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Of course, DR and I will talk about this week’s first Vice Presidential Debate and the economy. But we’ll also delve into leadership, because notwithstanding experience and smooth rhetoric, ultimately we can’t predict what will happen over the next four years. So what we need is a true LEADER.

With that in mind we’ll talk to Dr. Donald Palmisano who is a former president of the American Medical Association and a frequent keynote speaker on leadership. His new book, ON LEADERSHIP: ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESS has just been released so this is a great time to talk about what he sees in Senators McCain and Obama.

And we’ll continue to look at energy issues. These are vital to America’s future so we want to explore as many different viewpoints as possible. This week we’ll be joined by Dr Robert Zubrin who is with the SET AMERICA FREE COALITION whose goal it is to help America end its dependency on foreign oil. Dr. Zubrin is also with the Methanol Institute and is a proponent of methanol technology.

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME AGAIN

We know you’re busy and we want to make the show as accessible to you as possible, so we’ve moved up the start time of the program: it’s now airs from 4:00 to 7:00 pm Central Time. However, today’s show will end at 6:30 pm CDT so KLUP can bring you high school football.

However, you choose to spend the weekend, one great way to bone up on the interesting things going on the world is to join me and D.R. McCale on Kicking the Anthill, presented by  heard from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Saturday evenings on AM 930, KLUP, or on the web at http://www.KLUP.com. If you prefer participatory radio, we’d love to hear from you. You can call us at 210-308-8867 (toll free, 866-308-8867) or you can email us at Drexel@KickingTheAnthill.com.

Of course, DR and I will talk about this week’s presidential debate, but we’ll also talk about Healthcare, energy the Obama/Ayers connection, the economy–including McCain’s ridiculous mortgage write down plan and we’ll have all the usual fun, generally at the expense of our perceived genius.

Joining us in the day’s discussion will be Jonhathan Cohn a senior editor at The New Republic to talk about his book SICK–THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S HEALTHCARE CRISIS.

For over a year I have been trying to find time to have inventor Joseph Newman join us to talk about his revolutionary ENERGY MACHINE. If he’s not a charlatan he could change the world with this invention.

And we’ll wrap up today’s show by talking to comedian Alonzo Bodden who won Last Comic Standing three years ago, but who tonight will be hosting Fox Reality Channel’s REALLY AWARDS for the Reality TV business.

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME AGAIN

We know you’re busy and we want to make the show as accessible to you as possible, so we’ve moved up the start time of the program: it’s now airs from 4:00 to 7:00 pm Central Time. However, today’s show will end at 6:30 pm CDT so KLUP can bring you high school football.

However, you choose to spend the weekend, one great way to bone up on the interesting things going on the world is to join me and D.R. McCale on Kicking the Anthill, presented by  heard from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Saturday evenings on AM 930, KLUP, or on the web at http://www.KLUP.com. If you prefer participatory radio, we’d love to hear from you. You can call us at 210-308-8867 (toll free, 866-308-8867) or you can email us at Drexel@KickingTheAnthill.com.

We’ve got a great show for you this week.  Are you wondering at all if the Republicans can win this election? And if they lose, how can they win the next one? What’s gone wrong with the Republican Party?  DR and I will talk to Ross Douthat this week to answer those and other questions. Ross is a columnist for The Atlantic and the author of a new book called GRAND NEW PARTY: HOW REPUBLICANS CAN WIN THE WORKING CLASS AND SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM.


Then we’ll talk to Robert Baer a former CIA agent and the author of many book, the most recent of which is THE DEVIL WE KNOW: DEALING WITH THE NEW IRANIAN SUPERPOWER.  Robert advocates negotiating and dealing with the Iranians. As much as I don’t like that idea, I agreed with many other aspects of the book.


And we’ll downshift near the end of the show to talk about parenting issues—more specifically, fatherhood. At the end of our lives I suspect we’ll conclude that it relationships in our lives that were the most important.  Few  things can affect the future more than effectively fathering your son. Author Jeff Purkiss will join us in-studio to discuss his book SQUIRES TO KNIGHTS.



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We know you’re busy and we want to make the show as accessible to you as possible, so we’ve moved up the start time of the program: it’s now airs from 4:00 to 7:00 pm Central Time. However, today’s show will end at 6:30 pm CDT so KLUP can bring you high school football.

However, you choose to spend the weekend, one great way to bone up on the interesting things going on the world is to join me and D.R. McCale on Kicking the Anthill, presented by  heard from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Saturday evenings on AM 930, KLUP, or on the web at http://www.KLUP.com. If you prefer participatory radio, we’d love to hear from you. You can call us at 210-308-8867 (toll free, 866-308-8867) or you can email us at Drexel@KickingTheAnthill.com.
Ok, if this isn’t the strangest lineup you’ve heard on talk radio I want to know about it.  What a great and, as usual, eclectic show we’ve got this weekend.

