KUCI Talk

KUCI TALK ON DEMAND ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 2007

ALL NON FICTION
Christmas Eve at Craby Joe's, Los Angeles's last dive bar on Skid Row, as they close their doors after 74 years. 12/27/07

TREADING THE UNDERCURRENT
An interview with Jarret Lovell, Ph.D. an assistant professor of criminal justice at California State University, Fullerton where his research interests focus upon mass media and the administration of justice as well as grassroots movements and social protest. 12/21/07

ALL NON FICTION
We wipe the cobwebs from our underused bicycle and take a 20 mile ride up and down a section of the bike path along the Santa Ana River in Orange County, CA.
12/13/07

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with John Turturro the director of Romance and Cigarettes - a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class.
12/18/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
One of the best blogsites that is daily sharing enormous amounts of information and insights — and actually opening and changing minds — is Corporations Ate My Baby. Hear an interview with the mysterious L.A.-based man behind this page. 12/27/08

TREADING THE UNDERCURRENT
An interview with Jarret Lovell, Ph.D. an assistant professor of criminal justice at California State University, Fullerton where his research interests focus upon mass media and the administration of justice as well as grassroots movements and social protest. 12/21/07

NOVEMBER 2007

TREADING THE UNDERCURRENT
An interview with Alex Donis, a Los Angeles-based visual artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality, regarding censorship. 11/30/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Hear Naomi Wolf discuss her extremely important work "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot." which outlines the dangers posed by our current government to the continuance of America as a free democratic republic. 11/8/07

TREADING THE UNDERCURRENT
Artist and Pomona College Professor of Art, Sheila Pinkel, tells the story of the censorship of her exhibit at the T.H. Pendergast California Parole Museum in Diamond Bar. 11/9/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
Jah Rasta Yogis aren't just a band, they are an experience. Inner peace through music; balance through meditation. A better world begins within. Listen. 11/8/07

TREADING THE UNDERCURRENT
Elliot D. Cohen discusses his book Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship. 11/16/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
An interview with David Horowitz, author, editor-in-chief of FrontPage Magazine, and organizer of Islamo-Fascism Awareness week. 11/1/07

OCTOBER 2007

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with AJ Schnack director of Kurt Cobain About a Son — an intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain. 10/9/07

PLANETARY RADIO
A preview of the Spaceward Games from Spaceward Foundation co-founder Ben Shelef, working toward achieving the technology that would enable a space elevator. 10/15/07

SUBVERSITY
Host Daniel C. Tsang talks about his own Privacy Act lawsuit, Tsang v. CIA, which was settled out of court with a promise from the CIA not to spy on his First-Amendment protected activities in future. 10/8/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Sean Hoar, a US Attorney with the Department of Justice who handles white collar crime and high tech crimes including identity theft, cyber crime and pornography crimes. 10/10/07

THE RABBIT HOLE
John Bowe discusses his shocking new book Nobodies: Modern American Slavery and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. Yes, real slavery — where workers are not free to leave and are not paid — exists in today's America! 10/25/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Former US Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich discusses his book Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life. 10/16/07

KUCI THEATRE REVIEWS
Don Hill, director of Drama productions, describes the shows on the UCI Drama Department Fall Calendar. 10/11/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Sue Cannon of the California Nurses Association. 10/19/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
New cell phone disease causes ringing ears and vibrating hipbones/no movies with women in the lead /Neanderthal thinking or good business sense? 10/14/07

SYNDICATED POTPOURRI
Two programs from National Radio Project's Making Contact: Dirty Harry part 1, about the consequences of nuclear testing; and Mothers, Migrants and Maids of Honor, about domestic workers. 10/15/07

COACHING CONVERSATIONS
An interview with Deborah Henderson on "Starting with the Top Team to Help an Organization Shift Their Corporate Culture." 10/21/07

TREADING THE UNDERCURRENT
An interview with artist Clinton Fein. 10/5/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
For 40 years, the Advocate magazine has been a leader in providing the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered (LGBT) community with news and opinion. Editor Anne Stockwell looks back at LGBT history. 10/4/07

KUCI THEATRE REVIEWS
An interview with Craig Pesco of Queen, It's a Kinda Magic. 10/4/07

PLANETARY RADIO
The 50th anniversary of the beginning of the space age found Planetary Society Executive Director Louis Friedman in Moscow. Lou talks about the celebration there, and how the first human made object in orbit changed his life. 10/8/07

COACHING CONVERSATIONS
An interview with Aboodi Shabi on "Ontological Coaching." 10/7/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Ghazal Omid, the Iranian expatriate author of Living in Hell, an autobiography and political memoir that has caused a controversy stir in ultra-conservative Iranian society. 10/3/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
"Most Likely To..." Bomb His Reunion?/ Illegal Immigration Protesters - I Love These People/ Al Sharpton rallying for another troublemaker. 10/7/07

SUBVERSITY
Sarah Tofte, Human Rights Watch Researcher, discusses her new report on the limitations of sex offender laws, "No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US". 10/1/07

SYNDICATED POTPOURRI
Making Contact programs from National Radio Project on the media spin ("War Made Easy") in the Iraq War as well as the growing Iraqi refugee crisis. 10/8/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with John Anderson author of Follow the Money: How George W Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-tied America. 10/9/07

SEPTEMBER 2007

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with Charles Burnett the director of the classic film Killer of Sheep — an examination of the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s. 9/11/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
As the DEA continues to raid cannibis providers throughout CA, a new voice has entered the debate over the use of medical marijuana: Veterans. Dan Bernath of the D.C. based Marijuana Policy Project guests. 9/27/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with Helen Schulman, author of A Day at the Beach. 9/20/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
Marrie Stone interviews Samara O'Shea, author of For the Love of Letters and Jennifer Gilmore, author of Golden Country. 9/20/07

SUBVERSITY
Chemerinsky at UCI. An interview with UCI Professor Elizabeth Loftus, who served on the deanship search committee and Professor David Goldberg who drafted the "open letter" calling for Chancellor Drake to re-offer UCI's Donald Bren School of Law dean's position to Prof. Chemerinsky.

