March 3, 2020
01. Will Democrats Embrace a Super Tuesday Sanders Win?
02. Was Flavor Flav’s Firing Fair?
03. The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later
04. Coronavirus Containment: Who Loses When Schools Close?
05. How Worrying about Coronavirus Could Cause You to Get It
06. Coronavirus Shows How Bad Decisions Kill People
07. It’s Tax Season: Lighten Up and Laugh at the IRS
08. How 80% of Your Listeners Can Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck
09. Stay or Move? 4 Questions for Retirees
10. Creative Ways to Tie the Knot without Spending a Lot
11. Carrying a Gun for Protection — Hear This Expert
12. New Reasons to Avoid Processed Foods
13. Are You at Risk for Diabetes, the Silent Killer?
14. What’s Going Wrong with America’s Health-Delivery System?
15. The Surprising Solution to Climate Change
16. Schools’ Toughest Bullies: Teachers
17. Keep Beds Dry Every Night
18. 5 Reasons You Should Write a Book Now
19. Put the Clothes Back on Your Audience
20. Psychedelics: What’s Behind Their Rise in Popularity?
1.==> Will Democrats Embrace a Super Tuesday Sanders
Win?
Establishment Democrats are freaking out at the
prospect of Bernie Sanders being the party’s nominee in
2020 and Elliot Williams says they have reasons to be
concerned. “He struggles to say what his ambitious
plans will cost. If elected, he would become the oldest
president in U.S. history and he has flip-flopped on
whether he would release his full medical records. He
all but ensures that his Republican opponent will make
the election a referendum on socialism.” But Williams
says despite all that, Sanders could still beat Donald
Trump. “Sanders inspires an intensity in his supporters
that few candidates in history can claim. Where Bill
Clinton felt voters’ pain, Bernie Sanders channels
their anger. And that means something in 2020. This
level of passion has galvanized a movement reminiscent
of other major ‘change’ candidates in history —
Kennedy, Reagan and, whether we want to admit it or
not, Trump.” Elliot Williams is a CNN legal analyst and
a principal at The Raben Group, a national public
affairs and strategic communications firm. He was a
deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice
Department and an assistant director at U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Obama
administration. Contact him at (202) 466-8585;
ewilliams@rabengroup.com or ?@elliotcwilliams
2. ==> Was Flavor Flav’s Firing Fair?
Public Enemy, a radical hip-hop band that rose to
prominence in the early days of the genre, has fired
Flavor Flav, the iconoclastic hype man and reality-show
staple. The issue was Flav sending a cease-and-desist
letter to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign over
the promotion of an appearance by Public Enemy at an
upcoming campaign fundraising event. Flav wasn’t
attending the event and apparently didn’t want to be
associated with it. Was it right? PR expert Eric
Yaverbaum says the parting wasn’t surprising or
personal. “Public Enemy has been a fundamentally
political group, and D himself continues to identify as
a political artist, while Flavor Flav has gained new
life as a reality-TV staple. This public disbanding is
an example of protecting your brand to ensure that your
message and the public conversation surrounding you
remain on brand.” Yaverbaum is CEO of Ericho
Communications and the author of “PR for Dummies.”
Contact Xenique McLeod at (929) 399-6752;
xenique@erichopr.com
3. ==> Veteran Journalist: The Kent State Shootings 50
Years Later
Bob Giles was a young newspaper editor at the Akron
Beacon Journal on the day of the Kent State shootings
on May 4, 1970. Invite him on your show and hear the
story of how he and his staff painstakingly pursued the
truth of the shootings – a tragedy that has haunted the
nation for 50 years and significantly changed the
debate about the Vietnam War. He’ll describe the
turmoil and drama of the newsroom on that fateful day
and on the campus of Kent State University, where the
Ohio National Guard opened fire on students, killing
four and wounding nine others. You’ll hear how
reporters struggled to make sense of the situation and
sort fact from fiction for a horrified world wanting to
know “what” and “why.” After a 40-year newspaper
career, Giles became senior vice president of the
Freedom Forum, executive director of its Media Studies
Center, and curator of the Nieman Foundation for
Journalism at Harvard University. He is the author of
“When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years
Later.” Contact Johanna Ramos Boyer at (703) 646-5137;
(703) 400-1099 (cell); johanna@jrbcomm.com or Erin
Bolden at (703) 646-5188
4. ==> Coronavirus Containment: Who Loses When Schools
Close?
