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Host Chris Ryan previews the Patriots Week 5 match-up against the Lions. He also looks back on the diappointing Red Sox season with JD Martinez and Nathan Eovaldi.

Today, we feature the host of an amazing podcast called Gatecrashers, an eight-part series that tells the fascinating history of how the modern college admissions system (in fact, the entire notion of academically rigorous elite schools) that we know in America -- with its applications, essays, interviews, standardized tests, and US News lists -- all sprang from a surprising starting point: an effort to control how many Jews, and even what kind of Jews, were getting into the most prestigious schools. As the Supreme Court takes up a case that may end affirmative action in higher education, we couldn't have a more timely or important look at how we ended up with the modern higher education system.

Mark Oppenheimer created and reported Gatecrashers and he’s a Senior Editor at Tablet. From 2010-2016 he wrote the Beliefs column about religion for The New York Times. He also hosts the Unorthodox podcast about Jewish life and culture. He’s also the author, most recently, of Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood.

Ken Cail interviews Kitty Rae the OFFICIAL “Flick Chick,” and Tom Raffio, President & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental, joins the show to chat about the Delta Dental New England Half-Marathon on October 23.

2022 Concord School Board District B candidates Cara Meeker and David Parker, and District C candidates Virginia Cannon and Sarah Robinson, visit the ConcordTV studios in this forum moderated by Tony Schinella. A co-production of Patch, ConcordTV, and WKXL.

Reporter Ethan DeWitt of the New Hampshire Bulletin joins A. J. Kierstead on WKXL in the Morning to discuss a lawsuit around education funding through the SWEPT tax and political complexity of automatic Medicaid signup for free school lunches. More from them at https://newhampshirebulletin.com

Neil Levesque of the St. Anselm's Institute of Politics returns to run through findings from their latest high quality poll, showing why Democrats have an edge in key races despite President Biden's low approval, whether Democratic meddling in Republican primaries worked, what role abortion is really playing in the election, and whether we're getting an early bead on the shape of the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

On today's episode of "Cail & Company LIVE," Ken interviews Anise Jasman-Sayers, International Visitor Program Director, for the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire. WACNH is a non-profit, non-partisan organization fostering learning, discussion and citizen involvement in world affairs since 1954.

This week on Facing the Future, we hear from Gordon Gray, Director of Fiscal Policy at the American Action Forum. He has written a new paper with a proposal that could add another 900,000 new Americans to the labor force of this country and reduce the major backlog of legal immigration by making a modest investment in the federal agency charged with processing skilled work visa applications. Gray estimates it could add more than $100 billion in economic output every year.

Paul Hodes speaks with Attorney Mike Lewis, former New Hampshire Prosecutor and advocate for child welfare about the failure's of society in general and New Hampshire in particular to prioritize the welfare of children. They discuss an upcoming law review article Mike coauthored with his wife, Leah Plunkett, about child welfare in the post-Dobbs era and what can be done, including by those who claim to be "pro-life", about truly caring for the lives and welfare of our children.

The panel breaks down how Herschel Walker could have avoided a potentially campaign-sinking message catastrophe (besides not being an awful person in the first place) with some age-old political tactics. Also, Trump lawyers lying, huge issues on the Supreme Court docket, and is Mehmet Oz about to be eaten by Alicia's dogs?