Fred talks about stocking up during a pandemic. First it was the toilet paper. Now those ketchup packets. What's a guy to do? I hope you'll listen.
Fred Weintraub, an executive producer at Weigel Broadcasting Co. with more than four decades of media expertise, is known for creating the broadcast company's popular "Game of the Week," in addition to covering the British royal family as "Chicago's Royal Watcher." In 2019, Weintraub was inducted into the Silver Circle, the highest honor awarded to broadcasters by the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, in recognition of his lifetime contributions in media. Weintraub also co-hosts the syndicated radio show "The Hannah & Fred Show" with Hannah Stanley on WCGO and Smart Talk Radio.
In this week's "Worldly File" Fred addresses the issue of Asian American hate crimes and why our anger is so misguided.
Fred Weintraub talks about American's inability stop people from getting guns as easily as they can buy groceries. We are killing each other one bullet at time.
In this week's Worldly File Fred Weintraub says that once vaccinated, people are making their own rules, taking risks and rationalizing their actions to fit their own needs.
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Syndicated radio talk show host Fred Weintraub provides commentary each week on something happening in the world that impacts America. His viewers are sometimes controversial, sometimes humorous but always honest.

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