Japan’s schools will remain closed this month in an
effort to curb contagion of the coronavirus. Here in
the U.S., schools could also be subject to mass
closures if the virus continues to spread, and that
would create a big problem for working parents and the
economy. The Century Foundation’s Julie Kashen says it
would be particularly difficult for lower-income
working families. “They don’t even have solutions for
everyday child-care problems. This is just going to
exacerbate the problems that already exist but also
make stark economic inequalities.” Workers without paid
sick leave, who make about 30% of the private sector
workforce, will be hit the hardest, Kashen says, while
office professionals and other white-collar workers
will likely have the flexibility they need to take care
of their kids. She says you likely won’t hear many
parents talking about their plans for child care should
schools close. “Probably, in part, because there’s not
a great option,” she says. “No great answers besides
relying on neighbors, friends and families.” Julie
Kashen is a senior fellow and director for women’s
economic justice at The Century Foundation, a
progressive, nonpartisan think tank. Her expertise lies
in work and family, caregiving, economic mobility, and
labor. Contact her at @Juliekashen or Alex Edwards at
edwards@tcf.org; press@tcf.org or (212) 452-7700
5.==> How Worrying about Coronavirus Could Cause You to
Get It
Being vigilant and constantly checking the news for the
latest information on the coronavirus may seem like the
best way to stay safe and informed about the pandemic.
But the opposite may be true. Could you be making
yourself more susceptible to the coronavirus without
realizing it? Perhaps, says wellness expert and stress
relief coach Diane E. Ruiz, who will explain how
excessive worry can lead to a buildup of cortisol that
could compromise your immune system as well as lead to
the desire to eat more comfort food, drink more
alcohol, sleep less and isolate yourself from others,
all which depress your immune system further. Invite
Diana on air to share simple ways to decrease
coronavirus stress including what you can eat and drink
(and what to avoid) and best practices to help arm your
body with a super-strong Immune system during this
time. As a bonus, she will offer your listeners free
access to her Immune System Power Program 2020 download
that includes instructions for deep relaxation. Diana
is the author of the wellness book “Healing Your Life
With Water.” She developed a program called “Relieve
Stress and Grief and Love Life Again.” Contact her at
(360) 550-9436; DRuiz@rtirguests.com
6. ==> Coronavirus Shows How Bad Decisions Kill People
Coronavirus, Ebola, MERS, SARS, Zika: the biology
changes, but the problem does not. Every one of these
diseases hits the news, threatening to become a
pandemic that could wipe out massive populations. Why
isn’t there a clear plan to address this threat … or
the next one … or the next one? “While we don’t know
the name of the next plague, it’s obvious that we need
a solution to this very predictable, recurring,
inevitable problem,” says decision-making expert
Michael Angelo Costa. “I’m not talking about scientific
cures, I’m talking about a plan to address the threat
and protect the public.” Invite Costa to discuss why
the problem hasn’t been addressed and why he says one
of the best ways to improve future outcomes is to learn
from past mistakes, preferably someone else’s! Michael
Angelo Costa has more than 33 years of international
business experience as a lawyer, investment banker, and
advisor. He’s an international coach and consultant and
the author of “Never Be Wrong Again – Four Steps to
Making Better Decisions In Work and In Life.” Contact
him at (760) 238-5087; info@michaelangelocosta.com
7. ==> It’s Tax Season: Lighten Up and Laugh at the IRS
Incompetent. Reckless. Smug. Deserving of your guffaws
and eye rolls, certainly not your fear. All that
describes the IRS, says tax expert Richard Green, who
used to be one of the Internal Revenue Service’s own!
He has seen firsthand how the colossal waste and chaos
of his former employer puts America at risk. He’ll
reveal what put such an important government agency so
behind-the-times and made it so downright laughable. Do
you realize that agents are still using 50-year-old
technology? And audits are unfair and usually
unnecessary? Why is the IRS always blaming Congress or
everyday citizens for its own tax-management foibles?
