Steven Spierer Show – TalkRadioOne

With Marc Germain on the impact of Covid-19.

Our medical care system constantly improves treating illness and disease but does little toward prevention.  Most illnesses are preventable simply through nutrition.  Steve and his daughter Melanie Archer talk with nutrition, vitamin and supplement industry leader Paul Schulick about healthy livable alternatives.

Steve talks with Motorman Leon Kaplan, host of The Motorman Show on TalkRadio 790 KABC in Los Angeles.  Then, Steve talks about the coronavirus, the choices we have to make and shares thoughts on how to talk to young children about the threat.

We are told that in-fighting inside the White House is at an all-time high and certainly the Trump White House is tumultuous.  But bitter rivalries inside the White House are nothing new.  From President Harry Truman through the reputedly “No Drama Obama” White House, conflict, competition, pettiness and dysfunctional clashes abounded.  Steve talks with Tevi Troy, author of Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump.

Steve interviews Margaret Windham, Chief Operating and Development Officer of Café Momentum, a delicious restaurant where you have to be a teenager who has been in jail to get hired. Real estate attorney and investor Steve, examines the housing shortage, affordability of housing and the best/ worst ideas for responding to those challenges.

Speakers shouted down.  Students and professors afraid to speak honestly.  Rates of anxiety, depression and suicide are rising on university campuses as well as nationally.  Steve talks with Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.

No civilized person wants hate speech.  Most people want free speech.  Some think the best way to stop hate speech is to censor hate speech.  Steve interviews Constitutional Law Professor Nadine Strossen, author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship.

Today Steve talks about impeachment, but it’s not exactly what you think.  Steve interviews Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and The Dream of a Just Nation.

We can expect to live longer, healthier lives than our ancestors but that requires more than money. Steve talks with Daniel Goldie, co-author of The Investment Answer: Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future.  Also, anxiety about technology is universal. Steve talks about that phenomenon and offers a perspective on how to cope with technological change.

Some adolescents safely, capably and independently enter the adult world while others do not. Turns out that everyone from wolves to humpback whales are also wild as teenagers.  Steve talks with Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Co-Author of Wildhood:  The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals.

Steve talks with child development & behavior specialist and all around Parent, Betsy Brown Braun, author of Just Tell Me What To Say and of You’re Not The Boss of Me and host of www.betsybrownbraun.com

We are subjected every day to an overwhelming information dump from television, from the internet and from what’s left of newspapers.  What has emerged is a cottage industry of people deciding fact and fiction. Some in that industry work to convince us that stop means go and that red is somehow green.  As a result, many Americans believe the country is going to go broke while others think the economy has never been better.  Steve talks with Jim Mosquera, author of Escaping Oz: An Observer’s Reflections.

Steve interviews five time US Congressman, Professor of Law and Economics, Chair of the California Common Sense Party and former Supreme Court Attorney/Law Clerk Tom Campbell about his direct experiences as a Congressman during the Clinton impeachment.

Lots of people hate business, and in particular big business, pointing out that Walmart and Amazon destroy small businesses and sometimes entire communities.  Facebook’s systems turn some people into addicts while putting our personal data at risk.  Giant service providers no longer provide good service as they grow.  Only 42% of millennials support capitalism.  Belief in big business is at an all time low.  Finding the right balance seems harder now than ever.  Steve talks with Tyler Cowen, author of Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.  Then, Steve talks about impeachment, but don’t worry.  It won’t have anything to do with what’s going on today.

“Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” is the first new “Land” to debut at Disneyland since Mickey’s Toontown opened in 1993.  Steve talks about all things Disney Parks with David Koenig, author of The 55ers: The Pioneers Who Settled Disneyland.