Todd Feinburg
3,162 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 20 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAfternoons with Todd Feinburg
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Todd Feinburg: Patrick Sasser and Cathy Hopperstad (06/19/20)
June 19, 2020 22:19 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBPat Sasser, founder of NoTollsCT.org, talks about how frustrated CT voters can act now to change the balance of power in Hartford. He also explains how to help Cathy Hopperstad get elected as state rep from Manchester, and then Cathy calls in to say thanks.
Todd Feinburg: The Michael Harrison Hour (06/19/20)
June 19, 2020 22:03 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBMichael Harrison joins us for a discussion on issues related to policing and the killing of George Floyd, Michael and Todd's shared experience as miserable public school students and as low-level classroom teachers, and whether either has abandoned CDs and records in favor of smart speakers for music listening.
Todd Feinburg: Rant Line Time! (06/18/20)
June 18, 2020 22:19 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBIt's a really good Rant Line Hour on Thursday, so we decided to share it - a fine mix of live calls and recorded Rants.
Todd Feinburg: Bridging the Racial Divide with Stan McCauley (06/18/20)
June 18, 2020 22:17 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBStan McCauley joins us to discuss the great race divide and how to bridge the distance between where we are and where we should be. Stan is a Hartford businessman and businessman who has run twice for mayor.
Todd Feinburg: Why Do You Listen? (06/18/20)
June 18, 2020 22:17 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBWhy do you listen to Todd? To hear your own, already held, beliefs and ideas regurgitated back to you - or to hear new ideas, or old ones, described with new clarity? A rant line caller says he listens just to hear what he already believes - and that's where he and Todd part company.
Todd Feinburg: A Conversation Regarding Aunt Jemima (06/17/20)
June 17, 2020 22:29 - 1 hour - 87 MBAunt Jemima has lost her job. As has Mrs. Butterworth. Even Uncle Ben. How upset should we be? Todd says we can live without our Aunt's and Uncles, but not our founders.
Todd Feinburg: Bob Stefanowski (06/17/20)
June 17, 2020 22:28 - 8 minutes - 7.51 MBBob Stefanowski joins us for his weekly visit, and we discuss an online forum he held today, with me as emcee, with economist Art Laffer. Details included the mistakes made by the state of Connecticut in over-spending and over-taxation, as well as Dr. Laffer's belief that the national economy will recover quickly from the government imposed Covid recession.
Todd Feinburg: Tom Scott on CHAZ (06/16/20)
June 16, 2020 22:30 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBTom Scott has strong feelings about the takeover of a section of Seattle known as CHAZ by a group of leftists, where even the police abandoned their precinct station to keep the peace. But is that how government should behave?
Todd Feinburg: Alphonso McGriff on Race in America (06/16/20)
June 16, 2020 22:29 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBWe talk to Alphonso McGriff, an inventor, author and speaker from Hartford, on the topic of race. The conversation was controversial and fascinating.
Todd Feinburg: Brent McCall (Part 7) (06/15/20)
June 15, 2020 22:22 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBBrent McCall, an old cell mate of Michael Liebowitz and who is now a regular on the show, talks about the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests, riots, and looting. McCall is the author of the book Down the Rabbit Hole, with Michael Liebowitz, and is on his third decade of incarceration in Connecticut.
Todd Feinburg: Debating the Atlanta Police Shooting with Tom Shattuck (06/15/20)
June 15, 2020 22:15 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBNewspaper man Tom Shattuck joins us to debate the Atlanta shooting. Is Tom right that police should have known that the victim was not a risk because he had taken a taser that had already been fired, or is Todd right that police need leeway to protect themselves and the public safe and can't be held to a standard of perfection?
Todd Feinburg: Stan McCauley (06/12/20)
June 12, 2020 22:36 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBCommunity activist Stan McCauley is a former candidate for Mayor of Hartford who has his own ideas about reforming urban politics in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. His thoughts are similar to those of Bishop Selders, perhaps, but framed in a different way so that the two interviews work well in tandem.
