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I've recently completed 30 years as producer and host of Work with Marty Nemko on KALW, 91.7 FM

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Program description: Work with Marty Nemko had two major components:

In the Helper part of the show, I did WorkOvers in which I addressed listeners's call-in work and life problems. I interspersed my favorite new career tips.

In the Big Picture part of the show, I have probing conversations with some of our most interesting people. Past guests include human genome decoder Craig Venter, philosopher Peter Singer, attorney F. Lee Bailey, social critic Studs Terkel, Vanguard founder John Bogle, author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins,, liberal critic of U.S. policies Noam Chomsky, conservative critic of U.S. policies Heather MacDonald, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Technology Futurist Jaron Lanier, Turing Prize winning cryptographer Whitfield Diffie, Environmental skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, two-time Pulitzer-winning biographer David McCullough, historian Victor Davis Hanson, World champion magician and winner of America's Got Talent Shin Lim, novelist Elizabeth George, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Richard Posner, Xerox-PARC CEO Tolga Kurtoglu,,former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myrhvold, White House economist Jared Bernstein, Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, ABC-TV's Cokie Roberts, GE CEO Jack Welch, Cisco's CEO John Chambers, personal finance experts Jim Cramer and Suze Orman, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Ross Perot's presidential running mate Pat Choate, futurist Ray Kurzweil, CNN world-food guy Anthony Bourdain, What Color is Your Parachute author Richard Bolles, CNN Executive Vice President Gail Evans, Wishcraft author Barbara Sher, author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene, liberal education critic Jonathan Kozol, conservative education critic Charles Murray, president of the American Federation of Teachers Albert Shanker, California State Schools Superintendents Bill Honig and Jack O'Connell, gender specialists Deborah Tannen and Warren Farrell, KQED's Michael Krasny, Dilbert creator Scott Adams, psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, pediatrician T Berry Brazelton, networking expert Guy Kawasaki, liberal race experts Eva Paterson and Julianne Malveaux, conservative race experts Jared Taylor and Linda Chavez, Roots Producer David Wolper, birth control pill inventor Carl Djerassi, and sports agent Leigh Steinberg.

Every so often, I moderated a debate between world-class opponents. For example: Is it worth a major attempt to control the planet's climate? Can the U.S.compete with China? Is illegal immigration a net plus? Should the minimum wage be raised? Is single-payer health care a good idea for the US? Should the federal government grow or shrink? Are racial preferences wise? Should we have a Universal Basic Income?

I also did a segment, "What's it really like to be a ______?" I've interviewed everyone from psychiatrists to sex workers.

And every month, my wife and Napa County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Barbara Nemko, came in to give me a hard time. Many people find her the best part of the show.

The show's motto was "We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't."