Episodes

Each day, more news filters out about the Parkland high school shooting that horrifies us and makes our heart bleed for the victims and their families. An Emergency Medical Technician, for example, who wants to remain anonymous for fear of being fired, has just confided to a reporter that he was told to stand down and not run in to rescue victims and provide medical aid. A Sheriff Deputy, Scot Peterson, who was one of four deputies hiding in the bushes, instead of running in to confront the shoo...

Nikolas Cruz - the Valentine's Day school shooter - has struck an especially painful chord in our nation's heart. Perhaps it's because of: the carnage he caused, the unanswered cries for help he'd given us as warning signs for years, the broken life he led, the ease with which he brought guns, the bravery of the students and staff, and the irony of the massacre being on Valentine's Day. Today's guest, Kent Moyer, is CEO and Founder of The World Protection Group and high-end executive protection ...

Who better to teach us how to unmask what matters in our own lives than the Broadway star who played Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera? Sandra Joseph, the longest running Christine in the longest running Broadway play, has just released her book on Phantom's 30th birthday: Unmasking What Matters: 10 Life Lessons from 10 Years on Broadway. Her life unrolled like a fairytale: from too shy to sing in an elementary school performance to starring in a Broadway show and marrying the lead (a m...

Today's guest, Robert Gandt, is the author of the new book, Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel. And, as he tells the story, you will ask yourself why we have never heard this before, since it is an amazing true story of epic proportions. Fortunately, Gandt, who has combined a life of flying with a life of writing such epic aviation stories, has had the opportunity to interview these 'Angels' and bring us the otherwise unbelievable David and Goliath ta...

Accusers of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo and #TimesUp have opened the floodgates of rage against sexual harassment, sexual assault, inequality... and men in general! The hatred of men by women is called misandry - and today's guest, Dr. Paul Nathanson, has defined misandry with his books, research and lectures (which always draw protests, by the way). Dr. Nathanson and Dr. Carole walk this minefield of the war between the sexes, in the context of current events and the Golden Globes, as a sociologic...

Ever wonder what your childhood would have been like if you were growing up with a schizophrenic mom in an era when they didn't have medication to treat the disorder? Today's guest, Joan Carol Lieberman (no relation), has lived to tell the tale and she's written about it in her new two-part autobiography, Optimal Distance: A Divided Life. As a little girl, every day was a struggle to find the optimal distance from her paranoid schizophrenic mother. Her dad traveled a lot for his work, so she was...

Guest, Jane Marla Robbins, is a modern day renaissance woman: actress, playwright, author, poet, coach and speaker. After a stunning career as an actress on Broadway, off-Broadway, in film and on TV, she decided to stop being other people (the roles she played) and start being herself. Since then she has delighted in helping people 'act' in their everyday life in order to look and feel self-confident in difficult real-life situations. This is when her book, Acting Techniques for Everyday Life, w...

What do terrorists have in store for us? Today's guest, Michael Vilardi, a 9/11 First Responder and member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, had the grizzly task of piecing together human body parts for identification at the scene of the World Trade Center and saw up front and personal the devastation of Islamic terrorism. He has also had the opportunity to get the inside scoop from two terrorists - and he shares their plans for world domination with us. On The Mike Vilardi Show, he interviewed...

Port Authority subway terrorist, Akayed Ullah, may have been the first to attack NYC this holiday season, but he won't be the last. Indeed, ISIS has launched a propaganda campaign to encourage lone wolves to strike NYC - using a poster of Santa Claus standing next to a box of dynamite in the middle of Times Square as a call to action. The caption on the poster says, We meet at Christmas in New York... soon. On today's show, Dr. Carole puts Akayed Ullah on her couch and analyzes his twisted think...

Today's show will uplift and inspire you by proving how one person can make a huge difference. Jeffrey Epstein has just launched a new charity called Healing the Wounds. It uniquely responds to the needs of children whose parent lost their life while serving as a hero in the military or law enforcement. The vision of this program is to empower the kids left behind. Epstein, as President, has amassed a stellar Board, who have committed to this cause. The program includes an Alaskan experience wit...

Every day, new women come out of the woodwork to allege sexual harassment. Are all of these stories true or are women jumping on the bandwagon to claim their 15 minutes of fame? It's important to separate the wheat from the chaff. One of the accused, Harvey Weinstein, seems to be the most prolific of womanizers, if not rapists. (And yes, he is innocent until proven guilty.) Today's guest, leading attorney Aaron Filler, MD, PhD and JD, is very familiar with the key woman accusing Weinstein of rap...

Today's guest, Khaldoun Sweis, an Associate Professor of Philosophy, shares his personal story of the greatest suffering he has ever known - first, being a teen on the brink of suicide, and years later, his son's death. His riveting story goes on to explain how these events set him on his mission in life: helping people to find hope in suffering through discovering evidence of their faith - like he did. Regardless of your religious beliefs - you will be moved by Sweis' story. Do you call on your...

