VB in the Middle

It was a pleasure having the authors of the Number One book in the country, "Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court" on the program today! Mollie Hemingway & Carrie Severino talked about the research that went into this book, the trial itself and their take on it, as well as how it feels to be the authors of a number one book in America! Great insight into the Kavanaugh hearings and the workings of the Supreme Court!

Today's Topics: Trump officially launched his campaign for a second term presidency for 2020. At his rally a chant broke out saying "Send her back" after he mentioned "The Squad" and Illhan Omar in particular. Was that a good look? POTUS Trump is now disavowing the chant. Berkeley, CA has voted to replace gendered language and phrases in their municipal codes with that of inclusive ones...no more saying "manhole" or "manpower". Waffles tells us of a new trend where people are paying to cuddle with cows...then lemonade stands have been getting a lot of attention in the news so we ask you if you stop at kid's stands and whether you tip? We discuss it all!

Children's lemonade stands have been in the news as of late. A local harmless social media back and forth was going on between the Braintree and Quincy Police over who was the better tipper when they stopped at a local girl's lemonade stand. We discuss lemonade stands, whether you stop and whether you tip if you do.

In "Waffles Stack" he shares a story about a new trend that has people paying to learn how to interact and cuddle with cows. We kid you not! VB & Cosmo Macero get carried away with the puns on this one...!

The city of Berkeley, CA has voted to eliminate gendered language from it's municipal codes. In other words they are officially replacing terms like "manhole" and "manpower" with other inclusive words like "maintenance hole" and "human effort", etc. We discuss if this is totally ridiculous or what...or is the change necessary?

POTUS Trump officially launched his campaign for the presidency for a second term in the year 2020. At the rally held in North Carolina, at one point when POTUS Trump brought up "The Squad" and Illhan Omar in particular, the crowd chanted "send her back". POTUS Trump did not partake in the chant or comment on it. The incident however sent the media into a frenzy and now POTUS Trump has come out and disavowed the chant. We discuss the impact of the chant & if it was appropriate...

Today's Topics: Gayle King sits down with "The Squad" on CBS This Morning and grills them about not having respect for the Oval Office. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing just happened and some can't help but notice it seemed like a primarily "white culture" so now we're doing that...VB has a massive yellow jacket nest outside his garage door that him and his wife are debating over what to do about it. Then the show tries out the FaceApp Challenge and the results are shocking! You have to see the results on wrko.com/vbinthemiddle

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and some couldn't help but point out the fact that it was a primarily "white male" event...so now we're doing that...are we surprised?

Tom Shattuck of the Boston Herald gets tested by Waffles on questions from a Jeopardy category on Movies that were filmed in Boston. See how many Shattuck gets right. Could you get all these correct?

Gayle King sits down with "The Squad" for CBS This Morning, this morning. She grills them about the President's tweets and comments in relation to their beliefs on racism and POTUS Trump's character. We break it down, here.