Ask Green, author of “Agents of Deceit,” what Americans
can do to fix all this and still be fair to our nation
and ourselves. Contact Richard Green at (909) 570-1509;
rgreen@rtirguests.com
8. ==> How 80% of Your Listeners Can Stop Living
Paycheck to Paycheck
Despite a robust economy, most of your listeners are
barely making it from one paycheck to the next. They
want to do better but don’t know how to. Let Certified
Financial Planner Lorri Craig reveal five ways to climb
out of this persistent pattern. Among the things you
will learn are why doing a budget should not be your
first step, why you don’t have to go on a radical
financial diet and why money problems are usually the
result of a mindset problem. Lorri, who holds a
master’s degree in finance, is dedicated to empowering
both women and men with the tools they need to flourish
physically, internally, and economically in a
radically-changing world. She is the developer of the
Empower3 program and author of an upcoming book that
provides a step-by-step approach for being the change
you want to see in the world. Contact her at (484)
453-1742; LCraig@rtirguests.com
9. ==> Stay or Move? 4 Questions for Retirees
One of the biggest issues in retirement is whether to
stay in your family home or downsize, but how do you
make the right choice? Financial planner and author
Penelope S. Tzougros (pronounced Sue-grows), says there
are four questions retirees need to ask themselves when
making the decision: How much do I need to spend to
maintain my house? How much money does it take to
maintain my desired lifestyle? What if anything is
unique about my current home that I couldn’t find
anywhere else? What do I envision my legacy to be?
“Ultimately, the Stay-Move decision is not about real
estate,” Tzougros says, “it’s about your legacy and who
you are.” Penelope S. Tzougros, Ph.D., ChFC, CLU, is a
Financial Consultant, speaker and founder of Wealthy
Choices®, a Registered Investment Advisor. The author
of several books including “Your Home Sweet Home” also
offers an online course, “The Retiree’s Guide for the
Stay-Move Decision.” Contact her at (617) 733-3731;
penelope@wealthychoices.com
10. ==> Creative Ways to Tie the Knot without Spending
a Lot
The average wedding now costs more than $30,000,
excluding the honeymoon. Or $75,000 if you happen to
marry in Manhattan. Patricia Davis, the author of
“Going Broke Is No Joke,” says it’s time we stopped
equating expensive wedding receptions with happiness
and longer-lasting marriages and consider her 11
creative ways to tie the knot without spending a lot
and still have a fabulous, fun-filled wedding. She
holds an MBA from Stanford, a master’s degree in
personal financial planning from Golden Gate University
and a certificate from Georgetown University’s Stonier
Graduate School of Banking and Finance. Contact
Patricia at (301) 517-6304; pdavis@rtirguests.com
11. ==> Carrying a Gun for Protection — Hear This
Expert
Your neighbors, co-workers and friends are among
today’s millions of responsible gun owners. Many more
(perhaps yourself) are considering gun ownership in
this era of mass killings, home invasions and attacks.
Invite Chris Bird to educate you and your audience
about gun safety and self-defense. A sought-after
expert on gun rights and personal protection, Chris can
answer: Why are methods of observation as important as
one’s weapon? What steps help you survive a public
shooting? What are his insights about recent attacks at
schools, workplaces, community events and places of
worship? With 30-plus years of firearm safety
experience, Chris Bird is the author of several books
including “Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage,” “The
Concealed Handgun Manual” and “Thank God I Had a Gun!”
Have your listeners call in during the interview with
their gun questions. Contact Chris Bird at (210)
686-4440; cbird@rtirguests.com
12. ==> New Reasons to Avoid Processed Foods
By now, everyone is aware that processed foods are high
in salt and calories. But most people don’t know that
from snacks to microwavable dinners, these convenient
foods contain numerous additives that can play a role
in digestive issues, autoimmune disorders, and possibly
even cancers. Let Marcela Magda Popa, M.D., talk about
the scary ingredients used in processed foods and keep
in mind that many of them also find their way into
medicines. Thus, they can trigger allergic reactions
and other side-effects for which they’re not even
blamed, being deemed as “inert.” The author of “Keep
Away from GRAS: Why Safe Everyday Products Are Making
You Sick and Simple Strategies to Recover Your Health,”
was forced to take early retirement as an internal
medicine physician because of her autoimmune arthritis.
