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

Show 713

Sep 25, 2014

1. Current Events, radioactive boars, hearing: your L & R ears differ, Will Durst on i-phone hype
2. Potpourri of follies: big bang left over radiation? (no, dust); tertiary water treatment for Sacramento (so the water LA steals will taste better?), running America's health care via insurance companies (iffy idea) and palaverous writings like "Greece, bulwark of Western civilization"
3. Miscellaneous

Show 712

Sep 18, 2014

1. Current Events
2. bad news in commerce, curious news in science
3. Mathematicians helping spy agencies - an ethical dilemma, bad behavior from cell phone usage, what makes a person happy?

Show 711

Sep 11, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Health, medicine and the environment
3. The latest sham in efforts to remove antibiotics from our meat

Show 710

Sep 4, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Science, technology and the human interface, narcissists
3. The American accent(s), college entrance exam Qs

Show 709

Aug 28, 2014

1. Current Events, Diane Feinstein vs the CIA, Will Durst on charging the superbowl acts
2. The Senate's sweet tooth, a look at Sen Thomas Kuchel, thoughts on Ferguson and police power, The Economist's look at the sex industry
3. Idiot tree surgery, sandbagging Space-X, watering almonds and musings on oxygen

Show 708

Aug 21, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Follow ups: the TSA groper gets a pass, crying for Argentina, local boosters boost boosterism for the Bee, the water bond, our Australian correspondent Pamela Taylor returns
3. Obits: Don Pardo, more on Lauren Bacall & Robin Williams, the new James Brown bio pic (we like it), celebrity misbehavior

Show 707

Aug 14, 2014

1. Current Events
2. 40 years post Nixon's resignation, a look at the F-35 $400 billion fiasco, a review of The Rule of Nobody review, several looks at trees (sure, trees, why not?)
3. Obits: Lauren Bacall / Robin Williams, the supermoon(s) of summer, more on alleged alpha centauri planet

Show 706

Aug 7, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Interview with Edward Haslam about his research into an unsolved murder mystery of 50 years ago and his book Dr Mary's Monkey
3. More with Ed Haslam about a secret Laboratory in New Orleans in the early 60s, a polio vaccine-cancer connection & figures in the JFK assassination

Show 705

Jul 31, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Goods news: breadfruit, ferns might sequester carbon, Cane toads not SO bad, the criminalization of parenthood, Will Durst bags on GOP obstructionists
3. Close calls: the 2012 coronal mass ejection, sliding ice sheets, the Natomas flood risk, "tax inversions", the militarization of our police, Jay Barbree in Astronomy Magazine and Planetary Radio (after us), Billy Joel honored

Show 704

Jul 24, 2014

1. Current Events; some thoughts on rockets in Ukraine and Gaza
2. Interview: NASA reporter Jay Barbree about his fine book - Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
3. Mind bending science stories: plants really can hear, odors can affect skin healing, more strange bugs in the ocean depths, and a wearable submarine

Show 703

Jul 17, 2014

1. Current Events, jerk reporters, Will Durst on Facebook "experiments" on us
2. The Root of Happiness (a Kava Bar) opens to Davis, we chat with the guys making it happen - Tyler Blythe
3. Health: saunas are good, doctors are not over paid, but "big pharma" is!

Show 702

Jul 10, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Health & science; sun addicts (mice & men); psychology & gambling; cigaret butts, tylenol, human DNA surprises
3. Obituaries - Tony Guinn (chewing tobacco) Chester Nez (last of the Navaho code talkers) and Felix Dennis (flamboyant publisher of The week)

Show 701

Jul 3, 2014

1. Current Events
2. more on the World Cup, drone ennui, hero gallery
3. Sports commentator Shaun Minton chats about the late, great Harold Ramis

Show 700

Jun 26, 2014

1. Current Events, some talk about foods, Will Durst talks up World Cup "fever" (yawn)
2. A continuation of our chat with gadfly former Congressman Pete McCloskey
3. More NSA mischief - rogue mathematicians, and fixing your computer bugs

Show 699

Jun 19, 2014

1. Current Events, male vs female hurricanes, Sam MacManis wins an award
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; communication guide for men; Obama tries to help college grads; a look at America's tuition spiral
3. Good news medley: Jersey Boys gets Eastwooded to the big screen, Aral Sea hopes, wild CA condors in San Mateo county, big dinosaurs (and great dinosaur bumper music to end)

Show 698

Jun 12, 2014

1. Current Events, Cantor goes down
2. GOP anti-war maverick and former Congressman Pete McCloskey talks about his fights in the American political scene from the 1960s to the present
3. Further political discussions with the legendary Pete McCloskey who challenged President Richard Nixon (and Nixon's secret wars in Southeast Asia)

Show 697

Jun 5, 2014

1. Current Events; more on our friends the bacteria
2. Interview with NatGeo documentary filmmaker - New Zealand's Michael Bhana
3. Math woes at Common Core, Health news: head rolls at VA, state marijuana strategies to be honored by feds?, the crass 9/11 Museum

Show 696

May 29, 2014

1. Current Events, Will Durst on graduation
2. Grim politics (as usual) especially the knucklehead local version, and a few cool science stories like finding our sun's stellar brothers
3. German words we don't have in English, technology - good and bad, "the right to be forgotten", Asimov unfriendly robots, why R2D2 was cool, virtual reality for chickens?

