You thought "kids love tech."  Your kids think the high-tech fitness tracker you bought them is the worst gift they received this year. Is it a good gift, or a lump of coal in their stocking? Dr. Dan O'Neill, who has served as the team doctor for the US Alpine Ski Team joined The Rick Dayton Show to talk about whether a fitness tracker is a good decision or one you should avoid.

Shopping. Holiday parties. Church services. Eating out. Family gatherings. Think of all the things you have to do in the next couple of weeks. But Stephanie O'Dea was on the Rick Dayton Show to say that what we really need to do is figure out how to slow down. The NY Times Best Selling Author and podcast host says the reality is that, "We hustle around to keep up, but end up missing out anyway." 

For 30 years, Rena Greenberg has been helping people change their behavior. She has helped thousands of people reach a healthy weight -- and she tells Rick Dayton success comes from almost hypnotizing yourself. How do you do that? How can you have a winning willpower.  Listen to Rick's interview.

Do we really have much sympathy for the billionaires who are fighting with the millionaires in baseball? What is the difference between a lockout and a strike? Why have the owners locked out the Major League Baseball players. Dr. Ron Dick, a professor in the Duquesne Palumbo-Donahue School of Business -- and has a lifetime of experience in professional sports. He was also a guest on The Rick Dayton Show.

"I still haven't met the majority of the people on my staff."  That's what the US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh tells Rick Dayton because so many people in the Labor Department -- like man of us -- are working remotely. Secretary Walsh talks about the November jobless numbers, the "Great Recession," labor during the pandemic and what he has learned in eight months on the job as US Labor Secretary.