This gave her time to research the suspicion she had
formed that “generally recognized as safe” products
used in foods, cosmetics, hygiene products,
medications, cookware, and other household items may be
making people sicker. Magda Popa graduated from Carol
Davilla Medical School in Bucharest, Romania, and
completed residency training in the United States.
She’s been featured on MSN Lifestyle, SheKnows, Elite
Daily, Bustle, and Business Insider. Contact her at
(917) 750-3377; marcelampopa@gmail.com
13. ==> Are You at Risk for Diabetes, the Silent
Killer?
Did you know that more than 30 million adults have
diabetes and more than 7 million don’t even know they
have it? Or that one in four adults has prediabetes?
With these staggering numbers, no one can afford to be
diabetes illiterate. That is why you’ll want to
interview Nadia Al-Samarrie, a leading patient advocate
in the diabetes community who knows this topic inside
and out. She can answer such questions as what are some
of the biggest myths about diabetes? How did being born
into a family with type-2 diabetes and being married to
a type-1 diabetic affect her life? What does she wish
everyone knew about diabetes? Nadia is editor-in-chief
of Diabetes Health, a 400,000 circulation magazine used
in hospitals, diabetes classes, and doctors’ offices as
an educational resource for patients, and her AskNadia
column is ranked No. 1 by Google as is her
DiabetesHealth.com website. Nadia is also the author of
“Sugar Happy: Your Diabetes Health Guide in Achieving
Your Best Blood Sugars and Letting Go of Your Diabetes
Complication Fears.” She has been featured on ABC, NBC,
CBS, and other major cable networks. Contact her at
(415) 741-3545; nalsamarrie@rtirguests.com
14. ==> What’s Going Wrong with America’s Health-
Delivery System?
The industry of medicine, including insurance
companies, Big Pharma, and a medical corporate
structure that appears driven more by profits than
patient consideration, represent a significant problem
in our health-care delivery. Doctors are growing
frustrated to the point of leaving the profession.
Nurses and ancillary teams are drowning in over-
documentation and have less time for patient care.
Invite Michael J. Young, M.D., to discuss the
challenges to our health-care delivery system gone
awry. A practicing physician (surgeon and urology
specialist) for three decades, Dr. Young will offer his
insights and explore how America’s health-delivery
process is in need of repair for everyone’s benefit.
He’ll also share his personal story and been-there
experiences other doctors rarely discuss. Dr. Michael
Young is the author of “The Illness of Medicine.”
Contact William Dorich at (310) 923-2157;
gmbooks@icloud.com
15. ==> The Surprising Solution to Climate Change
With a climate denier in the White House who may win
re-election, a neutered Environmental Protection
Agency, rising temperatures, melting ice caps,
wildfires, and other weird weather, a growing number of
millennials and other people are suffering from climate
anxiety—the fear that Earth will become uninhabitable.
That’s why an interview with Sankarshan Das could not
be timelier. This expert can offer his revolutionary
perspective on how by cleaning up the pollution within
ourselves we can clean up all the pollution in the
world. He’ll explain why being anxious can lead to
greater happiness, comparing anxiety to a dashboard
warning light requiring our immediate attention. He can
also share how he has managed to have zero anxiety in
the past 50 years. Sankarshan Das is a spiritual master
with disciples all over the world and is the author of
the upcoming book “Conquer Your Mind and Deliver the
World: Empowering You to Awaken Your Divine
Consciousness and Create Global Happiness.” He is also
a singer-songwriter who once appeared onstage between
Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. His song,
“The Peace Formula,” has been praised by Barack Obama.
Contact him at (512) 643-6740; sbridge@rtirguests.com
16. ==> Schools’ Toughest Bullies: Teachers
It’s bad enough when a fellow student picks on you and
creates a tense bullying atmosphere at school. We hear
about upsetting bullying issues every week, nationwide.
