What's Bugging Me

Mitch McConnell ain't gone... but he's got one foot out the door. Google Gemini is really gone. As in gone crazy woke. The tech giant has had to pull its entry in the A.I. sweepstakes as the results turned out to be downright embarrassing.

Plus the MMTLP army continues to patrol the halls and offices of Congress.

All that and the parting shot... Love ya, Mom!

When you invite too many foxes into the henhouse, pretty soon you run out of chickens - and the goose laying the golden egg.

There are too many foxes now - in prosecutor's offices, in the regulatory agencies and in the media - and we're calling them out.

We talk to longtime market investors William Farrand and HAMShortkiller (and, yes, we know his real identity) about how short sellers in the market destroy businesses and lives while being aided and abetted by the regulators that are supposed to product all investors.

All that and a Parting Shot that's Nobel Prize-worthy.

They say silence itself can be deafening. We are pulling out all the stops and grabbing the bullhorn.

Our focus this week is on stories you may not be getting from your evening MSM newscast. We'll talk about the latest from the tag team reporting of Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, update you on the #MMTLP saga, and finally take you into a ghost town on the Israeli border with Gaza.

Our guest this week is Tunku Varadarajan, who reported in The Wall Street Journal about the residents of the Nir Oz kibbutz who once welcomed Palestinians into their homes and had that kindness repayed with unspeakable horrors.

Plus the Parting Shot on seeing the blessings in everything - even getting fired.

We bring in another set of eyes this week to look at the MMTLP fiasco: Kristen Shaughnessy has been covering this story long before it got on our radar. Just a couple of journalists on the hunt for the truth.

But we open the show with more evidence of government censorship. First there was Twitter and Facebook and now they want to police what you can find and buy on Amazon.

But don't get too depressed. The Parting Shot will bring you a moment of hope.

January 31st was the deadline for both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to answer questions about their handling of the MMTLP affair. Representative Ralph Norman (R - SC5) joins us to talk about the response (or lack thereof) and where Congress should proceed from here. Can you say "subpoenas?"

Plus there's a whole lot more on Dennis' plate this week.

We touch a bit on politics as we put the first primary into the rear view mirror; offer our weekly MMTLP story update and then talk to Dani Pascarella, CFP of OneEleven about helping you achieve your American Dream.

All that and the Parting Shot.

Something smells out on the street - and we're talking Wall Street.

While others dismiss it, there's something rotten going on around the merger of Torchlight Energy Resources and MetaMaterials and the short selling of stock shares that were never meant to hit the market. Investment houses such as Fidelity and Black Rock walked away whole while thousands of ordinary investors got hosed.

Dennis Kneale takes you on a deep dive into the story as we talk to those leading the charge to right the wrongs - including former Torchlight CEO John Brda.

Something is bugging Dennis a lot this week: It's how 65,000 investors in tiny Torchlight Energy got crushed by greedy short sellers and imperious regulators at a Federal agency few people have even heard about. And now What's Bugging Me is helping them Stand up, Fight Back and Be Heard.

Newsmax host and Wall Street "Wise Guy" Johnny Tabacco joins us with more on this saga - plus the way the DOJ and the FEC quietly allowed FTX badboy Sam Bankman-Fried off the hook for campaign violations.

And in the Parting Shot: Advice for investors to prevent this from happening to you.

Claudine Gay resigns the presidency of Hah-vahd and the left melts down. Well, tough. We're determined to make 2024 a "Year of Accountability" and this is a great start.

In our interview segment we talk to Doug Drysdale, the CEO of Cybin, Inc., a Canadian pharmaceutical company that's tackling depression and PTSD with a new generation of drugs derived from psychedelics.

Then in the Parting Shot we have a message for the New Year: Submit LESS.

Depending on your politcs, the Colorado Supreme Court either gave you an early Christmas gift or the court is run by The Grinch. Dennis has thoughts.

Then in our continuing series about reinventing your life we talk to Neil Ruddy, who went from stuntman to news producer - after the age of 50.

And in the Parting Shot, Dennis revels in the customer "service" of the United States Government.

Ho, Ho, Ho!