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Hello, Southern California!

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Posted on: November 27, 2009 12:17 PM, by PZ Myers

I'm going to be on radio station KPFK, 90.7 FM in LA, at 10:15am California time (12:15 Central time). You can also listen in via the web.

This is a left-wing Pacifica station, so I'm sure they'll be piping it into all the California shopping malls in place of Muzak, so if you're out shopping, maybe you'll hear me too.

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Posted by: Jarred C. | November 27, 2009 12:31 PM

Sweet! Now I'll have something to listen to while I write my reports.

Also, when are you ever going to visit Northern California, PZ?

Posted by: PZ Myers | November 27, 2009 12:40 PM

January. I have a big tour planned for the end of January, hitting colleges from Sacramento to San Francisco.

Posted by: Charles Minus | November 27, 2009 12:46 PM

No offense PZ, but Sacramento to San Fransisco does not strike me as a big tour, more like a two hour drive. Think you could work a little Los Angeles/Long Beach/Orange County into the mix?

Posted by: eddie | November 27, 2009 12:50 PM

I know it's not quite as far south as bah-cal, but will you be able to visit squid in them parts? If so, take photies.

Posted by: eddie | November 27, 2009 1:00 PM

From the Random Quote bit:

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
[Charles Bukowski]

Fucking beautiful.

Posted by: Rick | November 27, 2009 1:01 PM

What day or dates

Posted by: The Tim Channel | November 27, 2009 1:14 PM

PZ any minute now by my watch.

Enjoy.

Posted by: Blake Stacey | November 27, 2009 1:20 PM

PZ is being welcomed to the show just now.

Posted by: John | November 27, 2009 1:20 PM

I look forward to January, then! I haven't stepped foot on a college campus since I graduated from UC Davis in 2002, so January should be interesting in more ways than one.

Do you know yet which colleges you'll be hitting?

#10

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | November 27, 2009 1:22 PM

So far, this sounds familiar.

Are you going to record an audio version of your book, PZ?

#11

Posted by: freelunch | November 27, 2009 1:26 PM

Sacramento to San Francisco does not strike me as a big tour, more like a two hour drive.

Aside from metro Boston, is there anywhere in that distance that has as many colleges?

#12

Posted by: MaleficVTwin | November 27, 2009 1:36 PM

PZ, I suggest the Narwhal song for your monthly theme music.

#13

Posted by: Samwise | November 27, 2009 1:37 PM

Nice job as usual, PZ.

#14

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | November 27, 2009 1:38 PM

Another submission to "I Get Email" from Bill "Every Catholic is a Beaming Point of Light, Unless They're Not, in Which Case, How Dare You Bring Them Up, You Bigot!" Donohue in 5...4...3...2...1...

#15

Posted by: PZ Myers | November 27, 2009 1:38 PM

Noooooo, not the narwhal song!

Just for that, everyone must suffer.

#16

Posted by: pcarini | November 27, 2009 1:39 PM

I must've just missed it ;(

#17

Posted by: Susan | November 27, 2009 1:39 PM

That was fun! I hope he does succeed at making it a monthly feature. If you're heading anywhere near Stanford on your tour, I have a nephew with a radio show there, and he's always looking for interesting subjects.

#18

Posted by: Bjørn Østman | November 27, 2009 1:39 PM

Wow, a monthly show with PZ just about his blog. Very nice. Next s TV show, perhaps?

I was listening in a bit before PZ came on, and the host uses the term 'Obama regime'. Curious, that.

#19

Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM | November 27, 2009 1:39 PM

A possible monthly gig? But you sound like a mild mannered college professor...

#20

Posted by: Charles Minus | November 27, 2009 1:46 PM

"Aside from metro Boston, is there anywhere in that distance that has as many colleges?"

You could try Santa Monica to Santa Barbara, I'm sure. But I would hate to see this thread descend into a No Cal vs. So Cal debate. It might cause you to spill Merlot on your Birkenstocks.

#21

Posted by: Ken Cope | November 27, 2009 1:48 PM

It was a delight to hear PZ on the radio machine without his being forced to try to squeeze a word in edgewise in the midst of an opponent Gish-galloping, or punctuated by the slaps of repeated face-palming or the thumps of head-desking.

This has been quite the week for atheists on the air. I caught Richard Dawkins fielding stupid questions from callers on the Alan Combes program, who had Christopher Hitchens on perhaps the next night, with his book-tour debating partner, some professional Xtian theist of some flavor or other. Their polite sparring reminded me of the time Tim Leary went on a debating tour with G. Gordon Liddy.

#22

Posted by: 3B | November 27, 2009 4:16 PM

Will be looking forward to the monthly program PZ. Did you happen to catch William Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer before you went on? Absolutely perfect.

