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Some good news items, electoral crazyness into bad films, GB&U, Gaza tragedy, trying to kill Hitler, miscellaneous items
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Reprise of our 2008 chat with California politcal legend Willie Brown
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James DiEugenio talks about the JFK Conference at Duquesne U, specifically Jims presentation on the evolution of foreign policy from JFK into the NeoCon revolution
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James DiEugenio on Henry Kissinger
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Current event round-up, Xmas music, possible new ED therapy from spider venom, good news items
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Steven Harper updates us on SCOTUS machinations and things Trump
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Thanksgiving turkey pardon, Good, Bad & Ugly twice over, supposed alien artifacts, alien worlds, big tech weasels want in on gambling on sports
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Gaza catastrophe, Obit: James Buckley, real estate brokers 6% rip off being questioned in court, Trump goes full Nazi in rhetoric
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Duquesne Conference at 50th anniversary of JFKs passing
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More musing on JFK murder mystery
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Activist attorney Bill Simpich updates us on JFK records lawsuti vs Biden administration
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Retrun to live show after a hiatus, great quotes, memes, GB&U fest, Gaetz coup, alleged intelligence failure in Gaza,
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Gaza oppression, Obit: Marti Atissarre, memes, GB&U fest, vaccines dont earn a Nobel
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Potpourri items: GB&U fest, misc news items; phenylepherine acknowledged s placebo, standing up ti China, eliminating taxes in Argemtina, is India Bharat?, Bernie Taupin tantrum, PC run amok
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NASA samples an asteroid, tricky bugs, 2014 article on "service animals"
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Reprise: our chat with Ira Flatow from NPRs Science Friday
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Reprise: our interview with Ignacio Chaepela from show 146
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Doing the Time Warp, some medical topics of note, some science topics of dubious distinction
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Review of Burning Man 2023 with Guy Tortorici , GB&U, Tulare Lake reborn, Colonel Allensworth State Park, American spectacles - armour and trucks
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Interview with Lee McIntyre author of On Disinformation, How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
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GB&U, archival musings from our files
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Trump circus dominates news cycle, look back at 3rd party efforts to wrest power from our "two-party system", excuses from the orangemans lawyers, 1960s poli sci review, good news in Ohio
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US intelligence manipulating wikipedia, psychological defenses to propaganda
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Return to fresh material; volcanic island on Mars, Rx industry forced to negotiate prices vs serving them up via "like it or lump it" method
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Clip of atmospheric scientist Dr Tony Held on global warming - from 21 years ago, use AI to counter spam calls?, giant Pentagon rathole, weird things said in bookstores, GB&U
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Current events update of the last several weeks
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Economist article on gender medicine followed by discussion of trans issues in sports.
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Reprise broadcast of our chat with NPR Science Friday host Ira Flatow
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Reprise broadcst of our chat with author Peter Pringle on his book about Nikolai Vavilov
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Some favorite clips from the years 2005-2010
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Present time musings
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Look back at 23 years of radio from Douglas Everett & Edward MacMillan
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More Radio Parallax look-back, a potpourri of favored snippets
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Obit: Harry Belafonte, Secretariat the Derby winner and Dancers Image a Derby loser, strange alga, new eco-garbage-plastic-system
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A look at the Supreme Court of the United States with Steven J. Harper
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The (fortunately stymied) Reber Plan to fill in San Francisco Bay, GB&U, science topics
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Dr Grover Proctor talks about The Raleigh Call, the mysterious episode of Lee Harvey Oswalds attempt to make a phone call while in police custody
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Discussion of the Americas most popular dog breed the French Bulldog with veterenarian Evelyn Warner ,the dog of the plant world i.e. the cabbage family, life under the snow, warmer oceans, Rolling Stone article on Okavango oil drillling
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Psychiatry detour, why name mascots after nasty beasts, SSRI hucksterism, Freud the fraud, bad science of Stanly Milgram experiment, Obit: Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, look back on Charoltte Denon interview about prosecuting George W Bush for murder, quote from Vince Bugliosi on Iraq War, misremembering that war by the NYT and its culpability in that conflict
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GB&U, a review of some environmental issues, Michael Lewis essay from 2004 on investor driven corporate misbehavior
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Steven J Harper discusses his book Crossing Hoffa , a tale of his fathers union work getting entangled with the efforts of the Teamsters leader
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Bill Maher use of canned laughter, recycled comedy bits, Uncle Johns review including sourdugh bread, Shasta Lemurians, Heaves Gate cult, how win all arguments