Todd Feinburg: Bishop John Selders (06/12/20)
June 12, 2020 22:32 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBBishop John Selders is helping to lead protests in downtown Hartford against police brutality. We talk about those protests and their demand that Democratic government be restored on a state level and that the legislature be returned to work and that the issue with police unions be addressed. Dr. Selders is an ordained minister serving in the United Church of Christ, Assistant Dean of Students, Trinity College, Hartford, CT and one of the leaders of Moral Monday CT.
Todd Feinburg: Michael Harrison (06/12/20)
June 12, 2020 22:28 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBTodd talks with Michael Harrison about old British cars with a rough ride and failing electrical systems, different types of intelligence, the politics of the George Floyd murder, and the endless days of Covid. Michael is the publisher of Talkers Magazine, the trade journal of the talk radio industry. He hosts the Michael Harrison Wrap, now heard Saturday and Sunday on WTIC.
Todd Feinburg: Michael Liebowitz Talks Race Relations (Part 44) (06/11/20)
June 11, 2020 22:37 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBMichael Liebowtiz, our original favorite CT prisoner, discusses with Todd all the racial issues that the country is working thru in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. As a prisoner of over 20 years, Michael shares his unique perspective.
Todd Feinburg: Jeffrey Tucker on the COVID Farce (06/11/20)
June 11, 2020 22:31 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBCheck out his latest article here. How much of a farce has COVID turned out to be? We discuss with Jeffrey Tucker of AIER.org. Check out his latest article here.
Todd Feinburg: Where is the Outrage?! (06/11/20)
June 11, 2020 22:29 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBWhat is wrong with this state? Despite a virus that has dramatically under-performed government predictions, the state stays shut down for no reason. Where is the outrage? And, Black Lives Matter has it right - maybe we should demand that the whole government be shut down.
Todd Feinburg: Rob Sampson's Lawsuit Against King Corona (06/11/20)
June 11, 2020 22:27 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBState Senator Rob Sampson joins the program in the first hour to discuss his lawsuit against King-Governor Ned Lamont and his heavy-handed, executive-ly ordered, government policies that are destroying small business in Connecticut. Check out the lawsuit here.
Todd Feinburg: Joe Markley on the George Floyd Aftermath (06/10/20)
June 10, 2020 22:11 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBJoe Markley joins us to discuss the outrage over the killing of George Floyd and the demands to shut down police.
Todd Feinburg: The Defund Everything Hour (06/10/20)
June 10, 2020 22:07 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBIt's not just one big name Democrat who is saying that police unions are the problem - now the Mayor of Minneapolis is joined by leftist filmmaker Spike Lee in saying it. Okay, it's not huge, but it is progress. Will Democrats ever address the structural problems that led to the killing of George Floyd? And, is defunding Police a crazy slogan, or a rational response to what's going on?
Todd Feinburg: Rant Line! (06/09/20)
June 09, 2020 22:23 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBIt's the Rant Line! Here are today's calls. You can share your thoughts on any subject, any time, at 860-751-4698.
Todd Feinburg: Kevin Brookman on Police Unions (06/09/20)
June 09, 2020 22:22 - 9 minutes - 8.61 MBKevin Brookman, blogger at WeThePeopleHartford.com, discusses the rigged system that gives police unions the power to protect bad cops.
Todd Feinburg: Talking Extreme Leftism with Tom Shattuck (06/09/20)
June 09, 2020 22:21 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBTom Shattuck is an old radio friend of Todd's who is in the newspaper business these days. He joins us for an hour of analysis of the forces leading to an explosion of extreme leftism at the New York Times and on the streets of American cities.
Todd Feinburg: Brent McCall Talks George Floyd (Part 6) (06/08/20)
June 08, 2020 22:25 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBBrent McCall, former cellmate and co-author with regular guest Michael Liebowitz, talks with Todd today about the killing of George Floyd, the backlash from the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as the societal and cultural scaffolding that has held minorities in permanent poverty.
Todd Feinburg: Hiding From the Death of George Floyd (06/08/20)
June 08, 2020 22:18 - 46 minutes - 43 MBRoger Goodell changes the NFL's tune on BLM. The brave Mayor of Minneapolis admits that the election rigging scheme known as public sector unions make it impossible for mayors to fix police departments because the police unions run the police departments not the mayors. Sen. Corey Booker oozes compassion on Meet the Press, but won't say what the mayor of Minneapolis says. Neither will Jolly Ned, who talks the standard left wing pap about how police have just taken on too many jobs that police...
