Michael Harrison was here first hour for his regular visit, and he and Todd spent a big chunk of time reacting to the climate change protest today, along with Donald Trump and how he's still controlling the Democrats.

Todd rants on the new grocery tax the Democrats passed and now are pretending was someone else's fault, then about the new toll plan that Dems are working to create, then brings Aaron Lewis in on the conversation, the Libertarian candidate for Mayor of Hartford.

Frank Farricker is a confusing man. The former head of the state lottery commission is a Democrat, but he's opposed to tolls and the new grocery tax. We discuss these issues, but also try to understand why he has so much trouble staying between the lines.

Mark Stewart joins us to explain why he thinks income inequality may actually be a good thing.

The New York Times is reporting on the behind the scenes defense of Harvey Weinstein in a way that Todd says reveals how malicious power makes people - and explains, by extension, how it's possible for Democrats to continue swamping the Connecticut economy with hyper taxation and hyper regulation when the state is crying out for the opposite.

What's up with the U.S. economy? Is a recession coming, and how are we positioned to handle one? We ask Professor Richard Grossman, Chairman of the Economics Department at Wesleyan University. He also explains what can be done to fix income inequality.

After last years "Janus" decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, public sector union workers were not supposed to be forced to pay for union representation anymore. But Nathan McGrath of the non-profit Fairness Center is filing a lawsuit on behalf of Connecticut workers who he says can't get the union to stop withholding wages for union fees.

At the Stuart Family Farm in Bridgewater, CT, Deb and her husband Bill raise 250 head of farm raised cattle on 800 acres, making sure there's plenty of land - and grass, to go around. We talk with Deb about the difference between their operation and factory farms.

Michael Liebowitz, co-author of Down the Rabbit Hole, is an inmate at the Osborne Correctional Institute in Somers, CT. Today, he and Todd discuss Michael's personal journey from childhood into his time in prison -  using that history to help illuminate the possibilites for reform in the criminal justice system.

Bill Maher caused outrage last week with a rant in favor of more, not less, fat shaming. We listen to Maher, as well as a response from late night host James Corden, and discuss.