AUGUST 2007

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Hear a mind-blowing discussion with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. Part 1 8/17/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Hear a mind-blowing discussion with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. Part 2 8/17/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Rebecca Jeschke of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 8/17/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
The "Combatants for Peace" movement was started jointly by Palestinians and Israelis, who have taken an active part in the cycle of violence; Israelis as soldiers in the Israeli army (IDF) and Palestinians as part of the violent struggle for Palestinian freedom. After brandishing weapons for so many years, and having seen one another only through weapon sights, Israelis and Palestinaians decided to put down their guns, and to fight for peace. Listen to their stories. 8/23/07

JULY 2007

PLANETARY RADIO
Dawn Discovery Mission Project System Engineer Marc Rayman discusses this revolutionary spacecraft's journey to the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. 7/2/07

BIO FRONTIERS
Dr. Fan Gang Zeng describes his work with cochlear implants and tinnitus treatment, and Tony Burke explains natural product synthesis. 7/23/07

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with John Peterson, the subject of the documentary, The Real Dirt on Farmer John — a story that parallels the history of American farming. 7/3/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with Manuel Sarrazin, Montreal activist, Dancehall fan, and webmaster of Soul Rebels and its sister activist site Murder Inna Dancehall. 7/12/07

BIO FRONTIERS
So Hyun Chung on tissue water state changes in breast cancer tissues with diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS), a non-invasive bedside optical technique for tissue physiological property monitoring. 7/9/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Omar, the author of Iraq blog 24 Steps to Liberty. 7/13/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Shirley Durham, Director of Programs and Special Projects for Ponemon Institute, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. 7/11/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Women's Movement created Liz Claiborne/ "Mission Accomplished?"/ $4 for an iPod?/ Nicole Richie wants Jail weight loss program 7/8/07

CAMPUS TALK
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal discusses his book "Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House." 7/4/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
Dominic Smith, author of The Beautiful Miscellaneous: A Novel and Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A Novel. 7/5/07

PLANETARY RADIO
Deep Impact wowed the world with its explosive investigation of a comet two years ago. Now the spacecraft has been given a new mission that combines two very different tasks. 7/9/07

BIO FRONTIERS
So Hyun Chung on tissue water state changes in breast cancer tissues with diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS), a non-invasive bedside optical technique for tissue physiological property monitoring. 7/9/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Omar, the author of Iraq blog 24 Steps to Liberty. 7/13/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Shirley Durham, Director of Programs and Special Projects for Ponemon Institute, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. 7/11/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Women's Movement created Liz Claiborne/ "Mission Accomplished?"/ $4 for an iPod?/ Nicole Richie wants Jail weight loss program 7/8/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
Iran, Rushdie, and More. 7/11/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with Steve Berkman a former World Bank staffer and author of “The World Bank and the $100 Billion Question.”7/3/07

CAMPUS TALK
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal discusses his book "Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House." 7/4/07

PLANETARY RADIO
Dawn Discovery Mission Project System Engineer Marc Rayman discusses this revolutionary spacecraft's journey to the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. 7/2/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
Iran, Rushdie, and More. 7/11/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with Steve Berkman a former World Bank staffer and author of “The World Bank and the $100 Billion Question.” 7/3/07

JUNE 2007

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
A hilarious conversation with Jesse Reklaw, editor of Applicant and creator of the highly successful Slow Wave comic strip. 6/21/07

SUBVERSITY
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force policy analyst Alain Dang talks about the NGLTF national survey of queer Asians. 6/18/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
Akhil Sharma, author of An Obedient Father and Gina Nahai, author of Sunday's Silence: A Novel. 6/24/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Beth Givens, founder and director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit advocacy, research, and consumer education program. 6/13/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Homosexuality a health hazard?/ A space shuttle, a staple gun, and Duet Coke vs. lemonade/ And the custody goes to... the alcoholic! 6/24/07

SUBVERSITY
Vietnamese Canadian Actor David Huynh talks about his title role in "Baby" as well as his stage and upcoming film roles. 6/11/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
That immigration bill ain't that bad 6/27/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Jeremy Scahill discusses his book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. 6/22/07

CAMPUS TALK
USC Rhetoric student and blogger Omri Ceren of mererhetoric.com discusses rhetoric and current events including those in the Middle East. 6/27/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Eric G. Wilson discusses his book "The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr." 6/11/07

PEACE BY PEACE
David Hawkins discuuses his book "Power vs. Force" 6/29/07

CAMPUS TALK
USC Rhetoric student and blogger Omri Ceren of mererhetoric.com discusses rhetoric and current events including those in the Middle East. 6/27/07

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with Guy Madden director of Brand Upon the Brain! 6/5/07

HARDT TO HEART TALK
Jack Sameshima describes his experience in Japanese American Concentration camps during WWII. 6/14/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Eric G. Wilson discusses his book "The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr." 6/11/07

HARDT TO HEART TALK
Jack Sameshima describes his experience in Japanese American Concentration camps during WWII. 6/14/07

