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Ed Jaffee exerted his influence on Congress for one of this country’s largest conglomerates. We’ll examine lobbying; lobbyists and modern law making from his book Dodging the Bullet.

Margo Berman is a creativity expert who specializes in sponBRAINeous combustion. She helped us get our creative juices flowing by sparking our right-brain thinking. We discussed her book Street Smart Advertising.

Mary McDonough is an actress best known for her role as Erin Walton on the hit TV series The Waltons. We discuss the outside influences that shaped her life and how she resiliently overcame setbacks from her memoir, Lessons From the Mountain.

Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Monday, April 18, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.

Tim Walsh had his game idea turned down by every toy company in America. Did that deter him? No. He went on to produce and sell the game himself. We discuss the toy and game industry in the United States and have him give some of the history behind many of our favorite toys.

Nancy Altman is an authority on private pensions and Social Security. She was Alan Greenspan’s assistant in 1983 when he worked on the Social Security amendments. We discuss the Battle for Social Security and hear her “almost painless” plan for putting the program back on track.