Your host, the legendary John Landecker, is joined by Herb Weisbaum, The ConsumerMan, an Emmy-award-winning broadcaster and one of America’s top consumer experts. He’s been protecting us for more than 40 years, having covered the consumer beat for CBS News, NBC News, and The TODAY Show, among others.

He is currently a Contributing Editor at Checkbook.org, a nonprofit organization that helps consumers get good service and low prices. He also hosts their Consumerpedia podcast.

Herb is all about protecting consumers and their checkbooks, we start this segment with some tips from Herb on how to spot a scam and bust it. Then hear some of these smart tips for shopping around as a consumer, followed by ways we can complain as a consumer to achieve the best results, and lastly, Herb takes John to school and gives a pop quiz on some unknown consumer rules and laws.