Sharin' Hour

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 delves into the lives of the fascinating Mitford sisters, daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale, related by marriage to Churchill, the Kennedys, Fred Astaire; and by close association to Hitler and Goebels.  This episode focuses on the two most radical of the sisters: the Fascist Lady […]

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the ways we shouldn’t listen (“already always listening”) and the ways we should.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 brings a report of a violent prisoner turned poet and producer; and the discovery that our minds are our memories and we can make up our minds to change our memories, along with our patterns of thinking and behavior.  Every time we learn something new (at […]

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the nature of pheremones: what draws men to women and vice versa.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 continues to explore doing the right thing, this time geopolitically; with input from Kemal Dervis, former VP at the World Bank and third highest ranker in the UN in charge of reducing poverty and forging peace and reconciliation in developing countries.  Plus: microbes are us!

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 presents the idea of doing good while engaged in business.  Hear how the Puritans, wanting to profiteer without shame, did us the  disservice of segregating profitable business from effective charity; and how wealthy innovators like the Beatles with their Apple company, Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson […]

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 tackles matters of etiquette including a modern tactic called “signaling”.  Also: do your friends really like you?  Discover the awful truth.  Plus: advice from the empowerment guru known as the Oprah of the internet.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 talks to Judge Wendy Lindley about her years on the bench presiding over Collaborative Courts and alumni activities for ex-felons; plus her latest (surprising) lay undertaking.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 re-runs her interview with ex-CIA agent/former head of counter-terrorism in Pakistan, John Kiriakou. Imprisoned for his whistleblowing on Bush-era torture techniques, John reveals some disturbing information on the inner workings of the CIA and tells of his own James Bond-style exploits including raiding the Taliban Embassy […]

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the 60’s hair revolution where men matched women in hairstyles–from long hair to beehives and various stuff inbetween.  Plus: last week’s guest, film hairstylist Martin Samuel, tells about working on Madonna and Johnny Depp’s hair.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on kx 93.5 interviews award-winning hairdresser Martin Samuel about his life from salon hairdresser in 60’s Swinging London to Hollywood hairdresser to the stars, creating such lavish hair-do’s as Johnny Depp’s in Pirates of The Caribbean and Madonna’s in Evita.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 talks about Brexit, Cockneys and the “other” Royals.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 examines all things British vs American and debunks some stereotypes.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 interviews English transplant/local Lagunan fashion stylist Kim Bowen and gets the dirt on which recording artists were fun to work with and which weren’t; plus input from some of fashion’s greats.

Sheran James of The Sharin’ Hour on KX 93.5 explores the pros and cons of being your authentic self versus a pretend self; plus why we fear revealing who we truly are.  With input from actors Will Smith and Jim Carrey; psychology professor Adam Grant; and social worker/researcher Brene Brown.

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.