The Perfectly Frank Podcast

Frank is certainly not opposed to politeness but wonders why one select group of people get endless public “thanks” for simply doing their job?

Frank tips his hat to the person who has been turning history into compelling entertainment for nearly 40 years.

$14 B was spent on the 2020 campaign. There must be a way to take this obscene amount of money out of politics.

Were the election pollsters wrong, yet again, or are they actually proving something supremely nefarious? A must listen.

Yes, it's convenient but does it really our election system well? Frank doesn't think so and suggests a solution.

Frank makes the case that foreign interference and disinformation pale in comparison to the undue influence polls have over elections. He maintains they should NOT be made public.

Frank objects to political ads selling candidates like soap - only without the same standards for truth in advertising.

The Presidential debates have been frustrating to watch. Frank says they can easily be fixed. Plus your emails about climate change.

Renowned naturalist and documentary film maker, Sir David Attenborough, believes earth (as we have known it) is entering its death throes due to climate change. Is he right?

More of your emails: including the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; plus, did record companies conspire to change our musical tastes to bolster their bottom line?

Your reactions to what Frank called “the worst idea in the world”, “Oscar madness” and requiring tests before allowing people to vote.

How did we go from giants like Gershwin and Sinatra to what we have today? Frank explains it. Hint: follow the money (what else is new?)

Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia proved we can ALL agree to disagree without being disagreeable.

While the conventional clamor has always been for greater voter participation, Frank thinks we should be more concerned about quality rather than quantity.

The Academy Awards announces a criteria for diversity that must me met for any film to be nominated for Best Picture.

A new book proposes the U.S. purposely triples its population to a billion people in order to compete with China and India.

More of your emails, this time concerning a fallout from coronavirus no one else seems to be talking about and your reactions to Frank's list of irksome words and phrases.

Your thoughts on politics being continually injected into entertainment events, how social media can skew public opinion, and giving women their own separate branch in the armed forces.

Some words or phrases Frank routinely hears on TV are like a fingernail on a blackboard to him.

Will the most serious death from Covid 19 be that of America's entrepreneurial spirit? Why would people start businesses when they can be shut down on some bureaucrat's whim?

Based on widespread reports of sexual harassment, should women have their own separate fighting force? Frank believes it would be best.

Are internet purveyors, including social media, putting their ‘thumb on the scale' in terms of shaping public opinion? Frank weighs in with his own personal experiences.

Why would fans do that at the NFL season opener? Frank thinks he knows the answer.

Your thoughts on kids being forced to get flu shots and the idea of turning baseball's Jackie Robinson Day into a federal holiday.

Your emails regarding ‘black privilege' and your nominations for the height of hypocrisy. Also the question of who has the time to protest night after night?

Frank makes the case that baseball legend Jackie Robinson is even more deserving of a national holiday than Martin Luther King. Could he be right?

Massachusetts wants to mandate all children, in that state, be given flu shots. Is this where we're heading with public policy?

Night after night, in the news, we see protestors thronging our city streets. But Frank wonders: who has that kind of time on their hands?

While government officials are imposing draconian restrictions on us, during this Covid so-called “crisis”, apparently those same rules don't apply to them.

A Florida university professor submits long-standing white privilege is being replaced by a new black privilege. (His job is in jeopardy for the mere suggestion.)

Your thoughts on socialism, as well as fraternity hazing deaths.

Your emails regarding pro sports protests, the importance of entertainment, and why people choose to live in the path of repeated hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Can there be a more senseless reason for a young life to end? Frank doesn't think so.

Should we be moving more toward it? Away from it? Or have we struck about as good a balance between it and a free-market economy as we can?

Frank wonders why people choose to live where hurricanes and other natural disasters are regular occurrences?

There's a reason the movie business reached its zenith at the height of The Great Depression. Entertainment isn't just frivolous - it can play a significant role in society.

Many athletes did not play their scheduled games in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Was it the right move?

The audience weighs in on California's new requirement that college students take ethnic studies to graduate and your thoughts on music appreciation.

Your email takes on the college admissions scandal punishments, the British system of restricting reporting on criminal cases, and the inequity in consequences between two verbal gaffes.

Is the love of truly great music an acquired taste or is it actually, somehow, in our DNA?

California will now require the state's college students to take a course in ethnic studies as a condition of graduating. Should this become a trend across the country?

Two decidedly different outcomes when untoward remarks are picked up by microphones thought to be turned off. Frank point out the unfairness.

Under British law, once a person is arrested for a crime, the press is essentially prohibited from talking or writing about the case until it's adjudicated. Should we adopt their system?

Has society been served by sending to prison parents who paid a ‘fixer' to get their kids into a better school?

Your reactions to Frank's position that all men are NOT created equal and if you think mandating masks nationwide is the answer to our pandemic problem.

Your email nominations for the greatest tear-jerker movies of all-time, thoughts on an age limit to run for President, and if you felt canceling the college football season was the right decision.

Is it the answer to our pandemic problem? Emphatically, “no”, says Frank.

Nor, according to Frank, is all life equally precious. Will you agree after he makes his case?

Governing athletic bodies have called off the 2020 season. Was it the right decision?

We have an age minimum (35) to run for President, should there be a maximum? At the very least, should there be mandatory mental and physical testing of candidates after a certain age?

Frank invites your nominations for the greatest tear-jerk movie of all-time and reveals his #1 pick of the genre.