What's Bugging Me

Someone's above the law? You betcha. If your last name is Biden what's a felony gun charge among friends? What's bugging Dennis this week is our clearly two-tiered system of "justice." Does Merrick Garland really think this will sweep all the Biden dirt under the rug? A double-dip in our interview section this week as veteran China-centric reporter Bob Davis joins us to talk Anthony Blinken's rece...

Donald Trump appeared before a federal magistrate this week and we have thoughts - both from Dennis and from one of the few non-reporters that were allowed inside the courtroom to witness it. We also check in with Rich Valdes from Westwood One's America At Night for his thoughts on the matter. The week began with immigrant protests on both coasts - not about immigration policy - but about explicit...

The Republican primary gained more entries this week as former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Doug Burgum (who?) entered the contest to challenge Donald Trump for the GOP nomination. And Tucker on Twitter debuts to some outrageously large viewing numbers. Plus, Robert Kendall of "The Kendall Report" joins us to answer the question, "Where's the recess...

As we find ourselves between Memorial Day and D-Day we have a show with a distinct military theme. First up are veterans Taylor Baldwin Kiland (US Navy) and Judy Silverstien Gray (US Coast Guard) with a preview of their new book Unwavering, the true story about the wives of Vietnam era POWs and MIAs changed US foreign and military policy in their quest to bring their husbands home from SE Asia. Th...

Gov. Ron DeSantis made official what everyone assumed was obvious: He's running for President. Eager to paint their new nemisis as a failure, the media found an unlikely ally last night in Donald Trump and his supporters. What's with this unholy alliance? Speaking of things unholy, what's going on at the FBI? Dennis talks about the whistleblower testimony to Congress this week. Plus, former Trump...

Everybody has a fish tale. The FBI certainly had theirs. The doomsayers on the debt ceiling have one, too. That's among the many things bugging Dennis Kneale this week. Fresh off tarpon fishing in the Florida Keys, Dennis has his own tale to spin. What isn't entertaining is the plans the World Economic Forum has in store for us. Dropping by is Carol Roth to preview her forthcoming book "You Will O...

We set aside the breaking news format for a week and internalize everything. We're talking about reinventing oneself and accomplishing things you never thought possible. To that end Dennis welcomes back actress and executive coach Brianna Brown Keen and then talks to Jack Maley, an ad executive who began to set world records in the bench press - after the age of 65!

Dennis is back from a one-week sentence in Twitter Jail and is here to work out his community service. When did we become such word wussies? People of the Western World have become more fragile than generations of children brought up on the old nursery rhyme. We also talk to Alan Kaplinsky, who leads the consumer financial services practice at Ballard Spahr. He's taking on the bureaucratic bastard...

What's bugging Dennis Kneale this week? How about an incumbent president that's so weak 70% of voters don't want him to run? Or how about the guy who runs three $B companies only to be relentlessly attacked by minor shareholders who he's enriched 5-fold? Oh, and have you heard the one about Tucker Carlson? Dennis, who knows a thing or two about being fired from Fox News, gives you his take on L'af...

This week Dennis dishes on the settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and his former employer and then wonders about whether we or A.I. will be the masters of the future. Mike Ozanian of Forbes SportsMoney drops by to talk about the $6B price tag on the Washington Commanders, the unique place in our culture of the National Football League and the collapse of the Regional Sports Network busines...

Dennis Kneale says the backlash against the "Transtifa" agenda has begun - and that's a good thing. Plus: Will the Fed be stupid enough to ignore lower inflation just reported? Our interview segment this week is with Atlanta-area radio host Alan Sanders on the Nashville protests, gun rights and just desserts. With a special parting shot: "Brian's Song."

It's a week of bicoastal outrage on What's Bugging Me , as Dennis Kneale laments the circus Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is creating in his political prosecution of Donald Trump and mourns the death of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco. In this week's interview segment Dennis talks to financial reporter John Carney on Wall Street's deafness towards what the Fed is saying - and...

