Weekend Shows
By WRKO
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Check out interviews, features and show clips from WRKO's Weekend Shows on Boston's Talk Station, AM 680 WRKO.
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Pundit Review - Someone You Should Know - Sgt. Clifford Wooldridge | As his fire team was withdrawing, Wooldridge heard voices from behind an adjacent wall of a nearby compound. When he went to investigate the voices, Wooldridge found himself face to face with two Taliban fighters, whom he then killed with his weapon. Out of ammunition, Wooldridge crouched to reload his weapon when he saw the barrel of a Taliban machine gun appear from around the corner of the wall. Wooldridge grabbed the barrel and pulled the surprised fighter around the corner with it. The two began fighting hand-to-hand. Realizing his predicament against the 220-pound former football player, the Taliban fighter attempted to pull the pin on a grenade in order to kill them both. Wooldridge used the fighter’s own machine gun to kill him with several blows to the head. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - Sen. Scott Brown and Eric Maddox | Tonight is Kevin Whalen's 8th Anniversary show and we are fortunate to be joined by both Eric Maddox and our own Senator Scott Brown. We begin with Eric's fourth interview on the Pundit Review where we discuss his book that details the capture of Saddam Hussein. Half way through the interview our favorite Senator calls in and Scott Brown wishes Kevin the best. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Axelrod, Rev. Wright and Elizabeth Warren | Avi continues the discussion of Axelrod, bringing in the role of religion, Obama's former pastor, and Elizabeth Warren's heritage. | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Axelrod, Biden and Willie Horton | On the same day the Obama campaign revealed the first in a series of political ads devoid of political attacks, Senior Campaign Advisor David Axelrod derided several Romney backers as "contract killers." In a conference call with reporters Monday, Axelrod said the positive spin on the new ads, focusing on Obama's accomplishments rather than reverting to political attacks, doesn't preclude the campaign from reacting when it sees fit. Avi gives his take on this statement, as well as discussing Biden's finances and Willie Horton. | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radio Today-Garrett Quinn | Donna Halper joined Garrett Quinn to weigh in on the recent accusition of WFNX by Clear Channel Media group, Petern Kadzits also joined in as the discussion shifted to the state of rock and roll radio today, as well as the state of AM radio. | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - Someone You Should Know - Sgt. M. Joshua Ryan Laughery | Sgt. M. Joshua Ryan Laughery, 27, is a 2003 graduate of Windfern High School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. He serves as a squad leader in a heavy weapons platoon with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry, at Fort Polk in Louisiana. The 4th Infantry is part of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. The Silver Star is the military’s third-highest combat decoration for valor in the face of the enemy. The medal will be presented to Laughery during a ceremony at Fort Polk. Laughery is being recognized for his bravery while on patrol in Afghanistan last year, when his squad came under heavy fire from insurgents. Laughery was a corporal at the time. Realizing that his squad and platoon leaders had been incapacitated by injuries, Laughery had another soldier take his place as gunner, started medical evacuation procedures, and reorganized his squad, according to a statement from Fort Polk. Laughery engaged the insurgents and held them at bay until relief arrived, the statement said. His actions resulted in the survival and rescue of every soldier on his patrol, including five who had been wounded. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. - The Death of Liberalism | Kevin Whalen is joined by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. Bob joins the show tonight to discuss his latest book, The Death of Liberalism. We take several callers on the topic who help fuel the fire to the theory of liberalism. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Gay Marriage, Elizabeth Warren, and Bake sale Ban | Avi continues the discussion of Obamas new stance on gay marriage, while bringing in the topis of Warren's native American heritage and Boston's attempted ban on school bake sales. | 5/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Obamas Stance On Gay Marriage | President Obama announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an "evolution" that led him to this decision, based on conversations with his staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and his wife and daughters. Avi discusses this and gives his view of the situation, as well as discussing the recent events with Romney and bullying. | 5/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - Frank Warren - PostSecrets.com | Kevin welcomes Frank Warren founder of the PostSecret Project. PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.The concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - Someone You Should Know - Staff Sergeant Trevor D. Tow | The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Trevor D. Tow, United States Army, for gallantry in action. Staff Sergeant Trevor D. Tow distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous achievement as a Ranger Squad Leader on August 18, 2010, while deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. When his squad took two casualties during and ambush by three enemy personnel from an elevated, fortified fighting position less than ten feet away, Staff Sergeant Trevor D. Tow with total disregard for his own safety stepped out into the open to suppress the enemy and allowed his squad to pull the injured squad members to safety. Staff Sergeant Tow continued to engage the enemy from an uncovered position despite taking cyclic AK-47 fire and blasts from fragmentation grenades. Staff Sergeant Trevor D. Tow eliminated two of the three enemy combatants with well placed shots. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - Prof 'Mo' Cunningham - MassPoliticsProfs | Kevin Whalen welcomes Maurice T. Cunningham, Chairman of the Political Science Department at UMass Boston. Prof Cunningham is also a blogger for the site MassPoliticsProfs. His recent article "The dangerous (and dumb) Scott Brown," caught Kevin's eye. The two discuss MA politics including the Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren senatorial race, Governor Deval Patrick and EBT reform. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Elizabeth Warren and More On Racist Tweets | Elizabeth Warren said yesterday she is “proud” of her Native American heritage and indicated she had no problem with Harvard Law School using her roots to claim her as a diversity hire, but her campaign still could not produce documents proving her lineage. Avi discusses this and her high income, as well as continuing on the topic of racism. | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Racist Tweets and Obama's Campaign | Hate travels fast in the age of Twitter. No sooner had Joel Ward's shot found the back of the net late Wednesday than racist rants began spewing on the Internet. Most used the n-word modified by the f-word. A few issued death threats. And some combined both: "That (n-word) deserves to hang." Avi discusses this as well as the wording Obama used in one of his campaign videos. | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garrett Quinn - The New England Mafia with Milton J. Valencia | Garrett Quinn is joined by Milton J. Valencia who is a crime reporter for the Boston Globe. The Patriarca crime family suffered a big blow last week when Anthony DiNunzio was arrested. Garrett and Milton discuss the mafia of 2012 and how it has changed over the years here in New England. | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garrett Quinn - 92 Year Old Veteran has Bootlegged over 300,000 Movies | Garrett Quinn starts today's show off discussing Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran. He has sent every one of his copied DVDs, almost 4,000 boxes of them to date, free to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Garrett discusses the moral dilemma - it is illegal to copy movies but the veteran is not making a profit and giving the movies to our troops. | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - David Freddoso - Washingotn Examiner | Kevin Whalen is joined tonight by Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso. David came to the Washington Examiner in June 2009, after serving for nearly two years as a Capitol Hill-based staff reporter for National Review Online. He is a New York Times best seller with his book, The Case Against Barack Obama. Freddoso's second book, Gangster Government, was released in April 2011. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pundit Review - Someone You Should Know - Captain Barry F. Crawford Jr | On 4 May 2010 while attached to Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha and their Afghan partner force, Captain Crawford conducted a helicopter assault into [REDACTED]. Upon landing, Captain Crawford received reports that multiple groups of armed enemy were maneuvering into prepared fighting positions in the high ground around the village. As the assault force initiated clearance operations, they began to receive a high volume of accurate machine gun and sniper fire from an enemy force well over 100 fighters. As the assault force was attacked, Captain Crawford took decisive action to save the lives of three wounded Afghan soldiers and evacuate two Afghan soldiers killed in action. Recognizing that the wounded Afghan soldiers would die without evacuation to definitive care, Captain Crawford took decisive action and ran out into the open in an effort to guide the helicopter to the landing zone. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Capital Gains Tax, Affirmative Action, and National Debt | Avi continues the discussion on Obama and taxes and the concept of "fairness," as well as the rising national debt and what can be done to curb it. He also brings up the sociopolitical impact of Affirmative Action on higher education and the workplace. | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Avi Nelson - Earth Day, Fenway, and Capital Gains Tax | At a time when only about half of Americans pay federal income taxes, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have made a fundamental shift in the justification they offer for their massive spending and the proposed taxes to support it — and it is one that should frighten every American. Avi discuses Obama’s stance on capital gains tax, as well as the communist history of Earth Day and the recent anniversary at Fenway. | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
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