This hour, Ian Hoch calls out the continuing pattern of politicians with access to private information always seeming to get it right and beat everyone to the punch in the stock market.

Then, Joe Gerrity, CEO of Crescent Canna, joins the show to talk about the potential future of THC drinks and edibles.

The future of THC drinks and edibles remains in limbo. A federal law passed last year doesn’t outright ban them, but it sets such strict THC limits that most of the products you see in stores today would effectively become illegal later this year. Lawmakers and the industry have been talking about a compromise, but here we are, a third of the way through the year, and nothing has changed. So where do things actually stand? Joe Gerrity, CEO of Crescent Canna, joins Ian to share his thoughts on the future of the industry.

On today's show, Ian Hoch talks about an Ohio jury returning a full defense verdict in favor of Afroman in a high-profile defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit.

Then, Ian has on

Leah M. Forney, "The Culture Doctor," to have a serious discussion about how gender roles affect the perception of domestic abuse.

and Joel Gouvia, publisher of "The Artist Economy" on Substack, about the potential future of music streaming services such as Spotify.

This hour, Ian Hoch talks to Joel Gouvia, publisher of "The Artist Economy" on Substack, about the potential future of the music streaming services such as Spotify.

Spotify made music easier than ever to hear but harder than ever for musicians to make a living. Now some people inside the industry are saying the whole thing is about to collapse. Is streaming actually dying? Is Spotify about to go the way of the cassette tape? What would take its place? Will the next evolution in music make it harder or easier to make a career out of it? Joel Gouvia, publisher of "The Artist Economy" on Substack, joins Ian Hoch to talk about the potential future of music streaming services like Spotify.

Ian Hoch drops the 2 O'clock News Bomb, discovers a new snack item, and continues the conversation about domestic abuse.

Trump has a mystery Iranian ally... maybe

This hour, Ian Hoch talks about an Ohio jury returning a full defense verdict in favor of Afroman in a high-profile defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit.

Then, Leah M. Forney, "The Culture Doctor," joins the show to have a serious discussion about how gender roles affect the perception of domestic abuse.

When we talk about domestic violence, we usually picture a male abuser and a female victim, but what about the cases that don’t fit that narrative? Reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul's season of "The Bachelorette" got yanked after an absolutely horrid video dropped of her abusing her male partner and their kid. How often does female-on-male abuse actually happen, and why don’t we hear about it? Are male victims taken seriously, or do stigma and stereotypes keep them silent? If a man says he’s being abused, how do you react? Do you believe him, or does something about that still feel hard to accept? Leah M. Forney, "The Culture Doctor," joins Ian Hoch to have a serious discussion of gender roles in the perception of domestic abuse.

This week, we cover the story of more than 80 students from a Minnesota high school choir who were trapped in Califronia when their flight was canceled due to a blizzard, whether Shakespeare's works should be taught to young students, how the Savannah Bananas are changing up baseball and meteorites falling on Ohio.

Featuring audio from Drivetime with DeRusha out of WCCO News Talk in the Twin Cities, the Dana & Parks show out of KMBZ in Kansas City, Newell Normand out of WWL in New Orleans and Marty Griffin out of KDKA in Pittsburgh.