From Italy, to Moscow to the US, the world reacts in very different ways to the spread of the coronavirus. Harvey Weinstein is found guilty on two counts. Philip, Skip and listeners discuss. A naked man breaks out of a group home, attempts to grab girls on the way to Central High and catches one.

Welcome back from the weekend! Following the earlier discussion on the Mayor Pete and a 9 yo who

The Dow plunges 1000 points on news of the coronavirus. Is this typical spring skittishness or something bigger? Where will the US feel the pressure of the virus- electronics, medicine, something else? Listeners comment.

Russia is already meddling in the 2020 election but there's disagreement on whether it's helping Trump or Bernie. We hear a terrible new song from Ozzy with Elton and the news that Costco is now checking membership cards for the food court and decide "Which is Worse?" Wrapping up the week with a story about a BYU pole vaulter who caught the pole in a very inopportune way. It'll make you feel better about your struggles going into the weekend no matter what they are.

Conversation continues on the issue of literacy in California, the $50 million allocation and the best way to improve outcomes for our students.

The boss is back from a family vacation. Skip & Philip compare notes on what makes a successful vacation. CA agrees to allocate $50 million to help kids who can't read... will it be enough? Listeners respond.

Update on the bullied kid story from Thursday-- The GoFundMe is close to $400k but with the good, comes the bad... internet trolls claiming the 9 yo boy with dwarfism is a con artist. The NY Times allowed a Taliban leader to write an Op-Ed piece leading up to US-Taliban "reduction in violence." Is this an attempt to be provocative or an attempt to understand our enemy to get our troops home?

Content warning. A California prisoner confesses to murdering two child molesters. A palate cleanser! A comedian sets up a GoFundMe to send a bullied child with dwarfism to Disneyland and the internet comes through big. A side tangent on poor parenting choices in a movie theater and we wrap up with SB 873 targeted at eliminating the "pink tax," which leaves Skip proposing the Philip only "computer inclined DJ tax."

A teenage driver is pulled over for openly smoking weed and police find not just drugs, but a loaded gun. A lost toddler is found when neighbors see a pit bull that won't leave his side, or allow anyone to come near him until cops show up. Democratic debates got spicy in Las Vegas last night with, among other things, Warren going no holds barred on Bloomberg.

More of the "boom" talk and listeners are on fire! Dan Peres', author of "As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction" joins the show to discuss his latest release.

Thursday starts with a mystery boom at Philip's and listeners offer explanations with a brief aside on the symptoms of extreme fatigue.