Show 695

May 22, 2014

1. Current Events, the #3 language in your state, channel surfing after watching Cosmos
2. Medical stuff; the asymptomatic flu, cloning for diabetes, dark chocolate as health food, Juan Valdez and the worlds most popular drug - caffeine, Elizabeth Orpina Aggie Editor-in-Chief updates the story on how fixing the paper got sandbagged
3. The luckiest archeologic find in history, Glen Greenwald's defense (and aiding of) Edward Snowden, how bacteria communicate (a prelude), some favorites from David Letterman's Top Ten lists.

Show 694

May 15, 2014

1. Current Events, Iraq - the ongoing disaster, urine in pool water - the alleged health hazard
2. Miscellaneous topics: college athletes can unionize, Obama loses young people but keeps comedy skills, ice sheet melting, Pentagon woes, the Bush economic collapse
3. Obit: James Tague the third man wounded on 11-22-63, the booming Chinese tourist industry, Lonely Planet guide books - works in transistion.

Show 693

May 8, 2014

1. Current Events, more on Voyager 1, Will Durst on bad week for racist commentaries
2. Interview: Sam Kean author of The Tale of the Dueling Nuerosurgeons; the History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness and Recovery
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, happy 25th anniversary to the SN&R, happy 100th birthday to the Hershsprung-Russel Diagram, some more on The Denisovans

Show 692

May 1, 2014

1. Current Events, computers & cars - a marriage made in purgatory, the gap between student wages and educational costs gets Grand Canyonesque.
2. The Sacramento City Council sells out (not again?): a chat with Doug's neighbor Sidney Norris about the McVillage travesty, we award a Horses Ass of the Year Award for crap reporting and let Will Durst sound off about neighborhoods (not ours)
3. Voyager 1 has for sure left our solar system (they think... probably anyway) the definitive answer (maybe), Hollywood correspondent David Rosenbloom explains his novel approach to marketing Shakespeare's plays

Show 691

Apr 24, 2014

1. Current Events, the legacy of LBJ, Will Durst on executing people
2. Interview: Ellen Cochrane on East Sac's issues, in particular the controversial development threatening a decent neighborhood, which happens to be the host's
3. Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals

Show 690

Apr 17, 2014

1. Current Events, eclipse review, plus Will Durst
2. Miscellaneous File: overuse of surgery, mammogram problems, the slothful FDA & its disgraceful inaction on antibiotic "growth factor" use and new sunscreens
3. Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes

Show 689

Apr 10, 2014

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the new climate news
2. Thomas Goetz, author of The Remedy Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, a tale of microbes and men
3. Chloe Lessard current Public Affairs host (and PA director as KDVS) on her show & new shows, KDVS radio host Dr. Andy Jones talks about his new book based upon his son: Where's Jukie?

Show 688

Apr 3, 2014

1. Current Events, new discovery of remarkable object at edge of solar system: 2012VP113 aka "Biden"
2. Cuckoo bird biology and cuckoo bird local politics: Sacramento Marina fails to apologize for being jerks, and they now want your business, No "YIMBY" with Sutter Memorial project. The misadventures of State Sen Leland Yee, why the Chinese hate their doctors (its corruption, again).
3. Obit: Wm Pogue Part 2 with quotes from "How Do You Go To the Bathroom in Space?" also "Bunny" Mellon, amusing Sam McManus piece in Bee on watching a TV show being taped

Show 687

Mar 27, 2014

1. Current Events, Cosmos riles creationists & other cave dwellers, some good news about Fukushima contamination
2. More good news: Japanese nukes, retiring bad farmland, suburbs with farms added; congrats to the Sac Bee; a look a military wastage old & new, Dwight Eisenhower and your host a psychological comparison
3. Obits: William Pogue (part 1); more from our favorite cartoonist Eric Decetis (how to not get ripped off as an artist); is Yelp using extortion?

