This episode of The Debater may be pre-empted in your region for a special broadcast of Canada Reads.

This week on the Debaters there's a battle of the sexes brewing between Nikki Payne and Simon Rakoff as Simon asserts that women are irrational and Nikki counters with her own facts and funny. Next up....greetings! Specifically the handshake. Has it lost it's purpose? What with fistpumps, high fives and secret society finger wags, where does the old handshake stack up? Ron Josol and Darrin Rose will have you slapping your thigh if not your neighbour's, Wednesday at 11:30 am on CBC Radio One.