Neal E. Fischer, award-winning author, filmmaker, podcaster, and pop culture fanatic, joins John Williams to discuss his two recent books, ““Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book: Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Christmas Movie Moments,” and “The Rom-Com Ultimate Trivia Book: Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Romantic Comedy Movie Moments.” Neal talks about his interest in trivia, and how he decided which movies made the cut in each book. Neal also tests John’s Christmas and rom-com knowledge!

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Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, joins John Williams to talk about the latest on the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect, and to share his thoughts on President-elect Trump’s ‘border czar’ saying mass deportation efforts will start in Chicago.

Dr. Michael Bauer, Medical Director at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about the 5-year anniversary since we first started hearing about COVID, how the virus has changed through the years, the vaccine being a medical miracle, his thoughts on RFK Jr. being nominated for HHS Secretary, and what you should know about blowing your nose.

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David Schultz, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, Hamline University, joins John Williams to talk about birthright citizenship, why we have the 14th Amendment, how many countries have birthright citizenship, the difficulty taking citizen rights away, and if the president has the authority to end birthright citizenship.

The great Mr. Fix-It, Lou Manfredini, joins John Williams to tell us the projects we need to be working on this week. Lou says this is probably the last day to get all of your outside winter stuff done if you haven’t already. And as always, Lou answers all of your home improvement questions.

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John Williams brings you another round of Speed Jokes. Keep sending yours to [email protected].

NewsNation Now anchor Connell McShane joins John Williams to give us the latest update on the continuing search for the person who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and to discuss the controversy surrounding Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense secretary.

Kimberly Soenen, Managing Editor, THE FINE PRINT Health Humanities Magazine, joins John Williams to talk about the frustration that people are feeling about the US healthcare system in light of the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Kimberly explains what needs to be done to change the model of healthcare in the US, how people can no longer tolerate a broken healthcare system, and what our role and responsibility is in perpetuating harm for profit.