What's Bugging Me

Smells like MAGA Spirit. 

Trump rocks a joint session of Congress, the Democrats pout, and conservative comedian Shawn Farash (aka, Captain Deplorable) stops by for some laughs.

All this and the Parting Shot.

A special DOGE edition of the podcast. Let's get out the chainsaws and cut the waste.

All that and the Parting Shot.

Channeling a little bit of Truman and a little bit of Churchill, Vice President JD Vance went to Munich and gave our "Allies" a little hell about their anti-democratic and anti-free speech ways - and neither the ruling elite or the media were too happy about it.

Then comedian and policy wonk Tim Young joins the show to talk about the state of affairs, the dissaray among Democrats and to pitch a little book on the side.

All that and the Parting Shot.

As the new Trump Administration continues its work at a breakneck pace the Democrats are losing it.
And with RFK Jr taking over at HHS we talk to Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute about her new book, The World's Medicine Chest, and contemplate what's ahead for you, medicine and Big Pharma.

All that and the Parting Shot.

When it comes to doing good we offer you a tale of how not to do it - the wasteful boondoggle that is USAID - and a tale of how to get it done - with private grit and gumption from a young man in Philadelphia.

Evan Ehlers (@evanehlers on X), the Founder and Executive Director of Sharing Excess, joins us to tell us how he took his unused college dining plan and turned it into an organization that's stopped 103M pounds of perfectly good food from ending up in landfills and has fed millions.

All that and the Parting Shot.

There's a new sheriff in the White House briefing room and we're here for it.

Then we check in with Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal about the plan to slap a cancer warning label on alcohol.

All that and the Parting Shot.

It's an Inauguration Week extravaganza! Pardons going out and pardons coming in as Joe Biden exits stage left and Donald Trump enters stage right. There's executive orders galore and a major media meltdown. We have all the highlights.

Kristen Shaughnessy joins us to discuss what Trumpian government reform will mean for small investors. Will naked shorting finally stop?

All that and the Parting Shot - deep from Dennis' heart.

It's the last week of the Biden Administration and Monday marks the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Is the conflict in Gaza also coming to an end? And could this also be the beginning of the end for Progressive Democrats in California as much of Los Angeles County lies in ashes?

We talk to Allysia Finley, columnist, member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, and resident of Southern California. 



All that and the Parting Shot.

A special free speech edition of the pod! Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says he's returning Facebook back to its free speech roots, while Elon and X make waves in the United Kingdom by bringing the "grooming gang" scandals back to the forefront.

We talk to First Amendment lawyer Tom Julin and round it out with the Parting Shot.

Happy New Year! And we start 2025 by contemplating larger questions, such as, "What if none of this is real? What if we're all just characters in a simulation?"

We talk to Melvin Vopson, Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Portsmouth. He was formerly a senior R&D scientist at Seagate Technology and spent over six years as a Higher Research Scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory. He is also the author of Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe.

All that and the Parting Shot.