What’s Bugging Me

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.

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 about the markets and give Dennis a little advice.

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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 Journal reporter James Areddy, who has lived in and reported on China for decades, on that country’s ballooning ambitions.

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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.

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.

All that and the Parting Shot.

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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.

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Brianna Brown Keen (Photo: Eugene Powers/Shutterstock)

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.

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What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and the news? About six weeks.

Dennis takes on the way the news is being framed on a day-to-day basis and talks to Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel on Republican plans to investigate the Twitter Files with a new special subcommittee of the House Judiciary. And then veteran futures trader Jim Iuorio stops by and explains why the Fed will have to stop raising rates soon.

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As we enter the New Year, Dennis Kneale takes a contrarian view of the McCarthy Mess, dives into media ignorance on the #TwitterFiles, and asks “Wealth Wizard” Ed Butowsky to explain his surprisingly bullish outlook for investing in 2023.

Put a smile on your face! Things are looking up!

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Up this week from Dennis Kneale: Why are the media still ignoring #TheTwitterFiles? And… Silicon Valley sage Vikek Wadhwa accuses The New York Times and The Washington Post of telling lies in Kashmir, and best-selling author Natalie Pace on her life as a nomadic journalist..

Plus this: you think your Christmas dinner might get awkward? Hold Dennis’ beer: Our host must decide whether to sit down to supper with a person who recently was thinking of killing him—and this person owns six guns.