Coach Ron Tunick is the CEO of Nation’s Transaction Service—a credit card processing company. He’s also a radio personality on KVTA every Saturday. We discuss the credit card processing debacle at this year’s London Olympics that left many fans at Wembley Stadium without any purchasing power.
Janie Hampton is the leading authority on the social history of the Olympic games in London. We discuss the 1948 Olympics based on her book The Austerity Olympics.
Guests include UCSB professor Doc Searls explaining the new era of consumerism; comedian Michael Ian Black extolling the freedoms we have in America; Rebecca Coffey helping us make sense of the Aurora, CO shooter John Holmes; gun control law expert John Lott, Jr. explaining his controversial theory of how more guns mean less crime; and Joyce Gioia commenting on a titanic shift in today’s workplace where older workers outnumber younger ones.