President Abraham Lincoln's executive order known as the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on New Year's Day 1863, Pat talks about it with author/historian Kenneth C. Davis.

Sports agent Leigh Steinberg joins Pat to talk about the stumbling blocks to paying NCAA athletes what they deserve. Pat takes your calls on the issue.

With the New Year, many people are making personal resolutions. Pat wonders what resolutions Bay Area communities should have to solve some of the pressing problems they're facing.

Pat talks about revelations that the Trump organization hired undocumented workers at a New Jersey golf course.

A recent op-ed compares President Trump's words and antics to that of a professional wrestling villain. Pat loves the comparison and wonders who the baby face will be to take on the dastardly president.

Pat talks about California's new laws that are about to take effect and isn't so sure the one requiring women are placed on public company boards will have the desired impact.

Actress Scarlett Johansson says she's giving up people stealing her likeness and using it for porn, because it is too difficult to wage these legal battles over international borders. Pat is concerned about people stealing other images and using them for those purposes.

Pat talks about whether Democrats should make a deal with President Trump to end the government shutdown.

In her last segment of 2018, Pat is joined by John Rothmann and they discuss the government shutdown as well as some of the other politcal issues that are looming at the close of 2018.

Pat and John discuss the current shutdown of government and why Trump pulled the troops out of Syria.