The Perfectly Frank Podcast
by 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.
Episodes
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EPISODE #156 TOO MUCH “THANKS”GIVING?
Frank is certainly not opposed to politeness but wonders why one select group of people get endless public “thanks” for simply doing their job?
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EPISODE #155 A NATIONAL TREASURE
Frank tips his hat to the person who has been turning history into compelling entertainment for nearly 40 years.
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EPISODE #154 FAR FROM FREE ELECTIONS
$14 B was spent on the 2020 campaign. There must be a way to take this obscene amount of money out of politics.
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EPISODE #153 STEALING DEMOCRACY
Were the election pollsters wrong, yet again, or are they actually proving something supremely nefarious? A must listen.
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EPISODE #152 EARLY VOTING
Yes, it’s convenient but does it really our election system well? Frank doesn’t think so and suggests a solution.
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EPISODE #151 A PLAGUE OF POLLS
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.
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EPISODE #150 Like Selling Soap
Frank objects to political ads selling candidates like soap - only without the same standards for truth in advertising.
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EPISODE #149 HOW TO FIX THE DEBATES
The Presidential debates have been frustrating to watch. Frank says they can easily be fixed. Plus your emails about climate change.
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#148 HEADING FOR DOOMSDAY?
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?
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EPISODE #147 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (B)
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?
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EPISODE #146 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (A)
Your reactions to what Frank called “the worst idea in the world”, “Oscar madness” and requiring tests before allowing people to vote.
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EPISODE #145 CHANGING MUSIC TASTES
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?)
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EPISODE #144 A LESSON FROM RBG
Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia proved we can ALL agree to disagree without being disagreeable.
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EPISODE #143 VOTING: NOT FOR EVERYONE
While the conventional clamor has always been for greater voter participation, Frank thinks we should be more concerned about quality rather than quantity.
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EPISODE #142 OSCAR MADNESS
The Academy Awards announces a criteria for diversity that must me met for any film to be nominated for Best Picture.
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EPISODE #141 WORST IDEA IN THE WORLD
A new book proposes the U.S. purposely triples its population to a billion people in order to compete with China and India.
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EPISODE #140 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (B)
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.
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EPISODE #139 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (A)
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.
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EPISODE #138 IRKSOME
Some words or phrases Frank routinely hears on TV are like a fingernail on a blackboard to him.
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EPISODE #137 DREAM KILLER
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?
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EPISODE #136 CO-ED MILITARY WORKING?
Based on widespread reports of sexual harassment, should women have their own separate fighting force? Frank believes it would be best.
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EPISODE #135 SECTION 230 DEBATE
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.
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EPISODE #134 BOOING DURING ANTHEM
Why would fans do that at the NFL season opener? Frank thinks he knows the answer.
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EPISODE #133 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (B)
Your thoughts on kids being forced to get flu shots and the idea of turning baseball’s Jackie Robinson Day into a federal holiday.
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EPISODE #132 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (A)
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?
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PISODE #131 JACKIE ROBINSON HOLIDAY?
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?
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EPISODE #130 FORCED FLU SHOTS
Massachusetts wants to mandate all children, in that state, be given flu shots. Is this where we’re heading with public policy?
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Episode #129 WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
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?
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#128 THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY
While government officials are imposing draconian restrictions on us, during this Covid so-called “crisis”, apparently those same rules don’t apply to them.
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#127 BLACK PRIVILEGE?
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.)
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EPISODE #126 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (B)
Your thoughts on socialism, as well as fraternity hazing deaths.
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EPISODE #125 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (A)
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.
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EPISODE #124 FRATERNITY HAZING DEATHS
Can there be a more senseless reason for a young life to end? Frank doesn’t think so.
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EPISODE #123 SOCIALISM
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?
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EPISODE #122 NATURAL DISASTERS
Frank wonders why people choose to live where hurricanes and other natural disasters are regular occurrences?
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EPISODE #121 THE IMPORTANCE OF ENTERTAINMENT
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.
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EPISODE #120 PRO SPORTS PROTESTS
Many athletes did not play their scheduled games in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Was it the right move?
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EPISODE #119 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (B)
The audience weighs in on California’s new requirement that college students take ethnic studies to graduate and your thoughts on music appreciation.
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EPISODE #118 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (A)
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.
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EPISODE #117 IS IT IN OUR DNA?
Is the love of truly great music an acquired taste or is it actually, somehow, in our DNA?
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EPISODE #116 ETHNIC STUDIES TO GRADUATE?
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?
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EPISODE #115 A TALE OF TWO MICS
Two decidedly different outcomes when untoward remarks are picked up by microphones thought to be turned off. Frank point out the unfairness.
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EPISODE #114 BRITISH SYSTEM BETTER?
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?
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EPISODE #113 THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL
Has society been served by sending to prison parents who paid a ‘fixer’ to get their kids into a better school?
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EPISODE #112 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (B)
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.
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EPISODE #111 WEEKEND FEEDBACK (A)
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.
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EPISODE #110 MANDATORY MASKS NATIONWIDE?
Is it the answer to our pandemic problem? Emphatically, “no”, says Frank.
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EPISODE #109 ALL MEN ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
Nor, according to Frank, is all life equally precious. Will you agree after he makes his case?
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EPISODE #108 COLLEGE FOOTBALL CANCELED
Governing athletic bodies have called off the 2020 season. Was it the right decision?
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EPISODE #107 PRESIDENTIAL AGE LIMIT?
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?
About this show
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.
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