Today's show looks at two men with troubled beginnings who became polar opposites: one a mass murderer and one a scientific advisor to presidents. The murderer was Devin Patrick Kelley, who made headlines for shooting up a Texas church. The scientist is Mark Kingston Levin. Both came from dysfunctional homes and showed signs of trouble from an early age. But, Devin fell through the cracks and manifested psychopathology, including: cruelty to animals, domestic violence, a mental hospital escape a...

The opioid epidemic is staggering! Opioid overdose deaths soared to over 200 percent since 2000, and at least 91 Americans die each day from an opioid OD! No wonder President Trump just declared it a public health emergency. Today's guests, Dr. Alexis Carayannopoulos and Dr. Joseph Audette, are top addiction and pain medicine experts. We follow them into the complex world of painkillers, patients, physicians and prescriptions to understand how things began spinning out of control and became the ...

Dr. Carole rants at today's headlines and urges you not to be lemmings and accept fake news or no news-which seem to be our only choices these days. She puts the three top news stories on her couch and analyzes them for you-berating the 'authorities' and media for what they're not telling us about them. First, she takes the lid off the group of therapists who are using their credentials to promote their narcissistic and political agenda by declaring President Trump unfit. She points out how they...

What a paradox: we are surrounded by death in the news every day - from terrorism to natural disasters to contagious diseases - yet it is the last topic we want to think about. Get ready for some gallows humor on today's show, as Gail Rubin shares her story about how she became The Doyenne of Death and how she helps people overcome the taboo. Her journey began in college when she satirized Ingmar Bergman's classic film The Seventh Seal and had her future husband play Death. Then her second weddi...

What made Stephen Paddock become the perpetrator of the largest mass shooting in American history? Was he following in the footsteps of his dad, a notorious bank robber and prison escapee on the FBI Most Wanted List, who was labeled psychopathic with suicidal tendencies? Was he desperate because of mounting gambling debts? Was he a political fanatic trying to kill Republicans, who he assumed would be at this country music festival in high numbers? Or was he a soldier of terrorism, as ISIS is cla...

What happens to kids who are abused or neglected?They end up with mental illnesses, dropping out of school, sometimes in foster home placement, not getting the psychiatric treatment they need, and ending up in prison. Indeed a new study reveals that over half of the inmates in U.S. prisons have a mental illness with roots in childhood. Today's guests are proof! They urge society to wake up and start helping these kids when warning signs appear in elementary school. Kristina Kopic is an Advocacy ...

Today, Dr. Carole gives her listeners a sneak preview of her upcoming book: LIONS and TIGERS and TERRORISTS, OH MY! How to Protect Your Child in a Time of Terror, before it is launched in NYC in time for 9/11. Why haven't parents and teachers been talking to their kids about terrorism? Why do they need to? How is terrorism like sex? (Hint: both are taboo topics that make parents uncomfortable.) What makes terrorism the 'birds and the bees' talk for the 21st century? What do we know about the psy...

Today's show takes you behind the scenes and into the life of the number one Donald Trump impersonator in the world: John Di Domenico. Find out what made him grow up to want to become an impersonator and how the fates conspired to make him a Trump impersonator - from the time Trump was a celebrity businessman to host of The Apprentice to candidate for president - and now as The President. But, impersonating President Trump today is a risky business. Since John won both the national and internati...

If you've ever been in a custody battle, you've likely been stunned and disturbed by the primal feelings it brought up inside of you-the rage towards the other parent trying to steal your child. And if you've never been in a custody battle, you've surely seen the headlines about parents kidnapping-or even killing-their child to prevent the other parent from getting custody. Just recently, a South Pasadena dad pled guilty to having murdered his son after taking him to Disneyland. He was in the mi...

It used to be so easy: pink for girls and blue for boys - and girls will be girls and boys will be boys was a common saying. Now it's yellow for non binaries? These days, too many parents think they're being cool and trendy to encourage their girls to be boys and boys to be girls. The result? A very confused generation. Today's guest, Michelle Cretella, M.D., President of the American College of Pediatricians, says parents who jump to conclusions and bring their child to gender clinics, the firs...

The statistics are staggering! Did you know studies show that the older kids get, the more likely they are to stop reading? Why is this important? Because books are the foundation of kids' intellectual and emotional development! The books kids read influence them to choose a career, develop a love of animals, cope with childhood traumas like bullying and many other magical things. Today's guest, Linda F. Radke, President of Story Monsters and Publisher of Story Monsters Ink magazine, has created...

Celebs feel lost once they've fallen out of the spotlight, so many turn to self-destructive behaviors. But, today's guest, George Green, is the epitome of reinvention and how to shine in other spotlights. For years, he worked at KABC Talk Radio, including as President and General Manager, putting his station on the map as the first 24/7 all talk radio--until a new company took over KABC and brought in their own, despite the success attributable to George. Out of the blue, he lost the spotlight f...