PEACE BY PEACE
David Hawkins discuuses his book "Power vs. Force" 6/29/07

SUBVERSITY
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force policy analyst Alain Dang talks about the NGLTF national survey of queer Asians. 6/18/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
Akhil Sharma, author of An Obedient Father and Gina Nahai, author of Sunday's Silence: A Novel. 6/24/07

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with Guy Madden director of Brand Upon the Brain! 6/5/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
A hilarious conversation with Jesse Reklaw, editor of Applicant and creator of the highly successful Slow Wave comic strip. 6/21/07

SUBVERSITY
A discussion on the state of journalism in Orange County with Orange Coast Voice Editor Johan Earl, CSU Fullerton Communications Prof. Jeffrey Brody and ex-OC Weekly Editor Will Swaim. 6/4/07

MAY 2007

HARDT TO HEART TALK
Jeffrey Lane discusses hip hop and the NBA in his book “Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball.” In the second half hour Henry Vandergriff discusses the use of microchips embedded in humans to track and control by the Government. 5/31/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
George Monbiot discusses his book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. 5/15/07

JIMMY CARTER
President Jimmy Carter's May 3 speech from the Bren Events Center 5/3/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Eric G. Wilson, Professor of English at Wake Forest University, discusses his book Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film. 5/11/07

APRIL 2007

SUBVERSITY
An interview with Le Van Kiet, the director of Dust of Life (Bui Doi) showing at the closing night of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County 4/16/07

PLANETARY RADIO
Planetary scientist Geoffrey Collins thinks there may be a liquid water sea under the surface of Saturn's little moon Enceladus.
4/2/07

SUBVERSITY
UCI political scientist and Asian Americanist Claire Kim discusses why our university isn’t serving cage-free eggs in its food services.
4/2/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Fred Kirschenmann — a leader in national and international sustainable agriculture. 4/6/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
Mari Frank Interviews 6 Privacy and security experts in a field interview at the exhibit hall at the California Data Protection Summit. 4/4/07

COACHING CONVERSATIONS
Carol Harris-Fike interviewed on The Importance of the Body and Emotions in Coaching. 4/6/07

THE SHARP SHOW
Jail Teenage Arsonists!/ Poison Pet food - How do we know human food isn't next?/ Los Angeles is turning Third World 4/1/07

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with co-directors and co-producers Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein of the documentary The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair. 4/3/07

MARCH 2007

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
An interview with Victoria Byers about her rock opera, Holy Whores and Heretics: The Secret Life of Mary Magdalene. 3/16/07

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro directors of American Cannibal: The Road to Reality — a documentary about reality TV. 3/13/07

PERIODICO IDIOTICO
Joanna is out so Robbie's girlfriend Amy fills in for her today. We discuss VH1 Reality TV, traffic, and the nor-cal so-cal noise. 3/26/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
Nick Olszyk, President of the Newman Catholic Fellowship at Chapman University, will be on to talk about the solidarity fast he and his classmates are participating in… also the news of the day. 3/28/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Benjamin Barber discusses his new book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. 3/27/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth discusses his latest work at UFOmystic.com. 3/9/07

PEACE BY PEACE
Editor, Steven Hiatt talks about contributions to the new book A Game as Old as Empire. 3/23/07

PERIODICO IDIOTICO
Robbie and Joanna discuss time travel, dinosaurs, and the Oregon Trail. It's too hot outside for Robbie these days. 3/12/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Christopher Green practices credit litigation in Seattle Washington representing hundreds of consumers against credit reporting agencies, banks, credit card companies and debt collectors regarding disputed credit errors. 3/28/07

THE SHARP SHOW
I'm A Human Seismograph/ So-Called Immigration Rallies A Good Place To Arrest Illegals/ Hang On Sloopy, Sloopy Hang On/ Campaigns & Cancer 3/25/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
Public Transportation, Vast Wing Right Conspiracy, Gay's In The Military?? 3/14/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
British Member of Parliament George Galloway discusses his new Fidel Castro Handbook. 3/20/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with T. Jefferson Parker, author of Storm Runners: A Novel. 3/1/07

SUBVERSITY
An interview with Dorothy Fall about her book on her husband, Bernard Fall, whose scholarly works on the French disaster in the Vietnam War, are classics. 3/12/07

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
An interview with Caroline Myss, a true modern "mystic without a monastery" — the internationally renowned motivational teacher, spiritual instructor, popular theologian, and bestselling author of Entering the Castle. 3/22/07

PLANETARY RADIO
Special coverage of the successful New Horizons encounter with Jupiter and its moons. 3/5/07

SUBVERSITY
An interview with University of Amsterdam gay scholar Gert Hekma, who's embroiled in a nasty controversy in the Netherlands. 2/19/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with former George Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. 3/2/07

PLANETARY RADIO
Mars Express Confirms Lots of Polar Ice! Where's the Rest? 3/26/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview of California State Senate Joe Simitian
3/7/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Are we all just one step away from a mental breakdown? / Is English really the language of success? / Monopoly a good thing for consumers? 3/4/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
Walter Reed, Hillary and Canadian UFO's. 3/7/07

FEBRUARY 2007

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with director Ryan Fleck and screenwriter/ editor Anna Boden of the film "Half Nelson." 2/20/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with James H. Cone, author of Martin and Malcom and America: Nightmare or Dream? While Martin Luther King, Jr. saw America as "essentially a dream... as yet unfulfilled," Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare. But were they really so different in their views? 2/22/07

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Tezozomoc updates the situation at LA’s South Central Farm. 2/1/07 2/1/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Chalmers Johnson discusses his new book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. 2/27/07

PERIODICO IDIOTICO
A discussion of The Departed, obesity, well being, and road rage. 2/26/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview of Deborah Pierce Executive Director of PrivacyActivism. 2/21/07

