What's Bugging Me

Everybody has a fish tale. The FBI certainly had theirs. The doomsayers on the debt ceiling have one, too. That's among the many things bugging Dennis Kneale this week. Fresh off tarpon fishing in the Florida Keys, Dennis has his own tale to spin.

What isn't entertaining is the plans the World Economic Forum has in store for us. Dropping by is Carol Roth to preview her forthcoming book "You Will Own Nothing." (Now available for pre-order, by the way.) Can we stop the biggest threat to our freedom since WWII? Or even slow it down?

All that plus a fishy Parting Shot.

We set aside the breaking news format for a week and internalize everything. We're talking about reinventing oneself and accomplishing things you never thought possible. To that end Dennis welcomes back actress and executive coach Brianna Brown Keen and then talks to Jack Maley, an ad executive who began to set world records in the bench press - after the age of 65!

Dennis is back from a one-week sentence in Twitter Jail and is here to work out his community service. When did we become such word wussies? People of the Western World have become more fragile than generations of children brought up on the old nursery rhyme.

We also talk to Alan Kaplinsky, who leads the consumer financial services practice at Ballard Spahr. He's taking on the bureaucratic bastard child of Sen. Elizabeth Warren - the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - whose very creation and operation may be unconstitutional.

What's bugging Dennis Kneale this week?

How about an incumbent president that's so weak 70% of voters don't want him to run? Or how about the guy who runs three $B companies only to be relentlessly attacked by minor shareholders who he's enriched 5-fold? Oh, and have you heard the one about Tucker Carlson?

Dennis, who knows a thing or two about being fired from Fox News, gives you his take on L'affaire Carlson and then gets a second opinion from Keith Kelly, the former "Media Ink" columnist of The New York Post.

And in the Parting Shot... Dennis recalls his own hit job.

This week Dennis dishes on the settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and his former employer and then wonders about whether we or A.I. will be the masters of the future.

Mike Ozanian of Forbes SportsMoney drops by to talk about the $6B price tag on the Washington Commanders, the unique place in our culture of the National Football League and the collapse of the Regional Sports Network business as Bally Sports goes belly up and Warner Bros. Discovery bails.

All that and the Parting Shot.

Dennis Kneale says the backlash against the "Transtifa" agenda has begun - and that's a good thing. Plus: Will the Fed be stupid enough to ignore lower inflation just reported?

Our interview segment this week is with Atlanta-area radio host Alan Sanders on the Nashville protests, gun rights and just desserts.

With a special parting shot: "Brian's Song."

It's a week of bicoastal outrage on What's Bugging Me, as Dennis Kneale laments the circus Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is creating in his political prosecution of Donald Trump and mourns the death of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco.

In this week's interview segment Dennis talks to financial reporter John Carney on Wall Street's deafness towards what the Fed is saying - and how they're going to pay for it later on.

In this special April 1st Weekend Edition of our show, Dennis has thoughts on the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's indictment of Donald Trump. Plus Jay Singh of Special Situations Research and Neil Weinberg, financial reporter and former Editor-in-chief at American Banker weigh in on the latest banking crisis.

Plus the Parting Shot.

Dennis is bugged by a lot of things, but particularly the idea being pushed by some that the real victim in the Nashville shooting this week was the perpetrator.

The rest of the show is devoted to the malign regime in Beijing, their propagandizing in the US and the trouble with trying to regulate it. Plus Carole Sumner Krechman joins the show to talk about her time as a resident in China and witnessing the Tiananmen Square massacre.

All this and the Parting Shot.

What else would be bugging Dennis Kneale more than the Fed's tone-deaf rate increase, the Trump arrest threat, and more Twitter Files revelations? And we welcome back bestselling author Joanne Lipman with a special look at reinventing yourself, a subject our intrepid host knows a thing or two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices