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.

John Cardillo, a man who knows Trump and knows law enforcement in NYC, 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.

Our regular show posts on Thursday as usual!

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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.

All that and the Parting Shot: “Avoid” the panic!

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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. And then there’s the J6 tapes…

In our interview segment we’re joined by Doug Adler, the former ESPN tennis analyst who was one of the first casualties of cancel culture for remarks he made during a match in the 2017 Australian Open. He paid for it with his health and his career, while others at the network are still saying really outrageous stuff on the air with no consequence.

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 bent for silencing conservative voices.