In this special April 1st Weekend Edition of our show, Dennis has thoughts on the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's indictment of Donald Trump. Plus Jay Singh of Special Situations Research and Neil Weinberg, financial reporter and former Editor-in-chief at American Banker weigh in on the latest banking crisis. Plus the Parting Shot.

Dennis is bugged by a lot of things, but particularly the idea being pushed by some that the real victim in the Nashville shooting this week was the perpetrator. The rest of the show is devoted to the malign regime in Beijing, their propagandizing in the US and the trouble with trying to regulate it. Plus Carole Sumner Krechman joins the show to talk about her time as a resident in China and witne...

What else would be bugging Dennis Kneale more than the Fed's tone-deaf rate increase, the Trump arrest threat, and more Twitter Files revelations? And we welcome back bestselling author Joanne Lipman with a special look at reinventing yourself, a subject our intrepid host knows a thing or two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Cardillo, a man who knows Trump and knows law enforcement in NY, joins Dennis for special episode to talk about what's going on in the Manhattan DA's office. Who's calling the shots on the potential indictment and arrest of a former President of the United States? The former NYPD officer weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Silicon Valley Bank has dominated the news cycle for the last week but Dennis Kneale wants to get to the real causes of the collapse of SVB. Was it "Go Woke, Go Broke?" Fed craziness? Bad management? All of the above? Chapwood Investments founder Ed Butowsky and ex-CNBC trading expert Jim Iuorio bring the double-barrelled insights on the immediate implications and what the next moves should be.  A...

What's bugging Dennis this week? Government suppression of information for one. The FTC has sent dozens of letters demanding internal memos and the names of all reporters the company had granted access to the "Twitter Files." House Republicans call it "an aggressive campaign to harass” the social media giant into not revealing the extent of government coercion under the previous Twitter leadership...

Dennis Kneale says the Biden administration, only now, is admitting Covid-19 likely started in a Chinese lab. Why? So it can distract us from the bigger picture: the entire cluster-flup. In the interview chair this week, Wired Editor-at-Large Steven Levy on A.I. chatbots becoming more human than some humans and radio host Ben Ferguson on the "hostile work environment" that is CNN and Big Tech’s be...

Has A.I. gone sentient? Microsoft Bing is sending it's love and Dennis isn't sure he wants it. Our guests this week are Phantom Space founder Jim Cantrell about seizing the high ground - the really high ground of space - for both commerce and military advantages. What are the Chinese doing and what should we be doing to counter it? Then our favorite wealth manager Ed Butowsky drops in to talk abou...

What’s bugging Dennis Kneale? “America is under attack!” The people are under attack from their own government, which censors them on Twitter and lies right to their face about its own actions. Our interviews this week are nationally syndicated late-night radio host Rich Valdes of America At Night, who talks to Dennis about the Feds’ recent lack of transparency on a host of issues and Wall Street...

We've witnessed a lot of screwy things since 2016. What's bugging, Dennis? Well, when will someone be held accountable for it? Then we welcome back Natalie Pace to the show to talk ESG investing and then Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Michael Waldholz chimes in on the current state of healthcare and insurance in the US. All that and the Parting Shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

This week Dennis touches the third rail and talks about the insidious turn taken in the conversation about race in America. Then in our weekly interview segment he welcomes in the former chief editor of USA Today, Joanne Lipman, to discuss her Time magazine article on the rise of ChatGPT and Vitaliy Katsenelson, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of IMA, on the underlying cause of the FTX scandal. A...

What's bugging Dennis Kneale this week? How about the recent riot in Atlanta? Let's investigate Antifa as a terrorist organization. Then ex-PriceWaterhouseCoopers CMO John Sviokla talks about the reported fusion breakthrough and why we won’t deliver on its promise without more government support. We also recall the story of a student editor at the University of Florida who got arrested for publish...

This week Dennis talks to Thomas Julin - a top litigator for the First Amendment - about the #TwitterFiles and exactly what Section 230 means in practice. Then he welcomes in actress Brianna Brown Keen. She's the CEO of The New Hollywood, and talks about how she has individually mastered how to inspire, empower and enable people of all walks of life to step into leadership roles, about how to get...