The Pete McMurray Show
Sticker shock at the grocery store is all too common nowadaysMore and more grocery shoppers are experiencing sticker shock every single trip to the store.-The price of food, especially meat, fruit and vegetables has been going up.“For the last six to 12 months, the rate of inflation has fallen significantly, but that doesn't mean that prices are declining. They're just not going up as much,” Michael Swanson, chief agricultural economist at Wells FargoItems that have increased the most:Eggs, Meat, Frozen juice, lettuce, and chocolate To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
A Password survey in 2025 revealed 1 in 20 people use the word password and 78 per cent also admitted to using the same or near identical passwords across multiple sites despite all the hacksAlso people have included number combinations such as 123456 and 123456789What? Really? To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Peter Alexander is NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and Weekend TODAY Co-Anchor joined us to talk:-Trump / Putin Alaska summit "The biggest real sticking point right now is appears to be on this issue of security guarantees ... Russia is basically insisting that they need to be apart of those assurances" -It does NOT look like they headed towards a peace deal in Ukraine -What did Putin and Trump talk about-Israel invading Gaza City-The National Guard on the streets in DC To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Amy Morin is a licensed psychotherapist and best-selling author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do.” -She helps people build mental strength the same way … you'd train your body at the gym!Amy joined us to talk-Kids pressure and anxiety going back to school-How do parents hide stress from their kids-How can adults deal with the anxiety in their life "Acknowledge it, this is what happens, instead of fighting it...and amplify it"-How to get rid of that inner negative voice-Doom scrolling is dopamine AMY MORIN Website To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
6 in 10 People Claim to Hate Foods They've Never TriedReally?-What do you think are the most common foods that people say they don't like - BUT have never tried …The crew runs through ... To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Dreama Denver is woman who spent her life with everyone's favorite castaway. She's the widow of Bob Denver - who played Gilligan and the author of the new book - Island to Icon: The Many Lives of Bob Denver. Dreama Denver talks:-Gilligan's iconic Red shirt, blue pants, white hat-Gilligan's Island only ran from 1964-1967 - they did 33 episodes a season back in the day-Bob went to the CBS bosses and had them change the iconic theme song-Does she still have any of the props from set-"He always credited the longevity of the show ... you can't place Gilligan's Island in any particular time period...Gilligan's Island was on an ISLAND"
Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding is back with a new film called Daniela ForeverHenry Golding joined us to talk:-Is the dude on drugs-How did 'Crazy Rich Asians' change his life-Is talking to Matthew McConaughey like being in a lucid dream "He has his method, and his method is sort of being in character on set. And our two characters were pretty frosty to each other"-Hugh Grant comes off like he doesn't care about anything, but ... To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
For Pete's Sake 08.16.25 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
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Born to Run was released in 1975 50 years later we're still playing it and talking about it.There's a new book is entitled “Tonight in Jungleland: The making of Born to Run"Author Peter Ames Carlin joined us to talk:-Would a 9 minute song like Jungleland make it today -How his OCD and perfectionism almost drove him crazy making B2R-It took between 12 - 18 hours to nail down Clarence's Jungleland sax solo (we feel for the Big Man)-"...beyond the palace hemi-powered drones ..." what the heck does that mean???-How did they finally end up with (now iconic) B2R album cover...and so much more ... To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Do you skip lunch?More than half of Americans skip lunch in order to work more, according to new research. 55% of us don't eat lunch on busy days to be more productive.Some people also admitted to completely forgetting to eat lunch two days out of the work weekWhat??? To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Wildlife biologist FORREST GALANTE, was featured in SHARK WEEK specials ALIEN SHARKS: DEATH DOWN UNDER and FLORIDA'S DEATH BEACH joined us to talk sharks!He's wrestled crocs, dodged hippos, and now he's telling us why sharks aren't the ones you should be afraid of… unless you're in Florida.How he almost died one yearWhat's the one thing people get wrong about sharks...and so much more ... To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Billy Joel's longtime creative director, Steve Cohen, served as executive producer of the HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes"As Billy says in the doc 'the most authentic thing he did in his life was screw up.' But, it's all about the recovery"Steve talked-Sean Hayes & Tom Hanks also produced the doc-The early years with a love triangle and suicide attempts -His first impression of Billy Joel back when they met in 1974-"All we knew is we had to show up and play. That was our north star. That was where we all felt the most comfortable. And everything fell into place after that"-What caused the breakup with Christy Brinkley "I don't know man, marriages are complicated"-"As Billy says in the doc 'the most authentic thing he did in his life was screw up.' But, it's all about the recovery" To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
For Pete's Sake 08.09.25 - 3 of the Most Important Stories of the Week!
