Nov 21, 2017 | podcasts, Science, Television
For 10 years and 282 episodes, Adam Savage co-hosted “Mythbusters” on the Discovery Channel. He left that show in 2016, but you can still find him at Tested.com and on his new tour with Michael Stevens, doing a stage show called Brain Candy Live, which comes to the Peabody in St. Louis December 6th. When […]
Nov 21, 2017 | podcasts, Science, Television
Since I grew up with the American space program, I have long been fascinated by the men and women who get to sit atop those huge rockets and be thrust beyond Earth’s atmosphere. That’s why I was happy to see “A Year In Space,” the PBS documentary which is running this month. It’s about Scott […]
Nov 21, 2017 | podcasts
Rick Newman of Yahoo Finance has been writing about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies lately, so I asked him to return to my radio show to explain them in layman’s terms. Considering how the value of these financial instruments has skyrocketed in their short lives, their story seems unreal, yet there are lots of people jumping […]
Nov 18, 2017 | Comedians, Movies, podcasts, Television
My conversation with TV writer/producer Andy Friendly, who worked with Richard Pryor, Tom Snyder, Johnny Carson, Roseanne, Dick Cavett, and many more.
Nov 18, 2017 | Movies, podcasts, Television
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Max and I reviewed the new movies “Justice League” and “Wonder.” Then we discussed the Al Franken harassment story, Ben Affleck’s comments on the charges against him, Universal entering “Get Out” as a comedy for the Golden Gloves, CBS making a sitcom out of “Stripes,” and […]
Nov 16, 2017 | Comedians, Movies, podcasts, Politics, Television
I’ll admit that I was quite surprised to see Al Franken’s name appear on the list of men charged with sexual assault — not because I know him, but because he never seemed to be that kind of guy. Shows you what a judge of character I am. I only know Leeann Tweeden from seeing […]