Show 686

Mar 20, 2014

1. Current Events; thoughts on David Brenner
2. Drug doubts; voting, does it matter? Interview with Dr. Vladimir Dinets about his curious research on animals.
3. Obit: Joe McGinnis, Glen Beck (in a moment of clarity) admits he's a horse's ass, the EHR "fix" of american medicine, a visit to Jack London State Park

Show 685

Mar 13, 2014

1. Current Events, the discovery of Uranus, as told to us previously by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and BTW its pronounced YURR-a-nus)
2. Shaun Minton talks about the Sochi Olympics and more
3. Obit: Bob Casale of DEVO (and one-time interviewee for KDViations), Tennant Bagley - CIA agent & disinformationalist? Jerry Brown takes advice from Bibi Netanyahu, North Koreans (unlike Sacramentans) get to vote, more "supplement" bad news, Mexico kills drug lord - for the 2nd time

Show 684

Mar 6, 2014

1. Current Events
2. Politics in Olympic judging: chat with UCD professor of Political Science John Stone, a look at Phllip Seymour Hoffman and heroin
3. A brief look (and obit) re: cartoonist Morrie Turner, a chat with our favorite local cartoonist Eric Decetis, more on Harold Ramis including our favorite clip of his: excerpt of "Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer" (first aired on KDVS in 1977 via The National Lampoon Radio Hour). Ramis played Shriner.

Show 683

Feb 27, 2014

1. Current Events, Aggie Editor Elizabeth Orpina gives us the good news on the Aggie vote
2. The Future of News essay (on the need for context), a clip from Daniel Schorr on that same topic, sports cheating - with xenon!, nicotine - a possibly useful drug even if tobacco is still poison
3. Obituary on Harold Ramis (part 1) and a chat with KDVS's legendary DJ Gary B. Goode

Show 682

Feb 20, 2014

1. Current Events, stupidity and the law: multiple examples including one from Will Durst - marijuana's continued illegality
2. Science: Fusion progress? Polar bear politics, The great Sugar controversy, testosterone - we told ya so
3. (late) Good, Bad, & Ugly, Argentina's woes per The Economist, and Cuba's progress, Mazatlan - a qualified endorsement after a trip down Mexico way

Show 681

Feb 13, 2014

1. Current Events, "for profit" hospice?!
2. Chat with Elizabeth Orpina Aggie Editor-in-Chief over ASUCD vote, Obama a wuss - on pot too, Arena weasels at it again, Chuck Yeagar in court, The Ouija Board
3. Obits: Christopher Jones, Maximillian Schell, Sid Ceasar, Shirley Temple

Show 680

Feb 6, 2014

1. Current Events, Mexico vs vigilantes vs narcotrafficantes, State of the Union yawner
2. Essays: on "the process" of housing developments, CA water misuse, the hero of the Dreyfus Affair - Georges Picquart
3. Obits: the strange tale of Hiro Onoda, Bill Wagman of the Sat Morn Folk Show continues our chat on Pete Seegar

Show 679

Jan 30, 2014

1. Current Events, Caribe thoughts, Will Durst sounds off on techno "progress"
2. Good Bad & Ugly, Chinese Rover woes, more Mantis shrimp data, Doug's Dominican Republic visit: whales and hard motoring, Chris Christie "news"
3. A chat about the late Pete Seegar with Sat Morn Folk Show host Robyne Fawx

Show 678

Jan 23, 2014

1. Special report from the island of St Kitts/Current Events
2. A mantis shrimp follow up (we know you've been waiting), A look at the Surgeon General's report 50 years on, and a look at the statistician who somehow failed to notice the dangers of smoking cigarets
3. more science stuff

Show 677

Jan 16, 2014

1. Current Events, stopping cars by shutting down the electronics - from afar, exercise - good, vitamins - unclear benefits
2. Radiation effects on wildlife, Fungi - a new killer found, but good news too
3. "Obit" for Rep George Miller, Texas jackasses, drugs and banking, Cosmos II

Show 676

Jan 9, 2014

1. Current Events, Dave Barry's amusing look back at 2013
2. Rants on "W", the NSA, California water woes & real estate scams
3. Obit: Phil Everly, Science topics: exo-plants are not like the neighborhood, more on good germs, snowflakes don't look like we've been led to believe they look

Show 675

Jan 2, 2014

1. Current Events; comet to crash on Mars? the Curiosity rover keeps roving, demented drone delivery proposals - a future debacle?
2. 2013 Obits: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ruth Patrick, Martin Sharp, Tom Laughlin, Harold Camping, Paul Crouch, Al Goldstein, Joan Fontaine and the legendary Peter O'Toole
3. Will Durst gripes about computer passwords; our fossil ancestors: both human & fish, newly-discovered miracle anti-biotics (fresh air and sunlight!)