Frequent Guests
- John Avlon (CNN; author: Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America)
- Jeff Bliss (The Bliss Index)
- John R. Bolton (former United States Ambassador to the United Nations; American Enterprise Institute)
- Gordon G. Chang (Forbes.com; noted anti-Communist Chinese)
- Simon Constable (Marketwatch.com)
- David Drucker (Roll Call)
- John Fund (The Wall Street Journal)
- Charlie Gasparino (appears less often than before)
- Taegan Goddard (Political Wire)
- Victor Davis Hanson (The Hoover Institution)
- Malcolm Hoenlein (Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
- Larry Johnson (No Quarter blog)
- Larry Kudlow (CNBC; late Reagan Administration)
- Thaddeus McCotter (R-11th Michigan. McCotter has appeared less frequently recently)
- Marc Morano (Climate Depot)
- Devin Nunes (R-21st California)
- Arif Rafiq (Pakistan Policy Blog)
- Bill Roggio (Long War Journal)
- John Tamny (RealClearPolitics)
- Bob Zimmerman (author: Leaving Earth)
- Salena Zito (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Batchelor is a rare conservative radio host who often invites liberal guests (all amiably), including Katrina vanden Heuvel and Markos Moulitsas.
Regular segments include "Hotel California" (introduced by an instrumental version of the Eagles song), which is, of course, a discussion of California's current fiscal discombobulation as well as its political environment, including the gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Nunes generally is included in the roundtable.
Zimmerman frequently comes on to talk about NASA and the space program, preceded by the music from the Star Trek end credits. The show's last segment (c.12:55 am EST) invariably features Al Bowlly's Midnight, the Stars and You, ending in a brief (<30sec) valediction/good-night, sometimes with a few moments with a guest (time for one question). The singer is sometimes mistaken for Al Jolson, as Batchelor introduces the singer simply by "here's Al," and the song dates from the time of Jolson's late career.
John Avlon, Jeff Bliss, Gordon Chang, Simon Constable, Taegan Goddard, Malcolm Hoenlein, and Larry Kudlow have frequently guest-hosted or co-hosted.
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