Radio Show

I host two programs: one on KALW-FM, an NPR station in San Francisco, one on KGO-AM, a very large ABC station, which can be heard throughout much of the West Coast.

Ways to Hear the Programs

The KALW/NPR Program

To hear or download past programs for free, please visit myRadio Archive and Upcoming Shows Page.

To get the link to each week's program automatically emailed to you, click on this link to my page on the National Public Radio website. Then click on "Subscribe."

If you have an iTunes account and want to subscribe to the show's Podcast, click HERE.

You can also hear the show live HEREon Sundays 11 am to noon Pacific time.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, you can hear the program on KALW, 91.7 FM, a National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco.

The KGO program

It's heard live, Sundays, from 7 PM to 10 PM on KGO AM-810. It can be heard throughout much of the West Coast. To hear 's a 3-minute sample clip from that show, click HERE. The most recent week's show is archived HERE.

Here are sample clips from the show:

Description of the KALW Program

Have work woes? Or would you just like to hear solutions to other people's problems? Work With Marty Nemko, now in its 20th year on an NPR station in San Francisco, helps you make the most of your current job or find a better one. From cool careers to not-so-cool co-workers, from salary negotiation to procrastination, from racial issues to work/life balance, Marty answers phone-in questions.

Plus, he probingly interviews some of the world's most interesting people. Past guests include human genome decoder Craig Venter, attorney F. Lee Bailey, social critic Studs Turkel, author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins, U.S. critic Noam Chomsky, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, White House economist Jared Bernstein ,Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, ABC-TV's Cokie Roberts, GE ex-CEO Jack Welch, personal finance experts Jim Cramer and Suze Orman, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, policy wonk and Ross Perot's presidential running mate Pat Choate, futurist Ray Kurzweil, Kitchen Confidential author Anthony Bourdain, What Color is Your Parachute author Richard Bolles, CNN Executive Vice President Gail Evans, Wishcraft author Barbara Sher, liberal education critic Jonathan Kozol, conservative education critic Charles Murray, president of the American Federation of Teachers Albert Shanker, gender specialist DeborahTannen, KQED's Michael Krasny, psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, pediatrician T Berry Brazelton, conservative race experts Jared Taylor and Linda Chavez, liberal race experts Eva Paterson and Julianne Malveaux, Roots Producer David Wolper, birth control pill inventor Carl Djerassi, and sports agent Leigh Steinberg.

Plus, many weeks, Marty moderates debates between world-class opponents. Recent topics: Will ObamaNomics work? Is it worth a major attempt to attempt to control the climate? Can the U.S.compete with China? Is illegal immigration a net plus? Should the minimum wage be raised? Is Canadian-style health care a good idea for the US? Are racial preferences in employment a good idea? He also discusses such controversial issue with listeners.

And Marty's wife and Napa County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Barbara Nemko, often comes in to give Marty a hard time.

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

Description of the KGO Program

Each show intersperses call-in three-minute career makeovers with practical tips to help your career, for example: conquering procrastination, using social media in job search, landing Obama-created work.