PLANETARY RADIO
Cornell professor Jim Bell returns to Planetary Radio to help us explore his new mammoth collection of images from the Mars Exploration Rovers. 2/12/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Gay Girl Dance & Drill Team Assistants have infiltrated the high schools / We only live 2 thirds as long as we think / Ellen hosting the Oscars! 2/25/07

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Alex Amirahmadi. 2/17/07

THE DAVE AND BEN SHOW
Mexican truckers, public schools and Gore's electric bill. 2/28/07

SUBVERSITY
An interview with Korean American actor Justin Chon, raised in OC, whose acting career spans The OC to Just Jordan currently on Nickelodeon. 2/5/07

JANUARY 2007

FILMSCHOOL
Composer Philip Glass discusses his Academy Award-nominated score to Notes on a Scandal. 1/30/07

COACHING CONVERSATIONS
Charles Feltman, PCC, NCOC™, interviewed on The Heart of Coaching. 1/12/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle: A Novel. 1/25/07

PERIODICO IDIOTICO
A discussion of hamburgers, doughnuts, cars, and more pressing issues that might have possibly slipped under your radars. 1/29/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Stephen Duncombe discusses his book, Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. 1/23/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with Elizabeth Benedict, author of The Practice of Deceit: A Novel. 1/11/07

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle: A Memoir. 1/4/07

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Jonathan Hutto discusses the Appeal for Redress movement whereby active duty military personnel can legally voice (to their elected representatives in Washington) their opposition to the War in Iraq. 1/7/07

SUBVERSITY
An interview with Stuart Timmons about a new book he has co-authored, with historian Lillian Faderman, Gay L.A., about the underground histories and struggles that led to today's emergence of public lesbian and gay communities in the Los Angeles region. 1/15/07

FILMSCHOOL
Maria Maggenti discusses her new film Puccini for Beginners — nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. 1/16/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Professor Gene Tsudik, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of California , Irvine in the Department of Computer Science who was chosen as a Fullbright Scholar to teach and do research concerning computer privacy issues. 1/17/07

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Black girls and Mexican girls/ City Will Not Punish Officer Who Shot 13-Year-Old Boy but paid his family $1.5 million/ Marriage vs. Money vs. Happiness/ "Crocodile Hunter" death tape destroyed 1/14/07

PLANETARY RADIO
An interview with Wes Huntress who served as Associate Administrator for Space Science at NASA as the "follow the water" theme was created for Mars exploration. 1/8/07

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Marc-Aurele Racicot, a staff lawyer with the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada and member of the Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators. 1/10/07

PLANETARY RADIO
JPL scientist Steve Ostro discusses the proposed budget cuts that may end research at the two greatest radar astronomy instruments on Earth, Arecibo and Goldstone. 1/1/07

THE DAVE SHOW
Hanan, a UCI student, discusses her Hajj to Mecca, the Holy City of Islam. Also a dramatic reading of the last days of Saddam with Becca Silva and the news of the day with Alex Gilliand and much much more... 1/10/07

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism. 1/9/07

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
TASER Guns and Law Enforcement. Touted as a "less-than-lethal" means of law enforcement, the TASER gun is rapidly becoming a staple of contemporary law enforcement. How safe is the TASER? Why is it being marketed for use against non-violent protestors? Guest: Silja Talvi.1/29/07

DECEMBER 2006

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with Daniel Zwerdling regarding a GAO report that found about 80 percent of the soldiers who showed potential signs of PTSD were not referred for mental health follow-ups. 12/7/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Felicia Mello looks behind the scenes to find that conditions on many modern "organic" farms look a lot like conventional, industrial farms, complete with ailing, underpaid workers. 12/21/06

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Dueling funerals and execution coverage this weekend/ The King of Swing and the 'Godfather Of Soul' 12/31/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Perry Garfinkel , author of Buddha or Bust, discusses his latest New York Times article, Easing the Inward Journey, With Modern Amenities. 12/27/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Ralph Steadman discusses his book The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me. 12/5/06

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with Michael Datcher, author of Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story and Francine Prose, author of Reading Like a Writer. 12/21/06

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with Frederick Wiseman — one of the greatest living documentary filmmakers — High School, Hospital, Public Housing, and Titicut Follies. 12/19/06

NOVEMBER 2006

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Director Chris Hume, discusses his documentaries Voices of Katrina and Red State Road Trip. 11/17/06

FILMSCHOOL
Director and writer Jeff Lipsky discusses his film Flannel Pajamas. 11/21/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
Tammie Carroll, a recovering drug addict and the mother of 4 children discusses her identification theft drimes. 11/15/06

PEACE BY PEACE
Elizabeth Holtzman discusses her book The Impeachment of George W. Bush 11/17/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Jochen Strack, from Quaker Friends, talks about his new internet radio show. 11/15/06

CORPORATIONS BEHAVING BADLY
An interview with Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Director of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County and one of the brightest young activists in the country. 11/8/06

THE SHARP SHOW
Hispanic/Americans are turning us into a third-world culture/
You don't have to say "I'm gay" anymore 11/19/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with founder of Food Not Bombs and author of the FNB Manual Keith McHenry. 11/9/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, discusses his book about Baghdad’s Green Zone, Imperial Life in the Emerald City. 11/14/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Christine Varney of Hogan & Hartson — a law practice that provides full service assistance to companies doing business globally, including providing advice on antitrust, privacy, business planning and corporate governance, intellectual property, and general liability issues. 11/8/06
THE DAVE SHOW
Anne Wilde, co-founder of Principle Voices, gives a first hand look on what life is like for a women in a polygamist marriage. 11/1/06

