Radio Times

Guest: Annie Duke

After two decades, champion poker player ANNIE DUKE is used to the uncertainty and high-pressure decision-making that comes with the game. Now she’s taken the lessons she’s learned from playing at high stakes tables around the world, along with her graduate studies in cognitive psychology, and applied them to life in general. Her new book is Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. She comes in to talk with Marty about her career, her interest in psychology, and how to make better choices.

Guest: Sergio Caltagirone, Luke Harding

 Over the past couple of years, the Kremlin has surprised the international community with its ability to disrupt the machinations of other countries. The Russian government is being blamed for intentionally interfering in elections of foreign countries, including the U.S. They recently ratcheted up tensions with NATO states by allegedly poisoning a spy in the U.K., and most recently, the U.S. has pinned a hack of an electoral grid on Russians, resulting in sanctions. We’ll begin by talking with SERGIO CALTAGIRONE, a cybersecutiry and threat intelligence expert at Dragos Inc., about the Russian electoral grid hack, what its implications are for American’s infrastructure, and how the U.S. is prepared for these types of attacks. Then, we’ll talk with The Guardian’s LUKE HARDING, who was their Moscow bureau chief before being expelled. He has been covering the inner-workings of the Russian government and oligarchs for over a decade. He’ll talk to us about the chemical attacks, and about all of the evidence he has compiled that indicates Russian President Putin aligned himself with Donald Trump to get him elected president. His book is called Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.

Guests: Charlie Gerow, John Brabender, Charlie Dent

The Republican Party’s candidate for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district came just short of victory on Tuesday, in an area that Trump won handily in 2016. As more elections in Pa. approach,  Republicans are trying to decipher the meaning of this significant defeat and what kind of campaign strategy, and candidates, will work moving forward. Joining us to give us their views on the GOP’s strategy is are consultants CHARLIE GEROW, of Quantum Communications and JOHN BRABENDER of Brabender Cox who worked with Saccone’s campaign. We’ll also hear from retiring Republican Congressman CHARLIE DENT who’s seat will be up for election in November.

Students across the country will be participating in a walk-out today to show their solidarity with the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas School shooting who are advocating for stricter gun control laws. Today, we’ll hear some live reports on the ground from WHYY reporters who will be on the scene and speaking with local students to get their thoughts on the walk-out and U.S. gun laws.

Guest: Richard Pérez-Peña

We talk about the nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in Salisbury, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has attributed the attack to the Russian government and expelled 23 Russian diplomats as recourse. We’ll talk with RICHARD PEREZ-PENA, a news editor for The New York Times, about the attack, its intent, and what effect it will have on Russia’s relationship with the U.K. and the rest of the world.

New York Review of Books’ editor IAN BURUMA, knew almost nothing about Japan when he arrived in Tokyo in 1975. Trading his upper-middle class childhood of garden sprinklers, bridge parties, and tennis for adventures in a city of neon lights, Japanese pop and cabarets, exposed him to a different culture. Through his adventures of avant-garde theater, carnival acts and fashion shoots, and hanging out on sets with Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa, Buruma made a radical transformation. In this hour, Marty talks to Buruma about his memoir, A Tokyo Romance, and how he reinvented himself in Japan.

Guest: Emily Tamkin

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired by President Trump via tweet on Tuesday. His replacement, Mike Pompeo will move from his post as C.I.A. director to fill Tillerson’s seat, and Gina Hapsel will replace Pompeo at the C.I.A.’s top post. We’re joined by EMILY TAMKIN of Foreign Policy to talk about what led to Tillerson’s ouster, the reactions on Capitol Hill and in the Intelligence community. We’ll also hear about the careers of the newly appointed Secretary of State and head of the C.I.A.

Last night, voters in Western Pa. went to the polls to vote in a special election that has been followed by political watchers nationwide. In a very close race, Democrat Conor Lamb has declared victory over his opponent Rick Saccone in a district where Trump won by some 20 points. The race has been couched as an indication of the President’s popularity.  Today, we’ll speak with DAVE WEIGEL, political reporter for The Washington Post, about the results and what he learned from speaking to the people of PA-18 about their views on politics and President Trump.

Guest: Daniel Pink

Scientists are taking a serious look at timing. What time you take a test, schedule a doctor appointment, appear before a judge in court, or start a new relationship affects the outcome. Science writer DANIEL PINK looks at the research into timing in his new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. He comes in to talk to Marty about the ebb and flow in a day, our own biological rhythms and how they both impact success in our lives.

Guests: Chris Potter, John Baer, Holly Otterbein 

There are a lot of primary elections in Pennsylvania on the horizon and a special election this Tuesday that’s getting national attention. We’ll talk with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s CHRIS POTTER about the 18th in western Pa. and if it will be a national bellwether for the general election in November. As far as the other races are concerned, the GOP will selecting their general election candidate for governor to challenge Tom Wolf and the congressional candidates are gearing up for an interesting battle due to the newly drawn district lines. The 5th district alone has twelve declared Democrats and seven declared Republicans vying for the seat. Today, we’ll talk about the primaries taking place in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas with Daily News columnist JOHN BAER, and Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, HOLLY OTTERBEIN.