Todd Feinburg: Talking Racial Issues with Producer Mike (06/06/20)
June 06, 2020 20:07 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBWe review our last hour from Friday, a discussion over the resistance of callers to accepting that even if the killing of George Floyd was not an act of racism, which it possibly was not (what if the killer cop is a sadist, for example?), that it still fits into a narrative of institutional racism that is vivid and painful to many black Americans. Given that, Todd, joined by Producer Mike, argue that we owe our fellow citizens an airing of their complaints and our assistance in getting the si...
Todd Feinburg: Rant Line and Live Calls (06/05/20)
June 05, 2020 22:42 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBLast hour on Friday's is now a Rant Line Special, but we still take lots of calls on Covid and Minneapolis, the big stories of the week.
Todd Feinburg: A Gift From King Corona (06/05/20)
June 05, 2020 22:41 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBNed has decreed the people of Connecticut should be allowed to eat cake, so he's throwing a bone, as it were, a three day reprieve on Phase II. Yes, instead of allowing restaurants and tattoo parlors, etc, to open on the 20th, he's moving it to the 17th. All please kneel to the Great King of CoronaCut!
Todd Feinburg: Our Weekly Shindig with Michael Harrison (06/05/20)
June 05, 2020 22:39 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBTodd shares details of the special socially distanced graduation ceremony he attended today with Michael Harrison, saying it was the best one he's ever been to. No seats, no speeches, no people - one family at a time. Michael brags about his 6th grade GPA and his 6th grade diploma!
Todd Feinburg: Variety Hour (06/04/20)
June 04, 2020 22:11 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBWe play some great Rant Line calls and mix in some live calls on topics of Covid and urban violence in a riveting hour of talk radio.
Todd Feinburg: Michael Liebowitz - Back From Lockdown (Part 43) (06/03/20)
June 03, 2020 22:18 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBMichael Liebowitz is back for his first interview in a few weeks. We've been without our top prison guest because he's been on lockdown due to the virus, limiting his time for phone calls, so it's fun to hear his voice again. He fills us in on how Covid was handled in prison.
Todd Feinburg: Talking Urban Policing with Stan McCauley (06/03/20)
June 03, 2020 22:16 - 10 minutes - 10 MBWe talk to Stan McCauley, a Hartford businessman, community activist and former candidate for mayor, for observations on urban policing and violence against citizens.
Todd Feinburg: Joe Markley On Peaceful Protesters (06/03/20)
June 03, 2020 22:14 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBJoe Markley has an idea. Why don't the good protesters stop showing up until the violent ones can all be arrested. We discuss.
Todd Feinburg: Minneapolis Mayor Reveals Rigged System (06/03/20)
June 03, 2020 22:05 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBTwo stories star in this hour - first, Ned announcing $2.5 million of your hard earned money is to be given for housing assistance to illegal aliens, and second, the mayor of Minneapolis says union rules make it so hard to fire bad cops that it can't be done.
Todd Feinburg: Tom Scott Talks George Floyd and Protests (06/02/20)
June 02, 2020 22:12 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBTom Scott provides political context to the events in Minneapolis and their spillover into Connecticut. Tom spent 10 years in the CT state senate and is an adviser to several GOP candidates in the state.
Todd Feinburg: Democrats, Labor Culpable in George Floyd Death (06/02/20)
June 02, 2020 22:11 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBJust as it's hard to fire bad teachers, Todd makes the argument that "the election rigging scheme known as public sector unions also makes it hard to fire bad cops." As a result, the murder of George Floyd is an event tied closely to the partnership between Democrats and organized labor. Find the Reuters article from 2017 called "Protecting the Blue Across the U.S., police contracts shield officers from scrutiny and discipline" by Reade Levinson for background.
Todd Feinburg: Carlos Rebolla (Part 5) (06/01/20)
June 01, 2020 22:28 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBIs there a way to make government and police departments more honest? Carlos Rebolla, one of our regular guests from prison, figures he knows a few things about violence and institutional corruption, so we discuss his perspective.
