Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Jan 31 2025 423 ep. 53 mins 93

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Richard Stengel

Jan 31 2025 55 mins

Rick Stengel on his journey to and from the top job at TIME magazine to traveling the world as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

Hamilton Lane's Erik Hirsch

Jan 26 2025 53 mins

Erik Hirsch, co-CEO of alternative investment management house Hamilton Lane, on getting Americans across generations to better save, invest and diversify -- as sobering demographic and market realities take hold.

Ray Suarez

Jan 16 2025 58 mins

Veteran newsman Ray Suarez on his book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century, which illustrates the nation's volatile relationship with immigration. We also discussed staying alive in journalism -- despite ageism, rampant layoffs and increasing hostility from Washington and Big Tech.

Morgan Till of PBS News

Jan 07 2025 34 mins

Morgan Till, PBS News foreign affairs and defense editor, takes us around the globe -- from Canada to Greenland to the Mideast to Panama -- as Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab & Co.

Dec 20 2024 52 mins

Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co., on markets, the Fed, inflation...lots more. The 53-year-old brokerage house now has more than $10 trillion in total client assets.

Syria, Suddenly

Dec 12 2024 53 mins

Hussein Ibish on the sudden fall of Assad's Syria -- a 54-year dictatorship that collapsed in days. What does this mean for the U.S., Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel ... the Mideast's entire disordered-order as Donald Trump returns to the White House?

ICYMI

Dec 07 2024 52 mins

In case you missed it, excerpts from recent interviews: Brandcenter chief Vann Graves on the lessons of earned media and Election 2024; true crime bestseller T.J. English on his latest, The Last Kilo; Hollywood insider Janice Min on cable TV's last stand.

T.J. English on The Last Kilo

Nov 26 2024 56 mins

True-crime bestseller T.J. English on his latest, The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire that Seduced America. We go into the backstory of getting Miami's fabled cocaine king to go on the record; the long arm of the law, over more than four decades; and reconciling legend and Hollywood with the sober truths of spending so much of a life in prison.

Janice Min

Nov 21 2024 55 mins

Veteran media exec Janice Min -- now CEO of The Ankler -- on Hollywood's post-streaming-binge austerity: tanked share prices; creative risk aversion; slashed budgets, cable wires and expense accounts...and the resulting opportunity for focused upstarts.

Brandcenter's Vann Graves

Nov 13 2024 50 mins

Brandcenter head and veteran ad executive Vann Graves on the election; the parties' changing brands and voters; the fragmenting of media consumption, reading today's youth...much more.