First up: Dan Phillips. Who, you ask?  I saw Dan Phillips on a Planet Green program called G-Word talking about how he teaches people to build their own houses from material they find at the dump.  Yes, the dump.  But check out the link. This isn’t disgusting, it’s innovative and inexpensive. We’ll ask him how he got started and what the future might hold for the techniques he’s teaching.



Then we’ll talk to Patrick Sammon the president of the Log Cabin Republicans.  The Log Cabin Republicans mission is to work within the Republican Party to advocate equal rights for all Americans, including gays and lesbians. So you don’t know how you feel about Gay and Lesbian rights? Fair enough, these are tough issues to think through. But any support for the Republicans at this point is good support. I’m looking forward to talking to him about his life as a gay republican advocate.



And then, to top it all of, on the other end of the republican  spectrum, we’ll chat with Ted Nugent (yup, THAT Ted Nugent) who has recently written a new book entitled TED, WHITE AND BLUE: THE NUGENT MANIFESTO.  This is a man passionate about America, our Constitution and an authentically conservative agenda.




So, wow! Top that on your weekday programs—I dare you. And if you miss any or all of the show, go to KickingTheAnthill.com on Monday and you can listen to whatever you missed by clicking on “archives.”

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We know you’re busy and we want to make the show as accessible to you as possible, so we’ve moved up the start time of the program: it’s now airs from 4:00 to 7:00 pm Central Time. However, today’s show will end at 6:30 pm CDT so KLUP can bring you high school football.

However, you choose to spend the weekend, one great way to bone up on the interesting things going on the world is to join me and D.R. McCale on Kicking the Anthill, presented by  heard from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Saturday evenings on AM 930, KLUP, or on the web at http://www.KLUP.com. If you prefer participatory radio, we’d love to hear from you. You can call us at 210-308-8867 (toll free, 866-308-8867) or you can email us at Drexel@KickingTheAnthill.com.

Well it seems to me that a Presidential election ought to provide enough to talk about for one week–how did you feel Tuesday night? What does the future look like for America? What does the future hold for an Obama presidency? What is in Sarah Palin’s future?  Lots of speculation?

And I received an email this week from one man in the military who wonders if he can support a president who advocates appointing judges to change the Constitution.

Our old friend Matt Lewis from Townhall.com will join us to take a look at the week’s proceedings and the months ahead.

There’s bad news everywhere, but I have good news–it’s time for Kicking the Anthill with Drexel Kleber and DR McCale again and it’s never hard for us to fill 3 hours and this week is no exception.

We’ll start with the bad news, though. Is it just me or does it seem like the economic discontent has gotten worse since election day? That’s not an accusation, just an honest question based on the facts.

Then we’ll talk about Wall Street actually paying out billions of dollars in bonuses even while they’re on government life support.

We’ll ask the question, “Does the free market corrode morality?”

Barack Obama’s energy plan is mostly good. We’ll highlight some specifics and then we’ll talk to Ed Furia, the CEO and founder of AFS Trinity a company making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Here’s one company posed to benefit a great deal from Obama’s election.

I have the perfect plan to help American citizens and save the auto industry. I’ll share it in the third hour.

And, just for fun, we’ll talk about the greatest comic strip ever.

However, you choose to spend the weekend, one great way to bone up on the interesting things going on the world is to join me and D.R. McCale on Kicking the Anthill, presented by  heard from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Saturday evenings on AM 930, KLUP, or on the web at http://www.KLUP.com. If you prefer participatory radio, we’d love to hear from you. You can call us at 210-308-8867 (toll free, 866-308-8867) or you can email us at Drexel@KickingTheAnthill.com.

Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for taking some time to join us for this special holiday edition. I don’t know why I said that–we’re not doing anything particularly “Thanksiving-y” but hey, we’re glad you’re listening.

Today we’ll talk to our good friend Matt Lewis about the state of the GOP these days: are it’s best days behind it or in front of it?

And Larry Ratliff is the movie critic for the San Antonio Express News and he and DR will discuss this year’s holiday movie season.

We’ve also great great advice about your Thanksgiving leftovers and DR’s not so bold prediction about his fighting Texas Aggies.

However, you choose to spend the weekend, one great way to bone up on the interesting things going on the world is to join me and D.R. McCale on Kicking the Anthill, presented by  heard from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Saturday evenings on AM 930, KLUP, or on the web at http://www.KLUP.com. If you prefer participatory radio, we’d love to hear from you. You can call us at 210-308-8867 (toll free, 866-308-8867) or you can email us at Drexel@KickingTheAnthill.com.