#23

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | November 27, 2009 4:18 PM

OT (like I'm ever on topic), but Patrick Stewart wrote a piece in today's Guardian about domestic violence.

#24

Posted by: Rox | November 27, 2009 6:04 PM

@Brownian, OM

That was a great article. Thanks for the link.

#25

Posted by: Blake Stacey | November 27, 2009 6:09 PM

PZ Myers (#15):

Nooooooo!!!

You know it's bad when I'm forced to listen to Aqua's "Lollipop (Candyman)" followed by Styx's "Mr. Roboto" in order to get something terrible out of my head.

#26

Posted by: MaleficVTwin | November 27, 2009 6:55 PM

I had the narwhal song looping on my work computer for about 5 minutes one day.

I was threatened with bodily harm. :(

#27

Posted by: Haley | November 27, 2009 7:13 PM

Yay! Hopefully you won't miss UC Berkeley :D I'm sure the atheist club here (SANE- students advocating a nonreligious ethos) will be very excited to hear this.

#28

Posted by: Janine, She Wolf Of Pharyngula, OM | November 27, 2009 7:29 PM

Blake Stacey, I find that blasting some Big Black will drive everything from my brain. You just need to get a copy of Atomizer.

#29

Posted by: Owen | November 27, 2009 9:53 PM

Oh Jesus!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091127/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_iron_jesus

#30

Posted by: Eva | November 27, 2009 10:07 PM

No way will you be piped into the malls. I was, in fact, at a CA mall all day, taking advantage of Black Friday shopping for the first time in my life, and all they had in every store was Christmas music! Unless you've suddenly joined a Christmas carol band, I doubt you'll be heard during Thanksgiving shopping.

#31

Posted by: mythusmage | November 27, 2009 10:08 PM

Since this appears to have turned into a music video thread, Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind.

#32

Posted by: Donald Prothero | November 27, 2009 11:06 PM

Sorry I missed you this morning, PZ. I spent Black Friday in the desert (Red Rock Canyon and the Pinnacles) scouting our big Skeptics Society Death Valley tour for Jan. 16-18. Not much reception for KPFK in the northern Mojave. Hope you enjoyed our warm sunny SoCal weather in late November....

#33

Posted by: scooter | November 27, 2009 11:53 PM

Here's the links to the archive

Listen

Downlord

We got Pacifica emale today. Amy Goodman was trying to cross the border into Canada and the border guard helds her up and interrogated her.

They were concerned that she was going to badmouth the winter olympics???!!!

WTF???

She kept telling them she had no plans to any reporting on the olympics but they wouldn't believe her.

I guess they finally let her in.
wtf???

#34

Posted by: Steven Dunlap | November 28, 2009 11:31 AM

Little known "fun fact" : There are actually a lot of colleges between San Francisco and Sacramento. There's San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University, University of San Francisco (Catholic and until only a few years ago most of their office phones started with 666, I kid you not), UC San Francisco (Medical School), Alameda County has three community colleges and Contra Costa two, then there's UC Davis, Sacramento City College, American River College and Sac State. I'm pretty sure I missed some smaller private institutions and a few community colleges in between.

There's also monthly meetings of San Francisco Atheists and East Bay Atheists to consider as well. The SF one is the last Saturday of each month.

#35

Posted by: Erp | November 28, 2009 4:36 PM

I've heard rumors he might be getting as far south as UC Santa Cruz and as far north as Chico.

#17, Susan, you should have your nephew (I assume he is on KZSU) contact AHA! (http://aha.stanford.edu/, Atheists, Humanists, Agnostics at Stanford).

#36

Posted by: spanner | November 28, 2009 7:07 PM

Since this thread is sort of about Southern Cal, and since Donald Prothero posted in this thread, and since he is meant to be at a debate Monday night that I want to attend, I'll ask here...

Is it worth spending 20 bucks to see "The Darwin Debates" in L.A.? Will I just be lining the pockets of the American Freedom Alliance? Does that matter if I get to see Prothero and Michael Shermer wipe the floor with the other guys?

I'm torn.

#37

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 29, 2009 12:09 AM

as far north as Chico

ah, Chico. I have had some good fucking times in Chico.

Justine, if you're out there, I still love you.

sorry. Carry on.

#38

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 29, 2009 12:34 AM

Oh, yeah, and KPFK: I lived 12 y in LA and listened to it every Friday night, when 2 hipppies played Dead tapes. Still have many cassettes recorded from those guys.

#39

Posted by: Production Planning | December 7, 2009 2:21 PM

This is one of the most useful posts I found. Thank You.