But what if today’s educators are the troublesome
tyrants? How does that limit learning and upset the
entire class process? Are such control-prone teachers
anywhere near accurate when they insist they’re just
maintaining discipline? What needs to be done by
administrators, PTOs, school boards and teachers
themselves to rebuild bully-free classrooms for all
grades? Find out when you interview popular media guest
Barb Daniels, whose award-winning Timmy Teacup book
series focuses on self-esteem and anti-bullying. Barb
will offer surprising advice to help children and teens
navigate a bullying classroom and healthy ways for
teacher bullies to transform and still command respect.
Expect high ratings and meaningful discussions on a
topic that ultimately affects every family. Contact
Barb Daniels at (636) 220-5495: BDaniels@rtirguests.com
17. ==> Keep Beds Dry Every Night
Does your child or teen do it — even once in a while?
Are older family members also prone to wetting the bed?
Find out more about this common condition that can be
treated, when you interview Jeff Lazarus, M.D. He’ll
discuss his comprehensive home video program “Keeping
the Bed Dry,” which incorporates medical hypnosis for
anyone hoping to finally awaken to a dry bed. Invite
this acclaimed physician to answer questions like: How
does hypnosis work so well to help keep beds dry? What
other advice does he offer for lifestyle and behavior?
What should parents, teachers, coaches and health
professionals know? Why do so many doctors avoid the
issue? Do adult diapers only make things worse? Can the
problem become more noticeable at different times of
the year? Contact Dr. Lazarus at (216) 800-0498;
jlazarus@rtirguests.com
18. ==> 5 Reasons You Should Write a Book Now
An estimated 80 to 90% of Americans would like to write
a book someday. Most of them let their dream die
without ever acting upon it. Let Fabi Preslar,
president of custom publishing house SPARK Publications
and an author herself, explain what’s involved in
writing and publishing a book. She can reveal five
powerful reasons to write your book today including the
importance of letting others learn from your hero’s
journey. She can also answer such questions as what’s
the biggest roadblock to getting a successful book
written? And, book publishing isn’t what it used to be,
what does a new author need to know? Articulate, smart
and honest, Fabi (Fay-Bee) is the author of “Fabulous F
Words of Business Ownership: Redefining Choice Words to
Fuel Your Small Business” and winner of Charlotte
Business Journal’s 2018 First-Generation Family
Business of the Year Award. Contact Fabi at (704)
291-3566; FPreslar@rtirguests.com
19. ==> Put the Clothes Back on Your Audience
Going in front of a group? Do you have key information
to share? Want to get over your nerves and
apprehension? First of all, no need to imagine your
audience naked! You’ll want your presentation,
confidence and message to wow everyone instead. So says
communications and leadership expert Jill Jaysen.
She’ll reveal how we’ve all been incorrectly taught
when it comes to public speaking and what really makes
a dynamite presentation for winning big. Learn why
gimmicks like “practice at a mirror” and “videotape
yourself” only risk creating mediocre speakers, how
your speech starts long before you reach the
auditorium, and how to prevent the biggest speaking
turnoffs. Contact Jill Jaysen at (203) 442-9301;
jjaysen@rtirguests.com
20. ==> Psychedelics: What’s Behind their Rise in
Popularity?
If the word “psychedelic” makes you think of Woodstock,
the 1960s, and people dropping out of society, you are
behind the times. While still prohibited by law, some
once-considered “bad boys” of the drug culture (LSD,
Psilocybin, MDMA), are now being seriously studied by
science and found to be not-only completely non-
addictive, but more effective in the relief of anxiety,
addiction and depression than any known or traditional
treatment. Sparrow Hart can discuss both the incredible
promise of psychedelics as well as potential pitfalls
for their misuse in an addictive and distraction-
seeking culture. A Stanford University graduate, Hart
has spent his life studying the variety of ways to
alter and change consciousness. His varied career
includes a brief stint working in a slaughter-house,
adventures in the Amazon, and over 30 years of leading
workshops on shamanism, conscious dreaming and vision
quests in nature. His latest book is “Letters to the
River: A Guide to a Dream Worth Living.” Contact him at
(801) 516-0740; SHart@rtirguests.com