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1. The downside of high tech. JFK records retained. CO2 at 800,000 year high. Social media: its threat to democracy. Facebook & Google running amok.
2. Excerpts from World Without Mind by Franklin Foer. Computer scientist Donald Rose talks about Artificial Intelligence.

1. Public double-cross -- again. Solar system invaded. JFK records release: the true numbers. 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union -- yawn. Che Guevara, 50 years on. Luther: 500 years on.
2. Obit: Fats Domino. Communism: alive and well in China. Chicoms: embracing AI technology. Dont Hassel The Hoff. Colombian coffee. Tech gone haywire.

1. JFK records release scam. 225 years of the Old Farmers Almanac. The NFL and the First Amendment. Our usual fare.
2. Reprise: Jefferson Morley interview. Our man in Havana.

1. UCI med school goes in for quackery. Obits: Jake LaMotta and Bobby Heaton. The Juice is loose. Also, David Lopez. Non-saluting the flag. Dementia test.
2. Vegas shooter: gambling creep. Obit: Arthur Janov, the Primal Scream guru. Scientific research of dubious value. Thomas Midgley: a one-man scientific disaster?

1. Santa Rosa burns up. RexTillerson thinks Trump is a moron? Robert Mugabe: still a jerk, but hanging on. Larry David returns to HBO. Gerrymandering. Google engulfs.
2. Cleanliness in Western society. Handwashing: a recent development. 60th anniversary of Sputnik. A look at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

1. Thoughts and analysis of the tragedy in Las Vegas.
2. A remembrance of the man who prevented World War III in 1983.

1. Some musings on Hawaii. Usual show opening. Quackery. Paper currency issues.
2. Russiagate. Google, Amazon, Facebook: public enemies? More insidious tech.

1. Interview with Martha Brockenbrough about her book, “Alexander Hamilton - Revolutionary.”
2. Part 2, Alexander Hamilton interview. More eclipse chat. Usual show fare.

1. Musings on Geography. Deep Politics. Can AI tell if you’re gay? (good grief) Using DNA to tell what you look like. Thoughts on rain.
2. More on the late great Dick Gregory. Yet more corporate mergers. Science topics. Goodbye, Cassini – a look at the mission’s accomplishments and findings.

1. Our Australian correspondent, Pamela Taylor, joins us to talk Eclipse Tourism – plus a look at Australian slang.
2. Reprise episode: Mark Anderson, author of “Shakespeare by Another Name.”

1. The “American eclipse” – an eyewitness report, assisted by Pamela Taylor, our Australian correspondent.

1. Trumpian antics. Miscellaneous Parallax musings. Dangers from tech companies. Questions on antibiotics.
2. Andreas Kluth on Hannibal (reprise).

1. Good, bad, and ugly – new and old. Stealing pistachios. Trump at the Boy Scouts.
2. Political hitman Roger Stone - via a brief quote gathered for us in LA anyway. Can AI produce poetry? The new tech monopolies. Archival humor. Are planets 9 and 10 orbiting beyond Pluto??

1. Trump vs. his supporters. Job issues: tech run amok. Summer of Love at 50.
2. Micro-dosing. Good, bad and ugly. Bad behaviors. Planetary science.

1. Current events and the usual fare.
2. Miscellaneous stuff. The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, 50 years ago this month.

1. Some introspection. Trump's hilarious cabinet. Our usual boilerplate. Indonesia's killer kretek cigarettes.
2. Obits: Fred Kummerow (opponent of trans fats); bipolar baseballer Jim Piersall; Jack O'Neill (wizard of wet suits); Manuel Noriega; sinister media maven Roger Ailes; Zbigniew Brzezinski (author of the USSR's Afghan debacle); actor Roger Moore; Adam West (THE Batman).

1. Trip to the Azores.
2. James Brown's anti-drug spot. Adventures in Iberia, part two.

1. Summer of Love turns 50. Also from 1967: satanic lion in SF. The MMR shot. Ten peculiar laws.

1. Trump fires Comey. Obit: Robert Pirsig. Usual fare. Weaponizing Anthony Weiner.

1. GOP war on science continues. EPA under siege. Skepticism over Syria. Monsanto sued.
2. Proxima Centauri verified. Archival material revisited.

1. Don Rickles obit. US entry into World War I centennial. Politically correct language (call-in from Dr. Chris Leslie of the Institute for Improved Language).
2. Excerpts from Neil Sheehan's classic Vietnam book, A Bright Shining Lie.

1. Goldman Sachs: still in the saddle. Raiders saga review. Salton Sea sickness.

1. Serbian comedy candidate. Obama's red phone call to Putin. Marc Ambinder's bizarre Washington Post piece denying the Deep State.
2. Realities of the Deep State. Excerpt of Peter Dale Scott radio interview.

1. Is Trump at war with the Deep State? Respected investigative journalists deny Russiagate.
2. Review of Chuck Berry's career with musicologist Kyle Larsen.

1. Replumbing India. Daylight savings conspiracy. Wild turkeys in Davis. Goat yoga. Cyber security. Cold turkey on tech addiction.
2. Social media evils. Russian hacks. Taibbi quotes on Trump. Bacteria helping your health.

