In hour 1 of the Mark Reardon Show with Joe Beamer, he opens the show discussing everything he plants to talk about throughout the show. He also discusses his current conditions in Buffalo. Charles Lipson, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, and writes regularly for The Spectator magazine, Real Clear Politics and others, joins to give his thoughts on Ukraine and the Middle East. Curtis Houck, managing editor at News Busters at the Media Research Center, joins to discuss this year in fake news and the liberal media gone wild.