OCTOBER 2006

CORPORATIONS BEHAVING BADLY
Steve interviews Walden Bello, one of the foremost experts on globalization and the WTO, IMF, and World Bank in the world. He has written numerous books on economics and politics, teaches in the Phillipines, and is founder of the organization Focus on the Global South. 10/29/06

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
T R Black interviews horror film reviewer Staci Layne Wilson about her profession and her favorite horror films past and present. 10/31/06

FILMSCHOOL
An interview with Phillip Noyce, director of Catch A Fire — a political thriller about the real-life story of South African hero Patrick Chamusso's journey to freedom. 10/24/06

JUSTICE OF JUST US?
Frida Berrigan a member of Witness Against Torture talks about her trip to Guantanamo and about future campaigns with Witness Against Torture. 10/19/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with Ronald Dworkin, author of Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate. 10/17/06

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
A interview with Paul Levy author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis. Using a Jungian lens and a concept he calls "malignant egophrenia," Levy asks us to look at the last few years as if it were a dream and President Bush was coughed up by the collective unconscious in order for us to wake up and evolve our consciousness. 10/6/06

FILMSCHOOL
Co-Director Rachel Grady discusses her new documentary Jesus Camp which follows evangelical Christian children at a religious summer camp. 10/3/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Author Eugenie C. Scott talks about her latest book Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools. 10/11/06

CORPORATIONS BEHAVING BADLY
Eric Tang, Communication Coordinator for the California Clean Money Campaign, discusses Proposition 89, which is on the California ballot this November. 2006. 10/1/06

THE SHARP SHOW
Hot topis you really care about:
Are you a flip? / Atheist / Foley's only crime is being a dirty old GAY man / miss cleo. 10/8/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Dr. Colin Bennett's whose research interests have focused on the comparative analysis of information privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. 10/11/06

COACHING CONVERSATIONS
An interview with Cindy Reinhardt, Master Certified Coach, President of Creative Resources Group and a founding member of the International Coach Federation; an 11 year-old professional coach organization with over 10,500 members world wide. 10/6/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with Maxine Hong Kingston — National Book Award Winner and editor of "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace." 10/10/06

PEACE BY PEACE
Interviews with Dr. Varzi, Dr. Rahimieh and Dr. Stannard at the launch of their book Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. 10/6/06

SEPTEMBER 2006

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Author and Philip K. Dick expert Brad Schreiber discusses the recently-released film A Scanner Darkly, Phil Dick's work in general, how it has influnced cinema, and how it foresaw the emerging police state that is present-day America. 9/15/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with Jim Haber of War Resisters League who provides a report back from the International War Resisters League Conference. 9/14/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Tani Tinuviel interviews Dr. Hugh Ross, president of Reasons To Believe and Dr. Eugenie Scott, president of the National Center for Science Education about evolution vs.creationism, testable creation models, and what to teach and not teach as "science" in public schools. 9/14/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Peter Scheer, Director of the California First Amendment Coalition — a nonprofit public interest organization committed to free speech and open-government rights. 9/13/06

THE SHARP SHOW
5'9" 123 LBS. The new chubby/It's not politically correct but we need to start profiling/ Dad's Conversation Topics/ Star Trek Capt. afraid of space travel/ Breast-enhancing for 6 year old girls/ and more. 9/11/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Moazzam Begg discusses his book Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar. Begg spent three years in U.S. custody, nearly two of them in Guantánamo, before being released without charge in January of 2005. 9/12/06

PEACE BY PEACE
Marilyn Vassos and Ellen Tewell discuss Women for Orange County. 9/1/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Writer/Director Mitch Davis ("The Other Side of Heaven") talks about his latest film Could a Mormon Be President which deals with LDS Gov. Mitt Romney's potential run for the White House. 9/13/06

AUGUST 2006

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with Todd Chretien, Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate. Bring the troops home now? Abolish the USA Patriot Act? Build schools, not jails? Raise taxes on the top 1%? Immigrant rights? Abolish the death penalty? Sound good? Then tune in to hear Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate Todd Chretien. 8/31/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Chad Halliburton (stage adaptation) and Drew Bray (original music) discuss Blue Like Jazz, a play produced by Three Trees Theater opening Aug 26 at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa adapted from the best-selling book Blue Like Jazz: Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. 8/11/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Care for Life volunteer Julianne Parker discusses the current situation in Africa and how groups like hers are trying to help Africa become self reliant through sustainable development. 8/30/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
Military Families Speak Out member and organizer with the Orange County Peace Coalition Pat Alviso is currently camped outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, TX waiting for an explanation as to why America's children must kill, fight and die for an unjust and unnecessary war. She'll be reporting for Justice, or Just Us? live from Camp Casey where Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink for Peace, and activists from across the country and - indeed - around the world are holding vigil for peace. 8/24/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
China’s Xi-an province is home to 30,000 Chinese Muslims, the Hui. The Hui do not eat pork. Not only do they not eat pork, their lips do not even come near the bowls of someone who does, and they must carefully avoid sharing food with the majority Chinese. Anthropologist Maris Gillette will talk about how strict ideas of cleanliness give the Hui an ethnic identity — one that is changing thanks to the influx of Western, factory-made food. 8/10/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps discusses her new book Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public. 8/1/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round, the world's multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads. Member nations can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or they can cling to the waning mandate of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the money roll in. Journalist Keith Nuthall reports. 8/3/06

JULY 2006

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
Christine Garcia, lead council for the San Francisco based Animal Law Office, discusses her current cases including the defense of a man arrested for passing out educational leaflets in front of Marine World, as well as several animal rights advocates who were arrested for passing out educational literature in front of the Animal Open House at the Ringling Brothers Circus. 7/13/06

