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Latest episodes

Jan 31, 2025 • 56min
Richard Stengel
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.

Jan 27, 2025 • 54min
Hamilton Lane's Erik Hirsch
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.

Jan 16, 2025 • 58min
Ray Suarez
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.

Jan 8, 2025 • 34min
Morgan Till of PBS News
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.

Dec 20, 2024 • 52min
Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab & Co.
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.

Dec 12, 2024 • 54min
Syria, Suddenly
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?

Dec 8, 2024 • 53min
ICYMI
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.

Nov 26, 2024 • 56min
T.J. English on The Last Kilo
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.

Nov 22, 2024 • 56min
Janice Min
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.

Nov 14, 2024 • 50min
Brandcenter's Vann Graves
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.
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