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Chef Chu immigrated to the US from China in pursuit of happiness at the age of 21. In the years since he has created a bay area dining legend. Chef Chu's is world famous for it's unique dishes, wonderful atmosphere and extremely reasonable prices. Chef Chu shares the story of his success on this week's edition of "The Saturday Special with Michael Zwerling"!
John Catsimatidis joins MZ for the second hour. John is a billionaire businessman and radio talk show host. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods, a grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group. He purchased New York radio station, WABC in 2019. In the first hour, MZ opens the phone lines to discuss free speech.
Phillipe Kahn is an engineer, entrepreneur and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies. Kahn is credited with creating the first camera phone. Phillipe Kahn is MZ's guest on this edition of "The Saturday Special with Michael Zwerling"! * This program originally aired in the mid to late 1990s.
MZ opens the show by discussing discrimination based on personal appearance after NY mayor, Eric Adams, signs a bill to ban weight and height discrimination. He also manages to warm the hearts of the audience with some karaoke and foul language, on this week's edition of "The Saturday Special with Michael Zwerling"!
Gary Morris is host of the TV show,"Monterey on Tonight" which airs Sunday nights on KMBY TV channel 19.4. Charlie Byers is a voice talent and account executive at the Monterey affiliate of MeTV and KMBY radio. Gary and Charlie are filling in for MZ on this week's edition of "The Saturday Special with Michael Zwerling".
Jonathan Emord is an author, columnist, attorney and a candidate for US senate. He served as an attorney for the Federal Communications Commission and has used his deep knowledge of constitutional law to win more cases against the federal Food and Drug Administration than anyone else in American history. Jonathan joins MZ to discuss how we can protect the values that made this country great, on this edition of "The Saturday Special with Michael Zwerling"!
Carl Goldman is the owner of northern Los Angeles radio station, KHTS. He joins MZ in the first hour to discuss the safety of vaccines for COVID and shingles and censorship of social media platforms and the mainstream media. MZ opens the phone lines in the second hour.
Are the internet and power grid dependable? Recent storms took out phone lines, internet and eventually, the power at KSCO. MZ opens the phone lines to discuss the fragility of our communication systems.
Is discrimination against white people being promoted by the social media crowd?
Does acupuncture work? MZ is joined by members of the 5 Branches University which integrates traditional Chinese medicine to promote health, well-being, and prevent disease. Ron Zaidman, president and CEO and Joann Zhao, vice president, are co-founders of the 5 Branches. They are joined by instructor Nicholas W Hancock to discuss how acupuncture can help you.
Open Lines: MZ discusses his upcoming retirement and changes at KSCO, and even sneaks in a little karaoke!
MZ and Amy open the lines to the audience to discuss the immediate future of KSCO.
Rafa Sonnenfeld, Director of Legal Advocacy at YIMBY Law, joins MZ to discuss the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz county and what is being done to address the problem.
MZ's guest for the first hour is Pamela Fugitt Hetrick, a long time finance and insurance instructor with many years of dealing with California insurance companies. In the second hour, MZ is joined by Keith McHenry, a homeless advocate and founder of Food Not Bombs. Keith's friend was recently murdered in a make-shift homeless encampment. They will discuss the tensions building between the homeless and others.
Becky Steinbruner and Jessica Ayala join MZ for an in-depth discussion about the recent firing of Santa Cruz County fairgrounds manager and CEO, Dave Kegebein by the Fair Board.
Politics, civility and your thoughts about the future of KSCO, on this week's edition of "The Saturday Special with Michael Zwerling"!
