The Smerconish Podcast

Michael offers a commentary on a piece appearing in this weekend's New York Times Magazine on the horrific photos of school shooting crime scenes, like at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in 2012. If the photos were to be released, would that change anything regarding the number of deadly mass shootings in America? Original air date 21 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Should cash bail - allowing a person arrested to pay money for release before trial - be eliminated? Michael gets expertise from Brooklyn Law School Professor Jocelyn Simenson, author of the forthcoming book "Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration." Original air date 20 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael offers his thoughts on the record $787.5 million settlement that FOX News will pay to Dominion Voting Systems, wrapping up the defamation lawsuit before it goes to trial. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael gets expertise from NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos on two shootings that happened in Missouri and upstate New York, where the victims both arrived at homes by mistake while searching for an address, and they were both shot by the respective homeowners. Were the shootings racially or otherwise motivated? Listen for the full story. Original air date 18 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

CNN Senior Reporter Edward Isaac Dovere joins Michael in discussing the 2024 presidential race and potential challengers to President Biden on the Democratic side. Original air date 17 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael began hosting "The Michael Smerconish Program" on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 on "tax day" - April 15th, 2013. He celebrated on air today reminiscing on how he came to SiriusXM, and welcomed a special in studio audience. Original air date 14 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As Michael read in and learned about Jack Teixeira, who was arrested on charges related to the latest classified document leak on Discord, he thought of NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway, and his theories on how society is failing young men. Original air date 14 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael offers a commentary on the latest revelations about the recently leaked classified documents released on Discord by someone named "O.G." Original air date 13 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael welcomes expertise today from longtime First Amendment attorney Lee Levine, who has represented media companies in his career, the day before jury selection begins in the defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems has brought against FOX News in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Original air date 12 April 2023. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

To combat gun violence, should we use harm reduction efforts like we do for other dangers that affect the population, like cars and cigarettes? Michael talks with New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof, who has written about this in his piece "A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.