HARDT TO HEART TALK
An interview with Ken Roth author of Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Co-op, Condo, or Townhouse. 7/1/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Spencer Overton, professor at The George Washington University Law School and commissioner on the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, discusses his new book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression. 7/4/06

PEACE BY PEACE
John Miller and Ted Starren discuss continuing the quest for peace as it applies to money 7/28/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Renee McDuffy, Animal Whisperer, and Director of the Orange County Chapter of NEW (Networking for Empowering Women) speaks with creatures of all kinds to bridge the gap of communication between animals and their people. 7/13/06

HARDT TO HEART TALK
Outspoken and entertaining money expert Errold F. Moody talks straight facts about real estate, rising interest rates, the stock market, retirement and financial planning. Moody gives different scenarios of what can happen in the real estate market and where your money should be. 7/10/06

JUNE 2006

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
An interview with Webster Tarpley, author ofseveral books on geo-political matters and international fascism, including an unauthorized biography of George H. W. Bush. His latest work 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made In USA asks many distrubing questions and comes to even more disturbing conclusions. Gonzo alt. media proprietor and informationalist SMiles Lewis also joins in the discussion. 6/23/06

THE SHARP SHOW
Hot Topis you really care about: Hedging its bets, chocolate company invests in diet company too/ Pin P-I-N/ Cat Racism / Cum Stains / "Oh, You were offended?!" 6/26/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics at the University of California Riverside discusses his book Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives. 6/29/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Anthony Arnove discusses his new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. Arnove is the editor of Iraq Under Siege and co-editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. 6/27/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Tanya Fuqua and Mark Cleveland, proprietors of Costa Mesa's Avanti Cafe, discuss the kitchen philosophy expressed in their flavorfully organic hand-crafted food. 6/1/06

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
An interview with Joyce Riley, spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association and producer of the documentary Beyond Treason: The U.S. Government's Long History of Conducting Deadly Military Experiments, a film looks at the horror of past U.S. Government programs as well as the ongoing use in Iraq of banned and phenomenally dangerous weapons. 6/9/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Fermentation fetishist Sandor Ellix Katz discusses his book Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. 6/8/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Rev. Peter Laarman, director of Progressive Christians Uniting, discusses his new book Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel. Plus, Dave's mom. 6/14/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
The American garden is often presented as the province of white privilege. Yet for poor immigrants, the garden is a bounty of culture and memory. Patricia Klindienst shares stories from her new book, The Earth Knows My Name. 6/15/06

THE DAVE SHOW
Patriot Air Defense Platoon Leader Patrick Lee, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, discusses life in the military, his faith and outlook on world events. 6/16/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An Interview with Adam Mansbach, author of Angry Black White Boy, or the Miscegenation of Macon Detornay — a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by black culture, and filled with rage toward white America. 6/22/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
An interview with New York Times magazine writer Paul Greenberg who went to Tromso, Norway, to report on a selective breeding program that aims to create an entirely new race of cod, and explore whether fish could be mass-produced in an environmentally benign fashion. 6/22/06

THE DAVE SHOW
A rebroadcast an interfaith address by current LDS Apostle Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in remembrance of the martyrdom of the LDS Prophet Joseph Smith. 6/28/06

MAY 2006

REVERB
John S. Bennett, Executive Director of the Cordoba Initiative, discusses Why Israel? Why Palestine a project collaboration with The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership the American Society for Muslim Advancement. 5/2/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Time magazine political columnists Joe Klein, discusses his new book Politics Lost: How American Democracy was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid. Klein is the author of five previous books, including Primary Colors and The Natural. 5/9/06

SUBVERSITY
CSU Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil on "The Islam Factor in Western Popular Cultures: Beyond the Danish Cartoons." This talk was part of the Ford Foundation-funded Difficult Dialogues series. Co-Sponsors were: The Working Group/Center for Middle East and African Studies, the Department of Political Science, the UCI Difficult Dialogues series, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the International Studies Program, the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, the Program in Women's Studies, and the Middle East Studies Student Initiative. 5/15/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
In the beginning was the Ad. The Ad was brought to the consumer by the Advertiser. Desire, self worth, self image, ambition, hope; all find their genesis in the Ad. Through the Ad and the intent of the Advertiser we form our ideas and learn the myths that make us into what we are as a people. That this method of self definition displaced the earlier methods is beyond debate. It is now clear that the Ad holds the most esteemed position in our cosmology. Jack from Billboard Liberation discusses marketing for the people. 5/18/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Peter Singer, the godfather of the animal rights movement and professor of bio-ethics at Princeton University discusses his latest book, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. Plus: Long-time rancher Frank Fitzpatrick, who has been raising Barzona cattle on pasture — without antibiotics, hormones, or feedlots for the past 17 years — talks about what raising cattle traditionally, means for our health and the land. 5/18/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Tani Tinuviel interviews Neil Saavedra, Director of Marketing and Producer of The Jesus Christ Show on KFI AM640 about The DaVinci Code movie boycott, discerning historical fact from historical fiction, and "what would Jesus do?" 5/19/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Do unicorns still roam the magical forests of the world? If I saw one, would I recognize it for what it was, or would I see only a wild horse or aged mare? Tani Tinuviel interviews legendary Peter S. Beagle, author of the literary classic The Last Unicorn and the The Unicorn Sonata. Join Peter Beagle and the Elf as they discuss the power of a story, seeing with the eyes of the imagination, and unicorn sightings. 5/22/06

