woes
3. Our DC correspondent Benjamin Jonas-Keeling reports on the second Obama inauguration while our Australian correspondent Pamela Taylor reports from a land down under (a land a' wonder)

Show 623

Jan 17, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Former professional cyclist Steve Fenton, talks doping, Lance Armstrong, and the future of the sport of bicycling.
3. China's bad air, Vega may have planets orbiting around it, mild obesity may not be so bad, OTOH Beta blockers may not be so good

Show 622

Jan 10, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallax's new Australia correspondent talks about 2012's top science stories
3. Amusing TV host Huell Howser dies; nationally syndicated columnist Thomas Freidman waffles on Bill Maher's show

Show 621

Jan 3, 2013

1. Current Events
2. 2012 obits: (music figures) Dick Clark, Hal David, Andy Williams, Davy Jones & more
3. Yet more 2012 obits: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of The NY Times, Senator Daniel Inoue, comic Phyllis Diller