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This week, we had the pleasure to welcome back the wonderful Sandy Lyons Rasque as a special guest panelist. Sandy is the founder of The WELLth Center, an organization that helps people take control over their healthcare by connecting them with concierge physicians and practices. 

None of us could contain our excitement this week when we found out the fabulous, incomparable and amazingly-talented Belinda Carlisle was joining us on-air. 

This week, we all agreed target did a really great thing by announcing changes to how they categorize and label children's toys and clothing in order to limit gender-specific stereotyping. It shows our society is growing and evolving. Kudos to Target who is now going to categorize by interest or theme rather than by labeling them "boys" or "girls" toys that people think historically are only appealing to one gender or the other.

As usual, this week we had so much to talk about in the world of pop culture. First up: Kelly Osborne and her remarks on The View addressing Donald Trump and his controversial comments about Latinos. Many say it reveals her true racist feelings, while others think it was a comment gone awry when trying to prove her point. Whatever she was trying to convey, it didn't go over very well with the general public and the other hosts on The View. 

This week's episode was really focused on just a couple topics. In particular, the US Dentist who lured a famous lion named Cecil from an animal sanctuary in Zimbabwe then proceeded to shoot him with a crossbow. The hunter injured Cecil, but did kill him until finding and shooting him again 40 hours later. All of the panelists, especially Bryan have very strong feelings against Walter Palmer, we he feels the need to shoot majestic animals in the first place, his claims that he was unaware that the lion was a "local favorite" and that the two hunting guides were acting illegally. 

This week we covered the latest hot topics including the Nikki Minaj, Taylor Swift Twitter feud that caused so many fans of each to come to their defense about Nikki's initial comment concerning her viewpoints of why her music video was not nominated for Video of the Year. 

This week, one of our panelists revealed some very special news that we were all very excited and happy about. We also discussed more that was discovered about the bakery discrimination case in Oregon that sheds light on why the ruling and fine was seemingly so severe. 

This week, as with every week, there was no shortage of hot topics in the media to discuss. We covered quite a bit of ground including the cake shop in Oregon being fined $135,000 for discriminating against a lesbian couple for refusing to bake a wedding cake, Jared from Subway being investigated for possible involvement in a child pornography scandal, Paula Deen in hot water yet again, this time for her social media manager tweeting an offensive photo of her son in 'brownface', and much more.

This week, we were delighted to have the full panel back in the studio to catch up on the latest topics happening around the country. So much has happened and significant progress has been made in the last few weeks, especially with Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage, Obamacare, housing, etc. A lot has changed, and it will be very interesting to see what kinds of issues these new laws bring and how they will shift our societal norms. 

We had a small panel, as both Amanda and Michael were out this week. Despite missing our wonderful panelists, we still had a great conversation addressing current news topics, especially the tragedy in South Carolina and the current debate going on about the Confederate flag.