This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed “The Hateful Eight” and “The Revenant,” and discussed how The Chipmunks are still a thing more than five decades after they were created. We also discussed Ricky Gervais’ history of hosting The Golden Globes, which he’ll do for the fourth time […]
With new sexual assault charges filed against Bill Cosby in Pennsylvania, I called upon Mark Ebner, the journalist who broke the story in 2007 about Cosby’s history of raping women — and, in particular, Andrea Constand, who is at the center of this criminal case. I asked Ebner if other victims will be able to […]
Here’s my conversation with Andy Dehnart of Reality Blurred about the highs and lows of reality TV in 2015, from “Survivor” to “The Briefcase,” with a bunch of bakers, Alaskans, and sharks in between. We also talked about the new sub-genre of reality shows — cold-case documentaries like HBO’s “The Jinx” and Netflix’s “Making A […]
Here’s my conversation with David Pogue of Yahoo Tech, Scientific American, “Nova” on PBS, and “Sunday Morning” on CBS, about his new book, “Pogue’s Basics: Life — Essential Tips and Shortcuts For Simplifying Your Day.” Pogue says that life hacks have gotten a bad name on the internet because so many are absurd or just […]
Here’s my conversation with Dr. Art Caplan about gene editing, a process which allows doctors to fix errors in human embryos. The idea is to target inherited diseases like Crohn’s, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, etc. Of course, because embryos are involved, pro-lifers are all upset about it and are blocking federal funding of the […]
We have a lot of infrastructure problems in this country that aren’t being repaired because Congress and state legislatures refuse to raise the gas tax and use the funds to fix our levees, roads, bridges, etc. My guest Philip K. Howard of Common Good has a proposal for a bipartisan solution to the problem, which […]