Todd Feinburg: Bob Stefanowski (06/01/20)
June 01, 2020 22:26 - 7 minutes - 6.77 MBBob Stefanowski discusses his recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant as he calls in for his weekly visit.
Todd Feinburg: Civil Unrest Divides the Nation (06/01/20)
June 01, 2020 22:25 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBWhat's wrong with our politics? Todd says it's about rigged systems, power that's been kidnapped by special interests. We listen to the governor's disingenuous attempt to claim that he's a veteran social justice warrior. We talk to Al Cortes, a GOP candidate for state rep in West Hartford, about his exposure to police violence when he was young, and his career as a prison guard. Then we take calls.
Todd Feinburg: The Special Saturday COVID Show (05/30/20)
May 30, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 76 MBWe talk Minneapolis, we talk racism, we talk rigged government that spends all the people's money on election rigging not on improving quality of life, we talk Covid, and we didn't even mention Ned's failure to wear a mask when he went out to a Stamford restaurant without a mask. (PPE is so hard to find!) We will discuss on Monday. Don't forget to call the Rant Line anytime at 860-751-4698!
Todd Feinburg: Looking Into Ned's $2M Boston Consultant Group (05/29/20)
May 29, 2020 22:36 - 14 minutes - 13 MBKevin Brookman, founder and operator of We The People Hartford, has the infamous $2 million consulting contract posted on the blog. We discuss its content, and the politics, of the consulting deal.
Todd Feinburg: Senator Rob Sampson (05/29/20)
May 29, 2020 22:33 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBWolcott Senator Rob Sampson, a Connecticut beacon of liberty, joins us to discuss the American System of Government, and the fight to keep it alive in the Covid era.
Todd Feinburg: Madness in Minneapolis (05/29/20)
May 29, 2020 22:28 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBWe discuss the death of George Floyd and the violence that's followed with Scot X. Esdaile, the head of the NAACP for Connecticut. Then we take calls and discuss Scot's comments and what the violence means to the country.
Todd Feinburg: The Weekly Review with Michael Harrison (05/29/20)
May 29, 2020 22:24 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBWe talk Minneapolis and the death of George Floyd in this week's get-together with Michael Harrison of Talkers Magazine. We also discuss public education and whether it is doing it's job.
Todd Feinburg: Brian Kilmeade Talks COVID and Sam Houston (05/28/20)
May 28, 2020 22:14 - 10 minutes - 9.72 MBWhat does Fox News host Brian Kilmeade have to say about the state of the nation? We are joined by the author of Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers and ask him to consider how the historical figures he writes about might respond to the Covid shutdown.
Todd Feinburg: Examining the Greater Threat with Len Suzio (05/28/20)
May 28, 2020 22:12 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBFormer state senator Len Suzio has decided to run once again. He questions the damage being done to the state's economy by the shutdown, saying it's out of proportion to the threat.
Todd Feinburg: Exposing Democrat Failures with Alfredo Castillo (05/28/20)
May 28, 2020 22:10 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBCity Councilmen are usually loyal to party machinery not to the people who elect them. Not so with Alfredo Castillo, a Democrat from Bridgeport who joins us to describe Governor Lamont's failure to respond to requests for PPE and jobs for the unemployed. Instead, Castillo says Bob Stefanowski has given the city thousands of masks, and discussions with the federal government for help are going well.
Todd Feinburg: Reaping the Rants (05/28/20)
May 28, 2020 22:09 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBWe play calls from our new Rant Line, where you can call anytime to share your thoughts on any topic. It's big fun. Call 860-751-4698.
Todd Feinburg: Carlos Rebollo (Part 4) (05/27/20)
May 27, 2020 22:19 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBOur newest prisoner guest, Carlos Rebollo, joins us for his fourth visit. We discuss his violent past, and the circumstances that might be blamed for that violence.
Todd Feinburg: Economic Re-Opening with Joe Markley (05/27/20)
May 27, 2020 22:16 - 10 minutes - 9.71 MBJoe Markley joins us for a weekly conversation about letting freedom ring. He explains why no one should be asking whether casinos should be reopening or not, and talks about the Democrats' latest election rigging scheme - voting by mail - to be rolled out in August, when there should be little risk from the virus.