Today's show begins with the filmmakers behind “Drop Dead City,” a new documentary about the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis. Eight million people in a crumbling city were brought to the edge of bankruptcy and social chaos by a perfect storm of greed, incompetence, ambitious social policy, and poor governance. The striking parallels with current America are unmistakable; dismantling public institutions in the name of austerity and public outcry.

Then, veteran sound engineer, producer, and Hollywood recording studio owner Bob Wayne talks about his new memoir, "Reel To Real Tales...Notes From Both Sides of the Recording Console.”

Bob's studio production credits include over three hundred albums, and he won a Grammy in 2002 for his work on George Carlin's "Napalm and Silly Putty." Bob’s studio, Sunburst Recording, collaborated with diverse talents as Adam Sandler, Ska bands Fishbone and Hepcat, Richie Havens, Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, Dr. Demento, television pioneer Steve Allen, and many jazz greats. The Firesign Theatre recorded their last three albums with Bob.

The Sexy Boomer Show celebrates the birth of The Firesign Theatre Comedy Group, with clips of their live radio performances in the 1960s—1970s.

Radio Free Oz began as a free-form radio show hosted by Paul Robbins and Peter Bergman on the Los Angeles station KPFK in July 1966. Bergman invited three friends, Phil Austin, the show's producer; David Ossman, the radio station's former dramatic director; and Sexy Boomer Show co-host Phil Proctor, an actor and Bergman's former college mate, to form The Firesign Theatre, masters of surreal radio comedy. Time travel to the groovy 1960s, and dig the crazy sounds and trippy callers, man!

With the Trump administration defying U.S. Supreme Court orders, the United States faces a constitutional crisis unlike any in the Republic's history. Will democracy prevail? The courts don't have physical enforcement capabilities, or do they?

Professor Justin Levitt, a nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law and the law of democracy, was President Biden's White House Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights. He also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. Now a law professor at Loyola Marymount University, Justin offers an inside look at the current chaos in D.C, Harvard's defiance of the Trump administration, and what can be done to stop the madness.