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Why worry about global warming or any other environmental concerns when it's all going to end soon? This arguably insane notion of Christian "Dominionists," in conjunction with a faux environmental, corporate front movement known as "Wise Use," is a driving force in Bush Administration policy. Emmy-winning broadcast journalist Stephenie Hendricks outlines this disturbing and destructive trend in her book, Divine Destruction. 5/26/06

APRIL 2006

SUBVERSITY
An interview with Amin David, who heads Los Amigos in Orange County, and with John Earl, publisher of OCorganizer.com, about Costa Mesa as ground zero in standing up to repressive immigration law enforcement. 4/3/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with Kevin Phillips ne of the Republican Party's top theoreticians and electoral analysts of 1970s and 1980s who discusses his new book American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. 4/11/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Host Tani Tinuviel interviews Kenneth R. Samples, author of Without A Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions about who was Jesus: Man, Myth, Maniac, Menace, Mystic, Martian, or Messiah?" 4/14/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
"Why have we tamed the history of gardening in America?" Patricia Klindienst asks in her new book The Earth Knows My Name. Klindienst discusses why we are a democracy of gardeners yet, with few exceptions, the garden is presented as the province of white privileged. As a result, the idea of the garden has been stripped of its cultural weight. 4/20/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
The moment the United States' war on Iraq started going wrong, comparisions with the Vietnam War inevitably rose, with "quagmire" as a key buzzword. Yet is the current war in Iraq at all comparable to Vietnam? If so, how — and what lessons can we learn from our recent history? If not, in what ways is our current predicament different, and what are we to do? Author Kale Baldock discusses his new book: "Is Iraq Another Vietnam?" 4/21/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Dale Allen Pfeiffer, novelist, science journalist and geologist discusses his groundbreaking article and new book of the same name Eating Fossil Fuels. 4/27/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with JEL - Beatmaster of the Anticon Collective • Longtime sound architect of the radical indy hip-hop collective Anticon, Jel has until now been content to stand in the background of the many bands (Themselves, Subtle, 13 & God) he helped to create. But on his new solo release Soft Money, Jel provocatively fuses black nationalist rap with indie rock tunefulness. The result is a powerful album that merges pounding beats with equally bombastic politics. 4/6/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Michael Pollan, director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Botany of Desire discusses his new book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. 4/13/06

MARCH 2006

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
An interview with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, an attorney representing the Bahraini prisoners who joined the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. The strike effort came to a near halt after the US military tortured prisoners and began force-feeding them. 3/2/06

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discusses his latest book, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism. Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, U.K. 3/17/06

REVERB
UCI's Chancellor Michael Drake discusses his first impression of the campus and looks ahead to the future of the university. Before becoming UCi's fifth chancellor on July 1, 2005, Drake served as University of California vice president for health affairs. 3/7/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
According to UC Berkeley geoengineering professor Tad Patzek, six times more energy is used to make ethanol than the finished fuel actually contains. Patzek discusses the implications — good and bad — of a biofueled future. 3/16/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
Trevor Hughes, Executive Director of the International Assoc. of Privacy Professionals, and Larry Ponemon CEO, The Ponemon Institute discuss the issues facing corporations and consumer customers with regard to various issues of security and privacy of customer information. You'll learn what a privacy officer is and what they do — and what is the ethics of privacy in the informaiton age. 3/22/06

JUSTICE OF JUST US?
Director Benjamin Morgan discusses his new film Quality of Life shot and edited in the Mission District of San Francisco. 3/9/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Linda Foley, co-founder and director of the Identity Theft Resource Center. 3/15/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Jim Lardner discusses his latest book Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences. 3/14/06

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
One of the most influential bands in American rock music history is the MC5. Hear a talk with MC5 founding guitarist Wayne Kramer as he recounts those wild days when they were the only band to play at the protest of the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago before all hell broke loose, when their affiliation with The Black Panthers and other "radical" groups got the attention of the FBI. 3/31/06

FEBRUARY 2006

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
An interview with Mark Crispin Miller professor of media studies at New York University and author of Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and How They'll Steal the Next One, Too (Unless We Stop Them).
2/17/06

THE SHARP SHOW
Serena Sharp's Hot Topics:
• Turin/Torino?
• Top Olympic Babe
• Dog Shows & Beauty Pageants
2/27/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
An interview with Peter Flahiff —dance historian, Swing DJ at Atomic Ballroom in Irvine, and international dance instructor. 2/17/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association discusses Walmart's plans to expand into the organic food business. 2/9/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with John Dean, former counsel to President Nixon discusses his book Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. 2/28/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
This is your brain... And this is your brain fried in a Teflon pan. Toxicologist Tim Kropp of the Environmental Working Group will join us to discuss the EPA’s new finding of Teflon-biproduct C8 as a “likely carcinogen.” 2/23/06

PEACE BY PEACE
An interview with Frans de Waal, author of Our Inner Ape. 2/10/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
An interview with Amy H. Sturgis, Ph.D., who teaches science fiction/fantasy studies at Belmont University in Tennessee about her published article Harry Potter is a Hobbit: Rowling, Tolkien, and the Question of Readership. 1/15/06

SUBVERSITY
UCI graduate student Choi Wai-Kit discusses the anti-WTO protests in Hong Kong of December 2005. 2/6/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US
An interview with Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association about the crack down on undocumented workers in Costa Mesa and California's minimum wage. 2/9/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
An interview with Jon Mooallem whose New York Times article Twelve Easy Pieces asks the question: Who imagined that you could build a successful business selling packaged presliced apples as snack food? Of course, it's all for the children. 2/16/06

PLANETARY RADIO
JPL Senior Research Scientist John Anderson updates the Pioneer Anomaly casebook and Emily Lakdawalla explores the Kuiper belt. 2/6/06

