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You can also hear the show live HEREon Sundays 11 am to noon Pacific time. Or in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can hear the show on KALW, 91.7 FM, a National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco. The best previous shows are aired every Saturday from 6 PM to 7 PM in Napa, CA on KVON AM 1440.

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Have work woes? Or would just like to hear solutions to other people's problems? Work With Marty Nemko, now in its 19th 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 interesting people. Past guests include human genome decoder Craig Venter, legendary 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, 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, futurist Ray Kurzweil, Kitchen Confidential author Anthony Bourdaine, What Color is Your Parachute author Richard Bolles, economist Jared Bernstein, 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 Deborah Tannen, 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, he moderates debates between world-class opponents. Recent topics: Is it worth a major attempt to control climate change? 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? Is reverse discrimination in employment a good idea? He also discusses such controversial issue with listeners. His wife and Napa County Superintendent of Schools, Barbara Nemko, often comes in to give Marty a hard time.

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