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The Focus Group soldiers on to bring you new content each week. Tell the other shut-ins, spread the word—not the virus! Sex toy sales explode during global home containment due to the coronavirus and…

Abercrombie adds a plus-size male to its model roster, Google helps track a robbery suspect, and some educators now think typing class may be one of the most important courses we took in school. Than…

Following the best advice from the experts, Tim and John did this week's show from their respective homes. We are Americans, we are strong, and we will get through this. On the show today we welcome …

A NYC cannabis delivery service reports, that despite social distancing, people still want to smoke. The ubiquitous NYC underground weed delivery services equate our current crisis to that of a major…

And a one and a two… Lawrence Welk is our Business Birthday this week. An Allentown museum has a real Rembrandt and a Mississippi Hilton has started to foster dogs with great success. We share our pr…

Internet trolls throw hate speech at a black female-owned business featured in a Target commercial, domestic pets are suffering in China, and a religious bigot wants to take the rainbow away from the…

Virgin Atlantic has an icon switcheroo and Jeff Bezos is worth a lot of rice. Our business birthday this week is the co-founder of Amway, Richard DeVos Sr. Shop Talk looks at the fake prop industry t…

The last remaining gay bathhouse in Washington DC closed this past weekend. The Crew Club in Logan Circle has been running as a gym and sauna for the past 25 years. The owners hosted a closing down p…

Shop Talk explores a new study that suggests diversity in the workplace as a business case, or ROI, is not working. The writer recommends companies reinstate quotas and affirmative action. An element…

Disney's new Pixar movie, Onward, features an LGBTQ character that was described as a horned cyclops lesbian cop. The Twitter-sphere has a lot to say of course. A woman brings her service horse on a …

Libraries get creative by offering some nontraditional items to borrow, and listener Christopher sends in some Paul Lynde memorabilia. The inventor of the windshield wiper, Mary Anderson, is our busi…

A woman goes on a first date with a man she met via an app and ended up being a getaway driver in a bank heist. Then, Connecticut is the latest state grappling with laws regarding trans athletes and …

Can you rescind a job offer if a poor reference comes in late? Do you have the 7 traits of an entrepreneur? Find out on this week's Shop Talk. But first, ride with Lance Armstrong for a hefty fee, an…

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is set to sign the Virginia Values Act, a sweeping LGBTQ anti-discrimination law that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s pre-existing civil rig…

Shop Talk this week looks at a Harvard research study that confirms men who schmooze men in the workplace are more likely to get promoted. But first, we quarterback the Super Bowl ads and conclude th…

For as long as we can remember there has been discussion about whether one color egg taste better or is better for you. Studies show an egg is an egg with negligible difference between white versus …

Business Professor and author Dr. Wayne Baker, from the University of Michigan, is our guest. His latest book, All You have to do is Ask…How to master the most important skill for success, proves tha…

In a game of he said, Gritty said, The Philadelphia Flyers googly-eyed Cousin It looking orange mascot is accused of assaulting a 13-year-old fan after said fan was tapping on Gritty's head. Lots of …

The Space Force has a camo uniform, we tend to be most miserable at 47.2 years of age, and Sam Popeil of Veg-O-Matic fame has a Business Birthday. Shop Talk looks at one trait that tends to be an ind…

Wendy Williams made fun of having a cleft lip, and now Cher wants her fired from TV. Then, a state senator in Arizona wants to ban the word homosexuality and not teach sex education in public school …