The Perfectly Frank Podcast: Recent Episodes
Frank LaSpina
The long-running hit Las Vegas radio talk show is now a podcast. Host Frank LaSpina gives his thought-provoking, often controversial, 5 minute takes on the passing parade of life, Monday through Friday, then reads your email responses on his weekend feedback editions, Saturday and Sunday, with a $100 prize for the Email of the Month. WARNING: the surgeon-general has determined listening to this podcast can be highly addictive.
Frank is certainly not opposed to politeness but wonders why one select group of people get endless public “thanks” for simply doing their job?
Frank tips his hat to the person who has been turning history into compelling entertainment for nearly 40 years.
$14 B was spent on the 2020 campaign. There must be a way to take this obscene amount of money out of politics.
Were the election pollsters wrong, yet again, or are they actually proving something supremely nefarious? A must listen.
Yes, it’s convenient but does it really our election system well?
Frank doesn’t think so and suggests a solution.
Frank makes the case that foreign interference and disinformation pale in comparison to the undue influence polls have over elections. He maintains they should NOT be made public.
Frank objects to political ads selling candidates like soap - only without the same standards for truth in advertising.
The Presidential debates have been frustrating to watch. Frank says they can easily be fixed. Plus your emails about climate change.
Renowned naturalist and documentary film maker, Sir David Attenborough, believes earth (as we have known it) is entering its death throes due to climate change. Is he right?
More of your emails: including the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; plus, did record companies conspire to change our musical tastes to bolster their bottom line?
Your reactions to what Frank called “the worst idea in the world”, “Oscar madness” and requiring tests before allowing people to vote.
How did we go from giants like Gershwin and Sinatra to what we have today? Frank explains it. Hint: follow the money (what else is new?)
Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia proved we can ALL agree to disagree without being disagreeable.
While the conventional clamor has always been for greater voter participation, Frank thinks we should be more concerned about quality rather than quantity.
The Academy Awards announces a criteria for diversity that must me met for any film to be nominated for Best Picture.
A new book proposes the U.S. purposely triples its population to a billion people in order to compete with China and India.
More of your emails, this time concerning a fallout from coronavirus no one else seems to be talking about and your reactions to Frank’s list of irksome words and phrases.
Your thoughts on politics being continually injected into entertainment events, how social media can skew public opinion, and giving women their own separate branch in the armed forces.
Some words or phrases Frank routinely hears on TV are like a fingernail on a blackboard to him.
Will the most serious death from Covid 19 be that of America’s entrepreneurial spirit? Why would people start businesses when they can be shut down on some bureaucrat’s whim?
Based on widespread reports of sexual harassment, should women have their own separate fighting force? Frank believes it would be best.
Are internet purveyors, including social media, putting their ‘thumb on the scale’ in terms of shaping public opinion? Frank weighs in with his own personal experiences.
Your thoughts on kids being forced to get flu shots and the idea of turning baseball’s Jackie Robinson Day into a federal holiday.
Your emails regarding ‘black privilege’ and your nominations for the height of hypocrisy. Also the question of who has the time to protest night after night?
Frank makes the case that baseball legend Jackie Robinson is even more deserving of a national holiday than Martin Luther King. Could he be right?
Massachusetts wants to mandate all children, in that state, be given flu shots. Is this where we’re heading with public policy?
Night after night, in the news, we see protestors thronging our city streets. But Frank wonders: who has that kind of time on their hands?
While government officials are imposing draconian restrictions on us, during this Covid so-called “crisis”, apparently those same rules don’t apply to them.
A Florida university professor submits long-standing white privilege is being replaced by a new black privilege. (His job is in jeopardy for the mere suggestion.)
Your emails regarding pro sports protests, the importance of entertainment, and why people choose to live in the path of repeated hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Should we be moving more toward it? Away from it? Or have we struck about as good a balance between it and a free-market economy as we can?
Frank wonders why people choose to live where hurricanes and other natural disasters are regular occurrences?
There’s a reason the movie business reached its zenith at the height of The Great Depression. Entertainment isn’t just frivolous - it can play a significant role in society.
Many athletes did not play their scheduled games in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Was it the right move?
The audience weighs in on California’s new requirement that college students take ethnic studies to graduate and your thoughts on music appreciation.
Your email takes on the college admissions scandal punishments, the British system of restricting reporting on criminal cases, and the inequity in consequences between two verbal gaffes.
Is the love of truly great music an acquired taste or is it actually, somehow, in our DNA?
California will now require the state’s college students to take a course in ethnic studies as a condition of graduating. Should this become a trend across the country?