THE SHARP SHOW
Serena Sharp's Hot Topics:
• Am I just a sex object?
• A hot Meth Addict
• Man Held in Gay Bar Attack Dies After Shootout - Good Riddance!
2/6/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
An interview with coffee guru Martin Diedrich about his new Coffeehouse in Costa Mesa named after his son Kéan. 2/9/06

PRIVACY PIRACY
An interview with Susanna Montezemolo, a Policy Analyst at the Consumers Union Washington Office. 2/8/06

REVERB
Joy Hought and Nathan Callahan interview Jennifer Jordan author of Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2. 2/7/06

WEEKLY SIGNALS
An interview with legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. 2/7/06

JANUARY 2006

WRITERS ON WRITING
An interview with Rachel Manija Brown, author of All the Fishes Come Home to Roost : An American Misfit in India. 1/5/06

OUT THE RABBIT HOLE
An interview with Norman G. Finkelstein author of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. 1/20/06

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
An interview with Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno about the benefits of raw, organic butter. 1/12/06

PEACE BY PEACE
An Interview with Joyce Catlett, author of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships. 1/20/06

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
An interview with Jeff Ferrell, author of Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging. 1/12/06

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
An interview with Kristi Fojtik, founder of The Tolkien Forever Fellowship about the January 20-22 One Ring Celebration. 1/6/06

DECEMBER 2005

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Barbara Ehrenreich, the author the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. discusses her latest book, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. 12/27/05

PEACE BY PEACE
Sarah Pauly interviews Claude Anshin Thomas author of Hell's Gate: a Soldier's Journey from War to Peace — a spiritual travelogue that moves from the horrors of combat to the discovery of an approach to ending war from the inside out. 12/23/05

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Tani Tinuviel interviews Neil Saavedra, Producer of The Jesus Christ Show, about what's it like to do radio with the Savior of the World. 12/23/05

AN OWNER'S GUIDE TO THE MIND
Dr. Temple Grandin discusses her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. 12/22/05

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
Jarret Lovell interviews local activist Coyoti about the recent first-in-the-nation decision by the City of Costa Mesa to train local police to function as federal immigration officers. 12/22/05

HARDT TO HEART TALK
Mark Hardt discusses the Middle East conflict, terrorism, environmentalism, animal "rights," the energy crisis and religion with Yaron Brook, president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. 12/21/05

PRIVACY PIRACY
Mari Frank interviews Dian Black, Founder and Director of Calegislation. An advocate for victims of domestic violence for more than twenty years, Dian has drafted a number of bills that are now incorporated in California state laws mandating victims' access to protective services. 12/21/05

WHAT WOULD ARWEN DO?
Tani Tinuviel interviews Merrie Destefano — a Senior Editor of Victorian Homes magazine and Contributing Editor of Romantic Homes magazine — and B.J. Taylor author of Successful Writers Don't Write Alone: How to Develop a Professional Writers' Group. 12/16/05

THE POLITICS OF FOOD
An interview with Jude Fanton, director of Seed Savers Network. Jude and her husband Michel started seed savers twenty years ago, and have since taught thousands of people to save locally adapted seeds. 12/15/05

OC VARIETY HOUR
An interview with Orange County Sheriff Lt. Bill Hunt, the challenger to Sheriff Mike Carona in the June 2006 election. 12/14/05

WEEKLY SIGNALS
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for London’s The Independent, and one of the few Western journalists who has interviewed Osama bin Laden discusses his book The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. 12/13/05

AN OWNER'S GUIDE TO THE MIND
Parick Healey and co-host Mike Smith interview Dr. James L McGaugh, Research Professor at UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning. and author of Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories. 12/08/05

PEACE BY PEACE
Host Sarah Pauley interviews alternative medicine guru Bernie Siegel (101 Exercises for the Soul) and Christina Bladwin author of Storycatcher. 12/9/05

JUSTICE OR JUST US?
Has punk finally sold out? Jarret Lovell quizes guest Anne Elizabeth Moore, columnist for Punk Planet and author of Hey Kids! Buy This Book! 12/8/05

HARDT TO HEART
Mark Hardt discusses the war in Iraq and other current events with comedian Jay Leggett formerly of the TV Show In Living Color. 12/7/05

SERENA SHARP SHOW
Is being in the closet a privacy right? Is it a man's right to sit next to a lone child on a plane? Can a psychic help with Britney Spears' marriage woes? 12/5/05

NOVEMBER 2005

OC VARIETY HOUR
Host Cameron Jackson discusses the Orange County Great Park with Irvine City Councilmember and former Mayor Larry Agran. 11/30/05

DAVID & BEN SHOW
An interview with Minuteman Founder and Congressional Candidate Jim Gilchrist. 11/30/05

SUBVERSITY
Dan Tsang reviews the Hoang Tan Bui Case in a talk with with Phuong, the widow of Hoang Tan Bui, shot and run over by a Westminster policeman driving his cruiser last Tet. 11/28/05

PLANETARY RADIO
New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern returns to Planetary Radio as the first mission to Pluto prepares for launch. Alan is also the recent co-discoverer of two new moons at Pluto. 11/21/05

DAVID LYNCH
The director of Blue Velvet and Elephant Man speaks about consciousness and the creative process in filmmaking. See Artsy.net's Lynch webpage for more information. 11/5/05

AND . . .

BLUE AND GOLD REPORT
An interview with Jennifer Moser of UCI's Women's Volleyball Team. 11/15/05

WRITERS ON WRITING
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talks with author T. Coraghessan Boyle about The Inner Circle. 10/28/04