We begin with an alarming report from the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration that finds over $200 billion from the PPP and Covid relief funds was stolen and went to fraudsters. It is likely that up to 17% of Covid relief funds ended up with scammers with additional losses of $28 billion from … Continued
Dr. Swartzberg is off this week! Our guest expert is Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease physician at UCSF Medical Center. Discussed in this episode: The public health department in Los Angeles is warning it confirmed six new Mpox cases over last week. The Mpox vaccine is widely available, and no longer … Continued
Brian was off camping this week. Philip Maldari sat in as host. Discussed in this episode: A key FDA committee has advanced plans for a fall booster drive using a monovalent vaccine targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. Why the US COVID death rate looks so much higher than the rest of the world’s (some of the … Continued
In honor of Pride Month, we hear two interviews with author Alan Hollinghurst. The first was recorded for Bookwaves while he was on tour for the paperback edition of his Booker Prize winning novel, The Line of Beauty. The second interview, recorded on November 5, 2011, was conducted while he was on tour for his novel The Stranger’s Child.
David Sedaris, whose latest collection of essays is titled “Happy Go Lucky,” just out in trade paperback, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Recorded June 9, 2022 at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California. David Sedaris is author of thirteen books, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, Calypso, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls and others. He has been a commentator on NPR and CBS. Also: A review of “The Wizard of Oz” at ACT’s Toni Rembe Theatre through June 25, 2023.
Discussed in this episode: A randomized controlled trial shows the cheap, widely-available diabetes drug Metformin significantly reduces (by 41%) the likelihood of long covid in unvaccinated people who get infected: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext (Vaccinated and boosted people still did considerably better than unvaccinated people who received Metformin. Vaccinated people didn’t receive enough added benefit from Metformin to … Continued
Recently digitized archive interviews:
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007). co-author of The Illuminati Trilogy, author of “Cosmic Trigger” and other books. Recorded February, 1983. Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Fay Weldon (1931-2023), discussing her books and ideas while on tour for her novels “Darcy’s Utopia” and “Life Force,” Recorded January, 1992. Interviewers: Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky.
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Guest: William A. Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. With A. Kirsten Mullen, he is author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. … Continued
Discussed in this episode: What it means when “cryptic lineages” turn up in wastewater samples, like here The CDC’s latest survey of blood donor samples shows 96.4% have antibodies from COVID, vaccination, or both. Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
Martin Amis (1949-2023), Booker Prize winning novelist and essayist, who died on May 19, 2023, in conversation with Richard Woilnsky for “London Fields” November, 1991 (first of five interviews with Richard Wolinsky).
Bill English, Artistic Director of San Francisco Playhouse, talks about the current and upcoming season.
Review: “Let The Right One In” at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre through June 25, 2023.
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
