Archives: Episodes
American’s love affair with spending
Why is it so difficult for many of us to change our spending habits – to save more money and buy less stuff on credit? We talk with ...
Air Date: December 22, 2008
John Nagl onmilitary strategy in Afghanistan
Meet John Nagl, a retired US Army officer and one of the authors of the Army’s counterinsurgency field manual. He joins Marty to ta ...
Air Date: December 22, 2008
How are we introduced to music? Many of us may not be familiar with music genres without TV cartoons. Think Wagner, Bugs Bunny and Opera. ...
Air Date: December 19, 2008
Radio Times’ weekly national political roundtable. Guests include JASON JOHNSON, political science professor at Hiram College, and ...
Air Date: December 19, 2008
The Cherry Sisters and Vaudeville
The Cherry Sisters were an early vaudeville act which gained popularity for its lack of talent. Philadelphia’s 1812 Productions Com ...
Air Date: December 18, 2008
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey
CHARLES RAMSEY talks about his first year as Philadelphia Police Commissioner. We discuss budget cuts, the city’s crime rates, and ...
Air Date: December 18, 2008
We spend the hour with psychologist MARK KISELICA, discussing teenage fathers, their biggest challenges, and how we can help them become ...
Air Date: December 17, 2008
Financial fraud and the Madoff scheme
Investors large and small are confronting losses of staggering amounts as a result of the what is believed to be a Ponzi-style scheme cre ...
Air Date: December 17, 2008
Would you take a pill to make you smarter?
A new article published by a group of scientists and policy experts suggest that taking drugs to improve the brain’s performance is ...
Air Date: December 16, 2008
A health professionals moral beliefs vs. the professional obligation to provide care
The federal government has proposed a new rule which would protect a health care professional from providing care that violated his or he ...
Air Date: December 16, 2008
MICHAEL LEMONICK – The Georgian Star
Self-taught 18th century scientist William Herschel and his sister, Caroline hunted comets, cataloged thousands of stars and were the fir ...
Air Date: December 15, 2008
Auto Bail-Out – UAW, The Big Three Congress and the Fed
Are the US automakers too big to fail? Congress and Bush administration officials are considering using some of the existing $700 billion ...
Air Date: December 15, 2008
Talking with your family about money.
The current economic crisis has forced many families to scale down their holiday plans – everything from extravagant celebrations t ...
Air Date: December 12, 2008
It’s Friday, so we’re talking about politics. We’ll start with the political corruption scandal involving Illinois gove ...
Air Date: December 12, 2008
Many of us who surf the internet enter into a kind of personal contract that our tastes are tracked because we see more custom ads of thi ...
Air Date: December 11, 2008