Two decidedly different outcomes when untoward remarks are picked up by microphones thought to be turned off. Frank point out the unfairness.
Under British law, once a person is arrested for a crime, the press is essentially prohibited from talking or writing about the case until it’s adjudicated. Should we adopt their system?
Has society been served by sending to prison parents who paid a ‘fixer’ to get their kids into a better school?
Your reactions to Frank’s position that all men are NOT created equal and if you think mandating masks nationwide is the answer to our pandemic problem.
Your email nominations for the greatest tear-jerker movies of all-time, thoughts on an age limit to run for President, and if you felt canceling the college football season was the right decision.
Nor, according to Frank, is all life equally precious. Will you agree after he makes his case?
We have an age minimum (35) to run for President, should there be a maximum? At the very least, should there be mandatory mental and physical testing of candidates after a certain age?
Frank invites your nominations for the greatest tear-jerk movie of all-time and reveals his #1 pick of the genre.
Your thoughts on augmenting the First Amendment, the possible end of the “Ellen” TV show, and the death of author Michelle McNamara.
There are certain stories that, it is said, could only have happened in Las Vegas. Frank shares a personal memorable experience.
Recent studies prove Frank was right all along. The real reason why the United States leads the world in Covid cases and deaths.
Examining the tragic death of author Michelle McNamara whose obsession with the Golden State Killer apparently led to her untimely demise.
Frank remembers a time when journalist knew not every piece of juicy gossip needed to be told, for the greater good.
Did you ever notice how the press makes big front page mistakes but retracts their story in a little box buried on page B-15? Frank says, “There ought to be a law...”.
Do you see shades of the Third Reich in the Covid lockdown? Plus reactions to Frank’s open letter to Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak.
Your takes on which is worse, being cheated on by your love or best friend? Also, your thoughts on the cure in the cupboard and Garth Brooks gesture.
With its history as a maverick state, Nevada missed an opportunity to show the rest of the country how to keep things open and running without it being the end of the world.
This prolonged government lockdown of our country is starting to smack of Hitler’s oppressive Nazi regime. Will Americans finally stand up to it?
Frank has a problem with Garth Brooks withdrawing his name for consideration in the country music Entertainer of the Year award. Why?
A top CNN news personality scoffs at an herbal antibiotic as a possible therapeutic against corona virus but Frank maintains he’s wrong.
If your significant other had an affair with your best friend, with whom would you be more angry?
Email responses concerning the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb and the latest Royal Family controversy.
Your reactions to Frank’s proposal for a “new isolationism” and surveys indicating even when a COVID vaccine is developed, about half of us would refuse it!
Should we have demonstrated the bomb to the Japanese and given them a chance to surrender before dropping them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Surprising surveys say roughly half of Americans would refuse a COVID vaccine. Then where does that leave us?
Should we withdraw from the so-called ‘global economy’ and concentrate on the United States becoming a self-sufficient “island”?
Is it time we stopped being the world’s policeman and let the rest of of the planet sort out their own problems?
Why are we blindly obedient to computers even when common sense tells us they are obviously wrong?
Could this book from 1997 actually explain the growing number of mass shootings in America?
Outrage over Frank’s trashing of “Hamilton” and reactions to the book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America”.
Your thoughts on our federal income tax, sun exposure, and restructuring the Supreme Court.
Discussing the book of the same name that Frank thinks should be required reading. Was there a conspiracy to make future generations less smart?
Get ready for show business blasphemy as Frank dares to ‘dis’ the Broadway blockbuster.
There’s a lot of talk about adding justices and imposing term limits but Frank argues why we should leave things as they are.
Yes, the sun can be deadly but it also can be of great health benefit, as well. And, oh yes, it’s free!
Frank wonders why Americans sit still for the annual picking of our pockets every April 15th? Is it legalized extortion?
Reaction to Frank’s outrage over gyms being closed during a supposed health crisis and your nominations for the greatest stand up comics of all-time.
Your emails concerning addiction, sports teams changing their names, and how we should view Cristofer Columbus.
Frank’s take on sports franchises renaming their teams to appease Native American activists.
We applaud recovering addicts but where’s the love for the people who never got hooked in the first place?
Your thoughts on the cost versus benefits of a college education and if public schooling, K - 12, needs to be revamped for the 21st century.
Your email responses to Frank’s questions concerning replacing the national anthem and if the moon landing could have been faked.
Frank sings the praises of TV movie host Eddie Muller and his Saturday night show, “Noir Alley”.
Frank asks: Why are we sending youngsters to brick and mortar buildings when everything they need to learn is just a click away online?
