1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Does anyone actually like going to college commencement ceremonies… or actually listen to the speeches? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate and Alan C. Duncan discuss the controversy surrounding the speech recently made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker at Benedictine College's c…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. A lot of people are obsessed with polling numbers. Do polls even matter this far ahead of an election? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss the degradation of accuracy in polling over the past 20 years and how the major news outlets use polls for th…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What's a pocket knife without a knife? What is the Boy Scouts if it's not just for boys? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss Swiss Army Knives being manufactured with everything but the knife and the rebranding of the Boy Scouts of America. 1850Mai…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why would an authoritarian government want to shut down a local pub? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss C.S Lewis' book That Hideous Strength and how public meeting places where people can get together and share ideas are dangerous in the eyes of …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why did Jontay Porter of the Toronto Raptors receive a lifetime ban from the NBA? Pull up a chair and listen in as Rob Walgate, Alan C. Duncan, and David Zanotti discuss what a prop bet is and how the gambling industry is increasingly affecting not only sports fandoms, but the teams and players them…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What exactly is going on with these pro-Palestine protests on college campuses across the country? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti, Rob Walgate, and Alan C. Duncan discuss how the ongoing pro-Palestine protests have gotten dangerously antisemitic and universities have done nothing to …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Last time we met, we left off reading a letter from Union soldier J.B. Buckbee to Confederate soldier P.J. Johnson. What can that letter teach us? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Dr. Jeff Sanders discuss how one of the biggest lessons we can learn from the Civil War is the regret …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. A lot of people these days want to talk about America having another Civil War. Did we not learn our lesson the first time around? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Dr. Jeff Sanders discuss the Civil War and what a correspondence between a Union captive and Confederate soldier can t…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why are conservatives unwilling to do anything to contribute toward their view of good government while progressives will do whatever it takes to get their candidates into political power? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate discuss how the federal government is using taxp…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. How can a nonprofit organization get around the rules and attempt to affect the outcome of elections? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate discuss how left-wing organizations have been created to target voter turnout in specific areas to ensure Democrat victory and sway con…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Have Democrats really found a way to control the way elections turn out? And are we paying for it? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate expose one of the most effective strategies to control the outcome of elections that we've ever seen, but no one else seems to talk about.…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Is an empowered voter more likely to be a participating voter? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate discuss how the power brokers play the game of electoral politics to control the House, Senate, and more by using the parties to tip the scales in their favor. iVoters.com 18…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Just how important is the Senate? And why don't they ever seem to get anything done? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate discuss how the Club of 100 Senators are really representatives of the State rather than the People. iVoters.com 1850MainStreet.com…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Just how much money has iVoters.com lost over the years by refusing to monetize or cater to only one party trying to steer elections? Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate discuss how the census affecting voting districts by counting population rather than citizens could cha…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Have you ever seen the documentary "JFK: A President Betrayed?" Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the documentary that reveals how JFK embarked on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro and was determined to get out of Vie…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Today we're looking at a few stories that all take us to the same question: this fall, are we going to experience another Shadow Campaign to Save Democracy? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the GOP's plans for early voting and chasing the vote, along w…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What is iVoters.com? We’re joined by American Policy Roundtable Vice President Rob Walgate to talk about the nonpartisan site where you can see exactly what's going to be on your ballot in November. Pull up a chair and listen in as David Zanotti and Rob Walgate discuss the electoral college and how …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. How could a one-sentence constitutional amendment on the ballot in Florida change the course of the entire November election? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the pro-abortion amendment that will be making its way to Florida ballots this fall and the impac…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Could gambling ruin sports? Has it ruined sports already? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the gambling industry has made its way out of the casinos and pushed its way into every home in America through sports wagering. 1850MainStreet.com…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. In a Supreme Court case over access to abortion pills, the biggest question was never answered: Who actually has standing? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss what it takes for a plaintiff to prove that they have standing and that sufficient harm has been dea…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What's happening in the Supreme Court case known as FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine? Should we be paying attention? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss and break down the oral arguments of the case that may affect access to mifepristone, a commonly u…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why are we doing what we're doing here at 1850 Main Street? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how our work with Your Morning Show and The Public Square feeds into what we do on this podcast and how we are working to reconstruct talk radio. 1850MainStreet.co…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Kamala Harris recently visited a Planned Parenthood clinic on her "Fight for Reproductive Freedoms" tour… why should that be on the Vice President's "to-do" list? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how pro-death advocates' rejection of the truth and embrace …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Are you familiar with the Harry Potter franchise? Does anyone in politics today remind you of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the MegaMedia is casting Donald Trump as the supreme villain and RFK Jr. as his minion in their att…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Was Joe Biden's hot mic moment an accident, or another carefully planned moment in his State of the Union political rally? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss exactly what President Biden meant by having a "come to Jesus" meeting with Bibi Netanyahu and the p…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. On Thursday, President Biden delivered his State of the Union address… or was it a campaign speech? It was hard to tell. Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the disrespectful and hyper-partisan display at the State of the Union reflects the current state …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. If you had to guess which unlikely media personality would make a public appeal to heaven, who would your guess be? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the consequences of the Republicans and Democrats' scorched earth campaigns against each other and an unexp…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. It's the day after Super Tuesday, and no one's surprised by the results. So now what are we going to talk about for the next eight months? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss who the biggest losers from Super Tuesday really are now that the Republicans and De…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. If Journalism died back in 2016, does that mean that now it's just a walking corpse, shambling around and trying to eat anyone that gets in its way? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the "best" the mainstream media has to offer, from hit pieces on RFK Jr. t…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Do you have an electric car? Are you planning on getting one? You know the world's going to end if you don't get one, right? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how fearmongering and international competitors producing electric vehicles could lead to yet anot…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Who's more powerful - the President of the United States, or the American consumer? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the continued rising of inflation since COVID and why the United States government doesn't seem to want to do anything about it. 1850MainSt…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. How do we make it through crazy season in an election year and not go crazy ourselves? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the extreme rhetoric being spewed and impossible promises being made now that we've entered crazy season for this election cycle. 1850Ma…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. How much redirection of giving would it take for we the people to counteract the money the big players are spending at the top of the political parties? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how us not getting involved in the political process gives the party b…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. In case you somehow missed it, the Super Bowl happened on Sunday. Can you guess which commercials got Michael and David's attention? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how from Super Bowl commercials to the Hur report on Joe Biden, Super Bowl weekend was ful…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Major media outlets are finally starting to catch on that a third party candidate could present a real problem for Biden and Trump, but it seem like they're afraid to say that candidate's name. Why could that be? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how you do…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Republicans and Democrats are going back and forth over immigration reform again… haven't we done this before? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how Democrats are currently attempting weaponize the issue of immigration in order to maintain control of the Wh…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Stacey Abrams' organization is out of money and laying off all of its employees - but she's not there anymore. What happened? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the simple phrase "follow the money" gives us a much clearer picture of what's happening behi…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. A recent Quinnipiac poll is giving us a better idea of how Americans are feeling about key issues leading up to the presidential election. But did they leave anyone out? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how having a viable third party candidate may be the …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Now that things are starting to look settled in the presidential primaries (barring any major surprises), is it time to start taking RFK Jr. seriously? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the need to confront the topic that makes a lot of people uncomfortable…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Can we blame the deeply divided state of American politics on evolution? The Washington Post seems to think so. Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the concept of evolutionary tribalism attempts to absolve individuals of any personal responsibility for th…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Now that everyone's had their chance to talk about what happened in the New Hampshire primary, can we take a moment to really think through what's coming next? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss what Nikki Haley's response to a second place finish in New Ham…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. When you think of the greatest baseball players of all time, is Yogi Berra on the list? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how Yogi Berra not only had one of the greatest-ever careers of any baseball player, but was also one of the greatest-ever examples of …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. DeSantis is out, and things aren't looking too good for Nikki Haley. Should we be preparing for the Trump vs. Biden rematch now? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the public's perception of Joe Biden could affect him negatively if he's really going to s…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Why are there people who want to make supporting Israel an unjust cause? Where is all of this antisemitism coming from? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how the same voices that champion democracy at home are advocating for a threatening theocracy abroad. …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. The big question is on the table today - how do you stop a civil war? Can you stop it? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss why the Civil War seems to be at the forefront of many conversations surrounding the 2024 presidential election. 1850MainStreet.com…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. What do Millennials and Gen Z-ers moving from blue states to red states have to do with the makeup of Congress? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how how current population shifts from blue states to red states will change the look of both Congress and the …

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Who won this week's Republican primary debate in Iowa? It seems like it was the candidate who wasn't there. Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how a dismal debate and a surprising town hall might have solidified Donald Trump's position as the Republican part…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. Is it possible for stupidity to topple the United States government? The conversation about Joe Biden's first campaign speech continues today at 1850 Main Street. Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss the current president's attempt to deceive the American peop…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. President Joe Biden just made what's being considered the first speech of his re-election campaign, and in it, he quoted George Washington… or did he? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss whether or not "American Democracy" was really Washington's sacred cause…

1850 Main Street™ - Real questions. Real answers. The national debt has gotten completely out of hand. What are we going to do about it? What can we do about it? Pull up a chair and listen in as Michael DelGiorno and David Zanotti discuss how to climb the mountain of our national debt and return to a fair and balanced budget. 1850MainStreet.com…