We welcome 2014 with Paul F. Tompkins, Eddie Pepitone, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Laura House, Mark Thompson, Frank Conniff and Chris Pina. Eddie talks about last month’s anxiety attack before, during and after his audition for The Middle. And Mark Thompson talks about creating Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? and how it led to the creation of The Bachelor. Portions written by Ben Zelevansky, Steve Rosenfield, and David Feldman. Please subscribe to our show for free on iTunes and Stitcher.
It’s legal to buy pot in Colorado on January 1. We go to Denver to talk with Associated Press’ Kristen Wyatt about Colorado becoming the first state in American history where it’s legal to buy marijuana over the counter. America has lost its taste for capital punishment as 2013 turns out to have the second lowest number of executions in 40 years. We talk with Richard Dieter Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Plus Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys. Please subscribe to this show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
How Wall Street buys professors to teach, write and testify on Wall Street’s behalf with two time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist David Kocieniewsk from The New York Times. David Kocieniewski wrote two investigative articles this year about Goldman Sachs and Apple that we discuss all the time on this show. His latest investigative piece will make you question everything you’re told by economists and professors. Then Film Critic Michael Snyder lists his favorite movies for 2013. Also Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys, Jimmy Lee Wirt, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Hal Lublin and Jeremy S. Kramer. Portions of our show are written by Hal Lublin, David Weiss and David Feldman. Please subscribe to our show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
David Kocieniewski is a business reporter who has been covering the nation’s tax system for The New York Times since 2010. Previously, Mr. Kocieniewski had been a reporter on the paper’s Metro desk since 1995 where he focused on law enforcement, corruption and its offshoot and the New Jersey government.
In 2013, he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
“for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.”
In 2011, Mr. Kocieniewski examined the efforts by businesses to lower their taxes and the debate over how to improve the tax system in a series titled “But Nobody Pays That.’‘
In April 2012, the series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The Pulitzer jury said his work
“penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes.”
Mr. Kocieniewski joined The Times in 1995. Previously, he worked at The Detroit News from 1986 to 1990, and New York Newsday from 1990 to 1995. He has covered criminal justice and politics for most of his career.
While at New York Newsday, he wrote a series of stories about corruption in the New York Police Department that led to the Mollen Commission hearings and won a handful of awards from various organizations, including the New York State Bar Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Mr. Kocieniewski is the co-author of “Two Seconds Under the World,” a book about the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the F.B.I.’s failure to takes steps that might have prevented it. He also wrote “The Brass Wall,” an exposé about corruption in the police department’s Internal Affairs Bureau that nearly cost a hero undercover detective his life; the book was cited as one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2003.
Mr. Kocieniewski was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986.
A Kitchen Wet Dreams spectacular with conversation, sketches and song! We have something for everybody today. Michael Snyder, our resident film critic, tells us what movies to avoid this holiday weekend, Paul Dooley, Hal Lublin, Eddie Pepitone, Kevin Rooney, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Jeremy S. Kramer, Rick Overton, Will Ryan and Cactus Chloe Fiorenzo also join us along with David Mizner who wrote the cover story for this week’s Nation Magazine. Portions of today’s show are written by Hal Lublin, David Weiss, Will Dixon and David Feldman. Please subscribe to this show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. This is another amazing show for everyone, so please share it with your friends, and give us a great review on iTunes.
Comic Maz Jobrani describes playing Beirut. Also Retired Lt. Commander Diane Goldstein from LEAP tells us how cops benefit financially by keeping marijuana illlegal. She goes on to call for the legalization of marijuana. Founded on March 16, 2002, LEAP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization made up of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of our existing drug policies. LEAP believes, “Those policies have failed, and continue to fail, to effectively address the problems of drug abuse, especially the problems of juvenile drug use, the problems of addiction, and the problems of crime caused by the existence of a criminal black market in drugs.” Also Eddie Pepitone, Janie Haddad Tompkins and Hal Lublin. Portions of today’s show written by Hal Lublin, David Weiss and David Feldman. Please subscribe to our show as a free podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
Did Americans do their patriotic duty and spend money they didn’t have for Christmas? We ask Tiffany Hsu who covers retail for the Los Angeles Times. Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein with yet another exclusive. David Sedaris’ favorite story teller Dylan Brody tells us a X-Mas story. And then Film Critic Michael Snyder reviews Wolf Of Wall Street. Please subscribe to this show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.