1. Trump on the march... to doomsday? Obituary: David Lamb. Zealandia. Breeding fighting cattle.
2. Water & Power: A California Heist (a Nat Geo special), interview with director Marina Zenovich and attorney Adam Keats.

1. Two plays in LA: Pacino in Tennessee Williams, Oscar Levant aided by Phil Proctor. Stories of the artists.
2. The usual top of the show. Is Trump crazy? Meteorite dust in your gutter? Paleo vegetarianism. The "smart" hairbrush.

1. Usual boilerplate. NSA secrets. CIA psychic astronauts. Taxpayer support of NFL. Testosterone oversold. Bacteria and B.O. Bison murder.
2. Election aftermath. Voter suppression and election theft. Miscellaneous criminality.

1. Parallax returns from hiatus, 2017.

1. Miscellaneous Parallaxisms. Trump tape.
2. Jobs and Apple. Social media and wimpiness. RP plans to take a break.

1. RP relocates to Bay Area. Crashing on a comet. Jerry Brown makes doctors’ jobs harder, and continues to plot his water theft. Dems ask FBI to investigate Russian hacks, Roger Stone, and Wikileaks.

1. Suing the Saudis over 9/11. Presidential debate. Zodiac has 13 signs.
2. Global warming: bad news. Biomass problems. Issues with Israel, Venezuela, Mexico.
3. Musings on the future of Parallax.

1. Reconnaissance run to Oregon for next year’s eclipse.
2. Potpourri. Jonestown. Rose Pak. Sacto real estate corruption. San Francisco real estate corruption. Space explosions.

1. Usual fare. Sugar villainy. UCD to study coffee. Nanobats. Duterte vs. drugs. Gluten.
2. Clinton looking good? Blocking 9/11 Saudi lawsuits. For-profit college scamming. Calcium and dementia. Medical about-faces.
3. The defeat of smallpox. Umami & MSG. DOD waste. Syrian mess.

1. TBD

1. Viagra follies. Water woes. Cannabis vote. Astronomic fun. Rabin remembered.

1. Proxima Centauri and its planet. Low tech backup. Screwball celestial objects past Neptune. What do humans taste like?
2. Revisiting our chats with Leno Carolo who recently passed away.

1. Sacto opts for more light pollution. GOP Convention. Election preview.
2. Excess screen time. Polluting young brains. Should you floss? Clean your ears.
3. Obit: Marni Nixon, Gary Paxton. More political wackiness – especially water.

1. The ghost of Walter Winchell. What you sound like on radio. Opioid issues. Sexual identity.
2. Racial violence. Too many people.

1. Standard fare. Roger Ailes woes. Kepler continues. Spain & Hawaii.
2. Vice Presidential follies.
3. More on the Veep. James Brown PSA.

1. Our attempt at a full show. Entertainment from the 12th century – bullfighting. Elvis and Nixon. The Brits on the Iraq War. Discovery of lost films.
2. Katehi woes. Political follies.
3. Bacterial rainmakers. A look back at psychopathy. Free throws and machismo.

1. Spirit vs. Led Zeppelin. Usual Parallax fare.

1. A completely typical show. Crazy legal case.

1. The usual stuff. “Ghostbusters” sexism? Will Durst on third parties.

1. Democratic primary shenanigans. Brief obits worthy of future segments (Muhammad Ali, Mark Lane, Morley Safer). The usual Parallax fare.

1. A half hour of the usual fare, bagging on politicians, etc.

1. Current Events
2. Reprise of our chat with author Pope Brock about his book Charlatan, the story of Dr John Brinkley who made a fortune with a bogus cure for erectile dysfunction (and pioneering use of radio)
3. Real-life treater of ED Jason Sowell joins Dr Doug for a sort-of infomercial on Doctors Clinic for Men, where modern medicine can actually cure most men with this issue

1. Current Events
2. Reprise of interview with the celebrated hostorical writer Evan Thomas
3. Obituary of a Morton-Thiokol engineer who warned NASA that the shiuttle would blow up if they launched in cold weather.

1. Goodbye KDVS (its been a great 14 years), current events, reminder that we will continue at radioparallax.com
2. Dr Andy Jones weighs in a final time, James Israel talks about 25 years of The Humor Times - and their party next month
3. Celebrity poetry reading, not included: "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" but we end on it just the same

1. Current Events
2. Interview with author Margaret Talbot about her book The Entertainer - Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century
3. Margaret Talbot Part 2. (The father in the book's title is actor Lyle Talbot)

1. Current Events, brief obit Nancy Reagan
2. Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society (and Planetary Radio) shares her knowledge of what we are learning about our neighbors in space
3. Science topics, including some science of econ and poli sci

1. Author and activist David Talbot talks about his book The Devil's Chessboard; Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government. Part 1 our power elite
2. The Devil's Chessboard Part II: Dulles and the CIA's gains in power in the 50s
3. The Devil's Chessboard Part III: the JFK assassination and the CIA's links to it, Allen Dulles masterminds the Warren Commission cover-up

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