Listen again on-demand to tonight's show:

Segment 1: Interest rates gone wild

Segment 2: Jon Huntsman quits

Segment 3: Michelle Obama on Twitter

Segment 4: Facebook's blackmail potential

Four segments, four themes tonight:

Segment 1: Interest rates are so wacky now that Americans are paying less for mortgages than other countries have to pay to borrow for their government spending. The world is strangely dysfunctional now.

Segment 2: Jon Huntsman quits the Presidential race. He had a lot going for him on paper, but making fun of Iowa was never a smart move.

Segment 3: First Lady Michelle Obama is now on Twitter. Except when it's her staff Tweeting for her. Can't we have a little more authenticity from our public officials (even the First Lady)?

Segment 4: Ever thought about how much information Facebook collects behind the scenes and how much it's really worth? How many employers would love to know which of their employees are online for fun when they're on the clock?

Thanks for listening tonight. Back next Sunday night at 9:00.

- Brian Gongol

Some links to stories we discussed on the air this afternoon:

The USDA is closing a lot of offices in an effort to save $150 million a year

Our WHO Radio Wise Guys tips on speeding up a slow computer

24% of Americans work at least part of their day from home. That's a factoid that sticks in my head upon noting that VW is going to shut off BlackBerry email access for most workers outside a narrow window around working hours.

Reuters says European banks are in such bad shape that now they're borrowing from companies like Johnson and Johnson because they can't get cash anywhere else. That's news hot on the heels of the announcement that there was a sharp increase in borrowing by American families in the run-up to Christmas. Eek.

Thanks for listening this afternoon. I'll be back in the hot seat Sunday night at 9:00.

- Brian Gongol

Tonight, I was accused on Facebook of being a "bourgeois running dog" -- by a person who then pivoted to a quote from Karl Marx. I thought those people had finally given up the fight. Guess I was wrong.

There's unrest in China right now, though you're probably not hearing much about it. Early warning: The China we see today isn't going to be the same nation with the same borders in 20 years.

You might be surprised at how Americans spend our work and leisure time.

I have an early candidate for 2012's idiot of the year: The Iowa City hospital visitor who smoked so much marijuana that he set off a fire alarm. Really? I can't think of any place where there are more people crammed together, up at all hours, with a particular concern about smoke and fire.

I'll be back in the studios tomorrow to fill in for Simon Conway. Tune in from 4pm to 6pm.

- Brian Gongol

Listen on-demand to our latest show:

Segment 1: I'm a "bourgeois running dog"? Really?

Segment 2: How to think about stock earnings

Segment 3: How we spend our work and leisure time

Segment 4: Who smokes marijuana in a hospital?