More than 50 years after the historic moon landing, there are those who persist in saying it was an elaborate hoax. Could that be true?
Should “God Bless America”, “America the Beautiful” or some other song take the place of “The Star Spangled Banner” as our national anthem?
More of your emails concerning reality TV and your thoughts on Presidential speechwriters and the White House Press Secretary. Plus Frank announces the winner of June’s Email of the Month.
Your email takes on the monument wars, reverse-racism, and if getting married still makes sense.
Frank submits it’s anything but and claims there has only been one TRUE reality show in the history of the genre.
Was a well-known national commentator indifferent to a despicable crime because the victim was white and the perpetrator was black?
Should statues of Washington, Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt be removed along with those of the Confederacy?
Comments covering the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay rights in the work place and the war between baseball players and their team owners.
Your emails regarding the removal of Confederate artifacts, stress as it relates to health, and Seattles’s so-called autonomous zone.
Two top doctors back up Frank’s contention that watching TV news can harm our health which is already so poor it explains why the U.S. leads the world in Covid deaths.
Renouncing the Confederacy is one thing but Frank draws the line with the movie “Gone with the Wind”.
More of your emails, this time about Franks assertion the cable news networks have devolved into propaganda machines. Also, your nominations for the greatest movie stars of all-time.
Your emails concerning Frank’s takes on police brutality, term limits of one only, and clicking off you TV news.
Stalin famously said “Let me control the media and I’ll rule the world.” Frank warns “Beware”.
Your nominations for devalued words and your thoughts on making English the official language of the United States.
Your responses to Frank’s take on reparations, his defense of white people, and the question of a possible Covid ‘conspiracy’.
With its rich vocabulary and precision English is the official international language of medicine and aviation. So why is it not the official language of our country?
The answer to this question may not be the one you want to hear but it’s the one you NEED to hear.
Should African-Americans be paid for the racial atrocities suffered by their forebearers in our nation’s history?
Your say on the death penalty, paying more to get less, and Frank announces the first $100 winner in our “Email of the Month” contest.
Your examples of “common courtesy” on the wane, reactions to the new paradigm in parenting, and where you stand on corporal punishment for kids.
Frank reads your email responses to his assault on the two major political parties. Also, your votes for the greatest game shows of all time as well as the top hosts.
There have dozens of them, over the years, but which TV game show is your all-time favorite? And who, would you say, is the best host in history?
There is no mention of Democrats or Republicans in our Constitution yet these two private clubs call the shots in America. How did this happen and does anyone care?
If it’s the leading preventable cause of death, then why are cigarettes still a legal product?
According to Frank, passing the 18th amendment was not a mistake - repealing it is where we went wrong.
Frank’s proven plan for losing, on average, a pound a day while enjoying the best health of your life.
Your thoughts on couples staying together for the sake of their children and Frank’s proposed “movement” to cut down air pollution.
Frank reads your email responses to his questions regarding voting machines, cell phones and the British Royal Family.
People who don't turn right on red aren’t just irksome, they are substantially contributing to air pollution. How? The numbers will stun you.
It was a concept that was commonly held just a couple generations ago, now it’s a quaint relic of the past. Should it make a comeback?
We fought two bloody wars to separate ourselves from them yet many Americans continue to fawn over the Royal Family. Frank is definitely not one of them.
They have become the dominant technology of our lifetime. But at what cost to our humanity?
At least one expert on terrorism believes computerized voting machines are “the single greatest threat to our American was of life”. Find out why Frank fervently agrees.
More of your email responses, this time, concerning Frank’s questions about religion and the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Frank reads your email responses to his question regarding overpopulation and the possibility of ending legal abortion.
The vastness of the universe suggests there almost has to be intelligent life beyond our own planet but have such beings actually visited us?
Do you believe in a higher power? If so, does that mean you must subscribe to some organized religion? On balance, has religion done more good or harm?
It’s been the law of the land for nearly 50 years but there is a growing movement to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision. Should legal abortion be struck down?
Forget Covid 19 and climate change, Frank says the most pressing problem facing humankind is our planet’s overpopulation. Is he right?
Are you ready for a viewpoint on the pandemic unlike any you’ve heard from the mainstream media? Frank makes the case that the government and the medical establishment got it all wrong.
The long-running hit Las Vegas radio talk show of the ‘90s, now returns as a podcast. Host Frank LaSpina gives his thought-provoking, often controversial, 5 minute takes on the passing parade of life, Monday through Friday, then reads your email responses on his weekend feedback editions, Saturday and Sunday, with a $100 prize for the Email of the Month. WARNING: the surgeon-general has determined listening to this podcast can be highly addictive.