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Lou Diamond Phillips plays a murderer in his new film"Et Tu" Lou joined us to talk:-Playing the bad guy in his new film "he's the bad guy, kinda like Jack Nicholson was the bad guy in The Shining...he's got some issues"-"It's a horror film, a thriller, and also a black comedy....a lot of people have said it's like The Shining meets Birdman"-They filmed this movie in 15 days!-He performed "The King & I" on Broadway. What is the buildup like leading up to opening night-Working on Numb3rs-Working on Miami Vice with all that start power To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Taron Egerton won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Elton John in the movie RocketmanHe joined us alongside Director Nick Rowland The film is called “She Rides Shotgun”
The wild era of Phish, Widespread Panic, Blue Traveler - and so many more The bands that built an entire culture of music, a community, and endless live shows. Mike Ayers, author of Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed.
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For Pete's Sake 07.26.25 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
From Dirt Harry, to every which way but loose to Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood has played some of the most memorable characters in movie history.Shawn Levy is the author of Clint, the first major biography of Clint Eastwood in over twenty years...-Clint Eastwood is 95 and still working-The HUGE movies he's directed-Actors loved working with him because he would only shoot 1 or 2 takes "People worked with him again and again because it's such a joy to work on a set where you're not being tortured with retakes all day"-Mayor of Carmel, also the 'empty chair' bit at the RNC-Is Clint Eastwood a tough guy in real life-Sandra Locke's palimony suit against Clint To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
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Senior White House Correspondent Garrett Haake joined us to talk:-Epstein story "The President's name appears multiple times in government evidence that has already been released publicly....Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for quite a long time in the 90's and early 2000's. So, it's not at all surprising that his name in some capacity is in here" -How can you trust Ghislaine Maxwell -Epstein died during Trump's first term, the Democrats had 4 years and did nothing-The DOJ wants to speak to Ghislaine Maxwell about her role. BUT, can you really believe her-What transcripts belong where-President Trump's BIG wins the first 6 months in office To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Bryan Kohberger has accepted a plea deal in the fatal stabbings of four Idaho college students. Howard Blum is the author of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders -He's been following this story from the very beginning-The evidence they had where Kohberger had to take the plea deal-What happened-What was the motive-Howard heard all the gruesome details and still managed to write this book To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
For Pete's Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
The ALWAYS Entertaining Bushy Billy Bush joined us:-The Bushy grew a mustache Cobert-style -Diddy trial-John Goodman's 200 lbs weight loss-Lindsay Lohan's new FACE "There ain't no shame in the facelift game"-Bushy is stepping down as host of EXTRA "It was important to me after the very bad treatment by NBC to walk back through the front door...and I did"-Emmy Nominations Subscribe to the Busy's Podcast "HOT MICS" To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
Actor Activist Singer Gary Sinise joined us to talk:-Graduated High School in January (had to go back for another semester) and got a part in a play-Founding Steppenwolf Theater 50 years ago and the big names that came through-On playing Lieutenant Dan in 'Forrest Gump' "That was a great part a great movie to be in. I hadn't done that many movies before that"-"I'm going to Hawaii to be part of the 80th Anniversary of the end of the war treaty between Japan and the United States...they'll be WWII veterans there...our 600th show will be at Pearl Harbor" Follow Gary on Instagram To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
For Pete's Sake 07.12.25 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
NBC's Morgan Chesky is covering the devastating Texas floods from his hometown of Kerrville-How has he been keeping it together in his small hometown of Kerrville -How woke up to text messages and found out about the devastation-How his mother got out-"Growing up, witnessing floods before, what's different about this one is that I've never seen the watermark as high...20-25 feet above the road"-What happened at Camp Mystic, where tragedy struck young girls To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
IL Congressman Darin LaHood is on the House Intelligence Committee and joined us to talk-When he received advance notice and why the President chose to strike when he did-Damage to the nuclear sites "There's multiple reports that show the vast majority of, and this is public reporting, of the nuclear capabilities have been destroyed and set back"-Where is the 880 lbs of enriched Uranium -Sleeper cells and radicals-Where was he during the bombings-What's a SCIF To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here
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