The Sharin' Hour

Last week’s show examined how dieting can actually make us fatter.  This week’s examines what to do about it, food and nourishment being essential to our lives.  Improve and cultivate a more loving relationship with food, suggests local dietician Brooke Moore, a guest on The Sharin’ Hour with Sheran James on Laguna’s KX 93.5; plus […]

Sheran James explores how worrying about getting fat can be bad for our health; and how dieting can ultimately make us fatter.

As she rose from El Salvadoran factory girl to Manhattan Advertising Creative Director to Lagunan Salt Fine Art Gallery owner, one extraordinary man remained at the center of Carla Tesak Arzente’s life: her Hungarian refugee father.  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 sits down with Carla to get her story.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the practice of nudging on a socio-political scale: the light and the dark of it, the benign and the not-so…are we becoming the slaves of our purveyors and so-called service corporations (A.T.& T., Airbnb, Apple for starters)?

If your brain were to be transplanted into someone else’s body, would you still be you…or them?  Are you your body or your brain–your consciousness, matter or soul–in fact, do you even as a personal entity exist?  Sheran James of KX 93.5 explores, with the aid of a couple of Oxford University philosophers.

Is it bad to procrastinate?  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores; with a psychologist, a behavioral economist and a couple of writers weighing in.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores dreams and lucid dreaming: ways to recall our dreams, examine their possible meanings and control their content; weird pasta dreams; “the shadow”; and the potential benefits of nightmares.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 examines the danger and value of secrets grand and small.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the differences between the Y Generation and Baby Boomers, what they think of each other, how upbringing comes into play, and how they can improve their interrelationships in the workplace.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the many pros of being single; the cons; and some mathematical equations for perfectly unsingling yourself if you feel so inclined.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 talks to JULIE SISK, owner and founder of the American Pavilion at Cannes in the South of France, the exclusive gathering place and educational hub for those attending the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.  Julie relates her adventures setting up a hospitality business in a foreign country, […]

Can we believe in both God and science?  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 continues her discussion with JIM UNDERDOWN, Executive Director of the West Coast branch of the skeptics organisation Center for Inquiry (CFI) on the logic of a piety without evidence; with input from theologian Denys Turner, nobel laureate phycisist […]

All you need to earn a quick $100,000 is proof of the existence of something unexplainable, and CFI (Center for Inquiry) will willingly hand over the money.  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 interviews Jim Underdown, Exec Director of CFI West, the West Coast division of an international skeptics association that recently […]

Could you be a con artist?  Take the test.  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the life of a scammer, and why we’re all likely to fall victim to a scam; with input from Catch Me As You Can con man Frank Abagnale.

Do you see yourself as a grown-up version of the child you’ve been?  Or as the adult you know yourself to be at this exact moment?  It makes a difference to your happiness, as psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains and essayist Meghan Daum explores.  Plus: imagine remembering EVERYthing–every insignificant thought or action of every waking moment […]

Insults: when they’re O.K., when they’re not.  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 theorizes, with help from some funny insulters.

Art hides in the everyday, waiting to be rediscovered.  Sheran James interviews artist and former stage mother CARLA DANES and examines how all artists–literary, visual, magical, musical–“steal” from existing creations then disguise them.  With input from film director Tim Jenison, producer Farley Ziegler, bestselling author Austin Kleon, director/music buff Kirby Ferguson, and master thief Bob […...

Successfully maintaining your New Year’s resolutions is harder than making them.  Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 offers a few unique ways (e.g. pairing new habits with old ones) via a Stanford behavioural scientist and a British “life guru”.  One resolution for us all: don’t short-change sleep if you want to be […]

Growing up black in America…stories by TaNahesi Coates and Clint Smith, plus journalist Rich Benjamin’s forays into three of the whitest cities in the U.S.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 interviews JOHN KIRIAKOU, former C.I.A. agent and head of Counterterrorism in Pakistan post 9/11, on his life as a spy and his award-winning book “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the C.I.A.’s War on Terror”.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on Laguna’s KX 93.5 poses the remainder of the 36 questions (from last week’s show) which upon examination will make you more interesting to others and yourself.  This week’s added bonus: revelations by JASON FEDDY…and other songwriters.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 presents a list of questions–scientifically prepared by a social psychology researcher and featured in Psychology Today–whose answers will make you appear more interesting and interested to others and yourself.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 talks to Lagunan Dominic Gutierrez about his burger business, as well as his new residential burg of eastern Los Angeles and life on a gangland street; plus, his involvement in a potentially lifechanging culinary competition.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores how the foods you eat can affect your brain, penis and poo.  Listen to what happened when a group of Brits joined a group of apes and ate what they did (and we did, millions of years ago).

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on Laguna’s KX 93.5 in conversation with English friends, A.G. and Caroline Hickie, talking about English cottage gardens; grander English gardens; why the English love tending to their gardens; and the uniquely English gardens you can visit that are open to the public.