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Another gem of a show. Grayson and I explore whether machines have souls or vice versa. If you hear a beautiful clip of music and find out it was created by a machine, why does that make you mad? Because machines shouldn't make people cry. Period. Only people can do that.

Music and Clips:

1901	Phoenix
I Could Be Wrong	Cracker
Idiocracy
The Beatles Meet The Beach Boys
Donnie Darko

Highlights:
Where mind meets body. In this installment Grayons and I cover 'yoga cults' and we review an interview with Jacob Needleman by Michael Krasny. There is also a segment looking into a scientist who doesn't believe animals can say 'thank you' plus I come up with what I believe is the answer to life: "The answer is that there is no question."

Music and Clips:

House Of Diamonds	Bowerbirds
School Days	The Kinks
Hysteric	The Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Altered States Trailer

Highlights:
Back to the future? In this episode we hear about how Avatar is causing depression in some moviegoers, Grayons gives a review of the movie 'Primer' and our one and only fan calls in to talk about Jacob Needleman's new book, "What Is God?" I also discuss Robert A Burton's book, "How Do We Know Anything" and get really deep about the nature of reality.

Music and Clips:

Barbajagal	Donovan (with Jeff Beck)
Heaven Can Wait	Charlotte Gainsbourg (with Beck)
Groundhog Day clip
Inception trailer

Highlights:
Grayson rejoined us this evening and we covered a number of subjects including reading an excerpt from 'What Have You Changed Your Mind About?' by John Brockman, the trailer for the movie 'Oneness', a look into Discover Magazine's "Extreme Universe" with Roger Penrose and quantum mechanics, the Einstein-Bohr debates and a giant planet with the density of Styrofoam. The movie theme this week was, "Ghostbusters".

Music and Clips:

I Am A Scientist

The Dandy Warhols

Highlights:
For the last show of 2009, my friend Teacher Steve joined me in the studio. We talked about the top dinosaur discoveries of the year (with a caller explaining what happened to the Brontosaurus), why physicists dress funny and the difficulty of trying to learn why E=mc2.

Music and Clips:

Stuck In The Middle With You	Steel Wheels
You're So Around The Bend	The National

Highlights:
Out guest tonight was Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee, founder and director of the Global Oneness Project. Emmanuel has traveled all over the globe interviewing hundreds of fascinating people. He told us some great stories about the spread of Christianity and it effects on the native cultures there, meeting with Aborigines in Australia and experiences in Jerusalem. His latest movie, 'A Thousand Suns' is premiering at the Mill Vally Film festival this month.

Highlights:
Leonard Koren was the special guest this evening. Leonard was the founder and editor of the influential 'Wet' magazine which, among other things, covered the gourmet bathing scene. He is also the author of 13 books including a meditation on the japanese concept of 'wabi-sabi'. We had a great discussion about LA in the seventies, progressive toilet design, wabi-sabi, and the essence of nothingness.

Music and Clips:

Not Afraid	Noise Addict
Satori III	Flower Travellin' Band
Love And Death	Woody Allen
The Life Of Brian	Monty Python

Highlights:
We took a breather this week. Grayson and I went over a list of our past shows and talked about some of the highlights. We also played a lot of songs and clips that we had gathered together but that had never made it to air.

Highlights:
Special guests Pete Whitney, a Jehova's Witness, and his son Joel Whitney, not a Jehova's Witness, joined us to talk about the nature of the Jehovah's Witness religion and how it has played a role in the relationship between Pete and Joel.

Music and Clips:

Jesus Was A Capricorn

Kris Kristofferson

Highlights:
Cartographer, Founder of Stamen Design, rooftop gardener and devout atheist, Eric Rodenbeck and his atheist wife, Nikki Gunn, joined TAGTL for an excellent evening of discussion including subjects as diverse as Gog, atheism (hah), Fox News, the secret history of beer and why you might sleep through the next billion years and never know it.

Music and Clips:

I Don't Want To Die	The Unicorns
Little Paper Birds	Wussy
The Meaning of Life	Monty Python

Highlights:
Adam Neale joined Grayson Kent and myself to talk about alternative education, specifically the Waldorf system where he is a teacher and has two daughters in the program. We also listened to the Armaggedon trailer and the orginal Tron trailer. The former in reference to a gigantic asteroid that apparently hit Jupiter (and not us) recently, the latter a tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time of which they're making a sequel to, Tron - Legacy. The trailer looks great, let's hope the movie is too.

Highlights:
We had a special guest sit in with us who talked about her spiritual adventures in Ecuador where she descended into the jungles to visit the shamans of the Achuar Tribe. I also played a great clip from Joe Rogan where he talks about (although he may not know it) how we are part of a larger emergent process and some clips from the yet-to-be-released movie by Richard Strassman, 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule'.

Music and Clips:

Notes On Life	Joe Rogan
Everything Is Everything	Witchi Tai To
Donavan	Barabajagal
DMT: The Spirit Molecule	Richard Strassman
Sigur Ros	Vio spilum endalaust

Highlights:
John Lowe sits in again.

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John Lowe sits in.

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Grayson Kent sits in.

Highlights:
This evening we had linguist, philosopher and Renaissance man John Lowe join us in the studio. We covered everything from the history of language, memes and the transmission of ideas, the pleasure principle and mini-black holes. Plus some clips from Ali G and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.

Music:

The Decemberists	O' Valencia
Elvis Perkins	All The Night Without Love
Devo	Beautiful World

Highlights:
Jaimal Yogis, the author of 'Saltwater Buddha', joined us as a special guest. He talked about his global adventures, including how he almost became a monk and when he met a true spiritual master in the Himalayas. We also listened to an intense clip from Jill Bolt Taylor, the author of A Stroke Of Insight, who suffered a stroke and lost connection with the left hemisphere of her brain.

Music:

Akron/Family	Love Is Simple
Elliott Smith	Needle In The Hay
Shawn Lee	Brooklyn
Jonathon Winters	Hippie Haircut

Highlights:
We had our first guest on tonight, Andy Zink, who is an Assistant Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. Grayson was out this evening so I was running the show solo and having a rough time on the technical end. Once we got Andy on the phone though, we had a long chat about evolution, scientists and of course, mini black holes.

Music:

The National	Fake Empire
The Be Good Tanyas	Up Against The Wall
I Am A Scientist	Guided By Voices

Highlights:
This was basically our first 'real' show on KWMR after a couple weeks of getting the format straight. Topics tonight included 'what happened before the big bang' and 'what is the universe expanding into'. We had a caller, Zorro, who brought up some new ideas and we talked about the possibilities of mini-black holes and parallel universes. We didn't find the meaning of life tonight, but we put together some good leads.

Links:
Congressman God Decides When The Earth Will End Force Change
Hints of 'time before Big Bang'
What is the universe expanding into?
What happened before the Big Bang?

Music:

Flash's Confession	The Kinks
Gigantic	Pixies
Kyoto Song	The Cure
The Underdog	Spoon
I'm Just A Bill	School House Rock
Stuck In The Middle With You	Stealers Wheel
Metaphysical	Handome Boy Modeling School
Computer World	Kraftwerk
The Hip Einie	Lord Buckley