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Worst opening lines in novels, Komodo Dragon bit from Bob & Ray, more Unlce Johns, our favorite classic bit from National Lampoon Radio Hour w Belushi, Radner & Harold Ramis - Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer
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GB&U, James Risen on meaninless vote to end Iraq War, Atlantic article by Breakthrough Institute bullsh*tters and their outing, water woes, a few frivolities
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Trump indictment - an analysis from our resident expert on things related to DJT and legal matters Steven J. Harper
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Our wet year restores the drained Tulare Lake, an essay on 20 years look back on the Iraq War based on lies, Silicon Valley Chatbotpocalypse and how AI learns how lie to us in order to sound convincing
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October Surprise update, Jeff Morley and Greg Palast weigh in, a clip from our chat with Robert Parry in 2004, clip from Barbara Honegger in 2006 on the same topic, follow up essay from Parry in Consortium News
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Spring, Trump non-indictment, 20 year anniversary of shame vs Iraq war, report from Mexico, Uranium, repealing Iraq enabling laws, WMD lie, French retirees get angry, weight watchers drugs, anti-mask disinformation, GB&U, nord stream PR battle, Trump continues to skate, Pence might be waking up
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GMOs from corn to dogs, worst movie ever seen by host wins 2023 Oscar, spineless Kevin McCarthy, CPAC nuts ARE the new GOP, Carlson hypocricy on FOX, a look at WOKE including equity language, libertarian hypocrisy when their banks tank
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Eclipse chasing, listener mail, "ancient alien" nonsense, Isaac Asimovs take on "flying saucers", seeing the future - in 1964, nuclear power, new game changer obesity drugs, insulin highway robbery in the USA
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Free range chat with our favorite pharmacologist Howard McKinney
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Expiration dates, Georgia politics, AI spying on your friends now, smart devices can cut off your devices, crappy tech support via new ways of doing things, GB&U, satellite light pollution, urban concrete promotes floods
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Howard McKinney talks about how to not commit suicide, Swiss chocolate from Slovakia, AMLO and the elf, NY cat cafe, return of the Dodo,
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Chat with investigative journalist Russ Baker over his essays pondering the view of some progressives that Putins war in Ukraine is somehow justified, GB&U
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Musing on Jimmy Carter, quotes from Greg Palasts essay echoing Russ Baker - on the puzzling alignment of liberals and the MAGA crowd on the war Ukraine
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Isolated interview with Russ Baker
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GB&U, saga of St Augustine, getting spied on, getting covid again, Obits: Gina Lollobrigida, Richard Belzer, Bert Bacharach
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Chatbots go loopy, railroad safety, nordstream pipeline sabotage - done by USA says Sy Hersch, Dealey Plaza remdel
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Beaver lodge breaking & entering, north star stuff, Tito the missing Bolivian cat, Borowitz, GB&U, single cell creatures go fraternal, pirates & guacamole, the bear on Mars,
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Author and adjunct professor of law Steven J Harper returns to discuss the GOPs efforts to play debt ceiling politics
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Current Events, science topics
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Chat with attorney Bill Simpich about the DOJs response to the lawsuit filed to release JFK records, polaris our pole star
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Archive program from 2006 show #212 ledgendary Actor Eli Wallach
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Archive programe from 2008 show #318 James Kakalios on The Science of Superheros
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Obits for Jeff Beck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gaylord Perry, look back on bio lab & delta smelt, ChatGPT test drive by us, GB&U, The Intercept looks at US communications at start of Covid pandemic, Chinese resurgence of same
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Ozone hole improving, flipping public opinion, AI acting as an attorney in the courtroom, more woke censorship, raising a lion to shoot it, giant Stone Mountain racist scupture, the Pentagon cannot self-audit, anti-depressants and pacebo - maybe the same thing, chemical imbalance theory BS
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Einstein wisecrack, Dave Barry 2022 year in review, loonie column on why voter supression is no big, more Delta smelt woes despite temporary slowing of delta pumps, laughable Stanford PC language guidelines gets laughed at, the CES in Las Vegas just keeps making our lives better - talking dog devices, AI based baby stroller, South African aloe vera mistaken for aliens
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New revelations on ancient concrete, AG Rob Bonta suing over insuin price gouging, disables journalist Peter Pischke essay on continued opiod restictions per CDC, deep dive into The Week, GB&U, George Santos - astounding liar and Congressman, Kevin McCarthy - subpoena dodger and House Speaker, combo desk and exercise bike, marijuana tax revenue, Ugandan farmer with 12 wives and 558 grandkids now in favor of birth control
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New light on origins of covid-19 per odd Wuhan e-mails from a Pro Publica & Vanity Fair investigation
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Archival items: a 2002 look at aspiring NATO members, a 2007 look at Chairman Mao, 2011 Mental Floss look at dictator bad ideas, 2012 obit of Daniel Kaminsky, 2001 obit of Ramsey Clark, 2005 essay - was modern art a CIA weapon?, SNR article on home heating by burning food (corn) in a stove, 2009 Mental Floss piece - Voltaire vs Rousseau
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Welcomng 2023, favored quotes and quips, polls, 2022 pop Quiz, GB&U, animal news, "opiod crisis" update, old GB&U,
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Monsoon vs drought woes, megaflood warning, sewage fish kill in SF via red tide, technology review including chatbots/AI and voter manipulation, Covid origin controversy