News On The Rocks

Our first road trip takes us to the Keg and Lantern brewpub in Brooklyn to talk sexual harrassment and also Puerto Rico with our radio friends Lynda Lopez of ABC radio, Dylan of KTU, Paul Murnane and Melissa Lavetan of WCBS, and Wayne's hip cousin Christie. 

Sleep expert James Swanwick tells us what we're doing wrong. (Pretty much everything.)

We ask Yankees booth analyst Suzyn Waldman about the tedious ongoing backlash to women in the broadcast booth. Special appearance by Suzyn's dogs.

Liberal Hollywood and conservative intelligencia unite on Russia's threat to American democracy.

The dark necessity of remembering that awful September morning. With PAPD detective Larry Mays and author of "Finding Fifteen" Timothy Oliver.

Forget what you think you know about surviving a shooter. With former NYPD cop, 9/11 medal of valor recipient, US Marine and now NYS Homeland Security Commissioner Roger Parrino. 

We talk with a professor who has found a way to hack into the brains of mice. And make them do things.  Plus Wayne's Tennessee total eclipse adventure.

With the author of The Atlantic article everyone's talking about, "Have smartphones destroyed a generation?" Dr. Jean Twenge of San Diego State University.

Hear the debate over whether cannabis can be effective in getting addicts off hard drugs.

Mark Zuckerberg says the big thinker, Elon Musk, is trying to scare us all about robots and artificial intelligence. Wayne and Patty share their own artificial intelligence.

Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson talks leadership, Trump, Russia, radio, and R&B

A few episodes back, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai told us he wants to let internet companies regulate speeds if they want. This is the argument against.  

Days after moderating an event on opioid addication Wayne and Patty dig into the opioid crisis, a story everyone is talking about.

Give a listen to the head of the FCC as he talks to us about his love of radio and the future of the internet.

Hear the story of Saily Avelenda, a New Jersey banker who left her job after - she says - a local Congressman complained about her being a "ringleader"

Suicide by hanging, the official cause of death for Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.  A therapist who specializes in depression says the hopelessness of depression will be replaced by a blossoming of neuroscience in the next ten years. 

What Matt Arco of the Star Ledger found when he drove west to find Donald Trump's America.

CBS Foreign Affairs analyst Pamela Falk at the UN looks at Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong Un - two unpredictable leaders.

He predicted Trump would win. Now he predicts the president will probably be impeached. Allan Lichtman, distinguished professor of history at American University, visits, with WCCO/Minneapolis news personality Mike Augustyniak.

Wayne and Patty talk to three 17 year old whiz kids who are taking science to a new level.